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he excitement for Sukkos starts way before the holiday begins in my home. My kids are talking about their chol hamoed trips and spending time with their cousins even before we’re dipping the apple in the honey on Rosh Hashana. There’s talk about where we’ll be on Simchas Torah, which meals we’ll be eating by which relatives, and visiting their great-grandmother on the way back from shul. As we spend the first days in Brooklyn, it’s become a tradition to dance with the groups of Lubavitcher boys who pass by my parents’ sukkah as they head to Crown Heights for the night meals. It’s hard to miss them; they spend the few miles’ trek singing in the streets and bringing out families from their sukkahs to join in their simchas ha’chag. My son decided this year that if we stand on the corner on the first night of Sukkos we may be able to catch the boys on both nights – because dancing definitely trumps chicken soup and kugel, as least he thinks so. There’s something about Sukkos that’s so cozy and connected. Perhaps it’s the “back to basics” atmosphere and the familiar surroundings of little lights, vibrant posters, and children’s projects that adorn the four walls. No matter how grand your sukkah is – and even if you bring in couches and upholstered chairs – you’re still

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leaving the typical comforts of your home and spending time together as a family. For kids, there’s the excitement of doing something different. Do we wash inside or outside? Are we sleeping in our beds or in the sukkah? Who gets to sit next to Zeidy? Who has to help pass out the food through the window or through the door? For adults, it’s the pleasure of being present in the here-and-now. It’s the appreciation of being together with our families, schmoozing and laughing, outside on crisp fall nights. And then there’s the singing. Your family’s zemiros end up entertaining the neighbors and their tunes enliven your meal. There’s the classics that you’ve been singing every year, and then there are the new songs that will become a new tradition in your sukkah. Some songs are upbeat; some are more melodious. The generations join together in enhancing the homey atmosphere, their harmonies mingling under the stars. Wherever you spend Sukkos, it should be a joyous time for you and your family, filled with laughter, happiness, and harmony. Wishing you a wonderful week, Shoshana

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Contents LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

COMMUNITY 8

Readers’ Poll Community Happenings

NEWS

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Global

National

Odd-but-True Stories

ISRAEL Israel News

My Israel Home

JEWISH THOUGHT Rabbi Wein on the Parsha

Rabbi Wein on Sukkos

Keeping the Connection by Rav Moshe Weinberger

The Sukkah Experience by Rebbetzin Tziporah Heller

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Beauty and Schach by Shmuel Reichman

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A Sukkos Story by Rabbi Shlomo Zevin

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TJH Chol Hamoed Guide

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PEOPLE The Yiddishe Kop behind A Yiddishe Kop by Avraham Zuroff

Jewish Heroes in Operation Market Garden by Avi Heiligman

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HEALTH & FITNESS This is What a Happy Marriage Looks Like by Dr. Deb Hirschhorn

Sukkos Strategies by Aliza Beer, MS RD

FOOD & LEISURE The Aussie Gourmet: Meat and Cabbage Soup 102 TJH Speaks with Daniella Silver of Variations

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Dating Dialogue, Moderated by Jennifer Mann, LCSW

Dear Editor, I recently heard a very inspiring speech, and I would like to share a few thoughts that the speaker discussed. Are we paying attention that the Aseres Yimei Teshuva are flying by? “Dirshu Hashem b’himatzo, kiru’hu b’hiyoso harov.” This pasuk applies to right now! If we look for Hashem, we will be able to find Him much faster! Because so much of Hashem is hidden, there is a lot that we don’t understand about Hashem. The feeling of Hashem hiding is scary! In Shir Hashirim, Shlomo says, “My beloved is looking out the window. He’s peeking through the cracks.” This is connected to Hashem hiding. There’s a mashal to a little girl playing outside, and she looks at the window in front of her house. She feels loved because she can see her mother watching her. Let’s say the child is playing outside, and she sees the blinds of the window are

down. This won’t make her feel good because she doesn’t know if Mommy is there. But Mommy can peek through the cracks of the blinds – and the little girl won’t be able to tell that her mother is looking. Hashem is always watching us even if He’s hidden from plain sight. He’s seeing us through an open window and through the cracks in the blinds – but it’s harder for us to notice that. If the little girl was paying attention, she would get a glimpse of Mommy’s eye; that’s hashgacha pratis. Hashem is always with us – we just need to look for Him! Sincerely, A High School Student Dear Editor, In response to the eloquent letter you printed, as a masters in social work from Yale, I have seen time and again that when we radiate love, kindness, warmth, goodness, posContinued on page 10

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itive energy, attention, and unconditional acceptance, our children quickly reflect back these vibrations towards us. This Sukkot, let’s make our entire family feel part of our yom tov experience, as active participants. The rabbanim’s messages, which were cited (641) 715-3800, 811504#, underscore how our precious children are yearning for our interaction and involvement in their world. Show me an unruly child, and I will show you a goodhearted broken youth who feels temporarily disconnected with those around him or her. (See Heart to Heart Talks, Lectures to Women by Rav Chaim Pinchas Scheinberg, ArtScroll). When we include the less fortunate among us, such as friends and neighbors who we haven’t yet invited to our home, widows, orphans, kids who aren’t the most popular, older singles, teens at risk, family members or friends who we don’t always feel like interacting with, we are conveying to all that true simcha and joy is an expression of connection and devotion to Hashem and altruism to those around us, and He in kind will reciprocate by showering us with His everlasting love and smiling countenance. With heartfelt gratitude for your superb publication which we enjoy all year long. Temima Miriam Cohen, LCSW Dear Editor, “Neilah in a Bomb Shelter” was a wonderful article to put into your Yom Kippur issue. Truly, when we daven on Yom Kippur, we should daven with joy and yet feel – viscerally – as if our lives are dependent on our Creator. But thank G-d we live in a world filled with comforts. We don’t feel as if we’re running away from our enemies as we’re ensconced in the luxuries we’re so used to. It’s hard to feel as if our lives are literally on the line. The people who found themselves running for their lives four decades ago in Israel felt the Yom HaDin intensely. We should bottle those feelings and bring them with us to Neilah, praying for a year filled with goodness, happiness and connection. Gmar chasima tova, Chana Lehman

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On Sunday, the White House announced that it would step back and allow Turkey to advance a planned Turkish military offensive in northern Syria. The move marks a major shift in U.S. foreign policy and effectively gives Turkey the green light to

attack U.S.-backed Kurdish forces. The group, long considered among Washington’s most reliable partners in Syria, has played a key strategic role in the campaign against ISIS in the region. “Turkey will soon be moving forward with its long-planned operation into Northern Syria,” a statement said following a phone call between President Donald Trump and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. “The United States Armed Forces will not support or be involved in the operation, and United States forces, having defeated the ISIS territorial ‘Caliphate,’ will no longer be in the immediate area.” The White House added that Turkey would now be responsible for all captured ISIS fighters who are currently being held by U.S.-backed Kurdish forces in northern Syria. As of last month, the U.S. said about 1,000 U.S. troops were operating in northeastern Syria. Erdogan confirmed on Monday that U.S. troops had begun withdrawing from northeast Syria. He announced on Saturday that Turkey had “completed our preparations and action plan” and was ready to launch a “ground and air operation” east of the Eu-

phrates river, with the goal of establishing “peace” by clearing the region of “terrorists.” Turkey’s operation is aimed at clearing the U.S.-backed Kurdish militia – the People’s Protection Units (YPG) – away from Turkey’s border. Ankara regards the YPG as a terrorist group affiliated with the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), which has fought the Turkish state for more than three decades. But the U.S. backs the YPG and credits the Kurds for helping defeat ISIS in Syria. The U.S. and Turkey have been working to establish the buffer zone, which the U.S. calls a “security mechanism,” in northeast Syria as part of a bid to prevent a military incursion into the area that would target Syrian Kurdish groups. Trump’s decision to allow Erdogan to move forward with the operation and to move U.S. forces out of the area goes against efforts by US officials to dissuade Turkey from carrying out a military intervention. “Any uncoordinated military operation by Turkey would be of grave concern as it would undermine our shared interest of a secure northeast Syria and the enduring defeat of ISIS,” Pentagon spokesman Sean

Robertson said recently. He added that the U.S. was committed to implementing the security mechanism, or safe zone, and contrary to Erdogan’s comments, said it was “on time, or ahead of schedule, in many areas.” Turkey plans to resettle two million Syrians in a 30-kilometer-wide (18.6 miles) safe zone to be set up in Syria, stretching from the Euphrates River to the Iraqi border, including Manbij.

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to take seriously a rising threat from right-wing extremists. Investigators have been probing the extent of suspect Stephan Ernst’s neo-Nazi ties and whether he had links to the far-right militant cell National Socialist Underground (NSU). The Halle attack appears to be the latest in a wave of racially and religiously motivated crimes against Jews to rock Germany in recent years. Germany’s domestic intelligence agency reported last month that the number of anti-Semitic acts of violence rose sharply last year alongside a further increase in those identified as far-right extremists. The BfV agency said in its annual report that incidents of anti-Semitic violence increased by 71.4 percent in 2018 to 48 from 28 the previous year.

4 Killed in Paris Stabbing Attack

Four people were killed last Thursday after an Islamic terrorist went on a stabbing spree outside Paris police headquarters. Mickael Harpon, a civilian employee working for a police intelligence unit, began his rampage on Thursday evening. Within minutes, three men and a woman, all colleagues of his, were dead. The murderous spree only ended after Harpon was shot dead by a police officer just a few minutes later. In the hours after the stabbing, President Emmanuel Macron visited the police headquarters in support of the officers. “Paris weeps for its own this afternoon after this terrifying attack in the police headquarters. The toll is heavy, several officers lost their lives,” tweeted Mayor Anne Hidalgo. Following the attack, Paris district attorney Jean-Francois Ricard told reporters that police believed Harpon had acted out of his newfound beliefs in radical Islam. Francois-Picard said that the 45-year-old Harpon, a police expert in monitoring jihadi terror cells, had, in fact, been in contact with members of the “Salafist Islamist movement” and had been plotting an

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attack for months. Harpon had begun to wear traditional Islamic garb in recent months and refused to “have certain kinds of contact with women.” He also “agreed with certain atrocities committed in the name of that religion” such as the 2015 attack on the Charlie Hebdo newspaper in Paris. According to Le Parisien, Harpon screamed out in joy at his job after learning about the attack that killed 12 people at the newspaper’s headquarters. Later that year, Harpon shared an article on Facebook which claimed that “France is ranked at the top of the most Islamophobic countries in Europe.”

Russian Journalist Held in Iran for Spying A Russian journalist is facing 10 years in an Iranian prison after being arrested for spying for Israel. Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) detained Yulia Yuzik, a journalist who had previously worked in Iran, in her Tehran hotel room last week. Authorities have

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Haitians called for a massive protest on Friday, demanding President Jovenel Moïse step down due to corruption allegations and rising inflation, among other things. The protests, which have involved thousands and occurred intermittently since February, include burning car tires and clashes with the Port-au-Prince police. Seventeen people have been killed in the past few months in the protests. Protesters called on other countries to withdraw support for Moïse, blaming him for Haiti’s economic and social problems. “If they love Jovenel that much, then send him somewhere else,” said Assad Volcy, who launched a political party two years ago but is joining forces with opposition leaders from other parties trying to oust Moïse. “We’re going to keep protesting until he resigns or goes to jail.” Last Monday, a Haitian senator appeared to open fire during chaos outside the Parliament building. On Wednesday, the United Nations said the protests have impacted its humanitarian efforts, causing fuel shortages, a lack of safe water, and limiting access to medical care. Stephane Dujarric, spokesman for the Secretary-General, said schools have been closed for two weeks, leaving Haiti’s 2 million children “without any access to education.” He added that the UN has requested that “all parties” refrain from use of violence. In a video last week, Moïse refused to resign. It was reported that Moïse’s administration distributed food and school supplies at a Thursday event. An additional round of protests is expected to take place on Friday, and locals are stocking up on supplies and cash before the protest breaks out again.

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President Lenin Moreno of Ecuador announced this week that his government will be moved from the capital city of Quito to the southern city of Guayaquil because of violent protests that have taken over the city. The military has had to rescue more than 50 of its members who had been taken hostage by protesters who are rioting due to Moreno’s move to end state fuel subsidies. Ecuador has seen five days of unrest over Moreno’s plans, part of a package of economic reforms drawn up in the wake of a $4.2 billion financing deal with the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Hundreds of protesters have been arrested so far. On Monday, Ecuador’s Secretary of State Juan Sebastian Roldan asked indigenous groups leading the protests to put an end to the ongoing looting and violence. “It is the sole and exclusive responsibility of indigenous leaders to control the situation,” Roldan said during a press conference. Moreno blamed foreign influences such as Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro and leftist former President Rafael Correa for the unrest engulfing the nation. The president did not provide evidence for these claims, but said he will not go back on his decision to abolish the subsidies. “These incidents of vandalism and violence demonstrate there is some organized political intention to destabilize the government and break constitutional law, break democratic order,” Moreno said during the nationally-televised address. “They are foreign individuals, external and paid,” he said. “This trick by Maduro with Correa is to cause instability.” Correa, who currently resides in Belgium, tweeted that Moreno is a “traitor” who is “finished” and called for new elections. Moreno served as vice-president

under Correa from 2007-13 and then became president in May 2017. Moreno enjoys support from businesspeople and the military and has moved Ecuador towards the political center after taking over from Correa. But he has seen his popularity rating dip under 30%, down from 70% following his election. Designed to ease worries over the fiscal deficit and a large foreign debt, the IMF deal means Moreno has to enforce spending cuts. In addition to ending fuel subsidies, the government has also announced plans to cut the number of public sector employees and work towards a number of privatizations. Indigenous-led protests brought down three Ecuadorian presidents between 1997 and 2007.

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William Kaelin Jr., Sir Peter Ratcliffe, and Gregg Semenza are being awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine for their pioneering research into how human cells respond to changing oxygen levels. Announcing the prize at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm on Monday, the Nobel committee said that the trio’s discoveries have paved the way for “promising new strategies to fight anaemia, cancer, and many other diseases.” The importance of oxygen has long been established, the committee explained, but how cells adapt to changes in its levels remained unknown. “This is something basic biology students will be learning about when they study, at aged 12 or 13, or younger, biology and learn the fundamental ways cells work,” Randall Johnson, prize committee member, said. “This is a basic aspect of how a cell works and, from that standpoint alone, it’s a very exciting thing.” All three scientists worked independently over a period of more than two decades to establish how cells can sense and adapt to changing oxygen availability. The 2019 prize laureates

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identified molecular machinery that regulates the activity of genes in response to varying oxygen levels. Johnson added that the laureates had “greatly expanded our knowledge of how physiological response makes life possible” and were “necessary actors in figuring out how this whole thing works.” Explaining why the scientists were being recognized now, Johnson said their discoveries were now a “complete and clear story.” “It’s very clear that we now understand this fundamental biological switch that really impacts all our lives as living creatures here on earth breathing oxygen.” New York-born Kaelin began his own research laboratory at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston and became a full professor at Harvard Medical School in 2002. Semenza, also born in New York, became a full-time professor at Johns Hopkins University in 1999 and since 2003 has been the Director of the Vascular Research Program at the Johns Hopkins Institute for Cell Engineering. Ratcliffe, who was born in Lancashire, England, studied medicine at Cambridge University and established an independent research group at Oxford University, becoming a full professor in 1996. The three laureates will share the 9m Swedish kronor ($907,000) equally.

“While the past few months have been very difficult, we know it has also been tough for those back home who have been worried for us.” Several hours after their release, Australia freed an Iranian scientist named Reza Dehbashi who had been sentenced to 13 months in prison for buying weapons for the Islamic Republic. Iranian TV reported that Dehbashi was originally slated to be handed over to the U.S. but was freed due Tehran’s efforts. King and Firkin had been arrested after flying a drone near a military base in Iran in July. They were placed in the Evin Prison in northwestern Iran, a maximum-security facility that houses highly dangerous prisoners. The jail is considered Iran’s worst due to its poor living conditions and the harsh treatment guards dole out to prisoners. Australia had labored quietly for months to secure the release of King and Firkin, and officials were exultant after they were released. “It is with some enormous relief that I announce that they have been released and returned,” said Marise Payne, Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs.

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Iran released two Australian tourists who had been imprisoned for flying a drone in the capital city of Tehran in what appears to be a prisoner swap. Jolie King and Mark Firkin were allowed to fly back to their native Australia on Saturday, ending their three-month prison stay. “We are extremely happy and relieved to be safely back in Australia with those we love,” said the couple.

A deadly car accident in England may lead to a diplomatic standoff between two allies. Harry Dunn, 19, was killed while riding his motorcycle in August. The person driving the vehicle that hit him, a U.S. diplomat’s wife, was allegedly driving on the wrong side of the road. She has since fled the country and was allowed to leave under diplomatic immunity. Harry’s parents, Charlotte Charles and Tim Dunn, are demanding that she return. Not only have they lost their son, they say, but a legal loophole for diplomats and their families has also robbed them of their ability to grieve. “She killed our boy,” Charles said in an emotional interview. “If

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it wasn’t for her being under this supposed diplomatic immunity, it would have been a clear-cut case… and it’s just all turned into an absolute nightmare for us.” The woman involved in the fatal crash has been named as American Anne Sacoolas. Prime Minister Boris Johnson urged the U.S. Embassy on Monday to re-think its decision to invoke immunity for Sacoolas. “I do not think that it can be right to use the process of diplomatic immunity for this type of purpose,” he said on a UK breakfast news show. “I hope that Anne Sacoolas will come back and will engage properly with the processes of law as they are carried out in this country. That’s a point that we’ve raised or are raising today with the American Ambassador here in the UK, and I hope it will be resolved very shortly. And to anticipate a question you might want to raise, if we can’t resolve it, then of course I will be raising it myself personally with the White House.” In a statement on Monday morning, the U.S. State Department expressed sympathy and extended condolences to the bereaved family but said “questions regarding a waiver of immunity with regard to our

diplomats and their family members overseas in a case like this receive intense attention at senior levels and are considered carefully given the global impact such decisions carry; immunity is rarely waived.” The State Department said it could not “speculate on what actions the British Government may take” and would not comment on “private diplomatic conversations with the British Government.”

Outrage after Jewish Child Forced to Kiss Feet of Muslim Classmate The now-viral photograph of a 12-year-old Jewish child being forced to kiss the shoes of a Muslim classmate in Australia shines a spotlight on the country’s rising anti-Semitism problem. In the picture, Taylor (a pseudonym) is seen bending over to kiss his classmate’s shoes. The 12-year-old Taylor had been lured to the park by the promise of a pick-up soccer game,

only to find that it was a pretense designed to further bully him.

Taylor was then threatened with gang violence if he did not comply with their demands. After adhering, his classmates shared the picture all over social media. Following the incident, the boy’s mother attempted to get Cheltenham Secondary College officials involved, only to be told that they could do nothing as the incident did not happen on school grounds. “I took such offense with the Education Department, because there was nothing they did to protect my son at all, at any point in time – that’s what’s cut me up,” she said. The school also denied that the humiliating picture was connected to anti-Semitism in any way. “It’s not anti-Semitism, it’s just bullying,” the principal said according to Taylor’s mom. “I don’t want to make other students feel uncomfort-

able.” After the photo went viral, Australia’s Anti-Defamation Commission warned that anti-Semitism in Australia is “rapidly spreading.” Speaking with the Daily Mail Australia, Commission Chairman Dr. Dvir Abramovich noted that Australia has seen a consistent rise in anti-Jewish attacks. “This is a stain on Victoria’s education system that will long endure,” said Abramovich. “Bullying and harassment of Jewish students at public schools is a deeply embedded virus that is reaching pitch-fever and should alarm us all. We are gradually reaching a point of no return.” The incident was not the first time Taylor has experienced abuse at school for the sole crime of being Jewish. Upon joining Cheltham earlier this year, he was welcomed by his classmates who were impressed by his soccer skills. “But as soon as they identified that Taylor played for [Jewish soccer team] AJAX, they identified him as Jewish, and that’s where it all started,” his mother said. Since then, the boy has experienced constant bullying and is often chased home from school by a pack of boys yelling anti-Semitic taunts.

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Duterte has Neuromuscular Disease

Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte has revealed he has a chronic neuromuscular disease, the latest in a series of health problems for the 74-year-old leader. In a speech in Moscow on Saturday, Duterte told a crowd of Filipinos living in the Russian capital he had myasthenia gravis, which he described as a “nerve malfunction.” According to the United States National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, myasthenia gravis causes weakness in the skeletal muscles. Common symptoms include drooping eyelids, blurred vision, difficulty swallowing, impaired speech, and shortness of breath. Although there is no known cure, there

are treatments available which allow people with the disorder to have a relatively high quality of life. Most people with the condition have a normal life expectancy, according to the institute. Duterte was in Russia for a fiveday official visit aimed at strengthening ties with Moscow. He made the comment after saying that he had wanted to make eye contact with a woman who he had sung a duet with, but wasn’t able to as one of his eyes “goes everywhere.” It’s also not the first time the Philippines leader has made public acknowledgments of issues with his health. In 2017, Duterte said he needed additional oxygen when sleeping, and earlier this year said he used sleeping pills. He has also admitted using fentanyl – a synthetic opioid up to 50 times more powerful than heroin – for pain relief in the past. A poll last year by independent pollster Social Weather Stations found that a growing number of Filipino adults were concerned about the president’s health problems. In the last quarter of 2018, 66% said they were worried about his health, up from 55% in the previous quarter.

Iraqis Take to the Streets

Iraqis in the country’s capital and six southern provinces took to the streets last week in anti-government protests. The protests began last Tuesday. Long power outages, rising unemployment, and rampant government corruption have led to growing discontent in recent years. Many in the country have limited access to basic services such as electricity and clean water, and the unemployment level is around 10%. Demonstrations erupted in the capital of Baghdad and in several provinces across Iraq on Tuesday and Wednesday. Security forces responded with bullets to rock-throwing protesters, with the most violent protests reported in Nasiriya and Baghdad.

At least 93 people were killed and 3,978 injured in the violent protests across Iraq, Ali Akram al-Bayati, a member of the Independent High Commission for Human Rights of Iraq, said. Of those killed, 38 are protesters and three are security officers. According to al-Bayati, 363 Iraqi security personnel and 1,261 demonstrators are among the injured. Iraqi security forces have detained at least 454 people since the protests erupted. Among those detained, 287 have been released. The recent protests are the first since the current government came to power. On Thursday, Prime Minister Adil Abdul Mahdi promised his citizens that the government has begun implementing “big reforms to provide jobs and to end poverty.” In a Friday letter read aloud by an assistant, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani wrote: “It is sorrowful that there have been so many deaths, casualties and destruction. The government and political sides have not answered the demands of the people to fight corruption or achieved anything on the ground.” He also urged both sides to step back “before it is too late.”

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Mahdi, for his part, invited political representatives of several parties to a meeting and announced, “Today we are pulled between two options: having a state or having no state.”

Hong Kong Imposes Emergency Powers

Hong Kong police shot and wounded a teenage boy on Friday during violent protests across the city. For almost four months, Hong Kong citizens have held anti-government protests, in the region’s largest political crisis since it gained autonomy from Britain in 1997. At a news conference, Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam said face masks would be banned on Saturday under emergency laws enacted “in the public interest.” But in response to the face mask ban, protesters set fire, threw firebombs at police, and burned the Chinese flag. Protesters also shouted, “Hong Kongers, revolt!” and “You burn with us.” One officer in Hong Kong’s Yuen Long district fired his gun in self-defense after a protester threw a firebomb at him, setting him aflame. The 14-year-old who was shot was reported to be in serious condition, local media reported. Police working to disperse protesters in the Causeway Bay, Sha Tin, and Wong Tai Sin areas sprayed tear gas at protesters. One university student, Samuel Yeung, said that the anti-mask law “has become a tool of tyranny.” “They can make use of the emergency law to enact any policies or laws that the government wants. There’s no rule of law anymore. We can only be united and protest,” he said. But Lam said that “almost all” protesters wear masks and “that’s why they have become more unbridled.” “We can’t keep the existing regulations idle and let violence escalate and the situation continue to deteriorate,” she explained.

PA Agrees to Accept Tax Money from Israel

In a sudden about-face, the Palestinian Authority has agreed to accept tax money collected from Israel despite money being deducted due to its support of terrorism. The first transfer of 600 million shekels ($170 million) went through on Friday after months of PA stonewalling. The decision ended a stalemate that lasted months and saved the PA from financial collapse. Mahmoud Abbas advisor Hussein al-Sheikh wrote on Twitter that the PA decided to take the money after working out “all outstanding issues” with Israeli Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon. “The agreement was also on transferring a payment from the #PA’s financial dues,” he wrote. “The dispute (remains) over the salaries of the families of #prisoners and #martyrs. We are determined to pay their dues at all costs.” Under the 1993 Oslo Accords, Israel collects tax money for products produced by Palestinian Arabs. The arrangement took a hit after Israel passed a law last year mandating Jerusalem to deduct from the tax money sums that the PA pays terrorists. The PA commonly pays monthly salaries to terrorists imprisoned for murdering Jews or to their families in the case that the terrorist was killed in the attack. The policy has long raised hackles among Israelis across the political spectrum who decry the “pay to slay” practice as rewarding acts of terrorism. Since the law was passed, the PA has refused to accept the tax money in protest, raising fears in Israel that the refusal would cause the bankruptcy of the body. As the biggest employer in the West Bank, bank-

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ruptcy by the PA would lead to hundreds of thousands of Palestinians to lose their jobs, something that can result in increased instability and terrorism in the area. In recent months, Israel has made various attempts to alternatively coax or force the PA to accept the funds, including a failed attempt to wire it hundreds of millions of dollars.

Farsi: An IDF Weapon

Recently, the Jerusalem Post reported on a language school used by the IDF that the army considers to be one of its tools in its war against Hezbollah and Iran. This school, located in a building in a base in the center of the country, trains soldiers to be fluent in Arabic of Persian in less than

two months. “It’s not like in a normal school where students are taught just a language. We aren’t here just to learn a language,” Maj. “V,” the Head of Language Teaching Department at the Military Intelligence and Cyber Instruction Unit, told The Jerusalem Post. “The language is a tool to get and understand the intelligence we collect.” The school, which has existed for over 50 years, uses innovative approaches and learning environments that within weeks has soldiers understanding both the language and culture of their enemies. “R” has been teaching at the school for 47 years and teaches students spoken Arabic while her daughter, Master Sergeant “N,” teaches students written Arabic. “It’s a challenging and hard role because we have the responsibility of the state’s security on our shoulders,” she noted. “To work in this environment is serving the country, on all levels.” Officers in other Israeli security agencies who are in constant contact with Palestinians or Arab study in the school as well. According to Maj. V, in recent

years fundamental Islam and the Persian language has become a more central part of the school, which for years has focused on various Arabic dialects and Hebrew. The Hebrew language courses are “a growing trend” at the school, not only for new immigrants whose mother tongue isn’t Hebrew but for Israelis who “don’t read or write enough and therefore whose Hebrew just isn’t good enough,” Maj. V said. While the IDF’s language school is the largest of its kind, there are several schools across the country teaching Arabic and one which teaches Farsi, giving students the opportunity to be selected to the Intelligence Unit’s language tracks, which opens the doors to the elite Unit 8200. “It’s more challenging because it’s [Persian] not taught in Israeli schools. This is the only place in the country that researches and teaches the language so intensely,” he said. “Because of the dynamic world of intelligence and changes in the intelligence, students are learning non-stop,” he added. Students learn from 8AM until 11PM every day for 10 weeks to get matriculation certificates in the language before another 10 weeks of advanced courses.

Will a Fungus Destroy Israel’s Bananas?

Israeli researchers are in a race against time to develop a cure for “Panama disease” which has been destroying banana plants globally as well as locally. In the summer of 2016, a banana plantation near Zichron Yaakov was found to be infected with Tropical Race 4 (TR4), a strain of Fusarium oxysporum, which is a particularly aggressive fungus that spreads the notorious Panama disease among banana plants. Scientists worldwide have been searching for a way to fight the strain, as it is resistant to fungicides. Of Israel’s plantation-based crops, bananas are the most profitable, with approximately 4,000 people relying on the industry for their livelihood.

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The prime minister first brought up the subject during a cabinet meeting on Sunday evening dedicated to the emerging threat from Iran. If adopted, the plan would cost more than NIS 1 billion and would likely require budget cuts in other areas in order to pay for it.

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Panama disease is not dangerous to people who consume bananas, only to the crops themselves. The pathogen attacks the roots of the plant, which responds in kind by producing a thick, gel-like substance which clogs the root’s inner veins. This ultimately leads to the plant drying up, wilting, and dying. No one knows exactly how TR4 arrived in the Middle East or how it made its way into Israel.

“In 2015 we toured Jordan as part of a research program we were working on and we could see the fungus was already spreading there. We knew it had already been discovered in Lebanon as well, and we realized we were surrounded,” said Dr. Stanley Freeman of the Department of Plant Pathology at the Volcani Center, Israel’s top agricultural research institute. So far, the fungus has claimed six banana plantations in Israel.

Bibi Lobbying for Massive Missile Defense System Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is lobbying the government to approve the construction of an extensive new missile defense system to defend against Iranian cruise missiles.

However, the decision to implement such an expensive and far-reaching move can only be made by the next Israeli government. The Defense Ministry has been working with the Treasury in recent weeks in an attempt to find funding for the program without raising taxes or cutting spending elsewhere but have not made any headway. While Israel currently has a multi-layered air defense framework comprised of Iron Dome, David’s Sling for medium range missiles, and the Arrow system, it does not have the capability to shoot down cruise missiles. Tehran’s recent successful attack on Saudi Arabian oil facilities last month has alarmed Israel, which fears that it is vulnerable to a similar style attack from either Iran or its affiliated militias. During the attack, cruise missiles and suicide drones launched from over 500 miles away hit two Saudi oil refineries, causing hundreds of millions of dollars worth of damage and taking 50% of the kingdom’s oil production offline. While Iran denies culpability, both the United States and Israel say they have evidence that the Islamic Republic is behind the attack. Ever since the successful assault, Israel has been scrambling to find an answer to Iranian cruise missiles, which could easily hit sensitive sites within Israel proper if fired from Syria or Iraq. The cruise missiles notably were able to bypass the American-made Patriot missile batteries Saudi Arabia’s military uses, which are used by Israel as well. As a result, the IDF has been experimenting with different ways it might attempt to shoot down Iranian cruise missiles fired into Israel should the need arise. “Today we are facing a huge security challenge, which has been

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NYC Tops National Rent Prices

Angling for your dream job at one of the United States’ most admired corporations? Get ready to pay up. RENTCafe’s annual survey of the most expensive ZIP codes in the United States found that the priciest areas to live in are all found adjoining business hubs on the East and West Coast. In total, 28 out of America’s 50 most expensive ZIP codes are in New York City, while another 12 are in the high tech-rich San Francisco Bay Area. In addition, another six in the top 50 were located in Southern California with the remaining four in the Boston area. The survey’s conclusions were based on data from 130 major U.S. markets. With an average monthly rent of $6,211, Manhattan ZIP code 10282 tops the list as the priciest ZIP code in the United States for the third straight year. Mainly comprised of the affluent Battery Park City, the area adjoining the Hudson River has seen prices skyrocket in recent years

amid an influx of new restaurants and shopping centers. Second and third place were also Manhattan ZIP codes. The Los Angeles neighborhood of Westwood was the most expensive non-New York City ZIP code in the country. With an average rent of $4,944, LA took fourth and fifth place, followed by San Francisco’s 94105. Rounding out the top 10 are four more Manhattan ZIP codes, with Boston being the only non-New York or California city to make the list at 32. Meanwhile, the U.S. ZIP code with the cheapest average monthly rent is in Wichita, Kansas’s 67213, with $423 a month rent. Following Wichita is the average $471 rent in Memphis, Tennessee, ZIP Code 38106, with Saint Louis, Missouri, ZIP Code 63137 following with an average rent of $548.

U.S. Schools are Hiring Teachers from Abroad

A dire shortage of U.S. teachers has caused many schools to search for teachers from abroad. According to the Learning Policy Institute, in 2018, the U.S. had a shortage of 112,000 teachers. The reason? Fewer college graduates are going into teaching, and U.S. schools are losing teachers at an alarming rate. Arizona, for example, had a shortage of 7,000 teachers at the beginning of this year, Arizona Education Association President Joe Thomas said. Some of the positions are being filled by long-term substitutes, while others are filled by people who lack a teaching certificate. Other positions are being filled by foreign teachers, especially from the Philippines. While a $36,300 starting salary isn’t much for Americans, the qualified Filipino teachers arriving to fill the gaps say the salary allows them to live better, provided they budget. According to the U.S. State Department, over the past decade, the number of Filipinos teaching in the U.S. on J1 visas has jumped

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Touching Lives at Boro Park Center Introducing Midas Touch - Boro Park Center’s revolutionary initiative reimagining care, compassion, service and commitment. In a candid conversation, we touch base with the center’s leadership and discuss the Midas Touch program and the tremendous effect it is having on residents’ lives. By Y. Blooming I had heard lots of positive chatter about Boro Park Center in recent years and was eager to learn more about its activities. As I got into my car on the way to meeting the administrator, Mr. David Greenberg, and the associate administrator, Mr. Nachman Feig, I was wholly unaware of the pleasant surprise awaiting me on the other side of the front entrance.

Walking into the Boro Park Center lobby, I found myself in a facility teeming with energy and positive vibes. The hallways were lined with memorable quotes reminding caregivers what true nursing and authentic care is all about. It was immediately clear that Midas Touch is touching every last corner of this magnificent rehab center. But to really understand the changes made at Boro Park Center, I would soon sit down with the aforementioned Mr. Greenberg and Mr. Feig.

Before I could ask any questions, I was already able to tell that these two men are incredibly proud of this new initiative and are eager to share its details with the community. Midas Touch generally refers to the mythical King Midas (pronounced MY-duhs) who possessed the power to turn anything he touched into gold. As a center aiming to provide gold-standard care with that extra touch, this name was a perfect fit and immediately caught on with staff, residents and families.

Touching Base “So, what is The Midas Touch,” I finally ask. Mr. Greenberg goes first “Midas Touch is more than just a program; it is a steadfast commitment and

resolution to provide the absolute best care and customer service to anyone who comes through our door. It doesn’t take long to notice the difference and the special touch residents are experiencing since its introduction last year.”

“This program is a fundamental shift in our operations”, adds Nachman. “Everything being done in the center is affected by this drive to set a new standard of service. Nurses, rehab aids, housekeepers, kitchen employees, administrative staff and others are all part of this collective pledge to provide continued excellence in resident care. There isn’t a single thing we do that isn’t a part of this overarching commitment.”

This sounds great, I thought, but I do wonder how such an undertaking is implemented, much less enforced. Sensing my questioning thoughts, David continues, “this isn’t just some hyperbolic corporate speak. Each and every one of our staff members receives Midas Touch training and we have set up a comprehensive oversight system which ensures that everyone is on board and incentivizes staff to win our coveted Gold Standard Award which is awarded to those who have shown excellence in caregiving. Residents and family members are encouraged to nominate employees deserving of recognition and the center then honors these elite Midas Touch employees.” Midas Touch nomination box

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Staying In Touch In recent years, Boro Park Center has established itself as the premier destination for rehab and nursing in the area. The popular recreational and religious programming has also earned the highest accolades from residents and community members. As Mr. Greenberg explains it, Midas Touch and the various activities are all part of the center’s healing mission. “A nurse who is truly tuned in to the needs of a resident can do so much more for his or her wellbeing. Similarly, residents who are treated as members of the family, instead of a burden to a cranky nurse are much more likely to successfully see themselves through their rehab and recovery.”

“There’s another aspect to this,” adds Mr. Feig. “Families who are forced to place a family member in rehab often do so with heavy hearts. Leaving a vulnerable individual in the hands of strangers is necessary but sometimes very painful. When families visit our facility and experience the manner in which we operate, they are incredibly relieved to see that every resident feels as if they are recovering peacefully at home.”

Never Losing Touch I inquire about how the staff is trained and how their performances are graded, and the answer blows me away. Mr. Greenberg pulls up a slick slide presentation breaking down Midas Touch into various components and walking employees through each step and what is expected from them. “Every staff member needs to operate with empathy, care and compassion. It is not enough to provide the proper medical attention. We need to identify the underlying issues, be forthcoming with the residents and understand that this the resident is more than a bed number. This is an individual who is struggling, and we are the only ones he can rely upon.”

“We constantly measure our progress and how our team is doing. This begins with the patient reps who calmly listen to residents and ask how their day was, if they enjoyed their meals, if their care was up to par etc. We have also enlisted the services of survey companies to ensure that we properly grade every employee. Each family will receive a call from A Place for Mom with an in-depth survey asking about every facet of their

experience at Boro Park Center. Employees and residents also fill out surveys through QBlue, a service which provides quality data so that we can properly incorporate this feedback and continue offering gold standard care.” Nachman Feig

“In order for this program to work smoothly, we hired renowned experts to provide our staff with cultural and sensitivity training. Motivators and inspirational speakers have also come down to speak with our staff about what is expected of David Greenberg them and how they can reach these lofty heights.”

“We require that very employee sign the Midas Touch pledge and we mandate that they be there during these training sessions,” reports Nachman. “We offer various incentives to those who excel at quality care and we have enlisted a number of Midas Touch ambassadors from our employee ranks to spread our message and properly impress it upon their colleagues. Those struggling to live up to these standards are provided with 1-on-1 training so that they too can live up to what is expected of them.”

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As our conversation wrapped up, I was left with a heightened sense of touch. With the remarkable work done by leadership at Boro Park Center, it is little surprise that today the center stands proudly as the premier destination for those in need of rehab and nursing care.

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na, Stephen Jacobs, who claimed Adelson “personally authorized” certain unethical activities at one of his casinos in Macau.

Adelson sued the council and Stanley, demanding $60 million in damages. Stanley said that Adelson’s legal action was typical behavior for the billionaire, who would frequently use his wealth to strike out at his political enemies. In 2013, Adelson’s lawsuit against the council was rejected. The Nevada court, Adelson’s state of residence in the United States, ruled that it was a silence claim (SLAPP). Adelson appealed, but in 2017 the Nevada Supreme Court rejected his claims Under Nevada’s anti-slap laws, those who sue for a silence claim are entitled to increased compensation from the plaintiff. About a year ago, Stanley and the NJDC filed a lawsuit against Adelson alleging he abused legal proceedings and used what it called “legal sadism” to destroy the NJDC’s activities. During deliberations, the NJDC argued that Adelson’s silence claim led to the collapse of the organization. “Today, there is no doubt that Sheldon Adelson deliberately misused legal proceedings to – as he himself called it – to bankrupt National Jewish Democratic Council for daring to criticize him,” wrote the group in a court following.

Homeless Attacked on NYC Streets Adelson Ordered to Compensate Liberal Jewish Group A New York court recently ordered right-wing Jewish philanthropist Sheldon Adelson to pay damages and legal fees to the National Jewish

Democratic Council (NJDC) for the legal war he launched against the organization. The NJDC had been forced to disband as a result of the casino king’s legal broadside in 2012. The court found Adelson responsible for their troubles and ruled that he needed to pay NJDC chairperson Mark Stanley for the silence claim (SLAAP) he filed against the group. However, before deciding wheth-

er to impose even greater punitive damages, Adelson will have another chance to present his position. The dispute between the council and Adelson began after the NJDC website posted an article calling on then-presidential candidate Mitt Romney and other Republican candidates not to receive Adelson’s “dirty” money. The appeal came after Adelson was hit by a lawsuit filed by his gambling business manager in Chi-

The homeless man accused of killing four other homeless men in Lower Manhattan remains jailed

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ing on the street,” Chinatown resident William Shao said. Santos had become homeless after being kicked out of his parents' apartment. “They were having arguments. His mother was calling cops on him to get him out of the apartment,” a friend of Santos said. “He looked like he was losing it for a couple of days. He looked like he was very stressed out.” Santos’ family tried to get him psychiatric help but he refused to go for treatment. According to the Coalition for the Homeless, homelessness in New York City has reached the highest levels since the Great Depression of the 1930s. In August 2019, there were 61,674 homeless people, including 14,806 homeless families with 21,802 homeless children, sleeping each night in the New York City municipal shelter system. Nearly 4,000 homeless sleep on the streets every night.

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He allegedly beat five homeless men with a metal pipe early Saturday morning, killing four of them. The fifth victim remains in critical condition. Starting Monday, mental health outreach teams will be sent to Chinatown to conduct psychiatric and substance abuse evaluations and provide other social services to assess the needs of the most vulnera-

ble on the street. More officers will also patrol the neighborhood. Officers said they spotted Santos shortly after these attacks with the murder weapon still in hand, a large metal object covered in blood from his victims, who were found dead on Bowery and on East Broadway. “I’m just shook that anybody would even go out and murder four innocent people that are just sleep-

If you want to be happy, you may want to stay away from California, New Jersey, and Florida. Those states were home to most of the 50 most miserable cities in the nation. Ten of the most miserable cities, according to Business Insider, are in California; nine are in New Jersey; and Florida is home to six of them. In compiling its rankings, Business Insider said it used U.S. Census information to analyze 1,000 U.S. cities on metrics such as crime, drug addiction, population changes, job opportunities, commute times, household incomes, abandoned homes, and effects from problems such as natural disasters. According to their data, Gary, Indiana, was the nation’s most miserable city, followed by Port Arthur, Texas, and Detroit, Michigan. What the most miserable cities had in common, according to Business Insider, were “few opportunities,

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devastation from natural disasters, high crime and addiction rates, and often many abandoned houses.” The 10 miserable cities in California and their rankings were: Bell Gardens (14); Compton (41); El Monte (22); Hemet (44); Huntington Park (10); Lancaster (50); Lynwood (21); Montebello (40); Palmdale; and San Bernardino (42). The Golden State doesn’t seem so glittery anymore. The nine New Jersey cities on the list and their rankings were: Camden (8); Newark (5); New Brunswick (11); Passaic (4); Paterson (19); Plainfield (30); Trenton (17); Union City (15); and West New York (29). The six Florida cities and their rankings were: Fort Pierce (34); Hialeah (13); Miami Gardens (28); North Miami (25); North Miami Beach (33); Hallandale Beach (37). Seems like the sun is not so shiny in the Sunshine State.

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It’s the latest measure to protect the state’s wildlife. In May, Gov. Steve Sisolak passed legislation banning hunters from bringing deer, elk, or moose carcasses into the state to prevent disease transmission. The symptoms of chronic wasting disease reduce infected animals to zombie-like creatures: stumbling, drooling, drastic weight loss. They can become more aggressive and less afraid of humans, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. It’s thought to spread through direct contact with body fluids or by drinking contaminated water, the CDC said. The disease is always fatal to animals. Chronic wasting disease can incubate for more than a year before animals present symptoms, so the CDC recommends hunters test meat before consuming it and avoid eating the meat of infected venison. Wearing proper equipment while field-dressing deer carcasses and minimizing time spent handling their brain and spinal tissue, where the disease originates, can also prevent infection.

A Clean Break? “Zombie” deer roam 24 states in the U.S., sickened by a neurodegenerative disease that reduces them to stumbling, drooling creatures. As of August, the CDC reported infected deer, elk, and moose in 227 counties across 24 states, primarily clustered in Wyoming, Colorado and Kansas. So far, Nevada has evaded the infection this hunting season. State wildlife officials plan to keep it that way. The Nevada Department of Wildlife is urging hunters to visit their mobile sampling stations and check their carcasses for chronic wasting disease, a fatal illness that affects the brain and spinal cord of deer, elk, and moose. The department set up stations at truck stops near state lines to keep the infection out. The sampling takes about five minutes and doesn’t affect the deer’s meat or antlers, the department said.

A politician sitting in jail in Colombia tried to escape – by going to the dentist. Aida Merlano, who is was imprisoned for buying votes, was allowed to venture out to the dentist in Bogota with a prison guard escort. She was left alone in the room when the orthodontist told the guard to wait in the waiting room. Merlano then used rope to escape through the window of the room to a waiting motorcycle. She put on a helmet and then drove off. Merlano was sentenced to 15 years in prison last month and was due to appear at a hearing on Tuesday for a possible reduction in her

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sentence. She has yet to be caught. Looks like she made a clean break of it.

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where Perkins was in the ceiling, she refused to come down and kept on moving around in the ceiling to hide from police. After a few hours, Perkins eventually climbed down, and she was promptly arrested. That seems to seal her verdict.

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Dennis Valstad gets the best neighbor award. No, he’s not mowing your lawn or picking up your mail when you go on vacation. Instead, he’s giving you money. Well, not really, because he’s no longer alive, but he's giving out money from the grave to his friends and neighbors in Ripon, Wisconsin. Recently, the townspeople of Ripon received a letter from an attorney representing the estate of Dennis Valstad. Dennis, who at one point owned the local dry cleaner, died a few months ago at the age of 69. To most people, Dennis seemed to be a man of modest means, but he secretly amassed a small fortune. In his will, he demanded “the sum of $500,000 to be divided equally to the individuals that attend my funeral.” Dennis did not have children and was not married. He loved his friends and wanted to show his appreciation to those who considered him a close friend. Two-hundred-seventy friends showed up to his funeral. Each of them will walk away with a warm feeling in their heart for Dennis and around $1,800 more in their wallet. “It’s going to motivate people to be more giving, more loving, more understanding,” Dennis’ lawyer said. Won’t you be my neighbor?

Ceiling Stalker Hoping to evade arrest, Kristina Perkins hid out in the ceiling of a Big Lots store in Florida for several hours. Perkins had been shoplifting from the store last week and locked herself in the bathroom with a cart full of items. Police were called but when they forced themselves into the restroom, a few ceiling tiles were missing – and so was Perkins. Even when police ascertained

Last week, Airbnb launched “animal experiences,” a way for travelers to get closer to their fuzzier side and include four-legged fun into their vacation. Looking to include Fido or Polly into your trip abroad? Airbnb now offers 1,000 furry, feathery, and scaly activities around the world. You can walk a pig named Emilia on a leash in Ireland or see “life-saving” rats in Cambodia that are able to detect land mines. Mr. Beaches, a Pembroke Welsh corgi, can help you paddleboard (along with his owner) on a stand-up paddleboard tour in Fort Lauderdale. Mr. Beaches has his own blue-colored life jacket, and he stays on his owner’s board as the group, up to seven people, paddles past yachts and mansions. If you’re lucky, you may see a manatee. For the thrill of this canine-cruise you’ll have to shell out $47 for ninety minutes. Woof! If dogs are not your cup of tea, consider sheep. In Scotland, travelers can head to a private home in Loch Lomond and Trossachs National Park to have afternoon tea in a garden with a couple of pet sheep. These two sheep join guests at the table – although you may want to hold onto your sandwiches and scones if you don’t want some baaaad boys to nibble on your lunch. Loves horses? Head to Centre d’Equitació Poni Club Catalunya in Spain. There, guests will get acquainted with two horses, Ibiza and Foxel, and will be taught how to approach the four-legged creatures. If all goes well, the instructor will guide participants to have the horses move and dance to their cues. Guaranteed great selfies with any of these excursions.

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Community Rabbi S. B. Schachter’s and Rabbi Y. Lovett’s Pre-1A classes of Siach Yitzchok recited tashlich at the ocean last week

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Turning Educators into Leaders By N. Aaron Troodler

long with imparting knowledge to children and adults, educators also function as role models for their stu-

dents. As they train people, young and old, to become leaders in their own right, educators themselves serve as leaders. The challenge is how to make that leap from “educator” to “leader.”

Fortunately, there is a fully developed program whose sole purpose is to teach leadership skills and facilitate leadership opportunities for individuals in the Orthodox community.

Rabbi Pesach Lerner, D.Adm., founded the YIEP (Yeshiva Initiatives Educational Programs – www.theyiep.com) in 2004 and worked to create a rubric that would offer quality graduate programs to Orthodox students. The dream became a reality through a partnership with Bellevue University, which is regionally accredited by the Higher Learning Commission, and the YIEP Master of Arts in Educational Leadership was created. The MA in Ed Leadership cohort program empowers students to use critical thinking skills to incorporate their everyday experiences with their academic coursework and train themselves for leadership positions in their communities. Students study leadership theories, current educational leadership issues, historical and modern-day leaders, organizational behavior, team and group dynamics, strategic leadership, and cognitive psychology applied to learning. The required courses for the MA in Ed Leadership, which are studied online and accessible anywhere, take approximately a year-and-ahalf to complete. The next cohort, which will be the 15th MA in Ed Leadership group, begins in November 2019. Rabbi Lerner noted that yeshiva and seminary degrees are accepted as fulfillment of the undergraduate degree requirement, and tuition is lower than New York area programs because it is based on Nebraska rates, which is home to Bellevue University. “The program objective is to provide graduate educational opportunities for students who work in Jewish educational institutions and other organizations and are interested in obtaining a quality degree for career advancement purposes,” said Dr. Stephen Linenberger, director and instructor of the MA in Ed Leadership program. “It enables teachers, professionals, and rabbis to increase their professional development in various ways and is perfect for people who want to take the next step into an administrative role, as well as individuals who want to enhance their leadership skills both inside

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Around the Community and outside of the classroom or in other work settings. We are proud to be able to help our students embrace their critical leadership roles.” “Our program is extremely unique because we allow students to contextualize material in their own world view and in their own environment,” added Dr. Linenberger, who pulls in culturally relevant lessons and encourages students to bring teaching from Judaism into the classroom. “Much of what we teach has its roots in the Judaic teachings of leadership. Learning from leaders in Jewish history how to improve one’s self through self-development is a big piece of what we do.” Through the MA in Ed Leadership program, students can get involved in various professional networks and are exposed to different opportunities that enable them to take that next professional step. YIEP students have gone on to pursue additional degrees in Ivy League schools such as Harvard, Yale, and Columbia. “Our students who ultimately go on to other programs feel that they have a leg up after completing our program,” Dr. Linenberger said. Students take courses such as “Leadership Theories and Practices,” which explores the subject of leadership within diverse organizational and situational contexts; “Team and Group Dynamics,” which examines the need for leaders to understand group functions; and “Strategic Leadership,” which studies how leaders strategically create and affect organizational missions and goals. There is also a “Leadership Project,” which is an experience designed by the student and approved by a professor which provides the student with opportunities to develop an applied leadership development plan or generate a thesis or case study. “The MA in Ed Leadership offered me a graduate-level education about topics such as leadership, education, non-profits, psychology, and group dynamics, subject matters that I deal with in my current career on an almost daily basis,” said Doni Silverstein, who earned his MAEL from Bellevue University in 2006 and then earned a Master’s degree in Social Work from Columbia University in 2014. “I really enjoyed the

content and subject matter of each course, and it afforded me an interesting and fun learning experience.” “The doors and opportunities that this program opened for me are vast,” said Elad Barmatz, a former student. “Almost every aspect of this program is tailored for success, from the program itself, its environment,

and the amazing individuals who run it. From its incredible teaching methodology, deadline flexibility, superb communication flow with the professors, and a schedule that is truly suitable for observant individuals, this program is invaluable.” Rabbi Lerner noted that the YIEP attracts all types of Orthodox

Jews, including yeshivish, chassidish and Modern Orthodox, and that classes are for both males and females but is sensitive to the guidelines of tzinius and halacha. For more information about the program, contact Rabbi Lerner at TheYIEP@gmail.com.

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Advisory Begins in SKA

SKA Ivrit teacher Mrs. Tamar Bindiger

By Ayelet Teitelbaum

his year, SKA started a new initiative for its students called Advisory, led by SKA’s Guidance Department. Advisory allows for a much smaller and more personalized group, led by a faculty advisor, to help students

to form close relationships with teachers and peers while providing guidance and support. Each month will have a theme that is relevant and interesting. Students will be able to discuss the topics in an informal way and be able to use it as a platform to share their viewpoints. SKA faculty members

SKA Limudei Kodesh teacher Mrs. Rochel Chafetz

think Advisory is proving to be very valuable. “It’s so nice to have time to bond with girls and explore in depth issues that are important to them,” commented Jewish History teacher Mrs. Kayla Bach. Social Studies teacher Mrs. Ellen Lavner agrees. “Advisory is an excellent addition to SKA’s curriculum. It enables girls

to speak about what’s on their minds without having to seek out administration or faculty.” The feedback from parents and students has been overwhelmingly positive. The first project in Advisory created a new SKA Code of Behavior for the student body to encourage everyone to be more thoughtful of

their peers. The introductory session began with a stirring video about the insensitivities as well as the great sensitivity that people can show one another. Thank you to all the teachers who helped organize these programs; they are such amazing resources for all the students.

Elul Inspiration at Shulamith High School

ne would hardly believe that the school year is only a month in at Shulamith High School. In addition to engaging classroom learning and daily inspiration, there has been a steady stream of captivating guest speakers, spiritual davening, and chessed trips, turning the words “teshuva,” “tefillah,” and “tzedakah” into action. Speakers Jon Pritikin, Mrs. Dina Schoonmaker, Mrs. Sivan Rahav-Meir, and Rabbi Isaac Rice uplifted students and discussed a wide range of topics, from inclusiveness to spiritual growth to teshuva. Offering fresh perspectives, these

speakers invigorated a new energy at SHS. SHS students’ alarm clocks rang before sunrise on Friday, September 27. Buses pulled away at six o’clock in the morning, and students davened Shacharit as the sun came up over the ocean. Words of Torah were shared by principal Mrs. Sara Munk and, following davening, students were told to write one thing they want to daven for on a Post-It. Esty Munk, Director of Student Activities, then collected the Post-Its in a hat and distributed them randomly to SHS students. “Now you can daven for someone else this yom tov,” she stated. Afterwards, bus-

es headed off to Brooklyn to volunteer at HASC and Ohel, running a Rosh Hashana activity with residents. Chessed Ambassadors kicked off an incredible chessed program. First, they presented the student body with the chessed requirements for the year and then broke out into a fair of different opportunities. Each Chessed Ambassador explained, at their table, how to get involved with the specific organization and what

a strong impact it has on the recipients. The event closed with student reflections on how chessed can change the world. Students wrote their personal chessed goals on leaves on a “chessed tree” proudly displayed in an SHS hallway. On Thursday, October 4, Shulamith High School held a Boker Iyun. After meaningful tefillah, students enjoyed a morning of text based chaburah style learning. This was followed by a choice

of workshops including “Connecting to Ourselves,” “Expressive Art,” “Mindfulness,” guided meditation, and an audio-visual gallery. “I liked that we got to pick the workshops,” a tenth grader remarked. “It feels good to get to make my own choices.” Shulamith High School completed the first month with incredible programming and a tangible energy. Looking forward to the rest of the year and more surprises in store!

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Around the Community At the Sefardi Hachnasat Sefer Torah to Yeshiva Darchei Torah before Yom Kippur, presented by Mr. Shelomo Sarway, a Sefardi alumnus of the Yeshiva

Rav Shlomo Avigdor Altusky, Rosh Yeshiva

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A Wonderful Start for CAHAL Kindergarten

he CAHAL kindergarten class at the Hebrew Academy of Nassau County has started the new school year with great success. With the support of our therapists and the HANC sixth graders who volunteer in our classroom each morning, the children are engaged in a full sensory integration program on adaily basis which complements their educational and social skills curricula.The children are so excited to be learning about Rosh Hashana, Yom Kippur and Sukkos these past few weeks and getting ready in Chodesh Elul for this special holiday. They delighted in hearing Rabbi Yaakov Sadigh, our principal, blow shofar every morning. The children gave an extra penny for tzedakah at davening to increase their mitzvot and baked their own round challahs to put on their beautiful challah, apple, and honey plates that they decorated. Integrating their social studies curriculum about community helpers with their yom tov preparations, the children made apple-shaped Shana Tova cards for their families which they

he then opened the bottom door of the mailbox to show them where their cards went and how he will then take them out and deliver them to their homes in his big truck which he drove to school. The children were fascinated by the experience and thrilled that their Rosh Hashana cards were going to be delivered to their loved ones.

decorated with red, green, and yellow cellophane to look like the shiny apples that they are all ready to eat. They then had the privilege of a special visit from our local post office supervisors and mail carrier Greg who told them all about their important

job to deliver the mail. The children brought their cards in envelopes that they addressed and stamped across the street from the school to the corner blue mailbox. There, the mail carrier helped them open the door to drop in their envelopes. But even better,

CAHAL, the community program for children with learning challenges, is now in its 28th year providing smaller, more individualized classes in 11 local yeshivas. All the students attend mainstream activities daily, including lunch, recess, specials, assemblies, trips and more. When ready, children attend academic classes as well, with support from CAHAL to ensure success. The experienced and caring CAHAL teachers make it all happen. For more information about the CAHAL program and to donate to this great community organization, contact CAHAL at cahal@cahal.org, call (516) 2953666 or visit www.CAHAL.org.

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Hempstead Town Councilman Bruce Blakeman greeted Nadine Kagan, Valley Stream resident and member of the New York Rising Committee, during the Ribbon Cutting Ceremony for the completion of the $3.8 million storm protection project in Valley Stream last week. The Town of Hempstead added vinyl bulkheads and restored wetlands along Hook Creek.

Rabbi Yoni Posnick, rebbe in Yeshiva Darchei Torah, with his second grade talmidim at tashlich on Sunday

SKA Machzor Screencasts

KA’S Listen and Learn Program, launched last year, continued on Tuesday, September 24, with additional machzor screencasts added to the yom tov library. This innovative inspirational tool was originated and amplified by Rabbi Isaac Rice, SKA’s Head of the Torah Shebeal Peh department and Assistant Rabbi of Congregation Anshei Chesed. After Rabbi Rice reintroduced the program, students had the opportunity to participate in interactive screencasts tours on con-

cepts in the machzor. These special screencasts can be accessed at any time on computers and smartphones. The screencasts were a wonderful way to enhance our Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur davening.

A Day of Remembrance

he Central senior grade traveled to the Museum of Jewish Heritage last Thursday with Mrs. Tova Rosenberg, Names Not Number founder, and Rabbi Joshua Strulowitz, Names Not Numbers coordinator. The seniors were led by Dr. Paul Radensky, senior educator at the museum, who began with an overview of the Holocaust and then guided a tour of the New York premiere of the world-famous Auschwitz exhibition, the most comprehensive exhibition to date about the histo-

ry of Auschwitz. Dr. Radensky ended the day with an exploration of the life and work of Rabbi Efraim Oshry, a Holocaust survivor who wrote and buried his responsa during the Holocaust. The trip served as a powerful introduction to the seniors who will participate in Names Not Numbers this year, but, as Rabbi Strulowtiz stated, “It was an essential trip for the Holocaust education of all of our students, whether or not they are in the Names Not Numbers program.”

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Sukkos By Rabbi Berel Wein

iving here in Israel allows one to gain a deeper appreciation of the holidays of the Jewish calendar. In their deepest sense, they were all meant to be observed here in Israel. Perhaps that is what our rabbis intended when they cryptically said that the observance of the commandments of the Torah that the Jewish people have fulfilled and continue to practice in the Diaspora is really a training exercise for their true adherence when the Jewish people return to the land of Israel. This observation is certainly true regarding the holidays of Israel and is especially true regarding the holiday of Sukkot, that we are about to celebrate. Perhaps no other holiday of the year so symbolizes the attachment of the Jewish people to the land of Israel, as does this holiday of Sukkot. It is a combination of the weather at this time of the year and the beauty and abundance of the agricultural products that are used for the observance of the holiday. This bounty fills our holiday tables and the yom tov menu reflects a spirit of rejuvenation that the population feels long after the hot summer in the days of judgment. In Israel, leaving oneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s home to dwell for the week of Sukot in the outside booths that dot the landscape throughout the country is seen as a sign of the concept of redemp-

tion of the Jewish soul, reflected in our attachment to our ancient homeland and the gifts of the L-rd to the Jewish people. The Jewish people are in reality the most cosmopolitan group of human beings that the world has ever seen. There is almost no country or area of the world where the Jewish people have not been present or visited. We have been everywhere on

to that great country for allowing the Jews freedom and opportunities never granted to them before in our long history of the exile â&#x20AC;&#x201C; I never truly felt at home until I was able to settle here in Jerusalem and in the land of Israel. I do not mean this short essay to be a rah-rah appeal for immigration to the Jewish state. But I feel that only here in Israel can a Jew live

It is somewhat ironic that this feeling of being at home is inspired by a holiday that bids us to leave our home.

this globe, and yet despite repeated efforts to make ourselves feel at home wherever we are, there is a gnawing feeling of restlessness that underlies the mansions and seeming security that we have built for ourselves wherever we have dwelled. From my own personal experience, I can attest that even though I was well settled in my previous places of residence in the United States â&#x20AC;&#x201C; for which I am eternally grateful

a truly Jewish life in every facet of meaning that those words may contain. And to me, the holiday of Sukkot is the ultimate proof of this statement. Many Jews arrive here to spend the holiday, and I notice that the common thread of conversation and feeling regarding this holiday is the attachment that it engenders within them and to the feeling of being at home. It is somewhat ironic that this

feeling of being at home is inspired by a holiday that bids us to leave our homes and live a temporary existence outside of our usual comforts and conveniences. But I feel that that is in the great message that this holiday of Sukkot teaches us. Our comfort zone and feeling of security is not dependent upon the physical dwelling or place in the world where we reside. Many a mansion and palace are filled with heartbreak, disappointment, strife and dysfunction. If one does not feel happy and secure on the inside, the outside will never provide him or her with that feeling of happiness and security. The rabbis always felt that a shack in Jerusalem was worthier and more protective than a great palace elsewhere. It is this feeling that has driven millions of Jews to gather here from the four corners of the world to build a renewed and vital Jewish state. Not all of us came here willingly or voluntarily. Almost all of us have the right and ability to leave if we wish. Nevertheless, the level of satisfaction of life and of our existence here in Israel is one of the highest in all the world, much higher than the level of happiness exhibited in other seemingly more prosperous and less dangerous places on the globe. That is the triumph of the message of the holiday of Sukkot. Chag sameach.

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Simchas Torah Keeping the Connection By Rav Moshe Weinberger Adapted for publication by Binyomin Wolf

he Ponovezher Rav related that one Simchas Torah he was in Novardok. In the midst of the joyful dancing, the Alter of Novardok whispered to him that when a bachur, a student, comes to yeshiva he hopes that the atmosphere of Elul will turn him into a true ben aliyah, a growing person, who will shteig, grow, in learning and yiras Shamayim. If I see that he has not turned around during the month of Elul, I hope that the awesomeness of Rosh Hashana, the Yom HaDin, the Day of Judgment, will turn him around. If that does not have an impact, I hope that the ten days of teshuva and Yom Kippur will create a revolution inside of him. But if even that does not work, then it could be that he is one of those people who are not necessary affected by the Yomim Noraim, the Days of Awe. Such people can still be brought around by the simcha, the joy, of Sukkos. But if even that does not work, then my last hope is Simchas Torah, which has tremendous power to affect people in a way that no other time of the year can. In order to understand Simchas Torah’s remarkable ability to affect us like nothing else, we will explore three questions. The first question is on the Midrash Tanchuma (29, Remez 782 - Parshas Pinchas), which offers the well-known parable of a king who takes care of his guests

during a seven day feast, but at the conclusion of the seven days, he says to his beloved son, “Now you and I will rejoice together for one day...” In order to explain the meaning of the parable, the Midrash explains that the guests correspond to the nations of the world for whom we offer seventy bulls in the Beis Hamikdash during Sukkos, but that after Sukkos, Hashem wants to spend some “quiet time” with His beloved child, the Jewish people. He therefore instituted the yom tov of Shmini Atzeres. The Midrash continues its wondrous explanation of the parable as follows: The Holy One says to the Jewish people, “Now you and I will rejoice together....” Once the Jewish people heard this, they began to praise Hashem by saying (Tehilim 118:24) “This is the day that Hashem has made, we will rejoice and be glad [“bo,” which could mean ‘in it’ or ‘in Him’].” Rav Avin says, “We do not know in what to rejoice; in the day or in the Holy one. Shlomo Hamelech (Shir Hashirim 1:4) therefore comes and explains, ‘We will rejoice and be glad in you [feminine],’ in you, [meaning] in Your Torah [the word ‘Torah’ is feminine].” Rav Avin’s question and answer is perplexing. He is not sure whether bo means “in it,” the day, or “in Him,” in Hashem. His an-

swer, however, based on the pasuk in Shir Hashirim, was that it means “in you,” in your Torah. This is difficult to understand because the Torah was not even one of the possible meanings of the word bo in the pasuk, “This is the day that Hashem has made, we will rejoice and be glad.” The second question relates to Rashi’s explanation of the essence of Shmini Atzeres (Vayikra 23:36) where he explains that before we return home from our visit to the Beis Hamikdash in Yerushalyim after Sukkos, Hashem says, “My children, please remain with me one more day; it is difficult for Me to part with you.” How does remaining one more day make saying goodbye any easier? It merely puts off the inevitable and makes saying goodbye even more difficult. In our home, when our older daughters first went to seminary for the year, we made a big journey to the airport together to say goodbye. All of the other parents went to say goodbye to their little girls going away for the first time for the year as well. There were many tears, and the extended goodbye in the airport just made the separation even more difficult. With our younger daughters, when it was time for them to depart for their year, we did not stage the extended goodbye in the airport because that just made the departure even more painful. So how does the

extended goodbye of Shmini Atzeres make saying “goodbye” to that additional level of closeness with Hashem on Sukkos any easier? In his earlier years, the Beis Halevi went to learn by Rav Shlomo Kluger in Brody for three months. At the end of the three months, it was time for the Beis Halevi to return to his family, so he went to see Rav Kluger to say goodbye and said the following: “Rebbe, when I came here, I had many kashas [questions]. And the rebbe has answered all of them. But I have one kasha that I know that the rebbe will not be able to answer.” Rav Kluger answered, “And how can you be so sure?” The Beis Halevi responded “Because I know that the rebbe has the very same kasha and that this kasha is bothering the rebbe even more than it is bothering me.” “Nu,” asked Rav Kluger, “what is the kasha?” The Beis Halevi answered, “The kasha is ‘kasha alai preidaschem,’ ‘it is difficult [kasha] for Me to part with you.” The Beis Halevi, Hashem, and the Jewish people share the same kasha. It is difficult to say goodbye. But how does delaying our separation by one day make our “separation” any easier? The third question is why Chazal, the sages, established Simchas Torah on Shmini Atzeres. The Torah established Shimin Atzeres as a day of togetherness for Hashem and the

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Jewish people. What is the connection between this and the completion of the cycle of reading the Torah on Simchas Torah? There is one simple, yet deep answer to all three questions. Every Jew who takes Yiddishkeit seriously has one burning question this time of the year: how do we maintain the connection we feel with Hashem during the time of Rosh Hashana, Yom Kippur, and Sukkos and make it last throughout the rest of the year? Hashem established Shmini Atzeres to demonstrate His desire to keep His connection with us. But how do we go about maintaining that connection?

and bless you.’” When a Jew learns Torah, it reveals the great oneness between himself, Hashem and the Torah, as the Zohar says (73a), “The Holy One, the Jewish people, and the Torah are one.” Learning Torah is how we rejoice with Hashem. “Nagila v’nismicha bach, We will rejoice and be glad in you,” the Torah. The word bach, “in you,” has the numerical value of twenty-two, as if to say that we will rejoice in the twenty-two letters of the Aleph Beis that make up the Torah. Each one of us should make a commitment to learn a little more

not have such a strong connection to the Torah the prior year but wants to start at Bereishis, at the beginning of the new cycle of the reading of the Torah. Every Jew has a connection to starting to learn more Torah in the coming year and becoming a Chasan Bereishis. We can all establish a specific plan to learn a bit more this year than we did last year. Through that, we have a relationship with the Torah and Hashem that will stay with us throughout the cold upcoming months without any Yomim Tovim.” I will conclude with the story

Connecting Throughout the Year The answer to this question is Simchas Torah. Indeed, delaying our “separation” from Hashem one extra day does make saying goodbye even harder. That extra day reminds us how precious our personal relationship with Hashem is to Him. As we encounter Simchas Torah as we leave this period of special closeness with Hashem, we realize that the only way to keep up the connection is through learning Torah. Those who have studied the fourth Sha’ar of Nefesh Hachaim or the seventh chapter of Tanya understand the unique connection to Hashem that we achieve through learning Torah. That is the key to maintaining a connection to Hashem throughout the year. That is why Rav Avin resolved the ambiguity of whether we should rejoice in the day of Shmini Atzeres or in Hashem by explaining that we should rejoice in the Torah. We realize on Shmini Atzeres that learning Torah is the key to continuing to rejoice in Hashem throughout the year. Shmini Atzeres shows us how precious we are to Hashem and motivates us to maintain our intimacy with Him by clinging to the Torah after yom tov is over. This is also apparent in the Gemara in Brachos 6a, which says, “How do we know that even if [just] one person sits and learns Torah that the Divine Presence is with him? As it says (Shmos 20:20), ‘Wherever I allow My name to be mentioned, I will come to you

“Every Jew has a connection to starting to learn more Torah in the coming year and becoming a Chasan Bereishis.”

than we did last year. That extra commitment to the Torah will help maintain our connection to Hashem from the Yomim Tovim into the year. A story is told about one of the members of the old Yerushalmi family, the Cheshins. Reb Yehoshua Cheshin was about to walk into his Beis Medrash during the dancing on Simchas Torah when he saw two very modern looking Jews standing at the door, somewhat timid about entering. He approached them and invited them to come in and join the dancing. One of them said, “To tell you the truth, rabbi, we have hardly studied any Torah this past year so we do not feel such a connection to the celebration of the completion of the Torah.” To this Reb Yehoshua explained to them, “We have two chassanim (grooms) on Simchas Torah. We have the Chasan Torah and the Chasan Bereishis. The Chasan Torah is the Jew who studied a lot of Torah the previous year, and he celebrates that connection. But the Chasan Bereishis is the Jew who did

told by Reb Isaac’l Kalover that I tell over every year before we begin Simchas Torah. The Kalover recounted that there was once a Jew who came to the big trade show in Leipzig to sell his merchandise. He planned to make a lot of money so he stayed at the nicest hotel he could find. While things did not work out as he planned in terms of selling his merchandise, he had a great time at the hotel. He ate the nicest meals than he had ever eaten in his life, and the bed and room were more comfortable than anything he had ever experienced in his little town. After a few days, management began to get a bit worried. They noticed that he wore the same clothes every day and seemed to be enjoying the food a little bit too much. One day after this Jew enjoyed a big meal the manager came over to him and asked him about his stay and the food. He assured the manager that he had never experienced such nice accommodations or such delicious food and that he was very satisfied. Still concerned, the manager showed him the bill and asked

whether he thought there would be a problem paying it. Finally, the man admitted that while he had intended to make a lot of money at the big trade show, things had not worked out and he had no money to pay the bill. Infuriated, the manager grabbed the man and was about to take him to the police who were likely to beat him up and kill him. Protesting, the man said, “Wait! You won’t get any of your money back by handing me over to the police. But I will make an arrangement with you. I am a very talented dancer. Let me dance outside the restaurant and you will see that my performance will attract a crowd and you will make a lot of money through the additional business brought into your restaurant.” In fact, the Jew danced up such a storm that a large crowd gathered, and ultimately, the business brought in by his dancing far outweighed the cost of his own hotel stay and use of the restaurant. Reb Isaac’l concluded that during the previous year and even Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur, we have enjoyed the beautiful accommodations of this world, but that we do not have the Torah and mitzvos to “pay” for our stay here. But as the days of judgment come to an end on Hoshana Raba, we say to Hashem that He should not take us away from the world. The dead cannot serve Hashem. Rather, we promise that we will dance in honor of Hashem and the Torah on Simchas Torah and that our dancing will bring so much kavod Shamayim that it will more than “pay” for our stay in this world. May we dance our hearts out and bring much honor to Hashem and His Torah through our dancing, and may we increase our connection to Torah this year, thus bringing our connection with Hashem from the Yomim Tovim into the rest of the year, and may Hashem send us the complete redemption, may it come soon in our days. Rav Moshe Weinberger, shlita, is the founding Morah d’Asrah of Congregation Aish Kodesh in Woodmere, NY, and serves as leader of the new mechina Emek HaMelech.

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he specifications for building a sukkah are both arcane and fascinating. The roof must be built from material (which is called schach) that comes from living source. Branches, bamboo in its various forms, and palm fronds are popular choices. It must be arranged in a way in which the amount of shade is greater than the amount of sunshine that can enter the sukkah. The arrangement of the schach should be such as to give us a view of the stars. In addition, the sukkah itself must be constructed in a way in which it is an inherently temporary structure. While it may have permanent walls (it may have four, but is ritually fit even with two and a half walls), its roof must be of an interim nature. The roof, therefore, must be rebuilt yearly. Throughout the holiday, we are required to spend as much time as possible in the sukkah, and to treat it as our home. This often opens us to reflecting on the fact that by this time

of year the weather is rather nippy, and had the holiday been set a month earlier we would find the sukkah a comfortable shady spot to sit in the balmy weather. Let us examine each detail of these laws in order to grasp the elation that this, the most joyous of all holidays, can bring us.

Seeing G-d’s Presence The holiday itself celebrates the fact that as we traveled forty years in the desert, we were surrounded by G-d’s presence. The physical manifestation of His encompassing love and protection were the clouds that encircled us. The laws concerning the construction of the sukkah are there to provide us with the opportunity to relive the experience of feeling G-d’s life-force surrounding us without the distractions that blind us to Him. By leaving the deceptive permanence of our homes, we let go of the first and most damaging illusion that blocks our inner eye from seeing G-d’s presence. This is the illusion that material security protects our vulnera-

bility. But nothing material is eternal; the feeling of security and stability that comes from possessions is transient. The only enduring possession that any of us have is our essence. Still, the illusion of permanence is one that we are reluctant to surrender, because, without it, we feel as if we are abandoned to an unknowable fate. The solid stone, bricks and mortar of our homes create the ambiance of security which is not real. The inherent impermanence of the sukkah forces us into encountering reality. But in the very impermanence of the sukkah lies its security, because here we realize we are not alone! The reality that we face does not have to terrify us. The schach symbolizes to us that the world in which we live is very much one in which G-d is with us. Although there is more darkness than light, we still see the stars. The sukkah is a living allegory for our world, which presents us with far more questions than there are answers that human wisdom can provide. However, what makes this world a place of meaning rather than one

of despair is the fact that we can see what the stars embody – brilliance and illumination. We yearn for meaning, and we find it when we focus our inner eye on the stars. The Talmud tells us that it is no coincidence that the time of year that we celebrate our trust in G-d is the fall. The timing of Sukkot seems almost arbitrary. After all, our stay in the desert took place over forty years, rather than a particular week in the year. The timing of Sukkot, no less than the physical structure of the sukkah, is an integral statement of our identity. We are not leaving our homes for relief from the heat of summer, we are leaving our homes to experience our vulnerability. It is only then that we are not blinded to G-d’s love.

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sharim, explains how we often blind ourselves to the stars and presents four different ways to a solution. One way to clear our vision is to recognize that G-d is far more compassionate than we are. It is only through His mercy that we survive either physically or emotionally all the absurd errors of judgment that have taken us to the brink of disaster. We have always been enveloped in His cloud. When we reflect on the compassion we have experienced as a result of His presence in our lives in the past, we get a new take on the present and the future. Hope suddenly seems pragmatic and realistic, while despair can be seen a naïve escape mechanism – which is what it is. Another way to clear our vision is to become aware that all of the acts of kindness that have been done on our behalf by friends and relatives ultimately are from G-d. We have paid for nothing – not the air we breathe, nor the earth upon which we stand – nor for the means by which other human

beings can help us. The inspiration from their altruism stems from G-d; what they do for us is a gift from G-d. We can never begin to repay what we have received not only from humans, but from G-d. We must be willing to be vulnerable enough to feel gratitude. This thought counter-

restrictions. Nothing can happen against His will, and nothing can prevent His will from being realized. Observing the ceaseless movement of the constellations and their timeless beauty can bring us back to this realization. We are in G-d’s hand just as they are. While the people in our lives

The only enduring possession that any of us have is our essence. acts the “entitlement” mentality that clouds our ability to recognize goodness. The third way to clear our vision is to re-define the word “possible.” We must always keep in mind that with G-d anything is truly possible because G-d is not limited by any

may affect us, ultimately, they are not more than His agents. The final thought in Rabbi Luzzatto’s collection is that facing challenges is what life is for. We Jews are not designed for “permanent housing.” We were designed for the sukkah. The idealization of complacency has never

sat well with us. When we are forced to travel the fast lane, we can be energized or frightened. It is a choice that we all make in the moments in which our faith is tested. The more we can envision the eternity of the sukkah, the more we can welcome the trek through whatever type of “desert” G-d requires us to travel. These four ways can be transformational. What is even more powerful is actually coming into contact with the mitzvah of sukkah in the literal sense. Our nature is that we are less readily moved by realizations and thoughts, than by actions, because actions often redefine our capacity to think along new and untried patterns. May this year bring us the joy of learning to feel and acknowledge what has been true all along. We are in G-d’s sukkah and always have been.

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Think, Feel, Grow

Beauty and Schach Peering Through the Surface By Shmuel Reichman

he journey from Rosh Chodesh Elul through Yom Kippur is a forty day experience of self-awareness, teshuva, and spiritual growth, whereby we come closer than ever to Hashem and our true selves. This process of closeness culminates in the holiday of Sukkos, which represents the ultimate connection between Hashem and the Jewish People. The center of this connection is the sukkah, which represents the marriage canopy as Klal Yisrel marries Hashem. As we approach this time of closeness, let us delve into the meaning of the sukkah and the lessons it holds for us. Chazal cryptically compare the schach of the sukkah to the ideal form of beauty. What does this mean? The spiritual concept of beauty, and its relevance to marriage, is central to the connection we aim to develop through the process of Sukkos. In order to understand this connection, let us delve into the spiritual concept of beauty. To do so, we must understand the unique beauty of Sara Imeinu.

True Beauty Sara Imeinu was the most beautiful woman in the world. This beauty was not only spiritual beauty, a description of her immense holiness and spiritual stature. Sara’s beauty was physical as well, as proclaimed by Chazal in the Gemara and midrash (Bava Basra 58a, Breishis Rabbah 45:4) and testified to by the Egyptian people and Pharaoh himself. When Avraham and Sara descended to Mitzrayim to escape the famine in the land of Eretz Yisrael, the

Egyptian people, and even Pharaoh himself, desired Sara. The Egyptians, worshippers of immorality, were interested only in the kind of beauty that ran skin deep. Their fixation on Sara was not spiritually motivated, rather based in physical desire alone. However, this physical beauty was not Sara Imeinu’s defining trait. Sara, foremother of the entire Jewish People, gained her status and prominence through her immense spiritual prowess. Her unmatched physical beauty was accompanied by the ultimate in spiritual beauty. This is the definition of true beauty, and this incredible balance is reflected in a second name the Torah calls Sarah. At the end of Parshas Noach, Rashi (Breishis 11:29) clarifies that “Yiscah” is another name for Sarah Imeinu. A name always reflects a person’s essence, which means that the meaning of Yiscah perfectly captures Sarah Imeinu’s nature. Yiscah means transparent, and Sarah’s complete beauty lay in her transparency. Her inner beauty permeated her physical body. True beauty is when the physical body reflects a spiritual inner core, a depth that is infinitely greater than any external beauty. True beauty is oneness, where the physical and spiritual come together perfectly and melt into a oneness. Sara Imeinu modeled this beauty, and this is why she was ultimately beautiful both physically and spiritually. This is the beauty that we look to emulate – a beauty in which the physical does not hide the inner self, but reveals it. The connection between Sara

Imeinu’s middah of transparency and our connection to Hashem through Sukkos is striking. Yiscah, another name for Sarah Imeinu, shares the same root as schach, the roof of the sukkah. Within halachic thought, the ikar (central component) of the sukkah is the schach. What, though, does transparency have to do with schach and the sukkah? The answer lies in the very deep theme of Sukkos itself. Sukkos is about seeing past the illusion of self-security and recognizing that Hashem is our only true source of protection. This is why we leave our physical dwellings, our sturdy homes, and reside instead within a diras arai, a temporary dwelling place. The sukkah is a spiritual hut of connection between us and Hashem, where we show how completely we rely on Him. While on the surface, our security and safety seem to come only from our own efforts and hishtadlus, when we look past the surface, we recognize that everything comes from Hashem. This is why the schach is the main component of the sukkah. Schach trains us to see past the surface. In order to be valid, schach must be transparent, allowing us to see past our physical sukkahs into the endless night sky. (You must be able to see the stars at night through the schach. The schach must also allow the sunlight to pour in from outside and must be loose enough to allow rain into the sukkah as well.) When we look up, we must see Hashem behind His physical mask; we must recognize the spirituality inherent behind this physical world. Only with a transparent surface can we

truly tap into that internal truth.

The Two Stages Amongst the Yamim Noraim, Sukkos is an anomaly. Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur are overtly spiritual and transcendent days, with intense rounds of prayer and spiritual elevation. Sukkos, on the other hand, is grounded in the physical. The centerpiece of Sukkos is a physical object – the lulav we shake – and much emphasis is put on going through our physical routines in a physical hut. It is the Zman Simchaseinu, a time of physical joy and festivities, highlighted by the celebrations of the simchas beis hasho’eivah. How is this the ultimate culmination of the spiritual growth we have worked towards throughout the last month and a half? The answer to this question is the secret behind the power of Sukkos, as well as a fundamental principle in Jewish ideology. While the physical can be dangerous if misused, the ideal is not to transcend the physical but rather to use the physical in order to reflect something higher. Think how many mitzvos are commandments of the mind. Almost none. You can count them on your hand: believe in Hashem, love Hashem, be in awe of Hashem, don’t be jealous, and just a few more. The overwhelming majority of mitzvos are physical actions which connect you to the spiritual source, Hashem! The act is physical, while the spirituality and mindfulness is contained within that physical act. We eat matzah, shake a lulav, blow shofar, and wear tefillin – all

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actions, all physical. We don’t believe in transcending the physical; we believe in using the physical to connect to the transcendent. Sukkos embodies this lesson in embracing the physical. The purpose of this physical world is for us to use everything it has to offer for a spiritual purpose. This requires us to immerse ourselves in the physical world, but for this immersion to be proper we must maintain control and focus while using the physical. In other words, our root must be transcendent, grounded firmly in the spiritual, and then atop that foundation we can descend into the physical and use it in a transcendent way. This is the key behind the process we undertake through the Yamim Noraim. We first experience Elul, then Rosh Hashana, and then Yom Kippur, a developmental process of raising ourselves higher and higher above the physical world and deeper and deeper into the spiritual world. It is only once we create this transcendent root that

we then re-immerse ourselves into physical living, but this time on an entirely new scale. We must infuse the totality of our spiritual acquisition into our physical life, elevating our actions and intentions as we move this physi-

and mundane hut that we draw the connection between the transcendent spirituality we just experienced and the elevated physical existence we are about to throw ourselves into. This is how a Jew lives a life of spirituality.

The purpose of this physical world is for us to use everything it has to offer for a spiritual purpose.

cal world towards its ultimate spiritual root. Sukkos is the ultimate expression of this ideal, as we infuse the entirety of our spiritual gains from Elul, Rosh Hashana, and Yom Kippur into a physical life of connection with Hashem inside the sukkah. It is in that simple

Two Levels of Reality This is the most powerful message of life. There are always two levels of reality: the surface level and the deeper, spiritual level. The surface is meant to reflect the spiritual, reveal it, emanate its truth and beauty. But often we struggle, we forget, we get caught

*Caramelized Onions, Goat Cheese and Apple Blintzes by Amy Krtitzer @WhatJewWannaEat

Even the Ushpizin will be impressed For yummy Sukkot recipes visit our website: tnuvausa.com ‫בהשגחת‬

‫בד״צ ועדת מה‬ ‫דרין‬ ‫ר‬ ‫ייטמן‬ ‫ הרב ו‬- ‫ב תנובה‬

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up in the deception that the surface is all that there is. But even when we fail, even when we fall, there is always hope, there is always a path back to our true selves. This is the message of Sukkos; this is the message of life. To strive to see more, feel more, learn more, become more. May we all be inspired to not only see past the surface, but to then reveal that truth through the surface – to live holistic lives of truth, spiritual beauty, and true oneness. 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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A SUKKOS STORY

By Rabbi Shlomo Zevin

t was only a short time before Sukkos and in all of Berdichev there could not be found a single esrog. The tzaddik, Rabbi Levi Yitzchak, and the entire kehilla were concerned about how they would be able to fulfill the mitzvah of lulav and esrog this year. They waited and waited, but no esrog arrived in town. Finally, Rabbi Levi Yitzchak told his followers to go to the closest highway – perhaps they would find a Jew who had an esrog. Eventually, they came upon a Jew, on his way home after a long journey, who had in his possession a beautiful esrog. But he didn’t live in Berdichev. He lived in another city, far away. He was only passing through on his way home. The people persuaded the traveling Jew to meet with the great tzaddik Rabbi Levi Yitzchak. Rabbi Levi Yitzchak tried to convince the Jew to spend Sukkos in Berdichev. This way, many Jews would benefit from performing the mitzvah of lulav and esrog over Sukkos, and Rabbi Levi Yitzchak would also have the zechus of the mitzvah over Sukkos. But the Jew wouldn’t agree. His missed his family. He had been away from home for a long time. How could he deprive them and himself of the simcha of yom tov together? Rabbi Levi Yitzchak tried to con-

vince him. He promised the Jew great wealth and nachas from his children. The Jew replied that, thank G-d, he had wealth and wonderful children and wasn’t in need of anything more. Finally, Rabbi Levi Yitzchak told the Jew that if he would stay in Berdichev and share his lulav and esrog with the townspeople he would spend eternity, after 120 years on this earth, with Rabbi Levi Yitzchak in the same daled amos in the World to Come. When the Jew heard this incredible offer, he knew it was an offer he couldn’t refuse. He immediately acceded to the tzaddik’s request and agreed to remain in Berdichev for the yom tov of Sukkos. Rabbi Levi Yitzchak and the whole community were ecstatic, and the man with the esrog was delighted with the offer, too. But, unbeknownst to the traveler, Rabbi Levi Yitzchak had issued a command to the townspeople of Berdichev that under no circumstances should they allow this Jew to enter any of their sukkahs over the yom tov of Sukkos. No one could understand why the tzaddik issued this edict, but it was his decree and they listened to him wholeheartedly. On the first night of Sukkos, after davening, the traveling Jew returned from shul to the inn where he was staying. He found in his room wine,

candles, challah, and a table covered with food. But the guest was confused. Didn’t the innkeeper know that you need to eat in a sukkah over Sukkos? He went into the yard, and, sure enough, there was a sukkah there. The innkeeper and his family sat around the beautifully set table, basking in the simcha of yom tov. But when he tried to enter, they wouldn’t let him in. Why? the Jew wondered. There was no answer from the innkeeper or his family. So he left and went to the neighbors across the street, each one in their own sukkah. And every time he asked permission to enter someone’s sukkah, he found himself being barred from entry. He begged them – please, just for a moment – to enter their sukkah. But each person silently wouldn’t allow him in. Finally, he heard that Rabbi Levi Yitzchak had issued a decree that he should not be allowed into a sukkah in Berdichev this yom tov. In a panic, he ran to the tzaddik’s home. “What is this? What did I do wrong?” he begged Rabbi Levi Yitzchak. The tzaddik answered, “If you will nullify our agreement that we made in which I promised to allow you to sit near me in the World to Come in

exchange for your esrog, I will immediately instruct my followers to permit you into their sukkahs.” The Jew was astonished. “What can I do?” he thought to himself. “It’s not an insignificant thing to sit near the holy tzaddik Rabbi Levi Yitzchak in the World to Come. But, on the other hand, I have never missed the mitzvah of sitting in a sukkah. How can I miss out now, on the first night of yom tov, and not fulfill this mitzvah?” Finally, he came to a conclusion. Is it possible that all of Israel will sit in a sukkah tonight and I will eat outside like a non-Jew? Chas v’shalom! He publicly renounced the agreement that he had made with the tzaddik and then sat down in the sukkah. When yom tov was over, Rabbi Levi Yitzchak summoned the Jew to his home. “Now,” said the tzaddik, “I am returning my promise to you. You see, I did this to teach you that I didn’t want you to earn the merit of the World to Come for no reason – like it’s another business deal or bargain. I wanted you to earn a place in the World to Come because of your deeds and so caused you to be tested in the mitzvah of sukkah. “Now that you have passed the test, and have shown a true devotion to the sukkah, you truly are deserving to be my partner in the World to Come.”

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n r u o j o S t o k k u S t e Swe MORNING IN HEVRON:

» Ma’arat Hamachpela open in its entirety » Exclusive to One Israel Fund - visit the military base of Abu Sneinah overlooking the city

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» Beit HaShalom and the Pina Chama

AFTERNOON IN GUSH ETZION:

Trip Departs promptly at 8:15am (please arrive 15 minutes early) from the Liberty Bell Parking Lot (behind the Sonol Gas Station) and returns approximately 6:30pm.

» Dairy lunch in Hamama’s Sukka

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Chol Hamoed Places to Go, Things to Do With the weather giving us broiling days of heat and other days filled with rain and wind, we hope that the sun will smile upon us as we go on chol hamoed outings as a family this Sukkos. If we’re lucky enough to get balmy weather, we can take advantage of the wonderful experiences available outdoors. And if gimshei bracha shower upon us, there are interesting trips to go on indoors as well – so take your pick! Spending time with the family is the goal, wherever the day may take you. TJH has compiled a list of ideas, activities, and places to go for you to enjoy. Make sure to pack enough food, a portable sukkah, and music for the road and have fun!

ZOOS AND FARMS Queens County Farm Museum 73-50 Little Neck Parkway Floral Park, NY 11004 718-347-3276

Green Meadows Farm Brooklyn At the Aviator Sports Center 3159 Flatbush Avenue Brooklyn, NY 11234 718-470-0278

White Post Farms 250 Old County Road Melville, NY 11747 631-351-9373

Bronx Zoo 2300 Southern Boulevard Bronx, NY 10460 718-220-5103

New York Aquarium Surf Avenue & West 8th Street Brooklyn, NY 11224 718-265-FISH

Long Island Game Farm 489 Chapman Boulevard Manorville, NY 11949 631-878-6644

Long Island Aquarium and Exhibition Center 431 East Main Street Riverhead, NY 11901 631-208-9200

Woodside Orchards 116 Manor Lane Jamesport, NY 11901 631-722-5770

Prospect Park Zoo 450 Flatbush Avenue Brooklyn, NY 11225 718-399-7339 Queens Zoo 53-51 111th Street Flushing, NY 11368 718-271-1500 Central Park Zoo 64th Street & 5th Avenue New York, NY 10065 212-861-6030 Green Meadows Farm 73-50 Little Neck Parkway Floral Park, NY 11002 718-470-0224

Schmitt’s Family Farm 26 Pinelawn Road Melville, NY 11747 631-271-3276

SCENIC ATTRACTIONS Central Park Boating, biking, the Great Lawn, model-boat sailing, carriage rides, carousel Between 5th & 8th Avenues and 59th & 106th Streets New York, NY 212-360-3444 Bryant Park 6th Avenue, between W 40-42 Street New York, NY 10018 212-768-4242

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Where are you going for Chol Hamoed? Visit 40 Countries in a Day.

See the famous landmarks in a stunningly detailed miniature world located in the heart of Times Square. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s perfect for kids ages 2 to 120.

In Times Square 216 W. 44th Street GulliversGate.com

EXTENDED HOURS FOR CHOL HAMOED!

Wed. & Thurs.

(October 16th & 17th)

10:00am - 9:00pm

Top Rated Attraction!

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New York Highline Gansevoort Street to West 30 Street between Washington St. and 11 Ave. New York, NY 212-500-6035 Brooklyn Bridge Park 1 Main Street Brooklyn, NY 718-222-9939 Fort Tyron Park Riverside Drive to Broadway, W 192 Street to Dyckman Street New York, NY New York Circle Line Pier 83 West 42nd Street New York, NY 10036 212-563-3200 Statue of Liberty/Ellis Island Ferries from Battery Park, NY 1 Battery Place New York, NY 10004 212-363-3200

Jamaica Bay Riding Academy 7000 Shore Parkway Brooklyn, NY 11234 718-531-8949 Old Westbury Gardens 71 Old Westbury Road Old Westbury, NY 11568 516-333-0048 South Street Seaport 89 South Street New York, NY 10038 212-732-7678 Brooklyn Botanic Gardens 900 Washington Avenue Brooklyn, NY 11225 718-623-7200 Brooklyn Heights Promenade Downtown Brooklynâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; Remsen Street to Orange Street along the East River

The New York Botanical Garden 2900 Southern Boulevard Bronx, NY 10458 718-817-8700 Wave Hill Public Gardens 675 W 252 Street Bronx, NY 10471 718-549-3200 Historic Richmond Town 441 Clarke Avenue Staten Island, NY 10306 718-351-1611 The Amish Village 199 Hartman Bridge Road Ronks, PA 17572 717-687-8511 Mystic Seaport 75 Greenmanville Ave. Mystic, CT 06355 888-973-2767

CHOL HAMOED SUKKOT 2019

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 17, 2019 ONLY Early Bird Price: $40 (until 12:00 PM Sunday, October 13)

The last day to order tickets which can be shipped to you is Sunday, October 6

Ticket Price at the Gate: $45 $15 for Season Pass or Membership Holders

Tickets can be purchased online at ncsygreatadventure.com or by calling 201-862-0250*, 732-961-1233 or 848-525-2295

Kosher food and Sukkah will be available inside the park Food is available for purchase from Chickies (under supervision of Kof-K) Absolutely no outside food allowed in the park! FREE PARKING Park Hours: 12 PM - 7 PM Safari Hours: 12 PM - 4 PM

Tickets will be refunded only if the park is closed due to inclement weather. All park and ride openings and closures are determined by Six Flags Great Adventure. *Our office hours are from Mondays - Thursdays 9 AM - 5 PM and Fridays 9 AM - 12 PM. The office is closed on Erev Yom Kippur.

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In Auschwitz 75 years ago, this shofar was secretly blown during the High Holidays. Learn its incredible story, and the stories of the 700 other artifacts and 400 photographs in the exhibition. Many of these artifacts – including this shofar – have never before been displayed in public.

“UNMISSABLE” – WALL STREET JOURNAL

Museum of Jewish Heritage A Living Memorial to the Holocaust Lower Manhattan, New York to Rector St or

to Bowling Green

Exhibition Tickets at MJHNYC.ORG Or at the Museum For hours and holiday closings, see website or call 646.437.4202. Sukkah available during Chol HaMoed

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AMUSEMENT PARKS Six Flags Great Adventure 1 Six Flags Boulevard Jackson, NJ 08527 201-862-0250 Adventureland 2245 Broad Hollow Road (RT 110) Farmingdale, NY 11735 631-694-6868 Luna Park Coney Island 1000 Surf Avenue Brooklyn, NY 11224 718-373-5862 Adventurers (formerly Nellie Bly Park) 1824 Shore Parkway Brooklyn, NY 11214 718-975-2748 Sahara Sam’s Oasis and Water Park & Diggerland 160 Cooper Road West Berlin, NJ 08091 856-767-7580

Bronx Zoo Treetop Adventure Climb and Zipline Bronx River Parkway at Boston Rd Bronx, NY 10460 347-308-9028

INDOOR FUN PARKS Legoland Discovery Center Westchester - 39 Fitzgerald Street Yonkers, NY 10701 866-243-0779 Fun Fuzion at New Roc City 19 Le County Place New Rochelle, NY 10801 914-637-7575 Fun Station USA 3555 Victory Boulevard Staten Island, NY 10314 718-370-0077 @ Play Amusement 229 Broadhollow Road Farmingdale, NY 11735 631-815-5355

Laser Bounce 2710 Hempstead Turnpike Levittown, NY 11756 516-342-1330 Laser Bounce 8000 Cooper Avenue Glendale, NY 11385 347-599-1919 RPM Raceway Go-Karting 40 Daniel Street Farmingdale, NY 11735 631-752-7223

Kids N Shape 162-26 Cross Bay Boulevard Howard Beach, NY 11414 718-848-2052

One World Observatory One World Trade Center 285 Fulton Street New York, NY 10007 844-OWO-1776

Brooklyn Boulders 575 Degraw Street Brooklyn, NY 11217 347-834-9066

Chelsea Piers Hudson River—Piers 59-62 New York, NY 212-336-6800

MetroRock Brooklyn 321 Starr Street Brooklyn, NY 11237 929-500-7625

Woodmere Lanes 948 Broadway Woodmere, NY 11598 516-374-9870

Long Island Adventure Park 75 Colonial Springs Road Wyandanch, NY 11798 631-983-3844

Funfest Bowling 6161 Strickland Avenue Brooklyn, NY 11234 718-763-6800

Trapeze School NY 467 Marcy Avenue Brooklyn, NY 11206 212-242-8769

BounceU 3495B Lawson Boulevard Oceanside, NY 11572 516-593-5867

Air Trampoline Sports 1850 Lakeland Avenue Ronkonkoma, NY 11779 631-619-6000

Chuck E. Cheese 162 Fulton Avenue Hempstead, NY 11550 516-483-3166

Skyzone Trampoline Park 33 Lecount Place New Rochelle, NY 10801 914-740-8272

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SUKKAH'S ON PREMISE

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Skyzone Trampoline Park 111 Rodeo Drive Deer Park, NY 11717 631-392-2600

Glow Golf Roosevelt Field Mall Garden City, NY 11530 516-747-3682

Rockin’ Jump Trampoline Park 241 Market Street Yonkers, NY 10710 914-510-9119

Smith Point Archery 215 E Main Street Patchogue, NY 11772 631-289-3399

Launch Trampoline Park 163-50 Cross Bay Boulevard Howard Beach, NY 11414 718-593-4204

Dave & Busters 1 Sunrise Mall Massapequa, NY 11758 516-809-8514

BOWLING

9.95

MISSION IMPOSSIBLE

*Queens location only

VIRTUAL REALITY

9.95

$ per person

Skyzone Trampoline 2 Hours Unlimited Park Open Play 111 Rodeo Drive in Bounce and Ballocity NO LIMIT 10/19/19, cannot be combined Deer Park,- expires NY 11717 with any other offer, discounts or offers. 631-392-2600

per person

Glow Golf 1 Session of Laser Tag Roosevelt Mall NO LIMITField - expires 10/21/19, 1 session includes two 8 minute games played Garden City, NY 11530 consecutively (cannot be split) cannot be combined with any other offer, discounts or 516-747-3682 offers.

Super Park Sukkot Special Smith Point Archery Rockin’ Jump Trampoline 215 E Main Street 241 Market Street Patchogue, NY 11772 Yonkers, NY 10710 per person 631-289-3399 914-510-9119 Includes:

16.95

1 Session of Laser Tag 2 Hours Unlimited Open Play in Bounce and Ballocity 1 Round of Bowling 1 Game of Mission Impossible

VR World NYC Launch Trampoline Park NO LIMIT - expires 10/19/19, 1 session includes two 8 minute games East 34 Street 163-50 Cross Bay Boulevard played consecutively (cannot be split)4 cannot be combined with any other offer, discounts or offers. New York, NY 10016 Howard Beach, NY 11414 646-578-9630 718-593-4204

TWO CONVENIENT LOCATIONS QUEENS

80-28 Cooper Ave (Atlas Park Mall - Under Regal Cinemas)

Glendale, Queens, NY 11385 718-810-0226 / 347-599-1919

4 East 34 Street New York, NY 10016 646-578-9630

City I 47-32 Long I 718-70

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LONG ISLAND

2710 Hempstead Turnpike Levittown, NY 11756 516-342-1330

Dave & Busters 1504 Old Country Road Westbury, NY 11590 516-542-85011504 Iceland Long Island 3345 Hillside Avenue New Hyde Park, NY 11040 516-746-1100 City Ice Pavilion 47-32 32 Place Long Island City, NY 11101 718-706-6667 Long Beach Ice Arena 150 W Bay Drive Long Beach, NY 11561 516-705-7385

SOMETHING DIFFERENT Puppetworks 338 Sixth Avenue at 4th Street Park Slope, NY 11215 718-965-3391 Make It Too 86 Cedarhurst Avenue Cedarhurst, NY 11516 516-341-7660 Build a Bear Roosevelt Field Mall 630 Old Country Road Garden City, NY 11530 516-248-0027

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THE ENTIRE COMMUNITY IS INVITED TO CELEBRATE WITH THE YESHIVA AT A

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Taro’s Origami Studio 95 7th Avenue, 2nd Floor Brooklyn, NY 11215 718-360-5435

MUSEUMS Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum Pier 86, 12th Avenue and 46th Street 212-245-0072 Build a Bear 9015 Queens Boulevard Elmhurst, NY 11373 718-289-7135 Artrageous Studio 5 N Village Avenue Rockville Centre, NY 11570 516-255-5255 Once Upon a Dish 659 Franklin Avenue Garden City, NY 11530 516-742-6030 Baked in Brooklyn 242 Wythe Avenue Brooklyn, NY 11249 718-384-2300 Brooklyn Clay Industries 63 Flushing Avenue Brooklyn, NY 11205 301-395-0143 Color Me Mine 123 Baxter Street New York, NY 10013 212-374-1710 La Mano Pottery 110 West 26 Street New York, NY 10001 212-627-9450

9/11 Memorial and Museum 200 Liberty Street New York, NY 10006 212-266-5211 New York Hall of Science 47-01 111 Street Corona, NY 11368 718-699-0005 Jewish Museum 1109 Fifth Avenue New York, NY 10128 212-423-3200 Museum of Jewish Heritage 36 Battery Place New York, NY 10280 646-437-4202 Living Torah Museum 1603 41 Street Brooklyn, NY 11218 718-851-3215 Long Island Children’s Museum 11 Davis Avenue Garden City, NY 11530 516-224-5800

Skyscape 928 8th Avenue New York, NY 10019 212-549-1941

Brooklyn Children’s Museum 145 Brooklyn Avenue Brooklyn, NY 11213 718-735-4400

Museum of Illusions 77 Eighth Avenue New York, NY 10014 212-645-3230

Jewish Children’s Museum 792 Eastern Parkway Brooklyn, NY 11213 718-467-0600

Gulliver’s Gate 216 W 44 Street New York, NY 10036 212-235-2016

Children’s Museum of Manhattan 212 W 83rd Street New York, NY 10024 212-721-1234

National Geographic Encounter Experience 226 W 44 Street New York, NY 10036 646-308-1337 National Museum of Mathematics 11 East 26 Street New York, NY 10010 212-542-0566

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THE JEAN FISCHMAN CHABAD CENTER CHABAD OF THE 5 TOWNS PRESENTS

Our 25th Annual

SUKKAFEST SIMCHAS BAIS HASHOEVA

At the Andrew J. Parise Park

(formerly Cedarhurst Park corner Cedarhurst Ave. & Summit Ave.)

NYC Fire Museum 278 Spring Street New York, NY 10013 212-691-1303

Crayola Factory 30 Centre Square Easton, PA 18042 1-866-875-5263

American Museum of Natural History Central Park West at 79th Street New York, NY 10024 212-769-5100

The Franklin Institute 222 North 20th Street Philadelphia, PA 19103 215-448-1200

Metropolitan Museum of Art 1000 5th Avenue New York, NY 10028 800-662-3397

WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 16

Frick Collection 1 E 70 Street New York, NY 10021 212-288-0700

RAIN DATE OCTOBER 17

6:00 - 8:00 PM

New York Transit Museum 99 Schermerhorn Street Brooklyn, NY 11201 718-694-1600

Music by AZAMRA DJ & Dancing Light refreshments Sukkah Mobile on site

Lower East Side Tenement Museum 103 Orchard Street New York, NY 10002 877-975-3786

Children that dance will get OH nuts cards so they can Dance into OH! NUTS for free candy!

Vanderbilt Museum & Planetarium 180 Little Neck Road Centerport, NY 11721 631-854-5579

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Daniella, you are now the author of three cookbooks. What was the inspiration behind Variations, your newest cookbook? All my cookbooks have easy, goto recipes. My first one had more basic recipes. The second one had a more entertaining feel. For this one, I wanted to change things up, and I wanted to be more creative with how I prepare the recipes, so I thought, let’s do one recipe, two ways. It’s a great way to change things up. People can look at food and see it two different ways. It doesn’t always have to be the standard. I wanted people to be creative in their minds. When you look at a recipe, you can change it up a bit – with how you present it, the vessel you use to serve it, how you cook it. There are so many ways.

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Do you do this at home as well? You know, I’ll never call myself a chef. The way I cook is through creativity. So, I do like to get creative with my food in a very simplistic way. Were there any recipes that you felt it was hard to find that variation? Yes. The soups were very difficult to get creative with. Some of them, you’ll see, it’s not so much a variation of the ingredients as much as it is the variation of the utensils – using a mason jar or putting the soup in a bread bowl to serve the soup. You can still get that wow factor and you can use your creativity in the kitchen. Soup sounds great for Sukkos. What other dishes would you recommend for a Sukkos meal? There are so many. The Marinated Hot Pepper Brisket – that’s a definite. The Sweet Potato Pear Soup is so beautiful for the holiday. One of my favorites is the Panko-Topped Kale Salad – it’s absolutely delicious. I would also do the Rustic Sheet Pan Chicken. It has chickpeas and carrots and dried fruit. It’s all-in-one and is so yum-

my. For dessert, I would definitely do the Strawberry Almond Tart. It’s perfect with tea in the sukkah at the end of the meal. Those dishes all sound delicious. I would say that your most interesting recipe in Variations in the Corned Beef Biscotti. They look like they’re pareve but they’re not. It’s so funny. My mom came over one day when I made them, and she loves my biscotti. Without even thinking, she took one of the biscotti and she ate one. She said, What is that? She thought it was craisins. She couldn’t believe it. I’m very into crunchy things. My husband has a lot of guys over, and I thought let’s be creative with crunch with something that’s so yummy, and let’s do it on a board. Boards are very in now. I wanted it to be a topic of conversation, to get people’s attention. And the guys love it. They all try to figure out what it is. I serve it on a charcuterie board, and it’s a hit. I notice that you use a lot of fresh ingredients. Yes. I cook pretty healthy, and I don’t feel you have to compromise on taste because you don’t use sugar and things like that. The more variety I give and the more healthy the recipes I have that are delicious and inviting, the more people will incorporate them into their diet. Fresh ingredients are so easy and they’re so yummy, too. How do you get your kids to eat healthy? It’s really hard. My kids are like everyone else’s kids. Even so, I really try to have them try and taste each dish at least once or twice. If they don’t like it after that, then OK, but at least we tried. Variations is also a great way to get kids to try things out. Like with the Mini Pepper Salad. If they don’t like it, then put the peppers on a board and have them dunk them into the sauce. A little creativity can make it more palatable for them, and you’ll have a higher chance of them trying out the new stuff.

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Were there some recipes you had to produce specifically for the book? Towards the end of preparing for the book, I’m always trying to get one or two new recipes but I basically developed all these recipes over the last year and a half. The most intense part of writing a cookbook is probably the photography. For me, the pictures are everything. I’m a very visual person; the pictures have to be crystal clear. I worked with Jasmine Deboer on this book, and she was amazing. My food stylist, Abe Wornovitsky, has been with me through all three books; he’s really good at what he does. We do the photoshoots in my house, and the kids are around, and I’m cooking all the food, so it’s a bit crazy. But it all gets done. What are most important ingredients a cook should have on hand? A lot of my recipes are pantry-basic. You need the basic spices: salt, pepper, paprika, garlic powder, onion powder, etc. I also like crunch, so I’m really into using sesame seeds, pumpkin seeds, and sunflower seeds. What advice would you give a person starting out in the kitchen or someone wanting to experiment with their cooking? I don’t believe that a recipe with 10-15 ingredients produces a better product. Don’t be intimidated by the simplicity of food because that’s how I create my recipes and the product is just as good. Also, don’t be afraid of cooking. You can cook basic, delicious food without a lot of effort. Did you ever take cooking classes? When I decided to write a cookbook, I asked Norene Gilletz – I called her up – to help me. She saw tremendous potential in me, and she taught me so much. We went through each of my recipes and talked about measurements and food, so, in a way, I went to “Norene Gilletz School,” which is better than

anything. Whenever I cook a brisket, I think of her. She always says, with a brisket, you need to “low and slow” and use lots of onions.

There’s going to be a lot of entertaining over Sukkos. Can you give our readers ideas on how to present their food in in-

A little creativity goes a long way. You wrote the Silver Platter cookbook years ago. What was the inspiration behind that first book? My kids have bunch of allergies so when I would cook, I would look at the ingredients and was experimenting in the kitchen with flavors and creativity. I told my husband one day that I wanted to write a cookbook. He actually laughed because I didn’t know how much work writing a cookbook really was. But I’m pretty goal-oriented and having Norene and ArtScroll by my side has really made it so much easier. You mentioned before that you teamed up with Norene. Tell us how it happened. Norene lives in Toronto, and I just called her out of the blue. I told her, “I’m sure you get a hundred calls a day, but I want to know if I have potential.” I brought over a binder of all my recipes filled with loose-leaf papers – nothing was on my computer back then. At the beginning, she was teaching me how to write a proper recipe, step by step. She’s like family to me now. After working together for six months, we decided it would be so interesting to have a 2-generational book, with my recipes – I can relate to “new” generation – and she has all this wisdom and experience to share. It was such a great collaboration.

teresting and appetizing ways? There are so many variations in how to present your food. With a salad, you can serve it on a wrap or on a leaf of lettuce. Or you can put the sal-

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ad in a teacup for an appetizer. With my lentil salad in the book, I use the avocado as a base – or you can use a pepper as base. You know, people can look through the book and take ideas on how to find variations in how they present or cook the food and then use it with their own recipes. You must have a closet full of serving pieces. It’s my favorite room in the house. It’s a back room in the basement just filled with shelves. I have all my props from my cookbooks there. Truthfully, I use five or six basic serving pieces all the time, but I try to use two or three dishes every meal that I serve differently and am more creative with. A little creativity goes a long way. I’m excited for people to read Variations and for them to change the way they think about food. Don’t be scared to be creative. It’s so much fun and will delight your guests and your family.

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Variations on a Theme

By Daniella Silver

Sweet Potato Pear Soup Pareve • Passover • Gluten-free • Freezes well • Yields 8-10 servings INGREDIENTS • 2 Tbsp extra light olive oil • 1 large onion, diced • 2 ribs celery, chopped • 2 cloves garlic, minced (about 1 tsp) • Kosher salt • Black pepper • 4 large sweet potatoes, peeled and chopped • 3 Asian or Bosc pears, peeled and chopped • 1 tsp sweet paprika • Pinch dried thyme • 5-6 cups water or vegetable broth

PREPARATION Heat oil in a large soup pot over medium heat. Add onion, celery, garlic, salt, and pepper; sauté for 8-10 minutes, until golden. Add sweet potatoes, pears, paprika, thyme, and water. Bring to a boil. Reduce heat. Simmer, partially covered, for 40-45 minutes, or until vegetables are tender, stirring occasionally. Remove from heat; let cool slightly. Using an immersion blender, process soup until smooth. If soup is too thick, add a little water. Adjust seasonings to taste. VARIATION Cinnamon Sugar Pears Prepare soup as directed. Preheat oven to 400°F. Coat a cooking rack or pizza tray with nonstick cooking spray. Slice 2 additional pears very thinly (do not peel). Sprinkle with sugar and cinnamon on both sides. Bake, uncovered, for 20-25 minutes until golden. Garnish the soup with baked pears or sprinkle soup with thyme leaves.

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Sesame-Crusted London Broil Meat • Gluten-free option • Freezes well • Yields 6 servings INGREDIENTS • 1 London broil (about 2 lb/1 kg) • Kosher salt, to taste • Black pepper, to taste • 1/3 cup soy sauce or tamari • 3 Tbsp honey • 2 Tbsp extra light olive oil • 3 Tbsp white sesame seeds, toasted PREPARATION Sprinkle London broil lightly on both sides with salt and pepper and place into a resealable plastic bag. Add soy sauce, honey, and oil; seal bag tightly. Massage meat on both sides with marinade. Marinate for 1 hour or overnight in the refrigerator. Coat a grill pan with nonstick cooking spray; heat over medium-high. Remove London broil from marinade; discard marinade. Grill meat for 7-8 minutes per side or until meat reaches desired doneness. (For medium, cook meat to an internal temperature of 145°F.) Place meat onto a cutting board; let rest for 5 minutes. Slice against the grain on the diagonal, into thin slices. Place onto serving platter. Sprinkle with toasted sesame seeds. VARIATION Steak Bites Prepare recipe as directed through Step 3. Cut each piece of meat into cubes. Using toothpicks, pierce each cube; sprinkle with sesame seeds. Serve family style, on individual plates, or as an appetizer for a party.

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Strawberry Almond Tart Pareve • Gluten-free option • Freezes well • Yield 8-10 servings INGREDIENTS Dough • 1 cup flour (or gluten-free flour) • 1 cup almond flour • ½ cup sugar • 1 tsp salt • 2/3 cup vegetable oil • 1 Tbsp water

Filling • 1 lb. strawberries, quartered (fresh or frozen) • 2 Tbsp sugar • 2 Tbsp flour • 1 tsp lemon juice • ¼ cup sliced almonds • Ground cinnamon, for sprinkling

PREPARATION Preheat oven to 350°F. Line a 9- or 10-inch round or ceramic tart pan with parchment paper; coat the sides with nonstick cooking spray. In a medium bowl, combine flour, almond flour, sugar, salt, oil, and water; mix well to form a dough. Reserve ½ cup for topping. Place remaining dough into prepared tart pan, pressing down and up the sides to form a crust. To make the filling: In a second bowl, combine strawberries with sugar, flour, lemon juice, and almonds; mix well. Spoon into crust. Crumble reserved dough; sprinkle crumbs and cinnamon over filling. Bake for 45-50 minutes, until golden. VARIATIONS Peach Crisps Prepare recipe as directed using 6 peaches, peeled and cut into chunks. You can use mini tart pans for a different presentation. Bake for 30-40 minutes. This recipe also works well in a rectangular tart pan. These recipes have been excerpted from Variations. Simple and Delicious Dishes. Two Ways by Daniella Silver, published by Artscroll/Mesorah.

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in a way that all the talmidim get full exposure and practice. Baruch Hashem, to date the program is in six classrooms throughout grades 3-5 and will be expanding as the year progresses. This year we have added an additional member to our team, Rabbi Yissachar Zucker, who is a kriyah specialist having trained in this field under Rabbi Tzvi Fischer of The Multi-Sensory Kriah and Kesiva course, Mrs. Olshin from Lakewood (the Hebrew AccuRead with Speed) and highly acclaimed reading and Kriah Specialist, Mrs. Zeltzer and Dr. Kilpatric, author of The Equipped For Reading Success. Rabbi Zucker concentrates on our 5th and 6th graders who are transitioning to Gemara and who may need additional support. To ensure the success of this program, the Heller Learning Center produces materials for the boys to practice with during their vacation and summer months. With prizes and raffles galore, the boys find themselves sitting and practicing these essential skills during their breaks, further sharpening their skill-set. Baruch Hashem, the Heller Learning Center continues to be an integral piece of the chinuch puzzle and is truly helping the talmidim increase their confidence and abilities. It is just another way Yeshiva of South Shore provides direct, individualized, and practical chinuch.

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Harav Volkin, Shlita, Makes Historic Visit for Shuvu

arav Chaim Volkin, shlita, Mashgiach of Yeshivas Ateres Yisroel and head of the Nesius of Shuvu in Eretz Yisroel, made a historic visit to New York last week, accompanied by Shuvu Director Rav Chaim Michoel Gutterman to benefit and promote the kiruv network of schools. Despite his Erev Rosh Hashana pressure with over 30 Va’adim planned for those days in Israel, the Mashgiach did not hesitate to make the change in his schedule, explaining that the kiruv of yaldei Yisroel overrides any other obligations. During his brief visit in New York, the Mashgiach met with local Gedolei Yisroel including Chavrei Mo’etzes

Gedolei HaTorah of Agudath Israel of America Hagaon Harav Elya Brudny, Rosh Yeshiva in Mir-Brooklyn and one of the heads of Shuvu’s Nesius, and Chacham Yosef Harari-Raful, Rosh Yeshiva of Ateret Torah. He also met with Harav Naftali Jaeger, shlita, Rosh Yeshivas Sh’or Yoshuv in Far Rockaway, and delivered sichos chizuk for the Yomim Noraim in several yeshivas and kollelim. At a gathering of mechanchim held at his son’s home in Lawrence, the Mashgiach answered questions regarding complex chinuch challenges posed to him by the crowd. Harav Volkin also spent Shabbos in Lawrence, by his son, spoke at the Agudath Israel, and met with the

heads of the kehilla. On Sunday morning the Mashgiach participated in a parlor meeting in Manhattan. Among the participants were Chevron Rosh Yeshiva Hagaon Harav Yosef Chavroni, shlita, Shuvu co-chairmen R’ Avrohom Biderman and R’ Yossi Hoch, Shuvu Board Member R’ Aharon Pam, and Shuvu Director Rav Chaim Michoel Gutterman. The guest speaker at the event was the rabbi of The Edmond J. Safra Synagogue, Harav Eli Mansour, shlita, who delivered a most inspiring speech about the importance of tzedaka and its unique significance during Yimei HaDin. Throughout his visit the Mashgiach reiterated the chiyuv upon each and every one to support the Shuvu network, stating that it is “one of the greatest kiruv organizations today, bringing about the major revolution taking place before our very eyes in Eretz Yisroel, following the vision of

Shuvu’s founder Hagaon Harav Avrohom Pam, zt”l.” The gedolim in the USA commented on the Mashgiach literally “dropping everything” the week before Rosh Hashana for the sake of Shuvu, showing his mesirus nefesh for the organization, and also stating how it is michayev each and every one to assist. Harav Volkin, shlita, has visited several Shuvu schools throughout Eretz Yisroel since becoming involved one year ago. Two weeks ago, in honor of the opening of the new school year, he visited Shuvu Netanya and Shuvu Petach Tikva, together with Harav Avrohom Halberstam, head of the Sanzer Kollelim and son of the rebbe, shlita. the inspired talmidim in both schools were very excited to meet the great rabbonim and waited patiently on line to shake their hands and receive their Bracha for a Shana Tova.

Mishmar Madness and a Meaningful Rosh Hashana

TA set the tone for a meaningful Rosh Hashana for its talmidim with a special Mishmar Madness. Held on Thursday, September 26, the event featured chaburahs with Yeshiva

University talmidim and shiurim with MTA rebbeim, which focused on topics relevant to Rosh Hashana. Afterwards, talmidim and rebbeim gathered together for a moving kumzitz, getting themselves spiritu-

ally ready for the upcoming yom tov. The event closed with a “choose your own experience” for talmidim, offering them the opportunity to continue learning in the beis medrash or the option of playing sports with

their friends. Both talmidim and rebbeim enjoyed this valuable experience, which helped them prepare for an inspiring Rosh Hashana.

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Appreciating the Beauty of Tzitzit

n anticipation of Rosh Hashana, DRS High School dedicated a week appreciating the beauty of the mitzvah of tzitzit. Throughout the week, the school scheduled various activities and programs all surrounding this most important mitzvah. On Monday, Rabbi Aaron Feigenbaum, Mora D’Asra of the IPM Minyan, delivered a captivating and energetic lecture to the student

body about seeing the tzitzit as the “uniform of the Jewish people.” On Tuesday, each shiur took time to go through various sources in the Gemara and Shulchan Aruch discussing this commandment. DRS Menahel Rabbi Yisroel Kaminetsky also led a “Tztizit Making Workshop” for the rabbeim in his office, which would come in handy later in the week when every student in DRS

received a pair of tzitzit and were taught to make their own pair. The school also held a “Shiur vs.

Shiur Tug-Of-String” Competition in the gym on Wednesday to foster more achdut between classmates.

the parents for their encouragement and support. Not only have the Shulamith parents help drive the girls to and from the Nautilus but they also sat with the residents and cheered on the girls as they performed; one of

the students grandmother’s showed up special just to show her love and support! We are truly excited to watch this program blossom into a year filled with bracha, nachat, and chessed!

Starting off the Year with Chessed

hulamith Lower Division has launched a new chessed initiative, sending one class each week to visit the residents at the New Nautilus Hotel in Atlantic Beach. The program is being spearheaded by Morah Rivka Holzman, in memory of her mother, Bracha Rachel bat Moshe, a”h. The first class to blaze the path was Morah Penina Deutsch’s Class 3W. When the students arrived, Mrs. Joyce Yarmak, Lower Division Principal, spoke a few words and shared with the crowd how meaningful it is to connect to the generation that helped pave the path for Jewish education in the United States. Watching her interact with the residents of the Nautilus was an inspiration to the students. The girls prepared songs about Rosh Hashana and, after singing and dancing, gave out individually made cards, honey sticks, and candles for

the upcoming Shabbat and chag. Watching the girls’ satisfaction of having done the mitzvah of giving to another was truly moving. Shulamith is so proud of the enthusiasm the girls have, and we thank

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Rabbi Stein’s fifth grade class from Siach Yitzchok joined their rebbe in the mitzvah of building the sukkah

MTA Juniors Build Sukkahs for the Elderly

n Thursday, October 3, MTA juniors joined the Jewish Home Family’s Safely@ Home program and built sukkahs for those who were unable to build their own in the New Jersey Jewish community. Talmidim enjoyed participating in this program, which enables them to help community members fulfill this important mitzvah. The initiative is part of MTA’s chessed program, which partners with local organizations to help Jewish communities in the tri-state area.

MTA has worked with the Jewish Home Family for many years and was honored during the organization’s awards ceremony over the summer for devoting more than 100 hours of service to the Safely@Home program. This is one of the many chessed opportunities offered by MTA throughout the year, which instills the value of giving back within its talmidim and encourages them to continue the yeshiva’s commitment to chessed in their daily lives.

Preparing for Yom Kippur

n preparation for Yom Kippur, the kindergarten through second grade students in HANC’s Samuel and Elizabeth Bass Golding Elementary School in West Hempstead gathered to learn about the minhag of kapparot. Rabbi Michael Merrill, assistant principal of Judaic Studies, told an engaging story of a man who put great effort into giving tzedaka anonymously, so as not to cause embarrassment to the recipient. He then explained how giving tzedaka is a special mitzvah, especially before Yom Kippur, and that the money that is donated will

help poor people buy essential items that they need. He also explained the traditional method of performing kapparot, and did so dressed up in a chicken costume! The students then had the opportunity to donate the money they brought from home, which will be donated to Keren HaTzadik, an organization that provides food for all types of people throughout Israel. This meaningful program gave each child the great feeling of being able to help poor people in Israel so that they too can enjoy the upcoming chagim.

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Inspiration at the Lido Beach Shul

few exciting Shabbosos were held towards the end of the summer and right up to Rosh Hashanah at the Lido Beach Shul. To end off the busy summer season, the shul held a Shabbaton for the community members and guests with a lavish catered Friday night meal. NYS Assemblyman Simcha Eichenstein spoke about being the first chassidic state elected official and what it means to a proudly observant Jew in public office. In an eye-opening Q&A

mission to Albany that just like the mezuzah on his legislative office stands as reminder that when we come and go Hashem is being shomer, so too, where and how we go around in person should be a kiddush Hashem, an ideal Simcha Eichenstein has lived up too. In a new and fun twist, the Shabbos was graced by magician and mentalist Ben Cohen. Ben, a Far Rockaway resident, is a renowned magician who, being the son of a rabbi, created special Shabbos magic show routines.

session during the meal, the assemblyman shared details on the ongoing battle for the freedom of our yeshivos and how it affects every yeshiva and day school along with other topics. Eichenstein was introduced by the Rav, Rabbi Biegeleisen, who recalled discussing with Simcha on a

He went from table to table with a trial of children and adults following him, pulling kiddush bottles out of each other and many other tricks. During the weekly grand kiddush buffet, Magician Cohen kept the audience enthralled with dozens more stunts, with yet another showing

just for kids in the afternoon, while the woman had their own sisterhood get together in a home. Traditionally the final Sunday before school begins the shul hosted its annual youth and family barbecue. Dozens of kids from Lido, Long Beach, and beyond enjoyed a sumptuous grilled spread by Traditions, games, projects, face painting, and Azamarah music. Selichos night, Motzei Shabbos, saw a leil hisorerus featuring Rabbi Bentzion Shaefer of The Shmuz, which was co-hosted by Chazaq. Before he began, introductory remarks were delivered by the Rav, Rabbi Eli Biegeleisen, who spoke about the significance of putting the extra time in to say Selichos in preparation for the Yomim Noraim – go that extra mile to get an extra mile. Rabbi Schaefer then inspired the crowd followed by a beautiful Selichos led by the shul’s Chazzan Jerry Markovitz. Chazan Markovitz, an expert in both niggun and chazanus, also led the Rosh Hashana davening with an extra burst of inspiring and leibidig tunes. As the rav noted, “His melodious voice and heartfelt tefillos were a real chizuk to the over 200 people in shul. For Rosh Hashana, we have quite a mix of people from those with very little background who come to shul a few times a year along with those who are products of ye-

shivos and are regulars in every way. It takes skill to reach them all and engage them in the davening and ruach. Baruch Hashem, we are proud to say everyone feels welcome and uplifted here.” In what has been a Lido minhag for decades, the Spinka Rebbe spent an evening during Selichos meeting and giving chizuk and brachos privately with each family. A close friend of the kehilla, the Rebbe was hosted this year at the home of Yossi and Chani Wexler. Over a dozen woman joined Rebbitzen Shira in her home for a pre-Rosh Hashana Challah bake. Mrs. Ruchi Dunn taught some neat moves on braiding round challis while she spoke about the significance of the mitzvah of challah. And yes, they came out delicious. Mrs. Pariser put it best, “Beyond the recipe, it was the warm feeling that was felt among the women there.” Rochel, who moved to Lido from Far Rockaway with her husband, Menachem, and four children at the end of the summer this year, describes it as being an awesome place to

live, where the children and families are welcomed and can enjoy the fresh, clean and quiet neighborhood without compromising their chinuch options or even shopping of the greater Five Towns. “The first Shabbos we were here, lots of people from shul, especially the young families, came over to the Rav and Rebbitzen’s house for a Shabbos Oneg to greet us, and we felt right at home from there. That itself is so nice how everyone feels so comfortable at the rabbi’s house and with each other in shul. It’s like an open door place. And even school bussing and Uber Eats come right to our door.” As one member, Yossi, described, “You can feel a good pulse here with the new rav. There are many new and exciting programs and ideas. We are starting night seder chabura once a week after Sukkos. It is no wonder that several new young families are in the process of purchasing homes in Lido. It is a beautiful neighborhood just outside the Five Towns/Far Rockaway with lots to offer. It has been exciting for us all.”

Mrs. Dina Schoonmaker Addresses Shevach HS

n Friday, September 20, the students and faculty of Shevach High School were privileged to hear from Mrs. Dina Schoonmaker who had just arrived that morning from Eretz Yisrael. Mrs. Schoonmaker is a member of the faculty of Michlalah and a renowned speaker and lecturer. Her topic was preparing for Rosh Hashana. She stressed the idea that if a person overcomes his negative qual-

ities and is able to overlook others’ misdeeds, Hashem will show mercy with His judgment. She explained this in terms of one’s measuring how others treat us vis-a-vis how we treat them; we should not ruminate on the perceived wrongs that others do to us. We should be sure not to become, in her words, a “pain obsessor” or an “injustice collector.” Mrs. Schoonmaker also gave very practical advice on doing teshuvah.

She recommended that any kabbalos we take on ourselves should be small and doable. Further, the temptation to take on big kabbalos is actually the yetzer hara setting us up for failure. She quoted Rav Wolbe: that sinning is using our free choice inappropriately; a kabbalah is using it appropriately. She cited Rav Hutner who explained that a kabbalah is showing Hashem that we want the future to always be better than the past.

Mrs. Schoonmaker ended by expressing that the best way to create the relationship of Elul, that of “Ani l’dodi v’dodi li,” is to be proactive, doing something to show Hashem that we are trying to bring Him nachas. Her thought-provoking words, delivered in her engaging style, definitely inspired the Shevach students to walk away with practical advice for preparing for the Yamim Noraim.

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Sukkos Comes Alive at YOSS

othing is more exciting as when talmidim not only learn a mesechta but live it! It’s hard to know exactly whether or not a sukkah is kosher. Especially when there are varying opinions of what the correct measurements are for amos and tefachim. Is that sukkah more than twenty amos high? Isn’t that sukkah less than ten tefachim? That’s why Rabbi Greenberg took his 6th grade shiur outside to show them the differences. After learning the opinions of the Chazon Ish, Reb Moshe Feinstein, and Reb Chaim Naeh in class, the students went outside to make a sukkah according to the varying opinions. The talmidim used measuring tape and chalk and even themselves to create each sukkah. The students were able to internalize and have a deeper understanding of the machlokes as it relates to many other halachos as well.

School Year Opens in Ramat Givat Zeev

esidents of the brand-new, luxury neighborhood of Ramat Givat Zeev were excited by the opening of the school year, with first graders attending the newly established, local state chareidi school, under the very skilled leadership of principal Rabbi Avraham Horowitz. The first residents who settled in the new, beautiful neighborhood last year were promised that they would have an educational solution within a year and indeed, that promise was kept, similar to the other commitments that were made regarding infrastructures, parks and gardens, and community services. The classrooms are located in a stunning, climate-controlled building, in keeping with the superior standards evident throughout the area. Although temporary, the school still offers all the conveniences and necessary amenities, and most importantly, the high level of instruction in both

kodesh and chol that Anglos demand in an educational institution. The permanent school, now under construction, is on the same street and is planned to be a magnificent, state-of-

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the-art facility, for which the Israeli government has earmarked NIS 26 million. The school’s principal, Rabbi Horowitz, is an esteemed member of the community and well known in Israel and throughout the world. A graduate of Yeshivas Mir, he built up an educational empire in Chile’s Jewish community, devoting himself to the advancement of the local Jewish population for 25 years before moving back to Israel and settling in Ramat

Givat Ze’ev. Parents in Ramat Givat Ze’ev are enthusiastic about the new school and have only words of praise for those involved. “We found a neighborhood that gave us much more than a home,” says Mali Pomp. “What we found here was a community that takes care of all our needs, from religious services to community and educational facilities and even leisure. We don’t take it for granted and are very grateful.”

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YOSS Gets Ready for Sukkos

s the yom tov of Sukkos approaches, our third grade classes at Yeshiva of South Shore along with their rabbeim start-

ed getting ready. In YOSS’s characteristic hands-on method, the rabbeim and their classes built and painted their own beautiful esrog boxes. The

boys had an amazing time working with their classmates and rabbeim outside where they carefully glued the box together after which they painted

it and let it dry in the sun. We hope they use these boxes to help them fulfill the mitzvah of the arba minim and keep their esrogim safe!

entist dream-team.” The New York Times interviewed him several times during the process, the whole country patiently waiting for Langley’s flying machine to take off. Langley was promised an even larger bonus when he proved successful. And yet, and yet, we’ve never heard of him. Then there were two brothers from Ohio, Orville and Wilbur Wright, who had no money. They put together a team, too, except they barely paid them anything at all. “You can have the profits from our bicycle shop,” they said. They were working at the same time as Langley, with the same goal, but their motivation was different. Langley wanted to be famous. He wanted to be rich. He was in pursuit of only the result, as were his team. They were in it for the money. The Wright team, well, they believed they could help people with a flying machine. They had no money, no education, just a belief that they could change the world. On December 17, 1903, the Wright brothers took their famous first flight. The New York Times was not there, in fact, no one was there at all. It took days for the American government to even find out. The Wright brothers are even said to have been excited about a possible partnership with Langley.

After all, with all of Langley’s knowledge, surely, he could improve on their technology. Except he didn’t. Disappointed with losing his bonus, Langley quit the next day. He was not the first to invent it, he did not get rich, he did not become famous, so he stormed out and was forgotten to history. Kohelet is telling us to approach life like the Wright Brothers, using meaningful intent as our compass. The Wright Brothers achieved their dream, and found happiness and fulfillment, precisely because their motivation was altruistic. For those who are motivated only by money, they are doomed to live lives of quiet desperation, leaving behind a legacy that is lost to the memory of time. It is hard to shift focus away from money, but it is only then that we can find fulfillment and feel true achievement. It is as Kohelet states: Whoever loves silver will not be sated with silver.

The Wright Motivation By Mrs. Danyel Goldberg, Assistant Principal at Shulamith

hoever loves silver will not be sated with silver, and he who loves a multitude without increase-this too is vanity. - Kohelet Sukkot is the time of year in which the harvest has ended. Crops are gathered, divided, cleaned, and put into storage for the coming year. Most of us are not farmers anymore, but we can imagine it as a time of great satisfaction, where one can literally see the fruits of our labor. Kohelet, however, reminds us that there is futility in such mundane accomplishments; they are fleeting. Even as the harvest ends and we have tangible proof of our hard work, we must continue to seek true fulfillment. We live in a materialistic world, where people are constantly chasing the newest fad. It’s difficult to keep up and people of all ages compete to have the newest and have the most. Kohelet is more than a reminder of

the cliché, “Money cannot buy happiness.” Instead, it conveys a deeper message. Money, as a motivator, will never bring true fulfillment and satisfaction. Most people today don’t know who Samuel Langley is. A funny thing, since at one time he was fairly wellknown. He was an astronomer, physicist, inventor, and aviation pioneer in the late 19th century. He is the founder of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory – no small feat. Yet, no one knows him; his legacy not even being limited to general knowledge or a Jeopardy question. It’s a sad thing, really. He had so much potential. In the late 1800s, the American government gave Langley $50,000 to create a flying machine. “You can have whatever you want,” the War Department told him. “Just create a flying machine.” He called up his friends at Harvard and the Smithsonian and put together a team of geniuses. “Money is no object,” he told them. I imagined they high fived each other at the prospect of their paychecks, this “sci-

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The twenty-second Annual Kinus Teshuva of Yeshiva of Far Rockaway was held at the home of Mr. & Mrs. Michael Spiegel in Far Rockaway on October 6. The presenter was Rabbi Yechiel Perr, Rosh Hayeshiva

Seeing is Believing By C. Kastlebaum

eople say that seeing is believing. This is especially true when it comes to choosing a Mesivta High School for your son. There are so many factors that parents consider when embarking on this life-altering decision – the level of learning, the general studies, the rebbeim, the “chevrah,” the location… and the list goes on and on. Mesivta Netzach HaTorah, now in its third year with 58 talmidim, has become the natural choice for young men looking to grow in ruchnius in a well-balanced, empowering environment. Seeing Netzach HaTorah in action is a delight. In just one day you would see the amazing energy that the yeshiva exudes. In one classroom a rebbi is teaching his class a difficult Tosafos in Kesubos, and a lively back-and-forth has just begun. Another rebbi is teaching the intricacies of halacha with its practical applications. Nearby, the menahel is having a meaningful conversation with a maturing young talmid, advising him how to improve his kavanah in tefillah. The Bais Medrash is bursting with life as talmidim energetically review that week’s geshmak’e sugya. That same afternoon, those same talmidim tackle their general studies with the same enthusiasm and seriousness. Science is brought to life

through interactive class experiences. AP subjects like Calculus, Biology, and Business Law are taught by master educators who have a special knack for conveying complex concepts. Electives like Psychology and Video Production are very popular and give students real-life skills to utilize in the future. The immersive chinuch approach is rounded out with numerous extra-curricular activities, such as inspiring guest speakers, educational trips, a monthly kumzitz, and innovative programs like the Lulav and Esrog Workshop to prepare for Sukkos. All in all, talmidim are given the tools and motivation they need to thrive during their Mesivta years and beyond. Every day at Netzach HaTorah is a new experience and presents myriad new opportunities for growth. The rebbeim and staff utilize every day to help talmidim learn and excel, and b’ezras Hashem, the results have been phenomenal! Netzach HaTorah has gained a reputation for being a first-class makom Torah in every way. Seeing truly is believing. At the yeshiva’s Open House you will see for yourself how Netzach HaTorah is the right choice for your son’s future. The Open House will take place on Sunday, November 17 at 4:00 pm at 111 Irving Place in Woodmere. For more information, email OpenHouse@ NetzachHatorah.com.

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Fifth through eighth grade boys were invited by Aish Kodesh to the DLD program last week at the Solomon home in Woodmere for a shiur and learning with Rabbi Levin and a kumzitz with Joey Newcomb. Rav Moshe Weinberger gave the boys and their fathers divrei bracha

Rav Eliyahu Saldinger is seen teaching his second grade talmidim at Yeshiva Darchei Torah about the lulav and esrog

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From Sukkos to Simchas Torah, The Party Goes On By Gabriel Geller, Royal Wine/Kedem

he two holidays on the Jewish calendar symbolizing simcha, joy, the most are coming upon us: Sukkos and Shemini Atzeres-Simchas Torah are indeed referred to in our machzorim as Zman Simchaseisnu, as the time of our joy. These holidays being attached to one another make it the longest holiday in the Jewish calendar. For 8-9 days (depending if you live in Eretz Yisrael or in Chutz La’aretz), we will be celebrating with the utmost simcha together with our loved ones. Now that’s a lot of meals to prepare and dishes to wash! Baruch Hashem, when it comes to wines and spirits, the only efforts required are choosing the best bottles to enjoy and open up our wallets. While only one bottle a day may not suffice, please do allow me to recommend at least one bottle for each day which I believe to be worthy of your yom tov table. For the first day of Sukkos a luxuri-

ous Chardonnay such as the Domaine du Castel ‘C’ Blanc du Castel 2017 will complement even heavier dishes such a chicken casserole or a cassoulet as it sports the body and structure to carry and match the weight of such dishes. On the second night, how about a special liquor to warm ourselves up? The Righteous Seven is a unique and delicious cordial made from the Shiv’as Haminim, the Seven Species of Eretz Yisrael: wheat, barley, fig, date, olive, grape and pomegranate. It’s been booming almost ever since it was launched a few months ago, and it has grown even more popular since it was awarded multiple gold medals in prestigious spirits competitions. How about some Scotch or Cognac on the third night of Sukkos after havdalah? These are classy spirits that are great to sip while relaxing a bit in the sukkah with your guests. The Louis Royer VSOP is best enjoyed in a large Cognac glass allowing the aromas to enhance the atmosphere while it warms up in your hand. The Ben Èideann Galilean Ruby provides

a special experience. This genuine Highland Single Malt Scotch whisky was aged in wine barrels from Israel and is certified kosher by the Badatz Ha’Eida Ha’Chareidis. This is a tremendously smooth whisky with lots of depth and complexity. Sukkos can have its warm days sometimes. A refreshing white wine for lunch on chol hamoed such as the Barkan Classic Sauvignon Blanc 2018 will make you forget all about the heat. It is vibrant and lively, full of well-balanced citrus and kiwi notes. One of the staple dishes for Sukkos is stuffed cabbage. The mixture of the cabbage and its ground meat together with the tomato sauce provides a lot of different textures and flavors at once. The Herzog Special Reserve Quartet 2015 or the Lineage Choreograph 2017 should have the weight to match and add even more flavors while enjoyed alongside this dish. Sukkos might also be the last chance to enjoy rosé while some are still available for purchase from the stores. The Latour Netofa Rosado

2018 surely is one of the most special ones out there, probably because it is made from Tempranillo. Drink it on the night of Shmini Atzeres with some fine salami and beef prosciutto. Simchas Torah calls for some extra special bottles to rejoice after hours of dancing and singing in Shul with the sifrei Torah. While there is a growing selection of top-notch kosher Bordeaux, one of the most prestigious ones is Château Cantenac Brown 2015, a third classified growth from Margaux. While it can be cellared for several decades, it is already impressive now. It is, however, strongly recommended to decant these high-end wines for a few hours as to allow the tannins to soften out and the aromas to blossom. Before heading back to shul for more davening and dancing on the morning of Simchas Torah, don’t forget to put a bottle of Boukha Bokobsa Prestige in the freezer. The delicate notes of fig are most amazing when it is served ice cold. Chag sameyach. L’chaim!

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Woodmere Fire Dept. Hosts Fire Prevention Day

n Sunday, the Woodmere Volunteer Fire Department opened its doors to members of the community at its annual Fire Prevention Day. The event raised awareness of fire safety as well as the heroic work the department’s firefighters and emergency medical technicians do on a daily basis to protect residents’ lives and property. “We were pleased to welcome our neighbors to Fire Prevention Day and show them what we do to protect Woodmere, while teaching them

the fundamentals of fire safety,” said Chief of Department Adiv Koenig. “The members of the Woodmere Fire Department work day in and day out to ensure the safety of our community and thank the many residents of all ages who joined us to learn about fire safety, while having an enjoyable time.” Fire Prevention Day featured an array of exhibitions for residents to watch. Youngsters were enthralled by fire truck rides and also had the opportunity to try on firefighter and paramedic gear. Children were taught how to put out a fire using an extinguisher, as well as what to do in the event of a fire inside of an interactive smokehouse. Numerous presentations on fire safety were given throughout the day, and prizes as well as free giveaways were distributed to community members.

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Cardknox: Payment Processing Technology

n the outskirts of flourishing Lakewood, New Jersey, lies the more rural, farmland-spotted Howell Township. At first glance, one would never expect that this lush enclave is home to a burgeoning company in the financial technology industry. But in fact, just off of Howell’s Oak Glen Road, one can find a new state-of-the-art business complex that is now the hub for Cardknox, a payment processing technology and brainchild of leading merchant services provider Fidelity Payment. With double the square footage as Cardknox’s previous space in Lakewood, the new office boasts a clean and contemporary aesthetic and sleek workspaces to facilitate the continued development of innovative technology. It was precisely in this upscale tech environment earlier this month that several leading rabbonim shared their blessings and put up mezuzos alongside Fidelity executives and stakeholders to inaugurate the new office. Reflective of the company’s perfected

fusion of community loyalty and industry-leading innovation, the kvias mezuzah simultaneously heralded the company’s growth while paying homage to the local community. Fidelity Payment Services was founded in 1996 by Mr. Binyumin “Ben” Weiser, a Williamsburg native and aspiring entrepreneur who saw an opportunity to improve parnassah for many in the community: that is, by equipping businesses with the tools and resources they needed to accept credit card payments. At the time, many local merchants were only accepting cash and check payments in-store, which meant they were missing out on a potential area for revenue growth. Fast forward to today, and it’s quite evident that Fidelity has vigorously carried on its commitment to driving communal success with payment processing solutions. Yet with the advent of new payment trends and technology – think e-commerce, EMV chip cards, automated billing solutions, and on-the-go payment processing –

Fidelity’s products and services have undergone a major transformation in recent years. Spurred on by a continual investment from H.I.G. Capital, Fidelity has boosted its efforts to provide unique, future-ready payment solutions that bring exceptional value to businesses everywhere. Cardknox’s relocation to its expanded headquarters manifests the extent to which these efforts have helped Fidelity to successfully usher in a new era of payment processing. However, while Fidelity’s product offerings have rapidly evolved since the company’s early days (their latest Cardknox solutions include a user-friendly merchant portal for management of payment activity, advanced encryption to protect customer data, and flexible recurring payment

scheduling), a quick peek beneath the surface reveals that a major driving force behind the company’s expansion and innovation has been there all along. That is, Fidelity’s commitment to building and maintaining flourishing relationships. From its early days as a local startup, to its present status as a leading merchant services provider with tens of thousands of merchants worldwide, Fidelity has continuously demonstrated a client-first mentality that resonates within the Jewish world and beyond. With this mindset, Cardknox has carried on the torch of its parent company, Fidelity, and it has firmly established itself as a leader in the financial technology space that consistently stays ahead of the curve and delivers solutions that can’t be found elsewhere.

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Nearly a Half Million Children Worldwide Connect with Chofetz Chaim on Yom Limud and Tefilla Prominent Political Commentators Promote Acheinu Day of Jewish Unity

lose to a half million children worldwide participated in the Dirshu International Yom Limud and Tefilla and the Acheinu Day of Jewish Unity on the Chofetz Chaim’s yahrtzeit this past Tuesday, 24 Elul/September 24. The event was unprecedented in size and scope, and the kiddush Hashem was colossal. From South Africa to Belarus and from Venezuela to Lakewood and Brooklyn, children learned the seforim of the Chofetz Chaim and heard inspiring stories about him. Throughout the diverse communities across the United States and Canada, a wide range of more than ninety schools truly representing the entire panoply of Orthodox Jewry, participated in the Yom Limud and Tefilla school programs. They included schools hailing from communities such as Monsey, NY; Lakewood, NJ; Brooklyn, NY; Manhattan, NY; Toronto, Canada; Houston, TX; Baltimore, MD; Cleveland, OH; Waterbury, CN; Phoenix, AZ; Passaic, NJ; Denver, CO; Boston, MA; Los Angeles, CA; and Providence, RI; and so many more. This year, Dirshu’s 5th Annual International Yom Limud and Tefilla held on the yahrtzeit of the Chofetz Chaim was perhaps the most successful such event to date. Hundreds of thousands of Jews from over 25 countries came together to learn the lessons of the Chofetz Chaim and daven on behalf of the Jewish People before Rosh Hashanah. The effort to follow in the path of the Chofetz Chaim and promote unity and

avoidance of interpersonal strife and gossip, extended well beyond the Torah observant community. That effort, spearheaded by the Acheinu organization, the kiruv arm of Dirshu, was also remarkably well received. This idea of the importance of Jewish Unity was even picked up by the secular press. Articles about the importance of the Day of Jewish Unity that coincides with the yahrtzeit of the Chofetz Chaim appeared in numerous general publications such as The Hill, The New York Daily News, Times of Israel, Jerusalem Post and Townhall.com. The Yom Limud and Tefilla and the Day of Jewish Unity was established by Dirshu for the purpose of uniting all Jews specifically on the auspicious occasion of the Chofetz Chaim’s yahrtzeit right before Rosh Hashana, in a unified tefilla that would to invoke Divine Mercy. The Power of the Kosel The Yom Limud and Tefilla always begins with thousands streaming to join a special m’aamad of tefilla at the Kosel in the early Vasikin hours. The Kosel, the last remnant of the Beis Hamikdash, is the most auspicious place in the world for the acceptance of tefillos and is the place to which the Chofetz Chaim constantly referred, reminding us that we must prepare for its rebuilding. Starting with the earnest recitation of Selichos followed by an especially moving davening in advance of Rosh Hashana, the tefilla gathering at the Kosel concluded with the emotional, thunderous recital of special chapters of Tehillim on behalf of Klal Yisrael

and the tefilla of Acheinu Kol Beis Yisrael. Connecting Children to the Chofetz Chaim The Yom Limud and Tefilla was also marked in countless schools the world over. Each school commemorated the yahrtzeit of the Chofetz Chaim in the way best suited to its needs. Some schools held large, school-wide assemblies where the principals and teachers spoke about the legacy of the Chofetz Chaim and where all of the children davened together on behalf of Klal Yisrael. In other schools, each teacher distributed special materials to their classes class individually and taught the class about the yahrtzeit followed by tefillos. Dirshu made available remarkably compelling, artfully designed booklets in both English and Yiddish for three different age groups: grades 1-3, 4-5 and 6-8. The twenty-page booklets were written by well-known educator and writer, Rabbi Yechiel Spero. Each of the three versions of booklets contain beautiful stories about the Chofetz Chaim and other gedolim that emphasize the lessons taught by the Chofetz Chaim. The compelling stories with captivating graphics made the children want to read it and be inspired. As a complement to the program, Rabbi Spero recorded a CD with a story of the Chofetz Chaim that was distributed to each child in the many participating schools. A Light Unto the Nations… The effort to reach out beyond the Orthodox commu-

nity was highly successful. No less a well-known figure than Anthony Scaramucci wrote in the New York Daily News, “Growing up in a heavily Jewish neighborhood, I attended many Bar Mitzvah celebrations; back then at age 13, it never even occurred to me that I should have to worry for the safety of myself and others while in these houses of worship. It sickens me that today’s 13-year-olds do have these thoughts. The Jewish people have always embraced people of all races and religions; they deserve the same from the rest of America. “As such, Americans of all faiths should join together on Sept. 24 to celebrate the Day of Jewish Unity, an annual event organized by Acheinu, the outreach arm of the Jewish education organization Dirshu. This event has always been about tolerance, kindness and strength; this year there is the added dimension of us loudly uniting against anti-Semitism — because we have seen where anti-Semitism leads.” Noelle Nikpour, an acclaimed political strategist and frequent Fox News commentator, wrote in The Hill, one of Washington’s most prominent political websites, “There needs to be more unity in our nation moving forward. We cannot better our nation and preserve our traditions if we do not work together. And part of that work is standing up against anti-Semitism. So, join me on Sept. 24… On that day, Acheinu, the outreach arm of the educational organization Dirshu, will host its annual prayer event ... Regardless of your religious affiliation,

I ask that you join us to pray for peace and acceptance.” Jeremy Frankel, a wellknown political commentator, writing in the resurgent. com, summed it up succinctly, “If one were to ask what our nation’s creed is founded on, a good answer would be E Pluribus Unum,’ Latin for ‘out of many, one.’ The phrase has been our national motto since our founding in 1776 and is found on both the Great Seal of the United States and on our currency. It is a clear symbol of unity, which is something Americans could all use today. So, we must stand together. Acheinu, a branch of the nonprofit Dirshu organization, is giving us the perfect opportunity to do so this Sept. 24 on their annual Day of Jewish Unity, urging Jews around the world to come together in prayer – prayer for peace, prayer for civility and prayer to end the hatred. “Each year, Acheinu holds this day in honor of the great Rabbi Yisrael Meir Kagan (a.k.a. the Chofetz Chaim, 1839-1933) and his teachings, specifically his teachings on the evils of gossip and the power of prayer. Each year, Jews from nearly every continent pledge to support one another and refrain from divisive speech. This year’s theme is combating hatred and the global surge of anti-Semitism.” Perhaps Scaramucci put it best when he wrote, “So on Sept. 24, let us all pray for peace, unity and an end to all anti-Semitism. It’s the American way.” Indeed, that is exactly what happened when many hundreds of thousands came together in unity and solidarity.

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TJH You Might Just Be a Jewish Redneck If... Your home is mobile and your sukkah isn’t. You have a gun rack in your sukkah. Your standard is “Ad dillo yoda”…every day. The only plant in your home is your lulav. Your siddur lists the Sabbath greeting as “Shabbat Shalom y’all.” Your Shabbos suit was purchased at Walmart. Your tallis is made from camouflage cloth. Your local sofer shoots his own parchment. Gefilte fish is the most solid thing you can eat with your tooth. You’ve fired a shotgun at the sound of Haman’s name. Your belt buckle is bigger than your yarmulke. Your shul used to have wheels, but now it’s up on blocks. You’ve ever called the “psychic hotline” to answer a halachic question. You know what bracha to make when you see a UFO. Your rabbi ever yelled “yee-haw” during his drasha. You keep a can of spray paint in your tallis bag. You know which brand of grits have an acceptable kashrut supervision. Your Omer counting calendar has come up with three cherries in a row.

Centerfold You gotta be kidding Lucy is having a bad day at roulette tables. Down to her last $100, completely exasperated, she cries, “What horrible luck! What in the world should I do now?” A gentleman next to her, trying to calm her down a bit, calmly suggests, “I don’t know.... Why don’t you play your age?” He walks away. Moments later, he is intrigued to hear a great commotion at the roulette table. Maybe she won! Rushing back to the table and pushing his way through the crowd, he is stunned to see Lucy lying limp on the floor, with the table operator kneeling over her. He asks, “What happened? Is she all right?” The operator replies, “I don’t know, buddy. She put all her money on 45. When 67 came up she fainted!”

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The following are a sample of the type of questions you will be asked during the interview process, according to William Poundstone’s book titled, “Are You Smart Enough to Work at Google?” Good luck! 1. When there’s a wind blowing, does a round-trip by plane take more time, less time, or the same time? a. More time b. Less time c. The same time d. It depends on the airplane 2. You put a glass of water on a record turntable and begin increasing the speed slowly. What will happen first: will the glass slide off, will it tip over, or will the water splash out? a. Fall b. Tip over c. Have water splash out d. Depends on the shape of the glass and how full it is

3. Using only a 4-minute hourglass and a 7-minute hourglass, measure exactly nine minutes. You must use both. a. Start both hourglasses, flip over the 4-minute glass when it’s done, flip both glasses over when the 7-minute glass is done, then flip over the 7-minute glass when the 4-minute glass is done b. Start both hourglasses, flip over the 4-minute glass when it’s done, flip over the 7-minute glass when it’s done, let it run 1 minute, then flip it again for the 9th minute c. Start the 7-minute hourglass, flip the 4-minute hourglass when the 7-minute glass is done, measure

2 minutes using the 4-minute hourglass d. Start the 4-minute glass, flip it when it’s done to measure another 4 minutes, then flip the 7-minute hourglass to measure 1 minute 4. You’re given a cube of cheese and a knife. How many straight cuts of the knife do you need to divide the cheese into twenty-seven little cubes? a. 10

c. Stays put 6. At 3:15, what is the angle between the minute and hour hands on an analog clock? a. 0 b. 7.5 degrees c. 6 degrees

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Torah Thought

Parshas Ha’azinu By Rabbi Berel Wein

ur great teacher Moshe, in his concluding hymn regarding the future of the Jewish people, calls as his witnesses heaven and earth. These witnesses are, in human terms, eternal and omnipresent. They will always be there to testify that Moshe concluded a binding covenant between G-d and Israel and that this covenant is a symbol of eternity and destiny. Heaven and earth represent the physical world and the changing, yet seemingly unending nature of the planet that we inhabit. King Solomon taught us that all things human are subject to change and subject to new circumstances but that the earth and its natural forces implanted within it from the moment of original creation always remain the same. One of the lessons that can easily be derived from this is how puny our strength is in comparison to the forces of nature. Volcanoes, hurricanes, earthquakes, rains, and drought are all part of regular occurrences in our lives and have been

from the beginning of human existence. To this extent, human beings are always tempting fate, since we are always so vulnerable regarding these great natural forces. Operating beyond our control, and many times even beyond a minimum of

our pressures or influences. The hymn on this week’s Torah reading has been taught, over the centuries, to Jewish children and fixed in their memory bank. It is these words that haunt all Jewish history and create that feeling of

This song of destiny is also one of unity and one that will always be remembered.

our understanding, they are certainly beyond our ability to exactly predict when and if they will occur and affect our lives. Clearly, Moshe could not have found better witnesses that would bind us to our covenant than those which cannot be affected by us and are not subject to

angst and uncertainty that so characterizes the Jewish personality, especially in our time. The Jewish world today has far more physical riches and ostensible security than it ever has had, over the past numerous centuries. Yet, it appears that a sizable portion of the Jewish world

is not happy with themselves, with the Jewish state, and, certainly, not with the Jewish religion and its Torah. There appears to be a continuing and gnawing frustration and feeling of dissatisfaction that is present in our society, no matter how great our material blessings and social successes are. This lack of satisfaction is directly traceable to the words of the hymn that is the centerpiece of this week’s Torah reading. Moshe guaranteed that this hymn, like the entire Torah itself, would never be forgotten and could never be eliminated from the Jewish memory bank and psyche. Thus, like the eternity of the witnesses – heaven and earth – to our covenant, this song of destiny is also one of unity and one that will always be remembered – even if the memory of it many times is only subconscious. It becomes the secret of Jewish survival and the impetus that guides us forward, many times against our own will and conscious knowledge. Shabbat shalom.

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My Israel Home

The Origins of Hakafot Shniyot By Gedaliah Borvick

Rabbi Frankel supervising the sale of chametz before Pesach in 1958

el Aviv’s Florentin neighborhood is undergoing dramatic change. Named for David Florentin, a Greek Jew who had purchased the land in the late 1920s, the neighborhood suffered for many decades from urban decay and poverty. Its present turnaround is being fueled by younger residents and aspiring artists who have attracted like-minded people, which has changed the community’s vibe. In fact, Florentin was recently named the second most hip neighborhood in the world, ironically right behind Williamsburg, Brooklyn. In Florentin, there is a street named in memory of Rabbi Yitzchak Yedidya Frankel. In 1934, as a young communal rabbi in Rypin, Poland, Rabbi Frankel experienced a harrowing anti-Semitic encounter and, reading the writing on the wall, decided to emigrate to pre-state Israel. A few months later, Rabbi Frankel and his family arrived in the Holy Land and moved into Florentin, where he taught in a local school and expended countless hours helping many new immigrants settle into

the country. Rabbi Frankel served as the communal rabbi of Florentin for many years before becoming the chief rabbi of Tel Aviv-Jaffa. The Florentin community’s population was a potpourri of immigrants from Bukhara, Salonika, Morocco, Yemen, Poland, Hungary, Bulgaria and Romania. Rabbi Frankel initiated numerous programs to unite this disparate group but one particular event that he introduced became a nationwide tradition. In Israel, the holiday of Simchat Torah – in which Jews celebrate the completion of the yearly cycle of Torah readings – falls on the same day as Shemini Atzeret, the last day of Sukkot. However, in the Diaspora, Simchat Torah is celebrated the day after Shemini Atzeret. In October 1942, at the end of Shemini Atzeret and Simchat Torah, in the Ahavat Chesed Synagogue located on what is now Frankel Street, Rabbi Frankel made an impassioned plea to his congregants. According to his son-in-law Rabbi Yisrael Meir Lau’s autobiography, Rabbi Frankel “removed a Torah scroll from the

ark, and in a voice quivering with emotion, announced to the congregation: ‘In Poland and elsewhere throughout war-torn Europe, the telephones aren’t working, the telegraph stations are closed, the mail no longer runs. Entire communities are cut off, and we do not know what has happened to their Jews. “’At this exact hour, in Warsaw, Krakow, and every other city in Poland, they should be beginning their Simchat Torah celebrations. But we do not know whether the synagogues are open, whether the Jews are allowed to go to them, whether they are performing the traditional processions holding the Torah scrolls. We are completely cut off from them, and despite our attempts to make contact, the communities do not answer. But all Jews are responsible for one another. Let us act in their stead and perform processions on their behalf, at least symbolically.’” At that point, the congregants followed Rabbi Frankel’s lead and took the Torah scrolls, sang songs, danced and completed a second night of hakafot (processions) on behalf of

their brethren suffering unspeakable horrors in war-ravaged Europe. This was how Rabbi Frankel initiated the Israeli tradition of hakafot shniyot, a second round of dancing with the Torah scrolls, held the night after the holiday of Shemini Atzeret and Simchat Torah. Over time, hakafot shniyot spread to practically every community across the country. Hakafot shniyot is but one example of Rabbi Frankel’s life-long commitment to the Jewish people. Numerous stories about Rabbi Frankel and many other fascinating personalities fill the pages of Rabbi Yisrael Meir Lau’s inspirational – and highly recommended – memoirs, “Out of the Depths – the story of a child of Buchenwald who returned home at last.”

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

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The Yiddishe Kop behind

A Yiddishe Kop TJH Speaks with Artist and Author Gadi Pollack By Avraham Zuroff

ischel, the naive schlemiel with an untucked shirt, is easy bait for the sly antics of fraudsters. Fischel and other colorful characters appear in many of Gadi Pollack’s 45 published books that teach timely Torah messages to young and old. Gadi’s most recent publication, Part III of his Yiddishe Kop series of illustrations aimed to sharpen one’s mind, is enjoyed by adults, as well by children. “My art teacher influenced me,” Gadi says. “The main message that he told us is that an object that is so complete is a blank sheet of paper. It has the potential to contain everything. Everything in humanity has its own blank sheet of paper. But you need to get it dirty. Therefore, do the best you can.” In the living room of Gadi Pollack’s Kiryat Sefer home hang portraits from his book, The Desert Diary. Gadi, dressed in a white shirt and a groomed beard, appears as a typical yungerman in Kiryat Sefer.

But his Russian past of numerous spiritual hurdles is anything but typical for his Israeli neighbors. Indeed, one of Gadi’s first spiritual encounters was with a Christian minister.

adi’s great-grandfather, Rav Yosef Shimon Pollack, a resident of Austria-Hungary, was a talmid of the Chasam Sofer. He authored Sefer Rashei Besamim. Rav Yosef Shimon’s son, Rav Moshe Yehuda Pollack, was the son-in-law of the Rav of Sarata, then part of Romania. But spiritual life changed for the worse when Russia conquered the region as part of the Ribbentrop-Molotov agreement with Nazi Germany. The Jews were the targets of rampant anti-Semitism. Nevertheless, Rav Moshe Yehuda remained with his kehillah. Unfortunately, he was murdered by Ukrainian peasants. His wife succumbed to typhus as she attempted to escape to Russia. The Russian government sent Gadi’s father, Yona,

and his siblings to an orphanage in Kirgizia, away from the warfront. In the orphanage, Gadi’s father was educated the Russian way, bereft of Yiddishkeit. When Yona reached 18, he enlisted in the Russian army as a musician. He was reunited with his sister, who lived in Odessa. Eventually, Yona married. Gadi was born in Odessa, then a port city in the Soviet Union that is currently part of Ukraine. As an officer, Gadi’s father was on the move, from Taskent to Kharkov, and later to northern Russia. Eventually, the family resettled in Moscow. Gadi grew up in a musical home. Despite attempts to learn piano, Gadi discovered that he could most successfully express his creative talents in art. At age 17, Gadi enrolled in the Academy of Arts in Kishinev. Since Gadi’s father grew up in an orphanage, he knew very little about his Jewish heritage. However, Gadi’s maternal aunt “observed everything – in secret.” The reason for this covert observance was that it was a considered a criminal offense to

transmit Jewish laws and customs to the next generation. Despite the rest of the family’s ignorance of Jewish laws, they knew that they were Jewish. Gadi’s maternal grandparents even spoke Yiddish to each other. The underlying feeling, though, was that it’s not good to be Jewish; one should be ashamed of their Jewish heritage and their race. Gadi received his fair share of beatings in school for being a member of the Jewish People. After being beaten, Gadi asked his father in jest whether he could get rid of his Jewish identity. Half seriously, Yona responded, “We don’t have enough money to change our identification documents.” Some Russian Jews were able to remove any trace of their Jewish status from legal documents – by paying a hefty bribe to a government official. (Descendants of Russian Jews who got rid of their kesubah and other proofs of their Jewish identity currently have a difficult time proving their Jewish halachic status.)

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Did Gadi observe anything? “We ate matzos on Pesach – in addition to bread,” he recalled. “But we didn’t know anything about Yom Kippur.” It was dangerous to openly practice Judaism in the Soviet Union –

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were almost 100 percent successful in removing all vestiges of Yiddishkeit from Russian Jewry. Under Soviet rule, the common tale of a lack of observance and widespread ignorance of basic Judaism was rampant.

“HaKadosh Baruch Hu has unlimited ways to provide inspiration.” even the small amount of traditions that the Pollacks knew. As an officer in the Russian army, Gadi’s father was afraid to openly eat matzah on Pesach in front of his comrades. Seventy years of Communism

The Communists would have succeeded if not for the clandestine operation of individual Jews from outside the Soviet Union who illegally taught Torah to their brethren living behind the Iron Curtain.

Gadi’s first introduction to Yiddishkeit was from a Christian minister. The minister commissioned Gadi to illustrate stories from the Bible. In order to accurately portray the

verses from the Bible, Gadi began reading the Bible for the first time. He was intrigued to find that the Old Testament refers to the Jewish People and the Land of Israel, without any references to Christianity.

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When Gadi asked theological questions to the minister about Christianity, the minister shrugged him off, saying that the contradictions were a matter of faith. Another time, in Kishinev, Gadi met a group of Jewish youth sporting yarmulkes. He spoke to them in English, identifying himself as Jewish. They told him that they were Israeli madrichim working for the Jewish Agency for a youth camp program for Russian-speaking Jews. They offered Gadi a job as an English-Russian translator in exchange for free room and board in the program. During his encounter with the religious Israelis, Gadi began questioning belief in Hashem. Gadi was shocked by their rational answers about Hashem and the Torah. It was such a breath of fresh air from the Christian minister, who dodged difficult theological questions. Although Gadi wasn’t yet fully convinced of the existence of Hashem in the world, the Israelis challenged him, “And what if we’re right that Hashem exists, and He has commanded us to keep the Torah?” So Gadi decided to begin mitzvah observance. “What should I begin observing?” Gadi asked his mentors. “Recite Shema every morning and evening,” they implored him. So Gadi began with this mitzvah. Soon after, Gadi’s parents, who had left Soviet Russia for Switzerland, were planning to visit Gadi at his small Kishinev apartment. Instead of looking forward to the reunion, Gadi was most concerned how he would reveal his decision to embrace Yiddishkeit. The studio apartment was too small to find a corner to hide. Gadi’s parents arrived. How would Gadi pray in front of them? In the Soviet Union, citizens were educated with the Marxist doctrine that “religion is the opiate of the people.” The Soviets allowed the older generation to practice religion. But they persecuted and arrested anyone who “dared” to practice organized religion. He was sure that mentioning to them his decision to say Shema would be not welcomed, as they would think that he had lost his mind. Hoping to evade his par-

ents’ eyes, Gadi decided to wake up early in the morning to clandestinely recite Shema. Upon awaking, Gadi was surprised to see a light lit in the living room, as he thought that he had turned off the light before going to bed. As he approached the living room, Gadi was surprised to notice his father wrapped in a tallis

was able to combine his talents of art with his Torah knowledge by illustrating books on Torah topics.

o an illustrator, a blank sheet is a means of expressing one’s inner thoughts. “There’s always fear from a blank sheet. Whatever you perceive in your mind,

“Everything in humanity has its own blank sheet of paper.” and donning tefillin. It turned out that Gadi’s parents were introduced to Yiddishkeit by their religiously observant cousins living in Switzerland. Ironically, just as Gadi was afraid to reveal to his parents that he was starting on the path toward mitzvah observance, his parents were also afraid to tell him of their tentative steps towards Yiddishkeit. Gadi was encouraged by his relatives from Switzerland to make aliyah. Upon arriving in Israel, he was reunited with his father’s aunt’s family, who lived in Bnei Brak. His uncle encouraged him to join a Bnei Brak yeshiva, where he flourished in Torah learning. Eventually, Gadi

when drawing, you see that it’s not necessarily what you had in mind. If I change what I originally intended – well, that’s a compromise,” Gadi explains. “There are many blank pages,” he adds. “So don’t fear about starting again – you’ll have another chance. “This is like what happens in life. HaKadosh Baruch Hu draws us; we don’t have so many ‘pages’ – maybe 70, 80, or 90. So we need to draw well with the limited supply of blank pages that Hashem has provided.” When asked what gives Gadi inspiration for his drawings and his works, he replies, “Many people ask me that question. But I don’t really

know how to answer. There are all sorts of things in my surroundings. Hakadosh Baruch Hu gives me an idea, and I start the process.” He adds, “HaKadosh Baruch Hu has unlimited ways to provide inspiration.” The inspiration for his Yiddishe Kop series, for instance, came from his childhood. Gadi remembers enjoying a Russian comic series during his youth that was replete with logic and riddles. Using that premise, he came up with three books (so far) for frum children (and adults) that feature his intricate drawings that provide subtle hints to the backgrounds and goings-ons of the characters in the book. Indeed, one needs a “Yiddishe kop” to figure out the answers to Gadi’s questions on the pages. Inspiration is key to completing a project. In fact, if Gadi doesn’t see that a project will flow smoothly, he won’t begin to take on that project. “Even if someone would offer me a large amount of money for a project that doesn’t interest me, I won’t take it,” he says. If there’s no inspiration, he knows that project won’t succeed. Even so, “despite my being already 20 years in the marketplace, it’s hard to know which projects will sell. There are projects that I was confident that would become bestsellers that didn’t break even. On the other hand, I didn’t think that my A Yiddishe Kop series would be so popular, and the series has become a bestseller. So it’s hard to know. Therefore, I take on projects that interest me.” Gadi admits that he has produced works that have not been successful despite the efforts that he expended to complete them. He recalls, “Of the 45 books that have been published, 42 of them were successful. Without going into specifics, three projects were unsuccessful; within those three, two of them I was certain they would change the world. What was the difference between my successes and failures? There were disputes! Two of the disputes were settled in beis din. At the end, the beis din agreed with my side. But even when I was right – when there were disputes, I didn’t succeed in book sales.”

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Dating Dialogue

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

Dear Navidaters,

I’m 25 years old, a highly successful professional, and come from a respected family in a beautiful “in-town” community. And I’m engaged! Tuvia is, by all measures, quite the catch. He’s handsome, bright, very spiritual, warm, and caring. His family is quite comfortable and well-connected. He spent several years in a top tier yeshiva learning before deciding to get his MBA. He’s now in his second year in a prestigious (read, expensive) university. He’s 28 years old and the only son. I’m writing because what should be the most wonderful time of my life – my engagement – is a stress-filled

rollercoaster ride. You see, while we live in an affluent community, in a lovely home, my family is anything but rich. What most people don’t know is that my father hasn’t worked in five years. While he once made a respectable income – even by community standards – his company down-sized, hired two people for less than he was making and gave him a pink slip. I’m not sure if it was because of the layoff or the lack of jobs available to him, but my father suffered a slight stroke that left him physically and emotionally disabled. Our family, my mom and three married siblings, rally around him and do everything to boost his morale and keep things status quo. I don’t know how my parents stay afloat (maybe a little inheritance, maybe disability benefits) but I can tell you I have often helped pay the yom tov bills and some little extras, here and there, without fanfare. You see, I’m pretty good at making money and responsible about saving. I have no student loans, make an excellent salary, and take on as many private, afterschool clients as humanly possible. My motivation has always been to have money for a mortgage or self-support after I get married. While I don’t publicize the fact, I can’t count on my parents – they have their own burdens. So here’s my issue – if you haven’t figured it out on your own. My in-laws are planning an extravaganza; their only son is finally getting married! Like the royal wedding, it’ll be the talk of the town with a who’s-who guest list. And it’s all on my back. Before we got engaged, I took a sober look at my bank account, swallowed hard, and said to myself: whatever it costs, I’ll make it work. Gorgeous venue – no problem. Five hundred guests – no problem. Designer wedding gown…you get the picture. My parents look like the walking wounded; I told them early on, I have no financial expectations from them. Still, they beg me not to squander my mortgage money on five fleeting hours. I agree, but I feel I have no choice for the sake of the shidduch. Would Tuvia have considered me for one minute if he knew my family’s dire straits? How long can I carry on this charade before the truth comes to light?

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The Panel The Rebbetzin Rebbetzin Faigie Horowitz, M.S. relationship based on lack of honesty is very unhealthy. The fact that you did not tell Tuvia anything at all about your family’s financial situation is very telling. Taking on all the financial obligations to please his family for the sake of “quite the catch” is seriously problematic. Your poor sense of self-worth and commitment to please Tuvia’s family must be examined in therapy. You have a fiancé and a new family to deal with immediately, too. Get help right away to deal with the details, the family relationship, and your relationship with Tuvia. Yes, you will have to own up – not necessarily pay up. I suspect that Tuvia and his family know much about your family’s situation and can handle it. However, your shame and lack of truthfulness is a deeper issue. Maintaining the charade is not an option. Your therapist will help you. Your family will help you. They will support this move towards honesty; they function well as a team. This is not just about taking on the costs of the extravaganza; it’s about understanding what relationships and selfworth are all about. Your parents are afraid for you, and it’s not just about squandering your savings on one night to impress the society folks. You may be 25 and feel that you hit the jackpot and are afraid to jeopardize that. They, too, understand that having an unstable marriage based on fraud is immature and shallow. Go do the smart, honest thing.

The Mother Sarah Schwartz Schreiber, P.A. erfect timing! During these Days of Awe, when Jews are compelled to take a sober look at their priorities, your letter could not be more timely. You touch on several of my pet peeves: (Un-

necessarily) Extravagant Smachot. Keeping up with the Cohens. Family Secrets. Now I do not have a pulpit, blog or Instagram account where I can launch into a heated diatribe about the evils of conspicuous consumption. Still, I can say one thing in the few lines allotted to me by this forum: YOU, my dear, are quite the catch! You are an exemplar of kibbud av v’aim, compassion, and outstanding work ethic. The fact that you decry the wasteful spending on “five fleeting hours” indicates you have your priorities straight; at the same time, you are at the mercy of your community’s customary, albeit outrageous, “standards” and “expectations.” If Tuvia and his family had any idea of your selflessness, he would have proposed to you on Date One and paid for everything! Which brings me to the subject of family secrets, or, as you put it, “charades.” Worry not. If Tuvia’s family is as well-connected as you imply, they’ve done their homework and are privy to your father’s situation. They approved of the shidduch because they liked what they heard about you (see above) and chose to disregard any negative information about your family’s setback. Take heart: there is no perfect family without struggles/ issues/skeletons. In the real world: no family is immune to financial devastation; parents and children can be, r”l, stricken with disabling illnesses; siblings can fall off-the-derech, r”l; relatives have been known to be sojourning in a prison cell. If you are still troubled because you haven’t “come clean” to your chosson about your family’s situation, speak to your rav or rebbetzin ASAP regarding the tenor and timing of that conversation. Honesty is synonymous with trust; a healthy marriage is based on trust and open communication. If you trust Tuvia enough to marry him, now is the time to open up to him – whether you disclose the nitty gritty of your personal finances or reveal the truth about your father’s disability. Crucial conversations now – no matter how difficult –

can strengthen your bond as a couple and lay the groundwork for positive, straightforward dialogue in marriage. Finally, and for this I thank you from the bottom of my heart, you have raised some hot button topics. Important topics – controversial appetizers, if you will – guaranteed to stir up some lively sukkah banter (between courses of stuffed cabbage and pulled brisket). Several smaller communities, notably chassidic sects, have dealt with the heartbreak of simcha overspending by setting guidelines and “takonot.” My hope is that your letter will strike a chord with some “in-town” community askanim (influencers) and create an awareness that may serve as a catalyst for change or, at least, moderation. A gut yom tov to you. Enjoy the brisket and a new, fresh bond with your soon-to-be husband after you’ve

Honesty is synonymous with trust.

had your much-needed heart-toheart.

The Shadchan Michelle Mond am so sorry about what happened to cause your family financial stress and hardship. I would like to begin

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by saying that if Tuvia’s family can afford it and would like to have the wedding of the century, they should by all means do so. However, not at the expense of you and your family. Situations like this are completely unfathomable. How ironic that in such a short amount of time we have come from a post-Holocaust generation of folks who were lucky to marry another Jew without being thrown in jail, or worse. A beautiful ceremony with close friends and family felt like a magical affair. Can we imagine now – in a world where bar mitzvahs are treated as a wedding, ending with a DJ pumping “music” one could barely recognize as Jewish (or music), sporting strobe lights and beats so loud that the rabbeim and grand-parents have to congregate outside so they can hear themselves think while the boys dance in the dark like they are at a club? Our relatives from previous generations would be horrified if they would see some of the simchos of today, not

to mention the debt people go into just to keep up with the Cohens. We have gone from the days of diaries being locked with keys to everyone’s personal simchos published on social media and every one more grandiose compared to the next, despite whether they can afford it. We must stop and be honest. The entire Torah is based on the concept of emes; just look at the word itself. Aleph is the first letter of the aleph-bais and saf is the last; the same is with the word emes. Our entire Torah is null and void if there is no emes. People must focus more on living within their means than on going broke trying to out-do someone else’s wedding of the century. The way you describe losing all your hard-earned savings for your wedding and the pressure this is putting on your parents is unhealthy in every way. This is the kind of thing that causes people to go bankrupt and reach into shady unlawful waters to try to make ends meet so they can contribute just as

much to the wedding as the other side. Every ounce of my being hopes that you will be honest with Tuvia and tell him the entire situation. You will be starting your marriage out on more solid ground. This will not only leave you with savings still in your bank account and mortgage money to buy a house, but a lesson to start your marriage which will last not just five hours, but generations. You say you have no choice – but you do. You have to tell Tuvia the truth, and work this out together so that you could plan a beautiful simcha without your parents walking around like zombies or depleting your life-long savings. Much hatzlacha!

The Single Tova Wein o sorry to hear about your family’s hardships, and the strain it’s put

Take heart: there is no perfect family without struggles/issues/ skeletons.

on all of you. You are a remarkable young woman, taking on so much responsibility without any complaints and just from the goodness of your heart. Your hard work and dedication leaves much to be admired. So here’s what I’m confused about, if I’m understanding your letter properly. It sounds like there is much secrecy, shame, and avoidance taking place. Here you are, already engaged, and it sounds like Tuvia has no clue regarding some of the crucial facts of your and your family’s life that must surely affect the person you are, your values, your concerns, and fears. How

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could that be a good beginning to a marriage? Marriage is about honestly, openness, and the belief that our significant other will not judge us but rather have empathy for our struggles

and support for our realities. If you believe that Tuvia never would have looked at you in the first place had he known the real story behind your family, maybe he

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is not as fabulous as you say. If you read this column regularly, I’m sure you’ve already figured out that honesty is one of my most cherished mantras. Without it, we have nothing. My advice to you would be for you to get real with Tuvia, see if his values allow him to be impressed by your in-

tegrity rather than repulsed by your father’s lack of employment, and the rest will follow. Assuming he’s as wonderful as you say, you will be able to figure out together what makes sense in terms of your contribution to a wedding. The issue isn’t that a wedding is only five hours...the issue is that you don’t want to be the star of a wedding that is based on smoke and mirrors!

thizing with you. Seeing you for who you are and learning about your tremendous middos might make him all the more attracted to you and leaving him wanting to run down the

of wealthy people. You need to learn this and truly know this so that you can attract people into your life who will celebrate you – not the pretend version of you, or the rosy version of you, or the version of you that you think they want to know...but you. Being yourself and amongst people who love you for exactly who you are is one of life’s greatest and most valuable riches. All the best, Jennifer

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ou feel you have to go through with this lavish wedding for the sake of the shidduch. But do you feel you have to lie to Tuvia and his family for the sake of the shidduch as well? You are a remarkable human being. While many young people in these “in towns” you speak of expect and even demand their parents provide them with a certain lifestyle, you are working your fingers to the bone to support your parents. You are nothing short of incredible. But I can’t help but wonder why you have chosen not to disclose your family’s financial situation to the man you will be building a life with. I’m not suggesting we go shouting our bank account numbers to every Tom, Dick and Harry, but this is an important conversation to have with a fiancé... it’s an important conversation to have with someone before he becomes a fiancé. Are you truly willing to walk down the aisle not having told Tuvia the truth? Have you thought about what might happens when he learns the truth? How are you planning on handling that? He may be very angry or hurt that you kept this secret from him. I understand that there is a lot of pressure in “in town” communities to keep up appearances. Without the gorgeous home, the lavish vacations, Louboutins, the right sheitel, etc. there are certainly those people who will not give you the time of day. Some of the panelists covered this area thoroughly. There are those who can afford this lifestyle, and there are those who are

willing to break the bank and live on credit to appear as if they have “made it.” I am sensing a tremendous amount of shame that you carry. You are embarrassed. But I don’t want you to be embarrassed that you are embarrassed. Back in graduate school, a professor taught us about shame. Shame is the feeling we get when there is something about ourselves that we don’t like and it is exposed. We can even feel shame when it isn’t exposed. A simple thought can bring on the feeling of shame. The professor shared a story with the class about a time when he was on a colleague’s fancy yacht. Everyone was talking about their fancy yachts and other possessions. And this brilliant, accomplished, published, dynamic and authentic individual felt ashamed. He felt small. I could tell you from today until tomorrow that you have absolutely nothing to be ashamed of. But I do understand that living in an “in town” community and not having what others have can make you feel ashamed. But your shame has driven you to make a very irrational choice (withholding and lying) that will only wind up hurting you and your marriage at some point down the road. You must work through this. You simply can’t start on a marriage in a lie. I want you to be prepared for Tuvia’s possible reactions: 1. Feeling terrible that you’ve held this in all this time and truly empa-

aisle. 2. Being hurt or angry that you’ve carried on this “charade” as you called it. 3. Him being a real snob and not wanting to marry you because you weren’t born with a silver spoon. If this is the case, I’m sorry but good riddance! And if it is his parents who shut it down because you don’t come from an affluent family, and he lacks the ability to stand up for himself, I can almost promise you that that character trait would have affected you deeply in your marriage down the line. For what it’s worth, I’m sure there are many mothers and young men reading this right now who are thinking, “If it doesn’t work out with Tuvia, give her my number!” You’re so special. Who you are is worth so much more than the status of being the daughter

Jennifer Mann, LCSW is a licensed psychotherapist and dating and relationship coach working with individuals, couples and families in private practice in Hewlett, NY. She is looking forward to teaching a psychology course at Touro College in the fall. To set up a consultation or to ask questions, please call 516.224.7779. Press 2 for Jennifer. Visit www.thenavidaters.com for more information. If you would like to submit a dating or relationship question to the panel anonymously, please email thenavidaters@gmail.com. You can follow The Navidaters on FB and Instagram for dating and relationship advice.

Hi Readers! Receiving your enthusiastic emails wanting to participate in the Reader’s Respond section has been wonderful! Just a reminder about how Reader Response works. Email thenavidaters@gmail. com with the subject line “Reader Response.” We will then ask you, in the order we receive your email, if you would like to respond to the coming week’s email. If you would like to respond to an already printed Navidaters Panel, please submit your answer to the editor at editor@fivetownsjewishhome.com. You can also join us on our FB page @thenavidaters on Sunday evenings to post your response to the week’s column. Interacting with you has been a pleasure! Thank you for all of your feedback. Jennifer

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Dr. Deb

What a Happy Marriage Looks Like By Deb Hirschhorn, Ph.D.

usie was always nervous that the sukkah would not get up. She was a bit of a control freak to begin with. Charlie was the laid-back type; things would always get done, so why worry? Maybe that’s what attracted Susie and Charlie to each other. When they looked at each other, they smiled

because just seeing the other person gave a lift to their day. It’s a myth that a control freak cannot be happy with a laid-back person, or vice-versa. As far as Susie and Charlie (all stories are made up) are concerned, this is not accidental or just good luck. They worked hard to get here. They know the value of a happy marriage and they want that

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more than anything. That wasn’t always the case. There was a time when they fought and were not happy at all. But they did not want a divorce, so they sought help and learned to: • Appreciate their differences. They know that the other person can never be a carbon copy of themselves, and they also wouldn’t want that anyway. When the going gets rough, they bring to mind the things they fell in love with in the other. • Heal their old wounds whether caused in the marriage or caused prior to the marriage or even caused when growing up. • Distinguish bet ween old wounds flaring up and where current bad feelings may come from. • Handle triggers from current situations in ways that diminish their impact and increase appreciation for the good life they are living now. • Calm and soothe themselves should they become upset – and to do it thoroughly before having a conversation. • Know when the other person was too upset to have a civil conversation and graciously postpone it. • Watch their words carefully because words can hurt. Words can feel like they can kill. • Tune into themselves so that they’re always able to take care of themselves. The principle of im ain ani li mi li is important to them. They know they can’t be givers if they feel deprived. • To express their own needs and wants without it sounding autocratic and dictatorial.

• Know the way to express all this – and the correct timing for when it will work. • Make time for their relationship to flourish, even if it’s a short conversation. • Never, ever talk to each other while looking at their phones. Or computers. • Write up a list of ways they hurt one another and used the Rambam’s four steps to teshuva to give one another a proper apology when they decided to correct the wrongs of the past. They do this every year right about now. • Know what to let go; they do not sweat the small stuff. • Realize that they don’t have to win. • Actually tune in when the other is talking. • Comment on what the other is saying. It shows they want to engage – even when the subject at hand doesn’t interest them. • Never keep their partner waiting. It would show they didn’t value one another. • Remember important dates. • Recognize what the other person’s love language is so they could “speak” in that language. • Keep in mind what is important to their partner to show they care. • Express their hurt feelings directly instead of by making little jabs. • Express direct feelings with kindness and civility rather than with a goal of “showing the other how much it hurts me.” • Care as much about the feelings of their partner as about their own.

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• Understand the dynamics of power in relationships and benefit from the positive aspects of control while keeping mutual power in balance. • Enjoy recreating the early days of their romance – only doing it better this time. • Allow themselves to be emotionally vulnerable with each other in every way. Susie and Charlie may be fictitious but what they learned is not. Their success isn’t either. So how could they get so far? How could they actually achieve happiness? Number one, it’s important to recognize that Hashem gave all of us the tools of healing and self-love. This is the basis for everything else. To prove that this is true, consider the morning brachos. One says “she’asa li kol tzorchi.” Do you notice that it does not say that Hashem “gives” us everything we need? The word is not “nason” but “asa.” Hashem “makes” for us everything we need.

Why the distinction? Because we are supposed to take action. We are the ones who must reach out and take what He has prepared for us, what He has made for us. It’s all made, it’s all done, it’s all there.

suffered, it’s hard to believe that. Yet that morning bracha would have no meaning if it were not possible. And sometimes we do need help to get over that hurdle. That’s normal and understandable. But He – as Rabbi Fohrman has said – will “tap us on

They know that the other person can never be a carbon copy of themselves, and they wouldn’t want that anyway.

The biggest obstacle to reaching out for His goodness is believing it is possible, believing that we can heal, believing that we can be happy – believing that happiness is actually meant for us. When we’ve

the shoulder” to let us know that He is Present in our lives, helping us and showing us the path to all that He asa, all that He made for us. We just have to tune into these signals and signs from Him.

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I’m here for you, a helper along your way. And Sukkos is here to remind you of your connection to Him. It’s much closer than you may at first realize. So Susie honored herself by recognizing her nervousness. But she honored her husband by not taking it out on him. She knew that he would get the sukkah built on time, and if the decorations did not all get up, so be it. She used her tools to calm herself. And she had the stapler and the children’s artwork ready so she could dash out to the sukkah at the last minute. And the food was mostly prepared. Thinking of the beautiful chag to come made her very happy, and she laughed at the scenario in her mind of putting up decorations at the last minute. 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

Sukkos Strategies By Aliza Beer MS, RD, CDN

ow that Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur are behind us, we must focus on the task at hand: navigating our way through the chag of Sukkos, in which there are five (out of nine) days of yom tov and Shabbos. The other days are chol hamoed and usually consist of family trips, including lengthy car rides and amusement parks! How can anyone expect to survive this without blowing up like a balloon? I’ve developed a plan of action for each scenario, and if implemented correctly, should keep all of us healthy and happy for the duration of the chagim.

Yom Tov/Shabbos As previously mentioned, five out of the nine days will be yom tov and Shabbos – or in other words, 10 meals! That’s a lot of sugar, flour, and fat to consume in a little over a week. Stick to the following ground rules, and your heart, gut, blood pressure, cholesterol, and sugar levels will remain healthy and stable. 1. Restrict the red meat: A 1-ounce portion of 90% lean ground beef contains 92 calories; the same 1-ounce portion of skinless chicken is 34 calories! Poultry has almost

1/3 less calories than red meat (beef, lamb, and veal). Red meat also contains way more saturated fat than poultry or fish. Try to minimize the frequency of your red meat consumption to no more than four times over the whole chag. 2. Don’t Be Afraid of the Fish: I’ve recommended this before, and will do so again: incorporate at least one fish (or egg, if you don’t like fish) meal for each set of two days of yom tov. Fish has much more unsaturated fat than chicken and is therefore healthier and “lighter.” A dinner meal would be the ideal time to eat lighter, in order to avoid going to bed on a heavy stomach. 3. Choose Your Challah Wisely: I understand we need to wash, but it shouldn’t be on challah for 10 meals in nine days! Eat challah for no more than half the meals and the other half mix it up with either matzah or whole wheat dinner rolls which are smaller and therefore less caloric than challah rolls. If you’re baking challah, try using some whole wheat flour, and also make a bunch of small sized rolls in cupcake tins. This will help to avoid overeating the challah.

4. Treat yourself early: If you are going to cheat or treat yourself to some kind of a sweet, the best time of the day is the morning or latest at lunchtime. Keep your nights clean and sugar-free. Also be careful with what you are treating yourself. For example, one or two squares of dark chocolate are much healthier and will not tip up the scale like cookies or cake. 5. Avoid the Apps: Eating 10 meals that consist of multiple courses in the span of a little over a week will not just wreak havoc on the scale but also on your health, i.e. constipation, diarrhea, reflux, blood pressure, blood sugar, and cholesterol levels. It is simply too much food! Either avoid the appetizers and start the meal with a green salad or vegetable soup, or eat the appetizer and skip the proteins at the main course, sticking to just the veggies. The ideal is to make them one plate meals. 6. Walk: Taking those few extra steps from the house to the sukkah and back does not constitute walking. Weather permitting, you need to go for a minimum of a 20 minute walk every day. It is good for your heart and your bones and will

help burn off a few of those extra calories you will probably be consuming. 7. Water: Most people find it difficult to consume their usual water intake on Shabbos and yom tov. Try to drink only water or seltzer at the meals, and keep a water bottle out on the counter as a reminder to drink between the meals. As it turns colder, tea is another great alternative. Hot beverages will also make you feel fuller than cold ones. Starting your day with a cup of hot water with lemon is an oldie but a goodie for it helps curb your appetite.

Chol Hamoed 1. Be Prepared: Never the leave the house for the day without food for yourself and for your family. If you are planning to be gone for the whole day, then you will need to eat breakfast before you leave and bring lunch and a few snacks. If you will be returning home late at night, then you will need dinner as well. Do NOT rely on the kosher concession in the amusement park to have appropriately healthy options for you! Easy meals to pack would be sandwiches or wraps (whole wheat

or whole grain) with tuna, turkey, or grilled chicken. Mini cucumbers, peppers, jicama, and baby carrots are great sides for the whole family. Hard boiled eggs with rice cakes or melba toast is another easy-on-thego option, especially if you want to avoid washing for hamotzi. 2. Sensible Snacks: The snack aisle in your local supermarket has certainly come a long way in the past few years. There are many healthy and crunchy snacks to keep everyone happy on those long car rides. Look for pre-portioned 100 calorie snacks that contain no more than 4-5 grams of fat and sugar per serving. Popcorn, whole grain pretzels, snacks made from chickpeas, edamame, and seaweed are all good options. Bring along everyone’s favorite fruits. Clementines, presliced apples, and blueberries are all super healthy and easy fruits to pack and eat. 3. Stay Hydrated: Avoid sugary sodas or diet sodas loaded with

chemicals. Bring with you bottles of water, seltzer, or flavored seltzer. An iced coffee is a great travel beverage for long rides, but use either low-fat or almond milk, and stevia or monkfruit instead of sugar.

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into your mouth may help save you from eating your kid’s oreos, chips, etc. Use these sparingly, for overuse can lead to other issues. Sukkos is going to be a tremendous challenge this year, especially

Don’t let one or two overindulgent or unhealthy meals ruin the entire chag.

4. Gum/Candies: The sugar-free versions have their time and place. Don’t chew gum all day, or for lengthy periods of time, for it can cause gastric distress and make you feel hungrier later, but here and there it can be very useful. Popping a piece of sugar-free gum or candy

with a Shabbos chol hamoed in the middle. The goal is to maintain your weight or minimize the weight gain. If you fall off the wagon at one meal, get yourself right back on track for the next one. Don’t let one or two overindulgent or unhealthy meals ruin the entire chag. Re-focus and

look forward. Don’t look back and don’t get discouraged because then you will only dig yourself into a deeper hole. If you do gain weight, be comforted in knowing it is not irreversible damage. Don’t procrastinate! The day after the chag ends is the day to rid the house of the holiday sweets. It is also the day to face the scale and take action if needed. Ignorance is bliss, but knowledge is power. You just have to decide to seize that power and take back control of your health. Wishing all of my readers and clients a chag sameach and a gezunt 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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Mind Y

ur Business

Shep Hyken: “Make the Customer Experience Easy and Effortless” By Yitzchok Saftlas

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. Every other week, TJH will feature leading questions and takeaways from Yitzchok’s popular radio show.

n a recent 77WABC “Mind Your Business” broadcast, Yitzchok sat down to speak with Shep Hyken about the secrets behind his remarkable success. Shep is an American customer service expert, author, and speaker. He is a New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestselling author and has been inducted into the National Speakers Association Hall of Fame for achievement in the speaking profession. He is the founder of Shepard Presentations, a management and customer service consultation agency. He is the author of several books on the customer service experience, including The Amazement Revolution, The Cult of the Customer, and Be Amazing or Go Home. YS: Tonight’s show is going to be about Shep’s latest book, called The Convenience Revolution. The subtitle is “How to

deliver a customer service experience that disrupts the competition and creates fierce loyalty.” Shep, I’m curious. What made you decide to go with this angle? SH: It happened during the editing of my last book, Be Amazing or Go Home. I was working with a person who was cleaning the book up for me and he said, “Shep, I’m fascinated by all these companies that you mentioned. Why do you use them as examples?” I started to think about it. And the best answer I could give him was: They are so much easier to do business with than others. And then it dawned on me. Has anybody ever written a book about just being easy to do business with? No. So that’s why I took this angle when writing this book. Amazon is almost a cliché of great business stories, and their customer service is amazing. When I was drafting the book, I thought, why

is Amazon so successful? It’s because they make it so easy to do business with them and to buy their products. You can shop 24 hours a day, and once you are set up in the system, you can purchase through one-click ordering. And they deliver really quickly. Then, I started looking at other companies that aren’t quite like Amazon but are still very successful. In many cases, they have something that they’re doing that’s disrupting a competitor, maybe even an entire industry. I mean, think about what Uber and Lyft did to the taxicab industry, right? And they did it with convenience. They made it easier to get around. With Uber and Lyft, once you’re set up in their system, you’re good to go. And that’s why they completely disrupted the competition. YS: Do you have to be as extreme as Uber? Uber invested millions and millions into the

technology of their company. In this book, you go into how any small business could be wired to make the experience they offer user-friendly and disrupt the market. SH: Big, small, medium – it makes no difference. Even a company comprised of an individual working with one other individual can be more convenient. There are six convenience principles – I’ll get to them later. YS: What does the convenience revolution have to do with customer service? On the cover of your book, there is a circle and an “X” with a zig-zag line connecting then and then the words “quick, direct, easy, frictionless, efficient, accessible, and convenient” connecting the two points in a straight line as well. So, at the of end of the day,

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this book is about customer service, right? SH: It is. And by the way, those words are all in a straight line because the shortest distance between two points is a straight line. But look at all that zig-zagging stuff — that’s what most companies do to their customers. Whether they realize it or not, they don’t plan the process out properly. In addition to customer service, customer experience is a big part of everybody’s lives today. Customer service is a part of the overall experience. I recommend that business owners should identify every touchpoint that their customers have within their company. And I mean every single one, from the moment they even begin thinking about you. They land on your website. How easy is it for them to navigate? How easy is it for them to find your phone number if they want to call you or reach out to you? And when your customers call, how quickly can they reach the right person? Any amount of time that they’re waiting creates friction. You have to look at every touchpoint along the way, every interaction with your customer, and say: can I make this better? That used to be the word I used in customer service — what can I do to enhance that moment to make it a better moment. But now I say to myself, what can I do to not only enhance the moment, but maybe even make it a little bit easier. That’s what convenience is. I’m looking at that one touchpoint, and I’ve hopefully made it better for my customer. YS: There are six defining principles that this book covers. What are they? SH: The first is simply Reduce Friction. That’s number one. We’ve already talked about what Uber and Lyft and Amazon do. But some companies like them have created their entire value proposition around reducing friction. Number two is Self-Service, giving control to the customer. Number three is Technology. Good technology can drive a great experience. Number four is the Subscription model. Subscriptions are not just for newspapers and magazines anymore. You can subscribe to almost anything. Num-

ber five is Delivery. You have to bring your product to the customers. And finally, number six is Access. Access could be your business’s hours of operation or your location. Are they convenient for the customer logistically? Are you close to the customer? There are different ways to be accessible. YS: Can you go through each principle in detail? The first one is reducing friction. You say that customers are 115% percent more likely to recommend you to others when there is very low friction. SH: If you really think about it, the reason you love a company is because they’re just so easy to do business with. Let me give you an example that we can all relate to.

a person. It’s also really important that there is always a human employee that’s there to help the customer out. Make sure there’s always a good human fallback that can get in there and quickly resolve the issue. I was once in a Panera Bread, and I noticed that they had these online kiosks for ordering instead of ordering through a waiter and these vibrating pagers to let you know when the food was ready. Once it vibrated, the waiters brought the food over to each table. I asked the manager why they did it that way. His exact words: “It’s more convenient for guests.” I asked, so how do the employees feel that they are being replaced? And he said, “No, they’re not being replaced. Instead, they’re the ones bringing the food out to the customers. They’re the ones that are engaging

“Any interaction you have with your customers is an opportunity for them to form an impression of your company.”

When you travel, before you’re even allowed to enter the concourse you have to go through security, run by TSA. So, TSA comes up with this idea: For a small fee, you get to go to another line that’s shorter, and you don’t have to go through the usual inconvenient security measures. They basically just eliminated friction for the customer. It’s all about that. YS: Let’s move to principle number two, Self-Service. SH: Yes, putting service in the hands of the customer. You probably don’t think of ordering something from Amazon as a self-service experience, but that is a 100% self-service retail experience. If you have a question, rather than picking up the phone and calling customer support for a company, you go online, and they’ve got frequently asked questions or video tutorials that will actually be even better than talking to

with the customers far more than just taking orders.” So, they’ve actually created ambassador-type jobs for a lot of these people that were just behind the counter before. YS: Now let’s go through Technology. SH: There are so many ways that companies are using technology to enhance the customer experience. For example, when you call a company and you’re put on hold, there’s technology that tells you how long the wait will be. Technology is driving that experience. This also crosses over into self-service. Look for ways to use technology. But don’t become so enamored by it that you replace the human element — because you always need that fallback. YS: Can we go though the rest of the principles? SH: Subscriptions. Netflix is a

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great example of a successful subscription model. Chewy’s.com sells you dog food every month that shows up like clockwork on your doorstep. The Dollar Shave Club —that’s a subscription model. And they all met with great success by offering subscriptions. After subscription comes Delivery. Take it to your customer. Do whatever you can do to deliver. Look at how Amazon created the “delivery wars.” Target came out with one-day delivery and set a new standard that all the other companies tried to follow. You may only be competing with your direct competition, but you are compared to the best service your customers received from anybody, so companies like Amazon set the bar higher for everyone. And finally, number six is Access. Are you accessible? I use a bank as an example. Now, you can do your banking online. There’s a stat in the book that I can’t remember off the top my head, but it’s something like 80% or 90% of the U.S. population is within 10 minutes of a Wal-Mart. That’s accessibility. If I walk down the street here in Manhattan, I will find a Starbucks on almost every block. That’s accessibility. Another aspect of accessibility is hours. You have to consider — are your hours convenient for your customers? YS: I think you had mentioned this earlier in the show. The most critical of the six is reducing friction, correct? SH: Reducing friction is final, because it’s within all the other principles. Anytime you can save a customer, time, effort, or stress — that’s reducing friction. YS: Can you please share a final takeaway for the audience? SH: Any interaction you have with your customers is an opportunity for them to form an impression of your company. Understand your interactions journey; map it out. Write down what your typical customer goes through. Write out where the interactions can be made better and how they can be made more convenient. Start there, and join the convenience revolution.

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Meat and Cabbage Soup Meat • Yields 10 servings • Freezer friendly By Naomi Nachman

I’ll eat stuffed cabbage in any shape or form, and this is a version of it in a soup. The apple in this recipe gives it a unique flavor and sweetness. It’s a perfect soup to serve in the sukkah.

Ingredients 2 pounds flanken 2 (28-oz) cans whole tomatoes with their liquid 1 (14-oz) bag shredded cabbage, or 1 head cabbage, shredded 1 granny smith apple, diced ¼ cup brown sugar ½ cup lemon juice 4 cups water 1 teaspoon kosher salt ¼ teaspoon black pepper

Preparation In a large, heavy-bottomed pot, sear flanken on each side for 2-3 minutes, until meat releases from the pot. Crush tomatoes lightly in your hand; then add the tomatoes and their liquid to pot. Add apple, sugar, lemon juice, water, salt, and pepper. Bring to a boil over high heat; reduce to a simmer. Cook for about two hours, until meat is tender. Remove meat from soup. Discard bones; shred meat into bite-size pieces. Return to soup. Bring soup to a boil soup reheat the meat. Add salt and pepper to taste, as needed.

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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We apologize. You know, we love China. -Houston Rockets star James Harden on Monday apologizing to China after Houston Rockets manager Daryl Morey angered the Chinese government by tweeting out a since-deleted photo in support of antigovernment protesters in Hong Kong

Like the NBA, we welcome the Chinese censors into our homes and into our hearts. We too love money more than freedom and democracy. - “South Park” creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker, hitting back at China with a sarcastic apology after the government pulled all traces of the show from the Chinese internet

I misspoke the other day. I said a word I should not have said, and the media drives me a little bit nuts to make a big deal about it. We’re going to get back into the groove of a very vigorous campaign.

I feel wonderful because I feel like I’m doing something. Staying at home is not fun when you retire. People always ask, “How old are you?” I say, “You’re not supposed to ask a woman that.”

-Sen. Bernie Sanders on NBC News, tamping down speculation that he would slow his presidential campaign after he suffered a heart attack last week

- Rose Landin, age 101, talking with a local TV station about her job at the Texas State Fair for the past 25 years

I get up in the morning and I’m happy. I live for one day, one day at a time. I’ve enjoyed every minute of it, and I hope I enjoy it for 100 more years. - Ibid.

Adam Schiff has never been afraid of a microphone. He’s never met a camera he didn’t love. And frankly, he’s never met a camera he didn’t lie to. Adam Schiff is basically the Jussie Smollett of Congress on steroids. - Don Trump Jr. on Fox News talking about Congressman Adam Schiff, who is heading the impeachment inquiry into his father

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We are not going to be here for much longer because of the climate crisis. We only have a few months left! I love that you support the Green Deal, but it’s not getting rid of fossil fuel, it’s not going to solve the problem fast enough. A Swedish professor said we can eat dead people but that’s not fast enough. So I think your next campaign slogan has to be this: “We got to start eating babies! We don’t have enough time!” There is too much CO2… even if we would bomb Russia, we still have too many people, too much pollution, so we have to get rid of the babies! That’s a big problem. We need to eat the babies! - A troller to Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez at a town hall meeting, to which Ocasio-Cortez responded, “Luckily we have more than a few months. We need to hit net zero in several years.”

Could you imagine if I got $50,000 a month in an industry I knew nothing about, with no discernible duties, from a Ukraine oil and gas company – could you imagine that? Could you imagine if I got kicked out of the Navy for doing cocaine? Could you imagine if I was caught with a crack pipe or many of the other scandals? Could you imagine if China gave me $1.5 billion, right after I flew over to China on Air Force Two with my father? – Eric Trump on Fox News, talking about the media’s treatment of him versus Hunter Biden

If I were afraid of them it would be really pathetic. I had the mafia twice put out contracts to kill me. In fact, one time for $800,000 and then four years later for only $400,000 – I was insulted my value went down.

Mass incarceration is our American reality. It is a system whose logic evolved from the same lineage as Jim Crow, American apartheid, & slavery. To end it, we have to change. That means we need to have a real conversation about decarceration & prison abolition in this country. - Tweet by Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (Dem/Socialist-NY)

I understand where he’s coming from. I don’t know if I have an exact threshold on what amount of money someone should have but on some level, no one deserves to have that much money. - Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, who is worth more than $66.6 billion, stating during a livechat that he agrees with Sen. Bernie Sanders that billionaires should not exist

- Rudy Giuliani, telling The Daily Caller that he is not afraid of Congress investigating him

I am not my husband’s handbag, to be snatched as he runs out the door and displayed silently by his side during public appearances. - Eliza Reid, Iceland’s first lady, in a New York Times op-ed bemoaning the role of first ladies

It sounds strange to say I’m energized, but I love it, I love it. - President Trump in a telephone interview with Michael Goodwin, of the New York Post, discussing the daily combat with Democrats and the media

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I think that Crooked Hillary Clinton should enter the race to try and steal it away from Uber Left Elizabeth Warren. Only one condition. The Crooked one must explain all of her high crimes and misdemeanors including how & why she deleted 33,000 Emails AFTER getting “C” Subpoena. - Tweet by President Trump

Don’t tempt me. Do your job. – Hillary Clinton’s response

I think what will happen is once the facts come out about Ukraine’s involvement in 2016 election meddling, about the Obama administration, and DNC’s involvement, I think the American people will become quite knowledgeable of the fact that every crime Democrats are accusing the president of committing they themselves have either committed or are in the process of committing.

A more recent study found that while whites largely cause air pollution, Blacks and Latinxs are more likely to breathe it in. - From 2020 presidential hopeful Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s (D-MA) statement rationalizing her plan to invent $1 trillion into minority communities affected by “ industrial pollution”

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Political Crossfire

Democrats Were Outraged. Now They’re Acting the Same Way By Marc A. Thiessen

resident Trump’s critics are now complaining that he asked the Australian prime minister to cooperate with the Justice Department’s investigation into the origins of the Mueller probe and that Attorney General William Barr has traveled overseas to ask foreign intelligence officials to cooperate with that investigation. The New York Times called it another example of “the president using high-level diplomacy to advance his personal political interests.” No, it’s not. The president’s critics are conflating two different things: the investigation by Trump’s private lawyer, Rudolph Giuliani, into Hunter Biden’s business dealings, and the official inquiry by U.S. Attorney John Durham into the counterintelligence investigation directed at the Trump campaign during the 2016 election. The former is opposition research activity; the latter is a criminal justice matter. There is absolutely nothing wrong with asking foreign heads of state or intelligence officials to cooperate with an official Justice Department investigation. As George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley explains, “It is not uncommon for an attorney general, or even a president, to ask foreign leaders to assist with ongoing investigations. Such calls can shortcut bureaucratic red tape, particularly if the evidence is held, as in this case, by national security or justice officials.” Americans support the Durham

probe. For two years, they were told by Trump’s opponents that the president was “working on behalf of the Russians” and had committed “treasonous” acts that were of “a size and scope probably beyond Watergate.” Those were serious accusations, and Americans took them seriously. They waited for special counsel Robert Mueller to tell them whether the president had indeed betrayed the country. Then Mueller issued his report, and they found out that none of it

Instead of a special counsel, Barr appointed Durham, a career prosecutor, to lead the investigation that Americans demanded. Durham is a man of unimpeachable character who was appointed by Obama administration Attorney General Eric Holder to investigate the CIA’s terrorist interrogation program. At the conclusion of that probe, which ended without any criminal charges, Holder praised Durham for working “tirelessly to conduct an extraordinarily thorough and complete” investigation.

If there was no wrongdoing, then there is nothing to worry about.

was true. They understandably wanted answers. How did it come to pass that our government was paralyzed for two years and spent tens of millions of their tax dollars chasing a Trump-Russia collusion conspiracy theory? A Harvard CAPS-Harris Poll following the Mueller report’s public release found that 53% of Americans said that “bias against President Trump in the FBI played a role in launching investigations against him,” and 62% supported appointing a special counsel to investigate the investigation of Trump.

Now Barr has asked Durham to bring the same tireless professionalism to his investigation into the origins of the Mueller probe. But suddenly, all those who were so eager to find out what happened in 2016 when they thought Mueller would reveal that Trump conspired with the Russians have lost interest. The same people who were outraged at Trump’s efforts to discredit the Mueller probe are now doing the exact same thing to the Durham probe. Back then, Democrats insisted Trump stop criticizing the investigation and “let Mueller

follow the facts wherever they lead.” Now they need to heed their own advice: stop criticizing the investigation. Let Durham follow the facts wherever they lead. If there was no wrongdoing, then there is nothing to worry about. To be sure, Trump bears some responsibility for helping Democrats lump together Durham’s official investigation with Giuliani’s partisan activities by mentioning them both on the call with Ukraine’s president. There should be a firewall between the two inquiries. Instead, Trump and Giuliani have blurred those lines. But keep in mind, it was the Democrats who told us there is nothing wrong or illegal with a presidential candidate hiring a private lawyer to conduct opposition research in a foreign country on their political opponents. After it emerged that the Clinton campaign and the DNC had paid Christopher Steele to dig up dirt in Russia on Trump, the Democrats’ defense was: that’s just opposition research. Everyone does it. The biggest problem with the Steele dossier was not that Democrats paid for opposition research, but that the FBI might have used it as the basis for spying on the Trump campaign – which is part of what Durham is investigating. Durham is no partisan actor. Despite political pressure, he cleared the CIA of wrongdoing during the Obama administration. Like Mueller, he will follow the facts wherever they lead. Maybe that is why so many Democrats are up in arms. (c) 2019, Washington Post Writers Group

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Trump Has Opened the Door for an Islamic State Resurgence in Syria By David Ignatius

y acquiescing to Turkey’s invasion of northeastern Syria on Wednesday, President Trump has opened the door to what could become a genuine nightmare for the United States and its allies: the revival of the deadly terrorist organization that called itself the Islamic State. The danger lies not simply in the group’s sleeper cells that are still active – and that detonated three suicide bombs in the terrorists’ former capital of Raqqa on Wednesday. The larger risk comes from about 11,000 Islamic State fighters who have been detained by the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), the Kurdish-led militia that Trump is abandoning, and who may now try to flee. As the SDF mobilizes to combat the Turks, security at nearly 20 makeshift prisons is likely to deteriorate, U.S. officials said. The U.S. military has said that it won’t take control, nor will European allies. Turkey’s claim that it can police the camps is hollow, given that many of these terrorists arrived in Syria after passing through Turkey. The cascade of bad events could get worse if action isn’t taken quickly. U.S. officials fear that as security deteriorates, U.N. relief agencies may

abandon control of a camp called alHol, which holds more than 70,000 refugees, more than 25% of whom are relatives of killed or captured Islamic State fighters. Riots have rocked al-Hol in recent days, and visitors say that some areas are too dangerous to enter. U.S. analysts said Wednesday afternoon that the Turkish air attacks were broader and deeper than many had initially expected, striking targets farther east and south than the objectives Turkey had indicated to U.S. officials. Kurdish civilians were said to be fleeing Kobani after heavy shelling there, and shelling was also reported in the eastern city of Qamishli. Here’s the appalling scenario that U.S. officials fear could unfold if the Turkish invasion isn’t a quick, limited operation, as Trump apparently hopes: As security collapses in northeastern Syria, hardened Islamic State fighters could escape the prisons, storm the al-Hol camp to reunite with their families, and then renew the terrorist assault against the West that they began in 2014. A revived Islamic State would pose a threat to the U.S. homeland – but probably a greater one to Europe, Russia, and regions where the “foreign

fighters” originated. Though these places are all threatened by what’s ahead, none has taken significant steps to ease the impending crisis. This frightening risk of “snatching defeat from the jaws of victory” against the Islamic State is a result of the Trump administration’s chronic policy breakdown. This begins with Trump himself, whose erratic swings on Syria have appalled some of his closest political allies. But it extends to an interagency process so enfeebled under Trump that it has failed for months to generate clear plans for dealing with a possible Islamic State resurgence if U.S. troops should leave, as Trump demanded in December. European nations have been nearly as guilty as the Trump administration. As I explained in May, they have refused U.S. and Kurdish pleas to repatriate some of their nationals held in the SDF-controlled prisons, or even to pay the SDF for holding them. “The European Union is in denial,” one official told me then, noting that the refugee issue was so toxic politically that no European government dared touch it. How large is the Islamic State army-in-waiting, if the prisoners escape the camps? Gen. Mazloum Abdi,

the SDF commander, gave me some numbers in an interview in Kobani in July. He said that the SDF was guarding 12,000 Islamic State fighters who were captured when the caliphate was defeated. In addition to about 9,000 Syrian and Iraqi radical Islamists, this group included 2,500 foreign fighters, Mazloum said, with about 1,000 Europeans. U.S. estimates are slightly lower, counting about 2,200 foreign fighters among 11,000 prisoners. The United States has identified 50 of the most dangerous detainees and may seek to transfer them to neighboring countries, perhaps Iraq. Trump has also requested that the United States take control of two notorious prisoners, Alexanda Kotey and El Shafee Elsheikh, who are believed to have killed Western hostages. For Trump, what’s unfolding now in Syria is largely a self-inflicted wound. It will be politically costly for him, but there’s a deeper problem. U.S. successes in the Middle East are too rare and precious to be squandered. But that’s what appears to be happening now in this grotesque coda to the war against the Islamic State. (c) 2019, Washington Post Writers Group

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Forgotten Her es

Jewish Heroes during Operation Market Garden By Avi Heiligman

Members of the 1st Parachute Battalion waiting to take off on Sunday, September 17. Lt. Leo Heaps is on the back right

n our last article, we discussed the military failure of Operation Market Garden in September 1944 (for a copy of that article, please email the author). Hundreds, if not thousands, of soldiers, paratroopers, airmen, and tankers served during the battle with many paying the ultimate sacrifice. Many more were taken prisoner and were sent the horrific concentration and POW camps. Here are some of the stories of the forgotten heroes of Operation Market Garden. South African Captain Alexander Lipmann-Kessel was an orthopedic surgeon serving with Royal Army Medical Corps (RAMC) during the Battle of Arnhem, a major battle during Operation Market Garden. He was raised in South Africa before moving to work in hospital in London. There, he learned medicine and became a doctor in 1937. Five

years later, “Lippy” joined the Medical Corps and, after training, was posted to the 16th Parachute Field Ambulance of the RAMC. His first assignment was in North Africa as the unit was attached to the 1 st Parachute Brigade. Lipmann-Kessel quickly rose in rank and position as he took command of one of the two parachute surgical teams. On September 17, 1944, Lippy jumped into The Netherlands and quickly set up shop in the St. Elisabeth Hospital in Arnhem. The next day, the hospital was overrun by German forces and most of the 16 th Parachute Field Ambulance corps was taken off to POW camps. However, Lipmann-Kessel and two surgical teams were allowed to stay. They arranged for mock funerals to smuggle out weapons stashed at the hospital. These were later dug up by the Dutch underground for use in

Captain Alexander Lipmann-Kessel’s grave in Oosterbeek

sabotage and covert operations. A “Corporal Hayter” was brought in complaining of a blow to his solar plexus. A quick examination showed that a life-threatening wound had punctured the patient’s lower intestine. Despite being told by the Germans to kill the patient, Lippy performed an emergency surgery and removed a two-inch splinter that had penetrated the skin. After the surgery, the patient recovered for two weeks before being handed over to the Dutch underground. This wasn’t an ordinary patient, though. It was Brigadier General John Winthrop Hackett, and he was nursed back to health by a local Dutch family. Without the emergency surgery Hackett would have died. He credited the last 57 years of his life to Captain Lipmann-Kessel. The surgeon was soon taken as a POW but later escaped and wrote about his story in

a book entitled Surgeon at Arms. A few months later, Lipmann-Kessel met Hackett at a safe house to perform a second successful surgery. Both survived the war and avoided capture by the Germans. Lieutenant Leo Heaps was born in Winnipeg, Canada, in 1923 and, after not seeing eye-to-eye with the Canadian army, joined the British Army shortly before the Normandy invasion. After being slightly wounded, Heaps joined the paratroopers. He commanded the 1 st Battalion’s transport of the 1 st Parachute Division, even though he wasn’t a trained paratrooper. In fact, his jump in The Netherlands on September 17 was his first jump ever, and it couldn’t have gone more smoothly. After a relatively quiet first day, Heaps got to work on October 18 running messages as the radios were not working properly. A

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few days later, he led a patrol that reached the Rhine River but failed to reach the bridge. He was caught while trying to cross the river in a boat. After being interrogated by the SS, he and a few other POW planned an escape. While on a train deeper into German territory, the men pried out a pane of glass with a nail clipper. As the train rounded the curve, Heaps jumped and landed on an embankment. A few miles into their trek away from German troops, the group ran into an old lady in a cottage who gave them a drink. They thanked her and left. Soon the Dutch Resistance made contact with the British Army trio who asked them for help in operating British weapons. They obliged, and Heaps left one of his men to stay and work with the resistance group. After a long and arduous journey they finally reached friendly lines. When he met his commanding general, he was told that reports of his

death had been circulating among the paratroopers. Heaps reassured the general that those reports of his death were highly exaggerated. Heaps returned north to work with resistance to bring back 150 Allied soldiers that had evaded capture. Leo Heaps was awarded the Royal Military Cross for his work with the Dutch Resistance. After the war, Heaps went to Israel and aided their army in the establishment of mobile striking units. Ma ny Jew ish ser v ic emen served during the ill-fated Operation Market Garden. They served with distinction. Officers like Lipmann-Kessel and Heaps deserve to be remembered for their courage and bravery.

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.

David and Leo Heaps with their father, A.A. Heaps, in February 1944

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Teeny Little Slices By Allan Rolnick, CPA

ere in the United States, we spend a lot of time arguing about income taxes…who should pay, how they should pay, and how much they should pay. Right now, the average American forks over 13.5% of their income in individual income tax and 30% of their income in federal, state, and local taxes overall. Of course, “average” covers a pretty wide range – 50 million families pay no income tax at all, while the top twenty percent of earners pay over 69% of all revenue collected. It costs the economy $409 billion just to figure out the bill and get it paid. Here’s the biggest problem with today’s tax system: no matter where rates fall or who picks up the tab, Uncle Sam still spends more than he takes in. Keeping up with spending is like playing tennis against Serena Williams – if Serena was an octopus with racquets in six arms. So politicians are constantly looking for new ways to cover their bills. Now some politicians are proposing wealth taxes on the richest Americans. Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren’s plan starts at two cents for every dollar of net worth above $50 million, rises to three cents on amounts above a billion, and raises

$2.75 trillion over 10 years. Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders’s plan climbs all the way to 8% on assets over $10 billion. Both senators argue that limiting their reach to board-certified fat cats means most voters have nothing to fear from their plans. A wealth tax may sound like an

port their balance sheet accurately – especially if it’s stuffed full of hardto-value things like businesses, real estate, and art. Want to see how much we can raise with even smaller slices? Consider calls for a tax on financial transactions. Hawaii Senator Brian

Keeping up with the spending is like playing tennis against Serena Williams – if Serena was an octopus with racquets in six arms.

impossible lurch to the left in today’s politically polarized era. But polls show it winning more support than higher income taxes. And if you own your own home, you’re already paying one in the form of your local property tax. The real problem with a wealth tax is making it work. It doesn’t matter how small a slice it takes if the people who owe it can’t or won’t re-

Schatz’s proposal is typical: he would charge just one-tenth of a penny for every dollar on stock, bond, and derivative trades. The Joint Committee on Taxation estimates this would raise about $777 million over 10 years. Bernie Sanders has a similar proposal that would charge 0.5% on stocks, which he says would raise enough to pay for free college (and

bring the species Homo Billionairus to the brink of extinction). A financial transaction tax would be far easier to manage than a wealth tax. It would also take dead aim at the sort of high-speed trading Michael Lewis described in his 2014 book, Flash Boys, which Schatz says accounts for half of the market’s eight billion daily trades. “High-frequency trading…screws regular people; that’s the main reason to do this,” he says. Does that sound like creeping socialism? Well, Australia, France, Hong Kong, Italy, South Korea, Switzerland, and the U.K. already have financial transaction taxes, and their markets seem to be doing just fine. We spend most of our time looking for the green lights in the income tax system that let you pay less. But we would be negligent if we weren’t keeping our eyes out for new ways that government can nick you for tiny little slices that add up big. Make sure you have a plan before they eat you alive! 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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Where is Your Bread Buttered? By Rivki D. Rosenwald Esq., MFT, CLC

et me out! Or should I say let me in? I kind of feel a little inside out. Well, maybe that’s ‘cause we are all bringing the inside out. That’s how the holiday of Sukkos works. We take our homes outside. No matter the temperature, we are supposed to find our way to a tempo-

rary hut that is located under the sky, where we look up and recognize that it’s not our painted, sheet-rocked, recessed-lighted ceiling that is protecting us – it’s G-d. I’m just saying...if I agree to the fact that it is G-d right now, can we forgo the whole construct the sukkah,

decorate it, find tables and chairs to stuff into it thing? And can we then avoid shlepping multiple gourmet meals outside and setting up those ineffective bee contraptions? You know, the ones that force us to spend lunches with millions of upside-down plastic cups strewn throughout the table, observing our fine-flapping striped friends being frustrated trying to get out and share our wine and grape juice. Trust me. I get it that my house is temporary. Is there not a week where something doesn’t go on the fritz? There’s always some reminder that

those curtains or the backsplash in your kitchen that took you hours to pick out. Maybe, just maybe, we have moments when we think: I bought it; I renovated it; I decorated it; I created it – this is where my security comes from! But that’s where Sukkos comes in. It’s here to remind us where our bread is truly buttered. And it’s not on our respective kitchen tables, as we think. It’s when, where and how Hashem decides to send us our bread and our butter – and maybe even some jam too. So this Sukkos, as you spend

Is there not a week where something doesn’t go on the fritz?

this is all fleeting. An oven breaking, a toilet running, a faucet leaking, or an alarm sounding. Even the smoke detector weighs in – rarely about a smoke problem though. It’s usually just some continuous irritating tone to let us know its battery has run out. So why go into the sukkah? Well, maybe it’s true that sometimes we do get a little too comfy at home. We might get all wrapped up in all the things we bought and used to create a homey atmosphere. Like those pillows that go so perfectly with

time outside with those yellow and black striped buzzing visitors and the schach raining into your soup, remember that it’s Hashem Who is behind it all – in a temporary tent or at your permanent residence. This is just a reminder of how rickety life can be.

Rivki Rosenwald is a certified relationship counselor, and career and life coach. She can be contacted at 917-7052004 or rivki@rosenwalds.com.

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