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have seen how my son will wake up early – regardless of how late he went to sleep the night before – if it means he gets to explore the city. And I have seen how my other son gets up early consistently and can play quietly by himself, coloring and reading, until the others start to stir.

At home, with no structure, children come up with the most amazing concepts of how to pass the time. Aside from reading, coloring, and doing projects, my kids have invented a game that has something to do with pretending there’s a spider in the bathroom. They come to me giggling hysterically, running away with excitement, as they report that there’s a spider in the bathroom downstairs. This game has become a standard for them when friends from the block come over. Maybe your kids would like to try it at home – it takes up a nice chunk of time – although the allure of pretending that there’s a spider in the bathroom may not work for everyone.

As vacation winds down, children look forward to rejoining their friends back at school, and parents look forward to a bit more structure in the day. We all look forward to the end of winter, as the days get longer and we head towards the next vacation – Purim!

hildren are different in school and at home. Even at home, they behave differently when guests or friends are around. As parents, then, we see our children in a different light than their teachers see them. But I also find that I see a different side of my children when we’re on vacation. It’s almost like they’re in camp, and my husband and I are the counselors. Truthfully, I spent my summers as a lifeguard in camp; I was never a counselor. But family vacations have helped me earn my stripes in the counselor category.

I also find that vacations help children grow in areas that are not always developed when they are in school. If you go away, and the kids are in the pool or on the slopes, then you can certainly see latent talents shining through. But even if you’re at a museum or the library or taking a walk, children are freer when they know there’s no homework to do and no bus to catch. At a museum, one child will gravitate to hands-on exhibits; another will head towards to the dinosaur display; and still another will want to hear more about how electricity was invented. Each child has his or her own proclivities and being out of school helps to whet those appetites.

Over this vacation I marveled how children will delight in the seemingly mundane things – how a pile of sand suddenly becomes the impetus for an hour of fun. I

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Contents LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

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COMMUNITY Readers’ Poll

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Community Happenings

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NEWS

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Global

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National

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Odd-but-True Stories

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Four Days, Three Countries, One Vice President

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My Israel Home

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JEWISH THOUGHT No More Teacher’s Dirty Looks by Eytan Kobre

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FOOD & LEISURE

Dear Editor, I always enjoy the dating dialogue column in your paper. I was surprised by one thing that Jennifer Mann said at the end of her answer this week.

She essentially said that if the writer couldn’t bear to see her friend not listen to her advice, then she should break off the friendship with her.

I do not agree with Jennifer’s comments. A friendship should be stronger than one incident. If someone sees their friend doing something that they don’t agree with it doesn’t mean that the friendship is over (unless the friend is doing something so disastrous or dangerous, like being addicted to drugs or drinking heavily G-d forbid). A true friend will try to help their friend, give them the proper advice, if needed, and then stay by their side regardless of the outcome.

Sincerely, Shani Itzkowitz Dear Editor, It is around this time of year when meetings take place to decide when camp should begin and end as well as when the following school year should start. Subsequently the entire school calendar is devised. I am writing to you – to the bais yaakovs and yeshivas of the Five Towns and Far Rockway – with a request. I am asking if you could give some thought

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to deviating from the standard old school calendar and adapting a calendar that is more in tune with the needs of your parent body in the year 2018.

Please realize that the school calendar does not only affect your school alone, it affects just about every family in the community that has school-age children. The babysitters, playgroups and nurseries in our community all follow the school calendar. For example, they give off on a Tuesday in November for “in service day” even though their staff are not attending workshops to become better educators.

On an average year, there are 10 days off between school and camp in June and then another 10-14 days off between camp and school in August / September. Preschools and local playgroups tend not to start until after Labor Day. The girls’ schools have Chanukah vacation from Friday through Tuesday and then midwinter vacation less than a month later from Friday-Wednesday. Just these days alone add up to more than 20 regular weekdays when a parent must take off from work. Besides all these “regular” weekdays that the children are off, there are also yomim tovim that parents must take off.

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LIFESTYLES Dating Dialogue, Moderated by Jennifer Mann, LCSW

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HUMOR Centerfold Delicious Diet by Jon Kranz

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dar, please keep in mind that today more than ever families have 2 working parents. When children have off from school on a regular weekday one of these parents has to take off from work. It would be very nice if both parents could take off and spend quality time with their children or go on a small trip. However, when there are so many days that the children have off it is impossible to ever have both working parents off the same day. The average job does not give this much vacation time.

Subsequently, only one parent takes off at a time and the family never gets a chance to spend much-needed quality time together. I heard from a friend of mine that on Tuesday of Chanukah when the girls had vaca-

tion and the boys had school, there were more than 60 girls roaming the offices and hallways of a local boys’ yeshiva. Is this why we give Chanukah vacation, so that parents should take their children to work with them?

I would like to suggest having one less day of Chanukah vacation and two fewer days of midwinter vacation. In addition, there should be no more than one week off between camp and school and again between school and camp. I know that it takes time to clean and prepare the buildings for the upcoming school year, but a full week is enough time. I also understand that teachers and principals dedicate their lives to educating our children and have to work in the summer to supplement the below average income they receive from our

LEGAL NOTICE “NOTICE TO TAXPAYERS” 2018 GENERAL TAXES

The undersigned Receiver of Taxes for the Town of Hempstead, County of Nassau, State of New York hereby gives notice that he has received the General Tax Roll and Warrant attached thereto, dated, December 27, 2017 and will be in attendance to receive taxes at: 200 NORTH FRANKLIN STREET, HEMPSTEAD, NEW YORK 11550 each weekday from 9:00 A.M. to 4:45 P.M. (Saturdays, Sundays and Holidays excepted) PENALTIES: The following scale of penalties is hereby prescribed for neglect to pay the General taxes after they become due and payable.

First half. If the first half is not paid on or before February 10, 2018, penalty will be added at the rate of one per centum per month from January 1, 2018 calculated to the end of the month during which payment is made.

Second half due and payable July 1, 2018. Penalty on the second half will be added after August 10, 2018 at the rate of one per centum per month from July 1, 2018 calculated to the end of the month during which payment is made.

DISCOUNT WHERE APPLICABLE: If the full year’s tax (first and second half) is paid on or before February 10, 2018, discount where applicable will be allowed on the second half of the tax at the rate of one per centum of the second half. No discount is allowed on tax payments made after February 10, 2018.

Taxes are payable by cash, certified check and money order. Uncertified checks will be accepted subject to collection only. Third party checks will not be accepted. Mobile and satellite offices, when open, will not accept cash.

When requesting tax bills, please state the School District Number, Section, Block and Lot number(s) in accordance with Nassau County Tax Map designation.

After August 31, 2018 the 2018 General Tax Roll will be turned over to the Nassau County Treasurer and all payments after that date will have to be made at the Nassau County Treasurer’s Office, Nassau County Office Building, 1 West Street, Mineola, N.Y. 11501.

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schools. They therefore deserve vacation time. However, a week off in June and a week off in August along with all the yomim tovim, Chanukah and midwinter vacation is at least equivalent to the amount of vacation an average person receives. In addition, it would be make more sense for a teacher to take a few days off throughout the year and have a substitute replace them than give the entire school off so that the teachers could have vacation time.

I would appreciate if you can give serious thought to my request and I look forward to hearing from you.

To support this cause, visit Change.org and search for “Fix the Yeshiva/Bais Yaakov Calendar.”

Moshe Horowitz Dear Editor, Since the return from my trip to Israel on the infamous El Al flight 008, the top three questions that I have been asked have been: Was the landing out of the norm? How scared was everyone on the flight? What were the behaviors and attitudes of the people on the plane after being stuck together for so many hours?

The first two questions were already discussed in previous articles. The third question is the one that I would like to discuss in this article.

(I heard many interesting insight from others such as, Goose Bay was in need of a tikkun through the many prayers of those who davened there.

Or that we needed to stop there to pick up the sparks of kedusha.)

I shared my thoughts on the matter with my students at a get-together in Yerushalayim. A friend of mine on the plane mentioned that he was disappointed with the El Al service.

I responded, “Hashem saved my life.

It was a total miracle! After that, what complaints can I have?” I mentioned to my students a mashal from Rav Chaim Shmulevitz, zt”l. about a man who won a big lottery and at

the same time one of his expensive dishes broke. The excitement of winning was so great that the small loss of the dish was not felt. Rav Chaim explains that the great value of being alive is so huge that personal afflictions or minor discomforts and inconveniences should not have any bearing on us.

After a few days of internalizing my feelings, I realized that the calm and kiddush Hashem that was so tangible and felt by all on the plane was so much deeper. I recalled a beautiful thought explained by Rav Dessler, zt”l, why we refer to the sukkah as sukkas shalom, the sukkah of peace. Rav Dessler explains that when we are in our homes thinking that we are better than our fellow man due to the many possessions that we have that others do not possess at that moment we are not capable of experiencing peace. Only when we leave to the sukkah do we realize that we are all equals under a mat roof that is under the protection of our Creator. Only then can we feel like equals and experience true shalom.

Sitting in my El Al seat I felt very small indeed. Merely having my humble seat in a 12” by 12” space to call my own, I understood that our airplane was literally being held in the hand of Hakadosh Baruch Hu. Lack of patience for others only comes from arrogance. Arrogance makes us believe that we are better than others and deserving of their respect! This plane was full of people who were humbled by the care of Hakadosh Baruch Hu. One week later, I truly feel overwhelmed with gratitude by the care of my Creator. I continue to hear more and more stories or rumors of what almost happened to the plane and I am grateful to Hashem for what I know and for what I do not know.

Avraham Ismach

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Former CIA Agent Mole Arrested

In a joint effort, the CIA and FBI arrested a mole within the CIA ranks in China. The arrest of Jerry Chun Shing Lee, also known as Zhen Cheng Li, a former CIA case officer, is seen as a breakthrough in a joint FBI and CIA investigation into the devastation of the agency’s spy network in China.

This ongoing probe began in 2011 after the FBI was tipped off by an informant in China who grew increasingly concerned after everyone he knew who was helping the U.S. government was being uncovered by Chinese authorities. Since then, the loss of so many important sources has been a major preoccupation within the intelligence community. Many of those discovered were either killed or forced to work for China.

The CIA and FBI made it their mission to uncover how the Chinese government managed to learn the names of so many people spying for the United States when their identities were supposed to be among the most carefully guarded secrets in American espionage. Previously, some believed that the Chinese had discovered the methods the CIA uses to communicate covertly with its assets in the field, a suspicion that has yet to be confirmed.

Lee, 53, does not yet appear to have an attorney. He faces a charge of unlawful retention of national defense information. When he returned from China to the U.S. in 2012 to live in Virginia with his family, investigators began to track him. During two hotel stays by Lee, in Hawaii and Virginia, the FBI searched Lee’s rooms and photographed a pair of small notebooks containing handwritten notes, including the real names and

phone numbers of CIA assets and covert employees. In 2013, the FBI approached Lee and interviewed him on five separate occasions. He denied his involvement and the existence of the notebooks during all the encounters and was never charged with a crime.

He eventually fled the U.S. and moved to Hong Kong. Last week he arrived at a New York airport, was greeted by authorities, and was immediately arrested.

Two former U.S. officials described Lee as an “arrogant” case officer and said he may have thought that having been interviewed multiple times by the FBI without being charged there was little risk of being apprehended if he returned to the United States. There is no evidence, yet, that Lee actually handed over classified information to a foreign government, and he therefore may not be charged with more serious offenses.

“Absent any proof, there’s not much you can do with it,” one former official said. “There’s lots of smoke around this guy. They couldn’t prove anything.”

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“We are backing a professionally planned and detailed humanitarian mission with military power and precision to guarantee that the humanitarian aid reaches the people who need it to lift their suffering,” said spokesman Colonel Turki al-Maliki.

Yemen is currently the world’s worst humanitarian crisis although it doesn’t get the media’s full attention.

An estimated 8.3 million people are entirely dependent on external food aid and 400,000 children suffer from severe acute malnutrition, a potentially lethal condition, according to the United Nations.

Billions of dollars have already been pumped into Yemen by the coalition. However, the war has still created conditions that require global assistance. For example, food deliveries have decreased by more than half.

Additionally, outbreaks of cholera and diphtheria have spread across Yemen.

1.2M Forever Missing On Tuesday, Germany’s Red Cross announced that it would end its search for missing people from World

War II in 2023, leaving the fate of 1.2 million people a mystery.

“We won’t be able to shed light on their fates,” the head of the German Red Cross’s tracing service, Thomas Huber, admitted. His office and the German interior ministry have agreed to halt efforts to determine what happened to the missing people in five years’ time, he said, 78 years after the end of the devastating war.

Terrorism in Kabul While interest has waned over the decades, the German Red Cross said it still received some 9,000 requests in 2016 from people looking for information about family members who vanished during the 1939-1945 war.

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The terrorists engaged in a 12-hour standoff with security forces, Afghan authorities said.

Of those killed, at least 14 were foreign nationals and four were Afghans, according to Najib Danish, spokesman for the Ministry of Interior. Four gunmen were also killed

by Afghan security forces responding to the attack, he said. Nine of the victims were from Ukraine and one from Greece, another from Germany and another from Kazakhstan, Kabul Police Chief Salem Ehsas said. Americans were also killed and injured in the attack, although exact numbers have not been released.

The Taliban released a statement claiming responsibility and saying it was carried out by five assailants.

The attackers were affiliated with the Pakistan-based Haqqani network.

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that they were “desperate guests and staff trying to escape” from the burning hotel.

U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson issued a statement on Sunday condemning the attack.

“The United States stands with the government and people of Afghanistan,” he said. “We remain firmly committed to supporting Afghan efforts to achieve peace, security, and prosperity for their country.

Violence like what we witnessed yesterday has no place in Afghanistan or anywhere else in the world.”

Vassilis Vassileiou, a Greek Kam Air pilot in the hotel during the attack, said he cut a mattress open and hid inside it.

“They were first killing Westerners and then laughing at the dead,” said Vassileiou, according to Reuters. “I was constantly hearing shouts, shots and bangs on the doors.”

N. Korea to Attend Olympics Games

two Koreas, the IOC and the Pyeongchang 2018 Organizing Committee had achieved.

In a show of unity, athletes from the North and South will march together under one flag at the opening ceremony for the Games in Pyeongchang on February 9.

“This team will enter the Olympic Stadium under the Korean unification flag. I’m sure that this will be a very emotional moment not only for all Koreans but also for the entire world,” Bach said.

In another historical move, the two nations will be competing as a team in a women’s ice hockey game.

They submitted the name “Korea” and will display the unification flag.

Many are seeing this show of unity as a possible diplomatic breakthrough that could eventually allow for peace on the Korean Peninsula.

Bach declared, “The Olympic Games are always about building bridges, they never erect walls. The Olympic spirit is about respect, dialogue and understanding. The Olympic Winter Games Pyeongchang 2018 are hopefully opening the door to a brighter future on the Korean Peninsula and inviting the world to join in a celebration of hope.”

A Polio-Free World?

The Olympics is about to mix business with pleasure by involving politics. North Korea’s participation in the Winter Olympic Games has been sporadic over the years. This year, they will be participating in the Games, even though they will be located in South Korea.

International Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach announced that 22 North Korean athletes will be sent to South Korea to compete in three sports: ice hockey, ice skating and skiing. Fifteen of the athletes are women and seven are men. They will be accompanied by 24 coaches and 21 media representatives. This update came after a meeting between delegations from the two Koreas and Olympic officials in Lausanne, Switzerland. Bach said reaching this outcome “was not an easy journey” but that he was proud of what the representatives of the

In 1988, when the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) was launched, polio was present in more than 125 countries and paralyzed about 1,000 children per day. Thanks to immunization efforts that have reached nearly 3 billion children, the incidence of polio has decreased by 99 percent since then due in large part to the generosity of Bill and Melinda Gates who have made it their mission to cure the devastating disease.

Bill Gates has proclaimed that his goal is to have a world that is polio-free by 2018. His next step in achieving this goal is to help Nigeria become a polio-free country.

Bill and Melinda have pledged their support to give Africa’s largest econ-

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omy a helping hand through their foundation. The foundation will pay off a $76 million loan obtained from Japan to aid the fight against polio.

The loan was taken in 2014 and repayments were due to begin this year.

Nigeria is on their way to being polio-free. In 2017, no new cases were reported. Just several years ago, in 2012, Nigeria had accounted

for more than half of all polio cases worldwide. Despite the strides since then, Nigeria has had periods before with no new cases only to eventually have an outbreak. In August 2016, just as Nigeria was gearing up to celebrate its second year polio-free, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced the discovery of two cases.

Sadly, polio has no cure, but it can

be eradicated with immunizations.

The polio virus cannot live within an animal host and can only survive for two months outside the human body. There are several regions in Nigeria that cannot be accessed by health and immunization workers, leaving some children at risk of the disease, a problem that Bill and Melinda hope to address with their generous pledge.

Italy got a taste of its own medicine when authorities closed in on a Chinese mafia organization on Thursday. After a seven-year investigation, 33 gangsters were arrested on suspicion of running a criminal enterprise that dominated the transport of Chinese products in Europe, financed by money from gambling, drugs, and other illegal activities.

The criminal headquarters were located in Prato, a Tuscan city northwest of Florence, home to a large Chinese community. Prato is home to around 4,500 Chinese companies that import textiles or accessories from China and assemble them for sale at low- and mid-price retailers all over Europe. Since the early arrivals of Chinese migrants in Prato in the 1980s, the community has become one of the biggest in Europe.

The police operation broke up “a dangerous organization that had used force to take control of trucking, and was financed by its illegal activities,” Interior Minister Marco Minniti said in a statement.

“Being able to shed light on the mafia character of this group is almost incredible,” Federico Cafiero De Raho, Italy’s chief anti-mafia prosecutor, told journalists at a news conference in Florence. “It’s quite unusual to be able to identify a complex Chinese mafia organization.”

The authorities seized assets worth a few million euros, including 61 bank accounts and eight vehicles.

The mafia’s affiliates spanned Paris, Madrid and Neuss, Germany, as well as in some northern Italian cities and in Rome, where the group’s leader lived.

The organization’s leader, Zhang Naizhong, 57, was arrested early Thursday in a Prato hotel. Nicknamed the “black man” by affiliates and “boss of all bosses,” it is believed that he visited the town from Rome with his son once a week to tend to his business. The evening before his arrest, he had visited businesses in Prato and used eight cars to avoid be-

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Since Prato has thousands of goods being transported throughout Europe it enabled the gang easy access to its prey. According to authorities, the criminal ring used threats and violence against Chinese business owners to carry out illegal activities such as drug trafficking, human trafficking, extortion and gambling.

Largest Underwater Cave Reveals Secrets

Archaeologists retrieved a wealth of information when divers discovered the largest known underwater cave in the world in Mexico. Historians are hoping they could learn more about a pre-Hispanic, ancient community that existed in the region.

The Yucatan peninsula, where the cave is located, still holds treasures from the ancient Mayan community.

The cave is constructed by two massive connected underwater caverns which span 216 miles, according to the Gran Acuífero Maya (GAM), the team of explorers that discovered the cave. Located near the beach resort of Tulum, the two caves, Sac Actun and Dos Ojos, measured at 163 miles and 52 miles, respectively. Until the discovery of the connection between the two caves, the largest underwater cave in the world was the Ox Bel Ha, which stretched 168 miles long, according to the National Speleological Society.

The discovery “allows us to appreciate much more clearly how the rituals, the pilgrimage sites and ultimately the great pre-Hispanic settlements that we know emerged,” said Guillermo de Anda, director of the GAM. He called it an “amazing” find that would help to better understand the Mayan civilization.

For years explorers have been touring the miles of underwater caves. According to the exploration director, Robert Schmittner, his team has been exploring the Sac Actun cave for 14 years. “Now,” Schmittner said in a statement, “everyone’s job is to conserve it.”

“This immense cave represents

the most important submerged archaeological site in the world,” de Anda said in a statement. This cave system has “documented evidence of the first settlers of America, as well as extinct fauna and, of course, the Mayan culture.”

Lebanese Hackers Exposed

Hackers are usually known for being meticulous about covering their tracks but it seems that a major hacking operation associated with Lebanon’s main intelligence agency let themselves get real sloppy, leading to their exposure. Spies working for Lebanon carelessly left hundreds of gigabytes of intercepted data exposed on the open internet, according to a report published on Thursday.

Mobile security firm Lookout Inc. and the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a digital rights group, said the haul, which includes nearly half a million intercepted text messages, had simply been left online by hackers linked to Lebanon’s General Directorate of General Security.

“It’s almost like thieves robbed the bank and forgot to lock the door where they stashed the money,” said Mike Murray, Lookout’s head of intelligence. Lookout security researcher Michael Flossman said investigators found Syrian battlefield photos, private phone conversations, passwords, and pictures of children’s birthday parties.

“It was everything. Literally everything,” Flossman said.

Victims of the hack span 21 different countries, including in the U.S. and European countries. Hackers used fake websites and malicious smartphone apps, including WhatsApp, to steal passwords or meddle into communications, snooping on conversations and obtaining at least 486,000 text messages. Victims were scammed by being tricked into visiting bogus websites and downloading harmful apps.

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“Dark Caracal,” is unusual in the quantity of data discovered. Electronic Frontier Foundation Director of Cybersecurity Eva Galperin said the find was remarkable, explaining that she could think of only one other example where researchers were able to pin state-backed hackers to a specific building.

“We were able to take advantage of extraordinarily poor operational security,” she noted.

Murray said relevant authorities had been notified about the spying but declined to go into further detail. Galperin and Murray both said researchers were marshalling more evidence and that more revelations were coming.

“Stay tuned,” Murray said.

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The United States was opposed to any Israeli intervention because they feared that the coalition members would not want to be seen as fighting on the same side as Israel. The coalition therefore went “SCUD hunting,”

which consisted of searching for the launchers that the Iraqi army was using to attack Israel and Saudi Arabia. One such launcher had hit a U.S. Army Barracks and killed 28 soldiers.

Arens said in his interview that although few people were hurt in Israel, there was always a feeling that the “next missile could cause mass casualties, the next missile could be a chemical missile and the Americans aren’t

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succeeding in stopping it, so we have to.” Shomron said that he was much less enthusiastic about launching an attack. “If the government said to attack, we’d attack, but I recommended that we shouldn’t,” Shomron said. “If an hour later, a missile fell with poisonous gas that caused mass casualties, maybe I would recommend to attack. I wasn’t saying no attacking from now until the end of time.”

Shomron spoke about how his views did not make him popular in Israel. “People think, ‘They attack us and we don’t respond?’ That’s the reflex most people have. That’s how we were raised,” Shomron said. “Arens always wanted to do something. He’d always bring us little missions. And I never wanted to do those little missions,” Shomron said. “When do you lose your deterrence? When you do something little. Then they say, ‘This is all [the Israelis] can do,’” the former general said.

Arens also recalls in his interview going to speak with President George H.W. Bush to convince him that Israel should conduct a retaliatory attack on Iraq because the coalition was not being effective and the Patriot anti-missile system was not effectively stopping the attacks. “There was an

argument, and they said that their figures showed that they were succeeding in intercepting [SCUD missiles].

I told them, ‘Look, I’m telling you they’re not. They haven’t intercepted one missile,” Arens said.

Ultimately, Israel did not carry out any counterstrikes against Iraq, mostly due to American pressure against it.

Israeli Embassy in Jordan to Re-open

An official memorandum was sent from Israel to the Jordanian government apologizing for the deaths of two Jordanians during a shooting incident at the Israeli embassy in

Amman in July and the killing of a Jordanian judge in a separate 2014 incident. Subsequently, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office put out a statement announcing that the embassy, which was closed after the July incident, would be reopened.

A Jordanian spokesperson said that Israel has agreed to comply with the Kingdom of Jordan’s preconditions in order to resume regular diplomatic relations. The conditions included bringing legal action against the Israeli security guard accused of killing two Jordanians at the embassy and offering financial compensation to the bereaved families.

“Israel attaches great importance to its strategic relations with Jordan, and the two countries will act to advance their cooperation and to strengthen the peace treaty between them,” Bibi’s office said.

Ziv Moyal, the security guard at the embassy, shot two Jordanians after one of them attacked him. Israel has maintained that he acted in self-defense. This week it was announced by Israel that they will not be prosecuting Moyal. Instead, Israel will be studying the incident and will be sharing its findings with the Jordanians.

The killings in the embassy led to all diplomatic staff in the Amman embassy to return to Israel, including Ambassador Einat Schlein. Jordan had originally said that Schlein and the rest of the staff could not return to Jordan unless Moyal was put on trial.

Netanyahu is set to name a new ambassador to the embassy.

All three Jordanian families have agreed to accept the financial compensation from Israel, a reported $5 million.

Belgium to Supplement UNRWA

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way the agency operates and is funded. “This is not aimed at punishing anyone,” Nauert said, adding that the U.S. believes there needs to be more “burden-sharing,” a regular issue raised by President Donald Trump about multilateral organizations dependent on significant contributions of U.S. cash. “We don’t believe that taking care of other nations and other people have to be solely the United States’ responsibility,” she said.

The United States gave $335 million to the UNRWA in 2016 and was supposed to make a similar contribution this year. The State Department decided to withhold the funds after President Trump criticized the lack of progress in the peace process between the Palestinians and the Israelis. They are awaiting a formal policy decision from President Trump before sending the first installment.

On January 2, the President tweeted: “We pay the Palestinians HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF DOLLARS a year and get no appreciation or respect,” he said. “But with the Palestinians no longer willing to talk peace, why should we make any of these massive future payments to them?”

million for Palestinian refugees out of the $65 million that the U.S. has withheld.

The United States supplies nearly a third of the UNRWA’s annual budget. Belgian Deputy Prime Minister Alexander De Croo said that his country was responding to a global fundraising appeal by UNRWA. The money is what Belgium would have paid in the next three years, however they made the funds ready for immediate release in response to the appeal.

UNRWA’s Secretary-General Pierre Krähenbühl said the fundraising appeal will continue over the next few weeks but did not say which countries would be approached to help make up the missing funds.

The U.S. State Department announced that it would not be releasing $65 million of the $120 million it planned on contributing this month to the UNRWA, which would have been one of many payments made in 2018. The United States sent a letter to the UNRWA that the funds would not be released unless major changes were made by the UNRWA. “We would like to see some reforms be made,” said State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert, adding that changes were needed in the

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Building a Wall – Underground

The IDF has allowed journalists inside the tunnel that was dug 650 feet inside Israel by the Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorist group. The destruction of the tunnel, which was 16 feet belowground, led to mortar fire, rocket attacks, and riots within and around Gaza. The tunnel was only 1.2 miles away from Kibbutz Kissufim and, had it been completed, could have led to a very violent situation for kibbutz residents. The increased number of underground tunnels such as this one has forced Israel to come up with an innovative solution.

The Israeli government and military have come up with a clever way of stopping any future construction of such tunnels. Construction of an

underground barrier surrounding the Gaza Strip has begun. The subterranean terror tunnel threat is to be eliminated by the censor-laden reinforced concrete walls that are being placed deep into the ground. The 40-mile barrier is known as “the obstacle.”

The IDF has been adamant that it will protect Israeli citizens from underground threats. “Israel will defend this barrier in every way possible,” an IDF official said in August. “This barrier will be built. Period. At any price.” As of now, 2.5 miles of the barrier has been built. Construction has started around the most at-risk Israeli communities. Five cement factories have been built in the area to accommodate the heavy work order.

The underground barrier is created using a machine called a hydromill. A deep trench is dug and filled with a mixture of bentonite, clay, and water. A metal lattice is then dropped into the trench and a pipe is lowered to the bottom which pumps in concrete and pushes out the bentonite mixture. When asked how deep the barrier will be, the IDF official would only say that it was “deep enough.”

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be completed by the end of 2019. According to an IDF official, Gazan terrorists will have to turn to other ways of doing Israel harm, likely using drones, sea-based attacks, or more advanced types of missiles. The IDF has warned that Hamas is attempting to make progress in all three of these areas.

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A full military ceremony was held in his honor at the military cemetery in Holon. “Abraham was loved by everyone — [he was] shy, introverted and liked helping others,” said his sister, Metuka Aspir. Ajami’s brother, Reuven, said in his eulogy that “friends loved him, and it seems like he was truly a special person. After the injury, they told us things about him we didn’t know, since he was so shy. He was no ordinary person.”

“He had immense inner strength and always smiled,” said Ajami’s commander, Dror Lifshitz. “I remember we once tried to educate him and told him to wipe his smile off his face, and he said, ‘OK,’ but then came back smiling and said, ‘I just can’t wipe it off.’”

31 Years of Pain An IDF soldier that has been in a vegetative state since he was injured in Lebanon 31 years ago has died at the age of 50. Sgt. Avraham Ajami was remembered at his funeral by his relatives and friends as a “shy 19-yearold that was loved by everyone.”

The IDF was fighting in southern Lebanon in 1987 when a shell exploded near Ajami during a battle at an army post in the town of Marjayoun.

The young soldier was evacuated to a hospital in critical condition. Though he survived, he was never able to regain consciousness after his serious head injury and spent the rest of his life hooked up to machines.

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A top-secret meeting was held in April 1948 between agents and senior members of the Education Ministry.

According to the documents, the Shin Bet was looking to use its power to remove principals and teachers that they deemed to be “hostile” from Palestinian classrooms. Other teachers were denied tenure. Most of all, the Shin Bet wanted to ensure that the Education and Culture Ministry’s Arab Education Department would employ a Shin Bet agent to coordinate the service’s activities.

The documents reveal how the Shin Bet stopped highly qualified candidates from being employed by the Palestinian school system due to their political beliefs and the fear that they would pass their ideologies onto the next generation of Palestinians. The educators were never informed of the reason they were dismissed. Teachers were also fired because they had relatives associated with political activities.

Critics of the interference of the Shin Bet say that highly educated Arab children lead to a highly educated population, which leads to less reason for violence and terrorist activities. Proponents of the Shin Bet’s involvement said that teachers – regardless of how good they are – can be extremely influential on Palestinian youth if they spout terrorism and hate in the classroom.

By the 1990s the Shin Bet took a less active role in the Palestinian education system and by 2004 the position they occupied was officially rescinded.

Arrests after Raziel Shevach Murder Early Tuesday morning, IDF forces arrested the brother of one of the terrorists suspected of murdering Raziel Shevach, Hy”d. Suhaib Nassar Jarrar, brother of terror cell leader Ahmad Nassar Jarrar, was captured by the IDF. Ahmad has so far evaded arrest. The IDF also arrested Wissam Assam Jarrar, a relative of Ahmad, in Jenin. Details of the arrests were released by Palestinian media; the IDF has a gag order in place regarding the investigation.

Even so, the IDF has confirmed that eight Palestinian suspects were arrested in the West Bank between Monday night and Tuesday morning in connection to Shevach’s murder.

On January 9, shortly before 8 p.m., 35-year-old father of six Rabbi Raziel Shevach was driving his car on the highway near his home in the Havat Gilad outpost when shots were fired at him from a passing vehicle.

Shevach, a volunteer medic, was shot in the neck, but managed to call his wife and tell her to call an ambulance. Civilian and military medics rushed to the scene and tried to stop the bleeding as they took Shevach to Kfar Saba’s Meir Hospital, where he was pronounced dead after life-saving efforts failed.

Israeli security services launched a manhunt for the perpetrators, leading them to a house in Jenin where the suspects were believed to be hiding last Thursday. In an operation led by the Israel Police’s counterterrorism unit, security forces used a technique known as “pressure cooker,” in which troops use a number of high-intensity weapons and tools to disorient the suspects inside a house before knocking down a wall and entering the structure in full force.

A firefight broke out during the arrest raid. One suspect was killed and another was taken into custody.

Two police officers were wounded, one of them seriously.

Ahmad Jarrar succeeded in fleeing the scene.

Israeli forces have been in pursuit of him ever since, with Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman saying on Friday that he is “living on borrowed time.”

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Textgate

Robert Mueller continues to push forward in his investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election. The most recent update in the long-winded probe involves two FBI officials who were briefly involved in the special counsel who were caught criticizing Donald Trump via text message between themselves. This has set off rumors that the FBI agents working on the Russia probe might be biased against Trump. A delivery of close to 400 pages of transcripts of the text messages were delivered to lawmakers on Capitol Hill on Friday evening.

In a letter to FBI Director Christopher Wray on Saturday from Republican Sen. Ron Johnson, the chairman of the Senate Homeland Security Committee, he describes several texts that appear to involve the FBI’s handling of Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server while secretary of state, a subject of investigation for the committee.

In one February 2016 exchange, FBI lawyer Lisa Page calls it “unbelievable” that the 2016 presidential race would come down to Clinton versus Trump. Peter Strzok, who led the investigation into the Clinton email server as the No. 2 official in the FBI’s counterintelligence division, responds, “Now the pressure really starts to finish MYE . . . ,” an apparent reference to “Midyear Exam” – the FBI’s internal case name for the Clinton investigation.

As a leading counterintelligence expert, Strzok was involved in opening the investigation into ties between Trump campaign associates and suspected Russian operatives.

Page was also briefly on Mueller’s team before returning to the FBI, but she completed her detail before the special counsel’s office was made aware of the texts.

The Homeland Security Committee, as well as at least two House panels and the Justice Department’s Office of Inspector General, are all independently examining the FBI’s

conduct of the investigation and actions surrounding the Clinton investigation. This isn’t the first batch of text messages brought to the public. Previously, 375 text messages from August 2015 through early December 2016 were discussed because they involved relevant individuals insulting both sides of the presidential race. They particularly focused on their panic over Trump being appointed the 45th president of the U.S. Trump told The Wall Street Journal earlier this month that the messages amounted to ”treason.”

In another exchange Strzok discusses the curious timing of news that then-Attorney General Loretta Lynch had decided to accept the recommendations of career supervisors in the Justice Department and FBI on the Clinton email matter, just days after Lynch met privately with President Bill Clinton aboard her plane in Phoenix, Arizona.

Strzok texted, “(t)iming looks [crazy]. Will appear to be choreographed.” Page eventually texts back, “And yeah, it’s a real profile in couragw (sic), since she knows no charges will be brought.”

Sen. Johnson questioned whether the FBI has any records of messages exchanged between Strzok and Page from December 14, 2016 to May 17, 2017. The Justice Department said they were not preserved due to a technical glitch.

“The loss of records from this period is concerning because it is apparent from other records that Strzok and Page communicated frequently about the investigation,” Sen. Johnson pointed out.

How do emails and texts get lost in 21st century?

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“It’s such a weird experience, because you feel like you’re stealing when you go out the door,” Lisa Doyle, who visited the shop on Monday, noted.

Amazon employees have been testing the store, at the bottom floor of the company’s Seattle headquarters, for about a year. Amazon.com Inc. said it uses computer vision, machine learning algorithms and sensors to figure out what people are grabbing off its store shelves.

Amazon has been growing its physical presence. It has opened more than a dozen bookstores, taken over space in some Kohl’s department stores and bought Whole Foods last year, giving it 470 grocery stores.

Want to shop like the Jetsons?

Shoppers enter the store by scanning the Amazon Go app at the turnstile, opening the doors to the store.

When an item is pulled off a shelf, it’s added to that shopper’s virtual cart. If the item is placed back on the shelf, it is removed from the virtual cart. Customers shopping with families can use just one phone to scan everyone in. But don’t be too helpful when shopping. Grabbing cereal off the top shelf for an older woman will have the app charge you for her Cheerios.

At 1,800 square feet, Amazon Go resembles a convenience store, except for a kitchen visible from the street where sandwiches and readyto-cook meal kits are prepared. A small section features products from the Whole Foods 365 brand. There’s no hot coffee or hot food, but microwaves are available for customers who want to warm something up.

Beer and wine is in a cornered-off section where a staffer checks IDs before anyone enters.

Long-Term Insurance’s Big Surprise The long-term-care insurance industry made some very erroneous calculations a few decades ago and they are now paying the price. More accurately, they are trying to pass

along that price to their consumers, although they sold their policies on the promise that their premiums would never increase.

7.3 million people own longterm-care policies in the United States. The idea behind the insurance is to pay premiums for a number of years and the insurance company will contribute to the payments for nursing homes and other retirement lifestyle expenses later on. Now, the companies are demanding steep rate increases, and many customers are facing a difficult dilemma: either come up with more money or walk away from all of their coverage.

There used to be over 100 such insurance companies in the United States. Today, only a dozen or so remain. Over the past two years, many premium prices have almost doubled. A spokesperson for CNA insurance company said that rate increases “can be challenging,” but “it is important for us to take appropriate actions to ensure we can fulfill our obligations to our policyholders.”

In the ‘80s and ‘90s, millions of policies were sold. The companies pitched that the premiums would hold steady until a claim was filed.

Many families flocked to the policies so they would not need to dip into their life savings, ask children for help, or enroll in Medicaid as they get older and need care.

Many problems rocked the insurance companies simultaneously. They badly underestimated how many claims would be filed and how long people would draw payments before dying. The super low-interest rates after the financial crisis hit left the companies with a lot less to show for their investment of the monies they had collected.

In response, the companies have started to offer less and charge more.

For now, the number of policies being sold continues to drop. Time will tell what will happen to those that have purchased long-term-care policies. Hopefully, the elderly will not be stuck with higher rates and fewer returns. They paid their premiums; they should reap the benefits.

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Government Shutdown Ends...

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technically expired in September, and many politicians seeking reelection were very pleased to see its funding extended.

The U.S.: Diverse and United

A three-day government shutdown ended this past Monday when President Trump signed a shortterm funding bill that was passed by Congress. The key vote came in the Senate when 81 senators voted to let the funding bill proceed without a filibuster. Only two Republicans, Sens. Rand Paul and Mike Lee, voted against the measure, as did 16 Democrats. The House then agreed to the bill, which was passed by a vote of 266 to 150.

President Trump made a statement after the vote. “I am pleased that Democrats in Congress have come to their senses and are now willing to fund our great military, border patrol, first responders, and insurance for vulnerable children,” Trump said. “As I have always said, once the government is funded, my administration will work toward solving the problem of very unfair illegal immigration. We will make a longterm deal on immigration if, and only if, it is good for our country.”

The government is now funded until February 8. The shutdown was finally steered towards reopening when Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell agreed to hold an open debate process on a bill to codify the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals immigration program. DACA was a key priority for Democrats who refused to reopen the government until DACA was addressed, and the issue is to be discussed in February in great detail. McConnell previously promised Republican Sen. Jeff Flake there would be a DACA vote by the end of January.

The current DACA program is set to expire on March 5, which would potentially see nearly 700,000 unauthorized immigrants who came to the United States as minors deported.

A big win for all was the extended funding that was agreed upon for the Children’s Health Insurance Program for the next six years. CHIP funding

According to author Colin Woodard, there are many distinct regions in the United States, each with their own cultural identity and history. In his book, American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America, Woddard maps out regions such as the “Deep South” and the “Midlands” for the reader. Here we will examine a few of Woodard’s regions by characteristics and location. Each region has a distinct value and contributes uniquely to American culture.

Woodard calls New England, upstate New York, and much of the industrial Midwest, from northern Pennsylvania to Minnesota, “Yankeedom.” This area, founded by Puritans, has residents that are more comfortable with government regulation and values citizen participation in government. They also value education and assimilation of outsiders.

The greater New York City area is in a category all by itself and is called

by Woodard “New Netherland.” It is composed of NYC plus northern New Jersey and part of Connecticut. Woodard says that this global commerce hub has a “profound tolerance for ethnic and religious diversity and an unflinching commitment to the freedom of inquiry and conscience.” It is also “a magnet for immigrants and a refuge for those persecuted by other regional cultures,” Woodard said.

Another unique region is known as the “Deep South.” On Woodard’s map, the Deep South spans from rural North Carolina through South Carolina, Georgia, northern Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, northern Louisiana, and eastern Texas. Here people tend to fight against taxes on the wealthy, expansion of government powers, and corporate and environmental regulation.

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New Orleans is another hub that Woodard calls “New France.” “After a long history of imperial oppression, its people have emerged as downto-earth, egalitarian, and consensus-driven, among the most liberal on the continent, with unusually tolerant attitudes toward people of all races and a ready acceptance of government involvement in the economy,” Woodard wrote of the area.

Other regions in the United States, as defined by Woodard, are known as “First Nation,” “The Left Coast,” “ The Far West,” “El Norte,” and “Greater Appalachia.” Each region is contributing its own unique perspective to make up the diverse fabric of the United States of America.

A Ghost Marriage When Amanda Teague got married in July of 2016 she stood in her white gown and said “I do” to her future husband. Her groom, though, did

not answer back. You see, Amanda is married to Jack, but he is not a normal husband. In fact, many people wouldn’t call him a husband. Jack is not the life of a party; he has been dead for 300 years.

Amanda married Jack after “meeting” him in 2015. She said she sensed his presence as she was lying in bed at her home in Ireland. Eventually, she says, they “both” made plans to marry.

The otherworldly couple had to marry on a boat, in international waters, to make the marriage legal. The United Kingdom and Ireland does not recognize marriage to deceased people. Amanda is the first person in both those countries to legally marry a ghost. Amanda explains that she followed proper procedures instructed to her by lawyers to bypass the rules.

Amanda even took on Jack’s last name after the nuptials.

Interestingly, “marrying” a “ghost” and “marrying” a deceased person are two different things. In fact, in France, during World War I, the French government allowed hundreds of women to marry their partners who died in the war. Decades later, France opened up posthumous marriages to civilians as well. When a broken dam killed 400 people in Frejus, French Presi-

dent Charles de Gaulle allowed Iréne Jodart, who lost her fiancé André Capra in the 1959 incident, to marry his ghost. Even today, France allows for posthumous marriages under devastating circumstances. In reality, the marriages are helpful to the living who are in need of benefits that come after a spouse dies.

In China, “minghun” marriages, translated to English as a “spirit marriage,” is a well-established tradition, albeit rarely practiced today. Across mainland China, a woman can engage in a minghun to “marry” her fiancé’s “spirit,” before adopting a child to carry on his family lineage. A rooster represents the groom at the ceremony and the bride moves in with her husband’s family after the marriage. The practice was officially banned by the Community Party in 1949, although it is still carried out today.

In all these “marriages” cited above, the marriage is between two people who knew each other prior to the death. In Amanda’s case, she has never met her “husband,” and some are skeptical that he was ever alive.

She says he is of African descent, was a pirate, and is in his early 50s.

And he has never taken out the garbage.

Switched at Birth

In March of 2015 two babies were born in the same labor room in northeastern India. But those babies did not go home with their families. Instead, the baby born to the Muslim family headed to the home of the Hindu family; the Hindu-born baby found his home with the Muslim family.

Salma Parbin said that she suspected that the baby, Jonait, was not hers when she saw him at the hospital when he was born.

“When I saw his face, I had doubts.

I remembered the face of the other woman in the labor room and he resembled her. I could make out from his eyes. He’s got small eyes, no one in my family has eyes like that,” she told the BBC. husband, Shahabuddin Her Ahmed, told a hospital employee, who dismissed his wife’s concerns and sug-

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gested she go for psychiatric help.

But Salma was not crazy. Shahabuddin requested information on all the babies born around 7 a.m. the day that Jonait was born. He received information on seven babies. One woman, a “tribal lady,” stood out, as Salma and the woman had given birth to boys just five minutes apart, and both babies weighed 6.6 lb.

Both families – Anil and Shewali Boro and their child, Riyan Chandra, and Jonait and his parents – met in a village. Immediately, Boro recognized that Jonait was her son. “We are Bodo tribals, we are not like the other Assamese or Muslim people. Our eyes slant upwards, our cheeks and hands are plumper. We are different. We have Mongolian features,” she said.

Salma said she also knew that Riyan was her child right away, wanting to swap the children. But Shewali rejected the proposal.

Soon, DNA evidence proved that the children were switched at birth.

The families eventually went to court.

But sometimes familial ties are strong – even when they are not formed by blood. Both families realized that they couldn’t go through with the swap.

“The magistrate told us that if we wanted to swap the babies we could do it, but we said we won’t do it. Because we’ve raised them for the past three years, we can’t just let them go,” Salma said.

Both families realized that the children would be traumatized by being returned to their biological families.

They said as the children grow older they will leave the decision up to them.

And the families plan to keep in touch, ensuring that the two families will be part of each other’s lives.

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Earlier this year it was reported that the Ramat Gan Zoo in Israel took in ten hedgehogs who had been feasting on Israeli leftovers. The mammals were taken in because they were overweight; the zoo was attempting to put them on strict diets and exercise regimens to help them shed the extra pounds that were preventing

them from curling into a ball to fend off predators.

One hedgehog captured animal lovers’ hearts. The adult male Sherman weighed a whopping 1.6 kg (3.5 pounds) when he arrived, almost twice the weight of an average hedgehog his age. Since then, he has lost 150 grams (.33 pounds), thanks to a diet of cat food fed in small doses, along with fruits and vegetables. Additionally, handlers have been placing the food far away from Sherman, forcing him to waddle to get his grub.

Once Sherman is able to curl into a ball – a practice necessary for his protection – he will be released back into the streets of Israel.

Seems like too much falafel can be detrimental to your health.

A Picture Payout

The Landau brothers of Teaneck recently learned that Grandpa has a nose for fine art.

The three brothers – Ned, Roger and Steven – inherited a painting that depicts two men holding smelling salts under the nose of an unconscious woman from their mother.

Their grandfather bought the painting before the Great Depression and their grandmother passed it down to their mother, who died in 2010.

The brothers sold most of their mother’s belongings after she died but Ned thought the painting, which they kept under a ping pong table in Roger’s basement, may be valuable.

Eventually, when the ping pong table was moved, they asked John Nye, an appraiser, to value the piece. A few hundred dollars, they were told, was what the painting could bring in.

But Nye missed something important: the three letters transcribed on the top right of the painting, RHF, which stands for “Rembrandt Harmenszoon fecit,” meaning “Rembrandt, son of Harmen, made this.”

But others saw the true value.

When the painting went up at auction, starting at $250, the bids kept going higher. Eventually, it was sold for $1.1 million, according to Fox Business Network’s “Strange Inheri-

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The Landau brothers are Jewish and didn’t realize that the auction took place on Yom Kippur. In fact, because they don’t use their phones on the holiday, it was only a few days later when they returned John’s call.

“Maybe one, two days after Yom Kippur I returned John’s call,” Roger said. “I asked, ‘Oh, so how’d the auction go?’ and he said, ‘Well, it actually went quite well.’”

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Like what he’s offering? That’s not all. The seller is only taking away a few possessions; the rest of the furniture, wine and big appliances will be left for the lucky winner. Whoever buys the home near Tiverton, Devon, will also get close to $70,000 cash, a tractor and quad bike — and, bizarrely, a stock of 600 spare light bulbs.

The anonymous homeowner said he hasn’t put the house on the market before and just wants to “sell” it via the contest to “have some fun.”

Along with his wife, the businessman built the property in the early ‘90s and will donate 2 pounds (about

$2.75) from every ticket sold to a number of charities.

“We’ve had some wonderful times in the house, which we designed and built ourselves,” he said. “However, we have two grandchildren who live four hours’ drive away and we want to be closer to them. We thought that selling the house through a competition would be a fun thing to do and would mean we could raise money for some of our favorite charities.”

He also doesn’t want the “hassle” of moving out (don’t they have people they can paid to do that?) and so they “just want to walk out with our clothes, personal possessions and family photos. That also means the winner has a ready-made home to walk into.”

The owners are hoping to sell 500,000 tickets by the close of the competition next November — netting an estimated 5.25 million pounds ($7.3 million) in sales. They estimate the total value of the prize to be around 3 million pounds, or roughly $4.2 million.

The home has a drawing room, dining room and bar room which all lead to an “entertaining terrace” with a covered barbecue area and steps to the sweeping lawns. There is also a library and a fully equipped kitchen-breakfast room with French doors leading to a walled garden. The basement houses a utility room, freezer room and wine cellar. The master suite has its own dressing room, sitting room and huge whirlpool bath, and looks out onto ponds, a summer house and barns.

The separate leisure complex has an indoor heated swimming pool, paved patio area, a gym and changing rooms, as well as a nearly four-car garage and apartments. The secluded property has a huge sweeping drive and electric gates at both the main and tradesman’s entrance, as well as CCTV and an alarm system.

Any legal taxes will also be paid for, as will the wages for the gardener and housekeeper for a year.

If less than 500,000 are sold by November 30, 2018, an alternative prize equal to the total value of the tickets sold will be awarded instead of the house. Nine runner ups will be netting around $14,000.

Interested parties can enter via www.millionairemansion.co.uk. Entrants must answer a simple question in order to buy a ticket.

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Community CAHAL Sharing the Spotlight at Darchei’s Science Fair

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AHAL is a unique program with the goal of having all of their students participate in mainstream activities. As part of the science curriculum at Yeshiva Darchei Torah, students in the CAHAL class displayed their projects at the 7th grade science fair. Rabbi Heller was in charge of the science fair, and he made sure that the students were involved in each step of this very special learning experience.

CAHAL thanks him for his support.

What makes a science fair project such a great learning experience is that it involves so much more than science. It is an example of a handson activity that facilitates research, writing skills, and the organization of information so that it can be presented on a display board. Most importantly, students are able to discuss their projects with visitors and judges.

One group of students did an experiment involving chewing gum.

The Problem: Does chewing gum help you to concentrate?

After outlining the hypothesis and explaining the experiment which included a graph that showed data,

the conclusion was that gum does help to increase concentration a lot more than the students thought.

Follow up? The boys decided to write a petition requesting that students be allowed to chew gum in school. Two hundred signatures were collected. The petition was than given to Rabbi Leff for his approval.

The students are anxiously awaiting Rabbi Leff’s decision!

What is the definition of CAHAL nachas?

This is when we see our students participate in a mainstream activity.

This is when we see the excitement of our students as they present their projects to peers, parents, grandparents, and judges.

This is when we see parents and grandparents take pride in our students’ work and accomplishments.

This is when we see how invested the CAHAL rebbeim, teachers, and teaching assistants are when they stand with their students and take pride in their work.

Nachas is knowing that our CAHAL students are truly a part of every yeshiva including the Yeshiva Darchei Torah 7th grade class.

midrash of these seminaries.” The climax of the trip was a reunion at Yeshiva University’s Jerusalem cam-

pus. Over 30 alumni came together to listen to a shiur from Rabbi Lew, to hear from Mrs. Neugroschl, and

to reunite with one another. The reunion and trip were both a great success!

A Central Visit to Israel

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espite a double snow day delay, Mrs. Neugroschl and Rabbi Lew of Central made it to Israel last week to visit Central’s graduates who are currently in seminary for the year. Rabbi Lew said he was pleased to see that the alumni are “so happy in their respective schools, and that there is so much strong learning going in the batei

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hulamith pre1A students warmly welcomed their parents to a mishpacha-themed workshop last week.

The girls enjoyed illustrating family portraits, writing Hebrew books, graphing how many people are in their families, and baking “people” cookies to enjoy with their families at home!​

St. John’s Welcomes New Year Baby

L-R: St. John’s Labor and Delivery nurse, Karla Abigail Gutierrez, Denise Potts, Karla Balarezo, Dylan Gutierrez, Enrico Gutierrez, and Gerard Walsh

milestone event, and we wish Dylan and his family many happy, healthy years to come.”

Baby Dylan and his family were presented with an array of baby equipment which was generously donated by the hospital.

St. John’s Episcopal Hospital is the only hospital providing emergency and ambulatory care to the densely populated, culturally and economically diverse, and medically underserved populations of the Rockaways and Five Towns in southern Queens County and southwestern Nassau County, New York. St. John’s is a recipient of the Gold-Plus Get with the Guidelines®-Stroke Quality Achievement Award from the American Heart Association.

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t. John’s Episcopal Hospital welcomed the hospital’s first baby born in 2018 on New Year’s Day. Ms. Karla Balarezo gave birth to a son, Dylan Gutierrez Balarezo, via Caesarian section at 10:06 a.m. on January 1. Dylan is Karla’s first son, joining his father, Enrico Gutierrez, and sister Karla Abigail Gutierrez.

Each January, the staff at St. John’s looks forward to the birth of the hospital’s first baby of the New Year as a joyful, special moment for all at the hospital. 2018 was no different as Dylan entered the world, weighing 6 pounds and 13.5oz and at a height of 20.5 inches.

“We are very excited to celebrate the birth of Dylan Gutierrez with his mother and family,” said Gerard Walsh, CEO of St. John’s. “The first baby of the new year is always a

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A New Way to Invest

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ais Yaakov of Queens students are learning about investments and the stock market. To kick start the program, the students were treated to a very special speaker, Mrs. Susan Friedman, Investor Assistant Treasurer at Apple Bank for Savings, who emphasized the importance of

saving for the future by investing in the stock market. Mrs. Friedman explained to the girls how important it was to ride out the ups and downs of the market and to not get discouraged.

Incorporating what Mrs. Friedman advised, the seventh graders are moving forward with new technology

to participate in a stock market competition. Under the supervision of Mrs. Adina Shapiro the students are using the Chrome Book mobile lab to research stocks and invest in the stock market from their very own desks. The girls work with a partner and are given a fictional $100,000 with which to in-

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vest. Stock broker fees are charged for each transaction, with the goal being to have the portfolio with the highest value at the close of the competition in April. They are competing against hundreds of junior high students throughout New York City.

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OHEL Provides Bris Milah for Foster Care Baby

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HEL Children’s Home and Family Services held a very moving bris milah recently at Congregation Heichal Dovid in Lawrence, NY, for a Jewish baby boy placed in OHEL foster care.

The baby’s birth mother as well as the OHEL foster mother were present.

OHEL’s foster care staff placed the baby with a wonderful foster family that had been previously trained and licensed by OHEL. The bris was conducted by Rabbi Paysach Krohn and Rabbi Mordechai Stern had the honor of naming the baby.

OHEL boardmembers Fred Schulman, Michelle Sulzberger and Aryeh Jacobson were also in attendance. The seudah, sponsored by Avi and Elia Weinstock and OHEL’s Thea Jeret Simcha Fund, was attended by many members of the Far Rockaway

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Annual Lecture Program at Fleetwood Synagogue

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n Motzei Shabbat, January 6, over seventy people braved the below-freezing temperatures to attend Fleetwood Synagogue’s 14th Annual Charles Sidlow Memorial Lecture Program. The program was titled “Issues in Contemporary Society through a Jewish Lens,” and featured two wonderful speakers: Ms. Shul Taubes and Rabbi Jeremy Wieder. Shuli Taubes serves as a faculty member at SAR High School in Riverdale, New York, where she teaches Tanach, Jewish identity, and chairs the Jewish philosophy department. She has also developed and teaches a curriculum for educating Modern Orthodox high school students in comparative religion. Rabbi

Wieder is the Joseph and Gwendolyn Straus Professor of Talmud at Yeshiva University where he serves as rosh yeshiva and adjunct professor of Bible.

The Scholar-in-Residence Program is sponsored by Robert Sidlow, Richard Sidlow, and their families, and is dedicated to the memory of their father, Charles Sidlow, a”h. The memories of their father’s intellectual curiosity, his passion for learning, and his love of Judaism have inspired

them to establish this program as a fitting tribute to his life. Past events have featured a wide variety of presenters, including Rabbi Natan Slifkin, Rabbi Dr. Ephraim Kanarfogel, Dr. Mordechai Kedar, and Senator Joseph Lieberman.

After the two shiurim, guests were invited downstairs for a dairy dinner and a chance to learn more about this growing community. Fleetwood Synagogue is a close-knit Orthodox

shul located in Mount Vernon, in lower Westchester County, between Riverdale and New Rochelle. The shul and community has a distinctly “own of town” feel to it (i.e. warm, participatory, a place where everyone is important,) yet is truly “in town.”

From the Fleetwood station (only two blocks away from shul) one can ride the Metro North to Grand Central Terminal in only twenty five minutes; in addition, Fleetwood sits at the intersection of four major highways, providing easy access to Manhattan, Queens, Long Island, Bergen, and Rockland Counties. Given its close proximity to schools in Bronx, Westchester and Connecticut, no compromises need to be made regarding educational choices for children. The small community meets the diverse needs of all its congregants and offers daily minyanim, an eiruv that is forever expanding, and reasonable costs of living. Given these highlights, it is no wonder Fleetwood has a growing membership base and is attracting the attention of Orthodox families looking to move to suburban Westchester – but remain close to it all.

For further information on Fleetwood Synagogue and its neighborhood, contact Rabbi Rosenfelt at rabbirosenfelt@fleetwoodsynagogue.org.

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Library Rededication at Shulamith

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beautiful ceremony was held to celebrate the dedication of the Shulamith Lower Division Hebrew Library. The library’s upgrade was sponsored by the Deutsch family in memory of Francine Solomon, Faiga bat Shlomo Zeev, a”h, mother of Mrs. Carolyn Deutsch. Mrs. Solomon served as a dedicat-

ed and beloved school librarian and the dedication was most fitting.

Months of planning went into the library’s makeover.

Lower Division Principal Mrs. Joyce Yarmak, and teachers Morah Rivka Holzman and Morah Rikki worked together to make the room even more inviting and stocked with

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Science Focus Comes to Kol Yaakov

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cience focus time comes to Yeshivat Kol Yaakov of Great Neck, and this year it’s arriving with inventions, how things work and an exploration of technology.

Mrs. Dini Druk kicked off our focus with an examination of electrical circuitry. She gave a teachers’ workshop on STEM to staff members and

then did student workshops for all grade levels where everyone created their own working electrical circuits. Although Mrs. Druk gave each boy one battery and one LED light, it didn’t take long for several of Mrs. Hekmati’s second graders to realize that if they varied Mrs. Druk’s instructions just a bit, they could have multiple circuits with several lights!

Older grades asked for more batter-

ies and lights and created separate circuits operating lights on each.

Mrs. Jedda’s third graders are venturing into the many inventive possibilities of simple machines.

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Hoenlein, Lubinsky, Wolff: Headliners at Luxury Pesach Retreat in Las Vegas

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n all-star lineup of scholars and speakers will highlight a new extraordinary Pesach program at the Green Valley Ranch Resort & Spa in Las Vegas, one of the most luxurious properties in the area.

This venue is the latest program to be offered by Majestic Retreats, operated

by Avi and Shneuer Faskowitz for over 16 years.

The lineup of scholars and speakers includes Malcolm Hoenlein, Executive Vice President, Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations; Menachem Lubinsky, president of Lubicom Marketing and founding co-producer of Kosherfest; Rabbi Shlomo Einhorn, Dean of Yeshivat Yavneh (Los Angeles); Slovie Jungreis Wolff, leader of Hineni Couples, daughter of Rebbetzin Esther Jungreis, noted author and lecturer;Rabbi Dovid M. Cohen rabbi, Congregation Ohr Torah, North Woodmere, NY; Yachad Director of Community Engagement, Strategy and Development. Other speakers include David Savitsky, Irv Bader, Rabbi Josh Maslow, and Baila Sebrow, shadchan, educator and lecturer.

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You gotta be kidding Yankel checks into a hotel for the first time in his life and goes up to his room. Five minutes later he calls the desk and says, “You’ve given me a room with no exit. How do I leave?”

The desk clerk says, “Sir, that’s absurd. Have you looked for the door?”

Yankel replies, “Well, there’s one door that leads to the bathroom. There’s a second door that goes into the closet.

And there’s a door I haven’t tried, but it has a do not disturb sign on it.”

Well Said The only way to explain how some people dress for the airport is they think no one else will be there. - Andy Borowitz I’ve been to almost as many places as my luggage.

- Bob Hope In America there are two classes of travel – first class and with children. - Robert Benchley Boy, those French. They have a different word for everything! - Steve Martin Recently I found myself arguing with a British friend of mine over which tastes better: English cooking or dirt. - Bruce Cameron San Francisco leads the world in the category of Most People On The Sidewalk Holding Conversations With Purely Imaginary Companions. - Dave Barry

Calling a taxi in Texas is like calling a rabbi in Iraq. - Fran Lebowitz Sometimes the road less traveled is less traveled for a reason. - Jerry Seinfeld There is nothing quite like a flight to LaGuardia.

Except maybe the last chopper out of Saigon. Dave Barry How is it that the first piece of luggage on the airport carousel never belongs to anyone? - George Roberts Cars will soon have the internet on the dashboard. I worry that this will distract me from my texting. - Andy Borowitz Dear Hotel People: We don’t need a cheeseball clock radio. WE NEED PLACES TO PLUG STUFF IN. Thank you. - Dave Barry

Answer: After drawing one paper, Eduardo immediately swallows it. The jailer is forced to check the other paper to determine which one Eduardo drew. After seeing the “DEATH” paper left in the hat, the jailer assumes that Eduardo initially chose the “LIFE” paper and sets him free.

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World Traveler Trivia 1. If you stop off on a cruise ship in the Dominican Republic, which other country can you get to without leaving land? a. b. c. d.

3. What was the most visited city in the world in 2017 (according to Mastercard transactional data, which is the accepted index)?

Cuba Haiti Bahamas Barbados

a. P o r t- a u- P r i n c e , Haiti b. New York, NY c. Dubai, UAE d. Bangkok, Thailand

2. What is the 31.35 mile rail tunnel linking England with France called?

4. Which country has twice as many bikes as cars?

a. Louv Sous L’eau b. Channel Tunnel c. Queen Elizabeth III Underpass d. Euro Tram

a. b. c. d.

 Answers

Netherlands Belgium Denmark Vietnam

5. What is the official language of Brazil? a. b. c. d.

Brazilian Spanish Portuguese English

7. What is the former name of Ho Chi Minh City? a. b. c. d.

Yokohama Hanoi Saigon Beijing

6. If you want to visit the biblical rivers of the Tigris and the Euphrates which country do you have to go to? a. b. c. d.

Iraq Iran Egypt France

 Wisdom Key 6-7 correct: Congrats! You have earned an all-expenses-paid trip to a cockfight in Haiti! (The highly popular game features two roosters which are placed in a ring to fight each other while gamblers cheer them on until one rooster kills or

maims the other...real nice, huh?)

3-5 correct: Not bad. You know a thing or two about international travel. You know what? You get a free cockfight trip too. Why not

“hop” onboard!

0-2 correct: Even the rooster doesn’t want to fight with you.

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B B- If you are a little Fancy Nancy and need to know the French name, it is “Le tunnel sous la Manche”

Riddle me this?

Eduardo traveled abroad and committed a terrible crime. After being apprehended and tried, he is now being sentenced to death. This country has a strange law. Before the sentence is carried out, two papers – one with “LIFE” written on it and one with “DEATH” written on it – are folded up and placed in a hat. Eduardo is permitted to pick out one of the papers (without looking) and if he chooses the one with “LIFE” written on it, he will be set free. Otherwise, the death sentence is carried out.

Eduardo’s enemy, Carlos, really wants Eduardo to die. He secretly switches the “LIFE” paper with a paper of his own that says “DEATH” on it. Now there are two papers with “DEATH” on it, and it seems that Eduardo is doomed. Carlos tells Eduardo about what he did – he wants to see his reaction when he tells him that he will die. But Eduardo is calm and knows that he will be saved.

What does Eduardo do to avoid certain death?

See answer on bottom of the opposite page

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Torah Thought

Parshas Beshalach

By Rabbi Berel Wein

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he pharaoh of Egypt has finally relented and freed the Jewish people from their centuries of slavery and persecution and allowed them to leave his country. Even though he was forced to do so by continuing plagues and disasters that fell upon him and his people, nevertheless freeing the Jewish people was a noble thing that he accomplished. Yet, as is the want of all tyrants and evil people, he does not view his behavior and action as being noble and praiseworthy. Instead, he is convinced that he has made a grave error and in order to correct that mistake, immobilizes his army to force the Jewish people back into Egyptian slavery.

He has second thoughts about what he did and is determined to revert once again to tyranny and murder in order to “correct� his previous error. It is this process of regretting the good and repeating the evil that will prove to be his ultimate undoing.

In Judaism, second thoughts and regret are usually reserved for the process of repentance for misdeeds and earlier mistakes and sins. The first step in the process of repentance is experiencing full and

second thoughts, the true reflection of what we believe and feel, reveal our true intent and our inner desires. If we are able to regret evil that means that we are determined to pursue good and therefore the

Our second thoughts in life reveal to a great extent who we are and what path in life we wish to pursue.

sincere regret at having been guilty of wrong behavior and forbidden actions. Second thoughts are reserved for good and for improvement, not for backtracking and sorrow over what one has done in his or her life.

The reason that regret can transform previous wrongs into positive action and serve as a token of forgiveness for that action is that

L-rd will accept, so to speak, our wishes and convert the previous fall into a positive step, in the direction of obedience and holiness.

The pharaoh’s second thoughts reveal his true nature and what he felt and desired. He never intended to release the Jewish people from bondage and only did so under the pressure of the death of the first-

born in the Egyptian nation. However, once that initial shock was removed and his true nature began to exhibit itself, Pharaoh pursues the children of Israel and is determined to destroy them and bring them back into Egyptian slavery.

The Torah teaches us here that our second thoughts in life reveal to a great extent who we are and what path in life we wish to pursue. Many times we are forced to do good things because of social pressures and other unholy motives. When these disappear so does our desire to do good. And the same is true in the opposite vein.

Sometimes we are forced to do things that are really repugnant to us because of outside pressures that we cannot control. But we regret having done so because our inner self only desires good and a sincere attachment to G-d and His Torah.

So, to a great extent, it is our second thoughts that reveal our true selves and reveal to all who we really are.

Shabbat shalom.

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From the Fire

Parshas Beshalach The Redemption of Speech

By Rav Moshe Weinberger Adapted for publication by Binyomin Wolf

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his week is Shabbos Shira, when we read the Song at the Sea, and Tu B’Shvat will be coming in the next few days.

Let’s try to understand one aspect of these two days.

Man is defined as one who speaks. The Torah describes Hashem’s creation of man as follows: “He blew into his nostrils the breath of life and man became a living being” (Bereishis 2:7). Onkelos, in his Aramaic translation of “a living being,” says, “a speaking being.” We see that the power of speech defines man. Man’s speech and the essence of his life are one.

The pasuk in Mishlei (4:22) says, “For they are life for those who find them, li’motzeihem.” The Gemara (Eruvin 54a) explains this pasuk as follows: “Do not read li’motzeihem as to those who find them; rather, read it as li’motzeihem b’peh – to those who pronounce them orally.’”

We see the connection between life and speech; the true living soul is expressed through speech.

The seforim hakedoshim teach that in Egypt, the power of speech was in exile. This is reflected in Pharaoh’s name, which is a conflation of the words “peh rah, evil mouth.”

Even our redeemer’s speech was impaired, as we see that Moshe was

described as “heavy of mouth and heavy of tongue” (Shemos 4:10) and as a person with “impaired speech” (Shemos 6:12). Moshe also said about himself, “I am not a man of words” (Shemos 4:10). His power of speech was covered, concealed, and blocked. Indeed, the Jewish People were unable to hear Moshe’s words, as the pasuk says, “And they did not listen to Moshe because of their shortness of breath and their hard work” (Shemos 6:9). The Jewish People’s response to the suffering in Egypt was “they cried out … and they groaned” (Shemos 2:23). They were unable to use their power of speech and daven to Hashem with words.

LIKE A FETUS

We find regarding a fetus that Chazal say, “Its mouth is closed” (Niddah 30b). Since it is not yet fully in the category of complete life, it cannot have the power of speech.

Interestingly, the final act that prepares it for birth is the angel’s strike on the mouth, which opens up its mouth (ibid.).

When the Jewish People were in Egypt, they were compared (see the sefer Arvei Nachal, Parshas Eikev) to “a fetus in its mother’s womb.”

The redemption from Egypt and

Song at the Sea represented the birth of the Jewish People and the redemption of speech. Regarding that time, when we transitioned from the world of the “not yet truly living [dead] fetus” to the world of those who are truly living, Chazal say that the song we sang that day is reminiscent of the ultimate resurrection of the dead (Rashi on Shemos 15:1). This is because the redemption from Egypt was simultaneously a redemption and resurrection of the power of speech and our birth as a nation. Not only did the Jewish People go from a state of speechlessness to speaking, and then to singing, but even the babies in their mothers’ wombs sang the Song at the Sea in gratitude of Hashem’s redemption (Sotah 30b).

The power of speech was even granted to the fetus!

When the power of speech is free, it can be expressed on a number of different levels. The highest of these is song, the mouth’s highest mode of expression. Song is the greatest expression of man’s essence as a living being. When a person is filled with vitality, he cannot be satisfied with speaking alone.

He must sing. That is why we say in the tefillah of Nishmas, “Would that our mouths were filled with

song like the sea and our tongues with exultation like its numerous waves …”

Therefore, the yom tov that relates to the redemption from Egypt, from the exile of speech, is called Pesach, which is a contraction of the words “peh sach, a speaking mouth.” When the redemption came, speech was no longer in exile and our mouths were then able to speak. Our newly unleashed power of speech soon turned into song, as we say in davening, “a new song, the redeemed ones praised.”

The power of song has an association with wine. The Torah uses four words to describe the redemption (Shemos 6:6–7) which correspond to the four cups of wine we drink at the Seder where we praise Hashem with song. This relationship between wine and songs of praise is expressed by the halacha that “the Levi’im only sing over the wine [of the libations]” (Brachos 35a). We now understand why an onen, one who has just lost a close family member, may not drink wine. The loss of a living soul renders him “songless.” Aharon HaKohein was silent when two of his sons died because silence surrounds a person who faces death. We know that wine releases a person’s inner-

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most song, as the Gemara (Eruvin 65a) says “When wine enters, the secret comes out.” This cannot occur when facing catastrophe.

TU B’SHVAT TREE CONNECTION

How does all this connect to Tu B’Shvat, the Rosh Hashana for trees? In the dead of the winter, Chazal teach (Rashi on Rosh HaShanah 14a) that the trees’ sap begins to rise as they come to life again in preparation for the spring.

Rav Tzadok HaKohein of Lublin, in Resisei Laila (34), explains that the word for prophet, ivan, comes from the word niv, speaking, as in the pasuk “niv sefasayim, speech of the lips” (Yeshayahu 57:19).

Rav Tzadok writes that the same root word also means “produce” or “fruit,” as in the phrase, “savunet ztera’ah, the produce of the Land.”

The same root word for speech of a person’s mouth is used to refer to the fruit of a tree. Thus, we can say that the fruit of man’s humanity is his speech. In addition, the pasuk says, “Is a tree of the field like a man [that it should be destroyed when attacking an enemy]?” (Devarim 20:19). This is homiletically understood that indeed, man is compared to a tree. Each bears fruit and man’s fruit is his speech.

A tree only begins giving forth its fruits when it is filled with life, when the sap begins to rise. Similarly, a person can only give forth his fruits when he is connected to his roots, when he is truly alive. A prophet is one who speaks in the name of Hashem because he is connected to the Source, to the Living Soul within him. The exodus from Egypt took place in the spring, when the world comes to life and the trees begin bearing fruit. That is when our mouths open up and bear fruit as well, as we say in the Haggadah, “The more one relates [about the exodus], it is praiseworthy.” This is also an expression of our connection to prophecy, nevuah, as Chazal say about the Jewish People, “If they are not prophets, then they are the sons of prophets” (Pesachim 66a), and prophecy connects to speech, as we explained.

From all this, it emerges that the beginning of the development of the fruit of trees and of man’s fruit – speech – is on Tu B’Shvat, the Rosh Hashana for trees. But the date of the new year for trees is subject to a dispute. The Mishnah, at the beginning of Rosh Hashana, relates that “the first of Shvat [Rosh Chodesh Shvat] is the Rosh Hashana for trees according to Beis Shammai. Beis Hillel says that it is on the fifteenth of Shvat.”

Amazingly, it is no coincidence that Moshe regained the power of speech on the same day Beis Shammai identified as the Rosh Hashana for trees, Rosh Chodesh Shvat.

As the Torah says, “These are the words that Moshe spoke to all of the children of Israel … in the eleventh month [Shvat], on the first of the month, Moshe spoke to the chil-

Moshe’s power of speech began on Rosh Chodesh Shvat, the Rosh Hashana for trees according to Beis Shammai.

THE POWER OF ROSH CHODESH

The truth is that anything actualized during the month exists in potential on the rosh chodesh of that month. It is known that “Beis Shammai is very sharp” (Yevamos 14a). Students of Beis Shammai pierce to the root of the matter.

That is why we will pasken like Beis Shammai in the World to Come, but not in This World (Zohar, Bereishis 17b). They pierce so deeply that the truth of their position cannot be appreciated in This World. Therefore, even though we do not pasken like Beis Shammai that the Rosh hashana for trees is on Rosh Chodesh

The redemption from Egypt was simultaneously a redemption and resurrection of the power of speech and our birth as a nation.

dren of Israel …” (Devarim 1:1, 3).

The Midrash (Devarim Rabbah 1:1) says, “Until Moshe merited Torah, it says about him ‘I am not a man of words,’ but once he merited Torah, his tongue was healed and he began to speak.” The midrash is based on the pssuk in Mishlei (15:4) that says, “A healing tongue is the tree of life.” Once again, we see that the word tree is used in association with speech.

The pasuk continues, “Moshe began to explain the Torah” (Devarim 1:5), which Rashi interprets to mean that “he explained the Torah to them in the seventy languages.” With the Torah, the exile of speech ended and not only did Moshe begin speaking without any impediment, but his speech exploded into all seventy root languages.

We see that the full expression of

Shvat, they looked into the nature of reality on the subtlest level and saw that the potential for the rising of the trees’ sap exists even on Rosh Chodesh Shvat. Beis Hillel believed that the psak should follow apparent reality. That is why they maintained that the Rosh Hashana for trees should be on the fifteenth of Shvat, when the sap actually began to rise.

This difference between Beis Hillel and Beis Shammai also exists between Moshe and Aharon. The final letters of Moshe’s statement, “I am not a man of words,” spells “Shammai.” When Hashem says about Aharon (Shemos 4:14, 16), “Aharon, your brother the Levi … will be a mouth for you,” the first letters of the phrase “He yehiyeh lecha l’peh, he will be a mouth for you,” spells “Hillel.” Moshe saw to

the ultimate depth of each matter, with his deep connections to the Higher Reality, so he wore a mask because of the radiance of his connection to Hashem. Hence, he did not connect to the people as closely as Aharon, his brother. Aharon connected more to This World and to the people, who mourned more when they lost him than when they lost Moshe. The connection between Shammai and Moshe is because, like Moshe, it is the way of Shammai to go to the depths of the matter, and to the root. In contrast, the connection between Hillel and Aharon is because, like Aharon, Hillel always paskened according to that which was most readily apparent, that which was revealed.

That is also why Hillel said, “Be among the students of Aharon …”

(Avos 1:12).

The tzaddikim teach that in order to attain true life, our job during the month of Shvat is to work on using our power of speech, the fruit of our essence as human beings, properly. This is the proper way to prepare for Pesach, the redemption of the power of speech. We must therefore purify our speech from lashon hara, talking in shul, misleading speech, and improper language. Even people who have been particularly careful not to talk in shul can slip from time to time from their earlier commitment.

When it comes to lashon hara and tale-bearing, it goes without saying that many of us need to strengthen our use of the power of speech in this area. We must purify the ultimate expression of our humanity, our power of speech, in order to be redeemed from this final stage of our exile. As the pasuk says, “Then our mouths will be filled with joy and our tongues with song” (Tehillim 126:2). As we say in the Haggadah, “And we shall give thanks to You with a new song upon our redemption and the saving of our souls.”

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

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Between the Lines

No More Teacher’s Dirty Looks

By Eytan Kobre

They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel.

-Carl W. Buechner

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n 1955, a John Hopkins University professor assigned his graduate students the task of studying the background and environment of 200 teenage boys who lived in the slums.

After consulting social statistics, interviewing the boys, and compiling data, the graduate students concluded that 90 percent would do a stint in prison.

Twenty-five years later, another group of Johns Hopkins graduate students was tasked with testing that prediction. This new group of students went back to the same slum area and managed to locate 180 of the 200 study participants: some of the boys – now men – still lived in the slums, some had moved away, some had died.

But only four had seen the inside of a

prison cell.

Why was it that these men, so doomed to a life of poverty and crime, defied the odds and lead productive lives? The graduate students encountered the same response over and over again. Well, there was this one teacher…

The graduate students discovered that, overwhelmingly, “the teacher” referred to the same woman. They found her living in a nursing home, and went to interview her. How did you exert such influence over those boys? How is it that so many of those boys still remember you? What was your secret?

“I really couldn’t say,” she answered. “I just treated those boys like they were my own…”

I’m a traditionalist – the school administrators, rabbeim, and teachers who help educate our children are entitled to the utmost deference and respect. And for good reason. One must, in some regards, respect a rebbi more than a parent (Rambam, Talmud Torah 5:1; Tur, Yoreh Deiah 242; see also Berachos 31b; Eruvin 63b), and the

awe of a rebbi should be like the awe of G-d (Avos 4:12; see also Sanhedrin 109; Rambam, Talmud Torah 5:8).

But there is also place for discussion about the way educators relate to students.

Teachers should dignify students because the students facilitate the teachers’ own achievements (Koheles Rabba 2:20; Tiferes Yisroel, Avos 4:12). Indeed, the educator learns more from students than anyone else (Taanis 7a), like a small match igniting a larger piece of wood (Rambam, Talmud Torah 5:13; see Tur, Yoreh Deiah 242).

Instructing his son who would print his responsa, R’ Akiva Eiger wrote: “You will see that many of the questioners learned in my yeshiva. Do not refer to them as ‘students’…I never referred to a person as a ‘student’ for I said, ‘who knows who learned more from who’” (Responsa of R’ Akiva Eiger, Vol. 1, Introduction). Taking a page from that playbook, R’ Shlomo Freifeld often told others that his students were not his students but his partners.

Also, by embodying the educator’s teachings and ideals, the student allows the teacher to live on for eternity.

“Just as the students are obligated to honor the rebbi, so too does the rebbi need to honor his students…for they are the sons that give him pride in this world and the next” (Rambam, Talmud Torah 5:12). The student becomes the educator’s voice – the educator’s legacy: “more than the calf wants to be nursed, the cow wants to nurse” (Pesachim 112a). In many respects, it is the students who make the teacher.

But dignifying students also is a potent educational tool. As Ralph Waldo Emerson put it, “The secret of education is respecting the student.”

Each day, in Krias Shema, we mention the obligation to educate “your sons” (Devarim 6:7) – except that “your sons” really refers to “your students” (Rashi, Devarim 6:7; Bereishis Rabba 42:4; Sifri, Devarim 34). Now, if the reference really is to students, why not just write “your students” – why refer to them as “your sons”? Because, R’ Chazkel Sarna explains, only

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when a rebbi relates to his students as if they were his own children can he hope to educate them properly.

When Amalek confronted the Jewish people, Moshe said to Yehoshua, “choose men for us and go out and fight with Amalek” (Shemos 17:9) – implying that Moshe equated Yehoshua (his student) with himself. In so doing, Moshe taught that “the honor of your student should be as beloved to you as your own” (Avos 4:12; Rashi, Shemos 17:9; Avos D’Rebbi Nosson 27:4; Tanchuma, Beshalach 26; Mechilta, Beshalach 17; SeMaG, Positive Commandment 13).

Perhaps that is the reason that Moshe is referred to as Moshe “Rabbeinu” – “our teacher.” He was the consummate teacher because he taught Yehoshua the truest measure of a teacher: how the student is made to feel.

R’ Paysach Krohn tells the story of a fifth grade boy who came to school one day with an expensive new watch.

At recess time, he left the watch on his desk so as not to risk scratching or breaking it. But when the boys return to the classroom after recess, the watch was nowhere to be found. The boy panicked; he had to recover the watch.

The rebbi, who had been standing in the hallway, was sure that no one had entered the classroom during re-

must have been to take the watch. But it must be returned. If anyone took it mistakenly, please return it now.” No one stirred.

“In that case,” said the rebbi, “all of you stand in a line and I will check your pockets. But I’m giving you one more chance. Perhaps you just wanted to admire the watch and then put it in your pocket inadvertently. If so, please

As Ralph Waldo Emerson put it, “The secret of education is respecting the student.”

cess, so the watch must have been taken by a boy in his own class while leaving for or returning from the yard. He called the class to attention and told them about the missing watch.

“I understand how tempting it

return it now.” Still nothing.

So the rebbi lined the boys up and checked their pockets. When he reached the third boy in line, there it was. He had taken the watch.

The boy waited for his rebbi to ex-

pose him as the culprit. He waited for his rebbi to scold him. He waited for his rebbi to punish him. He waited for the onset of the shame and humiliation.

But nothing of the sort occurred.

Instead, without breaking stride and without revealing his discovery, the rebbi continued searching the other boys, as if the watch had not been found. “You can return to your seats,” the rebbi finally said. “I’ve found the watch.”

The boy who had taken the watch understood full-well what his rebbi had done and the dignity with which he had been treated. And even years later, he recalled the episode as a defining moment in his life.

Those are the sort of educators who should be teaching our children.

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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Gates of Jerusalem

Damascus Gate

By Gedaliah Borvick

Sha’ar Yafo, Jaffa Gate

Zion Gate

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rom time immemorial until the late nineteenth century, almost all of Jerusalem’s residents lived in the walled Old City. Divided into four uneven quadrants – the Jewish Quarter, the Muslim Quarter, the Christian Quarter and the Armenian Quarter – the Old City looms large due to its rich and multi-layered history but it is actually quite small, at slightly less than 4/10 of a square mile. To give you a sense of perspective, it is less than one percent of the size of modern Jerusalem.

The current wall encircling the Old City was built in the sixteenth century by Suleiman the Magnificent of the Ottoman Turkish Empire. Over the years, access gates were added to the wall. Let’s discuss the names of these gates.

One of the main entrances to the Old City is Jaffa Gate. This gate is on the western side of the Old City and is aptly named, as it is the end of the

A sheep market outside of Herod Gate, circa 1900

highway that starts at the Jaffa Coast.

Located along the southern wall, Dung Gate is closest in proximity to the Temple Mount. It gained its inauspicious name because refuse from the Temple was removed from the city via a nearby gate.

Damascus Gate is one of the busiest and most magnificent gates. It is located on the northwest side where the highway leads out to Nablus (the gate’s Arabic name), and from there to Syria’s capital, Damascus.

The Flower Gate, which enters the Muslim Quarter, received its name because rosette stone adorns the gate tower. It is also known as Herod’s Gate.

Built in 1887 and offering access to the Christian Quarter, the New Gate received its name because it is the newest gate and because it leads to the new neighborhoods outside the Old City.

Lions Gate is on the eastern wall

and four lion figures adorn the gate.

During the Six Day War, Israeli paratroopers stormed through this gate to conquer the Temple Mount.

The oldest gate is the Gate of Mercy, also known as the Golden Gate.

Now sealed shut, it is on the eastern side of the Old City and faces the Mount of Olives. Some claim that Moshiach will enter Jerusalem via this gate.

The sealed Huldah Gates along the southern wall are comprised of two sets of multiple-arched gates.

The name is either derived from the Hebrew word mouse, as the gates look like mouse tunnels, or named after Huldah the Prophetess who held court in this area and was buried nearby.

Located on the southern wall, Zion Gate leads to the Jewish Quarter and was one of the main gateways used by the IDF when they miraculously captured the Old City in the 1967 Six Day War. Zion is one of the names of the

hill where the Temple stood; its other names are Har Hamoriah and Har Habayit.

The sanctity and centrality of Har HaBayis was made apparent through a series of seminal events, serving as the site where, among other occurrences, (1) Hashem began Creation, (2) Adam Harishon brought the first korban to Hashem, (3) Noach offered a korban of thanksgiving after the mabul, and (4) Avraham performed akeidas Yitzchok.

How does one not get chills thinking about the holiness, majesty and rich history of the Old City?

Gedaliah Borvick is the founder of My Israel Home (www.myisraelhome.com), a real estate agency focused on helping people from abroad buy and sell homes in Israel. To sign up for his monthly market updates, contact him at gborvick@gmail. com.

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Hearing Egypt Out After meeting with Egypt’s Pres-

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Egypt was among other Arab nations that urged the United Nations Security Council to pass a resolution rejecting Trump’s decision on Jerusalem last month. The U.S. vetoed the

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resolution, but the General Assembly overwhelmingly passed a similar nonbinding resolution.

Pence is the highest-ranking U.S. official to visit Cairo since the 2011 Arab Spring uprising that ousted Hosni Mubarak. Sisi, a former Army general, became president in 2014 after he helped lead a military coup in 2013 that ousted a democratically elected leader.

As such, Sisi and Pence discussed joint efforts to combat terrorism, including Egypt’s conflict with al-Qaeda-linked insurgents in the Sinai.

“The United States stands shoulder to shoulder with Egypt in their fight against terrorism in this country,” Pence told reporters.

The vice president also brought up concerns about religious freedoms in Egypt. Sisi assured Pence that he wants to promote religious diversity in Egypt. Despite assurances by Sisi to that effect, Sisi did not release any jailed journalists, human rights activists or other political prisoners as a goodwill gesture for Pence’s visit, something that activists had hoped he would do.

At least 18 Americans are imprisoned in Egypt. During his meeting, Pence specifically mentioned two cases of Americans in Egyptian prisons: Ahmed Etiwy, 27, and Moustafa Kassem, 52, who were both arrested, along with hundreds of Egyptians, in the 2013 military coup. Sisi said he would give “very serious attention to both cases,” although he did not offer to release them.

Life in Egypt is not easy for those who speak their mind. Sisi’s authoritarian government has effectively banned protests and freedom of expression, jailed political opponents,

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and conducted persecution against certain peoples. In September, Human Rights Watch denounced what it called “widespread and systematic” use of torture by Egypt’s security forces. In fact, a dozen American reporters who had accompanied Pence from Washington were blocked by Egyptian security from getting off

According to Abdullah, he had repeatedly voiced “concerns regarding the U.S. decision on Jerusalem that does not come as a result of a comprehensive settlement.” He said that the Israel-Palestinian conflict can be “a potential major source of instability” for Jordan and the region. “Today we have a major challenge to overcome,

“It is my great honor to pray here at this sacred place. G-d bless the Jewish people and G-d bless the State of Israel always.”

- words written by Vice President Pence in the Kotel’s guestbook

their bus when Pence arrived to meet with Sisi. They were only escorted in after prolonged negotiations by Pence’s aides 90 minutes later.

Agree to Disagree in Jordan Officially an ally of the United States, Pence was the subject of a tongue-lashing by Jordan’s King Abdullah II over Trump’s recent declaration recognizing Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.

The two leaders met in a royal palace on the top of a hill in Amman, Jordan, on Sunday. The king said that he had warned the White House about the hazard of recognizing Jerusalem as the capital of the State of Israel, since the Palestinians also lay claim to Jerusalem as the capital of their future state.

especially with some of the rising frustrations,” he added.

Abdullah has reason to be concerned about the Palestinian conflict and its outcome. About two-thirds of his population is of Palestinian ancestry. With a majority Palestinian population, Abdullah needs to show he is fully backing the Palestinians in their quest to end Israeli rule and establish a Palestinian state. But Jordan receives around a billion dollars a year in U.S. aid, so the king has to walk a fine line between his citizens’ desires and those of the United States’.

Additionally, Jordan, which sits adjacent to Israel, is in a dangerous position if things heat up in the region.

“Jerusalem is [as] key to Muslims

and Christians as it is to Jews,” the king told Pence at the meeting. “It is key to peace in the region. And key to enabling Muslims to effectively fight some of the root causes of radicalization.” Pence said that the decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital doesn’t include any references to the city’s borders, which will be determined by the two sides.

Despite the criticisms from Abdullah, Pence did not offer apologies for Trump’s declaration, later calling it “historic” as he thanked Abdullah for his “warm hospitality.” He told reporters that “friends occasionally have disagreements,” referring to the United States’ alliance with the Hashemite Kingdom in combatting terrorism.

“We understand that our allies and friends in the region might have a difference of opinion on that,” Pence told NBC News about the U.S. Embassy’s move to Jerusalem from Tel Aviv. “King Abdullah today, with President Al Sisi yesterday, we talked and we agreed to disagree, but what we agreed on was a commitment to peace.

“And President Trump sent me here not only to reaffirm his decision about recognizing Jerusalem as the capital of Israel but to reaffirm our commitment to the peace process,” he added.

As with his visit to Egypt, Pence was urged to promote a two-state solution, based on the 1967 borders.

The vice president told both Arab leaders that the Trump administration would adopt a two-state solution “if the two sides accept it.”

Politics with Your Pay Taking leave of King Abdullah II

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in Jordan, Vice President Pence met with U.S. troops on the Syrian border on Sunday. It is considered unusual for the president or vice president to talk politics while speaking to members of the military, but politics was on Pence’s mind when he addressed U.S. troops during the U.S. government shutdown.

“Despite bipartisan support for a budget resolution, a minority in the Senate has decided to play politics with military pay,” he told the troops.

“But you deserve better. You and your families shouldn’t have to worry for one minute about whether you’re going to get paid as you serve in the uniform of the United States.”

Pence said that Democrats in the Senate need to “step up.”

“It was the Democrat leadership and vast majority of Democrats in the Senate that decided to say no to government funding,” he told reporters. “So now we literally have some 100,000 National Guard in reserves waiting to go home for the weekend to train, we have 2 million men and women in uniform who are not getting paid as we speak, we have 50,000 civilian personnel who are going to be furloughed from supporting our military – that is just unacceptable.”

The location of the base and the number of military members at the base was not disclosed. Journalists were asked to keep that information quiet due to security and diplomatic concerns.

The 332nd Air Expeditionary Wing is stationed at the base and has dropped nearly half of the munitions during the operation to destroy the Islamic State group in Iraq and Syria. Pence credited the troops’ “heroic actions” to dismantle terrorist organizations in the region.

“We will not rest, we will not relent, until we hunt down and destroy ISIS at its source,” the vice president said.

You’ve Got a Friend in Me Just a few hours before Pence arrived in Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said, “Tonight a great friend of the State of Israel will arrive...a true friend.” The next day, on Monday, in the Knesset, Netanyahu reiterated, “America has no greater friend than Israel. And Israel has no

Vice President Pence with King Abdullah of Jordan

greater friend than the United States of America.”

Pence’s visit to Israel was allsmiles between the United States and Israel. As the Palestinians boycotted Pence’s visit there were no tensions in meetings between the Palestinians, the Israelis, and the U.S.; after all, if Pence can only meet with one side, how much disagreement can there be?

In effect, it’s possible that some would see Pence’s visit to the Middle East as futile. Wasn’t he in the region to promote peace between the two sides? True, the Israelis and Palestinians are no closer to the elusive “peace” that has been on every U.S. president’s mind since 1948. For the Israelis, though, Pence’s trip was a way for them to show them their land, their culture, their warmth, and their sensibilities. It was as if they were taking their friend on a tour of their home, pointing out the highlights and achievements. The Palestinians became the sulking cousin lurking in the background, too insulted to even say hello.

Part of Pence’s itinerary originally included a stop in the West Bank city of Bethlehem but because the PA officially boycotted his visit, the stop was removed. Instead, some Palestinian protestors took matters into their own hands by burning a photo of Pence on Sunday night in Bethlehem.

Pence’s first official stop was at Netanyahu’s Jerusalem office, where the prime minister greeted him as the national anthems of both the U.S. and Israel played. “I have had the privilege over the years of standing

here with hundreds of leaders and welcomed them, all of them, to Israel’s capital, Jerusalem,” Netanyahu said. “This is the first time that I stand here where both leaders can say those three words: ‘Israel’s capital, Jerusalem.’” Pence is the first top U.S. official to visit Israel since Trump’s declaration affirming Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.

The two leaders then inspected an IDF honor guard – an honor usually reserved for heads of states or heads of government – before they headed into a closed door meeting.

After the meeting Pence headed to the Knesset to address the members.

Prior to the speech Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein said that Pence’s visit “is nothing less than a historic occasion and comes at a hugely significant time for Israel and the Middle East.”

Not everyone was looking forward to the speech. MK Ayman Odeh said last week that his Joint (Arab) List party plans to boycott Pence’s speech to the Knesset due to Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. “[Pence] is a dangerous man with a messianic vision that includes the destruction of the entire region,” Odeh said. He added that Trump is “even more dangerous” than Pence and is a “political pyromaniac” and a “racist” woman-hater.

Instead of boycotting, Joint List party members interrupted the vice president’s speech, unfurling posters that said, “Jerusalem is the capital of Palestine.” They were removed from the Knesset speech after the disruptions.

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Pence’s speech to the Knesset, Palestinian Authority president Mahmoud Abbas was endeavoring to endear himself to Europe, hoping that he can have them fall in love with him while he is on the outs with the United States.

In Brussels on Monday, Abbas told EU foreign-policy chief Federica Mogherini that there’s “no contradiction” between unilaterally recognizing a Palestinian state and also backing negotiations with Israel. Israel points out that the Palestinians should have a path to statehood only through negotiations or they have little incentive to compromise.

Sweden has already recognized Palestine, and other countries are weighing the idea. Slovenia is preparing to recognize a Palestinian state next month, the Delo newspaper reported on Monday, citing the country’s foreign minister. Debates on recognition are taking place in Portugal, Ireland, Belgium and Luxembourg.

During a two-hour speech in the West Bank city of Ramallah a week before Pence arrived, Abbas declared that “the deal of the century is the slap of the century” and asserted that the Palestinian Authority would not accept America as a peace negotiator: “A believer shall not be stung twice in the same place,” he said.

Despite Mogherini’s assertions and Abbas’ petulance, on Tuesday a U.S. official said that every European country the U.S. has spoken with recently has related that they are not capable of leading talks between Israel and the Palestinians. It turns out that Abbas may not realize that he will have to deal with the U.S. regardless of how averse he is to it.

A Biblical Speech Pence’s address to the Knesset on Monday was applauded roundly, and several standing ovations were made during the vice president’s speech. It was an address laden with biblical references and was staunchly pro-Israel. A few months ago, in November, Vice President Pence met with former British chief rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks for over an hour to help him prepare for the speech.

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Arab MKs holding up signs saying Jerusalem is the capital of Palestine before being booted out of the Knesset

countries closer together than any president in the past 70 years – the 45th President of the United States of America, President Donald Trump.

Thanks to the president’s leadership, the alliance between our two countries has never been stronger, and the friendship between our peoples has never been deeper. And I am here to convey a simple message from the heart of the American people: America stands with Israel.

“We stand with Israel because your cause is our cause, your values are our values, and your fight is our fight.” He added, “We stand with Israel because we believe in right over wrong, in good over evil, and in liberty over tyranny. We stand with Israel because that’s what Americans have always done, and so has it been since my country’s earliest days.”

Referencing Hashem’s promise to Avraham, Pence said, “The Jewish people held fast to a promise through all the ages, written so long ago, that ‘even if you have been banished to the most distant land under the heavens,’ from there He would gather and bring you back to the land which your fathers possessed.

“Through a 2,000-year exile, the longest of any people, anywhere, through conquests and expulsions, inquisitions and pogroms, the Jewish people held on to this promise, and they held on to it through the longest and darkest of nights. A night that Elie Wiesel proclaimed ‘seven times sealed.’ A night that transformed the small faces of children into smoke under a silent sky. A night that consumed the faith of so many and that challenges the faith of so many still...

“And this April, we will mark the day when the Jewish people an-

swered that ancient question – can a country be born in a day, can a nation be born in a moment? – as the State of Israel celebrates the 70th anniversary of its birth.

“As you prepare to commemorate this historic milestone, I say, along with the good people of Israel, here and around the world: Shehecheyanu, v’kiyimanu, v’higiyanu la’z’man ha’zeh.”

Pence continued, “Seventy years ago, the United States was proud to be the first nation in the world to recognize the State of Israel. But as you well know, the work we began on that

Hamoriah. He talked about Dovid Hemelech, who made Yerushalayim the capital of Israel.

“Jerusalem is Israel’s capital,” Pence proclaimed. He added that the United States will open its new embassy in Jerusalem at the end of 2019, way before it was anticipated.

“By finally recognizing Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, the United States has chosen fact over fiction,” Pence said.

“And fact is the only true foundation for a just and lasting peace.” He reiterated, as he told King Abdullah and President Sisi days before, that “if both sides agree, the United States

“Israel is like a tree that has grown deep roots in the soil of your forefathers, yet as it grows, it reaches ever closer to the heavens.”

- Vice President Pence addressing the Knesset

day was left unfinished, for while the United States recognized your nation, one administration after another refused to recognize your capital.

But just last month, President Donald Trump made history. He righted a 70year wrong; he kept his word to the American people when he announced that the United States of America will finally acknowledge Jerusalem is Israel’s capital.”

Pence spoke about akeidas Yitchak, which took place on Har

of America will support a two-state solution.

“We know Israelis want peace, and we know that Israelis need no lectures on the price of war. The people of Israel know the terrible price all too well. Your prime minister knows that price. He himself was nearly killed in battle, and his beloved brother Yoni was killed while courageously leading the Entebbe hostage rescue 41 years ago. And you, who know the price of war, know best

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what the blessings of peace can bring — to you, to your children, and future generations.

“The United States appreciates your government’s declared willingness to resume direct peace negotiations with the Palestinian Authority.

And today, we strongly urge the Palestinian leadership to return to the table. Peace can only come through dialogue.”

Pence also spoke about terrorism, reporting that ISIS is on the run, their caliphate crumbling. He vowed to hunt down the terror group and destroy it at its core. He added that the U.S. has committed millions of dollars to assisting Christians and other religious minorities in the Middle East who are persecuted.

Iran was singled out by Pence as a lead state sponsor of terror. “That dangerous regime sows chaos across the region. Last year alone, even as its citizens cried out for help with basic necessities, Iran devoted more than $4 billion to malign activities in Syria, Lebanon, and elsewhere across the region. It has supported terrorist groups that even now sit on Israel’s doorstep. And worst of all, the Iranian regime has pursued a clandestine nuclear program, and at this very hour is developing advanced ballistic missiles.”

Pence declared Obama’s nuclear deal with Iran a “disaster.”

“Whatever the outcome of those negotiations, today I have a solemn promise to Israel, to all the Middle East, and to the world,” Pence declared. “The United States of America will never allow Iran to acquire a nuclear weapon. Beyond the nuclear deal, we will also no longer tolerate Iran’s support of terrorism, or its

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brutal attempts to suppress its own people...

“But I have another message today – a better message – from the people of America to the proud and great people of Iran: We are your friends, and the day is coming when you will be free from the evil regime that suffocates your dreams and buries your hopes. And when your day of liberation finally comes, we say to the good people of Iran, the friendship between our peoples will blossom once again.”

In the last few moments of his speech Pence referenced Avraham.

“And so today, as I stand in Abraham’s ‘Promised Land,’ I believe that all who cherish freedom, and seek a brighter future, should cast their eyes here to this place and marvel at what they behold.

“How unlikely was Israel’s birth; how more unlikely has been her survival. And how confounding, and against the odds, has been her thriving. You have turned the desert into a garden, scarcity into plenty, sickness into health, and you turned hope into a future. Israel is like a tree that has grown deep roots in the soil of your forefathers, yet as it grows, it reaches ever closer to the heavens. And today and every day, the Jewish State of Israel, and all the Jewish people, bear witness to G-d’s faithfulness, as well as your own...

“The miracle of Israel is an inspiration to the world. And the United States of America is proud to stand with Israel and her people, as allies and cherished friends.”

In a resounding crescendo, Pence declared, “With an unshakeable bond between our people, and our shared commitment to freedom, I say from my heart: May G-d bless the Jewish people, may G-d bless the State of Israel and all who call these lands their home, and may G-d continue to bless the United States of America.”

An American Mensch On Tuesday, Pence met with President Reuven Rivlin. Rivlin called the American leader a mensch. “You are a mensch,” he said. “Now in America, they probably know what is a mensch, but for the people in Israel who don’t know American or Yiddish, a mensch is a real human being.”

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painstakingly avoided referring to it as part of Israel. On December 6, he officially recognized Jerusalem as Israel’s capital.

After Pence visited the Kotel he held a reception for Israel-based U.S. diplomats at the U.S. Consulate in Jerusalem before heading back to Washington.

I The Israeli president added, “My mentor, former Prime Minister Menachem Begin, at the time, said that the obvious should be said from time to time, even be written down, and the obvious was said [when President Trump declared Jerusalem to be Israel’s capital], and we appreciate it very much and see this as a gift on the 70th anniversary of the State of Israel.” He added that his family has been living in Jerusalem for generations. “I am a Jerusalemite, son of a Jerusalemite, son of the son of a Jerusalemite, I was born as a seventh generation Jerusalemite to my family; we have come to Jerusalem 210 years ago.”

Pence and his wife also visited Yad Vashem on Tuesday with Netanyahu and his wife, Sara.

Vice President Pence visited the Kotel on his last day in Israel. Although he spent only ten minutes at the Kotel, he read a short psalm, placed a note in the Wall and signed the guestbook before heading out.

“It is my great honor to pray here at this sacred place. G-d bless the Jewish people and G-d bless the State of Israel always,” he wrote.

Pence was met by Rabbi Shmuel Rabinovitch, the rabbi of the site, who told him of a visit to the Wall 147 years ago by Abraham Lincoln’s secretary of state, William H. Seward, who praised the “exalted” prayer he witnessed there.

“The light of Jerusalem is a light of love, of care for the world, of peace,” said Rabbi Rabinovitch. “For 2,000 years Jerusalem was tossed from hand to hand, and only now,

when it has been returned to its people, can worshipers of all peoples and all faiths come to Western Wall and pray there.”

Images of Pence’s visit are reminiscent of Trump’s visit to the Kotel just a few months ago, in May. Trump was the first sitting U.S. president to visit the Western Wall, though he

t was a whirlwind trip for the vice president of the United States, as he visited three countries and an army base in just a few days’ time.

He started off the journey with a combative Jordan and an irate Egypt and ended up in Israel, where he was lauded as a “friend” and a “mensch.”

Such is the region called the Middle East. There are enemies and there are friends; there are conflicts and there are friendships. Things are never simple or easy in the endless entanglement that both Arabs and Jews call home. Perhaps one day, sometime soon, the United States will be able to help unravel the knots and kinks in the volatile region.

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Dating Dialogue

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

Dear Navidaters,

I’m a big fan of your column and I look forward to reading your responses to your various – and oftentimes very complex – questions. My question is not so uncommon but still is very important.

My question is the following – I am frum, single, a yeshiva educated guy, in my mid 20’s, looking to get married. But unfortunately, I come from a very complicated family situation, which severely limits my options. That being the case, I have for a while been in a situation where none of my prospects seem appealing to me or would be exciting to me to marry.

Now I believe that you might say I’m being too exacting or too picky – and that’s exactly my question! How do I know where to draw the line? What exactly am I supposed to be able to endure? Am I supposed to get married to a girl that I’m only lukewarm attracted to or even very disappointed by her looks? Should I get married to a girl who I’m going to be embarrassed to be seen with or introduce to my friends because of her ditzy and giddy personality? What about respecting her intellectually? Is that merely a nice “luxury” or an absolute must-have? What about a divorced girl?

I can go on and on with even more variables, but you get the point. I would love to get your advice on this matter and hear a response to these specific points I have raised as well.

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. lthough your family situation complicates your prospects, you seem serious about seeking a spouse. A spouse has to be attractive and compatible with you intellectually as well as hashkafically.

It is important that chemistry develop. You have to not just like her, you have to care about her and her emotional and other needs.

I sympathize with the fact that you really want to start your own home and detach from your own.

I am worried that you are coming toward marriage prospects with a defeatist and negative attitude that stems from weakness.

You have every right to marry a

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girl whose looks, personality and intellect are exciting for you. You are not branded by your family situation, even though it does reduce the number of girls who may be interested in you. It seems that there is some personal baggage that you haven’t yet processed. Whether it’s low self-esteem, negativity, unhealthy perception of marital suitability or other issues that are causing your negativity, get some support from your mentors and professionals.

After spending some time in therapy and in discussion with your mentors, get in touch with shadchanim from other communities and circles. If you are truly emotionally healthy and possess good communication skills, you will have many normal, appealing shidduch prospects.

The Mother Sarah Schwartz Schreiber, P.A. ife happens. People get divorced.

Siblings go OTD. An unsavory relative may have you wishing for a different last name.

Even if there is an Uncle Fester in your closet, your “complicated” family situation does not define you; misfortune should not cause you to compromise in the shidduch department. If you have what it takes to be a wonderful husband (middos, empathy, maturity, and motivation) you deserve a compatible soulmate: a girl who excites you and delights you; a girl you will be proud to call your wife.

If your well-meaning friends and family can’t get past the “shandah” factor when setting you up, reach out to other shadchanim who may judge you on your own merit. Be clear and confident about your priorities; if you seek middos, looks, personality or a stable family, say so. In the meantime, get help for yourself (either with a mashpiah or mental health professional) so that you can rise above the unfortunate circumstances of your family and leave all the heavy baggage behind you.

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The Shadchan Michelle Mond have met many single men going through your exact predicament.

It is truly not an easy answer. I have seen many go out over the years, without seeking help, who have years later still not met the “perfect match” in their eyes. They are now ten years older and still seek the same thing.

Only now, their options are much more limited than the options they had in their 20’s.

Of course, nobody would say that you should marry a girl who you feel

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Misfortune should not cause you to compromise in the shidduch department.

is unattractive. My question to you is why are so few women attractive to you, to the extent that (according to your letter) none of your prospects have ever been appealing to you?

This stems from a deeper issue that you have never addressed, and I urge you to seek therapy. You mention in your letter that you have an extremely complicated family situation. Perhaps this might directly correlate with why you feel so particular about looks, intellect, etc.

Many men with difficult family situations subconsciously feel that if they do not find their picture-perfect flawless queen they are doomed to the same marriage their parents had. I work with many men like this who have gone out with every gorgeous and brilliant girl available yet they still can’t see past the one or two things that they consider flaws.

Because there are flaws (which there will be in any woman a man marries) the man goes into panic mode and ends the relationship. They then go on to subconsciously nitpick every aspect of the person, always finding something imperfect.

They neglect to look inward, realizing that they themselves are not perfect and have flaws. However, that is superfluous information to them. They continue to seek the unattainable.

Many times this is all going on subconsciously and the men continue to date wondering why Hashem has not sent their bashert, only they don’t realize that it is quite possible He sent her already and she was

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I am practically begging you, while you are still young, to go to therapy for the unresolved issues relating to why so few women are attractive and appealing enough for you. Work through those issues so that the next time you find a woman who is attractive, who is of compatible hashkafa, has similar life goals and whom you connect with, you will be able to abate your fears and see her positive quality traits rather than subconsciously harping on the negative, which clouds the shidduch completely. This will eventually allow you to more easily find your bashert.

Much hatzlacha!

The Single Tova Wein

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irst, I’d like to validate your points. Yes, it’s true that when someone, male or female, comes from a “complicated family situation,” the pool of potential shidduchim is absolutely narrowed. However, this doesn’t mean that you are not only entitled to marry a woman who you can feel compatible with and proud of but that such a reality is not in the slight bit out of the question.

Perhaps there are some compromises that have to be made. You

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probably will have to seek out someone whose own family has also been mired in some questionable events.

O.K., so just like you still deserve to meet someone wonderful, so too do the women, whose own families are less than pristine, deserve to meet someone wonderful. And trust me, there are many “complicated” families out there, and they give birth to girls as well as boys.

Therefore, it’s only fair that you be prepared to overlook their family “stuff.”

Regarding looks, personality, intellect – I don’t believe you have to lower your standards in those areas, just as these girls from similar backgrounds to yours should also not have to lower their own standards.

Make sure that the people involved in setting you up are open-minded and are able to give you a fair

They neglect to look inward, realizing that they themselves are not perfect and have flaws.

shake, since you are not responsible for your family’s issues. If you don’t know such shadchanim, it’s time to expand your contacts and find people who are more understanding and less judgmental.

Also, make sure that you are not creating some issues on your own, due to feelings of shame regarding your family’s history because that can get in the way of you being open-minded and unguarded. Make sure that you are emotionally as healthy as possible.

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don’t think anyone should get married consciously ready to “endure.” You shouldn’t marry someone whose face you “endure.” And you shouldn’t marry someone whose personality and intellect leave you feeling empty or ashamed. Mutual attraction is very important! I have no way of knowing if you are “being too picky,” as you mentioned in your e-mail. This is something that can be processed with a therapist or dating coach to give you some peace of mind. If you are being “too picky,” that may come to light in your sessions. And if you aren’t being too picky, that will hopefully become clear as well.

I write the following as a Public Service Announcement.

Do not marry anyone who embarrasses you. This isn’t fair to her.

Do not marry anyone of whom you feel ashamed. This isn’t fair to her.

Do not marry anyone who you

think is a “ditz.” This isn’t fair to her.

Do not marry anyone whose looks disappoint you. This isn’t fair to her.

Shidduchim are tough. And yes, I have found that when people come from complicated families or situations, it can become exponentially more difficult – people questioning you, questioning your ability to be a good husband, and more often than not, questioning what went on in your family of origin. And this is where I see people get into trouble, and understandably so. All this questioning of family of origin sometimes leads to people to believe that there is something wrong with them. If my family is broken, then I must be broken too.

The thing is that you are not responsible for anything that happened in your family when you were a child. Whatever the story, you

didn’t write the script.

And you aren’t responsible to marry someone who you don’t like.

I have two pieces of practical advice for you. The first is to see a good therapist to make sure you aren’t standing in your own way of dating, be it via “pickiness” or old family stuff that may (or may not) be impacting your self-worth. The second piece of advice is for you to develop a positive mantra about what you are open to welcoming into your life. I deserve love. I am ready for a healthy relationship with a woman I respect, admire and find attractive. I am not defined by my family. Find a mantra that feels right for you. Once we readjust our beliefs, we can then create objectives and goals for ourselves and figure out how to go about making them happen. This may look like sitting down with a pen and paper and writing down the top 5 priorities you find to be most important in a spouse. (A picky top 5 may look like: 1. She must be blonde; 2. Between the height of 5’5” and 5’7” and slim; 3. Went to So and So seminary; 4. From a wealthy family; 5.

No moles. An example of a healthier top 5 may include: a sense of humor, mutual attraction, similar hashkafa, similar values, growth-oriented, kind, sweet, I’m comfortable with how she spends money.)

Once you are crystal clear on your mantra and your reasonable, healthy top 5, be sure you are conveying this to shadchanim. There may be a breakdown or something awry in the way you are communicating with the shadchanim.

Best of luck to you!

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

Can This Marriage Be Saved?

By Deb Hirschhorn, Ph.D.

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ere’s a made-up conversation between Shumel and Raizy.

Raizy learns, much to her surprise, that Shmuel has had an unpleasant conversation with his boss at work. He has tried to get some new steps implemented which the boss could not appreciate. The boss has been ignoring his good advice. That’s so frustrating! Then, to top it off, he approached the boss another time to see if this time would be the charm.

That conversation, too, failed. Dejected, Shmuel decides not to discuss the matter with Raizy at all.

But, unfortunately for Shmuel, Raizy can “read” her husband clearly and she sees that something is bothering him. A couple of days pass and she finally brings it up.

Raizy: It seems like something is bothering you. What’s going on?

Shmuel: I had an unpleasant conversation with Roger. Again, he didn’t accept my ideas.

Raizy: Oy. I’m sorry that happened. When was that?

Shmuel: Three days ago.

There is a pause while this sinks in.

Raizy: [very puzzled] So why didn’t you mention it to me?

Shmuel: Frankly, I was dreading discussing it with you.

Now, Raizy is not only puzzled, but also shocked and hurt.

Raizy: Dreading? Why? Shmuel: I did not want to hear your advice! “Maybe you should say this; maybe you should change jobs;

maybe you should plan it differently; maybe the idea is no good in the first place.” I didn’t want to hear any of that.

Raizy: But you see, I didn’t say any of those things! And I didn’t say them the last time you had a discussion with Roger. I don’t know why you would falsely accuse me of something I wasn’t even going to do!

Shmuel: I just didn’t want a discussion!

Raizy: But there was no discussion! I didn’t say anything. It’s very hurtful when you misjudge me. It’s like you’re looking to find fault with me. It really hurts. I don’t deserve it.

Shmuel: See? This is exactly what I didn’t want! A discussion! And now you’re doing it.

Raizy: Me? I’m not doing it – you are. You’re talking about all the things you didn’t want and you’re going on and on. It’s not me; it’s you.

And anyway, let’s say I had said the things you were afraid I would say.

What’s so dreadful about any about any of them? To dread talking to me?

That’s pretty harsh! Maybe you need to just calm down! Maybe you need to take some meditation or yoga. Really, this conversation is too much.

Let’s just stop talking.

Shmuel: I agree.

Shmuel walks off in a huff.

WHAT CAN WE LEARN ABOUT RAIZY AND SHMUEL? Well, we know each of them is very, very sensitive to what the oth-

er person says. Shmuel did not want to hear from Raizy things that would make him feel foolish, as if he hadn’t thought about them himself.

For example, he surely must have thought a great deal about exactly how to propose his plan to his boss; the conversation had happened before. He’s not stupid and Raizy knows that. What would be the gain from her giving him the advice to say it differently? From Shmuel’s point of view, she was not offering anything new.

When “advice” totally misses the mark because the person has already thought of it, then it’s pointless and unwelcome.

But we can take this further.

In addition to being pointless, it also conveys the message to the receiver that the giver of the advice doesn’t think he has too many brain cells operating if he needs to be told something that he actually did think of. So it is also hurtful.

We also can gather that Shmuel never told any of that to Raizy. He never said to her before that she should please not offer him advice that makes it appear that he is stupid; he has, indeed, thought of the various options she would present.

So in addition to being sensitive, Shmuel is not too assertive. Maybe he is not assertive enough with his boss either. Assertiveness is a way of presenting a point that is clear and articulate as to precisely what the listener should or shouldn’t do.

It briefly explains why they shouldn’t

(“because it’s demeaning to tell me something I’ve already thought of as if I hadn’t come up with it myself”) without spilling one’s guts on the table.

We can conclude that Shmuel never did this because Raizy was shocked. Apparently, in the past, he would tell her things, not like how she handled that, and kept the whole problem to himself. Now, he is finally speaking out, but not assertively.

It’s not assertive because she is still perplexed as to what the reason for it was. It’s also not at all assertive because of the strong language he used (“dread”).

I call this inflammatory language. Anything that evokes strong emotions will prevent the clear and articulate explanation of what you want or don’t want in the relationship.

We also see that Raizy is sensitive, too. She thought she was being helpful in the past, a loving spouse, and now she has been pushed away.

Vigorously. That’s got to hurt. She had no clue beforehand as to what the problem was and now she certainly doesn’t.

Interestingly, she did not offer the unwanted advice this time because she had read his reactions in the past and concluded that it wasn’t helpful after all. So she received a double whammy: she was pushed away for doing something she didn’t do! And she still doesn’t know what she could possibly do differently to fix the relationship problem.

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SO, CAN THIS MARRIAGE BE SAVED? Interestingly, what it takes to fix a marriage is not based on the nature of the problem. It is based, rather, on a set of personal, emotional variables: 1. Can Shmuel accept the fact that he may have a problem communicating and he needs to learn?

If he can recognize that perhaps the problem with his boss is the same problem with his wife he should have no problem learning the tools of assertiveness. The real problem for him is not his lack of assertiveness; it’s his unwillingness to face himself and the fact that he’s not perfect.

Lots of people have this problem.

It is very difficult for them to be able to learn new skills because the fact that they didn’t have the skill in the first place implies a defect. Actually, it doesn’t. But that’s the way many people feel, especially people who have been criticized a great deal in their lives already. They just can’t take the pain. Defects, even little

ones, to them mean that they are no good. For people who’ve been criticized a lot, it’s all or nothing.

So one question on this marriage is whether Shmuel will have the courage to keep facing himself as it becomes evident that he needs tools

one partner is clearly in need of some therapeutic help to get over past wounds and learn new coping skills, as Shmuel is in this case, if the other partner is not on board to do some self-examination, the problem will not get fixed.

Each person still needs to be strong enough within themselves to know who they are so they aren’t rattled by perceived attacks from others.

to handle life and people better.

2. Can Raizy come to learn that although she is a kind and compassionate person, she may also be doing things that need correction?

That is, often in marriages where

Why? Raizy needs to ask herself why she allows herself to be so deeply affected by the words of her husband. Of course, it’s good to be sensitive. It’s also good to be very attuned to the

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people in your life. But, as Murray Bowen, the person who recognized the role of each person’s level of differentiation, would say, each person still needs to be strong enough within themselves to know who they are so they aren’t rattled by perceived attacks from others.

From this perspective, Raizy is not differentiated. She is too emotionally dependent on what others think of her. Yes, a person should be able to be somewhat objective about their own true value, even if the onslaught comes from a spouse.

If Raizy is capable of recognizing that she needs help in this area, then the marriage can be saved. Both she and Shmuel need to be able to face their own weak points and strengthen them to have a strong marriage.

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

Vacation the Right “Weigh”

By Aliza Beer MS, RD

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t’s that time of the year again, when many local yeshivas have a midwinter break. Many of my clients are going away with their families, some for just a couple of days, others for a week or more! Whether you are aiming for weight loss or maintenance, vacations present many challenges.

Some types of vacations are harder to eat healthier than others. Preparation is key to any getaway, so let’s review some of the common vacations and how best to prepare ourselves for them.

ISRAEL Hotel: The Israeli hotel breakfasts are known as a food fest, but they can be navigated quite easily and healthfully. The best food item to select are the eggs, especially if someone is standing and preparing them for you!

Load up your omelet with their delicious and nutritious veggies, and toast some whole grain bread on the side.

Add a plate of salad and/or fruit and you have a very filling breakfast. Avoid the full fat cheeses, cakes, waffles, and pancakes (alright, just once!). If you don’t like eggs then opt for the yogurt or cottage cheese with some fruit and

whole grain bread or cereal.

Apartment: If you are staying at an apartment, bring some food with you, like a high fiber cereal, plain oatmeal packets, whole grain crackers or rice cakes, and a low calorie peanut butter like PB2. If there is a fry-

on the side. Be selective with your dessert allowance. One cannot expect to eat dessert every night and not gain weight; that’s almost impossible. Treat yourself a couple of times over the vacation, and please share with your tablemates! In my experience, most

One cannot expect to eat dessert every night and not gain weight; that’s almost impossible.

ing pan available you can also make eggs or buy low fat yogurt or cottage cheese and fruit. You will probably be eating out for lunches or dinners.

Lunches should be salads, or pack some sandwiches like tuna or eggs on whole grain bread or pita. Dinner will probably be in a restaurant every night. Start off with a non-creamy soup or salad so you don’t attack the bread basket, and order fish, chicken, or lean meat as an entrée with veggies

people do not gain weight in Israel, not because they are so watchful of their nutrition intake, but simply because they are walking most of the day, usually on hilly terrain.

WARM CLIMATE/MIAMI Again, in this locale, there are those who stay in hotels and those who stay in apartments. Many hotels have some refrigeration options in which to keep yogurt or cottage cheese. Once

again, dinner is in a restaurant every night. The same rules apply here, with one big exception. Most warm weather vacations, excluding Orlando, do not involve much walking and are typically very sedentary. They primarily consist of sitting at the pool and sitting in the restaurant. Vigilance is key!

One has to be even more conscientious about what they are consuming on these vacations because they are not burning off the extra calories. Try to incorporate exercise into your daily activities. Walk on the boardwalk, bike, swim, play ball, or use the gym or fitness center. Exercise will help you avoid weight gain, or at least minimize the weight gain.

SKIING Vermont: When one is driving to a ski destination, they can bring basically all or most of the food. Supermarkets are usually available to purchase fruits and veggies. Try to keep your meals as normal as possible. If lunches will be eaten by the slopes, then sandwiches of tuna, turkey, or eggs on whole grain bread would be best. Take cut up veggies like cucumbers and peppers for the day as well.

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West: Bring whatever food you can pack into your suitcase, such as frozen grilled chicken and turkey, roasted veggies, brown rice, high fiber crackers, and low calorie peanut butter. Ship pots and pans to your destination in advance so you can fry eggs and boil whole wheat noodles or brown rice. Skiing is very good exercise, and the lack of restaurants and access to kosher food should inhibit any weight gain, as long as you avoid bringing chips, etc. into your place of

lodging. Buy fruits and veggies when you reach your destination. All natural, no sugar added fruit leathers or dehydrated fruits are good traveling snacks.

Vacation time is certainly not the time to start a diet. I tell my clients that their goal is just not to gain weight; maintenance is true success.

Striving for weight loss may create added stress and can sometimes be an unrealistic goal, setting up oneself for failure. Plan your meals and days

in advance, and make the best choice from your available options. Incorporate exercise as much as possible to burn off the extra calories and get yourself right back on track as soon as you return from vacation.

Upon return, it is very important to get on that scale and face the number.

Either you will feel relieved to have accomplished your goal, or you will be motivated to get back into healthy eating and exercise in order to shed any unwanted weight gain. The faster you

get back on track, the faster the weight will come off. The longer you allow a weight gain to stick to you, the harder it becomes to eliminate it.

Wishing my readers a wonderful midwinter break!

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The Politics of Cholent, Kugel and Kishka Part II

By Naphtali Sobel

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n the previous article on this topic we discussed everything related to cholent. Now let’s talk about kugel and kishka.

Potato Kugel First things first, we must talk machinery before we talk ingredients or technique. The myth that hand graded kugel tastes better seems absurd unless you’re including the flavor compounds your body releases from blood, sweat and tears.

To me, the Braun food processor with the kugel blade is king since it yields

a creamy and soft potato kugel.

There are great, more economical food processors as well. Some people prefer shredded or lacy kugel; it’s a matter of personal taste. Most industrial kitchens utilize a meat grinder or a Buffalo chopper which is a food processing machine that chops food into very small pieces. The grinder or Buffalo method leaves actual pieces of potato rather than smattering the mixture into a puree, yielding a denser product since pieces of potato are still intact. This is what I would classify as a “commercial”

kugel. Other industrial kitchens use a machine called a robot coupe with a kugel blade yielding a more “heimish” kugel. When people associate kugel with being heimish, Litvish, or commercial, I don’t believe these styles authentically stemmed from specific European regions – they did not have food processors back then.

They were using simple box graters and everyone’s kugel likely varied in texture. Since the invention of the food processor, recipes and textures became more standardized and don’t have much to do with the

past or what anyone’s ancestors had prepared.

Potato kugel should contain no more than six ingredients, that being potatoes, onions, eggs, oil, salt and pepper. Yes, I said it. No self-respecting cook will omit onions. It does not need additional leavening ingredients or fillers as the natural ingredients contain all of these qualities. Potato is essentially a filler and has tons of starch. Subsequently, potato kugel does not need flour, matzah meal, or potato starch. These ingredients are extraneous. Steam is

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a natural leavening agent, and potatoes are about 87% water so there is no steam shortage. That’s why when you bake a cake and open the door before the cake is set it flops in the middle; by reducing the heat you are reducing steam. Eggs cause leavening as well. Cake has less water, eggs, and oil and so when you bake a cake you will need baking powders to cause proper leavening. Cake also has a gluten structure which will hold its form once leavened and set.

Kugel will flop back to its original state after it soufflés (or rises) so any leavening agent is pointless. What does, however, help is adding some water before you reheat a kugel. This will steam up the kugel, taking it from a dense, dormant state to light fluffiness.

Coloration is always key. Most commercial kitchens place the peeled potatoes in a water and sulfite (called Stawhite) mixture that prevents the potatoes from turning colors. If this chemical is inhaled it can be problematic for your lungs and can cause a person to pass out. Some home cooks use citric acid or lemon juice, but that imparts a stronger flavor. At home one should grind the potatoes into the wet batter and spices, and constantly mix the batter until its ready to be poured.

When pouring, why do people tend to fill a 9x13 pan halfway? There is nothing sadder than a half-filled kugel pan. Instead, use a smaller pan to begin with and fill it to the top. A pan of water can be placed underneath to prevent splatter from smoking. Once poured, place the kugel immediately into the oven so the eggs don’t settle and to prevent further oxidation.

Preheating the oil is an unnecessary and hazardous step. In order to properly brown your kugel you have to cook it in a preheated 500°F oven for 25 to 30 minutes. Once mostly browned, reduce the temperature to 350°F for the remaining cooking time. If you omit this procedure, even if you preheated the oil, your kugel will remain pale.

There are overnight kugel recipes to be found, yet overnight kugel is a technique, not a recipe. When overnighting kugel, one should pour water directly on the kugel, seal tight with foil, and then keep it on a blech or warmer overnight or submerge it directly in the cholent. Water allows the brown crust to shed its color into the kugel, facilitating in the overnight process, making it appear well-done and overnighted. However, there is some merit to an overnight recipe.

Imagine someone approaches a deli counter requesting overnight kugel that was already cooked for 18 hours and then places it on the blech for another 18 hours. The kugel will have been cooked for 36 hours and that person will be left with carbon-flavored twice-overnighted kugel, but not overnight kugel. Now imagine a person approaches a deli counter requesting overnight kugel, but this time instead of selling overnight kugel that was cooked for 18 hours the person is sold “overnight style” kugel that utilized an overnight kugel recipe but didn’t go through an 18 hour cooking process. When that person goes home and keeps their kugel on the blech for 18 hours, the kugel will not be overcooked and their lunch will be salvaged. If I had to offer an overnight kugel recipe, I would substitute beef base for salt and car-

amelized onions instead of raw onions, yielding a darker and more developed flavor, somewhat mimicking an overnight kugel.

Yaptzik Besides being a Lakewood restaurant’s name, yaptzik is a meat kugel. The first time I saw this dish it was referred to as chugel (an acronym for cholent kugel) and only later did I learn its true name, yaptzik.

It is a great gluten-free and Pesach cholent alternative. This dish requires a fatty and gelatinous meat that can endure long cooking. Flanken, second cut brisket or cheek meat are the best options. The meat is best cubed and seared before use. If one desires eating yaptzik after a short cooking period, it is crucial to cook the meat in liquid, about eighty percent cooked, before adding it to the kugel batter to ensure it will be fully cooked when the yaptzik comes out of the oven. All of the cooking liquids should be poured in the kugel batter since this is where the flavor, texture and color is at. If it will be cooked overnight in an oven, warming apparatus, or crockpot, the meat will slowly tenderize and does not need prior cooking. However, the meat must be browned to cooking prior since it will leave a red stain if not cooked before, making it appear raw and look unappealing. There are yaptzik variations using pastrami as well.

Noodle Kugel

Unlike Italian pasta, you want to overcook your kugel noodles somewhat. Kugel is a pudding, and puddings are supposed to be soft, not al dente or to the tooth. Applesauce is amazing in noodle and fruit noodle

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kugels, yielding a more flavorful, moister and creamier kugel. I add vanilla and a slight pinch of cinnamon but not enough to color it brown.

I also add vanilla pudding mix in cheese noodle kugels for a more custardy result. I like topping my noodle and fruit noodle kugels with a mixture of cornflake crumbs, cinnamon and sugar for an appealing crust, and I bake all noodle kugels at 300°F so the top doesn’t scorch.

Caramelized onions is a phenomenal way to up your salt and pepper kugel game. For Yerushalmi kugel, I pour the noodles into the boiling caramel and let the noodles marinate, stain and cool before adding the other ingredients, for better colorization and also so the eggs don’t scramble in the hot caramel. This step also prevents the sugars from burning. It also helps the caramel to release from the pot somewhat, allowing for an easier clean. Additionally, I caramelize the sugar in the oil so the caramel releases from the pot a bit easier. Kugel cooked in a tall pot rather than a shallow pan is often referred to as streimel kugel or Rebbeshe kugel and is commonly found in Yerushalayim and served with Israeli pickles.

Kishka Last but not least, let’s talk about kishka. What we refer to as “kishka” is really the stuffing previously used to fill intestines, aka kishka. Nowadays, synthetic casings are used since intestines are (thankfully) not FDA approved. Meat kishka uses beef fat rendering it “meat.” Kishka is alternatively known as stuffed derma, which means stuffed intestines. It is still possible to obtain

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“real” kishka or kishka with intestines in Israel. With companies such as Meal Mart and A&H that already make amazing kishka, I don’t see the allure of making it from scratch. But if you insist, kishka is made with fat or oil, flour, spices, and sometimes vegetables. Some will add matzah meal, crackers, oats, or rice crispies.

Some make it sweet but I prefer the savory kind of kishka.

Kishka is commonly found in cholent but some serve kishka with gravy. I recently heard of a kishka with meat called kipchick named after its potato cousin yaptzik. I’m sure this topic can fill encyclopedias and stirs much conflict.

For now, I will leave you with my personal kugel and yaptzik recipe.

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Naphtali Sobel is an experienced chef and food consultant. He is available as a personal chef and for consulting. He can be reached at napsob87@gmail.com.

for convection) Preheat oven to 500°F (450°F e Plac oil, spices and and grease your kugel pan. nd the onions and eggs in a large mixing bowl. Gri ons and potatoes to then the potatoes. Add the oni . Constantly mix to the oil, egg and spice mix ture g and turning colprevent mix ture from oxidizin onions are all in the ors. When the potatoes and y mixed, pour the mixing bowl and it is thoroughl e immediately in mix ture into a greased pan. Plac Lower to 350°F s. oven at 500°F for 25-30 minute and cook an additional hour. wn the meat in a For the yaptzik, cube and bro er, chicken broth or bit of oil. Cover meat with wat g to a light boil for beef stock and spices and brin ost cooked through.

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Sweet & Smoky Beef Bacon Wrapped Chicken Fingers

By Naomi Nachman

Smoked foods are all the rage nowadays, and smoky-tasting beef fry is increasing in popularity as well.

These chicken fingers are infused with incredible smoke from the beef fry and sweet flavor from the glaze, creating the perfect pairing.

Ingredients 1-1½ lbs. skinless, boneless chicken breasts, cut into finger shapes 2 (3-ounce) packages beef fry ½ cup duck sauce 2 cloves garlic, minced 1 tablespoon soy sauce 1 tablespoon sweet red wine

Preparation Preheat oven to 400°F. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper.

Wrap each chicken finger in a strip of beef fry; try to completely cover the chicken. Place wrapped chicken fingers onto prepared baking sheet.

In a small bowl, use a whisk to combine duck sauce, garlic, soy sauce and wine. Brush a generous amount of sauce over each chicken finger.

Bake for about 7 minutes. Flip fingers to second side; brush again with sauce, then bake for additional 7-8 minutes.

Cook’s Tip: Double the sauce and reserve half to serve as a dipping sauce. Be sure not to contaminate the dipping sauce with the raw chicken.

Prepare ahead: Wrap the raw chicken fingers and freeze. Defrost; add sauce just before baking.

Recipe adapted from Perfect for Pesach by Naomi Nachman, Artscroll, 2017.

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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Political Crossfire

Preparing Our Middle East Partners to Fight their Own Battles

By David Ignatius

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n training exercises in a mock Afghan village constructed here on a base amid swampland, the U.S. Army is applying the military lesson of the war against the Islamic State in Syria and Iraq: help your partners beat the enemy, but don’t try to do the fighting yourself.

Letting others fight the battle hasn’t been the American way in modern times, to our immense national frustration. The U.S. military became bogged down in Iraq and Afghanistan, much as it had a generation earlier in Vietnam, by trying to reshape societies with American firepower. For the military, the lesson from these quagmires is to step back – and help local forces with training, advice and airpower.

Fort Polk is a final warmup for the 1st Security Forces Assistance

Brigade, one of the Trump administration’s most innovative military experiments. About 1,000 soldiers

cises all focus on the same basic theme: step back, and insist that partners do the front-line combat.

The soldiers practice helping Afghan partners reclaim a police station from the Taliban in the imaginary village of “Marwandi” and arrest a Taliban financier who’s sheltered by the local population.

are being trained here this month before deploying this spring to Afghanistan. The preparatory exer-

Gen. Joseph Votel, the Centcom commander who oversees U.S. military operations from Libya to Af-

ghanistan, brought me along on a visit on Thursday to the SFAB final training site. He summed up the concept behind the new brigade this way: “We have to let our partners own it. That’s hard for us to do.

It’s in our DNA to dive in. But our job is to help our partners fight, not fight for them.”

The Afghanistan simulations are carefully staged in the military version of a movie set, with a mosque tower, goats meandering in the street, peddlers hawking flowers and posters of President Ashraf Ghani on the walls of make-believe Afghan National Army (ANA) headquarters. The idea is to make soldiers “comfortable with the uncomfortable,” says Maj. Gen. Gary Brito, the commander at Fort Polk.

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At each stop, Votel listens as soldiers repeat the new doctrine: “Put the ANA in the front,” says a sergeant heading for Afghanistan.

“We have to remove ourselves so it’s not our fight.” Votel replays that unconventional message to the troops through a long day. “What we’re really going to rely on is your adaptability,” he admonishes one advisory team.

When the brigade moves into Afghanistan in several months, it will have 36 combat advisory teams, with about a dozen members each, partnered with ANA divisions spread across the country.

Team members will be able to request supporting fire from planes, drones and advanced artillery. Other teams will assist at headquarters and in logistics operations. They will join more than 10,000 U.S. troops already in Afghanistan.

The new brigade, cobbled together quickly with volunteers from divisions across the Army, is an attempt to deal with three issues vexing the Pentagon after more than 15 years of frustration: What works?

How can the successful tactics be sustained? And how can the trainand-assist skills of Special Forces – who have been the star players in Iraq, Afghanistan and Syria – be spread across the Army?

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The new brigade illustrates a broader process of shaping military plans for the Middle East that’s finally getting traction in the Trump administration, after a year of discussion and delay. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson outlined the Syria piece of this strategic framework this week at Stanford. He argued that America should keep

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Walking away from these conflict areas in the past had been a mistake, Tillerson said, but so is trying to steer local governance through nation-building.

America has been so frustrated with combat in the Middle East that people have barely noticed the victory against the Islamic State and the partnering tactics that made it possible. U.S. collaboration with

Syrian Kurds and Iraqi Shiites has made neighboring states nervous, especially Turkey. But it achieved results.

Since the days of T.E. Lawrence, analysts have argued that the people of the Middle East must fight their own battles. This simple but essential idea finally seems to have become hardwired at the Pentagon.

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Forgotten Her es

Jews in the Red Army during World War II

By Avi Heiligman Arkadi Timor, on the right

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ewish soldiers were very much involved during World War II. The idea to help their brethren who were helpless at the hands of the Nazis was the fighting cause for many. Most estimates place the number of Jewish service members between 1.2 and 2 million. The number for American Jewish service members is estimated at 550,000.

Many of the British soldiers were from their commonwealth areas and in this case the pre-Israel British mandate of Palestine. 100,000 Jews served in the Polish Army (which amounted to about 10% of their entire army) before their collapse from the German Blitzkrieg at the beginning of the war. The USSR did fall victim to the “lightning war” tactics at the start of the German invasion in Operation Barbarossa but the massive Red Army, with 500,000 or so Jewish soldiers, were able to put a stop to the onslaught. Here are some of those Jewish soldiers’ stories from the Russian Army.

Jewish veterans of the Red Army recalled how their comrades knew of their religion and incidents of anti-Semitism rarely occurred. However, Jewish soldiers fought harder so as not to have to give other non-Jewish soldiers a reason to give them issues.

Samuil Nakhmanovich Bogorad was born in 1907 in Vitebsk, Belarus.

His first wartime assignment was on the submarine D-2, and they sank a German merchant ship. The sub sank

a medium size transport and severely damaged a railway ferry. He was then transferred to the ShCh-310, of the Shchuka class. Captain Bogorad was one of a small percentage of Jews to hold a high rank in the Russian wartime navy. He took over the ShCh-310 in March 1944 and quickly became one of the Red Navy’s most daring submarine commanders.

From October 6, 1944 until the end of the European war, the ShCh-310 sank or damaged at least eight Nazi ships. For their daring and courage the crew was awarded the Order of the Red Banner.

Many stories about regular soldiers in the Red Army have been lost in time since the war. When the Iron Curtain fell thousands of Russian WWII veterans made their way to Israel where they started veteran organizations. Matvey Gershman was the leader of a local chapter of WWII vets after he moved to Ashkelon in 1990.

Matvey Gershman was born in 1925 in Gomel, Belorussia. Right before the Germans invaded Russia in June 1941, Gershman changed his birth year to 1923 so that he would be able to become a pilot in the local flight club. A week later the Russians were drafting all men born in 1923, and he was sent to a tank school with other men from his area. Gershman was able to convince the army that he wanted to be a pilot and so he was allowed to go flight school. For one reason or another he was trans-

ferred to become a flight mechanic and was sent to the frontlines. His unit was badly decimated in the German advance of the summer 1942, and during the retreat the remnants were stopped by the Red Army near Voronezh. At this point he learned infantry tactics and specialized in the use of machine guns as anti-tank weapons.

Senior Sergeant Gershman was on the frontlines in the Ukraine in 1943 as a member in the 5th Shock Army when his superiors realized that he knew Yiddish. This was used to help interrogate German prisoners, and he joined a reconnaissance unit. Since he was Jewish they knew that he would do anything to avoid capture by the Germans on his trips across the frontlines. Along the way Gershman personally captured ten German soldiers for intelligence purposes. Soon he was promoted to the platoon commander. At one point Gershman was ordered to stop a German tank column but was wounded in the encounter. He was decorated for his bravery in that battle. After recovering and being sent to the frontlines, he took part in the liberation of Majdanek death camp near Lublin. In the last year of the war Gershman learned to become a sniper in the 8th Guards Army and took part in the Battle of Berlin. In May 1945 he wrote on the Reichstag building “Gershman from Gomel.”

After his move to Israel he took part in the annual Israeli Victory Day Pa-

rade as much as his health allowed.

Lieutenant Colonel Arkadi Timor was born in 1919 in the Ukraine.

His Jewish name was Abraham Katzevman but while with the Russian Army he used Timor so as not elicit anti-Semitic sentiment. In 1939, Timor was drafted and was sent to become a tank officer. The German invasion took the Russian frontline units by surprise and during the Battle of Smolensk he was badly wounded. After a short period in the hospital Timor returned and was a combatant in the Battle of Moscow. As a tank commander in 1942 he was seriously wounded in the Siege of Leningrad. Several months later he was able to rejoin his unit as its commander and fought in the Baltic, Poland and Germany. For Timor’s heroic efforts he was awarded several medals and citations.

During the war Timor found out that his family of over 50 people was completely wiped out by the Nazis.

After the war he lived in Lithuania, and in 1948 was one of fifteen Jewish Russian officers who tried to join the newly formed IDF. The Russians would have none of that, and in 1956 Timor was arrested on the charge of Zionist propaganda. After three years in the Gulag he was released and in 1960 made his way to Israel (much earlier than almost every other Soviet person wanting to make aliyah). Now going by the last name of Timor he joined the IDF and was made a colonel. After fighting in the

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Over a million Jews fought during WWII and many looked at it as an opportunity to help their Jewish brethren being mercilessly killed by the Nazis. Even though they were under communist rule, the Jewish soldiers of the Red Army felt the same. These soldiers’ stories are finally being told as we remember their bravery on the

battlefield. Many Jewish soldiers also fought in the battle that is considered by historians as the turning point on the Eastern Front. Stay tuned for the next article as we recount 75 years since the German 6th Army’s demise at the Battle of Stalingrad.

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Good Hum r

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ome things in life are inherently and perpetually in conflict like (i) cats and dogs, (ii) heavy metal music and napping and (iii) flight and gravity. Few things, however, are more in conflict that classic Jewish cuisine and weight loss. Indeed, some types of Jewish food are an angioplasty just waiting to happen. Thus, there is a daily dietary dilemma in which Jews must

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Even when it comes to certain vegetables, some Jewish scholars recommend against overindulging. For instance, Miamonides, in Mishne Torah, Chapter 4 (De’ot), warns that certain food has “harmful effects” and therefore should be eaten “only sparingly and after intervals of many days [and] should not [be eaten] regularly as

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Dietician: How are you not morbidly obese?

Jewish client: Easy. I do lots of shuckling and swaying when I daven.

Losing pounds does not always mean that you are physically healthier. Take the following hypothetical as an example: Jew #1: Guess what?

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Jew #1: I lost 30 pounds.

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Jew #1: I was overseas and I lost my wallet.

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Jew #1: No. I was in England and my wallet contained 30 British pounds so when I lost my wallet, I lost 30 pounds.

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Child: No. There’s more. I don’t know how to tell you this.

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Child: No. Mother: You’re in trouble with the law!

Child: No. Mother: Well then, how bad could it be?

Child: I’ve stopped eating unhealthy food like salami and baloney submarine sandwiches.

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Child: Mom, our relationship is about more than just food!

Mother: It is?

Keep in mind: when losing weight, it’s best not to lose your temper, patience, control, consciousness, place or way.

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Your

Money

How Will I Know?

By Allan Rolnick, CPA

I

n 2012, a singer, we’ll call her W.H., died suddenly, drowning in a hotel bathroom after years of battling drug addiction.

Yet the world will always treasure her musical legacy. The Guinness Book of World Records reports that she was the most awarded female artist of all time, with two Emmys, six Grammys, 30 Billboard Music Awards, and 22 American Music Awards, among +400 awards in total. Rolling Stone listed her debut album as one of the 500 greatest albums of all time. And VH1 put her at number three on their “greatest women of the video age” list.

W.H. also left a considerable financial legacy, estimated at $20 million. She saved all her estate in trust for her only child, with instructions to release 10% when her daughter reached age 21, another sixth at age 25, and the remainder at age 30. (Her daughter died in 2015 from her own drug overdose, leaving the ultimate fate of the estate in the hands of lawyers, who are sure to bill lots of hours.)

But W.H.’s estate includes far more than cash and securities. It also includes her music catalog, digital performance royalties, movie and

television residuals, and “publicity rights,” meaning her right to control the commercial use of her name, image, and likeness. Now, it’s easy to value assets like cash or stocks. But valuing the music catalog involves estimating the amount of future royalties, and valuing publicity rights is

are the tax man’s “Greatest Love of All”?) These disputes often come down to a battle of valuations, which makes a good appraiser all the man you need.

The IRS determined that W.H.’s representatives underestimated the value of her intangible assets by

Valuing the music catalog involves estimating the amount of future royalties, and valuing publicity rights is even more subjective.

even more subjective.

Naturally, the IRS gets so emotional about those sorts of intangible legacies, especially with estate tax rates in 2012 running at %40 on amounts over 5,120,000$.

In fact, estate tax returns are audited more than any other type, with the IRS examining over %30 of estates reporting 10$ million or more in assets. (Does that mean estate taxes

$22.6 million. They imposed a $7.92 million deficiency and $3.17 million in penalties. The parties were scheduled to go to trial next month.

However, on December 26, 2017, the estate filed documents agreeing to settle for $2,275,366. (“Didn’t We Almost Have It All,” we can imagine the folks at the IRS humming as they deposit the estate’s check.)

This isn’t the first time the IRS

has battled over pop star publicity rights. Executors for Michael Jackson’s estate valued his at just $2,105, which essentially argues that the King of Pop’s bizarre controversies and misadventures had rendered his image essentially worthless. Attorneys at the IRS told them to beat it, valuing those rights at $434 million. That case is still working its way through court — last month, a Tax Court judge denied the IRS’s bid to provide additional evidence to support seeking penalties up to 40% of the allegedly understated tax.

The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 doubles the estate tax “unified credit” to $11.2 million per person for 2018. This should cut the number of estates filing returns to less than 4,000 per year. But careful planning is still in order to make sure your legacy goes where you want it going. So make sure you have a plan, and let’s make beautiful (financial) music together!

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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Life C ach

Wet & Wild

By Rivki D. Rosenwald Esq., MFT, CLC

T

here are bath people and there are “no way a bath” people.

Some relish the total delicious heat that envelopes them in a bathtub. They thrive on the opportunity to relax, read, and just float in that womblike warmth. And then there are those who feel “ich, how can you sit in your own dirt?!”

There’s no arguing with either.

It’s a mind thing. You either love it or you don’t.

In the new houses, they are go-

wake up, one to get clean, one to be refreshed, one after exercise, one before going out for the evening, and one to be clean before settling into their sheets again. Then there are the once-in-the-morning-does-it types or once-in-the-evening to wash off the day’s dirt type. And then there’s the a-couple-times-a-week group.

These are often college guys who get straightened out once their wives tell them that’s unacceptable. And then there’s the once-in-a-blue-moon

They probably were considered the original ice caves.

ing back to freestanding bathtubs.

But I doubt a seasoned bath devotee would embrace fashion over form.

After all, where are they putting all their accessories? Magazines, books, their remote control if they have a TV in the bathroom, or their food, if they have a separate toilet room. Of course, a real bath person owns that contraption that hangs across the tub where their laptop or other bath extras may be stationed and used until their skin wrinkles into oblivion and signals it’s time to step out.

Then there are shower people.

They come in different varieties.

There are those who take a million a day. They feel they need one to

type, not necessarily the most popular people around.

Either way, we are all more blessed than in the old days when people had to find a body of water to get washed off in. That may not be bad in the summer. But what about the winter? People would probably come out with little icicles hanging off them?!

They probably were considered the original ice caves.

We live in the day and age of the luxury of water. We have pools, heated pools, water parks, scuba diving, water skiing, surfing, skating, skiing, ice cubes, and snow cones…water used and enjoyed in every shape and form.

But I still say, other than drinking water, the most delicious use of water, on a day-to-day basis, is finding oneself in a bath or shower and feeling that sense of renewal that comes with the luxury of immersion.

So whether you are a bath or shower person, remember to enjoy the blessing of progress that brings

water to us, rather than us to the water!

Rivki Rosenwald is a certified relationship counselor, and career and life coach. She can be contacted at 917-705-2004 or rivki@rosenwalds. com

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