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n a way, we’re all dreamers. We all have moments of inspiration when we desire to change or work on something or create something. But then, our lives become busy. And as time goes on, we may wistfully remember that moment when we wanted to create something big, and we wonder what would have happened if we would have seized upon our inspiration.

Mrs. Henny Machlis a”h was a dreamer. But she was more than just a dreamer. She took action and she made her dream a reality. With her partner, Rabbi Machlis, at her side, and with her children and neighbors, Mrs. Machlis created an oasis in Yerushalayim where every soul could find a place for a warm Shabbos meal, a listening ear, and a caring heart. She brought Jews from all walks of life together and treated them with dignity and respect.

There were those who didn’t have a home, and they called the Machlises their family. There were those who were shunned by their relatives, and they called the Machlises their family. There were those who needed a place to belong, and they called the Machlises their family.

To see her bustling in the small kitchenette with her warm smile was inspirational. There was no stress or tension in preparing a meal for hundreds every week. She was relatable; there were no airs about her. She made you feel comfortable and welcome in her home.

During my year in seminary, I ate at the Machlises one Shabbos. It was certainly a Shabbos that my friends and I remember for both the amazing experience at seeing Rabbi and Mrs. Machlis and their family but also for the interesting people who felt drawn to them.

On the Friday night that I was there, those who wished were able to speak to the crowd. One man

got up to express his admiration for the kindness that the Machlises so selflessly extend every week.

He was a large and strange man and may not even have been Jewish but someone met him at the Kotel and invited him to the meal. He mentioned that he was from New York and he attached himself to Rabbi Machlis. After the meal, as we all were leaving, the man stood next to Rabbi Machlis to say goodbye to the many guests. As I filed past, I mentioned to him that I was also from New York. “What’s your name?” the large man asked. I quickly answered, “Rivka,” which is my middle name, thinking that it would be best not to give this stranger my name.

“Rimka,” he said, “that’s a nice name.”

He asked my friend, Chaya, behind me in line, “What’s your name?” She blurted out, “Uhh, my name’s Rivka too.”

Then he turned to my other friend. “What’s your name? And don’t tell me Rimka, because then I’ll know that you’re all lying!”

He was just one of the many people who the Machlises welcome into their home every week and who were bereft when they heard of Mrs. Machlis’s petira.

I once recited a poem at a poetry assembly in school when I was in third grade. I recalled Langston Hughes’ words when I thought of Mrs. Machlis this week. “Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.”

Mrs. Machlis a”h held onto her dreams. She lived her dreams; she made them real. May she be a source of inspiration for us all.

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Contents LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

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COMMUNITY Readers’ Poll

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Community Happenings

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NEWS

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Global

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National

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Odd-but-True Stories

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Just One Shabbos…Around the World by Brendy J. Siev

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What’s Russia Doing in Syria?

by Nachum Soroka

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ISRAEL Israel News

My Israel Home: Modi’in Has Arrived by Gedaliah Borvick

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PEOPLE Remembering Henny Machlis: A Truly Great Jewish Woman

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Thoughts on Chinuch: TJH Speaks with Rabbi Nosson Neuman, Menahel of Bais Yaakov Ateres Miriam

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The Battle of the Philippines Sea: The Great Marianas Turkey Shoot by Avi Heiligman 98 PARSHA Rabbi Wein

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The Shmuz

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JEWISH THOUGHT Don’t Miss Out! by Rabbi Jonathan Gewirtz

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JEWISH HISTORY The Jarring Episode of Shabbetai Tzvi, Infamous Messianic Deceiver, Part II by Rabbi Pini Dunner 96 PARENTING Parenting Pearls: Anger, Part I by Rabbi Dani Staum, LMSW 95

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HEALTH & FITNESS

such as the late Senators Daniel Patrick Moynihan of New York, Scoop Jackson of Washington, or Joseph Lieberman of Connecticut.

Just as Conservatives have captured the Republican Party, Democratic Socialists or those who prefer the liberal or progressive label have control of the Democratic Party. A majority of Americans who consider themselves moderates or independents have no party representing them.

Sincerely, Larry Penner Great Neck

Dear Manager of “Changes and AttemptedImprovements” Dept. of The Five Towns Jewish Home, Hi. I really have enjoyed some of the items (mainly, the Torah-oriented articles and “middot”-related articles, but sometimes, some of the history articles) in your newspaper over the past number of months.

I mainly read copies of your newspaper that are left at our local synagogue (is it 4 or 6 months or so that copies of your newspaper have been dropped off at our synagogue?).

And, I keep waiting for your paper Continued on page 10

Ten Healthy Fall Foods by Aliza Beer, MS RD 104

What’s Wrong with Anger Management? by Deb Hirschhorn, PhD

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Samuel Koren, Founder of the Thirty Day Reboot: How He lost 60 Lbs. in 3 Months

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FOOD & LEISURE The Aussie Gourmet: Indian Lamb Curry

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LIFESTYLES What’s Your Motto? by Rabbi Mordechai Kruger

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From My Private Art Collection

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Your Money

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It’s Tough Being an Adult Rivki Rosenwald, Esq., CLC

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HUMOR Centerfold Uncle Moishy Fun Page

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POLITICAL CROSSFIRE Notable Quotes

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Dear Editor, Former U.S. Senator and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said at the Democratic Party presidential primary debate “it is our job to rein in the excesses of capitalism.” This theme was echoed by the four other candidates. Missing was any discussion about reining in government excesses in the areas of taxation, regulations, deficit spending, excessive borrowing, waste, fraud and abuse of federal expenditures all of which impact both our economic and civil liberties.

The discussion reminded me of five barkers on a summer night at the midway of a county fair. Each tried to outdo the others in redistribution of the wealth from the haves to the have nots. Their respective sales pitches were providing the most goodies as a way to entice voters to come over to their political tent.

Only Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders was honest enough to admit he is a “Democratic Socialist” in the Scandinavian European model. The other four who shared his views on most issues would not come out of the closet. They hide behind the liberal and progressive labels. There is no longer any room in the Democratic Party for those who followed more moderate mainstream Democrats,

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Letters to the Editor Continued from page 8

have an archive available online (a few times I wanted to print out an article, it was so good).

Yes, your eyes are not fooling you.

The print in your new format is too small.

There are a few things not OK about it. 1) Some persons aren’t even so young of “eyes” or else have visual impairments (though younger) and so, both: - you’re losing that audience; and, [more importantly] - that audience is losing the obtainable, in-reach experience of your newspaper, which is something that is a good medium for human communication and for a “sharing of ideas,” and “yet another place for positive [Jewish, human] community tone-setting.”

2) a) Eyestrain is not good. With all the challenges in life, who needs the extra eye strain? They say to apply the “20-20-20” rule to reading, and that’s with good, friendly-size print. Read 20 minutes, look away for at least 20 seconds, to a distance of 20 feet. With your changed format, someone maybe need a 20-4020 or 20-60-20 rule. (Smile, but it’s a serious matter. Eyeglasses (especially when needed by young people who read a lot) are often a symptom of (modern) abuse of the human eyes; please have ’rachmanus’ upon our eyes!)

2) b) If you suspect that many persons read your newspaper on Shabbat (such as Torah-related or other articles), then maybe you might be concerned that Shabbat is a time for a near absence, or an absence, of various strains and stresses…

Thank you for reading this comment. I assume that you probably have heard (or will be hearing this week) from a number of persons on this.

Best wishes on your newspaper endeavor, Norman Rabin Editor’s Note: Norman, we heard you loud and clear. Check out our new, improved font this week. We hope that it will enhance your Shabbos reading.

Dear Editor, I found the article in your paper this week on Shabbetai Tzvi to be extremely intriguing. This is some-

thing I learned briefly about in school but so many times people reference this figure and I am left nodding but without a clear memory of the events that surrounded him.

I am looking forward to reading the rest of his story and reading about other events in our history that may not be so known in this column that I hope you will continue to feature.

Sincerely, Elchonon Steiner Dear Editor, Love the new layout! I never thought that The Jewish Home could improve on perfection, but you continue to push for even better and better for your readers. It’s sophisticated, clean, and features some of the best writers around.

Thank you for providing my family with a wonderful magazine that we all can enjoy!

Shani Fried

Dear Editor, Is it an intifada or is it not? Intifada literally means “uprising.”

Clearly, we are seeing an uprising by the Palestinians, so why not call it that? One thing that the media is not calling it is terrorism—pure, simple, raw terrorism by murderers who only wish, hope, dream and pray for our demise.

This time around, though, instead of strapping bombs to their bellies, they are armed with daggers and knives, using all their strength to squeeze and slash the life from their victims. They are not content with killing us—they are willing to literally put all their efforts into hurting us. It is a personal fight for them and they won’t stop until we force them to.

May Hashem protect all our brothers and sisters living in the Holy Land under constant threat of attack.

Sincerely, Sharona H.

Dear Editor, The recent Democratic debate featured the conventional and buffoonish rubbish so ubiquitous on the Left. Donald Trump said it best, “The debate was dominated almost wholly by which candidate could promise to give away the most free stuff first.”

What was particularly disturbing was that both Sanders and Clinton

subscribe to socialized medicine.

Such a feat—and socialism generally— is economically impossible, and in short order, this is the reason.

Every society must solve the economic problem of scarcity by answering three questions: What and how much will be produced?

How to produce them? For whom it will be produced? In a socialized model, the government “owns the means of production” and institutes price controls—prices fixed by the government which are below market prices. There is no functioning price system. In a free market, we can most effectively address the issue of scarcity and the questions of what, how and whom in having a price system determined by supply and demand, what consumers are willing to pay, the cost of production, workers’ wages and so on.

As famed economist Ludwig von Mises explained in his monumental work, Economic Calculation in the Socialist Commonwealth (1920), a price is an indicator and serves an incentive for both consumers and producers on how to act in a given situation. For example, if the prices of goods have increased, it serves as an indicator and incentive for producers to either: maintain the current price and raise production, or to maintain production and raise the current price, or to decrease the workforce. Or in a similar scenario, perhaps production costs have increased and this will serve as an indicator to consumers to purchase less goods. This operation of prices fosters economic freedom and rational economic decision making, since it involves the very people necessary to its operation. Accordingly, by virtue of the freedom it offers, and of its non-arbitrary, non-discriminatory and rational nature, the price system effectively, efficiently and automatically distributes and redistributes the maximum amount of resources to the greatest quantity of

people. When the U.S. government imposed price controls on gas in the 1970s, there were massive shortages of gas. People lined up in droves for gas because of its artificially low price. Thus, all rational-economic decision making by consumers and producers was lost. And as a matter of economic practicality, when the government decreases the price of goods and services below their true market value, a shortage is inevitable, since demand will increase but supply cannot possibly satisfy the demand for those goods and services. This is true with almost every country that has experimented with socialized medicine—in one form or another: the former Soviet Union, North Korea, China, Cuba, Venezuela, England, Canada and others.

Consequently, without the indicators that are used in a free market, it is impossible for government to rationally address scarcity. There are no rational indicators whatsoever that government can utilize to figure out the answer to the what, how and whom questions. It will have to resort to arbitrary factors.

Not so with the free market.

Can you name a time when the free market operated and there was a shortage of goods and services? And though America’s system isn’t perfect either—no system is perfect, as we are imperfect beings and thus any system we construct is by definition imperfect—our free enterprise system has attracted millions of people from all across the globe.

We used to be the envy of the world. Now with Obamacare and our inevitable path towards government-run healthcare, we will be just another failed socialist experiment.

If we want to ensure for our children a brighter and more prosperous future, a free market alternative with limited government intervention is sure to set us in the right direction.

Sincerely, Rafi Metz

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China: Most Billionaires Worldwide

The United States said goodbye to its billionaire crown this year. According to the Huran Rich List, China minted 242 billionaires over the past year, leading to a nearly 70 percent jump in its billionaire population.

The country’s 596 billionaires surpassed the number of billionaires in the United States, at 537.

The report found China produced nearly five billionaires a week during the year that ended on August 14.

To be sure, the list was created at the beginning of China’s stock market swoon, so it’s unclear how much wealth was lost during the remainder of August and September. At the time of the list’s cutoff, stock markets were already 30 percent off their June peak, but have dropped another 14 percent since.

“Despite the slowdown in the economy, China’s richest have defied gravity, recording their best year ever, and creating more wealth than any country has ever done before in a year,” said Rupert Hoogewerf, the Hurun Report’s chairman and chief researcher.

The richest man in China as of August was Wang Jianlin, chairman of conglomerate Dalian Wanda, who snatched the top spot back from Jack Ma of Alibaba. With a net worth of $34.4 billion, Wang Jianlin and the Dalian Wanda Group have made a string of high-profile purchases in recent years, including a $20.4 million Monet he bought at Sotheby’s this spring.

The government’s crackdown on corruption among the Chinese rich also has had ripple effects for several names on the billionaire list. Hurun

said that 16 of the people on the 2014 rich list are in “varying degrees of trouble with the authorities,” with one in jail, four awaiting trial, seven under investigation, one under arrest and three with “whereabouts unknown.”

Adoption Day for Iran Deal

As per the Iran nuclear deal, the United States and the European Union have both taken formal legal steps that will lift sanctions once Iran meets the conditions that were agreed upon. The legal acts have no immediate effect but cement a process that began with a deal reached in July to end sanctions against Iran in exchange for curbs on a program that the West suspected was aimed at developing a nuclear bomb.

For the waivers to come into force, Iran, which has always denied seeking nuclear weapons, must now demonstrate to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) that it has restricted its nuclear program as promised, a process that Western officials say is likely to take at least two months.

This past Sunday was “adoption day” for the agreement clinched in Vienna by Iran, the United States, Britain, France, Germany, Russia and China and endorsed 90 days ago by the United Nations.

The European Union formally started the process of lifting all nuclear-related economic and financial sanctions on Iran by publishing documents on its official website.

In Washington, President Barack Obama directed the secretaries of state, treasury, commerce and energy to “take all necessary steps to give effect to the U.S. commitments with respect to sanctions described in [the Iran deal].”

“Today marks an important milestone toward preventing Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon and ensuring its nuclear program is exclusively peaceful going forward,” he said in a statement.

A range of restrictions have been imposed on Iran over several decades, dating back to 1979 when Iranian students stormed the U.S. Embassy in Tehran. But it was the U.S. and EU sanctions imposed in 2012, which targeted Iranian oil exports and international financial transactions, that inflicted the most economic pain on Iran and its people.

Toxic Town has Population of Three

Asbestos is known to be toxic and has damaging effects. Buildings in which the toxin is detected are generally cleaned of asbestos. But what happens when an entire town is built on asbestos?

Wittenoom, Australia, boasts amazing weather and breathtaking scenery but toxic substances seep from below. Located in the Pilbara region of Western Australia, Wittenoom was once one of the top blue asbestos mining locations in the world, causing families to flock to the area for jobs. Also known as crocidolite asbestos, blue asbestos was a valuable commodity used for fire protection in ceiling tiles, insulation, electrical work, battery casings, and more.

All types of asbestos can cause fatal illnesses, but because crocidolite fibers are as thin as a strand of hair, they’re easily inhaled and may be responsible for more deaths than any other type of asbestos. In Wittenoom—where workers once held asbestos-shoveling contests, and families thought it safe to let their kids play in the stuff—thousands of former residents have died from asbestos-related causes.

The industry died in 1966, surprisingly not for health reasons but for economic reasons—the company which owned the mines was $2.5 million in debt. Health concerns didn’t show up until the late ‘70s, when the government started taking steps to shut the town down completely.

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Buildings were demolished, the airport was closed, and residents were urged to leave. By 1992, less than 50 citizens remained, and by 2007, it was down to eight. Today, Wittennoom has a population of three, with no electricity or water.

One of the three residents of Wittennoom, Peter Heyward, a resident for more than two decades, stays for the nature and the “silent stillness” of the surroundings. “The hills, the plains, the openness, the quiet. I love the country,” he said. Since so many buildings were razed, he now has a perfect view of Hamersley Mountain Range.

Another resident, Mario Hartmann, remained mostly because the government’s offer to buy him out— $40,000 plus $10,000 in moving costs—was weak.

Lorraine Thomas, a 30-plus year veteran of Wittenoom, said she refuses to let the potential presence of asbestos scare her away. “It’s only the dust that’s dangerous,” she said, a threat she believes has dissipated after the mines’ closures.

An official report begs to differ, calling the risk to tourists (of which there are still up to 40 a day) and residents alike “extreme.”

year – as the rest of the UK’s Jewry follows a steady 0.3% decline.

Orthodox Jews also have the highest fertility rate of any group in the UK, at six children per woman.

By contrast, the Muslim fertility rate stands at 3.25 children per woman; 1.98 for the rest of the Jewish community; 1.8 children in the Hindu community; and 1.53 in the Christian community. The overall British fertility rate is a mere 1.96.

IJPR concludes that “the British Jewish population is undergoing a powerful compositional change,” growing “more strictly religious” by demographic means alone. However, it also qualifies that the trend is not set in stone; mass aliyah to Israel – or, G-d forbid, assimilation – could derail orthodox dominance in UK Jewish society.

Student Protests Turn Violent in Niger

Orthodox Judaism in UK on the Rise

A new study of the British Jewish population has revealed that more than half of British Jews will be orthodox Jews by 2032. The study, titled, “Strictly Orthodox rising: What the demography of British Jews tells us about the future of the Jewish community,” was conducted by the Institute for Jewish Policy Research .

IJPR used census data from 2011 and other, more recent, studies to examine the birth rate and overall growth of various Jewish communities in the UK, as well as the Muslim, Hindu, and Christian communities.

Among the findings: orthodox Judaism in the UK is growing by 4.8% per

Seven were injured and 79 arrested in violent clashes in Niger between police and students protesting for better study conditions. Hundreds of college and high school students demonstrated in the city and clashed with police. “We demand sufficient numbers of teachers and classes. This protest is a warning to the government,” Nassirou Mounkaila, the leader of the Union of Vocational School Students of Niger, said on Monday The protest was “supposed to be peaceful” but “the police charged and launched tear gas at us,” he said. The demonstrators responded by throwing stones and burning tires on the road, paralyzing traffic in parts of the capital of the West African desert nation. There were “several injured in our ranks,” said Mounkaila, who could not give a precise number.

Mounkaila added that 79 protesters were arrested over the clashes in

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which two police vehicles were “ransacked” and another belonging to the French embassy’s communications officer was “set on fire.” The governor said two more vehicles from the UN refugee agency were damaged by protestors.

“We have met 90 percent of the students’ demands. Of the 359 classes promised, 328 have been completed,” Governor Hamidou Garba said.

Mounkaila warned there could be further protests. “We will organize other demonstrations if we are not fully satisfied,” he said.

The impoverished former French colony ranks last on the UN’s development index.

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N. Korea Rejects Peace Talks North Korea rejected the idea of recommencing discussions to end its nuclear program on Saturday.

The reason given was that previous attempts ended in failure, and it reiterated its demand that Washington come to the table to negotiate a peace treaty.

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There are playdate tutors to help your toddler learn how to socialize, and there are game tutors to teach your child how to play games fairly. Tutoring is turning into a profession.

The Babe Ruth of tutoring is Lam Yat-yan from Hong Kong.

In China, academic competition is fierce and one Hong Kong school, Modern Education, took out an ad in a paper last week offering Yat-yan $11 million to quit his tutoring job and work for them. The school was attempting to lure Lam away from their rival school Beacon Group where he is currently employed.

Tutors, though, are often asked to sign non-competition clauses to stop them from moving to a competing school. Supposedly, Lam already earns more than $4.6 million working for Beacon Group, one of Hong Kong’s biggest tutoring firms.

Lam declined the offer from Modern Education, posting a message on his Facebook page last Thursday which said, “For a long time, the

The announcement by the North’s foreign ministry came a day after U.S. President Barack Obama and South Korean President Park Geun-hye said in Washington they were open to talks with North Korea on sanctions but that Pyongyang needs to show it was serious about abandoning its nuclear ambition.

“If the United States insists on taking a different path, the Korean peninsula will only see our unlimited nuclear deterrent being strengthened further,” the North’s foreign ministry said in a statement.

Technically, North and South are still at war but are under a truce signed in 1953 with the United States, which led U.N. forces backing the South, and China, which fought for the North.

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the “six-party” talks involving the United States and four other countries in 2008 and went on to conduct two more nuclear tests. It said only a peace treaty with Washington can permanently resolve the conflict on the Korean peninsula.

Obama said last week that the United States was open to negotiations that could ease sanctions imposed on the North, just as it had done with Iran, which reached a deal in July with major powers.

“We haven’t even gotten to that point yet, because there has been no indication on the part of the North Koreans as there was with the Iranians that they could foresee a future in which they did not possess or were not pursuing nuclear weapons,” he said.

Meet Canada’s New PM

It was victory for Liberals this week, as Canada’s Liberal leader Justin Trudeau rode a late campaign surge to a stunning election victory on Monday, toppling Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s Conservatives with a promise of change and returning a touch of glamor, youth and charisma to Ottawa. Before this election, Liberals had been a distant third place party in Parliament. The win ends the Conservatives’ nine year run in power, reflecting a political shift away from Harper’s brand of fiscal and cultural conservatism.

Trudeau, 43, the photogenic son of former Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, pledged to run a C$10 billion annual budget deficit for three years to invest in infrastructure and help stimulate Canada’s anemic economic growth.

He has said he will repair Canada’s cool relations with the Obama administration, withdraw Canada from the combat mission against Islamic State militants in favor of humanitarian aid and training, and tackle climate change.

Trudeau vaulted from third place to lead the polls in the final days of the campaign, overcoming Conservative

attacks that he is too inexperienced to govern to return to the Prime Minister’s residence in Ottawa where he grew up as a child.

“When the time for change strikes, it’s lethal,” former Conservative Prime Minister Brian Mulroney said in a television interview. “I ran and was successful because I wasn’t Pierre Trudeau. Justin is successful

because he isn’t Stephen Harper.”

The Conservatives weren’t the only party that appeared headed for a crushing defeat. The third place left-leaning New Democratic Party’s fall was highlighted in Quebec, where it had the majority of its seats. Radio Canada projected it would end up with just seven seats, down from 54 in the last Parliament.

The Liberals’ win marks a swing toward a more multilateral approach in global politics by the Canadian government, which has distanced itself from the United Nations in recent years. The former teacher took charge of the party just two years ago and guided it out of the political wilderness with a pledge of economic stimulus and stirring appeals for a

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return to social liberalism.

Born to a sitting prime minister who came to power in 1968 on a wave of popular support dubbed “Trudeaumania,” Trudeau will become the second-youngest prime minister in Canadian history and brings an appeal more common in movie stars than statesmen.

His father, Pierre, once jumped from a trampoline into the crowd.

With boyish good looks, Justin thrusts himself into throngs and puts his hand to his heart when listening to someone. Selfie requests are so common he happily takes the camera and snaps the photo himself, often cheek to cheek. He is the married father of three young children.

But his allure with voters don’t make him everyone’s fan. Criticized for being more style than substance, Trudeau has endeavored to use attacks on his good looks and privileged upbringing to win over voters, who recalled his father’s rock-star presence and an era when Canada had some sizzle on the world stage.

Pierre Trudeau, who died in 2000, was in power for 15 years – with a brief interruption – and remains one of the few Canadian leaders to be known abroad.

More Millions in Israel Than You Think

Although the overall amount of Israeli wealth declined by 7.6 percent last year, there are still 88,231 millionaires currently in the country.

According to the 2015 Global Wealth Report, published by Swiss investment bank Credit Suisse, most millionaires have a net worth between one and five million dollars. Seventeen of them have assets in the “ten

figures.”

According to the report, about 124,000 members of the world’s top percentile come from Israel. The Israeli middle class comprises 42 percent of the general adult population in the country and holds 40.2 percent of the wealth.

Global wealth has declined by about $12.4 trillion in the past year.

The United States increased its wealth by $4.6 trillion, continuing a seven-year positive streak since the end of the 2008 financial crisis. China also appears to be growing steadily by an annual rate of $1.5 trillion.

In other places around the world, added wealth in local currency terms were undercut by these currencies’ weakness compared to the dollar, and thus overall global wealth went down.

The percentage of wealth comprised of financial assets, though, which are usually held by wealthier individuals, rose in the past year. This might help explain the rise in inequality.

According to the report, the world’s richest countries include North American, Western European, and some Asian-Pacific and Middle Eastern countries. Switzerland is still the richest country in the world per capita, with an average net worth of $567,000 per citizen. It’s followed by New Zealand, Australia, the United States, and Norway.

The value of the world’s wealthiest percentile had been gradually declining up until 2009, but since then it has been rising, hitting a record high this year – with estimates saying this top 1% holds about half of the world’s wealth. The middle class, which is an important part of the world economy, held 32 percent of the world’s wealth in the past year, about $80.7 trillion, twice as much as in the year 2000.

Palestinian Videos Incite and Encourage Violence Palestinian terror promoters are using social media as a platform for incitement and calls for violence. In addition to praising recent attacks and urging more of the same, a number of Palestinian activists have posted content with advice and instructions on how to carry out assaults.

Videos and photos posted to Facebook and Twitter show detailed instructional guidance on how to

stab Israelis, methods for maximum bodily damage, and ways to create deadly weapons to carry out attacks.

According to the Middle East Media Research Institute, the posts have been published under various headings created in recent weeks such as “The Intifada Has Started,” “The Third Intifada,” “The Knife Intifada,” “Poison the Knife before You Stab,” and “Slaughtering the Jews.”

Multiple Facebook pages, including one called “Intifada Youth Coalition – Palestine,” posted a video two weeks ago demonstrating how to carry out a deadly stabbing. A Facebook page called “Jerusalem Now” has posted a video demonstrating how to stab and how to snatch a soldier’s weapon. Some posts go so far as to post anatomical charts showing which parts of the body to aim for when stabbing a victim to inflict the most damage.

In another trend, instructional videos have given information on how to change ordinary kitchen knives into deadly attack weapons.

Three weeks ago YouTube removed a video from its website that appeared to encourage stabbing attacks against Jews and Israelis after Israel’s Foreign Ministry complained that the clip promoted terror. In a letter to YouTube’s parent company, Google, Jerusalem officials said the posted clips contained “violent and inciting content in which terrorists are praised and their acts staged in videos to promote further violence against Israelis and Jews.” YouTube removed the video from the Hamas channel where it was first posted and circulated widely, but it was still available elsewhere on YouTube and on Facebook. The website said the graphic 45-second clip violated YouTube’s policy of prohibiting hate speech.

Israel, on the other hand, has been using social media to teach Israelis how to respond to a stabbing attack with instructions on how to administer potentially life-saving emergency treatment to victims. “When a stabbing happens, it happens fast, all you need to do is call MDA and stop the bleeding. If there are people around you, ask them for help. The most important thing to do is press hard on the wound. If the weapon is still stuck inside, do not try to remove or move it,” instructs a woman in a video. “Remember, your safety comes first, so make sure you aren’t in danger. You can’t help the victim if you are wounded,” she tells viewers.

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“Executed” Teen Admits to Attack

Ahmed Manasra, the 13-year-old Palestinian boy who took part in a stabbing spree in which an Israeli his age was critically wounded and who PA President Mahmoud Abbas claimed was killed in cold blood by Israeli police, has admitted to carrying out the attack in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Pisgat Zeev.

“I went there to stab Jews,” he told investigators at the Hadassah Hospital where doctors have been treating him for wounds he sustained during the incident, police said.

Manasra said he was motivated to carry out the attack by the Palestinian claim that Israel has been trying to change the status quo on the volatile Temple Mount in Jerusalem.

Israel has repeatedly rejected such allegations.

Manasra is accused of seriously injuring a 13-year-old boy and a 25-year-old man. He said his accomplice, his cousin Hassan Manasra, 15, persuaded him to carry out the attack. The elder Manasra was shot dead when he lunged at police with a knife, while Ahmed was injured when he was hit by a car while attempting to flee the scene. “I came with my cousin Hassan,” the terrorist admitted. “He brought the knives and I agreed to join him.”

Amateur video widely circulated on the day of the attack on Palestinian social media sites showed the wounded Ahmed lying on the ground after being struck, his legs splayed and a pool of blood near his head.

The images, which made no mention of the stabbing, have enraged many Palestinians.

Mansara became the focus of international media when Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas accused Israel of “executing our boys in cold blood, as they did with the boy Ahmed Manasra and other children in Jerusalem and other places.” The Prime Minister’s Office swiftly issued a statement after the speech, noting Mansara was alive and had initiated a terror attack and

accusing Abbas of spreading “lies and incitement.”

“The boy he is referring to is alive and hospitalized in Hadassah after stabbing an Israeli child who was riding his bicycle,” the statement read.

The following day, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu used Abbas’s claims of Manasra’s death to highlight what he termed “continuous Palestinian incitement.” “The current terror campaign in Israel is a result of continuous Palestinian incitement. First, on the Al-Aqsa Mosque and the outrageous claims that we are changing the status quo there or intend to destroy it, and now we have a new big lie,” he said. “That new big lie is that Israel is executing Palestinians.”

Manasra “was treated by a multidisciplinary team of physicians, especially neurosurgeons” and received the best care available, Professor Yoram Weiss, the director of Jerusalem’s Hadassah Medical Center, said at Netanyahu’s press conference. “Nothing was spared to take care of his injury. At this point, he’s awake, he’s conscious, he’s eating, he’s watching TV and he’s stable.”

Terrorist Poses as Journalist in Attack According to the IDF, a Palestinian was posing as a photojournalist when he stabbed and wounded an Israeli soldier near the West Bank settlement of Kiryat Arba last week.

The attacker, who was shot dead by soldiers at the scene, was wearing a yellow “press” vest at the time of the attack.

Magen David Adom paramedics evacuated the 20-year-old soldier to Jerusalem’s Shaare Tzedek Medical Center with stab wounds to his back and arm. The Foreign Press Association condemned the incident as a “worrying development” and called on all “Palestinian media organizations to immediately verify all media credentials.” “We utterly deplore this violation of press privilege and call on local Palestinian media organizations to immediately verify all media credentials to ensure there are no violations,” the FPA said in the statement.

Amid the unrest throughout the country, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry warned Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas not to in-

cite violence against Israelis. “There’s no excuse for the violence,” Kerry said in a radio interview. “No amount of frustration is appropriate to license any violence anywhere at any time. No violence should occur. And the Palestinians need to understand that,” he warned.

Father of 7 Killed When Hit by a Car

On Tuesday, Avraham Asher Hasano, 54, an Israeli civilian and father of seven, was killed after he was hit by a truck as he inspected the damage to his own car caused when he was pelted with rocks by Palestinians near Hebron.

Hasano stopped his car to inspect the damage after it was hit by rocks as he drove through the Al Fawar

junction, near the Palestinian village of the same name, southwest of Hebron. As he stood at the side of the road, he was hit by a passing truck that continued driving and left the area.

The driver claimed to have fled the scene out of fear and told Palestinian security forces that it was an accident.

Palestinian rioters attacked Israeli forces and medics as they tried to attend to the victim.

Earlier in the day, an IDF army officer sustained light injuries after being stabbed by a Palestinian man in the southern West Bank. The stabber was shot and killed during the attack, amid what the army said was a “violent riot” in the village of Beit Awwa in the Hebron Hills region.

The attacks came after Monday saw a rare respite from several weeks of almost daily shooting and stabbing attacks against Israeli civilians and soldiers, both in the West Bank and throughout Israel.

While many of the attacks have been centered around Jerusalem, the weekend saw a spike in stabbings in and around Hebron, with three stabbing attacks on Saturday alone.

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Paratroopers to Protect Mass Transit

In response to the recent attacks around the country, hundreds of IDF soldiers were deployed in Jerusalem to provide security against Arab attacks on the public transport system. Transport Minister Yisrael Katz briefed some of the soldiers, who hail from the Paratroop Brigade, and used the occasion to relay a message to Israeli citizens. “We are here to guard every single person,” he assured.

As for the terrorists, Katz vowed that “they will achieve nothing by force, and they will not weaken our grip on Jerusalem and the entire state of Israel.” The Security Cabinet decided last week to reinforce the police presence in the capital.

Over 1,000 IDF combat soldiers were reportedly due to arrive in Jerusalem to aid the police in maintaining public order and preventing Arab terrorist attacks. The soldiers are to coordinate with the police and conduct joint operations with police officers.

The Cabinet also instructed the IDF to immediately deploy forces along the sensitive parts of the Judea-Samaria security fence.

The Security Cabinet has also approved a series of additional security measures to deal with the recent wave of terror. These include an enlargement and expansion of the operational forces of the Israel Police and the recruitment of 300 additional security guards for public transportation in Jerusalem at a cost of 80 million shekels. These guards will eventually replace the IDF soldiers who have been stationed in Jerusalem following the Cabinet decision.

Cutting off PA Terror Payments The Israeli Diplomatic-Security Cabinet has decided to actively counter Palestinian Authority policies through which terrorists impris-

oned in Israel are eligible for monthly wages. In 2012, Ramallah’s payments to terrorists exceeded $19 million.

The ministers have instructed Israeli intelligence agencies to gather information about the nature of such transactions so that Israel may prevent the funds from reaching their destination, either by intercepting wire transfers or by seizing the funds from the terrorists and their families. Palestinian Authority payments are usually done by wire transfer to either the terrorist’s bank account or that of a family member. In some cases, funds are physically delivered to terrorists’ homes, and Israel has knowledge of instances when funds were even delivered directly to terrorists imprisoned in Israel.

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The Ramallah-based government, it appears, determines terrorists’ wages according to the length of their prison sentence, and the longer the sentence, the higher the wages.

According to Palestinian law, a terrorist serving three years or under in Israeli prisons is eligible for a monthly payment of about $370, a terrorist serving up to 15 years is paid $1,600 a month, and those sentenced to life in prison are paid $3,100.

“This is an absurd situation that has been going on for years as part of the incitement apparatus Israel constantly warns the international community against,” Immigrant Absorption Minister Zeev Elkin said.

“I’m glad that we’re finally putting a stop to it.”

Hezbollah Leader Backs Palestinian Brothers It comes as no surprise that the leader of the Lebanese Hezbollah militia, Hassan Nasrallah, praised the ongoing Palestinian uprising this week. Nasrallah said standing up to the Israeli “occupation” is the duty of all Muslims. Speaking at a ceremony honoring Hezbollah officer Hassan Muhammad al-Hajj, killed last week

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in combat in Syria, Nasrallah said that Hezbollah still has a large cadre of capable commanders, despite heavy losses in Syria.

“We stood and continue to stand with the Palestinian people and its intifada,” Nasrallah said. “Today we look to the young and old in Palestine, facing one of the strongest armies in the region with hands holding nothing but stones and knives …

There will be no hope for this [Zionist] entity and any of its protectors.

“This renewed intifada,” Nasrallah added, “is the real hope for the

Palestinian people to rid themselves from the occupation and protect [the] Al-Aqsa [mosque in Jerusalem]. It is everyone’s responsibility to stand by it, each according to his abilities and conditions,” he urged.

Last week, Nasrallah said on Lebanese television that he emphasizes “our absolute support for the rights of the Palestinian people and their intifada.” He was speaking ahead of the Shiite Muslim religious holiday Ashura. “It is incumbent upon us all to stand by the Palestinians and help them all we can, and to recognize

the fact that the Palestinians have in front of them … no choice but the choice of resistance and intifada,” he added. Nasrallah said the Palestinians were responding to “provocations by Israelis” and were seeking to prevent the “Judaization of Al-Aqsa mosque,” which is situated on the Temple Mount.

Last week Hezbollah deployed hundreds of fighters to Syria in an offensive with Iranian troops and under Russian air cover. The offensive, in central and northern Syria, concentrated on the major city of Aleppo.

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Earlier Sunday, hundreds of Palestinian protesters in two locations in Hebron hurled stones and Molotov cocktails at Israeli security, following several stabbing attacks that were carried out by Palestinians in the area over the weekend. In the West Bank city of Tulkarem, about 100 rioters hurled rocks, burned tires and threw Molotov cocktails at Israel Defense Forces soldiers, who responded with non-lethal dispersal means.

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The only man ever convicted for the Lufthansa heist was Louis Werner, a cargo agent and the inside source. Supposedly, Werner came up with the idea for the robbery to help settle gambling debts. Most of the other suspected participants in the robbery disappeared, were killed or died.

“Once you kill one guy, you gotta kill them all, because otherwise they’ll get scared,” said Howard Abadinsky, an organized crime expert and a professor at St. John’s University in New York. “He’s one of the few guys that’s still alive.”

Asaro is accused of a list of crimes stretching from 1968 to 2013 including murder, racketeering, arson, and robbery. He was arrested alongside four other members of the Bonanno family, who were charged with crimes unrelated to the Lufthansa heist. Those defendants, Asaro’s son Jerome, Jack Bonventre, Thomas DiFiore and John Ragano, all pleaded guilty and were sentenced to prison terms ranging from 21 to 90 months.

Asaro is charged with several other crimes, including setting a building on fire in Queens, robbing Federal Express of $1 million in gold salts, soliciting the murder of his cousin in the 1980s, and loan sharking as recently as 2013.

US Airways’ Final Flight December 11, 1978 was a cold, dark winter night in New York. On that evening nearly four decades ago $6 million in cash and jewelry was stolen from a Lufthansa Airlines cargo building by a group of masked men. The brazen theft remained a mystery for many years. It inspired a gangster movie, “Goodfellas,” and puzzled authorities.

The robbery’s profits, most of which were never recovered, would be worth nearly $22 million today.

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Now that hard-earned name will become obsolete.

The last flight went out on Saturday and was packed with enthusiasts who wanted to witness the final, farewell flight. Onboard, champagne flowed in a toast to the airline – along with tears and tales of US Airways’ past. The flight’s first two hours had a party atmosphere, though things finally calmed down around midnight as passengers began to nod-off on the 5-hour cross-country “red-eye” flight.

Glenda Yerse of Phoenix was on hand in San Francisco. A retired flight attendant, she had just flown in on Phoenix-San Francisco leg of Flight 1939. She dressed for the occasion, donning her Allegheny Airlines flight attendant uniform from the 1970s.

“I never thought I’d get the opportunity to wear it again, but here I am,” she said in San Franscisco. Like the others, she came to witness the history of US Airways’ final flight.

She wasn’t taking the last leg to Philadelphia, but was pleased to be part

of the spectacle.

“I’m surprised at such a big turnout,” she said about the large crowd and party atmosphere at the gate. “I’m just happy to be part of this.”

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With the average price of a home in the country at roughly $228K, the median size of a new house is 2,600 feet—a full 500 square feet (or almost 25 percent) more than it was just 15 years ago—and that’s to accommodate about 2.54 people, the average American household in 2014. Yet the average lot size is now 8,600 square feet, down 1,000 square feet (or about 10 percent) over the same period.

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Scott Kelly is out of this world. On Tuesday of last week, the NASA astronaut set a new record for the most time spent off the Earth by an American citizen.

Kelly is currently serving as commander of the International Space Station’s Expedition 45 crew and marked the 200th day of what is scheduled to be a 342-day mission on board the orbiting outpost. Two days later, he passed the previous record for the most total cumulative time spent in space by a U.S. astronaut of 381 days, 15 hours and 11 minutes, including the 180 days on his previous three missions.

Kelly’s 382 day (and counting) record exceeded the earlier total logged by astronaut Mike Fincke in 2011.

A veteran of three missions, Fincke resided on the space station for two long-duration expeditions and then set the prior record on the 16-day final flight of the space shuttle Endeavour.

Kelly is the first American to spend nearly a year in space on a single mission. Together with Roscosmos cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko, who’s also spending 12 months in orbit, Kelly is collecting medical data to support future astronaut missions beyond the Earth to the asteroids and Mars.

“Records are meant to be broken.

Look forward to one of my colleagues surpassing [mine] on our Journey to Mars!” Kelly wrote on Twitter on Friday.

He’s not done with setting records.

On October 29, just 5 days shy of the 15th anniversary of the first crew taking up residency on the International Space Station, Kelly will log his 216th day on board the complex, surpassing the previous record for the single longest flight by a United States astronaut of 215 days set by Michael Lopez-Alegria as commander of the Expedition 14 crew in April 2007.

It will be the first time that an astronaut has held both the single mission and cumulative time in space records since Expedition 4 flight engineer Carl Walz in 2002, who totaled 196 and 230 days, respectively.

Kelly’s durations records though, fall short of claiming the title for worldwide spaceflight veterans.

Soviet-era cosmonaut Valery Polyakov logged the longest space mission in history 20 years ago. The first person to spend a continuous full year in space, Polyakov lived and worked on Russia’s former space station Mir from January 1994 to March 1995, recording 437 days, 17 hours, and 58 minutes in flight.

But even that record pales in comparison to Kelly’s former crewmate, Gennady Padalka, who just last month set the new bar for cumulative time logged in space at 878 days, 11 hours, and 31 minutes. The cosmonaut accomplished that feat at the end of his fifth mission, which began as he launched to the space station with Kelly and Kornienko in March of this year.

Kelly is scheduled to return to Earth on March 3, 2016, by which time he will have 522 total days living in space.

Kelly’s place in the history books also includes an entry unrelated to how long he has orbited the Earth.

Together with his brother Mark, they are the first-ever twins to both be astronauts. Mark Kelly, who logged 54 days on his four shuttle missions (including Endeavour’s final mission with Fincke), is participating from the ground in parallel studies with Scott to help compare the effects on the human body and mind in space.

Don’t Tip Here Gratuity is not necessary, says New York City restauranteur Danny Meyer, founder of burger chain

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On Wednesday, Meyer announced that all tipping expectations will be eradicated from his restaurants. Menu prices will be increased slightly so that employees working in the eateries are better paid. Cooks, dishwashers, and other kitchen workers are expected to receive a raise, while waiters’ wages will remain mostly the same.

“The gap between what the kitchen and dining room workers make has grown by leaps and bounds,” Meyer told the New York Times.

During his 30 years in the business, “kitchen income has gone up no more than 25 percent.

“Meanwhile,” he added, “dining room pay has gone up 200 percent.”

“I hate those Saturday nights

where the whole dining room is high-fiving because they just set a record, and they’re counting their shekels, and the kitchen just says, ‘Well, boy, did we sweat tonight,’” Meyer related.

While this isn’t the first food joint to come up with a no-tip policy, Meyer’s restaurant group is the biggest and most well-known chain to make the change.

Melissa Fleischut, president and CEO of the New York State Restaurant Association, said she is hoping that other restaurants follow Meyer’s lead. “I think that because it is Danny Meyer and he is considered a leader in the restaurant industry, that a lot of people are going to look at this move,” she said.

The Canadian who was America’s Hero Ken Taylor is regarded as a hero in America, and many don’t realize that he is actually Canadian. Taylor, Canada’s ambassador to Iran, brave-

ly sheltered Americans at his residence during the 1979 hostage crisis.

He protected the Americans at his own home and the home of his deputy, John Sheardown, in Tehran for close to three months. Taylor himself facilitated their safe escape by arranging plane tickets and persuading the Ottawa government to issue fake passports.

The six U.S. diplomats managed to slip away when their embassy was overrun in 1979. They spent five days on the move, then took refuge at the Canadian Embassy for the next three months. The CIA consulted with Canadian officials on how to organize a rescue, and Canada gave permission for the diplomats to be issued fake Canadian passports.

Some of Taylor’s exploits in Iran in 1979 later became the subject of the 2012 Hollywood film, “Argo.”

However, Taylor and others, including former-U.S. President Jimmy Carter, felt the film downplayed his role and that of Canada in the operation.

Taylor’s wife of more than 50 years said he was diagnosed with cancer in August and that friends from Canada, the U.S. and elsewhere visited him at New York Presbyterian hospital where he was being treated before he passed away on Thursday at the age of 81.

During his presidency, former U.S. President Ronald Reagan paid tribute to Taylor at the White House.

He was appointed Canada’s consul general in New York and received a key to the city. Earlier this year he received a standing ovation at a New York Rangers hockey game.

U.S. Ambassador Bruce Heyman called Taylor’s actions courageous.

“Ambassador Taylor earned the enduring gratitude of the United States — and was awarded the Congressional Gold Medal — for his valor and ingenuity in harboring six American citizens trapped in Iran in the aftermath of the seizure of the

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American Embassy in Tehran on November 4, 1979 and, ultimately, in securing their safe return,” Heyman related.

Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper said he was sad to learn of Taylor’s demise.

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The state has identified $1.3 million to expand services to homeless individuals and families. Aside from the new shelters, the money will be spent on the state’s Housing First program, which provides homes and services to chronically homeless individuals without requiring them to get sober or treat mental illness first, and programs that help families pay deposits and rent.

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RABBI NOSSON NEUMAN

and our Principal,

MRS. LEAH ZYTMAN

Please join us at one of the following locations throughout Far Rockaway and the Five Towns

NEIGHBORHOOD

DATE/TIME

Far Rockaway Inwood Bayswater

OCT 31, 2015 8:30 PM

Cedarhurst Woodmere Lawrence

NOV. 7, 2015 8:30 PM

North Woodmere Hewlett

NOV. 14, 2015 8:30 PM

West Hempstead

DEC. 5, 2015 8:30 PM

CO-HOSTS Zvi & Goldie Bloom Simcha & Avigayil Stoll Ryan & Tamar Sullivan Mati & Shira Dear Yitzy & Meira Fried Motti & Shani Fox Elie & Daphna Mishaan Daniel & Jana Friedman Daniel & Miri Rabinowitz Pinchas & Mindy Rekant Ari & Miriam Szafranski Eli & Yocheved Krimsky Evan & Tamar Twersky

HOST ADDRESS BLOOM RESIDENCE 509 Cedarhill Road Far Rockaway, NY 11691 FOX RESIDENCE 334 Longacre Avenue Woodmere, NY 11598 RABINOWITZ RESIDENCE 747 Park Lane Valley Stream, NY 11581 KRIMSKY RESIDENCE 169 Oakland Avenue West Hempstead, NY 11552

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let and shower, and there’s a separate portable toilet and shower that are accessible to the disabled.

When completed in December, the shelter in an industrial part of Honolulu will temporarily house up to 87 people at a time.

Hawaii has the highest rate of homelessness per-capita from any other state in the nation. There are about 7,260 individuals living without a roof over their head in the Aloha State.

From Rags to Riches, States Ranked by Income They say the American Dream is still alive, but it seems to be more prevalent in some states than in others…

The national average salary may surprise you. The U.S. median household income increased in 2014 to $53,657, up about $600 from 2013, but it’s still not at pre-recession levels. Adjusting for inflation, U.S. 2014 median income was still below its

2009 level.

While the national average is informative, it is not reflective of individual states and there is a large range amongst the 50 states. In some states the average is significantly higher, while in others it is much lower.

There is an obvious correlation between income and poverty levels; cities with high poverty rates tend to have residents who make lower averages in salary. The labor market also plays a part in determining residents’ incomes. A lower unemployment rate is often a sign of a healthy, competitive job market. Of the 25 wealthiest metropolitan areas in the nation, the unemployment rates in 19 are equal to or lower than the national rate. All but one of the 25 poorest areas have higher than average jobless rates.

The education level of area residents also affects income. Nationally, 30.1% of adults have at least a bachelor’s degree. Only one of the poorest metro areas has a higher share of adults with similar education.

Wealthier areas generally have better educated residents, high employment, low poverty, and higher than average incomes. Property values in these areas are also considerably higher.

America’s richest cities include: San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA (median household income of $96,481); Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV (median household income of $91,193); California-Lexington Park, MD (median household income of $86,417); Bridgeport-Stamford-Norwalk, CT (median household income of $85,925); San Francisco-Oakland-Hayward, CA (median household income of $83,222); Midland, TX (median household income of $77,574); Anchorage, AK (median household income of 475,682); Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MANH (median household income of $75,667); Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura, CA (median household income of $75,449); and Trenton, NJ (median household income of $74,961).

On the other side of the nation, the poorest cities in America include: Brownsville-Harlingen, TX (median household income of $32,093); Pine Bluff, AR (median household income of $33,838); McAllen-Edinburg-Mission, TX (median household income of $34,801); Homosassa Springs, FL (median household income of $35,671); and Goldsboro, NC (median household income of $35,966).

the classy car on the bidding site for the buyer who is willing to spend $33,000 for a piece of nostalgia.

Called the “Big Tike,” it’s a real-life replica of the Cozy Coupe—including the red body and the pitched yellow rooftop. But it’s not just a replica of the child-like car. This car can reach speeds of up to 70 mph, comes equipped with airbags, headlights and a mirror, and doesn’t need you to power it with your feet, Flintstones-style.

The brothers built the car through their Bicester, U.K.-based company, Attitude Autos, in 2013 and then watched it go viral after it was featured on the BBC. They note that the car, which took them 16 weeks to refashion, is not “the fastest car on the planet,” but has been “the most incredible fun.” Initially they wanted to bring the car to market, but it didn’t bring in enough revenue, leading them to auction the two-seater on eBay. “We were hoping it would be out on a regular basis, create some revenue and recoup the money used to build it,” Geof Bitmead said. “So we thought we might as well sell it and if anyone’s interested in buying it that will bring back some money for us.”

Can’t wait to see that car on Central Avenue.

Blind Ambition

Cruisin’ in Your Cozy Coupe Remember how you were able to drive around town in your Little Tikes Cozy Coupe when you were three?

Remember the red horn, the yellow roof and the one door that opened?

You were king of the sidewalk—and you still can be, if you buy the adult version, now up on eBay. John and Geof Bitmead have put

It typically takes hikers about four days to conquer the Inca Trail that runs through the ancient ruins of Machu Picchu. Dan Berlin and three other adventure athletes managed

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to complete the trail that crosses through three mountain passes in a day. They hiked together nonstop and did what most people fail to accomplish.

But Dan is someone who has faced the odds before. You see, Dan is blind—but does not view his lack of sight as a disability.

Before the trek, one of the Peruvian guides who has completed the trek 215 times told the group: “What you are planning to do is not impossible, but the local authorities think it’s crazy for anyone to try, let alone with a blind person.”

Dan, the co-owner of Rodelle, one of the world’s leading vanilla extract companies, began to lose his sight 20 years ago through a gradual conerod dystrophy. He chose not to feel sorry for himself and instead created Team See Possibilities. For this particular trip the team worked with the Blind Institute of Technology to raise $10,000.

Also on Team See was Charles Scott, author of the book Rising Son: A Father and Son’s Bike Adventure Across Japan. In his spare time he takes his two young children on endurance challenges around the world to raise money for charitable causes.

Alison Qualter Berna, the co-founder of the company Apple Seeds, and Brad Graff, an ultra-marathoner, rounded out the group.

Last year, the group guided Dan to become the first blind runner to cross the Grand Canyon rim to rim to rim nonstop.

For this year’s trek, they began training on their own and then joined together last month and climbed two mountains in Colorado in a day. They also spent several days in Cusco, Peru, to acclimatize before ascending the Inca Trail.

The trek was extremely demanding because of the challenging terrain—rocky and narrow with dangerous drop offs, steep ascents and descents crossing 3 mountain passes. At the highest point the group reached an elevation of nearly 14,000 feet.

“When we started the trek in the darkness, we were confident in our chances, but after a few hours we realized we probably wouldn’t be able to complete the trek in a single day.

The climbs up the mountains sapped our strength, and it was too treacherous to go quickly much of the time,” team member Charles Scott recalled.

“The steep descents were particularly hard with Dan. When we reached

the first mountain pass we were already an hour behind schedule.”

But the group brainstormed with their Peruvian guide and created a new guiding technique based on the trapezoidal construction the Incas used to provide stability to their impressive stone structures. Two teammates joined their inside hands and used hiking poles in their outside hands to provide a broad base, while Dan held on from behind to the backpacks of each guide. The third teammate followed closely behind to grab Dan in case he fell backward. Sometimes one of the guides slipped, and Dan helped pull him/her back up.

“This allowed us all to go much faster,” Scott said. “We could tell Dan was challenged, but he didn’t complain or give up. He’s a remarkable person.”

They never lost sight of their goal: it took them 13 hours to reach Machu Picchu.

from England admits that it has its downside as well as he has a hard time keeping his glasses on.

“I went to the supermarket the other day and when I went in I said, ‘Blimey, it’s so windy out there it blew my ears off,’ and everybody had a chuckle,” Richards related.

He gave his severed ear tissue to a friend who “will appreciate them,” and has set his sights on another flight of fancy: finding a surgeon who can turn his nose into a beak.

“But seriously, I love the fact that I’m unique and I have always wanted to be different,” Richards said.

He may not look like a person; now he looks like a bird—one strange bird.

Different he is.

David Kelly sure does.

The professor at Hampshire College in Massachusetts recently retired after 45 years but he didn’t want a retirement party. In his honor, though, the college changed the speed limit at the university from 15mph to 17mph.

Professor Kelly requested the change since he is fascinated by the prime number.

“Tweet, Tweet,” Says the Chicken

If you ask Kelly to name some of his favorite facts about 17, he can go on for hours. Did you know, for example, that Carl Friedrich Gauss, a famed German mathematician, learned that you could create a 17-sided shape with just a compass and ruler? Or that there are 17 columns on the long side of the Parthenon in Greece?

Kelly said he has been pushing for the speed limit change because it’s a nice way of letting people know about the uniqueness of the college. He wants people to know the culture of the school as soon as they drive onto campus.

“When they see 17 miles per hour, that just alerts them to the fact that Hampshire is kind of special in a quirky sort of way,” he said.

Kelly said he has been trying to get the college to change the speed limits for decades. This year, Elizabeth Conlisk, a professor of public health at Hampshire, and the college president, Jonathan Lash, teamed up to grant him his wish.

This summer, workers changed the signs overnight to surprise Kelly, who is usually on campus until 11 p.m. and back around 7 a.m.

What was his reaction when he saw one of the signs?

“Finally, it happened!” he recalled.

Kelly, who said his age is “between 68 and 85, which are both multiples of 17,” still teaches summer classes to high-schoolers who are gifted at math — and he will surely continue to regale them with facts about the number 17.

Did you know that it takes 17 muscles for you to smile? See, now you’re smiling, as you’re reading this.

Birds of a Feather

They say that people tend to look like their pets. In Ted Richards’ case, it’s really true. And he works really hard at it.

Richards loves his parrots, Ellie, Teaka, Timneh, Jake and Bubi, so much that he had his face and eyeballs tattooed to look like his feathered friends. And if that wasn’t bird-brained enough, Richards, 56, had his ears removed in a six hour operation so he could look more like the fowl.

“I think it looks really great. I love it. It’s the best thing that has happened to me. I am so happy it’s unreal, I can’t stop looking in the mirror,” Richards, who has 110 tattoos, 50 piercings, and a split tongue, enthused. “I’ve done it because I want to look like my parrots as much as possible. I’ve had my hair long for so many years my ears have been covered up.”

The new look has its perks—he now looks more parrot than person— but the retired shoe factory worker

Tweet, tweet, tweet. This chicken is tweeting away. And although Betty has a lot to say, I still can’t understand a thing.

Betty, living in Australia, is the newest voice in the Twitter world.

She was given a keyboard in her coop by Chicken Treat and has been banging out words that make just as much sense as most of what’s been floating around social media: “XKX BNHVFSE13 X8FGD 3 /P,L,9,I GU90U8BNGFVEĘASDZ EFSZV Q VCW 23QZAWFNJFIPGFB5 1 I PKO0 OLO I0PL A1REG5H K OKMYUT89 9IIO 5 1Q” is what’s been tweeted so far.

The company, though, is waiting for Betty to actually churn out one five-letter English word to get them into the Guinness Book of World Records for the title of “First Coherent Tweet By A Chicken.”

Until then, it’s really just chicken scratch.

17 in His Honor Don’t you just love the number 17?

Well, maybe you don’t, but Professor

The Jewish Home | OCTOBER 22, 2015

Scuffs Sell

Generosity Satisfies Body and Soul in Tiberias’s Meir Panim Free Restaurant The Meir Panim Free Restaurant located near the Sea of Galilee shores in Tiberias, Israel is a touching tribute to a special couple. Dedicated by Mrs. Lee Steinberg nearly thirteen years ago in memory of her parents, Eva and Morris Fish, this restaurant style soup kitchen satisfies both the body and soul of its patrons and staff alike.

I hate when my kids’ sneakers are scuffed and dirty. But I shouldn’t be complaining. Now people are shelling out tons of money to have their sneakers look like my kids’ do after months of wearing.

Last week, sneakers from Golden Goose Deluxe Brand debuted at stores like Barneys and Shopbop with “distressed” soles, stained leather and knotted laces. The price?

At least $400.

Sarah Rutson, Net-a-Porter’s Vice President of Global Buying, explains, “This particular sneaker stands out from a pure white sneaker because of its immediate vintage look.” She points out, “Each shoe is brushed and waxed by hand, achieving just the right amount of perceived wear and tear. We have seen so much ‘brand new, fresh-outof-the-box sparkling white sneakers’ in the past two seasons that actually having a distressed pair offers a fresh approach and makes them seem more custom.”

She adds, “It gives everything a perceived ‘less thought out’ approach, and just simply looking lived-in makes it look like it’s your beloved old sneaker that you just cannot stop wearing. That makes it seem stylish and precious and, of course, heavy on style with comfort.”

She recommends wearing your new, worn-out sneaks with a tailored pantsuit or a button-down shirt and skirt.

If anyone is interesting in this new look and wants to save a few dollars, I have quite a few pairs of sneakers I can sell you—complete with scuffs, tangled laces, and eau de sweaty feet.

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As one of six Meir Panim Free Restaurants in Israel, this one was established by Mrs. Steinberg in recognition of her late husband’s love for the area. “On our last trip to Israel together, Harold especially liked Tiberias,” Steinberg reflected.

The early pioneers recognized that building a successful state for the Jewish people required self-sufficiency in all areas, especially by providing food for the masses.

In that light, Meir Panim works to ensure that needy families receive sustenance in a respectful and caring environment.

As Dudi Roth, President of American Friends of Meir Panim noted during a recent visit to the Tiberias restaurant, “The great Rabbi Maimonides [Rambam] is buried just a few blocks from here. He taught that the highest form of charity is to help people in a dignified manner. Meir Panim strives to provide proper meals and kind words to help strengthen those who need it most.”

Mrs. Steinberg also noted that her late parents supported the early Zionist Mrs. Lee Fish Steinberg efforts of their family members. “Called Palestine then, my father’s cousins [The About one hundred and sixty hot, Baum family of Fort Wayne, Indiana] were among the nutritious meals are served daily in this location. Patrons early pioneers and visionaries who helped to establish range from holocaust survivors to younger people who the first agricultural school for girls in Israel.” have been hit by hard times. “Beyond the good food,” shared Meir Harvard, an immigrant from South Africa who eats at the restaurant almost every day, “this place is like a home for me. The staff here even helps me navigate the Israeli bureaucracy.”

Not only are patrons served a fresh, delicious meal, they may also pack food to bring home. Additionally, through Meals-on-Wheels, over sixty special packages are delivered to the homebound daily. Before holidays and Shabbat, the restaurant donates extra food and packaged meals to the needy.

According to Shmuel Levy, the logistics manager for Meir Panim, patrons and volunteers all benefit from the unique free restaurant model for helping others. He reiterated that a pensioner volunteer who has worked at the restaurant for over four years likes to say that volunteering is better for his health than any medicine.

Not only has Mrs. Steinberg’s philanthropy sustained the Meir Panim Tiberias Free Restaurant, she is also a strong supporter of the Mortimer Zuckerman and Abigail Zuckerman Israel Nutrition Center, soon to open in Kiryat Gat, which will provide hot meals to hungry people throughout Israel. “I am looking forward to the opening of this revolutionary new facility which will further broaden the wide range of food and outreach programs of Meir Panim,” she shared.

Meir Panim Tiberias Restaurant

Thanks to the open heart and thoughtfulness of Mrs. Lee Steinberg and the Meir Panim staff, many people not only feel physically satisfied but are emotionally comforted as well.

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Community Assemblyman Kaminsky Announces Agreement to Keep Crossing Guards at Shulamith

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ssemblyman Todd Kaminsky today announced that the Nassau County Police Department (NCPD) has agreed to his request that crossing guards be stationed at the new location for the Shulamith School for Girls, in a victory for improving pedestrian safety around the facility. On July 6, Assemblyman Kaminsky wrote a letter to the NCPD requesting that they maintain the existing crossing guards which were previously posted at the Lawrence Number 5 School.

At the beginning of this school year, the Shulamith School for Girls took over the Lawrence Number 5 School, at which time Rabbi Perry Tirschwell, the Executive Director of Shulamith, contacted Assemblyman Kaminsky to request the crossing

guards. Shulamith’s enrollment totals over 400 students, marking a significant increase in the school’s population from when it was the Lawrence Number 5 School. Additionally, 25% of Shulamith students do not qualify to receive bussing, which added further proof that keeping a robust crossing guard presence for students was a necessity.

“Keeping our children safe is a top priority,” said Assemblyman Kaminsky. “I am thankful to Inspector Steinberg of the NCPD Fourth Precinct and proud to work with them on improving the safety of students as they walk to and from school through this very busy intersection.”

Rabbi Tirschwell added, “The safety of our children is our number one

Left to right: Rabbi Perry Tirschwell, Assemblyman Todd Kaminsky, school crossing guard Maria Palomo, and students from Shulamith

priority, so we were thrilled to learn that Assemblyman Kaminsky and the Nassau County Police Department

were able to come through with crossing guards for our new campus.”

Project 24 – Bein Hazmanim at MAY

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ver Sukkos break, a large number of Mesivta Ateres Yaakov talmidim participated in an exciting learning incentive program and achieved over 550 hours of voluntary learning! It was a tremendous kiddush Hashem and source of nachas and accomplishment for rabbeim, parents, friends and the talmidim themselves.

The program, organized by Student Activities Coordinator Rabbi Tsvi

Greenfield, was entitled “Project 24: Bein Hazmanim Learning Program,” based on Rav Chaim Shmuelevitz’s well-known insight that 12 years plus 12 years is not the same as 24 consecutive years of learning. This idea encouraged MAY talmidim to continue learning and growing over Bein Hazmanim, with no break in their momentum.

Participating talmidim won free gift cards to Sushi Tokyo, Traditions,

Z-Bermans and Seasons Express, depending on their level of accomplishment. All participants were eligible to enter the grand prize raffle for a Nook Nuki tablet containing all of Shas. The gift card presentation and raffle was held at MAY’s monthly Rosh Chodesh tisch. Congratulations to Daniel Braverman on winning the Nook Nuki.

“It’s a tremendous feeling to know your talmidim are making constructive use of their free time during Bein

Hazmanim,” commented Rabbi Yossi Bennett, Assistant Menahel. “It’s a testament to our rabbeim who inculcate our talmidim with a chashivus for learning and a chashivus for z’man.”

MAY would like to thank the generous sponsors, The Maksimov family, Sushi Tokyo, Seasons Express, Z-Berman and Traditions, for their hachzakas haTorah.

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Gourmet Glatt Comes to Woodmere

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here’s something new on the Five Towns horizon.

Literally … and figuratively.

“It was an exciting moment for us when the Gourmet Glatt sign went up over our new Woodmere location a few months ago,” says Gourmet Glatt vice president and general manager Yoeli Steinberg.

“Even though we were not ready to open our doors at that point, it made a project that was still pretty much in the planning stages feel real.

“And now that we’re actually open for business, we can look forward to recreating in our new store the same outstanding shopping experience that is the hallmark of our Cedarhurst location.”

The fully renovated 15,500 square foot store, which is housed in the former Key Food Supermarket (1030 Railroad Avenue, between Franklin Place and Irving Place), boasts a spacious fresh produce section, a wellstocked self-service meat section and full-service butcher department, a large dairy department, more than six aisles of grocery products and two aisles of frozen foods. An on-site bakery, ChapA-Nosh, Ossie’s Fish, Schwartz’s Appetizing and Simply Sushi are

scheduled to set up shop in an adjacent 3,500 square foot space that will be incorporated into the store within the next few weeks.

In the meantime, the store will carry pre-packaged items from each of these vendors.

“We decided to open the store in two stages because we wanted to start meeting the needs of kosher consumers in neighborhoods like Woodmere, North Woodmere, Hewlett, Oceanside and West Hempstead as quickly as possible,” says purchasing manager Howie Klagsbrun.

Despite the tremendous influx of observant Jews into those areas in the last few years, he observes, until now there was no local kosher market to service them.

Judging by the reaction of shoppers who filed into the store on opening day last Tuesday, area residents are thrilled that it’s Gourmet Glatt that has stepped up to fill the void.

“I’ve been a Gourmet Glatt

shopper for years, so my standards are pretty high,” says Woodmere resident M. S. “I couldn’t be more thrilled that this immaculately clean, well-organized and completely modern store lives up to all my expectations. It even has plenty of free parking! What a pleasure to have this amazing store right here in my neighborhood.”

Earlier on opening day, a number of distinguished rabbonim stopped by the store to take part in a mezuzah-affixing ceremony.

Among the esteemed participants were Rabbi Heshy Billet; Rabbi Yosef Eisen, head of the Five Towns Vaad HaKashrus; Rab-

bi Binyomin Forst; Rabbi Elisha Horowitz; Rabbi Binyomin Kamenetzky: Rabbi Mordechai Kamebeautiful netsky, who delivered and inspiring divrei bracha; Rabbi Yitzchok Nobel; Rabbi Daniel Ovadia; Rabbi Tzvi Ralbag; Rabbi Yaakov Reisman; Rabbi Moshe Teitelbaum; Rabbi Shmuel Witkin; and Rabbi Zalman Wolowik.

“Gourmet Glatt is first and foremost a community store,” says Yoeli, “so having these chashuva community rabbonim join us on opening day was both fitting and extremely gratifying.”

He notes that Gourmet Glatt is planning to officially celebrate the opening of the new store with a special Chanukah Kids’ Extravaganza, details of which will be announced in the coming weeks.

“Holding in-store family events is one of the many ways we express our appreciation to the most important members of the Gourmet Glatt family—our customers.

“We feel proud and privileged to be able to host this year’s event in our new Woodmere store.”

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DRS Varsity Basketball Wins Pre-Season Magen David Tournament

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he DRS varsity basketball team is off to a hot start as they took home the 1st place trophy at the Magen David pre-season tournament. In the opening round, the Wildcats were able to handle division rival HANC behind excellent backcourt play from Yoav Deutsch and Jeremy Brody. In the much anticipated quarterfinal matchup, the Wildcats were able to get by the mighty

Frisch Cougars. Up next for the Wildcats was the TABC Storm. With a career high performance from Captain Gabriel Leifer, scoring 37 points, the Wildcats were able to surpass the Storm to secure a spot in the championship game. After losing a coin toss for home-court advantage, the Wildcats were forced to travel to Riverdale to take on the SAR Sting.

In the championship game it was all

DRS as Gabriel Leifer poured in 23 points and Akiva Ackerman came up huge for the Wildcats on both ends of the floor scoring 12 points. This is the first time ever that DRS has won this tournament.

Up next for the “CATS” ... the Cooper Invitational tournament in Memphis taking place November 5-8.

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Rabbi Nosson Greenberg Addresses Shevach High School at Rosh Chodesh Breakfast

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s Shevach High School resumed after the uplifting yomim tovim, its student body was treated to a sumptuous breakfast in honor of Rosh Chodesh Marcheshvan. Not only was everyone physically satiated, but their ruchniyus was nourished as well. Rabbi Nosson Greenberg, Rav of Khal Machzekei Hatorah, addressed the students with a thought-provoking message concerning the month of Marcheshvan. He posed the following question to the students: “Rosh Chodesh Marcheshvan is two days – the first day is actually lamed Tishrei, yet we call it Rosh Chodesh Marcheshvan.

Which is it? Tishrei or Marcheshvan?” Rabbi Greenberg explained

that the Hebrew word for “month” is either chodesh or yerach. It is interesting to note that the word chodesh is used on a kesubah, but the word yerach is used on a get. Why? Because a marriage is creating a new beginning, whereas a divorce occurs because of disagreement. The moon, the yareach, complained to Hashem about its size in comparison to the sun, thus creating machlokes. It is therefore befitting that the word yerach is used on a get.

The month of Tishrei is known as Yerach Ha’aysonim. As a month that is bursting with simcha and tefilla why would Tishrei be identified using this term of yerach? In order to take advantage of all the extraor-

dinary opportunities that Tishrei has to offer, we must separate ourselves from the mundane in this world and connect to Hakadosh Baruch Hu. It is the month for us to become giants – Aysonim. This two day Rosh Chodesh serves as a link between the two months of Tishrei and Marcheshvan where we take all that we gained in TIshrei and carry it into the month of Marcheshvan and beyond. That is our challenge as we enter the month of Marcheshvan!

Rabbi Greenberg provided several other insights into the new month and concluded with a beautiful thought based on the Rashi found at the beginning of Parshas Vayetzei Yaakov.

The well-known Rashi points out that

when a tzaddik departs from a city, he leaves an impression. Rabbi Greenberg interpreted the two months in a similar manner. As we take leave of Chodesh Tishrei, the “tzaddik,” we must remember what we gained and the impact that it made upon our ruchniyus and in particular our tefillos. As we begin Chodesh Marcheshvan, we are encouraged to revisit that spiritual energy throughout the year.

The student body was awed by the divrei Torah that Rabbi Greenberg shared which undoubtedly made the month of Marcheshvan very meaningful to all those present.

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THE SUN WAS SHINING BRIGHT WITH OUR HAFTR EARLY CHILDHOOD RAINBOW. FOR PARSHAT NOACH, OUR EARLY CHILDHOOD STUDENTS LEARNED ABOUT THE MIRACLE IN THE TORAH READING AND NATURE’S BEAUTIFUL PHENOMENON OF A RAINBOW.

Being Mindful of Eretz Yisroel

By Rabbi Michael Weichselbaum, Menahel Bnos Malka Academy

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here is not heart that doesn’t ache over the ongoing terror attacks in Eretz Yisroel. Hashem yishmor. The video clips flooding the internet remind us of how fragile life is and how in an instant it can all change. We, 6,000 miles away, give no thought to our daily commute, a trip to the store or a stroll in the park.

We feel secure. Our brothers and sisters in Eretz Yisroel, though, are facing a degree of terror that makes every turn of the corner a fearful one.

Most of us have family and friends living in Israel and while they say they are being more careful, we marvel at how they are determined to live their lives as normally as possible.

The randomness of these recent attacks heightens the anxiety.

As educators we have to consider how best to respond. We must choose our words very carefully. We want to inform and inspire, and not, chas v’shalom, frighten and depress.

What are the age-appropriate words that will convey to our students the real fear that exists without traumatizing them? Unfortunately, we have become rather adept through way too much practice knowing what words to use. But even so, how do we safeguard ourselves from not crossing the line that will deepen anxiety?

We have found that employing mindfulness is a good way for the girls to relate to these events in a calmer, more productive manner.

Yes, we talk, at the appropriate age level, about the events themselves but we practice mindfulness too. We begin with an enormous feeling of gratitude to Hakadosh Barach Hu for the safety, the happiness and the health we enjoy. We then summon our focus project that Hashem should extend those same brachos to people we know in Israel. It elevates the Tehillim we recite from a purely emotional response to one that is more directed.

What is our call to action? Of course we begin with the advice of Chazal and our gedolim who have always told us to respond with more intensity in our tefilos, more diligence in our limud haTorah and with more acts of chesed. So, with young children we may ask them to draw pictures and write cards to IDF soldiers.

Older girls may be encouraged to be more careful in lashon hara, while the oldest students may be asked to daven with more intensity.

These tragedies present another challenge for mechanchim. What can we say and do to promote real emunah and bitachon when our children may not see the benefit of their efforts? After all, they davened, they gave tzedaka and they learned Torah,

and yet, the ill person did not recover, the events and tragedies continued.

The concepts that everything Hashem does is good or that it would have been worse if not for our tefillos are difficult for adults to accept and integrate, how much more so for young children who see things in a black and white, cause and effect way? Do we consider the potential negative impact that may be left on these impressionable children when we tell them their tefillos and mitzvos will make a difference, when the results seem to say otherwise? Will they become disillusioned with the purpose and effectiveness of prayer and the performance of mitzvos after repeated disappointments? And worse would be the sense of guilt that may arise if they feel that, if only they davened harder, the person would have recovered or the tragedies would have stopped.

Here again mindfulness is helpful.

When we precede our Tehilim by first sitting quietly and reflecting upon all the good Hashem has granted us, we gain serenity and are filled with gratitude. We alter our focus, albeit slightly, from an urgent request to an acknowledgement of our relationship with Him. L’havdil, we all know that there is great comfort in commiserating or venting with a friend or close confidant. They may have no solutions to offer, no advice to give and

may say nothing at all, yet knowing they care and that you can share so freely is of great solace. So too, and infinitely more so, is the comfort we receive when we approach Hakadosh Barach Hu in tefilla. It is the knowledge that we have a relationship with Him and that we are always in His embrace. When we gather to recite Tehilim in times of crisis it is an opportunity to strengthen within our children, our students, a Jew’s natural response to turn to Hashem. Unfortunately, since we typically gather to recite Tehilim only in time of crisis, our children tend to associate them with somber moments and urgent pleas for Divine assistance.

By joining together in times of joy as well as crisis and by learning the translation and the intent of Dovid HaMelech we will see the relevance of his words in our daily lives. We will develop emunah in our children and be ever mindful of the relationship with Hashem.

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Around the Community Central is pleased to share the news that Tzippora Chwat (‘16), senior member of the Science Institute at YUHSG, has been named a semi-finalist in the 2015 Siemen’s Science, Math and Technology Competition. Four hundred sixty six semi-finalists have been selected by the Siemen’s Foundation from over 1,700 student submissions and will be recognized for their exceptional research in STEM. Tzippora’s project, “Inducing Differentiation of Dental Pulp Derived Cells Using LED Light Stimulation and Titanium Dioxide Nanoparticles,” showed possible benefits of using blue, green, and red LED lights and TiO2 nanoparticles for the osteogenic differentiation of Dental Pulp Stem Cells. We look forward to following Tzippora’s research as she continues to compete in this and other national and international science competitions

As in many yeshivos, over Sukkos vacation the boys in Yeshiva Ketana of Long Island have an opportunity to use their own time and devote it to learning Torah.

Many boys at YKLI used their time during their Sukkos vacation, accumulating many hours of limud haTorah. However, this hasmoda contest was a little different than others. In this contest one had to learn a specific amount per day without missing a day. To reward these boys, the yeshiva held a raffle before Shabbos Parshas Noach. The hanhala of the yeshiva was very happy with the number of boys who participated.

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efesh B’Nefesh is launching a 10-day “Aliyah Tour” across North America this month, featuring special informational workshops and personal meetings for potential immigrants to Israel. The tour is being organized in conjunction with Israel’s Ministry of Aliyah & Immigrant Absorption, The Jewish Agency for Israel, Keren Kayemeth Le’Israel and JNF-USA. The Aliyah events will take place in 18 locations across 12 states and provinces, including cities and towns in California, Florida, Illinois, Maryland, Michigan, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Ontario, Pennsylvania, and Quebec.

The dedicated events will run between Oct. 18-27, 2015, and feature Aliyah-related seminars and workshops with pre-Aliyah counselors. Topics will include Aliyah rights and benefits; career opportunities; finding a community in Israel; the Go North and Go South programs exploring living in Israel’s frontiers; education from grade school through university; retirement; and national service and the Israel Defense Forces.

Workshops will also be targeted to specialized groups including professionals, families, university stu-

dents and younger professionals, and retirees. For those seeking new careers in Israel, Nefesh B’Nefesh will provide information on networking resources, preparing for the Israeli job market; government licensing and launching a new business; adapting your resume to the Israeli market and retraining.

“Now more than ever, Israel needs strong immigration, and the Aliyah Tour aims to make this goal a reality,” said Rabbi Yehoshua Fass, the Co-Founder and Executive Director of Nefesh B’Nefesh. “We look forward to meeting thousands of people across North America to explore how we can help them build new lives in the Jewish State.”

In addition, he added, “We are truly inspired that despite the extremely difficult times Israel is currently experiencing, Olim are undeterred and are still making Aliyah. They are coming not only with the desire to build their homes and lives in Israel but to express that modern-day Zionism is thriving while displaying their deep responsibility towards the State of Israel and Jewish People.

For a full schedule of the Aliyah Tour, please visit http://www.nbn. org.il/aliyahdream.

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Around the Community ipants in the program with numerous aids to ensure that every bachur would have the optimum learning experience.

Among those aids were: beautiful Dirshu Mishnah Berurah booklets with the daily schedule, specially designed Enby HaGaon HaRav glish sikkum pamphlets Yaakov Bender, shlHARAV YAAKOV BENDER summarizing each day’s ita, Rosh Yeshiva of learning, pre-recorded CD of shiYeshiva Darchei Torah of Far Rockurim in both English and Yiddish away, at the Agudas Yisrael of West with separate tracks for each day’s Lawrence; in Flatbush by HaGaon learning material, exciting raffles HaRav Eliezer Ginsburg, shlita, Rosh Kollel of the Mirrer Yeshiva of Brook- throughout the program period for seforim and CD’s with a call-in holyn and Rav of the Agudas Yisrael tline to hear the winners, and finally, Zichron Shmuel shul of Flatbush, at the test at the culmination of the prothe Agudas Yisrael Bais Binyomin branch; and in Lakewood by HaGaon gram with monetary stipends based on test scores.

HaRav Zev Smith, shlita, a Daf HaYomi Maggid Shiur and Maggid ShiRav Ginsburg: Delving ur for Irgun Shiurei Torah, at Kehal Deeper…Brings Halacha to She’eris Adas Yisrael.

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At the Flatbush shiur, Rav Eliezer Gratitude from Parents and Ginsburg impressed upon the boys Mechanchim the importance of not superficially Rabbi Ahron Gobioff, Dirshu’s learning the halachos in the MishAmerican Director relates, “This nah Berurah. He masterfully showed was the third bein hazmanim that how a dispute between the Mechaber we have been zoche to have the Daf and the Ramah was really rooted in HaYomi B’Halacha L’Bachurim proa foundational machlokes haRisgram and the turn out keeps growing honim. “If you go to the source, you by leaps and bounds! The pesicha begin to appreciate the towering shiurim really bring the bachurim greatness of the Chofetz Chaim!” Rav into the sugya with the Rabbonim Ginsburg explained. He then continand Roshei Yeshiva impressing upon ued by quoting Rav Dovid Leibowitz, the bachurim the importance of zt”l, Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshiva Chofetz what they are doing. Their involveChaim and nephew of the Chofetz ment in a structured bein hazmanim daily learning program and more Chaim, who related that he had merited learning with the Chofetz Chaim importantly their exposure to the some of the sugyos upon which he world of practical halacha where was writing the Mishnah Berurah. they really encounter the fundamen“Rav Dovid would learn with his tals of learning Mishnah Berurah is a uncle for nine hours straight, withremarkable opportunity. It is particout a break! On a day when he was ularly beneficial for the younger baunprepared, the Chofetz Chaim simchurim who have much less experiply would not learn with him. When ence in learning Mishnah Berurah,” you realize the depth of the Mishnah said Rabbi Gobioff.

Berurah, halacha comes to life. It is “I cannot tell you how many magno longer just dry facts,” said Rav gidei shiur and Roshei Yeshiva have Ginsburg. thanked us for creating a program that gives bachurim tremendous Rav Bender: One Open sipuk while simultaneously helpNight, One Impressive ing structure their bein hazmanim Turnout! learning and teaching them the reRav Yaakov Bender was amazed sponsibility of learning and reviewat the enthusiasm that the bachurim ing in a way that they can be tested,” and other community members had explained Rabbi Gobioff. The amazfor the program. “Despite the fact ing turnout at the test held on 24 that Thursday night was the only free Tishrei/October 7 was a testament night before Sukkos, it was a very imto the growth and success of the propressive turnout! The crowd includgram. ed rebbeim and kollel yungeleit and Dirshu has provided all partic-

Unprecedented Turnout across North America at Dirshu’s Daf HaYomi B’Halacha L’Bachurim Program

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his bein hazmanim, if a person happened to walk into batei medrash in virtually every community throughout America and many worldwide, he would almost certainly have encountered bachurim learning hilchos birchas hashachar and pesukei dezimra as part of Dirshu’s highly popular Daf HaYomi B’Halacha L’Bachurim program.

Over this Sukkos bein hazmanim some twenty-eight communities participated in the program. Of course, the large Jewish centers such as Brooklyn, Lakewood and Monsey had record participation, but many smaller communities featured substantial turnouts as well. Whether the bachurim lived in Toronto, Providence, Boston, Baltimore or even

way down under in Melbourne, Australia, they were learning Mishnah Berurah every day and getting a real taste of how daily halacha learning with a defined, accountable program can transform one’s day and one’s bein hazmanim.

Another special perk for the myriad bachurim in the main Jewish centers were the pesicha shiurim delivered at the beginning of bein hazmanim by distinguished Roshei Yeshiva and Rabbonim. In Boro Park, on 7 Tishrei/September 20, the shiur was given by HaGaon HaRav Yitzchok Zalman Gips, shlita, Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshiva Nehardaah and Beis Medrash Birchas Avrohom of Boro Park, where the shiur was held. Other shiurim were delivered on Thursday, 11 Tishrei/September 24, the day after Yom Kippur; in the Five Towns

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Around the Community the quality of the bachurim was of a very high caliber. There was a lot of give-and-take between the olam and the maggid shiur which enhanced the entire maamad creating a very Torahdik, geshmake evening.”

Rav Zev Smith: Hashem’s Gems and Ornaments Rav Zev Smith echoed that sentiment in his shiur in Lakewood. “This bein hazmanim, there is almost no weekday time between Yom Kippur and Sukkos, nevertheless, so many choshuve bachurim came to listen to the shiur and participate in the program. This brings to mind a moving story about the Sfas Emes,” Rav Smith said. “The Sfas Emes once received a letter from a chassid who wrote him a deep shtickel Torah from the foxholes where he was forced to fight as a soldier for the Czar’s army during the Russo-Japanese war. When he read how this soldier was thinking in learning with mesiras nefesh under such conditions, the Sfas Emes said, ‘About these ovdei Hashem we can say, they are Hashem’s gems and ornaments.’ Similarly, you bachurim are giving Hashem such nachas and creating such simcha in shamayim

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by spending your bein hazmanim learning Dirshu’s Daf HaYomi B’Halacha for Bachurim.” Rav Smith then gave a comprehensive shiur on the sugya of one’s obligation to recite 100 brachos per day.

Rav Gips: The Pivotal Importance of Halacha Rav Yitzchok Zalman Gips spoke

about the importance of learning halacha for bachurim. “In the middle of Shemoneh Esrei when a bachur is not certain if he said Mashiv Haruach or Yaaleh V’Yavo he cannot go to the bookshelf and look up the halacha in the Mishnah Berurah. He must know it in advance.” He also praised the bachurim for spending their bein hazmanim in such an ex-

emplary way.

Rabbi Gobioff concluded, “There is no question that Dirshu’s Daf HaYomi B’Halacha L’Bachurim has not only transformed bein hazmanim for untold numbers of bachurim, but in addition it has whet their appetite to devote time to learning Mishnah Berurah daily in a way that they will retain it for a lifetime!”

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Madraigos Holiday Programs Madraigos Family Unites in Spiritually Meaningful Experiences

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adraigos provides unique High Holiday programming for young adults, their families, and general members of the community. The Annual Rosh Hashanah Retreat, held at the Hudson Valley Resort, was a unique experience conducive for introspection and spiritual growth for more than 450 attendees. The Retreat uplifted each participant at any station in life while the delicious food and amenities enhanced their holiday observance.

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

They focused on the Retreat theme if a “Nonjudgmental Judgment Day” and urged everyone to embrace each other with nonjudgmental love. The heartfelt “Shofar Schmooze” by Rabbi Dov Silver, Founder and Executive Vice President of Madraigos, penetrated everyone’s hearts. He reminded them to pray for all young adults in

pain, especially those who could not attend the Retreat. Other noteworthy presenters were Rabbi Mayer Pasternak, CTO of Artscroll Mesorah Publications; Rabbi Yakov Horowitz, Dean of Yeshiva Darchei Noam and Director of the Center for Jewish Family Life/Project YES; Rabbi David Clyman, Director of the Executive Jewish Enrichment Group of Aish HaTorah International; Mrs. Chanie Delman, LCSW, Clinical Director of Madraigos; Rabbi Aryeh Lightstone; Rabbi Shalom Yona Weiss; Mr. Yudy Weiner; and Mr. Menachem Poznanski of The Living Room.

Prayers led by Rabbi Motti Miller, principal of Shalom Torah Academy, were full of beautiful melodies and spiritual fervor. At especially moving times in the davening, spontaneous dancing broke out, demonstrating a brotherhood of spiritual yearning that transcended all sectors of religious background or observance. A most beautiful moment was when lively singing started as the Torah scrolls

were carried to and from the aron kodesh. Tunes usually reserved for weddings were chanted, portraying the betrothal of the Jewish nation with the Torah.

During the meals, young men and women sang with hearts full of yearning for closeness to Hashem, the land of Israel, and arrival of the Messiah. Testimonials were delivered by several Madraigos members who shared their personal journeys. They expressed how through the love and support of the Madraigos family, they came from places of great pain and moved forward towards happier and healthier life situations.

Rachel*, a Madraigos member who attended these Rosh Hashanah Retreats for several years, remarked, “The Madraigos retreat was the first place that I felt a real sense of belonging as a Jew. The retreat is a place where everyone is there for everyone. I was introduced to a place I never knew existed, where the entire Madraigos family is genuinely so happy to see me. The Retreats helped me to feel proud of being a Jew.” She offered words of advice for young adults considering attending next year’s Rosh Hashanah Retreat. “Whether or not you are observant, you can gain so much from the Retreat. It is a truly ‘out-of-the-box’ spiritual experience like none other. Just come and be open to a life-changing event.”

The Retreat ended with a poignant symposium led by Rabbi Aryeh Lightstone. After havdalah, with the help of Rabbi Motti Miller and Eli Levin playing the guitar, there was a heartfelt rendition of the song Hashivenu Alecha (“Return us to You”) while participants swayed together arm-in-

arm. Rosh Hashana attendees left on a “spiritual high” with chizuk to carry them through the coming year.

Building on the inspiration from the Rosh Hashana Retreat, Madraigos continued its special programming with their annual Yom Kippur Program. Kal and Ruki Renov of Lawrence, longtime friends of Madraigos, hosted a warm, uplifting program for more than 175 people. Neighbors and members of the community opened their hearts and their homes to host the participants while meals before and after the fast were provided by Madraigos.

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

In addition to other programs and support services that take place throughout the year, Madraigos’ successful Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur programs demonstrate its true essence – unconditional and wholehearted acceptance of all members of the Jewish community. *name changed to protect privacy Madraigos, a 501c-3 not-forprofit organization, offers a wide array of innovative services and programs geared towards helping teens and young adults overcome life’s everyday challenges one step at a time Our goal is to provide all of our members with the necessary tools and skills to empower them to live a healthy lifestyle and become the leaders of tomorrow.

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HARAV CHANOCH FRIEDMAN GIVING A SHMUESS IN MESIVTA SHAAREI CHAIM THIS WEEK

Five Towns Marriage Initiative With One Voice

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aising children is part mazal, part effort and mainly siyata d’shmaya (heavenly assistance). We see that Avraham had a child Yishmael that he needed to evict from his home, and Yitzchak had Eisav who went out of his way to deceive his father into believing he was righteous although he was far from it. Yet, in Novardok (the famed Eastern European Yeshiva noted for their emphasis on character development), they used to say that the most amazing aspect of the lives of our forefathers was not that they had struggles raising their own children, but rather that Terach, the father of Avraham known to worship idols, was able to have a son as great as Avraham.

One way we can tap into the tremendous siyata d’shmaya necessary to have good children is by working to create good marriages. From a purely technical perspective, children raised in a happy, healthy home have the best shot at becoming happy, healthy adults. By setting examples of harmony, we teach our children how to interact properly according to the Torah and they have the opportunity to learn from our positive conduct.

A home where there is shalom bayis (family harmony) is a home where the divine presence comes to rest.

Being in the presence of the Shechina (the physical dwelling of the Divine presence) impacts the holiness of the home and impacts those within the home and help to guarantee that we raise our children into righteous adults.

By the topic of ben sorer u’morer

(the rebellious child), the commentators explain that one reason why a son like this was discussed in theory but never actually existed was because one of the conditions used to describe a ben sorer u’morer is that his parents have one voice. Given the typical level of discord within homes, there truly is no couple that can claim that, hence a child like this never came to be. That being said, there is something to the goal of having “one voice.” A couple that lives in harmony is a couple that can present a unified front before their children. This is not to say that they can’t have differences of opinion, but before dealing with the children they must resolve their differences to reach a mutually satisfying approach. It is even possible that they make their difference of opinion known to their offspring, but they do so in an honorable manner that does not minimize the respect the child will feel towards the other spouse in the process. May we merit a harmonious home and wonderful children that will bring nachas to us and to Hashem.

Five Towns Marriage Initiative provides educational programs, workshops and referrals to top marriage therapists. FTMI will help offset counseling costs when necessary and also runs an anonymous shalom bayis hotline for the entire community Sunday, Tuesday and Thursday evenings, 9:30-11p.m. For the hotline or more information, call 516430-5280 or email dsgarry@msn. com.

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Midreshet Shalhevet Open House

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n Sunday, October 11, Midreshet Shalhevet High School held their annual Open House. Girls from 15 different schools around Long Island, Queens, and Brooklyn came to see for themselves how amazing Shalhevet really is. After enjoying some refreshments, everyone gathered into the overflowing ballroom to hear from Shalhevet students and faculty. Ninth grader, Avygayl Zucker began by portraying her love of Shalhevet after only one month!

Avygayl spoke about how easy Shalhevet made the transition to high school and how the start of high school was better than she could have ever imagined. She then introduced Mrs. Shaindy Lisker, Assistant Principal, who spoke about what a true Shalhevet girl really is, exemplifying their midot, chesed, and ahavat Yisroel. Students Hadassah Fertig (10th grade) and Bella Weiss (12th grade) then took the floor and raved about all of the incredible extracurricular activities that Shalhevet offers—from sports, to mock trial, school play, art, and more! Rosh Ye-

choose while adhering to a Torah framework.

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in Shalhevet are, from their impressive SAT and AP scores, to the top notch colleges and seminaries that

Guidance Advisor, displayed our students’ impressive SAT and ACT scores and discussed how Midreshet Shalhevet helps each student select the right college for them. Students Sarit Perl (11th grade) and Meira Nussbaum (12th grade) conveyed the outstanding AP and elective courses that are offered at Shalhevet. Sarit and Meira expressed their appreciation to Shalhevet for allowing them to challenge themselves in numerous A.P. courses as well as choosing the right track for each stu-

they are accepted to afterwards, and their true love for all of am Yisroel.

Teachers were highlighted as the backbone of the school, challenging each student and providing interesting and stimulating classes. Mrs. Eisenman also read statements from

shiva Rabbi Zev Meir Friedman then shared Shalhevet’s mission: a small school by design that does not fit any specific mold. A school that is warm, nurturing, and inspires individual growth. A school that encourages girls to pursue any profession they

dent. They also mentioned how their principal Mrs. Eisenman’s office is always open and how she finds the time to address the needs of each young woman. Mrs. Eisenman then concluded the speeches by expressing how remarkable all of the girls

alumnae in Israel who expressed their thanks to Midreshet Shalhevet for preparing them fully for life after high school.

Following the speeches, the parents and students took part in mini class lessons led by chumash teacher Mrs. Andrea Schulman, math teacher Mr. Mike Kelly, Zionism teacher Rabbi Yotav Eliach, Torah sheb’al peh teacher Rabbi Matt Schneeweiss, and science teacher Mr. Adam Rappaport. All of the parents and students were then invited to the ballroom where they enjoyed a gorgeous buffet of smoothies, salads, dips, coffees, and desserts. Shalhevet teachers and students were present to answer questions and convey more information about what an incredible school Shalhevet is. Shalhevet looks forward to welcoming the class of 2020!

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Bnos Bais Yaakov Takes the Challenge

On Motzei Shabbos, the Queens community gathered in Congregation Nachlas Yitzchak (Rabbi Oelbaum’s shul) in Kew Gardens Hills to participate in a gathering of inspiration and Tehillim to beseech Hashem’s mercy for our brothers and sisters in Israel.

Yaniv Meirov of Chazaq welcomed the community to the gathering and introduced Rabbi Doniel Lander, Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshiva Ohr HaChaim, who gave words of chizuk, followed by the recital of Tehillim by Rabbi Akiva Grunblatt and Rabbi Dovid Harris, Roshei Yeshiva of Yeshiva Chofetz Chaim, along with Rabbi Hershel Welcher of Congregation Ahavas Yisrael.

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The boys of Rabbi Feiler’s 7th grade class in Yeshiva Ketana of Long Island celebrated a simcha with cool, refreshing Slurpees sponsored by the Koschitki family.

Americans gathered in solidarity with Israel on Monday night outside the Greenburgh Town Hall, where another group was calling for a boycott of the Jewish state.

The rally was organized by the Jewish Rapid Response Coalition to alert the public to town resources being used to sponsor a lecture by those calling for a boycott, which is a federal crime if any company goes along with their misinformation campaign.

The lead organizer of the rally in Greenburgh was resident Lauri Regan.

he three R’s: reading, writing, and ‘rithmetic. While these skills are all crucial to the formation of a well-rounded student, there is a reason that reading comes first. Reading opens minds, expands vocabulary, and aids in verbal expression, among many other benefits.

To promote reading among the students in his district, Assemblyman Phil Goldfeder offers a Summer Reading Challenge. The challenge: to read for 15 minutes a day for 40 days during the summer. The reward: a New York State Assembly Certificate of Merit presented by Mr. Goldfeder.

Bnos Bais Yaakov has long championed the benefits of reading.

Through book fairs, student newspapers, and reading contests, the general studies principals have encouraged their students to read, read, read, and then read some more. Six Bnos Bais Yaakov students took that love of reading and used it to meet Mr. Goldfeder’s challenge. Rivkah Yakira Druker, Chaya Sarah Rapfogel, Esther Malka Rapfogel, Meira Rosenfeld, Leah Silberberg, and Tova Wolfson gathered in Morah Kurland’s office where they were warmly congratulated by Mr. Goldfeder. He praised their commitment and urged them to keep reading.

Assemblyman Goldfeder challenged the girls further by asking them to encourage their friends to participate in next summer’s Reading Challenge. Mrs. Koenig and Morah Kurland were justifiably proud of the students who rose to the reading challenge and look forward to seeing many more students do the same.

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MAY Dor L’Dor Melava Malka Bridges Generations through Song and Dance

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his past Motzei Shabbos, Parshas Noach, Mesivta Ateres Yaakov held its inaugural Dor L’Dor Melave Malka. An overflow crowd of over 200 talmidim, fathers, and grandfathers joined rabbeim for an inspirational evening of song, divrei Torah and food.

The evening was emceed by Rabbi Moshe Brandsdorfer, Director of Development, who introduced Rabbi Barry Weiss, grandfather of 10th grade Pesach Weiss, to recite Tehillim in solidarity with acheinu b’nei Yisroel. Following the Tehillim, Rabbi Mordechai Yaffe, Menahel of the Mesivta, delivered divrei bracha and his’orirus, noting that “chut hamishulosh b’meheira lo yinatek.”

Entertainment for the evening was provided by Eitan Katz and Shaya Lieber who led an inspirational and resounding kumzitz, encouraged to even greater heights of ruach by the exuberant talmidim who accompanied the singing and led the dancing together with parents and rabbeim.

“It’s events like these that leave an indelible mark on our talmidim’s minds and neshamos,” commented Rabbi Yaffe, “Just as the chut hameshulosh, the incorporation of three generations together highlights the strength of our mesorah, it is our hope that this roshem will impact the future generations as well.”

Senior Yossi Malek, who had both of his grandfathers present that evening, represented his peers and de-

livered divrei Torah highlighting the special zechus he has had to able to glean life lessons from his father and grandfathers.

The evening concluded with a grand raffle for a Hover Boost! Congratulations to the winners, Mr. David Portal and his son, Chaim.

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NY State Senator Simcha Felder to Join Touro Faculty

N Shimon Yehudah Greenspan made a siyum upon completing Seder Zeraim which he learned with his father Rabbi Moshe Greenspan.

To celebrate this milestone, Rabbi Greenspan sponsored a siyum at Yeshiva Ketana of Long Island where he is an eighth grade rebbi and where Shimon Yehuda is a fifth grade talmid. Rabbi Bajnon, the Rosh Yeshiva of YKLI, spoke in honor of the event.

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The Five Towns-Far Rockaway Rosh Chodesh Shiur for Women was held on Sunday at Cong.

Kneseth Israel. The speaker was Rabbi Moshe Taub, Rav of Young Israel of Holliswood, who spoke about “Our Avos and Imahos—and You Thought You Knew Them.”

ew York State Senator Simcha Felder will join the faculty of the Lander College of Arts and Sciences (LAS) in Flatbush, a division of Touro College, as an assistant professor of management. Felder will also serve as an assistant dean of recruitment, the College announced today.

“Senator Felder truly embodies the values and mission of Touro in perpetuating the Jewish heritage while serving and supporting diverse communities. We are thrilled that he will be assuming this new role and greatly look forward to his joining Touro,” says Dr. Alan Kadish, Touro President.

“I’m excited to take on this position. Touro was my stepping stone to career success and I look forward to reaching out to potential new students whose pathway to professional advancement in a multitude of fields will begin at Touro,” said Felder.

The Brooklyn native will teach several courses during the fall and summer semesters in the field of management; in his capacity as assistant dean of recruitment he will work to foster enrollment at LAS. “I am confident that Simcha Felder, an alumnus of the Touro LAS Flatbush class of 1980 and a distinguished public servant, will be a major asset to our campus in Brooklyn as we seek to grow further. I know he will be an excellent role model to students enrolled in his courses,” said Dr. Robert Goldschmidt, executive dean of LAS and Touro’s vice president for planning and assessment.

Before entering politics, Felder was a tireless community leader and volunteer for local civic organizations, working to register voters across Brooklyn.

He was elected to the New York City Council in 2002, building a reputation as a dedicated and committed advocate who brought concrete results to his constituents. During his time on the Council, he served as chair of the Sanitation and Solid Waste Management, Landmarks and Government Operations Committees. He also served as New York City Deputy Controller for

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Felder was elected to the New York State Senate in 2012 to represent the 17th Senatorial District encompassing the Brooklyn neighborhoods of Midwood, Flatbush, Borough Park, Kensington, Sunset Park, Madison and Bensonhurst. He chairs Cities Committee and New York City Education Sub-Committee. He has been a tireless advocate for aid for nonpublic school education. Felder is a certified public accountant and holds a Masters of Business Administration degree in

management from the Zicklin School of Business at CUNY’s Baruch College.

Felder lives with his wife and children just blocks from the house in which he was born and raised.

“We are enormously pleased that Senator Felder has agreed to rejoin our faculty,” said Dr. Stanley L. Boylan, Touro’s vice president of undergraduate education and dean of faculties.

“Senator Felder has served and continues to serve his constituency with distinction and he has made a real difference in the Jewish community.”

Rabbi Leiman to Speak at YI of Kew Gardens Hills

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he Young Israel of Kew Gardens Hills is pleased to announce that Rabbi D. Shnnayer Leiman will be a Scholar-in-Residence at the shul on Shabbos Chayei Sara, Friday, November 6 and Shabbos November 7.

Dr. Leiman will speak at the Friday night Oneg on “The Bible and the Talmud in the Light of Modern Archaeological Discovery,” deliver a sermon on Shabbos morning, and speak at a Seuda Shelishis on Shabbos afternoon on “Did the Maharal of Prague Create a Golem?”

Dr. Leiman is Professor Emeritus of Jewish History and Literature in the Department of Judaic Studies at Brooklyn College of the City University of New York and teaches at the Bernard Revel Graduate School of Yeshiva University. He has served as Visiting Professor of Jewish History

at Harvard University (1993); Skirball Fellow in Judaic Studies at Oxford University (1984); and as Lady Davis Fellow and Visiting Professor of Bible at the Hebrew University (1990). Prior to his arrival at Brooklyn College and Yeshiva University, he served as Professor of Jewish History and Literature at Yale University, where he administered graduate and undergraduate programs in Judaic Studies. He also served as Visiting Scholar in Jewish Law and Ethics at the Kennedy Institute of Ethics at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. He earned his doctorate from the Department of Oriental Studies at the University of Pennsylvania and his rabbinical ordination from the Mirrer Yeshiva in New York.

All members of the community are invited to participate in this program.

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Welcome To Our School!

SKA Holds Open House

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he Stella K. Abraham High School for Girls welcomed an exceptional turnout of prospective parents and students from many elementary schools to its Open House on Sunday, October 18. The auditorium was completely filled during the introductory remarks by Mrs. Helen Spirn, Head of School;

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Ms. Raizi Chechik, Principal Grades 9-10; and Dr. Tzipora Meier, Principal Grades 11-12; Rabbi Yosef Zakutinsky, Director of Student Programs; and Tiferet Schafler, G.O. President, Class of 2016.

The enthusiasm was contagious throughout the guided parent and student tours and workshops. SKA faculty presenters shared their passion for their subject areas; the richness of the curriculum and the warmth and dedication of the staff were apparent the entire morning.

Student volunteers, including our Student Ambassadors, shared their insights of the excellent limudei kodesh and secular academic program of SKA and the outstanding extra-curricular experiences they are offered. Pointing out the state of the art Smart Boards, the computer lab, and the modern biology and chemistry labs, the SKAers were eager to share their school with the future students. They highlighted the im-

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mensely popular Art Academy and Science Research Initiative and electives such as sign language, forensics and pre-engineering, while also mentioning the extremely successful Chesed program that is such an integral part of the school.

Serenaded by chamber music performed by several members of SKA’s band under the direction of Production Head, Mrs. Terri Wagner, the visitors were given SKA totes filled

with informational brochures about the school. Following the program, parents and students had the opportunity to chat with the administration and faculty members of SKA and enjoy a delicious collation in the auditorium. Our Open House positively demonstrated how SKA students “find their passion and live their dream!”

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MARTIN OLINER, MAYOR OF THE VILLAGE OF LAWRENCE AND CHAIRMAN OF THE RELIGIOUS ZIONISTS OF AMERICA, VISITED ISRAEL THIS WEEK ON A SOLIDARITY MISSION AND MET WITH VICTIMS OF TERROR AND THE DOCTORS WHO HAVE BEEN TREATING THE WOUNDED

Mind, Body and Spirit Event at Meadow Park Rehabilitation and Care Center

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eadow Park Rehabilitation and Care Center located at 78-10 164th Street in Fresh Meadows opened its doors to the community and guests for a very special Mind, Body and Spirit Event. Dr. Kevin Pak of NY Presbyterian Queens, Assistant Professor, Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation Board Certified in Physiatry and Sports Medicine, spoke to the audience about alternatives to having orthopedic surgery.

Dr. Pak mentioned that a physical therapist can design a regimen that helps to reduce pain and strengthen the key muscles that affect your knees.

A physical therapist may apply ice and heat or use low-voltage electrical nerve stimulation (TENS) or ultra-

sound imaging. Dr. Pak also discussed options such as alternative medications, injections, and other techniques to avoid going “under the knife.”

Dr. Aditya Derasari, Orthopedic Surgeon from New York Presbyterian-Queens, provided an informative lecture to stimulate attendees’ minds.

He mentioned that orthopedic surgeons diagnose and treat ailments affecting muscles, bones and joints, treating sports injuries, degenerative diseases, tumors, infections, and birth defects. They regularly perform joint repair and replacement operations.

Guests enjoyed therapeutic massages provided by Tender Touch for all, a non-profit organization that caters to seniors and post-surgical patients.

Live entertainment and delicious food was enjoyed by all. The Boulevard Assisted Living and The Homestead Assisted Living were among the attendees. A community member, Chana H., said, “The event was fabulous and the

staff were extremely accommodating to all the guests. I didn’t know there was another facility in our area that is glatt kosher under the Vaad Harabonim of Queens.”

It was a great event at a beautiful facility where everyone left feeling satiated and relaxed.

Meadow Park Rehabilitation & Health Care Center is a glatt kosher facility under the supervision of the Vaad Harabonim of Queens. It is located in the heart of Fresh Meadows at 78-10 164th Street.

For more information about the facility and upcoming events, please call Ethan Dreifus, administrator, at 718-591-8300 x 207.

Israel Bonds at Young Israel of Woodmere

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his past Sunday, Sgt. Benjamin Anthony gave a moving speech to a riveted audience at the Young Israel of Woodmere’s Israel Bonds Breakfast. The breakfast, honoring Rabbi Hershel Billet, marked a renewed commitment of the congregation to Israel Bonds.

Sgt. Anthony, a machine gunner in the IDF, spoke to the crowd about his personal experiences, including his early exposure to anti-Semitism as a child in England, his intense experiences while serving on Israel’s frontlines, and his current and imminent mission to reach others through his organization Our Soldiers Speak.

Sgt. Anthony emphasized the urgency of bringing the truth of Israel’s existence to the English speaking world, with a focus on educating

young adults on how to combat anti-Israel rhetoric.

Rabbi Billet, always an outspoken supporter of Israel, emphasized the importance of continued support of Israel through Israel Bonds, especially in response to the BDS divestment movement. Since 1951, Israel Bonds, Development Corporation for Israel has played a unique role in Israel’s rapid progression and been directly responsible for providing capital to Israel, without Israel ever missing an interest or principal payment.

The well-received event brought a substantial amount of new and former purchasers to Israel Bonds.

For more information, contact Steven Mark at 212 -339-8838 or steven.mark@israelbonds.com.

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BJX: Reaching Out to Fellow Jews Each Shabbos, Yom Tov and Every Day

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n Yom Kippur night, during Kol Nidrei, Jews around the world invite all members of Klal Yisroel – even the ha’avroyonim (those deficient in mitzvos) to join them in the solemn Yom Kippur davening. At the Brooklyn Jewish Xperience (BJX) Beis Medrash, this invitation began weeks before Kol Nidrei. This year the BJX Beis Medrash ran a special campaign to invite less-affiliated and secular Flatbush neighbors to join them for their inspiring and explanatory Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur tefillos.

They launched a lawn sign campaign informing bystanders that they can join for the davening for free. “BJX always tries to inspire and include as many people as possible,” said one proud passerby who stopped to admire a bright yellow lawn sign on Bedford Avenue. “Completely assimilated Jews joined us on the

Yomim Noraim because they saw our lawn sign,” said Rabbi Moshe Fingerer, executive director of BJX. “I was delighted to knock on doors and personally distribute many of these lawn signs. Each homeowner was so proud and willing to display our lawn sign and that made this campaign special to me personally.

Everyone was really excited to help BJX reach out to more Jews. Even a Jew who belongs to an Egalitarian Temple saw the value in what we were doing, appreciated it and agreed to host one of our lawn signs on his property,” he shared.

The BJX Beis Midrash ran inspiring Rosh Hashana programs at both of their Brooklyn locations.

They held at the Kings Highway center explanatory services followed by a holiday-themed buffet, as well as explanatory service at Avenue K. People really enjoyed the

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upbeat davening and explanatory component. Every seat was taken and all the machzorim were used.

The women’s section ran out of space and was standing-room only.

A secular women wrote to BJX: “I would like to take this opportunity to thank you for the best holiday experience I have ever had. It was so meaningful. The service was easy for someone like me to understand even though I don’t read or speak Hebrew… My experience was warm and loving, most of all welcoming.

I hope to join in more services in the weeks to come and continue my spiritual journey with Hashem....”

On the second night of Rosh Hashana there was an elegant holiday banquet dinner in a catering hall for college students and young professionals. For many, it was their first time celebrating Rosh Hashana.

Moshe and Rifky Caller and their family joined BJX for the dinner. A student who recently returned from Israel publicly shared with everyone at the dinner, “The two years since I’ve been introduced to BJX have been the best years of my life.”

Rav Yitzchok Fingerer delivered an extremely powerful Shabbos Shuva drasha which wove together statements from Shas, poskim, and shailos u’teshuvos that emphasized the need to accentuate the soul over the body. He brilliantly tied this into the Yom Kippur theme of T’Anu es Nafshosechem. He then pleaded with everyone to make peace with their loved ones and urged everyone to pay closer attention to their children’s needs. “Children need emotional stability and religious consistency with mega doses of expressive love,” said the Rav in the memorable drasha.

“If you weren’t at the drasha, you don’t know what you missed. It was amazing how many sources the Rav was able to present so thoughtfully and how he perfectly packaged it for our needs” said an enthusiastic attendee who walked in from Mill Basin.

Throughout Yom Kippur, BJX was packed to the rafters. Despite the limited space, Mr. Moshe Caller, devoted Chairman of BJX, made sure that Jews of all types – from the totally unaffiliated, to the regular Flatbush mispallel, to the youth at risk – felt comfortable and welcome.

There was even a special program for teens-at-risk, who would otherwise never had attended shul. One

young professional from a completely secular background sent the office a beautiful email: “Yom Kippur at BJX was the highlight of my year.

This may sound funny but I am actually thirsting for next year’s service.

It was so intense and powerful. The energy and emotions were amazing!

I felt so spiritually charged. BJX is truly an awesome place.” This young professional is actually leaving this coming winter to Eretz Yisroel to learn in Yeshiva for the first time.

Classes were offered throughout the holidays by BJX faculty including Rabbis Berk, Deblinger and Winograd.

BJX ran incredible Sukkos and Simchas Torah programs as well.

They had a beautiful Simchas Beis Hoshe’eva Thursday night Chol HaMoed with two guitarists and lots of hot food. Rabbi Fingerer inspired the college students and young professionals with a moving presentation on the mitzvos of Sukkos. Jews were actually sitting in a sukkah for the first time in their lives! Everyone enjoyed the comradery, lively music, and learning about Sukkos.

On Simchas Torah, the dancing with the Sifrei Torah was lively and the simcha was palpable. “To see the guy with the gold chain and the Bermuda shorts dancing with the Torah was so amazing. Initially he didn’t want to take the Torah – he was embarrassed or shy – but when they got him involved he couldn’t let go!

BJX has a real impact on the lives of those living in and around Brooklyn each day. And that’s why I daven here,” said one mispallel.

One mispallel reflecting upon the success of the programs and the uniqueness of the BJX Beis Medrash said: “B’H we love being a part of BJX and having the opportunity to connect with so many different types of Jews. A lot of that has to do with the warmth and kavana that the rabbis bring. It takes special people to make a warm and comfortable environment for people, a place where every Jew feels welcome and will not be judged based on clothes, piercings, tattoos, etc.”

The BJX Beis Midrash is located at 2915 Ave. K (between E. 29th street and Nostrand Ave). They can be reached at 718-513-1093 or at 646-397-1544.

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After YCQ Students Help Those in Need, School Looks Ahead to Open House

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s they do several times a year in advance of the Jewish holidays, the Yeshiva of Central Queens (YCQ) Middle School students embarked on a “Day of Chesed” (Day of Kindness) just prior to the holiday of Sukkot in order to help individuals in need of assistance prepare for the holiday. The “Day of Chesed” is just one of YCQ’s many novel programs and innovative teaching practices.

The full range of YCQ’s quality religious and general studies programs will be on display during the school’s upcoming interactive Open House, which will take place on Sunday morning, November 8 beginning at 10:00 AM. YCQ is located at 147-37 70th Road in Kew Gardens Hills.

The YCQ students visited Boulevard ALP, an assisted living community in Flushing, and Meadow Park Rehabilitation & Health Care Center in Fresh Meadows, where they created beautiful sukkah decoration

together with the elderly patients, played games, visited with the residents of the various facilities, and hung beautiful decorations in the facilities’ respective sukkot for the residents to enjoy.

“It was an amazing experience to be able to help others prepare for the holiday of Sukkot,” said Pnina Levin, an eighth grade student from Jamaica Estates.

“Doing chesed is fun, especially when you are doing it with others,” added eighth grader Rebecca Boim of Jamaica Estates. “It makes the mitzvah seem even more special.”

“It was really fun doing projects with the elderly for Sukkot,” said Stephanie Ross, an eighth grader from Cedarhurst. “Chesed is one of my favorite mitzvot to do.”

“Engaging in experiential and interactive programs that empower and encourage our students to perform acts of kindness for others is an important supplement to our classroom

instruction and daily learning,” said Rabbi Mark Landsman, principal of YCQ. “We pride ourselves on utilizing a broad array of teaching methodologies at YCQ in order to impart to our students strong Torah values and a solid moral foundation, which enables them to develop academically, socially and spiritually.”

Rabbi Landsman added that he is looking forward to meeting with prospective parents at the school’s interactive Open House on November 8 and sharing with them the quality academic and religious programs that YCQ offers to its over 900 students and their families.

The YCQ Open House will feature guided tours of the yeshiva and a stimulating first grade lesson for parents, which will include a session on YCQ’s progressive Hebrew immersion program. While the parents are occupied with the programming relating to the adults, their children will enjoy interactive lessons with YCQ’s kindergarten staff.

YCQ features smart-board technology in every classroom, a state-ofthe-art science lab, two fully equipped computer labs, and separate classes for boys and girls beginning in fourth grade. The school also offers an assortment of after-school programs and clubs, including Mishmar, chess, band instruction, drama, dance, and much more. In addition, YCQ runs an extensive sports program, including a boys junior varsity basketball team, a varsity boys basketball team, a girls basketball team, and a hockey team.

Free transportation to YCQ is available from Queens, the Five

Towns, West Hempstead, and Great Neck.

“We are extremely proud that we systematically incorporate exciting and progressive educational initiatives into our academic curriculum, while at the same time building upon the fundamental principles that were established when our school was founded 75 years ago,” said Rabbi Landsman. “Empowering our students to achieve a bright future, both academically and in the context of Judaism, is the hallmark of our school and the guiding principle which motivates us to continue enhancing our first-rate programming on a consistent basis.”

For more information about YCQ and the November 8 Open House, call (718) 793-8500 ext. 313, or go to www.ycqweb.com.

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Shulamith High School Students Stretch Their Limits

Assemblyman Todd Kaminsky was proud to recognize Rachel Vcherashansky, a Hewlett High School student, and the National Council of Jewish Women (NCJW) Peninsula Section for their recognition of the International Day of the Girl. Promoting domestic violence awareness and combatting human trafficking are just some of the important causes for which NCJW Peninsula fights so hard.

Jenna Bush was the guest speaker at the event.

Fire Safety at Shulamith

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Believe in yourself. Be inspired. Because there is only one you.” –Anonymous Courage, resilience, trust, friendship, growth. These are the values our girls explored last week as they challenged their limits at the Project Care ropes course.

Inspired by the Challenge by Choice philosophy, each girl was encouraged to dare greatly and stretch her own individual limits. As we made mistakes and tried anew, we explored how there are truly no failures in life, only growth. They spotted, belayed and supported each other – inspiring each girl to stretch her limits, discover her inner strength and celebrate each other’s successes.

The ropes course taught us valuable lessons about trust and resilience. Over the course of the week during our daily tefilla workshops, we explored powerful follow up questions such as “Who do we deeply

trust? How do we feel towards someone that we trust? How do we build trust? What does it mean to trust G-d?”

At Shulamith High School, the world is our classroom. Our STEM class looks forward to visiting Google this week!

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n Wednesday, October 14, members of the Woodmere Fire Department came to Shulamith to speak with students about fire safety. The firefighters in attendance were Jason Hagler; Joey Greenstein; Sruly Max, father of eighth grader Meira Max; and Chevi Kail, mother of fifth grader Mindy Kail. The assembly included information on fire prevention, fire drill safety, and some Shabbos-related recommendations. One firefighter demonstrated what to do in the event that one’s clothes catch fire: Stop, Drop, Cover your eyes,

and Roll. The firefighters taught us that firefighters may seem frightening when wearing their protective gear, including face masks, but that they are there to help, and one should never hide from them. Students were given ample opportunity to ask questions, and the firefighters patiently and comprehensively answered each one.

We thank the members of the Woodmere Fire Department for coming to Shulamith to educate us about the importance of respecting fire and for teaching us about what to do in an emergency.

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On Sunday, the Pirchei KNH/Live & Learn program hosted its opening session with R’ Fischel Schachter. The evening started with pizza & soda followed by two kapitlach of Tehillim for the matzav in Eretz Yisroel which the boys all said together.

After Tehillim, R’ Schachter began his story which focused on the greatness of Shabbos. (The Live & Learn Program offers a hands-on approach on the first eleven melachos of the 39 melachos.)

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Rambam Wins National Merit Scholarship Distinction: Beating the Odds, Once Again

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hen one sees a statistical aberration one has to question whether it is a quirk or part of a trend whose causes can be identified. Rambam Mesivta has been fortunate to consistently have its students excel in both its limudei kodesh learning program and college preparatory studies in a disproportionate manner.

Rambam alumni are overrepresented in semicha programs, college honors programs and acceptance to graduate schools, and community leadership positions.

Recently, Rambam was named a Blue Ribbon School, the only allboys program on the entire East Coast to have ever garnered that accolade. The National Merit Scholarship Program is another barometer of educational achievement. Out of approximately 1.5 million high school students in the nation, ap-

proximately 1% or 16,000 achieve semifinalist status. Based upon these statistics, with 40 students in a grade, Rambam would expectedly not have representatives to this pro-

boys have comes as no surprise. It is davka because we are a small school by design, that enables us the ability to provide a tremendous amount of individual attention to allow these

gram. However, once again, Rambam students broke the odds. Two students, Zechariah Rosenthal and Yaakov Weinberger, were named National Merit Semi-Finalists. One additional student, Moses Bibi, was named a “Commended Student” and received a Certificate of Commendation.

“Having students excel as these

students to thrive and excel,” said Rabbi Zev Meir Friedman, Rosh HaMesivta.

Merit Semi-Finalists enter an academic competition to secure a finalist spot and later actual scholarship award. National Merit Scholarship Awards of various types are granted to approximately 7400 high school students across the country, with no-

tifications being sent out by June of the following year.

Rabbi Yotav Eliach, Rambam’s principal, lauded the winners, saying, “We are so proud of the boys and what they have accomplished.

Obviously, this does not happen in a vacuum. It is the result of having a wonderful cadre of motivated students along with an excellent teaching staff which inspires them to achieve excellence.”

All of Rambam’s awardees are taking a host of AP courses along with their regular intense morning shiur. Mr. Hillel Goldman, Rambam’s Assistant Principal, stated, “It is meritorious that these students have excelled academically. It is especially impressive when you look at how talented and eclectic they are.

These young men have participated in and captained everything from robotics, to poetry, to hockey, to debate, to the Writers’ Guild, to Classic Film Club, Rambam’s Masmidim Program and so much more. It is a pleasure to be with them every day, watch them grow and share their nachat.”

Sukkos Learning Program at MYHT

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his past Sunday, the students of Mesivta Yam Hatorah made a siyum Mishnayos on Seder Nezikin. The Mishnayos were learned during Sukkos break lilui nishmas Rafael Reuven Ben Avrahom, a brother of one of the

students. Each participant took upon themselves to learn the Mishnayos on his own as well as to listen to shiurim given by his rebbi on Pirkei Avos.

The students were privileged to hear divrei chizuk from Rav Eliezer

Feuer, Rav of the Young Israel of Bayswater. Rabbi Feuer praised the boys for their commitment to Torah and for “stealing” from their free time and committing it to Torah learning.

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AMEX Small Business Saturday Update (And It’s Not a Good One…)

By Elliot Schreiber One of the great perks enjoyed by Amex credit card holders across the country occurred each year on the Saturday after Thanksgiving (dubbed “Small Business Saturday”), whereby Amex would offer a number of perks and incentives to encourage pur-

chases at small businesses including statement credits for purchases made at small businesses.

In 2014, Amex offered a $10 statement credit after spending $10 at a small business, up to 3x per card In 2013, Amex offered a $10 statement credit after spending $10 at a small business, up to 1x per card

In 2012, Amex offered a $25 statement credit after spending $25 at a small business, up to 1x per card In 2014, when the statement credits rose to $25 per each AMEX credit card used at a participating merchant (on a purchase of $25 or more), many consumers took advantage of this promo by opening up multiple cred-

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We recall the web being awash with pictures of customers holding onto numerous AMEX credit cards, and merchants complaining of individuals spending up to $1,000 in increments of $10 on the AMEX credit cards they had been approved for!

This year, though, it looks like Small Business Saturday is no longer going to be what it used to, as in the Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) for Small Business Saturday, Amex displays the following: Is there an American Express Statement Credit Offer for Card Members for Small Business Saturday this year?

As in years past, American Express will continue to drive awareness of Small Business Saturday and encourage consumers to shop small through local and national advertising.

This year we are not offering a statement credit offer for Card Members on Small Business Saturday, but are instead increasing the support and resources we provide to help small business owners market the day within their communities and truly make it their own.

Like you, we are sure this will disappoint a lot of AMEX consumers as we all really looked forward to receiving these credits, though we figured this would happen sooner or later, given how much money in statement credits people were getting out of this promotion by adding up to 100 authorized users on certain eligible AMEX cards.

At the same time, the purpose of the Small Business Saturday was to encourage consumers to shop by small businesses. Offering marketing materials, online ads, merchandise kits, and educational event guides can only go so far in getting people into stores….

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THE SGAN MENAHEL’S OFFICE CAN SOMETIMES BE A FUN PLACE TO BE. AT YESHIVA KETANA OF LONG ISLAND, THE BOYS OCCASIONALLY COME IN FOR A MUCH NEEDED SNACK.

DRS Senior Named Finalist in Siemens Research Competition

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avid Herman, a senior at DRS, had made history by becoming the yeshiva’s first regional finalist in the Siemens Math, Science and Technology Competition. David is the only yeshiva student to be named a regional finalist in this year’s competition.

David performed his research over the summer at Stony Brook University’s Garcia Research Center where he researched hydrogen fuel cells. A fuel cell is an electrochemical energy conversion device and converts hydrogen and oxygen into water, eventually producing energy in the form of electricity.

“I really enjoy chemistry. It’s very interesting and relatable,” said Herman. “Being able to research something that will help the earth become a greener place is something I’m really passionate about, and this project was really perfect for me.”

Nearly 1,800 other students en-

tered the competition and 466 exceptional projects were selected from the pool and declared regional semifinalists on October 16. The top 97 entries were designated as regional finalists.

Herman expressed his gratitude to the administration and faculty of DRS for their guidance and support throughout this process. He will now advance to the regional round and present his research to a group of judges at Notre Dame University during the weekend of November 20-21.

“We are so proud of David’s accomplishment, which is a result of his acumen, hard work and perseverance,” said Menahel Rabbi Yisroel Kaminetsky. “When you speak to David about his project, you get a sense of his command of his project and his natural curiosity about chemistry. His project was a great fit for him, and he benefited from great mentors during the project and in presenting his project. He is truly a credit to DRS.”

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A Huge Sales Event in NY for the Ramat Givat Zeev Community

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he real estate fair, held by the Nofei Israel company marketing the apartments in the Ramat Givat Zeev luxurious residential project, will be held in New York next week to reach frum families from communities across the United States. The event will take place on October 25 in the Aish Kodesh Congregation in Woodmere, located at 894 Woodmere Place, Woodmere, NY 11598, between 10:00 AM and 5:00 PM. The event marks the rapid progress in the neighborhood’s

construction and its already popular demand among Jews from North America.

Situated north of Jerusalem, Ramat Givat Zeev is a 6 minute drive from Jerusalem’s Ramot neighborhood. Families purchasing homes in this developing community are mostly Americans who are planning to make aliya and settle in Israel, while preserving an American-style lifestyle.

The construction of the new neighborhood by the Nofei Givat Zeev Company, a subsidiary of Nofei Israel, began in the last few months and is already nearing completion.

Approximately 230 Torah-observant families intending to make aliya in the near future have already purchased houses and apartments in the luxurious projects.

The Ramat Givat Zeev gated community structure, which will include schools, yeshivos, shuls, shops, and a country club, has great appeal for frum families looking to join a beautiful community. This unique and upscale suburban community structure is what differentiates this project from the many other luxury projects currently on the market.

At least 40 million shekels have already been invested in this up-scale project.

The construction work at the site is progressing rapidly. Building permits for the apartment buildings and some of the houses have already been issued, and buyers expect to receive keys to their new homes within 24 months. Due to the pace of development, an increase in price of approximately 20-30% is expected soon for the apartments in the project.

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Fathers and Grandfathers Join Yeshiva Darchei Talmidim to Mark Haschalas Gemara

Tehillim for Acheinu Bnei Yisrael led by Rav Nossen Zupnik

Rav Dovid Morgenstern, menahel of the Upper Elementary School at Darchei Torah

Rav Yaakov Bender, Rosh HaYeshiva of Darchei Torah

Mr. Uri Kaufman with his son, Naftali

Rav Uri Orlian, father of a talmid and guest speaker

Rav Shlomo Braunstein, grandfather of a talmid and guest speaker

Mr. Shlomo Berger, grandfather of talmidim and guest speaker

Tehillim for Acheinu Bnei Yisrael led by Mr. Ronald Lowinger, President of Darchei Torah

Mr. Shmuel Winzelberg, grandfather of a talmid and guest speaker

Two consecutive events were held on Sunday morning at the Yeshiva celebrating the fifth grade talmidim’s entry into the world of limud Gemara

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HALB’s Avnet Country Day Announces Its New Directors

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t’s an exciting time in the HALB universe. All of its divisions are bustling with the exciting activity of the new school year.

The construction on the new Woodmere campus is underway along the path to its much anticipated opening. And now there is another new beginning to announce.

pus, housed in DRS. Daniel Stroock has a very long association with Avnet Country Day School dating back to the 1980s when he learned to swim in their pools. He returned 15 years ago as an Assistant Head Counselor and is delighted with his newest role. “It’s both exciting and We are pleased humbling to move to announce our into this new posinew Co-Directors tion. We’ve got an DANIEL STROOCK for Avnet this sumexcellent track remer. Daniel Stroock cord of sending chilwill be the director of Avnet’s Long dren home excited and happy,” said Beach Campus while Rabbi Jeremy Daniel. The Long Beach campus, Fine will lead the Woodmere Cam- entering its final year on its beauti-

Big Sisters and Little Sisters Bond

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n event eagerly anticipated each year by students of the Shulamith Middle Division is the annual Big Sister/ Little Sister Breakout. This year’s event was held on Wednesday, October 14, Rosh Chodesh Cheshvan. G.O. Presidents, Tzipori Eichler and Ariella Schecter, and Vice Presidents, Leora Bennett and Leora Muskat, put much thought and effort into ensuring that each student would be paired with the ideal “sister.”

The event began with each big sister finding her little sister and handing her a raindrop with both of their names on it. Then, the big and little sisters had the opportunity to deco-

rate umbrellas for Cheshvan. As the girls creatively designed their umbrellas, Mrs. Rachel Steiner, Director of Student Activities, reminded them that when we daven “Mashiv ha’ruach u’morid ha’geshem,” we are asking Hashem to bless our beloved land of Israel with rain and to sustain all of Klal Yisrael.

The umbrella decorating activity was followed by lunch, during which Big and Little Sisters sat with one another.

The first Big and Little Sister event of the year was deemed a hit, and everyone is looking forward to future opportunities to bond with their “sisters.”

ful beach front home, is for boys and a Torah/derech eretz environment girls in pre-school through entering has proven to be a fulfilling home 3rd grade and for girls for boys in our comthrough 8th grade. munity and will only grow in catering to Rabbi Fine has the needs and wants been involved with of our campers.” the Boys Campus serving grades 4th through 8th since To register for the their inaugural sumsummer of 2016 or mer back in 2004, lofor further informacated at the beautiful tion, please call 516modern campus of 791-8200 ext.

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Washington Heights Remembers Prominent Soviet Jew Activist Jacob Birnbaum

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ouncilman Ydanis Rodriguez, joined by Deborah Hes of the Jewish Community Council, Rabbi Ezra Schwartz and members of the Birnbaum family, renamed Cabrini Boulevard between 186th and 187th street after local activist Jacob Birnbaum. The street lies in the center of a longstanding Jewish Community where Mr. Birnbaum lived for decades. Council Member Rodriguez was joined by local elected officials and prominent members of the Jewish community including several rabbis who led community in song to remember this transformative leader.

Jacob Birnbaum was a leader and

father of the movement to Free Soviet Jewry. Mr. Birnbaum was born in Hamburg, Germany, in 1926 and moved to London with his family after Hitler came to power. In 1964, Birnbaum moved to New York with the hopes of helping Soviet Jews.

Birnbaum organized dozens of student-led demonstrations in New York, most famously the May Day protest, which consisted of a thousand young men and women marching silently for over four hours where the chant, “Let My People Go” billowed out amongst the crowd. He was a hero who called for free emigration of Soviet Jews, demanding that the world see Soviet anti-Semi-

tism and aide in his cause. It was his very protests and the support he lobbied across the world that led to the reform of Moscow’s Jewish emigration policy, allowing for more than 1.5 million Jews to move to Israel and abroad. Birnbaum died on April 9, 2014 at the age of 90.

“It is always an honor and a pleasure to have the ability to use our streets as a reminder of the individuals who brought our communities to where we are today,” said Councilmember Ydanis Rodriguez.

“Jacob Birnbaum was a hero for the thousands of Soviet Jews he helped relocate to escape persecution under the anti-religious Soviet Union. As

an activist and human rights leader, Jacob Birnbaum has left a deep and lasting impact upon thousands of lives in our community.”

“Jacob Birnbaum led American Jews in one of the strongest actions in Washington to save Soviet Jews.

His students and his legacy run deep in Washington Heights and throughout the national Jewish Community.

Today we honor his legacy and ensure residents decades from now take pride that Jacob Birnbaum was one of their own,” said Debbie Hes, Executive Director of the Washington Heights Jewish Community Council.

Lander College of Arts & Sciences to Host Free Community Lecture Series on Jewish History

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ouro’s Lander College of Arts and Sciences in Flatbush (LAS) is introducing a weekly lecture series, “Jewish History @ Avenue J.” Presented by LAS academic dean Henry Abramson, the lectures will be open to the community and free of charge.

Before coming to LAS this summer, Dr. Abramson served as dean of academic affairs and student services for Touro College South in Miami, Fla, where he originated his Jewish history lecture series.

“Dr. Abramson is a highly skilled scholar with an impressive array of publications and teaching awards,” said Dr. Robert Goldschmidt, executive dean of LAS and the vice presi-

dent for planning and assessment of Touro College. “He’s an erudite student of history with an entertaining manner of delivery, and we’re proud to make his lectures available as a service to the larger community.”

Dr. Abramson earned his Ph.D. in History from the University of Toronto in 1995, writing a dissertation on the Jews of Ukraine. Before joining Touro College as the dean of the Miami Beach campus, Dr. Abramson held post-doctoral and visiting appointments at Harvard, Cornell, Oxford and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and was a tenured Associate Professor of History and University Scholar of Judaica at Florida Atlantic University of Boca Raton.

He has published several books on Jewish history and thought, including “A Prayer for the Government: Ukrainians and Jews in Revolutionary Times, 1917-1920” (Harvard, 1999); “Reading the Talmud: Developing Independence in Gemara Learning” (Feldheim, 2006); and the forthcoming “The Kabbalah of Forgiveness: The Thirteen Attributes of Mercy in Rabbi Moshe Cordovero’s Date Palm of Devorah” (Smashwords, 2014). Dr. Abramson has received many distinguished awards for his research and teaching, including fellowships from the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum and the National Endowment for the Humanities, and he received the Excellence in the Academy Award

from the National Education Association.

Lectures will be on Monday evenings from 7-8 pm on the LAS campus at 1602 Avenue J in Flatbush, beginning October 19 on the topic of Judah Maccabee. Subsequent lecture dates and topics include: October 26: Apion November 2: Rabbi Meir November 9: King Bulan November 16: Rabbi Bachya November 23: Count Emicho November 30: Rabbi Avraham ben HaRambam December 14: Dona Gracia Nasi December 21: Uriel Da Costa December 28: Rabbi Chaim Vital

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Centerfold

You gotta be kidding A man goes skydiving for the first time. After listening to the instructor for what seems like days, he is ready to go. Excited, he jumps out of the airplane. After a bit, he pulls the ripcord.

Nothing happens. He tries again. Still nothing. He starts to panic, but remembers his backup chute. He pulls that cord.

Nothing happens...

He frantically begins pulling both cords, but to no avail. Suddenly, he looks down and he can’t believe his eyes.

Another man is in the air with him, but this guy is going up!

Just as the other guy passes by, the skydiver – by this time scared out of his wits – yells, “Hey, do you know anything about skydiving?”

The other guy yells back, “No! Do you know anything about gas stoves?”

Only In America… ... are there handicap parking places in front of a skating rink. ... do drugstores make the sick walk all the way to the back of the store to get their prescriptions while healthy people can buy cigarettes at the front. ... do people order double burgers, large fries, and a diet Coke. ... do banks leave both doors to the vault open and then chain the pens to the counters. ... do we leave cars worth thousands of dollars in the driveway and put our useless junk in the garage. ... do we use answering machines to screen calls and then have call waiting so we won’t miss a call from

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this?

Johnny’s tractor needs exactly one gallon of oil to run effectively. Johnny has a full barrel of oil and an empty three-gallon container and an empty five-gallon container.

How can Johnny make sure that he puts exactly one gallon of oil in the tractor?

See answer on next page

someone we didn’t want to talk to in the first place. ... can a pizza get to your house faster than an ambulance. ... do we buy hot dogs in packages of ten and buns in packages of eight. ... do we use the word “politics” to describe the process so well: “poli” in Latin meaning “many” and “tics” meaning “bloodsucking creatures.” ... do we have drive-up ATM machines with Braille lettering. ... can homeless combat veterans live in cardboard boxes and a draft dodger can live in the White House. (There were a number of them.)

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Autumn Trivia 1. What word was commonly used before the 16th century to refer a. to 1. the autumn season? a. Fall b. Harvest c. Reap d. Crop

4. What term refers to the full moon closest to the autumnal equinox? a. Blue Moon b. Bright Moon c. Harvest Moon d. Reap Moon

2. What English Romantic poet wrote the poem “To Autumn,” which describes the season as a time of ‘mellow fruitfulness’ but also evokes a sense of melancholy? a. John Keats b. John Byron c. Paul Verlaine d. William Wordsworth

5. Which of these birds do not migrate in the fall? a. Ravens b. Hummingbirds c. Storks d. Swallows

3. In the Northern Hemisphere, autumn begins in September.

When does it begin in the Southern Hemisphere? a. April b. January c. February d. March

6. What is the name of the popular harvest festival celebrated in China close to the autumnal equinox? a. Sun Festival b. Moon Festival c. Dragon Festival d. Lantern Festival 7. Why do leaves change colors in the fall? a. As the leaves lose chlorophyll,

Answers: 1. B 2. A 3. D 4. C 5. A 6. B 7. A Wisdom key: 6-7 Correct: You wistfully walk the autumn trails (of the Five Towns) while nursing a pumpkin spice

their other pigments are exposed b. They stop getting oxygen from the trees and die, causing them to change colors c. Because otherwise the fall would be total misery d. The leaves add more chlorophyll and this changes them into different colors

latte (from Dunkin Donuts) while reciting from memory “That Time of Year Thou Mayst in Me Behold” (Shakespeare)... Go to Vermont at least.

3-5 Correct: You are not too hot, not too cold—a perfect autumnal blend.

0-2 Correct: When you heard it was fall, you thought it meant on your head!

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Johnny should fill the 3-gallon container with oil and pour it into the 5-gallon container. Then he should fill the 3-gallon container again and use it to fill the 5-gallon container the rest of the way. One gallon will be left in the 3-gallon container.

He pours that gallon into the tractor!

Answer to riddle:

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What qualified Henny Machlis, who passed away this past Friday at the age of 58, as one of the world’s greatest Jewish women?

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erusalemites would say it was her cooking for and serving up to 300 guests every Shabbos in her cramped Jerusalem apartment.

The guests – almost 150 for the Shabbat night meal and over 100 for the Shabbat day meal – ranged from curious tourists and university students to lonely widows and singles to drunks and mentally ill people who considered the Machlis family’s love and warmth more delectable than even their ample food. Henny cooked 51 weeks a year (except only for the week of Pesach) from her tiny kitchen. Starting as newlyweds 35 years ago, the Machlises’ open Shabbos table expanded gradually over the years until the overflow of guests had to be seated in the courtyard and

R E M E M B E R I N G

Henny Machlis A Truly Great Jewish Woman

by Sara Yoheved Rigler

outside the front door. Henny’s great dream was to enclose the courtyard so guests could sit there even in the winter. Alas, she never lived to see her dream’s fulfillment.

The Machlises’ chesed was not restricted to Shabbat. Homeless people slept on their couches, some for weeks at a time, and those whose

mental instability might have endangered the Machlises’ fourteen children were accommodated in the family van. When Rabbi Mordechai Machlis would leave for work as a teacher in the mornings, he would know how many van guests he had by the number of shoes in the windshield.

For those who gauge greatness by the level of selflessness a person attains, Henny also scored off the charts. At her funeral her oldest son Moshe recalled how, after he got married and moved away to start Kollel (full-time Torah learning), his mother encouraged him: “If you ever aren’t making it financially, tell me and I’ll sell my jewelry.”

“Ima,” Moshe called out in a tearful voice, “you forgot that you didn’t have any jewelry. They had all been stolen by the guests over the years.

And your diamond ring – you loaned it to someone twenty years ago and never got it back.”

Being treated for cancer in New York’s Sloan-Kettering, Henny was sometimes visited by the unfortunates who – even those decades older than she – considered Henny their mother. When one homeless woman came to visit, Henny gave her her bed. A relative discovered Henny, wrapped in a hospital blanket, wandering in the hospital corridor looking for a place to lie down.

Henny’s son Moshe was pushed aside at the crowded funeral by one of the Machlises’s mentally ill “regular guests,” who proclaimed, “I have to get closer. She’s my mother.”

For those who equate spiritual greatness with G-d-consciousness, with the ability to see G-d’s hand always and everywhere, Henny had indeed achieved those spiritual heights. At the funeral, a tearful Rabbi Machlis related just one story: He invited a destitute man whom he always saw at the Kotel (Western Wall) to come home with him to eat.

That day Henny served her homemade whole wheat pizza. The man loved it. He came back to their house every day asking for a slice of whole wheat pizza. Finally, Henny suggested that she could teach him how to make whole wheat pizza himself.

Painstakingly and with infinite patience, Henny taught him how. One night several days later, at 3 AM, there was a knock on the door. “Not on the front door,” Rabbi Machlis related. “Our front door is always unlocked. Someone was knocking on our bedroom door.”

The loud knocking woke them up.

Alarmed at what must be an emergency, Rabbi Machlis went to the door and asked, “Who’s there?” When the man identified himself, Rabbi Machlis asked, “What’s wrong?”

The man replied, “I forgot how to make whole wheat pizza. I need your wife to explain it to me again.”

Rabbi Machlis was exasperated. “At 3 o’clock in the morning,

you need to remember how to make whole wheat pizza?”

But Henny calmed him down.

“It’s a test,” she assured him. “It’s from Hashem.”

Then Henny reiterated to the man, step by step, how to make whole wheat pizza.

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or me, personally, the sign of Henny Machlis’s greatness was the radiant joy she emanated all the time. Whenever I ran into her, her wide smile and the joyful light

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she radiated conveyed that seeing me was the best thing that had happened to her all day. And although I knew that she greeted everyone the same way, I nonetheless was charged by this encounter with a holiness and saintliness that lit up the world – or that tiny piece of the world where

decided to drop in at her house and braced myself to see the battle-weary and fear-worn look that characterized other cancer patients I had known. On the path to the Machlis house, there was Henny with one of her daughters, on her way to go to pray at the grave of the tzaddik Rav

And although I knew that she greeted everyone the same way, I nonetheless was charged by this encounter with a holiness and saintliness that lit up the world – or that tiny piece of the world where Henny Machlis stood.

Henny Machlis stood.

The last time I saw Henny was several months ago, when she was briefly back in Jerusalem between surgeries and treatments at Sloan-Kettering. She had already been battling metastasized cancer for a couple of agonizing years. I

Usher. When she saw me, she gave me that same radiant smile and jubilant greeting that had always been her trademark – unmitigated by the cancer, the surgeries, the chemo, the long separations from her family, and the unexpected – and unwanted – turn her life had taken. Her joy-

ful smile conveyed not just her stoic acceptance, but her happy acquiescence with the way G-d was running His world.

A mutual friend told me after Henny’s death, “When I was with her, I felt embraced by G-d.”

The question – indeed the challenge – of Henny’s life is: How did an ordinary Jew born to a regular middleclass family in Brooklyn in 1957 become so great?

Like the rest of us, she went to college. (She graduated Stern College with a B.S. in education.) Like most of us in our twenties, she had an ideal. Hers was to share the beauty and joy of Shabbos with the whole world.

Like most of us, “reality” intruded in the actualization of the ideal. For the Machlises, the tremendous scale of their success cost them over $2,500 every Shabbat, a financial load that defied Rabbi Machlis’s modest salary as a teacher supplemented by donations from well-wishers. But unlike most of us, their adamantine faith in G-d and love for the Jewish people kept them from compromising on their ideal. They mortgaged their apartment to the hilt, took out personal and bank loans – and kept on

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going.

As Henny once told me: “We are living in the midst of a spiritual holocaust. Most Jews today have no idea of the beauty and depth of Judaism.

How can we not do everything in our power, including going into debt, to reach out to our fellow Jews?”

The only difference between Henny Machlis and the rest of us is the voice that asserts, “I’ve done enough.

I don’t have to do more.” Henny never harkened to that voice. She kept on going and giving and loving and inspiring – until last Friday, when she was called to her Heavenly reward.

Now it’s up to the rest of us.

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Just One Shabbos...

Around the World THE SHABBOS PROJECT ANTICIPATES SHABBOS OF ACHDUS AND TOGETHERNESS FOR ALL JEWS, ALL OVER

BY BRENDY J. SIEV

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n every Jewish home, every week, the Shabbos candles usher in the calm and menucha of Shabbos.

These past weeks have been full of pain and uncertainty for klal Yisrael. But this Shabbos, with the initiative of the Shabbos Project, will illuminate the darkness with the light of the Shabbos candles to so many Jews.

Three years ago, Chief Rabbi Warren Goldstein of South Africa decided to start a Shabbos of achdus for all South African Jews.

The Shabbos was incredibly successful; communities worldwide wanted to join.

This led to the international Shabbos Project and its kickoff event, the Great Challah Bake. This week’s Shabbos will be the second global effort. As of this week, 465 communities worldwide had joined the Shabbos Project

and more than a million individuals had signed up.

Says Rabbi Goldstein, “The Shabbos Project reinforces that sense of belonging. Imagine millions of Jews across the world keeping the same Shabbat together. Imagine the power of that experience. Imagine the sense of unity.

“Sharing this experience among families and friends will make it even more special and memorable. And, of course, in keeping Shabbat together, we will not only be connecting with Jews on six continents, but with Jews in every generation across every historic era since the Torah was given at Mount Sinai 3327 years ago.”

He adds, “Keeping just this one Shabbat together will strengthen us, as the Jewish people, as families, and as individuals, in ways

we can and can’t imagine.

We have allowed so many things to pull us apart, but with just this one Shabbos, we can start to put it all back together again. And we can keep it together.”

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n Israel, Shabbat Yisraelit will begin in the Knesset.

Organizers are proud: “Chareidim and chilonim are doing same thing, sitting around larger national table.” That is the kind of achdus our nation needs now.

Last year, 65 countries participated. In England, 103 communities in 22 cities took part. In Eastern Europe, 155 cities and towns joined in Shabbos observance certainly not seen since before the Shoah.

The Melbourne, Australia, community sat together at table that spanned a half

a kilometer. Fifteen percent of Ecuador’s Jewish community gathered in a hotel to spend Shabbos together. In Montreal, 43 organizations banded together for the project. One hundred percent of Jews in Geneva and Padova celebrated Shabbos. Though they did not see the Times Square Jumbotron ads, 103 South Florida shuls played a role. Up in Toronto, 75 shuls ran Shabbos Project events.

Thousands of women gathered in convention centers throughout the United States to bake challah on Thursday night before Shabbos.

In Baltimore, 1,300 women gathered to bake challah. They kneaded, punched, pulled, and recited the bracha together. Women lined up for three street blocks in Buenos Aires to enter the Challah Bake.

This year’s Great Big

Long Island Challah Bake in the Five Towns took place at the Sands in Atlantic Beach.

The Bake mirrors the excitement of the Shabbos Project on Long Island, an event that ended last year with a concert on the beach.

The Shabbos Project, in fact, came to Long Island through the efforts of an individual: Rabbi Yaakov Trump. Rabbi Trump, himself South African, heard about the Shabbos Project from his mother. Her experiences inspired him, and he felt a strong pull to set up a core team of volunteers who then went about raising awareness.

In an interview last year with a local school, Rabbi Trump related, “The Chief Rabbi spoke at four of the biggest shuls in the neighborhood, reaching over 3,000 people over that one ShabContinued on page 86

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bat. His presence stirred people into action.” A few Five Towns Orthodox shuls this week are pairing with their Conservative counterparts, running joint meals and other events.

In Dallas, last year’s sold out Challah Bake brought 500 women together. This year, Eitan Katz will be leading davening on Shabbos and giving a post-havdalah concert. More people are participating this year; Rabbi Lawrence Hajioff, rav and comedian, is joining the kehillah for Shabbos as well.

All events are free; many were sold out weeks in advance.

“Everyone in the shul is coming to a Shabbos lunch,” says Rachel Adlerstein.

“There’s so much excitement.

Many people who came to our shul last year, who had Shabbos with us for the first time, came frequently afterwards. This wasn’t a onetime Shabbos.”

Rabbi Shlomo Porter of the Etz Chaim Center in Baltimore hosts dozens of people each week in his home.

But this week, his organization is hosting 100 people for The Shabbos Project. Two Baltimore shuls—one Reform, one Orthodox, located across the street from each other—are banding together for Shabbos meals. They have a waitlist of 100; Eitz Chaim was only able to absorb 25.

“Shabbos keeps us together,” says Rabbi Porter.

“We are all Jews. We’re one nation with one Shabbos.”

These numbers are stag-

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gering. But coupled with these numbers are the actions of individuals who work to make this Shabbos special. Rami Levy, for example, offered 5 shekel Shabbat wine for sale throughout Israel. Twelve-year-old Arad Eylon Fruchter has invited the whole of Tel Aviv – and the Beastie Boys – to his Shabbat Project bar mitzvah. Racheli Fraenkel, the courageous mother of Naftali Fraenkel, hy”d, will be presiding over a Challah Bake at the Tachana Harishona in Jerusalem.

Rap-reggae superstar Matisyahu, too, seeks to bring light to Shabbos tables this week. He produced a song, a mashup of Carlebach and reggae, especially for The Shabbat Project. He writes, “The ideas of Shabbos have the unique ability to bring people together when they may otherwise not be together. Disconnected from distraction and reflecting G-d in a simple state of Oneness.”

The smaller numbers, the numbers of people in far-flung communities and locales who gather together to bake challah and celebrate Shabbos together, are equally moving. In Hong Kong last year, a family walked 16 kilometers to join people for dinner. In Beijing, 121 gathered for a Shabbos meal. Forty people gathered in Angola.

Eighty-seven families hosted others in Rio de Janeiro.

And in Nigeria, 21 women baked challah together.

The achdus brings together different communi-

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ties and factions. The United States’ participation ranges from Shabbos in Mountback, Alabama, to Shabbos led by Project Inspire in Brooklyn. Some Brits walked 3.2 miles from Gateshead to join the Newcastle community for Shabbos. Jewish girls

come enlarged, encompassing more communities, within the communities, people are personalizing the project. Hatzofim, for one, Israel’s biggest youth movement, has been sending out tens of thousands of its scouts to organize Shabbat meals and

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Bake at the senior assisted living center. Amy Salzman of North Miami Beach started the Great Family Challah Bake at the Young Israel of Greater Miami so that whole families could bake challah together.

Other communities have

“SHABBOS KEEPS US TOGETHER. WE ARE ALL JEWS. WE’RE ONE NATION WITH ONE SHABBOS.” attending Catholic school in Miami participated in Shabbos. Forty-two people in a Hancock Park apartment building gathered for a Shabbos meal. In Memphis, 202 people kept Shabbos for the first time. Congregation Beth Shalom and Temple Beth El in the Five Towns came together: 313 people enjoyed a joint Shabbos. In Montevideo, 457 overcrowded a shul; 126 people came to a meal in Aventura, Florida, a meal originally planned for 15.

“The Shabbos Project is a great equalizer,” says one behind-the-scenes organizer who coordinates the American community efforts. “The frum world appreciates sitting around table and having family meal together. But the intention is not to show people how frum people live.

This is not a kiruv tool. It’s an achdus tool.”

While the project has be-

activities in neighborhoods across the country. London’s Pinner Shul distributed a keeping-it-together “Pinner Care Package,” with food, candles and grape juice to elderly and ill community members.

And there’s much for larger communities to learn from smaller ones. In Minnesota, the frum community last year took on community-wide learning about Shabbos. Each week the community studied a different halacha; this project spread to Baltimore and galvanized Baltimoreans to learn hilchos Shabbos weekly.

In Dallas, the Great Challah Bake includes a table for men. Rockland has also organized the Great L’Chaim Day for men, as a preparatory pre-game for the Challah Bake. Shoshana Gertz of Baltimore will be participating in a smaller Challah

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also put their special imprimatur on the Shabbos Project. Young people with disabilities and their families and friends will come together for seuda shlishis in Melbourne followed by an optional 20-minute walk to the communal Havdalah Concert at Caulfield Park.

On Wednesday, children and parents in Saint-Laurent, Montreal, made Shabbat crafts. And 30 Columbus, Ohio, shuls and organizations of all denominations are coming together for a historic unity Shabbat. The celebrations include six community-wide Challah Bakes.

Israel’s Shabbat Yisraelit will draw big crowds of chareidim and chilonim. The comedy troupe “Anderoos” produced a wonderful promotional video, a takeoff of a National Geographic (or, as they put it, National Jew-ographic) documentary that has gone viral in Israel.

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Several organizations will be bringing people together, including Gesher and White City Tel Aviv, run by Jay Schultz.

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n a more somber note, some people may find themselves thinking about Henny Machlis, an extraordinary woman, who was nifteres this past week. Those who spent a year – more or less – in Israel knew that there was always a place available for them for a warm and wonderful Shabbos meal. The Machlis Shabbos meals were legendary: food prepared for an eclectic group of at least 100 guests of all types and walks of life. In many ways, Carol Fried of North Miami Beach, one of the original guests at the Machlis table, recalls, Henny Machlis and her husband led their own Shabbos Project for decades.

Perhaps, then, it is apt that all Jews will be joining in the global Shabbos Project the week of Henny Machlis’ petira. Looking around, those who spent a Shabbos in her home will be able to take the spirit of the Machlis home – acceptance, warmth, achdus, and spirituality – and bring its light to tables throughout the world.

But what about those who are unfamiliar with Shabbos and want to observe? The Shabbos Project website offers a Shabbox with the basics for a Shabbos table, one-on-one coaching, as well as a comprehensive “Unofficial Guide” to Shab-

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bos. In it, Rebbetzin Tziporah Heller writes, “The essence of Shabbat is letting go of one’s own need to change reality. Instead, on Shabbat, we step back and experience reality as it is, complete as G-d created it.”

For those overwhelmed by the “rules,” Rabbi Avraham Twerski emphasizes, “Some Shabbat observers focus on all the preparations they need to do for Shabbat and feel tense about this.

Mentally go beyond the work involved. Remember that on Shabbat you will celebrate all that you have, all that exists on our planet, and all that exists in the entire cosmos. This is mind-boggling.

Let the joy and serenity of Shabbat permeate your being during your entire stay in this world.”

Senator Joe Lieberman offers perspective, “Whether I’m in Stamford or Washington, I try to get home earlier on Friday than any other day of the week so I can participate in preparing for the Sabbath. In accordance with Jewish tradition, I always bring flowers home for Hadassah and our Shabbat table on Fridays. A Capitol Hill newspaper once surveyed members of the Congress, asking, among other things, ‘Do you ever buy your wife flowers?’ … The resulting article nominated me as one of the most romantic members of Congress.”

And for those seeking spiritual answers to “why Shabbos?” Rabbi Akiva Tatz writes, “Shabbat is described as me’eyn olam

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ha’ba – a small degree of the experience of the next world.

There is an idea that all spiritual realities have at least one tangible counterpart in the world so that we can experience them: it would be too difficult to relate to the abstract if we could never

ect has been eye-opening.

All around the world, Jews of every age, from all walks of life and across all levels of Jewish observance and involvement, have united to try and keep this Shabbat together – many for the very first time in their lives. On

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many levels.”

He adds, “Modern life has become fragmented; we are constantly pulled in different directions by distractions, demands and onerous responsibilities that pile up with increasing speed. We seldom get the chance to be

“THIS IS NOT A KIRUV TOOL. IT’S AN ACHDUS TOOL.” have any direct experience of it. Sleep is a sixtieth of the death experience; a dream is a sixtieth of prophecy. Shabbat is a sixtieth of the experience of the Next World.

“Shabbat enables one to enter the dimension of being rather than doing, and to accept and celebrate the world as it is.” He continues, “Many people never get off the rollercoaster, even for a single day. They are so involved in their own need to redefine and recreate reality that they never experience reality as it is. Of course, human beings were put into this world in order to work – to fix the world and to fix themselves. That is the purpose of the first six days of every week. But one-seventh of life is supposed to be spent stepping back, entering the dimension of being rather than doing, accepting and celebrating the world as it is.”

In the end, Chief Rabbi Warren Goldstein says, “The breadth and depth of support for The Shabbos Proj-

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the eve of this historic Shabbat, as momentum continues to build, one senses there is something deeply profound that in some way explains this unprecedented wave of energy. A similar tranquility and intimacy permeates our homes. No one has to answer the phone or rush off. No one is distracted by the screens of information or entertainment which saturate our world. We are left with a remarkable, uninterrupted haven of love and connection, which allows us to appreciate and focus on what we have in our lives.

“The Shabbos Project is an opportunity for the entire Jewish world to keep one complete Shabbat together – from Friday evening just before sunset, on October 23, until Saturday night after the stars have come out, on October 24. The beauty of this is that it is so practical and manageable. It’s something everyone can do. The clarion call of The Shabbos Project is to keep it together, which can be understood on

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truly present. In a world of fragmentation, Shabbos enters to offer us that chance to connect. On Shabbat, we set aside time to revisit and reinvigorate our most important relationships – with G-d, with our families, with our friends and, actually, with ourselves. Through Shabbat, we keep it – our lives – together. But there is another meaning to keeping it together.

Rabbi Goldstein concludes, “The Shabbos Project is not just about Shabbat keeping us together, but about all of us keeping it – the Shabbat – together.

Because that is the idea: all Jews coming together from across the spectrum – religious, secular, traditional; young and old – to keep one Shabbat as a unified collective.”

And in that unity we embrace our differences and similarities as we celebrate the gift of Shabbos, a gift that was given to every Jew, at every time, all around the world.

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Torah Thought

Parshas Lech Lecha Rabbi Berel Wein

The pattern or the life of our father Abraham and our mother Sarah is set in the opening words of this week’s Torah reading. They, the progenitors of the Jewish people and the parents of all nations, are destined to be travelers for all of their lives. The truth is that all of us are travelers on the journey of our lives. The difference is whether we have a clear idea of our destination and even more importantly what path to take in order to arrive there.

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-d assures Abraham and Sarah that Heaven will accompany them on their journey. But the L-rd does not forecast the events, the twists and turns, the detours and stumbling blocks that will mark the path of their journey. How to cope with those unforeseen and mostly untoward events is left up to the wisdom, tactics and actions of Abraham and Sarah themselves.

At the same time they are to remember that the focus of their lives is the goal of their relationship with their Creator and the task of creating a family and a nation that will guide civilization towards that same goal. The Torah itself states that Abraham “saw the place from afar.”

“The place” refers to that goal of the relationship to G-d and the acquisition of the holy spirit which allows one to lead a meaningful and productive life. But the goal is always seen “from afar.” Nevertheless, the pursuit of the goal is mandatory upon Abraham, Sarah and their descendants even if in many instances the goal is deemed to be unachievable.

The Jewish people have wandered over the face of this globe for millennia. They always knew that they would return to the Land of Israel one day no matter how distant or unachievable that that day may have appeared. The example of Abraham and Sarah has always stood before the eyes of the Jewish people as the paradigm of their national experience.

It is reported that Rabbi Nachman of Breslov constantly stated: “Every step that I take on the face

of this Earth is towards Jerusalem.”

G-d did not choose to inform Abraham as to how he would reach his life’s destination. Human beings have elaborate plans, Google maps, detailed itineraries and many ideas as how to arrive at their sought after destinations. Sometimes all of these plans do work out on schedule

The truth is that all of us are travelers on the journey of our lives.

and successfully. But many times Heaven mocks our futile efforts at controlling our destiny.

We state in our daily prayers that “many are the thoughts and plans that lie in the hearts of humans, but only the wisdom and advice of G-d will prevail.” The greatness of character of our father and mother, Abraham and Sarah, is reflected in how they dealt with the vagaries of life, the disappointments, and certainly the tragedies, while not losing sight of the goal and ultimate purpose of life itself.

The importance of keeping Abraham and Sarah constantly in the forefront of our minds and plans is of inestimable value in negotiating one’s journey through life.

Shabbat shalom.

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Torah Shmuz Parshas Lech Lecha

The Five Star Hotel Called Life

By R’ Ben Tzion Shafier

waive the other half.”

How do you think the hotel representative would respond?

EARTH: A FIVE STAR HOTEL

“After these matters, Hashem appeared to Avram in a dream and said, ‘Do not fear, Avram.

I will guard you. Your reward is great.’” Bereishis 16:1

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hen Avrohom Avinu was informed that his nephew, Lot, was captured, against all odds and in a most courageous manner, he waged war against the combined armies of the four kings.

Miraculously, he was victorious and freed Lot. After these events, Hashem appeared to Avrohom and said, “Do not fear; your reward is great.” Rashi explains that Avrohom was afraid that since this great miracle had been done for him, he had used up all of his merits and had no reward waiting for him in the World to Come.

Hashem allayed those fears by saying, “Everything that I have done for you will not cost you. Do not fear; your reward is great.”

This Rashi is very difficult to understand. How is it possible that a man as great Avrohom could have thought that he used up all of his reward? After years and years of serving Hashem, surely the reward waiting for him was phenomenal.

The answer to this is based on viewing life from a different vantage point.

PESACH IN ARIZONA

Imagine that your father-in-lawinvites you to join him for Pesach in

Sedona, Arizona. This is the ultimate Pesach extravaganza. No expense is spared; the guests are showered with every imaginable luxury and amenity. A five-star hotel, French chefs, an 18-hole golf course on premises – the best of the best. You graciously accept and are ready to have the time of your life. But as it turns out, by the time Pesach comes around, things at work aren’t going well, and lately you’ve been fighting with your wife.

Whether we recognize it for its extraordinary value or not, we are the recipients of an unfathomable amount of good.

As a result, you’re in the worst mood you’ve ever been in. For the nine days that you are there, you barely leave your hotel room.

When the vacation is over, your father-in-law approaches the hotel manager, and says, “My son-in-law hardly ate the entire time he was here. He didn’t come to a single gala Kiddush. He didn’t use the golf course. Not once did he step foot in the spa. Normally, I am not the type to complain. But I just can’t see paying the regular rate, so I’ve decided to pay half the bill, and expect you to

This planet that we occupy is a five-star hotel. We have every imaginable pleasure and amenity available to us. We enjoy majestic sights and experiences that constantly surround us. From magnificent floral scenes to exotic sea life, from the glory of the night sky to the clear aqua green of the ocean, from a flower in bloom to the plumage of a jungle parrot, all of the pomp and ceremony of a sunrise – a world created in technicolor.

And more than that, we were given the tools with which to enjoy it.

We have legs with which to walk and hands with which to hold. We have ears, a tongue, a nose, and fingers that bring us an astounding array of pleasures from the world around us. We have foods that explode with a burst of different flavors, aromas, textures, and colors. We are surrounded by untold pleasures and riches.

But more than anything, we have been granted the extraordinary privilege called life. We were given this golden opportunity to shape ourselves into what we can be for eternity. Is there any way to measure the value of life? Is it worth a million dollars? Ten million? A hundred billion?

Is it even possible to put a value on our existence?

Whether we recognize it for its extraordinary value or not, we are the recipients of an unfathomable amount of good. And as such, we owe. From the moment that we are born, the clock starts ticking and the debt begins. For every breath that we breathe, for every pleasure we enjoy, for every moment of our being, the bill increases. We owe our Creator

for that which He has given us.

NO FREE LUNCH

Somehow, we assume that all of the pleasures of this world are free – on the house. I certainly won’t be charged for them. However, the Chovos Ha’Levovos explains that in reality, we do owe for them. They were given to us by Hashem, and as a result we owe for them.

For this reason, Avrohom was afraid. He made a calculation based on what he received from Hashem versus what he had given in return, and he came out only slightly ahead.

“Now that Hashem has brought this great miracle for me,” he thought, “what possible reward do I have left?

Surely it has been all used up, and there is nothing left for me in the World to Come.”

Avrohom Avinu wasn’t out of touch with reality. Quite the opposite. He was highly attuned to a part of the calculation that we rarely think about—we are not entitled to anything. Hashem didn’t have to create us. Hashem isn’t obligated to shower us with good. Everything that Hashem gives to us is because He is wants to share of His good with us. Because of this, we owe a debt to Hashem that can never be repaid.

This perspective should be a major driving force in our serving Hashem – prompting us to attempt as much as we can to pay back the astounding good that Hashem constantly bestows upon us.

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The Observant Jew

Don’t Miss Out!

By Rabbi Jonathan Gewirtz

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s a writer and wordsmith, certain things jump out at me that might not occur to others. For example, have you ever heard about two airliners that almost collided and the news says it was a “near miss.” Wouldn’t a near miss be a hit? I know they mean that the miss was only off by a little bit, but it could be taken two ways.

One day I saw an ad. There was a picture of a product and the ad copy said, “Don’t miss out before it’s gone!” Now, if it’s gone, you will miss out. But if it’s not gone, meaning there are more to sell, you haven’t missed out, so it’s rather silly.

Their lack of attention to phraseology made me take notice. I’m sure they meant, “Don’t miss out, act now and order before it’s gone,” but then, that isn’t what they wrote.

It struck me that this might be the beginnings of a good article. Not the fact that you should think twice before speaking once, and not that you should review and proffread before you send something out. (Yes, that word is purposely misspelled.)

What got to me more was what they had actually said. “Don’t miss

out before it’s gone.” That means that while the product is still available I could miss out. How? Well, one way would be not to recognize the value of it. There’s an expression that says, “You don’t know what you’ve got ‘til it’s gone.” We take things for granted and underestimate the importance of them.

Whether it’s accomplishing a goal or simply doing something small, the time to act is now.

For example, have you ever injured a finger or toe? It seems so little, but you suddenly realize how often you use that part of your body when you wince in pain. Maybe it’s the toe that helps you balance or press the

gas pedal, or the finger with which you zip your coat. Using a computer with a bad finger could be very tricky.

The people in the hospital who finally get to use the lavatory on their own make an Asher Yatzar with intense concentration, realizing just what a blessing it truly is to be healthy. So, it’s possible to miss things when you have them because you don’t recognize the need for them.

On a slightly different note, I recall watching a man deliver bread to a supermarket one day. He swung the pallet jack in an almost choreographed movement, as he unloaded the truck and delivered the boxes to the sidewalk. I know it’s hard work, but I appreciated the artistry of it.

I commented to him, “Do you realize how many brachos will be made because of you? How many Birkas HaMazons? Kids getting their sandwiches after school? You’re touching so many lives!” He just smiled but I figured he might not have realized how fortunate he was to have a positive effect on others. By thinking about this piece of it, he might appreciate what he had, and not just feel it was all hard work and no recognition.

Another way to miss out when something is still here is by feeling that it will be there later, so I push it out of my mind completely. There are many ways that I could miss out on something even when I still have the chance to acquire it. They all revolve around my not taking action now.

Hillel said, “V’im lo achshav aimasai,” if not now, when? We all have busy lives and when something needs to be done, we have a tendency to push it off and say, “I’ll do it later.”

Whether it’s accomplishing a goal or simply doing something small, the time to act is now.

When my mother a”h was sick, I got in the habit of calling her whenever I thought of it. Just to say, “Hello, I love you, I was thinking about you.” She always enjoyed those calls.

I do it to my father, too, even though I know he’s busy, but he appreciates them too because he knows I’m thinking of him. Sometimes it’s a friend who’s having some difficulties and just knowing that there are people who care makes a difference.

A friend of mine loved taking pictures with people. He would proudly stand and smile with gedolim, people he loved, respected, and of course, he often posed with his friends (which was basically everyone he met.) At his daughter’s wedding, he wanted to take a picture with one friend. The fellow replied, “Now’s not the time.

Now you need to go to your daughter’s chuppah. We’ll take pictures another time.”

That man regretted his words because my friend died in a car crash a few short months after the wedding and that picture was never to be. So perhaps the message that came to me was absolutely correct: “Don’t miss out before it’s gone.” Instead, live every day with an appreciation for the things in your life and take every opportunity to capitalize on them.

Things change all too quickly.

Jonathan Gewirtz is an inspirational writer and speaker whose work has appeared in publications around the world.

You can find him at www.facebook.com/ RabbiGewirtz and follow him on Twitter @RabbiJGewirtz. He also operates JewishSpeechWriter.com, where you can order a custom-made speech for your next special occasion. Sign up for the Migdal Ohr, his weekly PDF Dvar Torah in English. E-mail info@JewishSpeechWriter. com and put Subscribe in the subject.

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OCTOBER 22, 2015 | The Jewish Home

‎My Israel Home

Modi’in has Arrived

By Gedaliah Borvick

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odi’in is a beautiful, friendly city that has become a popular destination for olim. Founded in 1993, the city is well-planned, with large swaths of protected land for parks and nature reserves. Modi’in has been designed to become Israel’s fourth-largest city; the population is currently almost 100,000 people and growing, as the long-term plan is to expand to 240,000 residents.

Modi’in is steeped in history, as it is located in the general vicinity of the original village of Modi’in, where Matityahu and his five sons launched the Maccabean revolt against the Greeks’ Seleucid Empire.

Centrally located, Modi’in is a commuter’s dream, boasting a superior transportation infrastructure.

This includes exceptional intercity and intra-city bus service, train service offering a short 20-minute ride

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to Tel Aviv, and in 2016 train service to Jerusalem will be added. Modi’in also has an excellent highway system: it is only fifteen minutes from Ben Gurion Airport, and is less than a half hour car ride from both Jerusalem and Tel Aviv.

Modi’in offers numerous shopping options with two large malls and many other retail options. It has countless restaurants and offers a variety of entertainment options and cultural programs.

The city’s over one hundred synagogues come in many varieties, including Ashkenazi, Sefaradi, and Yemenite. Modi’in’s chief rabbinate offers an assortment of Torah classes, the hesder yeshiva plays an integral role in the community, and Emunah sponsors a women’s morning learning program, in addition to the many shiurim offered by the local shuls.

Modi’in is a mixed city, comprised of religious and non-religious Jews, but the majority of the Anglo community consists of observant Jews, most of whom are dat leumi or national religious (the more Yeshivish crowd lives in nearby Modi’in Illit, better known as Kiryat Sefer).

The English speaking residents are primarily clustered in three neighborhoods: “Givat C” is located in the center of town and has attracted a variety of age groups; “Buchman / Moriah” is nestled in the southern end and its population is 50% Anglo; and “Kaiser” is situated close to the middle of town and has a relatively young Anglo community. All of these neighborhoods offer a mix of single family homes (cottages) and apartments.

Two new neighborhoods are be-

ing developed in Modi’in: Nofim – which means “views” – is located on a hill and offers magnificent views of the city. Nofim will have 1,800 housing units. Hatzipporim – which means “the birds” – is located between Buchman and Kaizer and will house almost 1,000 residential units situated on streets named for indigenous birds. Both of these new communities will offer a proper communal infrastructure, including schools and pre-schools, shuls, shopping centers and medical clinics. These communities will follow the Modi’in blueprint and have a mixed population, comprised of religious and secular residents.

Modi’in’s government places a high priority on “quality of life.”

Consequently, in addition to overseeing the addition of many housing projects in the city, the government continually builds new parks, bicycle paths, and recreational and religious facilities, and upgrades schools and community centers.

Although housing prices have risen as the city has become more established, real estate prices are lower than most central Jerusalem neighborhoods. Consequently, Modi’in continues to draw new residents from across the country and across the globe.

Gedaliah Borvick is the founder of My Israel Home (www.myisraelhome.com), a real estate agency focused on helping people from abroad buy and sell homes in Israel. To sign up for his monthly market updates, contact him at gborvick@ gmail.com.

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Parenting Pearls

Anger Rabbi Dani Staum, LMSW

Part I My ten year old daughter has a terrible temper, and it doesn’t take much to set her off. She can be playing nicely and having a good time, and then suddenly, with hardly any provocation, she will fly off the handle, screaming at anyone in her path. She has even broken some of her own toys on occasion. We have tried everything with her.

We have many pleasant conversations with her and she always admits that she feels badly about her blowups. Threats and consequences have only served to exacerbate the situation. How do we help her cool off without her turning over the entire house?

RABBI STAUM RESPONDS:

It is undoubtedly a great challenge when any family member has anger issues, and it affects the entire home. But, as I hope to discuss in the next few articles, there is hope, and with some direction and effort things can change for the better.

The first step is that your child must recognize that her anger is a problem – for herself. This may

sound ridiculously obvious, but it actually is an important point. If your daughter doesn’t view her blowups as a problem she will have no desire to work on it. The bottom line is that change can only come from within, and no one can get someone else to change. She has to want to invest the necessary effort to help her learn ways to handle her own anger.

I once worked with a student who liked the fact that he lost his temper and raged. He was a relatively meek and bashful child, and he didn’t like that about himself. When he would lose his temper he would lash out at other students and everyone would stay away from him. His temper gave him an illusion of power and he didn’t want to let go of it. We couldn’t begin to work on techniques to help him deal with his temper until he was able to come to the realization that his raging was isolating him and negatively impacting him socially.

When things are calm, conversations are always the best first route.

But if she doesn’t recognize how her temper is a problem, then we need to abet that process with consequences. The consequences, however, cannot be meted out in the heat of the moment because, at best, they will be ineffective; at worst, they will be counterproductive.

The reason consequences may be effective in other situations is because the child makes a conscious decision that the misbehavior is not worth the consequence they will have to deal with afterwards. When a child is tantruming, however, she is not using her conscious mind; she is running completely on emotion. At that moment the goal is to diffuse the situation and then to deal with what occurred in a more calm and rational manner.

After she has calmed down, it is appropriate to discuss what consequences are in order. If she hurt a friend in her anger, perhaps she

should not be able to have a friend over the following week or something similar. When she realizes that her anger causes problems for herself, then you can begin the real work of trying to help her navigate and deal with her anger.

A child needs to understand what she is like when she gets angry. With younger children I like to read together the book The Angry Dragon, which depicts a young boy who turns into a dragon every time he loses his cool. The book vividly demonstrates how the child becomes mean and ap-

When she realizes that her anger causes problems for herself, then you can begin the real work of trying to help her navigate and deal with her anger. athetic when he is tantruming. He is a frightening being and essentially isolates himself from everyone else.

He doesn’t revert into a boy again until he calms down. And when he does calm down he has to face the embarrassment of how he behaved while he was “still a dragon.”

A child (or adult) who has a terrible temper may reason that it’s the way he is and there’s nothing he can do about it. We have to reassure the child that that attitude is wrong. He

may have a quicker temper and it may be more challenging for him to control it, but there’s no such thing as “I can’t” or “it’s just the way I am.”

I often share with such children that the great Chofetz Chaim would relate that he had a natural temper.

His greatness was that he learned to have complete control over his anger, and not vice versa. It was known that the Chofetz Chaim would enter the Bais Medrash very late at night, after everyone was gone. One night a student hid in the Bais Medrash to see what the Chofetz Chaim did when he entered alone. When the Chofetz Chaim entered, he walked to the front of the Bais Medrash and opened the Aron Hakodesh and begged Hashem to help him deal with his natural temper.

There are many other anecdotes which discuss the tactics the Chofetz Chaim employed to keep his anger in check. I feel that such stories are very inspiring and can give anyone, especially a child who struggles with his/her temper, great chizuk to know that they are not doomed to losing their temper every time they become angry. It can be done, and we will help them learn how to do so, as we will continue to discuss iy”H.

Rabbi Dani Staum, LMSW, is the Rabbi of Kehillat New Hempstead. He is also fifth grade Rebbe and Guidance Counselor in ASHAR in Monsey, and Principal of Mesivta Ohr Naftoli of New Windsor, NY, and a division head at Camp Dora Golding. Rabbi Staum offers parenting classes based on the acclaimed Love & Logic Program. For speaking engagements he can be reached at stamtorah@ gmail.com. His website is www.stam torah.info.

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OCTOBER 22, 2015 | The Jewish Home

Thoughts on Chinuch TJH Speaks with Rabbi Nosson Neuman, Menahel of Bais Yaakov Ateres Miriam

By Tamar Sullivan

Rabbi Nosson Neuman is the founder and menahel of Bais Yaakov Ateres Miriam in Far Rockaway, now beginning its fourth year. BYAM parents are thrilled with Rabbi Neuman’s chinuch paradigm and his emphasis on Torahdik and tzinius principles. As he propels BYAM to the forefront of local schools of choice, Rabbi Neuman credits his father, Rabbi Moshe Neuman, for many of the fundamental chinuch strategies BYAM employs in order to make Yiddishkeit come alive for its talmidos.

TJH spoke with the menahel about some of today’s most difficult dilemmas.

TS: What is the biggest chinuch challenge facing parents today?

RN: Living a life of stira, contradiction.

There are so many parents who teach their children the values they should live up to while the parents themselves do exactly the opposite. They explain the chashivus of shul but can be found talking during davening. They teach tzinius but cut corners when it comes to their own modes of dress. Children are black and white – to them, contradictions are confusing and detrimental. Parents need to be sincere with themselves and their children.

What do you think is the greatest challenge facing students today?

Peer pressure – and I don’t think it has ever changed.

The influence of one’s peers affects the level of students’ internal tzinius, and that, of course, affects self-esteem.

They’re all tied together. It’s important – and I tell this to many parents – to keep things simple at home. If we don’t give into all of our children’s whims and demands, peer pressure will decrease.

In order to “keep things simple at home,” how should parents navigate the challenges that come with the wealth disparities in our communities and neighborhoods?

First of all, there have always been these challenges – it’s not a new phenomenon. It’s a makkah of golus.

Secondly, the Ribbono Shel Olam has cheshbonos, and for whatever reason, this

one is very hard for people to internalize. Everybody has wants. In fact, when Rav Yaakov Kamenetsky zt”l was close to 90 years old, he was honored by a yeshiva in Monsey. After people spoke about and lauded the Rav, he came up to the podium and said, “You don’t think it feels nice? It feels nice,” and he sat back down.

Everyone has wants and everyone likes to feel good, but it can always be achieved in a Torahdik way.

For those who have money to spend and time to relax, what is the best way to be mechanech our children regarding money?

Stay tzinius, learn how to say no to your children, and judge others favorably. Use your money in ehrliche ways

and involve your children in giving tzedakah. The president of a certain school used to have his son write out his tzedakah checks every Motzei Shabbos. You don’t have to give a lot of money to have your child write out a check – and the lesson is priceless.

Now that you began your fourth year of running Bais Yaakov Ateres Miriam, what do you feel is the school’s trademark or “brand”?

Without a doubt, a Torahdik and tzinius parent body. A warm family atmosphere.

What about those who are struggling financially? What is the best way to be mechanech their children regarding money?

When parents give a child what she needs, not what she wants, then in the long run, she will not feel that she lacks anything. In fact, many well-off children have plenty of the things they want, but very little of what they need. I had one of my own children who was particularly musical. He was one child who got music lessons for many years. It was blood money for me to pay for those lessons, but it was what this child needed.

In your opinion, should schools isolate themselves from technology, or increasingly incorporate it into their curriculums?

The answer is ever-changing because times – and inventions – are rapidly changing. I believe a school has to be practical, sensible, and guard the values of the atmosphere of kedusha and Yiddishkeit to the best of their ability. Phones and Internet are like anything in technology – if they’re used the right way, you’ll have hatzlacha.

But you have to have sechel! To ban something that is in every home is foolish.

To not have a filter on your computer is possibly being a rotzeach.

On what should parents put the most emphasis in their home?

Your home needs to be one of kedusha. The Shabbos table is so important, and the father should set the standard for his Shabbos table. It’s

You’ve been involved in girls’ education for a long time. What’s the purpose, in general, of a school for girls?

Ideally, a school should

“There are so many parents who teach their children the values they should live up to while the parents themselves do exactly the opposite.” important to have a dvar Torah. It’s important to sing zemiros. We sing zemiros for an hour or an hour and a half sometimes. Experiencing a beautiful Shabbos table reaches the neshama. A Shabbos table is so important for a household; when the spirit of Shabbos is upheld, it holds together the entire week.

team up with parents to develop their daughters into Torahdik, tziniu’dik women who pursue their potential and develop a personal connection to Hashem, all while learning the life skills necessary to live in our ever-changing world. Remember, without girls’ Bais Yaakovs, boys would have no one to marry!

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Jewish History

The Jarring Episode of Shabbetai Tzvi, Infamous Messianic Deceiver

By Rabbi Pini Dunner

Part II

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ollowing the expulsion of the Jews from Spain and Portugal and a sudden focus on Messianic belief in the teachings of the Tzfat kabbalists, a young rabbi from Izmir called Shabbetai Tzvi would become one of the most infamous Messianic pretenders in Jewish history. In the first article of this series we discovered how he began to show signs of severe bipolar disorder as a young man, how he was married and divorced twice, and how he eventually came to the attention of the rabbis in Izmir as a result of his strange behavior.

After some deliberation, the rabbis of Izmir told Shabbetai Tzvi to stop behaving so bizarrely or face the consequences – but their warning was to no avail.

Consequently, in 1651, Shabbetai Tzvi was expelled from Izmir and he began to drift from community to community.

Before we follow him on his journey, let us pause to consider Shabbetai Tzvi the man. Numerous people who knew him during these wil-

derness years – detractors, supporters and neutral observers – would subsequently offer their observations and reflections, describing all the facets of his fascinating, if troubled personality.

The picture that emerges is mesmerizing. He was incredibly charming and charismatic. He was also musically talented, handsome, extremely kind and generous spirited, diplomatic, and a brilliant conversationalist. He was fluent in several languages, and extremely knowledgeable in numerous subjects. All this, combined with his family’s relative wealth ensured he was welcomed wherever he went. It also enabled him to befriend anyone he met. Those who met Shabbetai Tzvi were immediately impressed, and he was always able to win people over with his endearing personality and acute intelligence. Sadly, this also meant that people were blinded – at least initially – to his severe mental illness.

After his expulsion from Izmir, Shabbetai Tzvi proceeded to Salonika, now known as Thessaloniki, Greece. There he was well received, and he quickly befriended the local rabbis. But

the honeymoon was shortlived. Within weeks his behavior had deteriorated dramatically. One fateful day, he invited all the local rabbis to his residence. They arrived to discover he had set up a wedding canopy under which he proceeded to perform a marriage ceremony between himself and a Torah scroll. Within days he was unceremoniously evicted from Salonika.

He drifted onto Athens, then Peloponnese, then Patras, and finally in 1658, he was back in Constantinople (Istanbul), where he remained for several months.

By now his outlandish behavior had escalated even further. In one notorious incident, he purchased a large dead fish, and publicly dressed it up in baby clothes and put it in a crib, announcing to startled onlookers that fish represented liberation and salvation and that this particular fish was the childlike Jewish nation in need of salvation. Shortly after this bizarre episode, Shabbetai Tzvi implemented a “three festival week.” During the course of seven days he celebrated every major Jewish festival – Pesach, Shavuot and Sukkot – with all the

associated laws, customs, and prayers. He claimed he was atoning for all the sins committed by any Jew throughout history who had ever sinned during any of these festivals, or had not observed them properly.

At the conclusion of this strange week, Shabbetai Tzvi innovated a blessing over sin – “mattir issurim” – a corruption of the daily blessing “mattir assurim.”

“Mattir assurim” describes G-d as “He who liberates the imprisoned.” “Mattir issurim” describes G-d as “He who permits the forbidden.”

At this stage he was in full manic mode, announcing to the group of bewildered spectators that a new era had begun with new laws and commandments, and by doing what he was about to do, he would effect the final mystical perfection of G-d’s physical creation. He then took a piece of pork, uttered the “mattir issurim” benediction, and proceeded to eat it.

The local community went into complete shock.

Local rabbis, infuriated and compelled to react, arranged for him to be publicly flogged and then had him excommunicated. No one was per-

mitted to speak to him, feed him, or house him. Shunned by every Jew in the city, Shabbetai Tzvi returned to his birthplace, Izmir, where he kept a very low profile for about three years. By 1662 he had recovered his confidence, and he departed for Eretz Yisrael. On his way to the Holy Land he spent time in Egypt, where he once again befriended rabbis and community leaders, and in particular a man called Raphael Joseph, the government appointed “Chelebi” or Community President of Egyptian Jewry.

A few months later he arrived in Jerusalem, where he impressed the small community. After spending a year there, Jerusalem’s community leaders trusted him sufficiently to send him back to Egypt as their official fundraiser. On March 31, 1664, in Egypt, Shabbetai Tzvi wed for the third time.

Sarah, his bride, was a girl with her own remarkable life story. Orphaned during the infamous Chmielnicki massacres of 1648/9 in Poland and Ukraine, she was brought up by gentiles as a Christian. In adulthood, she discovered her Jewish origins, whereupon she began

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drifting from community to community, possibly in search of her family; a rootless girl, very beautiful, and very seductive. She gained a reputation for immoral behavior, but nevertheless often made the strange claim that she was destined to marry the “Messiah,” a prediction that was treated with great amusement by all who knew her. How she came across Shabbetai Tzvi in Egypt and what convinced her to marry him, or indeed him to marry her, is hard to determine – but the wedding took place at the home of Raphael Joseph.

At this point let us turn to the one person besides for Shabbetai Tzvi himself whose prominence in this tragic story cannot be overstated: Abraham Nathan ben Elisha Chaim Ashkenazi, known to Messianic believers as Natan Hanavi (Nathan the Prophet,) and to everyone else as Natan Azzati (Nathan of Gaza.)

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athan was born in approximately 1643, in Jerusalem. Despite being born into an Ashkenazi family – hence his last name – his father lived among the Sephardim of Jerusalem. In truth, however, his father was rarely there, as he spent the majority of his time collecting money for the Jerusalem community in communities outside Eretz Yisrael. Nathan was highly intelligent, extremely learned, and a gifted writer.

At the age of 20 he married the daughter of a wealthy Jew from Gaza, and with the promise of full support by his wife’s family, moved there and took up the study of kabbalah.

The change from Talmud and Jewish law to kabbalah seems to have been explosive for Nathan. He withdrew from society, began to fast regularly, and to engage in intense prayer and ritual bathing, as well as other forms of self-mortification. Before long he let it be

known that he was regularly having visions, with angels appearing to him to tell him about the past, present, and future.

Like Shabbetai Tzvi, Nathan was an incredibly talented and engaging in-

wreaked havoc across the Jewish world.

In 1665, Raphael Joseph heard about the young man in Gaza who claimed to be having spectacular visions and was being visited by countless pilgrims. Joseph

He purchased a large dead fish, and publicly dressed it up in baby clothes and put it in a crib, announcing to startled onlookers that fish represented liberation and salvation and … was the childlike Jewish nation in need of salvation. dividual, but he had many qualities that Shabbetai Tzvi did not. He was by nature a persistent campaigner for his ideals, highly motivated and focused; he was consistent, and unimpeachably mitzvah observant, with none of the highs and lows or aberrant behaviors of Shabbetai Tzvi.

He was an original and systematic thinker and fast on his feet. Last but not least, he was an exceptionally talented writer, which would prove critical in the Messianic propaganda campaign.

Nathan would ultimately be the catalyst that allowed a messianic movement to flourish around the flawed character of Shabbetai Tzvi.

Before him, Shabbetai Tzvi had not succeeded at anything much, except for attracting attention to himself for the wrong reasons in a dozen communities across the Jewish world.

Most likely, without Nathan, Shabbetai Tzvi would have disappeared without trace, confined to the trashcan of forgotten historical weirdos who have proliferated throughout Jewish history.

But that was not to be. Their fateful meeting would create a toxic partnership that

informed Shabbetai Tzvi about Nathan, and he decided to visit the “healer” and ask for help with his tormented soul. He travelled as quickly as he could from Egypt to Gaza, and sought an appointment with Nathan.

Upon entering Nathan’s room, the young healer fell to the ground in a trance.

When he awoke, he gushingly informed Shabbetai Tzvi that he was none other than the Messiah himself.

Shabbetai Tzvi burst into laughter and dismissed Nathan’s pronunciation, but Nathan refused to give up.

For three weeks he relentlessly cajoled Shabbetai Tzvi to see the light, and to concede that he was the King Messiah, destined to lead the Jews out of exile and back to the Promised Land. Nathan accompanied Shabbetai Tzvi to Jerusalem and Hebron to pray at holy sites. When they returned to Gaza, Shabbetai Tzvi fell into one of his periodic depressions. It was the festival of Shavuot, and during the first night Torah study session, Nathan once again fell into a trance, and in that state said some incredible things about Shabbetai Tzvi. Once awake, he

informed his stunned audience that numerous visions had informed him that Shabbetai Tzvi was the Messiah.

With the pressure now piling on, it took just one more week for Shabbetai Tzvi himself to concede, and on 17 Sivan, coinciding with May 31, 1665, Shabbetai Tzvi publicly declared himself as the Messiah, King of the Jews and Redeemer of Israel. His first act as Messiah was to abolish the fast of 17 Tammuz. In Gaza the decree was greeted enthusiastically, and not only did the community not fast – they recited hallel, they feasted, and they rejoiced with live music, singing and dancing.

The community in Hebron was next to join the believers. But in Jerusalem the story was quite different.

That community knew Shabbetai Tzvi, and the rabbis were incredulous, refusing to accept that the man they all knew so well was truly the Messiah.

When Shabbetai Tzvi and Nathan arrived in Jerusalem, they were ridiculed.

Shabbetai Tzvi tried to gain entry to the Temple Mount to bring a sacrifice, but was prevented from doing so.

Soon a fight erupted about monies he had collected in Egypt for the community, which some people claimed had been misappropriated. The case was brought in front of the local Muslim ruler, and Shabbetai Tzvi was exonerated, with his supporters claiming this legal victory was a miracle that proved he was the Messiah.

Soon he was in trouble again. At a victory celebration he personally cooked and served non-kosher meat, and recited the “mattir issurim” benediction.

Nathan’s teacher and former mentor, the highly regarded Rabbi Jacob Chagiz, called together the local rabbis and they decided to excommunicate both Shabbetai Tzvi and Nathan. The two imposters were expelled from the Holy City, and although they left

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defiantly, they were never to return.

The rabbis of Jerusalem were not yet done. Extremely concerned by the actions of the two intoxicated fraudsters and their awestruck supporters and alarmed by the possible repercussions of their actions and claims, they wrote dozens of letters to rabbis across the world to warn them of the dangers posed by this double act and to inform them what had transpired in Jerusalem.

Sadly, getting Shabbetai Tzvi and Nathan out of their jurisdiction had been fairly simple, but putting a stop to the nascent false-Messianic movement would prove to be completely beyond their grasp.

NEXT TIME: The Messianic campaign goes viral, and Shabbetai Tzvi travels to Constantinople to confer with the Sultan of Turkey. But as Jewish communities across the world welcome the news of the Messiah’s arrival, the movement hits a brick wall when it becomes evident the gentiles are not taking the Messiah declaration seriously, and the Turkish authorities are becoming concerned that Shabbetai Tzvi’s campaign might lead to violent insurrection.

How did this episode conclude, and what was to become of Shabbetai Tzvi and Nathan? Find out in the final article of this series.

Rabbi Pini Dunner is the Rav of Young Israel North Beverly Hills in California.

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Forgotten Her es

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hree very important naval battles in the Pacific changed the course of WWII between the U.S. and Japan. The Battle of Midway was famous because up until June 1942 there had been precious few victories and it was a major morale booster. Four Japanese carriers were sunk and the Japan’s advance was halted. In October 1944, the largest battle in the history of naval warfare, the Battle of Leyte Gulf, took place and ended any effort by Japan to win the war with her navy. American ships and planes sunk 26 Japanese ships including one of the two largest battleships ever built, the Musashi.

(Her sister ship, the Yamato, was sunk later.) Air power was important in the Pacific, and a third of these battles certainly proved that point.

The Battle of the Philippines Sea, also named the Great Marianas Turkey Shoot, took place a few months before the Battle of Leyte Gulf and was the largest aircraft engagement in history. Japanese conquests in the central Pacific were shrinking rapidly to American invasions. Most of their ships had been moved to Singapore to prevent being sunk by American ships and aircraft. Top naval brass was waiting for the day that they would be able to mass all of their resources and strike the American fleet. That opportunity came on June 19, 1944 when American ships began bombing Japanese-held islands in the Marianas. American commanders badly wanted Saipan, an island in the Marianas chain, to build airstrips for B-29 bomber to bomb the Japanese home islands.

Admiral Toyoda was the commander-in-chief of the Japanese fleet which included 9 aircraft carriers, 5 battleships, a mix of other warships, and 450 carrier-based planes. Among the carriers were two that participated in the Pearl Harbor raid and the flagship of

The Battle of the Philippines Sea The Great Marianas Turkey Shoot

By Avi Heiligman

Carriers during the battle

The carrier Zuikaku (center) and two destroyers under attack by U.S. Navy carrier aircraft, June 20, 1944

the navy, the new IJN Taiho which sported the latest technology available to the Japanese fleet. She had an armored deck as opposed to wooden decks and would be vulnerable to aerial bombs. Another 300 planes from land bases could be used if needed. Admiral Marc Mitscher, who commanded Ameri-

enced pilots over the previous two and half years of fighting, and the replacements were poorly trained.

A pilot flew until he was shot down.

America, on the other hand, while losing many pilots, had a replacement program in place that after a certain amount of missions a pilot would be relieved of frontline duty so many more pilots had been properly trained.

Another major difference was the use of submarines. The Japanese typically attached submarines to their major fleets as protection while the Americans usually used

Commander Paul Buie instructing his pilots on the USS Lexington

A F6F-3 landing aboard the USS Lexington

can Task Force 58, had 15 carriers, 7 battleships and close to 1,000 aircraft. Added into the mix were 28 American submarines which would prove vital in the opening and closing acts of the battle.

The major difference between the two navies was the carrier pilots. Japan had lost many experi-

Lt. Alexander Vraciu downed six Japanese dive bombers in a single mission, June 19, 1944

them to attack enemy shipping.

Here in the Philippines Sea, American subs were stationed to be the eyes and ears of the fleet dozens of miles away from friendly warships.

Another added advantage that the Americans held was the carrier-based Hellcat fighter plane that was able to protect friendly bomb-

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ers and could wreck devastation on any Japanese plane. The Hellcat was better than any fighter the Japanese possessed. The tide had turned in the Pacific.

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n the days before the main air battle, American pilots attacked air bases in the Marianas. The Japanese had hoped to use these planes once the fleets engaged in battle. In response, the Japanese under Admiral Ozawa, nicknamed the Gargoyle, sailed out to meet the American forces in a showdown.

Two American submarines had seen the Japanese fleet late on June 15, 1944 and reported the sighting.

Admiral Mitscher left several battleships to protect the landing forces at Saipan and took the carriers and the rest of the fleet to attack the oncoming Japanese force. For a couple of days both sides had no idea where the other fleet was located. Then, on June 18, the Japanese broke their radio silence, and the Americans knew where the enemy was headed. However, Admiral Spruance decided to wait until the next day to attack because he knew that a night attack was too risky.

The battle started on the morning of June 19 with the launch of 60 Japanese planes headed to the American fleet. 42 were shot down and only one bomb hit an American ship. The next wave of 128 had an even worse ratio as 97 were knocked out of the skies by the Americans.

During this wave Japanese Warrant Officer Sakio Komatsu noticed that a torpedo was headed towards his carrier, and he used his plane to intercept it as he dove into the water.

He managed to hit the torpedo thus sacrificing his plane to protect his carrier.

The Japanese third wave lost only seven planes but the fourth suffered a loss of 54 after sending out 82 planes. They would have lost more but were given the wrong coordinates of the American fleet. By chance some found a smaller American task force but were cut down by American planes and fire from the ships. Land-based bombers from Guam were cut down in droves

by American F6F Hellcat fighters.

30 more of these planes were shot down. They lost 350 planes on June 19 alone.

American planes fared a lot better as the experienced pilots, especially in Hellcat fighters, decimated

the inexperienced Japanese pilots.

About 30 planes had been lost but many of the pilots were rescued by submarines and other small ships.

The only significant damage that the Japanese caused on the American fleet was to the battleship USS South Dakota. She was moderately damaged by a bomb and 27 men were killed. She continued fighting and the Japanese air attack went on for hours during the one-sided battle. Aboard the carrier USS Lexington, Commander Paul Buie, who had 9 kills to his credit, remarked, “Heck, this is like an old time turkey shoot” and that’s how the battle got its nickname.

Submarines played a major part in the battle as they not only tracked the Japanese fleet movement but attacked as well. Only a few times in history (it only happened in WWII) had a submarine singlehandedly sank an aircraft carrier. Carriers are considered the ultimate prize for a submarine. During the Battle of the Philippines Sea it happened twice.

The USS Albacore was watching the Taiho as she was launching her planes and launched six torpedoes.

Earlier in the war American torpedoes badly malfunctioned but these were better mechanically and one scored a direct hit. Since the Taiho

was a new ship, one torpedo should have done much damage. However, a green crew was onboard and by fanning the flames caused an explosion that ultimately sank the mighty carrier. USS Cavalla attacked the carrier IJN Shokaku which had taken part in the Pearl Harbor raid. Three torpedoes slammed into the carrier and exploded fuel and bombs scattered on the deck. The Shokaku sank with most of her crew.

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n the morning of June 20, American search planes were sent to try and locate the enemy. Finally, at 3:40 PM, they were located but at a distance that was at the edge of American carrier planes’ range. Even though they would have to return in the dark, a maneuver that the pilots didn’t train for, Mitscher gave the goahead for the counterattack. This wave reached the Japanese fleet near dusk and destroyed whatever air cover Ozawa was able to launch.

In addition, two precious oil tankers (at this point in the war the Japanese were so low on oil that they gave a lot of protection to their tankers) and the carrier Hiyo were sunk by American bombers. Several other ships were damaged in the raid. The planes returned to the American fleet in the dark and in

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an act that made him beloved to the pilots, Mitscher turned on the deck lights of the carriers. This exposed them to enemy submarines but he felt that his pilots weren’t expendable. Eighty planes were lost because they ran out of gas but most the crew were fished from the sea.

Another twenty planes were shot down by the Japanese.

The Battle of the Philippines Sea was a complete success for the Americans. Not only did they stop the Japanese from attacking the landing zones, they turned the once mighty naval air power into a shadow of its former glory. The Japanese still had carriers but they were useless because there weren’t many planes and pilots left and they were never able to replace the 550 planes and pilots or the three carriers lost in the battle in one of the most lopsided conflicts of the war.

Avi Heiligman is a weekly contributor to The Jewish Home. He welcomes your comments and suggestions for future columns and can be reached at avi heiligman@gmail.com.

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What’s Russia Doing in Syria?

By Nachum Soroka

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t was certainly the Obama administration’s goal by backing the dissidents who formed the core of the Arab Spring to awaken cordial feelings among the Arab world toward the West and form a new era for the Middle East. By backing the rebels who overthrew Arab dictators like Libya’s Muammar Qaddafi, Egypt’s Hosni Mubarak and Syria’s Bashar Assad, the U.S. hoped to replace the forced stability these leaders brought to the region with organic stability which comes from functional democracies.

Perhaps it was his dream; others say it was his folly.

Instead, the Arab Spring has led that region back into the throes of the Pan Arab revolutions which occurred some half a century ago. Instead of achieving stability in the region, the rebellions have introduced a military government in Egypt, battling militias in Libya, and a migrant crisis in Europe which threatens to break apart

the European Union. The unceasing conflict in the area has created a vacuum which ISIS rapidly filled.

In Syria, the Assad regime is still in power, the only difference being that after the revolution it has been more open about gassing and killing its citizens.

If the purpose of the Arab Spring was to awaken any sort of Western sentiments in the region, it has been a failure. It was successful at awakening one thing, though: a slumbering, Russian bear which has kept its distance from the Middle East for some time since the fall of the Soviet Union. Vladimir Putin’s Russia has demonstrated itself to be the most decisive country in the world when it comes to active intervention in foreign conflicts. For better or for worse, Putin is the inheritor of one of the world’s la rge st— and sur-

prisingly effective—militaries and is unafraid to use it, most recently in bolstering the Assad regime with air support and navy cruise missiles. This is in stark contrast to the Obama administration’s demonstrated weakness last year by sitting tight even after Assad crossed the president’s “red line” of chemical weapons usage.

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p until a month ago, Syria was just a proxy war between the U.S.’s and Russia’s interests. The Obama administration backed the rebels who are looking to overthrow the Assad government as part of the larger Arab Spring movement. While the White House was reluctant to put troops on the ground in the middle of the country’s civil war or to even enforce a “no fly zone” in the area, the U.S. began arming certain Syrian rebel groups this year, if only as a way to fend off advancement from ISIS. Earlier this month, the U.S. Defense Department announced that a $500 million program to train and equip Syrian rebels would be suspended.

“That was a complete and total failure for a plethora of reasons,” said CNN senior international correspondent Arwa Damon, who has reported from Syria. “The U.S. was effectively dictating to these fighters, telling them they only wanted them to focus on the fight against ISIS. Whereas you speak to any Syrian, and they will tell you that they want to get rid of ISIS, yes, but they also want to be able to focus on the Syrian regime.”

In a surprising admission in July, Defense Secretary Ash Carter said that the United States had only trained about 60 rebel fighters in the multi-million dollar program.

Putin’s Russia has been arming the Syrian army from the start, including supplying the Assad regime with the latest in Russian aircraft. Indeed, Russia and its prime ally, Iran, are the leading allies to the Assad regime which is under attack by U.S. and Saudi interests.

Interestingly, Syrian generals and commanders have been receiving training in Russia for decades, and Moscow has been

the largest supplier of military hardware to the Syrian army since the 1960s. According to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, up until 2011, Russia accounted for 48 percent of Syria’s total arms imports.

But it was only in the last month that Putin, fearing that Syria was almost lost, announced that his country would stage airstrikes there.

Russia has over 30 aircraft in the area, and with the aid of drones and satellite images, they are helping the Assad forces on the ground through daily barrages of “sorties,” or military maneuvers—up to eighty per day. An aging fleet of helicopters is also providing supplies to Assad’s forces in the area. Then there are the cruise missile strikes which originated all the way from the Caspian Sea, over 900 miles away from Syria, and took everyone by surprise. No one knew that Russia possessed such advanced weaponry which could strike from such long distances.

Russia is not taking to the battlefield alone in Syria. Ground forces which provide extra support for the Assad regime are being provided by Iran and Hezbollah. It is the Russian airstrikes, though, which are paving the way for those on the ground to retake Syria’s largest city, Aleppo, which has been under rebel control for over two years already.

The battle for Aleppo launched on Friday but two weeks of ground offensives in other provinces helped prepare for the battle. Aleppo is about 30 miles south of the Turkish border and has been the site of battles between the rebels and the regime since 2012. The area north of the city was one of the first places to fall into rebel hands, providing them with access to border crossings with Turkey and a key road from the border that served as an important supply line. Aleppo is now divided in two, with rebels controlling the eastern half and the regime holding sway over the west.

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espite the cooperation between Russia and Iran in assisting Assad in the Syrian conflict, both countries have a very different view on how to end this war. The Kremlin sees the survival of the Syrian army to be the key to

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ensure the survival of Assad’s regime. Tehran, on the other hand, does not have the same confidence in the Syrian army. It has invested most of its efforts in building and training pro-Assad militias, including the National Defense Forces, NDF. Analysts believe that Iran is building these militias as a backup plan should Assad’s regime fail. And they point out that the militias may end up undermining Assad’s rule.

Indeed, this has been Iran’s strategy in Iraq, Lebanon and Yemen. In all three countries, Iran empowered local militias that responded directly to calls from Tehran. And in all three countries, the result was the same: a breakdown of government authority and an abundance of warlords. The outcome? More power to Iran throughout the region.

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o be sure, save for a number of Russian technicians within Syria, Russia’s intervention for now is limited to a supportive role as it clearly does not wish to supply troops on the ground. But the strength of the support Russia is providing has come as a surprise to even the U.S. Last week, the former Soviet Union sent cruise missiles into Syria all the way from ships it had moored in the Caspian Sea some thousand miles away. Many of the missiles crashed in Iran, but the fact that Russia possesses the technology to launch attacks from numerous locales has not gone unnoticed by the U.S., which until now thought that its navy’s prowess was unsurpassed in the world. The Russian navy’s sophistication, along with the swiftness of its air force’s deployment and the amount of airstrikes it can carry out in one day, have all been put on display by Putin in the past two weeks. They are intent on hitting from above and from the sea and their display of power is impressive.

“What continues to impress me is their ability to move a lot of stuff real far, real fast,” Lt. Gen. Ben Hodges, commander of United States Army forces in Europe, said in an interview with the New York Times last week. The Times noted that Russia’s involvement has given the West a “deeper appreciation” of the transformation the Russian military underwent under the watchful eye of

Putin.

Russian attacks on Assad’s enemies are indiscriminate, pounding all opposition forces equally. That includes those who are trained and equipped by the United States and its allies, clearly a dig at America’s interference in the region. Once Russia’s military can soften up Assad’s enemies, the Syrian ruler can begin a counter-offensive once again.

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utin’s swift military action, along with his behind the scenes maneuvering, are a result of a number of key interests Russia has at stake in Syria. Aside from the loss of a leader who is amicable to Russian needs, Russia has a lot to lose in the event that a different government takes control of the country. Putin’s country has certain trade ports located near Damascus which would be lost in the event that Assad loses the war. More importantly, as Russia demonstrated last year with the annexation of Crimea, the country wishes to establish a “Russian world”: an alliance of countries and a physical buffer between the West and the Caucuses which would be at least as strong as the West.

The possibility that ISIS will be able to establish control in the vacuum left by the Syrian civil war is as much a threat to Russia as it is to the U.S. Many parts of the Russian Caucuses are Muslim and a stronger ISIS may mean that those areas are the next targets for the militant group. Additionally, Russia fears that many of the current jihadists fighting for ISIS hail from those Russian areas and are only waiting to return and wage holy war in their motherlands.

Lest you think Putin’s initiatives are all about shoring up the Assad regime, preventing another ISIS stronghold, and protecting key shipping interests, think back just 40 years ago, when the Soviet Union and the

Putin now sees Russia as a superpower, equal to or even surpassing the United States, and is intent on flexing his muscles on the world stage.

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United States were fierce enemies.

Back then, it was a tense balance of power between the countries, and when the Cold War ended, Russia was sent back to its corner to lick its wounds. But Putin now sees Russia as a superpower, equal to or even surpassing the United States, and is intent on flexing his muscles on the world stage. Last year, as Russia stalked into Ukraine and Obama meekly stood by to watch, Putin concluded that the United States is not as strong as it professes. In Eastern Europe, the Kremlin was insisting on its right to a sphere of privileged interests in what it terms as “the Russian world” and a security buffer between Russia and NATO. In the Middle East, it is claiming the right to fight terrorism and manage regional security on the same plane as the United States. Putin used military force last year in Ukraine and he is continuing to do so in his intervention in the Syrian war.

Think what you want about Vladimir Putin and his thuggish way of global politicking, but, in contrast

to the U.S.’s way of responding to events in the Middle East, Mr. Putin seems to be intent on solidifying his holds there. And that will only complicate things for the U.S. The conflict in Syria is bringing Russia and China even closer together, as both countries share disdain for what the U.S. has wrought in the area and seek to recalibrate the world powers.

Earlier in the year, Chinese and Russian navies engaged in joint exercises and now a Chinese aircraft carrier joined the Russian fleet off the Syrian coast.

and the U.S. has proven itself to be nothing more than a meek bystander. And now, with the country’s biggest rivals positioning themselves in the region, which is now open for the

General Assembly to Russia and China and said, “I lead the strongest military the world has ever known.

I will never hesitate to protect my country and our allies unilaterally

taking, the U.S. may not be able to afford to continue its inaction.

In September, President Obama directed his comments at the UN

and by force when necessary.”

It seems that those countries have retorted in kind: “Come and prove it.”

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t has been five years since the start of the Arab Spring, the movement which was hailed

by President Obama as the time to “use all our influence to encourage reform in the region.” It was “a top U.S. priority that must be translated into concrete actions and supported by all of the diplomatic, economic, and strategic tools at our disposal.” By now, the revolution has been considered an undisputable failure

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Health & F tness

10 Healthy Fall Foods

By Aliza Beer, MS, RD

The summer season is known for its plethora of delicious, healthy fruits and vegetables. But what about the fall? This season doesn’t disappoint either. There are so many fresh fruits and vegetables that come with the fall that it can be hard to narrow down which ones are best for you. The following are 10 of the healthiest fall fares.

1. Sweet Potatoes: The fall is a great time for root vegetables. These types of veggies often need time and warmth to develop and are therefore best harvested in early or late fall, depending when they were planted. One of the tastiest and healthiest root vegetable is the sweet potato. It is extremely rich in vitamin A, which is important for good vision, healthy skin, and a strong immune system. One serving typically has twice the daily recommended amount of vitamin A. 2. Parsnips: It’s a relative of the carrot and adds a great amount of dietary fiber to your diet. A half cup serving of parsnips has 4 grams of fiber, half of that being soluble fiber. Studies suggest that fiber can help prevent colon cancer, and

soluble fiber has been linked to lowering cholesterol.

3. Pears: In the United States, harvesting of pears begins in August and goes through October. Among the list of the most common fruits, pears contain the highest amount of fiber.

A large pear has about 5 grams of fiber. Pears are full of vitamin C and are a great source of potassium.

A medium pear contains about 190 milligrams of potassium, a mineral necessary for a healthy heart, muscles, nerves, and more.

4. Brussels Sprouts: Recently labeled as a superfood, Brussels sprouts are packed with healthy nutrients. They are high in protein for a vegetable, containing about 3.8 grams per serving! They are also loaded with bone-healthy

vitamin K (147 percent of the recommended daily amount), immune-boosting vitamin C (142 percent RDA), B vitamins, calcium, potassium, iron, magnesium, and more!

5. Pomegranates: They have a high level of antioxidants, the compound found in fruits and vegetables that counter the effect of free radicals, broken down cells that cause damage to healthy cells.

Antioxidants are effective at stabilizing, and thus neutralizing, free radicals before they are able to cause harm to the human body.

Stabilized free radicals are then expelled as waste from the body.

6. Apples: Apples are something of a wonder fruit—not only rich in fiber and vitamin C, but also

useful in everything from snacking to baking to cooking. One large apple provides 30 percent of the daily recommended intake of fiber. The important thing to remember is to leave the skin on. The skin and the layer directly beneath it contain most of the healthy fiber and nutrients an apple provides.

7. Turnip Greens: They are packed with vitamins, more than your body can even process in one day.

It has 660 percent of the recommended daily value of vitamin K, 220 percent of vitamin A, 66 percent of vitamin C, 20 percent of fiber, and more.

8. Kale: It’s full of vitamins A, K, C, and B, but most importantly, kale is loaded with beta-carotene.

Beta-carotene is an antioxidant thought to prevent cancer and heart disease.

9. Grapefruit: It contains more than 75 percent of the recommended intake of vitamin C. Grapefruit is also a good source of lycopene, which is a powerful antioxidant and may

help prevent heart disease, breast and prostate cancers.

Some research has suggested lycopene may help treat men with infertility.

10. Cauliflower: It’s a perfect winter side dish and can be cooked in a variety of ways, from a faux rice to mashed potatoes to soup. Cauliflower contains phytonutrients that may lower cholesterol and is a great source of vitamin C. Don’t despair that fall is here! There are many fruits and vegetables that can carry you through the next few months. They are healthy and delicious, and the best advice is to try them all, since each food has its own strengths, and the variety will help you avoid food boredom and make your dishes more exciting.

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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Dr. Deb

What’s Wrong with Anger Management?

By Deb Hirschhorn, Ph.D.

Let’s say you were an alcoholic.

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ould it be better to be what the people in AA programs often call a “dry drunk,” i.e., someone who isn’t drinking but is white-knuckling it the whole time, or, on the other hand, someone who actually doesn’t even think about taking a drink?

The second person, if offered, could take it or leave it. I enjoy coffee and am sure to have a cup every morning, but if someone offered it to me in the middle of the day, I might say, “No, thanks” because it just didn’t appeal to me at that moment.

You see where I’m going? The dry drunk wants that drink sooooo badly. The other person is not attached to his or her drink. The drink is pleasant at the right time and not of interest at other times.

That “not attachment” is the ideal place for anger.

It is useful at times and not at all of interest at other times.

Times Anger is Useful Anger at oneself may be useful. If you did something wrong, it is better to be really upset with yourself over it than to gloss over it as if it wasn’t important. Of course, there is another aspect of anger which is that there has to be an endpoint to anger even if it’s useful. Sometimes, enough is enough. We are not supposed to wallow in self-flagellation.

Anger at another could also be useful. You love your child so much, that in your eyes he could do no

wrong. But he just did wrong. You may have to work yourself up just a tad to show some emotion of anger even if you’re not too committed to it, just to make an impression on him.

That’s healthy.

Sometimes when someone is mistreating you and you are inclined to let it go – which is normally a good and smart thing to do – it may be better and smarter to feel the anger and not be so permissive of someone who is being mean. Sometimes letting them know in no uncertain terms is healthy so that they get the message.

In all these cases, a key is to have an endpoint to the anger. It should not go on for the whole day let alone days or weeks. I’ve had clients who, before therapy started, would keep up their bad mood for weeks. That is unhealthy for them and for everyone around them. More about that later.

It is also already under control because you basically didn’t feel so angry to begin with and you realized that you ought to be angrier so as to get your message across.

But there are people whose anger is way out of control. What about them?

ANGER MANAGEMENT

Anger management implies that the anger is always present and when it is present, you better not let it rip; you better manage it. While that is true, that, to me, is like being a dry drunk. The dry drunk must tell himself over and over “I DON’T want that drink,” when in fact he does.

He’s lying to himself.

Seething and keeping it under control – i.e., managing it – is not healthy. From this, all sorts of medical problems like high blood pressure, coronary heart disease, gastro-intestinal problems, immune problems and many others arise.

Of course, just expressing anger is not healthy either. Back in the 1980’s Murray Straus at the University of New Hampshire tested this out and learned that couples who thought venting was good were less happy than those who didn’t.

So if the “dry drunk” method – holding the anger in and seething underneath – is not going to work and expressing it turns out to make things worse, what does one do with the anger?

HOW ABOUT GETTING RID OF IT?

Okay, that’s a great question. And an answer has come from the East backed up by lots of clear, scientific research: The finding has been that doing some version of meditation, when you practice enough, will literally change brain structure.

So, meditation, it turns out, seems to put the little things that bother us in life into perspective.

People with anger issues, anxiety, depression, and even trauma, have found their symptoms go down significantly with mindfulness meditation.

WHAT TO DO

It is not time-consuming or complicated. Just breathe. Basically, that’s it.

Well, there’s a bit more. It’s how you breathe, how long you practice for, how often you practice and what’s on your mind or, actually, not on your mind.

Here’s the low-down: *Take deep belly breaths. I rec-

ommend downloading the free phone app, Breathe2Relax, which even has diagrams. *Research shows that doing one minute of practice ten times a day is more effective than 10 minutes at one time. *The key – and this is extremely difficult at first but gets surprisingly easy after a while – is to clear your head of all thoughts. When thoughts come through, don’t argue with them or agree or do anything with them; just let them go, and focus, instead, on the breathing itself.

Researchers are speculating that because breathing is normally automatic but now you are consciously doing it and clearing your mind, then this process is creating neuronal pathways between the thinking part of your brain (cerebral cortex) and the automatic, highly emotional part (amygdala).

So when people say that their anger takes them by surprise and they have no control over it, they are partially right. Generally, we don’t have any control over the reactions of the amygdala. But now we can see how we can.

We can, through practice, make anger a thing of the past.

Isn’t it nice to not have to “manage” it and not even have to deal with it – unless, of course, we want to.

Dr. Deb Hirschhorn, is a Marriage & Family Therapist and best-selling author of The Healing Is Mutual: Marriage Empowerment Tools to Rebuild Trust and Respect—Together. Attend the Food For Thought lectures at Traditions Restaurant in Lawrence on Tuesdays at 12:30 PM. (There is a lovely optional lunch menu for $12 cash.) Any questions, call 646-54-DRDEB or check out her website at http://drdeb.com. All stories in Dr. Deb’s articles are fabricated. See Dr. Deb on TorahAnytime.com.

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Samuel Koren, Founder of the Thirty Day Reboot How He lost 60 Lbs. in 3 Months Have you always struggled with your weight?

No. I was a skinny kid growing up, eating the standard American diet. When I graduated from NYU Law School and began my first year as an associate at a large international law firm working grueling hours, I put on 60 pounds. It all went to my face, chin, and belly. I carried that weight with me for many, many years.

Other than the extra weight, were you pretty healthy?​ According to most definitions, yes. But I suffered from debi litating sinus infections and headaches 2-3 times a week. I was popping Tylenol like it was candy till blood tes ts revealed liver damage. I developed severe allergic reactions to unknown sub stances outdoors and was prescribed an epipen to be carried at all times as well as consistent antihistamines. I also developed lipomas (fatty tissue tumors under the skin) on my arm and back which could only be treate d with surgery according to doctors.

Do you th ink that living an Orthodox life makes it more difficult to mainta in a healthy weight?

For me, the answer was yes. All of our weekends, holidays, and communal gatherings center around food. Every Shabbat I would pile on the food “lechavod Shabbat kodesh.” Yomim tovim were always difficult

with all of the food marathons.

Did you try losing weight in the past?

Sure.

I started a new diet every Motzei Shabbat.

One week it was low carb.

The next week it was low fat. Every time I dropped a couple of pounds, the weight inevitably came back with a vengeance.

So what happened?

What was the turning point for you?

At 5 feet, 8 inches, I reached 220 pounds. I was fat, sick, and looked ten years older than my actual age. I knew dieting was hard. But I realized that being fat and sick was hard too.

So I changed everything.

I went back to basics. I started eating fresh, raw fruits and vegetables and working out. And the weight just came off.

How much weight have you actually lost?

I lost 65 pounds in three months. But I lost much more than just weight. I also lost the headaches, the sinus infections, the allergies, the fatigue, the foggy head feeling, and even my fatty tumors shrunk significantly. I discovered a level of health and vitality that I never imagined could ever be possible.

So what is the Thirty Day Reboot and how is it different than all the other diets out there today?

After overwhelming re-

sponse from dozens and dozens of people in the community asking me how I did it and could I help, I decided that I want to share my newly found sense of health and wellbeing with others. And that’s how the 30 Day Reboot was born.

It’s not a diet. It is a health optimization program and nutritional reboot – resetting your entire body, cleansing it of toxicity and impurities and allowing your body to heal itself. The program provides nutrition-

vitamins, minerals, antioxidants, phytonutrients, enzymes, and co-enzymes intact. Your body will absorb all of this and will register satiety and nourishment in a way it never did before. This will allow your body to heal itself of toxic residues left behind by poor nutrition and environmental pollutants.

and fruit. She devoured half of the pie. As a parent, I feel good about what I am feeding my children.

As for feeling full, raw foods are nutrient-dense and they have all of their enzymes intact so your body registers satiety or fullness in a way that you never dreamed was possible.

But do you feel full eating just salads?

It’s not just salads. That’s a common misconception.

Raw food is much more than

Eating just raw for thirty days sounds extreme, no?

Taking appetite suppressants or human growth hor-

“I discovered a level of health and vitality that I never imagined could ever be possible.” al consultations and wholesome, raw gourmet meals, beverages, snacks, desserts and delivery to your doorstep every day for 30 days.

Why 30 days?

Because that’s how long it takes to put an end to unhealthy cravings and habits, restore a healthy metabolism, heal your digestive tract, end systemic inflammation, and balance your immune system. It takes 30 days to see real results. And it takes 30 days of a commitment to take this seriously.

Why raw?

Raw fruits and vegetables, nuts and seeds are the most nutrient-dense foods in the world. By eating them raw, you are consuming them with all of their vital

just salads and shakes. The food preparation is labor intensive but if you know what you’re doing, it is absolutely delicious.

Shabbat guests have marveled over my “cheese” cake made from fresh fruits and nuts. And brownies. And lasagna. And ice cream. And these are foods that 100% whole and raw. No flour. No gluten. No added sugars. No msg. No colors or additives.

No meat. No dairy. No hormones. No high fructose corn syrup. No hormones.

No GMOs. This is food that you can actually feel good about eating and your body will thank you for it.

My seven-year old daughter will not even look in the direction of a vegetable. I made a key lime pie made out of avocados, nuts, zucchini,

mones is extreme.

Diets with unsustainable or dangerous caloric deficits are extreme.

Surgery is extreme.

Eating healthy and ridding your body of toxicity so it can heal itself is not extreme in my book.

You sound firm in your conviction.

I am. This has been a life-altering journey for me. It’s not just theory. I’ve done it and I know how it has changed my life. I have reclaimed my body and my health. It has given me a new lease on life.

Samuel Koren is a resident of Cedarhurst. You can learn more and contact him at www. thirtydayreboot.com.

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K tchen Indian Lamb Curry

By Naomi Nachman

The chill is definitely in the air. All I want to do is make foods that will stick to my bones and keep me warm. I always love Indian curry. It’s almost a cross between a soup and a stew, and I like to serve it with warm crusty (or toasted) bread. I was recently at a Kosher Indian restaurant, Navaratna Vegetarian, in

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Stamford, Connecticut, which is under the Vaad of Fairfield County. It was a delicious meal. We tried all kinds of soups, breads, curries and dips – and they were so delicious. I would like to share my lamb curry recipe (my favorite version of curry) with my readers – I hope you enjoy it as much as I do.

Ingredients 2 tablespoons canola oil 1 medium onion, coarsely chopped 2 garlic cloves, minced 1 tablespoon minced fresh ginger 1 ½ pounds lean lamb cubes 1 ½ tablespoons curry powder 2 medium sweet potatoes, peeled and cut into ½-inch dice 14 oz. can coconut milk 1 cup chicken stock or low-sodium broth Salt and freshly ground pepper 10 oz. bag frozen Bodek spinach 1/3 cup coarsely chopped cilantro (optional) Hot sauce, for serving Preparation In a large, deep skillet, heat the

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oil until shimmering. Add the onion, garlic and ginger and cook over moderately high heat until barely softened, about 4 minutes. Add the lamb and cook over moderately high heat, breaking it up with a wooden spoon, until it starts to brown, about 10 minutes. Add the curry powder and sweet potato and cook for 2 minutes.

Add the coconut milk and stock and season with salt and pepper. Cover partially and simmer over moderate heat until the sweet potato is tender, about 15 minutes. Add the spinach and cook until heated through.

Stir in the cilantro and serve with hot sauce.

Make ahead: The lamb curry can be refrigerated overnight; reheat gently before serving.

Naomi Nachman, the owner of The Aussie Gourmet, caters weekly and Shabbat/ Yom Tov meals for families and individuals within The Five Towns and neighboring communities, with a specialty in Pesach catering. Naomi is a contributing editor to this paper and also produces and hosts her own weekly radio show on the Nachum Segal Network stream called “A Table for Two with Naomi Nachman.” Naomi gives cooking presentations for organizations and private groups throughout the New York/New Jersey Metropolitan area. In addition, Naomi has been a guest host on the QVC TV network and has been featured in cookbooks, magazines as well as other media covering topics related to cuisine preparation and personal chefs. To obtain additional recipes, join The Aussie Gourmet on Facebook or visit Naomi’s blog. Naomi can be reached through her website,www.theaussiegourmet.com or at (516) 295-9669.

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What’s Your Motto?

By Rabbi Mordechai Kruger

He found it floating at the top of the basement stairs. A single piece of paper in a plastic cover, it was the only thing that Sandy had left my friend. Everything in the basement—kids’ bedrooms, his office, seforim, appliances, electric, heat, everything—ruined, only a slip of paper was left. And if he had been given the chance to save one thing that mattered more than everything, he would have chosen this.

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t was a receipt from Service Merchandise, a catalog store that used to be in Bay Harbor Mall.

He had decided to save up to buy a video camera, a very expensive item on his kollel budget. A week before a family simcha, he didn’t have enough saved up, so he decided to pay with the cash he had and put the rest on a credit card. Except things got confused and before he realized it he was in the car with the camera and a receipt marked “PAID” and the cash was still in his pocket. And no one would know…but that’s not right.

So he went back to the store and it took an hour to explain, but he paid the full price. And saved the receipt in a plastic cover pinned to the wall

near his desk. Because things get tough and confusing and you have to remember what’s right. Even Sandy couldn’t take that away.

Everyone knows that being honest is important. But there’s something else about being honest. It’s a vital skill in every stage of every career. Because at the top of nearly every list of skills that employers want, the ones that really lead to success, is honesty. So what can I write in a column about honesty except, well, “be honest”? Will it help to tell about promising careers ruined by little fibs, by inflated travel vouchers, little by little until trust and confidence are gone? Should I recommend that everyone read A Fire in His Soul

by Amos Bunim, the biography of a businessman whose honesty never wavered? Can everyone learn from the eulogies for Moshe Reichmann, how he taught the whole world about the honesty of a religious Jew? How do we teach our children, for that matter how do we teach ourselves, to live with honesty?

I’ve written before about skills that can’t be taught in a classroom.

Honesty is certainly one of those.

Educators will tell you that it’s taught in every classroom, but the headlines show that the lessons aren’t working.

But I think my friend got it right. I think that every person needs a motto, a statement, a personal bottom line that tells what he stands for. He needs to pin it to the wall, not over the front door, just in a small quiet place where he can see it and point it out to his kids so they’ll know, too.

This is what we stand for. It’s our motto.

Another friend of mine (I have

some really good friends) has an old picture. It shows the emblem of a company that his grandfather owned about a century ago, and it includes the cryptic words, “Remember the Nines.” There’s no clue as to what “the Nines” might mean, but I figured it out because I’ve known other good Jews who used “9” as a symbol.

It refers to the numerical value of the letters in the word “emes,” truth.

(Each Hebrew letter has a numerical value, aleph=1, mem=40, sof=400.

Adding the first digit of each equals 9.) The company is long gone but children and grandchildren and great-grandchildren have grown up knowing what their family stands for. They have a motto, too.

These stories are beautiful and inspiring, but, well, when it comes down to the real world, everyone knows that when you cut a little bit at those corners, that’s where you find the profits. It’s not lying, just standard business practice, meets the customers’ expectations, not worse than anyone else, the way things are done every day, you know. Ask almost anyone and they’ll tell you.

Every successful businessman has at least one side that’s a little bit shady.

So that honesty stuff? Good for the rabbi’s speech, but in the real world, well, come on. Right?

Bestselling business author Daniel Pink, in his To Sell is Human (yes, you should read it) argues that if business ever did work that way, it definitely doesn’t work that way now. The reason is simple. In our completely connected world, every customer has access to enough information to eventually catch the scam and access to enough other people to make sure that within a few minutes basically everyone will know about it. In short, being honest is a good business practice because 1) you are going to get caught (ask those smart folks at Volkswagen about this one) and 2) the whole world will find out.

So whenever your personal ethics might be willing to overlook some foible, your common sense should be kicking in to save your reputation, if not your entire business.

It really could save your entire business. Business guru Ricky Cohen, former CEO of Conway, tells about a time many years ago when a downturn brought his company to the brink of foreclosure. There was literally not a penny left, and nowhere to go to get one. Left with no choice, he went to visit his banker.

He admitted to the buttoned-down and proper banker that there was no reason why his company shouldn’t be padlocked the next morning. All he could say was that foreclosure would put 60 hardworking people out on the street and leave 60 families with

“In all that time, we have never heard one word from anyone at your company that was less than 100% honest. You are the kind of company we want to support.” no support. Could the bank back him a little longer and give him a chance to turn things around? The banker’s answer went straight to the heart of the matter. He said, “We have been your bank for over twenty years. In all that time, we have never heard one word from anyone at your company that was less than 100% honest.

You are the kind of company we want to support. Go home and get back to work; we’ll be there for you.” That would make a great motto.

People wonder what they can do to help their children succeed. It turns out that teaching them honesty equips them with a skill that leads to future success in the workplace.

Sorry, check that. Teaching doesn’t work. Living honestly will make the difference, living it in some simple quiet way that nobody has to know about but you and your kids can give each other a wink or a look that makes it easy to decide what’s right.

It’s what we stand for.

What’s your motto?

Rabbi Mordechai Kruger is the Director of Pathways to Parnassa, an organization dedicated to educating our community in all aspects of career choice and job search. Individual coaching is available. He can be reached at my parnassa@gmail.com.

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If you’ve got a factory full of children in China assembling phones for 17 cents an hour, you’ve got a lot of nerve calling someone else opportunistic.

Notable Quotes “Say What?!”

- Producer of a new movie about the late Steve Jobs responding to criticism from Apple CEO Tim Cook that filmmakers were being “opportunistic” in making films about Jobs

A new analysis of recent political speeches found that George W. Bush actually used longer and more complex words in his speeches than President Obama does. Granted none of those words were actually in the dictionary. “Don’t be condescencious.

My vocablulation is completely misunderestimated.”

- Jimmy Fallon

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Hillary Clinton is by far the favorite to win the Democratic nomination even though her presidential campaign has had more than its share of bumps in the road, from the Benghazi controversy to her private email server to the persistent allegation that she’s less charismatic than a 70-yearold socialist who doesn’t own a phone.

– Stephen Colbert

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Donald Trump came out with this proposal for a new tax plan yesterday, just like a real presidential candidate would do!

It’s kind of adorable.

The question, which many books and scholarly treatises have never definitively answered, is whether the 37-acre site, home to Islam’s sacred Dome of the Rock shrine and Al-Aqsa Mosque, was also the precise location of two ancient Jewish temples, one built on the remains of the other, and both long since gone.

– Jimmy Kimmel

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I was at a party recently, and it was difficult to hold my hors d’oeuvre plate.

- Jennifer Connell of Connecticut, who sued her 8-year-old nephew for breaking her wrist when he gave her an exuberant hug, telling the jury how her life has changed since the event (The jury awarded her zero dollars and zero cents)

– From a New York Times article about Har Habayis, calling into question fundamental and undisputed facts

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Today, NASA announced that it has finally discovered water on Mars.

When they heard, Americans were like, “Eh, tell us when they discover beer.”

– Jimmy Fallon

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I want to continue to be a Republican because it annoys them.

– Former Secretary of State Collin Powell explaining why he is a Republican, at a Washington forum

A processing company that supplies chicken to KFC was fined this week after an employee lost two fingertips while on the job. Which explains their new slogan, “It’s Finger Losin’ Good!”

– Seth Myers

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Under Trump you won’t have to pay any income taxes if you make less than $25,000 a year, if you and your spouse make under $50,000 a year, and if you capture an illegal Mexican you won’t pay any taxes at all.

– Jimmy Kimmel

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You know I’ve got nine kids, so I guess it’s not surprising that one of them turned out to be a complete … loser. But when I think about all the time and treasure I put into that one: the Catholic school tuition, the monthly private jet to Lourdes, the rosaries made of diamonds ... and then she goes and does something like this? I can tell you one thing: that greedy little challah lover is not getting one … cent of my money. I’ve worked too long and too hard for that. Too long and too …hard. Let’s hope this doesn’t last.

Bud Light has created a new device that alerts you when the beer supply in your fridge is running low.

The device is known as your roommate, Chad.

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McDonald’s began serving all-day breakfast nationwide today. Great news for people who probably don’t get a lot of great news.

– Seth Myers

– Conan O’Brien

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More of Hillary Clinton’s e-mails were just released, and one shows that she had made a list of talking points for a trip to L.A. in case she ran into Ellen DeGeneres, which is ironic because Bill does the same thing in case he runs into Hillary.

When you talk about George Bush – I mean, say what you want, the World Trade Center came down during his time… Blame him or don’t blame him, but he was president. The World Trade Center came down during his reign.

Everybody’s still talking about Donald Trump. A recent poll had voters describe Trump in one word, and a lot of them used the words “idiot,” “buffoon,” “clown,” and “jerk.” And those are the people voting for Trump. Of course, they also used other words, like “still,” “better,” “than” and “Jeb.”

– Jimmy Fallon

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Researchers have begun collecting data to develop a pill that will allow users to experience the benefits of exercise without having to work out. Said Americans, “So I have to get up, get a glass of water, unscrew the pill cap? No, thank you. Not interested.”

Congrats to Barack and Michelle Obama, who just celebrated their 23rd wedding anniversary. I guess that explains why this morning, Barack was seen running toward the Rose Garden with a vase and a pair of scissors. “Of course I remembered!”

– Seth Myers

– Jimmy Fallon

– Donald Trump in an interview with Bloomberg News

– Jimmy Fallon

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The Russian government had asked for the coordinates of the groups that should or should not be attacked; the United States had not responded to either request… It seems to me that some of our partners have mush for brains.

– Russian President Vladimir Putin talking at a forum about how the Obama administration is not cooperating with Russia in regards to Syria

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Analysts are saying that Joe Biden was actually the biggest loser in the debate, and that he missed his chance to enter the race.

Yeah, they said entering now would be awkward and inappropriate – or as Biden put it, “Those are my two middle names! I’m in!”

– Jimmy Fallon

At a speech in Tennessee, Trump talked about his decision to run for president, and said, quote, “I didn’t want to do this, I had to do this.” Then he was immediately sued by Jeb Bush for stealing his campaign slogan.

– Jimmy Fallon

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[Israel is] executing our boys in cold blood, as they did with the boy Ahmed Manasra and other children in Jerusalem and other places.

Are we living on the same planet?

– Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, falsely accusing Israel of killing a 13-year-old terrorist who was lightly wounded after critically stabbing an Israeli

I went there to stab Jews.

- Ahmed Manasra, talking to investigators while receiving treatment in Hadassah Hospital

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Donald Trump asked a young man who appeared to be Asian-American if he was from South Korea, to which the man replied, “I was born in Texas.”

Trump was so embarrassed that his face turned red 20 years ago.

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New research shows that China has a bigger middle class than America, and more people in China are living what we would call the “American Dream.”

That’s when you know things are bad – when even the American dream is made in China.

For the first time this primary season, a national poll has placed Dr. Ben Carson as the Republican frontrunner. Carson was so excited about the news, his eyes almost opened.

– Jimmy Fallon

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I trust Bernie Sanders with my tax dollars like I trust a North Korean chef with my Labrador!

– Tweet by Mike Huckabee

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Political Crossfire

Game Over

By Charles Krauthammer

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repeat: Unless she’s indicted, Hillary Clinton will win the Democratic nomination. I wrote that six weeks ago, amid fevered dreams of a Clinton collapse and a Joe Biden rescue. That those were a mirage is all the more obvious after Tuesday’s debate. The reason, then as now, is simple: Clinton has no competition.

She’s up against three ciphers and one endearing, gesticulating, slightly unmoored old man. If Joe Biden was ever thinking of getting into the race, he’d be crazy to do so now. It’s over.

Indeed, even before the debate, Clinton’s numbers had stabilized.

It began with Kevin McCarthy’s gaffe of the decade. That gave her a perpetual get-out-of-jail-free card that she adroitly deploys whenever the email issue arises. Her technique is flawless: a few meaningless phrases about having made a mistake, taking responsibility and being transparent, blah blah, followed by (I paraphrase) “but look at the larger picture, even Kevin McCarthy admits it’s a partisan witch hunt.” QED. At the debate, Bernie Sanders sealed the deal with a thunderous “the American people are sick and

tired of hearing about your da[rn] emails.” That rendered the issue officially off-limits to all Democrats.

File closed. End of story. Of course, it will be featured in the general election, but we’re talking here about her getting the nomination.

In gratuitously granting her absolution, Sanders garnered points for high-mindedness. But he’d already cornered the highmindedness market. Sanders was right to call this move dumb politics.

His declaration simply and definitively conceded the race to Clinton.

Leo Durocher said nice guys finish last. Sanders will finish second, which in this case is the same thing.

Clinton won the debate because it didn’t change the dynamic. It froze the race and she’s far in the lead.

It doesn’t matter that her lead has shrunk from 50 points to 20. Twenty points is a landslide.

She remains a lousy candidate but she is an excellent debater – smart, quick, strategic and extremely practiced. Eight years ago she debated Barack Obama 25 times.

Tuesday night, she successfully bobbed and weaved and pivoted. She was at her most impressive, however, when she whacked Sanders upside

the head – twice – right out of the box. He didn’t know what hit him.

At the very start, she attacked from the left on gun control, from the right on capitalism. She simply said the magic words – small business, too? – and he beat an un-

She was at her most impressive, however, when she whacked Sanders upside the head – twice – right out of the box. He didn’t know what hit him. steady retreat. In general, Sanders was wild and wavy and loud and not very nimble. After all, how much practice do you get when for 35 years you’ve been campaigning as a social democrat in Vermont, America’s Denmark?

Sanders is good on an empty podium taking on invisible billionaires. Put him up against a Clinton and he’s lost.

He did make history of a sort, however. Every debate has its moment – the sound bite that lives forever (or until the next debate, whichever comes first). His “da[rn] emails” thunderbolt is the first such immortal line to be delivered by one candidate that seals victory for another.

The other three candidates hardly registered. Lincoln Chafee,

currently polling at 0.3 points (minus10- Celsius), played Ross Perot’s 1992 running mate, Adm. James Stockdale, who opened his vice presidential debate with: “Who am I? Why am I here?”

Democratic National Committee Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz came out a winner. She insisted, despite the squawking of Martin O’Malley and others, on no more than six debates. Who needs the other five? Tuesday night settled the issue. When there’s a knockout in the first round, you stop the fight.

This is not to say that by objective standards – i.e., against minimally competent competition – Clinton did so brilliantly. After all, to prepare the ground and pre-empt any attack from the left, she preceded the debate with a supremely cynical abandonment of both the Keystone XL pipeline and the Trans-Pacific Partnership, which as secretary of state she’d pronounced “the gold standard” of trade deals.

It did smooth her debate night. But by so transparently compounding her inauthenticity problem, the flip-flops will cost her in the general election.

But that’s for later. Right now, game over. Amid the playacting between today and Clinton’s coronation next summer, we can joyfully savor the most delightful moment of the debate, when we were reminded by Anderson Cooper that Sanders had honeymooned in the Soviet Union.

Springtime for Brezhnev in Yaroslavl. Attention: Mel Brooks. (c) 2015, The Washington Post Writers Group

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GRANDMA MOSES

The Thunderstorm by Grandma Moses

By Rebbetzin Naomi N. Herzberg

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nne Mary Robertson was born on September 7, 1860 in Greenwich, New York. She was one of ten children. Her interest in creativity and art was apparent even as a youngster. The materials with which she painted as a child consisted of natural ingredients such as grape juice, lemon juice, grass and sawdust.

She received her early schooling in a one-room school house, which today is the Bennington Museum located in Vermont and houses a large collection of her works. Robertson lived until the ripe old age of 101 and died on December 13, 1961 in Hoosick Falls, New York. Recognized for her paintings and embroidery, she eventually became known as one of the most beloved legendary folk artists that ever lived.

How did a little old lady who worked on a farm as a housekeeper become so famous? She began a successful career in the arts in her late adult years. Mary was 78 years old when she began doing serious artwork and then developed into one of the most famous artists despite her late start. Some of her artwork appears on magazine covers, motifs on fabrics, greeting cards, ceramics, tiles, and as masterful paintings with heartwarming themes such as reminiscing holiday scenes and home baked goods. As quoted from the New York Times: “The simple realism, nostalgic atmosphere and luminous color with which Grandma Moses portrayed homely farm life and rural countryside won her a wide following. She was able to capture the excitement of winter’s first snow, Thanksgiving preparations and the new, young green of oncoming spring…In person, Grandma Moses charmed wherever she went. A tiny, lively woman with mischievous gray eyes and a quick wit, she could be sharp-tongued with a sycophant and stern with an errant grandchild.”

How did this talent which she so

deeply communicated with the public evolve? Anne Mary Robertson began her life as a housekeeper at the impressionable age of twelve. She always had to work hard to sustain herself.

She worked for wealthy people who provided her with art materials, when it became apparent that she had an appreciation for artwork. Robertson remained a live-in housekeeper for fifteen years. Her interest in artwork began to develop with the use of chalk and crayons which were given to her by this kind employer.

Anne Mary Robertson was twenty seven years old when she met her husband, Thomas Salmon Moses, a farmhand where she was employed as a housekeeper. She married on the farm and remained there for many years, working together with her husband as a team on a number of different farms for about twenty years, until 1905.

Thomas died in 1927. Until 1936, one of Robertson’s sons helped her, working on the farm which she had purchased together with her husband years before. This farm was purchased with money her husband and she earned through hard work. She then moved in with her daughter which offered her an easier life. It was there that she was called Grandma Moses.

Grandma Moses had given birth to ten children but only five survived.

During the years raising her children Anne Mary was an extremely creative housewife who made many interesting things for the home. While raising her children she expressed a keen interest in art and embroidery, many times making gifts for friends. At one point, embroidery became very difficult for her due to arthritis. It was then that she decided, with urging from her loved ones, to make painting her priority instead of the tedious use of the embroidery needle. She loved painting the rural life which she was accustomed to from her many years living on the farm and purposely did not

want to incorporate anything modern into her paintings.

At one time she received only a few dollars for her paintings. Her paintings began selling at $3 and as she became famous, they were sold for $10,000, and eventually as much as $1.2 million.

The following quote speaks volumes: “There emanates from her paintings a light-hearted optimism; the world she shows us is beautiful and is good. You feel at home in all these pictures, and you know their meaning.

The unrest and neurotic insecurity of the present day make us inclined to enjoy the simple and affirmative outlook of Grandma Moses.”

In 1938 Grandma Moses’ paintings were spotted by an art collector in the window of a drugstore. The rest is history. The Museum of Modern Art included her artwork in an exhibition entitled “Contemporary Unknown American Painters.” Grandma Moses was beginning to become known. The year 1940 brought with it her individual showing entitled, “What a Farm Wife Painted.: The once popular Gimbel’s Department Store was happy to exhibit fifty of her paintings. Her fame exploded as she displayed her work all over the United States and Europe.

Grandma Moses received many honors during her lifetime. At the ripe old age of 88, Anne Mary Moses was dubbed “Young Woman of the Year” by a magazine. She was also granted two honorary doctoral degrees and received the Women’s National Press Club Trophy Award by President Truman. Governor Rockefeller created what is known as “Grandma Moses Day” for her 100th birthday. In 1961, Grandma Moses Storybook was published. Upon her death, President Kennedy memorialized her at Maple Grove Cemetery.

The Grandma Moses Postal Stamp of 1969 is a fond memory of mine,

Joy Ride by Grandma Moses

Checkered House by Grandma Moses

which is the year I graduated from high school. I have been reading about her and marveling at her artistic accomplishments ever since then. Other famous works include “The Old Checkered House,” “Haying Time,” and “Sugaring Off.” The wholesome artwork created by Grandma Moses can be viewed at the Bennington Museum, the Brooklyn Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and numerous other locations.

The creation of art in the adult years can prove to be a relaxing, rewarding and beneficial experience.

Tap into your own creativity, develop your own unique style, learn interesting techniques, stimulate your mind, socialize and gain from a sense of satisfaction. You may be pleasantly surprised and become another Grandma Moses. Please email nherzberg@ hotmail.com or contact me at (718) 337- 6035 or at (917) 886-7474 to participate in a unique pilot project consisting of art classes for female adults and senior citizens. Space is limited.

Reservations required.

Rebbetzin Naomi N. Herzberg is a professional art educator, artist and designer. Among her known artwork is a floral sculpture presented to Tipper Gore, Blair House, Washington, D.C. Please feel free to email nherzberg@hotmail.com with questions and suggestions for future columns.

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By Allan Rolnick

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with a secret feature they didn’t advertise on the window sticker. Along with leather-trimmed seats, German-engineered sport suspensions, and fancy navigation systems, buyers who chose a “Type EA 189” diesel engine also took delivery of a “defeat device,” buried deep in the car’s software, designed explicitly to cheat emissions tests. Researchers from the International Council on Clean Transportation discovered that the cars were emitting up to 40 times more nitrogen oxide than allowed.

Naturally, environmental regulators are up in arms. VW’s CEO has resigned, the company’s stock has tanked, and the carmaker is looking at up to $18 billion in fines in the United States alone. But the devices

very once in awhile, some knucklehead in a position of power at one of the world’s biggest businesses does something so incredibly stupid, you wonder how they can remember to put their shoes on before they head to work in the morning. Bernie Madoff did it for decades by running a classic Ponzi scheme out of his New York office. The folks who ran Enron did it for years when they lied about their earnings. And right now in West Virginia, the former CEO of Massey Energy is on trial for covering up safety violations that led to the deaths of 29 coal miners. Stupid, stupid, stupid.

Volkswagen became the latest corporate villain when they came clean about selling 11 million cars

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apparently did more than just cheat pollution monitors. It looks like they also cheated the IRS. Uh oh.

Here’s how it worked. The Energy Policy Act of 2005 gave taxpayers credits for buying certain alternative fuel vehicles, including lean-burn vehicles running on diesel fuel. Manufacturers have to swear on a stack of bibles that their cars meet the standards to earn the credits, which naturally make them more attractive to buyers. For 2009, VW pinky-swore that their Jetta 2.0L TDI sedan and

also requested any marketing material alerting buyers to possible tax credits for their cars.

VW has until October 30 to reply.

It’s unlikely that buyers will have to repay credits — they didn’t do anything wrong, and VW’s pockets are deeper anyway. Sure, VW will recall as many of the vehicles as they can.

(Of course, some of those buyers will prefer the performance they get from the dishonest engines.) So the tax offense will probably get rolled up in whatever settlement VW winds up negotiating with the government.

The company has put aside $7 billion to handle the fallout. Sure hope that’s enough!

You’d like to think the people who decided to cheat the emissions tests at least worried about the civil and criminal risks they were taking. But smart money would bet they didn’t consider the tax consequences, either. While that wasn’t their biggest mistake, it’s still likely to push the

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Jetta 2.0L TDI SportWagen models qualified for a $1,300 credit. 39,500 people bought those cars, making the total tax fraud $51 million.

On October 6, Senate Finance Committee Chair Orrin Hatch and Ranking Member Ron Wyden sent VW a letter posing a blunt question: “Did Volkswagen make false or misleading assertions in any of the materials submitted to, or communications made to, the U.S. government regarding eligibility of Volkswagen vehicles for the lean-burn technology motor vehicle credit?” They letter

ultimate cost of the scandal even higher. That’s why it’s so important to have a plan that helps you anticipate the tax costs of everything you do. Make sure you have a plan and avoid running off the road!

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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It’s Tough Being an Adult

By Rivki D. Rosenwald Esq., CLC, SDS

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oes this speak to you? You find yourself at war. Yes, you—a capable, intelligent, educated person—at war with a computer.

You sit down to input information or order something online, and the fight begins. You fill in everything and hit send and the computer screams—in bright red, no less—no way. This is going nowhere, you left out a field. Something as irrelevant as the age you started crawling is all of a sudden a required field. Really, just to buy a sweatshirt? And then when you do fill in the information it just asked for, it returns you to the

previous screen and it has dropped three pieces of information you already typed in. The fun starts all over again!

How about trouble signing up for an event or something else? You think you put in every possible piece of information. However, the computer has an opinion of its own. And it feels you got something wrong.

You start to have it out with this inanimate object. You are literally screaming at it. And it’s doing that irritating thing that really drives you nuts, but it’s usually found in a mate: it’s stonewalling you. Like couldn’t it give you some kind of clue as to what

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So the war continues. You shout and get upset.

Waze is a little better ‘cause there you can get the upper hand once in a while, though she’s screaming directions at you. The other half of the time you are screaming right back, saying something like: “OK, I know I’m going the wrong way. I just had to drop something off at my broth-

They look at you with a look that says, “How inept can you be?”

Honestly, if we did that to them they’d be in therapy for the next five years. er’s house. Do I have to tell you everything?” Even though you feel lost most of the time, once in a while you take a little control and stump her.

And at least there’s a bit of a dialogue so everyone gets something out of their system.

So what’s a person to do when they are having it out with their computer? Unfortunately there’s only one thing to do. And it’s totally de-

meaning! Call a six-year-old. Or the youngest person around. You have three degrees, years of work experience, ages of education, and it’s all meaningless. You are at the mercy of your children, and they are gloating!

They don’t make it easy. They look at you with a look that says, “How inept can you be?” Honestly, if we did that to them they’d be in therapy for the next five years.

Then they really make you feel useless. They take you to a new low.

They grab the mouse. They are not going to teach you anything. They are going to do it all for you so that the next time you will feel just as frustrated and dependent. Do we not teach them to walk? Do we not toil to toilet train them? Don’t they realize that was time-consuming for us, but we did it because we wanted to help them gain autonomy? And how do they repay us? They side with our enemy, that nasty computer.

What’s an adult to do?

My son always says don’t be intimidated, search for the answer.

So I did and I’d like to share it with you. But, unfortunately I have to go … to scream at my computer.

Because I did Google the answer and guess what? My computer found a way to up the ante; it just shut down on me.

Rivki Rosenwald is a certified relationship counselor, and career and life coach.

She can be contacted at 917-705-2004 or rivki@rosenwalds.com

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