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Dear Readers,

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still remember where I was when Rabbi Pesach Lerner called me last year about the Eretz Hakodesh slate at the World Zionist Congress.

It was a busy day, but I made sure to really listen to what he had to say. If Rabbi Lerner was concerned about what was happening at the World Zionist Organization, then I knew that, as a frum Jew, I would be concerned too.

Rabbi Lerner takes on causes that are important for the Jewish community. His involvement with the Gush Katif community, his friendship with Jonathan Pollard, his work at Am Echad… these are all initiatives that Rabbi Lerner took on out of care and concern for his fellow Jews.

Eretz Hakodesh came from that same feeling of achrayus. When Rabbi Lerner saw that programs and funds stemming from the World Zionist Congress were being controlled by those on the liberal left who had an agenda that was the antithesis of our community’s mesorah, he knew that he could not sit idly by. Armed with brachos and support of gedolim and leaders in the community, Rabbi Lerner launched a slate at the World Zionist Organization for the American charedi community.

What started as a dream quickly swelled into a tsunami that made waves at last week’s virtual World Zionist Congress.

I was privileged to be among the 25 delegates on the Eretz Hakodesh slate this year. I use the word “privileged” because it was just that – an honor to represent the American charedi community at this forum. Although the event took place on Zoom (next year in Jerusalem!), I felt that I was able to effect change. I saw how other groups endeavored to promote their agenda, and I saw how important it was to speak up when something didn’t sit right with our values.

In the United States, we don’t acutely feel the liberal left’s agenda against our Torah values. But in Israel, the liberal left’s motive is clear: it is anti-Torah, it is anti-mesorah, it is against all that we stand for and hold dear. Eretz Hakodesh was established

as a foil to these groups to move the needle back in the direction of our holy tradition.

The Israeli media’s headlines screamed about a “hostile takeover” by the right at the WZO. But that was not the case. What I saw at the Congress was democracy at its finest. I saw a group that earned its delegates and its right to sit at the table; a group that was energized for change; a group that helped to tilt the equilibrium from falling to the left.

Although I have not met the other Eretz Hakodesh delegates personally due to the pandemic, I feel as if I know them. Our WhatsApp chat is the most active chat I have on my phone. Every day, there are scores of messages on the chat. There’s a vigorous back-and-forth on how we should approach things, on what we should take on, on whom we should be aligning ourselves with. Eretz Hakodesh delegates are vibrant, informed, enthused individuals.

Last Sunday, I joined a Zoom meeting as a member of the Vaad Hapoel, the Zionist General Council.

First and foremost, it was refreshing to be at a conference with Jews from all over the world.

Private conversations were held between friends in all languages in front of all the attendees. I felt like I was at a party with everyone speaking over each other all at once. But then, when things settled down, I realized why it was so important to have charedim sitting at the table.

When agendas are proposed and committees are formed and funds are distributed, if we are not there to speak up for our causes, who will?

If we are not there to speak up about certain issues, who will?

If we are not there to ensure that the liberal left’s anti-Torah agenda doesn’t prevail, who will?

Eretz Hakodesh was created to uphold our mesorah and defend our values. It has already effected change – and I am honored to be part of it.

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Contents LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

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COMMUNITY Readers’ Poll Community Happenings

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NEWS

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Global

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National

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That’s Odd

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ISRAEL Israel News

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Lost and Found in Translation by Rafi Sackville

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JEWISH THOUGHT Rabbi Wein on the Parsha

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One Against the World by Rav Moshe Weinberger

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Time for Life by Rabbi Shmuel Kamenetzky

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The Purpose of a Challenge by Shmuel Reichman

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PEOPLE Dearest Mrs. Strickman, a”h

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Remembering Robin Niman, a”h

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Ambassador David M. Friedman: Pursuer of Peace

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Rabbi Pesach Lerner’s Mandate to Uphold Our Mesorah

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U.S. Paratroopers in WWII by Avi Heiligman

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HEALTH & FITNESS April’s Nervous Part by Dr. Deb Hirschhorn 90 Winter Superfoods by Aliza Beer, MS RD CDN 92

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Dear Editor, In the issue of 10/29 (page 52), you related a story about Trump and Biden in the Centerfold. I believe that the last line of the story should be that Biden took $50 from Trump’s pocket, he gave the homeless person $30 and put the other $20 in his own pocket.

S.D. P.S. Love the paper! It is my favorite Shabbat reading.

Dear Editor, There seems to be no “Letters to the Editor” section of your paper; quite unusual for any American newspaper. Thus, this email.

Re: your October 29th issue editorial on our freedoms, government and the election – To me, your position is concerning.

Our freedoms are not here at stake. The stakes are the health and recovery of our planet from the Covid scourge. I believe the editorial misses the point, OR more pointedly, shows Jews, other Americans or residents under some quasi-temporary-dictatorship.

During crises, WWII being an example, we all had rationing; there were mandatory blackouts and curfews. The manufacturing of most products were stopped for total war production.

It is an absolute that every one of us wants businesses, travel, schools, religious institutions back to normal. We want our nation to economically thrive. We had, have and will have our “basic freedoms.” We had, have and will have to curtail our movements and follow stringent health protocols and venue accesses to stem the virus, and this seems to be missed. It is presented that current rules are an affront to our civil liberties, while there is no acknowledgment of one›s responsibility to the fellow citizens of our democracy.

Other citizens of other nations too, through their actions, are taking your position.

We are all in this together, and demanding one’s civil rights, without understanding one’s responsibility to others, isn’t freedom, it’s selfishness, and greatly deters America and the planet from moving forward.

Jay Brick Long Beach, NY Dear Editor, I love how our community is joining together to get out the vote!

Voting is so important and showing politicians that we are active, concerned citizens means that they will see us as a community that Continued on page 10

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Help us to continue to provide critical and essential services to our entire community.

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Sincerely, Chana Meyer Dear Editor, I love reading the Navidaters column in your paper every week. The questions are always so interesting

and the panelists’ answers are each so unique.

This week’s column, though, creeped me out. I don’t know how to put it into words, but the thought that someone was engaged to someone with a family history like that made me uncomfortable.

When I discussed this question with my family and expressed my concerns, my parents so wisely and gently reminded me that they do their “homework” consistently and carefully before I go out with any person to make sure something like this doesn’t happen to me.

I’d like to take this opportunity to remind people in shidduchim that it’s important to get real information about whom you’re dating. If you feel that people are hesitant to tell you things, dig deeper.

Ask pointed questions: is the boy on any medications? Has anyone in the family been involved with drugs? How the father been in jail?

Do the parents get along? Do all the siblings talk to each other?

And ask more general questions to get to know about the person: tell me about the girl. What’s her personality like? Tell me about her friends. What’s her relationship like with her siblings and parents?

You will never regret getting too much information. If anything, it will help you when you’re dating that person.

D.L. Dear Editor, Now that we’ve changed the clock and the days are shorter, I urge all drivers to be careful when driving.

Many children are getting off buses when it’s already dark. They don’t always look when they’re crossing the streets and they may not notice your car. Drive slowly and carefully.

The same thing holds true for people who are walking on Friday night home from shul. Keep in mind that drivers don’t expect people to be walking in the streets. If there is no sidewalk, please be extra careful!

If you can, wear reflectors.

Additionally, when roads are wet and when there are leaves on the street, roads are very slippery. Make sure to drive with extra caution.

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In what is the worst terror attack to have been perpetrated on Viennese soil, at least four people were killed and 22 others were wounded on Monday evening in the Austrian capital by at least one masked gunman.

The first shots were fired near a synagogue, although it’s unclear if the synagogue was targeted. The gunman, Kujtim Fejzulaj, then opened fire in five other places in the downtown area.

He was killed by officers.

The terrorist was armed with an assault rifle, among other handguns, and appeared to wear an explosive vest which turned out to be a dummy.

“We are currently experiencing difficult hours in our republic.

I would like to thank all the emergency services who are risking their lives, especially today, for our safety.

Our police will take decisive action against the perpetrators of this vile terrorist attack,” Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz said via Twitter. “I am glad that our police officers have already been able to neutralize a perpetrator. We will never allow ourselves to be intimidated by terrorism and will fight these attacks resolutely by all means.”

All synagogues, kosher restaurants and Jewish supermarkets were set to stay closed across Austria on Tuesday. Children in the city were advised to stay home from schools, although schools were open.

Fejzulaj, 20, was a dual citizen of Austria and North Macedonia. He had been previously jailed for attempting to travel to Syria. He had been sentenced to 22 months in prison in August 2019 but was released early because of his age.

Fejzulaj was reportedly be-

ing monitored by security services but was not considered capable of mounting a domestic attack.

According to German daily newspaper Bild, the terrorist is reported to have posted on Instagram announcing his intentions before the attack. It published a picture showing Fejzulaj brandishing a pistol, an assault rifle, and a machete while wearing a black t-shirt and beanie.

He is reported to have pledged allegiance to ISIS. ISIS recently called on jihadis to “spill the blood of Crusaders” in “revenge” over cartoons of the Prophet Muhammed, which have seen mass protests and calls of boycotts of French goods in many Muslim nations.

The bloodbath in Vienna comes after France was hit by two horrifying terror attacks by Islamic terrorists with three people murdered in Nice and a school teacher beheaded in Paris.

Fatalities in Turkish Earthquake

Friday’s earthquake in Turkey left 91 people dead and 994 people injured.

The magnitude 7.0 blast struck the Aegean Sea before the weekend, shaking parts of Greece and Turkey.

Because it struck at a relatively shallow depth of 13 miles, the impact was felt forcefully at ground level near the epicenter.

More than 20 buildings were seriously damaged in Izmir by the tremor.

On Monday morning, more than 65 hours after the quake struck, a 3-year-old girl was found alive buried in the wreckage of her apartment building.

Elif Perincek was found after a firefighter searched for her in the debris near her dresser. She held onto his finger as he brought her to safety.

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Liverpool, which has nearly 500,000 residents, has had one of the highest infection rates in England.

More than 410 cases per 100,000 people have been reported.

her other siblings had, unfortunately, died in the blast.

Hours before Perincek was rescued, another child, 14-year-old Idil Sirin, was also found alive after spending more than 58 hours trapped in a collapsed building.

More than 900 aftershocks have been registered since the initial quake, 42 of them with a magnitude over 4.0, Turkey’s disaster agency said. The earthquake also triggered what authorities called a “mini tsunami,” causing streets to flood Friday in parts of Turkey’s wider Izmir province, as well as on Samos.

Testing All in Liverpool Every person living or working in the British city of Liverpool will be tested for Covid-19 as part of a trial program starting this week. The testing will be done regardless of if people are experiencing symptoms or not.

Results will be made available within an hour. “[T]hese more advanced tests will

Testing in the city is set to serve as an example of how the United Kingdom may be able to implement largescale testing. Several testing sites will be set up across the city.

The U.K. currently has 1,057,021 Covid-19 cases. There have been 46,943 total deaths due to the coronavirus.

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A 60-year-old woman, Nadine Devillers, was killed in Thursday’s attack. A 55-year-old man, Vincent Loques, who took care of the church, was slaughtered as well. The third victim, a 44-year-old woman, Simone Barreto Silva, managed to flee with her bleeding wounds but died at a nearby restaurant.

France’s national police chief had ordered increased security at churches and mosques earlier in the week, but no police appeared to be guarding the Nice church when it was attacked.

“He cried, ‘Allah Akbar!’ over and over, even after he was injured,” said Nice Mayor Christian Estrosi. “The meaning of his gesture left no doubt.”

“With the attack against Samuel Paty, it was freedom of speech that was targeted,” Prime Minister Jean Castex told lawmakers, referring to the teacher who was beheaded after showing his class caricatures of the prophet during a civics lesson. “With this attack in Nice, it is freedom of religion.”

“Very clearly, it is France which is under attack,” President Emmanuel Macron said as he stood before the church. He added that all of France

3 Killed in Nice Attack

On Thursday, a Tunisian 21-yearold entered a church in Nice, France, and slaughtered three people.

Brahim Aouissaoui had entered France from Italy on October 9. He had come from the Mediterranean island of Lampedusa less than a month before. His birthplace was Tunisia.

When the terrorist committed the brutal attack, he was carrying a copy of the Koran along with his knife.

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On Thursday, after a deadly attack in Nice, Malaysia’s former leader Mahathir Mohamad tweeted that Muslims had a right “to kill millions of French people.” Due to swift and vociferous anger to his post, Mahathir eventually deleted his statement.

Three people were killed at a church in the southern French city on Thursday, with the attacker slitting the throat of at least one of them, in what authorities were treating as the latest jihadist assault to rock the country.

Shortly after the horrific attack, Mahathir unleashed a series of tweets. In one of the tweets, he referred to the beheading of a French teacher earlier in the month and said that, although he did not approve of that attack, freedom of expression does not include “insulting other people.” The teacher, Samuel Paty, had shown students cartoons of Islam’s prophet Mohammed.

“Irrespective of the religion professed, angry people kill,” said the 95-year-old. “The French in the course of their history has killed millions of people. Many were Muslims.

Muslims have a right to be angry and to kill millions of French people for the massacres of the past.”

He added that “by and large the Muslims have not applied the ‘eye for an eye’ law. Muslims don’t. The French shouldn’t.”

This is not the first time that Mahathir has spewed hate. He has called Jews “hooked-nosed” and said that they “rule this world by proxy,” likening them to Nazis. He has repeatedly defended his right to make those remarks and said he is “glad to

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Mahathir, who served as the Malaysian premier twice for a total of 24 years, said that French President Emmanuel Macron was “not showing that he is civilized,” adding he was “very primitive.”

“The French should teach their people to respect other people’s feelings. Since you have blamed all Muslims and the Muslims’ religion for what was done by one angry person, the Muslims have a right to punish

the French. The boycott cannot compensate the wrongs committed by the French all these years,” he wrote.

“In Malaysia, where there are people of many different races and religions, we have avoided serious conflicts between races because we are conscious of the need to be sensitive to the sensitivities of others.”

Mahathir had led the Muslim-majority country for two decades before his government’s collapse in February.

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Corbyn Pushed Out

Jeremy Corbyn is being held accountable for his anti-Semitic views.

Last week, Britain’s main opposition Labour party suspended its former leader following his response to a government watchdog report that said the party had broken equality laws in its handling of anti-Semitism complaints.

“In light of his comments made today and his failure to retract them subsequently, the Labour Party has suspended Jeremy Corbyn pending investigation,” the party announced.

Labour’s new leader Sir Keir Starmer said the report, which found Labour under Corbyn engaged in unlawful “harassment and discrimination,” marked a “day of shame” for the party. The party said Corbyn, its leader until April, was being suspended pending further investigation.

Corbyn vowed to “strongly con-

test” the party’s decision, labeling it a “political” move. For now, he will be compelled to sit as an independent MP in the House of Commons.

In a Facebook post earlier in the day responding to the report, Corbyn said he didn’t accept all of its findings and asserted that “the scale of the problem was also dramatically overstated for political reasons by our opponents inside and outside the party, as well as by much of the media.”

“The equality body’s analysis points to a culture within the party which, at best, did not do enough to prevent anti-Semitism and, at worst, could be seen to accept it,” the quality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) said in a statement.

The watchdog found the party responsible for unlawful acts in three major areas: political interference in anti-Semitism complaints, failing to provide adequate training to those handling anti-Semitism complaints, and harassment.

There were 23 instances of “inappropriate involvement” by Corbyn’s office and others in the 70 files examined in the report, the EHRC said, with interference happening more frequently in complaints of anti-Semitism than in other discrimination allegations.

Starmer – who replaced Corbyn in a party election in April, after it lost last December’s general elections in a landslide to the incumbent Conservative party under Boris Johnson – has said he would fully cooperate with the EHRC’s report on anti-Semitism in the party.

British Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis, who had discouraged voters from supporting Labour under Corbyn in last year’s elections, said the report marked a “historic nadir for the Labour Party.”

Jewish groups have accused Corbyn, a far-left politician, of allowing a massive surge in anti-Semitism within the ranks of the party that was once considered the natural home of British Jewry. Thousands of cases of alleged hate speech against Jews had been recorded within Labour since 2015, when Corbyn was elected to lead the party.

Corbyn had vowed to punish any party member caught making racist statements, yet he defended a number of members who made vitriolic anti-Semitic remarks, and expelled hardly any members despite more than 850 formal complaints.

For many, it seemed that Corbyn himself was the problem. Last

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year, he expressed regret for having defended a 2012 anti-Semitic mural in London’s East End. The mural, named Freedom of Humanity, was painted on a property near Brick Lane by the Los Angeles-based graffiti artist Kalen Ockerman. It depicted a group of men – seemingly caricatures of Jewish bankers and businessmen – counting their money on a Monopoly board balanced on the backs of unclothed workers.

Last year, Corbyn was found to have authored a glowing foreword to a book that claims that Jews control global financial systems and describes them as “men of a single and peculiar race.”

In addition, the Hamas terror group had thanked Corbyn for his solidarity in recognizing Palestinian mourning over the 71st anniversary of the formation of the State of Israel.

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In order to investigate the artist’s possible psychiatric disorders, experts interviewed art historians familiar with 902 letters from the artist – 820 to his brother, Theo – and studied medical records made by doctors who treated him.

The Dutch master, who produced some 900 paintings during his lifetime, died by his own hand in 1890 at the age of 37 following years of mental illness.

He is thought to have suffered from a combination of bipolar and borderline personality disorder, although these illnesses were never diagnosed.

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Researchers say that the Dutch master experienced several severe depressive episodes in the last year of his life – at least one with psychotic features.

In the study, published Monday in the International Journal of Bipolar Disorders, researchers say that the artist’s likely “masked epilepsy,” also known as “focal epilepsy,” could have led to differing manifestations

of anxiety, delusions and hallucinations. In Van Gogh’s case, it could have been caused as a result of brain damage linked to his alcohol abuse, malnutrition, poor sleep, and mental exhaustion.

Because researchers cannot speak with Van Gogh directly, they relied on letters to his family, which may or may not have downplayed or embellished his symptoms. As such, their theories are mainly just that – theories.

Saudi Arrested for Stabbing Amid tensions in France, on Thursday, a Saudi man stabbed and wounded a guard at the French consulate in the city of Jeddah in Saudi Arabia. Authorities arrested the man, who they said stabbed the guard with a “sharp tool.”

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kingdom to be “on maximum alert.”

In France, on that same day, a terrorist killed three people at a church in Nice.

Muslims have been uprising since a French school teacher showed his students cartoons of Islam’s prophet Mohammed. Muslims have also called for the boycott of French products.

Although Saudi Arabia has expressed outrage by the cartoons, it is far more muted than in other countries. The Saudi Foreign Ministry has said the kingdom “rejects any attempt to link Islam and terrorism, and denounces the offensive cartoons of the prophet.” Saudi clerics have condemned the caricatures, but have also cited Islam “mercy, justice, tolerance.” Another prominent sheikh called on Muslims not to overreact.

Diplomatic posts have been targeted in the past. A 2004 armed assault on the U.S. Consulate in Jeddah which was blamed on al-Qaeda killed five employees. In 2016, a suicide bomber blew himself up near that same U.S. Consulate, wounding two guards.

Top Fatah Militant Killed

On Saturday, a senior commander of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades was killed in a refugee camp near Nablus.

Hatem Abu Rizek was 35 years old. He was affiliated with Mohammed Dahlan, a former Fatah operative who is Mahmoud Abbas’ competitor.

It is unclear how Abu Rizek died.

Some say he was shot by Palestinian Authority security officers during clashes in the area. PA security forces deny that account and say that

Abu Rizek was killed when a hand grenade he was throwing blew up in his hands.

Three years ago, Abu Rizek and other Fatah gunmen from the Balata area in the West Bank turned themselves into PA security forces after they were accused of imposing a reign of terror on Palestinians in the Nablus area. A year later, Abu Rizek was arrested on suspicion of receiving funds from Dahlan.

At least five others were injured during clashes between Fatah groups in Balata over the weekend. There have been rising tensions between those who support Dahlan and PA security forces.

Last week, clashes erupted between the two sides in the Al-Ama’ri refugee camp, near Ramallah, after PA security forces arrested a number of Fatah activists for their alleged affiliation with Dahlan.

The PA suspects that Dahlan, who is based in the United Arab Emirates, has been funding several Fatah members in the West Bank as part of an effort to undermine Abbas loyalists.

Some Palestinians regard Dahlan as a leading candidate to replace Abbas.

Dahlan, who heads a group named Democratic Reform Current, was expelled from Fatah in 2011.

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Israeli defense officials asked to buy the F-22 – one of the world’s most advanced fighter jets – to maintain Israel’s qualitative military edge in the region after the U.S. agreed to sell F-35 fighters to the United Arab Emirates, the Israeli daily Haaretz reported on Tuesday.

This is not the first time that Israel has expressed interest in the F-22 jets, but previous requests were denied. The United States had actually halted production of the fighter jet in 2011 and legally barred its sale to other countries.

Interestingly, Trump is not the first American president to recommend selling the specialized jet to Israel. At the end of his second term, in 2001, then-President Bill Clinton said that he would approve such a sale but ultimately left the decision in his successor George W. Bush’s hands.

Esper and Israel’s Defense Minister Benny Gantz have met three times in the past few weeks. Esper also met with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Defense Ministry Director-General Amir Eshel and Israel Defense Forces Chief of Staff Aviv Kohavi during his trip last week.

On Thursday, U.S. Congress was notified that the White House wishes to sell F-35s to the United Arab Emirates. The plan is to sell as many as 50 units of the Lockheed Martin-made jets for roughly $10.4 billion. Israel has ordered the same number of F-35s from the U.S., although not all of them have been delivered yet.

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According to senior sources in Tel Aviv, President Trump has approved the sale of F-22 stealth fighter jets to Israel. This was communicated to Israeli officials by U.S. Secretary of Defense Mark Esper during a visit to the Holy Land last week.

Asharq Al-Awsat newspaper, a publication owned by Saudi Arabia and based in London, reported on the milestone on Friday. Before the fighter jet would be able to come to Israel, though, U.S. Congress would first need to overturn a current law barring Washington from exporting the advanced fighter jets. The House of Representatives passed the law in 1998 over concerns that the unparalleled stealth technology in the F-22 could fall into the hands of Rus-

Mass Druze Funeral Held

A mass funeral for a Druze sheikh in which thousands of people took part took place on Saturday after his body was snatched from the hospital.

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Most of those at the funeral wore masks and many appeared to be trying to observe social distancing guidelines.

In addition to the ceremony, which took place in a large field, a funeral procession was held.

The funeral came after rioters from Majdal Shams broke into Safed’s Ziv Medical Center on Friday evening to take the body of the sheikh, who died from coronavirus hours before.

Government officials had been seeking to prevent the mass funeral due to the already high morbidity rate in Majdal Shams. They had been working on a compromise, which would have seen the ceremony held at an outdoor gymnasium with a limited number of participants. Opponents of the compromise broke into Ziv hospital before an agreement was reached.

After securing Halabi’s body, his followers set out on a funeral procession from the town of Mas’ade to nearby Majdal Shams in the Golan Heights.

“How do they not understand that a procession like this in the most inflamed area of the country is simply a disaster?” Deputy Health Minister

Yoav Kisch wrote Saturday on Twitter. “This will cost them and us hundreds of infected, serious patients and unfortunately probably also fatalities. Frustrating and sad.”

Yesh Atid MK Gadeer Mreeh, who is Druze, condemned the incident.

“This behavior isn’t befitting of the esteemed status of the late honorable sheikh,” she tweeted. “All of us must listen and act in accordance with the Health Ministry instructions.”

Druze residents of Majdal Shams and the Golan are Syrian in origin and are permanent residents of Israel but not citizens, unlike Druze in other areas of Israel, who have historically made major contributions to public service in the country, especially in the realm of security.

Vaccine Trials Begin Segev Harel has made history.

The 26-year-old is set to receive the first dose of an Israeli Covid-19 vaccine. In a video posted over the weekend, Harel said he was healthy and feeling optimistic in participating

in this “historic opportunity.”

Clinical trials for the Brilife vaccine, developed by the Israel Institute for Biological Research, began on Sunday at the Sheba Medical Center in Ramat Gan and at Hadassah Medical Center in Jerusalem.

“I think everything will be OK, I’m even sure of it,” said Harel, an undergraduate student from Kibbutz Sde Nehemia in northern Israel, introducing himself as the first Israeli due to receive a shot in a video released by Sheba Medical Center.

“A lot of people have been harmed by coronavirus, health-wise, psychologically and economically. And if the small contribution I can make is to participate in this trial and give hope that we’re on the way to end the pandemic, I’ll have played my part,” he said.

The person who was set to be the first to get the shot, Boaz Kolodner, 47, was forced to withdraw from the trial after tests discovered he had coronavirus antibodies.

Harel was tapped to receive the first dose of the vaccine at Sheba. A 34-year-old doctoral student received a dose at Jerusalem’s Hadassah Ein Kerem hospital on Sunday.

After receiving the dose, the recipients need to remain in the hospital for 24 hours so doctors can monitor them. Some participants will be receiving a placebo instead of the vaccine.

The first phase of the clinical trial is expected to last roughly a month and will involve some 80 volunteers ages 18 to 55.

The second phase in December will test roughly 1,000 volunteers ages 18 to 85 at eight hospitals around the country. In this phase, volunteers with pre-existing conditions will be allowed to participate.

If that larger group responds well to the vaccine, injections will then be given to some 30,000 people in April or May 2021. If the vaccine works well and there are no significant side effects, it will then be approved for full use in the general population.

Last Monday, the Defense Ministry announced that Israel had begun mass-producing the potential corona-

virus vaccine and plans to distribute it to both Israelis and Palestinians if it is approved for use.

“In six months, the vaccine will be ready. In the meantime, the institute is working on mass production, without knowing whether the vaccine is good or not, so that we don’t reach a situation that in July, when we receive approval from the Health Ministry, we’ll be held up by production,” Prof.

Amos Panet, who is on the advisory board for the Israel Institute for Biological Research, told Army Radio.

The director of the state-run institute, Shmuel Shapira, said it will produce 15 million doses in the first stage and estimated the shot could be ready

by July.

The Defense Ministry has so far produced 25,000 doses for the first and second phases of the human trials. The vaccine was first tested on small animals – mice, hamsters and rabbits – and then on pigs.

The vaccine is named Brilife, a combination of the Hebrew word for health, bri’ut, and life. The name also contains the abbreviation for Israel, IL, as well as the letters that make up the initials of the laboratory, IIBR.

Temple Mount Protests

Friday saw hundreds of people protest on Temple Mount. The crowd were outraged by French President Emmanuel Macron’s vow to protect the right to caricature the Prophet Muhammad. Three people were arrested after scuffles with police.

The protestors chanted, “With our souls and with our blood we sacrifice for our prophet, Muhammad” and other “nationalist slogans.”

They also called Macron “the enemy of G-d.”

Hundreds of Palestinians also reportedly participated in a march condemning Macron’s remarks in Jerusalem’s Kafr Aqab neighborhood and in the neighboring Qalandiya refugee camp.

Demonstrators wore headbands declaring insulting Muhammad to

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hashtags. Muslim leaders, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in particular, have loudly criticized France for what they say is the government’s provocative and anti-Muslim stance.

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Police are still confounded after valuable statues were stolen from an archaeology and art museum in Kibbutz HaZore’a in August.

Thirty-three rare items of south and east Asian origin were taken, some dating to the first and second centuries, in total valued at some NIS 2 million, according to a Channel 12 news report.

The robbery devastated members of the community, many of whom visited the collection on a monthly basis, often with their children.

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It was not just Jerusalem that saw the ire of Muslims. Muslims protested around the world.

An estimated 2,000 worshippers celebrating the Mawlid, the birthday of Islam’s prophet Muhammad, took to the streets in the eastern Pakistan city of Lahore. Crowds led by Islamic parties chanted anti-France slogans, raised banners and clogged major roads en route to a Sufi shrine.

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Especially beloved by the kibbutz residents was a statue called “The Guard,” a brightly colored 1-meter tall statue of a Chinese soldier, meant to protect a tomb during the Tang Dynasty period in the 7th to 10th centuries, which was placed near the entrance to the museum.

“I grew up with him,” one kibbutz member said of the statue.

The collection also connected the community to its roots. The museum was founded with items bequeathed to the struggling community in its fledgling years by businessman Wilfrid Israel. Israel engineered the emigration of thousands of Jews, including his Jewish employees, to prestate Israel in the 1930s and 1940s, saving thousands of lives.

He played a key role in the Kindertransport which saved 10,000 German Jewish children, taking them to the UK without their parents in 1938.

The museum at the kibbutz today is named after Israel.

Video footage of the theft shows that the three thieves crossed a lawn from the dining hall to the museum in the early morning. They disabled the security cameras by breaking them and using poles to push them aside. The alarm did not go off.

They are seen a few minutes later with some artifacts. But then, two hours later, they come back again to the museum for more loot, using sacks from the laundry room to hold their spoils.

Kibbutz members are suspecting that it was possibly an inside job. They say that the artifacts were probably not taken off the kibbutz that night and that at least one of the thieves was possibly a resident of the kibbutz.

Now, months after the break-in, police still have no leads.

Israel: Country of Birth In a historic change of policy, the United States will now allow American citizens born in Jerusalem to list “Israel” as their country of birth on their passports and other consular documents.

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced the reversal of a decades-old policy on Thursday. In the past, in an effort to appear “neutral,” the U.S. had only allowed U.S. citi-

zens who were born in Jerusalem to list “Jerusalem” and not “Israel” on their consular documents and passports. If individuals were born prior to the creation of the State in 1948, their country of birth was listed as “Palestine.”

According to Pompeo, the policy change is “effective immediately” and is “consistent” with U.S. President Donald Trump’s 2017 decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and subsequently move the U.S. Embassy from Tel Aviv to the holy city.

The new policy will allow U.S. citizens to choose between “Jerusalem” or “Israel” as their place of birth; those who refrain from choosing will by default continue to be issued documents with their place of birth listed as “Jerusalem.”

Other policies on listing places of birth in Israel, the Gaza Strip, the Golan Heights, Jerusalem, and the West Bank remains unchanged, according to the statement.

Israel Trip Forgiven

Because Israel and Lebanon are technically still at war, a visit to Israel by Lebanese citizens is forbidden.

This week, though, Lebanon’s prosecutor general decided to “forgive” a trip to the Holy Land by former auto tycoon Carlos Ghosn in 2008 because the statute of limitations had expired.

Three lawyers filed a motion in January calling for the 66-year-old businessman to be prosecuted over his trip to the Jewish state as Renault-Nissan chairman.

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Ghosn for the crimes attributed to him of entering the enemy country and dealing with it economically,” a source told AFP. “A statute of limitations of ten years had passed since the alleged crime.”

On January 8, Ghosn had apologized to the Lebanese people for visiting Israel and signing a deal there to produce electric vehicles. He had traveled there on business with a French passport.

Ghosn also holds Lebanese and Brazilian nationalities.

The disgraced former Nissan chief was arrested in Japan in November 2018 on financial misconduct charges and spent 130 days in detention before he jumped bail and smuggled himself out of the country late last year.

Ghosn appeared at a press conference in Lebanon on January 8, denying all charges and claiming he was a victim of a plot by Nissan and Japanese officials.

Japan has called on Ghosn to return to the Asian country to be tried, while Lebanon has asked Japan to hand over his file on financial misconduct charges.

Still Counting…

Most Americans couldn’t wait for Election Day to be over. The heated rhetoric over the past few months created anxiety and uncertainty that hung like a thick cloud over the country.

But Tuesday didn’t provide any relief. In fact, for many, it created more nail-biting moments.

On Wednesday morning, the future of the United States still hung in the balance as President Donald Trump and challenger Joe Biden battled over battleground states.

The states in question, as of Wednesday morning, were Wiscon-

sin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania.

Zigzagging across the country frenetically, both candidates pursued their voters over the past few months.

President Trump blitzed around key states in the days before the elections.

More than 100 million Americans cast their votes in early voting, voting before November 3. In all, the number of Americans voting in this year’s election far surpassed 2016’s numbers.

On Tuesday, Trump’s supporters gave him Florida, with 29 electoral votes, despite former President Barack Obama coming out twice for Biden in the Sunshine State and a $100 million pledge from Michael Bloomberg to defeat the president.

Biden, on the other hand, flipped Arizona with 11 electoral votes, a state that in the past had voted red.

Still, by night’s end, neither candidate had the magic 270 Electoral College votes needed to declare victory. Trump, chomping at the bit, said prematurely that he emerged victorious in the early hours of Wednesday morning. Biden called for patience and said that it “ain’t over until every vote is counted.”

In this year’s election, several

states allow mailed-in votes to be accepted after Election Day, as long as they were postmarked by Tuesday. In Pennsylvania, ballots postmarked by November 3 could be accepted if they arrive up to three days after the election. That means that Pennsylvania may not be called for a few days.

Democrats typically outperform Republicans in mail-in voting; Republicans generally turn out in person on Election Day. The outcome of the presidential elections, and the fact that it came so close, shows that America is almost evenly divided. Because there was no one candidate that swept the nation, perhaps we are more united that we first thought.

Two issues that played heavily in this year’s election were the coronavirus pandemic and President Trump itself. Democrats consistently urged voters to think about “masks” and “science,” noting the high numbers of fatalities over the past few months.

Additionally, Trump himself is a polarizing figure – many came out to vote for him, while many others specifically voted against the president and pulled the lever for Biden – but not because they love Joe.

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Sanctions Imposed

Last week, the U.S. Treasury Department announced new sanctions on eight entities linked to the sale and purchase of Iranian petrochemical products.

The sanctioned companies – which are based in Iran, China and Singapore – are accused of facilitating transactions through Triliance Petrochemical Co. Ltd., which was sanctioned by the Treasury Department earlier this year.

“The Iranian regime benefits from a global network of entities facilitating the Iranian petrochemical sector,” Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said. “The United States remains committed to targeting any revenue source the Iranian regime uses to fund terrorist groups and oppress the Iranian people.”

According to the Treasury Department, Triliance has provided funding and support to the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps’ Quds Force, which is designated by the U.S. as a terror group. Petrochemical sales are a major source of revenue for Iran. The U.S. says Tehran uses funds from the sector to finance a “destabilizing agenda” in the Middle East and Venezuela.

The latest sanctions came three days after similar penalties were slapped on Iran’s oil sector and with the White House appearing determined to intensify its “maximum pressure” campaign against the Islamic Republic. Looking toward Election Day, President Trump said that if he wins a second term, these sanctions will force Tehran to come to the negotiating table.

Additionally, on Thursday, U.S. officials said that they will using the proceeds from the sale of fuel confiscated from Iranian tankers to benefit victims of terrorism. In August, the U.S. military seized 1.1 million barrels of fuel from four Iranian tankers bound for Venezuela.

The money “will now go to a far better use than either regime, Iran or Venezuela, could have envisioned

because it will provide relief for victims of terrorism rather than the perpetrators of such acts,” said Elliott Abrams, the State Department’s special representative for Iran and Venezuela.

“So that is both poetic and tangible justice,” he noted.

The United States estimates that it will be able to recoup some $40 million from the sale, according to Michael Sherwin, acting U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia.

Oregon Decriminalizes Drugs

Tuesday’s elections brought more than just senators and representatives into office. Certain ballot measures were passed when voters went to the ballot box to cast their votes.

Oregon this week became the first state to decriminalize the possession of small amounts of hard drugs including heroin, cocaine, and LSD. The measure, backed by criminal justice reform groups, is aimed at diverting people from jails and prisons by treating possession as a citation and expanding access to treatment and recovery.

Additionally, voters in Arizona, Montana, New Jersey and South Dakota passed state ballot measures to legalize recreational cannabis use.

The District of Columbia and 11 other states already legalize adult use of cannabis, which remains illegal at the federal level in the U.S. The Oregon drug initiative will allow people arrested with small amounts of hard drugs to avoid going to trial, and possible jail time, by paying a $100 fine and attending an addiction recovery program. The treatment centers will be funded by revenues from legalized marijuana, which was approved in Oregon several years ago.

“Today’s victory is a landmark declaration that the time has come to stop criminalizing people for drug use,” said Kassandra Frederique, the executive director of the Drug Policy

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Oregon voters also approved a measure making it the first state to legalize the therapeutic use of psychedelic mushrooms.

Dead Candidate Wins

David Andahl’s name was on the ballot this week in North Dakota to represent the 8th district in the state’s House of Representatives. On Tuesday, Andahl won the election – although he isn’t alive to enjoy the victory.

A few weeks before elections, Andahl passed away from complications from coronavirus. He was 55. He had defeated Rep. Jeff Delzer, the longtime incumbent, in the June primary.

After Andahl passed away on October 5, state Attorney General Wayne

Stenehjem affirmed that his name would still remain on the ballot, and if he won, the state Republican Party would appoint a replacement.

“In the event the deceased candidate receives the majority of the votes, the candidate is elected. However, if the prevailing candidate has died, the candidate is no longer qualified, and a vacancy would exist,” Stenehjem wrote, citing state law on filling a legislative vacancy.

Voters have the option to petition for a special election after the legislative session if they are unhappy with the appointment.

“He had a lot of feelings for his county…and wanting to make things better, and his heart was in farming.

He wanted things better for farmers and the coal industry,” Andahl’s mother related.

Holocaust Denier Fired – Again William Latson, principal at Spanish River Community High School in Boca Raton, has been fired for the second time.

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The principal wrote in a 2018 email to a parent that he could not confirm that the Holocaust was a “factual, historical event.” He also said that he could not “force” Holocaust lessons on children because some parents did not believe that it happened.

Since that email came to light in 2019, the school board voted to fire Latson. His termination was not specifically because of the email but because he “failed to respond to communication from his supervisors and failed to assist the district in addressing the serious disruption caused by the aforementioned email and news coverage,” the Miami Herald said.

But in August, an administrative law judge ruled that while Latson did commit “several acts of poor judgment,” his conduct did not warrant suspension or termination.

It was decided in October to then reinstate Latson. But then, on Monday, amid public outcry, the school board decided to fire Latson again.

In a YouTube video uploaded last week, Latson apologized for his inflammatory email.

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Walmart Lays Off Robots

Walmart prefers humans over robots.

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In a statement, Walmart said that it has “worked with Bossa Nova for five years and together we learned a lot about how technology can assist associates, make jobs easier, and provide a better customer experience.”

It will test other technologies for tracking inventory and moving goods.

For now, humans will continue stocking shelves and tracking products.

Porch Piracy Act

Thieves in Oklahoma beware. The state is now coming after those who steal packages off people’s porches.

The Porch Piracy Act, which was signed into law in May by Gov. Kevin Stitt, went into effect on Sunday.

The law lays out fines and potential prison sentences for those who steal packages, also known as porch pi-

rates.

Under the act, stealing mail is a misdemeanor punishable by a year in jail, a $500 fine, or both. Those who commit porch piracy three times in a 60-day period can be hit with a felony charge, punishable by two to five years in prison and a fine of up to $5,000 – or both.

Those convicted under the Porch Piracy Act will also have to pay restitution to the victims.

“Porch piracy is becoming a common crime with the popularity of online shopping and home delivery,” state Sen. Lonnie Paxton, a Republican, noted earlier this year. Paxton was one of the authors of the bill.

Tulsa Police Department spokeswoman Officer Jeanne Pierce said that the department has had more problems with porch pirates since more people are working from home and ordering packages online.

“It’s really good that we have that felony aspect of the law because we are seeing a lot of the same people committing this crime over and over again,” Pierce said. “So if we can take several package thefts and charge them, we can turn that into a felony and they can get a more severe pun-

‫אבל יחיד עשי לך‬ A Personal Loss The family of Dirshu deeply mourns the passing of Doctor Nachman Schorr, zt”l.

Rav Nachman was an outstanding role model: A person who learned Torah with fiery dedication and was tested in Dirshu’s Kinyan Torah program cycle after cycle for fifteen years, completing and being tested on all of Shas!

Rav Nachman was a prototype of ahavas haTorah, yegiah b’Torah and mesikus haTorah.

ishment for the crimes they’re committing.”

Stories about porch pirates have gained attention in recent years. Two women in Washington state dressed as nurses and allegedly stole packages from front porches in May. Last year, again in Washington, two women stole a package that contained a replica WWE championship belt meant for an autistic boy with a brain tumor. They later returned the package.

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Lest you are too tired after a long day of hiking to build a fire, along with storage drawers and shelves, there are a battery-powered refrigerator and a hot dog roller grill.

Talk about luxury on the road.

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His loss is our loss.

He will be sorely missed. ,‫הכותבים בדמע‬ ‫הנהלת דרשו‬ ‫ נשיא‬,‫רב דוד הופשטטר‬

Aaron Chamberlain biked solo around the Lone Star State in a mere 58 days.

The resident of Austin, Texas, rode more than 3,000 miles, calling it his “Tour de Texas.”

“Didn’t want to leave y’all waiting too long. Final map!! 3014.64 miles in 58 days (6 rest days, [52] riding days). Thanks for following along,” Chamberlain tweeted out on Wednesday along with a red-lined map that showed his Texas-shaped route.

Chamberlain described his experience of biking through Texas’ Big Bend region, in the southwest corner of the state, as “an unforgettable experience, with beautiful desert and mountain vistas making up for the painful hills.”

Well, they do say that everything is bigger in the State of Texas.

Split Fortune

A lottery win is making two sisters really happy.

An Australian woman won a $1.4 million lottery jackpot on Saturday when she was one of 10 division one winners in the Gold Lotto $20 Million Superdraw.

But she’s not keeping the goods all for herself. The winner told officials that she will be giving half of her winnings to her sister, as part of a long-held pact between the two women to split any major lottery jackpots they might win.

“I’ll be sharing half of it with my sister,” the winner said. “She buys Set for Life tickets, and I buy the Saturday Lotto tickets, and we’ve always said if either of us wins, we’ll go halves. So I’ll stick to the agreement and give her half.”

When asked what she will be doing with her half of the loot, the woman answered, “I’m off to a Melbourne Cup luncheon tomorrow so I might have a few extra glasses of champagne to celebrate then.”

Seems like she has her priorities straight.

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crashed to the ground about 30 feet down if it hadn’t landed atop one of two whale tail sculptures next to the tracks.

The sculpture is appropriately named “Saved by the Whale’s Tail.”

Maarten Struijs, who installed the whale tail sculptures 20 years ago, said he was surprised to see the train had not damaged the plastic artwork.

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A subway train in the Netherlands crashed through a barrier this week but thankfully no one was hurt. The train was saved by a giant sculpture of a whale when it came to rest on top of the whale’s enormous tail.

The train had jumped the tracks and crashed through the buffers as it approached the station. It would have

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It bears the image of Marcus Junius Brutus, one of the leaders of Caesar’s assassination, as well as the image of two daggers and the words “Eid Mar,” which means the Ides of March, a reference to the March 15 date of the killing of Caesar.

Nearly 100 similar coins minted in silver are known to exist, but the one that sold for $3.5 million in the late October auction is one of only three known to survive that were minted in gold.

It was purchased anonymously.

The record-breaking sale marks a new world record for the most expensive coin ever sold.

The previous record-holder was an ancient Greek gold stater that sold for $3.25 million in 2012. The previous record for the most expensive Roman coin was a bronze sestertius of the Emperor Hadrian that sold for $2.5 million in 2008.

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cord-breaking high bid of $3.5 million at an auction in Britain last week.

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favorite mindless activity.

The Norwegian makers of Internet browser Opera have announced that they are offering a $9,000 payday for two weeks of surfing the web.

The lucky “Personal Browser” will spend 14 days hunting for memes, watching cute baby animal videos, and researching unusual topics while livestreaming the experience on Opera’s social media channels.

“This might seem like a joke –

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but it really isn’t. We are indeed hiring a person to just surf the web and actually get paid for it,” Maciej Kocemba, product director of the Opera desktop browser, said.

“What we are looking for in a candidate is the unpolished truth.

We want someone who has the guts to share their online experience with the world.”

I am sure that there are a lot of candidates perfectly suited for that position.

Interested parties are being asked to record a 15-60 second video “where they talk about the most relevant browsing moment of their life.”

“It can be anything from a funny incident to a dead serious revelation,” the company said.

Like how important the internet is to them.

Coconut Cash Don’t have money for college? No worries. You can earn your degree – as long as you have some coconuts on

hand.

A hospitality college in Indonesia is offering students hit by the economic slowdown the chance to pay their tuition in coconuts and other natural materials.

How about bottles of milk? Can the school accept those for payment too?

The Venus One Tourism Academy in Gianyar, Bali, said students facing financial hardships will be allowed to pay their tuition and other fees by bringing in coconuts for the school to use to harvest virgin coconut oil.

If coconuts are hard to find, students can also pay school fees with moringa leaves and gotu kola leaves – leaves that are used to make herbal soap.

The school will use the coconuts and leaves to make products, which they will sell on campus to raise funds.

Angela Hansberger, a food writer, misses visiting restaurants due to the pandemic and so she has opened one on her porch – for a rodent.

Hansberger, from Georgia, said that she took it hard when so many restaurants were forced to close.

“I was facing a lot of anxiety. I kind of hid it,” Hansberger told CBS News. “Gosh, I’m crying. I was really sad for all the people in the industry that I worked with.”

At one point, her uncle built her a mini picnic table to nail to her fence for squirrels to play and climb on.

A Chipmunk Restaurant

But when she left it on her porch for a few minutes, she came back to a surprise.

“When I walked back, there was a chipmunk sitting there like a little person. I gave him some nuts I had leftover from a holiday pie, and he ate them. The next morning, I did the same. He came every day, sometimes sitting at the empty table waiting for me.”

Having fun with her newfound “customer,” Hansberger started creating chipmunk-sized versions of popular restaurant foods to feed her daily guest, who she named Thelonious Munk.

“I began plating his dishes, learning about what was good and not good for a chipmunk diet, and trying to make entrees using nuts, grains and fruit,” she said.

She soon added a miniature bar to the restaurant for serving rodent-sized sushi and ramen bowls.

“One day he came up with this little tiny bundle – wadded up leaves – and put it on the table. So, I take it to mean he brought a tip,” Hansberger quipped.

Dining al fresco, even with a furry creature, is the way to go.

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Community The talmidos of the Ganger Early Childhood Center at TAG got an opportunity to make their voices heard this Election Day. The students cast their ballots for their favorite healthy snack. The ballot box visited each classroom so the girls could vote safely, and each girl received an “I Voted” sticker to wear proudly!

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here’s a buzz in the hallways and it’s been going on for some time here at Bais Yaakov Ateres Miriam. Campaigns were well underway after Sukkos break and you can feel the election generating excitement everywhere.

Our sixth grade candidates,

Chani Mayer, running as Donald Trump, and Fraidy Rosenzweig, running as Joe Biden, or “Friden” have been campaigning every spare second, and the whole school is getting a feel for how the campaign and election process works. The candidates have made their proposals

about how they will run the school and what tax cuts AKA treats will be given upon their nomination.

The campaigns culminated on Election Day when each class eagerly came to cast their vote, using ballots. At the end of the day, everyone came to social distance in the

yard where they heard the election results!

We are sure that both candidates would do an excellent job, and we are proud to have learned firsthand how it all works.

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The yeladim in Nursery Bet in HANC ECC West Hempstead voted for their favorite snack this week. They learned about the voting process and got to cast their ballots in our voting booth. Everyone got an “I Voted” sticker.

The Yellow Pre1A class at Gesher votied for their favorite animals on Election Day

Students at HALB cast their ballots on Tuesday

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Rabbi Dovid Niman Illustrates How “Chessed Matters”

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Talmidim of Rav Yehuda Deutsch’s third grade class in Yeshiva Darchei Torah displayed the etchings of Kever Rochel that they created on the yahrtzeit of Rochel Imeinu last week

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n Wednesday, October 28, Shevach students entered their multi-purpose room to find it transformed into a “science laboratory.” The artwork on the walls was eye-catching, containing scientific “matter” relating to chessed. One wall portrayed a solar system of planets with names such as Bnos, Help-A-Mom, Chill Zone and Menucha V’Simcha, reminding all to expand their “horizons.”

Another wall was turned into a Periodic Table of the Elements, with quotes such as “Do Chessed Periodically,” “Chessed is our Oxygen,” and “Chessed is More Precious Than Gold and Silver.”

The room “positively” conveyed the feeling that cChessed truly matters, as was the theme of this year’s chessed breakout. Shevach Chessed heads Shifra Gewanter, Goldy Max, Dasi Moskowitz, and Nechama Ribowsky, under the direction of Shevach Assistant Principal, Rebbitzen Chani Grunblatt, outdid themselves in portraying this theme.

Rabbi Dovid Niman, principal of General Studies at Mesifta Chofetz Chaim, addressed the students on the power and impact of chessed.

In a workshop style discussion, he brought home the point that the repercussions of an act of cshesed is even more far-reaching than that of tzedakah because; it involves one’s emotions – one’s neshama, can be done with all people, whether rich or poor, and can even be done for those who have already departed

this world.

Rabbi Niman then brought this concept to life with riveting stories and anecdotes that held the audience captivated.

Rabbi Niman ended with a moving example of a paragon of chessed, his wife Robin, a”h, whose first yahrtzeit recently took place.

Robin’s desire to do chessed was so strong, she defied the scientific odds of what a woman in her advanced stage of cancer is able to accomplish.

After this truly inspiring talk, the senior Chessed heads presented their theme of “Chessed Matters” through an amusing video that they had produced. The video depicted different scenarios of people seeking help, the Shevach “scientists” experimenting with different “formulas,” and finally coming up with the perfect “solution” to everyone’s problems: chessed.

The Chessed heads ended the breakout with an original and catchy theme song conveying this thought.

In line with the science-related theme, each student received a cup, imprinted with the Chessed Matters logo, that changed colors when filled with cold liquids.

Everyone left the breakout charged with “positive energy,” ready to help change the world, through a clearer understanding of how “Chessed Matters.” Kudos to the Shevach Chessed heads, who put in many hours to produce an incredible and memorable event.

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his week, IVDU LI launched a new karate class led by Master Eli of Pakua Long Island.

The oldest class began a year-long program, which will be held weekly and will cover the basic elements of karate. They learned new moves, practiced kicking with blocking pads, and even played a variation of Simon

Says to drill the new moves.

The martial arts class will complement the whole-child approach that IVDU LI takes with each student and has set out ambitious goals to address gross motor skills, self-confidence, focus and discipline in a sensory-enriched and fun environment.

he Civic Spirit students at Central, led by Mrs. Audi Hecht, participated in a workshop last week about voters considering the dynamics of voting and values.

Sophomore Anat Ebbin reflects, “This past week’s Civic Spirit’s session was very eye-opening. It was fascinating to hear from a variety of students about the things they valued in a president. Because the session had so many different people, the way people’s culture influenced their values was very cool to see.

For example, growing up on Long Island and going to yeshiva all my life, I mostly only heard of people looking for presidential candidates that shared their views on the Middle Eastern conflict, but some of the kids at this session were not from yeshivas and they had more diverse values. These are values that I have not often heard about because of the sheltered places that I live in, and it was very interesting to be able to share in this experience of conversing with people different from me.”

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YOSS Joins the Tehillim Initiative

O Gesher’s kindergarten enjoyed practicing Hachnosas Orchim in Avraham Avinu’s tent

n Monday, November 2, Yeshiva of South Shore took part in the national Torah Umesora Tehillim Initiative. At 11 a.m., all classes stopped and YOSS joined hundreds and thousands of talmidim across America in a Yom Tefilla. We all said five kapitlach Tehillim focusing on the current situation facing Jews and the world at-large.

It was a beautiful and awe-inspiring sight to witness: rebbeim calling into the conference from their

phones, or connecting on their smartboard with Google voice and all the talmidim, together as one, reciting the everlasting words of Tehillim.

The Mechina, grades 6-8, joined as well with Tehillim and Avinu Malkeinu B’tzibbur at the end of davening. As Chazal tell us – the tefillos of tinokos shel beis rabban are extraordinarily powerful. May Hashem hear all our heartfelt tefillos and quickly bring an end to this mageifa.

to their classrooms, Sunny and Sky Vegh. These two adorable parakeets gave the children the opportunity to observe birds firsthand and learn more about them. Some of the children were found near the cage reading them books and explaining the classroom routine.

The children helped erect a small tent with four entrances so that they could greet guests. Our young hosts

enthusiastically emulated Avraham and did the mitzvah of hachnasat orchim in their tent. They invited guests to sit on cushions and graciously served them delicious mud pies.

We at Shulamith ECC feel privileged to be able to introduce our mesorah to our youngest learners and watch as they absorb and internalize the lessons from our Imahot and Avot.

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sk a child at Shulamith ECC what her favorite time of the day is, and she will inevitably answer, “Parsha.”

The children sit enthralled as the story of the parsha unfolds each day.

They eagerly await each installment and are amazed when morah reassures them that “this really happened a long time ago. It says it in the Torah!”

It is beautiful to hear the way each morah tells the story of parsha with such love, enthusiasm, and conviction that Hashem always takes care of us.

The children internalize the story of the parsha and enjoy acting it out in the classroom learning centers. The rug in the block area became a watery sea with a three level Teivah floating in it. The dramatic play area featured a real suitcase the children could pack so that Avraham would be ready when Hashem asked him to go in Parshat Lech Lecha.

Hands-on activities further help children’s comprehension of the parsha. The Pre 1-A children went on a Bereishit walk to appreciate the world

Hashem created for us. They used iPads to photograph the beautiful things they saw and enjoyed sorting and classifying the pictures they took into the various days of Creation.

A petting zoo gave the children firsthand experience with animals.

They were amazed that Noach was able to fit so many animals into his Teivah and care for all of them so well.

They even had two special visitors

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Multisensory Learning at HAFTR Early Childhood

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he wonderful teachers at HAFTR’s Early Childhood buildings excel at making every learning opportunity a complete multisensory experience. Last week’s lessons about Parshat Noach are a perfect example of crafting more than one way for kids to connect with what they are learning.

Classes used a flannel board with felt pieces to make the story of Noach and the teyva come alive. The children practiced their numbers by counting two of every animal that went on the teyva as they pretended they were these animals and made the appropriate sounds.

The students had lots of fun during art, and the activity was also great for fine motor skills. They got to work pinching, grasping, and patterning as they created rainbows.

Then they dip-dotted, glued, colored, and scrunched tissue paper to create their own teyvas. Of course, music is essential to every lesson, and they

concluded by singing about the rainbow while naming each color.

Using cornstarch, sugar, water, and food coloring, the yeladim made a “rainbow stew.” Each child received a Ziploc bag with two different colors of the “stew.” They squished it together, blending the

colors. It was a wonderful visual and tactile experience. Even though they couldn’t eat their “stew,” as a special treat, they baked animal cookies to snack on instead!

Finally, each class made a rainbow fruit salad. What a delicious way to celebrate all of the colorful

fruits in Hashem’s rainbow. They all had so much fun creating their own projects as the story was retold and songs were sung. These children are already well on their way to being prepared for early admission to top universities!

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YOSS Motzei Shabbos Learning Goes Global

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here is only one thing sweeter than the sound of boys learning Torah. That is the sound of young boys learning Torah with a chavrusah from the older generation!

Until this year, every single Motzei Shabbos in the winter, those sweet sounds rang in the Beis Midrash of Yeshiva of South Shore during the Motzei Shabbos Learning Program.

Twenty seven years ago, the founding Rosh Yeshiva, Rav Binyamin Kamenetzky, zt”l, envisioned what would become a jewel in the Yeshiva’s crown, a Motzei Shabbos Learning Program for children of all ages. It began with 20 boys in attendance.

The program grew rapidly until it catapulted to become the largest in the entire community, hosting ap-

proximately 150 boys weekly.

This year, even though the beautiful sight and sounds of learning cannot take place in the actual Beis Medrash, the kol Torah continues to ring…in the ZOOM Beis Midrash!

What a sight! Last week, over 250 boys joined via Zoom and learned together, just as if they were in the regular Beis Midrash! Rabbi Shlomo Drebin began the program right after Shabbos, with a welcome and a riddle, and for the next 40 minutes, everyone learned at home with their older chavrusah. The highlight of the night, as always, was a story and a grand raffle for all attendees.

The program was so successful, that now, Yeshiva of South Shore is inviting every boy in the country

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ALB utilizes the Blended Learning Rotational Model in both the preschool and elementary school. Students experience group instruction followed by time on the computer and at two different work stations where the students are engaged in small group instruction or independent work. This model allows teachers to analyze data, further differentiate instruction, work with small groups, and spend more class time on critical thinking and problem-solving.

(and beyond!) to join as well! You don’t have to be part of YOSS to be inspired by hundreds of boys learning together.

There is no better geshmak to start your week than with the kedusha of Torah!

Of course, whoever attends will enjoy a great story at the end, followed by the famous YOSS raffles, with over 20 prizes raffled off each week! YOSS is also offering special gifts of seforim to the boys who attend for 10 weeks!

It’s simple to join. Just visit www. yoss.org/mslearning for the sign in form and zoom link, and you are in!

Or, just go straight to the zoom link Meeting ID: 616 210 4870 Passcode: YOSS, but don’t forget to fill out

the form to enter the raffle!

The program begins right after Shabbos. Join this week, and tell your friends as well! Now, with the very long Motzei Shabbosim there’s plenty of time to learn!

See you there!

For more information, or to sponsor a week of learning, email the program coordinator, Rabbi Shlomo Drebin, at Sdrebin@yoss.org

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Trump Wins Big in National Mock Election Among Atidaynu Students

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n the spirit of the presidential election, Atidaynu held our own general election on Election Day, the 3rd of November.

Atidaynu is a school geared towards special needs students seeking a warm environment and caring staff.

Our students learned all about the presidential candidates Donald J. Trump and Joseph R. Biden. The students discovered that the presidential candidates are members of the two main political parties in America, the Republican Party and the Democratic Party.

Each student had the opportunity to examine the party platforms of each candidate and were thoughtful about what they felt was im-

portant to them and the country. Our older students had the opportunity to research the candidate’s civil rights and tax reform positions and have written several papers on what they would do if they were president. Matanel Ben Hayun, an educator at Atidaynu, humorously shared how “one student had such a hard time deciding who to vote for that he chose to vote for ‘Triden.’”

When it came time to cast their ballot and vote, the students were extremely excited to back their favorite candidate and proudly wore their “I voted” stickers. When the ballots were cast and the votes tallied, Trump won by a landslide 17 votes to Biden’s eight.

After our students demon-

strated their ability to strongly advocate for their candidates and their beliefs, they settled down to enjoy their delicious Trump- and Bidenthemed doughnuts with their teachers and friends.

Beyond teaching our students the importance of their civic duty and how democracy works in the United Stated of America, this was a great exercise in Atidaynu’s learning theme of the month:

making the best choices you can.

“Many in the special needs community have great difficulty in making choices and following through on their decisions,” Simi Bazov, Educational Director at Atidaynu, explained. “In Atidaynu, we felt that the presidential elections were a perfect opportunity to teach our students how to carefully consider different options by gathering information and thinking of the outcome that might occur based on their decisions.” She pointed out that “our students made the choice they felt was not only best for them, but best for those around them as well.”

Atidaynu is a special needs school designed for students who are diagnosed with autism or have language, social skills development, and academic needs. We welcome elementary school children from diverse ethnic, social,

and economic backgrounds and strive to serve the whole child by offering a thoughtfully designed, comprehensive array of academic and support services to identify each child’s unique learning style.

Our program is tailored to meet the particular needs of each individual student while delivering a complete elementary school curriculum including reading, writing, math, science, social studies, art, music, drama, yoga, physical education and technology. Most importantly, Atidaynu strongly believes that passion, compassion, and love are the best tools to nurture growth and development in every student.

Atidaynu, building our future with love.

For more information about our program, email us at adminassist@atidaynuourfuture.com.

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HAFTR Evening of the Arts

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n Tuesday night, October 27, fifth grade HAFTR artists celebrated at their long delayed Evening of the Arts program.

This year’s program, held outdoors, under the stars, was planned with great care, conforming with New York State’s requirements for size

limitations and social distancing.

HAFTR Lower School’s annual Evening of the Arts is a culmination of the fourth grade year-long study of music and the visual arts, usually held in March as a gala art exhibit and musical production. Student performers typically dazzle parents, grandparents, and guests. Regrettably, the event was one of many cancelled last year.

Last year, students visited the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and the Museum at Eldridge Street, invited artist Rabbi Yitzchok Moully and joined Carnegie Hall’s Weill Music Institute in its year-long music curriculum.

The HAFTR administration and staff could not accept that the tireless efforts of their students to prepare for this event would go unfulfilled.

They instead, once again, pivoted without pause, and turned the event into a COVID-friendly affair.

The HAFTR landscape on Washington Avenue in Lawrence was transformed into a magical garden filled with lights, music, and art.

Each student, with his or her special guests, arrived at scheduled intervals to walk through and experience the galleries. Student artwork, inspired by artists from the fourth grade curriculum, decorated the landscape. Upon entering, guests listened to music set to the songs and repertoire students learned in music class last year. A virtual gallery was

available for all those who could not attend. The event was in part sponsored by Charles and Elaine Stieglitz in honor of their grandson Noah Stieglitz.

Students’ creations were inspired by the works of Alberto Giacometti, Wassily Kandinsky, Kesler Woodward, Sandra Silberzweig, Bridget Riley, Yitzchok Moully, Edgar Degas, and Wayne Thiebaud.

HAFTR once again proved to be a trailblazer in school COVID safety. Sara and Saul Haimoff, parents of Yosef, commented that “tonight’s evening was absolutely magnificent!

COVID safety was spot-on! I can’t imagine how much time and effort went into planning and executing this event, and just wanted to say that we are so grateful to everyone involved!”

“The staff and kids truly put in so much effort, and tonight could not have been more incredible. We are so lucky that in these trying times, we get to have events like this, that bring us so much joy. Thank you again for all your hard work and dedication. We are truly blessed to be part of the HAFTR family,” shared parent Chani Jeter.

The extraordinary arts staff at HAFTR Lower School, Mrs. Janet Goldman, Mrs. Jill Goldstein, and Mrs. Royce Maron, do an exceptional job inspiring HAFTR students and instilling them with an awareness and love for the arts.

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Social and Emotional Learning at YOSS

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midst the global pandemic and the swirling clouds of uncertainty, Yeshiva of South Shore has implemented an initiative to provide their elementary school students with the skills that will help breed success for the talmidim, both in school and later on in life.

Last summer, Rabbi Yehuda Kamenetzky, the school counselor, together with the menahalim and principals of the elementary and Mechina divisions, came up with the idea of implementing a proactive program early on in the students’ academic careers to hopefully stem the tide of students suffering from mental health issues. Having trained at a nationally recognized, therapeutic school, The LOGOS School, in Olivette, MO, geared towards students with social, emotional, and behavioral challenges, Rabbi Kamenetzky gained experience and perspective, unlike most others. So far, the skills covered have included listening skills, respect, empathy, and peer pressure. Rabbi Kamenetzky has designed a robust program, utilizing small, bite-sized lessons, worksheets, videos, and role-play.

He tailors each lesson to grade level, and as the students develop the skills presented, he moves on to the next topic.

Although typically each grade focuses on a different skill, the entire division is now working on mindfulness. Starting with teaching the basic physiology of the brain, Rabbi Kamenetzky explained how different areas of our brain could cause unwanted thoughts, feelings, and sensations. He explained that being mindful allows individuals to stay in the moment and helps them push aside the “hubbub” in their brains to feel calmer and be more productive.

The feedback has been tremendous from administrators, teachers, students, and parents alike.

One fourth grade student asked his teacher, “Can Rabbi Kamenetzky come into our class every day to teach us? His classes are so much fun.” Mrs. Leah Girnun, elementary school principal, remarked that her son, a third grader, recounted Rabbi Kamenetzky’s lesson over Shabbos with a distinct level of excitement.

Besides the obvious knowledge

and skills the talmidim gain from the program comes an added level of comfortability in approaching Rabbi Kamenetzky. Whereas prior to the implementation of this program he primarily worked with the boys who were referred to him in the Abraham and Sara Silber Mechina division, Rabbi Kamenetzky reports that the younger elementary boys now ap-

proach him regularly in the halls of their building asking him for advice and guidance. In addition, the teachers now realize that they have an additional resource from whom to cull insight and suggestions.

Overall, the program is another exciting educational initiative well on its way to developing the whole student. As Rabbi Avraham Robin-

son, menahel of the Bais Binyamin elementary division, summed it up, “Rabbi Kamenetzky continues to elevate the children’s self-awareness and understanding through skillful intervention and prevention programs. His group work has proven to be essential during these turbulent times.”

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Chessed Week at SKA

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cts of chessed these days are more important than ever, even while social distancing.

With that in mind, the students of the Stella K. Abraham High School for Girls spent the week of October 26 listening to and learning from people who personify the attribute of chessed.

Setting the tone for the week on Monday, Mrs. Shimi Adar spoke to the entire SKA student body on Zoom about making a difference in the world. Mrs. Adar, whose motto is “be the reason someone smiles,” is a motivational speaker, MC for various charities and an entertainer, and her positive energy and enthusiasm extended far beyond the screen. Throughout the session, Mrs. Adar emphasized that the past months made her more proactive and creative in her approaches to doing chessed; she used her social media platform to spread cheer during this troubled time and inspire people to copy her good deeds.

This interview was a great way to start SKA’s Chessed Week!

For Tuesday’s event, a panel of “models of chessed” showed the girls how they translated their passion for good works into action. The students were honored to hear from Mrs. Sherri Hammer, an SKA parent who is a director of iShine, Mrs. Jenny Gerber, an SKA alumna who runs a toy gemach and party dress gemach in her home, and Ms. Kyra Englander, an SKA alumna who now lives in Israel and volunteers with people with disabilities. These role models made an incredible impact on the girls and charged them with getting involved in chessed.

A unique SKA student chessed project took place in honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Pink challah rolls were sold that evening to benefit Sharsheret, an organization that supports Jewish women facing this challenge.

The annual SKA Chessed Fair featuring new opportunities for volunteer work was held on Wednesday. Dynamic SKA student leaders explained the organizations they participate

in to students in each grade. Yashar koach to Lilly Glickman, Kayla Frenkel, Kelly Friedman, Talia Loskove, Tamar Mayer, Rina Sharbat and Molly Sigman for Yachad; Abby Ackerman, Atara Kleinman, and Chani Ribenow for Friendship Circle; Talia Belsky and Finnie Elkouby for the JCC; Anni Laufer for Peer Tutoring and Riki Posner for ATSB; Kayla Aryeh and Megan Solomon for NCSY’s array of services; Priva Halpert for the Greater Five Towns Sefarim Gemach; and Ariella Borah and Shoshi Greenberg for Sharing the Warmth of kindness – offering drinks to the SKA security guards and pursuing other ways to help and support all staff at SKA. Sponsored by SKA’s Israel Action Committee, students brought in bags of clothing to be shipped to Yad Leah each day of Chessed Week. Thursday’s theme of “Cookies and Chessed” had the SKA students spending their lunch break helping others by either packing the incredible amount of clothes collected or making activity packets for people having cancer

SKA student Chani Ribenow discusses volunteering for Friendship Circle

treatments as they cannot be accompanied to the hospital.

Thanks go to our special speaker and panelists, Rabbi Yosef Zakutinsky and Mrs. Yafa Storch, Director and Assistant of Student Programs, Chessed Coordinator Mrs. Leanne Taylor, IAC advisor Mrs. Penina Bernstein, Graphics Instructor Mrs. Rivie Blum for her gorgeous flyer, and the many Chessed committee members for organizing this wonderful weeklong program.

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Stop & Shop Unveils New Woodmere Store

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top & Shop today its doors in Woodmere, New York, last week marking the brand’s first new location on Long Island since its Rocky Point store opened in 2017.

Located at 253-01 Rockaway Blvd., Stop & Shop’s Woodmere store is just 1.7 miles from its Inwood store, which closed permanently on Thursday, October 29.

Stop & Shop’s new Woodmere location is refreshed in look, format and amenities. Customers will enjoy the largest kosher assortment available at any Stop & Shop store, enhanced ethnic offerings and more convenient solutions including curbside pickup that makes grocery shopping faster and easier for customers.

Highlights of the Woodmere store include: • New grab-and-go meal solutions including a new hot foods bar, sushi made fresh in-store daily, and a flatbread pizza station.

• Expanded produce section that in-

cludes a dedicated kosher assortment of fresh fruit and vegetables.

• Enhanced kosher assortment that includes fresh fish, meat and baked goods including challah and babka.

• Expanded beer section complete with local craft finds such as Greenport Harbor Brewing and Port Jeff Brewing.

• Stop & Shop Pickup – orders placed online at stopandshop.com can be picked up at the store from the comfort of your own car while a store associate delivers your order right to your trunk.

“Stop & Shop has been proud to serve the Five Towns Community for 20 years,” said Bob Yager, SVP of Operations Strategy & Support for Stop & Shop. “We are even more proud to be providing residents with a new store, complete with new services and products that will better serve this diverse and wonderful community.”

Part of a multi-year initiative to refresh the brand’s 400+ stores, Woodmere is the first of several Nas-

Stacey Feldman, Associate Executive Director of the Marion & Aaron Gural JCC, with Artur Alchasov, Stop & Shop store manager

sau County store remodels that will mirror the company’s investment in 21 stores in Suffolk County last year.

Coming up later this year, Stop & Shop will unveil refreshed stores in Glen Cove (11/6), West Babylon and Huntington (11/20), and Port Washington (12/18). Several others will fol-

low in 2021.

To commemorate the occasion and further support the Five Towns community, Stop & Shop Woodmere will donate $1,000 and $500 in Nature’s Promise® natural and organic products to the Gural JCC in Cedarhurst.

80,000 Children Join in National Yom Tefillah

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ith Klal Yisroel facing unprecedented challenges on multiple fronts, the voices of 80,000 children from all across the United States rang out in heartfelt prayer during a Yom Tefillah jointly arranged by Agudath Israel of America and Torah Umesorah at the behest of Gedolei Yisroel to coincide with the last day of BaHaB. Two separate Tehillim teleconferences led by Rabbi Eliezer Gins-

burg were arranged for the morning of November 2 to accommodate elementary schools on both coasts, while shuls, women, mesivtas, batei medrash and Bais Yaakov high schools were urged to say Avinu Malkeinu and five designated perakim of Tehillim in order to awaken rachmei Shomayim. Discussing the Yom Tefillah, Rabbi Hillel David noted to an event organizer that special emphasis is placed on the davening of younger children. Quoting the Gemara in Shabbos 119B, Rabbi

David explained that the tefillos of tinokos shel beis raban possess unparalleled power.

“It was an amazing experience to say Tehillim knowing that we were part of something bigger,” said one Monsey student. “We are going to keep davening for things to get better.”

Rabbi Labish Becker, executive director of the Agudah, noted that the unprecedented issues facing Klal Yisroel, including COVID, lockdowns, financial and spiritual chal-

lenges and other hardships, make clear the need to turn our collective thoughts and hearts heavenward.

“Throughout the ages we have seen that our tefillos, particularly those of our youngest schoolchildren, have the ability to positively impact even the most difficult of situations,” said Rabbi Becker. “It is our greatest hope that the unity and the tefillos of our Yom Tefillah will bring about the refuos and yeshuos that are so desperately needed.”

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There’s Always Time for Torah at MTA

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TA’s stellar educational experience is built upon a solid foundation, whose cornerstone is Torah learning. Torah is not just limited to shiur. MTA talmidim have an incredible variety of learning programs that they take advantage of throughout each and every day. Let’s take a behind-the-scenes look and see what the buzz is about!

A typical morning begins before Shacharis. When talmidim arrive at yeshiva early, many of them choose to learn in the Beis Medrash before davening – whether in chavrusahs or at a pre-Shacharis Iyun Tefillah Chaburah led by Head of School Rabbi Kahn. During breakfast, talmidim can learn in chaburahs led by their peers, providing not only additional time to learn, but also opportunities for talmidim to take on leadership roles. The Beis Medrash is always filled with the beautiful sounds of learning, which permeate the entire campus. Throughout the morning, rebbeim take their shiurim to the Beis

Medrash, where they learn in lively chavrusahs. During lunch and free periods, talmidim can be found learning in optional chaburahs or have chearusahs with their current rebbe or one of their rebbeim from a previous year.

The learning doesn’t stop when the day or even the week ends. Talmidim

can be found learning until 10:00 p.m. and beyond during Night Seder. On Fridays, when yeshiva is not in session, talmidim join Friday morning Shacharis and shiur hosted by MTA in local communities. On Sundays, talmidim have the chance to expand their religious and spiritual growth by engaging in special mussar schmooz-

es with Yeshiva University and MTA rebbeim, and the Yeshiva Fellowship program offers Sunday morning chaburahs with YU Roshei Yeshiva.

All of these amazing opportunities enable talmidim to reach higher levels of learning than they ever thought possible and show them how to make time for Torah in their daily lives.

from his decision to run for office; to gun control; and issues both national and local. Tuman discussed how one of the things that sets him apart from other candidates is that he is seeking to bring more representative democracy to the country via his instant polling app plan. Tuman is running against Rep. Kathleen Rice, who has spoken at Rambam the last few years, and who will probably be speaking with the Rambam students next week.

Just a few short hours later, the Politics Club was back in action playing host to Dr. David Luchins, Chair of the Political Science Department at Touro College. Dr. Luchins’ topic was “Anti-Semitism on the Upsurge: Is the Party over for American Jews?”

Dr. Luchins gave a brief history of the success of Jews in America before discussing the attacks in Pittsburgh and other places. He made the point that while there is anti-Semitism in America, the public outcry in response to anti-Semitism shows a paradigm shift in the relationship between America and the Jews. Indeed, he remarked, one of the worse things

that can happen to a public figure “is to be labeled anti-Semitic.”

Not to be outdone, the Rambam Sports Talk Live crew had on NFL Hall of Famer, Morten Anderson, 2017 NFL Hall of Famer, NFL 1980s NFL All-Decade Team, 1990s NFL All-Decade Team and All-time NFL leader in games played. Anderson is also famous for being a lefty and for having a signature one-bar helmet. Now a motivational speaker, the grid-iron great offered the boys words of wisdom and shared inspirational stories. Special shout-out to Reuben Azose, Judah Orlanski, Sam Korman, and Charlie Mann for making this happen!

Rambam has long been famous for sending students to the 92nd Street Y and other cultural institutions to hear from famous authors and personalities including Alan Dershowitz, Nikki Haley, Tom Hanks, Veronica Roth, and many more. Even with the COVID restrictions, however, using the power of Zoom and their own ingenuity, the students of Rambam are still learning about and engaging with the world.

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his past week saw a bevy of guest speakers coming to Rambam through Zoom.

The Classic Film Club and The Meet The Author Book Club co-sponsored bringing in Dr. Leo Braudy, professor of English and American Literature at the University of Southern California. Dr. Braudy is a renowned film critic and historian and the author of many award-winning books. Associate Principal of Rambam, Mr. Hillel Goldman, introduced Professor Braudy by asking him to begin by elaborating on the concept of “The Monster as a Metaphor.” The detective genre was also discussed, and Dr. Braudy pointed out that at about the same time the monster was becoming a prominent

figure in popular culture as an agent of chaos, the detective genre gained prominence since the primary purpose of the detective is to counter chaos with reason and deduction.

Some members of the clubs, Noam Klein, Shmuel Vulakh, Yehoshua Milchman and Yonatan Beer, also asked questions. In a follow-up email to Mr. Goldman, Dr. Braudy wrote that he was incredibly impressed with the students of Rambam.

The Politics Club also had an interview of their own. Congressional Candidate Doug Tuman was introduced by Rosh Mesivta, Rabbi Zev Meir Friedman, who then handed the reins to juniors Ezra Feder and Sam Korman of the Politics Club who asked Mr. Tuman questions ranging

Did you know?

The French filmmaker Albert Lamorisse created the game Risk while on a family trip to the Netherlands.

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More than 100 YOSS Mechina Superstars racked up points for learning, davening and chessed while at home over Sukkos break.

Winners received Amazon gift cards. The grand prize winner was Dovid Soniker.

TEAM Shabbos

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n a chaotic Covid world, the questions never stop. Should lifesaving measures be denied to the developmentally disabled, the very old, the very sick, in order to use those resources for the higher-functioning, the younger, the more likely to survive? Is one life more valuable than another? In the presence of unending, life-threatening risk, must we abandon all the daily routines that define and structure our lives?

What can we do — what must we do — to protect our parents, our families, ourselves?

As is always the case, Torah values provide us with the only compass we can follow in a world that has been thrown dangerously out of balance. Halachah, with its consistent, objective respect for life both in this world and the next, is the only guide that can see us through the most important choices we may ever have to make.

TEAM (Traditional End-of-Life Awareness Movement) Shabbos, a project of the National Association of Chevra Kadisha (NASCK), was created to address these and other crucial end-of-life issues.

There has never been a time when TEAM Shabbos was needed more than now.

Through participation in TEAM Shabbos on Shabbos Parshas Vayechi, January 2, 2021, hundreds

of shuls in communities across the U.S. and Canada will address the tough issues that arise whether we are prepared or not, with sensitive and comprehensive explanations of the Torah’s view of end-of-life, and practical steps to take.

The curtailment of public gatherings has led NASCK to create a slate of Zoom webinars and video presentations led by national experts to address these crucial topics. Register your shul for TEAM Shabbos to gain access to these webinars and all of the resources NASCK will be making available to guide you and your community through these trying times.

Over 500 shuls will join in TEAM Shabbos on Parshas Vayechi.

The parsha’s account of Yaakov’s illness, his last words to his children, and his instructions regarding plans for his burial, echo our own issues — issues that have taken on greater urgency with the events of the past eight months.

TEAM Shabbos. This year, more than ever.

Make sure your community has the opportunity to learn and participate in everything TEAM Shabbos has to offer! To join or for a comprehensive list of resources, please call 718-8476280 or visit TEAMShabbos.org.

3rd Annual FM Home Loans MAY 5K

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tudent involvement in the activities at Mesivta Ateres Yaakov is always strongly encouraged. The yeshiva feels that developing areas of responsibility and outreach are part and parcel of building well-rounded b’nei Torah.

To this end, the yeshiva boasts an active Student Government elected by their peers whose officers have rigorous job duties.

Every year the G.O. runs a variety of competitions, tournaments and activities which enhance the day-to-day experience of the talmidim at the Mesivta. This year, under the direction of the Yeshiva’s Director of Development, Rabbi Josh Zern, the Student Government organized the 3rd Annual FM Home Loans MAY 5K run on the Far Rockaway Boardwalk, which took place this past Sunday, November 1. Runners included students, parents, friends and rabbeim, who participated to raise funds for tuition scholarships and student activities.

“This is a perfect example of healthy, kosher outlets that our yeshiva prides itself in providing,” commented Rabbi Yossi Bennett, S’gan Menahel. “Our G.O. President, Avi Statfeld, and his entire staff did an incredible job in or-

ganizing this event. A big yasher koach!”

Each runner received a swag bag containing numerous items such as a Dri-Fit T-Shirt, sports bottle, beanie, and more. At the race starting line, over 115 runners began their 5-kilometer fundraising journey. Also noteworthy were the many rabbeim that participated, including the Rosh HaYeshiva, Rabbi Mordechai Yaffe.

The run was a tremendous success, bringing in much-needed funding for the yeshiva scholarship and student activities funds, while providing the participants the opportunity to enjoy the scenic 3.1-mile course.

Rabbi Josh Zern, MAY’s Director of Development, noted, “It’s amazing to see our students work so hard to help the yeshiva provide scholarships for their peers. I think it really reflects the middos the yeshiva works to inculcate in the student body.”

Avi Statfeld commented, “It was an honor to keep up the tradition that was started two years ago. Raising money for scholarships while enhancing the experience for our peers is a recipe for a great event!”

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In the Age of Shutdowns, Ten Yad Expands its Operations.

In a Time of Need, Ten Yad is Rising to the Occasion.

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n the wake of the historical COVID-19 pandemic, many organizations have drastically scaled down their work. Logistical challenges and COVID regulations make it very challenging to continue”‘business as usual,” and many have simply shut their doors.

Here at Ten Yad, we quickly understood that scaling back was not an option. It became clear to us that our services were needed now more than ever before.

Ten Yad is an organization that is committed to helping kallahs in need celebrate their wedding days with complete joy and dignity.

From wedding gowns to housewares, Ten Yad provides every kallah who comes to them the essentials she needs.

To fund this enormous undertaking, every year Ten Yad hosts a magnificent auction. All proceeds from the evening go directly towards answering the call of kallahs everywhere.

Today’s kallahs are among the hardest hit by the global pandemic.

Planning a wedding is very stressful.

There are so many details to lock into place and so many decisions to be made, all surrounding a transformational life change that is about to occur.

Anybody who celebrated their wedding during lockdown had to deal with additional stresses of further lockdowns, surprise regulatory changes, and the absence of friends and family members.

The wedding that they had spent their entire life dreaming about was now severely compromised in so many ways.

Additionally, many families found themselves swept off their feet financially due to the catastrophic economic effects of the pandemic that have had rippling effects into nearly every profession. Many parents can no longer help their chil-

dren in ways that they were previously able to.

With all of the additional burdens on the shoulders of chassanim and kallahs, it was apparent that the effects of not hosting the annual Ten Yad auction would be truly devastating. The auction had to happen to raise the much-needed funds to aid the ever growing number of kallahs around the world – but how could it?

In an unprecedented display of creativity and innovation, Ten Yad is bursting through any limitations and soaring beyond any expectations with the event of the year – the Tenathon.

The Tenathon will be held, iy”H, on November 8. It is a virtual event that will be live-streamed, free of charge, around the world. Men, women and children are invited to tune in and participate in an exhilarating evening of entertainment and inspiration, unlike any other virtual event that has ever been held.

The finest performers that the Jewish world has to offer will appear on stage to produce a oneof-a-kind musical masterpiece, definitely 2020’s event of the year. Avraham Fried will be accompanied by an astounding 60-piece Philharmonic Orchestra, a historic duo that will touch your heart and inspire your soul.

It’s a deluxe concert in the comfort of your home.

Nearly 80 breathtaking prizes will be raffled off, live, throughout the evening including: a Cartier Watch, exclusive international vacations, thousands of dollars worth of silver Judaica, and over $20,000 worth of the finest jewelry among many other luxurious prizes, each one more exciting than the next.

Everyone is invited to join and partake in this absolutely magical evening benefiting an extremely foundational cause.

For more information about the Tenathon and to view the entire selection of exquisite prizes, visit www.tenyad.com.

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sit in my house and listen out.

It’s quiet. Very quiet. The background music that has been part of our lives for 21+ years has faded.

I feel a gaping void. And as I sit, I replay the music in my head and my heart. I hear welcoming sounds as we joined you as pioneers on our block. Your warmth penetrated and the music of your words as you told me that you got the best neighbors still reverberates in my mind. I hear you telling me how great my kids are.

You never stopped telling me, and you never stopped telling them. I hear you encouraging me to make a Friday night group for the girls on the block. I hear you asking me for advice when Ari was born. (As if you needed my advice!) You were so grateful. You never forgot any favor I did no matter how easy it was, yet all the chassadim that you did were not important to you and quickly forgotten.

I felt so secure. I knew you were there for me for the little things.

When Chumzy fainted on yom tov and I was alone with the kids, in my panic, I ran first to you before calling Hatzalah and you calmly did what needed to done with tefillos and assurances playing in my ears. You had lots of tips, and shared them with me, and I hear your voice in so many of my everyday activities. I hear you telling me to give you the boys’ shirts as I was getting ready for a sibling’s chasunah because you wanted to iron them. I didn’t care so much. But you did! You were always there with an encouraging word, with a bracha and a compliment. I hear your voice as we got into a taxi on Shabbos Shuva with our baby who was injured. You had no idea what happened, but accompanied us to the car with brachos and tefillos. And when we returned, your trademark “chasdei Hashem!” envel-

oped us. When we had simchos, you burst into the house with your sleeves rolled up, and got things moving. We felt your simcha for us at each milestone.

I hear your voice saying, “Why are you taking away our stop sign?” We all knew it was an illegal stop sign, but you were adamant. You knew we needed this to protect the kinderlach on the block, and you wouldn’t let it go without a protest. I hear your honking as you were careful every time you left the driveway to make sure no child was in the way. You cared.

I hear your voice as you welcomed your children, einaklach, parents, siblings, relatives and friends. Your house was bubbling over with warmth

A few months ago, I observed you sitting outside on Shabbos morning.

Every single person who went by received a compliment, a bracha, a kind word. You were weak. Yet your words were specific to each one. You spoke with humor and with simcha. Everyone left feeling your love. You were constantly asking about cholim who were much less sick than you were.

You told me how you daven for them.

And as weak as you were, when someone who you felt was a talmid chochom came by, you stood up to the best of your ability.

You loved to give, and you loved people. This last year did not change that. It was hard for you to feel that lack of strength. But you, along with your husband, Rabbi Strickman, shl-

You loved to give, and you loved people.

and love. It pulsated with happiness and life. I hear you, as I would meet you in the driveway coming home from a trip to Brooklyn. Your kibbud av v’aim inspired even your little neighbors, who saw and heard to what length you went to care for your parents. And yet when I would comment about your open home and your kibbud av v’aim, you would brush it aside with a humble “chasdei Hashem”!

I hear your voice overcome with love and emotion as you would tell me about your family simchos. Your children and children-in-law were one and the same. They were all “yours.”

You took such pride in them and appreciated each and every one for who they were.

ita, continued to give over beautiful positivity. You needed to get out after months of Covid lockup. You told us you were going to Amazing Savings and invited Tzirel, who looked bored, to come along. You continued to see what you could do for others.

You would not let me come into the house to help you. You told me that you didn’t want to take me away from what I was “busy” with. Occasionally, you allowed Tzirel to come and help you, and weak as you were, always spoke with humor and simcha in your voice. The brachos you showered upon her far surpassed the small effort the favor entailed. You were still giving.

I hear the excitement in your voice when you heard that the girls could

go to camp despite the governor’s decrees. You wanted to hear all about it and how it was working out for them.

“Let them have a good time!” Your musical background continued, and as always, Rabbi Strickman was the harmony. You told me over and over what a tzaddik he is, and his answer was always, “Shony, I thought we said we are keeping it a secret!” with a twinkle in his eyes. His positive encouragement and dedicated care gave chizuk to us all.

The days leading up to your petirah were challenging. As we continued to daven, the music was still pulsating from your home! Shemini Atzeres came, and we did not want to accept what we found to be true. It was yom tov, and we tried to swallow our tears. The life and singing that radiated from your house pushed us to channel our emotions. We felt like we were hearing the singing of the malachim! How appropriate. You were the music of so many of our lives!

The shiva reflected how beloved you were. Covid or not, everyone felt bereft. I watched as the nonstop flow of visitors kept on coming. A non-Jewish neighbor from down the block passed by. He asked someone “Where is the lady who sits here?”

I watched as his face fell. He was overcome. He did not know your name. But he knew that you were the lady who always greeted him with a friendly word.

As I sit and reflect, it is quiet.

Suddenly, I hear sounds of laughter.

Sounds of camaraderie. Sounds of life. Your children are back to visit.

And in their voices, I hear echoes of the music that you played!

With much love, Rachel Sandler

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Robin Niman, a”h

By Miriam Wolowick

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year ago, on Erev Shabbos, Chol Hamoed Sukkos, the world lost a giant. Robin Niman, a”h, was a larger than life personality packed into a tiny frame of a person. Robin defied the odds of what one person should have been able to accomplish on a daily basis. She was a proud and devoted wife, mother, and grandmother. She was an attentive friend. She was an incredibly talented therapist. She was a kallah teacher and mikvah attendant par excellence. She was a one of a kind mikvah manager, so much so that she was kept on even after moving to a different state. She was one of the most well-known mikvah consultant and trainer of mikvah attendants and kallah teachers, being called by mikvahs all over the world.

She was truly one of a kind.

Robin was my friend, my mentor, and my role model. She was wise beyond her years, yet youthful and relatable. She was a goldmine of knowledge. She had a natural instinct for reading people and connecting to them. She had a great sense of humor.

She was your biggest cheerleader. She encouraged you and showered you with praise. She taught you to look at people through a constant state of sensitivity and kindness. She made you a better person, plain and simple I was lucky enough to meet Robin three-and-a-half years ago when she interviewed me for the job of running the Grove Street Mikvah. Little did I know then what that petite woman with a sparkle in her eyes and pompoms on her shoes would do for me.

She took me under her wings and personally trained and guided me on a day-to-day basis, so that I could properly represent the mitzvah with the sensitivity and respect it deserves.

Hashem gave me a rare gift in Robin.

Robin became involved in the mitz-

vah of mikvah at the tender age of 26.

She spent years as a kallah teacher.

Her knowledge and experience were unparalleled. Add to that amazing repertoire was a degree in social work and a career in counseling. She combined those worlds to create a space for herself in this world that I don’t think anyone else will ever fill in quite the same way.

She was a trailblazer in her field.

She saw the struggle, the pain, the fear, the anxiety and knew that there

It is always imperative to be sensitive to people’s vulnerabilities and be aware of them.

Be respectful of women, their privacy, and their personal space.

The Grove Street Mikvah is a special place. Robin took the most beautiful, state-of-the-art mikvah and transformed it into the most amazing facility of its kind by hiring and training the entire staff. We have all the luxuries, plus a professional and caring staff that go above and beyond.

Robin made it clear to us that we had a responsibility to the women of Klal Yisroel.

were things she could do to help. She worked tirelessly to help make a difference. But she didn’t stop there. She shared her knowledge and expertise with so many so they too could make a difference. Robin understood what the women of today needed, and she was at the front lines fighting the good fight for the women of Klal Yisroel.

So much of what Robin did – between therapy and dealing with special mikvah cases – involved some of the most private and personal details of people’s lives that it stayed below the radar. I don’t think most people have any idea of the impact that Robin had on so many women.

On a simple and basic level, Robin taught us how customer service is of the utmost importance. Be polite and courteous. A smile and a warm welcome go a long way.

It’s not what you say, but how you say it. Your tone, your body language, and your facial reactions are all so important.

Robin made sure we knew that our main focus always has to be on the women coming to do the mitzvah and their experience.

One aspect that many women do not get involved in is policy. This was something that Robin took on with a force that was not to be believed. Robin spent hours and hours working with rabbanim to help create policies that were within the guidelines of halacha but also took into account the issues of today’s modern woman. How many women do you know that could sit and hold her own at a table of over 20 rabbanim? Robin did just that! She was well respected by rabbanim across the board because of her vast knowledge and understanding, her passion and concern and her no-nonsense approach.

Robin taught us that it is a privilege and an honor to work in a mikvah.

Robin made it clear to us that we had a responsibility to the women of Klal Yisroel and that we could make a huge

difference for them.

Robin herself has helped hundreds of women, each with their own set of unique challenges. She made sure that each one got the personal and individualized experience they needed. In addition to that, she trained hundreds of others to help in just the same way.

And if all this was not amazing enough, Robin did all of this and more while battling a debilitating disease.

She always put her own pain and exhaustion aside to help anyone in need.

The doctors were astounded at what she was able to do while poison was literally running through her veins. I know personally that she sat through meetings and trainings after having had treatment that morning. She took phone calls from doctors’ offices and hospital beds. She came in to help with special cases when she could barely stand on her own two feet. Somehow, she always had time and energy for this mitzvah. Somehow it gave her supernatural strength and abilities.

Even when I knew she was not doing well, I still asked her for help and to come in for special patients because that is what she lived for and there was no way that I would take away those zechusim from her. It was not until those last couple of weeks that she was physically not able to.

The truth is that everything that we all do, all those who were blessed to have been trained by Robin, is a direct result of her and what she taught us – they are all her zechusim.

Robin has created an army of trained women around the world who are carrying out her mission for her down here in this world. While none of us can ever fill Robin’s shoes, we will all try walking in her footsteps.

Robin, you are missed by many!

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Torah Thought

Parshas Vayeira

By Rabbi Berel Wein

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ne of the main issues in this week’s Torah reading is the relationship between Yishmael and Yitzchak. Yishmael is the son of Abraham and Hagar, while Yitzchak is the son of Abraham and Sarah. It is common knowledge that, as the half-brothers grow up together, the differences between them in character, spirituality, ambition, and behavior become increasingly apparent. Sarah notices that Yishmael is somehow more the son of Hagar

than of Abraham. In a bold decision made to preserve the legacy of Abraham and the life and well-being of Yitzchak, Sarah asks Abraham to send Hagar and Yishmael away and out of the house of Abraham and Sarah.

True to Sarah’s intuition Yishmael, left to his own devices, becomes a famous archer and warrior. He is a person to be feared, and his influence and power, not limited to the land of Israel, will spread over

the entire geographical area. Sarah senses that no amount of education, training or parental influence would change Yishmael’s basic nature of being wild, unpredictable, dangerous and a threat to the lives and ideals that Abraham represents. Yishmael will profit from being the son of Abraham and his descendants have continued to do so, even until today.

But descendants are not necessarily heirs – either in the physical sense or even more so in an eternal, spiritual legacy.

The Torah describes Yishmael as being wild and uncontrollable. That

Jewish people when they worshipped the Golden Calf in the desert. Rabbis also point out that the same word can mean mockery through humor and sarcasm, as well as immorality.

Humor, like all human traits, can have both a negative aspect as well as a positive one. We live in a generation when what is sacred is mocked at and what is holy is easily trampled upon. The beginning of murder is to take many things lightly. Those things include human life and any moral restraint. An enemy that we can demonize, mock, laugh at and constantly insult soon becomes

Descendants are not necessarily heirs – either in the physical sense or even more so in an eternal, spiritual legacy.

is his nature and personality; everything else that occurs throughout human history regarding him and his descendants is colored by this stark description. Sarah senses this almost from the beginning. The Torah records that she saw Yishmael “jesting.” Rashi points out that the Hebrew verb which it uses means something far more sinister than merely exhibiting a sense of humor.

It indicates a capacity for murder and immorality, for danger and irresponsibility. It is the same verb that the Torah itself will use when describing the mood and the behavior of the

an object not only of derision but of violence and subjugation too. When Yishmael mocked Yitzchak for his piety, diligence, and an apparent lack of practicality in the world, Sarah sensed that Yishmael was capable of physically harming Yitzchak, even if not murdering him.

All of history bears out the fact that persecutions and holocausts begin with insults and jokes, mockery, and degradation of others. This is why the Torah speaks out against such behavior – in all forms and under all conditions.

Shabbat shalom.

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From the Fire Parshas Vayeira

One Against the World

By Rav Moshe Weinberger Adapted for publication by Binyomin Wolf

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fter Avraham passes the most unspeakable test, the near-slaughter of his beloved son Yitzchak, Hashem told him (Bereishis 22:16-17), “By Myself I swore, says Hashem, that because you have done this thing, and you have not withheld your son, your only one, I will surely bless you and I will surely multiply your offspring like the stars of the Heavens and like the sand on the seashore, and your offspring will inherit the gates of their enemies.”

With these words, according to the Ramban, Hashem clearly and unequivocally promised Avraham that regardless of any sins the Jewish people may commit throughout the generations, exile will pass and they will eventually see the ultimate redemption.

If we look carefully at the words of these pesukim in light of the Ramban, however, we see two general paths toward redemption: one in which we are compared to “the stars of the Heavens,” and another in which we are compared to “the sand on the seashore.” What is the qualitative difference between these two paths?

Rav Ezriel Tauber, building upon a beautiful Kli Yakar, explains the significance of “the stars of the Heavens.”

Each star represents an individual power, unique in its ability to add light to the universe, as the pasuk says regarding the stars (Yeshayahu 40:26), “Who takes out their host by number, all of them He calls by name…” By giving each star a name, Hashem shows that each one contributes something unique and different from all other stars. But with

all of their individuality, the stars are called “the hosts of Heaven” (ibid.

34:4). The stars join together to form “hosts, armies.” They work together to fulfill a communal purpose. The stars also “work” with one another to form constellations to constitute part of the organized forces at work in the universe.

Stars, therefore, represent the ideal combination of individuality and communal responsibility in which each star’s individual identity shines in a completely unique way while, at the same time, it plays its part in a host or constellation to do its part in the big picture. This represents the ideal Jewish life as we march toward redemption – every Jew maximizing his or her own unique talents and strengths while also using the force multiplier of national unity to work together toward our collective goal of revealing G-dliness on earth.

The Gemara (Sanhedrin 98a), quoting the pasuk in Yeshayahu

(60:22), says that Moshiach can come at the set time for redemption “in its time,” or earlier, “I will hasten it.”

In the latter path toward redemption, we are compared to the stars in Heaven. When Moshiach comes this way, Hashem says (Daniel 7:13), “He was like a man coming on the clouds of Heaven.” That is what Hashem was referring to when he told Avraham after the Akeidah, “I will surely multiply your offspring like the stars of the Heavens.”

But there is another, more difficult, path to redemption – the way of “I will surely multiply your offspring like…the sand on the seashore.” Sand ostensibly lacks the characteristics of individuality and joining together for communal work. Grains of sand lack any discernable individual qualities.

They all look identical. In addition, they do not gather together in anything comparable to constellations, teams, armies, or communities. Even in halacha (Shulchan Aruch Orach Chaim 321), one cannot violate the

prohibition of kneading by mixing sand and water because sand physically cannot be formed into dough.

A beach is just a collection of billions of individual grains of sand. They appear not to form any whole greater than the sum of their parts. But if this is the case, how is the promise that Hashem will make Avraham’s descendants like the sand on the seashore a blessing?

The Kli Yakar says that the sand has a vital purpose, as the pasuk (Yirmiyahu 5:22) says, “I have placed the sand as the boundary to the sea.” He says, “The nations rise up against the Jewish people to destroy them but they cannot overcome them. Similarly, the waves rise up as if they want to wash away the world.

But when they reach the sand, they are immediately broken just like the nations of the world, as the pasuk (Tehillim 42:8) says, ‘All Your breakers and your waves passed over me.’”

The sand is the border the sea cannot cross.

So, too, the Jewish people are the world’s last line of defense against the forces seeking to destroy it. On a physical level, the Western world seems poised to succumb to radical Islam, though it seeks to infiltrate and destroy everything. The Jewish people – personified by Israel – seems to be the only nation willing to unapologetically stand up against extremist Muslims.

So although each grain of sand seems not to be unique or to have a unified purpose, the Jewish people, who are compared to the sand on the seashore, do serve a vital purpose.

They are the world’s last hope against the forces of chaos and destruction.

And even on the spiritual plane

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as well, we remain the lone defenders of the health and normalcy of the world. The Gemara (Sanhedrin 98a) says that, in the way of redemption called “in its time,” the Navi (Zachariah 9:9) says that Moshiach will come like a poor man riding on a donkey, chamor, not on a cloud. The Maharal, zt”l, explains, based on the fact that the Hebrew word for physicality, chamariyos, shares the same root as the word for donkey, that Moshiach riding on a donkey means that he “rides” – exerts control over – physicality.

Rashi (on Shmos 4:20) says that Avraham rode the same donkey on which Moshiach will arrive.

Avraham also exerted mastery over physicality when he separated himself from physicality by saying to Yishmael (Bereishis 22:5), “Stay here with the donkey.” Avraham was showing us that he would not be bowed by or subject to the waves of physicality that attempt to drown us.

It is not only the Muslim world that attempts to conquer the world.

The infinite physicality, smallness, and decadence available on the internet threaten to wash away our humanity. And it is available on a phone that sits in a person’s pocket all the time, every day. It calls out to every single individual, whether great or small.

Each one of us, each grain of sand, stand together as a fortification against the onslaught of the physicality of the world that attempts to drown us. As each individual surfs the ocean-like web, he stares down the crest of each wave of “viral” videos, movies, and mindless entertainment over and over again. And just like the sand on the seashore acts as a line of defense preventing the ocean from overtaking the land, so too each of us must remain ever vigilant in keeping physicality in its place. We must use it while not being used by it. When we do that, we protect the whole world from being overtaken by mindless materialism.

It appears that it is not G-d’s will for us to live like “the stars of the Heavens” at this time. We simply do not have national, communal leaders with influence over the entire Jewish nation today. We therefore cannot fully fulfill a star-like role,

illuminating the world with our individual light and working together as a team to accomplish national goals. It seems that Hashem’s providence has decreed that, for now, we act as a bulkhead, protecting the

dures what he endures, and the heat of the day, meaning that all of the desires which burn him greatly, he never abandons his place, G-d forbid.

Instead, he sits and waits by the door for a very long time, [like Avraham

They are the world’s last hope against the forces of chaos and destruction.

world’s shore from the progressive invasion of a flood of impure images and sounds. If Hashem tasked each of us with creating an oasis of health, moderation, and normalcy amidst the flood of insanity churning around us, it must be He also gave us an inner reservoir of strength and resilience to enable us to succeed – not to be overcome.

Because of all of the distractions whirling around us, it is so difficult to connect to true, sincere, and holy feelings of closeness with G-d. But that is what we seek. How are we to maintain our focus in what often feels like a battle against the world when we cannot even strengthen ourselves by successfully feeling connected to Hashem?

Rebbe Nosson wrote a series of letters to his son to strengthen him during a period in his life when he was facing numerous spiritual and physical challenges. In one of these letters, he gives us tremendous encouragement in our struggle. He says, quoting a pasuk from this week’s parshah, as follows (Michtavei Moharnat p. 117): “And he was sitting at the entrance of the tent in the heat of the day…” (Bereishis 18:1). Sitting, yosheiv, implies waiting and staying for a long time, like it says (Devarim 1:46), “And they dwelled, va’teishvu, in Kadesh for many days.” In other words, a person only merits a revelation of G-dliness, the aspect of, “And Hashem appeared to him” (Bereishis 18:1), by sitting and waiting and stationing himself by the doorway of the tent of holiness for a long time. And even though during this time he en-

who] “was sitting at the entrance of the tent in the heat of the day.”

Rebbe Nosson is teaching us that he understands that it is hard to maintain the fight against impurity and guard our thoughts and eyes day after day. But he also shows us that if we hold the line, if we maintain a boundary beyond which the lascivi-

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ousness of the world cannot pass, we will merit “and Hashem appeared to him.” By disregarding the fact that the world seems to have abdicated any sense of boundaries or self-respect, we maintain our post, keeping watch by the doorway of the tent of holiness.

In the merit of each act of vigilance and holiness by our people to maintain our guard against the waves of materialism that crash against us again and again, may Hashem reveal his anointed one. By holding off the waves of physicality, we exhibit our mastery over it and thereby reveal Moshiach’s donkey on which he will come riding into Yerushalayim, may he arrive soon in our days!

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Parsha Ponderings

Parshas Vayeira Time for Life

By Rabbi Shmuel Kamenetzky

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arshas Vayeira begins with the story of Avraham Avinu welcoming the three melachim into his tent. After he feeds them, one of the guests gives him the great news, (18:10) “Shov ashuv eilecha ka’eis chaya... I will surely return to you at this time next year and behold Sarah your wife will have a son.”

When referring to “next year,” the malach uses the term “ka’eis chaya” which can also mean “at the time of life.” This expression is usually not used in the context of “next year.”

What is the hidden message of the malach? ◊ ◊ ◊ Rabbi Paysach Krohn, in one of his fabulous books filled with stories of inspiration, tells a story that occurred a few decades ago to Boruch, a New York businessman.

One winter day, before heading on a long trip to check on his properties upstate, Boruch walked into a local luncheonette and met a downtrodden Jew. After greeting him with a smile, Boruch asked him to join him for a meal. The man was hesitant but agreed. Boruch encouraged the man

to order a meal, and after some cajoling, his companion ordered take two baked apples and a glass of tea. Boruch spent the next half hour schmoozing and giving much needed chizuk to his new friend, then wished him well and went on his way.

As Boruch was navigating the narrow and lonely roads upstate New York, an unexpected snowstorm began. The driving conditions slowly worsened, and before long, the roads were treacherous. As he was rounding a turn in the road, Boruch lost control of his vehicle, and to his horror, his car spun around uncontrollably and smashed into a tree, shattering his windshield. Boruch was shaken and bruised, cold and alone, on the side of the road, yet thankful that he was alive! He slowly made his way out of the car and waited for someone to pass. Eventually, someone stopped and drove Boruch to get help.

After a short exam, it was determined that Boruch miraculously survived the incident unharmed!

The passerby offered to drive Boruch to a local hotel, where he could spend the night. As Boruch entered

the property, the manager, another religious Jew, came out to greet him.

“You must be shaken and cold from your accident!” he exclaimed. “Come inside and I’ll bring you something to warm up!”

He reappeared a few minutes later.

“I don’t have much to offer you now,” he apologized, “But this is left over from dinner,” he said.

He then placed in front of Boruch a tray with two baked apples and a glass of tea. ◊ ◊ ◊ My grandfather, Rav Binyamin Kamenetzky, zt”l, quoted Rav Doniel Moshovitz, Hy”d, the saintly mashgiach of the Talmud Torah of Kelm, who explained these words of the malach.

A person’s obligation to repay a kindness requires him to go to great lengths, as we learn from the Navi Elisha, who went so far as to bring the child of the Shunammite woman back to life to repay her kindness! But not only is one obligated to return a favor with life, but one who does any life-giving favor will also get repaid with life.

The malach, by saying, “ka’eis chaya, at the time of life,” is telling Avraham and Sarah, “At this time, that you have revived and refreshed my soul in the blistering heat of the desert, so too, you will be repaid with life.”

The Gemara (Nedarim 64b) tells us that one who does not have children is considered dead. Not only did the malach bestow his blessing to Avraham for another life, but he repaid Avraham and Sarah measure for measure, by giving life to Avraham and Sarah as well!

When one gives even something small to another man, he may be saving his own life as well!

Rabbi Shmuel Kamenetzky is the Director of Advancement at Yeshiva of South Shore – Yeshiva Toras Chaim Beis Binyamin. He is currently compiling the Torah thoughts from his grandfather, Rav Binyamin Kamenetzky, zt”l, into print, in Hebrew and English. If you have any stories or divrei Torah to share from his grandfather, or to subscribe to receive a weekly dvar Torah from Rav Binyamin Kamenetzky’s teachings, you can email him at skamenetzky@yoss.org.

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Think, Feel, Grow

The Purpose of Our Challenges

By Shmuel Reichman

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f I were to ask you, “What is the wealthiest place in the universe?” what would you answer?

You might suggest the banks, the diamond mines, or something along these lines. But in a sense, the wealthiest place in the world is the graveyard. Why? There, you’ll find dreams never chased after, ideas and inspiration never acted upon, music never composed, works of art never created, books never written, companies and organizations never built – endless potential, never actualized. And on our deathbed, these dreams, these ideas, they’ll come to us and say: “We came to you, and only you could have given us life, but you didn’t, and now, we die with you.

If we died today, what unrealized potential would die with us? What dreams, contributions, and creativity would remain unexpressed? What would we be taking with us to the grave?

Many times, most people we know say, “I’ll do it tomorrow.” But there’s no guarantee we will be here tomorrow. This is why the Mishna in Avos (2:15) tells us to do teshuva (repent) the day before we die. The Gemara (Shabbos 153a) explains this to mean that a person should always be in a process of teshuva, because one never knows which day will be his last. So, if we died today, what dreams, ideas, and potential would die with us?

Our Role Models There are, however, a few rare individuals out there who do act on their dreams and inspiration, who truly live lives of greatness. They maximize their time and actualize as much of their potential as possible.

These rare individuals shine a light into this world and serve as an inspi-

stead of receiving all of our atonement in the World to Come, which would be far more severe, Hashem sends us yesurim (hardship) in this world (Mishna Berurah 222:4).

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ration to all those who are fortunate enough to know them. Their existence alone inspires those around them to become more, to want more, to demand more from themselves, to raise their standards.

Fascinatingly, many of these unique people have undergone tremendous challenge. They’ve been thrown down, torn apart, and pushed to the brink. And yet, they rose up, stronger than ever before, driven to greatness, serving as an inspiration to others.

This begs the obvious question: did they become great despite their challenges or because of them? What is the secret to their success?

Chazal tell us that Avraham faced ten tests along his spiritual journey, including Akeidas Yitzchak (the Binding of Isaac). Avraham is faced with hardship after hardship, and yet, despite all these challenges, he still achieves absolute greatness.

There are several potential purposes for a challenge or test. A test is usually administered to evaluate a person’s knowledge or mastery of a given area. However, this cannot be the case in a test given by Hashem, as

Hashem is All-Knowing and therefore fully aware of exactly how much we are capable of. What, then, is the purpose of a test? Why does Hashem constantly send us challenges and tests?

The Multifaceted Purposes of a Challenge 1: Contrast and Appreciation On the most basic level, we often only appreciate things once we have lost them. One generally does not appreciate the importance of their hand in their daily routine until they break it, or how much they love someone until they’ve lost them.

The Maharal and Ramchal explain that human beings learn through comparison and contrast. We understand the concept of wisdom by witnessing foolishness, goodness from witnessing evil, and wealth by witnessing poverty. The same goes for our health and quality of life. Only by experiencing the worst of times can we truly appreciate the best of times.

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On a slightly deeper level, Hashem may send us challenges in order to be mechaper (atone) for our past wrongdoings (Brachos 5a, Erchin 16b). In-

The Ramchal (Derech Hashem 2:3:5) explains that Hashem sometimes sends us a challenge in order to “wake us up” to help us get back on the proper track. There may be times when we find ourselves on the wrong path, drowning in the physicality of life. In such circumstances, Hashem may choose to jolt us awake, motivating us to question our choices and direction in life. These challenges should push us to realign our values, to regain our desire to live with higher ideals.

The Gemara (Brachos 5a) says that if something negative happens to us, our first reaction should be to examine our deeds and try to determine what character trait we can work on.

Sometimes, a challenge is the perfect way to jolt us out of our stupor, leading us to reassess our lives, reconnect with Hashem, and commit to living a more spiritual, purposeful life.

The Deeper Purpose of a Challenge There is a fundamentally deeper understanding of a challenge, one that reveals the very core spiritual purpose and effect of a test.

The Mishna in Avos (5:3) tells us that Avraham was subjected to ten tests and overcame them all, expressing his eternal dedication to Hashem. The Ramban (Bereishis 22:1) questions the necessity for Avraham to undergo all these hardships. If Hashem already knew whether Avraham could pass these tests, why even conduct them?

The Ramban explains that the

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purpose of a challenge is to push you to actualize your latent potential, to transform your koach (potential) into po’al (actual). Hashem already knows exactly who you are and what you can become; the purpose of an ordeal is to enable you to realize who you can become so that you can then actualize that potential. Each challenge that Avraham and the other Avos overcame was another step in their journey towards perfection.

The Rambam (Moreh Nevuchim 3:24) explains that this is why the word for challenge, nisayon, is based on the word for banner, nes. A group raises a banner or flag to express who they are and what they stand for.

When we overcome challenges and achieve greatness, our perseverance and triumph serve as a banner for all to see and learn from.

In order to better understand this concept, consider the following analogy: there was a man who was training to compete in the high-jump at the Olympics. He practiced every day, gaining strength, improving as he went. The first week, he was able to jump the three-foot fence. The next week, he made it over the four-foot fence. After two more weeks, he was able to jump over the five-foot fence.

But no matter how hard he trained, he just couldn’t clear the six-foot fence.

After working on it for another five weeks, he began losing hope.

One day, as he was about to head home, he saw a bull stampeding, full speed, straight at him. Seized by adrenaline, he flew right over the sixfoot fence – the same fence that, just moments before, he was convinced he was unable to jump over. So, here’s the question: was he capable of jumping over the fence until now? If not, what changed?

The answer is profound: for quite some time, he had been capable of jumping over the fence. But sometimes, we need external pressure to help us fully harness our potential.

We’ve all heard the stories of a mother lifting a car to save her child; in any other scenario, this same mother wouldn’t even be able to move the car an inch.

Our challenges bring out strengths buried deep within us, helping us actualize our latent potential that would have otherwise remained hidden.

Personal Megillah At this very moment, you are who you are because of all the challenges you have faced. Every decision and experience you have ever had has led you to this very moment. Some turns were bigger than others, but they have all led to your unique path in life. One day, you will realize that

terpiece ready for us to read.

We must learn to embrace our challenges, to see them as an opportunity to achieve our unique greatness in this world. And as we push past our physical, emotional, and mental shackles, well aware of the impossible leap we are asked to take, we must look up to Hashem and

Our challenges bring out strengths buried deep within us.

the challenges you faced were, in fact, the best things that ever happened to you. You will realize that everything you’ve managed to become is not despite your challenges, but because of them. The greatest people among us are great because of their challenges, not despite them.

While it is difficult to see the positive aspects of a nisayon while it is still underway, it is easier to look back in retrospect and see how past challenges shaped you into the person you are today. This is why the Ba’alei Machshava (Jewish thinkers) suggest writing your own personal megillah.

In Megillas Esther, there is no open miracle; only by putting all the pieces together do we see the Yad Hashem (Hand of G-d), how everything fit together so perfectly. Megillah shares the same root as the words ligalgel (to roll) and migaleh (to reveal). When we roll through the scroll of the megillah, we reveal the presence and hashgachah of Hashem.

The same is true of our own personal story. Each individual piece seems insignificant and happenstance, each challenge bearing little consequence. However, if we put all the pieces together, connecting the dots, we begin to see the beauty manifest in our own personal megillah. We begin to see the turning points in our lives; we retroactively see the life-changing impact our challenges had on our lives. Whether it was a physical illness, a difficult relationship, losing someone dear, or a personal struggle, our challenge-streaked past becomes a mas-

put our complete trust in Him. As we close our eyes and take that leap of faith, we find ourselves on the other side, now a banner of greatness and a partner in revealing Hashem’s presence in this world. In doing so, we not only achieve our own greatness, but we inspire others to strive for

more as well.

Never stop dreaming. Never stop pushing past your boundaries and limitations. Be happy with what you have become but always remain hungry for more. Like the Avos, you will constantly be challenged but remember: challenges are opportunities in disguise. Don’t waste your time, don’t waste your life, but most importantly, don’t add any wealth to the graveyard.

Shmuel Reichman is an inspirational speaker, writer, and coach who has lectured internationally at shuls, conferences, and Jewish communities on topics of Jewish thought and Jewish medical ethics. He is the founder and CEO of Self-Mastery Academy (ShmuelReichman.com), the transformative online course that is revolutionizing how we engage in self-development.

You can find more inspirational lectures, videos, and articles from Shmuel on his website, ShmuelReichman.com.

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Israel Today

Lost and Found in Translation

By Rafi Sackville

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he website, Anglo-List.com, caters to the growing needs of the English-speaking community here in Israel. It has a delightful section titled “bad translations” which encapsulates the difficulties new immigrants face when translating from Hebrew to English and vice versa.

In one screen shot from Google Translate someone had entered the words ba’alei chaim, which means “animals.” The translation offered

by Google read: “Not tested on my husband Chaim.”

Google is constantly upgrading and improving their service because since that posting one can now enter the word “animals” in Hebrew and end up with the correct English translation. This doesn’t mitigate the fact that, for newcomers, and even immigrants who have been in Israel for years, Hebrew-English translations can be a veritable minefield.

Even if you do employ the ser-

vices of a certified translator, the outcome can still be murky and vague.

To get a glimpse into the vagaries of translation, technical writers and translators in Israel have a website that keeps them up to date.

Elephant.org.il offers a glimpse into the foggy and complex world that confronts a translator.

For example, in one of his excellent columns, “Translatable but Debatable,” Mark Levinson gives us an insight into the obstacles he and his colleagues face. The Alcalay Hebrew-to-English dictionary translates the verb ma’as as “to hate, abhor, detest, despise, reject, refuse,” whereas the noun ma’oos translates as “abominable, loathsome contemptible, repulsive, despicable.”

Choosing the correct word is not as easy as it appears. If you want to describe someone’s bad behavior, which word is most fitting? The possibilities are endless.

To help me navigate the intricacies of the world of translation, I contacted Mr. Perry Zamek, a professional translator living outside Yerushalayim.

I’d seen Perry’s photo chairing a meeting of the Israeli Translator’s Association (ITA). He quickly disabused me of the notion I had about his profession. I mistakenly believed that translators had their own union and were an amalgamated body that worked hand-in-hand with the government and large organizations.

The ITA amounts to a large networking group that provides support and updates for their members.

It does not have any political sway in (most importantly) regulating prices. In fact, when the Israeli government puts out tenders to any government agencies for translation work, it is not uncommon for the job to end up with the lowest bidder, even when the results are sloppily amateurish.

Perry has been professionally

translating for almost thirty years.

He has been on the ITA committee for seven years serving as chairman and treasurer, and is still working hard to set up the organization as a non-profit group.

A lot of his work is in translating visas and student documents.

Perry’s approach is to make the documents as similar as possible.

This may sound axiomatic, but oftentimes even the most basic of facts become problematic. Names can be tricky. For example, most people would write the name chesnun-hey as Chana. Perry described a few occasions when people spell their names differently, like Hana.

Or take words that are impossible to translate. “Schadenfreude” means deriving pleasure from someone else’s misfortune. That’s difficult to translate. Conversely, the Yiddish word “fargin” means the opposite, to derive pleasure from someone else’s good fortune. Good luck coming up with a translatable word in

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English. It doesn’t exist.

Perry explains that “the theory is to translate towards one’s native tongue and not away from it. Bi-lingual translators are very rare.”

Perry is adamant when discussing what he sees as his profession’s greatest hurdle: the tendency by many not to view translators as professionals. It’s an issue that converts into the dollars and cents of his livelihood. Some agencies will offer rock bottom prices; one cent a word is not going to pay bills when the current rate runs between ten and fifteen cents.

The currency of language, its nuances and constant changes, are taken seriously by translators.

A good piece of advice that makes the rounds among them is to be constantly reading – newspapers, magazines, scientific papers, anything that keeps them up-to-date with the ever-growing changes in lexicon.

Work can be irregular, usually

coming by word of mouth. Perry has found jobs with overseas consulates with whom he works translating visas. In 2018, the Australian government stopped accepting the

One might think there’s more money to be found in translating works of literature. Perry says that translating novels and the like pays less per word. Perry was fortunate

The translation offered by Google read: “Not tested on my husband Chaim.”

working visas of visiting students from Israel written in Hebrew. The process started to run through Berlin, and at one point, Perry worked 16-hour days, six days a week translating over 300 documents.

Wit h a irline rest r ic t ions, Covid-19 has had a profound effect on translators commissioning new work.

to work on Rav Moshe Lichtenstein’s Moses: envoy of G-d. Envoy of his People.

Interestingly, the constant need to keep up-to-date with changes in speech means that works of literature translated years ago are not completely understood by a new generation of readers. This is why there are always new translations

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of older works being published.

Unlike visas and corporate documents, works of literature require a translator to get into someone else’s head and maintain their style and tone of voice.

Back on anglo-list.com, I found a few more gems that must drive people like Perry crazy. I found that beitzah kasha, a hardboiled egg, had been translated into “difficult work.”

If you’re looking to translate documents into Hebrew, you can contact Perry at perryzamek@gmail. com . Don’t settle for anything less than premium quality. You want an expert and not someone who might translate two simple words like “smoking forbidden” into “violators will be fine.”

Rafi Sackville, formerly of Cedarhurst, teaches in Ort Maalot in Western Galil.

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A MBASSA DOR DAVID M. FRIEDMAN Pursuer of Peace

BY TAMMY MARK

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nited States Ambassador to Israel David Friedman has spent the last four years as a facilitator of peace in the Middle East and agent of change for Israel relations in the Trump Administration. Originally from North Woodmere, New York, Friedman’s father was Rabbi Morris S. Friedman, z”l, a rabbi at Temple Hillel and a head of the New York Board of Rabbis.

Ambassador Friedman graduated from the Hebrew Institute of Long Island before earning his B.A. from Columbia University and his J.D. from New York University School of Law. The ambassador and wife, Tammy Sand Friedman, have five children and eight grandchildren, and resided in Woodmere before Friedman assumed his current post. Though Ambassador Friedman operates on the global stage, he holds his community and personal values dear.

Ambassador Friedman is an observant Jew, known to have a deep love for all of the land and people of Israel. A former bankruptcy lawyer, Friedman initially met President Donald Trump in 1994 when he represented him as the then-chairman and president of The Trump Organization. The ambassador fondly shares the story of how he and President Trump became

friends when Trump paid a condolence call as Friedman sat shiva for his father.

Trump had travelled 3½ hours through a blizzard to pay his respects; the two men spent several hours talking long into the night, and their friendship proliferated from there. Their personal conversations on Israel began when Friedman purchased a second home in Jerusalem.

Fast forward to 2016, Friedman was chosen to serve as an advisor to President Trump during his presidential campaign and tasked with advising on Israel-related and Jewish issues. Friedman co-chaired Trump’s Israel Advisory Committee alongside Jason Greenblatt, a former executive for The Trump Organization; the pair promoted Trump’s campaign promise

to move the U.S. Embassy in Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.

In December of 2016, President-elect Trump’s transition team announced that Friedman had been nominated as the United States Ambassador to Israel.

Friedman was confirmed by the Senate and sworn in by Vice President Mike Pence on March 29, 2017. Friedman formally presented his credentials to Israeli Presi-

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dent Reuven Rivlin on May 15, 2017 and began working to shape history.

ON DECEMBER 6, 2017, President Trump formally recognized Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and proceeded to actualize his campaign promise of relocating the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem, with Ambassador Friedman by his side.

While previous U.S. presidents had made promises to relocate the embassy, all ultimately refrained from doing so.

On May 14, 2018, on the 70th anniversary of the Israeli Declaration of Independence, the U.S. Embassy was officially opened in Jerusalem.

In 2018, The Jerusalem Post listed Ambassador Friedman as one of the world’s 50 Most Influential Jews – “the envoy who moved the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem.” He was listed as #2 in 2019 and tied for the top spot in 2020, after the signing of the monu-

mental Abraham Accords, along with Special Advisor to the President and son-in-law Jared Kushner, Mossad Chief Yossi Cohen, Israeli Ambassador to the U.S. Ron Dermer and Special Envoy for International Negotiations Avi Berkowitz – collectively dubbed “The Peacemakers.”

The Abraham Accords represent the tremendous Mideast feat achieved on August 13, 2020. The accords, a joint statement from Israel, the United Arab Emirates, and the U.S., reifer to the peace agreements between Israel and the U.A.E. and Bahrain, and mark the first time an Arab country has normalized relations with Israel since the peace treaty with Jordan in 1994. Though politicians and pundits alike have long insisted that peace could never come to Israel in this way, Ambassador Friedman anticipates such progress to continue under the Trump Administration.

Throughout his term, the

Ambassador has maintained the ability to practice as a contemplative, compassionate and dynamic Jew. In April, he authored an opinion piece for The Jerusalem Post, asking “Why a virus?” and positing that “under these extraordinary circumstances, anyone, and certainly a believer and amateur theologian like me, could be excused for searching for an underlying divine message.” In October he took to Twitter to share his participation in the traditional “Birkat Kohanim” service as a kohen at the Kotel during Sukkot stating, “I will pray for G-d’s mercy and healing upon all those throughout the world afflicted with Covid-19. Refuah Shlema to all!”

While tending to his various roles and responsibilities during this very exceptional era, Ambassador Friedman took some time to shed some light on the recent and continuously unfolding historic developments.

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With Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu

Giving Menachem Zivotofsky, a U.S. citizen born in Jerusalem, his passport that lists his birthplace as Israel, on October 20, 2020

Ambassador Friedman, congratulations on the Abraham Accords! How long was the agreement with the United Arab Emirates in the works?

These agreements have been in the works since early in the Trump administration when the President traveled to Saudi Arabia and Israel and challenged more than 50 Arab nations to combat terrorism and embrace peace. The Abraham Accords were preceded by literally hundreds of meetings across the globe among numerous countries and the Trump peace team.

sideration for peace with Israel?

Well, since you first asked, Sudan has joined the circle of peace – a very important and welcome addition. I am certain that there will be more.

What other countries are currently in talks or in con-

During the 2016 campaign you had indicated that

Why do you think the Saudis are so hesitant to normalize relations with Israel?

The Saudis have been very supportive and now allow overflights to and from Israel. We respect each nation’s internal process, and we are optimistic that many more nations will join us.

moving the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem was a goal of President Trump at that time, and it indeed came to fruition, contrary to much skepticism. How significant has that move proven to be?

Moving our embassy to Jerusalem sent a very powerful message that President Trump keeps his promises, stands with our allies, and cannot be deterred by baseless threats. This set the table for numerous other diplomatic achievements throughout the world. If we are honored to serve another term, we are very well positioned to continue to make history in a very positive way, G-d willing.

Rabbi Zalman Wolowik and Ambassador Friedman at the U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem

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“We are very well positioned to continue to make history in a very positive way.”

In the Oval Office after President Trump announced that the United Arab Emirates will be establishing diplomatic ties with Israel

You have a lot of supporters in the Five Towns community. Rabbi Zalman Wolowik of the Chabad of the Five Towns participated in the historic event and was instrumental in setting up the embassy in Jerusalem in a “kosher” way. Is there a special pride in sharing these events with the Five Towns community?

The Five Towns community has been my home for most of my life. I am very grateful for all the support I have received from this wonderful neighborhood.

What is your daily schedule like? How often do you travel, between the U.S. and Israel, and in general?

I work six days a week, much of each day and night.

I travel back and forth to Washington, D.C., almost every month, as well as elsewhere.

Davening at the Kotel on Sukkot

How regularly do you speak with the President?

Are there any insights about President Trump that would be meaningful or important to share with our readers?

I have a long and enduring relationship with the President based upon mutual respect. We speak often.

I am always astounded by his energy, his dynamism and, most importantly, his willingness to think out of the box, rather than blindly

following conventional wisdom.

Before your public position as Ambassador you had worked in a private sector capacity and had enjoyed an amicable relationship with President Trump. Do your families still maintain a personal connection at this time?

We will always be close friends.

Last time we spoke you were fairly confident that President Trump would win. I would assume you’re as confident, if not more, for this upcoming 2020 election. How are the polls looking now? Are there other indicators that you look to?

I am not a pollster, but the level of enthusiasm for President Trump seems at levels even greater than 2016.

What do you hear from people in Israel regarding the U.S. elections?

Israelis overwhelmingly prefer President Trump. I would always trust Israelis to know what’s best for Israel.

What do you personally hear from those across the aisle regarding the Trump Administration’s efforts and progress in the Mideast region?

There is bipartisan, although sometimes begrudging, acknowledgment that President Trump has really done something incredible in creating the Abraham Accords.

What would you say to Jewish voters, especially those who are Orthodox and/or supporters of Israel, who oppose President Trump regardless of the progress that has been made during his adminis-

tration in support of Israel?

I’m not allowed to engage in the campaign, so all I would say is that everyone should consider the President’s record and be fair.

Personally, I am enormously proud of that record.

How would you respond to those who accuse President Trump of being anti-Semitic or bigoted?

It’s an insane accusation.

Listen to the President’s words — all of them, not just a half sentence taken out of context. The President has been the exact opposite of what his accusers falsely claim, both in word and in deed.

Tell us a little more about your personal experiences in this role. What’s it like to have your words scrutinized by the press and by people around the world?

You get used to it; you get better at it with time. I’ve always tried to speak directly and answer questions honestly and without spin.

Who is the most interesting or most inspirational person you’ve met in your role?

There have been so many that I couldn’t even begin to narrow this down to a single or even multiple individuals.

Do you ever discuss theology with your Muslim peers?

I absolutely love to discuss theology, and I have done so with experts in all faiths.

The “M” in your name stands for Melech, which seems to add a nice connection to the biblical King David. Do you feel like you are living in a significant historical era?

I do, but I will leave the history writing to others.

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A Mandate to Uphold Our Mesorah Rabbi Pesach Lerner Talks about the Waves the Eretz Hakodesh Slate Made at the Recent World Zionist Congress

BY SUSAN SCHWAMM

Rabbi Lerner, your slate, Eretz Hakodesh, made waves this year at the World Zionist Congress, which took place virtually last week. Tell us about what the World Zionist Organization is and why you felt the need to start the Eretz Hakodesh slate.

Since the first World Zionist Congress, almost 100 years ago, the Congress created three national institutions in Israel. The umbrella organization is called the World Zionist Organization, the WZO. Under the WZO, you have Keren Kayemeth LeIsrael, known as the KKL-JNF (the JNF in Israel is not part of the JNF in America – those are two separate entities); the Jewish Agency; and the

Keren Hayesod.

Keren Hayesod is the Jewish fundraising arm of the WZO system for all countries except North America. The Jewish Agency is the fundraising arm for North America.

Each of these entities has sources of budgets and influence and committees and activities that affect Israel and the world. And for too long, mostly until now, the influence, the positions, the distribution of money – and we’re talking about a billion dollars per year over the next couple years – were mostly controlled by the center-left because the center-left had the majority of the votes at the World Zionist Congress. As such, the center-left would

Thousands of yeshiva students were able to enter Eretz Yisroel due to Eretz Hakodesh’s efforts and influence

spend money on things that our community would be very unhappy with that are not Israel-related or Judaism-related.

To explain this to your American audience, when I refer to “center-left,” I’m referring to groups like non-Orthodox liberal organizations and groups like Yesh Atid and Meretz in Israel or New Israel Fund and J Street and others.

These groups had the influence because the way it works at the WZO is through elections and positioning.

There were 525 delegates at the World Zionist Congress this year. Around a third of these came from the U.S., a third came from the rest of world, and a third came from Israel, in proportion to Knesset members. Every Knesset group had a certain amount of delegates, except the extreme left, the Arabs and the Haredi parties who do not call themselves Zionists. Ten years ago, Chacham Ovadia Yosef decided that they should be involved, and Shas got involved and became a part of the World Zionist Organization. But until now, the groups on the right didn’t have enough votes to get the proper influence and positioning at the WZO. It was mostly controlled by the center-left, who don’t have our community’s interests in mind.

The people who end up sitting on the committees at KKL-JNF or at the Jewish Agency really get to influence a lot of what goes on in Israel and around the world. Did you know that KKL-JNF owns around 20% of property in Israel? There’s a lot of money involved. Whoever is in charge of the positions there has the ability to direct and influence.

Whoever is in charge of the department that sends out shluchim to South America, to North America, to Europe, to Russia will decide which shluchim will be going out. Will they be anti-Israel? Or will they be religious or in line with our values?

Additionally, the Knesset looks at the delegates at the World Zionist Congress and they think that

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“Why does the liberal left have a right to define

Rabbi Nechemya Malinowitz, Eretz Hakodesh Israel Director, during the election campaign

‘Tzioni’ more than we do?”

Rabbi Pesach Lerner receiving a bracha from HaRav Chaim Kanievsky, shlita

this group represents typical American Jews. For so many years, many of these delegates were center-left, and when Knesset members would be wondering about what American Jews were thinking, they were assuming that most of American-Jews had to be center-left, based on the demographic of the delegates at the World Zionist Congress.

A few of us realized that this was happening, and we realized that the charedi community in America had to get involved. We understood that many charedim in America wouldn’t vote for the Mizrachi slate for different reasons. We started speaking with gedolim around a year and a half ago, and the gedolim told us to go for it. They encouraged us. In Eretz Yisroel, we visited Rav Chaim Kanievsky, shlita, and Rav Gershon Edelstein, shlita, and we were given a bracha from both of them when they were told that we want to join the World Zionist Organization and join in the elections and limit the influence of the left.

Our slate, Eretz Hakodesh, is an American charedi initiative established to protect the kedusha and mesorah in Eretz Yisroel.

We were created to limit the influence of the left, but when you outvote a group, there is a vacuum which we would need to fill, which means we would be able to get certain positions and use them in the right way, with love of Torah and with love of Eretz Yisroel.

Additionally, we needed to make a statement to the Knesset and to the Israeli people: the cen-

ter-left are not the majority. Unfortunately, 60 to 70 percent of American Jews aren’t interested in anything. The charedi Jews and the religious Jews are very involved.

Tell us what happened in March, when the elections for the World Zionist Congress took place.

When the elections took place, the Reform slate got 39 delegates, Mizrachi got 27, and Eretz Hakodesh, our new slate, got 25 delegates – those groups got the highest amounts of delegates, which were based on how many votes they each received.

The bottom line is: if you combine the amount of people who voted for Eretz HaKodesh and voted for Mizrachi, ZOA and Shas, and you add those who voted for the Reform and Conservative slates together, both sides are essentially equal, which means that – forgetting about some of the other groups that got less – the Orthodox and the left were equal in terms of delegates. So now there’s no way that the left can run around and say that they’re the biggest voice in America.

In terms of Eretz Hakodesh, this was the first year that we were running, and we came in third.

We had a mandate, a bracha from the gedolim, and many, many people supported us from behind the scenes. And we were matzliach because of that.

Since the elections, our phones have been ringing off the hook with congratulations. “Yasher koach.

We never thought you could do it.” And the answer is, “Neither did we.” This is 100% siyata dishmaya.

The Jews living in Eretz Yisroel are facing the liberals’ agenda every day. The liberals are fighting everything connected to our mesorah and Torah.

They are against concerts with separate seating.

They’re fighting levayas with separate seating.

They’re fighting over the Kosel. We need to fight back. We need to be the voice for our community.

We’re already working for our causes. The fact that 15,000 yeshiva and seminary students were able to get into Eretz Yisrael this last couple months, even though there was a pandemic, is because of the clout that Eretz HaKodesh created and the recognition that we were real. There were many things that already started in conversations before the Congress of this past week.

Remember, there were around 525 delegates at the World Zionist Congress last week, and Eretz Hakodesh had 25 delegates, which is just 5% of the total. But the left-wing and the media can’t stop talking about us. They keep on talking about a “hostile charedi takeover.” We created a wave because we shifted the power from the center-left.

Our 25 delegates gave the Likud-Mizrachi-Shas coalition the majority. We were a homerun hit.

Eretz Hakodesh’s 25 delegates tipped the scale.

Let’s talk about the positions that were given out during the World Zionist Congress.

OK. So let’s make it clear. In all, Eretz Hakodesh was the minority, even though our party shifted everything to the right. Likud and Mizrachi put

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“We need to be the voice for our community.”

At the signing of the WZO coalition agreement in Jerusalem last week. Rabbi Nechemya Malinowitz, Eretz Hakodesh Israel Director, is seated second from right, the first time a charedi group got a seat at the table

together a slate which included Likud, Mizrachi, Shas, Eretz Hakodesh, Yisrael Beiteinu, which is, ironically, Lieberman…

Now, for the next two and a half years, we are in charge of the education department in the KKL. But more important, who had it last time? The liberal left. We took it away. That’s huge. Many programs that were created by liberal left and were pushing the liberal left agenda won’t continue. We have a seat at the table so now we can change things.

Today, the department of the shluchim is in the hands of Mizrachi. That means, that the shliach that is sent to Odessa or South America or even cities in the United States is pro-Israel, has a Torah stance.

That’s huge. With the liberal left in charge, who knows who they were sending out.

Tell us about the delegates on the Eretz Hakodesh slate.

Eretz Hakodesh is an independent organization not connected to any other organization in the United States or Israel which was founded and continues to act upon the direction of gedolei Yisrael in in the U.S. and in Israel. Our leadership and delegates identify with the American charedi community.

Our delegates and our alternates are energized and are filled with enthusiasm.

We recently conducted a survey of our delegate members, and the results were mindboggling. Not mindboggling to you and me but they’re mindboggling to the left. We asked our delegates and alternates: how many times do you go to Israel, how many kids do you send to Israel to study, how many times do you pray for Jerusalem, how much money do you invest in Israel and on and on and on… We were able to document that we’ve all been to Eretz Yisroel. It’s where we vacation; where we send our children to learn; where we go for yom tov.

The planes are filled with charedim; the hotels are filled with the Orthodox. We go to the Kotel. The left, when they complain about the Kotel, they don’t even go there!

In Eretz Yisrael, working on our behalf, we have Rabbi Nechemya Malinowitz. He was involved in many things in Eretz Yisroel. He is indefatigable and volunteered his time and worked to get people

to vote. He is still working on our behalf in Eretz Yisrael.

Did you get pushback from certain groups for joining a Zionist organization?

I tell people, “I’m a Tzioni. You’re a Tzioni. We’re all Tzioni.”

As Rav Mordechai Gifter, zt”l, once told a group of people who visited him in Telz-Stone outside of Yerushalayim, he said then, “Let’s clarify what a Tzioni really is and does.”

Anybody reading this article is Tzioni. We all yearn for Eretz Yisrael; we all daven three times a day for Eretz Yisrael. We are defining Tzioni in the Torah traditional sense of the word. Why does the liberal left have a right to define “Tzioni” more than we do?

Now, because of Eretz Hakodesh, we hope we will be able to limit the influence and spending ability of the left. This is huge. This is without question all siyata dishmaya.

Someone called up Nechemya Malinowitz in Eretz Yisroel and told him that he said he would have helped us more with Eretz Hakodesh but because of his position and politics he wasn’t able to help as much. “Looking back,” he told Nechemya, “I should have helped you ten times more. I see what you did. I see that you’re ehrlich. I see that you’re already doing what needs to be done.” People are seeing that we can effect change. It’s changing people’s mindsets.

The fact that we were able to get in 15,000 yeshiva students – from Brisk to the more modern yeshivas – already speaks volumes about what is going on over there and the influence that Eretz Hakodesh has. We’re able to influence. We have a voice.

If Moshiach is not here yet in four years from now, we hope to have so many more delegates at the next World Zionist Congress. This time around, we had 20,000 votes and got 25 delegates. Imagine if we could get 75 delegates! We need more votes, which would translate into more delegates, which would translate into more input. The ripple effect would be tremendous.

The 25 delegates and the 50 alternates on our slate have so much energy and enthusiasm. Their

volunteerism is unbelievable. People want to get involved. They want to do things. They want to go further. After corona, can you imagine if, all of a sudden, Eretz HaKodesh invited middle-of-theroad Knesset members to come to America? “We want to show you our community. We want to show you the community who voted us in.” And we take these Knesset members to New York, to Lakewood, to Cleveland, to Florida, and show them the community. We stop in a shul in middle of the day and show them what’s going on. We show them our schools. We show them the vibrancy and activity of our communities. There’s chessed going on 24/7 in our communities. We will open their eyes to what the American charedi community is about.

With Eretz Hakodesh, there’s an organization now that represents the American charedi community in the World Zionist Organization, and we can show them how vibrant the American charedi communities are. Many Knesset members don’t know charedi Jews in America; they only see charedi Jews living in Eretz Yisroel. They don’t know our community.

On our slate, we have educators, we have rabbis, we have professionals, we have bnei Torah. We can show them that the charedi world in the United States is strong and active.

Two of our younger delegates – under 35 years old – were on a chat with other younger delegates from all different slates, and I received a phone call from somebody in the administration who told me that they were holding their own and were respectful and had influence. Remember, there are people on the left who never interacted with a charedi Jew. But here, on the chat and on Zoom, there were charedi delegates who were explaining their positions. And the other side said to themselves, “You know, I never knew that.” They actually listened to what they had to say.

Our slate, Eretz Hakodesh, can and will, iy”H, continue making an impact.

Rabbi Lerner, we are looking forward to hearing more about Eretz Hakodesh’s initiatives and influence over the next few years. We hope to speak with you again in the future.

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A RAMBAM MAN Never leaves a supermarket wagon in the parking lot. ♦ Recognizes the “Don’t” in “Don’t cut the line.” ♦ He is the one who offers the “first sip” through which he gives more than a soda. ♦ The first 10 in minyan. ♦ A Rambam Man is the one campaigning, not complaining. ♦ He doesn’t ask, “Is that everything?” he is the one asking, “What else can I help you with?” ♦ He is an idea which leads the chabura, davens for the amud, and gives shiur. ♦ He is the “r” that protects the word “Friend.” ♦ Recognizes the “Don’t” in ”Don’t forget the milk.” ♦ He is the one who wears a scarf to make his mother happy. ♦ Knows that you never take the last cookie. ♦ A Rambam Man celebrates a victory by shaking the other player’s hand first. ♦ He doesn’t ask, “Where’s the exit?” he knows where the fire extinguisher is. ♦ He is the husband who is present when he is there. ♦ Recognizes that you don’t just love Israel, you represent it. ♦ He is the space between “nowhere” and “now here.” ♦ Helps clean up after the simcha is over. ♦ A Rambam Man is first to be asked and the last to demand. ♦ He cheers for the other team too. ♦ The one calling at 12:00AM to wish you a happy birthday. ♦ Recognizes that you look for the pass before the shot. ♦ He helped pump out the basement regardless of whether the house had a mezuzah. ♦ A Rambam Man doesn’t ask, “Can I do it later?” he asks, “How about right now?” ♦ The one who reads the word “untied” as “united.” ♦ He calls his friend when he sees he isn’t in school... and photocopies his notes for him. ♦ The one who is always standing on the subway because he always gives up his seat. ♦ He is the idea that you put your siddur and chumash back after davening. ♦ He is the husband who turns around to check on you. ♦ The one doing the “don’t” favor. ♦ The one who carried the bags but refused the tip. ♦ A Rambam Man never leaves shiur without thanking the Rebbe. ♦ A Rambam Man never leaves class without thanking the teacher. ♦ He is an idea which makes partner, starts a company, heads a practice, and chairs a committee.

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Dating Dialogue

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

Dear Navidaters,

I am 22 years old, and I don’t date. It’s not that I’ve never tried, or that I’ve never been offered, because luckily I have. But this whole process has made me incredibly cynical, and here’s why.

My friends are all avid daters, as a 22-year-old it seems to be my world. Everyone goes out and comes back to discuss with me how it went. Sometimes it’s great, sometimes disastrous, but all in all, it’s entirely unsatisfying. Dates have taken almost casual interview form, where we ask people rhetorical questions with intended answers in mind. I’ve been on actual job interviews that have felt more fluid and personal.

Communication and confrontation, fundamental skills in relationships, take a backburner in the realm of dating. We ask each other out through a third party, and sometimes even dump through one. We are so precious with our dates in person and yet so harsh behind their backs. It seems like we meet people just for the sport of going home to pick apart every aspect of them. Do they go to the right school; are they from the right neighborhood? I wonder if we actually care about the answers, or are just asking on an ego trip.

And not even to mention the fact that romance, spontaneity, and excitement are completely absent from the whole process. Dating has been chocked up to something so transactional, like we are trying to check things off a list and get our mothers to stop nagging us. It feels stiflingly calculated and somehow were expected to create meaningful relationships out of it. Why are we trained to expect magic from a one hour hangout with a complete stranger in a coffee shop?

How are we supposed to have relevant conversation with the opposite gender when we stigmatize men and women in non-romantic conversation?

There must be a better way to do this. This system really needs an update, for the people in it and the people watching in fear. How can we make dating meaningful again? How can we make sure it’s the right amount of calculated risk without it being us making up our minds about EVERYTHING before we even get to know a person?

Any suggestions?

Sydney

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. can see that you are a disgruntled dater. However, you are not just pointing out flaws in “the system.”

You are willing to work on changing things. You want opportunities to be more natural with personal connection and romance and less a matter of social constructs.

So go ahead and create singles’ events of your own and/or attend others. Do participate in the growing number of more casual dating opportunities that are facilitated by skilled, experienced shadchanim. General mixers and casual opportunities without facilitation often prove very disappointing and get very tiresome quickly. Careful coaching behind the scenes and more structured groups (Table for Five) are the fruit of many efforts and shared ideas for people to meet. Similarly, the role of shadchanim in Jewish dating sites (Saw You at Sinai, for example) is important and effective to help people get closer to people that they are interested in without major formalities. The careful work done to help people meet naturally does not seem so natural, but it certainly is more comfortable than the current systems.

A lot of work is also being done by teachers and mentors to prepare young people for dating and help young people meet. Their parents also need some education, but that is much harder to change because there is no formal role for parent education in shidduchim.

So, take heart. Examine some of the newer opportunities that exist. If they are outside of your community or social circle, that’s OK. Go ahead and experience them. And if they aren’t working for you, examine why and work on some alternatives with some wise, experienced people.

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ou might think that as a shadchan I disagree with your sentiments

about the shidduch system. It is a common myth that shadchanim are running this broken system. The reality is, shadchanim are public servants working voluntarily in a system that our society has created a dire need for.

I understand your frustration and fully sympathize with you. I will, however, shed light on an issue I have brought up many times in this column: dating will be wrong until it is right. People tend to harp on the awkward dates, stilted conversations, and sob stories of “the ones that got away.”

Since they haven’t yet found their bashert yet, it is only healthy to find someone or something to place the blame for the “reason” one is not married. The system is flawed, the shadchanim are gatekeepers, the guys are not normal, the girls are too picky, the guys are too picky, the mothers are too picky, the tablecloths are too plastic-y.

These are all very common complaints but I do not think complaints in dating are unique to the shidduch system.

Outside the system comes its own set of very valid flaws and plethora of bad dates and horror stories as well.

So what is the answer?

Emunah and bitachon. When you find your bashert, you won’t have to deal with those stilted and awkward conversations. You won’t have to reach out to any more shadchanim. You won’t have to worry about your bashert not giving you a chance or judging you too harshly because you will realize that the decline from the other side was ultimately destined from Hashem saving you from the wrong one.

When you shift your perspective to the realization that G-d is at the wheel, your whole outlook will change. Those rejections will hurt less because you will realize that they were truly wrong for you, and when it is right, it will work out.

Regarding your feelings of discomfort surrounding the system, I challenge you to take Gandhi’s sage advice to “be the change you wish to see in the world.”

Richard Buckminster Fuller is more than just a strange name. Born in the late 1890s, this man became a

world famous author, inventor, architect, and theorist over the course of his life. He challenged himself, after undergoing many harsh life challenges. Life did not treat him kindly at first. Being a man with no particular wealth or high rankings, according to the laws of nature he did not stand a chance. But with a swift change in perspective about life, he decided to get up from the darkest place in his life and emerge to change the world in his own way. It is he who said, “You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.”

Take all of your ideas and put them into action to revamp the system in a way that might serve you and your social group better.

Why are we trained to expect magic from a one hour hangout with a complete stranger in a coffee shop?

I wish you much clarity. May you find your other half speedily and easily.

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The Zaidy

The Single

Dr. Jeffrey Galler feel your pain.

Know that you are not alone in wondering how our community has allowed such an archaic, artificial, and stressful dating system to have become the norm.

At this point, here are your options: You can postpone dating until the shidduch system magically morphs into what you find more acceptable.

But you might need to wait a very, very long time, and it’s no fun to date when you’re 90 years old.

You can try to work within the existing system but make it clear to anyone who wishes to “set you up,” that you will only date someone who shares your views and are not interested in superficial pre-dating questionnaires or dates that seem like job interviews.

You can entirely by-pass the “datesomeone-you’re-set-up-with” system, and meet young men on your own.

For you, meeting in college, at work, in shul, or at dating events (like those sponsored by YUConnects), can be an ideal way of connecting with someone who shares your romantic ideals.

Good luck!

Rena Friedman Sydney, I can feel your frustration at the experiences you’ve had or seen in shidduchim and even more so your desire to do something about it. This is definitely one of the hardest stages in a person’s life.

The purpose of dating within the confines of shidduchim is to get married to the right person. Our marriage-minded approach leads us to place certain boundaries to ensure that we are constantly on the right path and only developing real, purposeful relationships. Depending on the stage, we strategically allow or hold back certain privileges.

Communication and confrontation are fundamental skills that are especially vital in shidduchim. We generally strive to have healthy confrontation and build strong communication skills. For a couple to progress their relationship, in the appropriate context, romance, spontaneity, and excitement are important. It is unfair to compare an interaction with a colleague to a date because the nature and purpose of each encounter is different and requires a different set of

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I agree with you that it is unrealistic to expect magic from a onehour coffee date and that rhetorical questions are pointless. I also agree that we need to speak nicely about each other and go on dates with the positive intentions to see if the person is shayach for who they are and not the schools they went to. Lastly, I agree with you that we lose sight of what is important and that we are all live human beings with feelings and reputations.

The beauty of how shidduchim works is that you have the power to decide what your attitude and perspective is going to be. It’s tough, it’s rough, it’s extremely hard. There are times when it’s all just too much and I get in my car and scream to Hashem.

But all in all, we try our hardest to approach dating with a positive attitude because we cannot change the cards you are dealt, just how we play the hand. Shidduchim is one giant endurance race of emunah and attitude.

It’s hard to change the world, but you can start with yourself. You can be the person who has fun and spontaneous dates that are not interviews. You can be the person who finds the good in each person you go out with and use it

Pulling It All Together

kind of freeing!

There is something very flawed within the The Navidaters dating system.

Dating and Relationship Coaches and Therapists There is something entirely unnatural and not organic and, dare I say, stiff and boring about it. While ear Sydney, some go unphased and ple worthy of great dates I share your sentiments about the don’t feel this way (kudos to you!), and getting married. They dating system. Many, many hours of many, if not most, do! And yet, it have nothing internal to work my week are spent listening to horror is the existing system. Emails like on but need support and a little stories; hearing the despair and the yours being printed in a paper like chizuk to get through this. hopelessness... I can’t go on another this one help bring attention to the If you’ve been my client, you bad date, Jen... I just can’t do it. I’m issue at hand. So, thank you, Sydney! have heard me say that chemistry giving up.

Might I offer you the following is real. You can’t force feelings that And as I’ve said ad nauseum in suggestions to help navigate dating. aren’t there, and don’t listen to the this column before, it is worth sayBefore you get set up, have a heartwell-meaning people in your life ing again: the vast majority of datto-heart with your shadchan. Be very pushing you toward someone who you ers who come through my door are clear about what you are looking for know in your gut is not for you. It’s perfectly wonderful, interesting peo-

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You can make dating meaningful again.

as an opportunity to learn something or build someone else up. No one is stopping you from doing that. A time and place for this exists within the confines of shidduchim.

You are actively choosing to view shidduchim through an incredibly cynical lens. You can make dating meaningful again, but you have to want it. I challenge you to dig deep down and really understand what the root of these incredibly cynical feelings are. Sit, think, and ask yourself: What is causing me to feel this way? Is it my own insecurities or things I need to work on? What is the root cause of this cynicism deep within me?

Discovering this will give you room to work on yourself and perhaps approach dating in a healthier way.

A s a lways, a ll feedback, thoughts, and ideas are welcome: renafriedman2@gmail.com.

and the kind of natural relationship you are looking to develop. Believe it or not, there are so many people who want the same thing. Most people are upset with the system. And most people are scared to make changes.

Most people are going through the shidduch system, so rest assured you can meet someone fantastic who shares your outlook through this process. Seems to me you’re looking for a down-to-earth, approachable, communicative, natural guy. And they are out there. Please believe me!

Your job on your dates is to just be yourself. Be natural. If a guy can’t do that with you, he may not be for you. G-d willing, there will come that one special person who you click with. Whether the click happens on the first date or the third, you will have that chemistry. You will want to share of yourself, and he will want to

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share of himself. You will shmooze.

You will laugh. You will…gasp...flirt with each other. He will make you smile, and you will put a pep in his step. You will share more and more.

You will develop a connection. It will turn into a relationship. You will, as they say, “drop shadchan,” and fly on your own...as a real couple. Use every opportunity to connect by digging deeper. Be real. Be yourself. Whoever can’t handle it, simply isn’t for you Sydney.

While the system absolutely needs an update in my humble opinion, you can be Sydney in this outdated system. You can make dating meaningful again. Every time I have worked with someone shidduch dating, I encourage people to be themselves and trust themselves and not follow these rules. Just trust yourself, your

instinct. I cannot tell you how many people I have worked with who began to break away from some of the “rules,” and started to trust themselves, and who went on to meet “the one.”

Use the system to meet people.

Once you are on the date, be yourself.

I want you to imagine being yourself on a date. Imagine it feeling natural. What are you talking about?

How are you feeling on this natural date? Imagine all of it. Script if you will. You are going to use the system and then be yourself. Do it your way.

Just a word of hope to all the readers: I worked with an amazing young woman many moons ago. She wanted a “normal guy.” A guy who would know how to “talk.” A guy who could cut up with her and just have fun and not take dating so seriously. She

wanted it to feel organic. And she swore up and down there was no one out there like this. To me, knowing a touch about human beings, this makes no sense. It just can’t be.

And so I felt fairly comfortable setting her straight. My feeling is that most people want to be their human selves. People are dying to be real.

Dying to be real! We are taught in this community to keep secrets and not air our dirty laundry...for future shidduchim! Oy, oy, oy! A prison! So many of us suffer in silence because we don’t want anything to affect our children’s shidduchim. It makes me so sad. This woman had to use the system because it is how people meet.

Men and women in more orthodox circles simply do not have the opportunity to meet each other naturally (a topic for another column, I guess).

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I pleaded with her to keep using the system because likeminded people also have to use the system. And lo and behold, she met someone amazing who she laughs with and who feels like her “person.” And the best part is that it all felt so natural and organic.

I wish I had a magical answer here, but I don’t. You’ve got to be in it to win it...with a new attitude.

And I fully believe when it’s the right time, he will come along. And maybe I have that belief because I’ve seen it happen so many times at this point (thank G-d!).

Dating is hard work. It can feel downright depressing sometimes.

Stay strong and hopeful. And if you’re ready, start dating...your way!

Sincerely, Jennifer

Jennifer Mann, LCSW is a licensed psychotherapist and dating and relationship coach working with individuals, couples, and families in private practice at 123 Maple Avenue in Cedarhurst, NY. She also teaches a psychology course at Touro College. To set up a consultation or to ask questions, please call 516-224-7779, ext. 2. 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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Covid and Our Cohort

By Rebbetzin Faigie Horowitz, MS

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ur experiences during the pandemic have confirmed our status. Midlifers are clearly different than other generations. We aren’t elderly at severe risk for our lives, yet we may have health conditions that preclude us from uncomplicated responses to the virus.

We are careful on our own besides being told to be cautious, mask up, and maintain social distancing.

This has been a time of turning inwards for us on one hand. We didn’t have shul, attend simchas, host family, shop or have normal social interactions. It took effort to pick up the phone and call or even reach out by email. So many of us have turned inwards. Starting from the pre-Pesach need to do our own cleaning, we have nested. We’ve organized closets, gone through photos, and read a lot. We’ve upped our tech skills and don’t have to rely on others to teach us how.

It’s also been a time for turning outwards. We have reached out to family and friends who are alone, checking on them and staying in touch. We have reached out to those with losses in their family not only to be menachem avel but to be supportive during their time of vulnerability, calling them after the shiva period to see if they want to talk or be alone. Many of us know people who, for whatever reason, are particularly vulnerable. They may tend to be anxious. They have had medical issues.

Some just take things to heart in a very deep way. We tried to be sensitive and considerate of their feelings at the same time.

I think, generally midlifers come from a particularly respectful and seasoned place. We have gone through ups and downs ourselves. We understand hardship and life because we have lived it. We tend to count our blessings and be grateful. We have learned to be daveners and to talk to Hashem as we move through our daily responsibilities and challenges.

Resilience is a general quality of our age group, even if we haven’t had to entertain and educate six kids with four phones and only three devices. Covid reminded us to exercise our coping skills. Many of us who are children of survivors focused on the fact that we have food, heat, and security. Some of us experienced 9/11 very personally. We have all had challenges by now and have developed some resilience.

first, and then worry about the others.

This is a shift for our active generation which is used to first helping the other layers of the sandwich. Selfcare comes first during a health crisis and that meant not hosting, not giving, and not shepping nachas directly.

Some of us cooked for the kids initially for Pesach. They don’t necessarily have Pesach kitchens and had all the kids underfoot while cleaning.

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Midlifers come from a particularly respectful and seasoned place.

Nonetheless, some of us have had more trouble with the confusion and uncertainty of Covid. Some people focus on when is it going to be over.

Some feel sad and lonely and find it hard to focus on anything beyond what they can’t have and what they can’t do now. Uncertainty can be very challenging; we cannot control things and have to live day by day, doing our best and hoping and praying for improvement.

There are several changes in our family relationships since the start of this new way of life. The obvious one is the one with our adult children.

Like donning the oxygen mask first in case of an airplane emergency, we have learned to protect ourselves

HaMoed, like my friend who wrote up a competitive scavenger hunt for all of her families. But as the pressure to homeschool developed and the weeks passed, our kids needed and received support from their peers, rather than from us. Their friends gave them ideas for activities, creativity, schedules, gardening projects, charts, and more. We validated their struggles and pressures but the real support came from people in their age group.

They were responsible, and we could not help them.

It was us and our spouses spending weeks together. Our relationships were challenged. We had to find more things to talk about, safe ways to share our fears and hopes,

and be understanding of each other.

We talked and walked together. Effort was expended to keep things pleasant because there was no place to escape if we got angry or upset.

Our generation is traditional about gender roles. There was no help and the jobs we delegate usually became ours. We picked up our long unused aprons and did so much housework. We tried to be creative about partnering on some of the chores. We were certainly creative in the kitchen and the dining room in an effort to make our empty tables look more attractive and interesting. We made do with what was in the house rather than risk our lives to go shopping.

Our resilience was not just about not leaning on the kids for tech help and the grandkids for entertainment.

Many became more open about their wants and needs. Pesach at home was great, said many friends. I got to participate in the seder and talk Yetzias Mitzrayim with my spouse. I don’t want to go back to the other way is a way of expressing personal preferences, something that not all women of our generation are comfortable doing.

I think that our kids see us differently too now. They understand that we are vulnerable and are not always the Giving Tree. Covid accomplished much more than the magazine articles about kids coming for yom tov and not being considerate. The next generation has learned to be independent and to be more effective parents.

The fact that they have to run their own lives is validated. We will still be solicited for support and money but we have learned that they can only become resilient on their own.

Let’s wear our Covid badges with pride. We survived and thrived during the pandemic. And we let our kids do so, too.

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Dr. Deb

April’s Nervous Part

By Deb Hirschhorn, Ph.D.

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ast week, I wrote about the Internal Family Systems approach to therapy – and healing. I am absolutely fascinated with this way of finding out why we say and do things that we don’t even agree with, why we may not stick to our plans, why life can be so doggone hard.

In just a few sessions, people have discovered why they’re hurt inside and how to heal that hurt part of the Self. They discover why their behavior can be contradictory or why they seem so indecisive. They learn why they are like the mother they swore they wouldn’t be like. They find out why they married the person they married and why that turns out to be a good thing. They see what is good about their worst habits and why they’ve stuck around so long.

Now, you may be wondering what this has to do with marriage.

The answer is: everything.

When your marriage is not working, it always takes two people, right?

You may argue with me, that that is not true at all – it is the other person’s “fault.” And I will (gently and lovingly) point out that since you married

that person, there must be a reason you were attracted and something you are doing right now that also keeps the pot boiling. And something inside you is keeping you there.

And, I would suspect, it is all for a very good reason.

Our inner system of functioning is generally very good, not very bad.

We are much wiser than we give ourselves credit for. You may not believe this because you may be used to beating yourself up. But I’m here to tell you that it is only a part of you that is doing the beating. And it is only beating a part of you, too. Not your whole Self. Your Self, under the parts that can make chaos and be very confusing, is wise and centered.

Which brings me back to marriage. If you really are someone who has been beating yourself up, then that is part of the equation in the marriage. Perhaps that is not helping the marriage get better. Similarly, if you are anxious or sad or blameful or angry, it won’t help the marriage, either.

People often come to me telling me of the difficulties they have with their spouse. And I say, you will have

clarity as to how to proceed once you look closely at yourself first. I applaud the people who do want to look at their own way of responding, their own emotions, and their own attitudes. Those are the people likely to either have some effect on changing the dynamics of the marriage or even to have a positive effect on their hesitant spouse to work closely on themselves, too.

Let’s take an example. (I’m making this up.) April is 45 years old. She is married with three children. She finds it difficult to create peace for herself at home because her husband could flare up at her unexpectedly.

For example, one time recently, he walked in the door, mad. She doesn’t know why, but he generally takes it out on her. She is now a nervous wreck because of it, and she wasn’t nervous prior to the marriage.

Doing IFS work, however important – eventually – to the health of the marriage to talk about your spouse, is done by yourself and about yourself, not about your spouse. When I explained that to April, it made her happy to think that she could focus on herself, finally. It didn’t all have to be

about her difficult husband.

Since I told her we want to get to understand her better, it would be good if she could suggest which part of herself we should get to know first.

“My anxiety,” she answered immediately. “I’ve become a nervous wreck, and I can’t stand it.”

“Ah,” I commented, “so you have two parts within you that don’t get along. There’s the nervous part that is pretty much with you most of the time, and then there is a critical part that doesn’t like the nervous part.”

“Yes, that’s true,” she replied.

“Which part do you want to focus on first?” I asked.

“Let’s do the nervous part,” April answered.

At this point, I asked April to close her eyes and focus internally. I asked her to ask both parts, the nervous part and the critical part, to step back a few feet away from her. I realize this is all imaginative, but something fascinating here is that everyone does either see or feel or in some way experience their parts internally.

(My suspicion is that Schwartz’s discovery of parts will eventually be substantiated with neuronal and

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chemical substrates for the clusters of behaviors, thoughts, and feelings that accompany parts.)

April reports that she could not get the critical part to step away.

She admitted that she feels most of the time like a mixture herself of these parts. This is pretty common.

So I asked her if I could talk to the critical part directly and she said, “Sure.” I thanked it for participating and wanted to assure it that I believe that it was doing a necessary job and I would be most eager to find out about it shortly. Then I asked if it would mind stepping back for now so April can learn more about the part of her that’s nervous, and I promised to return to the critical part. Sure enough, when I then asked April to have her critical part step back, she said it did.

I asked April, now freed temporarily of these parts, what she thought of the nervous part. Without the critical part confusing her answers, she said that she wondered why this nervous part needed to be there all the time. I

thought that was a great question, so I asked her to ask it of her nervous part.

The answer was quite a shocker to April. The nervous part said, “When April busies herself with being nervous, she doesn’t have to think about how sad and lonely she really is. That is how I help her.”

Of course, there are as many reasons why a person would develop a protective part whose “job” seems so counterintuitive. But the reality is that whether you want to call this a part or a coping mechanism, all of them were developed by us as children and were 100% meant to help us deal with difficult situations. Situations that were then and are now way over our heads. We did the best we could creating these parts so as to function as well as we could in a challenging world.

Now, how will this help the marriage?

First of all, April can now “negotiate” with this nervous part to participate less often, especially if she prom-

ises to deal with the sad and lonely part so it won’t have to pop up when she’s not being nervous.

Second, this is only the beginning because there’s a part that has been criticizing the other parts and she needs to understand the purpose of that. We all have an inner critic. Who is she or he? Why is it there? We want, generally, to shut it up and banish it.

In fact, that is what I used to tell my clients. But this paradigm has taught me that if all parts came to be out of need then the critic also has a positive role. If we can learn what that role and that raison d’etre is for the critic, we can also negotiate with it that it can take on a new role and no longer carry the burden of negativity.

Third, she will come to exert her leadership of her Self over these parts and the parts will no longer need such loud voices in her head. Her Self will be able to allay the fears of the parts and shine more often without their interference. They can go on to be the kids they were supposed to be,

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encouraging April’s creativity and curiosity.

So when she is functioning at a calmer and connected level, it will surely have an impact on her husband. When he walks in angry the next time, she can simply be curious as to what went on and kind to him that she’s sorry whatever it was happened. Even if he is totally irrational in his reaction, she can reply from a place of wisdom.

This, in turn, can help him to decide to work on himself, or she can decide that she wants him to do that because it’s necessary for the stability and happiness of the marriage. This clarity will help April make the decisions she needs to make in her marriage – and about her marriage.

Dr. Deb Hirschhorn is a Marriage and Family Therapist. If you want help with your marriage, begin by signing up to watch her Masterclass at https://drdeb. com/myw-masterclass.

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Health & F tness

Winter Superfoods The Produce You Should Be Eating Now

By Aliza Beer MS, RD, CDN

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he summer months are known for a plethora of fresh, delicious, and nutritious produce.

Saying farewell to plums, peaches, nectarines, blueberries, and watermelon may be disappointing, but there is much to look forward to in the months ahead. The winter season has its own list of superfoods, foods that deliver an abundance of vitamins and minerals with antioxidant power. These foods are believed to offer health benefits and may be linked to disease prevention.

Buying seasonal foods has a number of advantages, including being cheaper, fresher, and more nutritious than their out-of-season counterparts. The nutrient density of produce is affected by how long it sits on the shelves. The longer it sits on the shelves, the less nutrients and antioxidants are available in that produce.

Let’s explore some in-season superfoods that you should be eating now.

• Winter Squash: Butternut, acorn, and delicata squash are in season beginning in early fall. Winter squash is a great source of vitamins C and B6, magnesium, beta carotene, and fiber. These will all help to lower blood pressure and cholesterol and boost immunity. The delicata squash is a less carby option and can easily be roasted as a lower calorie side dish.

First wash the skin (it’s edible), slice the squash in half horizontally, scoop out the seeds, and cut half-moon shaped slices. Place slices of squash on a parchment paper-lined cookie sheet. I spray some olive oil, sprinkle on kosher salt and herb de provenance, or you can make it sweet by using cinnamon and nutmeg. Roast at 400°F until the edges get brown and crispy. Butternut squash is a favorite

and filling winter soup option as well.

• Ginger: Ginger is excellent for soothing upset stomachs, improving digestion, and boosting immunity. Certain chemical compounds in ginger may help your body ward off germs. They are also good at halting the growth of some bacteria like E. coli and shigella. Ginger is known for calming nausea, especially during pregnancy, or queasiness caused by seasickness or chemotherapy. Ginger is available all year-round but the freshest roots are harvested in the winter months. Use a little bit of ginger in any of your Asian dishes like a chicken and veggie stir fry, or make yourself a cup of hot ginger tea.

• Citrus Fruits: Fruits like oranges, grapefruits, clementines, and lemons are loaded with vitamin C, a potent antioxidant that will help fight off colds and flu. They are also high in minerals and phytochemicals, which may help reduce the risk of cancer.

Grapefruit is a wonderful winter fruit snack and a great fat-burner.

(Warning: if you are taking a statin, please discuss with your physician if/and when you are permitted to eat

grapefruit, since it might interfere with statin absorption.) Adding lemon wedges to your ginger tea would be taking this healthy beverage to a whole new level!

• Apples: There’s a good reason why an apple a day keeps the doctor away. It is another excellent source of vitamin C and fiber. Fiber is important for good heart health, helps lower cholesterol levels, reduces the risk of strokes, and helps control blood sugar. Apples are a rich source of antioxidants, including quercetin, which has been shown to have a neuroprotective effect. In one study, it appears to help neurons survive and continue to function and might be beneficial in prevention of age-related neuron loss.

Antioxidant-rich foods also help prevent the oxidative stress that causes cell damage, which may lead to the development of certain cancers.

Favorite diet tip: baked apples are warm and sweet and you feel as though you are having a real treat!

Core the apple, sprinkle on some cinnamon, put into a pan with some water. Cover and bake at 375°F for 1½ hours. You can even add a spritz

of sugar-free whip and cinnamon/ nutmeg onto your hot baked apple.

Sounds like heaven on a cold winter night!

• Brussels Sprouts: This is one of my best-loved winter veggies in terms of taste and nutrients! They are high in vitamins K and C and also contain folate, manganese, potassium, and vitamin B6. Brussels sprouts are typically harvested in late fall into winter. I trim off the ends, halve and clean them, then toss them with some olive oil, salt, pepper, and a drizzle of silan (date syrup). I then roast them on a cookie sheet at 400°F until they look brown and crispy. They make a healthy side dish at dinner, and you can throw the leftovers into your salad the next day.

• Sweet Potatoes: Sweet potatoes are cousins to the squash but king of the beta-carotene brigade.

Sweet potatoes are one of the richest sources of this antioxidant, which fights free radical damage and inflammation. They are also high in fiber and water. Although sweet potatoes are considered a “carby” vegetable, they are the healthiest carbs you could possibly put into your body. They are all natural and unprocessed, unlike most breads, crackers, and wraps. I’ve seen many clients achieve great success by eliminating the bread carbs and replacing them with sweet potatoes.

I love mine cut up into French fry shape, drizzled with olive oil, kosher salt and coarse black pepper. I roast mine at 400°F for about 30 minutes.

Air-frying them would be another great method of cooking them, and the kids will never suspect that they weren’t actually fried! Their peak season is from October to December.

• Pomegranates: They come

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into season Rosh Hashana time and are good through February. Pomegranates are one of the healthiest fruits and have up to three times more antioxidants than green tea! In addition, pomegranates provide other nutrients, including folate, vitamins K, E, and B6, potassium, and fiber. I love sprinkling them into my salads for extra color, flavor, and crunch.

They make a great topping for your Greek yogurt as well.

• Broccoli: Surprisingly, broccoli is an excellent source of vitamin C. One cup contains more than 100 percent of your daily needs! Additionally, studies have shown that cruciferous vegetables like broccoli contain compounds which may be protective against cancer. Broccoli is an easy and delicious side dish that can be made many different ways, from broccoli “rice” to chicken and broccoli stir fry, to burnt broccoli (my fave), and broccoli soup – always a crowd pleaser, especially in the winter.

• Persimmons: Although not a fruit typically found in most homes, the persimmon makes up in nutrients what it lacks in size. One persimmon contains half of the recommended daily intake of vitamin A, which is

up into your salad.

The winter may not offer the same abundance of produce that the summer months do, but there is an important value to quality over quantity.

The nutrients provided by the winter

Adding lemon wedges to your ginger tea would be taking this healthy beverage to a whole new level!

crucial for immune function and eye health. They are also rich in the antioxidant lycopene, which helps protect the skin from UV damage, and helps the skin to retain its moisture for a more youthful look. Just one persimmon contains 6 grams of fiber, making it a weight-loss friendly food. Eat it fresh as a snack or cut it

produce are significant and plentiful.

Every meal should include protein and veggies. Don’t be intimidated by a vegetable that you are unfamiliar with or haven’t eaten before. Most vegetables can be either roasted or turned into soups.

The bulk of your snacks should be fruit. If you know you will be out for

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hours, it is a great idea to take along an apple or a few clementines; they travel well and don’t require refrigeration. Being prepared with a fruit snack will save you from buying the protein bar (aka candy bar) or the bag of chips on the run. Move away from the aisles of processed and packaged foods – they are full of sugar and empty calories – and spend more time getting acquainted with the produce department. You will feel (and probably look) better, and also positively impact and improve your health.

Wishing my readers a healthy and safe winter!

Aliza Beer is a registered dietitian with a master’s degree in nutrition. She has a private practice in Cedarhurst, NY. Patients’ success has been featured on the Dr. Oz show. Aliza can be reached at alizabeer@gmail.com, and you can follow her on Instagram at @alizabeer.

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Parenting Pearls

The Importance of Fair Expectations

By Sara Rayvych, MSEd

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was out for a walk when someone stopped me to ask if I was the author of the articles in The Jewish Home. I’ll be honest. I enjoy feedback from those who have read my articles. We spoke for a few minutes and she said to me, “You must be really patient.” I hear this often, and it brought up the idea that people can easily have unfair assumptions or expectations. I thought that perhaps an article on fair expectations and recognizing the individuality of yourself/others might be next.

People often have their assumptions and expectations for us. When people hear that I homeschool, they automatically assume I must be a patient and an organized individual. They also assume my kids must always be perfectly behaved and always eager to learn. This is a public forum so I will simply say that we are normal people.

Similarly, we often have assumptions and expectations for ourselves and others. We assume we should be capable of doing something or that it’s only fair to expect something of

our spouse/parent/sibling/neighbor.

Having unfair expectations for ourselves can create feelings of inadequacy. Unfair expectations of others can create unhappiness within the relationship and feelings of disappointment.

Having fair expectations applies every day and at all times. Now, more than ever, it’s only fair to be realistic in our expectations. Throughout our parenting day, we’re called upon to decide if something is or isn’t fair to expect. Now it’s more important than ever, when our children are under so much pressure and change, that we adjust our expectations accordingly.

Periodically, it’s important to step back and recheck our expectations for ourselves and others to ensure they’re both fair and realistic.

Why is it so important?

Your expectations need to match your child’s capabilities for two very differing reasons. On some occasions, parents don’t expect much from their child. This is dangerous because it prevents the child from

becoming stronger and growing as an individual. If you don’t expect from them all they can give, then you aren’t asking them to fulfill their potential. You’re stunting them and not showing you have faith in their talents and capabilities.

If your expectations are too much, then you are setting your child up for failure. They won’t be able to meet the goals set for them and they’ll live with feelings of incompetence in the background. It’s frustrating and humiliating for a child to know something is expected of them that they can’t accomplish. Children themselves are often too immature to realize the goal wasn’t fair and will painfully turn the reasons for failure towards themselves.

Alternatively, children who are given fair expectations have goals to reach for – and accomplish. They can continue to challenge themselves and improve as they go. They know they can succeed and will push themselves to do what they can. Even if those steps are small, they can continue to walk the path of success.

Creating expectations There are many ways we create expectations. Some are created or based on what we see in others. For example, I might see my neighbor’s child is very helpful with their baby and assume my child should do the same.

Other expectations are built upon how we’d like or think things should be. We’d like our kids to not make a mess before Shabbos and therefore assume it’s fair to expect that from our kids. I might think kids should know parsha with Rashi each Shabbos so I assume it’s a reasonable assumption. None of these are how we define fair expectations in others (or ourselves).

We should never decide what is realistic to expect from one person based on the capabilities of another.

We understand this in some areas but don’t extend it to others. We may realize that our child won’t have the same singing voice or artistic skills of another but we may not think to extend that understanding to other areas such as behavior, academics, or

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social skills. There are two reasons why. The first reason is simply because you only see what you see and you never see the whole picture when looking at another family or person.

When you see that your neighbor’s child is wonderful with the baby, you may not see that same child make a huge mess. The neighbor that is always neat and respectful in your house may not be as thoughtful in his own home.

The second reason is because we all have our strengths and weaknesses. No child can have every strength.

It’s healthy to recognize your child’s strengths while also respecting where they are weak. We know that in Hebrew we used the word “middah” or “measure” to describe personal traits because we all have different “measures” of each one. It may be helpful to keep that in mind when recognizing that another child has a strength yours may not have.

Your child has a different strength in greater measure.

Especially with children, it’s important to make sure that our expectations are grounded in reality and based upon where each child is now.

Different children will reach different stages at different points with age being only a general guideline, not one that is set in stone. Just because we want or think a child should do something doesn’t mean they’re capable of it at that point. It’s hard to take an honest look at your child, push aside parental pride and preconceived notions, and see where that child is at this moment. Is he/ she capable of what I’m asking? If the answer is “no,” then you need to know how to step back and adjust your expectations to the present. If the honest answer is “yes,” then you need to take the time to decide how you can encourage or set that child up for success in that area.

It’s possible that whatever goal we have in mind isn’t fully within their reach but soon may be. It is possible to create mini goals or small steps that a child can take to reach that goal. Each mini step is its own expectation that can be met. If those baby steps are properly arranged, then soon enough you may find your child reaching a much bigger milestone that you never anticipated

– nor could they have produced by taking one large step. This applies to everything from social interactions and academics to overcoming personal limitations and practical skills. By helping and encouraging your child to reach for something

that an otherwise fair expectation is not fair under the present circumstances. We are currently experiencing a variety of unusual stresses and children are feeling them strongly. It may be time to reevaluate your expectations and perhaps lower some

By helping and encouraging your child to reach for something small and within their grasp, you can slowly extend their reach further.

small and within their grasp, you can slowly extend their reach further.

Expectations change You knew that. Not only should our goals change as improvement is made in one area but goals change as children mature and their brains develop. I will briefly mention the fact that children’s thinking capabilities change not just quantitatively but also qualitatively. This means that it’s not just that they know more as they get bigger but that their way of thinking actually matures. As an example, little ones think concretely.

No matter how much you try to teach an abstract concept, they don’t understand it. It’s not because they’re not smart enough or lack background knowledge, it’s because their brain hasn’t yet developed the capabilities to think abstractly. Expecting them to think abstractly when they can’t is unfair. Similar cognitive development happens in logic, reasoning, emotional development, and many other areas. This type of development happens throughout childhood and is sadly beyond the scope of this article. I only mention it to help parents with setting realistic goals and recognizing another gauge to use when creating and changing goals for their child.

Expectations also change as life changes. When a life change happens, such as a baby being born into the family or moving to a new town, expectations need to change. Upheaval creates stress that may mean

of the usual ones. You may need to create new, temporary goals to match the current times. Our children are learning resiliency and a whole host of new skills from the pandemic, and many parents may find it helpful to focus on those.

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Expectations and you I’ve mostly focused on your child but the same rules apply to being fair to yourself and the other adults in your life. You deserve to show yourself the same kindness and respect you extend to others. Creating realistic expectations for all the relationships in your life allows for more happiness and respect within each of those relationships.

Sometimes, we might find it hard to set fair and realistic expectations for our children throughout their lives. By taking the time to think through and properly set realistic goals, we can assist our children in reaching, and exceeding, anything we ever thought possible for them.

Sara Rayvych, MSEd, has her master’s in general and special education. She has been homeschooling for over 10 years in Far Rockaway. She can be contacted at RayvychHomeschool@gmail.com.

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In The K

tchen

Beer Braised Chicken Thighs

By Naomi Nachman

One of my favorite stovetop cooking techniques when I need to free up “oven real estate” is

braising chicken. Braising is high heat browning of the outside followed by a long, low simmer, and

it leaves chicken so juicy. You’ll love this recipe as it’s perfect for a weeknight dinner but is also elegant enough for Shabbat dinner.

Ingredients

Preparation

b8 Empire Kosher® Chicken Thighs b1 bottle stout lager b2 teaspoons kosher salt b1 teaspoon paprika b1 teaspoon garlic powder b1 teaspoon onion powder b4 onions, cut into ½ moon rings b4 cloves garlic, minced b2 tablespoons fresh tarragon b2 tablespoons Dijon mustard b1 bottle stout lager b¼ cup maple syrup

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Place the chicken thighs in a large bowl. Pour one bottle of lager/beer over the chicken. Cover and refrigerate overnight.

2. Remove chicken from the beer/lager (discarding the liquid) and pat dry with a paper towel.

3. Season the chicken liberally with kosher salt, paprika, garlic powder, and onion powder.

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In a large skillet on medium high heat, sear four pieces of the thighs on both sides until they are a deep brown color. Remove and set aside, sear the other four thighs, and set aside.

5. Reduce heat to medium. In the same pan add the onions and sauté until translucent and then begin to brown, about 10 minutes. Add in garlic and tarragon sauté for another 2 minutes.

6. In a small bowl, whisk together mustard, the bottle of lager, and maple syrup and pour over onions. Bring to boil.

7. Return the chicken to the sauté pan. Once the sauce comes to a boil again, lower heat to a simmer.

8. Cover and cook for 1 hour and 30 minutes.

Photo by Melinda Strauss

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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ur Business

Rabbi Richard Bieler It’s About Creating Relationships

By Yitzchok Saftlas

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very Sunday evening since July 2015, Yitzchok Saftlas, CEO of Bottom Line Marketing Group, hosts 77WABC’s “Mind Your Business” show on America’s leading talk radio station. The show features Fortune 500 CEOs, CMOs, and top business leaders where they share their business knowledge and strategic insights on how to get ahead in today’s corporate world. Since Q2 2017, the 77WABC “Mind Your Business” show has remained in the coveted Nielsen “Top 10” in New York’s highly competitive AM Talk Radio market. Guests have included John Sculley, former CEO of Apple and Pepsi; Dick Schulze, founder and Chairman Emeritus of Best Buy; Beth Comstock, former vice chair of GE; and Captain Sully Sullenberger, among nearly 200 senior-level executives and business celebrities.TJH will be featuring leading questions and takeaways from Yitzchok’s popular radio show on a bi-monthly basis.

TJH will be featuring leading questions and takeaways from Yitzchok’s popular radio show on a bi-monthly basis.

n a recent broadcast, Yitzchok Saftlas (YS) spoke with Rabbi Richard Bieler (RB), a former senior fundraiser for Yeshiva University and Ohel Children’s Home and Family Services.

RB: It’s much easier to sell to your existing base because you already have a donor in mind and you’ve already done the research and you’ve made the match between who in your organization is the best person to reach out to that person.

You’ve had some meetings and even if you haven’t closed the gift yet, you’re already in the late cultivation or proposal stage since you’ve previously closed a gift with them. Then you can really go towards closure, relying on the fact that by December, people are more motivated to make their gifts. The idea of having those kind of conversations, that should be the first priority in almost any fundraising campaign when it comes to September and October and certainly this year, where the existing relationships can be nurtured and brought forward more rapidly.

YS: It’s five times more likely to land a project with an existing client than it is to try to get a new one. You can scale your organization much more rapidly by reaching out and cross-selling, upselling to your existing base than by trying to get new donors. Can you expand on that?

YS: Perhaps you could share with us the steps it takes to land a gift?

RB: The road to major gifts is the most challenging. It takes the most persistence. You have to be willing to face early rejection. Often, on the first ask, you get a no and then you learn from it. So, while the challenges are greater, the real pay-

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off takes place with a major gift, especially an annual major gift. If you focus on developing a portfolio of annual major gifts, then when your fiscal year starts, you’re already much closer to your goal.

So how does one go for a major gift? First is the research, which is easier now than ever. And then there is also the discovery. In other words, is there someone in the office who has a relationship with that person?

Is there someone on the board who has a relationship with that person?

We were very fortunate at Ohel to have a chairman of our fundraising committee who was one of the most prominent and respected accountants in the city. Then you have to figure out who’s going to be at the meeting in terms of who’s going to set up the meeting, how many people should be there… That becomes very difficult during these times. Because you don’t have the face-to-face meetings, Zoom meetings can be alright, but they’re nothing like seeing someone. But you have to raise money, so you do what you can do.

Once you know who’s going to make the meeting, then the question is: what are you going to talk about? The prospect knows that you’re there to raise money. You’re not there to talk about anything

else ultimately. And how are you going to make that presentation? I have found that the best way is to walk in with tiered projects in your mind, a large gift, a middle gift and maybe even a smaller gift as an opening gift, but each of which you can live with. The idea is that you discover through the conversation what they’re really interested in.

Then you can present them with the idea that they will be the most interested in and then you come back with a proposal and hopefully you go toward closure. And, of course, the follow up. This is usually about months and months and sometimes years of work. But the payoff, for a not-for-profit having a healthy major gift campaign, is so, so great.

YS: What’s the passionate argument that you would make to organizations that push back and say, “Listen, it’s hard-earned dollars that need to go to the services that we’re doing day in and day out.” What’s the case that you would make to say, you do need to invest in marketing. I guess I would add to the question, is marketing a luxury or a necessity for an organization?

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RB: I found that within almost any leadership group, there are one or two people who will say, “No way.”

And there are one or two people who will say it has to be this way. In other words, there are a few people who say, “Don’t do marketing and don’t spend the money.” But if you look a little harder, you’ll find one or two people who say, “You know what?

That’s the way to go.” And if you have a relationship with those lay leaders and you have a conversation with them and you present a plan – not just we need to spend money – but you show them a plan about how you are going to spend it, then you might convince those people to give above their annual gift – a special gift – toward this growth campaign.

I wouldn’t only call it a marketing campaign; I would call it a growth campaign. I call it a campaign to capture the next generation, a campaign to capture a broader constituency. Look at the goal of it. Marketing is not just to spend money on an advertisement; marketing is to have results. I would look for the people who appreciate the investment and let them lead the charge.

nities. Then they can ask someone again – your current friends usually and sometimes someone who’s new, but usually your current friends – wouldn’t you like to be one of the first five people who are going to help us make sure that our teachers are taken care of given this situation? Or wouldn’t you want to be one of the last five people to complete the goal that we’re able to do such and such for our children?

So while we hope that this pandemic will end as soon as possible and people will get healthy and stay healthy, there are still people out there today who still have the ability to make a major gift and actually might have a greater interest now in

YS: We know that today there is unfortunately a pandemic that we’re plowing through.

So much of the fundraising journey and the gifts itself are taking place virtually.

Perhaps you could share some perspective on the road to a gift, particularly with what we’re experiencing right now.

RB: The easiest dollars to raise are the first dollar and the last dollar. The first dollar, meaning that some people like to be in on the beginning. Those are the people who usually wait on line around the Apple store for the new iPhone, even though they had last year’s new iPhone because they want to be the first ones to have that.

And then there are people who like, in the not-for-profit world, to be the ones who finish, who are the ones who complete the project. And therefore, in these difficult times, an organization with a plan and working strategically can create legitimate first and last opportu-

making that gift because they know that others cannot. So, don’t give up, keep on looking, try to keep on being positive, and you’ll find those heroes who want to make your campaign a success.

feeling of “this might go wrong and that might go wrong” that they don’t take a little bit of time and say, you know what? What if it works? Are we ready to have these individuals come to our events? Are we ready to send an invitation that’s appropriate for someone of that stature?

Are we ready to have a website that can accept a $25,000 gift when the largest gift that we got in the past was $5,000? Sometimes it can be as simple as the order of the gifts.

I’m always amazed how some organizations still list the gift possibilities in ascending order. And basically, you’re saying to the donor, you can give a gift, if you give us $18, we’re happy with that, and $100

“Don’t give up, keep on looking, try to keep on being positive, and you’ll find those heroes who want to make your campaign a success.”

YS: I’ve heard a quote that you like saying, “Don’t forget to plan for success.” Perhaps you can expand on that.

RB: That’s where the infrastructure comes in handy. You work for so long, you bring the board together, you find the right honoree, and you have an opportunity to have a market growth in your campaign, but you don’t take care of the infrastructure to plan for success. You find that dream business honoree.

But if you don’t have the right materials, the right invitations, the right website, the right ability to attract those gifts, you’re going to miss out on the opportunity. So sometimes organizations forget to plan for success. In other words, they have a discussion and there’s so much

would be extraordinary. Instead of saying by the way it would be nice to get $100 and $18 would also be fine.

Make sure that you’re reaching out, investing in the right plan, investing in the right website so that you can receive all of the contributions that are going to be generated by all of your hard work.

YS: That’s such great advice and perspective because many f undraisers have found it more challenging, or perhaps it’s just in their mind, that they put that barrier up that things are going to be much more difficult now. What would you say is a great tip for a fundraiser to plow through that negative mindset?

RB: The only person who ever said yes, the first time I asked for a major gift, never paid their pledge – it’s a true story. The person, unfortunately, had a psychological condition that they couldn’t say no, and they overextended themselves.

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So, of all the years when I’ve raised major gifts, I would say that there always was a “no,” or “come back and adjust the proposal,” or “I’m not interested in this.” That’s why the relationship is so important. If you just are the taker, if you’re just making that call when you’re asking for money, then you’re going to have a different relationship. But if you’re going through your list during certain times of the year and you’re calling people or you have notes of when the anniversary, the birthday, whatever it is, and you’re calling them not to ask for money and you develop a relationship, then you can have a conversation.

One of the largest donors at Ohel really challenged the organization.

And he told me, “I’m doing this, I’m going to give the money eventually, but I want to make sure your colleagues know how hard it was to make this money and how important it is that they understand how they’re going to spend it.” So, he challenged them with love. He said, “I want them to know that rich people don’t just give money easily, but they do want to give, you just have to be able to make your case properly.”

Keep on going as long as you have a good cause, as long as you’re being positive and as long as you realize that today’s “no” can turn into tomorrow’s “yes.” If you take the right approach and form the relationship, then I think everyone can have greater success.

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Political Crossfire

It’s All Good, It Really Is, On Wednesday Morning

BY A DIEHARD TRUMP SUPPORTER

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ike sixty million Americans, I wake up this morning filled with anxiety.

Hmm, that’s not a bad place to be. Usually nobody shares in my anxiety; now sixty million people do. Well, at least I’m not lonely. Wait – they say that the “owner of a lonely heart is better than the owner of a broken heart,” so not being lonely is no solace here.

I guess I have to dig deeper to get out of this feeling. I say to “get out” of this feeling because it really does feel like I’m dressed in this cloak of political anxiety. So I’m digging deep, and here is what I have come up with.

It may sound so cliché, but it’s so true. In fact, chances are you probably already figured it out on your own and don’t need me. Um, hello, if you live in the Five Towns and if you’ve ever been at a red light behind another car, you probably know what

I’m talking about. Singing the song yet?

For the sake of not being sloganistic (please don’t check if that is a real word), I’ll say it a little differently: the best way to deal with the anxieties of the moment is to have gratitude to Hashem for all of the amazing things in our lives.

For me, some of those things are: Baruch Hashem, I have wonderful children who are healthy, happy, pure, and innocent. To them, it makes no difference who the president is because the safety dome over their lives is their loving parents.

(Well, some of them are a bit MAGA crazed, but that’s my fault…. They will forget about that stuff in two weeks.) Hashem gave me those children and allows me to enjoy them every day. That’s a big deal.

Additionally, I am happily married and have a wife who puts up with a husband who, well, is wigging

out because Trump lost. That takes patience, understanding, and kindness on her part.

I have a comfortable home, friends, family and neighbors who I enjoy spending time with. I have a job and am able to put food on my table. In fact, Hashem has made me and probably you – if you live in the frum community – in the top few percent of income earners in the country. (It may not feel that way at times, but remember: the median household income in the U.S. is $68,703.)

And the list goes on.

You get the point: if we count the blessings in our lives, if we really think and focus on the amazing things that Hashem has given us, we will realize how Hashem on a micro-level is carrying us on his shoulders. The macro stuff is none of our business anyway.

I admit, it is easier said than

done. I checked the election returns so far six times while writing this.

But I’m trying, at least.

Here is a tip that I have been utilizing over the past few hours to try and refocus myself.

Do this exercise: think about a vacation that you had at any time over the past ten years.

For me, I remember a balmy summer day a few years ago kayaking down the Delaware River with my wife. We had a great lunch in the car as we drove up from the city.

When we got to the kayak rental shop, there was one of those wooden screen (well, ripped screen) doors that had the perfect bungalow colony creak. Before we got out on the river, I slapped on sunscreen and chilled on the riverbank for a few minutes.

There was a toad in my kayak when I got into it, and I kind of freaked out so Jimbo, the guy working at the

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those moments, you were fully present in your own life. Who the president of the United States was really played no role if you were going to take “chicken or fish.”

The problem is that when we are not fully present in our own lives (whether it is sitting at a Shabbos table with the family, taking a walk with your wife, playing a game with the kids, etc.), our brains wander to other places…Instagram, gossip, politics. These are powerful forces that pull us in. Our brains trick us into believing that those things are, in fact, a big part of our lives. But they are not; they are pure distractions.

Now, before you accuse me of being an ignoramus and holier-than-though, let me confess: I am the biggest political junkie out there. Dare I say, I’m such a loser when it comes to that stuff, I fall for the distraction every time. I’m the guy that people ask, “So, what’s Trump up to…” and I’m the guy who seriously answers the question as if I just had my mid-day chat with Jared Kushner. So, I’m not lecturing you.

I’m lecturing myself…and you.

It’s a little easier to do this today because last night was not a total loss.

kayak rental, had to fetch it for me before I was brave enough to strap myself into the kayak. I wiggled my kayak into the shallow waters and could see the shiny little rocks two inches below (hmm, am I too heavy for this?). As I began paddling, I caught the whiff of an early afternoon barbeque coming from the shoreline. It immediately reminded me to start convincing my wife that we should go kill it at Dougie’s in Woodbourne for dinner.

Got my point?

Now, at that moment, paddling down the Delaware River, the furthest thing from my mind was who the president of the United States was. It played no role whatsoever for good or for bad at determining my level of relaxation and enjoying my trip.

On the flip side, if, G-d forbid, at that moment I was concerned about a serious matter, such as a loved

one being sick or a financial issue, chances are that thoughts of that would have crept in, even on what should have been a serene vacation.

I may have still enjoyed my trip, but it would have been a struggle to try to keep my mind off the serious issue that worried me.

The difference between those two thoughts – who the president is and the hypothetical serious issue – is that one is really relevant to my life and one is absolutely not. A serious issue pervades people’s thoughts and affects their attitude regardless of where they are. Who the president is? Well, give me a good steak and fireworks on a warm summer night and I’m thinking about where the steak sauce is.

You can do the same exercise by thinking about an achievement you made, a gathering with friends that you enjoyed, a trip to Meron or Uman or a family wedding. At all of

As I write this, it looks like the Republicans will hold onto the Senate.

That is huge. It means that Biden

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a victory and Republicans did well in the Senate races and some House races. This shows that there was not a blue wave or even a lurch to the left. Most of the country is still moderate. In two years, there will be many vulnerable Democrat senators up for reelection, and they will have a tough battle for the House (because party in power usually loses seats), so it would be silly for Biden to disregard the signal of the voters and to govern as a leftist. He will have to govern as a moderate.

Ultimately, Biden’s presidency will likely not be much different than Clinton’s. We survived Clinton, and we even survived Obama. Biden is a lightweight compared to them.

Regardless, I guarantee you that on my next trip down the Delaware or the next time I have a family birthday party, my feeling is not going to be, “This is great, but Biden’s president, so it’s really not so great.”

Hashem is going to continue to shower my and your lives with blessings (yes, we live in a crazy world and He loves us more than we know), and those blessings are not going to be hampered by who does the meaningless press conferences in the Rose Garden of the White House. I’ll leave it to Hashem to continue to run the world.

It was fun having Donny in the White House, but now Hashem wants us to have fun in other ways.

I’m the guy who seriously answers the question as if I just had my mid-day chat with Jared Kushner. will not be able to pass a radical legislative agenda.

The truth is, at this point, politically, Biden needs to govern as a moderate. He barely squeaked out

Maybe we will get some joy out of Biden, too. After all, crazy Uncle Joe can be entertaining, too. I heard he has a great plan to give all Americans free healthcargabagobooble.

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Political Crossfire

The Wizards at DARPA

By David Ignatius

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as anything hopeful been happening in this toxic year of partisan politics and the coronavirus pandemic? Mercifully yes, and for a reminder of the wonders of the human imagination, consider what the wizards at DARPA have been up to lately.

Looking for an election break, I spoke on Monday with Victoria Coleman, who in September became director of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, as it’s formally known. Joining her was Peter Highnam, her deputy, who since January 2019 had been serving as its acting director.

That both Coleman and Highnam were born abroad illustrates one of America’s greatest assets – we’re still a magnet for the world’s smartest and most creative people. Long may that continue, whatever our current problems.

DARPA is a reminder that disease and political dysfunction can’t stop the innovation machine that is the United States. The agency that helped create the Internet, GPS, Siri and the humble computer mouse is still looking for what Coleman describes as “very risky, big bets, ‘if it works it changes everything’ kinds of ideas.” She and Highnam talked with me about a few of them, which DARPA has pressed forward on this year despite the pandemic.

Let’s start with a program called SenSARS, which the agency announced on Monday as one of its periodic “disruption opportunities.”

The goal is to find new technologies – quickly – that can detect SARSCoV-2 and other pathogens in offices, classrooms and buildings. DARPA

will start issuing grants before the end of January.

If that real-time sampling seems far-fetched, consider that DARPA has already developed a program called Sigma+ to detect chemical and biological threats in the air. It was field-tested in Indianapolis in August, when five non-toxic chemicals were released and tracked. A DARPA system to detect radiological or nu-

for quantum sensing and imaging. (The acronym-addicted agency calls this one SAVaNT, for Science of Atomic Vapors for New Technologies.) Meanwhile, another DARPA program is combining “noisy” (mean-

Artificial intelligence has been a DARPA project for several decades, but the pace is accelerating.

clear threats is already fully deployed in the bridges and tunnels and other transportation systems of New York City and northern New Jersey.

What about computing, which drives every other technology on the planet? DARPA for many years has funded breakthrough research in quantum computing, whose qubits can be both zero and 1 and any position in between, unlike traditional computers, whose bits are either zero or one. It’s a mind-boggling approach that eventually will transform computation. But the tiny qubits are so fragile that they have to be kept near absolute zero temperature, and even then, they last for only microseconds – which means that a universal quantum computer may be decades away.

Enter DARPA. The agency in September announced a program to use room-temperature atomic “vapors”

ing short-lived) qubits with classical computers to solve some otherwise impossible optimization problems.

Another mind-blowing DARPA computing project seeks to use the magic of biology – the way our brains and bodies encode and remember information – to design computational devices of the future. A DARPA program called Lifelong Learning Machines, started three years ago, is trying to build true “learning machines” on the premise that “even the smartest of the current crop of AI [artificial intelligence] systems can’t stack up against adaptive biological intelligence.”

Artificial intelligence has been a DARPA project for several decades, but the pace is accelerating. Coleman told me the agency is spending $2 billion over the next five years to fund more than 60 AI programs,

including more than 30 that are exploring “next generation” AI. Among those that caught my eye on DARPA websites are Explainable Artificial Intelligence so computers can tell us how they solved problems; and Media Forensics to help detect fakes; and Machine Common Sense.

Worried that the United States might lose its edge in manufacturing chips and other hardware, DARPA has funded what it calls the Electronics Resurgence Initiative, which seeks to boost what can be written on chips by 50 times, to experiment with photonics in chip design, and to increase speed of graphics processors 1,000 times.

And then there’s the DARPA stuff that just sounds cool: A computer algorithm that beat an ace F-16 pilot 5-0 in a series of simulated dogfights in August; a program called PALS (for Persistent Aquatic Living Sensors) that uses sea life - shrimp, grouper, reef formations – to detect the presence of submarines; and an unmanned vehicle that can navigate rivers, swamps and deserts – as well as highways.

We have a world of worries these days. But spend a little time browsing DARPA’s website, and you’ll realize that the United States maintains the genius for science and technology that created our modern world – and that it shows no sign of slowing down. (c) 2020, Washington Post Writers Group

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U.S. Paratroopers in World War II Part II

By Avi Heiligman

11th Airborne Division landing near Aparri Luzon, Philippine Islands

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irborne operations took on a major role during World War II. They were a quick way to get troops behind enemy lines and start an attack on two fronts. The more well-known operations and divisions were from the European Theater of Operations and included the Normandy invasion and Operation Market Garden. There were other airborne drops in the war that did not always make headline news. Paratroopers, especially the 11th Airborne Division, were very active and made a few combat jumps against Japanese-held territory in the Pacific Theater of Operations.

The 82nd and 101st Airborne Divisions were created in the months leading up to and following the U.S. involvement in World War II. The 11th Airborne Division was not created until early 1943 when the troops who were needed to fill the ranks were available to begin training. Under the command of General Joe Swing, the unit took in many glider troops and trained them to be paratroopers.

These men made up the backbone of the 511th Parachute Infantry Regiment (PIR). The other two regiments in the division, the 187 th and the 188th, came into battle riding on gliders. Nick-

Gliders on Aparri Field, Luzon

named the “Angels,” the 11th was ready to be sent overseas in early 1944. They were sent to New Guinea for intense jungle and mountain training and made several practice jumps.

Most of the 11th Division landed by boat on the Philippine island of Leyte and was involved for three months in bitter fighting with the Japanese. In February 1945, while attacking Manila, the 511th Parachute Infantry Regiment (PIR) conducted a combat parachute drop to reinforce the 11th, and the Division continued north. On February 3, they dropped in three waves to support ground troops during the Battle of Luzon. Although many of the troops did not land in the correct drop zones, they were together within five hours of the jump. The entire division was united in the afternoon after battling only light enemy resistance.

The 511th Parachute Infantry Regiment made two other combat jumps in the Philippines. One of these jumps was the rescue of 2,147 Allied citizens and military personnel from a prison camp in Los Banos. One-hundred thirty paratroopers of Company B, 1st Battalion jumped into the camp in a successful rescue mission. The war’s final combat jump took place in northern Luzon as elements of the

Paratroopers from the 503rd PIR landing

511th jumped on June 23 to prevent the Japanese commander from escaping.

Another independent (not attached to a larger unit) airborne regiment was active in the Pacific during the war.

The 503rd PIR had three battalions and, like the 511th, were sent to New Guinea. However, unlike the 511th, the 503rd saw combat on New Guinea as they helped force the Japanese into a retreat. In September 1943, the regiment dropped from C-47 transport planes at Nadzab as the paratroopers took an airfield that was used to land incoming Australian soldiers. General Douglas MacArthur watched the drops from a B-17 that was circling overhead during the daylight operations. Two of the 503rd battalions made a combat jump on July 3, 1944 on the island of Noemfoor off the coast of New Guinea and helped eliminate the Japanese garrison.

The regiment was then sent to the Philippines. There, the 503 rd Regimental Combat Team made the jump onto the island of Corregidor.

The tiny island, measuring three and half miles long and one and half miles wide, had been captured by the Japanese in May 1942, which resulted in the loss of 800 Allied soldiers killed and 11,000 captured. Recapturing

Corregidor would have some strategic value as it was at the entrance of Manila Bay but the overall effect on morale would be enormous. The first of 1,000 paratroopers jumped on Corregidor on February 16, 1945 and surprised the Japanese garrison. The eleven-day battle was intense as they encountered heavy defenses and had to drop explosives by hand on Japanese positions. For their heroism in battle, the regiment was awarded the Presidential Unit Citation.

Paratroop missions in the Pacific Theater were different than those taking place in Europe and North Africa.

Smaller units were involved but the purpose remained the same – to surprise the enemy with a force of troops behind friendly lines.

World War II paratroopers from the 503rd and 511th Regiments don’t get as much recognition as do their counterparts from the 82nd and 101st Divisions but their success on the battlefield is history worthy to remember.

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

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APT FOR RENT INWOOD Brand new bright and airy basement apartment near LIRR . Never used kosher kitchen , 2 bedrooms , LR/DR central air /heat ,full bathroom washer/dryer $2000 a month Call/text Yitzi (929) 225-3616 WOODMERE: BEST BUY Spacious 2BR Apartment, Washer/Dryer In Bldg, Elevator Bldg, Open Floor Plan, 1st Floor, Close To All...$199K Call Carol Braunstein (516) 295-3000 Apt for rent Heart of Far Rockaway Ground floor. 2 bedroom.

Spacious livingroom/diningroom Driveway, new appliances!

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HELP WANTED Looking to hire sales people to train as NY & NJ Public Adjusters.

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SHULAMITH EARLY CHILDHOOD is looking to hire a full time teacher assistant for the current school year.

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HELP WANTED CAHAL is seeking MORNING ASSISTANT TEACHERS for our special ed classes in local Yeshivas.

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HELP WANTED **PLAYGROUP ASSISTANT** Looking for a young, heimish, post-high school girl to work as a warm and loving assistant Morah in a 2 year old Far Rockaway playgroup (starting now).

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Billionaires! Just Like Us!

By Allan Rolnick, CPA

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hundred years ago, billionaires were a big, big deal.

Tycoons like John D. Rockefeller, worth the equivalent of two Jeff Bezoses in today’s dollars, were celebrities, the overachieving substitutes for today’s merely overexposed Kardashians and Tiger Kings. Today, though, CNBC reports there are at least 630 billionaires in the U.S. alone, which means if you live in California, New York, or Florida, you’ve probably bumped into one at the grocery store. This week’s stories feature a couple of billionaires (and one mere millionaire) who don’t like paying tax any more than you do.

Last year, Robert Smith, a venture capitalist worth $5 billion, grabbed headlines by taking the stage as Morehouse College’s graduation speaker — and announcing he would give $10 million to eliminate off the student debt for the school’s 396 graduates. He structured that gesture as a grant to the school, to qualify it as a deductible charitable gift, which meant drafting Uncle Sam into covering 37% of that cost.

Today Smith is back in the news, but for slightly different reasons. Last week, he ‘fessed up to using offshore accounts to hide $200 million of in-

come from 2000 through 2015. He’s agreed to pay $139 million in back taxes and penalties. He’ll also forego $182 million in charitable deductions, which could add $65 million more to the bill. Hindsight is 20/20, of course, but he clearly would have been better off just paying the original tax in the first place. And he’s lucky he’s not facing time in a place that makes

the largest criminal tax prosecution the DOJ has ever brought. (So why is the 79-year-old Brockman free on a mere $1 million bond? Do they think he can’t afford a bogus passport if he chooses to flee?)

Both billionaires relied on the classic tax-cheat “business plan”: setting up entities like trusts, shell companies, and accounts in foreign

He’s lucky he’s not facing time in a place that makes dorm food seem pretty appetizing.

dorm food seem pretty appetizing.

Smith isn’t the only billionaire making tax headlines. Last month, the IRS indicted Robert Brockman, a Houston-based software billionaire (and investor in Robert Smith’s first fund), on a 39-count all-you-can-eat buffet of financial crimes. They say he used accounts in the Bahamas and Nevis to avoid tax on $2 billion of capital gains from 2018-2000. It’s

owners’ names in foreign locations.

Smith admitted paying a Houston lawyer (who also worked for Brockman) over $800,000 from 2004-2018 to fake the paper trails to hide the accounts. The scheme collapsed when his Swiss bank alerted him – they were about to rat him out to the IRS to reduce their own criminal exposure.

Smith tried to take advantage of a voluntary amnesty program, but the

IRS said no, suggesting they already had a target on his back.

Finally, Gene Simmons, of rock star fame, isn’t a billionaire, although he’s a music industry groundbreaker.

(Quote: “I like being part of a rock and roll band, but I love being part of a rock and roll brand.”) He’s just announced that he and his wife are kissing their $22 million Benedict Canyon mansion goodbye, and moving to…Washington. Why? California’s top tax rate, which stands at 13.3% and may be heading to 16.8%, is just too high for the famous showman. Best of all, his trip doesn’t involve the risk of prison!

In the end, of course, billionaires and rock stars aren’t just like us.

They’re billionaires. And rock stars.

They have more money and gold records. But careful planning can still give us the tax savings they so obviously want, without risking a trip to jail or even making the news.

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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Tennis Anyone?!

By Rivki D. Rosenwald Esq., MFT, CLC

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o, is something is bugging you?

Kind of plaguing your mind?

Well, let’s review. What do we know?

We learn that it’s helpful to change our perspective in order to help stop the ruminating, especially on things that we cannot change.

But how do we stop the ruminating on why we are having a hard time, changing our perspective, in order to quiet the ruminating? So we kind of get stuck in that vicious cycle.

Here’s how it goes: aggravating thought; desire to get rid of it; attempt to change the thought; then aggravated that we can’t focus on a new thought. Then that’s the new aggravating thought....

This may be the moment to resort to Plan B. Distraction!

Get out of your head, your house, your habit.

If you cannot change your mind, try to not mind a change!

A new activity can redirect your brain’s focus. Rather than thinking how to not think, your brain is kept busy with doing something else, so your mind is automatically just not thinking. It’s actually busy being somewhere else.

If you cannot find something to do, begin by prepping as if you do have something to do.

Maybe start by grabbing a few

and now, is a must.

Here are some ideas: Sports can be a great distractor.

Sudoku can absorb one’s mind.

Resolving someone else’s problem can require physical or mental input or even both.

How’s reading this article working for you?

How about reading this article while hopping on one foot?

If you cannot change your mind, try to not mind a change!

household items. For instance: a hammer, an old encyclopedia, two very ripe plums, a toaster oven, a big beach ball, an elephant or anything resembling one, and, of course, a mug!

Didn’t that list already get you out of your head a bit? A nutty list, huh?!

But that, my friends, is the start of distraction! Because it took you in another direction.

If you can think of something you like to do that requires a lot of your physical and mental attention, you’re off in the right direction.

It needs to be doing something that pulls you in. Something where concentrating on the present, the here

How about reading this article, hopping on one foot, and singing your favorite song?

Basically, do whatever it takes to get as many senses as you need involved in distracting your mind.

So try for a new perspective or get involved in a new activity.

Or, stay where you are and drive yourself nuts living in the problem, the past, the future, the confusion, the pain...

Tennis, anyone?!

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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