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Even as we enjoy relative comforts we are acutely aware that we are living in golus. When Hamas uses kites to fly flaming balloons into Israel and when terrorists sharpen their knives in their kitchens as they salivate for Jewish blood, we know we are in golus. When children become disenchanted with the beauty of Yiddishkeit and go astray, we know we are in golus. When neighbors stop speaking to each other because of a dispute over a few inches of property in between their homes, we know we are in golus. And when members of our community are told of horrible diagnoses when they are far too young and when their children have to see them struggle with the incapacitating effects, we know we are in golus.

Our community is not just blessed because of the comforts we enjoy. We are also blessed because of the heart of our community that runs deep. We are a community made up of individuals who care for one another – sincerely. When someone is hurting or when someone is happy, we are there for them. We commiserate in each other’s sorrows but even more so we revel in their simchos. Our unity is manifest in the hundreds of gemachs that dot our town. It’s noticeable when we daven for each other or when we make meals for those who need. It’s palpable when WhatsApp groups are created so we can be there for each other to comfort and to help.

And with that, with our giant heart, I know that some time soon we will join together as one unit to greet Moshiach, may he come speedily.

wonder if perhaps it was easier to feel the golus when we were living in the shtetls of Europe, surrounded by animosity and hatred.

Truthfully, there’s no need to wonder. The Jews there felt no comforts. Many of them were living hand-to-mouth, barely sustaining their families. They were downtrodden. They were despised. They were the subject of many a blood libel and slur. And they felt the golus keenly. They would yearn for a time when they would no longer be viewed as vermin, when they could serve their G-d openly without fear.

More than seven decades after six million Jews were systematically incinerated, beaten and starved to death, the Jewish nation has been blessed with lives of comfort. We enjoy relative security and are able to fulfill our mitzvos with joy and without fear of reprisal. But the disadvantage of all the luxuries we have been blessed with is that we sometimes forget that we’re still living in golus and that, no, Moshiach has not yet arrived.

A few months ago I met with someone who lives in Israel. In a gentle yet passionate manner he quipped that although the name of our newspaper is The Jewish Home, the real Jewish home is in Eretz Yisroel. He looked around at Central Avenue with all its stores perfect for a Jewish family, and he looked around at all the shuls and yeshivos that our community has built, and he was still reminded that we’re really not at home.

Home, he emphasized, is in Eretz Yisroel. And very soon, he added, we’ll really be home, when Moshiach will come and we will be respected as a nation in our Land.

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Contents LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

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COMMUNITY Readers’ Poll

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Community Happenings

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This Week We’re Talking to … Camp Avnet

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NEWS

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Global

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National

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Odd-but-True Stories

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ISRAEL Israel News

My Israel Home

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PEOPLE The Shepherd’s Staff

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Abraham Krotoshinsky & the Lost Battalion by Avi Heiligman

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PARSHA Rabbi Wein

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Tunneling To Yerushalayim by Rav Moshe Weinberger

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JEWISH THOUGHT We Want Moshiach – but now? by Eytan Kobre

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Bobker on Tisha B’Av

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Why We Cry on Tisha B’Av

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HEALTH & FITNESS

Dear Editor, Your Notable Quotes column is the first feature I turn to every week.

You manage to include witty, political and interesting quotes week-in, week-out.

This week I took one of the quotes to heart. You quoted billionaire Mark Cuban, who said that the best employees are those who decrease their bosses’ stress. Now, when I go to the office each day I keep this in mind. It’s my job to make my boss’s day less stressful and to make things easier for him. I know that if I keep this in mind I will continue to be an integral and indispensable asset to his team.

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themselves. They tell themselves that they are saving the world or humanity while they are systematically slaughtering whole communities.

Your news item this week, “Terror Group Bans Plastic,” is hardly anything new. When Hitler was gassing and incinerating six million Jews, he had the utmost compassion for animals. Now, terror groups that cut off people’s limbs and stone people to death say that they are concerned about the environment.

Plastic bags won’t destroy the world. Slaughtering innocent men, women, and children – well, that’s the worse destruction you can imagine.

Harvey Plinner

Dear Editor, A round-up of recipes for the Nine Days was truly helpful this week when I started hearing sighs of “there’s nothing to eat” from my teenagers. Thank you!

Shari Gordon

Dear Editor, My apparel company recently exhibited at The Las Vegas Convention Center. I had a great business day on Monday. After the show several of the fellows also exhibiting went out for dinner at a kosher restaurant. After coming back to The Venetian Hotel I was walking around, seeing thousands of people in the hotel. As I was walking past

Dear Editor, Misplaced compassion is a way for evil people to feel good about

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If He Loves Me Why Won’t He Do What I Ask by Dr. Deb Hirschhorn 82 Fasting Made Easy by Cindy Weinberger, MS RD

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FOOD & LEISURE The Aussie Gourmet: Zucchini Onion Frittata 85

July is National Hotdog Month.

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Dating Dialogue, Moderated by Jennifer Mann, LCSW

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Your Money

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Get in Their Head by Rivki D. Rosenwald Esq., CLC, SDS

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HUMOR Centerfold

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POLITICAL CROSSFIRE Notable Quotes

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Trump Isn’t Attacking NATO. He’s Strengthening It by Mark Thiessen 91 What in Helsinki Happened by Nate Davis CLASSIFIEDS

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a beauty care store a young girl approached me and said, “Here is a free sample package of lotions for your skin.” I told her no thank you and asked her if I may come into the store and sit down. She agreed. I then asked her name and where she is from. She said her name is Orit and comes from Israel. Then she asked me where I was from. I told her I was from New York attending the apparel show at the convention center and that I am going back to

New York on Wednesday morning.

Then she looked me in the eye and asked for a very special favor.

What could she want from me?

Orit then asked if I would please take a letter to the Lubavitcher Rebbe’s resting place. She needed a blessing from the Rebbe, she said.

I was floored and of course said I would, with pleasure, take her letter.

So she started to write the letter and two other women working in the store also said they wanted to write a letter to the Rebbe for a blessing.

Then a fourth girl came and said she

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wanted to write a letter. I had four envelopes in my hand to take to the Rebbe. The owner of the store then walked in and asked what was going on. Orit told the owner, Yosef Yitzchak, that I was taking their letters to the Lubavitcher Rebbe’s resting place in Queens, New York. And then he asked me to take a letter to the Rebbe’s Ohel.

I left the store with five letters in my hand and in awe of what just happened.

On Sunday morning I went to the Rebbe’s resting place in Cambria Heights, Queens, with the five envelopes.

Thank You Hashem for giving me the opportunity to do this mitzvah.

May we all continue learning Torah and perform mitzvot until the arrival of Moshiach Tzidkeinu.

Sincerely, Yosef Mordechai Gati

Dear Editor, Thank you for publishing the meaningful letter to the editor by Daniel Feldman, issue July 12, 2018.

It is indeed horrifying and inexplicable ​that there are many Jews of

all persuasions and Jewish organizations who in the political realm join the bandwagon recklessly imitating the left by calling the right “Nazis.” These people have viscerally forgotten the evils that the Nazis and their thousands of evil accomplices tortured and murdered our people including infants, young, old, Reform, Conservative, Orthodox, and non-affiliated.

Words such as Nazis are poisonous. Use them with great caution.

Ann Greenfield

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The United Nations Security Council has passed an arms embargo on South Sudan and has laid out sanctions against its deputy defense minister and a former army chief. The draft of the resolution expressed “deep concern” about the inability of the leadership in South Sudan to end the fighting that has plagued the country for years.

South Sudan achieved independence from Sudan in 2011 amid high hopes of a peaceful future. However, the country was thrust into a bloody internal war in December 2013 when President Salva Kiir’s supporters started fighting with those loyal to the country’s former vice president, Riek Machar. Although a peace deal was signed in August 2015, the fighting did not stop. Two “cessation of hostility” agreements have been signed since and still the country is seeing massive bloodshed.

A recent UN report notes that South Sudan government troops killed at least 232 civilians in a fiveweek period this year. Many of those were tortured before their murder.

The attacks are being called “deliberate and ruthless.”

The resolution requires all countries to immediately prevent the direct or indirect sale of weapons, ammunition, military vehicles and other equipment and spare parts to South Sudan until May 31, 2019. Existing sanctions against South Sudanese officials are also being extended through that date.

If the winds blow in the wrong direction, a tiny town in Greenland is going to be overwhelmed by a tsunami of frigid water. An 11-million ton iceberg is hovering off the coast of Innaarsuit. It’s 650-feet wide and towers almost 300-feet in the air. If warm precipitation causes a chunk of ice to fall off the glacier, a tsunami can hit the town. If, on the other hand, wind pushes the iceberg into Baffin Bay, the town will be saved.

“It’s not a peaceful process,” Joerg Schaefer, a climate researcher at Columbia University’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, told the New York Times.

As of 2010, 161 people in the village of Innaarsuit. Of those few, 33 have already moved to safer places inland. Others have been told to move their boats away from the iceberg.

“We are very concerned and are afraid,” Karl Petersen, chair for the local council in Innaarsuit, said.

A Danish Royal Navy ship is standing by in case something goes awry, and residents are closely monitoring the weather.

Thailand is Asia’s Detroit

Thailand is becoming known as the leading automobile manufacturing country in all of Asia. It has nicknamed itself “the Detroit of Asia,” an accurate title being that it’s the larg-

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est in the industry in all of Southeast Asia and the 12th in the world.

Toyota, Mitsubishi, GM, Ford, Mercedes, and BMW all have operations in Thailand. A GM spokesperson said that its plant is a major manufacturing hub for the Asia-Pacific region and Africa, and its vehicles are exported to 15 markets, including Australia and New Zealand.

Over the last 30 years, Thailand has imposed an 80% import tariff on cars and a 60% tariff on motorcycles to keep manufacturing within the country. The government offers land ownership rights for foreign investors and easy visa and permit processes for foreign auto advisors.

Additionally, the government offers tax incentives to foreign investors.

For example, companies relocating to Thailand are exempt from corporate income tax for eight years.

Another advantage is Thailand’s geographical location. The country has easy access to airports and its ports are ideal for exporting. The majority of the parts used for the cars manufactured are made within the country; there are currently 1,500 suppliers in Thailand. Labor is cheaper than in other developed

nations and China, though not as cheap as in surrounding Southeast Asian nations. However, the skill and experience of the labor force remains unmatched in the region.

“This has helped to retain investment in the face of competition from markets such as Vietnam or Indonesia that offer lowered labor costs,” said Maxfield Brown, manager of the Business Intelligence Unit at Dezan Shira & Associates.

With cars becoming more necessary and accessible in Asia, between 2000 and 2017 Thailand’s auto production grew by 383%. In 2013, only 18% of households did not own a vehicle in Thailand, according to the Nielsen Global Survey of Automotive Demand. According to predictions, Southeast Asia’s middle class will more than double to 400 million by 2020, which would create a whole new untapped market for automakers in Thailand.

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Deadly Protest Suppression Continues in Nicaragua

The death toll due to the crackdown on anti-government protests in Nicaragua is getting higher. According to Paulo Abrao, the chief

of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, in the past four months “264 people have lost their lives and more than 1,800 have been injured.”

Protesters are seeking the removal of President Daniel Ortega from power. The Roman Catholic Church, which is very influential in the Central American country, has been trying to mediate between Ortega’s government and the opposition, with very little success. Fourteen people died last weekend when a pro-government mob led a raid on an opposition stronghold in Masaya.

Masaya, a city a few miles south of the capital, Managua, has been at the center of the protests since they first erupted almost three months ago. Protesters have set up roadblocks and barricades both inside the city and on the roads leading to it. The government has launched “Operation Clean-up” to try to remove the barricades and retake control of the city, saying that the blockades are harming businesses and disrupting the lives of Nicaraguans.

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on civilians. The Pro-Human Rights Association (ANPADH) is demanding that the government investigate the use of grenade launchers and automatic weapons on civilian demonstrators.

Ortega came to power in 1979 in a popular uprising. He lost the presidential vote in 1990 but resumed power in 2007 when he was reelected. Opponents accuse him and his wife, Vice President Rosario Murillo, of brutally establishing a dictatorship.

action of the big game and to celebrate the win. But as the night of celebrations wore on, two men died as the partying turned violent. A 50-year-old died when he dove into a shallow canal, and a man in his 30s died after he crashed his car into a tree.

including champagne, but also lots of jewelry. No one was injured, that is the important thing, but we are shocked. This is obviously not in the spirit of the World Cup. Last night, tens of people ruined the party for everyone. It is not patriotic.”

Riot police were forced to use tear gas and water cannons to disperse the crowds. Two-hundredninety-two people were taken into custody across the country, including 90 in Paris.

World Cup Celebrations Turn Violent Celebrations surrounding France’s win at the World Cup this week turned deadly.

For the first time in 20 years, France took home the world’s biggest win when it beat Croatia 4-2.

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Thirty people broke into the luxury store Drugstore Publicis on Champs Elysees. “Lots of merchandise was stolen and damaged,” Drugstore Publicis deputy CEO Virginie Levy told CNN. “They stole alcohol,

Jack Ma, the founder of Alibaba Group, has been dethroned by

Mukesh Ambani, who is now Asia’s richest person. Ambani is the chairman of Reliance Industries, a refining-to-telecom conglomerate in India. Last week, Reliance rose 1.6 percent to a record 1,099.8 rupees, making Ambani’s total net worth just over $44.3 billion.

Ambani’s net worth has increased by $4 billion since the beginning of the year, thanks mostly to Reliance doubling its petrochemicals capacity. Earlier this month, Ambani unveiled plans to expand his e-commerce offerings to his 215 million telecom subscribers, which will put him in competition with global commerce giants Amazon and Walmart.

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“The fund has consistently underestimated the importance of calibrating their recommendations to the specific political context, not taking into account the extent to which recommendations are politically viable and socially sustainable,” Alston charged. He added that the push from the IMF was “guaranteed to lead to a backlash and bizarrely, undermine the very programs the fund is trying to implement.”

The U.S. State Department is advising against travel to Haiti because of civil unrest and crime. The embassy is open for routine and emergency services for any U.S. citizens in the country.

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Haiti PM Resigns after Gas Hike Fail Jack Guy Lafontant, prime minister of Haiti, resigned last weekend amid violent protests. The unrest was sparked by a proposed plan to raise fuel prices, according to President Jovenel Moise. Two people – a police officer and a social leader – have

been killed in protests so far.

Moise accepted a letter of resignation from Lafontant after he resigned in front of Parliament, which was slated to pass a vote of no confidence in the coming days. Lafontant took office in February 2017. “I take this opportunity to thank Mr. Lafontant and the members of the cabinet for the services rendered to the nation,” Moise said on Twitter.

The controversial gas plan which led to his undoing was meant to in-

crease the cost of gasoline by 38%, diesel by 47%, and kerosene by 51%.

Due to the protests, American Airlines, JetBlue and Spirit Airlines had cancelled flights to Haiti, and many Americans were stranded in the country. Missionary groups from South Carolina, Florida, and Tennessee were stranded for many days in Port-au-Prince, the nation’s capital.

According to Philip Aston, the UN special rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, the Inter-

After a man was killed by a crocodile in Indonesia, a crowd slaughtered all the crocodiles on the crocodile farm where he met his death.

The man, 48, was looking for grass to feed his animals when he was attacked by the hungry reptile on Friday in West Papua. After his burial on Saturday, villagers stormed the farm and slaughtered

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all the crocodiles there – nearly 300 of them. Most of the crocodiles were killed by residents wielding knives.

Photos of the chaos show the mob surrounded by piles of bloodied crocodiles.

“It was so horrid to see,” one resident said.

On Tuesday, authorities assembled the crocodile carcasses in a pit and set them aflame.

in central Gaza this week. The health ministry in the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip reported that two Gazans were killed in the blast: Ahmad Husan and his 13-year-old son, Louay.

According to local media, Husan was in charge of the missile unit of the Ayman Jawda Group of the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades.

The farm was operating legally and had a license to breed some types of crocodiles, but one of the conditions was that the reptiles not disturb the community.

Gaza Bomb Maker Killed in Blast The head of a missile unit connected to the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades was killed in a mysterious explosion

The death of Husan and his son came one day after Hamas launched 200 projectiles at Israel from Gaza.

The al-Aqsa Brigades have been mostly quiet in the past couple of years. They were a coalition of armed groups that planned and carried out attacks on Israel. It is unclear if they are behind any of the rocket attacks made against Israel last week.

A ceasefire agreement that was

signed by both sides had held up nicely at the beginning of the week.

Thankfully, of the over 200 projectiles sent into Israel before the ceasefire was called, only one led to any injuries, when it hit a home in Sderot and injured four people.

In response to the rocket fire, Israel carried out the largest bombing against Hamas in Gaza since the 2014 Gaza War on Saturday. Dozens of targets were neutralized, including two border-crossing attack tunnels and an urban combat training facility, according to the army.

Israel Behind Strike on Iranian Forces in Syria?

Twenty-two people, including nine Iranians, were reportedly killed in an

overnight strike in northern Syria that Israel is being blamed for. If Israel did indeed carry out the attack in Aleppo province, it would be very unusual, as the military position that was bombed was very far north.

“The Israeli missiles targeted an Iranian Revolutionary Guard center, near the Nayrab military airport,” said Rami Abdel Rahman, the head of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain-based monitor. Rahman said that at least six Syrians were killed in the attack.

According to the Wall Street Journal, Israel is attempting to disrupt the Iranian land corridor used to transfer weapons through Iraq to Syria and Lebanon. An Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps official told the paper that creating a land corridor through Iraq and Syria is a key goal for Iran to bolster its defense against regional enemies.

The base was reportedly hit in another bombing by Israel earlier this year as part of a large raid that targeted multiple weapons depots. Israel has struck Syrian army targets in the central provinces of Homs and Hama, but rarely as far north as Aleppo.

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attacks were carried out hours before Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin were set to meet at a summit with Syria and Iran on the agenda. Israel has wanted Russia to remove Iranian-aligned militia fighters from Syria for a long time and has vowed to stop them from gaining a significant foothold in the country. Russia has only agreed to remove them from the Golan Heights border area.

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Study: Be Happy and Beat Cancer

It has long been said that laughter is the best medicine, but a new study out of Haifa may actually prove that to be true. Israeli researchers at the Technion have published a study in Nature Communications journal that shows a link between positive emotions and limited cancer growth.

The main focus of the paper was to evaluate the role of the brain’s reward system in fighting tumors.

While many studies have found a connection between the state of one’s emotional health and the body’s ability to fight cancer, the authors of this new study say that most of them mainly focus on negative emotions and not on the  “the impact of positive mental attributes on cancer biology.� Now the mechanism by which the immune system is controlled by emotions and its response to tumors is better understood.

The researchers focused on Myeloid-derived suppressor cells (MDSCs), which is a regulator of the activities of the immune system. The MDSCs suppress the immune system’s response to certain threats and prevent the body from overreacting.

But they are also believed to be partially responsible for suppressing the body’s ability to fight off tumors.

In the new study, researchers stimulated the reward system in the brains of mice with tumors by raising their levels of dopamine, which is a chemical that is naturally produced

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ICC Shows Support for Palestinians The International Criminal Court is meddling in Israeli-Palestinian affairs. Despite the decades-long history of the State of Israel, the court recently launched a campaign to reach out to “victims of the situation in Palestine.� The

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three judges of the pretrial chamber will allow Palestinians to issue complaints regarding alleged Israeli war crimes. The goal is “to establish, as soon as practicable, a system of public information and outreach activities for the benefit of the victims and affected communities in the situation in Palestine.�

The registry is geared specifically to Palestinians and encourages them to open an “informative page on the Court’s website.�

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Judges Péter Kovács, Marc Perrin de Brichambaut and Reine Adélaïde Sophie Alapini-Gansou wrote that the goal is to create a “continuous system of interaction between the Court and victims, residing within or outside of Palestine.”

They added, “Victims have therefore the right to be heard and considered, at stages of the proceedings determined to be appropriate, and the Court has the duty to effectively enable them to exercise this right.”

Two months ago, “Palestine” submitted a state referral, asking the prosecutor to investigate “past, ongoing and future crimes within the court’s jurisdiction, committed in all parts of the territory of the State of Palestine,” which it defined as the West Bank, East Jerusalem and Gaza.

The Israeli government has declined to comment on the matter.

However, it has been reported that they are not concerned and view these registries as conversations and not investigations. For years, Israel has maintained that the ICC has no jurisdiction over matters related to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, since it has no jurisdiction over Israel, which is not a member state, and because Palestine is not a state.

Alan Baker, a former legal adviser to Israel’s Foreign Ministry who was involved in negotiating the ICC’s founding statute, criticized the release. “This seems to me to be quite crazy,” he said. “And the court is openly turning itself into a Palestinian propaganda engine, similar to the [United Nations] Human Rights Council, with a regular reporting regime on Palestine only and a distinct section of its website devoted to Palestine,” Baker told The Times of Israel.

“All this seems to indicate that the ICC is venturing far beyond its role and is being politically manipulated, or is manipulating itself, against its own better interests,” he added.

Slap on the Wrist for Terrorist

Nirit Zmora was the victim of a brutal terror attack in October 2015.

She was ambushed by a knife-wielding terrorist in the parking lot of the Gush Etzion Junction and was seriously wounded.

Last week, two and a half years after her traumatic ordeal, the terrorist responsible, Hamza Faiz from Hebron, was sentenced to 14 years in prison. Zmora was there to witness the sentencing.

Just three months ago judges Lt. Col. Zvi Heilbron, Lt. Col. Eti Adar, and Maj. Haim Balilty acquitted the terrorist of attempted murder. They

concluded that it was impossible to prove that he had intended to murder his victim, and the charge was decreased to aggravated battery and of illegal possession of a knife. As expected, this ruling caused an uproar, as it is understood that all terror attacks are intended to take life.

“It was a single knife stab. It’s unusual for courts to convict of murder or attempted murder in case of one single knife stab, even if it results in a victim’s death. The reason for this lies in the difficulty of determining whether the intent was murder or injury,” the judges wrote in the summary.

Attorney Haim Bleicher from the National Legal Defense Organization, who accompanied the family, criticized the decision to not convict Faiz of attempted murder. “Just seeing the terrorist’s smile when he heard the sentence was enough to understand the magnitude of the failure and the lack of deterrence,” Bleicher said.

Prior to Faiz’s sentencing this week, Zmora said, “I will come to court without expectations; I just want the judges to look me in the eye.”

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However, upon hearing the sentence of 14 years imprisonment, Zmora emotionally exclaimed, “We feel Jewish blood is not important.

It is clear to all reasonable people that the terrorist tried to murder me, and this is not a question, and for the past two and a half years, I have been living with a knife in my back. I am disappointed in our legal system, especially in this panel of judges.”

The judges also ordered the terrorist to pay Zmora NIS 500,000 in compensation.

vessels and would embolden them to attempt to break the blockade again.

To be clear, Judge Drori did not order the IDF to take the ships, only that if they do, the boats should be sold and the proceeds go to terror victims. The petition that led to the order was filed on behalf of the Gavish family that was killed in a terrorist attack on Pesach in 2002 and the family of Adam Weinstein, who was murdered in Jerusalem in 2001.

Ireland’s BDS Bill Judge Orders Ships Sold to Support Hamas Victims

Jerusalem District Court Judge Moshe Drori issued an unusual court order this week to sell a flotilla that is trying to break Israel’s blockade of Gaza. The order states that if the two Norwegian ships are seized, they should be sold and the proceeds should go to help those that have been victims of Hamas terror actions.

The Israel Law Center, representing victims of terror in Israel, got the judge to order the two vessels, the Karstein and Freedom – which are worth about $250,000 – captured if they try to break the blockade. Court documents show that the ships’ owners and Hamas can still contest the seizure before the final order is granted.

The organizers of the flotilla say that the ships are meant to be donated to civilian organizations and local fishermen. However, expert witnesses former Dep. Navy commander Rear-Admiral Noam Feig and former Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT) official Aryeh Spitzen told the court that Hamas would most likely use the ships to increase the size of its navy.

If the ships did end up being donated, it is also likely that Hamas would commandeer them to attack Israeli

A proposed law in Ireland’s Senate will prohibit “the import and sales of goods, services and natural resources originating in illegal settlements in occupied [Palestinian] territories.” The bill, which still needs to be approved by the lower house of Parliament before becoming law, will criminalize the import and distribution of Israeli products manufactured in the post-1967 territories. The offense would be punishable by up to five years in prison and a maximum fine of 250,000 euros.

Israel’s Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman called for the shuttering of the Israeli Embassy in Dublin since the bill came to the fore.

While the suggestion was perhaps an exaggerated attempt to satisfy the more hardliner components of his base, Liberman’s position nevertheless correlates with the sentiments of much of the Israeli political spectrum. Following the vote Ireland’s ambassador to Israel was summoned by the Foreign Ministry for a “dressing down.”

Interestingly, the legislation is opposed by the Irish government but nonetheless passed on the strength of support from the opposition and independents.

The Irish initiative came one month after Valencia, Spain’s third-largest city, passed a resolution to boycott the Jewish state, in the process declaring itself an “Israeli apartheid-free zone.” Thereafter, the leader of Spain’s leftist Podemos

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party – which in the 2015 general elections won 20 percent of the vote and whose local faction promoted the boycott motion – called Israel a “criminal country” in a televised interview.

Valencia took this step despite Spanish courts having previously struck down more than a dozen similar municipal decisions to adopt BDS practices, whereas numerous other legislative pushes to this effect have been suspended or altogether abandoned in the face of legal action. The climate in Spain is bound to become more hostile towards the Jewish State following the fall of Mariano Rajoy’s government in June.

All of this comes against the backdrop of the European Union’s decision three years ago to publish guidelines informing member states how to prevent goods produced in Jewish communities in the West Bank – including the eastern part of Jerusalem – and the Golan Heights as being labeled as “made in Israel.” These products, which are excluded from the Israel-EU free trade agreement, have since 2003 been “marked” with a special numerical code indicating their place of origin is outside of Israel’s recognized international borders.

Putin & Trump Talks It was the soccer ball and the handshake talked about around the world.

On Monday, U.S. President Donald Trump met with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Helsinki, Finland. The two leaders spoke for two hours behind closed doors, with just their interpreters present. It’s not known what the two spoke about but one can guess that there were a lot of topics covered.

And then the doors opened, and Trump and Putin joined together in front of the cameras for a press conference. The press conference was shocking inasmuch as many wondered why the U.S. president was so warm in his words toward the Russian leader. Democrats were – unsurprisingly – critical of Trump.

That, though, was to be expected, as anything the president does is deni-

grated by them. But Republicans too were flummoxed by many of his remarks during the press conference.

Trump told the press that he is meeting with Putin “to continue the proud tradition of bold American diplomacy. From the earliest days of our republic, American leaders have understood that diplomacy and engagement is preferable to conflict and hostility.” He added that in recent years the relationship between Russia and the U.S. “has never been worse” and that it is about to change.

Asked about Russia meddling in the U.S. elections, the president fumbled in his support of U.S. intelligence, saying that U.S. intelligence has said that Russia has meddled in the elections and that Russia has de-

nied meddling, proposing that there are two sides to the issue. “My people came to me, Dan Coats came to me and some others, they said they think it’s Russia. I have President Putin; he just said it’s not Russia. I will say this: I don’t see any reason why it would be,” Trump said.

At one point, Putin said that Russia is a democratic state and if the U.S. is a democratic state the issue of collusion should be decided by the courts. As such, he offered U.S. intelligence to come to Russia to work with Russian intelligence to decide the matter.

Trump also referred to the presidential campaign numerous times during his answers, reiterating that he “beat Hillary” soundly. “That was

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a clean campaign,” he said. “I beat Hillary Clinton easily. And frankly we beat her…we won that race.” He added that the Electoral College is slanted towards a Democratic win.

“We ran a brilliant campaign, and that’s why I’m president.”

At one point, Trump corrected a Russian reporter who said that Trump called Putin an “adversary.”

“Well, actually, I called him a competitor,” Trump said. “And a good competitor he is. And I think the word ‘competitor’ is a compliment.”

When talking about if Russia “has something” on the president, Trump pointed out that if they had something “it would have been out long ago.” Putin noted that when Trump visited Russia during a business conference years ago, he was nowhere near thinking about running for office. As such, Trump was a regular businessman and was not on Russia’s radar.

During the conference, Putin at one point handed Trump a soccer ball, which presumably was to symbolize the passing of the location of the World Cup from Russia to the U.S. Trump tossed the ball to Melania, who was sitting in the front row of the conference, and said that his son Barron would enjoy playing with it.

After the two leaders walked off stage Trump seemed ignorant of the numerous gaffes that he consistently made during the conference. Once on Air Force One, though, Trump realized that the American people were not as enamored with Putin as the president was.

A Life of Indulgence

Do you like to go on vacations, get weekly spa treatments, and buy yourself designer handbags? You’re not alone.

According to new data, Americans spend a whopping $143,280 to “treat themselves” in a lifetime. More than half of Americans – three in five people – prefer to spend money on experiences, like a backstage pass to see

their favorite singer onstage, over a luxurious item, like a really expensive watch or jacket. On average, they’ll spend as much as $368 on a special, one-time experience.

According to the study, which was conducted by OnePoll with Eventbrite, the average American spends $199 a month, or about 22 percent of their disposable income, on non-essentials for themselves — including both traditional “self-care” treats and restorative or luxury experiences.

Those in the younger set – ages 25 and younger – spend an average of 33 percent of their income treating themselves. As the years progress, though, they become more tightfisted when it comes to luxury items and experiences. The group of over-55ers estimates that they spend around 13 percent on items of luxury.

Feeling guilty about spending so much on your last vacation? You’re not alone. Around 75 percent of those surveyed said they felt guilty about spending on themselves, but the guilt was felt far more intensely when buying luxury items than enjoying a luxurious experience. Women were more likely to feel guilty – around sixty percent – after buying over-the-top items; men felt guilty 47 percent of the time. But women were three times more likely to spend money on selfcare experiences – think spas and massages – over men. Males spent more on physical luxurious items like cars and technology. Notice the RollsRoyce in my driveway?

Interestingly, those who earned the most in this survey were also those who were most likely to appreciate the value of free or low-cost experiences and self-care such as exercise, a walk with their dog or eating healthily. And 61 percent of those surveyed said that time spent offline was more fulfilling than wasting away the hours on social media.

In other words, there are some things that money can’t buy…

Athletes, Drink Your Chocolate Milk Chocolate milk isn’t just for toddlers. New research suggests that athletes who drink chocolate milk during exercise or after their workout may recover just as quickly as they would with sports drinks.

Previous research concluded

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that proper food and drink can help a person recover from intense workouts. The right vitamins and minerals will help muscles recover and quickly replace fluids and electrolytes lost during exercise.

hard 15-mile run and has a session of high-intensity intervals to do the next morning could obtain meaningful benefits from a recovery beverage like chocolate milk.”

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For their analysis, researchers examined data from 12 small studies that compared how chocolate milk influenced several markers of exercise recovery, compared to a placebo beverage or a sports drink.

For the study, athletes engaged in intense running or cycling and researchers analyzed recovery markers. They looked at how long it took them to reach the level of exhaustion, athletes’ perceived exertion levels, heart rate, levels of lactic acid and an enzyme known as creatine kinase in the blood. Overall, the study found that chocolate milk lengthened time to exhaustion and improved perceived exertion, heart rate or levels of lactic acid in the blood at least as much as other beverages.

In the study, published in European Journal of Clinical Nutrition, the authors noted, “Chocolate milk contains carbohydrates, proteins, fats, flavonoids, electrolytes, and some vitamins which make this drink a good choice for recovery in athletes.”

“The take-home message is that chocolate milk is a low-cost, delicious, and palatable option for recovery and provides either similar or superior effects compared with commercial drinks,” Dr. Amin Salehi-Abargouei of Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences in Yazd, Iran, said.

It is important to note that this study focused specifically on high level workouts. Mike Saunders, director of the Human Performance Laboratory at James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Virginia, pointed out, “Someone at the gym who completes a 20-minute jog might be advised to have a glass of water after exercise so they don’t undermine their weight-management goals with unnecessary calories,” Saunders said. “But a distance runner who has completed a

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The last major reorganization was in 1973, around the time of the Vietnam War. Since 1995 the Army has spent $32 billion on programs and initiatives that were not successful. The new project, Army Futures Command, will be similar to other influential Army organizations, such as Training and Doctrine Command and Forces Command, and commanded by a four-star general.

Army Under Secretary Ryan D. McCarthy said that the new division has been in the works for two years already but was given more attention in January when Defense Secretary Jim Mattis released a national defense strategy that labeled “near-peer” competitors Russia and China as the top threats to the United States.

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growth and strong support from local officials.

It is expected that the new unit will have up to 500 employees plus a number of active-duty soldiers and civilians. Army Secretary Mark T. Esper, the top political appointee in the service, said that some of the jobs will overlap with jobs that were previously part of Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC). TRADOC’s general mission is to oversee numerous Army schools and Materiel Command, which focuses on buying equipment and oversees several laboratories and research centers.

Esper noted that a general has been selected to lead Futures Command but his identity has not yet been revealed to the public.

also formally declared he is running – this is his first political race. Chris Christie, Ted Cruz, Nikki Haley, Mark Cuban, Mitt Romney, Marco Rubio, and Paul Ryan have all publicly denied interest in running despite speculation.

The United States’ presidential election of 2020 will be held on Tuesday, November 3, 2020. The race will be the 59th quadrennial U.S. presidential election.

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Gearing up for 2020

While many are still recovering from the presidential election of 2016, candidates are gearing up for 2020. Senator Elizabeth Warren is being recognized as a contender, although she hasn’t formally announce anything.

In Salt Lake City, Warren recently told a crowd, “I want a party strong enough to take on the hard job of cleaning up the mess they’ll leave behind once they are gone.”

If Warren gets the nomination, she will most likely face off against President Donald Trump. Her top contenders for the Democratic ticket are former Vice President Joe Biden, Senators Cory Booker of New Jersey and Kamala Harris of California, and former candidate Senator Bernie Sanders. All five of these political figures have been fundraising for their potential campaigns.

Jack Fellure, a retired engineer from West Virginia, has announced that he is running for the seventh time. Professional wrestler Johnathon Sharkey from Elizabeth, New Jersey, is also running. He has run for several political offices in past years. Thriller novelist Brad Thor

Almost a year after Hurricane Maria, Puerto Rico is still reeling from the destruction it caused.

Now, more than 10 months after the storm, 1,000 households are still without power. It seems that the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) was not properly prepared to deal with the disaster.

FEMA’s plans for a potential crisis in Puerto Rico were based on a focused disaster like a tsunami. It was not prepared for a storm that would devastate the entire island.

FEMA massively underestimated how much food and clean water would be needed and how difficult it would be to transport supplies to the island. Additionally, when Maria hit, FEMA’s warehouse in Puerto Rico was almost vacant. Two weeks before the storm they shipped supplies to the United States Virgin Islands after Hurricane Irma caused major damage there.

According to a FEMA report, the warehouse in Puerto Rico did not have a single tarpaulin or cot in stock. In the days after the storm, the report describes the chaos as the agency attempted to reach everyone on the island. They faced logistical problems at every step of the way, making it the most drawn-out feeding mission in the agency’s history. The agency was also extremely short-staffed, and many of the

workers that were on-hand were not qualified to deal with the magnitude of the crisis. FEMA was forced to borrow workers from other agencies in order to field the needs of Puerto Rico.

The agency has admitted that it was not able to offer the proper support. When the storm hit, the island’s hospitals were struggling to function, there was a major diesel fuel shortage, and the death rate was increasing way too fast. The official death toll during the hurricane was 64 but death records show that more than 1,000 additional people died on the island in the weeks after the storm.

The hurricane season of 2017 was one of the most destructive in American history. Shortly after Hurricane Maria, Trump said that the disaster “threw our budget a little out of whack.”

According to a recent report, approximately five million people registered for FEMA assistance last year, surpassing the collective total from four previous major hurricanes — Rita, Wilma, Katrina and Sandy. The 2017 storms caused a combined total of $265 billion in damages. FEMA distributed 130 million meals; 35 million of them in Puerto Rico. They provided one million nights’ lodging in hotels between all three storms. According to the report, the agency spent almost $4 billion on aid and recovery efforts related specifically to Puerto Rico.

FEMA is being highly criticized after the release of this report, and many are hoping it will result in some sort of reform of the agency in order to be prepared for a similar scenario in the future.

The Best and Worst for Retirement If you’re thinking of retiring in New York anytime soon, you may want to reconsider. New York was recently ranked the worst state for retirees. Want to hang up your hat and close up the office? Think of South Dakota, which was rated the best place for someone to retire.

Bankrate.com tallied up all 50 states, evaluating the cost of living (20%), taxes (20%), health care quality (15%), weather (15%), crime (10%), cultural vitality (10%) and

well-being (10%). Based on the results they created a list to help out the 10,000 people turning 65 each day in America.

“No one would think of South Dakota as a winner to retire. But if you look into it, you see how people there have very good social relationships and feel a sense of purpose with the community,” said Bankrate. com analyst Taylor Tepper.

Another major draw for South Dakota is its tax policies – there is no personal income tax. Rent is also cheap there; the average rent for a 1 bedroom apartment is $565. In New York, on the other hand, the average rent for a 1 bedroom apartment ranged from $1,231 to $2,115. Additionally, health care costs are high in the Big Apple and residents are required to pay income tax ranging from 4% to 8.82% “For retirees, especially those living on fixed income, it’s hard,” noted Tepper. “If you were on a fixed income living in a place with high cost of living — life’s going to be hard.”

Two other states to avoid when planning your retirement are New Mexico and Maryland, which tied for the second-worst spot on the list.

Perhaps the most surprising ranking on the list is Florida, which came in at number 5. Although the Sunshine State seems to be the obvious retirement choice, there is a relatively high crime rate and its health care quality is subpar.

The top states for retirement are: 1. South Dakota 2. Utah 3. Idaho 4. New Hampshire 5. Florida The worst states for retirement are: 1. Arkansas 2. Louisiana 3. Maryland 4. New Mexico 5. New York

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WarnerMedia in Trouble?

The marriage between AT&T and Time Warner may be on the rocks.

On Thursday, the Justice Department filed notice that it is appealing a judge’s approval of AT&T’s purchase of Time Warner.

Judge Richard Leon, who presided over the lawsuit the DOJ had brought to block the deal, ruled last month that the government had failed to show that the deal violates antitrust law, and in his opinion ripped apart its case. AT&T has since closed the acquisition of Time Warner and has since re-named the division WarnerMedia, created as a separate unit from the rest of the company, in part in case of an appeal.

The Justice Department sued to stop the deal last year, saying that a distributor, AT&T, owning the likes of HBO, CNN and Warner Bros. would harm consumers by causing an increase in prices and would hurt innovation and competition.

But after a six week trial, Leon said he didn’t buy that, signed off on the deal with no conditions and knocked down the government’s contentions point by point.

“The Government has failed to meet its burden of proof to show that the merger is likely to result in a substantial lessening of competition,” he wrote in his ruling.

Leon’s approval was seen as a green light for other companies hoping to pursue mergers. As such, bidding wars have erupted between Comcast and Disney for big chunk of 21st Century Fox’s assets.

Leon warned against an appeal, writing in his decision, “[A]s my 170plus page opinion makes clear – I do not believe that the Government has a likelihood of success on the merits of an appeal.”

Now the case will go to the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, where a three-judge panel will hear the ap-

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peal. It’s possible the court could place the case on a fast track because the longer an appeals process takes, the more integrated the two companies will become. AT&T completed its acquisition of Time Warner on June 14 and formed WarnerMedia a day later.

In theory, the case could end up in front of the Supreme Court, which some people in the legal community have been hoping for, since the Supreme Court has not taken up a merger case since the 1970s.

Liver Cancer Rates Soar In a frightening report released this week, it has been revealed that death rates from liver cancer have increased by 43% for American adults from 2000 to 2016. According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center for Health Statistics, the increase comes even as mortality for all cancers combined has declined.

Liver cancer death rates increased for both men and women 25 and older, as well as white, black and Hispanic people. Only Asians and Pacific Islanders saw a decrease in mortality from liver cancer.

The rise in mortality doesn’t mean that liver cancer is deadlier than before, noted Dr. Jiaquan Xu, the author of the report; the 10-year survival rate for liver cancer didn’t change much. Rather, the increase in mortality means more people are developing liver cancer.

More than 70% of liver cancers are caused by underlying liver disease, which has risk factors such as obesity, smoking, excess alcohol consumption, and hepatitis B and C infection, said Dr. Farhad Islami, the scientific director of cancer surveillance research at the American Cancer Society.

“I think the main reason for the increase in liver cancer incidence and death rate in the U.S. is the increase in the prevalence of excess body weight and hepatitis C virus infection in baby boomers,” Islami opined.

Xu said he hopes people realize lifestyle changes can decrease their risk of developing liver cancer.

“Some of these liver cancer risk factors like obesity, diabetes and excess consumption of alcohol, those things can be prevented,” he said.

Throughout the 16 years analyzed, the death rate of liver cancer for men was 2 to 2.5 times higher than it was for women, according to the report. Still, men and women saw similar increases in mortality – 43% for men and 40% for women – from 2000 to 2016.

Survival rates depend on how early the cancer is caught – according to the American Cancer Society, localized liver cancer has a five-year survival rate of 31%; regional liver cancer that has spread to nearby organs has a survival rate of 11%; and distant liver cancer, which has spread further in the body, has a 3% survival rate.

According to the report, Washington, D.C., had the highest liver cancer death rate in 2016, while Vermont had the lowest.

Lava Bomb Blasts Boat

Twenty-three people were injured when a “lava bomb” blasted their boat near Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano this week.

The sightseeing boat was about 100 yards from the coast when a basketball-sized lava bomb crashed through its roof. Passengers described the scene as “bedlam,” adding that it looked like a “gigantic firework” going off at the side of the boat.

The boat that was hit is run by Lava Ocean Tours, one of several companies that takes visitors to see Kilauea’s lava pouring into the ocean.

Passengers needed to be treated for burns and scrapes; one woman broke her leg in the melee.

Since the incident the Coast Guard has ruled that boats now need to be at least 300 meters from shore at all times.

Kilauea’s latest eruption started in early May, and the lava flow has now destroyed more than 700 homes. Even though the vast majority of the Big Island is unaffected by the lava, concerns about the volcano have hurt tourism there.

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Twelve Russians have been indicted by The Justice Department for their interference in the 2016 election. Special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation accused them of engaging in a “sustained effort” to hack Democrats’ emails and computer networks. All those named are members of the GRU, a Russian federation intelligence agency within the main intelligence directorate of the Russian military, who were acting in “their official capacities.”

The announcement was made just as President Trump was meeting with Queen Elizabeth at Windsor Castle last week and a few days before the president met with Russian President Vladimir Putin, who has denied his country’s involvement in the election meddling.

The report explains that the hack specifically targeted Hillary Clinton’s campaign, the Democratic National Committee and the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, with the intention to “release that information on the internet under the names DCLeaks and Guccifer 2.0 and through another entity.”

Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein said the indictment does not name any American citizen, but told reporters that defendants “corresponded with several Americans during the course of the conspiracy through the internet.”

“There is no allegation in this indictment that any American citizen committed a crime,” Rosenstein reiterated at a news conference. “There is no allegation that the conspiracy altered the vote count or changed any election result.”

Rudy Giuliani, former New York governor and Trump’s private attorney, tweeted that the indictments are “good news for all Americans” but called on the special counsel investigation to end.

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Following the announcement Trump tweeted, “The stories you heard about the 12 Russians yesterday took place during the Obama Administration, not the Trump Administration. Why didn’t they do something about it, especially when it was reported that President Obama was informed by the FBI in September, before the Election?”

Later in the day Trump added, “These Russian individuals did their work during the Obama years. Why didn’t Obama do something about it? Because he thought Crooked Hillary Clinton would win, that’s why.

Had nothing to do with the Trump Administration, but Fake News doesn’t want to report the truth, as usual!”

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charged with identity theft, conspiracy to launder money and conspiracy to commit computer crimes. Two defendants are charged with a conspiracy to commit computer crimes.

All 12 men involved in the scandal have held a military title in Russia.

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Vladimir Putin during the presidential campaign. The indictment says they conspired against the U.S. as a foreign agent.

For three years Butina and Torshin tried to make inroads with U.S. political organizations and operatives to have a more positive approach to Russia. Anticipating the final years of the Obama administration, they specifically targeted many Republicans.

Their primary avenue of influence appeared to be the National Rifle Association, though the organization is not explicitly referred to by name in the legal documents.

Butina’s attorney, Robert N. Driscoll, denied that Butina was “an agent of the Russian Federation” in a statement on Monday, and insisted the charge levied against her was “overblown.”

He described her as a bright, recent graduate of American University in Washington “with a Masters Degree in International Relations and a 4.0 grade point average.”

According to the Justice Department, Butina was working at the direction of a high-level official in the Russian government. While the official was not named in the indictment, it appears to be Torshin. Previously a member of the Russian legislature, Torshin later worked as a top official at the Central Bank of Russia. He was among the Russian officials the U.S. government slapped with sanctions in April 2018 as part of an effort to punish the Russian government for “malign activity” around the world.

paign or the Democratic Party. Their big break came when they sent John Podesta, Clinton’s campaign chairman, a link that appeared to come from Google as a security notification but led Podesta to a GRU-created website. Through similar methods they stole passwords, grabbed screenshots, and watched the campaign closely. At one point they watched as a Democratic campaign committee employee accessed the organization’s bank account infor-

mation. The DNC realized they were hacked in May 2016 and attempted to thwart the attackers however the Russians maintained contact and watched them up until shortly before the election. They kicked into high gear in June when they began to distribute the documents they had obtained, causing the chain of events that occurred during the final days of election 2016.

Bezos Strikes Russian National Gold Charged as Foreign Agent On Sunday, the Justice Department charged Mariia Butina, a Russian national, and her mentor, Alexander Torshin, with trying to set up backchannel communications between Donald Trump and President

Monday catapulted Jeff Bezos into the stratosphere, as he became the

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richest person in modern history.

The Amazon.com Inc. founder’s net worth broke $150 billion in New York on Monday morning, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.

That’s about $55 billion more than Microsoft Corp. co-founder Bill Gates, the world’s second-richest person.

Bezos, 54, has now topped Gates in inflation-adjusted terms. The $100 billion mark that Gates hit briefly in 1999 at the height of the dot-com boom would be worth about $149 billion in today’s dollars. That makes the Amazon chief executive officer richer than anyone else on earth since at least 1982, when Forbes published its inaugural wealth ranking.

The cataclysmic number took place before Amazon’s Prime Day, which was held this week for 36 hours and started on Monday afternoon.

2018 has been an earthshattering year for Bezos. His net worth soared by more than $52 billion this year – more than all of Mukesh Ambani’s whole fortune, and Ambani is the richest person in all of Asia.

Behind Bezos on the Bloomberg index is Gates, with a $95.5 billion fortune, followed by Warren Buffett with $83 billion. Hey, what’s a few billion between friends?

Criminal Politics

Leonard Richards lives behind bars but he still wants your vote.

The 75-year-old is serving a life sentence without parole after being convicted of two murders in Minnesota. He is running for a U.S. Senate seat. In Minnesota, the law allows felons to run for federal office, even though the statute prevents them from holding a state-level seat. The only requirements needed to run for federal office in the state is that one needs to be of a certain age and they need to live in the state on Election Day. Richards fulfills both requirements.

Despite his sickening misdeeds, this is not the first time he has tried to

get into political office. Richards ran in the Democratic primary for a congressional seat in 1992. He received 14,500 votes in that election. When he ran again in 1994, he garnered 4,000 votes.

Let’s hope the third time is not a charm.

Poisonous Books

He Nailed It

Last week, the Guinness World Record holder for the world’s longest fingernails made a point of showing his hands to the camera as he posed next to his nails. Shridhar Chillal’s extraordinary long fingernails are now on display in Ripley’s Believe It or Not! Museum in New York. They are 909.6 centimeters long – and had not been cut for 66 years. The thumbnail, which is longer than the others, measured a whopping 197.8m centimeters.

Chillal started growing his nails in 1952 in an act of defiance. His teacher scolded him after he was roughhousing with his friend and accidentally broke her nail. She told him he would never understand what it took to take care of such long fingernails – and Chillal set out to prove her wrong.

“I don’t know whether the teacher is dead now or not but I would definitely like to say that the thing for which you scolded me, I took it as a challenge and I have completed the challenge and now, I am here,” he said.

The decision to finally cut his talons after more than six decades was not easy. “When I decided to cut my nails, it was difficult for me to make this decision,” he said. “But when I realized that after cutting my nails, my nails will be at Ripley’s Believe It or Not! and they’re going to maintain it very nicely and for a lifetime, then I felt like I was doing the right decision and that’s why I decided to cut my nails.”

Despite Chillal’s fingernails causing him to lose function in his left hand due to their weight and length and his fingers being permanently fused together, he worked as a photographer for a government agricultural magazine for 22 years.

He sounds like he’s tough as nails.

These books are deadly. According to scientists, three rare books dating from the 16th and 17th centuries are covered with arsenic, a deadly poison.

Scientists made the discovery when they were studying the volumes to ascertain if medieval manuscript fragments were used to make their covers. The Latin texts were hard to read because of a thick layer of green paint covering the letters. It turns out that the green paint wasn’t paint at all – it was arsenic.

Kaare Lund Rasmussen, an associate professor at the University of Southern Denmark, shared, “The moment we put the X-ray beam on the green surface we saw the fantastic high amounts of arsenic.”

It is likely that it was applied to the books to protect them against insects and vermin.

$1.4M for a Town

in the Inyo Mountains were included in the sale as well.

“We want to maintain the historic nature of the property while introducing amenities that will allow more people to enjoy the location,” Underwood told the Los Angeles Times. In other words, it’s rustic but you’ll still have all the comforts of home. Starbucks, anyone?

Although the owners of the town received higher bids than Underwood and Brier’s, they liked the duo’s vision for the community. Other buyers wanted to make it into a theme park or a healthcare facility.

Underwood, who owns the HK Austin hostel (also built in a historic building), and Bier want to renovate some of the buildings to make them habitable for guests, bring running water to the town, and add amenities like WiFi. They’d like to use the property to host events, concerts, writing retreats, theater, and other programming — all in an authentic western mining town.

Back in the day, Cerro Gordo was booming.

“In its heyday, it averaged a murder a week,” real estate agent Jake Rasmuson told CNN. “It’s really part of the Wild West.”

In the late 1870s, a fire, along with falling lead and silver prices, hit the town, and the party was over. Even so, minerals were still being mined in the area as late as 1938. The town had been owned for decades by a single family, who opened the property for tours. Robert Desmarais, its longtime caretaker, will continue to live there.

Talk about authentic.

Cash Trash Houses in our area are now more expensive than whole villages in California.

Cerro Gordo, an old mining town in Owens Valley, recently sold for a mere $1.4 million. The village has been abandoned for decades, except for a few people who stayed on as caretakers. An investment group led by Brent Underwood and Jon Brier bought the town as a tourist destination.

Cerro Gordo, which experienced a boom in 1865 when silver was discovered, currently includes 22 structures including a hotel, a saloon, a museum, a chapel, an eight-bed bunkhouse and several small homes. It’s approximately 300 acres, and mining permits

Wondering where all the money went in the ATM? It’s possible the rats ate it.

After an ATM malfunctioned in Tinsukia, India, technicians found a very small reason for the problem – a rat.

Inside the ATM employees found a dead rat among thousands-of-dollars’ worth of rupees that had been chewed to shreds. Turns out that money is not very nutritious.

The rodent burrowed into the machine through a small hole meant for cables and ate through an astonishing $19,000 worth of rupees. Thankfully he was full before he snacked on the other $25,000 worth of rupees that were able to be salvaged.

This is rat-tling.

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Awesome Day at GCC3 Stage II

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he Gesher Century Challenge of 2018 completed its campaign with the recent Gold Coast Tour of the Huntington Bicycle Club.

The early morning rainstorms were not a deterrent for the dedicated riders of Team Gesher. As the riders were making their final

preparations the weather began changing into perfect riding conditions.

Donned in their sharply designed blue and red Gesher jerseys the team spent the next several hours traversing the hills of Long Island’s beautiful North Shore. Along with the stunning scenery the trails pass along the fa-

mous Gold Coast, a section of impressive mansions built many years ago by some very wealthy, and some famous, American families.

Throughout the route the many rest stops were prepared with kosher selections set aside in clearly marked Seasons Supermarket boxes.

At the end of the ride team members were met with a hot buffet and an assortment of other re-energizing foods.

Together with the recent Nassau to Suffolk ride in late June, and a virtual training campaign, this year’s GCC included over fifty riders and raised funds to help service students and families of the Gesher Early Childhood Center.

The Gesher Century Challenge would like to again thank its many corporate sponsors. Special mention to Fruit Platters and More, Sunharbor Manor, Seasons Supermarkets, Gourmet Glatt, Fidelity Payment Services, Russo’s Pharmacy, Wells Fargo Advisors, and Rentastic Party Rentals.

With its signature model for making the campaign and the rides fun and friendly, plans for GCC4 are already underway.

Limudai Yisroel Institute to Host its Inaugural BBQ Fundraiser

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he Limudai Yisroel Institute will be hosting an inaugural BBQ fundraiser in Woodmere this coming Tuesday evening at 7:30 pm at the home of Rabbi and Mrs. Sholom Silberberg, 843 Central Avenue. Rabbi Sholom Silberberg, an esteemed member of the Five Towns Halacha Hotline and Rosh Kollel, Kollel Ner Shlomo in Cedarhurst, has graciously opened his home for this unique organization whose vision is to improve the general studies in our schools. Rabbi Silberberg said, “It is my zechus to take part in

this really important cause. The work performed by this organization is vital for the continuation of true Torah chinuch in our schools, and I look forward to this wonderful evening of support and chizuk.”

The Limudai Yisroel Institute was founded in the winter of 2017 by Rabbi Moshe Brody, with the goal of helping our schools keep up with the changing needs of their general studies departments. As indicated in past articles, a severe teacher shortage has been gripping our schools, and a new crop of teachers who are comfortable

with our student body needs to be trained as teachers. To-date, the Institute has trained and placed a number of its graduates in local schools, using a newly designed curriculum that adheres to all the state standards but is specifically geared to our community’s needs and sensitivities.

Additionally, over the last year and a half, the Institute has funded and produced a number of kosher workbooks and regent review books and has offered them to local schools at greatly reduced prices. Many local schools used these books this past year and

were pleased with the results.

As stated above, the fundraising event will take place on Tuesday, July 24 at the home of Rabbi and Mrs. Sholom Silberberg, 843 Central Avenue, at 7:30 pm. The event will feature a siyum as well as debuting a new and ambitious project, surely something no one will want to miss for those looking to get involved in its initial stages.

To help or sponsor the event, please email info@limudaiysiroel. org or call 516-441-2465.

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New Seminary for High Caliber Bais Yaakov Girls to Open in September

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nos Binah Seminary has announced plans to open in September and is already attracting an elite student body of high school graduates from around the world. Menahel Rabbi Label Lam and Director Mrs. Daphne Hanson are getting the word out.

“Parents and educators agree that the year of seminary is critical to a young woman’s future,” explains Rabbi Lam. “That’s why we’ve established Bnos Binah. Our vision is to lead each student toward an inspired life, ensuring that she has the foundations of emunah and hashkafa that will prepare her for whatever she encounters along her unique journey through life. It’s not enough to have puzzle pieces. A girl has to begin to put the big picture together.”

Seminary is not just a gap year.

It’s a year to grow spiritually and to form friendships and cultivate relationships for life. But perhaps most importantly, it’s the stepping stone to a young woman’s future. Whether that future includes an undergraduate degree or more immediate employment options, Bnos Binah has established a pathway for students to get there.

After launching the day with an engaging morning of limudei kodesh, from 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM, an exciting menu of other options become available to the Bnos Binah student.

In partnership with YIEP (Yeshiva Initiatives Educational Program), Bnos Binah has joined forces with Bellevue University to enable students to earn a nationally accredited Bachelor’s Degree while attending seminary. Bellevue University in Omaha, NE, is a top-tier university, from which students go on to attend Ivy League graduate programs. Bnos Binah students who choose to work

toward their B.A. will possess something valuable – not a basic Liberal Arts degree, but a choice of specialized undergraduate degree options in Behavioral Science, Business, and Cybersecurity. Classes and test schedules are coordinated with Shabbos and Yom Tov and the subject matter is agreeable with Torah hashkafa.

For more immediate career options, Bnos Binah offers rigorous courses in Junior Accounting, Shaitel and Hair Styling, Make-Up Artistry, Personal Training, and Medical Training, each delivered by experts in their respective fields. That’s where Bnos Binah stands out. It’s a seminary synonymous with academic excellence, genuine Torah values, and the unique ability to explore longterm college and career options that will drive each student toward a successful future.

That’s not all. Bnos Binah has a spirited extracurricular program that provides a complete seminary experience, replete with an optional trip to Europe and Israel, special events, and Shabbatons. There’s no need to fly halfway across the world. Bnos Binah is located in the heart of Flatbush, enabling young women to flourish while being close to home during this crucial stage of life, while acquiring an authentic seminary experience. With classes given by some of the most engaging Torah educators of our day, students will learn to master their relationships, infuse their lives with emunah, and successfully navigate the future. Bnos Binah’s mission is to empower each to girl become the confident Jewish woman she always dreamed of.

For more information, please contact Bnos Binah at 347-374-2982 or bnosbinah@gmail.com.

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.S. Senate candidate for New York Chele Farley recently made a pilgrimage to Queens, New York, to pray at the Ohel of the Lubavitcher Rebbe. Farley was accompanied at Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson’s gravesite by Rabbi Yossi and Chani Garelik. The U.S. Senate candidate read from the Psalms and delivered a customary prayer for family and health to the Ohel in the form of a letter.

“I am impressed by Chele’s integrity and the clarity of her agenda as a candidate for the U.S. Senate. These are real issues, and as a New Yorker, I want to see her make the difference. Nowadays, it is rare to respect a politician; I admire her natural re-

finement and deep inner strength,” said Chani Garelik.

“I hope my visit to the Rebbe’s Ohel will be the first of many,” said Farley. “Rabbi Schneerson remains an inspiration to people of all faiths through his life and teachings. The Rebbe’s acts of kindness, great and small, have ensured that the tzaddik’s legacy will continue to inspire others for generations to come.”

Chele Farley is an outsider with over 25 years of experience in the private sector. She is the Republican, Conservative and Reform Party candidate for U.S. Senate. Farley lives in New York City with her husband Richard and their three sons.

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Rabbi Chanoch Teller in Lido Beach

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s a part of the active programing at the Lido Beach Shul on Long Island over the summer, last weekend featured a community Shabbat seudah on the boardwalk attended by some 400 people, guest speakers and chazzanim. Introduced by the shul’s Rabbi Eli Biegeleisen, Rabbi Chanoch Teller, who recently published his 28th book of amazing stories of inspiration, Heroic Children about the faith and survival during the Holocaust, addressed the shul Friday night.

Sharing words Torah and what the Jewish tragedies the Three Weeks represent, he noted that Chazal teach

that in Adar we increase our joy and in Av we decrease our joy, so what is the baseline level for a Jew? If we sometimes increase or decrease our joy, then the baseline is joy.

The weekend continued with a special boardwalk dinner attended by guests and families interested in moving to the area. Shabbos was rounded off with a guest visiting from Israel speaking about kiruv being done with unaffiliated IDF immigrant soldiers during shalosh seudos. A special siyum made by the young men of Lido Beach on Sunday evening concluded the weekend with a BBQ for the community’s young families.

Chulent, Kugel and Chessed!

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hat better way to feel the spirit of the Three Weeks than to sign up for a chessed event helping needy families? Tomchei Shabbos of Queens, in need of volunteers over the summer, is partnering with YUConnects to bring in a team of chessed-minded singles to lend a hand. On Wednesday, July 25, men and women ages 25-35 will gather at a warehouse in Queens and form small groups to assist in the delivery routes. Chulent and kugel will be served as people mingle beforehand. What’s more, as these new groups form, people will brainstorm with each other and try to come up with match suggestions.

It is “UPS” with an added meaning – “U Play Shadchan” while delivering packages!

Afterwards, all participants will meet at Carlos & Gabby’s in Queens for a hot buffet and an opportunity to speak to some of the area’s best matchmakers. A suggested $18 tzedakah donation will be requested. Parking available and free pickup from local LIRR. Those looking to volunteer on that special night, Wednesday, July 25, should apply no later than Sunday night, July 22nd at www.yuconnects.com/upcoming-events.

Any questions? Email yuconnects@yu.edu or call Marjorie Glatt at 516-603-8141.

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Camp Shira Gets its Game On!

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amp Shira, the hottest new girls’ camp in town, delivered on all of the pre-summer hype during the first half of the summer as the camp launched out of Shulamith.

The first week of camp got off to a fast start with a trip to Hot Skates, a comedy magic show and a rocking, glow-in-the-dark Shloime Kaufman concert on Friday. All of that was somehow squeezed into an action-packed week that also included Shira’s amazing specialties and activities like Wacky Science, Jewelry Making, Art, Jewmba, and more!

All of the bunks also enjoyed their introduction to the inflatable water slides on campus and the top-notch instructional swim.

The summer theme was “Get Your Game On at Camp Shira” so each week featured a unique “game” theme.

Week one was all about Board Games!

Juniors campers enjoyed a life-size board game with giant dice where they were the game pieces, and the older campers earned Shira “Monopoly” dollars that they cashed out in a Chinese Auction for bunk prizes!

During week two the excitement continued for all three divisions. The Juniors (entering Nursery-1st grade) loved Spring Gymnastics and the Torah Tots show.

The Senior Division (entering 2nd5th) enjoyed a bowling trip and Olympics throughout the week where they earned gold, silver and bronze medals for their teams –USA and Israel!

Meanwhile the Extreme Division (entering 6th and 7th) has already enjoyed a late night game show and BBQ, followed by their week three overnight to Clementon Water Park.

Week three was also Carnival Week so all of the campers enjoyed a carnival featuring almost 20 booths, inflatables, a dunk tank and a train!

This week was Water Week so the campers enjoyed numerous water activities during the Nine Days as well as bonus shows nearly every day of the week! Those shows included The Live Game Show, a ventriloquist, and the Small Wonders Puppet show for the Juniors.

Camp Shira is now the largest girls-only camp in the Five Towns and is comprised of girls from across the Five Towns, Far Rockaway, West Hempstead and Brooklyn. Girls from Shulamith, TAG, Ateres Miriam and numerous other schools are unified within the bunks. The camp closed out almost all bunks and staff positions two months before the summer which allowed the head staff to focus on delivering a superb summer for the campers who registered in time!

Camp Shira is operated by an experienced team that includes Shulamith’s own beloved middle division teacher, Mrs. Yaffa Schreier, as the Camp Director. Each division’s di-

rector is dynamic and creative and a veteran of numerous camps. Directors Mrs. Shira Biegeleisen, Mrs. Adina Hoch and Mrs. Rochel Lapidus all bring energy and passion to the camp and the campers clearly appreciate what a warm, fun environment the camp provides.

Camp Shira has the best “game” in town and the happy, smiling campers and staff to prove it!

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OHEL’s Early Childhood Mental Health Recognized for Making an Impact

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n June, OHEL’s ECMH professional team of staff was one of the seven teams honored as guests at a celebratory luncheon at the NYU School of Law to acknowledge the ECMH network and partners involved in the ECMH 2 year milestone of the program.

OHEL’s ECMH program provides services to parents or caregivers with a young child facing behavioral, social or anxiety challenges.

In addition, OHEL’s ECMH program serves the needs of those parents or caregivers with a young child who may feel overwhelmed and/or or depressed.

The importance of the program was highlighted by the attendance of Alexis Confer, Executive Director of Thrive, Gary Belkin, Executive Deputy Commissioner of Department of Mental

Health, and Donna Bradbury from OMH. Among the many speakers were OHEL representatives, including Deborah Fung, our mental health consultation, and Ms. Mee Ling, an early learn site director at BCA childcare, providing a unique window into OHEL’s mental health consultation work in the Chinese community.

All the members of

OHEL’s ECMH team have taken the accreditation exam for Triple P- Positive Parenting Program. This is an internationally recognized, evidence-based 5 level parenting treatment model.

Special congratulations to Deborah Fung, Chani Schultz, Naomi Steinberg, Aliza Tropper, Irina Derkacheva, Raizel Keilson and Tzivy Reiter for being accredited in

Level 4, and Gladys Feliciano, Naava Rosa and David Leibtag for being accredited in Level 3.

OHEL has been accepted as part of the NYS Association of Infant Mental Health (NYS-AIMH).

NYS-AIMH’s endorsement recognizes the competency of the agency and the ability of its professionals who work with or on behalf of infants and young children up to age five and their families. This endorsement uses a nationally recognized set of standards and competencies

that define best practice and guide professional development across disciplines.

Six of OHEL’s ECMH staff are in the process of being endorsed by NYS Association of Infant Mental Health: ​​Raizel Keilson, Deborah Fung, Irina Derkacheva, Naomi Steinberg, Chani Schultz and Tzivy Reiter.

For more information and details about OHEL’s Early Childhood Mental Program go to www.ohelfamily. org/ECMH or call 1-800603-OHEL.

OHEL’s Early Childhood mental health team

550 Cyclists to Ride 180 Miles for Bike4Chai August 1-2 Chai Lifeline Event Raises Funds and Spirits for Sick Child and Their Families

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n August 1, 550 cyclists will clip in and ride 180 miles over two days as part of Chai Lifeline’s ninth annual Bike4Chai. The bicycling event raises funds for Chai Lifeline, the international children’s health support network which provides emotional, social, and financial support to children with life-threatening or lifelong illnesses and their families.

Bike4Chai begins at the Marriott in Princeton, NJ, on the morning of August 1. Cyclists will ride 180 grueling miles through three states over the next day and half. On the afternoon of August 2, they will pass through The World’s Greatest Finish Line, the entrance gate to Camp Simcha Special, Chai Lifeline’s overnight camp for children with chronic illnesses and medical challenges. There, the cyclists will be greeted by 120 campers, many of whom need wheelchairs, respirators, or other medical equipment to survive, as well as hundreds of family

and staff members, who will celebrate along with them.

“Bike4Chai and its sister ride, Tour de Simcha, bring out the best in people,” said Rabbi Simcha Scholar, Chai Lifeline’s Executive Vice President.

“Participants are competing not to win but to inspire their communities and the families of Chai Lifeline. With every mile, they help children facing serious pediatric medical challenges and their families to access crucial programs and services that enable them to find joy and hope in everyday life.”

Joining the 550 cyclists are Cadel Evans, who won the Tour de France in 2011; 17-time Tour de France competitor George Hincapie; Ryder Hesjedel, who won the Grand Tour at the 2012 Giro d’Italia; 17; Christian Vande Velde, a retired American professional road racing cyclist; former New York Giant Amani Toomer; former New York Ranger Mike Richter; actor Sean Ringgold; and members of Israel’s professional cycling team, Is-

rael Cycling Academy.

Many of the cyclists are participating to inspire others and to give back to Chai Lifeline for the impact the organization has had on their own lives.

JJ Eizik, who is riding in his fifth Bike4Chai, learned to ride an adaptive hand cycle after surviving four bouts of cancer and the amputation of his left leg. He spent four summers at Camp Simcha, the last two as a staff member, and hopes to use his life to inspire those with challenges to see the possibilities in their own lives. “I think that it is important for people to see that no matter what life throws at you, if you want to do something for yourself or for others, you can do it,” he said. “I have an obligation to help and inspire whoever is going through something rough. If they can see that someone else prevailed, I’m happy I can give that over.”

Another rider, Yossi Rotberg, was born with physical challenges that delayed normal development. He began

walking at five, but once he started, Rotberg could not be kept back. At nine, he learned to ride a bicycle and he has been overcoming obstacles ever since.

“I’m doing this for others and for myself,” said Rotberg, who will ride in his third Bike4Chai. “I feel like I’ve accomplished so much already in my life.

I went to regular schools and I have a regular life. I hiked Mount Washington, the highest peak on the northeast United States, so I know this is true: nothing in life is impossible.”

“Chai Lifeline was there for me when my daughter was sick,” said cyclist Shmuel Weitzner. “They provided food, transportation Big Sisters, Camp Simcha, and many, many other services. Riding with Bike4Chai allows me to give back to the organization that helped my family so much.”

To learn more, please visit www. bike4chai.com.

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Chazaq Event VI Inspires Overflowing Crowd in Queens

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t’s well-known that Chazaq events are always eagerly anticipated and well-attended. But no one could have predicted the massive outpouring of support and enthusiasm that was generated for their sixth Annual Chazaq Big Event on July 15.

An estimated 2,000 people from all walks of life streamed into Elite Palace in Woodside all night long and were treated to a truly inspirational evening.

This event wasn’t merely “Big.” It was truly HUGE and a tremendous kiddush Hashem!

Chazaq is a Queens-based organization dedicated to building a stronger future for their community through a variety of outreach programs including dynamic lectures and presentations, Torah libraries, chavruta programs, publications and more. Most importantly, CHAZAQ places much emphasis on inspiring Jewish students who attend public schools by providing exciting and educational after school programs in numerous locations.

Under the leadership of Rabbi Ilan Meirov, Chazaq has a dedicated staff along with a board of directors that encourage us to strengthen ourselves while looking for ways to inspire others.

Sunday’s mega-event was star studded in every sense of the word.

There was tremendous energy in the room, but also a sincere desire for Torah inspiration. Men and women of all ages filled the Grand Ballroom and remained captivated and attentive throughout the program. Despite the overflow crowd, the event was organized and well planned. Dozens of volunteers ushered the guests to their seats, managed the flow of traffic, and ensured a successful evening.

The evening opened with Tehillim recited by Rav Ahron Walkin, shlit”a, Rosh Yeshiva of Chazaq’s Bais Nosson Meir.

Chazaq Operations manager R’ Yaniv Meirov then shared great updates of Chazaq’s work especially with in their outreach work with Jewish public school students having officially transferred an astounding 400 students to yeshiva in less than two years’ time, leading to a thunderous applause by the audience.

Then Chazaq rolled out the red carpet for Charlie Harary, the first of the four featured speakers, who has been a repeat speaker at Chazaq events, each time revealing a bit more on his life

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and how it connects to the empowerment theme.

“We were in our eyes as grasshoppers, and so we were in theirs” describing the sin of the spies in the Sinai desert. As a teenager, Harary played in his school’s basketball team and did not regard himself as the star player. But his coach sensed potential in him, ordering Harary to take the last shot of a big game. “The coach is wrong, you’re totally going to miss,” Harary thought to himself at the time. He passed the ball to an unsuspecting teammate and the game was lost.

“It’s OK to feel nervous but have the decency to believe in me because I see something in you that you did not see in yourself,” his coach told him after the game. At age 65 with 40 years of experience in the game, the coach reminded Harary to have confidence.

“All of us have challenges. The purpose is to grow through our challenges,” said Harary. “Who told you that you can’t? Why are we punishing ourselves?”

Rabbi Eli Mansour touched on the matter of the two and a half tribes that sought land across the Jordan River, as it relates to building makom [place of] Torah. Having seen Chazaq grow over the past 12 years, he described its work as building a makom Torah in Queens.

“Chazaq brought hundreds of students from public schools to yeshivot... It is a buoy in turbulent waters.”

Rabbi Y.Y. Jacobson began his speech with a Talmudic line, citing Taanis 29b as the explanatory source for Tisha b’Av. “The spies inculcated them with dread and fear. They were terri-

fied by the message of the spies. G-d was teaching the Jews about the consequences of learned hopelessness.”

“Whether you believe that you can or whether you believe that you can’t, you’re right,” said Rabbi Jacobson.

Relying on some of his well-known humor, he taught the audience a few Yiddishisms and a couple of anecdotes.

A man who accidentally was locked inside a frozen meat train car was found at the destination to be suffering of hypothermia. But the refrigeration was not turned on, he simply believed that it was.

Another story he pulled out was the origin of actor Zero Mostel’s name.

Born Samuel Joel Mostel, he was told in his youth that he would amount to a zero. But instead the pursued his ambitions to act and adopted the nickname as a reminder of how far he had risen from those days when he was called a zero.

After a brief vocal performance

by Israeli chazan Yosef Chaim HaCohen, R’ Yaniv Meirov joined him in welcoming Rav David Yosef, son of Rav Ovadia Yosef, zt”l, to Queens. He was accompanied by Bukharian Chief Rabbi Yitzchak Yisraeli and Chazaq Director Rav Ilan Meirov. Warming up the stage for the special guest, Rabbi Yisraeli spoke first. “I’ve been working with the Buhkarian community for 20 years. Nowadays we have 40 or 50 synagogues in Queens and they’re all full.

We opened a kollel of Even HaEzer to learn dayanut in Queens. Five years later, we are established and building future leaders.” Like the guest speaker, he was a longtime talmid of Maran

Ovadia Yosef.

Rabbi David Yosef fittingly concluded the evening by bringing the conversation back to the upcoming Tisha B’Av. “We have to cry when we recite Eicha, but unfortunately most people don’t cry.”

“Imagine the Moshiach arriving now,” he asked the audience how they would respond. “Moshiach, now? But we just got a new home!? Because of that we are sitting on Tisha b’Av and not crying. It is an exile of Shechina, exile of kedusha.”

An example of sinat chinam that led to the destruction of the Beit HaMikdash was in Beitar, Rabbi Yosef noted. The city was a religious one, but its people regarded Jerusalem as competition. “When Jerusalem was destroyed, Beitar celebrated.” Fifty years later, that city was also in ruins at the hands of the Romans.

In the materialistic world that we live in, Rabbi Yosef urged the audience to remember the spiritual reality around us that was lost and yearn for its restoration. He proudly stated that he is part of Chazaq’s revolution in inspiring hundreds of public school students and urged everyone else to join Chazaq’s work as well.

It was a poignant conclusion to an incredible evening, especially meaningful as we enter the solemn day of Tisha b’Av. Thanks to Chazaq, we will continue to be inspired to build a stronger future for ourselves, our families, and the community at large.

For more information about Chazaq’s many inspirational programs, visit Chazaq.org or call 917-617-3636.

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At the seudas preida for Rabbi Wallen, seventh grade rebbe in Siach Yitzchok, who is moving to Baltimore

Tisha B’Av 5778: The Heart Lives On

By Zvi Gluck

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nside each and every one of us lies a beating heart.

In its natural state, our hearts are jubilant and dancing, sharing that message of hope and joie de vivre with those whose lives are touched by pain and sorrow.

Throughout the year, our calendar is filled with celebrations, moments where happiness is an integral part of the equation. Our hearts sing on the Shalosh Regalim, they rejoice on Chanukah and Purim, and while we all eagerly await the coming of Moshiach, when Tisha B’Av will be redefined, in our current state it is a day that is the antithesis of happiness.

When our hearts are devoid of joy, the dancing turns into mourning. Our essence has been transformed as we grieve the loss of the Bais Hamikdash, the true heart of the Jewish nation.

To truly understand what it means to have suffered the devastation of our collective heart, we need to take a moment to understand the incredible beauty of the Bais Hamikdash.

More than just a magnificent edifice, it stood upright and proud, built upon eternal foundations and everlasting pillars. It was majestic, glorious, sacred and unifying, overflowing with holiness and light. Heaven permeat-

ed its walls and its air was filled with pure happiness.

And then came the day when the joy was gone. Defiled beyond imagination, its stones shattered, our heart stopped beating and we were plunged into grief so palpable and all-consuming that we nearly gave up hope. Surrounded by the ashes of the holiest place on the face of the earth and facing a loss whose magnitude seemed too much to bear, we had no idea how we could ever go on.

As we say on Chanukah and on Purim, bayamim haheym, bazman hazeh; we acknowledge that occurrences that transpired generations ago still continue to this very day.

For centuries, Jews all over the world have mourned the destruction of the Bais Hamikdash, built of gold and stone. And today, as we once again prepare to sit on the floor and relive those ancient moments with fresh tears welling up in our eyes, we need to also mourn the loss of the flesh and blood Batei Mikdash in our own communities, those who have been shattered, abused and devastated by predators. Just as the Shechina dwelled in the Bais Hamikdash, it lives on in our souls, transforming each one of us into a mikdash me’at.

And every time an innocent victim is destroyed by abuse or addiction and

the joy in their hearts is silenced, we experience the churban of yet another Bais Hamikdash.

Today we mourn the destruction that took place 2,000 years ago.

And today we mourn the destruction that goes on in our communities with alarming frequency.

Imagine for a moment that you are standing on a hilltop overlooking Har Habayis. You see black smoke pouring out of the Bais Hamikdash.

You see enemy troops mercilessly hammering against its walls, looting its treasures and defiling the Kodesh Kodashim. Would you close your eyes as it is crushed, again and again?

Could you just stand by silently and watch as the unthinkable occurred?

While we cannot turn back the hands of time and prevent the destruction of the Bais Hamikdash, we have the power in our own hands to stop the modern day churban, a lesson that our founder and chairman Mendy Klein a”h understood all too well. He knew that a churban is a tragedy, but that tragedy is far greater if we have the ability do something about it but choose not to.

Mendy had the biggest heart of anyone I have ever been privileged to know. The most important lesson he taught me was what it means to give with heart to those who are suffering

and to their broken friends and family, a heartfelt act whose effects live on forever. In his lifetime and beyond, Mendy continues to teach me that with heart comes hope, and with hope comes healing.

So as we prepare to face another Tisha B’Av and to mourn the loss of the Bais Hamikdash whose majestic pillars beckoned and whose very existence was an integral part of the heart every Jew, let us take a moment to remember that we are grieving a churban that took place in our past and still continues in the present day. The eternal pillars of Amudim, constructed from the very depths of Mendy’s heart, continue to call to Klal Yisroel, urging each of us to give with our hearts, from our hearts, so that we can erase the torment from the lives of our brothers and sisters and instill in their hearts the hope for a future filled with absolute joy.

Zvi Gluck is the director of Amudim, an organization dedicated to helping abuse victims and those suffering with addiction within the Jewish community and has been heavily involved in crisis intervention and management for the past 18 years. For more information go to www.amudim.org.

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For the Nine Days the campers at Ruach Day Camp designed the “Kotel” and wrote notes to Hashem. The youngest campers drew beautiful pictures and hung them on the Kotel too.

Bonei Olam: A Companion on the Journey of Life

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very one of us is placed here on Earth to complete our destined journey. Some have a rockier way, some encounter darker roads, some travel with more loneliness. We all have to navigate the thoroughfares of life, but more importantly, we are tasked with the mission of assisting our fellow passengers on their journeys, especially those shouldering more difficult roadblocks than most.

Bonei Olam, metaphorically as well as physically and financially, understands this mission well. It dedicates its every ounce of energy, time and resources to paving the roads, removing the boulders, lighting the way and providing those on the journey of infertility with everything they need to start a family of their own.

Bonei Olam, since its inception, has been the address for couples seeking to build a family. What began as a small chessed project of individuals helping their fellow Yidden has grown into a global organization. An organization changing the face of the Jewish world to the tune of thousands of new babies, thousands of jubilant parents, and hundreds of thousands of new possibilities for Klal Yisroel’s eternal destiny.

From the very first phone call until the ultimate simcha, Bonei Olam

is there for each and every couple in a personal way. A couple’s lack of funds to pay for the necessary procedures is no longer a reason for the

couple to remain childless; Bonei Olam is there for them.

Bonei Olam is not just an organization; Bonei Olam is family. Their

Mazel Tov! Aviva became a Kallah last night!

Who was the shadchan?

Bonei Olam!

Bonei Olam? Shadchan?

Yes! Many times, for a host of reasons, when it comes to shidduchim many girls and boys who have had to deal with issues in their past will have a hard time becoming engaged. These are regular, intelligent, personable boys and girls who happened to have had some sort of medical or genetic issue at some point in their life. All those issues are behind them now, yet when it comes to a shidduch they need someone they can trust to assure them that they can – and should – proceed with the match.

Bonei Olam, with its unparalleled communal genetics knowledge, has been that trusted friend and advisor to hundreds of people who are today happily married parents of children of their own!

Bonei Olam is not just the address for financial help, guidance and support for infertility. Bonei Olam is there for Klal Yisroel’s families, in a variety of capacities. Bonei Olam has the know-how to ensure that couples aren’t in jeopardy because of a shidduch. Bonei Olam has the compassion to facilitate these shidduchim with grace, dignity and respect. Bonei Olam has the experience to direct each prospective zivug to the appropriate channels of information for their particular situation.

Bonei Olam is steadfast in its commitment to Klal Yisroel’s families, no matter what!

Mazel tov indeed!

mission is family. Their philosophy is family. As community members and members of this family, we all feel the pain of childless couples and all of us daven and wish we could do something to help them. We can.

Bonei Olam is our collective messenger. Through Bonei Olam we can assist our fellow neighbors, friends and relatives still longing to become parents.

In the words of one Five Towns community member, “The work of Bonei Olam is the responsibility of each of us in the community. We need to be thankful to Bonei Olam for doing the job that we should be doing on our own, and we need to continue supporting them in this holy work so that they will never have to leave any couple mid-journey!”

This year’s Bonei Olam Five Towns County Fair Event will iy”H be held on Monday, July 23, 2018 at Fulton Street in Lawrence (corner of Central Ave). Enjoy over 20 food booths, a concert by Pumpidisa, and wine tasting by Herzog Wine Cellars.

Please “Join the Journey” and support Bonei Olam by attending the Five Towns Fulton St fundraiser.

Your support will have a dramatic impact on the childless couples in Far Rockaway and the Five Towns.

This Monday evening: Join The Journey!

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I had been to all the shadchanim and decided to turn to the ultimate Shadchan- Hashem!

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The materials, the liveliness and the note will surely bring joy to the children receiving it! Rabbi Selengut the Rabbi of Ohab Zedek (Belle Harbor), introduced the program, explaining that chessed and kindness is a beautiful thing to be focused on during the Nine Days. Rabbi Orlofsky from GiftofUnity added that the summer is a time for fun and children in the hospital deserve to have fun too. The children then had an opportunity to make and decorate tzedakah boxes for them to take home. Everyone enjoyed participating in this chessed day and look forward to doing this again.

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Chofetz Chaim Heritage Foundation World-Wide Tisha B’Av Event Provides an All New View of the All-Important Middah of “Nosei B’ol”

By C. Nestlebaum

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his Tisha B’Av, on the day that Klal Yisrael focuses its collective attention on the mitzvos bein adam lachaveiro, the Chofetz Chaim Heritage Foundation will present an eye-opening exploration of how to truly share our fellow Jews’ burdens.

How do we see past ourselves?

How do we understand what someone else is feeling?

How do we know what he needs?

And most of all, how do we motivate ourselves to go that extra mile to fill those needs?

Each world renowned speaker, through his own unique prism, will help participants understand the necessity and obligation to put ourselves in other people’s shoes, open our hearts to them, and do as much as we possibly can to lighten their life’s burdens. And in this manner, Klal Yisrael will undoubtedly merit arousing Hashem to further feel the burdens that we, the Jewish people carry, and he will ever so swiftly alleviate that

unbearable burden with the coming of Moshiach speedily, in our days!

Feeling for others is one of the identifying traits of a Jew. Learning to recognize other people’s needs, feel their pain, and striving to lighten their burden, are goals we hold high and strive to reach. However, for a myriad of reasons we may fail to notice or properly respond to someone’s needs. In fact, sometimes we may inadvertently offer the wrong help at the wrong time. It may be more than the person can accept or less than he needs. It can sometimes even do more harm than good. And while only Hashem can perfectly calibrate the help a person needs, like all other middos and mitzvos we are undoubtedly expected to invest the necessary time and effort to perfect our adherence to this ever-so-crucial middah of noseh b’ol.

As in the past, The Chofetz Chaim Heritage Foundation’s Tisha B’Av presentation will be a brilliant tapestry of inspiration and practical advice, woven by its featured, world-renown speakers. The never-before-heard

divrei Torah, thought-provoking ideas, and inspirational stories will bring out this ever so important topic in a way that is sure to inspire and improve the day-to-day lives of all who see it, and allow us to serve as the harbingers of the imminent geulah!

The annual World-Wide Tisha B’Av Event offers a perfect backdrop for building the bonds of caring with fellow Jews. Participants are instantly linked into a chain of achdus, as they join with tens of thousands of others, in 700 locations around the world, all seeking to search their hearts and open them wider to all of Klal Yisrael.

The Event will offer two programs, each featuring renowned speakers whose wisdom and insight is sought around the world.

Program A features Rav Elimelech Biderman from Bnei Brak, whose penetrating weekly lectures, replete with an incredible plethora of varied sources, addressing all facets of yiras shomayim, emunah, and bitachon,; Rabbi Yissocher Frand, a Rosh Yeshiva at Baltimore’s Yeshivas Ner Israel who is highly regarded for his depth and

breadth of Talmudic and halachic analysis as well as for his popular, inspiring speaking style; and Rabbi Paysach J. Krohn, author of the famed Maggid series, noted lecturer, whose thought-provoking messages and inspirational stories have served as the cornerstone of so many previous CCHF Tisha B’Av Events.

Program B features Rabbi Yechiel Spero, a rebbi at Yeshivas Chofetz Chaim/Talmudical Academy of Baltimore, a sought-after speaker, Yated Ne’eman columnist, and prolific author, whose incredible collection of thoughts and stories have inspired thousands; David Lieberman, Ph.D., an acclaimed psychologist, noted speaker, and award-winning author, who is renowned for his keen insight into human relations and emotions; and Mr. Charlie Harary, an international speaker whose inspiring messages and motivational videos focus on actualizing the potential within each person.

Please see the ad in this paper for a listing of times and locations, or visit www.powerofspeech.org/tishabav.

250,000 People Joined Last Year, The 3rd “Tu B’Av Together” The Global Day of Tefillah for Shidduchim Initiative By Yad L’achim

By Bentzy Friedman

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ast year over a quarter of a million people gathered together at one moment across the globe to daven for all who need shidduchim. Many were helped. It’s happening again.

On Tu B’Av, Friday, July 27, at 10:00 a.m. EST, thousands of Jews from around the world will unite in tefillah for all the singles in Klal Yisrael. Tu B’Av – Together.

Tu B’Av has become synonymous with tefillah for shidduchim. The Gemara writes in Maseches Taanis: “There have never been such good days for Klal Yisrael like Tu B’Av and Yom Kippur.”

For the third year in a row, with the blessings and encouragement of Gedolei Yisrael, Yad L’Achim is launching “Tu B’Av Together,” a global day of tefillah. A minyan of

talmidei chachamim, messengers of Yad L’Achim, will be davening in Amuka, the resting place of the holy Tanna Yonasan Ben Uziel on Tu B’Av for all who submit their names to Yad L’Achim. As usual, there is no minimum donation required to submit names for tefillah through Yad L’Achim, ever. (Visit tubavtogether. com.)

While the talmidei chachamim will be davening for several hours, at exactly 10:00 a.m. EST (5 p.m. in Eretz Yisrael) they will lead the global tefillah for shidduchim. The following kapitlach (chapters) will be recited Psalms 32, 38, 70, 82, 121, 124. For those few minutes, the cries and heartfelt tefillah of the Jewish people around the world will beseech our Heavenly Father on behalf of all those who seek their bashert.

Thousands of Yidden from around the world will unite in tefillah at the

very same moment so that all singles find their zivug hagun b’karov. Yad L’Achim is launching this worldwide initiative as a merit for all the singles to find their bashert and specifically for the women and young adults rescued from the Arab Villages that they may marry bnei Torah.

The success of “Tu B’Av Together” is dependent on you! Here are several ways you can help make it a success; Gather a group of friends and or family to recite the kapitlach on Tu B’Av morning – perfect for day camps and bungalow colonies.

Please download the Tehillim from our website and distribute it Send the name of the website www.TUBAVTOGETHER.com to friends and family, so that they can download the Tehillim as well as submit their names for tefillah for free!

Submit the names of all your friends and family that need shidduchim (remember, there is no minimum donation required to submit names) Send us an email at tubav@yadlachim.org and we will send you updates as well as info to pass along to others.

Yad L’Achim has set up an informative website specifically for this momentous occasion, simply visit www.tubavtogether.com where people can sign up to receive updates and submit names for tefillah in Amuka if they wish (for free)! You can also make an optional donation to assist Yad L’Achim in rescuing Jewish women and children trapped in Arab villages, the great mitzvah of pidyon shvuyim.

For further information, call Yad L’Achim at 1-866-923-5224 or visit www.TUBAVTOGETHER.com.

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his past Tuesday, July 17, was the final day of cheder and the summer program at Siach Yitzchok. Reb Dovid Sitnick, the menahel, spoke with all the classes individually. He recounted all the great achievements of the boys throughout this 11 month school year. It was truly an extremely successful year both in limudei kodesh and in limudei chol.

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This Week TJH Speaks with...

1, 2, 3…8 weeks of amazing summer fun! For two months of the year our children bask in the sun, swimming, singing, and soaking up the fun every day. How are they spending their time away from their desks? In this feature series we speak with camp directors and head counselors to learn more about our community’s amazing, spectacular, incredible, marvelous, unbelievable (you get the point!) camps.

Camp Avnet

By Susan Schwamm

Camp Avnet, also known as HALB’s Avnet Country Day School, gives almost 1,000 children the time of their lives during these summer months. With two campuses, three pools, and thousands of activities each week, Avnet is always rocking - and so are the kids who get to call it their “home away from home!” This week we spoke with Director Daniel Stroock to hear more about the energy, excitement, and nonstop fun that takes place every minute of every day.

Daniel, camp is no longer on the Long Beach campus. How has that change worked for you?

This is our second summer enjoying the New Woodmere Campus and it really feels like home. Long Beach was synonymous with Avnet for many years, but when we moved our full operations to Woodmere in 2017, in many ways it was a new beginning. HALB’s state-of-the art facilities, new ball fields, updated basketball courts, outdoor hockey rink, heated pools, amazing gym and spectacular auditorium have provided us with a great opportunity to “step up our game.” We’ve adapted and added to our activities to take advantage of the new space. I like to say that our double campu s i s really integrated into “one home ,” a nd we structure our activities

so campers spend time at both locations to fully maximize and experience the vast space we have on Church Avenue and Ibsen Street.

Tell us about your different divisions and division heads.

We have seven divisions at Avnet, so we can meet the distinct needs and interests of campers ranging in age from 3-14.

Seven divisions! Wow!

Well, five divisions re housed in our New Woodmere Campus and two divisions in our DRS Campus.

Miriam Furman heads our Tipot, or preschool division. We have two divisions for first through third grade: Ma’ayanot Boys led by Moshe Spern and Ma’ayanot Girls led by Naomi Goldstein. Girls entering 4th through 5th grade are in our Agamim division, which is headed by Ariana Wolfson. This year, we created our Naharot division for 6th through 8th grade girls, also headed by Ariana, to reflect

more mature programming. The girls in both the Agamim and Naharot divisions select weekly “majors” where they choose one of seven specialties to attend.

On our DRS Campus we have two divisions for boys. The Harim division is for 4th and 5th graders, while G’vaot is for 6th through 8th graders.

Rabbi Shaya Samet and Zack Kessler lead both of these divisions.

Rabbi Jeremy Fine is Avnet’s inspiring head counselor. He sets the tone for Avnet’s ruach and excitement.

Malkie Behar is truly the “anchor” at Avnet. She runs our office year-round and has a phenomenal ability to connect with and remember almost every family and staff member.

Our upper staff is entirely comprised of educators and we really understand the importance of the camp experience for building confidence, friendships, sportsmanship and new skills. We work together to guide our extended staff, of over 300 members, to ensure that we are

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creating a warm, friendly and safe environment.

That sounds very organized. There are a l ot of campers at Avnet. How do you manage the programming and how is the day structured?

At Avnet, we are guided by the philosophy of treating everyone with respect and paying attention to the details. Even with almost 1,000 campers, we truly care about the individual needs and interests of each child. We plan the summer from the child’s perspective. We’ve always asked for ideas and feedback from our campers— and they are happy to give it! We also know that children delight in the excitement of their upcoming trips and special events, so we printed our schedule on personalized water bottles for each camper.

We have 48 bunks and each bunk has 9 periods in a day over the course of a 5-day week. That means we’re executing over 2,160 different activity periods per week! Our staff members know to follow the schedule, but also to be flexible when needed.

We’re fortunate to have Rabbi Natan Farber as program director. Rabbi Farber is the “mastermind” behind all our intricate scheduling and he makes sure each group has an amazing activity to go to at any given time. This year we added A lex Braverma n to our programm i n g m i x !

He’s an expert at planning and exe-

cuting special events. He already wowed our Naharot Girls with Cupcake Wars. He has some incredible ideas up his sleeves and his contributions are sure to make the summer of 2018 that much more memorable.

The campers must be having a blast! Where do your campers hail from?

Our campers really have an opportunity to make new friends since they represent many different communities and schools.

They come from the Five Towns, Far Rockaway, Oceanside, West Hempstead, Long Beach and Queens. Of course, many HALB students attend Avnet, but we also draw campers from YCQ, Shu-

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working and Nature. Joey Werner of the DRS Campus and Rabbi Aaron Fleksher of the New Woodmere Campus lead the sports programs at their respective sites. Our sports include soft-

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That means we’re executing over 2,160 different activity periods per week! lamith, TAG, South Shore, YKLI, HANC, HAFTR, Har Torah, Yeshiva Darchei Torah, MDS and some of the local public schools. Our staff members go out of their way to engage each child, make introductions, and facilitate friendships.

We’re always gratified when parents from other schools report how “comfortable” their children feel at Avnet.

Speaking of all the different campers at Avnet, what are their favorite activities?

Our list of “favorite” activities is as diverse as our campers and we make sure to offer a variety of specialties and sports to capture everyone’s interests. The specialties include Chinuch, Country Cooking, Culinary Creations, Arts & Crafts, Fine Arts, Creative Crafts, Zumba, Music & Movement, Ballet, Warren Levi Boot Camp, Music, Wood-

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ball, soccer, basketball, hockey, volleyball, gaga, dodgeball and golf. There are leagues for competition and clinics where athletes can hone their skills. We also have our very own Avnet Ninja Warrior Obstacle Courses at both buildings!

A Ninja Warrior Obstacle Course – I’d love to try that! Are there any new activities this year?

We’re proud to introduce “Chesed” as an activity for all children in 3rd grade and older. Avnet is a Torah environment and we always stress good middos.

Ayelet Katz, who is the Chesed C o or d i nator i n t he Junior H i g h School at YC Q, lead s our Chesed program.

T he campers started by completing “Chesed Charts” to understand the power each person has to do good deeds. This week we are hosting a car wash to benefit our local Tomchei Shabbos. Upcoming projects include making and delivering paper flowers and cards for nursing home residents, designing board games for hospital-bound children, and a special project for lone soldiers in Israel.

Swimming! The campers must love it during these hot days. What’s special about swim time at Avnet?

We’ve added a third pool this year that is geared towards our flourishing preschool population. Our pools now allow for a swimming capacity of over 250 campers at a time. Headed

by Paloma Gefen, we are blessed to have a large, well-trained lifeguarding staff to keep them safe

and build their skills.

What trips do you go on? Are there overnights or late nights?

Our off-site adventures include Fun Station, Adventureland, Cyclones game, Bouncers & Slydos, Active Kidz, Laser Bounce, Fishing, Pole Position Go-Karting and Dave & Busters. We send all of our preschoolers, as well as our elementary school girls, to gymnastics each week. The boys have bowling as a regular part of their schedule.

The real standout trips of the summer will be Six Flags Great Adventure, Hershey Park and

The sound of laughter is the first thing I notice as I walk through our campus. a trip to “Aladdin” on Broadway! We have added an overnight for our oldest campers to Club Getaway. The oldest girls are looking forward to “Lunch on Central” and already had a surprise trip to Rita’s. The boys just went to the brand new NFL Experience in Times Square where they were able to “live the life” of NFL training camp participants!

Do you do anything different for the Three Weeks and the Nine Days?

We try to demonstrate proper respect for the solemnity of the period. Preschoolers work on a special “Bais Hamikdash” building/mitzvah

project. Our Chinuch groups all discuss the time of the year and its significance and we convert our free swim time into a “swim-athon” to benefit Chai Lifeline. Over the last number of years, our campers have logged thousands of laps and raised tens of thousands of dollars

As you walk around camp, what are three things that you hear the most throughout the day?

The sound of laughter is the first thing I notice as I walk through our campus. That’s the sound of happy campers and it truly makes my day. A common refrain is “I wish camp was 10 months instead of school.” Also, kids are always stopping me in the hall to tell me about activities they love or showing me a project they completed. Just this past Friday a first grader stopped by my office to show off his “camper of the week” trophy. These moments of pride, along with the positive feedback from parents, add up to make this job truly rewarding!

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TJH You gotta be kidding A pedestrian stepped off the curb and into the road without looking one day and promptly got knocked flat by a passing cyclist.

“You were really lucky there,” said the cyclist.

“What on earth are you talking about?! That really hurt!” moaned the pedestrian, still on the pavement, rubbing his head.

“Well, usually I drive a bus!” the cyclist replied.

Centerfold Riddle me this?

Two bikes are traveling toward each other at a constant speed of 10 mph. When the bikes are 20 miles apart, a fly flies from the front wheel of one of the bikes toward the other bike at a constant speed of 25 mph. As soon as it reaches the front wheel of the other bike, it immediately turns around and flies at 25 mph toward the first bike. It continues this pattern until the two bikes smush the fly between the two front tires.

How far did the fly travel?

See answer below on opposite page

Signs that You are Too Into Biking Your bike costs more than your car.

You spend at least an hour a day watching GoPro footage.

You know where every single pothole is within a 5 mile radius of your home.

Your bike is cleaner than your house.

Your bike has a nickname and you’re not at all embarrassed to use the moniker.

When driving, you yell, “On your right!” when you pass another car.

After every weekend your phone is filled with photos of mountains, trails, descents, signposts, fields, sunsets…

You tail a semi-trailer to get the drafting effect.

You start yelling at cars to “hold your line.”

You have more money invested in your bike clothes than in the rest of your combined wardrobe.

You have more bike jerseys than dress shirts.

A PowerBar tastes better than a Snickers.

You can’t seem to get to work by 8:30 AM, even for important meetings, but you don’t have any problems at all meeting your buddies at 5:00 AM for a ride.

You can tell your spouse, with a straight face, that it’s too hot to mow the lawn and then bike off for a century.

You hear someone had a crash and your first question is “How’s the bike?”

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In the summer heat, the iron in France’s Eiffel Tower expands, making the tower grow more than 6 inches.

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a. Climbing

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Answer to Riddle Me This: 25 miles. The simplest approach is to consider the time involved. The bikes will take 1 hour to touch, given that they start 20 miles apart and are each traveling toward each other at 10 mph. Therefore, the fly is flying back and forth at 25 mph for 1 hour.

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Torah Thought

Parshas Devarim

By Rabbi Berel Wein

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n summing up the story of the Jewish people, from Egyptian slavery to the eve of their entry into their promised homeland, our great teacher and leader Moshe minces no words. He reminds the people of Israel of their shortcomings and of their transgressions during the 40 years that he has led them. There is very little bitterness in his narrative – just the damning truth of hard facts and known circumstances.

Though this fifth book of the Bible will contain many commandments and legal matters in it, the overall message of the book is one of historical perspective – of the past and of the future, of the weaknesses and foibles of the people and of their greatness and search for spirituality and holiness. The rabbis taught us that it is better to hear criticisms and chastisement from Moshe who loves us than compliments and blandish-

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ments from Bilaam, who essentially hates us.

The truth is that all of us find it difficult to accept criticism easily and coolly. Our ego flares up and we immediately build up a wall of resentment and excuses in order to deflect the criticism leveled against us. But that is certainly a self-defeating mechanism that only reinforces our shortcomings and prevents us from taking the necessary steps to bring about self-improvement. The Talmud itself bemoans the fact that the diminution of the generations has left us with a society that finds it difficult to accept criticism, and a lack of people who can administer criticism

the temerity to address them in such a fashion.

The great men of Mussar over the past two centuries have placed a greater emphasis on being able to hear the opinions and criticisms of others. Needless to say, this attitude did not prove to be overly popular even amongst religious Jews. Yet, it is abundantly clear that having a closed mind and deaf ears leads to great societal problems, both personal and national.

I would say that, in my opinion, it is one of the more serious failings that exists in our attitudes and behavior patterns. Smugness and self-righteous contentment are tru-

It is abundantly clear that having a closed mind and deaf ears leads to great societal problems, both personal and national.

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correctly. That certainly seems to be the case in our world today as well.

The reading of the first chapter of the prophet Isaiah, from which this Shabbat derives its name –Chazon – is a strongly worded indictment of the Jewish society in first Temple times and provides the background as to why destruction and exile followed. The prophet will complain later that the people were not attentive to his words and in fact inflicted physical harm upon him for having

ly enemies of progress and spiritual advancement. The L-rd Himself, so to speak, asks of us to come, debate and discuss behavior and problems directly with the Al-mighty. But the fear of criticism and the lack of the ability to truly digest such criticism prevents many such a discussion or debate from somehow taking place. A little less ego and a lot more humility and attentiveness to others would certainly stand us in good stead.

Shabbat shalom.

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From the Fire

Parshas Devarim/ Shabbos Chazon Tunneling to Yerushalayim

By Rav Moshe Weinberger Adapted for publication by Binyomin Wolf

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ecause Tisha B’Av falls on Shabbos and it is observed Motzoi Shabbos and Sunday, Shabbos is both Tisha B’Av and erev Tisha B’Av. In parshas Devarim, the Moshe Rabbeinu begins to summarize our journey in the desert from Mitzrayim until we reach the land of Israel. He starts out by saying (Devarim 1:2), “Eleven days from Chorev [Sinai], by way of Mt. Seir until Kadesh Barnea.” Rashi there explains, “The [Jewish people] traveled [the entire eleven day journey] in three days. That is the extent to which the Divine Presence exerted itself for your sake to hasten your arrival in the land. But because you sinned, it led you around Mt. Seir for forty years.”

In other words, the 11 day journey was turned into a three day journey, which was transformed into a forty year journey. Therefore, the next

pasuk continues, “And it was in the fortieth year...”

In Eicha (3:9), we say, “He has enclosed my ways with hewn stone, He has made my paths crooked.” Based on this pasuk, the Medrash in Eicha Raba (and in the Yerushalmi, Ma’aser Sheni 2:5) tells us that there were simple, working Jewish men and women who lived in Tzipori, Tiveria, and even further north in Gilad, who used to travel to Yerushalayim every erev Shabbos to light candles and learn Torah in the Beis Hamikdash and then return home before Shabbos.

It was not possible in those days to make such a journey in one day, so the Medrash and Yerushalmi explain that they traveled via miraculous tunnels, me’chilos. The Medrash explained, however, that these tunnels could no longer be found because “there were tunnels there, but they became con-

cealed.” Based on this, the Medrash quotes the pasuk in Eicha, “He has enclosed my ways with hewn stone, He has made my paths crooked.”

These simple Jews had such a strong longing to be in the Beis Hamikdash in Yerushalayim that Hashem opened up a miraculous path for them in the form of those tunnels. The Maharal in Netzach Yisroel explains this Medrash as follows, “There is a deep point in this Medrash... It is impossible to explain these tunnels under the ground at face value. It is clear that the explanation [of these tunnels] is that they represent a hidden and concealed force...until the future when the nature of this force will be revealed.”

The Yerushalmi cited above also tells the story of a man who found himself in a tunnel, one of the me’chilos, going the opposite direction. This

man who lived in Eretz Yisroel was plowing with his ox when the ox ran away. He chased after it and followed it into a tunnel. When they came out on the other side of the tunnel, he suddenly found himself in Bavel, Babylonian. He asked some people he saw where he was and they told him he was in Bavel. They asked him where he was from and when he arrived. He explained that he was in Eretz Yisroel that very day and just got to Bavel. They asked him how he got there and he tried to find the tunnel but he was unable to. The Gemara also connects this story to the pasuk in Eicha, “He has enclosed my ways with hewn stone, He has made my paths crooked.”

The first story told is of people who wanted to reach Yerushalayim so badly that Hashem created a miraculous path to the Beis Hamikdash for

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them. In the second story, on the other hand, even if someone is already in Eretz Yisroel, if he spends his time chasing cows and gashmiyus, physicality, those same tunnels take him into exile. We all have our “oxen” of this world that we are chasing and, just like the man in the story, we also do not know how to find our way back to Eretz Yisroel, to holiness.

The distance between exile and redemption is very great. But the physical distance is not as wide or as vast as the distance in our minds and our hearts. With great desire for Eretz Yisroel, the path to the land of Israel went from eleven days to just three days. But when we went off track and began chasing the wrong things, that path suddenly became a forty year journey and then a two thousand year exile from which we do not know how to return. There are many political and economic obstacles to our return to the land of Israel, but the main obstacles are inside of us, in our minds and in our hearts.

Rebbi Yehuda Halevi longed for Eretz Yisroel so much that he wrote, “My heart is in the East, and I am at the end of the West.” With great longing, one can overcome all obstacles and bypass all stumbling blocks to return home. Because of his great desire, even though travel to Eretz Yisroel was extremely dangerous in those days, Rebbi Yehuda Halevi found a “tunnel” and made his way back home.

The exile and churban have destroyed the paths back to Eretz Yisroel and redemption. But Chazal have revealed to us (Psikta Rabasi 32:10) that when the final redemption comes, the aseres ha’shevatim, the ten lost tribes, will one day return to Eretz Yisroel from the other side of the Sambatiyon River via these me’chilos to Har Hazeisim. In addition, Chazal tell us (Kesubos 111, Yalkut Shimoni on Yeshaya 36:431) that at the time of the redemption, the tzaddikim who have left the world will come to life and return to Eretz Yisroel via these same tunnels. “[Hashem] will create tunnels for them in the earth.” Rashi there explains that “they will stand on their feet and walk to Eretz Yisroel in tunnels where they will emerge and come out.” The great desire that gives rise to these tunnels is so powerful

that it can even bridge the distance between this world and the next to bring the lost tribes and the tzaddikim who have left the world back to Eretz Yisroel.

Through these teachings, Chazal have revealed to us that the distance between exile and redemption and between this world and the next is not so far.

In this week’s parsha, Moshe Rabbeinu says (Devarim 1:8, 21), “See that I have place the land before you, come and inherit it... See that Hashem your G-d has placed the land before you, ascend and inherit it as Hashem the G-d of your fathers has spoken to you, do not be afraid and do not fear.” All that is required is not to be afraid. We did not get lost in the desert because of the other nations there, for political reasons, or any other cause. Rather, our journey turned into a forty year trip because of our mindset. Moshe explained to them (Devarim 1:26, 32), “You did not want to ascend... This is why you did not believe in Hashem your G-d.”

Shmuel Yosef (“Shai”) Agnon, the famous Nobel Prize winning and G-d fearing writer, wrote a story called “Ma’aseh Ha’eiz, The Story of the Goat,” inspired by all of the Medrashim about the mysterious tunnels.

He told of an old man who was very sick. His doctors told him that he needed goat’s milk, so he bought a goat. A short time after he bought the goat, she disappeared for a few days. Wherever they searched for her they could not find her. But after a few days, she returned on her own with an udder full of milk so rich and delicious that it tasted like it came from Gan Eden. Whenever the milk ran out she would disappear for a few days and could not be found until she returned on her own with udders full of the most delicious milk. One day the man’s son formulated a plan. He tied a rope to the goat’s tail and when she left in the middle of the night, he felt the tug of the rope and followed her. He followed her into a tunnel, one of the me’chilos, and they walked through the tunnel for several hours, possibly several days.

When they came out on the other side, they found themselves on beautiful verdant hills with trees and

plants blossoming everywhere. He saw Jews but they did not understand Yiddish. He asked them in Hebrew where he was and they explained that they were in the Land of Israel, near Tzfas. He wanted to remain there for the day and then return to bring his parents to Eretz Yisroel but he saw people preparing for Shabbos and realized he would not be able to make the journey in time for Shabbos. He therefore wrote a note to his parents telling them that he was okay and in the Land of Israel. They should just follow the goat and she would bring them to Eretz Yisroel to live with him.

He placed the note in the goat’s ear and allowed it to return and he went to live in Tzfas.

When the goat returned home to the shtetl without his son, the boy’s father was brokenhearted. He did not find the note and assumed that his son had been torn apart by some wild animal. Ripped by grief, he brought the shochet to kill the goat that brought him so much pain. As they were skinning the goat after

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slaughter, the note fell out of its ear.

Seeing his son’s handwriting, the father read the note and realized that in his grief and haste, he had killed his only key to returning to his health, to Eretz Yisroel, and to his beloved son.

The opening and pathway to redemption still exists. We do not see it or think about it, but it is there and can be unlocked if we desire to return.

Until we do, we still have Tisha B’Av. But when we believe in and long for the redemption, it is close and attainable.

May we increase our desire for a world in which Hashem’s presence is revealed and merit to return through those hidden me’chilos, tunnels, to Yerushalayim with the coming of Moshiach, may it be soon in our days.

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

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We Want Moshiach But Now?

By Eytan Kobre

It is easier to take the Jew out of exile than to take the exile out of the Jew. -R’ Yaakov Shimshon of Shepetovka

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’ Nochum of Chernobyl once stayed at the home of an elderly couple in a remote village. In the middle of the night, R’ Nochum awoke and recited Tikkun Chatzos – lamenting the destruction of the Bais HaMikdash and praying for it to be rebuilt – in tears and with cries of anguish.

His host, woken by the wailing, asked R’ Nochum why he was crying and carrying on. R’ Nochum explained that he was praying for the Final Redemption and beseeching G-d for the arrival of Moshiach.

R’ Nochum was met with a blank expression. “Don’t you also desire the Final Redemption and the arrival of Moshiach?” he asked his host.

“I’m not sure,” the host answered.

“Let me ask my wife.”

A short while later, the host returned. “Moshiach’s arrival means we will have to pick up and move to the Land of Israel. That means we will have to give up our farm and our cows, horses, and chickens. We aren’t really

interested in all that.”

“Okay,” R’ Nochum prodded, “but don’t your gentile neighbors, every now and then, trash your farm and steal your cows, horses, and chickens?

Wouldn’t it be better to go the Land of Israel with Moshiach?”

The host quickly consulted his wife and returned. “We understand your point, Rebbe, but we have a better idea. Moshiach can take our gentile neighbors to the Land of Israel. We will stay here with the farm, horses, cows, and chickens.”

Many of us are not much different.

Rather than eagerly anticipating and dreaming of Moshiach’s arrival, we obsess over things like our Nine Days menus. Other than certain segments of our community, the very concept of Moshiach is forgotten – or worse, has become taboo.

But, as R’ Levi Yitzchak of Berditchev would say, on Shabbos Chazon, every Jew is shown a vision of the Third Bais HaMikdash, which is meant to inspire our yearning.

Not only is belief in the Final Redemption and the coming of Moshiach a central tenet of our faith, so is yearning for them (Rambam, Sanhedrin 11:1 [Thirteen Principles of Faith, No. 12]; see Chabakuk 2:3; Tzephania 3:8; Yeshaya 30:18).

Belief in Moshiach (and in G-d Himself) and eagerly anticipating

his arrival are intertwined with one another (SeMaK, Positive Commandment No. 1). In fact, “those who do not believe in [Moshiach] or who do not anticipate his arrival, deny not only the other prophets but the Torah and Moshe Rabbeinu” (Rambam, Melachim 11:1; Ohr Yechezkel, Emunas HaGeula; Shibolei HaLeket, Seder Taanis, Chapter 274). In the World to Come, one of the first questions to be asked is whether we hoped for the redemption (Shabbos 31a). One who firmly and truly believes in Moshiach surely would anticipate his arrival eagerly (Borchi Nafshi, Vol. 1, pg. 292).

But anticipating the Final Redemption is not simply an aspirational exercise; it informs our present-day actions. “One who says, ‘I shall be a Nazir on the day the Son of Dovid [i.e., Moshiach] comes’ can never drink wine, because we must always be hopeful that he will come each day” (Eruvin 43a). One may not blemish his entire herd of animals before tithing it, because the Bais HaMikdash may be rebuilt at any time and then there won’t be any animals to offer as a sacrifice (Bechoros 53b). And, even nowadays, Kohanim must take care in drinking wine, lest they become intoxicated and unable to serve in the Bais HaMikdash, which may be rebuilt any moment (Taanis 17b).

A follower of the Tzemach Tzedek

rented an inn from the local poritz, renewing his lease each year. One year, he sent his son to sign the lease renewal, but, rather than signing a one year lease, the son committed to a three-year term. Upon learning of the new terms, the father was upset.

“We believe with perfect faith in the coming of Moshiach, and he will definitely come this year. You paid for an additional two years for no reason.”

Even the nadir of the year, Tisha B’Av, bespeaks this yearning. Moshiach is born on Tisha B’Av (Yerushalmi, Berachos 2:4; Eicha Rabba 1:51). The tone of Eicha shifts from completely morose to include a ray of hopefulness and yearning (Eicha, Chapter 5). The same could be said for kinnos. And there is an age-old custom for women to wash their heads and clean their homes after Mincha on Tisha B’Av, as a sign of hope and yearning for the Final Redemption (Birkei Yosef, No. 559; Kol Bo, No. 62; Meiri, Taanis 30a; but see Bais Yosef, Orach Chaim 554).

Just before the onset of Tisha B’Av one year, R’ Levi Yitzchak of Berdichev stood before his window for what seemed like an eternity. It was getting dark. The whole town waited to begin Eicha and kinnos. Where was R’ Levi Yitzchak? At long last, the beadle knocked on his door. “Rebbe, the entire congregation is waiting for you.”

“Indeed,” R’ Levi Yitzchak sighed, “Moshiach still has not arrived. We will have to say kinnos this year too.”

R’ Dovid Moshe of Chortkov related how his grandfather, R’ Avraham, the son of the Maggid of Mezritch, would observe Tisha B’Av in hopeful arrival of Moshiach. On Tisha B’Av, my grandfather would sit with his head bowed between his knees, his eyes streaming tears. And from time to time throughout the day, he would raise his head, and, in deep yearning for Moshiach, would glance around and ask: “Not here yet? Hasn’t he arrived yet?”

R’ Mordechai of Lechovich would say, “If we truly believed each day that Moshiach will come today, we would not save our kinnos booklets from year to year.” In fact, R’ Avraham of Chechanov would buy a new kinnos every year because, after each Tisha B’Av, he would place his kinnos in shaimos, confident that Moshiach would come that year.

Morning and night we pray for

G-d’s redemption – “every day, constantly” (Tana d’Bei Eliyahu 19). So three times a day we pray, “We hope for Your deliverance” (Shemoneh Esrei), and each morning we express our belief that “at the End of Days, He will send our Moshiach, to redeem those longing for His final salvation” (Yigdal).

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Moshiach.

R’ Yaakov Neiman once visited the Chofetz Chaim, who asked, “Nu, what are people in the streets saying about Moshiach?”

R’ Yaakov remained silent.

The Chofetz Chaim nodded his head in knowing disappointment.

“That’s the problem. We say, ‘I will

“How could we be awaiting him if we aren’t even talking about him?”

But is all that just lip service?

It’s easy to say we want Moshiach (Kuzari, 2-24; Borchi Nafshi, Vol. 1, pg. 31); G-d wants us to yearn for Moshiach (Pele Yoetz, Tzipui; Taam V’Daas, Shemos 10:21).

The sad irony is that, nowadays, many of us don’t even say we want

await him each day.’ But people aren’t even talking about Moshiach. How could we be awaiting him if we aren’t even talking about him?”

At the time of the destruction of the Bais HaMikdash and the exile of the Jewish people, G-d assured Yitzchak

Avinu that there would come a generation that would anticipate the redemption eagerly – and that generation would bring the Final Redemption (Yalkut Shimoni, Eicha 997).

Perhaps that explains what we say three times a day: “The offspring of Your servant, Dovid, may You speedily cause to flourish...for we hope for Your salvation all day long” (Shemoneh Esrei). Unlike nearly everything else in life, we would merit the Final Redemption if only we would “hope for it all day long.”

“More than we want Moshiach to come,” the Chofetz Chaim reassured, “Moshiach himself wants to come. But he will not come until we hope for and anticipate his arrival…” (Tzipisa Liyeshua, Chapter 3).

May that day be imminent.

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

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A Fighting Spirit

By Gedaliah Borvick

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n belated tribute to the Fourth of July, let’s examine the life of Mickey Marcus, a proud Jewish U.S. hero who became a leader of Israel’s armed forces during the 1948 War of Independence. Marcus made such a huge impact during his brief tenure in Israel that streets in several cities, the Tel Aviv neighborhood of Neve David and Kibbutz Mishmar David were named for him.

David – nicknamed Mickey – Marcus was born in 1901. Growing up in New York City, Mickey learned to box at a young age to protect himself from the neighborhood thugs. That moxie became Marcus’ hallmark and fueled him throughout his remarkable life.

Mickey attended West Point Military Academy and was a strong student athlete, where he won the Intercollegiate Welterweight title. After completing active service, Marcus studied law and, as a government lawyer, crusaded against the mafia and put famous underworld leaders behind bars. Marcus quickly moved up the ladder and became New York City’s Commissioner of Corrections.

During and after World War II, Marcus held numerous prominent positions in the U.S. Armed Forces.

After an illustrious thirteen-year army career in which he rose to the rank of colonel, Mickey pledged to his wife that he would finally settle down.

That promise was quickly broken.

Shortly after the November 29, 1947 United Nations vote to partition Palestine, the Israeli provisional government beseeched Marcus to help them identify and hire senior military officers. He contacted many high-ranking retired officers, but everyone refused to assist, fearing that, without government permission, they may lose their army status and U.S. citizenship.

Mickey, however, had no such qualms: as the chief of the War Crimes Division, he witnessed firsthand the piles of Jewish corpses in Dachau and other death camps, and understood how urgently a Jewish homeland was needed.

The U.S. War Department granted Marcus permission to accept the assignment, provided he not use his own name or rank. Arriving in Tel Aviv in January 1948 under the pseudonym Michael Stone, Mickey embraced the herculean task of molding a tiny, poorly-armed military into a powerful force capable of withstanding an allout onslaught from six well-equipped invading Arab armies.

Mickey loved the Israeli solders’ intelligence, ability to improvise, and self-sacrificing spirit – as he probably saw a lot of himself in these young fighters. Notwithstanding his limited Hebrew vocabulary, Marcus immediately ingratiated himself to everyone and gained their confidence and loy-

alty.

Marcus helped create organizational structure with a streamlined chain of command, emphasizing teamwork between the groups that had, until now, been separate combat organizations. His biggest contribution, though, was to persuade the army to attack the enemy rather than adopt a defensive strategy.

On May 14, 1948, the day he declared the establishment of the State of Israel, Ben Gurion wrote in his diary, “...the whole world was sure that within ten days .... not a soul would be alive in Israel.” However, when the Arab armies attacked, Israel was ready, thanks in great part to Marcus’ planning. In the Negev, his hit-and-run tactics, together with equal doses of guile and guts, kept the Egyptian army and air force off balance and paved the way for a miraculous victory.

On May 28th, Ben Gurion honored Marcus with the rank of Aluf, equivalent to Lieutenant General. He was the first general in Jewish history since Judah Maccabee two thousand years earlier.

The next order of business was rescuing Jerusalem. When the Jewish section of Jerusalem was about to fall and the only supply route to Jerusalem became impassable, Marcus devised an ingenious plan to build a bypass road on a mountain trail. The

Burma Road transported additional men, equipment and food, which broke the Arab siege just days before the United Nations negotiated a ceasefire.

Tragically, Mickey was killed in the early hours of June 11th, just six hours before the ceasefire went into effect.

Restless and unable to sleep, Mickey, wrapped in his bed sheet, walked beyond the guarded perimeter. Mistaking the white-robed figure as the enemy, a Jewish soldier fatally shot Marcus.

Prime Minister Ben Gurion summed up Marcus’ influence in a telegram informing Israel’s NY delegation of his demise: “… as a man and a commander he endeared himself to all those who came into personal contact with him and his fame spread through all the ranks of our armed forces stop they all admired his superb courage his remarkable military intuition … his unlimited devotion and his natural spontaneous human fellowship stop… his name will live forever in the annals of the Jewish people … “

Gedaliah Borvick is the founder of My Israel Home (www.myisraelhome.com), a real estate agency focused on helping people from abroad buy and sell homes in Israel.

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id you know? Jewish law forbids eating different foods from separate dishes at the pre-Tisha b’Av meal. Why? Because eating a variety of foods was considered too “festive.” For centuries, lentils, a “food of misfortune and mourning,” and eggs were the favored foods because “roundness,” a symbol of mourning, also represented the belief that mourning eventually surrounds (i.e.: “rounded”) everyone eventually at some point in their life.

Jewish tradition, which forbids mourners to go to shul during their seven-day shiva period, makes an exception for Tisha b’Av, because everybody in shul is in a “low” position, just like the shiva mourners, who are even allowed to be called up to the Torah on this day. Meanwhile on Tisha b’Av all decorations are removed from the synagogue, lights are dimmed, and the whole community sits on the floor or on low wooden benches. Why? Because this is analogous to mourning. The custom of dimming lights comes from G-d asking the angels, “What does a king of

flesh and blood do when he goes into mourning?” “He puts out all his lanterns,” they replied; to which G-d answered, “I will do likewise.”

Chazal, who had a keen grasp of human nature, understood that to order a sudden cessation in our normal lives for the pure purpose of grief was risky.

So they devised a “mourning ramp-up” that started with the Three Weeks, then moved o to the Nine Days, climaxing finally on Tisha b’Av with the removal of the curtain of the Ark and the stripping off the Torah scrolls of their velvet embroidered cloaks.

After the evening Ma’ariv service Jews listen in hushed silence to the mournful melodic cadences of Eichah, which is then followed by kinnos un piyyutim, liturgical “poems of sorrow,” whose content drips in anguish and agony, despondency and depression.

Poetry was the most admired form of religious expression in both ancient Israel, medieval Europe, and the golden age in Spain: from King David’s Tehillim to Moses’s Song of Triumph at the

Red Sea to Bilaam’s Ma Tovu to such Sephard giants as R’ Samuel ha-Nagid, R’ Solomon Ibn Gabirol, R’ Dunash Ibn Labrat, R’Moses Ibn Ezra, and R’ Judah ha-Levi.

But the French-German Hebrew poetry that came out of the Rhineland was even darker, usually anonymous, and cried out for Israel’s plight with such themes as sin and mercy, hope and forgiveness.

The Jews were the only people in the world whose very existence inspired this new genre of literature. Unlike gentile leaders such as the seventeenth century’s Queen Elizabeth I of England, the last monarch of the House of Tudor, who lent their names to works commissioned during their rule, the Jewish people, as the so-called arch-villains of church history, “lent” their names to this genre only at the feel of cold blades of steel at their collective throats.

Tragically, these poignant poems expanded over the centuries as Jews became the unlucky beneficiaries of gentile largesse, ranging from the tale

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of Aseres Harugei Malchus (the Ten Martyrs of the Mishna) to the wholesale devastation the Crusaders inflicted upon the Jewish communities of France and Germany.

Brilliant Jewish writers such as Italian Primo Levi, German Jean Amery, Hungarian Nobel Prize winner Imre Kertesz, author Kaddish For a Child Not Born (1990), and others, sat with their tortured brethren in Auschwitz and emerged transformed into literary survivor pioneers of an emotional necessity, creators of a “Holocaust literature,” a literature devoid of Judaism, and yet overflowing with it: on arbitrary suffering, senseless evil, humiliating cruelty, ugly, unadorned death; in short, the Jewish catastrophe, uninterrupted.

All utilized, subconsciously, variations on the Franz Kaf ka theme, of suddenly being deprived of freedom and slowly dragged into the unknown.

Thanks to Adolf Hitler, this paradigm of Kafka’s terrifying inner world became the chilling Jewish reality; one wherein the test of a Jew was, unlike the pogroms of the Middle Ages, not religious faith.

Remember: both Orthodox Jews and assimilated Jews were tortured and murdered in a non-discriminatory policy of death that snuffed out lives not based on beliefs, but on whether Jewish blood ran in the veins.

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amentations opens with the word “Eichah!,” an expression that kabbalists link via the same letters (alef, yud, kof, heh) to ayeka, the word that G-d uses when rebuking Adam, “Where [ayeka] are you?” in order to show that Adam, history’s first alienated exile, was the archetype symbol of G-d’s loss of harmonious relationships.

Lamentations begins gradually, haltingly, in gentle whispers and in hushed tones, swaying and murmuring in unison. Then our kinnos rise, until we reach an anguished crescendo; and then they rise even further, until the crushing emotional awareness of the full weight of Jewish history erupts on Tisha b’Av. The words are a revisit to the savagery of the past, the weighty elephant in the room, as the ghosts of our enemies shuffle with our ancestor victims.

Eichah is a melancholy summary written on behalf of the millions of Jews who were unable to bear witness to

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Eichah is a melancholy summary written on behalf of the millions of Jews who were unable to bear witness to what they saw, heard, experienced.

what they saw, heard, experienced. Our kinnos are substitutes for the thousands of volumes of unwritten diaries and incomplete chronicles, the unpublished chronicles whose blood-stained pages were destroyed together with their authors whether reduced to cinders and ashes at the Temple or at Treblinka; as such they are a massive reportage that has rolled down the mountain of Jewish history from the old borders of Canaan to Eastern Europe 1939, when they crashed head-on into Alexander Donat’s “Holocaust Kingdom.”

According to tradition G-d made the world with words and since then Jews have encompassed their own worlds with words. It was the British King James, and not the Jews, who first called Jeremiah’s book “Lamentations,” in that it described the national degradation and destruction of Jerusalem. In Hebrew, it is Megillas Eichah, literally, “The Book of How” – as in, “How can it be?” – thus making it a floating manuscript of “how” to remember the outrages of Jewish history.

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eremiah, son of Hilkiah, a priest from the territory of Benjamin, was a tormented prophet during the reign of Kings Josiah, the last good King of Judah, Jehoiakim, and Zedekiah. A “loner” who never married, he lived during the first half of the seventh century BCE and from his first public address in the village of Anatoth, the prophet, he suffered persecution even from his own family, the Temple priests, and the kings of Judah.

He spends his days wandering through the streets of Jerusalem. In contrast to Isaiah and Ezekiel, whose interaction with G-d came in visions, Jeremiah hears the voice of G-d giving him a (political) mission, to speak truth to power, at a time when northern Israel has laid desolate for generations. For ten chapters, Jeremiah, using the metaphor of a broken marriage vow with G-d as the groom and Jerusalem as the unfaithful bride, delivers multiple (and unpopular) scathing critiques of corruption and warnings of doom against the idolatrous and unfaithful members of both the Jewish government and its religious branch who have forgotten the Torah and allowed pagan idols into Jerusalem.

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ligionists and even (briefly) imprisoned

by Pashhur, a priest. Horrified, Jeremiah witnesses the Babylonian invasion and 3,000 Jews, including priests and prophets, being dragged off into a 70year exile. He is accused of “defeatism” for urging the nation to submit to Babylon. He buys some land in Judah as an act of defiance to show that the occupation will only be temporary. He is banned from preaching in the Temple and relies on his faithful scribe, Baruch ben Neriah, to record his thoughts and read them to the people. Baruch writes in Hebrew and not Aramaic, making it appear as if the holy language itself has come to comfort a holy people. To keep Jeremiah quiet he is thrown into a well and then back into prison. He then flees to Egypt – and we never hear from him again.

This tearful Hebrew poet-prophet, in pain from the nightmarish vision, had trouble expressing his feelings. What Jeremiah saw in the stricken city of Jerusalem evaded description, which is why he stumbles for the right pungent words (Ani ma-amin, ani ma-amin, ani ma-amin b’emuna sh’lema...). Of the many prophets, it was Jeremiah, “the weeping prophet,” and his reputation as a grim doomsayer that gave birth in late seventeen-century Christian Europe to the term “jeremiads” (from the French jeremiade), as in those who lament frequently.

The Talmud (Bava Basra) hyperbolically describes him as being “all destruction,” in contrast to the “all consolation” approach of Isaiah, the product of an affluent family in Jerusalem who consistently and passionately denounced the national corruption of Jews; his Book becoming the prophetic readings (known as haftarahs) for many Shabbatot.

Meanwhile the first two “songs” of Eichah (“Help us turn to You, L-rd, and we will return, Renew our days as of old”) are plaintive, mournful, wistful.

The tone then shifts as the last eichah coda burst forth in joyous and rousing, bright and invigorating optimism, perhaps matching the marching spirit of those pious Holocaust victims who sang Ani ma-amin as they walked their last mile. These last lyrics make Tisha b’Av, in its own strange way, a day of robust and imaginative hope.

I first came to this conclusion as a teenager.

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ery year on Tisha b’Av, a Holocaust survivor sitting in front of me in shul would reminisce as to how he had softly repeated the phrase yissurim shel ahava, literally “afflictions of love,” over-and-over to himself during the four Tisha b’Av’s he spent in Nazi death camps.

The concept of yissurin shel ahava is not found in the Torah. It is first introduced in the Talmud by R’ Yochanan, a second-generation Palestinian amora and a rosh yeshiva in Tiberias, northern Israel, who enters Jewish history as a man of tragedy, a walking epitome of suffering. He was born an orphan. He was raised in poverty. He had ten sons only to outlive them all – and yet he remained pious throughout.

When that survivor muttered R’ Yochanan’s words of yissurin shel ahava it allowed him what Rabbi J. B. Soloveitchik, rosh yeshiva of RIET (YU), Manhattan, calls the “comfort of comprehension”; i.e.: hope within hopeless-

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“It’s a mitzvah to be sad on the ninth of Av, and a mitzvah must be carried out with happiness!”

ness, a Jewish method to deal with his loneliness, pain, heartache. Tisha b’Av’s annual visited reminded Adolf’s prey that he was not alone, that his torment in camps and ghettos, gas and bullets, lime pits and flames, fell within the context of a Divine plan, that there already existed a Jewish calendar day of cruelty even before der Führer and his thuggish minions goose-stepped into Polish Jewry erev Shabbos, September 1, 1939.

This helped him retain his sanity in an insane asylum where Jews, reduced to madness, were obsessively sewing their own burial shrouds and trying them on to ensure a perfect fit.

Tisha b’Av allowed each Jew on the run through Europe to look over his hurt shoulder and see the shifting silhouettes of Jewish history; the shadows of the Bar Kochba revolt, the first and second Crusades, the Mainz saga of mass family homicides and ritual suicides, the slaughters surrounding the Black Plague, the blood libel of Trent, the ferocious Christian passion plays, the burning of the Marranos, the slicing and

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stabbing of Chmielinski’s horse-riding sword-swinging Cossacks, the Czarist’s cantonist program, the “hep, hep” taunts of World War I (a Crusader’s acronym of Heirosolyma est perdita, [“Jerusalem is lost”]), the pogroms of Kishinev, and the wretched “Ratevette!” (Please save me!) cries that poured forth from the Nazi ghettos.

That the Jews still existed, as proved by the repetition of Tisha b’Av, reminded the survivor, and entire Jewish communities, that there exist not only miserable days of dark destruction but also desirable days of re-creation and continuity. That is why, at the end of reading the Book of Lamentations, all Jews say one particular verse in unison, “Turn us unto You, O L-rd, renew our days of old” in order to end the day on a hopeful note.

It is also why Jews answer Baruch Hashem, “Thank G-d” whenever asked How are you? – regardless of how they really are – because these two simple words represent the Jewish affirmation of life.

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mourning liturgy which forces Jews to confront the merciless reality of both past and present.

But after World War II no rabbi, poet, writer, artist, or theologian could reconstruct the humiliation and dehumanization, the lunatic criminality, the terror of Death Marches to nowhere, the bewilderment and confusion and murder of more than a 1,500,00 Jewish children. To many, the existing kinnos may have served as an emotional outlet for the distant past but had no potency for those who had just walked through the gates of Auschwitz and Treblinka, who had felt the heat, heard the screams, smelt the burning flesh, experienced the hunger and cold and plagues, and watched the sadistic perpetrators using the small eyes of Jewish babies as target practice.

Instead, a unique literature of Tisha b’Av-style booklets appeared.

These commemorative books were known as “Memorial Books of Doom,” the prototype for the future Yizker bicher. Their intent was to document the life and death of the 25,000 lost towns, shtetlach, and communities that Hitler & Co. destroyed. However, no publisher would print them because there was no real audience, nor any commercial outlet for them. To fill this vacuum, surviving landsmen (“fellows”) from different villages would get together, create Landsmanshaften groups, throw in a few dollars, and self-print Mein Shtetl Yizker book, usually in Yiddish, since this was their lingua franca.

These chronicles, once dismissed as “tombstones, not books,” were printed all over the world from Warsaw to Sydney, Tel Aviv to Buenos Aires, Johannesburg to Mexico City, and today form the most historically important and accurate chronicle of the Holocaust era, including the years before and after. Rabbi Eliyahu Lopian, mussar master from Kelm, Łomża, London, and Israel, would encourage his students to read them on Yom HaShoah and Tisha b’Av as a form of zechiras Amalek.

In the early 1980s, nearly 40 years, “one generation” in Torah terms, after the ovens were finally

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T  Rabbi Elazer Menachem Shach (left), the powerful rosh yeshiva of Ponevezh in Bnei Brak, was opposed to adding anything to Tisha b’Av based on the Chasam Sofer’s uncompromising dogma, Chodosh assur min haTorah (“[Anything] new is forbidden from the Torah”), however, R’ Moshe Sternbuch (right), the British-born raavad of Jerusalem, disagreed; he saw no reason why new prayers for Tisha b’Av in memory of the victims could not be written and recited on a community-by-community basis

turned off, concerned (correctly) that the Holocaust was being forgotten, a booklet of Tisha b’Av-Holocaust lamentations was published.

Contributing original kinnos were Rabbi Shmuel Wosner, posek in Bnei Brak; R’ Shlomo Halberstam, the third Rebbe of Bobov; R’ Shimon Schwab, Rav of Khal Adath Jeshurun in Upper Manhattan; it is no coincidence that all three had European backgrounds – Austrian, Polish, and German, retrospectively. In 1983 Rabbi Yochanan Sofer, the Erlauer Rebbe and scion of the Chasam Sofer dynasty, wrote a kinna for Tisha b’Av titled Palgei Mayyim Teradna Einai (“My eyes send down streams of water”), one of the few works supported by the Moetzes Gedolei HaTorah of Israel.

Meanwhile Rabbi Elazer Menachem Shach, the powerful rosh yeshiva of Ponevezh in Bnei Brak, was opposed to adding anything to Tisha b’Av based on the Chasam Sofer’s uncompromising dogma, Chodosh assur min haTorah (“[Anything] new is forbidden from the Torah”), however, R’ Moshe Sternbuch, the British-born raavad of Jerusalem, disagreed. He saw no reason why new prayers for Tisha b’Av in memory of the victims could not be written and recited on a

community-by-community basis.

he final words of Lamentations are “chadesh yamenu k’kedem, make new our days of old,” and the first word of the Tehillim chapter that relates some of the worst calamities of Tisha b’Av starts not with the word kinna, a lamentation, but with the word mizmor, which denotes a song of praise, a hint of acclaim, a teaser of adulation.

One day a chassid, astonished at the sight of his chassidic Rebbe dancing happily on the Ninth of Av, approached his mentor. As he drew near he noticed that the Rebbe was dancing with tears of sadness pouring from his eyes.

When he asked why his Rebbe replied, “It’s very simple, it’s a mitzvah to be sad on the ninth of Av, and a mitzvah must be carried out with happiness!”

Have an easy fast.

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

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Why We Cry on Tisha B’Av

By Shlomie Lederstein

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n Tisha B’av at night, the spies returned With a critical report about the land They said it couldn’t be conquered They denied Hashem’s strong hand The Holy One, Blessed is He Saw our weeping in vain And established this day forever As a time of weeping and pain On this night, we weep and wail For both Temples that were destroyed We were exiled from our Father’s house By a consuming fire we could not avoid That Bnei Yisrael would die in the Midbar It was decreed this day A massacre happened at Beitar And Jerusalem was razed, empty it lay For many troubles this day was destined So Hashem had designated On this day, the Jews of Spain were exiled For the Jews in Warsaw, deportation waited We lament over King Yoshiyahu Who tried to destroy idols of every kind

But they concealed their idols, behind their doors His efforts to purify Israel were undermined When Pharaoh asked to march his troops Through Yoshiyahu’s land Yirmiyahu said let him, he didn’t listen Against Pharaoh’s army he took a stand The archers shot at Yoshiyahu And sent 300 arrows into him His last words were, Hashem is righteous Israel’s hopes for the future grew dim We mourn because of a wicked man’s evil plans Against G-d, he stretched out his hand Titus entered the Holy of Holies, he slashed the curtain Blood began to flow, at Hashem’s command Hashem’s presence had departed in anger Unlike Aaron’s sons, Titus was unharmed He emptied the Temple of its contents The Elders were alarmed He took 400 children and sent them away In three ships, daughter and son They united in a solemn pact

To cast themselves into the sea as one We cry over the deaths of 10 martyrs Giants of Torah, Mishnah and Gemara For these we weep, our eyes overflow The Harugei Malchus Asara Each asked to be executed first Rabbi Shimon ben Gamliel and Rabbi Yishmael Kohen Gadol Rabbi Shimon cried, when he heard the decree For the sale of Joseph it was decreed, by heavenly tribunal Rabbi Yishmael placed Rabbi Shimon’s head on his lap And lamented, “Oh pure menorah” He placed his mouth upon his mouth in love And cried, “Oh mouth that strengthened itself in Torah” They stripped the skin off of Rabbi Yishmael’s head When the place of the tefillin they did reach The earth trembled, and the whole world quaked From the sound of Rabbi Yishmael’s shriek After him they brought Rabbi Akiva

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Who expounded Torah, unequal to anyone They combed his flesh with an iron comb His soul departed saying, “Hashem is One” At 70 they killed Rabbi Yehuda Ben Bava To continue the chain of semicha, he did aspire Next Rabbi Chanina Ben Teradyon, who sat and learned Torah They surrounded him with branches, and set him on fire Rabbi Yeshavav observed every detail of the Torah They flung him to the dogs, and sent him to his death Then they killed Rabbi Chutzpis, who taught with such fire A bird flying above was burnt by his breath Last came Rabbi Elazar Ben Shamua It was Erev Shabbos, the words of kiddush he stated They unsheathed a sword and stabbed him His soul departed with the words “when G-d created” We cry profusely over the destruction Of the communities of Speyer, Worms and Mainz

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At the hands of the Crusaders During their murderous campaign

Communities destroyed during the Second World War

The frenzied mobs wanted revenge For the murderers of their lord The Jewish homes were pillaged and destroyed They brought death and destruction by the sword

Hashem seek revenge for all the spilled blood Avenge Your Torah, which our enemies have burned Bring our days of mourning to an end Bring us Moshiach, for whom we’ve so long yearned

They willingly surrendered their souls To unify the One and Only name For this we cry and shed tears These German communities, that went up in flames

It’s been almost 2,000 years The “Ikvasa D’Moshiach” is here Over 70 years since the Shoah Hashem, how much more can we bear?

For all generations do not forget The gruesome fate of six million Jews The choking in gas chambers The piles of bones and sinews Tightly packed in the cattle cars Starving from lack of food or water Righteous tzaddikim, men, women and children Like sheep led to their slaughter The death camps and crematoriums At Auschwitz Birkenau and Sobibor The burning of yeshivos and Houses of Prayer

We have so much tragedy and suffering Anti-Semitism still rears its ugly head Israel is surrounded by enemies They declare they want us dead Remember Hashem what has befallen us Look and see our disgrace Because we pursued purposeless hatred From our home, we have been displaced Har Zion lies desolate The Bais Hamikdash is no more Bring us back Hashem As in days before

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The Shepherd’s Staff Selected for Life

By Dr. Joseph Sturm

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ach year, during one of the most solemn passages of the Yom Kippur davening, we read about the flock of mankind passing under the shepherd’s staff.

We say, “Mahvir tzono tachas shivto,” and we ask, “Who has reached his end and who has not?” We reflect back over dangers we have overcome, recall loved ones who succumbed to past perils, and wonder what challenges lie ahead.

By the time 14-year-old Yossi

Goldberger, z”l, came to face the Yom Kippur of 1944, he had already passed through many more perilous selections than most people face in a lifetime. Through some he passed unscathed, and during others he suffered tragic loss. He was also to face many more horrific gauntlets in the months to come. But on that particular day of judgement it was time to pass under the penultimate shepherd’s staff.

Even as a young schoolboy in

Yossi in his IDF photo

pre-war Budapest, Yossi often experienced the sting of being singled out for his Jewishness. On the way to school he would pass signs along the Danube River which prohibited access to “dogs and Jews.” In the public Hungarian school he attended, his teachers would often pass his desk, slap the back of his head, and knock off his yarmulke. They would also force him to extend his hands while they slammed the hard ruler against his fingertips. Once,

the Hungarian police picked him up for riding his bicycle without a headlight and kept him at an actual jail cell at the station until his father bailed him out – laughing at him and threatening him during the ordeal.

These childhood events were to be only a mild foreshadowing of the “singling out” and “selection” that was to come. When the Germans took control of Hungary in March of 1944, Yossi was forced into the

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Little Yossi, left, with his older brother in Uy-Pesht, circa 1937

Yossi, second from right, on the day he was liberated. This photo was featured in U.S. News and World Report

Serving as a combat soldier in the IDF

ghetto along with his parents and sisters. One older brother was selected for a hard labor brigade and was separated from the family.

Yossi, the youngest, with his sisters and parents, were soon stripped of all their belongings and marched through the streets as the local gentiles cheered “good riddance” to the departing elderly adults and young children who were then deported to Auschwitz.

On that day in June, as Yossi and hundreds of other Jews sweltered in the overstuffed cattle cars without food or drink, the train stopped for re-fueling at a water tower. By a stroke of luck, Yossi was the one selected by the German guards to fill one bucket of water for the hundreds of people in the car. Yossi was able to do this swiftly and return again for a second portion of water for his parents and the others. This was the last chessed he was able to do for them.

As soon as the train arrived at Auschwitz, Yossi was selected for the right side, while his parents and sister were sent to the left by Mengele. The next days, the SS guards taunted Yossi, “You see those ashes falling from the chimneys – that’s your family and your people “ Each day afterwards, in that camp of horrors, Yossi and his peers faced selections at roll call – who was to be shot, who was to be

hanged, who was unfit for work and was to be sent to the “hospital,” nevter to return.

On the first day of Rosh Hashanah, Yossi’s entire barracks was selected for death. The barracks were surrounded by SS guard dogs, its

Yossi and several hundred other teenage boys to march through an empty soccer field, past a goalpost on which was mounted a horizontal yardstick. Those boys who were tall enough to have their heads hit the stick were to go to the right and

Each night he fell asleep next to the living, and each morning he awoke next to the dead.

entry and exit were barred, and arrangements were made for the gas chamber on the following day. By some miracle, a Kapo came into the barracks that night and removed Yossi to the adjacent barracks for some unknown reason. All of Yossi’s remaining barrack-mates were hauled off to the gas chambers the next day as they chanted the Shema Yisrael. For the rest of his life, Yossi would hear those haunting cries of Shema ringing in his ears.

And yet, the most poignant of story of selection occurred ten days later – on Yom Kippur itself.

On that day, the Nazis forced

have a chance at further life; those boys who passed through and were too short to have their heads hit the stick were sent immediately to the gas chambers. As Yossi approached the horizontal beam, he realized he might be ever so slightly too short.

Standing on his toes would not be a successful strategy because those boys ahead of him that tried that tactic were immediately beaten and sent to the left. Yossi resigned himself to heading to the gas chamber and wondered whether he should hold his breath there, as he was taught by his rebbe in cheder that each second of life is precious.

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Just then, it was Yossi’s turn to approach the beam. He began practicing the same deep breath that he was going to take in the gas chamber and, miraculously, that breath gave him just the extra height he needed to brush his head across the crossbeam and be selected for “life.”

Succos and Simchas Torah of that year brought out more cruel and sadistic Nazi tortures for Yossi, and sadly the real suffering that Yossi was to endure did not even begin in earnest until he was forced into the Death March out of Auschwitz that winter and found himself in the even more horrific conditions that existed in Ebensee, Austria. There, the Germans used Yossi as a slave laborer hauling heavy rocks out of mines. He never quite understood how he survived those last months of the war as all around him lay the dead and dying. Each night he fell asleep next to the living, and each morning he awoke next to the dead.

By the time Yossi was liberated he was so emaciated that his own brother did not recognize him. In fact, Yossi and a few other dozen of his emaciated survivors were featured in a classic liberation photo that appeared on the cover of the U.S. News and World Report.

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pur day stuck prominently in Yossi’s mind the rest of his life. It was a story that he would tell over to his friends, relatives, and all those he encountered.

Those who knew Yossi later on in life also knew that the account of the “deep breaths he took” was not just a historical incident, but rather a philosophy on how to live one’s life – that each and every breath should be made to count. Those who knew him were struck by how he never worried about himself but rather spent every moment actively concerned about the comfort and wellbeing of those around him. He was always on the go from one neighbor and friend to the next, solving problems and fixing that which was broken. He was uniquely sensitive to the comfort of any child in his presence, and all the children who knew him flocked to him, and called him “my grandpa,” whether they were from his family or not. Each and every one of his actions was carefully calculat-

Yossi, holding the sefer Torah at a hachnosas sefer Torah at Young Israel of Sheepshead Bay in 1987. Yossi was also known as Alex Muller in the U.S. after the War

ed to help those around him.

Yossi went on to serve as a combat engineer in the Israeli Defense Forces shortly after the creation of the State in 1950. He served on the

Syrian border. In a tremendous case of irony, as he was training for a Special Forces unit in urban fighting, he was gravely injured by overzealous officers throwing smoke grenades into

a sealed house with Israeli soldiers.

Yossi spent two months at Hadassah Hospital recovering from smoke inhalation. He would later quip, in his inimitable way, “I survived Auschwitz, but I had to come here to be almost killed by gas.”

During his time in the IDF, he once saw Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion reviewing the defenses at the Syrian border. He ran up to Ben-Gurion and said, “Don’t worry Mr. Prime Minister; you are in good hands here.” Yossi’s fellow soldiers never let him live that remark down. He was always the “good hands” soldier after that.

Yossi Goldberger, who “passed under the shepherd’s staff,” served as an uplifting example of positivity and righteousness that inspired his family, friends, and all those with whom he came in contact.

Dr. Joseph Sturm lives in Woodmere.

He is the son-in-law of Yossi Goldberger, z”l.

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Dating Dialogue

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

Dear Navidaters,

Our son just brought home a girl for us to meet, since they’ve been dating for over a month now. I can see why he’s attracted to her. She’s quite beautiful, elegant, comes from a nice home and is pre-med. Quite

impressive!

However, my husband and I find her as cold as ice! It doesn’t feel like that long ago that I was nervous about meeting my future in-laws. I worked so hard to impress them and charm them. I went out of my way to be interesting and warm. I desperately wanted their approval.

This young woman acts as though she couldn’t care less about impressing us, as if her credentials are enough and she doesn’t need to wow us with her personality. My husband and I worked very hard to engage her with conversation and questions. She answered most of our questions with one word answers and didn’t try to reciprocate with questions of her own. The whole experience was very off-putting and almost scary-ish.

We told our son how we felt and he just said that not everyone is as friendly and outgoing as we are but that she’s a very kind, smart, special person. Do we make a fuss over this or just trust him to know what he’s doing? If this relationship leads to marriage, I just know this is not someone I could ever be close with, which is very disappointing to me. Bottom line, do we just ignore this and make the best of it?

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

Our intention is not to offer any definitive

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

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The Panel The Rebbetzin Rebbetzin Faigie Horowitz, M.S. he probably felt intimidated by you two and didn’t know how to respond. Bringing home a girl after a month of dating is often considered premature and she may not have expected it. She may have been caught off-guard. And she may not have been reassured by your son.

It sounds like you worked hard to engage her in conversation and with questions.

She probably felt she was on an interview. The onus is on you and your husband to make a girl feel comfortable. The fact that her answers were monosyllabic meant that she was uncomfortable. You should have picked up on this, kept it informal and cut it

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short.

It’s also unfair to compare your experience years ago to the impression she made. You are coming across as trying too hard and your summary – “it was very off-putting and almost scary-ish” – is very strong and judgmental. It must have come through to your son, even if you say that you were positive in your verbal communication with him. You also decided already that she will never be close to you if the relationship leads to marriage. How rigid you are! You are not giving the girl a chance!

All this talk about her being impressive and her need to impress you seems to be coming from an unhealthy place. You sound intimated by her wealth of attributes and tried to put her through her paces to restore the imbalance. You are the adults; the responsibility is on you to be mature

and kind.

Bottom line, ignore this experience. Trust your son and encourage him to date.

Chances are that she will not be interested in him after this kind of experience.

Meanwhile, get some guidance on boundaries and social protocols. You need it.

The Mother Sarah Schwartz Schreiber, P.A. our son has hit the jackpot. He’s found the perfect girl – she’s beautiful, elegant, brainy and from a respected family. Problem is, she’s a lousy actress. She can’t turn on the charm for strangers. Especially if those strangers are not so subtly judging her as a future daughter-inlaw. From the sound of the encounter, and your son’s comment on your over-friendliness, you folks may have overwhelmed her to the point of mono-syllable-ism.

It would be a miracle if she continues to date him.

Now hear this (and I’ve said this many times before): your son’s marriage is not about you! If he does marry Ms. Frosty, for the sake of his sholom bayis, you must adopt a low-key, more tempered approach to your new daughter-in-law. In time, if you play your cards sensibly and with restraint, she will come to understand and appreciate your more outgoing, demonstrative style. Until then, wake up each day, thank Hashem for sending him a wonderful wife, and repeat this mantra: “If he’s happy, I’m happy.”

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The Shadchan Michelle Mond irst-time meetings are always awkward, but it seems your intuition is onto something here. For a woman

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Until then, wake up each day, thank Hashem for sending him a wonderful wife, and repeat this mantra: “If he’s happy, I’m happy.”

to be cold and off-putting to those she should be impressing as her potential future in-laws is definitely out of the ordinary.

It could be friendliness and warmth are not on the top of his list for qualities in a potential wife. You do not mention your son’s history with past decision making. Does he usually have insight in regards to making proper decisions?

At the end of the day, this is your son’s decision and the only thing you can do now is help guide him. Have a discussion with him about the importance of inward beauty in addition to outward beauty. He seems to be taken in by the glamor of her looks and profession, yet ignoring much more important factors such as kindness, friendliness and warmth.

You must also find ways to get to know her better. It could be that this first meeting does not do her justice and she is the type who takes time to warm up. An idea might be inviting her for a Shabbos meal. Put her up for Shabbos at a friend’s house (and find out their impression afterwards!), and see her in a natural setting. You will see how she interacts with your son and others around the Shabbos table.

In the best case scenario, this might allow you to see a friendly and relaxed side to her. In the worst case scenario, it might help your son clearly see her lack of warmth and friendliness so

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that he can make an informed decision. Hatzlacha!

The Single Tova Wein ’m surprised you are having such a full-blown reaction after just one meeting. Surely you’ve considered the fact that many people feel intimated and shy during a first meeting – any first meeting. I think it’s im-

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portant that you give her the benefit of the doubt before jumping to any conclusions after just one meeting.

Next, you’re already determining whether or not, should your son ultimately marry her, you will be close with this young woman. You seem to have a habit of putting the carriage before the horse. There is no way anyone can predict how such a relationship could ultimately play out. She may be quite different than you. She may be reserved and shy vs. your natural state

Pulling It All Together The Navidaters Dating and Relationship Coaches and Therapists

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wrote a response, and then I hit delete. I realized that I need to begin this response laying out everything that I don’t know. And here’s what I don’t know: if the girl was a rude ice queen or if she was shy; if you are overreacting, as you do in other areas of your life, or if you are cool as a cucumber and spot-on. I don’t know if your strong reaction might have little to do with the woman your son is dating and much more to do with something else all your own: anxiety, fear or control. I don’t know if you nitpick your son’s decisions or if you are the most supportive mother in the world. These answers would all guide a clearer response. So, what you’re about to get are a whole lot of “ifs.”

Your response to this meeting and deep concern over the personality of this young woman may not match the reality of what happened. Is it possible that you are connecting dots that aren’t necessarily there? You’ve assumed her quietness is iciness and that she doesn’t care to impress you.

You already know that you could never be close with her. The reality is that it didn’t go as you would have liked,

and she certainly doesn’t have the gift of gab when meeting potential i n laws for the first time. Can you say to yourself, “So what? I’m going to give her another chance. I’m going to change my focus from my need for her to impress me to my need to make her feel comfortable and welcome.”

If we’re jumping to conclusions, the safer bet is that she was shy or uncomfortable. Not everyone “wows” at a first meeting, but if given the opportunity, they shine in different ways.

Ultimately, if she does turn out to be the frosty ice queen you describe, that would indeed be very sad for you and your son. You would have to balance your desire to save him with his right to make the very personal and adult decision of whom he wants to spend the rest of his life with.

For now, let’s live in the moment and be present and focus on what you can do to make a better second meeting. Be supportive of your son and engage him in positive conversations about this girl and other areas of his life. If need be, do some damage con-

of being super-friendly and outgoing.

That does not necessarily mean that you couldn’t, someday down the road, become as close as close can be. Why go there now? Why predict how you might feel about her someday? Some people take time to get to know them, but once you get to know them, they turn out to be diamonds!

Finally, don’t impose on your son your own values when it comes to personality type. It sounds as though she has many wonderful qualities that has made quite an impression on your son. Assuming he’s mature and smart enough to know right from wrong, let him be in charge of what kind of

trol and clean up any mess you may have made after the last meeting.

Here come some “ifs” and if you don’t see yourself in any of this, disregard please. If you are having anxiety about your son’s dating (or if you have general anxiety), please get help so that you can lead a happier life and be a welcome addition to your adult son’s life as he finds a wife and creates a family of his own. If your reaction is being driven by a belief that you know best and that you think it is your right to critique your adult children’s choices, please get help so that you can lead a happier life and be a welcome addition to your adult son’s life as he finds a wife and creates a family of his own.

As children become adults, they begin to call the shots in their lives.

Being overly opinionated, intrusive or critical never ends well for the parents. It just doesn’t. If every time Jason speaks to Mom only to hear that she doesn’t like the woman he is seeing, asking when he’s going to get a raise and reminding him to lose weight and get a haircut…guess what?

Jason will eventually stop picking up the phone, or he will never be able to individuate from Mom because he doesn’t have the confidence to do so.

If you had one off night and your thoughts and reaction to the meeting are completely out of character, chalk it up to the temporary love-driven

Being overly opinionated, intrusive or critical never ends well for parents.

woman he chooses to marry someday.

After all, it’s not you or your husband who will be coming home from work every day to see her – it will be your son!

insanity moms feel every now and again. If this is part of a pattern of behavior with you and your son or other loved ones in which you can’t help but make unwelcomed remarks, take some time to figure it out in therapy and learn how to break the pattern so that your son will be inviting you for holidays and birthday parties and wants you to remain or become an integral part of his life.

The last “if,” is the “if” you have least control over, because there isn’t much you can do to change it. If this girl is indeed an ice queen, and your son insists on marrying her (after you have appropriate, mature, collaborative discussions with him about your concerns), my advice to you is to look the other way and act sweet as sugar, if only to be able to see your son and your grandchildren.

Sincerely, Jennifer Esther Mann, LCSW and Jennifer Mann, LCSW are licensed psychotherapists and dating and relationship coaches working with individuals, couples and families in private practice in Hewlett, NY. To set up a consultation or to ask questions, please call 516.224.7779. Press 1 for Esther, 2 for Jennifer. Visit www.thenavidaters.com for more information. If you would like to submit a dating or relationship question to the panel anonymously, please email thenavidaters@gmail.com. You can follow The Navidaters on FB and Instagram for dating and relationship advice.

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Dr. Deb

If He Loves Me Why Won’t He Do What I Ask?

By Deb Hirschhorn, Ph.D.

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e (or she) says he loves me. So why, for the sake of H-aven, won’t they do what I’ve been asking and asking and asking? They know it’s important to me! And it’s a simple thing. Why can’t it happen?

We’re talking simple things like • Putting dirty clothes in the wash • Clearing you plate off the table • Offering to help on erev Shabbos • Keeping the checkbook from going in the red • Filing the taxes • Looking at me when we’re talking • Talk to me when we’re talking • Listen to me when we’re talking, for crying out loud!

We’re not even talking about deep and difficult subjects like • Where is our relationship at anyway?

• Gambling, smoking, and other addictions • Getting a new job or doing something to bring in a few more dollars • Our kids who need something, not sure what, from us There are lots of frustrated people, probably tens of thousands or maybe hundreds of thousands, with this same question. And they make the decision that their partner must not love them.

Many of these people proceed to divorce.

This is particularly sad because it’s based on faulty reasoning.

Here are some alternative explanations for why someone will not carry out “simple” requests.

1. Maybe they believe – firmly – that their way is better so why should they change and do something your

way?

This can happen in so many different kinds of conflicts. For example, my husband, A.H., was disorganized and I am super-organized (usually ;-). I didn’t like his paper pouring out of every shelf and crevice in the house. But since he was disorganized, he didn’t know how else to store his materials except everywhere. When I suggested he get organized because it would help enormously, he laughed and said I was totally wrong: He for sure spends a lot less time organizing his papers than I do, so look at how much time he saves!

In fact, he was certain that the amount of time he would continuously spend looking for A.W.O.L papers was much less than the amount of time I spent organizing mine.

Another example is the person who spends money a bit too freely for his/ her spouse’s comfort.

While the conservative person is concerned about going over budget and not being able to pay the bills, the spender could make the case that they live a happier life by worrying less. After all, Hashem provides.

I am not going to take sides here.

The point is that no matter how clear it is to you that your position is the superior one, your spouse could conceivably make the case that you’re all wrong and their position the better one. For sure, that is one good reason they aren’t about to change.

2. While I’m sure you did say it was important to you, your partner did not receive the same message that you thought you gave. There are any number of reasons for this happening, but I’d like to zero in on the one that I

see most often as the cause. Your scenario goes like this: you ask in what you thought was a “nice” way and the task did not get done. You then asked multiple times after, each time getting less and less “nice” about it.

From your point of view, if the first time you asked was “nice” then why did you get tuned out back then?

The answer is really simpler than you’d imagine: your partner got used to tuning out his or her mother or father many years earlier. Any act of requesting something on your part would simply invoke the need to tune out.

Your spouse needed to develop the art of tuning parents out because they could be pretty harsh. (Most likely the parents meant well but didn’t know how to exert authority, so when they got fed up, it was not pretty.)

Here again, it’s not about you at all; it just feels like it is.

3. Another possibility is that your partner is just plain scared about what person they would turn into if they changed in this way. Even a simple thing like picking up socks will feel strange and alien if they never did it and now they’re expected to. See, it’s not about changing behavior; it’s about changing identity. Imagine a person who is known far and wide as “late” starting to be punctual. Everyone else would be happy about the change, but the individual himself or herself would feel like “it’s not me.”

4. Finally, another possibility is that your partner plain resents being asked. I’ve heard that from spouses.

They’re insulted. “What? You don’t like me the way I am? This is the person I was when we got married!” People

who react this way do sound a little narcissistic, like there’s no room for personal growth because they’re perfect already.

Don’t let that façade fool you. As I’ve said in this column before, narcissists are actually insecure. They use all that selfishness to bolster what actually isn’t there inside. Really, the reaction of indignation is just a cover-up for the fact that if they don’t know who they are in the first place, then “changing” is awfully confusing – and frightening.

As you can see from this, nagging, blaming, criticizing, accusing, complaining, threatening, and erupting on the forty-third time you request it will not work. They’ll work against you. But being nice hasn’t worked either. And now you know why. Just take #4 as an illustration. How can being nice do anything for a person who is afraid of change because they don’t even know who they are to begin with?

And top that off with the fact that they do a great job covering up those insecurities. Not only don’t they want you to know, they don’t even want to know. This is a piece of themselves they’d like to hide – from themselves.

Gently pulling off that mask and helping people face themselves – and like what they find there – is not a job for anyone. It’s not a job for a spouse, certainly, and not for members of the clergy either. It’s a bit out of reach without the proper training.

Dr. Deb Hirschhorn is a Marriage and Family Therapist. She can be reached at 646-54-DRDEB or by writing drdeb@ drdeb.com.

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Health & F tness

Fasting Made Easy

By Cindy Weinberger MS, RD, CDN

T

isha B’Av may have surprised many of us this year. With it falling out so early on the English calendar, we haven’t felt it creeping up as it usually does. Hey, we just started to break free and enjoy the summer when the Three Weeks started. Before we know it Tisha B’Av will be behind us and we can really dive into the summer fun. But, we can’t push Tisha B’Av aside altogether. We must prepare ourselves for this day of mourning and prep ourselves for 25 hours of fasting.

For many of us, the hardest part about fasting is not the hunger. The part that gets you first is the thirst.

Tisha B’Av falls out in the heat of the summer, which makes the dehydration aspect of the fast day drain you more than the actual hunger. Hydration every day – especially the days leading up to a fast and definitely the day before a fast – is vital. And, no, coffee or iced coffee does not count as hydrating yourself. Coffee actually dehydrates you. Drink water. Water.

Water. Water. Nothing is more hydrating than water. If you don’t like plain water, add some flavor to it. Add a Crystal Lite pack or some punch flavor. Flavored seltzer is also a great option to keep you hydrated.

Try to avoid salty foods prior to the fast since they might leave you more

thirsty than usual. Hydrating foods you can eat before a fast include watermelon, grapes, and soup (with scant salt and spices). Avoid pickles, lox, potato chips, pretzels, and salty meats.

The second hardest part of a fast day is the caffeine withdrawal. Many of us depend on our morning coffee to wake us up and set us in the right mood for the day. And for many of us, we literally need our coffee to give us that perk in the morning. Without a coffee we are groggy and cranky. But even more, without a daily coffee,

enjoy the coffee taste without all the caffeine.

Now that we covered the drinks category of fasting prep, let’s get to the food. People fear that they will literally “starve” on a fast day or think they will never eat again. Let’s face it – however much you eat before the fast, you will still be hungry while fasting.

The only thing that stuffing your face causes is a big bellyache. Additionally, large meals require more fluids to digest, so this won’t help the dehydration factor. Eat normal-sized meals and have extra hydrating fruit for des-

What should we eat before a fast to help our body hold onto its energy?

our head starts to pound and all we can think about is the pain. Try to cut down on the caffeine a few days before the fast since the symptoms of caffeine-withdrawal are not as noticeable while eating a normal diet.

Have decaf or half-caf coffees for the week before the fast so you can still

sert if you feel you want to eat more.

So, we know not to overeat and to avoid salty foods before a fast.

But what should we eat before a fast to help our body hold onto its energy? Eat carbohydrate-rich foods. The word carbohydrate literally means hydrated carbons which hold onto water

and help your body stay hydrated for a longer amount of time. Complex carbohydrates, like those found in breads, pastas, fruits, and vegetables, are the best for maintaining energy levels during a fast. Even more so are whole grain carbohydrates, fruits and vegetables which are rich in fiber which help keep the body satiated for longer by slowing the progression of digestion. Therefore, the best foods to eat before a fast are wholegrain breads, pastas, cereals; starchy vegetables such as potatoes and sweet potatoes; vegetables such as lettuce, broccoli, asparagus, tomatoes, cucumbers, and carrots; and fruits such as grapes, watermelon, bananas, apples, strawberries, and oranges.

Hopefully this will help you have an easy fast so you can make it a meaningful Tisha B’Av so that next year Tisha B’Av will be a yom tov!

Cindy Weinberger MS, RD, CDN, is a Master’s level Registered Dietitian and Certified Dietitian-Nutritionist. She graduated CUNY Brooklyn College receiving a Bachelor’s in Science and Master’s degree in Nutrition and Food Sciences. She is currently a dietitian at Boro Park Center and a private nutrition consultant. She can be reached at CindyWeinberger1@gmail.com.

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Zucchini Onion Frittata

By Naomi Nachman

A healthy breakfast or light lunch, frittata is basically a crustless quiche.

A perfect break-your-fast meal.

This recipe is dairy, yields 4-6 servings, and is freezer friendly.

Ingredients 2 TBS butter 2 TBS oil 1 medium onion, cut into half-moons 2 medium zucchini, thinly sliced ½ cup grated Parmesan cheese, divided 8 large eggs ¼ cup milk 1 tsp kosher salt ½ tsp ground black pepper ¼ cup chopped fresh basil

Preparation Melt butter with oil in a large ovenproof skillet over medium-high heat; add onion and sauté until translucent, approximately 5 minutes. Add zucchini; cook for 10 minutes, until soft. Remove from heat; stir in half the grated Parmesan cheese.

Preheat oven to 350°F. Whisk together eggs, milk, salt, and pepper until well blended. Pour over vegetable mixture in skillet.

Bake for 40 minutes, or until set; set oven to broil. Broil approximately 5½ inches from heat for 1-2 minutes, or until edges are lightly browned.

Sprinkle evenly with remaining grated Parmesan cheese and basil.

Reproduced from Perfect for Pesach by Naomi Nachman with permission from the copyright holders ArtScroll/Mesorah Publications, LTD. Photo by Miriam Pascal.

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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WEEK # 3

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CAMPERS

HEAD STAFF It has been an absolutely cooky week here at Orah. In the spirit of the 9 days, we had a meaningful choir that parents were able to participate in. It was quite exciting when some campers saw their mother singing on stage. We have had Mitzvah parades with morah Shani and at the Jewish Children’s Museum, the girls learned through many interactive activities all about the power of their Mitzvos.

The Levi Yitzchok Library graciously hosted our youngest division and after feeding their souls with meaningful books, they fed their bodies with refreshing berrilicious ice cream!

Morah Shulamis Feldberger joined us this week for an exciting cookie related activity that had the girls practicing their Brachos. Mrs. Bashie Saltzman came and in a creative and exciting way, she taught the value of friendship and socialization, as we approach Tisha B’av. And just in case you thought we needed more chocolate chips in this amazing cookie called Orah, we ended the week with Chuck the Ventrilouquist who entertained and inspired.

Never a "crummy" day here in camp Orah!

Leeba, Suri, Ruchie, and Ellen

HEAD COUNSELORS C O U N S E L O R S If you think that we planned that both our birthdays would be over the summer, you are wrong but if you think it really pumped up the entire week, you are right!!

We have been partying all week and we are thrilled that Camp Orah can join our celebration. Sprinkle birthday cookies were enjoyed at lunch and we even had Avigail’s mother as a guest at our camp birthday party. The whole camp had so much fun with all the party supplies and confetti that were handed out. Cookie week has been nuts (we know...that was last weeks theme)! We were massive chocolate chip cookies because the campers always say that we are so cute, they want to eat us up!

Fortune cookie day had everyone eating with chopsticks and “dress up like one smart cookie day” gave us the pit in our stomach because we felt like we are in school!

Camp is going way too fast...

Avigail and Miri

We are so appreciated at Camp Orah. We work hard and play even harder. Our campers are having the time of their life, and so are we. Our davening raffles were a smash! Campers won cookie flashlights and more importantly, they davened beautifully.

Taking them on trips and watching them smile and laugh, gives us Chiyus to keep up the Kesher. As first half draws to a close, we sincerely hope that all of our delicious campers keep the Kesher and we can't wait to see them on the Avenue... in the supermarket.

The Counselors

This camp is definitely not a chip off the old block! Nothing is just black and white, everything is sprinkled with fun! Did you get a chance to try our perfume? No, it wasn't cookie dough scented but we thought you would appreciate it anyway!

My tie dye socks are super cool and I can't wait to wear them. I am so excited to play my cookie matching game, after all, i am one smart cookie. In lower movement, lower dance and upper dance, i am able to test my flexibility, sing and dance and learn new beats. Wacky science is challenging and competitive. I was chosen president of ORAHLAND in Drama and got to decide what we would do in a perfect world. We played "who stole the cookie" in themed activity and even if we didn't get to steal it, we all got to enjoy cookies anyways!! I gotta run because there is an amazing outdoor water park, right here in the backyard!MWAH! xoxo!! Oh-did I thank you yet for sending me to the best camp ever????

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Notable Quotes “Say What?!”

Trump was greeted by protests before his dinner with the prime minister. Tomorrow, he’s scheduled to have tea with Queen Elizabeth.

President Trump has actually been preparing for his meeting with the queen, listening to “Bohemian Rhapsody” for weeks now, and he knows all the words.

– Jimmy Kimmel

The founder of Papa John’s has resigned after using a racial slur in a conference call. People are calling it the second worst thing Papa John’s founder ever said since “I’m starting a pizza company.”

- Conan O’Brien

Well, haven’t presidents been killed in the United States? Have you forgotten about – well, has Kennedy been killed in Russia or in the United States? Or Mr. King? What happens to the clashes between police and, well, civil society, and some, several ethnic groups? Well, that’s something that happens on the U.S. soil. All of us have our own set of domestic problems.

- Vladimir Putin’s response when asked by Fox News’ Chris Wallace, “Why is it that so many of the people that oppose Vladimir Putin end up dead or close to it?”

The website Vice has published a new article profiling items found in the New York’s subway system’s Lost and Found. The most common thing lost on the subway? An hour and a half.

- Seth Myers

Sarah Palin is complaining that she was tricked and humiliated by comedian Sacha Baron Cohen.

Yes, apparently 10 years ago he tricked Palin into thinking she was actually qualified to be vice president.

– Conan O’Brien

Our president, at NATO today, described himself once again as a genius, a very stable genius. The “genius” part aside, who describes themselves as stable? Stable is the word the doctor uses after a car accident: “He’s stable, it’s OK.” – Jimmy Kimmel

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I am not the expert on geopolitics on this issue… I just look at things through a human rights lens and I may not use the right words… Middle Eastern politics is not exactly at my kitchen table every night.

- Democratic Socialist congressional candidate Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (Queens/Bronx), age 28, on PBS, showing her breadth of knowledge, after she decried the “occupation of Palestine” and was asked by the interviewer what she meant by that

Ms. Ocasio-Cortez didn’t speak much about foreign policy during the primary, but when she did, it was from the DSA policy book, meaning support for socialist governments, even if they are dictatorial and corrupt (Venezuela), opposition to American leadership in the world, even to alleviate humanitarian disasters (Syria), and reflexive criticism of one of America’s great democratic allies (Israel). She has received the most attention for calling to “Abolish ICE,” Immigration and Customs Enforcement. This makes no sense unless you no longer want any rules on immigration or customs to be enforced.

He’s over there supposedly meeting on NATO. He doesn’t know a darn thing about it. He doesn’t even understand what GDP is. As a matter of fact, he doesn’t even know how to spell his own wife’s name.

- Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) , addressing a rally in Los Angeles, zinging President Trump, who recently declared that Rep. Waters’ IQ “is somewhere in the mid-60s, I believe!”

First off, I just want to say I believe, I was told, that Russia actually interfered in this election.

- San Francisco Giants first baseman Brandon Belt, joking after he finished second to Milwaukee Brewers first baseman Jesus Aguilar in MLB’s Final Vote for the National League AllStar team

- From a Wall Street Journal Op-Ed by former Senator Joe Lieberman (D-CT) urging voters to reject Alexandria OcasioCortez

[P]eople will die if he is confirmed.

Life is incredible.

I survived day one of the Kavanaughcalypse.

- Crash survivor Angela Hernandez, who managed to stay alive for seven days after her SUV plunged off a cliff in California last week

-Ben Shapiro, responding to the left’s over-the-top hyperbole about Judge Kavanaugh’s nomination to the Supreme Court

President Trump must clarify his statements in Helsinki on our intelligence system and Putin. It is the most serious mistake of his presidency and must be corrected— immediately.

- Tweet by Newt Gingrich, former GOP Speaker of the House and one of the president’s biggest defenders, chiding President Trump for siding with Putin over U.S. intelligence agencies

- From an open-letter by Yale alumni criticizing Yale Law School for issuing a press release lauding Yale Law School alumnus Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to the Supreme Court

I asked Mr. Stevens if he had been drinking today and he stated, “Yes.” I asked him how much he had to drink and he stated, “I don’t know, about three drinks.”… When I asked him where he was drinking he stated, “Stop signs.” He further explained that he was not drinking while the car was moving and only when he stopped for stop signs and traffic signals.

– From an Indian River (Florida) Sheriff’s Office’s report, after Earle Stevens, age 69, was arrested for Driving While Intoxicated last week

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When Stephen wasn’t picking at the tape, he was playing with glue.

He liked to pour it into his hands, forming grime-tinted glaciers in the valleys of his palms. Glue thusly in hand, he deployed his deepest powers of concentration to watch these pools harden. The first sign would be a rippling on the surface, as if from a winter gale. This would produce a precarious moment—as Stephen’s urge to stick a finger into the filmy layer became palpable, and his immobilized palm began to tire.

– From a recent article in Politico about Trump advisor Stephen Miller, written by his third grade classmate, talking about his strange habits in third grade

I can think of no better description than to call ICE a terrorist organization.

I would say that his performance today will live in infamy as much as the Pearl Harbor attack or Kristallnacht.

- MSNBC Contributor Jill Wine-Banks talking about President Trump’s performance at the Helsinki Summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin

- Tweet by Cynthia Nixon, Democrat gubernatorial candidate for New York

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We see the utter loss of shame among political leaders where they’re caught in a lie and they just double down and they lie some more. It used to be that if you caught them lying, they’d be like, “Oh man!” Now they just keep on lying.

- Former President Barack Obama, who said his famous lie “If you like your doctor you can keep your doctor!” over three dozen times, chiding President Trump during a speech in South Africa on Tuesday

You are in breach of condition 15.4(c) of your agreement with PayPal Credit as we have received notice that you are deceased… This breach is not capable of remedy.

- From a letter that PayPal wrote and mailed to Lindsay Durdle, who died six weeks ago, stating that her death violated her PayPal agreement (the company has since apologized to her widower)

If someone flew home from Helsinki they’d get back to D.C. around 9 p.m. probably jet lagged. You know what I’d hate if I just got home [and] needed to sleep? A bunch of people outside my home with bullhorns & air horns.

- Tweet by former top Hillary Clinton aide Philippe Reines, organizing a protest in front of the White House in which participants blared air horns in order to keep President Trump awake, upon his return from Helsinki

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Political Crossfire

Trump Isn’t Attacking NATO. He’s Strengthening It

By Marc A. Thiessen

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s President Trump put Germany and other allies on notice for the harm they are doing to NATO with their failure to spend adequately on our common defense, Democrats in Washington came to Germany’s defense. “President Trump’s brazen insults and denigration of one of America’s most steadfast allies, Germany, is an embarrassment,” Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said in a joint statement.

Sorry, Trump is right. The real embarrassment is that Germany, one of the wealthiest countries in Europe, spends just 1.24 percent of its gross domestic product on defense – in the bottom half of NATO allies. (The U.S. spends 3.5 percent of GDP on its military.) A study by McKinsey & Co. notes that about 60 percent of Germany’s Eurofighter and Tornado fighter jets and about 80 percent of its Sea Lynx helicopters are unusable. According to Deutsche Welle, a German parliamentary investigation found that “at the end of 2017, no submarines and none of the air force’s 14 large transport planes were available for deployment due to repairs,” and “a Defense Ministry paper revealed German soldiers did not have enough protective vests, winter clothing or tents to adequately take part in a major NATO mission.”

Not enough tents?

To meet its promised NATO commitments, Germany needs to spend $28 billion more on defense annually.

Apparently Germany can’t come up

with the money, but it can send billions of dollars to Russia – the country NATO was created to protect against – for natural gas and support a new pipeline that will make Germany and Eastern European allies even more vulnerable to Moscow.

Sadly, Germany is not alone. Belgium, where NATO is headquartered, spends just 0.9 percent of GDP on defense – and fully one-third of its meager defense budget is spent on pensions. European NATO allies have

pledged to address these deficiencies by spending at least 2 percent of GDP on defense and investing that money in more usable capabilities. Instead, defense investments by European allies declined from 1.9 percent of GDP in 2000-2004 to 1.7 percent five years later, dropping further to 1.4 percent by 2015.

Little surprise that when NATO intervened in Libya a decade after 9/11, The Post reported, “Less than a month into the Libyan conflict, NATO

An alliance that cannot effectively join the fight when one of its members comes under attack or runs out of munitions in the middle of a military intervention is, by definition, irrelevant. about 1.8 million troops, but less than a third are deployable and just 6 percent for any sustained period.

When Trump says NATO is “obsolete,” he is correct – literally.

This is not a new problem. I was in the Pentagon on Sept. 11, 2001, and vividly recall how, when it came time to take military action in Afghanistan, only a handful of allies had any useful war-fighting capabilities they could contribute during the critical early stages of Operation Enduring Freedom.

At NATO’s 2002 Prague summit, allies

is running short of precision bombs, highlighting the limitations of Britain, France and other European countries in sustaining even a relatively small military action over an extended period of time.” An alliance whose founding purpose is to deter Russian aggression could not sustain a limited bombing campaign against a far weaker adversary.

President Barack Obama called NATO allies “free riders,” and President George W. Bush urged allies to “increase their defense investments,”

both to little effect. But when Trump refused to immediately affirm that the United States would meet its Article 5 commitment to defend a NATO ally, NATO allies agreed to boost spending by $12 billion last year. That is a drop in the bucket: McKinsey calculated that allies need to spend $107 billion more each year to meet their commitments.

Since polite pressure by his predecessors did not work, Trump is digging in on a harder line: on Thursday he suggested NATO members double their defense spending targets to 4 percent of GDP. This is not a gift to Russia, as his critics have alleged. The last thing Putin wants is for Trump to succeed in getting NATO to spend more on defense. And if allies are concerned about getting tough with Russia, there is an easy way to do so: invest in the capabilities NATO needs to deter and defend against Russian aggression.

Trump’s hard line also does not signal that he considers NATO irrelevant.

If Trump thought NATO was useless, he would not waste his time on it. But if allies don’t invest in real, usable military capabilities, NATO will become irrelevant. An alliance that cannot effectively join the fight when one of its members comes under attack or runs out of munitions in the middle of a military intervention is, by definition, irrelevant.

NATO needs some tough love, and Trump is delivering it. Thanks to him, the alliance will be stronger as a result. (c) 2018, Washington Post Writers Group

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What in Helsinki Happened?

By Nate Davis

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am convinced that when world leaders schedule their summits they think not of the most exotic location but of the location with the most exotic name. This way the summit is memorable. For years to come, pundits can pontificate about Potsdam, Yalta, Vladivostock and Reykjavík. Now we can add Helsinki to the list, although based on the media/left’s reaction to this summit, they might as well call it Hiroshima or Nagasaki.

Weird things tend to happen when U.S. presidents meet their Russian counterparts.

President Obama tried his hand at karaoke when he met Russian President Dmitry Medvedev in Seoul in 2012. Into a hot mic he said, “This is my last election... After my election I will have more flexibility.” The second stanza was sung by Medvedev, who responded, “I understand. I will transmit this information to Vladimir.” Yes, that Vladimir – the real boss, Vladimir Putin. And no, they didn’t sing, they just said the lyrics in prose...puppets being puppets.

Then there was George W. Bush who became a psychic after his 2001 Slovenia summit with Putin when he proudly declared, “I was able to get

a sense of his soul.” Good thing he stuck to his day job. Well, maybe not.

He kind of got us into a few pointless wars.

And, perhaps the best edition of Crazy Stuff That Happens When U.S. and Russian Presidents Meet took place in 1995 when Russian President Boris Yeltsin came to the White House for a summit with President Clinton and Secret Service agents found him late one night in a drunken stupor on Pennsylvania Avenue standing alone in his underwear while trying to hail a taxi to get pizza. Yeah, it was really weird how quickly he picked up on Clinton’s habits.

But all of that is in the past and all of that is meaningless. When judging Trump’s performance, you can never use his predecessors as a baseline or standard because that elicits a shrill accusation of “whataboutism!” (If you don’t know what that is, it is a newly crafted term that the left uses anytime you try to compare Trump’s actions to those of his predecessors.)

So, rather than engage in whataboutism, I will concede that it is possible that the Helsinki summit with Putin this week was not Trump’s finest moment.

The saving grace for Trump is that

rather than saying it like that – it was not Trump’s finest moment – the media/left quickly and eagerly amped up their criticism of his performance to Defcon One. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi declared, “President Trump cowered in the presence of Putin and the entire world watched.” Senator Schumer suggested that Putin has real dirt on Trump and is blackmailing him. Former CIA Director John Brennan called Trump’s performance “nothing short of treasonous.” And then there was MSNBC contributor Jill Wine-Bank. She compared Trump’s performance to 9/11, the Cuban Missile Crisis, Pearl Harbor and Kristallnacht.

Ding. Ding. Ding... Ladies and gentlemen, the winner of today’s freak-out contest is Jill Wine-Bank! … Oh, by the way, she also wins Best Surname of the Day award! Come back tomorrow – same time, same place – for freak-out contest, installation 576!

Actually, ding, ding, ding, Trump is the winner.

He is once again saved by the massive hysteria of the media/left.

Rather than honestly assessing his performance and commenting on it,

they go gangbusters on him with such over-the-top criticism that they actually help him.

Their overreaction causes an adverse reaction.

Think about it like this: imagine that you are called to your son’s principal’s office and in a somber voice the principal says, “Your son did something horrible. It’s so bad that I can’t even believe it. I mean he should be expelled immediately.” As beads of sweat break out on your forehead you brace yourself for the worst. You slump at the edge of your seat and listen as the principal says in a slow and hushed tone: “Your. Son. Stole. A. Lollipop.”

Wooow! You almost gave me a heart attack!

In an instant your fear turns to confusion, then anger. Not at your little-angel-lollipop-thief but at the principal. Why? Because the principal way oversold the crime. In fact, the first thing you do when you leave that office is give your little Al Capone a lollipop. After all, he’s the one that has to put up with this horrible principal every day.

The same thing happened on Monday. While regular people – or “everyday people,” as the media calls

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us – were trying to get through another workday, reports of this week’s apocalypse fanned across our various screens... Trump is a traitor! Oh my gosh, did you hear what he said?!

He’s a Russian agent! Putin is blackmailing him!

For the remainder of the day big chunks of political debris were strewn across the hemisphere, in the form of various ominous pings and alerts on our phones – he must be “impeached”... “indicted”... “committed.”

As supporters reached for their Trumpacids, which admittedly many take often for Trump-induced heartburn, many thought, “Gosh, this time it must be really bad… Is he toast?”

Then, as the dust settled and things calmed down a bit, they decided to do their own investigation and analysis because normal people don’t like being dictated to about what to think. Perhaps they watched the whole press conference, listened to some of it or read some parts of it.

Hmm... Trump said, “I have great confidence in my intelligence people but I will tell you that President Putin was extremely strong and powerful in his denial today.” OK, certainly not artful, but is it really that bad?

Pretty quickly they realized that once again the media/left was in a meltdown because the kid stole a lollipop.

Gosh, these media/leftist people better stop doing this to me!

But it goes even a step further.

Once people determine that the overreaction is another Trump Derangement Syndrome belch and they are free from the oh-gosh-the-sky-isfalling-anxiety, there is a desire to try to figure out what really took place, from a logical perspective. And after the anxiety receptors dissipate, they realize that it is actually a healthy and rehabilitative exercise to replace that negative energy with thoughtful analysis.

Once that happens, there are any number of conclusions that can be reached about the Helsinki Summit.

Yes, it’s possible – as noted above – that it was not Trump’s finest moment. Perhaps he was tired, intimidated, uncomfortable or simply off of his game. Maybe.

But it is also entirely possible that everything took place exactly as

planned.

Any honest analysis of a political event such as this must acknowledge that there is usually more that we don’t know than that we do know. One thing, though, that we all do know about Putin is that he loves to look like a tough guy. He’s the real macho

he doesn’t. But is it so farfetched to say that he has the ability for delayed gratification? Running for president for three years can’t be fun, especially for a supposed germaphobe like him, but the prize was worth it at the end.

Maybe this prize too will be worth it at the end. Maybe Trump will look like the biggest genius in history when – with Russia’s backing – he forces Iran to renegotiate the nuclear deal or when North Korea denuclearizes because Russia stops funneling them the materials they rely on. Will the Kristallnacht and treason pundits remember how to say “Helsinki” then or will they be in a tizzy about whatever the apocalypse of Day 987 may be?

Hmm... hard question.

Come to think of it, this summit may one day go down as one of Trump’s greatest accomplishments.

Just to make sure he gets the credit he deserves, Trump should have held it at Llanfairpwllgwyngyll, Wales.

Let the pundits crack their teeth on that.

there was Russian meddling is insignificant to Putin because it was not in his presence; it serves as a necessary footnote to inoculate Trump from criticism in the future that he sided with Putin over his intelligence agencies while on foreign soil.)

Perhaps some cannot reach this

“Go ahead, diss my intelligence agencies, throw soccer balls at me, knock yourself out, tough guy.”

man. He swims with sharks, walks around bare-chested in Siberia, and chases bear with his bare hands. OK, that’s his shtick. He needs to look like the conqueror all of the time. Especially when he is standing on a podium with the leader of the free world hovering six inches over him.

Well, what does Trump need from Putin? Cooperation on North Korea, Syria, Iran and China, to start.

OK, then, how about this for a deal? Putin tells Trump in their private meeting: “I’ll help you with North Korea, Syria, Iran, China, etc. but on one condition – don’t try to scold me in front of the entire world about meddling in your elections. After all, I’m stealth. If you make me look bad, you’re on your own and I will be your worst enemy. But if you make me look good, we are going to do a lot of business together.”

Trump and Putin then come out to their press conference and Trump is thinking, “Go ahead, diss my intelligence agencies, throw soccer balls at me, knock yourself out, tough guy. If that’s what it will take to get you to work with me on these issues, then have at it!”

Well, if that is what happened in the background, maybe Trump is not that dumb after all. Maybe he showed the ultimate restraint during the press conference in order to accomplish his objectives.

(The fact that Trump clarified the next day that he does believe that

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Abraham Krotoshinsky & the Lost Battalion

By Avi Heiligman

G

etting lost behind enemy lines is a scary situation. Depending on the time period in American history, rescue forces may sometimes be sent on a rescue mission to save the soldiers behind enemy lines. During World War I an entire battalion of American troops was trapped behind the German lines. For six days they held off German forces several times their size before being rescued. Called the Lost Battalion, they were helped by two Jewish soldiers. One of them went through the enemy lines to deliver an urgent message to the rescue forces and was honored for his bravery. (The other, Sergeant Benjamin Kaufman, received the Medal of Honor for his actions. His story was the topic of a previous article.)

The 77 th Division was called the Metropolitan Division since most of the men were from New York. It was sent to fight in France during the war and entered combat in April 1918. For the first few months that they were engaged in battle they had sustained few casualties but that was all about to change during the Meuse-Argonne Offensive. The Allied (mainly French and American units) offensive had started in September 1918 and was to include troops across the entire line

that, up to that point, had been entrenched on the Hindenburg Line. It was to last until November 11, when the Germans were forced to surrender.

The Argonne was a dense forest that the Germans considered an impregnable defensive position. During the first phase of the offensive, the 92nd Division (an African-American unit) had taken portions of the forest but the French, who had taken over their position, couldn’t hold the ground and retreated. Meanwhile, the First Battalion of the 77th, under the command of Major Charles White Whittlesey, had advanced and didn’t realize that the French had left their left flank exposed and that two other American divisions had retreated on their right until it was too late. The Germans had surrounded the New Yorkers.

From October 2 until their rescue on the 8th, the Battalion was cut off from supplies and reinforcements and they were facing an unknown number of Germans. The Germans saw this protrusion into their lines as a major threat and sent thousands of soldiers to eliminate the surrounded battalion. When the Germans thought that they had the Americans licked, they sent terms for surrender

to which Whittlesey refused and the fighting continued. The air was putrid with the stench of the dead and wounded that just seemed to mount in ever-growing numbers. Finally, on the eighth of October, reinforcements arrived, and the Germans backed off.

The Allies now had made a huge dent in the German defenses and exploited that gap to force the German surrender on November 11.

There were many heroes who helped save the Lost Battalion from annihilation. Abraham Krotoshinsky was born in Plotsk, Poland, which then was part of the Russian Empire.

He came to New York at the age of 20 in 1912 to escape joining the Russian Army. He hated Russia and their treatment of Jews and later in his life wrote, “America, my adopted land, was always more precious to me than the land of my birth, in which I considered myself an alien and an outsider.” Krotoshinsky joined the U.S. Army and was assigned to the 307 th Infantry Regiment, 77 th Division.

The training for the 77 th took place in Camp Upton on Long Island.

After being sent to Lorraine, France, to relieve the 42nd Division the Germans sent up a balloon with the message, “Goodbye, Forty-Second! Hello, Seventy-Seventh!” Short-

ly thereafter the division was hit by a fierce artillery and gas attack. Nine companies from the 307 th, 308th and 309th were part of the Lost Battalion that were surrounded by the Germans. They didn’t have much food, supplies were low, and they were being hit by friendly fire coming from the American lines. Several messengers had been sent to inform the American headquarters of the position of the Lost Battalion but none were successful in delivering the message. Several patrol officers and runners had been shot down trying to make it across to friendly territory.

Another call went out for a messenger and this time Krotoshinsky was the one who volunteered. He later went into detail about his mission which started on the morning of October 6. At the start of his mission he realized that the Germans knew another runner was in the area. Several machine gun nests in the area made the trek even more dangerous.

I started out at daybreak... I ran across an open space, down a valley and up a valley into some bushes. I remember crawling, lying under bushes, digging myself into holes. Somehow or other – I don’t know how to this day – I found myself at nightfall in Ger-

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man trenches… I hid under some bushes, lying prone and acting dead. A German, who, judging from the pressure, never knew anything about a reducing diet, stepped on one of my fingers, but I kept myself from making any outcry. Later I crawled into another deserted German trench. You can imagine the thrill I got when I heard good English words spoken. No music ever sounded better. But even now I had to face the problem of first convincing them I was a friend, and second, of entering the lines as I did not know the password. I began shouting, “Hello! Hello!” After several minutes of yelling, a scouting group of American soldiers found me and took me to headquarters, where I delivered my message, giving them the position and condition of our battalion.

Despite his exhausting ordeal Krotoshinsky was still able to lead a relief party to the position of the

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Lost Battalion. His arrival was well received by the other members of the Lost Battalion as they were finally rescued after a week behind enemy lines. For his actions during the battle Krotoshinsky was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross.

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was very high, the battalion had made a dent in the German lines, and the two American divisions relieving it, the 28th and the 82nd, exploited the gap and were soon able to penetrate the Hindenburg Line. The Argonne Forest was cleared in the third phase of the offensive, and the Allies were able to cross the River Aisne. They were soon advancing on the Meuse River when the German armistice abruptly ended the fighting.

A self-described Zionist, Krotoshinsky made aliyah after the war to work on a farm. Five years later he realized that he didn’t have the money to stay in Eretz Yisrael and moved back to the U.S. He became a postal worker until he passed away in 1953.

The New York Times described him as the “bravest of the brave.”

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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ARE YOU MUSICALLY TALENTED? Wonderful opportunity for an experienced, creative music and movement teacher to develop and implement an interactive program for the talmidos of the Ganger Early Childhood Division of TAG. Applicant must be capable of managing performances and enjoy working with young children.

Email resume to csender@tagschools.org F/T & P/T REGISTERED NURSE openings to work with adults who have developmental disabilities within residential settings in Brooklyn, Manhattan, or Long Island. Current NYS RN, min 2 years hospital experience. OHEL: 855-OHEL JOB, www.ohelfamily.org/careers BAIS YAAKOV ATERES MIRIAM IS SEEKING ASSISTANT TEACHERS interested in working in a growth oriented and warm atmosphere for the coming school year.

Please email resume to teachingpositions1@gmail.com Seeking full time PHYSICAL THERAPIST for Special Education school located in Brooklyn. Experienced preferred.

Competitive salary. Room for growth. resumes@yadyisroelschool.org MATH & ELA TEACHER Seeking Math &/or ELA Junior High teacher for boys in Far Rockaway,NY. M-TH, PM. Warm, supportive environment.

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HELP WANTED Assistants needed for elementary school, afternoon session. email: fivetownseducators@gmail.com Computer teacher, afternoon session for elementary school. email: fivetownseducators@gmail.com Elementary school general studies teachers to join our outstanding team of educators in warm and professional environment. email: fivetownseducators@gmail.com CATAPULT LEARNING Teachers, Title I Boro Park, Williamsburg and Flatbush Schools *College/Yeshiva Degree *Teaching experience required *Strong desire to help children learn *Small group instruction *Excellent organization skills Competitive salary Send resume to: Fax: (212) 480-3691 ~ Email: nyteachers@catapultlearning.com SHULAMITH EARLY CHILDHOOD is looking to hire a full time teacher assistant for the current school year.

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Don’t Cry 4-3, Argentina

By Allan Rolnick, CPA

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mericans love a champion, and every year sports fans get to see new champions crowned. We’ve got a World Series, a Super Bowl, and NBA finals that drag on for months. We’ve got the Kentucky Derby, the Indianapolis 500, and the Nathan’s Famous National Hot Dog Eating Contest. And every even-numbered year, the Olympics bring us more exotic champions in curling, synchronized swimming, and dancing horses.

But there’s one event that mobilizes the rest of the world in a frenzy of competition: soccer’s World Cup. A billion people watched France defeat Argentina, 3-4, in a perfectly ordinary first-round-of-finals game.

And more than three billion watched the final match on July 15 in Moscow’s Luzhniki Stadium. That’s almost half the population of the globe.

Tax collectors across the world will join their countrymen to cheer their countries’ teams. But they’ll have another reason to tune in. It seems the folks in the soccer world don’t like paying taxes any more than the rest of us. And there are nearly enough tax cheats in the sport to fill out an entire bracket’s worth!

In 2011, IRS investigators used tax charges to “flip” Chuck Blazer, a member of soccer’s international governing body, into wearing a wire to help indict 14 corrupt officials on charges of racketeering, wire fraud, and money laundering. Blazer, a 450-pound Falstaffian figure, lived large on his share of those bribes, keeping two apartments at Trump Tower:

officials couldn’t keep hands off the cash”? Or maybe, “Prosecutors score GOOOOOOOAAAAAAALLLLLLLL against corruption”?

In 2013, Spanish authorities accused superstar striker Lionel Messi of using companies in Belize, Uruguay, and Switzerland to evade €4.1 million in tax on endorsement earnings. Messi, an Argentinean who

Now fans who bicker over who’s the better player can start bickering over who’s the better tax evader. an $18,000/month three-bedroom for himself and a $6,000/month one-bedroom next door for his cats.

IRS Criminal Investigation head Richard Weber couldn’t resist some obvious puns after the eventual arrests, announcing “This is the World Cup of fraud, and today we are issuing FIFA a red card,” he said. But really, the jokes just write themselves. How about “Corrupt soccer

plays professionally for Barcelona, said he wasn’t involved in the details.

(Like a player faking injury for a ref, he said “I just played football,” and claimed he signed whatever his father put in front of him.) Nevertheless, he made a €5.3 million “corrective payment” equal to the tax plus interest to settle the charges.

But prosecutors insisted on penalty kicks, and in 2016, a court found

Messi and his father guilty on three counts of fraud. (Clearly not Messi-ing around, right?) The court imposed a 21-month prison sentence (which was automatically suspended under Spanish law) and fined the pair another €3.1 million.

Not to be outdone, Messi’s arch-rival Cristiano Ronaldo, who plays professionally for Real Madrid, just announced he would pay Spain 18.7€ million to settle tax charges centered on his endorsements. Now, fans who bicker over who’s the better player can start bickering over who’s the better tax evader.

What kind of football do you prefer: the kind with headshots or the kind with helmets? Either way, we’re sure you’d rather follow your favorite team than spend time looking for missed opportunities on your taxes.

So make sure you have a plan, and see where in the world you can go with your savings!

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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Get in Their Head

By Rivki D. Rosenwald Esq., MFT, CLC

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good comedian is someone who can make you laugh.

A good audience is someone who can, in fact, laugh at themselves.

However, a good person is some-

one who does not laugh at others.

Ah, there’s the rub!

When it comes to yourself, you’ve got free reign. But, with others, you need to be alert.

What happens in reality is that

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People get caught up in the trap of my stuff, both actual and psychological, really matters but yours is hard to take seriously. And it makes sense! Because you go around in your own body and head.

We are all our own EMTs. In other words, we’re first responders

Sure, now you’re saying, well, what if it was never videoed.

Here’s the news flash. They’ve videoed it. They can tell you just what went on for them. All you need to do is be open to their bigger story.

Ask and listen!

Once you get into their body and head you’ll be right there as a first responder right alongside them. But the good news is they’re in the driver’s seat. You don’t have to take any action, other than to be there and

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With others, we are just dropping by, usually somewhere in the middle.

So how in the world can we really do right by them?

I’ll share the secret: jump into their skin! Look at their Nest camera. Play back the scenario, as far as you need to go. Witness the ups, the downs, the thoughts, the challenges!

care. And when you do that you give them the oxygen they need to survive. And you’ve learned to be the audience you need to be for others, not just for yourself.

The best way to enjoy life is LOL. Be able to Laugh. Of course not at others. And be there to Listen!

Rivki Rosenwald is a certified relationship counselor, and career and life coach. She can be contacted at 917-7052004 or rivki@rosenwalds.com.

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The following is a partial listing. To view all times and locations please visit: www.powerofspeech.org/tishabav Cedarhurst

Agudah of Five Towns 508 Penninsula Blvd.

2:00 A 5:00 B Kehillas Bais Yehuda Tzvi 395 Oakland Ave. CC 2:30 B 4:30 A Y. I. of LawrenceCedarhurst 8 Spruce Street 2:15, 5:45 B 4:00 A

Far Rockaway

TAG Elementary School 444 Beach 6th St 2:00 B 4:00 A Y.I. of Bayswater 2716 Healy Ave. 3:00 A 5:00 B

Yeshiva Ateres Shimon Great Neck 1239 Caffery Ave. Ahavat Shalom 12:30 B 3:00 A 130 Cuttermill Rd. 5:00 A 6:45 B Great Neck Syn. Forest Hills 26 Old Mill Rd. Havurat Yisrael 5:00 A 106-20 70th Ave. Jul. 21, 10:15pm A Kollel Ohr Haemet Jul. 22, 10:30am A 112 Steamboat Rd. 1:00 B 4:00 5:40 Machane Chadash Torah Ohr Hebrew 67-29 108 St. Academy 1:30 A 575 Middle Neck Rd. Jul. 21, 10:30pm B Queens Jewish Center Jul. 22, 12:00 A 66-05 108 St. Y.I. of Great Neck 2:30 A 236 Middle Neck Rd. Sephardic Jewish 6:00 A Cong.

101-17 67th Drive 1:00 A 3:00 B

Hewlett

Cong. Anshe Chesed 1170 William St. 2:00 A 4:00 B Y.I of Hewlett 1 Piermont Ave. 2:30 A 4:30 B

Inwood

Bais Tefillah of Inwood 321 Doughty Blvd.

2:30 A 4:00 B

Jamaica Estates

Cong. Anshe Shalom 80-15 Kent St. TBA Y.I. of Jamaica Estates 83-10 188 St. 12:15 A 4:30 B

Kew Gardens

Kew Gardens Syn. Adath Yeshurun 82-17 Lefferts Blvd.

3:00 A 5:00 B

Lawrence

Shaaray Tefila 25 Central Ave. 2:30 A 4:45 B

Cong. Bais Avrohom Zev Boulevard ALP 2 Rockaway Trnpk Assisted Living 3:00 A 4:30 B 71-61 159th Street 2:30 B Cong. Ahavas Yisrael Long Beach 147-02 73rd Ave. Sephardic Cong.

2:10 A 4:10 B of Long Beach 161 Lafayette Blvd Kehilas Sephardim TBA 150-62 78th Rd Jul. 21, 9:30pm B Y.I. of Long Beach Jul. 22, 5:00 A 120 Long Beach Blvd.

Lander College Jul. 21, 9:30 pm B 75-31 150th St Jul. 22, 5:00 A 1:45 with continual showings of both videos

Kew Gardens Hills

Oceanside Cong. Darchei Noam 3310 Woodward St. 2:30 B 4:15 A Y.I. of Oceanside 150 Waukena Ave. 5:45 B

Plainview Plainview Syn. Zichron Kedoshim 51 Country Dr. Jul. 21, 10:30 pm Jul. 22, 11:00 am 6:30

Woodmere

Y.I. of Woodmere 859 Penninsula Blvd.

TBA Yeshiva Gedola of the Five Towns 218 Mosher Ave. 3:00 A 5:00 B