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Last night I had a dream. Because it was a dream, the details are slightly fuzzy and of course what I was dreaming was not rational.

But as I tossed and turned, I realized that we were eating the Purim seudah and I still did not prepare mishloach manos. I was panicked.

I raced to the store, only to find my mother chatting with someone and then I got caught up in their conversation and realized that I didn’t buy bags for my children’s mishloach manos either. “Why didn’t I buy them earlier?” I asked myself in my unsettled state.

When I woke up and relayed my dream to my husband, he barely reacted to my panic. How could a man understand the frenzy that goes into preparing for Purim? Of course, we’re not scrubbing our houses or decorating sukkahs or preparing meals for eight days, but a lot goes into just one day. Take,

of time and effort, and we would stay up megillah night putting last minute touches on the creations she made. Perhaps the eleventh hour stress made me a different person. I like to be ready early (or at least slightly earlier than megillah night), and I try to do the easiest, simplest thing I can get away with. “Minimalistic” should be my theme.

As we greet Adar this week, it’s time for the kids to start blowing their silly string and break out their old costumes for dress up. And it’s time for me to head to the stores to start my mishloach manos. After all, you know what they say about dreams: it’s your mind trying to tell you something. And my mind is saying I better buy those bags for my kids before Purim rolls around.

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for instance, the costumes for our children. It’s not hard buying a costume (I’m not the creative type to build one from scratch), but if you ask your child what they want to be for Purim, you can get ten different answers depending on the day of the week. One child wants to be a policeman, then it’s a fireman, then it’s a Hatzalah man, and then, finally, he decides he wants to be a clown. The next child wants to be a princess. Oh wait, maybe a kallah or maybe Queen Esther.

You know what? Maybe she’ll just be a mommy. It gets so confusing that I feel that I need them to sign a contract before we go to the costume store. This way, they have to make a decision and they can’t back out—no matter what new ideas come to mind.

Mishloach manos are on a different plane. Growing up, my mother was the queen of creativity.

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Letters to the Editor Dear Editor, I recently watched a video of Netanyahu defending Israel in a forum on a Boston show. Surprisingly, the video was taken when Mr. Netanyahu was just 28 years old; he was described as a graduate of MIT and an Israeli by the leader of the forum. Some of what was said was so on-point and could be said about events even today. It seems like the conflict in the Middle East changes, yet remains the same.

Mr. Netanyahu, who was called Ben Nitay in the video, spoke about the core of the conflict. Back then, he related that the core of the conflict between the Palestinians and the Israelis is the “Arab refusal to recognize the State of Israel.”

Isn’t that true today? He pointed out that the Arabs’ only desire is to drive the Jews into the sea. They had ample opportunities to establish a state for themselves, but as stated in 1977 by the leaders of the PLO, their “objective remains the destruction of the State of Israel.”

When asked if it’s possible to have peace in the Middle East, Netanyahu answered, “Yes, I sincerely hope so… No one wants peace more than Israel.” He related that the impediment to peace is the demand for a PLO state which will

lead to more war and more violence in the region.

This video was taken 37 years ago— and we are still dealing with a people who are intent on our destruction. Since its creation, the State of Israel has been battling with enemies who overtly and covertly desire its downfall. Now, Netanyahu is the prime minister of Israel and there is another front on which Israel has to fight which involves bombs and threats from a country that demonizes and is not silent about their hatred for the Jewish country.

In fact, the threat coming from Iran is not just a threat to Israel alone. Once a rogue state has such an evil capability, the entire globe is under attack. A nuclear Iran could mean a nuclear Yemen or a nuclear Pakistan or a nuclear Libya. Every democratic country should stand up with Israel in its demand for Iran to halt its nuclear program. The United States, one of Israel’s allies, should indeed stand with them. When America shows Iran that they disagree with Israel in its stance against them, it empowers them. You know what they say about parenting: it’s important to show a united front. It’s especially true when it comes to foreign relations. A strong, united front is neces-

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Class inequality has led to such bad behavior in South Korea that legislation has been put forth to deal with the problem. Over the past decade, resentment has slowly grown in South Korea against what has become known as “gabjil,” high-handedness by the rich and powerful. A bill to be presented in the national assembly this month is formally called the “Conglomerates Ethical Management Special Law” but has been nicknamed the Cho Hyun-ah Law. Cho, also known as Heather Cho, is the daughter of the chairman of Korean Air and was sentenced last

week to a year in prison for an outburst on a Korean Air plane while on the ground in New York. The bill proposes to ban members of powerful business families, known as “chaebol,” from working at their companies for at least five years if convicted of a crime. In earlier cases, some high-profile offenders were pardoned, serving little or no jail time, although recently convicted chaebol executives have found it harder to avoid prison.

In February, the Supreme Court confirmed a four-year embezzlement sentence for SK Holdings Chairman Chey Tae-won, who has been in prison since January 2013, among the longest terms served by a chaebol boss. In 2007, Hyundai Motor Chairman Chung Mong-koo was given a three-year jail term for fraud but the sentence was suspended in exchange for community service and a $1 billion charity donation as the court deemed he was too important to the economy to be jailed.

Cho, who has appealed her sentence, was Korean Air’s head of inflight service at the time of the December 5 episode, which has come to be called the “nut rage” case. A court

found she had violated the law by ordering the plane she was on to return to the gate after it started to taxi. Cho had demanded the flight crew chief be expelled from the flight after she was served macadamia nuts in a bag and not on a dish.

“I hope the recent case involving Cho has created the right environment to pull together consensus on this,” said Kim Yong-nam, the sponsor of the bill.

Another parliamentarian from an opposing party has proposed an amendment along similar lines. “There have been calls to put in place a systematic tool to police heavy-handedness by chaebol family members and stop them from being able to participate in management just because they are relatives,” Kim said in an interview.

It is not clear whether the legislation will be approved, but the mere fact that it has gotten this far is a large step forward for South Korean equality.

Terror in Copenhagen

Terrorism is spreading like wildfire, particularly in Europe.

A terrorist, believed to be inspired

by Islamic terrorists, brutally attacked a shul in the Denmark Jewish community on January 14, as a 12-year-old girl celebrated her bat mitzvah with friends and family.

Earlier in the day, the gunman opened fire at a cultural center hosting a seminar on free speech. A Danish filmmaker, Finn Noergaard, 55, was killed during that first attack. Nine hours later, the same man attacked the shul and the security guard protecting the party was killed. Chief Rabbi Jair Melchior identified the security guard as Dan Uzan, a 27-year-old member of Denmark’s 7,000-strong Jewish community. Five police officers were wounded in the shootings.

Saturday’s horror was the country’s worst terror spree in three decades.

Lars Vilks, 68, a Swedish artist who

was a keynote speaker at the freedom of speech event, has faced numerous death threats for depicting the Prophet Muhammad as a dog in 2007. Vilks, who was whisked away unharmed by bodyguards, told The Associated Press he believed he was the intended target. Many Muslims find the depiction of the Prophet Muhammad highly offensive. However, being insulted does not justify killing and many Muslims expressed disgust at the deadly assault on the Charlie Hebdo employees earlier this year although they confessed that they were deeply offended by the caricatures.

Omar Abdel Hamid El-Hussein, 22, had a criminal record and links to gangs. Danish authorities believe that the Charlie Hebdo massacre in Paris last month may have been an inspiration for the lone madman. Jens Madsen, head of the Danish intelligence agency PET, said investigators believe the gunman “could have been inspired by the events in Paris.” He also mentioned, “He could also have been inspired by material sent out by [the Islamic State group] and others.”

El-Hussein was arrested 15 months ago in a vicious knife attack on a train passenger, and while he was awaiting trial, a change in his behavior last summer set off enough “alarm bells” for jail authorities to alert PET, Denmark’s counter-terror agency. These warnings generally set in motion counter-radicalization efforts, such as counseling in jail. It wasn’t immediately clear how aware the court was of this issue before El-Hussein was convicted of a lesser charge and sentenced to time already served. He was released two weeks ago.

The murderer was killed during a gun battle with a SWAT team early Sunday morning.

Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt mourned the two innocent individuals murdered and promised to offer more protection for freedom of speech and Denmark’s Jewish community.

“Denmark has been hit by terror,” Thorning-Schmidt said. “We do not know the motive for the alleged perpetrator’s actions, but we know that there are forces that want to hurt Denmark.

They want to rebuke our freedom of speech.”

World leaders, including British Prime Minister David Cameron, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, condemned the Copenhagen attacks.

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“We need to stand together in Europe and ... wherever jihadis try to threaten democracy,” said Sacha Reingewirtz, president of the Union of Jewish Students of France and an organizer of the memorial.

Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu harshly denounced the attack and said his government will encourage a “massive immigration” of Jews from Europe. “Jews deserve security in every country, but we say to our Jewish brothers and sisters, Israel is your home,” Netanyahu said at the start of a Cabinet meeting.

U.S. State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki offered Washington’s help to Danish authorities and said Americans “stand united with the people of Denmark and all others who defend the universal right of freedom of speech and stand against anti-Semitism and bigotry in all its forms.”

in the city of Peshawar killed 20.

Militant groups said this was a response to the government’s lifting of a moratorium on the death penalty for those convicted of terrorist attacks. The moratorium was lifted after a Taliban attack on a school in the northern city of Peshawar killed 134 children and 19 adults.

More Violence in Pakistan

In a meeting in Riyadh of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), Yemen’s neighboring countries begged the UN to move strongly over the deteriorating security situation, saying they will act themselves if the rival factions there do not resolve their differences.

The plea came as Shiite militiamen fired live rounds to disperse thousands of protesters in Yemen. Yemen is home to al Qaeda’s deadliest branch and a key U.S. ally in the fight against the group. The country has descended into chaos since the militia, known as Huthis, seized Sanaa in September. Last month, the government was ousted, creating an even worse security situation. The militiamen have been accused of attacking and detaining protesters as well as reporters covering demonstrations against their power grab.

Foreign ministers of the six GCC member countries urged the “UN Security Council to take a decision under Chapter Seven of the United Nations Charter,” which allows the use of military force if there are threats to peace.

They also asked for an urgent meeting of the Arab League and of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation. The officials called for immediate international steps to “guarantee the safety of President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi and Prime Minister Khalid Mahfoudh Bahah as well as other officials” who have been under de facto house arrest since January. The GCC also called on

At least seven people died this week in the latest Pakistani terror attack. This time a car exploded and gunfire erupted at a regional police headquarters in Pakistan’s eastern city of Lahore, police said.

The explosion came from a car parked near the police building, said spokeswoman Nabeela Ghazanfar, adding it was unclear if the attack involved a suicide bomber. She said three people were dead, but a police officer, who asked not to be named, said at least seven had died, citing colleagues in the area.

Pakistan has suffered two major militant attacks in the past month. Sixty people were killed in an attack on a Shi’ite mosque on January 30 in the southern province of Sindh, and another attack this month on a Shi’ite mosque

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Forgotten Magna Carta Found A researcher in England discovered a formerly unknown copy of the Magna Carta accidentally.

Dr. Mark Bateson, the Kent County Council’s community history officer, was in search of a different document, the Charter of the Forest, in the Sandwich archives in the town of Maidstone when he discovered a copy of the medieval legal document slipped inside a scrapbook compiled by a British Museum official at the end of the 19th century.

According to the Magna Carta Project, it is the seventh known copy of the document issued by King Edward I in 1300. Initially it was believed that there are a total of 24 copies of the charter, but researchers say the discovery of this copy suggests that it’s possible that the 1300 edition was sent to as many as 50 towns and ports.

“If Sandwich had one,” Nicholas Vincent, the project’s principal investigator, told the Guardian, “chances are it went out to a lot of other towns, and it is very likely that there are one or two out there somewhere that no one has spotted yet.”

Vincent, a professor at the University of East Anglia, said this find could be worth as much as $15.2 million despite the fact that the manuscript appears to have been badly damaged by damp conditions. It is missing about a third of its text and its royal seal.

The first Magna Carta, drafted in 1215, established the principle of the rule of law. Subsequent editions were issued to include other rights, including trial by jury, which inspired the U.S. Constitution. The final version of Magna Carta was distributed in 1300 under the king’s seal.

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hen you became acquainted with Hagaon Harav Nosson Tzvi Zt’’l, you quickly realized that you had no right to say “I can’t” about anything.

You saw how he took what other people would use as an excuse, and made that into his greatest strength. It became the platform upon which he built his towering gadlus.

His incredible emunah was most perceptible when things were not going well. I remember accompanying him on a fundraising visit where we received a check that was far less than what we expected. When he noticed how disappointed I was, he said, “Why are you upset?

We simply offered someone a zechus and that person chose not to take it. There’s no reason for you to be upset, all we can do is offer zechusim to people.” This is how he viewed everything; he was the most unappable, undiscouragable person I ever met.

Hagaon Harav Binyomin Carlebach Shlita once told me about the rst meeting on which he accompanied Harav Nosson Tzvi. It did not go well at all, but when he walked out he simply said “Ok, this is also a start….”

He always viewed everything as an opportunity for growth, regardless of whether it went well, or did not turn out the way he would have liked it to. This was truly the ultimate mechayev.

At one point the nancial situation grew very serious.

The Yeshiva’s cupboard was literally bare, and he planned to travel to America for three days. When I tried to explain to him that three days was simply not enough time for even setting up the necessary appointments, he responded that for him, setting out on a fundraising trip of more than three days demonstrated a lack of bitachon.

We were once discussing nances and strategy when I explained my position by saying, “The economy didn’t

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collapse because the Mir adopted a more stringent tuition policy!” Harav Nosson Tzvi’s answer was simply “How do you know?” He clearly lived with a different reality.

There was a bochur who arrived in Eretz Yisroel with the intention of getting into another yeshiva. When he was informed that he was not accepted, his father – who did not have any signicant connection to Harav Nosson Tzvi – called him and explained his predicament. “Tell him to come to me,” Harav Nosson Tzvi said. He realized that the bochur might have some reservations about coming, so he added, “tell him that we’re waiting for him.“ When I asked him about this story, he explained by saying “The Mir is the mammeh of Klal Yisroel!”

Harav Nosson Tzvi had a remarkable ability to make everyone feel that their de’ah was most important. Every Talmid will tell you he felt like his ben yochid; everyone says they learnt with him b’chavrusa. Now, if you count the number of bochurim, and then count the number of hours in a week, it just doesn’t add up. But no Talmid ever asked the Rosh Hayeshiva if he could learn with him and was told that he didn’t have time.

I was sitting next to a chavrusa of mine at a shalom zachor and conversing about a sugya we were learning at the time. Harav Nosson Tzvi was sitting at the same table, and when we nished he said to me, “I just love it when you talk in learning.” It was that simple; he genuinely loved Torah.

His ultimate wish was always that the alumni, of which there are B”H a large number, should be able to continue to maintain the support of the yeshiva. Today, after his petirah, we see the fulfillment of his wish. It is our achrayus to make sure that it continues.

Harav Nosson Tzvi had a remarkable ability to make everyone feel that their de’ah was most important.

EVERY TALMID WILL TELL YOU HE FELT LIKE HIS BEN YOCHID.

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Egypt is the latest country to fight back against the Islamic State.

On Monday, Egypt bombed Islamic State militants in neighboring Libya and called on the United States and Europe to join them. This show of strength comes after the extremists released a video showing the beheading of a group of captured Egyptian Chris-

“What is happening in Libya is a threat to international peace and security,” el-Sissi declared.

Italy Reaches Lowest Birthrate in its History

The modern state of Italy was founded in 1861, and now over a century and a half later, the country’s birthrate is at an all-time low after declining steadily for the last few decades.

The number of births per 1,000 people has fallen to just 8.4, down from 38.3 when the country was established.

In the United States, there are 13 babies born for every 1,000 people.

In 2014, there were only 509,000

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Egypt is under a lot of pressure.

Aside from dealing with its own internal issues, they are now grappling with threats on two fronts—a growing stronghold of radicals on its western border and a militant insurgency of Islamic State allies on its eastern border in the Sinai Peninsula.

Islamic State group weapons caches and training camps were targeted in the attack “to avenge the bloodshed and to seek retribution from the killers,” a military statement said. “Let those far and near know that Egyptians have a shield to protect and safeguard the security of the country and a sword that cuts off terrorism.”

This is Egypt’s first public acknowledgement of military action in post-Muammar Gadhafi Libya. According to U.S. officials, last year Egypt and the United Arab Emirates carried out airstrikes against Islamist-allied militias, but did not publicly claim responsibility. Current President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi is lobbying Europe and the United States for a coordinated international response similar to the coalition air campaign in those countries.

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Ever wondered what life is like as one of the world’s most wanted men?

Just ask Julian Assange, the most wanted political asylum seeker. It’s been close to 1,000 days since one of London’s most prestigious neighborhoods became the site of a diplomatic standoff. Julian Paul Assange is an Australian publisher and journalist and is the co-founder and editor-in-chief of the infamous website WikiLeaks.

The WikiLeaks co-founder has been camping out in the Ecuadorean Embassy since June 19, 2012 in order to avoid extradition to Sweden. Ecuador has officially granted Assange political asylum, but he cannot travel to South America because British police remain stationed around the embassy, ready to detain him if he steps outside. It was recently revealed that the constant surveillance of the area costs taxpayers a whopping $15.4 million.

“It is sucking our resources,” Metropolitan Police Commissioner Bernard Hogan-Howe told reporters. A review is underway to determine “what options we have.”

The options are few for Assange.

It’s simple: if he leaves the embassy, he will be arrested and sent to Sweden, as he is facing extradition to Sweden on assault charges. Once in Sweden, he could be extradited to the United States for prosecution on espionage charges related to WikiLeaks’ massive release of classified U.S. military documents and diplomatic records. If found guilty, he could face life in prison or even the death penalty.

Back in August, Assange cryptically told reporters that he planned to leave his hideout soon but had no plans to hand himself in to British police.

However, despite his announcement, nothing major actually ensued.

Sweden’s court of appeals reject-

ed a bid by Assange’s lawyers to drop the arrest warrant against him. But the court also said prosecutors were not doing enough to “move the preliminary investigation forward.” The statute of limitations on the assault case will expire in August 2020. However, even if Sweden would abandon its investigation, Assange still faces the threat of a U.S. prosecution.

Despite his life of refuge, the leaker has made appearances on the patio of the one-floor embassy and has done several phone and Skype interviews.

As for his daily life, it’s not much different than the average man in his forties. He runs three to five miles a day on a treadmill. He also has his bi-weekly training sessions with a former British Special Forces officer. He has Internet access and claims to work 17 hours a day.

At the one hundredth day of his confinement, Assange compared his situation to “a little bit like being in a space station.” By the 500-day mark, he acknowledged that it was difficult to “see the same walls” day after day, but seemed to have established a routine.

He said, “I am doing good work and I have no time for anything else, so it’s a bit counterproductive to trap me here, because what else can I do but work?”

Assange has said that the embassy staff members have become like family and that he often has meals with them.

Visitors are allowed and he has been visited by artists, pop singers, and personal friends.

“I have my heart and soul in this work,” he told London’s Telegraph newspaper. “I have a very capable and loyal staff, and we have a lot of supporters around the world who believe in what we do and want to see if it continues. So although I am trapped in these walls, intellectually I am outside with our people today and that to me is important.”

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The mortality rate also declined last year, stretching life expectancy for Italian women to 85 years, while the average man will live to 80.

Beatrice Lorenzin, the minister of health, said, “We are at the threshold where people who die are not being replaced by newborns. That means we are a dying country. This situation has enormous implications for every sector: the economy, society, health, pensions—just to give a few examples.”

The reason for the decline in birthrate is likely a deep economic recession and high unemployment.

Italy has 60 million citizens—about five million are immigrants. Immigrants are also having fewer offspring; the birthrate among immigrants has fallen to 1.9 children per woman, its lowest level for five years.

Overall, the number of Italian couples without children has increased to 40% in the last decade. Italian women have 1.39 children on average, against an EU average of 1.58. The average age of first time mothers in Italy is 31.5 years old.

Teenagers Vandalize Jewish Cemetery in France

A group of teenage French boys were arrested this week for vandalizing a Jewish cemetery. French prosecutors said on Monday they had taken the five adolescents into custody, ranging from the ages of 15 to 17 and all from SarreUnion in Alsace, eastern France.

According to reports, about 300 Jewish tombs were defaced and damaged on Thursday. Prosecutor Philippe Vannier said the youngest member of the group confessed after seeing the tremendous reaction to the incident.

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The young boy has maintained that there was no anti-Semitic motive. “We don’t know the motives of these adolescents who don’t have past criminal records and we don’t know of any ideological convictions that could explain their behavior. They are very, very shocked by the turn of events,” Vannier said.

The five boys pushed over tombstones in the cemetery and opened up vaults. They also vandalized a monument to the victims of the Holocaust at the entrance of the graveyard. French politicians responded to the incident and condemned it. President Francois Hollande planned to visit the site of the vandalism. Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve called it “a despicable act,” while Prime Minister Manuel Valls described it as “anti-Semitic” on Twitter.

The attack prompted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to call on Europe’s Jews to emigrate. “To the Jews of Europe and to the Jews of the world, I say that Israel is waiting for you with open arms,” Netanyahu said.

Around 7,000 Jews emigrated to Israel last year.

However, French authorities and politicians have insisted that Jews will be protected in France. PM Valls stressed, “The place for French Jews is France” despite recent attacks against Jews.

France is home to Europe’s largest Jewish population, however, it is also home to the continent’s largest Muslim population. Exact figures are unavailable, though, since the French state does not collect data based on religion.

The number of anti-Semitic acts in France doubled in 2014, including physical assaults. About 851 anti-Semitic acts were registered in 2014, compared with 423 the previous year, with acts of physical violence jumping to 241 from 105, the CRIF, an umbrella organization of French Jewish organizations, said.

Hackers Steal $1B from Banks Who has time for bank robberies anymore? Thieves are now eliminating the ski masks and cleaning out vaults with their cyber-savvy hacking skills.

A cybersecurity firm is claiming that a huge hacking ring has stolen up to $1

billion from banks around the world. If this cyber-crime is indeed accurate, it will be regarded as one of the biggest banking breaches in history. According to experts, the hackers have been active since at least the end of 2013 and infiltrated more than 100 banks in 30 countries, according to Russian security company Kaspersky Lab. Generally, customers are targeted in cyber-attacks but these attacks are unusual because they targeted the actual banks.

Hackers accessed banks’ systems through phishing schemes and other methods. Supposedly, they first prowled for months studying the banks’ systems, taking screenshots, and videos of employees using their computers.

According to the firm, once the hackers gathered all the information they needed and were familiar with the banks’ operations, they’d steal insignificant amounts of money as to not raise suspicion. They’d program ATMs to dispense money at specific times or set up fake accounts and transfer money into them. The hackers seemed to limit their theft to about a cool $10 million before moving on to another bank, part of the reason why the fraud was not detected earlier, Kaspersky principal security researcher Vicente Diaz told the AP. “In this case they are not interested in information. They’re only interested in the money,” Diaz said. “They’re flexible and quite aggressive and use any tool they find useful for doing whatever they want to do.”

Countries affected by the audacious scheme include Russia, the U.S., Germany, China and Ukraine, and experts believe that attackers may be expanding throughout Asia, the Middle East, Africa and Europe. Kaspersky did not identify the exact banks and is still working with law-enforcement agencies to investigate the attacks.

The Financial Services Information Sharing and Analysis Center, a nonprofit that alerts banks about hacking activity, said in a statement that its members received a briefing about the report in January.

“We cannot comment on individual actions our members have taken, but

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College Prof Bans ‘BS”D’

Coast Guard Rescues Immigrants

At least 1,000 migrants were rescued by the Italian coast guard in the sea between Europe and North Africa on Sunday. In the past several days there have been two other such missions.

The coast guard said it had plucked more than 130 people from the troubled waters from two rubber boats about 110 miles south of the island of Lampedusa so far and was working to save eight more vessels. By Sunday, many migrants had arrived by boat to the Sicilian harbor of Pozzallo.

The coast guard ship Fiorillo and several cutters were sent to the latest rescue, along with four merchant ships and two tugboats which were diverted to join the operation. One navy ship, two police patrol ships and a Maltese vessel had also been mobilized, the coast guard spokesman said.

“We are certainly at more than 1,000 migrants” involved in Sunday’s rescue operation, a spokesman for the coast guard in Rome told Reuters.

Survey: Most Don’t Back Bibi’s Speech

A lecturer at Israel’s largest public college has come under attack for not allowing proctors to write “BS’D” on the board during examinations. Proctors at Sapir College near Sderot were warned in a handwritten note not to write the B’Siata D’Shmaya acronym on their college papers. The note was seen by one of the students taking the exam and the student posted a picture of it online.

The acronym for the Aramaic phrase meaning “with the help of heaven” is traditionally written by practicing Jews at the top of every written document. According to students present in the class, though, it appears the orders were not followed. Students who sat for the exam said the lecturer entered the classroom while the exam was underway and, noticing the religious phrase written on the board, demanded the identity of the culprit. He went on to request it be wiped off the board, according to the students. When the proctor refused to do the deed, the professor allegedly wiped it off himself.

One disgruntled student felt the order “causes greater harm to a wider population than the possible harm caused to the secular students who are discomforted with the word written on the board.” “It is simply bizarre that a college lecturer would make such a demand, it’s absurd,” another student said.

A Sapir College representative said the allegations are currently being examined, telling a reporter that “the

A majority of Israelis are against the speech Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu plans to deliver before the U.S. Congress next month. The White House, as well as some within the US Jewish community, have opposed the controversial speech.

A survey on the subject this week

sampled 405 Israeli Jews. Its results suggested most do not believe the address will succeed in preventing an emerging U.S.-brokered deal between world powers and Iran over the latter’s nuclear program. In response to the question, “Do you think Prime Minister Netanyahu should travel to speak before the U.S. Congress?” a majority of 52% said no, compared to 36% in favor. A further 12% said that they didn’t know whether Netanyahu should go.

An even higher number, 62%, said a Netanyahu speech would not be able to stop the expected deal, which Israel has said will not go far enough in dismantling Iran’s nuclear program. Netanyahu intends to argue before Congress that international pressure should be intensified against Iran, rather than the proposed easing of sanctions under the terms of the deal.

Netanyahu accepted an invitation earlier this year from Rep. John Boehner (R-Ohio), the Speaker of the House of Representatives, to speak to Congress, but the White House maintained that Boehner had not cleared the invitation with President Barack Obama or Democrats in Congress.

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Chaos in Libya has encouraged many to flee and recent better weather has restarted migrations. Due to a breakdown in order in Libya, it is pretty much impossible for authorities to know the exact number of traffickers on the wobbly boats.

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on balance we believe our members are taking appropriate actions to prevent and detect these kinds of attacks.

That Russian banks were the primary victims of these attacks may be a significant change in [the] targeting strategy

by Russian-speaking cybercriminals.”

Recently, there had been major security breaches affecting consumers with mass retailers like Target and Home Depot to Sony Pictures Entertainment and health insurer Anthem being targeted. In response, the White House has been focusing on putting laws in place to protect consumers and punish offenders. The administration wants Congress to replace the existing patchwork of state laws with a national standard giving companies 30 days to notify consumers if their personal information has been compromised.

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my time to taking care of my health issues in a more intensive manner, so that I can soon return in complete health, G-d willing, to my work in the Knesset and the government.”

MK Uri Orbach Passes Away This week, the Minister for Senior Citizens, Uri Orbach, passed away.

He had been seriously ill for several weeks, and his condition took a turn for the worse on Sunday evening. Doctors at Shaare Tzedek Hospital in Jerusalem were fighting for the minister’s life in the last 24 hours but despite their efforts, he passed away.

Orbach, 54, leaves behind his wife, Michal, and four children.

Last month, Orbach announced that he intended to devote his time to take urgent care of his health, and said: “In the coming period I am devoting

“It is better to take this necessary break at a time in which the Knesset and government are working at half throttle,” he added. “I hope to return soon with renewed strength to public action, and I wish our excellent list success in the general election. With G-d’s help, we shall take action and succeed.”

Jewish Home Chairman Naftali Bennett eulogized Orbach on social media.

“My older brother has departed,” he wrote. “Uri, a man of laughter and seriousness, of wisdom and uprightness, of courage and vision. Uri knew how to chisel an ideological path with insis-

tence and charm, industriously but with a wink, with unending self-consciousness and unfading personal charm. Uri knew how to make children happy with his books, make their parents laugh with his witticisms, and bring their elderly parents an honorable old age.”

“He raised generations of young people in the media and showed them that their dream is possible. Generations of religious and secular people learned from him that the connection between them is possible,” Bennett continued.

“He was a man who loved the land and loved people without limits. He loved the People of Israel and they loved him back so much in return. In the cynical, cold world there was no one as beloved as Uri. I will miss him very much.”

To no small degree, Bennett owes his current leadership position to Orbach, who enthusiastically supported his bid to join the Jewish Home and become its chairman – after convincing Bennett himself that he was the right man for the job. Orbach voluntarily gave up his position as the head of the party, and insisted that the party hold primaries for the first time ever. He also correctly predicted that the religious Zionist list, which had only three MKs at the time, would obtain a double-digit number of MKs. Orbach is also well-known in religious Zionist circles for penning an article in a now-defunct settlement magazine, Nekuda, titled, “The Best – to the Media.” The caption is based on the time-honored IAF slogan that calls on “The Best” young men to volunteer to become pilots. In it, Orbach called on talented religious Zionists to make careers in media and thus affect public discourse in Israel. Many did just that, and Israel’s media is currently full of young religious-Zionist journalists.

Sheldon Adelson’s Adelson Family Foundation adds to the $140 million it has already given Birthright. The Adelsons are the largest individual donors to Birthright. The new donation includes a $20 million challenge grant.

The Azrieli Foundation announced a five-year, $5 million gift to Birthright Israel Foundation of Canada to be used to support and expand offerings of Birthright trips for eligible Canadians, as well as to sponsor trips for individuals with developmental and/or physical disabilities. Like the Adelson gift, the Azrieli one includes a matching gift, or challenge grant, component.

Since 2000, approximately 350,000 Jews aged 18 to 26 from over 62 countries have gone on Birthright trips. In addition, 65,000 Israelis have participated in Birthright’s Mifgash program, which brings together Israelis and Diaspora Jews.

Blair: Conditions in Gaza Not Conducive to Peace

Adelsons Donate Big to Birthright Birthright is getting another huge cash infusion from Sheldon Adelson.

The billionaire casino magnate is donating another $40 million to Birthright Israel, and the Azrieli Foundation will give another $5 million. The gifts for the free 10-day educational trips to Israel for Jewish young adults were announced last week.

The latest donation to the Birthright Israel Foundation from Dr. Miriam and

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According to Blair, if the reality on the ground was conducive to peace, “negotiators could find a way through the issues of borders and land swaps, and even Jerusalem, refugees and security guarantees.” The problem, he wrote in an article posted on his website, is that not only is the ground not ripe for peace, but rather the exact opposite is true. Gaza, he said, “is living proof” of that.

After the visit he wrote that there were three preconditions to a “successful peace process.” First, he said, there must be a “dramatic and broad improvement” in the daily lives of Palestinians. Second, there must be “unified Palestinian politics” that “explicitly is in favor of peace and two states, meaning a sovereign State of Palestine and a secure, accepted State of Israel.” Third, he said, there must be “an enhanced

role for the region, in alliance with the international community, which must step up to share leadership of the issue.” He argued that in all the current “darkness” in the diplomatic process there is one potential ray of hope – the changing region.

Furthermore, he said the international community needs “clarity” from Hamas. “Are they a Palestinian nationalist movement dedicated to the achievement of a Palestinian State or part of a broader Islamist movement with regional designs that impact governments outside of Gaza? Are they prepared to accept a Palestinian State within 1967 borders or not, with such a state being a final settlement to the conflict?” he asked.

Blair is the Middle East Quartet envoy. The Quarter was established in 2002 and is composed of the United Nations, the United States, the European Union and Russia. This was Blair’s first trip to the region since the conflict this past summer.

Fatah’s Facebook Filled with Hate

If we needed more proof that Palestinian terrorists applaud violence, Fatah’s Facebook page has provided it.

Three images praising rocket attacks on Israel and violence against IDF soldiers were posted on Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah party’s Facebook page last week.

One image showed a Fatah fighter holding a rocket while others fired guns, and another displayed a man firing an automatic rifle with the Arabic caption, “The end of Israel, the liberation of Palestine” posted beneath

the photo. The third poster showed a picture of rockets being launched, accompanied by the text, “We have more, Zionists,” according to a translation by Israel-based watchdog Palestinian Media Watch.

Israeli officials have repeatedly accused Palestinian groups, including Fatah, of engaging in incitement against Israelis and Jews via official media channels. After the kidnapping of three Israeli teenagers last summer, Fatah’s page displayed a number of cartoons, including one depicting the kidnapped teens as rats caught on a fishing line.

Israel’s Impressive Economic Growth After a strong recovery in the final three months of 2014 led to the fastest quarterly growth in nearly eight years, Israel’s economy looks like it will rebound further in 2015 from the effects of last summer’s Gaza war. The fourth quarter of 2014 saw gross domestic

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The Gaza war in July and August held back third-quarter growth as factory output slowed, consumers stayed home and tourists canceled in droves.

Still a comparison of a 2.6 percent growth in the second half with the 2.7 percent growth in the first half is very remarkable. “It’s still impressive to keep the same level of growth in a country where for more than a month people were in shelters,” Daphna Aviram-Nitzan, the head of economic research at the Manufacturers’ Association, said on Monday.

Part of the rebound in the final three months of 2014 also stemmed from a sharp depreciation in the shekel versus the dollar. Lower rates boosted industrial exports, mainly high-tech ones that benefited from a recovery in U.S. growth. “The growth rate in industry as a whole and industrial exports will be much better this year than last year,” Aviram-Nitzan predicted. Exports, which account for some 40 percent of economic activity, rose 7.3 percent in the fourth quarter, according to the Central Bureau of Statistics.

The fourth-quarter economy was also boosted by heavy government spending, mainly on defense and a change in a tax regime that fueled a car-buying spree before the end of the year. Overall government spending jumped 12.2 percent.

Growth is forecast at 3.2 percent this year, up from a revised 2.9 percent rate in 2014.

Encouraging Aliyah The Israeli government has approved a multi-million shekel emergency plan aimed at encouraging immigration from European countries as fears of anti-Semitism grow amid a wave of deadly attacks on Jewish institutions on the continent. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Immigration and Absorption Minister Sofa Landver introduced the 180 million shekel ($46

million) plan. Three countries at the top of the list for the program are France, Ukraine, and Belgium.

“We are preparing for a wave of Jewish immigration from Europe; we are calling for a wave of mass aliyah from Europe. I want to tell all the Jews of Europe, and Jews wherever they may be: Israel is the home of every Jew …

Israel awaits you with open arms,” Netanyahu said hours earlier.

The plan is a greatly reduced version of an original NIS 1.2 billion ($320 million) proposal by Landver that was rejected by the Justice Minister on grounds that it was too large a project to approve during the run-up to general elections. Israel is scheduled to vote for a new parliament on March 17.

Jewish communities in Europe have become increasingly fearful in the wake of a series of attacks, the most recent of which was a shooting outside a shul in Copenhagen, Denmark, last week that killed a Jewish volunteer security guard. Last month, three Islamic gunmen killed four Jews at a kosher grocery shop in Paris. All three gunmen were eventually shot dead by police.

In Belgium, a shooting attack on the Jewish Museum in Brussels on May 24, 2014 left four people dead. In Ukraine, an ongoing war with Russian-backed separatists has caught the country’s Jewish community in the crossfire. Last week, a Jewish woman was killed when a rocket hit her home near Donetsk.

Two days later, a shell slammed into a Jewish center in Kramatorsk but did not explode.

Figures from the Immigration and Absorption Ministry show a significant increase in interest for making aliyah, especially in France and the Ukraine.

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American Sniper Murderer Pleads Insanity

The deranged man charged with killing veteran Chris Kyle and another vet said in court this week that he gunned them down because he felt he was being ignored. In dramatic testimony at Eddie Ray Routh’s double murder

trial, a Texas jail deputy testified that he heard Routh say, “I shot them because they wouldn’t talk to me.”

“I feel bad about it, but they wouldn’t talk to me,” the deputy, Gene Cole, testified about Routh. “I’m sure they’ve forgiven me,” he added. Cole said Routh made the admission in June 2013 — four months after he opened fire on Kyle and Chad Littlefield at a shooting range outside of Ft. Worth.

Earlier in the day, a Texas Ranger testified that he found marijuana, anti-psychotic medication and an almost-empty bottle of Texas Crown Whisky in Routh’s home after the murders. On the refrigerator was a note with the American Sniper author’s name and phone number.

Prosecutors have said Routh’s mother asked Kyle, a former Navy SEAL who had the most confirmed kills of any sniper in U.S. history, to try to help her son, who had been struggling since leaving the service in 2010. Routh allegedly then gunned them down at the shooting range. He had gone to the range with Kyle, while Littlefield followed behind them. Kyle texted Littlefield en-route, “This dude

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Hundreds gathered in Pasco, Washington, last weekend to protest police brutality in the wake of a deadly shooting of a man who had been throwing rocks at the police. Before the midday rally, children and adults hand-lettered signs, calling for justice for Antonio Zambrano-Montes, who witnesses say

Four people have been shot and killed by police since last summer in this agricultural city of 68,000, where about half the population is Hispanic.

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was running away when police fired on him in a busy intersection.

A large sign hanging over the bandstand at Volunteer Park said, “Stop Police Brutality: It was just a rock!!!”

Hand-lettered signs said, “Use Your Training, Not Guns,” and “Good Police We Respect You.” Speakers from the community called for a full review of the Pasco police department and its policies. Felix Vargas, chairman of Consejo Latino, a group of primarily Hispanic business leaders, called for a federal investigation into the shooting.

Following the gathering at the park, the crowd chanted and marched to the bakery, where the shooting took place.

The family of the slain orchard worker, who was a citizen of Mexico, has filed a $25 million claim with the city of Pasco, the first step toward a lawsuit. Franklin County Coroner Dan Blasdel has decided to order an inquest, which would be open to the public, in hopes of calming “some of the fears and outrage of the community.” While an inquest won’t proceed until police finish gathering evidence and witness statements, “it’s going to make this whole investigation transparent,” Blasdel said.

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Routh’s uncle, James Watson, testified that his nephew was often depressed — and paranoid. “He felt like somebody was out to get him,” Watson said. “He’d said before that the government was after him.” When Routh returned home, he was driving Kyle’s

truck. “Check out my truck,” Watson quoted him as saying. “I’m driving a dead man’s truck.”

Routh’s lawyers acknowledge that he killed Kyle and Littlefield, but they maintain he was not mentally competent when he did so.

Former Pilot for Bin Laden Takes the Stand Osama bin Laden has become synonymous with September 11, 2001 but according to a recent trial, it seems that

the radical terrorist was a threat way before then.

In the terrorism trial of a man accused of being one of al Qaeda’s early leaders, an American described being asked in 1995 by Osama bin Laden to kill Egypt’s president by ramming his plane with his own in midair. In those days, bin Laden had a private jet and was barely on authorities’ radar.

“It took me by surprise,” Ihab Mohammad Ali testified recently in New York. “I responded, ‘Well, wouldn’t I be killing myself?’”

Ali, 52, said bin Laden answered: “Well, then you would be a martyr.’”

The government’s presentation of evidence over the past three weeks has targeted Khaled al-Fawwaz, a man portrayed by prosecutors as a key player in the terror group when it was in its infancy. Al-Fawwaz has pleaded not guilty to conspiring to kill Americans in the 1998 bombings of two U.S. embassies in Africa. The attacks in Kenya and Tanzania killed 224 people, including a dozen Americans. The government rested its case on Thursday.

Born in Alexandria, Egypt, Ali testified that he had met bin Laden 25 years ago at an al Qaeda guest house in Pakistan around the time he pledged allegiance to al Qaeda. He said he also met al-Fawwaz, whom he identified in court as a member of al Qaeda.

Ali arrived in America with his family at age 11, living in New York before moving to Florida, where he underwent 13 hours of flight training while in high school. He said he attended American College for the Applied Arts in Los Angeles in 1987 when he began attending a mosque and developing an interest in fighting the Soviet Union in Afghanistan.

In 1988, he visited Pakistan as a U.S. citizen. He underwent al Qaeda training in 1990.

Ali went on to train as a pilot, an education funded by al Qaeda. Eventually, bin Laden gave permission to Ali to fly his personal aircraft but he asked for a favor. He asked that he travel to Saudi Arabia; the king was very ill at the time and bin Laden was hoping that then-Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak would come attend the king’s funeral if he died.

“He said if I had the chance, to ram his plane with mine midair,” Ali said told jurors.

The plan was thwarted because of bad brakes on bin Laden’s jet, and Ali crashed it at the end of the runway at Khartoum Airport in 1995 when he was still training to use it. He said bin Laden asked him to try to fix it and he checked with a U.S. company to have it repaired, but the more than $1 million price tag

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Is Hillary Ready for 2016?

For those of you who have been hiding under a rock for the past few years, Hillary Clinton is determined to be our next president. But Governor Chris Christie is just as determined, although he may just miss the White House come 2016.

A new poll shows that Hillary Clinton would handily defeat the outspoken governor in a presidential election in his home state. According to the survey, Clinton would defeat Christie 58 to 35 percent in a hypothetical presidential general election match-up in a new poll from Rutgers University’s Eagleton Institute of Politics. The former Secretary of State holds a 59 percent favorability rating in the blue-leaning state.

Last week, the same polling group found that only 37 percent of New Jersey voters have a favorable view of their governor.

Clinton fares even better against former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush and Gov. Scott Walker (Wis.). She would defeat Bush by a 58 to 32 percent margin, and

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New York has surrendered. It’s just too cold.

This week, the tourism office of Ithaca, New York, waved the white flag on winter, advising potential visitors to its tourism website to skip the frigid temperatures and visit the Florida Keys instead. Wise advice in one of the coldest winters we’ve ever seen. VisitIthaca.com’s home page displays Sunshine State vacation photos and provides links to the website for tourism information about the Florida Keys and Key West.

The top of the Ithaca page reads: “That’s it. We surrender. Winter, you win. Key West anyone?” Referring to “this ridiculously stupid winter,” the Ithaca website suggests visiting the Florida Keys this week and returning “when things thaw out.” It’s good that New Yorkers still have a sense of humor despite the brain freeze we’re all experiencing.

Ithaca and the rest of upstate New York have been in the grips of a snowy and brutally cold winter. The most recent cold snap sent temperatures plunging as low as 28 degrees below zero in the Adirondacks early Tuesday.

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Anthony Bosch, who claimed he was a licensed medical doctor at his Biogenesis of America clinic, was sentenced on Tuesday to four years in federal prison.

Bosch posed as a doctor and illegally supplied steroid injections and other performance-enhancing drugs to professional baseball players and even high school athletes.

He choked back tears when he said the clinic was a legitimate business gone awry and sought a more lenient term because of his cooperation in the investigation, but U.S. District Judge Darrin Gayles refused.

“This defendant was the most culpable in this conspiracy,” the judge said.

Bosch accepted thousands of dollars a month to provide steroid injections to players such as New York Yankees star Alex Rodriguez and Ryan Braun of the Milwaukee Brewers. Most troubling, Gayles said, was Bosch’s injections of high school players in the Miami area.

“He was the mastermind,” Gayles said. “He was the one who recruited others to assist him.”

Bosch, 51, pleaded guilty in October to conspiracy to distribute testosterone, the sixth person charged in the Biogenesis case to do so. Bosch and Rodriguez are expected to testify if the last two defendants – Rodriguez’s cousin Yuri Sucart and ex-University of Miami pitching coach Lazaro Collazo – go to trial as scheduled in early April.

MLB imposed a record season-long suspension last year on Rodriguez, one of 14 players penalized in the scandal.

The Yankees say Rodriguez, 39, is no longer their third baseman and will have a chance to earn at-bats as a designated hitter.

“I’m ashamed of myself. I’m remorseful,” Bosch said at the sentencing.

“I can’t put into words how sorry I am.”

But Assistant U.S. Attorney Michael Sullivan said that rather than help people with medical problems, Bosch’s main goal was to rake in money by illegally making the athletes “bigger, stronger and faster ballplayers.” Bosch liked to

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“He was not a legitimate doctor. He wasn’t treating an illness. He wasn’t treating a disease,” Sullivan said.

Bosch lawyer Guy Lewis, a former U.S. attorney in Miami, said that without his cooperation, MLB would not have had sufficient evidence to sustain Rodriguez’s suspension. Lewis said Bosch has met dozens of times with U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agents and helped prosecutors pore over thousands of pages of documents.

“Mr. Bosch has cooperated thoroughly and extensively,” Lewis said. “He was truthful. He was reliable,” despite threats to his life if he testified.

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was too high. In 1995, Ali quit the organization and received $2,400 in “severance.”

After the embassy bombings, Ali was approached by FBI agents in May 1999 in Orlando, Florida, where he was living in an apartment complex. He said he told the FBI that he had never been to the Sudan, and he denied knowing bin Laden, obviously a lie, when he testified before a New York grand jury in May 1999. He was taken into custody that day.

In March 2001, he pleaded guilty to perjury, criminal contempt and conspiring to kill U.S. nationals and agreed to cooperate with the prosecution. At a May 2009 sentencing, he received time served after spending a decade in prison.

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“During Hillary Clinton’s first campaign for president, there was a great deal of talk about how voters would respond to her gender,” David Redlawsk, director of the Eagleton Center for Public Interest Polling at Rutgers, said in a statement along with the poll. “In January 2008, a CNN poll found Americans more ‘ready’ for a black president than a woman. Fast forward seven years and New Jerseyans, at least, have little doubt that the country is now ready for a woman president.”

Despite these revelations, the poll only surveyed 813 New Jersey residents—and not all of them were registered voters. It also was not revealed if they were an even split of Democrats or Republicans.

Judge Blocks Obama’s Immigration Order On Monday, a federal judge granted a request by 26 states to temporarily block President Obama’s executive action on illegal immigration, allowing a lawsuit aimed at permanently stopping

the orders to make its way through the courts.

U.S. District Judge Andrew Hanen granted the preliminary injunction after hearing arguments in Brownsville, Texas, last month. He wrote in a memorandum accompanying his order that the lawsuit should go forward and that without a preliminary injunction the states will “suffer irreparable harm in this case.”

“The genie would be impossible to put back into the bottle,” he pointed out, adding that he agreed with the plaintiffs’ argument that legalizing the presence of millions of people is a “virtually irreversible” action.

The first of Obama’s orders – to expand a program that protects young immigrants from deportation if they were brought to the U.S. illegally as children – was set to start taking effect on Wednesday. The other major part of Obama’s order, which extends deportation protections to parents of U.S. citizens and permanent residents who have been in the country for some years, was not expected to begin until May 19.

White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest reiterated the administration’s position that Obama’s executive actions

In a recent video posted by BuzzFeed, President Obama tried out a few things that “normal people do,” like talk to themselves in the mirror, shoot pretend basketballs, and take selfies of themselves. The video was supposed to get people to sign up for healthcare, but many were critical of the president acting a little too pedestrian.

were within the bounds of the law – and indicated they would appeal.

“The Supreme Court and Congress have made clear that the federal government can set priorities in enforcing our immigration laws—which is exactly what the president did when he announced commonsense policies to help fix our broken immigration system,” Earnest said, later adding, “The district court’s decision wrongly prevents these lawful, commonsense policies from taking effect and the Department of Justice has indicated that it will appeal that decision.”

House and Senate Republican leaders pointed to the judge’s decision in amplifying calls to advance a stalled bill that would both fund the Homeland Security department and undo Obama’s immigration plan. The GOP-authored bill passed the House, but is stuck in the Senate. “This ruling underscores what the president has already acknowledged publicly 22 times: He doesn’t have the authority to take the kinds of actions he once referred to as ‘ignoring the law’ and ‘unwise and unfair,’” Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said.

“Senate Democrats – especially those who’ve voiced opposition to the President’s executive overreach – should end their partisan filibuster of Department of Homeland Security funding.”

That’s Odd A Dizzying Trip to Disney It’s a small world after all…

Last week, one couple visited three Disneylands in just one day. Michael and Diane Greening have been hooked on Disney since they celebrated their first wedding anniversary in Disney in Anaheim years ago. They have gone

back every year, but with their 17th anniversary approaching, the couple was in a quandary: should they visit Tokyo Disneyland or Walt Disney World? And then Michael proposed doing both on the same day, with a stop in Disneyland in between.

“We started wondering, ‘Can this be done?’” Michael Greening relates.

Turns out, it is possible, but only when Magic Kingdom in Orlando is open until midnight. February 14 worked out fine—and the two of them journeyed for 28 hours and for 7,900 miles to the Happiest Place on Earth—times three.

Their not-so-relaxing jaunt began at Tokyo Disneyland at 9:50am on Saturday. After capturing their visit with a photo, they raced to catch their flight to Los Angeles. Although their flight was delayed, they still managed to get to Disneyland in Anaheim by noon and posed for their all-important photo.

The next stop was the airport—and their luck almost ran out. But thankfully, Minnie and Mickey were on their side, and although they missed their original flight to Orlando, they were rebooked on another flight and made up for lost time. Disneyworld, here they come! They posed for their photo at 11:40pm—just 20 minutes before the deadline.

“The best thing was doing it with my wife and best friend,” Michael said.

“Having her by my side for the whole thing made it special.”

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Aahh! The calming sounds of soft music and the relaxing feeling of being pampered. A day at the spa can rejuvenate and calm even the most stressed.

In Taiwan, massages are sometimes given with interesting instruments— knives. A daoliao, or knife massage, costs only about $7 for ten minutes of relaxation. But before getting the massage, it may just make your heart skip a beat or two when you see the attendants wearing white vests and brandishing their cleavers like your local butcher.

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new. Interestingly, people in China have been undertaking knife massages since the Spring and Autumn Period (770 BC to 476 BC) in Chinese history, said Wu Wei-chuan, chairwoman of the World Daoliao Assn. in Taipei. Back then, those suffering from mysterious illnesses not easily treated by traditional medicine would ask Buddhist monks to ease their afflictions with knife therapy.

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“Some people have been bothered all the time and have tried other massages to find that they didn’t help. They want to try a knife massage to see if it will do the job,” Wu said.

So how does it work? The steel cleavers look like those you might use to prepare dinner, but they have a blunt edge. The heavy blade can reach deeper than fingers alone, and practitioners believe the conductive steel can remove “negative energy” from the body. The

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“When you see someone wearing a bomb, you’re gonna ask, what’s it all about? Why? In a very literal way, it tells a story,” she said.

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Many of the tens of millions of bombs dropped from 1964-1973 never exploded, leaving behind about 80 million tennis-sized bomblets that have killed thousands of villagers and children. Proceeds from the sales of the jewelry helps the company demine land in Laos, the most bombed country per capita in the world. Buying a simple bracelet can pay to clear 32 square feet; a $1,250 necklace cleans up 840 square feet. So far, 700,000 square miles have been demined through Article 22.

Article 22 is not the first company to take tools of war and make them into objects of beauty. Emi and Eve sells jewelry and metal clutch bags out of recycled bomb casings and bullet shells from Cambodia, and Fonderie 47 makes watches and jewelry from Ak47s from Africa.

“I think the best fashion makes people think and does challenge people. That’s the role of art, in its purest form,” Sass Brown, acting associate dean of the Fashion Institute of Technology’s School of Art and Design in New York, said.

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A North Carolina mother is one of the winners of the $564.1 million Powerball jackpot—and she really deserves it. The mom of four said she is first going to give tithes from her winnings “because I wouldn’t have none of it if it wasn’t for G-d.” Marie Holmes, 26, recently quit her jobs at Walmart and McDonalds to take care of her four young children.

She expressed her gratitude for being able to provide for her children — one of whom has cerebral palsy — in a way that she previously could have never imagined, noting that she plans to set up college funds and buy a new home.

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ten and wants to make sure her children know that money shouldn’t change them. “I just want them to understand that money doesn’t change you. It can help you. They don’t have to worry about that,” she said. “They can go to college, on me. And they don’t have to worry about nothing. I’m glad I can do that for them.”

“I’m very grateful for what’s about to happen for my family,” she told reporters.

1,500 Snowmen

How many snowmen have you built this winter season? I’m sure it doesn’t beat the 1,585 snowmen residents of a Japanese town built in just one hour on Sunday. The flurry of snowmen earned them a Guinness World Record, organizers say.

The Iiyama Snow Festival Planning Committee said the “1,500 Snowmen Challenge,” which was designed to celebrate the planned March 14 opening of Iiyama Station on the Hokuriku Shinkansen Line, featured more than 500 people constructing a total of 1,585 snowmen inside the 60-minute time limit imposed by Guinness World Records. The event beat the previous record of 1,279 snowmen built in Utah in 2011. The city was preparing for the event since last year and when nine inches of snow fell in just 24 hours it was the perfect time for building the men of snow.

Each snowman had to be at least 36 inches tall and be made of three snowballs with eyes, a nose and arms. No hat or smile needed.

“We were able to achieve the record thanks to the cooperation of many people,” committee member Jiro Kobayashi told the Asahi Shimbun. “We believe the feat will boost [the celebratory atmosphere of] the opening of the Shinkansen’s Iiyama Station.”

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kids had an extraordinary time.

They saw their camp friends and made new ones.

Everyone who was there really wanted to celebrate with us.

“Best of all, the community can’t wait to get more involved and do more to welcome these kids and bring joy to their lives.”

Chai Lifeline’s alumni coordinator, Miriam Tannenbaum, said, “This is a great opportunity for alumni to see how they can still impact children’s lives.”

The organization’s executive vice president, Rabbi Simcha Scholar, and his wife, Michele, joined the group and the community at the carnival. “We truly appreciate the families and shuls of

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and Camp Simcha Special, Chai Lifeline’s innovative camps for sick children and teens, spend a weekend with friends who can share the challenges and conquests of living with illness.

The communities not only get to see Chai Lifeline in action, but become active partners in bringing joy to lives touched by illness or tragedy. The program is named in memory of Sari Ort, a”h, a Camp Simcha camper whose grace and spirit touched all who knew her.

This weekend marked the first effort of a committee of former Camp Simcha counselors seeking to infuse the weekend with a mixture of vintage and recent camp routines. The boys could feel the vibe in the air as they and their counselors arrived at the home of Yaakov and Temi Plutchenik. There was cholent, kugel, goodie bags and gifts waiting for them along with hugs, back-slaps, and secret handshakes.

Though the boys and counselors were lodged in the homes of community members, they spent Shabbos together.

Their first stop was the Agudath Israel

of West Lawrence, where they participated in a rousing Carlebach minyan and were welcomed by Rabbi Moshe Brown. Then the entire group was the guest of Moshe and Ariella Wolfson, who prepared a feast for them. They then joined the community for a lively oneg Shabbos at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Tzvi Bloom. Amid the songs and snacks, half a dozen of the boys addressed the group, talking honestly about the challenges of illness and the friends and support they have found at Chai Lifeline and Camp Simcha.

On Shabbos morning, the entire delegation came together at the White Shul (Congregation Kneseth Israel) for another reunion of sorts. The congregation’s spiritual leader, Rabbi Eitan Feiner, spends his summers at Camp Simcha as mashgiach ruchni.

After a delicious kiddush and lots of catching up with Rav Feiner and his family, the boys headed to TAG, their home for the afternoon. There it was lunch with 220 of the group’s best friends, including more alumni (former counselors) and their community hosts. While others were taking Shabbos naps, the Friends ‘n Fun organizers shifted into high gear. The room was divided into two teams, community and counselor, and the competition began.

“You should have seen the smiles,” organizer Moshe Bollag recounted.

The building rocked with the shoutouts, cheers, and songs of boys who in other situations are considered sick, weak, or frail.

The fun did not end with the emotional havdala. The camp alumni organized a splendid carnival for the entire community, complete with handicapped-accessible games, face paint, cotton candy, and of course, singing and dancing. Two boys were celebrating birthdays over the weekend, and their counselors made sure the party was up to Camp Simcha standards.

Mr. Bollag and his committee were pleased with the entire event. “The

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It was the middle of winter, but 30 boys with cancer and other serious illnesses and disabilities basked in the warmth of the Far Rockaway community. The group came for the first Friends ‘n Fun weekend organized by former counselors at Camp Simcha/ Camp Simcha Special.

Friends ‘n Fun weekends are a collaborative effort between Chai Lifeline and communities across North America. The children, many who know each other from summers at Camp Simcha

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Far Rockaway who opened their homes and their hearts this weekend. We are happy that they could see what we know: the love and mentorship of our alumni enables our children to develop self-esteem, confidence, and the courage to live full lives despite illness.”

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Around The Community V’chut Hameshulash Lo B’mheirah Yinatek Bais Yaakov Ateres Miriam Celebrates its Third Anniversary Dinner

By Tamar Sullivan On one wall of Rabbi Nosson Neuman’s office there is a letter from a pediatric dentist praising first-grader Tehila for displaying courage at the dentist’s office. Under that, there is a drawing by a second-grader named Sarah. And as he walks down the hall to his office, Rabbi Neuman stops to say hello to Atara, Shaindy, Rivky, Chana, and Leiba.

“Baruch Hashem, I know every single girl’s name,” he tells me in all seriousness.

And that comes as no surprise to the thrilled parents of Bais Yaakov Ateres Miriam. Rabbi Neuman greets his Rabbi Neuman talmidos at the door to the school every morning – rain, snow, or shine.

“Rabbi Neuman says good morning to my daughters everyday,” says a parent, “and he makes them laugh on their way in. What a way to start every morning.”

Rabbi Neuman credits much of his success to having watched his father, Rabbi Moshe Neuman, the respected former menahel of Bais Yaakov of Queens and a well-known mechanech of over 60 years. In fact, as a testament to his father’s greatness in chinuch, many local mothers who attended BYQ as students needed no more convincing than “Rabbi Neuman’s son is starting a girls’ school here” to stand eagerly in line for a spot at BYAM. But just three years into starting the school together with menaheles Mrs. Leah Zytman, Rabbi Nosson Neuman has already made an impeccable name for himself and has exceeded the parent body’s expectations too many times to count.

“His commitment knows no bounds,” says one staff member who has been there since day one. “Rabbi Neuman takes care of the major stuff – payroll, building upkeep, fundraising – but he also concerns himself with minor things. He will get in his car to drive a staff member to the train if she doesn’t have a ride. He will arrange carpool for a student who can’t get to school – or pick her up himself!”

When asked what typifies BYAM, Rabbi Neuman answers, “Our brand is warmth, individuality, and academ-

ic excellence – and our goal is that no girl in this building will fall through the cracks.” BYAM parents can certainly attest to the care and attention they get from their joyful menahel who can list almost every carpool arrangement that brings and picks up the girls from school daily.

According to Morah Tehilah Negreann, “Rabbi Neuman is always interacting with the students. One time, he walked into my nursery class and started an impromptu puppet show with our animal puppets. Another time he walked into the gym and joined our hula hooping. He plays with them, he jump-ropes with them, the list goes on.

The girls look up to him so much.”

And it’s really no surprise that the girls break into a grin at the mention of Rabbi Neuman’s name. His positive energy is likely his greatest trademark.

“It’s incredible how optimistic Rabbi Neuman is,” says a parent. “And it has a trickle-down effect. Because he is happy, the staff is happy, the students are happy, and the parents are over the moon.”

When questioned about the hardships of starting a new school, Rabbi Neuman admitted that the first year had many challenges, but many were to be expected. What he didn’t expect was Hurricane Sandy, which hit a mere seven weeks into the school year. “We closed, and I sat in my cold, dark office wondering if we would reopen.” But with matchless devotion to his first 31 talmidos, Rabbi Neuman schlepped countless gallons of gasoline to an old generator to heat three classrooms and revive his beloved “schoolkele.”

“We greeted the kids after Sandy with music and cupcakes,” Rabbi Neuman recalls with a smile. “The events that unfolded were so clearly orchestrated by yad Hashem. It was then that I knew we were going to succeed.”

Success might be an understatement for the prospering girls’ school on Heyson Road. BYAM has seen a fivefold increase in enrollment since its opening, with 200 girls expected to attend next year. But higher enrollment is not the priority, Rabbi Neuman declares.

“Our talmidos must come from

tznius Torah homes. We can only supplement what they are already learning by example.” And Rabbi Neuman and Mrs. Leah Zytman do not forsake those ideals for anyone.

On the occasional snow day or national holiday, for example, Rabbi Neuman and Mrs. Zytman are careful to always remind parents to “Please make sure your kinderlach daven and learn a little something.” And recent letter to the parent body by Mrs. Zytman clarifies one of BYAM’s priorities: “We are trying to promote a culture of simplicity in our school.” Small Rosh Chodesh gifts related to that particular chodesh are given to all the talmidos to foster an appreciation of the uniqueness that each Jewish month has to offer. Furthermore, Mrs. Zytman’s commitment to healthy eating as a conduit to better learning is remarkable. Junk food is sent back home and older girls are taught to read the ingredients on their food – if sugar is listed first or if the food contains MSG, it doesn’t belong in the school.

Mrs. Zytman, a veteran menaheles who is also a former parenting columnist for Binah Magazine and a noted author on child development, is largely considered the spine of BYAM. The title of Mrs. Zytman’s most recent book, published earlier this year, reveals her goal for each and every student: The Very Best You. Mrs. Zytman feels that girls should be gaining two things at BYAM – knowledge of their own strengths irrespective of others’ capabilities, and opportunities to reach their potential in age-appropriate ways. Her methods of achieving those goals have raised the local bar, so to speak.

For one, Mrs. Zytman’s weekly teacher training meetings are mind-blowing.

“Her advice is so hand-on, so perceptive,” says a veteran teacher. “She is always training us and wants to give over everything she knows, from simple classroom setup to deep child psychology. She makes our curriculum come alive.”

Furthermore, Mrs. Zytman regularly meets with teachers about each student.

“When I mention the strong and weak spots of any student of mine,” explains that same teacher, “Mrs. Zytman can connect the dots, see a whole child, and help pinpoint her needs in the most discerning way. We brainstorm how to meet those needs.”

Mrs. Zytman wants the girls to both like and respect school. Like Rabbi Neuman, she feels it’s essential that girls know that the staff members care about them and respect them for who they are.

As one parent put it, “I knew and admired Rabbi Neuman before I enrolled my daughter at Ateres Miriam, but now that I got to know Mrs. Zytman, they are equally the reasons why I am so happy here.”

The school is named after Rabbi Neuman’s mother-in-law, Mrs. Miriam Yormark, A”H, who stood by her husband, a soft spoken, incredible and devoted mechanech, as they were mekarev children and adults in their hometown of Memphis, Tennessee. One by one, they forged generations of Torah observant Yidden in the South.

As I get up to leave, Rabbi Neuman repositions the Band-Aid box that sits familiarly on his desk for girls to take as needed. “They know they can always come to me for a Band-Aid,” he explains with a smile, “but they also know that I expect them to be all better by the time I dance at their chasunah.”

On Motzei Shabbos, February 21, BYAM will be having its Third Annual Dinner at Congregation Beth Shalom in Lawrence. The school will be honoring parents Bumi and Tova Fried as Guests of Honor, Pinny and Yael Farkas with the Kesser Shem Tov Award, and their beloved nursery teacher Morah Tehilah Negreann with the Chinuch Award. The parents being honored have been leaders in every facet on behalf of the school since its inception and have always extended themselves to help in any way that they can. Morah Tehilah is adored by her talmidos and beloved by the parents as well. Her ability to convey the true essence of a Bais Yaakov girl in a loving and caring fashion is a special gift and the school is pleased to honor her.

As the theme of this year’s dinner connotes, it is precisely the third rope strong. strand that makes the “V’chut hameshulash – lo b’mheirah yinateik.” Rabbi Neuman continually thanks the Ribbono Shel Olam for bringing his school to this point. May they continue to grow and flourish.

For more information, visit www. baisyaakovam.org, call the school at 718-868-3232, or email dinner@baisyaakovam.org.

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Last week, Assemblyman Todd Kaminsky thanked the New York State Department of Transportation for meeting with him on Friday, February 6, on NYS Route 878 to make expeditious repairs to dangerous potholes. Assemblyman Kaminsky was notified of the unsafe road conditions last week by Chaverim of the Five Towns and Far Rockaway.

Chaverim reported an increase in calls for flat tires on the 878 and requested that Assemblyman Kaminsky reach out to NYS DOT. The assemblyman immediately called on NYS DOT to make repairs. Workmen were sent on Friday evening to meet Assemblyman Kaminsky at the site, where he supervised the repairs to the pothole that had claimed many a tire.

“NYS Route 878 is in dire need of a complete overhaul. Until that can be done, I thank NYS DOT for addressing

One of the most difficult choices for any teen to answer is “What should I do when I grow up?” Ezra Academy has now alleviated this concern for many of their junior and senior students. Ezra recently hosted a multi-faceted career night, which not only represented twenty different occupations, but also amazed the group with the knowledge that many of these successful professionals were once Ezra students themselves.

The main idea behind this event was to give exposure to many different types of careers, while still allowing the students the opportunity to ask very relative and practical questions. To accomplish this, the twenty professions were split into four groups, forming panels of five similar types of occupations. For example, the panel of business professionals consisted of an attorney, accountant, stockbroker, someone who worked in finance, and someone who worked in management. Another panel consisted

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the dangerous potholes and repairing them on Friday evening,” said Assemblyman Kaminsky.

“On February 3rd, Chaverim of the Five Towns and Far Rockaway had an enormous call volume increase for flat tires due to huge potholes on the 878 highway. We posted to our Facebook page warning local motorists of the area. Assemblyman Kaminsky immediately contacted us for the exact location of the potholes and within the next 24 hours had a Department of Transportation truck there filling in the potholes.

He personally supervised the operation.

We are so impressed and thankful for his incredibly fast response. We thank him for helping us to help the community!” said Binyamin Lipsky, Co-Director of Chaverim of the Five Towns and Rockaway.

Security Cameras to be Installed at LIRR Cedarhurst Station Assemblyman Todd Kaminsky announced on Tuesday that the Long Island Railroad will install security cameras at the Cedarhurst LIRR stop following a number of troubling incidents at the station. Kaminsky urged the LIRR to install cameras last month after two swastikas were found etched into panes of glass over a two-week period.

The cameras are scheduled to be installed around the station building later this year, but the LIRR has also agreed to make every effort to expedite their installation and prevent further incidents.

“I applaud the LIRR for its commitment to the people of Cedarhurst,

and for its swift action to deter hate crimes,” said Assemblyman Kaminsky.

“Cameras will also go a long way towards making commuters feel safe at this station.”

“I am very pleased that the LIRR will be installing security cameras to help with the pervasive hate graffiti,” said Jeffrey Leb, Managing Director of Government and External Relations, UJA-Federation of New York. “This wouldn’t have happened without the work of Assemblyman Todd Kaminsky, who made this a priority before he was sworn into office, and he delivered results in a very expeditious fashion.

The community owes him a great deal of gratitude and I thank him very much

for his assistance.”

On January 4, days after the first swastika was found at the Cedarhurst station, Assemblyman Kaminsky wrote a letter calling for cameras at the stop and elsewhere in the train system: “This station, as well as others nearby, experienced these hateful displays on far too many occasions,” the letter read. “I urge the LIRR to install cameras on the train station platforms in this and other stations that have been defaced by perpetrators of hate crimes.

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of a doctor, PA, nurse, pharmacist, and orthodontist. There also was a school-related panel consisting of a teacher, OT, speech pathologist, school psychologist, and Early Intervention specialist. The last panel included professionals in construction, law enforcement and public relations. Each student had the opportunity to visit every panel and hear specifics about those jobs and experiences that one might have.

However, the most impressive point of the evening was the information that not so long ago many of the presenters were in the crowd in those same exact rooms. Knowing that over one-third of the successful panelists were once just like them gave the students an unbelievable boost in how much one can achieve. As we all know, it’s not so important what profession you choose, as long as you believe in yourself and know that you can succeed.

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Around The Community Shulamith’s Production of Twisted Brings a Taste of Broadway to the Five Towns On Tuesday evening, February 10, in a sold out theater on Central Avenue, the curtain rose on a breathtaking scene. More than seventy 5th-8th graders from Shulamith Middle School

singer and composer, the choir learned three Hebrew songs with accompanying harmonies. While Mina Black, an accomplished ballerina who most recently worked with Miriam Handler in

performed their hearts out in Twisted, a play written by Atlanta-based theater professional Rachelle Freedman.

“Twisted is a story about a group of middle school girls who are in the midst of their final dress rehearsal for a Purim play when chaos ensues. This play includes rich dramatic moments, silly comedic scenes and Broadway-style musical parodies from Wicked,” says Sari Kahn, director of Maor Performing Arts and the director of the original production. Kahn explains, “I wanted the students to perform in a production that they would be proud to be a part of, so with the help of musical director Rebecca Gruenfeld and choreographer Mina Black, we incorporated into the script a choir, dance numbers, a gymnastics piece and a ballet into one unifying piece.”

The outcome was nothing short of spectacular. Under the direction of Rebecca Gruenfeld, a professional pianist,

her latest production in Brooklyn, choreographed dances to make the words of each song come to life.

One of the highlights of the evening was a fun-filled banquet dance where gymnasts “tossed” missing goblets through the air while dancers costumed as Persians and Jews floated on the stage as guests of one of Achashveirosh’s famous feasts. “I love bringing out the hidden talent in girls,” says Ms. Black, a Shulamith parent who runs a dance studio in conjunction with the Five Towns JCC and seamlessly brought dancers with various levels of training together in a variety of dance pieces. “I wanted every dancer to know that she has an opportunity to shine on the stage either through dance, ballet or gymnastics and that through her own work and dedication to the process she can accomplish amazing things. I am only here to bring out the best in every one of them.”

Rebecca Gruenfeld, who has a masters of arts in teaching, not only taught the choir and soloists the musical arrangements for the show, but as a piano and voice instructor in the Five Towns area, she also played the piano for all of the musical numbers. “I really challenged the choir to sing songs and harmonies that they did not know.

I wanted them to understand that there is a wealth of beautiful Hebrew music and that they should be proud to sing it.” Ms. Gruenfeld added that she was “particularly impressed with the soloists’ hard work and dedication and in their ability to learn difficult songs from Wicked.”

Parents were beyond thrilled with the outcome of the production. Malka Davies, whose daughter Tamar was a member of the gymnastics troupe, described the performance as “the best play ever!” Another mother shared with the director that she had tears in her eyes when she watched her shy daughter transform into a confident woman on stage. Mothers, grandmothers, aunts and sisters were amazed by the level of professionalism and talent the middle school students displayed on the stage.

This production bears the precious fruits of the empowering evergreen of achdut and collaboration within the Five Towns community. None of this could have happened without the guidance of the Shulamith Middle School’s

administration along with its partnership with the HAFTR administration.

The Shulamith administration, arts professionals and faculty all worked together to balance the students’ rigorous rehearsal schedule while maintaining the school’s academic standards. The students, therefore, learned essential life skills like time management, prioritizing and perseverance while participating in the rehearsal process. Additionally, Allison and Blimie Chait from Shabbos Brushups Inc., volunteered their time to transform the students’ faces into the famous Purim characters from the Megillah. Moreover, because the production was staged at HAFTR High School, their friendly cooperation and assistance clearly added to the show’s success. Mrs. Billet, Shulamith Middle School’s principal, eloquently summed up the feelings of the night best when she said, “Shulamith Production night was indeed a beautiful evening. A large number of very talented students were able to showcase their talents in front of a deeply appreciative audience of women and girls. The students grew from their exposure to the gifted directors and learned skills to last a lifetime.

The singing, the dancing, the acting, the creative costumes and the charming set all contributed to a delightful and memorable performance. Thanks to all who made it possible.”

Community Forum To Feature Rabbi Reuven Ziegler Lectures on Rav Soloveitchik and Rav Amital This coming Shabbos Terumah, February 20-21, the Red Shul of Cedarhurst and the Sephardic Congregation of the Five Towns will co-host a series of lectures by the distinguished scholar Rabbi Reuven Ziegler of Yeshivat Har Etzion and Koren Publishing who will be speaking on the religious and theological legacies of Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik and Rabbi Yehuda Amital, both of blessed memory.

The lectures schedule will be as follows: Friday night after a brief Oneg Shabbat hosted by and at the home of Sori and Yaakov Gade, at 385 Arbuckle Ave, off West Broadway in Cedarhurst at 8:30pm, Rabbi Ziegler will be speaking on “The Mind and Heart of a Gadol: What We Can Learn from Rav Soloveit-

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Shabbos morning after an introduction by Rabbi Yaakov Feitman and before the Musaf service at the Red Shul, Rabbi Ziegler will speak on the topic, “A World Destroyed, A World Created: Introducing a Unique Gadol, Rav Yehuda Amital.”

The afternoon lecture will be after the 5:15pm Mincha service during Shalosh Seudos at the Red Shul. The topic will be “Purim: The Holiday of Contradictions.”

All are welcome, both men and women, to all the lectures.

These lectures are being held in cooperation with the Orthodox Union, The Jewish Press, The Jewish Star, The Jewish Home, The Jewish Connection, and the Hakirah Journal.

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Congratulations to Sarah Herman, a 12th grader at the Stella K. Abraham High School for Girls, upon winning first place in the Behavioral and Social Science category of the Junior Science and Humanities Symposium, Long Island Division. She is now a finalist for the National Symposium. Congratulations also to Senior Ilana Radinsky who is a semi-finalist. Much thanks goes to SKA advisor Dr. David Friedman for his help and encouragement.

Designed to challenge and engage students in grades 9-12 in science, technology, engineering or math (STEM), the JSH Symposium, held this year on Sunday, February 8, offers students the opportunities for scholarships and peer recognition. Both Sarah and Ilana had to submit research papers which were evaluated by college faculty and practicing scientists. The 12th graders were

Left to right--Ilana Radinsky and Sarah Herman

then selected to present the results of their original research before a panel of judges and an audience of students like themselves.

SKA is so proud of our students’ accomplishments!

Adults Learning Hebrew at BJX Brooklyn Jewish Xperience (BJX) launched their Hebrew Reading Crash Course for unaffiliated Jews. “It was such a nachas ruach to see the room full with people who were so eager to connect with the Hebrew language,” said Rabbi Moshe Fingerer, director and co-founder of BJX. Most of the audience were secular young Jewish professionals who had never had the opportunity to learn Aleph Beis. Rav Yitzchok Fingerer, Rav and Rosh Kollel of BJX, held the audience spellbound as he explained the significance of each Hebrew letter based upon their shape and sound. Rav Fingerer shared insights on each letter from sources based on Talmud, Midrash and Kabbala. “I loved the Rabbi’s presentation. It blew my mind. I never knew about the depth and richness of the Hebrew language,” said Danny. “I registered for this six week course because I’m planning a trip to Israel,” explained Suzy. “The Rabbi really spoke very well. This was very enlightening,” she added.

Recently, BJX hosted a beautiful Tu B’Shvat seder. Unaffiliated Jews had the opportunity to make brachos for the first time in their lives. They learned about which brachos to make on the variety of wine, fruits and nuts that were served. How invigorating and exhilarating it was to witness the Rav teaching everyone the significance of each

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Around The Community Shining Successes at Midreshet Shalhevet Star qualities shine both inside and out of the classroom at Midreshet Shalhevet. Over the past few weeks, the students at Midreshet Shalhevet have won numerous inter-school competitions and commendable awards for their superb performances in various extra-curricular activities. Starting with the Yeshiva University National Model United Nations Competition, junior Noa Eliach won honorable mention representing Israel and Australia in her counter-terrorism unit. Noa felt confident and prepared when she presented her stance and credits her coach and history teacher, Mr. Simcha Bader, for her success.

Following Noa’s accomplishment, Juniors Tamar Beer and Tamar Yastrab qualified for the finalist round with Tamar Yastrab winning the Best Overall Performance at the inter-school Poetry Slam competition held on February 10th. Tamar Yastrab’s poems titled “Rainku” and “Promise” exemplified the theme of Branching Out. Mrs. Jennifer Morey, Tamar’s AP English and creative writing teacher, was thrilled when

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Tamar won. “Tamar has exceptional talent in many areas and I was so proud that her talents were recognized by all at the slam,” Mrs. Morey exclaimed.

The achievements did not stop there.

The Mock Trial team, under the superb guidance of Mrs. Melanie Marmer, Attorney at Law, and Ms. Atara Blumenthal, won their first two cases. The team argued the defense in the first trial and plaintiff in the second. Seniors Devora Chait and Daniella Azose and sophomore Avigail Borah acted as the attor-

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chandising Promotion Plan, hoping to rank again as she placed 4th last year as a junior. After the state competition in Rochester, qualifying students will head to the international event held this year in Orlando, Florida.

DECA is a not-for-profit student organization founded in 1947. Formerly known as the Distributive Education Clubs of America, its mission is to prepare emerging leaders and entrepreneurs in the various fields of business and management from high schools and colleges worldwide. The High School Division includes 200,000 members throughout 3,500 schools.

Lawrence District Business Educator Mark Albin is currently serving his tenth year as DECA Advisor. The DECA club is open to all Lawrence High School students and averages 20 student competitors each year. DECA offers a great academic opportunity and even the non-business student can participate, as there are categories that focus on the environment. Students are

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Lawrence students have once again made their mark in the latest round of the DECA business competition. The regional competition, held in Freeport High School on January 10, 2015, included eight students from Lawrence High School ranking high across a range of business categories.

Lawrence High School junior Samantha Rubenstein finished 1st overall in the category of Accounting Applications, while junior David Kats placed 6th in the same category. Stanley Faynblut, Thomas Lira, Ryan Bae, Jessica Beyer, Jonathan Rutchik have also qualified to compete at the state competition in Rochester, New York, in early March.

These young leaders will participate in competitive events in categories across the business spectrum, such as Restaurant & Food Service Management, Business Services Marketing, Financial Consulting and Hospitality & Tourism. Senior Victoria DiCeglio will be competing in the Fashion Mer-

DECA Club members: Front row: Eric Kolchinskiy, David Kats, and Jacquelin Rosales. Back row: Emmanuel Theodosiou, Stanley Faynblut, Thomas Lira, and Samantha Rubenstein

encouraged to begin as freshmen since it can take a few years to make it to the international level.

Over the past nine years Albin has guided 23 students to compete on the international level, with several students having qualified multiple times.

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Around The Community Why Holding on to your Airline Miles and Credit Card Points are a Bad Idea and Bad Investment

By Eli Schreiber In our last newsletter we highlighted five things not to do with your credit card miles & points and included the aspect of not holding onto your credit card miles for too long. Before we explain why you shouldn’t do this, it’s important to understand the relationship between airline miles and credit card points.

Equally important is understanding that the rewards industry is becoming increasingly more competitive, bringing with it new opportunities to make money and travel the world (whatever your preference for earning miles and points) but also bringing with it new challenges as well.

We will first explain the relationship between the credit card points like American Express and airline miles like American Airlines Advantage Miles, and the association between the two.

The airlines offer frequent flyers the opportunity to earn miles based on the number of miles flown or the price of the airline ticket. They also sell these miles to partners like credit card companies, e-commerce sites, florists and rental car companies amongst others.

Credit card companies, in turn, buy these miles from the airlines so that they can incentivize the public to use their specific credit card. And as we know, credit card companies make money by charging vendors a percentage of every sale. Why this is relevant is understanding that the airlines who sell miles are also the ones who control how the public uses their miles (and in turn how many credit card points are needed for tickets), which makes the rewards industry a very profitable enterprise for them.

Imagine if you were in the manufac-

turing business and your product was manufacturing shoes. Not only do you manufacture shoes and sell them to retail shoe vendors (in our example the credit card companies) and individuals (in our example frequent flyers) but as part of your terms and conditions when selling your shoes, you leave yourself the ability to determine what the shoes could be used for, and when they could be used.

And that if later down the road you decide you hadn’t made enough money when you sold the shoes originally, you can change the price of the shoes so that it affects people retroactively (in our case, changing how many miles are required for a certain tickets, after people have already accrued those miles).

If this isn’t a sweet business model, we don’t know what is.

In fact, a study by IdeaWorks, a company that analyzes the airline industry, estimates that more than 55% of airlines revenues results from the sale of frequent flyer miles. So the airlines make the bulk of their money just from selling the miles and make even more money by restricting how they can be used, including limiting how many seats can be purchased with miles, leaving themselves blackout dates for using miles, and charging fees for mileage tickets.

Additionally, what this means for the consumer is that since it’s in the best interest to control and limit the value value frequent flyer holders receive when they redeem their airline miles, the redemption process the airlines make you go through to redeem miles for travel is quite difficult for the average consumer, thereby eliminating a large percentage of people who would otherwise use their miles for flights.

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Let’s take some examples, including one that hits close to home.

EL AL Airlines had two great partnerships that the Jewish consumers enjoyed. One was their partnership with the HAS Advantage credit card, so that cardholders could earn points for tickets on EL AL. Additionally, customers who wished to fly EL AL could do so using AA miles. In October of last year, the partnership with AA ended suddenly. And due to a dispute with HAS, for a certain time period, customers who earned HAS points for the sole purpose of transferring them into flights on EL AL were left unable to do so. That dispute has since been resolved, but just last week, EL AL increased the number of miles and points needed for tickets, in some cases requiring 30% more points to book tickets from NY and Toronto to Tel Aviv (besides for the $350 in fuel charges they charge as well).

Another example is British Airways (BA) partnership with other airlines, which offered consumers the travel option in the domestic US using BA miles, which required far less miles than other airlines. And BA offered a credit card

with a bonus promotion of 50,000 miles which many people were happy to take advantage of.

But on January 28, 2015, BA made drastic changes to the new British Airways program, increasing mileage ticket prices by as much as 150% on flights from New York to Los Angeles and London, with tickets from Miami and Berlin increasing significantly as well.

And if you think all of the above is unfair and unethical and perhaps illegal, a Florida congressman agrees with you and has placed the airlines’ habit of devaluing miles under investigation.

This leads us to our final point, eloquently summarized by one savvy travel blogger. Whichever kind of card you have, “Redeem early and redeem often…at least once a year… Minimize the amount of miles you have sitting around.”

Because holding onto your airline miles and credit card points are a bad idea and bad investment!

Eli Schreiber is a partner and director of marketing at Get PEYD and PEYD Travel LLC.

Five Towns Marriage Initiative The Joy of Renewal This week was Rosh Chodesh Adar.

In the month of Adar we usher in a time of joy and happiness. The source of this joy lies in the upcoming holiday of Purim. According to R’ Shimshon Pincus, the power of Purim lies in its strength of renewal. This renewal came about because the Jewish people had been condemned to death for participating in the party of King Achashveirosh. The decree made by Haman was identical to the decree in heaven that was signed and sealed by the heavenly court, for the complete annihilation of the Jewish people. The survival of the Jewish people was the likes of the resurrection of the dead because their imminent death had been so absolute. This was therefore a great source of joy that they merited another chance at life and an opportunity to repent.

When we are given the chance in our marriage to correct our mistakes and renew our close feelings for our spouse, we should know that we should also be filled with tremendous joy. It’s not a simple thing that we are wired to

allow ourselves to forgive and it takes much effort on our part to let bygones be bygones. When we do act in this way we are emulating Hashem who gave His people another chance at life and accepted their remorse and acts of repentance when the stakes seemed so bleak. When our spouse reaches out to us with contrition, let’s think of the joy of Adar and the renewal that came about when Hashem gave us another chance and let us at least do as much for our spouse.

May we merit having a month of Adar that is filled with true joy and may our homes be filled with the true happiness of this month. May that happiness spill over for all the time to come so that we can always know no sadness.

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become addicted, but rather are drawn into a progressive cycle of drug use in which one’s capacity to stop using is diminished, unless this cycle is stopped early on through effective treatment.

Mr. Horowitz dedicated part of his presentation to parent education which included how to talk to your teenage children and how to be on the alert for warning signs of a teenager’s drug use, such as changes in behavior, sudden and dramatic mood swings and withdrawal from the family and friends. Lastly, Mr. Horowitz implored the audience to seek help early on from mental health professionals or organizations such as Madraigos in the event of need and to receive treatment designed to prevent further downward spiraling of the disorder.

“Moshe,” a longtime Madraigos participant in recovery, recounted his touching story of getting back on his feet from the throes of compulsive drug abuse, hoping that sharing his ex-

tom” before finally seeking help. In his moment of dire need, Moshe reached out for Madraigos’ crisis intervention services. He formed a close relationship with Madraigos’ social workers and Rabbi Dov Silver, Founder and Executive Vice President, who encouraged him to seek treatment. Through Madraigos’ referral services, Moshe was directed to the appropriate treatment resources, which enabled him to turn his life around and begin the climb to recovery.

Moshe also described the importance of parental involvement in prevention and stressed how fortunate the students were to have their parents at their side in the audience, also receiving education about drug use and prevention.

Dr. Steven Levey, Director of Counseling at HANC, also invited Detective Pamela Stark from the Nassau County Police Department and Lisa Ganz from LICAAD to address the audience. They greatly enhanced the program by shar-

Mr. Yitzy Horowitz, LCSW representing Madraigos at HANC program Night of Awareness

ral, resorting to self-destructive behaviors which often lead to life-threatening medical problems. Mr. Horowitz explained that drug users do not chose to

periences may help other young adults avoid succumbing to the allures of drug use. He explained how he had been in denial for a long time and hit “rock bot-

ing their experience and expertise in substance abuse prevention.

Recognizing that prevention and early intervention efforts create environ-

Chanie Delman, LCSW, Clinical Director, Madraigos, and Dr. Steven Levey, Director of Counseling, HANC

ments that promote healthy behaviors and help individuals make decisions, Madraigos offers a wide array of comprehensive prevention and intervention services. Madraigos’ prevention services include the after-school “Lounge” program, year-round events, in-school programs, as well as parent and community education. Through meaningful discussion groups, the “Lounge” experience helps young adults proactively solve problems before they become more substantial. For teenagers struggling with substance abuse, Madraigos provides a myriad of life-saving clinical intervention services that ensure that the young adults and their families receive caring and comprehensive support and guidance during their most difficult times. Since its founding in 2003 with multiple expansion projects thereafter, Madraigos’ goal has remained consistent: To provide all of its members with the necessary tools and skills to empower them to live a healthy and productive lifestyle and become the leaders of tomorrow.

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On February 11, a Night of Awareness, a joint initiative between HANC Hebrew Academy of Nassau County (HANC) and Madraigos, was held at HANC High School campus to increase awareness of drug and alcohol use and abuse in teenagers.

Presentations were delivered to an attentive audience consisting of 10th grade students and their parents, educating them about substance abuse prevention. Madraigos was represented

by Mrs. Chanie Delman, LCSW, Clinical Director of Madraigos, Mr. Yitzy Horowitz, LCSW, a private psychotherapy clinician in Brooklyn and The Five Towns, as well as a young man in recovery from a serious substance abuse disorder. (The young man is identified as “Moshe,” name changed).

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Assemblyman Phil Goldfeder sat down with incoming 101st Precinct Commanding Officer Captain Justin Lenz to welcome him to the neighborhood and discuss the precinct’s work in keeping our community’s families safe. Captain Lenz comes to Far Rockaway from Brooklyn, where he previously ran the 76th Precinct in Red Hook.

Around The Community A Weekend of Inspiration for our Community’s Young Men

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R’ Yehuda Zachter, Rabbi Abi Goldenberg, and R’ Zvi Reider

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By Tuli Urbach Historic. Bold. Unique. Innovative.

These are some of the words that come to mind when describing the latest initiative undertaken by Yeshivas Nishmas Hatorah. This past Motzai Shabbos bochurim from various yeshivos in the tri-state area assembled at the Woodcliff Lake Hilton in New Jersey for a mini retreat/convention that continued throughout Sunday morning.

The idea was the brainchild of Rabbi Pinchus Weinberger and Rabbi Yissachar Blinder, Roshei Yeshiva of Yeshivas Nishmas Hatorah. While being involved in being mechanech bochurim who are in the post Eretz Yisrael/dating stages of life, they realized a tremendous need to address the difficulties and challenges that this turbulent stage of life presents for this delicate age group of Klal Yisroel’s young men. Thus the idea was conceived to host a mini retreat/convention that would feature speakers and

questions in regards to research on shidduchim. The Rav couldn’t emphasize enough the severity of misinformation and the importance of asking shailos.

The bochurim were given the opportunity to ask their own questions and hear Rabbi Viener’s candid and often unexpected responses.

Following Rabbi Viener’s speech, all attendees gathered for a delicious meleva malka and inspiring kumzitz led by the very talented Nagelberg Brothers of Lawrence. At the kumzitz, Rabbi Yissachar Blinder, Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshivas Nishmas Hatorah, spoke about the infinite potential that every person has to transform moments of yerida into opportunities of attaining great levels of kedusha and aliyah just by asking the most basic of questions: “Where are you Hashem?”

After Shacharis and a delectable breakfast, Sunday morning’s first session began with a roundtable question answer panelist discussion. The panelists featured three young balabatim who, after leaving their years of yeshiva, had transitioned into the working world and wished to share their insights into what it takes to make this transition as a Ben Torah in today’s working environment. R’ Yehuda Zachter ascribed his unforeseen journey from “Merkaz Guy” to kiruv Rabbi at Columbia University to Morgan Stanley as being open to see the yad Hashem. R’ Zvi Reider a talmid of Rav Tzvi Kaplan, underscored the importance of a solid foundation in Torah learning and Jewish values as key to continued growth. Rabbi Abi Goldenberg reminded the chevra that plans change. He planned on never living in Lakewood and never

staying in chinuch and he currently lives in Lakewood and is a Rebbi in YNH. The panelists all stressed the responsibility of making a kiddush Hashem in the secular world and improving the image of the frum businessmen.

The final speaker of the retreat/convention was Rabbi Y.Y. Rubenstein. Rabbi Rubenstein focused on the imperative for one to have a relationship with a reb-

workshops geared specifically around the myriad of sensitive topics that young men at this critical stage in life are struggling to grapple with.

The first speaker to kick off the event was Rabbi Doniel Frank, Director, M.A.P. Seminars, Inc., and a noteworthy and Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in the frum community. Rabbi Frank spoke about the essential factors that one needs in order for one to be successful in his relationship, career choices, and even in his observance of Yiddishkeit. He focused on the concept of motivation, developing essential life skills, and the importance of being authentic and how this effects dating and marriage.

Following Rabbi Frank’s presentation, the bochurim were given the opportunity to hear from Rabbi Yosef Viener shlita, Rav of congregation Shar Hashomayim in Monsey. Rabbi Viener spoke about the relevant and delicate halachos of how to conduct and respond to

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bi throughout life, and to maintain one’s core identity as a ben Torah no matter where life takes him. He captivated the audience with his own personal astounding experiences and his good-natured humor.

A tremendous yasher koach to Rabbi Pinchus Weinberger, Rabbi Yissachar Blinder, and Rabbi Abi Goldenberg, as well as Mordechai Fuchs for enabling and bringing forth the success that this event achieved.

Tuli Urbach is a talmid at Yeshiva Nishmas Hatorah and a division head in Camp Munk. He authors a blog geared towards Jewish youth at www.hearthustlefire.com.

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Tani Konig, son of Melanie and Yehuda Konig of Lawrence, celebrated his bar mitzvah on Parshas B’Shalach. Tani is a 7th grader at HALB and both an outstanding student and athlete. Mazel tov to the entire mishpacha.

HANC Wonders about a World with No Numbers

Mrs. Pinn challenged her sixth grade math students at HANC’s Samuel & Elizabeth Bass Golding Elementary School to ponder the question: “What would the world be like without numbers?” Students were asked to think about the question and to compile and present a report to the class with their thoughts.

The students offered some remarkable analysis and thoughts about how we use numbers and what the world would be like without them. Students suggested that science, technology, medicine and all related innovation would be stymied without numbers. Students also suggested that cooking and baking would be a disaster without numbers to guide us on how to measure ingredients properly. Students also noted that without numbers we would never know how to get dressed properly because we wouldn’t be able to communicate about weather and temperature with numbers.

A number of students suggested that our economy would come to a halt if we no longer had numbers and money.

Students were sad to realize that without numbers there would be no dates or calendars and therefore no birthdays or birthday parties! Students posited that the world of music would forever be altered without numbers because music is measured in beats, which are numerically based. One student even pointed out that the Torah describes the Days of Creation as “Day one, day two, day three, etc.” so that without numbers there would literally be no world!

While some students said they’d be happy in a world without numbers because then there would be “no more math homework,” all the students agreed that the world could not exist without numbers because numbers play such an important role in our lives and in the world around us.

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There was a definite air of excitement in the classrooms of Gan Chamesh, Chabad’s Early Childhood Center, as the preschool celebrated Box Week. Inspired by the award-winning book Not a Box by Antoinette Portis and The Happiness Box

by Bracha Goetz, Gan Chamesh instituted Box Week as a means of letting the children’s imaginations soar as they play and experiment with all different kinds of boxes. The children collected boxes of all shapes and sizes and proudly brought their collections to school. The regular classroom toys were set aside and the boxes took center stage. The children used the boxes to create massive towers, railroad stations, rocket ships and castles. Empty food boxes and canisters lined the shelves of the dramatic play and kitchen areas as well.

The box experience appealed to the children’s latent senses of engineering and architecture as the children judged

which boxes work best as a foundation for their structures. Box Week provided a medium for problem solving and cooperation as the children devised their masterpieces together and participated

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Celebrating 12 Years at the Yeshiva Gedolah of the Five Towns’ Anniversary Dinner

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Guest of Honor Yehuda Biber with his son, Aharon, and the Rosh Yeshiva, Rav Moshe Zev Katzenstein; Rosh Kollel, Rav Yitzchok Knobel; and Dinner Chairman, Motti Fox; President Adam Goller; and Baruch Moskowitz, Executive Director.

Parent of the Year Ricardo Goldschmidt with the Rosh Yeshiva, Rav Moshe Zev Katzenstein; Rosh Kollel, Rav Yitzchok Knobel; and Dinner Chairman, Motti Fox; President Adam Goller; and Baruch Moskowitz, Executive Director.

Harbotzas Torah Awardee Rabbi Tani Feit with the Rosh Yeshiva, Rav Moshe Zev Katzenstein; Rosh Kollel, Rav Yitzchok Knobel; and Dinner Chairman, Motti Fox.

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After hearing about a certain shteeble (shul) where they know about everything going on in the world—even things that are secrets—the president of the U.S. decides that he has to visit to see it for himself. But, of course, he must go in disguise. He tells the Secret Service about his plan and although they are reluctant to allow him to take this security risk, they go along with it.

So, the president dresses up like a chassid and gets dropped off at the shul. He sits in the back row and in an inconspicuous manner turns to the old man sitting near him and says, “Nu, what’s going on in the world?”

The old man replies, “Vell, don’t you know the president is coming here today?!”

The 22nd and 24th presidents of the United States of America had the same parents, but were not brothers. How can this be possible?

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“Railroad carriages are pulled at the enormous speed of fifteen miles per hour… The Almighty certainly never intended that people should travel at such breakneck speed.” - Martin Van Buren

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“Progression is not proclamation nor palaver. It is not pretense nor play on prejudice. It is not of personal pronouns nor perennial pronouncement. It is not the perturbation of a people passionwrought, nor a promise proposed.” – Warren Harding “Things have never been more like the way they are today in history.” - Dwight Eisenhower

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“I hope that history will present me with maybe two words. One is peace. The other is human rights.” Jimmy Carter

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“I have opinions of my own, strong opinions, but I don’t always agree with them.” - George H. W. Bush

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“It is always a bad practice to say ‘always’ or ‘never.’”- Barack Obama

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“If Abraham Lincoln was alive today he would roll over in his grave.”- Gerald Ford

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“I was not lying. I said things that later on seemed to be untrue.” Richard Nixon

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“I tried to walk a fine line between acting lawfully and testifying falsely, but I now recognize that I did not fully accomplish this goal.” – Bill Clinton  “You teach a child to read, and he or her will be able to pass a literacy test.” – George W. Bush

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John Quincy Adams used to go swimming unclothed in the Potomac River early in the morning.

Andrew Jackson had a parrot that knew how to swear.

The parrot had to be removed from President Jackson’s funeral because it wouldn’t stop swearing.

President Van Buren popularized the phrase “OK.” He was from Kinderhook, NY, which was also called “Old Kinderhook.” His support groups came to be known as “O.K. Clubs” and the term OK came to mean “all right.”

John Tyler had 15 children.

James Polk drank whiskey instead of undergoing anesthesia during a surgery.

James Buchanan never got married.

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James Madison was the shortest president, standing at just 5’4”.

Grover Cleveland served as an executioner when he was sheriff in Erie County, New York.

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George Washington initially refused to accept his salary while president, but eventually relented. It was $25,000 annually.

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Presidential Did-You-Knows Benjamin Harrison was nicknamed “the human iceberg” due to his cold disposition.

William H. Taft was so large that he once got stuck in his bathtub and had to call staffers to help pull him out.

Warren Harding enjoyed gambling and once lost an expensive set of White House china in a poker game.

Calvin Coolidge was nicknamed “silent Cal” because he didn’t talk very much.

Lyndon B. Johnson’s seat in the Oval Office was a vinyl helicopter seat since he loved riding in helicopters.

Richard Nixon was the first president to visit all 50 states Jimmy Carter reported seeing a UFO in 1973. He was Georgia’s governor at the time.

Barack Obama collects comic books. His favorites: Spiderman and Conan the Barbarian.

Abraham Lincoln was a licensed bartender and was part owner of a saloon.

Andrew Johnson was a trained tailor and made his own suits even when he was president.

Ulysses S. Grant was once given a speeding ticket while riding a horse on a street in Washington, D.C.

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Around The Community Three DRS Students Qualify for National Merit Scholarship Finals

Pink Day at SKA Pink was the color of the day at the Stella K. Abraham High School for Girls on Wednesday, February 11.

To honor Sharsheret’s annual Pink Day which seeks to bring awareness to the issue of breast cancer and to raise funds, SKA students donned pink apparel, sold pink donuts and pink chapsticks and even sponsored mani-“cures!”

This student-initiated event was highlighted by our speaker, Mrs. Reva Borgen, a breast cancer survivor (and the mother of one of our 12th graders), who shared her incredible story with a spellbound

audience. Sharsheret is a remarkable organization that is a support system for Jewish women dealing with breast cancer and as the students learned, Sharsheret played a strong role in Mrs. Borgen’s recovery.

Breast cancer awareness is so important to SKAers that students came after school hours to decorate the building with pink posters and streamers. Even though attendance at Mrs. Borgen’s speech was voluntary, the room was packed with girls. Pink Day at SKA was a huge success!

This year, three DRS seniors, Yehuda Inslicht, Daniel Aharon, and Yoni Goldberg, have qualified as Finalists for the National Merit Scholarship.

This prestigious honor reflects the high level of education that DRS strives to deliver to its students, as well as the level of commitment and work they expect from them.

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Around The Community Helping, Growing, and Having a Blast at CSI Walking through the halls of the White Shul on any Thursday evening it is obvious that something exciting is going on. If the smell of pizza doesn’t tip you off, you can always follow the sound of loud, animated voices and the blasting music, and you will find a group of talented and dedicated 7th and 8th grade girls devoting their free time

to helping their community.

CSI: The Community Service Initiative of Far Rockaway is an after-school chessed program for Junior

High School girls run by Sari Babad and Ilanna Schuster. Once a week, a group of twenty girls get together to eat pizza and sushi, have a blast, and volunteer for various worthwhile causes.

Last month, the CSI girls baked hundreds of cookies for Bikur Cholim, and they decorated glassware that they sold to raise money for Ezer Mezion (special credit to the TAG 11th graders for organizing the Ezer Mizion Bake Sale). They also made beautiful gratitude jars and made thank you cards to remind themselves that being grateful is a form of giving as well.

In addition to devoting their time to chessed activities, the girls at CSI had a great time the past few weeks using their creativity in our annual Cupcake Wars cupcake-decorat-

ing contest and they let off some of their energy during a Zumba lesson!

The girls also honed their teamwork skills during our Teamwork Workshop, where they had to work together to complete various tasks and puzzles. . . and later to clean up the rather sticky mess that the activity generated. Things really got exciting during our surprise World’s Shortest Color War, where teams red,

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Rav Avichai Rontzki A True Pioneer Looks Towards the Knesset

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BY TAMMY MARK Rav Avichai Rontzki is a true pioneer.

As a newlywed, he started the community of Elon Moreh. Shortly after, he went on to establish the community of Itamar, where he founded the Hesder Yeshiva. As the former Chief Rabbi of the IDF, Rav Rontzki implemented groundbreaking changes which continue to enhance the lives of soldiers every day. Now, Rav Rontzki is hoping to bring his pioneering spirit to Knesset.

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aised on a kibbutz in Haifa in a secular home, Rav Rontzki was a combat soldier in the IDF when he first met his wife, Ronit, a combat secretary in his unit. Ronit later became a sergeant as he became a captain. In 1975, after completion of their service, the couple married and began their new lives.

They became religious together and set out to make an impact wherever they went.

The first stop was Elon Moreh, with a population of twelve families. In 1984, they continued to build as they moved on to Itamar and started the commu-

Rav Rontzki with Naftali Bennett and Ayelet Shaked of Bayit Yehudi

nity with just seven other families. Now, Rav Rontzki serves as the Rosh Yeshiva of 200 students who come from around the country to learn at his Hesder Yeshiva.

With six grown children who are married, he and his wife have 21 grandchildren currently living in Itamar.

The community, located in the Yehuda and Shomron region, is one of the fastest growing in the area, having blossomed into 200 families.

“My purpose was to fulfill the Torah obligation to settle Eretz Yisrael,” explains Rav Rontzki of starting the community of Itamar so shortly after building the Elon Moreh community.

The Rav has an infinite bond with the community of Itamar and is always concerned for its security. In 2011, the tragic murder of the Fogel family shook the tight-knit community.

Having the largest land mass in the Shomron region, Itamar is difficult to protect due to its size and its proximity to hostile Arab towns.

Unfortunately, there have been more deaths in the community from terrorism than any other part of the region, having suffered the losses of 22 residents since the beginning of the Intifada back in 2000.

Rav Rontzki is close to those in the One Israel Fund, an organization that helps provide security for those living in what is known as Yesha. “For over two decades, One Israel Fund has been a lifeline for the communities through Yehuda, Shomron and those formerly

from Gush Katif,” explains Scott M. Feltman, Executive Vice President of One Israel Fund. “Due to the precarious situation which faces the community of Itamar every day, we have been continuously working with the security team in Itamar to provide them with highly technical surveillance equipment and advanced training sessions in the hopes of preventing future acts of terror. Since the Fogel murders in 2011, no fewer than six separate attacks have been thwarted thanks to the equipment we’ve provided and the close partnership between One Israel Fund and Itamar’s security chief and its civilian first response team.”

Both the community and the yeshiva are unique.

Approximately 60% of the residents are baalei teshuva. The students are inspired by the strength of people of Itamar and the guidance of the Rav. Rav Rontzki leads the yeshiva with the belief that “the person should learn where he feels the most comfortable.”

The young men are guided but independent; the rabbis are there to help but the students take ownership of their learning. The students are instilled with the core value to always do their best wherever they may go, and many ultimately enter into the elite units of the army.

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ith that mindset, Rav Rontzki is ready for the next stop in his journey. Hoping to bring his passion and perseverance to a larger arena, he is on the Bayit Yehudi Religious Zionist platform with Naftali Bennett and Ayelet Shaked. Anticipating

maintains, comes from the soldiers’ connection with history and their identity.

own. This was Rav Rontzki’s experience as well. As a child in Haifa, he knew nothing about his Jewish Identity. He went to a good school, yet didn’t even mark his bar mitzvah. When he served in the army, there was no minyan. Out of every 100 soldiers only 3 or 4 were religious. Today, more than 50% of the officers in the army are religious, and Israel now has a Torah army for the first time in 2,000 years.

Throughout these successes, it is an ongoing challenge to bring Jewish education to the soldiers. Realizing that the education needed to start earlier, Rav Rontzki set his sights on the goal and is working on educating the next generation. For the past year and a half, he has been the Chairman of Israel’s Giving shiur to some of the boys in yeshiva Ministry of Jewish Identity. from the left wing newspaper Ha’aretz, which mainThrough Rav Rontzki’s efforts, over 100,000 tains that Israel should be a secular state with religion young people are now being taught Torah throughout completely separate from the country. During the first secular schools in Israel. School-age children learn Gaza war, Rav Rontzki gave Torah-based pep talks to after school for a total of 4 ½ hours a week. There the soldiers and he was reprimanded for being “too are also programs established for secular post-high Jewish.” school students. Some that are post-army are learning Rav Rontzki found, however, that the IDF com- and teaching Torah while in university or vocational manders embrace these advancements. They want school. Though these young Israelis are not religious, the soldiers to win their battles. They believe that the Rav Rontzki says they have the desire to know what is elements needed to have a successful army are rigor- written in the Torah. Despite the overwhelming sucous training and a strong spirit. A strong spirit, Rav cess of the program, Rav Rontzki relates, “The goal is

With soldiers this summer

to reach half million 18- to 30-year-olds over the next five years.”

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t was three years ago that Naftali Bennett called Rav Rontzki to participate in his political party. At the time, Bennett was the head of the Yesha (Yehuda and Shomron) Council. As a party member, the Rav participated in meetings and soon realized it was time to get further involved: Jewish identity for all Israelis being his ultimate goal.

Rav Rontzki brings a uniqueness to the playing field. Coming from the secular world, he is able to relate to secular Israelis. He is extremely learned and observant, yet is not Hareidi. With his pro-Zionist and pro-army stance, he is considered a liberal in the Torah world. While at times he may have opposition from the left-wing or the right-wing, Rav Rontzki is truly able to reach out to all kinds of people. With the untimely passing this week of Bayit Yehudi Member of Knesset Uri Orbach, who was known for his ability to relate to those across the religious and political spectrum, these qualities may prove to be a crucial factor for Rav Rontzki.

The Rav has garnered support for from all over.

Dr. Rubin Brecher of Lawrence, NY, has visited Itamar many times and describes the Rav as “a fascinating person. He lives a simple life in a small cottage, learning Torah. He is totally devoted to the Jewish People.”

Regarding the Rav’s political aspirations, Dr. Brecher has full confidence in his success. “He has devoted himself to religious Zionism,” he says. “He is a very special person and the future of Israeli leadership.”

Though at times soft-spoken, the Rav reveals his fervent conviction and passion that Jews be connected to Torah and the Land. In addition to instilling deep roots in the younger generation, his personal hope is that all Jews will come to Israel and that those born in Israel will stay there. “The country needs all the Jews in the Land of our nation,” he says.

When speaking about this topic so close to his heart, Rav Rontzki tells of the time he was visiting a community in Houston, Texas. Upon meeting some Israelis who had settled there he inquired as to why they left Israel. They told the Rav that they came to the United States for the Jewish education. Stories like this touch him deeply and reinforce his commitment to his cause.

“For Israel’s existence, we can’t continue the way things are in this era; we have a lot of enemies fighting for their religion and they want to destroy us,” Rav Rontzki cautions, “The struggle will take many, many years and we must have a strong spirit. To have a strong spirit we must have a strong connection.”

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Rontzki maintains, comes from the soldiers’ connection with history and their identity.

The soldiers are stronger when they know that they are an integral part of a legacy in a land with thousands of years of history.

This past summer during Operation Protective Edge, the Rav was invited by officers to speak to the soldiers and offer encouragement. He found them to be highly motivated with a high morale, prepared to battle the enemies at the border. Forming these deep connections is especially germane to those who serve in the Israeli army, as the stakes are high. He tries to instill a deeper understanding as to why they are fighting. Whereas in the United States soldiers fight to defend a concept of freedom, Israeli soldiers literally fight daily for the safety of their country and preservation of their people.

Like many secular Jews in Israel, secular soldiers know virtually nothing about Torah Judaism, with most knowing more about Western culture than their

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that there will be 20 seats, Rav Rontzki is slated to get the 13th slot in the March 17 election.

In order for Rav Rontzki to accept a seat in Knesset, he will have to leave his post at the yeshiva. It is not an easy choice for him, but it is part of his broader goal. In his yeshiva, he is able to influence a few dedicated students. In his new position, Rav Rontzki can inspire a whole nation.

For close to 10 years, the Rav has been working tirelessly to bring Jewish education to the secular population in the IDF and throughout Israel at large.

In 2006, Rav Rontzki was asked to return to the Army to serve as the Chief Rabbi of the IDF, and the changes he made during his four years there were profound. Rav Rontzki replaced the existing army rabbinate with combat rabbis. Historically, IDF rabbis were civilian Hareidim who had never served in the military. The rabbis were essentially there to ensure that soldiers could receive kosher food and to provide basic religious support to the few observant soldiers.

These civilian rabbis couldn’t maintain a strong connection with the soldiers, and with no military training, they could not accompany them in the field.

Recruiting from several Zionist yeshivas, the Rav and his team sought out the top students and talmidei chachamim who had also served as combat soldiers and officers. Under his watch, the new IDF rabbinate became much more integrated into the soldiers’ lives.

The Rav established the unit of Jewish Identity, focusing on Jewish education, where the rabbis became the teachers. His goal was to instill a strong Jewish identity in all soldiers, with the belief that their Jewish identity will bond them to the Land of Israel and to Jewish values.

While there may have been some initial pushback from the civilian rabbis at the outset, these changes have been widely welcomed throughout the Jewish State. The most outspoken opponents have been

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Torah Thought

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Parshas Terumah

It is much easier to write a check than to really feel good, excited and sincere about the donation. pose is service of G-d and the spiritual enhancement of human beings cannot be built of human material generosity alone.

As the Talmud so succinctly phrases it, “G-d demands our heart.” Professional fundraisers employ all means and tactics to raise money for their goals and projects. However, after many decades of observing fundraising techniques, I know that it is very difficult to penetrate the heart of the donor. Without such a

the Torah emphasizes here is achievable only when one feels that the cause or object of one’s generosity is really worth more than the wealth that one is parting with. The example I use in teaching is that if one feels that giving charity is the equivalent of paying one’s taxes then that donation is completely devoid of any spiritual content. We all have to pay our taxes as a national duty and a practical necessity. Yet people do not feel any sort of spiritual achieve-

ment in paying their taxes. We may sign the check but our hearts are not in it.

This attitude, which after all is still acceptable when paying our material taxes is concerned (since no government is really interested in the spiritual effects of its taxes on the status of your soul), is not the attitude that will suffice when it comes to building a tabernacle/Mishkan. In this latter case we are asked not only to give of our material wealth and personal talents but truly to give of ourselves as well.

The demand of the Torah is not only to give from our heart but to give our heart itself to the exalted cause and spiritual greatness of the tabernacle/Mishkan. It is not a donation that the Torah asks of us, rather it is a commitment of self that is demanded. The tabernacle/ Mishkan has long ago disappeared from our physical view but its lessons remain relevant and important to us today as when they were taught millennia ago.

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penetration, the fundraising exercise becomes devoid of spiritual meaning and soulful uplift.

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the spirit and true intent of that generosity is often missing. Here the Torah is teaching us an important lesson. A building or any institution whose pur-

he initial and most successful building campaign in Jewish history is recorded for us in this week’s Torah reading. The Torah, in recounting the event, teaches us that Moshe was to accept offerings of gold, silver, copper, precious stones, weaving materials, acacia wood, artistic talent and everything else that would be necessary for the construction of the great tabernacle/Mishkan in the desert.

However, the Torah places a caveat on the donations of goods and services, wealth and talent that Moshe was to receive from the people of Israel. The Torah states that he was to accept all donations but only from those whose hearts and will motivated their generosity. We are all aware that it is much easier to write a check than to really feel good, excited and sincere about the donation.

The nature of human beings is to be less than forthcoming in their generosity and even if they are willing to part with some of their material possessions,

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R’ Ben Tzion Shafier

Parshas Trumeh

Hishtadlus for a Dvar Mitzvah “And you shall make a menorah of pure gold, hammered out shall the menorah be made. Its base, its shaft, it cups, its knobs, and its blossoms shall be (hammered) from it.” — Shemos 25:21 Moshe Rabbeinu was charged with the construction of the Mishkan, the dwelling place of Hashem in this world.

While the components of the structure are physically complex, the kavanas — the specific intentions required during the process of building it — are even more intricate.

The most complicated of all of the vessels was the menorah. Its design was so elaborate that even after Hashem taught Moshe how it was to be built, Moshe still didn’t understand its unique nature and was unable to form it. Therefore, Hashem showed Moshe an image of a menorah made of fire so that Moshe could actually see the finished form and imitate it.

Yet Rashi tells us that when it came time for the construction of the menorah, Moshe still could not fathom its structure and was unable to fabricate it.

Hashem said, “Throw the clump of gold into the fire, and it will form by itself.”

This is how the menorah was created — on its own.

This Rashi is perplexing. Since the menorah was so intricate that Moshe could not understand its inner nature and how to form it, then why did Hashem bother to show him the image of the menorah in fire? Hashem knew that Moshe wasn’t going to be able to create the menorah himself. He knew that in the end

put in his effort — the balance between bitachon and hishtadlus.

One of the basic facts of life is that Hashem runs this world. While it may appear that man is in charge, Hashem orchestrates every activity on the planet.

The question is: what is man’s part? If Hashem determines all outcomes, how is

We put in our effort, knowing all the while that it is Hashem’s world and that He alone determines the outcome. it would have to come about by Moshe’s throwing the clump of gold into the fire.

Why did Hashem show Moshe the image of the menorah so that he should understand how it was to be formed? Clearly, creating the menorah was beyond human capacity. Why did Moshe need to have a clear image of what it was to look like?

Balance of Bitachon and Hishtadlus The answer to this question is predicated on understanding the balance between Hashem’s involvement in the running of the world and man’s obligation to

man supposed to act? What is his role?

The Chovos Ha’Levovos teaches us that we are obligated to act b’derech hatevah – in the ways of the world. In other words, we are obligated to go through the motions as if the results are dependent upon us, knowing all the while that the outcome is completely out of our hands.

We work for a living, knowing that the amount of money we are to make has been set on Rosh Hashanah. We go to doctors when we are sick, even though we know that our health is determined solely by Hashem. We put in our effort,

knowing all the while that it is Hashem’s world and that He alone determines the outcome. Amazingly, whenever we accomplish something in this world, the results are credited to us even though we are fully aware that Hashem was One Who did it all. We merely went through the motions. When we use that system, it is considered as if we did the action.

This seems to be the answer to the question on Rashi. Hashem wanted the Mishkan and its vessels to be constructed by man. However, it was impossible for man to make them. Even the greatest of men couldn’t comprehend how to make a menorah. So his effort was to do all that he could and then rely on Hashem for the rest. Moshe would put the gold into the fire, and the menorah would form on its own. Moshe used the system that Hashem created to bring forth the menorah.

However, for the creation of the menorah to be credited to man, Moshe had to at least have a vision of what it was that he was creating. Once he had that concept in mind, throwing the clump of gold into the fire was considered as if he made the menorah himself. It was then considered as if he used Hashem’s system to bring about this result. If Moshe didn’t have a clear vision of what it was that he was creating, then in no sense could it be considered something he made — it would have been the fire that made it. Once he knew what it was that he was setting out to make, he then harnessed a force that Hashem created to bring about that result.

In this case, the force was the fire bringing about the menorah.

This concept has great relevance to us as there are many situations in which we reach a point where there is no clear path to follow. Whether it be deciding from two almost identical career choices, determining which medical “expert” to listen to, or deciding which school to enroll our children in, we are obligated to be responsible, use our best judgment, and determine according to the ways of the world what is the best approach. Once we have reached that point, we “throw our clump of gold into the fire.” We rely on Hashem to bring about the results that He has predetermined to be the best for us.

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So why bother? Why not just leave the grime there until spring?

Sure, we’ll all be driving gray cars, making it hard to find yours in a parking lot, but what’s the point, really?

It costs money and doesn’t last very long.

Well, I’ll tell you. First of all, the road salt eats into the paint and leaving it there too long will harm the car’s finish and perhaps cause irreversible damage. Another reason to wash your car is simply to enjoy the feeling of having a clean car. No more worrying about touching it, no more dirtied hands, and you can see what color your car really is! In fact, one season, after my first wash in a long time, I actually didn’t see my car outside a store because I was looking for the dirty gray one instead of shiny

black! I didn’t recognize my own car because it was finally unencumbered by all the muck.

Now, I’m not here to talk about cars. For me, a car is a tool to get

of the vehicle in which we are expected to go through life. A word of lashon hara here, a lie or cheat there, and pretty soon the paint job is nicked up pretty well.

I actually didn’t see my car outside a store because I was looking for the dirty gray one instead of shiny black! me from one place to another. It’s a machine for mitzvos, created for giving people rides, delivering things for tzedaka, and going to shul. I am not a car fanatic and I don’t really care what people think of my car. But it’s a good analogy.

We come to Earth with shiny, factory-new souls.

During our journey on the road of life, we encounter countless sources of muck and mire that adhere themselves to our souls. What was once shiny and pristine can quickly turn unrecognizably filthy. We become dull, grayish, and the beauty of what we started with is hidden behind the dirt.

So we wash. We immerse ourselves in Torah, which is compared to water. We scrub our middos, clean out our minds and eyes from the back-spray of the street, and perhaps even park inside a garage of asylum in a Yeshiva or a fine Jewish home.

We should also apply preventative detergents and sprays that will repel dirt before it can stick. We do that by focusing our attention on Torah, mitzvos, and our relationship with Hashem.

The important thing to remember is that when we get used to the cakedon grime, it can eat away at the glory

When we resign ourselves to the fact that we’re going to get dirty anyway so we may as well not even bother cleaning up for a few moments, we’ve lost the battle. “At all times your clothes should be white,” say Chazal. Now, it’s impossible for these white garments to stay clean.

Life happens.

But that doesn’t mean we don’t try to keep them clean. We must realize how beneficial it is to focus on who and what we are supposed to be. If we don’t constantly work on it, pretty soon we won’t recognize ourselves.

So, even if you don’t run to the car wash every day and you don’t get a chance to remove the grit and grime from your car, don’t settle for being

dirty. It doesn’t cost a cent to daven to Hashem, and you don’t need to travel far to study Torah, do a mitzvah, or reflect on why you’re on this journey to begin with. Take the time to treat your soul properly. It’s got to take you a long, long way.

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or those of us in the New York area, winter can mean snow, ice, sleet, extreme cold, and, as a result, really dirty cars. While the salt they put on the roads helps make them safer, it also creates minute particles of grime that fly up from under tires and attach themselves to our cars.

That grayish, pasty powder makes you think twice about accidentally brushing up against a car with your clothing, and even closing your trunk may find you looking for alternate points of contact to avoid getting dirty. So what are we to do?

Yes, my friends, we head to the car wash. There, the scrubbing bubbles make our cars look like new. Sparkling and shiny, they will stay that way until we hit the road again, or until more snow and salt make their way to our streets.

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In the job search business, many of my customers know exactly what they want. They want to call me and say, “I need a job. Do you know of any openings?” They want me to say, “Sure.

ABC Co is looking. Here’s the number, give them a call and tell them I sent you.” They’ll make the call, get the job, and live happily ever after.

This scenario may inhabit the minds and shape the expectations of many Jewish job hunters. After all, the Rambam says that giving someone a job is the highest form of tzedakah. And haven’t we all heard so many beautiful stories of kind businessmen who gave an unfortunate person a chance? (Even Louis Armstrong and Elvis!) There are so many business owners and professionals in our community. So here’s a mission for my Pathways to Parnassa: go around to all the Jewish businessmen, make a list of all the jobs they need filled, and create a “job bank.” Then let the job hunters call up, and make shidduchim! Willing employers, ready employees, it’s a match made in heaven!

Soon we’ll hear about how all of them lived happily ever after. So why not?

I’ll tell you why not. There are job banks like this that are up and running.

Some of them can boast of successful placements, for which we are grateful.

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bank in the world, it would provide only a small number of jobs. Many of them low skilled and low pay. And as much as it might help a few people, it hurts a lot more. It can actually keep people from finding jobs. This can happen in a number of ways.

will get … nothing.

Listing job openings on a bulletin board, electronic or otherwise, has another negative effect. Anytime someone makes a list of things, for example, a list of groceries needed for Shabbos, it means, “these are the only things

Willing employers, ready employees, it’s a match made in heaven!

The most obvious way that a job bank can hurt a job hunter is simply in the numbers. Let’s imagine that there are a thousand businesses operating in this area (I have no idea what the real number is). And all of them agree to list their openings in our job bank. On any given day, how many of those businesses are actually looking to fill an opening? Studies show that most small businesses hire only a few people each year — and that includes the low paying jobs that are rarely filled by members of our community (should that change? Good question, but not one I can answer). If there would be 50 jobs listed that would be a lot. The odds that one will fit what each job hunter is looking for? Not great. Not even good. So discouraged, beaten down job hunters will come to a place that “gets people jobs!” and they

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needed for Shabbos. “ A jobs list tells people that these are the only jobs available – either you figure out how to get one of them, or you will get nothing at all. With a choice like that, job hunters respond by applying for every job they hear about, regardless of whether they are qualified or if they even want the job at all.

Studies show that around 70% of the applicants for any given job are not qualified. For the candidate, an act of desperation; for the employer, a terrible waste of time, which results in cynical, callous employers who don’t trust anybody, and burned out, hopeless job hunters who think that they will never find anything.

When results are promised but then can’t be delivered, people get hurt very badly. This job bank idea hurts most of the people who come forward seeking help. And then it does something much worse. It fools people into thinking that finding a job Is like waiting for a shidduch to come along; that their futures are in the hands of strangers who may, without rhyme or reason, decide to give them a break; that jobs are like holes waiting to be filled by pegs, that getting a job depends on someone else “giving you a chance,” or “seeing your potential.” While these things happen in storybooks, and maybe once in a while for real, waiting for them is like waiting for Godot. In the play “Waiting for

Godot,” there are two friends who claim to be waiting for Godot to arrive, except Godot is imaginary and he will never arrive. They claim they are waiting for him to avoid admitting the painful truth – that they are really doing nothing. An excellent metaphor for the way a lot of people look for jobs.

A real job hunter doesn’t wait for anything. He sees each day as an opportunity to refine his skills, to state more clearly how he can provide value to an employer, and to reach out to employers who need that value, so that they are aware of what he can do for them. He knows the “Aunt Tilly Rule” – that you can never know who will be the person who will connect you to your next employer so he is ready to tell his story, in an effective way, to anyone who is ready to listen. He stays on top of the latest information about the jobs search and stays in touch with a coach or a mentor that keeps him focused. He ac-

tually hopes that he will find a job soon because work then will be easier.

Many people who want jobs are really “job waiters.” They send out resumes, answer want ads, visit people who might “give them a job.” Then they wait for… nothing. A real job hunter doesn’t let a minute pass without doing something that will bring him closer to the right job.

Let’s be hunters.

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. He can be reached at myparnassa@gmail.com.

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REMEMBERING THE BATTLE OF IWO JIMA 70 Years Later

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advantage that the U.S. had over its enemies during WWII was their long-range bombers. Germany and Japan both had projects to build bombers that could potentially reach the U.S. mainland with a heavy payload (a payload refers to the weight a plane can carry) but were scrapped. Even at Pearl Harbor, the Americans had the four engine B-17 Flying Fortress which proved vital during the opening year of the war. By 1945, the B-24 Liberator had also proved its worth over enemy-held territories. These two planes packed a powerful punch but it was the B-29 Superfortress that was to end the war with Japan. In January 1945, war planners in the Pacific already had the B-29 bombing Japan from bases in the

Mariana Islands. However, they had no fighter escorts or a place to land in case of an emergency. A base directly on the path to Tokyo was needed and therefore the planners asked the Marines to prepare for the invasion of Iwo Jima.

The Japanese considered Iwo Jima part of their homeland and defended it with terrifying results. Nearly 7,000 Americans were killed before the island was secure. 70 years later we remember the sacrifices that these men gave for their country.

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Jima was bristling with air defenses and a modern radar station that proved deadly for air crews. If the marines could knock out Japanese presence on the island, this

threat would be neutralized and would provide a base for fighters that would save even more B-29s. However, the Japanese weren’t about to lay down their arms. 22,000 soldiers lay in wait and three years of war with Americans taught them how to inflict maximum casualties. The days of senseless suicide charges, called bonzai attacks, were long gone and they chose not fight on the beaches but in strong prepared defenses.

Mount Surabachi is a 550-foot dormant volcano that is Iwo Jima’s most recognizable feature and the most sensible place to defend as it overlooks the entire island. The Japanese dug extensive tunnels and bunkers that honeycombed the mountain, making it a forbidding obstacle that needed to be

taken. There were two airfields on the four and a half mile long island, and Iwo Jima is only 750 miles from Japan.

It was an ideal place for a fighter base.

D-Day was set for February 19, 1945. Three full marine divisions comprised of 80,000 men were committed to the fight. They were up against 22,000 Japanese who all were prepared to fight to the death to avoid the dishonor of being captured. For three days prior, the navy bombarded the island and on D-Day itself, the air corps joined in for the pre-invasion “softening up.” This was in addition to prior bombing campaigns against the island but this only caused the Japanese to dig further. Underwater Demolition Teams (now incorporated into the SEALs) provided reconnaissance for the land-

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magazines like Time published parts of the speech.

Standing before the others, Gittelsohn declared: Here before us lie the bodies of comrades and friends, men who until yesterday or last week laughed with us, joked with us, trained with us, men who fought with us and feared with us.

Somewhere in this plot of ground there may lie the man who could have discovered the cure for cancer … Now they lie here silently in this sacred soil, and we gather to consecrate the earth in their memory.

It is not easy to do so. Some of us have buried our closest friends here. To speak in memory of such men as these is not easy. No, our poor power of speech can add nothing to what these men have already done. All that we can even hope to do is to follow their example, to show the same selfless courage in peace that they did in war; to swear that by the grace of G-d and the stubborn strength and power of the human will, their sons and ours will never suffer these pains again. These men have done their job

Avi Heiligman is a weekly contributor to The Jewish Home. He welcomes your comments and suggestions.for future columns and can be reached at aviheiligman@gmail.com.

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well. They have paid the ghastly price of freedom.

Thus do we memorialize those who, having ceased living with us, now live within us again.

Thus do we consecrate ourselves to the living to carry on the struggle they began. Too much blood has gone into this soil for us to let it lie barren. Too much pain and heartache have fertilized the earth on which we stand. We here solemnly swear, this shall not be in vain. Out of this, and from the suffering and sorrow of those who mourn this, will come, we promise, the birth of a new freedom for the sons of men everywhere.

The debate of whether Iwo Jima was really needed to win the war has been hotly debated. Some P-51 Mustang fighter planes did use the island to escort bombers but it wasn’t a major base.

The two Superfortresses that carried the atomic bombs lifted off from the Marianas and not Iwo Jima.

The sacrifice and bravery of those who fought for America were great and twenty seven Medals of Honor, the highest award for bravery in battle, were awarded. It was the most given out for a single battle. As the Commanderin-Chief of the Pacific Forces Admiral Chester Nimitz said about those fighting on Iwo Jima, “Uncommon valor was a common virtue.”

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the fourth day of battle, battered Marines finally reached the top of Mount Surabachi. On the fifth day of the battle, February 23, a patrol made it to the summit and raised a flag.

A photo was taken of this historic event but an admiral took the flag as a souvenir. Another, bigger flag was brought to the top and Jewish photographer Joe Rosenthal caught the most iconic image of the Pacific war. Five Marines and a navy corpsman raised the flag, and within two days, the image was soon printed in newspapers worldwide.

Capturing the island was far from definite even six days after the landings.

The attack on Airfield #2 came to halt when a massive tank assault failed. Airfield #1 had been repaired and was soon receiving planes to transport the growing number of wounded marines.

On March 4, 13 days after the landings, a B-29 made an emergency landing on the airfield. The men who had fought bravely for this small island now realized that their blood, sweat and tears finally amounted to something that would help bring the war to a close. However, the bomber command decided to switch to low level night raids to drop incendiary bombs on Tokyo. These produced immediate results.

These raids did not need fighter escorts and Iwo Jima was not going to be used as a fighter base. The island, though, still served as a base Rabbi Gittelsohn conducting service on Iwo Jima for damaged B-29 bombers. tions were camouflaged and even if an Pockets of Japanese soldiers held American gun was able locate them, out but after a month of fighting, about they were impossible to destroy be- 20,000 had been killed and over 200 cause they were reinforced with con- had been taken as prisoner. The final crete. It was up to the Marines to go Japanese attack came before dawn on in and flush out the well-entrenched March 26. The last 300 soldiers staged enemy with their basic weapons. How- a suicidal attack and surprised sleeping ever, they had one weapon in their ar- airmen. This raid was put down with senal that gave them a fighting chance: a hundred Americans dead. With this the flamethrower. It was able to burn last charge, the fight for the most part out enemy positions while other Ma- on Iwo Jima ended and the island was rines raked the now-exposed Japanese secure. The battle had lasted 36 days. with machine gunfire. Some tanks, 6,800 Americans had been killed and called Zippos, were also outfitted with 21,000 wounded. The Marines handed flamethrowers and could roll up to a over the cleaning up operations to the Japanese bunker without much dam- army and they reported killing 1,600 age. Finally, by the end of the second Japanese holdouts during the next two day of fighting, Airfield #1 was cap- months. tured and Marines were finally advancApproximately 1,500 Jews had ing on Surabachi. served on Iwo Jima and one of them Before the marines were able to was Rabbi Roland Gittelsohn who was reach the summit, it seemed that the attached the 5th Marine Division. He Japanese had a different idea on how to was the first Jewish chaplain in the Madrive the Americans away. Kamikaze rine Corps and was there for the invaplanes flew out of the sky to attempt sion and the ensuing battle on Iwo Jima. to hit U.S. Navy ships offshore. An es- After the battle, he was asked to give a cort carrier, the USS Bismarck Sea, was memorial sermon. About 70 people athit and sunk. Three other ships were tended the service including three Protbadly damaged. This pattern of suicide estant chaplains. Gittelsohn’s powerful planes continued for the rest of the war. sermon touched many men, and soon

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The first marines coming ashore did not encounter heavy enemy resistance until several waves had landed on the beach. Only then did the Japanese open up with withering fire from the prepared defenses. Artillery shells rained down from Surabachi, machine gunners opened up from hidden positions and snipers carefully picked their targets. Since the landings were easy at the beginning, a lot of vehicles and equipment clogged the beaches, which became easy targets for the Japanese.

By the end of the day, despite taking heavy casualties, the Marines managed to cross the island to cut off Surabachi from reinforcements from other areas of Iwo Jima.

The pre-invasion bombing had destroyed all vegetation, and only hot sand and volcanic ash remained. Marines advancing had no cover to hide behind and were sitting targets for the Japanese who had zeroed in on these exposed positions. Japanese posi-

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In The Kitchen

Naomi Nachman

The Perfect Dips urim is just around the corner—and that means that Pesach is almost here! I seem to have Pesach on my mind, and for those of you who prepare a little closer to Pesach, keep these yummy recipes around.

I love to make dips for Shabbat, so why not have it on Pesach, too? The key to having great dips is the fresh ingredients including garlic, lemons and cilantro. With the introduction of so many spices that are kosher for Pesach, you can also spice up your palate by adding cumin, cayenne and pepper to your Pesach dips.

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Matbucha Ingredients 1 tablespoon olive oil 1 large onion, cubed 4 cloves garlic, crushed 1 28oz. can crushed tomatoes 1 14oz. can diced tomatoes 1 bunch chopped cilantro, finely diced 1 tablespoon cumin ¼ cup sugar Dash of cayenne pepper Salt and pepper, to taste

Marinated Eggplant This recipe is from my mother, Miriam Stein, from Sydney, Australia. I asked her if I could print the recipe but she only had it in her head. She just told me that she makes it by adding a little of this and a little of that. You know the Yiddish expression, “shitz arein.”

I had to figure out the amounts of each of the ingredients, but after experimenting and with some further adjustments and tweaks, I was able to reconstruct her recipe.

Ingredients 1 large eggplant cut into ¼-inch rings Oil for frying Fistful of parsley, finely chopped 1 cup ketchup

Preparation Sautee onion in a tablespoon olive oil until onions are soft and translucent. Add garlic, both cans of tomatoes, and cook for 10 minutes. Then add the cilantro, cumin, sugar and cayenne pepper. Stir gently and cook until cilantro has wilted into the mixture.

Season with salt and pepper.

Cook for 15 minutes until reduced down and flavors are concentrated. Adjust any seasoning to your family’s taste.

4 tablespoons sugar ½ fresh lemon, juiced 4 cloves garlic, crushed Salt and pepper to taste Preparation Heat a large frying pan and fry eggplant in batches until light to medium brown.

Drain the eggplant in a colander to let the oil drip out. (Yes, it’s fattening but it’s totally worth it.) I leave a plate underneath the colander to catch the oil.

In a medium bowl mix the rest of the ingredients together.

Once the eggplant has drained for an hour, you can add it gently into the sauce, being careful not to break up the eggplant slices.

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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Ingredients 3 cloves crushed garlic 2 19oz. cans green pitted sliced olives 1 19oz. can Israeli pickles ½ cup pickled red peppers (optional) 1 teaspoon cumin Dash of cayenne pepper 2 tablespoons olive oil Preparation Mix all ingredients in a food processor until blended. It shouldn’t be too smooth and should have a little texture.

Eggplant Liver Ingredients 2 medium eggplants 2 cups oil 2 hardboiled eggs 1 small onion, sautéed in oil until light brown ¼ cup mayonnaise Salt to taste Preparation Slice the eggplant lengthwise into 4 spears, and then cut each spear across into 1-inch chunks. Arrange in a single layer on the counter and sprinkle with kosher salt. Let the eggplant rest in the salt for half hour. (The salt will help get rid of its light bitterness.) Wash under running water and dry with paper towels.

In a medium pot over medium-high heat, pour about 2 inches of oil. When the oil is hot (350° with an oil thermometer), slowly fry the eggplant in batches until golden brown. Transfer to a paper towel-lined cookie sheet. Repeat with the rest of the eggplant slices.

Take the fried eggplant, two hardboiled eggs and fried onion and blend them together. Add mayonnaise and salt to taste.

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to that familiar role. His teachers recognized this profile. Instead of offering up empty platitudes, they presented and supported him with work he could learn and master. As he accomplished more in the class, his increase in self-confidence was directly proportional with his feelings of competence. He stopped seeing himself as the class clown because he no longer needed to.

Keeping our responses honest and providing validation are the only ways to maintain our credibility with our children. Realistically, school is a tough place for a lot of our kids. It beats them down socially and emotionally.

Struggling students often get down on themselves and use a lot of negative language that exacerbates the situation.

“I’m dumb… I’m stupid… I’m not good at anything… I have a hole in my head, everything falls out.” Kids need a safe

It is imperative that you work with your child to uncover the area where he or she can shine. extra measures of non-directive praise and encouragement. Sometimes we bend over backwards to find actions or accomplishments to compliment them about, something or anything in order to bolster their fragile self-esteem. Is this helpful? Does it work? Can they see through our clumsy (but well-meaning) efforts? Does this deplete their already weak sense of self?

I believe that it does. I think they are smart enough to see through our charade. The bottom line is that kids feel good when they do well. The only way for this to happen is to place them in an environment where they can truly be successful and enjoy the fruits of their own labor.

This year, there was a new student in our CAHAL program who experienced a lot of failure in his previous school placements. He presented with a very sunny, affable, joking disposition that was masking a lot of the pain and his feelings of low self-esteem.

This student had played the “role” of the class clown for many years. When placed in our program, he tried to revert

way to sort out their feelings. For some children, school is a lot tougher than for others. It is appropriate to validate their feelings that school is hard. Because we all have strengths and weaknesses, an honest and appropriate lesson is that we don’t need to shine in everything that we do. However, we all need to excel in something. It is imperative that you work with your child to uncover the area where he or she can shine. It could be a specific academic area (kriah, tefilah, spelling, geography, etc.) or even an area that is totally unrelated to school (chessed, kibbud av v’em, sports, art, music, dance, etc.).

I recently met a former CAHAL student who had successfully returned to a local yeshiva elementary school class a number of years ago. For a critical period in her academic development, the yeshiva provided her with resource room support. She is now a young adult who has the maturity, depth and perspective to look back at her own years in special education. She remarked with dismay that her own yeshiva was no longer offering additional academic

help to their struggling students. She wondered wistfully what would have happened to her if the resources wouldn’t have been there for her when she needed them. She remembered the pain of her early failures along with the feelings of low self-esteem and poor self-concept. She also recalled how her perception of self shifted and improved when she began to experience real academic success in CAHAL. I think many of us forget that as adults we have the luxury of being “specificists,” while school demands our children to be “generalists.” I’ll give you a brief and personal illustration. Although I have a lot of years of schooling under my belt including a doctorate, when my boiler starts making funny noises and pipes begin knocking and banging, I call the plumber. I steer clear of the basement pipes and boiler, because I know it is not my domain. I am not embarrassed by my cluelessness. I can assist in things of a psychological nature, but I am hopeless with anything involving pipes. I firmly state that I know enough to know what I don’t know!

Interestingly, the luxury we offer ourselves as adults does not trickle down to our children. When they attend school, they are expected to master math, reading, spelling, etc. Each subject taps another area of the brain and a different area of expertise. We are not content for our children to be “speci-

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here are a lot of buzzwords today that grab the attention of parents and educators alike.

Parents have secret (and not so secret) wish lists for their children. Traits such as self-confidence, self-esteem, popularity, and self-assuredness are often at the top of these wish lists. Where do we get these attributes? How do we instill them in our children? While some of our charges are blessed with these characteristics, seemingly from birth, others struggle mightily to attain them. How can we help?

When consulting with parents, teachers or principals, I tend to stick to my oft-repeated mantra: “Competence is the bedrock of confidence.” Children know when they have succeeded and when they have failed. We, as the adults in their lives, try to cushion them when they fall. We might give

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ficists” and firmly acknowledge what they don’t know. We expect them to be “generalists” and master everything.

That sets a lot of children up for failure, and nobody likes to fail; it doesn’t feel good. That is the root of low self-esteem. How we as parents reframe and help our children is the beginning of the solution.

Let us help our children recognize their strengths, and at the same time validate their concerns and acknowledge that we all have weaknesses. Let’s give them a place where they have the opportunity to shine. Let them discover the wonder of being themselves. To achieve this, we must continue to keep in mind that true competence is the bedrock of confidence.

Dr. Suri Weinreb, Psy.D, is a clinical psychologist who is on staff at CAHAL and works with their students and families. She can be reached at the CAHAL office at 516295-3666.

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he Seattle Seahawks quarterback, Russell Wilson, committed a legendary mistake in Super Bowl XLIX. While standing 36 inches away from winning backto-back championships, he threw an interception that let the air out of the city of Seattle as their beloved team lost the Super Bowl. He felt terrible and responsible for the loss. “I hate feeling like I’m the one who lost it,” Wilson said after the game. This mistake, made on the grandest stage, could easily have a severe impact on anyone for a long time. He had just made the biggest mistake of his life in front of over 100 million people. It is hard to imagine the shame and pain that Wilson must have been feeling and how he felt about his ability as a quarterback.

As human beings, we make mistakes every day. Some mistakes are greater than others. Maybe we missed a deadline at work or we forgot to pick up the dry cleaning. Mistakes are hard for us to absorb. Mistakes are a part of our everyday life, yet they aren’t something we’re willing to live with. We try with all our strength to eliminate them from our existence.

Oftentimes a mistake will confirm a distorted belief of our own ineptitude, leading us to conclude that “I am bad” or “I can’t do this,” based on that single event. The power of a mistake then grows exponentially and one can become paralyzed by it.

Dr. Jennifer Gresham, a research scientist for the Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition, was living her life efficiently and expected the same high level of performance from those around her. Her approach seemed to be yielding exceptional results until her six-year-old daughter innocently asked her a life-changing question: “Mommy how come we’re not allowed to make mistakes?” Her daughter’s question disturbed Dr. Gresham and ultimately brought her to a major realization. “I realized I was killing my daughter’s creativity expecting efficiency and conformity,” Gresham said. Mistakes are part of growth; without them we may never learn things that we did not know before. In other words, we are who we

are because of our mistakes, not despite them. This led Dr. Gresham to incorporate a new ritual into her family’s morning routine. Every day at breakfast Dr. Gresham and her daughter say to each other, “It’s a great day

tion for the New England Patriots was a previously unheard of rookie named Malcolm Butler who had worked at Popeye’s prior to signing on with the Patriots. When questioned about his now-legendary play, Butler attributed

We are who we are because of our mistakes, not despite them.

to make a mistake,” reminding each other that although at times we may mess up, it can become a beautiful part of our experimentation, creative process, and improvement. While it may seem like Dr. Gresham was encouraging her daughter to stumble, she is really highlighting the importance of taking a chance in the face of a possible mistake. Not that we should become careless; we should have the courage to grow from it when it happens.

The challenge we face when making a mistake occurs when it appears that there is no way any good can come from it. It is hard to see how errors have value when the wound of our most recent blunder is so fresh.

Although there is tremendous difficulty in viewing things with such an optimistic view, these very mistakes can become the pathway to growth.

Every negative experience has, in turn, a positive opportunity. While we cannot control our lives to prevent all mistakes from happening, we can control the way in which we choose to react to them. It was George S. Patton Jr. who said, “I don’t measure a man’s success by how high he climbs but how he bounces when he hits bottom.”

His words ring true in all areas of life.

We are bound to fall and it is up to us to reemerge stronger.

At the Super Bowl there was another side to that game-clinching moment that powerfully demonstrates how mistakes can be transformed into incredibly positive results. The player who made the game-saving intercep-

his heroic play to a mistake he learned from during practice earlier in the week. In practice, his team simulated the exact play so that he would be prepared in the event the Seahawks would run it during the Super Bowl. Butler was beat on that simulated play, leading to a “touchdown” by the practice squad. The Patriots coaches reiterated the importance of this going well, insisting that he improve to “get it right” in time for game day. When it happened in the game, he was able to “get it right” when it really counted. Malcolm Butler was able to learn from his mistake in practice, enabling him to become better and shine in the moment of truth, as opposed to allowing it to knock him down. His mistake brought him to the realization of his limitation allowing him to focus on improvement.

In a recent group discussion at the Madraigos Teen Lounge, the boys engaged in meaningful conversation about attempting to be perfect and not accepting their mistakes. As a group they were able to identify pressure placed on them to not make mistakes and understand that we can learn from mistakes. Initially, many of the group participants felt that making mistakes were unacceptable, whether at school, at home, with friends or in any other situation. By the end of the discussion, the group was able to

experience a level of acceptance of their flaws and a sense of peace with themselves. Growing from mistakes and self-acceptance are fundamental beliefs of the Madraigos Teen Lounge.

The Lounge offers a space for adolescents to appreciate themselves, with all parts of themselves.

Although we cannot foretell how Russell Wilson will choose to deal with his mistake, we can learn from the challenge and the possibilities he has for growth. This experience may ultimately knock him down or become the mistake that leads to innovation, knowledge, growth, and improvement. Our own errors can become the very foundation that we build success upon. Rather than living in fear of making a mistake, we can allow ourselves to see the beauty in today being “a great day to make a mistake.”

Yehudah Alcabes, LMSW CASAC-T CSAT Candidate, is the Director of Adolescent Programing at Madraigos. For information about the Teen Lounge or other programs, please contact Yehudah Alcabes at (646) 404-2878 or at yalcabes@madraigos. org.

Madraigos, a 501c-3 not-for-profit 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. Its goal is to provide all of their 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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1. Adults dictate every facet of a child’s life. Adults tell children what to do, where to go, when and what to eat, etc. Children often feel restricted by the powerful adults in their lives. If a child is able to manipulate one of those imposing adults in their lives and get a rise out of them, it’s very thrilling. It’s a subconscious (and sometimes conscious) attempt to regain some control or even the playing field.

2. Undivided attention from a busy parent. Children yearn for their parents’ attention. They often have to compete with many other things that their parents are busy with. If a child is sufficiently chutzpadik to their parent and knows how to push the right buttons, the parent will drop whatever they’re doing and speak (or yell) at the child for a few minutes.

Even though it is negative attention that

adequately and not allow his chutzpah to persist.

So what to do when our child rails at us and acts with tremendous chutzpah?

The best tactic is to talk to ourselves in our minds and remind ourselves that the

“I would be happy to discuss this with you further when you speak to me with derech eretz.” responds with a diatribe about how mean and overbearing you are. You launch into a defensive mode and a major argument ensues. At the end of it all, you both are flustered and upset, but you have retreated back to the kitchen and she didn’t have to clean her room.

A teacher once came to my school social work office in a huff. She put down a test paper from one of her students which had an illustration on the bottom. There was a caricature of what obviously was meant to be the teacher, with a tank pointed at her. She was beside herself and was afraid to go home. I explained to her that the student really didn’t hate her or want to kill her, but hated the fact that he felt dumb in her class.

What’s the best response to chutzpah? If they are doing it to get a reaction, our best response is to ensure that it doesn’t work for them. Realize that the chutzpah is a tactic, and they generally don’t mean the things they are saying. They don’t really believe that “you are the meanest Mommy in the world!” or that they hate you, or whatever hurtful things they may say. When we respond to their nasty – yet ridiculous – comments, we are feeding into what they want.

When asked at a Torah Umesorah Convention a few years ago about how to handle chutzpah, Rav Aharon Leib Steinman shlita replied that there is no such thing. He meant that chutzpah is not something that happens in a vacuum, but is the child’s way of expressing some inner pain. That in no way excuses the child, but it helps us to realize that if our child is chutzpadik he is not an evil monster. Still we must do our best to respond

child doesn’t mean what he’s saying. Our best response is to calmly reply, “I would be happy to discuss this with you further when you speak to me with derech eretz.”

Then use the “broken record” technique (if you know what a record is). Keep repeating the phrase even as the child escalates her invective.

When they see you are not biting,

they will eventually back down.

At a later time, when there is a calm moment. it is a good idea to discuss what occurred, to give your daughter a chance to share her feelings respectfully. At that point, if the conversation goes well, you can remind your daughter that the Torah obligates her to speak to you with respect.

If you say it calmly and lovingly, then it may actually be effective.

Depending on the situation there may be a need for a consequence for the child’s chuzpah, but definitely not in the heat of the moment.

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. Rabbi Staum offers parenting classes based on the acclaimed Love & Logic Program. He can be reached at stamtorah@gmail.com. His website is www. stamtorah.info.

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The first part of this question entails that we understand why indeed children are chutzpadik. In a nutshell, children “use chutzpah” because it works! How so?

During an interview for admittance into an elementary yeshiva, the menahel asked a feisty eight-year-old boy what he does when he gets angry. The boy emphatically replied: “I use chutzpah!” He said it as if it was a tool in his arsenal.

There are three basic reasons why children are chutzpadik:

they are receiving, the needy child craves whatever he/she can get.

3. Divert attention away from the core issue. Perhaps this is even a situation that has arisen in your home. You ask your daughter to clean her room. She

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I’m at wit’s end with my fourteenyear-old daughter. Her chutzpah is driving me crazy. I feel like any time I ask her to do anything it ends up being a major blowup. She claims I ask of her more than any of her friends’ parents, even though I hardly think that has any truth, and she can also spew some other mean-spirited, disrespectful comments.

She doesn’t speak this way with my husband. This is not the way we raised her.

How should I react?

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One would think that giving children the impression that they are powerful – that they can do anything they want to and get away with it – will strengthen them. But it doesn’t work that way. Let’s take the case of Joey, who is three as we begin our story, and his parents, Alice and Menachem.

Joey is having an uneventful morning. He is not in preschool yet; he is a first child and his parents don’t see him as ready for it. He has eaten breakfast and is running around the house in an exuberance of energy. He notices a set of toys neatly placed in a plastic box and decides that throwing them around the room would be fun. He starts doing this, heaving them in every direction.

Alice comes out of the kitchen, sees the mess, and gently scolds him: “No, Joey, toys are for playing with. Come, let’s put them back into the box.”

But Joey will hear none of that. Alice figures that since he is only three, he doesn’t have the self-control to resist the temptation to have such fun and she starts to pick up the toys herself. Now, Joey is quite annoyed. He runs to the box and scoops up what his mother has just put away and throws them again. “No, Joey, that’s not the right thing to do.

Come, let’s keep cleaning up,” she tells him.

“No!” shouts Joey, puffing himself up to his full 38 inches and lurches for the toy box. To him, this game has changed to war. He not only throws more toys but punches his mother in the side while he is at it. Alice cries, not only from the pain of the punch but the frustration of not getting anywhere. At some level, deep inside, she can feel an old feeling of resentment bubble up inside of her.

When Menachem comes home, Alice complains to him about Joey. Menachem has had a hard day at work. He is not in the mood to discipline their young son. He is not in the mood to hear complaints, either. Alice isn’t so pleased with her husband’s attitude. “Well, you can just feed him dinner and put him to bed,” she says with a huff. (It’s so much easier to lay down the law with another adult sometimes than with a small child, isn’t it?)

Children need to be told, “No,” lovingly, gently, and persistently when their will needs curbing.

Joey, full of power from a day of doing whatever the moment and the mood called for, decides not to eat his dinner; it’s not his favorite. “Fine!” shouts his father, “then don’t eat, you little brat! To bed with you.” Menachem hauls Joey into his arms and brings him upstairs while Joey kicks, screams, and tries to wiggle out of his father’s clutch. Bedtime doesn’t go a bit easier, of course, and it ends, not with a gentle and loving recitation of Shema, but with a potch to Joey’s bottom, the door being slammed, and more harsh words.

Both Alice and Menachem are quite convinced that they are good parents whose child is a problem. They wonder: Perhaps he’s Bi-polar? Or Oppositional Defiant? Or maybe that new diagnosis they came up with in 2014, Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder?

Fast forward ten years. Joey has not wanted to prepare his bar mitzvah parsha. It’s too much work. For years, the teachers have told his parents that he is smart and not working to his potential. Frankly, Menachem and Alice have been glad that he stayed in school at all.

Joey concedes that he will just make the brachos before and after his aliyah and his parents figure that it is best not to tax him more than that.

Ten years later, you would think Joey would be starting to date, but he doesn’t feel ready. After high school, he did not know what to do next. Learning was not for him and neither was working.

He started a little business of his own, something online that his parents did not understand. They were glad he seemed to be bringing in an income of sorts so that he would one day start to date.

After another ten years, we find

Joey and his wife in therapy for marital problems. His wife is crying, not understanding how it is possible for him to not even think of giving her a birthday card, let alone a gift. And that is just the beginning of the litany of hurts that she can list. To her, Joey seemed like such a promising young man: strong, independent, self-assured, capable. What went wrong?

Let me try to explain that with an analogy. I recently hurt my shoulder and instead of being told to “let it rest,” the doctor sent me to physical therapy where I have to work out with resistance bands and a hand bicycle.

They are working me! Does it make sense that to gain real strength you must push yourself?

This is not only true with muscles but with will. To gain strength, a person must do what his own will doesn’t want to do: He must fight his will to take it easy; he must comply with requirements that he himself did not set; he must go out of his comfort zone. Whether it is to learn new skills, apologize for hurts, change his business plan, do things like give his wife the benefit of the doubt or anything else that is unfamiliar to him, growing in strength means stretching himself.

Alice and Menachem mistakenly thought that Joey’s little ego at three was too fragile to be pushed. As he grew older, that excuse would not work but by then he was a terror and they simply complied with his demands out of fear of an altercation that they couldn’t win.

Not that Menachem didn’t try in his own way.

By now, there really is something wrong with Joey, sad to say. But that wrong thing did not originate within him. It was not a chemical imbalance;

it was not a genetic flaw. It was lack of discipline, the loving, gentle but firm discipline that every human soul needs in order to grow strong enough to cope with the challenges and adversities of life. Alice was on the right track when she told her young son to clean up the mess.

But I am suspecting she was already letting him get away with murder one and two years earlier. Children need to be told, “No,” lovingly, gently, and persistently when their will needs curbing, starting when they can understand language at around one year of age. It is a tedious chore but there is no way to get around it. “No, you can’t touch the electric outlet. Come, play here with this wonderful toy.” “No, you shouldn’t throw your food on the floor. If you are finished, we will take you down from your high chair.” “No, you mustn’t touch baby’s face; here, pat her feet nicely, like this.”

By two, when the baby’s will gets stronger, the child is also used to listening to you and the job isn’t as hard as Alice must have found it. “No” can be substituted with, “I know you want X, but let’s do Y.” “I know you want to stay up, but we will need to go sleepy-time now.” “I know it is so much fun to run around shul, but we will sit quietly for two minutes and then go home.” “I know how much you love those cookies, but we will eat dinner first.”

Even though the two year old has a strong will, she is only two, after all, and all of the above techniques will work fine if you started this at one. No, Joey is neither Bi-polar nor ODD. Joey is undisciplined with a fragile ego. Can he strengthen it at 33? It’s much harder.

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A lot of doctors believe sitting is the new cancer.

- Apple CEO Tim Cook about a feature of the company’s new watch that prompts users to get up and move

Chinese President Xi Jinping is planning to make his first official state visit to the U.S., although I’m worried it’ll be a little awkward when he visits a school and says, “This factory is terrible.”

– Jimmy Fallon

There will be times I will say some things that will make you shake your head. There will be times I will say some things in a way that will make you think, “He maybe could have said that a little bit better.” But what you’ll never say is, “I don’t know who he is and I don’t know what he believes...” There’s only one Chris Christie, everybody, and this is it.

– New Jersey Governor Chris Christie at an event in New Hampshire

Researchers at the University of Vermont determined that the world’s happiest language is Spanish. German finished fourth, which I find hard to believe. In German, even “I love you” sounds like a threat.

– Jimmy Kimmel

A woman was arrested after she admitted to purchasing gasoline, driving to her exboyfriend’s house, and using it to set his new girlfriend’s car on fire. She’s now facing five years in prison and up to three Country Music Awards.

– Seth Myers

What do you mean, “Too many Bushes?” I’ve changed my mind.

- Barbara Bush at a dinner for her son Jeb, whom she previously said should not run for president

There’s no secret here in Washington about the animosity that this White House has for Prime Minister Netanyahu.

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With Barack Obama… it’s another story. Dignity of office? How quaint. In this most self-infatuated of presidencies, the D-word is at best an accessory and more often an impediment to everything Barry has ever wanted to be: Cool. Chill. Connected.

So it was that, hours after the U.S. confirmed the murder of Kayla Jean Mueller at the hands of Islamic State, Mr. Obama filmed a short video for BuzzFeed, striking poses in a mirror, donning aviator shades, filming himself with a selfie stick.

– Bret Stephens, Wall Street Journal

To the Jews of Europe and to the Jews of the world I say that Israel is waiting for you with open arms.

- Prime Minister Netanyahu in a statement urging European Jews to move to Israel after the latest anti-Semitic terrorist attack in Copenhagen

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In my opinion, [Prime Minister Netanyahu] is the Winston Churchill of the day, warning the world about Iran. Regrettably, [U.S. President Barack] Obama is the Neville Chamberlain of our day, in denial of the enormous vulnerability we have to the potential nuclear capabilities of Iran.

– Congressman Robert Pittenger (R-NC) while visiting Israel

A tell-all book by David Axelrod, one of President Obama’s former strategists, reveals that Obama chose Joe Biden as his VP because of his energy and enthusiasm.

You know, the qualities you look for in someone whose main job is traveling to state funerals.

– Jimmy Fallon

George Washington did not shake hands as president and would grip the hilt of his sword to avoid having his flesh pressed. The founding father understood that leadership in a republic demanded a careful balance between low populism and aristocratic lordliness. Personal comportment, the choice of clothes and carriage, modes of address: these things mattered.

And so we have “Mr. President” as opposed to “His Highness” or “George.”

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- Posting on the homepage of visitIthaca. com, the official tourism website of Ithaca, New York

The United States condemns the despicable and cowardly murder of twenty-one Egyptian citizens in Libya by ISIL-affiliated terrorists.

- White House statement which failed to acknowledge that the 21 victims were all Christians killed by radical Islamists

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That’s it. We surrender. Winter, you win. Key West anyone?

First I’m going to pay my tithes, because I wouldn’t have none of it if it wasn’t for G-d.

NBC has suspended Brian Williams for six months without pay. Williams said he’s not worried because soon his veteran’s benefits will kick in.

– Conan O’Brien

- Marie Holmes, a North Carolina mother of four who recently quit her jobs at Walmart and McDonalds and who won $188 million in the Powerball jackpot

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According to a new report, almost 100 percent of connected cars — cars with Bluetooth and the smart things in them — are vulnerable to hackers. The hackers can steal your data and control your vehicle. In other words, there’s never been a better time to own a 2002 Windstar.

– Jimmy Kimmel

Michelle just happened to come by for the first ad shoot, and that was the ad that closed with the line “Yes we can.” He read through the script once, and after the first take he said, “Gee, is that too corny?” I explained why I thought it was a great tagline, and he turned to Michelle and said, “What do you think?” She just slowly shook her head from side to side and said, “Not corny.”

Thank G-d she was there that day.

- Obama strategist David Axelrod in an interview with the New York Times

A lawmaker in Tennessee is pushing to make the Bible the official state book. It would replace Tennessee’s current state book, the menu at Cracker Barrel.

– Seth Myers

[W]e cannot win this war by killing them. We cannot kill our way out of this war. We need in the medium to longer term to go after the root causes that leads people to join these groups, whether it’s a lack of opportunity for jobs.

- State Department spokeswoman Marie Harf discussing the war on ISIS, on MSNBC If you ever come to the train station with me, you’ll notice that I have great relationships with them because there’s an awful lot of them driving cabs and are friends of mine. For real.

-Joe Biden discussing SomaliAmericans at a roundtable about terrorism

Congress is considering a law that would allow commuters to bring their dogs and cats on Amtrak trains. It’s all part of their plan to make Amtrak smell better.

– Jimmy Fallon It’s simple on the outside and strong in the inside – like me.

- James Robertson of Detroit, whose 21-mile daily trek to work made national headlines, upon choosing a Ford Taurus that was given to him from a car dealer who was inspired by his story

This week is the 10th anniversary of Google Maps. Or as 10-year-olds call them, “maps.”

- Jimmy Fallon

It was revealed that back in 2011 Michael Jordan was signing a poster for Obama’s 50th birthday but spelled the president’s name wrong. The president made sure Jordan’s name was spelled right when he had him audited by the IRS. - Jimmy Fallon

NBC suspended Brian Williams for six months without pay for misrepresenting a story of something that happened to him 12 years ago in Iraq. I have a solution. They should send him up in a helicopter, fire an RPG at it, and if he makes it down, that’s enough. He’s forgiven.

– Jimmy Kimmel

Thousands of San Francisco residents may have been exposed to measles because an infected LinkedIn employee used public transit this week. But on the bright side, it’s the most connections anyone on LinkedIn has ever made.

– Seth Myers

I thought [Jordanian King Abdullah of Jordan] actions were heroic. He was like, “No, you cannot do that to my people.” I wish President Obama was like that sometimes. I do. I think that is the way we have to treat ISIS. We can’t keep thinking it will go away.

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I would like to offer some tips that may provide relief for those of you who are going or will be going through this experience. But first, to demonstrate what not to do, I will describe a recent colicky baby seen at my office.

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he “Cohens,” a pleasant young couple, arrived at my office for a well visit for their firstborn daughter, “Chava.” Chava was a beautiful baby, born via a natural delivery and without any initial complications. After struggling for two weeks to nurse the baby, Mrs. Cohen decided to supplement Chava’s diet with infant formula. A milk-based formula was suggested by her pediatrician in Brooklyn. A few days later, however, Mrs. Cohen noted that Chava became very cranky. She would have frequent bursts of pain when sleeping or awake. She seemed to want to be held a lot, especially at night. It seemed that from 7pm to 11pm, all Chava wanted was

Colicky babies are usually easily consolable if you hold and gently rock them.

to be held. Chava was also noted to pass more gas during these hours. At first, the concerned mother-in-law (with the gentle, concerned encouragement of her son) pushed Mrs. Cohen to feed Chava more often and try and quiet her shouts with formula, but to no avail; the shouts just got louder and louder. The parents also noted that with the extra feedings, Chava started having larger and more frequent spit ups at night.

After a few days, the Cohens decided to visit their pediatrician. He suggested that Mrs. Cohen avoid eating dairy and suggested a “gentle” formula with less lactose (Similac Sensitive or Enfamil Gentlease). The crying continued.

At the next trip to the pediatrician, the Cohens were told to try a soy-based formula (Isomil or Prosobee). The new formula did not work. Not only did Chava’s shouting continue, but she also started having more formed and less frequent bowel movements.

Back to the doctor and back with another formula. This time, the doctor suggested a formula made for milk-allergic babies – Alimentum or Nutramigen. In contrast to the previously mentioned formulas, these are not kosher, but can be used for kids with true milk allergies. The Cohens noted that their pockets were getting lighter due to the more costly formula, but their sleep was getting yet shorter due to Chava’s crying. By now, with all the stress and sleepless nights, not to mention the vast dietary restrictions for mom, Mrs. Cohen’s milk supply had dwindled and dried. On a brighter note, Chava’s bowel movements did loosen a bit, but now they turned bright green.

At week 5, the Cohens already knew the entire crowd in the waiting room. It was interesting that with all the chatting noise in that room, no one heard the baby cry! This time, the doctor suggested an even better and more expensive formula, in which the milk is digested to its elemental molecules (Elecare or Neocate). But despite all the good intentions and the emotional, physical and financial sacrifice, Chava kept crying.

At six weeks, the Cohens finally left

Bubby and Zeidy’s house and moved back to their residence in the Five Towns. They heard from a neighbor that Chava might also possibly suffer from reflux and may need a medicine for relief.

They wanted to know what my feelings were.

Hearing this entire story may have taken five minutes of my time, but did provide me with all the necessary clues that Chava was fine. Chava demonstrated classic signs and symptoms of colic and was probably going to outgrow her condition in the next days or weeks.

Here are the telltale signs of colic: • Colic usually starts after 2 weeks of life.

• Colicky babies usually cry more at nights between 7pm -11pm • Colicky babies are consolable when they are held.

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am sure that many of the more experienced parents have already dealt with the nerve-wracking shouts of an irritable baby on those seemingly endless nights in early infancy. Often, when parents describe what they are going through with their firstborn, they break down and cry in my office. I can completely sympathize with their feelings. After waiting nine long months through pregnancy, going through a long and (very) painful labor, parents finally get to greet their precious newborn. And yes, after the long hours of planning a befitting bris or a kiddush, when the guests and in-laws have

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• Colicky babies pass gas often during their bouts of pains (with some relief).

• Colic pain happens in bursts, not a constant pain.

• Colicky babies fair worse when they are over-fed.

I was so happy that the Cohens arrived at my office right then, because I was able to easily dispel the notion of Chava having a milk allergy and saved the Cohens literally thousands of dollars. I suggested a list of simple and widely-used interventions and switch Chava back to her original milk-based formula.

Here are some of my suggestions for colicky babies: • During periods of pain, give the baby 2oz. of Chamomile tea (yes, made with regular chamomile tea bags) with ½ tsp of brown sugar. Chamomile has a calming effect on your baby’s gut. Brown sugar is a natural laxative that aids in reducing intestinal gas.

• Mylicon Drops – these drops contain Simethicone, which binds and eliminates gas. It works in 50% of infants with gas.

• Gripe Water – made of concentrated chamomile, also works well 50% of the time.

• Nursing Mothers – avoid eating foods that make you gassy such as

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cabbage, lettuce and beans. Avoid tomato sauce, pizza, lasagna, coffee, chocolate and spicy foods as those will exacerbate your baby’s spit up and cause painful heartburn. Drink lots of chamomile tea.

Elimination Diets – nursing mothers could eliminate one food for 3 days and observe any improvements. Start with dairy and soy, proceed to egg whites and end with nuts. If no significant improvement is seen after three days, you could re-introduce these foods.

Singing lullabies to your baby can be powerfully soothing.

“White” noise – may soothe some babies. You can buy white noise machines or try the sound of a fan, vacuum cleaner, washing machine, or dishwasher.

Stay Calm – do not shake the baby out of frustration. Colicky babies are usually easily consolable if you hold and gently rock them.

Colic pains peak between 6-8 weeks. 60% of colic resolves by 3 months, 90 percent resolves by 4 months of age. At that point, these babies turn out to be the quietest, cutest little angels!

If symptoms persist or worsen, call and schedule an immediate

appointment with your physician.

What are some other causes of pain in young infants?

Milk Allergy – the gold standard test that will confirm this diagnosis is bloody stools. Yes, I have noticed that in recent years there is a definite surge in milk-allergic infants, but they almost always have blood in their stools (on occasion, they may present with horrific eczema). A stool guaiac test could reveal microscopic blood and help determine if a child is allergic even before visible blood is seen in the stools. These stools can start off looking green for a long time before the parents see real, bright blood in their infant’s stool. Most milk allergies in infancy resolve by the first birthday.

Gastro-Esophageal Reflux – all babies spit up to some extent. This is normal. Babies with reflux, however, have a lot of pain associated with spitting up. So harsh is the pain that these babies may refuse to finish their bottles. They arch their backs a lot. When a baby with reflux experiences pain (heartburn), the pain is constant and they are not easily consolable, in sharp contrast to colicky infants.

Back to our Chava: Chava changed back to her original, tasty and inexpensive milk-based formula. As with many of my other patients, she enjoys a cham-

omile tea a few times a day and on subsequent visits she was found to be thriving. Her parents were also instructed to take some reflux precautions to minimize her spit up. Her nightly colic pains did resolve and her parents started sleeping soundly when she turned 3 months old.

Wishing you restful, peaceful and quiet nights!

David Elazar Simai, M.D. Dr. David Simai is a Board Certified Pediatrician from the Five Towns. He is a full time attending in his own private practice since 2007 in Cedarhurst, New York. In addition, he is an Attending Physician at LIJ-Cohen Children’s Hospital, North-Shore Manhasset University Hospital and South Nassau Communities Hospital. He can be contacted for consultation at 516 374-2228 or via email at davidsimai@yahoo.com.

NOTE: name, gender, geographical area and other identifying information where deliberately altered in this article in order to protect the patient’s privacy. This article is not intended to help diagnose or treat any specific disease. Always consult your personal physician before diagnosing or treating yourself or your child for any of the above mentioned illnesses.

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Matanas L’evyonim

Giving Generously Aside from the minimum requirement of the mitzvah of matanas l’evyonim, one should go a step further and give to anyone who sticks out a hand on Purim. However, it should be pointed out that this only refers to poor people who are collecting for themselves and not to groups or people who are collecting for other people. The poskim say that one may even give to a non-Jew because of darchei shalom, although others say that the custom is not to give to non-Jews, but one who has the custom to do so may continue with it.

What’s Considered Money?

Check- The poskim maintain that giving a check to a poor person fulfills the mitzvah of matanas l’evyonim.

Some say one should make sure that either the bank is opened or he can get something with the check, i.e. food.

Others say that there is no reason for the bank to be opened in order to fulfill

the mitzvah, but he should be able to buy something. Some poskim say that one is permitted to give a post-dated

obligated to give matanas l’evyonim from the money which he receives.

Children- A child should be

One has to give one matana to each of two poor people. check as well. However, the custom is not to give a post-dated check for the mitzvah of matanas l’evyonim. Some poskim say the same would apply to one who gives a check but does not have the funds to cover the check.

However, if one will have funds when the poor person cashes the check, then it is permitted. One may use a credit card for matanas l’evyonim if it will be processed by Purim.

Money which cannot be spent in the country it is given in cannot be used for the mitzvah of matanas l’evyonim.

Food- The opinion of many poskim is that one does not have to give money in order to fulfill the mitzvah of matanas l’evyonim, and one is permitted to give anything which the poor person will benefit from.

Switching Meals One who gives a seuda to his friend and his friend gives a seuda to his friend then they were both yotzei matanas l’evyonim.

Who Are Obligated?

Women - Women are obligated in this mitzvah. Although some say a married woman is yotzei the obligation when her husband gives, one should not rely on this, and instead she should ask her husband for money and give on her own. A man can give to a poor woman and a woman can give to a poor man. Additionally when giving money for one’s wife a man should tell the gabbai to be koneh the money for his wife and give it for her.

Poor Person- A poor person is

trained in this mitzvah and his father should either give him money to give to the poor or the father should tell the child that he is giving on his behalf.

How Much to Give The opinion of the Ritva is that one may give a pruta (a minimal amount) for matanas l’evyonim. Others say that one should give the amount that the poor person will be able to buy a seuda with. Others say it should be a chashuva amount.

The opinion of Horav Moshe Feinstein zt”l is that one should give one dollar.

However, this opinion was expressed many years ago, and today one cannot buy much with that amount. One should give the amount of money that one can buy a bagel with cream cheese and a coffee.

Horav Elyashiv zt”l is quoted as saying that one can give fifty shekalim (in Eretz Yisroel). It is praiseworthy to give small amounts of money to many poor people instead of a lot of money to fewer people.

From Masser Money Since the mitzvah of giving matanas l’evyonim is an obligation, one may not give the ikkur obligation of matanas l’evyonim from one’s masser money. However, if one will be giving to more than one poor person then

he may use his masser money for the other recipients.

Eating Before Sending Matanas L’evyonim There are some poskim that say one should not eat (a substantial amount of food, tasting is permitted) before performing the mitzvah of matanas l’evyonim. However, most poskim say that one is permitted to eat before the mitzvah is performed. The reason for this leniency is because one will not forget to send the matanas l’evyonim.

Horav Moshe Feinstein zt”l said one can give matanas l’evyonim before the reading of the megillah (by day).

Others give it before davening.

Mishloach Manos First or Matanas L’evyonim?

Many say that one should give matanas l’evyonim before giving mishloach manos. Others maintain

that mishloach manos should be given before matanas l’evyonim since mishloach manos is stated first in the posuk. One who does not have enough money for both mitzvahs should give matanas l’evyonim.

Sending before Purim Many times one sends a check in the mail before Purim and it reaches the poor person after Purim. The poskim say that in order for one to fulfill the mitzvah properly one should make sure that the poor person receives the money on Purim because of a concern that the poor person will Continued on page 106

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The Source The posuk in the Megilah is the source of the mitzvah to give matanas l’evyonim on Purim. This means that one has to give “matanas” to two people, which in essence means that one has to give one matana to each of two poor people. The more that one gives to poor people on Purim the more fortunate he is. One should give more money to the poor on Purim than he spends for mishloach manos or the seuda. One who gladdens the hearts of these unfortunate people is comparable to the shechina’s presence.

One of the basic reasons for the mitzvah of giving matanas l’evyonim is in order to make poor people happy on this day when everyone else is happy.

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uring the days and weeks before Purim the mail is full of letters requesting matanas l’evyonim. To whom are we obligated to give, how much should be given, and when should we give matanas l’evyonim? Let’s explore this mitzvah together.

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use the money before Purim. One who will be sending to many poor people can send the money even if it reaches the poor person before Purim. If the poor person has the money, one was yotzei and there is no difference if the poor person actually used the money for the seuda or not.

Classifying a Poor Person The opinion of some is that an “evyon” is different than a poor person and one only has an obligation to give an “evyon” on Purim. A poor person is someone who is embarrassed to ask for money and an “evyon” does not have any embarrassment. The accepted opinion is that any poor person may be given money on Purim. Some say a poor person in this regard means one who does not have a steady salary and cannot support his family. Others say that since it is not common to find a person who does not have money for a seudha, one can give for hachnasas kallah, health, etc. A son who is being supported by his parents is not a poor person and one cannot give him matanas l’evyonim. There is a discussion in the poskim whether a husband and wife can qualify as two separate people in regards to matanas l’evyonim.

If the poor person says that he

is mochel the money, the giver was not yotzei the mitzvah of matanas l’evyonim.

Using a Messenger There is no need for one to hand the money to the poor person by himself, rather he may use a messenger for this purpose. The Aruch Ha’shulchan says one can appoint a messenger before Purim to give for him on Purim.

Giving Money to Poor People in Eretz Yisroel Recently it has become the custom to give to poor people in Eretz Yisroel.

What happens is that whatever pledges are given in America someone in Eretz Yisroel lays out the money until he is reimbursed. According to the view of the Aruch Ha’shulchan mentioned above, it would seem that one is not yotzei since the messenger was not made on Purim. Nonetheless, the custom is to be lenient.

Money to Rabbeim The Aruch Ha’shulchan maintains that one should give money on Purim to all people who are involved in klei

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kodesh. When giving money to Rabbeim one is not yotzei the mitzvah of matanas l’evyonim. One can use masser money for this purpose.

Day or Night The main time to give matanas l’evyonim is on the day of Purim and not the night before, although one who gave it at night was yotzei according to some poskim. If one will be giving to more than one person then one may give the matanas l’evyonim at night as well. When groups come collecting at night after the Purim seudah there is no mitzvah of matanas l’evyonim at that time. Giving to them is still a mitzvah of tzedaka. One should give the matanas l’evyonim before shekiah on Purim day.

Different Time Zones When money is distributed by people in America for poor people in Eretz Yisroel, it is very often done when it is early morning in Eretz Yisroel and at night in America. It is unclear why this is permitted. It could be that the permissibility of this would depend on the question if one is allowed to give matanas l’evyonim before Purim. If an American who ob-

serves Purim on the fourteenth gives money to a Jew in Eretz Yisroel who observes Purim on the fifteenth, he has fulfilled his obligation if the poor person still has the money in his possession on the fifteenth.

Forgiving a Debt If a poor person owes money, one is not yotzei the mitzvah of matanas l’evyonim if he is mochel the debt and does not give him other money for Purim.

Knowing Who Gave the Money In many cases when one gives money to a poor person on Purim it is done through the mail. The poskim address the question if the poor person has to know who sent him the money. The opinion of the poskim is that the poor person does not need to know who is giving the money and the giver is yotzei in any case.

Rabbi Moishe Dovid Lebovits is a former chaver kollel of Yeshiva Torah Vodaath and a musmach of Harav Yisroel Belsky shlita. Rabbi Lebovits currently works as the Rabbinical Administrator for the KOF-K Kosher Supervision.

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are absent from your question, your instincts are correct in that you were not properly served with the lawsuit papers. In simplified terms, under the law of the State of New York, and probably most other states, to properly serve a defendant with process, the lawsuit papers must be delivered (1) to the person individually; (2) via another person of “suitable age and discretion,” which is a succinct reference to a legally responsible person, PLUS an additional requirement that the documents be properly mailed to the defendant; or (3) via the infamous method of “nail & mail,” meaning that the documents are both attached to the defendant’s door PLUS properly mailed. Arguably, my paraphrasing of the law is an oversimplification, and I anticipate that some of my colleagues will give me flack because of it; nonetheless, for these purposes, that is the gist of the law.

If service of process fails to follow one of these methods, a defendant’s lawyer could file a motion with the court to have the case dismissed.

In fact, based on the facts which you provided, none of these methods were met, since you only received the documents by mail. So, we now return to your question: Why did your lawyer say “it does not matter”?

The answer is that if your lawyer was to file the motion and it was then to be granted, meaning that the court was to dismiss the case, in your situation, the plaintiff’s lawyer would simply start the lawsuit anew from “scratch”—he or she can, and will, simply prepare a new Summons & Complaint and, this second time, be sure that you are properly served. The plaintiff’s lawyer in your case can do this since your accident was only last summer and the three years’ Statute of Limitations has not expired. Stated another way, since the plaintiff’s attorney has three years in total in which to sue, and since there is, say, at least another two years remaining, the law will allow the lawyer to simply try again.

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Brady’s running a play called “tax planning.” It’s saving him thousands.

And it’s not even one of Coach Bill Belichek’s clever tricks! Here’s some more

good news — you don’t have to be Super Bowl MVP to run the same play yourself.

Just make sure you’re ready to suit up against the IRS. Allan J Rolnick is a CPA who has been in practice for over 30 years in Queens, NY. He welcomes your comments and can be reached at 718-896-8715 or at allanjrcpa@aol.com.

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is why estate tax lawyers drive Jaguars.)

But nobody wants to see Brady get sacked with extra taxes. So instead of giving the truck to Brady (to give to Butler), Chevy is shotgunning the truck directly to Butler. That means the undrafted 24-yearold rookie, whose career highlights include passing thousands of battered chickens into the fryer at his hometown

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ou probably thought the holiday season ended after Chanukah. But then you would have forgotten the closest thing we have to a national fair.

We’re talking, of course, about the Super Bowl, our only nationally-televised event that makes people look forward to the commercials as much as the game!

This year’s contest was another nail-biter that remained close until New England cornerback Malcolm Butler intercepted a Seattle goal-line pass with just 20 seconds left on the clock. (If the Patriots want the rest of the NFL to take their “dynasty” seriously, they’re going to have to learn how to blow someone out like the 1990s-era San Francisco 49ers used to do!) But while Pats fans may be cheering loudest, there’s another group that’s cheering too, and that’s the team at the IRS. New England quarterback Tom Brady became just the third NFL passer to take home a fourth Super Bowl ring. He also took home a $400,000 bonus for his effort. (Brady and his wife had to scrape by on about $60 million last year, so the cash is probably welcome.) And General Motors gave him a loaded Chevy Colorado pickup truck worth $35,000 for winning the MVP trophy, too.

So . . . the IRS intercepts 39.6% for income tax and 3.8% for Medicare on Brady’s $400,000. The Massachusetts Department of Revenue picks off 5.2% more, and you can see why the tax man leaves Brady so deflated. (Sorry.) Multiply that by everyone on the Patriots roster and now you know why the receivers at the IRS cheer for every Super Bowl winner!

Now, Brady is awfully glad that Malcolm Butler intercepted that pass. So instead of taking that Chevy truck for himself, he’s giving it to Butler. But that creates a tax problem. You see, if Brady takes the prize himself, then laterals it to Butler, Brady pays the same federal and state income and Medicare taxes on the truck as he does on his $400,000 cash bonus — but then he has to contend with gift tax, too. Brady can give up to the $14,000 “annual exclusion” amount, free from tax, to as many people as he likes in a year. If Brady and his spouse make a gift together, they can double that amount to $28,000. Anything above that annual exclusion eats away at Brady’s $5.43 million “unified credit” against gift and estate taxes. Any gifts he makes during his life that aren’t sheltered by the annual exclusion or unified credit are subject to a 40% tax. (Don’t worry if none of this makes any sense — understanding it all

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east or famine. Catered to or corralled. Sprawled out or balled up.

Flitting in and out versus continuously “occupied!”

Welcome to business class versus coach!

Would you ever believe you are traveling on the same airplane? I’ve seen it

from both ends now and trust me, I don’t know why they call it “business.” I’d call it pleasure!

The difference is mind-blowing, especially on an international flight. You can actually stretch your feet out in front of you versus having to wrap them around the sides of your head, all the

while praying you’ll be able to de-pretzel to deplane. After all, who can get sleep if their feet aren’t elevated somewhere? When I go coach I try anything to elevate my legs—from suspending my feet over the tray table, floating gingerly in the air over the person in front of me to competing with the magazines and

earphones for a spot in the seat pocket.

But in business, there are twenty buttons at your fingertips with every type of adjustment –head up, feet up, knees up, along with drawings, arrows, and road maps, just to get you comfortable.

Honestly, one button would do just as well – as long as it could get you into that optimal position – supine – that is distinguished from the button installed in coach which merely aids you in making a narrow escape from suffocation from the person in the seat in front of you pressing their button!

You’re permitted to dance in the aisles versus encouraged to get out of the aisle!

Offered some wine versus advised not to whine!

Told “Wow, Quite a kid” versus “Quiet the kid!”

In one: You’re royalty. The other: a royal pain!

You can arrive at your destination with freshly brushed teeth, neatly combed hair, ears saved from noise, eyes protected from light, toes kept warmy, shwarmy—all this provided in a lovely leather pouch and the tab’s on the airline.

Or consider bloodshot eyes, morning breath and nerves on edge—all provided by the airline as well.

What would be the terrible crime if everyone had a little more comfort? After all, it’s not as if you can go out for some fresh air and come back refreshed and ready to cope again!

How nice it would be if everyone could fly “pleasure.” At least once with some upgrade! It’s not like you’ll get sooo use to it that you can never go back.

The human mind forgets!

Luckily, though, it’s not so different in the long run – between getting absorbed in the movie, waiting for your food or drinks, reading your bestseller, dabbling on your iPad... Everyone ultimately finds sleep the same way...with a little help! And where that takes you, class doesn’t matter – only dreams do!

So if you can experience this taste of luxury, go ahead. But don’t sweat it if you can’t – the turbulence still affects everyone.

The pilot is not giving anyone a better ride and guess what? You all arrive at your destination at the exact same time either way!

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119 Rebbetzin Naomi N. Herzberg

From the age of twelve, she spent many hours studying painting, as the schoolhouse only taught reading, writing and arithmetic. Most of the young women of the times would be taught, what was considered quite ladylike at the time, to draw and paint. Georgia’s

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and shapes in her paintings.

She would find unique ways of expressing herself through these unusual pieces of art. An example of this technique is her oil on canvas titled “Yellow Hickory Leaves with Daisy with Daisy” Yellow Hickory Leaves which was created in 1928. art depictThis enlarged piece of art ed her American vision. She was quite speaks volumes. What does it tell us protective of her art and did not like about the artist? As stated by Geogia when anyone would voice their opinion O’Keeffe herself, “I found that I could about her work. She had never looked say things with color and shapes that I at other artists’ artwork at this point. couldn’t say in any other way—things She did, however, develop a passion for that I had no words for.” art which remained constant her entire Georgia O’Keeffe grew up in the life after seeing a piece of work in one Midwest on her family’s farm in Wis- of her mother’s books which inspired consin. To pass the time in the evening, her. she would play with her dollhouse In 1905, she arrived in Chicago as a while sitting by the cozy fire. Life was well-developed artist with unique ideas quiet and uncomplicated as her mother of her own. She began formal studies at would read story after story about the the School of the Art Institute of ChicaWild West. go and at the Art Students League. She

eventually landed a job teaching art in Texas. She also went on to study art at the Fine Arts Department at the Teacher’s College at Columbia University in New York.

When she was in her seventies, Georgia took her first trip on an airplane and then painted what she saw, how she viewed it. It became another of her famous paintings which she titled, “Sky Above Clouds IV.” She enjoyed working with few colors and depicting specific objects. They were usually drawn from nature and done in simple shapes, painted to the edge of her canvas.

O’Keeffe’s paintings are recognizable even without a signature. Many of

her works were photographed by her husband who was a photographer and enjoyed promoting her work. Georgia O’Keeffe lived a full life of almost 100 years.

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. Presently she is the Director of Operations at Shulamith School for Girls. Please feel free to email nherzberg@ optonline.net with questions and suggestions for future columns.

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rt is a wonderful venue to use to express oneself and give a message in visual form which is easy to understand. Georgia O’Keeffe would enlarge objects taken from nature and explore their colors, textures

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Bags Ribbon Cello Roll Cello Bags

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Circleware Gold, Ruffle Glass Platter

M.-W. 10:00-8:00 Th. 10:00-9:00 F. 10:00-3:00 S. 10:00-7:00

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Glass Covered Apothecary Jar

Travel Hat Box

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