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my children to write thank you notes and to call their grandparents to say thank you for a gift is funny. Shouldn’t appreciation come spontaneously? Being obligated to show appreciation seems a little backward. But, as Rabbi Dani Staum relates, my job as a parent is to train my children and instill within them proper middos. Making them say “please” and “thank you” is a parent’s job just as it is our job to train them to help around the house, make their brachos, and clean up their toys. It gives me nachas when my children run to the door as my babysitter leaves the house to say thank you to her and wish her a good night. Grateful children become appreciative adults. And, as Mr. Joe Bobker points out in this week’s issue, gratitude is a fundamental in Judaism. A grateful person is someone who is grateful to the Ul-

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Dear Readers, When my son was in Pre-1A, at the end of the year we sat down together so he could write a thank you note to his rebbe and teacher. I felt so much hakaras hatov to both of them for teaching him the fundamentals of reading and writing in Hebrew and English and for giving him such a wonderful year. Of course I wrote my own heartfelt note of appreciation. But I also wanted my five-year-old to understand that when someone works so hard for you and gives so much to you, it’s incumbent upon you to express your gratitude. When I peeked into his classroom that day, his rebbe smiled at me and pulled out my son’s handwritten note from his pocket. He kept it next to his heart as he knew that the words “You’re the best rebbe” were written so innocently and purely. Sometimes I feel that telling

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Letters to the Editor Dear Editor, I humbly disagree with last week’s response letters to my letter of two weeks ago. First of all, Rafi Metz asked why everyone in Belle Harbor does not walk instead of drive. The answer to that question is that yes many people do walk not necessarily for pollution issues but rather it’s just nice walking. And you’re right when we “Belle Harbors” drive, we are polluting our OWN neighborhood, but it’s our OWN community; we can do whatever we want but someone to drive for foolish reasons who doesn’t live in our community it’s just not proper derech eretz. Can you imagine having hundreds of cars with people who don’t live in your community drive through Reads Lane, Far Rockaway’s nicest street, and make it dangerous for people to cross the street because there are hundreds of cars passing by with people that don’t live in the community? It wouldn’t be so nice. And all the real estate would go down because Reads Lane would become a dangerous street. Also, because the floor of the Marine Park Bridge is constructed with metal grates, the noise of cars passing on the bridge can be heard throughout the neighborhood. As you might imagine, the noise can be quite grating – pun intended. Don’t get me wrong. I have no problem with people from The Five Towns driving through our community to commute to work in Brooklyn because that is his or her parnassah, but driving through a quiet, residential neighborhood like Belle Harbor for the most trivial reasons like shopping in Brooklyn as though there were no shops in The Five Towns is absurd. Secondly, S. Herman’s comment that “we are not driving through residential” streets in Belle Harbor is 100% false. I see many Five Towners driving through Rockaway Beach Boulevard, a residential road where people walk and bike. I even see Five Towners driving through Cronston Avenue, a street in Belle Harbor where children frequently play basketball and bike. It may not occur to a Five Towner who may be rushing home Erev Shabbos to make sure his food doesn’t get cold that children have to stop playing because of him. Please don’t take this in a negative

way, but I’m sure if the same happened to your own community you would also try to prevent these incidents. Gut Shabbos, Moshe Grossman To the Editor, The number of thefts from autos in the Five Towns has increased in recent weeks. On the morning of Friday, April 17, many Woodmere residents made the unpleasant discovery that thieves accessed their cars overnight and stole various items. In many cases, the affected cars had been left unlocked. My office is presently working closely with the Nassau County Police Department, specifically, Fourth Precinct Commanding Officer, Inspector John Berry, to address these unfortunate incidents. Because thefts from autos tend to increase during the warmer months, Inspector Berry immediately directed additional police patrols in the area, particularly during the overnight hours, and fully briefed the Fourth Precinct Desk Officers on the recent car breakins, and instructed them to fully assist victims who wish to file a police report. To report a crime, residents should call 911, even if it is not presently an emergency. Below is a list of key points that will help us work together to ensure the continued safety and security of our community: • Victims of a theft from a vehicle, or any crime, regardless of how minor they may seem, are strongly urged to file a police report as soon as possible. • Police reports help track what crimes are being committed, how often, and where, and are an essential tool for precinct commanders to fine-tune patrols, allocate resources, and gather evidence to make arrests. • The sooner a crime is reported, the greater the likelihood police officers responding to the scene can find evidence left behind by the subject. Victims/owners driving the car around, especially with passengers, make it far less likely that any useful evidence will be found. In any case, filing a police report is strongly encouraged for reasons stated above. • The Fourth Precinct is always interested in good surveillance video,

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which will be used to identify subjects when possible. • While several arrests have been made, the following Auto Safety Tips should be utilized to help prevent becoming a victim: a) Always lock your car doors even if you’re only leaving it unattended for a few minutes. (Thefts from cars are usually crimes of opportunity, committed by someone simply trying door handles to see if the car is unlocked.) b) Do not leave any valuables inside the vehicle, even if it’s in your driveway. c) Park in a well-lit area whenever possible. d) Do not delay in reporting any suspicious activity. • Residents are always welcome to contact me at in my office at (516) 8123200 should they wish to discuss this or any other issue in greater detail. Sincerely, Senior Councilman Anthony J. Santino Town of Hempstead Dear Nate, I am glad to see that you came out of hibernation to promptly bash Hillary Clinton as soon as she announced

her presidential campaign. I guess you’d prefer Chris Christie because you probably love traffic tie ups. Or maybe you want Rand Paul who has a lovely “Jew-loving” father. Oh, if you are not happy with those choices you can always take Donald Trump because nobody is more suitable for office than a guy who made his career by talking about himself on TV all day. I am sorry that you are going to have to put up with another Clinton. Maybe we are going to return to the horrible nineties, when there was exponential economic growth once Bill Clinton nurtured the economy back from President Bush’s recession. (The first Bush recession, not the one we are still trying to climb out of.) Talk about the Clinton scandals until the cows come home, you only do that because you are scared to talk about what really matters, which is that the Clintons have a track record of success. Just because there is a D after her name shouldn’t make you put the blinders on. So continue eating your ice cream and get ready for a great campaign and a great president by the name of Hillary Clinton! A Proud Clinton Supporter

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Global Hundreds Missing as Boat Carrying Libyan Refugees Capsizes A large boat carrying hundreds of migrants from Libya tragically cap-

sized in the Mediterranean on Sunday. Italian authorities and foreign ships and helicopters searched through the night to find possible survivors. To date, 28 people were rescued and 24 bodies were recovered. There are still almost 900 bodies unaccounted for. The 20 meter-long vessel sank 70 miles from the Libyan coast, south of the southern Italian island of Lampedusa, as a large merchant ship approached

it. A survivor told the United Nations’ refugee agency UNHCR that the 900 people onboard, hopeful the ship would save them, moved to one side, tipping the vessel. As the crisis in the Middle East worsens, more and more people are attempting to flee. Europe has downsized its seek and rescue border protection program, hoping it would deter migrants. But international aid groups

have strongly criticized the decision. Many migrants have been fleeing illegally. If the death toll is confirmed from Sunday’s tragedy that would raise the number of people who died this year while trying to reach Europe to 1,500— a drastic spike from the same period last year.

After news of Sunday’s disaster broke, several government leaders called for emergency talks and EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini said foreign ministers would discuss the immigration crisis at a meeting in Luxembourg on Monday. European Council President Donald Tusk said he was considering calling a special meeting of EU leaders, a summit that Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi had called for earlier. Around 20,000 migrants have reached the Italian coast this year, the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) estimates. That is fewer than in the first four months of last year, but the number of deaths has risen almost nine-fold. Last week, around 400 migrants were reported to have died attempting to reach Italy from Libya when their boat capsized. French President Francois Hollande asserted that the EU has to do more, saying rescue and disaster prevention efforts need “more boats, more over flights and a much more intense battle against people trafficking.” In response to the tragedy, European parliament president Martin Schulz queried, “How many more people will have to drown until we finally act in Europe? How many times more do we want to express our dismay, only to then move on to our daily routine?” He added, “Words of grief are not enough. We cannot continue like this.”

Iran: U.S. Created “Myth” of Nuclear Weapons A few short weeks ago, Iran and the P5+1 powers, a global group that in-

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“They created the myth of nuclear weapons so they could say the Islamic Republic is a source of threat,” Khamenei said in a televised address to Iranian military commanders, Reuters reported. “No, the source of threat is America itself, with its unrestrained, destabilizing interventions. The other side is methodically and shamelessly threatening us militarily. ... Even if they did not make these overt threats, we would have to be prepared,” he added. As part of the agreement, Khamenei demanded that all current sanctions against Iran be lifted immediately. The White House, though, insists on a gradual lifting of sanctions. The deadline for Iran and the world powers to reach a final agreement is June 30.

“Accountant of Auschwitz” on Trial

It is a trial that will bring back gruesome memories for some and fittingly commenced the week after Yom Hashoah. The “accountant of Auschwitz,” Oskar Gröning, 93, is on trial for his horrific deeds and many travelled to Germany to see the monster and hear his words. Gröning recounted his two years spent at the extermination camp after

volunteering for the SS as he is being charged with complicity in the murder of 300,000 Jews. “It is without question that I am morally complicit in the murder of millions of Jews through my activities at Auschwitz,” the Nazi said, clutching his notes and looking directly at the bench. “Before the victims, I also admit to this moral guilt here, with regret and humility. To the question as to whether I am criminally culpable, that’s for you to decide.” His statement came at the end of a detailed 50-minute account of his time at Auschwitz-Birkenau, which included how he was initially sent there and his attempts to get transferred elsewhere because of the atrocities he had seen, including witnessing an SS colleague bashing a baby to death against the side of a truck. What will be one of the last Nazi trials in Germany is being watched closely by historians, Holocaust experts and human rights lawyers around the world. Judge Frank Kom Pisch said for everyone present it was “anything but an easy event.” “Without exaggeration … this trial will attract a lot of attention and cause many emotions to be released, but we must remember that it is a criminal trial, albeit one with its own historical context,” he said. The trial marks the second attempt to bring Gröning to court. An investigation that began in 1978 collapsed seven years later with prosecutors ruling that unless it could be proven that Gröning was directly responsible for the deaths of prisoners, he could not be put on trial. But since the 2012 conclusion of the trial of John Demjanjuk in Munich, in which judges ruled he was an accessory to mass murder simply by working at the Sobibor extermination camp, a change of practice has taken place, in which an individual’s mere presence at a concentration camp coupled with the knowledge they knew what was happening there is sufficient to secure a conviction. Gröning was quiet as Jens Lehmann, the state prosecutor, read from the 85page indictment in which he detailed Gröning’s tasks at Auschwitz-Birkenau, including taking the suitcases from prisoners as they arrived at the camp and were selected into groups of those who would work and those who would be sent to their deaths. He said he had also been responsible for collecting the money in an array of currencies that was found in prisoners’ clothing and luggage, for recording it in a ledger, keeping it in a steel safe, and at various intervals taking the money to

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Greek Leading Political How do you Fill Your Party on Trial Plate? Leaders of Greece’s third largest political party, the extreme right Golden Dawn, went on trial on Monday on charges of operating as a criminal organization that allegedly carried out a campaign of violence against immigrants and left-wing opponents. Party leader Nikos Michaloliakos, 57, and senior officials are among 69 defendants in the case. Being that the middle class of Greece is still reeling from a financial crisis, this case has been followed closely across the country.

The trial is being held inside a maximum security prison near Athens. On Monday, the opening day of the trial, nearby schools and municipal services were closed due to fears that several anti-Golden Dawn demonstrators would protest and potentially be violent. Michaloliakos and 12 other members of parliament could face up to 10 years in prison if found guilty. Human rights groups claim there has been a surge of violent attacks since 2010, mostly against dark-skinned immigrants in Athens. Victims have reported that attackers – typically in groups and using brass knuckles and baseball bats – have often identified themselves as Golden Dawn supporters. The party denies any involvement in the attacks,

On Sunday, Siddique and his father were arrested on Sunday for committing the “honor killing.” Bibi had been married to Siddique for three years, during which time she had suffered repeated domestic abuse for the couple’s inability to have chil-

On any given day can you estimate the amount of calories you consume? According to new estimates, the average person worldwide consumes about 1,860 grams of food a day. But the average American consumes close to 50% more than the global average. The typical international plate is comprised of nine percent meat, 22 percent grains, 39 percent produce, 15 percent dairy and eggs, and a 15 percent block of sugar, fat, alcohol, and others. However, in the U.S., we eat twice as much meat as the average global citizen and less grains. Additionally, U.S. citizens eat proportionally more dairy, eggs, sugar, and fat. Of all countries, people in China eat the most produce and Indians eat the least meat—only 2 percent of their daily diet since many are vegetarians. In the U.K. residents eat less sugar and fat and more produce. Brazilians eat less food overall.

The Suffering of Women in Pakistan Continues In Pakistan, despite the year that’s written on the calendar, many people

dren, her brother Muhammad Azam said. “We have arrested the husband and father-in-law of the deceased woman and charged them for murder and terrorism,” district police Chief Rai Zameer-ul-Haq announced. The charge of “terrorism” is regularly applied in such cases so as to expedite the legal process. Sadly, this is not uncommon practice in Pakistan. Each year hundreds of women are murdered by their relatives through domestic violence cases or on the grounds of defending the family’s “honor.” The Aurat Foundation, a campaign group that works to improve the lives of women in Pakistan’s conservative and patriarchal society, says more than 3,000 women have been killed in such attacks since 2008.

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the Reich headquarters in Berlin. “Already on his first day the accused was informed by a colleague that those who were not chosen to work would be sent to their deaths,” Lehmann said. Prosecutors have concentrated the charge on the period between May and July 1944, the time of the mass deportation of Hungary’s Jewish community during which 137 trains brought 425,000 people to Auschwitz, of whom at least 300,000 were killed in the gas chambers. Hopefully, after 70 years, some of those who perished will have a small measure of justice.

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The Week In News the mammal is being watched by four armed guards at all hours of the day. Intricate and intense security operations are situated throughout the Ol Pejeta Conservancy’s 3,229-square-foot property. International experts are working closely with the rhinos to facilitate reproduction.

The rhino was transported to the Ol Pejeta Conservancy in Kenya in 2009 from the Dvur Kralove Zoo in the Czech Republic. At the time three other rhinos were acquired: Najin, Fatu, and Suni. In order to facilitate reproduction, the animals were moved to Kenya in the hopes that its more natural conditions would increase the chances of reproduction. “While Kenya has not been a white

rhino range state in the last 200 years, evidence from fossils and cave paintings in Kenya and northern Tanzania suggests that the white rhinoceros was widespread and a part of the East African savanna fauna until 3,000 years ago or less,” the IUCN’s Red List of Endangered Species reports on its website. Among the four acquired, two were males. In December San Diego’s Zoo’s male rhino died along with one of Kenya’s, leaving one male rhino, Sudan, still alive. If Sudan does not reproduce, white male rhinos will become completely extinct. However, if experts are able to help him reproduce not via natural channels, Sudan will be responsible for keeping his species going.

Iran Flaunts Weapons on Army Day, Threatens Israel Army Day was celebrated in Iran last Saturday, and in celebration, a military parade featuring new weapon sys-

tems drove through the streets south of the capital of Tehran displaying a huge sign that proclaimed, “Death to Israel.” The procession was attended by top political leaders including President Hassan Rouhani. A televised broadcast of the parade was punctuated by chants of “Death to America” and “Death to Israel.”

“If Israel makes a mistake,” the announcer on Iran television warned during the broadcast, “those in Tel Aviv and Haifa will not sleep at night, not one person.” The parade showcased the country’s military technologies including a domestically-produced version of the Russian S-300 anti-aircraft missile, the Bavar 373. Speaking at the event, Rouhani said Iran was adopting “a strategy of deterrence in order to prepare for peace and security in Iran and the Middle East. Our method of action is defense and not offense.” Earlier in the week, Russia confirmed that they would provide the S-300s to Iran soon, after delaying delivery for several years. In response, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu contacted President Vladimir Putin to ask him to cancel the deal, a request that had been denied.

China to Enforce Good Behavior Abroad

nese tourists, Beijing is beginning to micromanage their citizens’ behavior abroad. In 2013, a Chinese teenager scratched his name on the wall of an ancient temple in Egypt causing a huge stir on social media. Last December three women on an Air China flight became embroiled in a physical brawl mid-flight because of a crying baby. Most recently, in January, a group of tourists were detained after one of them opened the emergency exit doors as his plane was leaving the terminal in protest of a long delay. China’s tourism agency announced that it will keep records of “uncivilized” behavior by its tourists for up to two years. According to Reuters, the China National Tourism Administration (CNTA) feels that bad behavior by Chinese tourists have “tarnished” the country’s image and has caused the nation to “blush with shame.” The agency feels that the solution is to make sure tourist offenders “learn a lesson.” Any transgressions such as “violating order on public transportation — including flights — damaging public facilities or historical relics, ignoring social customs at tourism destinations” and becoming involved with illegal activity will be recorded by the CNTA. In some cases violators could face arrest. Additionally, China’s Civil Aviation Administration is considering adapting a “no fly list,” but instead of naming terrorists, the list would include any travelers who shamed the country. Dr. Jingjing Yang, a tourism development lecturer at the UK’s University of Surrey, agrees. “Chinese people are highly concerned about their ‘mianzi’ — their ‘face,’” she says. “Therefore being recorded into the ‘black list’ is absolutely a shame for them.” Roy Graff, an expert on Chinese tourism, said, “I would argue that other nationalities’ tourists are also guilty of bad behavior but now the media attention is all on China as it is the largest source of tourists.” Estimates suggest 140 million Chinese people will travel this year.

Train Breaks Speed Record China is concerned about their citizens’ reputation as tourists. After some rather embarrassing events and stereotypes regarding Chi-

Need a quick ride to work? On Tuesday, Japan’s state-of-the-art maglev train clocked a new world speed record in a test run near Mount Fuji, smashing through the 600 kilometer (373 miles)

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We know that the sun, the moon and the stars revolve around North Korea’s leader but now we know that in addition to all his amazing accomplishments, the 32-year-old is an unbelievable mountain climber. State news agency KCNA reported on Saturday that Jong Un “climbed the top” of the nation’s highest mountain. Both The Guardian and The Telegraph were skeptical about the news: he was photographed wearing a long coat without gloves and a hat and wearing shiny shoes. There were also recent reports of health problems with the dictator. Most likely he was dropped off at the summit of the nearly 9,000-foot Mount Paektu, where he was joined by a crowd of North Korean fighter pilots. Kim reportedly made the trip to the “sacred mountain of revolution associated with the soul of the Korean nation” to commemorate the 23rd anniversary of his late father Kim Jong-il being named marshal. While North Korea claims that his father was born on Mount Paektu, historians say the former dictator was actually born in a refugee camp in Russia.

Morsi Sentenced to 20 Years On Tuesday ousted Islamist President Mohammed Morsi was handed down his sentence: 20 years in prison on charges linked to the killing of protesters in 2012. The conviction can be

Tuesday’s ruling was the first verdict to be issued against the country’s first freely elected leader. Morsi and the Brotherhood swiftly rose to power in elections after autocrat Hosni Mubarak’s 2011 ouster, only to find themselves imprisoned a year later when millions protested against them for abusing power and the military overthrew the government. News of the conviction did not invoke protests, a possible reflection on the country’s recent heavy-handed security crackdown on dissidents. In a statement, Amnesty International called the case flawed and full of

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loopholes, while describing the trial as a “sham.” In addition to Morsi, 12 Brotherhood leaders and Islamist supporters, including Mohammed el-Beltagy and Essam el-Erian, also were sentenced to 20 years in prison. The case stems from violence outside the presidential palace in December 2012. Morsi’s supporters attacked opposition protesters demanding that Morsi call off a referendum on an Islamist-drafted constitution. Clashes developed into deadly confrontations overnight that killed at least 10 people. Under the government of President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, who as army chief overthrew Morsi, Brotherhood members and Islamists have faced trials that end with mass death sentences, sparking international condemnation. The heavy sentences have raised questions about the independence of Egypt’s judiciary, something analysts say could have contributed to the sentence Morsi received on Tuesday. Morsi faces four other trials on charges that vary from undermining national security by conspiring with foreign groups and orchestrating a prison break. Thousands of Brotherhood

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About two hundred train buffs gathered for Tuesday’s record-setting run, with the crowd cheering as the train broke through 600 kph per hour. “It gave me chills. I really want to ride on the train,” an elderly woman related as the carriage rocketed past her. An AFP reporter who previously rode on the super-speed train said the experience was like taking off in a plane, with the feeling of g-force gathering as the speedometer is pushed ever higher. JR Central wants to have a train in service in 2027, hoping to service the 286-km route between Tokyo and the central city of Nagoya. The ride, which would run at a top speed of 500 kph, is expected to connect the two cities in only 40 minutes, less than half the present journey time in Japan’s already speedy bullet trains. The shortened commutes are wonderful but they come at a price. Construction costs for the dedicated lines are astronomical – estimated at nearly $100 billion just for the stretch to Nagoya, with more than 80 percent of the route expected to go through costly tunnels. Japan is looking to sell its shinkansen bullet and maglev train systems overseas, with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe acting as a travelling salesman in his bid to revive the economy partly through infrastructure exports. He is due in the United States this weekend, where he will be touting the technology for a high-speed rail link between New York and Washington. Last year, Abe took US ambassador to Japan Caroline Kennedy on a test ride. “This technology is something that will bring great benefits to Japan and hopefully the United States one day,” Kennedy said after the ride.

The maglev train is a contender for US President Barack Obama’s multi-billion dollar national high-speed rail project. The proposed 60-kilometer link will represent the first phase in the U.S. government’s plan to connect the capital and Boston.

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per hour mark, as Tokyo races to sell the technology abroad. The seven-car maglev train – short for “magnetic levitation” – hit a top speed of 603 kilometers an hour, and managed to stay at over 600kph for nearly 11 seconds, operator Central Japan Railway said. The maglev hovers 10 centimeters above the tracks and is propelled by electrically charged magnets.

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Israel Breakthrough Tunnel Detector Developed

In the way of the Iron Dome, Israel has once again invented a defense system that is unique, advanced, and very much needed. Haunted by Hamas’ success in infiltrating fighters into Israel through tunnels, Israel has announced the development of the first effective system for detecting tunneling activity at a distance.

One of Israel’s leading defense electronics firms, Elbit Systems, said the system it developed in conjunction with the Israeli Defense Ministry is based on a series of sensors. Data that they furnish is analyzed by a control system, using algorithms. Terming the system “the first of its kind in the world,” the firm said the method enables the precise identification of tunnel building “without false alarms.” Last summer, during the 50-daylong war, 32 “attack tunnels” built by Hamas were uncovered by Israeli sappers, or combat engineers. All started from built-up areas in Gaza, with most stopping just short of the Israeli border. Some, however, continued under the border fence. On several occasions, Hamas fighters emerged from the tunnels inside Israel wearing Israeli army uniforms and ambushed troops. Some succeeded in escaping back into Gaza. The greatest fear by Israelis was that the terrorists would penetrate nearby civilian settlements. The militants often appeared within a few hundred meters of kibbutzim, but thankfully they were halted before reaching them. Residents of border kibbutzim expressed a measure of relief at the devel-

opment. “For us, the tunnel threat registered as insoluble,” said Amit Caspi of Kerem Shalom, the kibbutz most threatened by tunnels, “so if there is a breakthrough here it could really improve personal security, even though we know there is never 100 percent certainty.” Hamas and other militant groups in Gaza succeeded in 2006 in digging an 800-yard-long tunnel under the border near Kibbutz Kerem Shalom and killing two Israeli soldiers and capturing a third, Gilad Shalit. Shalit was brought back to Israel five years later in exchange for more than 1,000 Palestinian prisoners. Other cross border tunnels were discovered two years ago packed with explosives, apparently to be exploded under Israeli tanks. The Israeli army has been looking for a solution to the tunnel threat for a decade and has examined some 700 project proposals, according to a military source. A number of projects were implemented but did not succeed. The estimated cost of constructing the system is $3.5 million per mile. The intention, said officials, is to build the system along the entire 35-mile land border between Gaza and Israel.

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thority. Last month, Israel agreed to resume the transfers and said it would pay $400 million, having deducted money it said the Palestinians owed for utilities and medical treatment. According to an agreement reached between Palestinian Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah and the Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories Yoav Mordechai, outstanding debts the Palestinian Authority has to Israel for the months of December, January and February will be deducted from the tax funds. Israel’s state-owned electric corporation says it is owed about $510,000 by the Palestinians.

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Anyone out there who is looking for a job with one really big benefit, listen up! Israel’s largest brewer, Goldstar, is looking for a chief taster, and they’ve opened the search to the public. The brewery, part of beverage company Tempo Beer Industries Ltd. — which also makes Maccabee Beer and Nesher Malt, as well as the Jump juice brands and is the local bottler for PepsiCo — is looking for someone with two to three years’ experience drinking beer, 18 or older, and not currently in the army. According to the job description, the taster can be male or female, and will earn NIS 12,000 plus travel expenses per month, because this is not a job where you can drink and drive. There’s also no telecommuting, as the taster must work out of Tempo’s Netanya headquarters, but only has to show up once a week to sip and taste the brew emerging from the company’s barrels. Palate cleansers will be provided. It sounds like an easy job, but it’s not, according to the company’s statement. The taster’s judgment calls on Israel’s leading beer brand will affect hundreds of thousands of beer drinkers, according to Tempo. Looking to apply? Better work fast. I’m sure there are many lining up for this plum position. Continued on page 24

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The Week In News Violent Anti-Semitism Rising According to Israeli researchers, Jewish communities around the world

faced an “explosion of hatred” in 2014. Last year, the number of violent anti-Semitic attacks increased by 38 percent, mostly concentrated in Western Europe. The report by researchers at Tel Aviv University recorded 766 incidents – ranging from armed assaults to vandalism against synagogues, schools

and cemeteries – compared to 554 in 2013. Many Jews feel like “they are facing an explosion of hatred toward them as individuals, their communities, and Israel, as a Jewish state,” wrote the researchers from the university’s Center for the Study of Contemporary European Jewry.

The center releases a report every year on the eve Yom Hashoah. The researchers said the increase in attacks on Jews was partly linked to last summer’s conflict between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip as well as to what they called a “general climate of hatred and violence” fostered by the rise of the Islamic State group in the Middle East.

2014 was the second most violent year for Jews in a decade after 2009, which also saw a surge in anti-Semitism following an Israeli military operation in Gaza. The violence in 2014 spiked during the July-August war in Gaza, particularly in demonstrations organized in France, Germany and other countries, during which protesters chanted anti-Semitic slogans, looted Jewish shops, and attacked synagogues as well as people identifiable as Jews. However, researchers stressed that attacks had been on the rise also before the summer and said the controversy over Israel’s operation was used as a pretext to attack Jews. “Synagogues were targeted, not Israeli embassies,” said Dina Porat, a historian, who edited the report. The reported incidents do not include the killing of four shoppers at a kosher supermarket in Paris following the deadly shooting at French magazine Charlie Hebdo, since those events occurred in January. However, the researchers noted that the wave of attacks has continued this year, and that the gruesome acts and propaganda videos of the Islamic State are also encouraging the radicalization of Muslims in the West. As in past years, the highest number of attacks was reported in France, which saw 164 incidents as compared to 141 in 2013. In Britain there were 141 attacks, up from 95, and in the United States there were 80 incidents versus 55, including a shooting at Jewish sites in Overland Park, Kansas, that killed three people.

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As Israel geared up for Yom Hazikaron, the name of Muhammed Abu Khdeir was added to the Victims of Acts of Terror Memorial on Jerusalem’s Mount Herzl, the national cemetery. On Tuesday, his name was also added to the government’s online database of terror victims, next to an Israeli flag overlaid with a picture of the Blood of the Maccabees flower, which has come to symbolize the country’s fallen.

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messages that were religious in nature, praising the Prophet Muhammad. The prison psychiatrist said that Kutina seemed lucid and was fit to stand trial. Kutina’s driver’s license should have been suspended about a year and a half ago pending an examination into his mental state. The suspension may not have taken place because of a miscommunication between the Transportation Ministry and the Health Ministry.

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Rabbi Aharon Lichtenstein, among the most prominent rabbis in Modern Orthodoxy and the Israeli national-religious movement, passed away this week at the age of 81. Rabbi Lichtenstein was a noted and prolific Jewish legal authority, head of the Har Etzion Yeshiva, and the son-in-law of Rabbi Joseph Soloveitchik z”l. He received smicha from Rabbi Soloveitchik in 1959 and held a PhD in English literature from Harvard University conducted under the tutelage of literary critic Douglas Bush. Rabbi Lichtenstein was awarded Israel’s highest civilian honor, the Israel Prize, in 2014. Rabbi Lichtenstein was born in Paris in 1933, the year the Nazi party rose to power in neighboring Germany, but fled Vichy France with his family in 1941 for the United States. The family settled in New York in 1945, where Rabbi Lichtenstein eventually entered Yeshiva University. He was invited to jointly head, with Rabbi Yehuda Amital, the Har Etzion Yeshiva, located in the Etzion Bloc in the West Bank south of Jerusalem, in 1971, and had lived in Israel ever since.

al hours before the attack, Kutina drove his family from ‘Anata to East Jerusalem. At the exit from ‘Anata, the car was held at a checkpoint, which Kutina said made him angry. He decided to commit the attack after dropping off his family. In his interrogation, 37-year-old Kutina admitted he was driving along Highway 1 looking for Jews to harm as revenge for his “miserable life.” When he stopped at a light at the French Hill junction, he noticed two people who appeared Jewish walking towards a bus station and decided to target them. He veered off the left lane at high speed towards the right lane, drove onto the sidewalk and hit the two, who were waiting at the bus station. Immediately afterwards he drove in reverse and hit a stop light. He was arrested at the scene. Shalom Yohai Cherki, who was critically wounded, succumbed to his injuries at the hospital. The second victim, Shira Klein, remains in serious condition at the Hadassah Medical Center in Jerusalem’s Ein Karem. Police say Kutina is married and is known as a very religious man who worked as a cleaner at a mosque in ‘Anata. He used to send his friends text

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At the funeral on Tuesday, Rabbi Lichtenstein’s son, R’ Moshe, tearfully recalled, “Your students were your children, and your children were your students.” He added. “You were a scholar and a devoted father. You’ve set up an entire world.” R’ Yitzchak Lichtenstein spoke about his father’s humility. Explaining that his father always taught the dictum of being moderate in all ways – except for humility and anger – R’ Yitzhak added that his father was “never angry in his life.” “My father always gave a person the benefit of the doubt. He had a good eye,” Rabbi Yitzchak said, adding, “My father did not know what anger was. He never engaged in slander or small talk. He was diligent; he and the Torah were as one, but despite this he never turned anyone away, receiving them hospitably and never letting visitors feel as if they were bothering him.” Another son, Rabbi Meir, related a story about Rabbi Lichtenstein’s love of Torah. “Last summer a team of emergency management team came to Gush Etzion. Father said, ‘Only electricity is considered an emergency? Studying of Torah isn’t urgent? You have come to the yeshiva in order to study,’” “You were always a ner tamid,” Rabbi Meir said. “Many wanted to learn from you and hear your Torah words, but you were so humble. You had a big heart.”

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for Netanyahu. In recent days, Netanyahu has met personally with all the heads of the parties he intends to bring into the 67 member coalition he is forming. He faced criticism and muscle-flexing from all of them. Netanyahu told Rivlin that coalition talks had advanced, but he would need more time to complete negotiations to build a stable government. Rivlin granted the request because party heads who recommended he form the government have not changed their minds, but he urged the prime minister to complete the task as soon as possible. “The entire nation of Israel wants you to succeed,” Rivlin told Netanyahu.

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The Week In News businessman. Ali Mansouri was arrested at Ben Gurion airport in 2013 as he attempted to leave the country carrying photographs of the U.S. embassy in Tel Aviv and other sites, Israel’s Shin Bet domestic security service said. He was sentenced for “aiding an enemy during war” and “espionage” on behalf of Iran’s elite Republican Guard, court documents showed. Mansouri is not expected to appeal the sentence. “It was the Iranian secret services who put pressure on him and his family, and we feel that this verdict was rather fair and reasonable in view of the circumstances,” Defense lawyer Avidgor Feldman said. The Shin Bet said that Mansouri, who acquired Belgian nationality through marriage, had enrolled in a special operations unit of Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards after being recruited in 2012. According to the indictment, he was given “an espionage mission aimed at harming Israel’s security,” and visited the country three times. He was to pretend to be “an innocent businessman and establish a company in Israel” that would serve as infrastructure for espionage by another Iranian man who would

arrive later. Mansouri confessed to his ties to Iranian intelligence and said he had been promised $1 million as a reward for his efforts. Using the alias Alex Mans, Mansouri is accused of entering Israel using his Belgian passport in July 2012, before later briefing his handlers in Iran on his progress and security at Ben Gurion airport. In January 2013 Mansouri again entered Israel and took photographs of the U.S. embassy in Tel Aviv and an unnamed security installation before another debriefing in Iran. Mansouri arrived again on September 6 for meetings to open a factory and, according to the indictment, “serve Iranian intelligence in the future.” He was arrested at the airport on September 11, 2013, as he sought to leave Israel.

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landing his gyrocopter on Capitol Hill last week expressed frustration that his message wasn’t getting through. Doug Hughes had hoped to raise awareness about the influence of big money in politics by deliberately breaking the law to deliver 535 letters, one for each member of Congress. Instead, the overwhelming focus of news coverage has been about the gaps he exposed in national security. The message he intended to send was overshadowed by security woes. “We’ve got bigger problems in this country than worrying about whether the security around DC is ironclad,” Hughes related. “We need to be worried about the piles of money that are going into Congress.” Hughes, 61, spoke as he returned to his home in Florida to await prosecution on charges of violating national airspace and operating an unregistered aircraft. His house arrest begins next week, and he will wear an electronic monitoring ankle bracelet until a May 8 court hearing in Washington.

Man with a Flight Plan The letter carrier who caused a fullscale security review in Washington when he violated national airspace by

Hughes said people weren’t scared when they saw his gyrocopter. He says they waved as he flew in low and slow over the National Mall, over the reflecting pool and onto the Capitol’s West Lawn. Hughes spent a night in jail after Capitol Police arrested him. The ultralight aircraft and its cargo — a U.S. Postal Service bin carrying the letters — were seized. “The message was two pages long to Congress that they are going to have to face the issue, OK, of campaign-finance reform and honesty and government so that they work for the people,” Hughes said. Hughes’ Russian-born wife, Alena, told reporters that her husband acted out of patriotism for the United States. “I am very proud of my husband. He is a countryman,” she said. Asked if he thinks he’s a patriot or simply crazy, Hughes said, “Everyone gets to make up their own mind about me, that’s what I’d say.” “But do you consider yourself a patriot?” a reporter asked. “No, I’m a mailman,” he replied.

Millions of Creatures Wash onto West Coast Beaches

Millions of small, jellyfish-like sea creatures known as by-the-wind sailors—or purple sails—are getting blown onto beaches from California to Washington. The latest sighting came this week at Ocean Shores, Washington, where swarms of the purple-colored, oval-shaped creatures washed ashore and died in amazing numbers. The scientific name of the by-thewind sailor is velella velella. It is a free-floating hydrozoan that lives on the ocean surface. They sting to stun prey but are harmless to humans. The Weather Channel went so far as to say billions have washed ashore along the West Coast, reporting that it is a result of strong winds and above-average sea surface temperatures. “Since March, the component of surface wind blowing from west to east over the northeast Pacific toward coastal Washington and northwest Oregon has been stronger than average,” meteorologist Jonathan Erdman pointed out. Steve Green with the Coastal Interpretive Center reported that the bythe-wind sailors could continue sailing onto West Coast beaches throughout the summer months, which will make for a gooey mess for beachgoers. With small dorsal sails, the by-thewind sailors are powerless to avoid getting swept onto beaches where they die. A similar event occurred last summer. JellyWatch.com was created with support by the Monterey Bay Aquarium and tracks sightings of jellyfish. Since the by-the-wind sailor is similar to jellyfish, sightings of these purple blobs appear on the site—from Big Sur, California, to Charleston, Oregon, to Ocean Shores, Washington. Beachgoers better watch where they step.

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Hundreds of people gathered this past week at the site of the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing to remember the 168 men, women and children killed when a truck crammed with tons of explosives blew up at a downtown federal building 20 years ago. Former President Bill Clinton was among the dignitaries who addressed the crowd outside the Oklahoma City National Memorial and Museum. “Oklahoma City, you had to choose to redeem your terrible losses by having to begin again,” said Clinton, who was in his first term in office at the time of the attack, one of the deadliest of its kind ever staged on U.S. soil. The museum, built over the spot where the destroyed Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building once stood, includes a permanent display of 168 empty chairs, one for each person who died. On Sunday morning, the seats were adorned with flowers, teddy bears and other mementos. The name of each victim was read aloud by relatives, co-workers and survivors. “It was 60 minutes of terror,” Oklahoma City Mayor Mick Cornett recalled. “But our finest hour has lasted 20 years. This city has progressed in a manner that none of us could have foreseen.” The bombing was carried out on April 19, 1995 by Timothy McVeigh, an anti-government militant who was convicted on federal charges and executed. His accomplice, Terry Nichols, received multiple life prison sentences for his part in the bombing, which also injured hundreds. Also attending last week’s ceremo-

Atlanta Educators Found Guilty of Cheating

on the standardized tests that are taken across the nation in April. Perhaps it’s the teachers and educators who worry the most since their students’ scores are used as a report card for their teaching. Teachers spend months and months prepping students for the ELA and math portion of the exam. But some teachers will even go a step further—even if it means breaking the law. A group of 10 Atlanta public school educators were recently accused of inflating students’ scores. Of the 10, nine were convicted. The judge called the cheating scandal “the sickest thing that’s ever happened in this town.” A state investigation found that as far back as 2005, educators from the 50,000-student Atlanta school system fed answers to students or erased and changed answers on tests after they were turned in. Evidence of cheating was found in 44 schools with nearly 180 educators involved, and teachers who tried to report it were threatened with retaliation. Fulton County Superior Court Judge Jerry Baxter delayed sentencing by a day and encouraged all the people who stood trial to attempt to negotiate deals with prosecutors. Only two agreed to

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John Hinckley Jr. lives much of the year like any average American. You might find him shopping, eating out, going to the doctor, or running any other of his daily errands. What makes his seemingly normal life noteworthy is that he once shot an American president and three other people. Hinckley was just 25 when he shot President Ronald Reagan in 1981. When jurors found him not guilty by reason of insanity, they said he needed treatment, not a lifetime in confinement. The verdict left open the possibility that he would one day live outside a mental hospital. For the past year, under a judge’s order, Hinckley has spent 17 days a month at his mother’s home in Williamsburg, a small southeastern Virginia city. Freedom has come in stages and with strict requirements: meeting regularly in Williamsburg with a psychiatrist and a therapist and volunteering. It has all been part of a lengthy process meant to reintegrate Hinckley, now nearing 60, back into society. Court hearings are set to begin Wednesday on whether to expand Hinckley’s time in Williamsburg further — possibly permanently. In hearings before U.S. District Judge Paul L. Friedman, doctors have testified that Hinckley’s psychosis and major depression have been in remission for decades and that, while he still has a narcissistic personality disorder, its effects have diminished. Psychological testing shows Hinckley’s dangerousness risk is “decidedly low,” Hinckley’s longtime lawyer, Barry Levine, said during the most recent hearings over his release that ran intermittently from late 2011 through 2013. For decades, Hinckley was confined to St. Elizabeth’s Hospital in the nation’s capital. But Judge Friedman had been allowing him freedom in stages starting with a 2003 order: at first, day visits outside the institution, then local overnight visits. Starting in 2006, Hinckley was allowed three-night trips to Williamsburg, then four, then more. In late 2013, Friedman approved the current

Remembering the Oklahoma City Bombing

ny were some of the so-called “miracle babies” who were at a daycare center in the building when the bomb exploded. Despite seared lungs and faces and mental and psychological scars, they try not to dwell on the past and look towards a bright and productive future.

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The Week In News deals. In both those cases, Baxter followed the state’s recommendations: He gave a former teacher a 7 p.m. to 7 a.m. curfew at home for one year and a former testing coordinator six months of weekends spent in jail. They’ll also serve five years on probation. The remaining eight received harsher sentences, ranging from one to seven

years in jail. They are expected to appeal and will be free on bond while the appeals are pending. District Attorney Paul Howard told reporters that the harshness of the sentencing is to spread awareness in the community. “We believe the loss that we suffered was a community loss,” Howard said.

Group of Minnesotans Caught Trying to Join IS

San Diego, according to federal authorities. He was headed to join the Islamic State group.

His mind was made up and there was no one who could change it. Last May, Guled Ali Omar emptied his bank accounts and booked a flight to Syria via

However, his family staged an intervention and he scrapped his original plans, albeit temporarily. In November, officials say, Guled attempted to board a flight in Minneapolis before he was stopped by the FBI. Supposedly Omar knew he was under investigation but still attempted to get to Syria by plotting to secure false passports. There are five other men who have a similar story. Omar is among six Minnesota men of Somali descent charged with terrorism-related offenses in a criminal complaint unsealed on Monday. The men were described as a group of friends from Minnesota’s Somali community. They recruited and inspired one another and met regularly in secret to plan their travels. The Minneapolis community has the largest concentration of Somali immigrants in the U.S. Since 2007, more than 22 young Somali men have also traveled from Minnesota to Somalia to join the militant group alShabab, which is also listed by the U.S. State Department as fomenting terrorism. Al-Shabab is responsible for the recent attack on a university in Kenya on April 2 that left 148 people dead. The Minnesota men charged on Monday were identified as Omar, 20; brothers Mohamed Abdihamid Farah, 21, and Adnan Abdihamid Farah, 19; Abdurahman Yasin Daud, 21; Zacharia Yusuf Abdurahman, 19; and Hanad Mustafe Musse, 19. Daud is a permanent resident of the U.S., and Guled is a naturalized citizen. The others were born in the U.S. The men are charged with conspiracy to provide material support and attempting to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization. “What is remarkable about this case is that nothing stopped these defendants from pursuing their goal,” U.S. Attorney for Minnesota Andy Luger said on Monday. “They never stopped plotting another way to get to Syria to join ISIL.”

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The Week In News Running for the Gold at the Boston Marathon It would take far more than just a few rain showers and gusting winds to dent the spirits of Boston and its runners at the Boston Marathon this week. On Monday, Boston hosted its an-

nual marathon, marking two years since the tragic bombing in 2013. Around 30,000 geared up early Monday morning to compete in one of the world’s most prestigious races; the route covers over 26 miles of Boston’s mountainous landscape. Add in Monday’s rain and 20-mph winds and you’ve got a solid competition. The women’s race featured Mare

Dibaba of Ethiopia and Caroline Rotich of Kenya running it out for first place. Rotich made her final winning move with just 500 feet to go, ripping past Dibaba, and winning with a time of 2:24:55, just four seconds ahead of Dibaba. This is Rotich’s first victory at the Boston Marathon. Lelisa Desisa and Yemane Adhane Tsegay, both of Ethiopia, were neck-

to-neck heading towards the men’s finish line but during the last mile Desisa surged seven-seconds ahead, winning the race with a time of 2:09:17. Desisa also won the Boston Marathon in 2013 but gave his medal to the city after the tragic attacks at the race.

Last year’s winner, Meb Keflezighi, crossed the finish line at 2:12:42. He was the first American to win the race since 1983. His patriotic win was sentimental and emotional to many viewers since it was the first race since the bombings.

That’s odd Best Excuse for Jury Duty

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A Place of his Own After living on the streets for years, a homeless man will finally be able to come home. John Helinski lost his home in 2012 and lived near bus stops and under benches in Tampa, Florida, until a stroke

of fortune and two good people helped him get back on his feet. Incredibly, the 63-year-old has been unknowingly collecting Social Security disability benefits for years. A police officer and a homeless shelter manager managed to help him find stolen documents and gain access to the forgotten bank account that now contains enough money to pur-

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“I guess I’m exhilarated, excited, you know,” he said. He will also be receiving a pension and hopefully be able to enjoy his newfound income.

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Looking for something different to serve for dinner? Well, an increasing number of “entopreneurs” are launching businesses to feed a growing appetite for crickets, mealworms and other edible insects. They’re trying to convince Americans to include bugs in their daily diet—a crunchy, yummy staple, they say. The United Nations has been promoting edible insects as a way to improve nutrition, reduce greenhouse-gas emissions and create jobs in insect production. At least 2 billion people worldwide already eat insects as part of their diet, according to the 2013 report by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization. But it could be a hard sell for Westerners who would prefer to swat flies than to eat them. “Insects are viewed as what ruins food — a roach in your soup, a fly in your salad. That’s the biggest obstacle — the ick factor,” admits Daniella Martin, the “Girl Meets Bug” blogger and author of Edible: An Adventure into the World of Eating Insects and the Last Great Hope to Save the Planet. Inside San Francisco’s La Cocina, a commercial kitchen for food entrepreneurs, Monica Martinez empties hun-

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The Bird Did It

Why’d the woman crash her car? Well, the parrot made her do it. State police say that a woman blamed her coffee-drinking pet parrot for distracting her moments before she crashed her car into a guardrail in Pennsylvania. The 35-year-old woman was driving along the road when she noticed the bird pecking at the lid of her coffee cup. She glanced down to see what he was doing and then struck the guardrail. Apparently her bird likes to drink coffee—and needed a caffeine fix. Police found birdseed in a cup holder next to the coffee along with a few feathers nearby. Sure gives a new meaning to eating like a bird.

Sweatworking: the Newest Thing in Business

Want to develop a better rapport with your clients? Why don’t you head out for a yoga or fitness class together? Sweatworking seems to be gaining traction as a business practice, elbowing networking out of bars, restaurants and the golf course. “Sweatworking was born out of a desire to connect with clients on a deeper level that wasn’t so sales-y,” said Sarah Siciliano, 32, an advertising executive who has been entertaining clients with workouts. “A lot of sales jobs revolve around drinking.” Siciliano, who is based in New York City, considers taking her mostly female clients, who range in age from 22 to 52, to yoga, spinning, boot camp and dance studios as a great tool to develop relationships. Sweat marks aside, “people like to move along with the trends,” said Siciliano, who organizes her workout events. “I do all the legwork but I exercise every day anyway so for me it’s a winwin,” she said. “If you can knock out a client event and your workout at the same time, why not?” The newest networking trend is not just used in off-the-path professions. Lawyers and bankers are utilizing this practice as well. Pushups, anyone?

Mom Downs 13 Lbs. of Steak Everything is big in Texas—including their food competitions. On Sunday, Molly Schuyler took home the prize when she devoured 13 pounds of steak, beating out professional wrestlers and college football players. The professional eater chowed down on three 72-ounce steaks in 20 minutes at the Big Texan Steak Ranch in Amaril-

lo. The feast also included salad, potatoes, shrimp and dinner rolls.

The restaurant is home to the 72-ounce steak challenge: if a diner can finish the massive steak and its sides in under an hour, the $72 meal is free. Last year, the California mom of four devoured the meal in just 4 minutes and 58 seconds, setting a new restaurant record. So for her return, the Big Texan pitted her against four two-person teams and upped the challenge to three massive meals. The teams: Two indoor football players, two professional wrestlers, two former West Texas A&M football players and two randomly selected steak lovers. Each duo was allowed to split the gigantic dinner of 216 ounces of beef, three salads, three baked potatoes, three rolls and three shrimp cocktails. Schuyler, who weighs just 120 pounds, competed solo. She devoured the first 72-ounce meal in 4 minutes and 18 seconds, beating her own previous record. She finished the second at 11 minutes and 47 seconds, and the third was demolished by minute 20. After taking two bites of her fourth steak, she threw in the towel, claiming to be tired of the taste. Last month, Schuyler downed a fivepound pile of bacon in mere minutes. Last July, Schuyler ate 26 hamburgers in ten minutes during a Washington, D.C. competition. It took her half an hour to devour 363 chicken wings last January. Wonder how long it’ll take her to slam down 20 bowls of cholent?

Present Particulars Don’t know what to buy your oneyear-old grandchild on his birthday? Don’t worry, they’ll be sure to tell you. A demanding email regarding presents for a one-year-old has been circulating the web, eliciting giggles, raised eyebrows and snorts of disbelief. Redditor razz32 posted the email on April 17 with the heading “Most demanding 1st birthday invite ever” after a co-worker, who was one of the original recipients, printed it out and shared it

around the office. Here’s how the letter begins: “With [name redacted]’s birthday coming up, we thought we’d ask for 4 items that he will really get a lot of use out of in the coming months. I provided my mom and sister-in-law [name redacted] with a list of 4 other items [baby] would like for his birthday so that they can buy from their list and avoid duplication. We’re asking for gifts only from grandparents and the direct aunt/ uncle for [baby]’s birthday party … and would like to restrict it to 2 items total per household.”

Not to leave anything to chance, the particular parents list the four specific items, along with links on where to purchase them. But wait, there’s more. If you choose to purchase something that doesn’t appear on the list, “anytime regardless of birthdays or holidays, please be sure to always include a receipt going forward.” Without a receipt, they say, they “only get about 50% of the value” when they return the item (and I’m sure they will). And of course, please don’t buy their little cutie another book, aside from the one listed in the letter. Right now, the young boy has “32 board books on his shelf, and 25 additional books waiting for him in storage once he is 3+ years of age. (And at this point, he hates when we try reading to him.)” Oh, and if you want to personalize any presents, forget it. That could lead to kidnapping, according to these uber-helicopter parents. In conclusion, feel free to reach out to them if you have any questions. Oh, and by the way, “a formal invite from [baby] will be arriving in your mailboxes soon…” Can’t wait to join in the festivities. That’s if they let us smile. 

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ing the entire Far Rockaway and Five Towns community to embrace the Inwood community as the emerging destination of choice for young, bnei Torah to grow roots and flourish. Come join us and find out what makes our community so special.

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And as the shul pays tribute to the past, they turn to their two honorees this year for leadership and inspiration. Jordan and Chana Kaplowitz, although they live in Lawrence, have chosen Inwood – just a short 10 minute walk away – as their community and shul. They have become friends to all and an excellent addition to the shul membership. David and Chani Winzelberg are two active leaders in our Community, often leading by example behind the scenes and out of the limelight. David has been managing the shul’s weekly zmanim and email for over a year and continues to lead the shul with alacrity and an always cheerful countenance. David also spearheaded the morning learning seder before the 6:30am Shacharis which has now also begun a Daf Yomi shiur at 5:50am. Both of the honorees are prime examples of the families moving into and living in Inwood - committed to the Torah ideals of gemilus chassadim and limud haTorah. The shul takes great pride in invit-

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Bais Tefila of Inwood is hosting its 6th Anniversary Dinner Campaign this week to honor two leading families of the kehilla - David and Chani Winzelberg and Jordan and Chana Kaplowitz. Over the past six years the shul has and continues to experience tremendous growth, emerging as a leading community of choice for young, bnei Torah. Led by their Mora D’Asra, Rabbi Pinchus Weinberger, the shul and community look to build off the success of the past and continue m’choyil l’choyil for future growth. The shul hosts multiple shiurim and minyanim throughout the week as well as additional popular speakers having spent Shabbos at the shul including Rabbi Paysach Krohn and Rabbi YY Rubinstein. The shul has a flourishing and active N’shei which sponsors multiple programs throughout the year including Purim programming, a Simchas Torah community-wide lunch, flowers for yom tovim, a Chinese Auction, and other events for the enjoyment of the N’shei.

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Around The Community To usher in the month of Iyar, the talmidim of Yeshiva Ketana of Long Island had the pleasure to hear from the menahel of DRS, Rabbi Yisroel Kamenetzky. Rabbi Kamenetzky opened his remarks by stating, “This is the first time in my 18 years at DRS that I was asked to speak at another local yeshiva. This is a sign of the achdus that Yeshiva Ketana of Long Island is showing. These are the things which help bring Moshiach.” Rabbi Kamenetzky went on to speak about how careful we must be when we speak to each other. His message was that we must say random nice comments to each other and greet even those who we are not so close to even before we are greeted.

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Councilmember Julissa Ferreras Joins Assemblyman Goldfeder on Visit to Far Rockaway Organizations Assemblyman Phil Goldfeder (D Far Rockaway) and City Councilmember Julissa Ferreras (D - Elmhurst), Chair of the powerful City Council Committee on Finance, met in Far Rockaway to discuss ongoing Sandy recovery efforts and to visit vital educational and nonprofit organizations serving the community. The whirlwind tour included stops to Ohel Regional Family Center, Yeshiva

families grow and prosper in the years to come.” “Assemblyman Phil Goldfeder’s warm welcome to his district shed light on organizations that are doing fantastic work as well as their ongoing Sandy recovery efforts. Understanding the needs of communities near and far is an important part of my work as the City Council negotiates New York City’s budget,” said Councilmember Julissa Ferreras. “I am thankful for the assemblyman’s collaborative spirit and the opportunity to visit and tour Far Rockaway.” The officials’ first stop was a visit to Ohel Regional Family Center, where Goldfeder and Ferreras met with Ohel C.E.O. David Mandel Assemblyman Goldfeder and Council Member Ferreras visit the food pantry and C.A.O. Amy Biwith Nathan Krasnovsky, Executive Director of the Jewish Community Council of the Rockaway Peninsula erig and toured the facility’s psychotherapy Darchei Torah, and Jewish Community and counseling departments. The Ohel administrators also showed the buildCouncil of the Rockaway Peninsula. “The Far Rockaway community ing’s first floor classrooms, which were is fortunate to have strong institutions severely damaged by flooding during Suworking to educate our families and perstorm Sandy. provide the vital services we need. Still, Following Ohel, Goldfeder and Fermore than two and half years after Sandy, reras stopped by Yeshiva Darchei Torah we desperately need support from all lev- (YDT) to meet with Rabbi Baruch Rothels of government to continue to help the man, the Director of Institutional Adcommunity recover,” said Assemblyman vancement. Rabbi Rothman showed the Phil Goldfeder. “Councilmember Fer- officials around the Yeshiva’s sprawling reras is a great friend to Far Rockaway campus, and gave Goldfeder and Ferreand an important advocate in the Council ras a tour of its groundbreaking vocationwith a deep understanding of our recov- al program, which teaches students skills ery and resiliency needs. It was my honor in lucrative construction and home deto take Julissa on a tour of the communi- sign trades. YDT is a leading educational ty and discuss how the city can help our institution among American yeshivos, of-

Assemblyman Phil Goldfeder (D - Far Rockaway) and City Council Member Julissa Ferreras (D - Elmhurst), Chair of the powerful City Council Committee on Finance, met in Far Rockaway to discuss ongoing Sandy recovery efforts and to visit vital educational and nonprofit organizations serving the community. The whirlwind tour included stops to Ohel Regional Family Center, Yeshiva Darchei Torah, and Jewish Community Council of the Rockaway Peninsula.

fering comprehensive Jewish and general primary and secondary education. The Assemblyman and the Councilmember concluded their tour with a visit to Jewish Community Council of the Rockaway Peninsula (JCCRP). Executive Director Nathan Krasnovsky explained the organization’s food pantry operations, including its recent work providing food and supplies to needy fami-

lies for Pesach. Krasnovsky also showed the elected officials JCCRP’s social work and disaster case management offices, which have served hundreds of families in the wake of Sandy. The tour came as the City Council recently submitted its response to the Fiscal Year 2016 Preliminary Budget, which sets out plans for the city’s $75 billion budget for the coming year.

Israeli Craft Fair to be Held in Lido Beach On Sunday, May 3, , the Lido Beach Synagogue will host an Israeli crafts fair featuring the work product of over twenty artists, artisans and craftspeople from Tzfat. On display and available for purchase will be creative and distinctive art pieces encompassing glass, jewelry, paintings, ceramic, weaving, woodcraft, carvings, sculpture and more. Since the 16th century, Tzfat has been a center of Kabbalah, or Jewish mysticism, with many historic venues and religious sites; the artwork will reflect all of that

and more. The fair will run from 12 noon to 6 PM in the synagogue’s ballroom at 1 Fairway Road (enter on Lido Beach Boulevard) in Lido Beach, New York. Directions and additional information are available from the synagogue at 516889-9650 or on our website, lidoshul. org/tzfatfair. Entrance is free, parking is available and refreshments will be served throughout the day. Come browse, take home a beautiful piece of art, and support Israel!

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Syria from Lebanon; ending Hezbollah’s 2006 war on Israel and creating an arms embargo against Hezbollah; sanctioning North Korea for its nuclear weapons and ballistic missile programs and tests; bringing African peacekeepers into Somalia; blocking Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez from joining the Security Council; arranging for Security Council deliberations on Burma’s human rights abuses; and working to stop the Khartoum regime’s mass murder of non-Arabs in Darfur, Sudan. Ambassador Bolton received his undergraduate and law degrees from Yale. He is currently of counsel at the law firm of Kirkland & Ellis LLC, as well as foreign policy senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute (“AEI”), and a regular contributor to the FOX News Channel on foreign policy issues. Ambassador Bolton is the author of Surrender is Not an Option: Defending America at the U.N. and Abroad (Simon and Shuster, 2007) and How Barack Obama is Endangering our National Sovereignty (Encounter Books, 2010). Ambassador Bolton’s op-ed articles are regularly featured in The New York

Times, The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Times. The event’s co-sponsor, the ZOA’s Long Island-Queens region, was recently reinvigorated with a new and growing board, led by acting president Martin Sokol, acting Chair Alan Mazurek, M.D., and Exec. Director Liz Berney, Esq. The Zionist Organization of America is the oldest and one of the largest pro-Israel organizations in the United States. With offices around the country and in Israel, the ZOA educates the public, elected officials, the media, and college/high school students about the truth of the ongoing Arab war against Israel. The ZOA works to strengthen U.S.- Israel relations through educational activities, public affairs programs and ZOA’s work on Capitol Hill, and combats anti-Semitism and anti-Israel bias in the media, in textbooks, in schools and on college campuses. Under the leadership of such presidents as Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis, Rabbi Abba Hillel Silver, and current President Morton A. Klein, the ZOA has been – and continues to be – on the frontlines of Jewish activism.

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tain to make this a compelling not-to-be-missed evening. The public is invited to attend. Ambassador Bolton spent many years of his career in public service diplomatic and international security posts. Ambassador Bolton served as United States Permanent Representative to the United Nations (August 2005-December 2006); U.S. Undersecretary of State for Arms Control and International Security (2001-2005); Assistant Secretary for International Organization Affairs, U.S. State Department (1989-1993); Assistant Attorney General, U.S. Dep’t of Justice (1985-1989); Assistant administrator for Program and Policy Coordination, U.S. Agency for International Development (1982-1983); and General Counsel, U.S. Agency for International Development (1981-1982). During his tenure at the United Nations, Ambassador Bolton vigorously advocated for preventing Iran from developing nuclear weapons; removing

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The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) Long Island-Queens Region is sponsoring a free public event – an evening with former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations and foreign policy expert, the Honorable John R. Bolton. The event is hosted by the Great Neck Synagogue Men’s Club, Hilly Milun President, which has hosted many international dignitaries in their beautiful sanctuary in recent years. The event will take place on Sunday evening May 3 at 7:00 p.m. at the Great Neck Synagogue, 26 Old Mill Road, Great Neck. The ZOA National President Morton A. Klein will be introducing Ambassador Bolton. Ambassador Bolton’s wealth of knowledge on foreign affairs, and strong positions regarding security threats including Iranian nuclear weapons programs, the ongoing Arab war against Israel, and concerns about President Obama’s actions on these issues are cer-

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Rabbi Friedler distributes Slurpees to the boys in Yeshiva Ketana of Long Island junior high who were recently awarded with prizes for outstanding middos and derech eretz in the afternoon classes. The boys’ names are proudly highlighted on the Scroll of Recognition outside Rabbi Friedler’s office.

Sefiras HaOmer: Every Jew Counts Rabbi Moshe Weinberger shlita, Mara D’asrah of Aish Kodesh, said in last week’s drasha, “We value the tzaddikim and scholars, drink up every word they teach, and follow their leadership, but they do not have a monopoly on closeness with Hashem. Yiddishkeit and connection is for every Jew. No one should write themselves or other Jews off as beyond the pale of Yiddishkeit.” Rabbi Weinberger went on to explain that this was the original plan for Aish Kodesh, to establish a makom tefillah that gives every Jew the confidence that they, too, can access kedushah. The Rav then made a personal request for every member to participate in the Shabbos of Outreach and Inspiration and its associated programming. On May 15-16, Shabbos Parshas Behar-Bechukosai, members of the community will open their homes and share the beauty of Shabbos with college students and young professionals primarily from secular backgrounds. To kick off the program and to address the concerns of those that are hesitant about getting involved in kiruv, this week Shabbos Parshas Tazria-Metzora, April 25, Aish Kodesh will be hosting a Shabbos afternoon program entitled, “Sefiras Haomer: Every Jew Counts.” All are welcome and encouraged to join. From 5:40 to 7:10pm this coming Shabbos, Charlie Harary will open the program with inspirational thoughts to energize and spur the kehilla to get involved. Rabbi Weinberger shlita will then discuss the inyan of kiruv followed by Rabbi Shalom Yona Weis who will present a quick and practical kiruv training session. The program will conclude with an open Q&A session with Rabbi Weinberger, Charlie Harary and Rabbi Shalom Yona Weis addressing any practical or halachik questions associated with kiruv

rechokim. The Aish Kodesh youth department will be providing programming for 3-10 year olds during the program to allow all those interested to attend. The much anticipated Shabbos of Outreach and Inspiration in May will begin with Kabbalas Shabbos led by Eitan Katz. Friday night dinner will be at hosts’ homes followed by an oneg at the shul led by Rabbi Bentzion Klatzko, founder of Shabbat.com and director of college campus outreach. Shabbos lunch will also be at hosts’ homes, allowing for the development of lasting relationships that will, hopefully, continue beyond the Shabbaton. Charlie Harary will be speaking at the shul on Shabbos afternoon, followed by a men’s shalosh seudos led by Rabbi Weinberger and a shalosh seudos for women led by Ms. Jackie Engel, Director of the Jewish Student Leaders Foundation. The Shabbos will culminate with a musical havdalah concert for the entire kehilla led by Eitan Katz. “We have two goals for this Shabbos,” explains Rabbi Shalom Yona Weis, organizer of the Shabbaton. “Of course, we are looking to bring less-affiliated Jews closer to Yiddishkeit and share the unique Shabbos experience Aish Kodesh offers. At the same time, when one is put in a position of teaching, giving and inspiring others, it often has a mirror effect. It causes us to reaffirm our own position, it invigorates and inspires us to move forward and keep climbing to greater spiritual heights as well. When a kehilla experiences that type of growth process together it has a unifying and lasting effect. The givers also become receivers.” All who are interested in joining this stimulating and inspiring program are encouraged to attend. For more information, email kiruv@ aishkodesh.org.

At this week’s Learn & Live Program, R’ Yehudah Deutch presented the mitzvah of shulach hakain with humor and a hands-on presentation of the details and scenarios of when and how to do this very rewarding mitzvah. The presentation ended with the boys making their very own nest comprised of Chinese noodles and marshmallow fluff with candy eggs.

Five Towns Marriage Initiative A Marriage of Truth The Orchos Tzaddikim discusses various aspects of falsehood. It points out that a person should be careful to respond truthfully to any request. If a person requests a loan and the potential lender has money but does not want to loan it, he should preferably say I have the money but I need it for something else, rather than saying that he doesn’t have anything to give. It is further explained that there are at least two aspects to the danger of falsehood. We first learn that speaking falsely is despised by Hashem even if nobody is harmed by it. The second dimension to falsehood is when someone actually is damaged by the spoken words. A person who speaks falsehood ends up bringing his punishment upon himself because he gets a name as having a dishonest reputation and nobody wants to deal with him as time goes on. There is a story that the Orchos Tzaddikim brings which teaches us a lesson both in falsehood and shalom bayis. There was a man whose wife always did the opposite of whatever he asked for. When he requested chickpeas, she made lentils and vice versa. His son caught on, and started telling his mother the opposite of what his father requested

so that his mother would make what his father truly wanted. When the man realized what his son was up to, he asked him to stop what he was doing. The father didn’t want his son to become accustomed to lying, even though he was actually doing it for a seemingly worthwhile cause. sefiras During this time of ha’omer when we work on our interpersonal relationships, let us take the time to see where we have allowed falsehood to permeate our lives and to work on eradicating falsehood from our way of speech and from our lives. Let us work to become to become grateful for all that we have and all that others do for us, and let us appreciate the fact that we are extremely fortunate to have the spouses we do who work so hard every day and all the time to please us. Five Towns Marriage Initiative provides educational programs, workshops and referrals to top marriage therapists. FTMI will help offset counseling costs when necessary and also runs an anonymous shalom bayis hotline for the entire community Sunday, Tuesday and Thursday evenings, 9:30-11p.m. For the hotline or more information, call 516430-5280 or email dsgarry@msn.com.

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In conjunction with Parshas Shmini, the portion of the Torah that deals with kosher and non-kosher animals and wildlife, the talmidim of Yeshiva of South Shore grades 5 through 8 had the zechus of learning from a renowned expert on simanei kashrus, Rabbi Amram Cohen, shlita who entertained, enthralled, and most of all, educated the talmidim through hands-on learning. A master educator whose presentation included hands-on manipulatives, Rabbi Cohen encouraged the boys to get up close and personal with the large assortment of hooves, skulls, birds’ feet, and horns that he brought and taught with. The boys were fascinated as held they jaws of real kosher and non-ko-

sher animals. Rabbi Cohen exhibited the differences in the tooth structure of cows, sheep and zebras and explained how these physiological differences determine if the animal chews its cud. The talmidim were also given an insightful lesson into the meaning of mafreses parsa and the difference between half split and fully split (cloven) hooves. The boys examined the hooves of a cow, camel, giraffe, llama, pig, goat and other animals and learned the differences between them. Indeed they were aghast to see and feel the full hide of a black bear! Some boys actually had the opportunity to wear the full coat of the bear. The Rosh Yeshiva, Rabbi Mordechai Kamenetzky, commented that the pesukim of parshios Shmini and

Re’eh were coming alive through the presentation. “It was a stimulating and completely hands-on experience and great to witness the enthusiasm of the crowd,” said Rabbi Rafi Draiman, the Menahel of the Mechina division. So many divrei Chazal mentioned in Rashi and other meforshim which are so often misunderstood were clarified by Rabbi Cohen during his exhilarating presentation. Rabbi Shlomo Drebin, the program coordinator, noted how Rabbi Cohen successfully imparted information utilizing the Q&A method and injecting humor when appropriate. When asked what they learned, Elchanan Weinstien, a 7th grader, said he never knew that an animal without front teeth was a sign that it chews its

cud. Yehuda Rothschild, a 6th grader, said he loved the fantastic story that Rabbi Cohen told about the African goose named George from Passaic! Rabbi Chanina Herzberg, the Menahel of the Yeshiva, observed how the boys were mesmerized by the hands-on presentation. Throughout the program, Rabbi Cohen praised the talmidim for their excellent insights and questions during, but what gave the menahel true pleasure was his follow-up email, stating, “The reception I received, from the moment that I stepped in until I left was exemplary,” extolling the middos and proper behavior of the talmidim of Yeshiva of South Shore.

CHAZAQ to Partner with Shalom Workshop What is the Shalom Workshop that people all over New York and New Jersey have been talking about? Why would more than 1,700 couples take time out of their busy schedules to attend a Shalom Workshop? The Shalom Workshop has been providing couples within the frum community with couples’ communication workshops for over seven years. While the umbrella organization, Shalom Task Force, originally began as a hotline for domestic abuse, it later expanded to include educational prevention programming. The Shalom Workshop is one of these programs. It is a two-part workshop given to couples throughout the New York and New Jersey area at absolutely no cost to participants. The syllabus is based on a national evidence-based program and has been specially modified to suit the needs and sensitivities of the

frum community. “This workshop really helped me communicate more effectively,” relates Sarah, a married woman from Monsey. “It helps me stay on the same page as my husband emotionally.” Chaim, a chosson from Lawrence, agrees. “The workshop gave me a better understanding of myself as well as my kallah. It taught us how to see things from each other’s perspective and made us more empathetic and appreciative of each other.” The workshop also helps couples negotiate behavior change in a way that will be effective and well-received. It helps reduce frustration and resentment and provides skills for feeling close and connected to one another. “I was so frustrated,” explains Chana, a participant from Passaic. “We were stuck in a rut and had no idea how to move forward. Shalom Workshop gave us tools that help

us both feel heard, understood, and supported. We can’t thank you enough!” The Shalom Workshop has the haskamos of noted rabbanim and therapists including Rav Reuven Feinstein, Rav Shmuel Kamenetzky, R Matisyahu Solomon, Rav Hershel Schachter, Rabbi Abraham J. Twerski, Rav Tzvi Hersh Weinreb, Rav Moredechai Willig, and Dr. David Pelcovitz and even that of Rav Chaim Pinchas Scheinberg, zt”l. Incredibly, Shalom Workshop presenters are all volunteers, trained by Shalom Task Force. They are all experienced and sincere, dedicated, and professional. The volunteers give the workshop in either their own homes, or in shuls and other community centers, making attendance as convenient as possible for participants. “The mission of Shalom Workshop to teach healthy couples these skills at

whatever stage of the relationship they are,” explains Mrs. Basya Kovacs, Director of Shalom Workshop. “By attending a Shalom Workshop, you are really giving yourselves a gift – one that will last long after the workshop is over.” This Sunday, for the very first time, Chazaq will partner with Shalom Workshop to bring this program to the greater Queens Community. Join us this Sunday, April 26 at 7:15pm to hear words of inspiration by world renowned lecturer Rabbi Paysach Krohn and a couples’ workshop presented by Rabbi Moshe Sokoloff. Sushi will be served by Sushi Fussion. The event will held at the Beth Gavriel Community Center (66-35 108th Street, Forest Hills, NY 11375). For more information, call Shalom Task Force at 212-742-1141 or CHAZAQ at 718-285-9132.

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Hearing the Cries of Our Children in Israel

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Living in Israel is one of the greatest privileges of our generation. Being able to live in a land that is a constant miracle of Divine Intervention, a land where we are all one family, and a place where the mundane is full of meaning. It is our home. A home that generations of the Jewish people longed for. That connection is not only important for those who live in Israel. Whether or not we live there, as a nation we all look to Eretz Yisrael as our spiritual home. Israel is the place of our spiritual formation. We go there for our own inspiration and we send our sons and daughters there for their inspiration. In the crucial years of their late adolescence we entrust their teachers and the very experience of the land to form these young people into Jewish adults. Almost every Jewish person has family and close friends living in Israel, and many have children and grandchildren living in Israel. The bond that the North American communities feel with the Israel experience is tremendous and yet, sometimes that bond and affiliation is so strong we do not have an understanding of the reality of actually living in Israel and what it is like for those who take the leap to be there. Despite the beauty of living in Israel

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it is actually a very different culture than the U.S. and the adjustment and dilemmas facing North American olim can be difficult. The populations that struggle most with living in Israel are the children and adolescents who make Aliyah. Even children who were born in Israel, whose parents are American, struggle in a way that is different than the “regular” Israeli children. This is an issue that affects all of us. We must do our best to educate ourselves and also learn what we can to support our family, friends and neighbors who have chosen the fulfillment of our joint dream as a people. Please join in supporting this important cause on Sunday morning, May 3 at the home of Dov and Esther Lebovic at 9:30 AM, 180 Harborview N in Lawrence, NY. Hakshiva is an organization that was founded 10 years ago in one of the Aliyah hotspots in Eretz Yisrael, Ramat Bet Shemesh. One of Hakshiva’s goals is to provide mentoring, support and guidance to English-speaking children in Israel. Some of these children are on the brink of losing everything if we do not reach out and hear their cries for help.

The Jean Fischman Chabad Center of the Five Towns is once again ready to wow the Five Towns community with their spectacular 20th Annual Lag B’Omer / Family Fun Day event at the Andrew J. Parise Park (formerly Cedarhurst Park) Thursday, May 7, 5:30 – 8:00 PM. People from all walks of life will come together regardless of background, affiliation, or level of observance to celebrate and enjoy the day, which includes archery, bubble bonanza, races, tug-of-war, a petting zoo, inflatables and more! A delicious BBQ will be available for purchase. Spectacular entertainers X POGO STUNT TEAM will capture the attention of young and old and have the audience sitting on the edge of their seats A roaring bonfire will be prepared by the Village of Cedarhurst and manned by the volunteers from the Lawrence-Cedarhurst Fire Department. Torah is like

a fire as it gives light to the world, and bonfires remind us of the additional light brought into the world by the Torah. The music provided by AZAMRA DJ sets the tone for a festive environment. The excitement and enthusiasm at this event will be incredible! Chabad extends a big thank you to The Village of Cedarhurst for allowing them to utilize the grounds of the Andrew J. Parise Park. A big thanks to the Lawrence-Cedarhurst Fire Department, Hatzalah, and the Auxiliary Police who will provide such expert assistance. There is no charge to participate in this event. Sponsorships are available. For more information about Chabad’s many diverse programs, including the upcoming Shavuot icecream party, please visit www.chabad5towns.com

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Around The Community Bnos Bais Yaakov: A Bas Mitzvah Celebration to Remember There are moments in everyone’s life that are defining; they tell us about the stuff of which we are made and what our goals are. Such a moment occurred at a Bas Mitzvah party that BBY’s 7th grade celebrated on behalf of their long-absent classmate. Ruchama Sara Miryam has been battling a serious medical condition for a number of years. Technical-

ly she is not currently a BBY student, but emotionally the ties to her former classmates and teachers have not waned. Classmates and staff have visited Sara over the years and have sent her a steady stream of pictures and letters. And certainly her name has been on everyone’s lips during fervent tefillos. But when it came time to celebrate her Bas Mitzvah, BBY simply took their efforts to a new

and magnificent level. The Bas Mitzvah was spearheaded by Mrs. Basya Brecher, a BBY nursery morah and 7th grade parent. The Ateres Nechama Liba Simcha Hall was decorated beautifully, a scrumptious buffet was elegantly laid out, a sign-in board was provided so Sara’s friends could express their mazel tov wishes, music was piped in, and projects were made. Additional-

ly, a classmate wrote and recited a moving poem in tribute to the Bas Mitzvah girl, and the whole grade joined together to lift their voices in song expressing their longing for Sara’s return to school. The dry eyes after these tributes could be counted on one hand. A major part of the planning and preparation for this simcha was done by a group of sophomores from Central High School as part of their school’s chessed program. With the guidance and inspiration of their homeroom teacher, Mrs. Oria Ziv, these girls assumed responsibility for Sara’s party and preparing the projects. The level of cooperation between the Central girls and BBY was a prime example of ahavas Yisroel. Nothing at all mattered to either group other than Sara’s happiness at her Bas Mitzvah party. Sara’s mother, Mrs. Tamar Bezalely, was in awe of the achdus and selflessness of everyone involved. Mrs. S. Koenig and Morah D. Kurland, the General Studies Principals, have been involved with Sara and her family, searching for any ways and means to help their talmida adjust to her challenging reality. They have both expressed their incredulity at the way all the members of the family have remained upbeat and full of emunah during their ordeal. In line with that attitude, the star of the show was beaming throughout her Bas Mitzvah party. Perhaps she has physical limitations imposed upon her, but she is clearly healthy and robust emotionally. She joined in the spirit, activities, and fun of the celebration with her happy and sweet disposition. Ruchama Sara Miryam’s goal is to return to BBY as a full time student. And her parents, who are so impressed with the caliber of the BBY girls and the level of giving of which they are capable, have begun making arrangements to reinstate Sara in BBY – right where she belongs. The defining moments? For the 7th graders, it was their ability to give unreservedly of themselves and find happiness in the giving. For the staff, it was the deep gratification they experienced at providing this celebration for this special young lady. For the Bas Mitzvah girl, it was the knowledge that she is so cherished by her friends. And for this observer, it was the sheer grandeur of ahavas Yisroel displayed that day in the Simcha Hall. Certainly, Hakadosh Baruch Hu was in that room “shepping nachas.”

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Around The Community Sh’or Yoshuv Honors Prominent Community Members and Alumni at 48th Annual Dinner

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By Leah Goldman With its vast array of diverse programs, the 48th Annual Dinner theme, “The Torah is Acquired in Forty Eight Ways,” truly describes Yeshiva Sh’or Yoshuv. This year, Sh’or Yoshuv is paying tribute to three couples who can testify that Sh’or Yoshuv is unmatched in its ability to provide Torah and inspiration to Jews from all ends of the spectrum and on any level of learning. Mr. and Mrs. Moshe Majeski will be the Guests of Honor; Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Aryeh are the recipients of the Kesser Shem Tov; Rabbi and Mrs. Yaakov Barzideh are the recipients of the Alumnus of the Year award. Mr. Majeski is a well-known real estate financier and investor; he is a managing director at Meridian Capital. A resident of Lawrence with his wife, Rivky, and four children, Mr. Majeski has strong feelings for the vital role of Torah institutions. He believes, “Jewish continuity depends upon our ability to maintain and strengthen these communally shared commitments, and transmit them to our children.” “Sh’or Yoshuv has an atmosphere that is very unique,” says Mr. Aryeh, “On the one hand, it is an exceptionally comfortable place to sit and learn; even to meet people from the neighborhood and speak with friends. On the other hand, that comfort is balanced with a strong drive to improve and progress in one’s learning. The incredible rebbeim and exceptional Rosh HaYeshiva, Horav Naftali Jaeger, Shlita, are there to drive us constantly.” Mr. Aryeh was born and raised in Great Neck, NY. He attended North Shore Hebrew Academy for high school, University of Michigan for college, and then learned in Ohr Somayach in Jerusalem for Yeshiva before becoming a talmid in Sh’or Yoshuv in 2010. He has been learning with chavrusas in Sh’or Yoshuv for the past five years on a regular basis. Mr. Aryeh currently works as a Real Estate Property Manager in NYC. Aside from his involvement in Sh’or Yoshuv, he is affiliated with the Sefardi Shul of Far

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Rockaway and Khal Machzikei Torah, also in Far Rockaway. In 2010 when Mr. Aryeh was learning in Sh’or Yoshuv, he married Aliza and the couple settled in Far Rockaway. Mrs. Aryeh was born and raised in Valley Village, CA, where she attended the Bais Yaakov of Los Angeles. Mrs. Aryeh is active in the Sh’or Yoshuv N’shei and attends Mrs. Shoshana Jaeger’s Sholom Bayis shiurim. She is also a mentor in Anchor, an organization that pairs carefully selected mentors with children from broken homes or who may need help socially and emotionally. Headed by Joseph’s cousins, Chaim Sholom and Frumi Metz, Aliza feels privileged to be part of such a life changing organization. The Aryehs are the proud parents of two children who attend school in far Rockaway. Out of a deep sense of hakaras hatov, Mr. and Mrs. Aryeh have agreed to accept the Kesser Shem Tov Award at the 48th Annual Dinner of Sh’or Yoshuv. “We live in a time where distractions from truth are more prevalent than ever before. A comfortable, inviting, and growth-oriented makom Torah which serves as an escape from the world’s distractions is a rare gem to have. Sh’or Yoshuv is this place and as such, it deserves every bit of support we can give it,” says Mr. Aryeh. Rabbi Yaakov Barzideh was born in Iran. When he was two months old, his

family moved to Israel where he lived until he was seven. The family then moved to Great Neck, LI, where Rabbi Barzideh attended the Great Neck public school system. Says Rabbi Barzideh, “Seventeen years ago, my desire to deepen my understanding of spirituality and its importance in my life brought me to a place called Sh’or Yoshuv. I opened the doors of the Beis Medrash and stared, in wonder, at a spiritual world which I never knew existed. I knew I had found the perfect place to deepen my spirituality and never left.” Rabbi Barzideh and his wife, Hadassah, live in Far Rockaway, where Rabbi Barzideh continues to learn Torah and work in real estate. In addition to his involvement in Sh’or Yoshuv, Rabbi Barzideh is affiliated with Rabbi Rand’s Kollel Avreichim. He also started the kiruv organization, Jackies Place, in Great Neck. Geared towards educating secular boys and girls about Torah Judaism, Rabbi Barzideh is taking many valuable lessons he gleaned from the rebbeim in Sh’or Yoshuv and transmitting them to these kids. “Sh’or Yoshuv is truly special because of its non-judgmental atmosphere,” he says. “The Rosh HaYeshiva, HoRav Naftali Jaeger, shlita, and the rebbeim truly love every Jew and offer Torah on any level to anyone who wants to learn. I have seen many boys who would have been lost if it had not been for the extreme dedication and love of the Rosh

HaYeshiva and the rebbeim.” Mrs. Barzideh grew up in Far Rockaway and attended B’nos Bais Yaakov for elementary school and B’nos Yisroel for high school. She is the Student Services Coordinator in Yeshiva of South Shore. “Sh’or Yoshuv is truly unique in the vast array of programs they offer for every level of learning and their acceptance of every Jew regardless of background, she says. The Barzidehs are the proud parents of four children. “Having experienced the dedication of the Rosh HaYeshiva and rebbeim firsthand I can truly attest to the fact that Sh’or Yoshuv is a unique yeshiva and plays a valuable role in transmitting authentic Torah Judaism to the next generation,” adds Yaakov. “Therefore, I turn to the community to help this institution so that it will be able to help more thirsty souls looking to grow and develop to their full potential.”

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JCCRP Feeds Hundreds of Local Families for Pesach

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1,000 people this year for Pesach. The JCCRP and JSC distributed funds totaling over $75,000 in the form of food, food vouchers to be redeemed at local grocery stores, and cash assistance to help our local families. “More than 300,000 poor and nearpoor New Yorkers keep kosher, making food pantries like JCCRP’s a lifeline to families all year round — and particularly at Passover,” said Met Council Chief of Staff, Eric Munson. “Met Council is proud to join with JCCRP and our Jewish Community Council network in providing dignified solutions to hunger, including 2.2 million pounds of koUJA-Federation of New York CEO Eric Goldstein and our Executive sher-for-Passover Director Nathan Krasnovsky during the JCCRP Passover distribution food and $430,000 in food cards redeemable in local supermarkets in the be delivered to our food pantry to accommodate clients’ needs in celebrat- weeks leading up to the holiday. We commend Nathan Krasnovsky for his ing yom tov. In attendance this year was outstanding leadership in the RockaUJA-Federation of New York CEO ways, for his steadfast partnership, and Eric Goldstein who was on hand to see for his and his staff’s tireless efforts to the amazing work the JCCRP accom- provide for their community.” Franck D. Joseph II of Councilman plishes as a direct result of being one of their beneficiary agencies. Franck D. Donovan Richard’s office said, “JCJoseph of Councilman Donovan Rich- CRP continues to be a pillar for many ard’s office, and Eric Munson, Chief families in the community. Passover of Staff for Met Council, also came to not only signifies freedom of a people, help distribute and package food at our but also the hope of a people. I was distribution. humbled to help service many people, The multitude of clients in need and bring hope to so many families forced the JCCRP to expand their usual during the Passover Food Distribution. one day distribution to a 3 day distribu- I look forward to continued work with tion. The JCCRP and JSC served over JCCRP in the future.” Nathan Krasnovsky, executive Director of the JCCRP, commented, “The JCCRP is grateful to have the support of UJA-Federation of NY; without their support we would not be able to serve the community with the amount of services we currently offer. I would like to extend a special thank you to Eric Goldstein, CEO of UJA Federation of NY, for attending our distribution and for his amazing leadership. I would also like to thank Eric Munson and Allison Deal from Met Council for helping us assist so many local families in need. Thank you to the Long Island Living Center and Ami Shetrit for allowing us to use their freezer space to store

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On March 25, 26, and 27, the Jewish Community Council of the Rockaway Peninsula’s (JCCRP) Kosher Client Choice Food Pantry ran a Passover food distribution in memory of Dr. Esther Rose Lowy A”H. The JCCRP and Rachel Stahler, the program director for Jewish Services Coalition, arranged for special kosher for Passover items to

Rachel Stahler, program director of Jewish Services Coalition – JSC; Frank D. Joseph of Councilman Donovan Richard’s office; Naamah Adelman, Senior Case Manager JCCRP; and Eric Munson, Chief of Staff for Met Council at our Passover distribution

our food for the distribution. Lastly, the Food Bank of New York deserves endless praise for providing a substantial amount of our kosher for Passover food. I am tremendously pleased that we serviced each and every client that approached us for Passover assistance. I would also like to express my gratitude to the volunteers and dedicated staff that assisted with the distribution.” The JCCRP is a proud affiliate of

Met Council and a beneficiary agency of UJA Federation of NY. The JCCRP provides a range of services for any clients who need assistance in social services or resource directing within the community. Please contact the JCCRP for further information; they are located at 1525 Central Avenue (entrance on Foam Place), Far Rockaway, NY, 11691. Call the JCCRP at (718) 327-7755—or visit them on the web at www.jccrp.org.

Remembering the Kedoshim In honor of Yom Hashoa, Shalhevet created a beautiful program to memorialize and commemorate those who experienced the tragic ordeal. The program began as each student stood for a moment of silence to pay their respects. Tamar Beer, an eleventh grade poet, recited the poem, “The Last Butterfly,” written by Pavel Friedman, a Czech Jew who perished in the Holocaust. Following the recitation of the beautifully written poem, each class was led single file through the ballroom where it was set up as a memorial. The lights were dimmed and candles reflected over 40 posters depicting the tragedies of the Holocaust. The posters displayed a timeline of what occurred and included pictures and anecdotes. Students read and internalized the calamities and horrors as they made their way through the room. The students followed the posters up to the sanctuary where they listened to Mrs. Estee Herskovic and

Dr. Herb Pasternak, siblings whose father had lived through the Holocaust. They shared his stories, triumphs, and lessons that they learned from him. They told over the story of how he cut a hole in the bottom of the train to escape and spoke in awe and admiration as they shared how he kept returning to save his sisters and was finally able to hide them in the basement of someone’s house. They relayed how he became the head of police at a displaced persons camp in Ukraine, and lied to the generals in order to leave for a day to go skiing. Their father was tough, positive and determined to survive. He emerged from the catastrophe with high spirits, and along with his wife, built a strong and beautiful family based on Torah values. Each student was inspired and moved by their stories and events that transpired.

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Around The Community Assemblyman Goldfeder Tours Local Streets with Department of Transportation In an effort to create safer streets across Far Rockaway, particularly in front of our yeshivas, Assemblyman Phil Goldfeder hosted Commission-

er Jeff Lynch from the Department of Transportation to view some of our neighborhoods worst intersections and discuss potential solutions.

Assemblyman Goldfeder, Rabbi Baruch Rothman and Commissioner Jeff Lynch visit Yeshiva Darchei Torah during dismissal

Assemblyman Goldfeder, Rabbi Yaakov Bender and Commissioner Lynch walk along Beach 17th Street to view busy and sometimes dangerous intersections

Yom Hashoah at Yeshiva Har Torah Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day, was observed at Yeshiva Har Torah this last Thursday at all grade levels in a most meaningful way. In keeping with our age-appropriate philosophy of Holocaust education, our students in grades 1-4, focused on concept of memories and shared their own personal memories. At morning line up a memorial candle was lit, followed by a short discussion of the significance of the day. Our students in grade 5 had delved deeper into the concept of memories and learned about “bystanders and up-standers” as it pertained to the very beginnings of the Nazi persecution. They especially focused on the book burnings and attempts to destroy ideas which ultimately lead to the efforts to destroy the Jewish people. Our 6th graders did group research projects on the vibrant, flourishing pre-war Jewish communities in order to gain a better understanding of what we lost. The parents of the 5th graders were invited to a readers’ theater in each of the 5th grade classrooms which described the book burnings and the American response. Grades five and six and the 5th grade parents then attended a special commemoration in the Beit Midrash which included words of welcome by Rabbi Menchel, the singing of two moving songs by

our 5th graders, the lighting of six memorial candles by survivors Mrs. Ruth Canter, grandmother of Matthew and Jeremy Rosen, Mr. Charles Altholtz, grandfather of Yosaif and Yitzchak Scmeidler, and Mr. Alex Konstantyn, our guest speaker. Mr. Konstantyn shared his story as child survivor who, together with his courageous mother, was forced to run and hide throughout the war years until he was able to move to Israel and rebuild his life. Mr. Konstantyn expressed his pride in being Jewish, his gratitude to Hashem, and his sense of victory and satisfaction that Jewish children, including his own two children and his eight grandchildren, are living lives of Torah and mitzvot. Our 4th through 8th graders, using stories, videos, and shaalos and t’shuvot, discussed the meaning of spiritual resistance to inspire them to strive for greater commitment to Torah life and learning, even in the most difficult and challenging circumstances. Our 7th and 8th graders were privileged to meet with Mr. Irving Roth, a child survivor of the ghetto, concentration camps and the death march. In response to a student’s question as to whether he ever lost his belief in G-d, Mr. Roth responded, “I lost my belief in man. Hashem has given everyone free will and we have to always choose

to do the right thing.” He left the students with two requests. He asked them to always be willing to stand up for what is right and to never stand by idly when evil is being perpetrated. He reminded them that they are the last generation to be privileged to hear from an eyewitness and he implored them to be the surrogate eye witnesses to their own children, grandchildren and great grandchildren. In our lobby are displayed the

“Lost Communities” posters made by our 6th graders and the art installation portraying the book burning made by our 5th graders. Special thank you to Rabbi Silverman and Mrs. Hollander for coordinating the two commemorations, to the 5th grade teachers, Ms. Brander, Ms. Gomes and Mrs. Lermer, our 6th grade social studies teacher, Mrs. Loebenstein, our music teacher, Mrs. Daitchman and our art teacher, Mrs. Lax.

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As the siren rang in school on Thursday, April 16, faculty members and students of the Stella K. Abraham High School for Girls stood for a moment of silence reflecting on those who lost their lives in the Holocaust. The Yom Hashoah program commenced with heartfelt words from Mrs. Helen Spirn, Head of School and a child of survivors; in a poignant segment of the program, Mrs. Spirn, Mrs. Tzipora Antman, Mrs. Tamar Bindiger and Mrs. Beate Menchel, whose parents also went through the war,

together with the program’s survivor speakers, lit yahrtzeit candles in memory of their loved ones who were killed. In an effort to bring awareness of the normalcy of Jewish life in Europe before the war, the students watched a video produced by Jordana Bienenfeld, SKA’s Media Coordinator. Mrs. Elisheva Kaminetsky, SKA’s Director of Religious Guidance, explained that the film, with its emphasis on simchot and everyday life, sought to show that the Jews of Europe were like the Jews of today. In

introducing the program’s speakers, she stressed how they now had children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren, some of whom are graduates and incoming students at SKA, and how important it is for us to remember the past while looking to the future. After hearing the SKA choir sing with deep emotion, three ninth graders read passages from the student-produced Holocaust journal, “Lives Lost…Legacies Living On,” with original stories, poems and artwork dedicated to the victims

of the Shoah, whose legacy lives on for many in their granddaughters enrolled in the school. The students were then privileged to hear from Mrs. Yolanda Katz, Mrs. Phyllis Margolis, Mr. Leon Gersten, and Mr. and Mrs. Wohlberg who shared their powerful stories, recounting their lives before, during and after the war. A week later, on Wednesday, April 22, the siren rang again at SKA as the school observed Yom HaZikaron and prepared to celebrate Yom Haazmaut the next day.

HAFTR Middle School Commemorates Yom Hashoah

On Thursday, the entire HAFTR Middle School, staff, students and parents gathered together to commemorate Yom Hashoah Vehagevurah, Holocaust Remembrance Day. A very meaningful event was coordinated by Mrs. Einat Rabinovich, Rabbi David Lamm and Nitzan Sorek. Students walked down the darkened hallways and stairs to the Middle School MPR where their peers were holding candles to commemorate the loss of the Holocaust. As students walked down the stairs, Rabbi Siff’s

voice over the loudspeaker reminded students of the great losses the Jewish people experienced in individual towns and concentration camps. Dr. Brand greeted our students and guests with the reminder that the past should serve as a guide to our future and we must be an “ohr lagoyim,” a light unto the nations. Isaac Shertz, seventh grader, served as the MC and he called upon Josh Melman, Jeremy Haft, Ethan Oliner, Matthew Jedwab and Ben Perl for opening words (both in Hebrew and English) for the program. Rabbi Kupchik recited the Kayl Maleh Rachamim, the tradition hymn said upon a yahrtzeit. Candles were then solemnly lit by our students, Elliot Ottensoser, Ethan Winkler, Jonah Levy, Eliana Mosseri, Margot Bokor and Serena Perl to commemorate the six million Jews who perished. Students then listened spell-bound as Mr. Jonathan Glaubach addressed the audience, speaking about his experience when he went to visit the sites where the Holocaust occurred. Mr. Glaubach

helped the students truly visualize his experiences during his trip. He spoke vividly about the three camps he visited and about the differences between each camp. He concluded by reminding the students that they have the power to shape the future of the Jewish people and to live al kiddush Hashem. Ben Waxman, Gabriel Shamama, Joseph Kaufman, Aaron Zanger, Tara Willner, Kira Solomon, Molly Feder, Ilana Sacolick, Ariel Alboher, Emily Bengelsdorf, Amit Bareli, Rebecca Wenger,

Danielle Satran, Haley Wiener, Avery Wietschner, Aaron Schreiber, Matthew Nathan and Kenny Rosenfeld all spoke beautifully about the loss during the Holocaust, through the eyes of different children and adults who lived at that time. The choir sung stirring songs related to this time in history, and concluded with Hatikvah, and Dr. Brand’s reminder that out of the ashes of the Holocaust rose the State of Israel—a place for all Jewish people. Indeed, we are now preparing for both Yom Hazikaron – when we remember those who gave their lives to help build the Jewish State, the State of Israel – as well as Yom Ha’atzmaut – the day when we celebrate Israel’s birth and independence.

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On April 16, the students at HANC’s Samuel & Elizabeth Bass Golding Elementary School joined with Jews around the world in commemorating Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day. HANC commemorated Yom HaShoah by both remembering the six million

Jewish heroes who were killed as well as remembering those Jewish heroes who fought back against the Nazis. Students in grades 4-6 listened to a moving presentation by Rabbi Merrill about the Bielski brothers, in particular Tuvia Bielski, who escaped from the Nazis and saved over 1,200 Jews who hid with them in the forests of Belorussia. Rabbi Sadigh conducted a memorial candle lighting ceremony and stressed our need to learn Torah and do mitzvot as a way of showing the world that the Jewish spirit will never be broken. The program concluded with songs, including Ani Maamin, sung by the HANC 609 Choir. HANC joins the Jewish community in remembering and honoring those who perished during the Holocaust.

Mrs. Wholberg speaks about her story to DRS students as her husband and grandson-in-law, DRS Rebbe, Rabbi Aryeh Yudin, look on

On Thursday, April 16, DRS joined Jews passing down stories of the Shoah the rest of the Jewish community in to their children so that what happened commemorating the lives and mourning will never be forgotten. the loss of the 6 million Jews that were killed by the Nazis in Europe during the Shoah. Many DRS students have grandparents or great-grandparents who are survivors and experienced the horrors of the time. On Yom HaShoah, after hearing about some of the brutal death camps and lighting six candles in memory of those who perished, students were priv- Sophomore Ahron Yudin speaking about his great-grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. ileged to hear from Wholberg, to the student body of DRS the great-grandparents of sophomore Aharon Yudin, Holocaust survivors, Mr. and Mrs. Wholberg. Mrs. Wholberg pointed out that the approximately 300 students in the Beit Midrash would each need to represent 20,000 Jews to add up to the immense On Thursday March 26, the 7-8th grade HALB Lions hockey team coached by Steven number of 6 million. But despite the unMark defeated Yeshiva Har Torah 1-0 in overtime to become the 2014-2015 Metropolitan fathomable loss of life and the terrible Yeshiva Junior High Hockey League (MYJHHL) Champions. suffering that they had to endure, incredibly Mr. and Mrs. Wholberg never lost Congratulations to: YoniMiller-88 Caleb Pollan-20 their faith in Hashem. They emphasized Akiva Aryeh-30 Harry Chwat-47 Jonathan Kazlow-16 the fact that Hitler and the Nazis realMichael Mintz-41 Zach Bach-10 Yoni Goldberg-6 ly failed. They didn’t eradicate Jewish Noah Cheser-19 Ami Schreiber-66 Aiden Englander - 2 life, and there were countless examples Aidan Schechter-22 Ilan Frenkel-11 Yosef Adler-8 Alex Papilsky-82 Josh Packer-9 Yonah Seewald-57 of kiddushei Hashem that took place Jarrod Perris-26 Yoni Savitsky-91 Eitan Kwestel-89 during the war. The Wholbergs concludAriel Ifergan-24 Yair Sturm-21 ed by discussing the importance of all

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third generation of the Burg family to attend MTA. Rachel is a general studies teacher at Rosenbaum Yeshiva of North Jersey and is involved in many Bergen County communal activities. Rabbi Burg is the Eastern Director of the Simon Wiesenthal Center and the Museum of Tolerance and serves on many nonprofit boards, including the United Federation of Teachers. Aleeza and Avi Lauer have been active lay leaders in their hometown of Woodmere, New York, for many years, including leadership roles at the Young Israel of Woodmere and the Hebrew Academy of the Five Towns and Rockaway (HAFTR). Avi currently serves as the vice president for legal affairs, secretary and general counsel of Yeshiva University and Aleeza is an educator at HAFTR. Both Aleeza and Avi are graduates of Yeshiva University schools and they are the proud parents

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Albert Einstein College of Medicine Joint Summer Research Program and is a member of the Educational Steering Committee for the March of Dimes Nelson Rosenthal Convocation. In the summer of 2008, Fried was selected to attend the third Sheila Schwartz Family International Leading Science Teacher Seminar at the Davidson Institute of Science Education at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel. She Rabbi Al Cohen received certification to implement both the Davidson Institute and the British Neufield Foundation Science Literacy Program (LSS – Learning Skills for Science). Fried was a recipient of the $10,000 Toyota Tapestry Grant from the National SciAleeza and Avi Lauer ence Teachers Association. She lives in ty High School for Girls (Central), and Woodmere with her husband, Sholom, Rabbi Alfred Cohen, longtime maggid and their children, and they are memshiur at the Marsha Stern Talmudical bers of Congregation Aish Kodesh. Academy/Yeshiva University High Their three daughters are all proud to School for Boys (MTA), who will be be Central graduates (the youngest in retiring at the end of this year. Rabbi 2015). Steven and Rachel Burg are Rabbi Alfred Cohen, MTA’s guests of honor, and maggid shiur at MTA, Avi and Aleeza Lauer are Cenreceived semicha from tral’s. Rabbi Yisrael Gustman The dinner will also honand from Rabbi Hutner or the 25th anniversary of the of Mesivta Rabbi Chaim graduating class of 1990 at Berlin and served for both MTA and Central. many years as the mora “The ability to nurture d’asra [leader of the conthe love of science in Jewish gregation] of the Young young women over the past Israel of Canarsie. For twenty five years has been a Mrs. Russi Fried the past 21 years, he has privilege,” said Fried, who is been the Rabbi of Concelebrating her 25th year at Central, gregation Ohaiv Yisroel of Blueberry where she teaches regents biology and Hill in Monsey, New York. He is the advanced placement biology. “As we founder and was the first editor of the study science together my students Journal of Halacha and Contemporary have opened their eyes to the mastery Society and has published numerous arof G-d’s world and to the realization ticles in the journal, as well as in Tradithat the study of science is an integral tion and Jewish Life. Rabbi Cohen has part of the study of Torah. This hon- received many citations and awards for or presents me with the opportunity excellence in teaching, including the to say thank you to the parents who Rabbi and Mrs. Joseph Baumol Award have entrusted their daughters’ science for Excellence in Jewish Education at education to me, to the faculty who Yeshiva University and the Avi Chai have been my colleagues, mentors and Foundation Award for Outstanding friends, and who have educated my Jewish Education. own three daughters and to the adminRabbi Steven and Rachel Burg, istration who has always supported all of Bergenfield, New Jersey, are the of our science programming.” proud parents of two current students Fried also serves as the liaison to in MTA: Aryeh, a senior, and Elie, a the Yeshiva University High Schools/ freshman. Their children represent the

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Around The Community YUConnects Five Towns’ Benefit Breakfast this Sunday The Five Towns community will host a benefit breakfast in support of YUConnects this Sunday, April 26, from 9:30 to 11 a.m. at the home of

Malky and Jay Spector, 12 Waverly Place, Lawrence, NY. Dr. David Pelcovitz, professor, Gwendolyn and Joseph Straus Chair in Psychology and Jew-

ish Education at the Azrieli Graduate School of Jewish Education and Administration at Yeshiva University, will be the guest speaker on the topic “From

Tweets to Texts: Do we ‘like’ the way we communicate?” Rabbi Ya’akov Trump, assistant rabbi, Young Israel of Lawrence-Cedarhurst will introduce Dr. Pelcovitz. Proceeds will be used to fund future activities and the benefit breakfast is open to men and women. “This is a great opportunity to learn about the program and get tips on ways to be helpful for friends and family,” said Margie Glatt, special projects coordinator at YUConnects. “Dr. Pelcovitz is always entertaining and gives interesting insights on the new way everyone is communicating and its impact on relationships.” YUConnects, a division of Yeshiva University’s Center for the Jewish Future, conducts educational programs and meeting opportunities for Jewish singles that foster healthy relationship-building toward marriage. YUConnects has done groundbreaking work in changing the Orthodox dating scene. YUConnects is open to the entire Jewish community and is much more than a matchmaking website. It provides individual counseling, unique social events, and community partnerships. It currently has 3,300 members and 80 volunteer matchmakers. The program is self-funded and relies on donors to fund its budget. Donations are tax deductible. For more information and to donate contact mglatt@yu.edu or yuconnects. com or call 516.603.8141.

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A person about to enter a hospital sees two white coated doctors searching through the flowerbeds. “Excuse me,” he says. “Have you lost something?” “No,” replies one of the doctors. “We're about to do a heart transplant for an IRS agent and want to find a suitable stone.”

Riddle! How can you stand behind someone when they are standing behind you? See answer below

How I Celebrated April 15th • Took every dollar bill I have and ripped almost half of it off and threw it in the trash. • Took all of the old and useless phones from my attic, hooked them up and called the IRS. When I got through I slammed the receivers on the ground until they shattered into millions of pieces (one piece for each page of the tax code). • Made a bonfire and roasted my calculator. • Called my broke friend and assured him that paying taxes is overrated. • Stood outside of a welfare office with a big sign: “Thank me very much!”

• Wasted money on the most nonsensical things I could because after all, that’s where my tax money went anyways, so what’s a few more dollars?! • Called my local politician and told him that I just filled his allowance account. • Hugged a lawyer…because it’s the only day of the year that accountants are hated more than them. • Dumped all of the Wissotzky tea that I had down the toilet. • Took a three hour lunch because after all, don’t I work for the government?

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2. The word “tax” is from the Latin word “taxo.” What does that word mean? a. I estimate b. Go ahead, rob me blind c. I appreciate d. My share 3. With regard to tax collection, what were the terms under the Articles of Confederation? a. That taxes are a remnant of British rule and are unnecessary. b. That the federal government should tax each person according to his means. c. That the federal government could request taxes from states on a voluntary basis only. d. That the federal government could give the death penalty to those who don’t pay taxes. 4. How many employees did the IRS have in 1913? a. 115,000 b. 110,000 c. 100,000 d. 90,000 e. 80,000 f. 65,000 g. 50,000 h. 40,000 i. 30,000 j. 15,000 k. 4,000 5. How many people currently work for the IRS? a. 4,000 b. 15,000

c. 30,000 d. 40,000 e. 50,000 f. 65,000 g. 80,000 h. 90,000 i. 100,000 j. 110,000 k. 115,000 6. Who was Joseph Nunan and why was he jailed in 1952? a. He was a hardworking guy who was jailed for not paying a parking ticket, on which accumulated many fines. b. He was a bank robber who was jailed for a string of robberies. c. He was the former Commissioner of the IRS who was jailed for tax evasion. Answer key: 1. B- In New York State there is an 8 cent tax to all “altered” bagels, whether it is sliced, toasted or served with a “shmear” of cream cheese or butter. 2. A 3. C 4. K 5. K 6. C Trivia Form CF026: 5-6 correct: No wonder you did so well, you have 364 days a year (minus 352 vacation days, sick days, personal days, accrued time days and legal holidays) to sit in your leather chair at the IRS and play TJH trivia. 3-4 correct: You get it right sometimes. You are like most politicians, who pay taxes “sometimes,” like right after they are exposed for not having paid their taxes. 0-2 correct: If you are a Democrat, you probably don’t know any of the answers because you never had to pay taxes and are more concerned about where to collect from the government. If you are a Republican you probably don’t know the answers because your money is offshore somewhere.

Tax his land, tax his wage, Tax his bed in which he lays. Tax his tractor, tax his mule, Teach him taxes is the rule. Tax his cow, tax his goat, Tax his pants, tax his coat. Tax his ties, tax his shirts, Tax his work, tax his dirt.

Tax his chew, tax his soda float, Teach him taxes are no joke. Tax his car, tax his grass, Tax the roads he must pass. Tax his food, tax his drink, Tax him if he tries to think. Tax his sodas, tax his beers, If he cries, tax his tears. Tax his bills, tax his gas, Tax his notes, tax his cash. Tax him good and let him know That after taxes, he has no dough. If he hollers, tax him more, Tax him until he’s good and sore. Tax his coffin, tax his grave, Tax the sod in which he lays. Put these words upon his tomb, “Taxes drove me to my doom!” And when he’s gone, we won’t relax, We’ll still be after the inheritance tax.

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Focus on People A School Geared towards Our Children’s Success TJH Speaks with Chava Bodner of Gesher TJH recently caught up with Mrs. Chava Bodner, Founder and Director of the Gesher Early Childhood Center. We had the opportunity to discuss the successful growth of Gesher over the past three years and Mrs. Bodner’s plans for the future.

TJH: It is pretty remarkable to see what Gesher has accomplished in the past three years. Does it surprise you to see its success? CB: B”H, it has been very exciting to see Gesher grow. A lot of research was done at every stage of our development to make sure that we were properly prepared for the challenges facing a new school. And certainly in our case where the model is unique. It is very rewarding to see that hard work pay off. What kind of research and planning are you referring to? The most important thing was to create productive lines of communication with all of the local yeshivas. The input of the principals and preschool directors are vital. It was their encouragement at the outset and their continued partnering that enables us to create a program that can effectively service the community. What kind of communication do you have with the yeshivas; what is their input? There are three main areas of dialogue. The first is that they share with us the educational needs and challenges that face our community, for example, when they refer a child to our program that they believe will ultimately be more successful with the support that we provide. Secondly, the yeshivas share with us their curriculum requirements in order to help us prepare the child for transitioning into the yeshiva of their choice. And thirdly, we work together with the yeshiva after the child has transitioned in order to facilitate future success. This gives us the tools to maintain effective programming. That sounds like a lot of work in its own right. How are you able to implement all of that? It is a lot of work, and it’s a real testament to the commitment of the local yeshivas to provide quality

education to every child in the community. I have to give credit to my staff for their professionalism and their dedication. They recognize the importance of their work and appreciate the unique opportunity to help each child forge a path towards a successful educational career. In the past you have said that Gesher is a transition program. What does that mean practically? That means that Gesher has two layers. First and foremost Gesher is a typical yeshiva preschool. Our curriculum is the same as can be found in every local yeshiva, as is the social, emotional environment. On top of that we provide smaller class size, individualized planning, and specialized instruction. By incorporating goals and objectives fluidly we are able to maintain the typical classroom setting. A child leaving Gesher will be very comfortable in whichever yeshiva they choose to attend. Has your model changed since Gesher opened? Are you doing anything differently? The basic model has stayed the same, but we have added some extras. One of the prime side benefits of Gesher has been the opportunity to meet talented, dedicated, and knowledge-

able educators and related service providers. By implementing suggestions from an expert in a specific area we are able to create a much richer program for our students. For example, this year we incorporated a social skills curriculum as well as a physical learning program. Gesher moved into a larger facility this year. How has that affected your program? We are very grateful to the Yeshiva of South Shore for their hospitality in our first two years. But as we grew it was obvious that we were going to need more space. That afforded us the opportunity to create strong relationship with the local school districts. It also allowed us to continue to plan for expansion. How does your relationship with the school district affect your program? We have earned the confidence of the districts. They recognize the accuracy of our evaluations and the effectiveness of our implementation of related services. That is beneficial when it comes to preparing a child’s educational plan. What is in store for Gesher in the future? The biggest change will undoubtedly be the addition of a first grade. This is something that we considered in the past, but as I said earlier, we needed to properly research this endeavor before launching. With the encouragement of the local yeshivas and with the demand from the general community, we felt that now is the right time. That is very exciting. We wish you much success. Thank you. We are always looking to help  our community’s children grow and succeed.

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Parshas Tazria-Metzorah one the most satisfaction and sense of achievement. In the world of the Torah, what is most fragile and potentially impure is also what can be the greatest source of strength and holiness. These three areas of life require constant vigilance and effort to remain healthy, productive and noble. The Torah

There is a responsibility of great magnitude in bringing children into this world. the Torah have seen this division of the plagues that can afflict human beings as being categorized as personal, societal and familial. These three areas of life – one’s own being and body, one’s society and community, and one’s family are the areas of life and existence that are most vulnerable to plagues – or troubles. They are also those areas of life that can bring

bids us to care for ourselves. Our bodies and our health are not to be abused or taken for granted. We oftentimes sacrifice our physical well-being for transitory gain and imagined security. This type of attitude creates a plague within us that sooner or later will affect and injure us. Part of the idea of the quarantine that the Torah describes for us in this week’s Torah reading is to give the individual an

opportunity to analyze and think about one’s self and how to properly take care of one’s own physical well-being. Next, no person should live in isolation. Belonging to and contributing to a community – synagogues, charitable organizations, study groups, etc. – becomes our clothing, so to speak – the external persona that we project. The great Choni Hamageil of Second Temple times said it well: “if there is no community, then there is only death.” And finally, family obligations should trump all other imagined obligations. There is a responsibility of great magnitude in bringing children into this world. That responsibility for raising, guiding, caring, and training one’s own family cannot be shunted off to schools, institutions, peer groups or others. To attempt to do so invites the appearance of plagues in one’s own home. So, we should always be on the lookout to avoid these types of plagues that do exist and abound in our world. Shabbat shalom.

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e once again read about types of plagues and dermatological illnesses that create a climate of impunity and negativity. We are no longer privy to the identity and physical appearance of these plagues that are recorded for us in this week’s Torah reading. These plagues are or were unknown to us and they are certainly not the modern form of leprosy, which was the usual understanding of them for number of past centuries. In the absence of true understanding of these plagues and of the existence of the Temple, currently this subject matter is an esoteric one rather than theoretical. Nevertheless, as the Torah is always multi-layered and to be understood on many different levels and planes, there are certainly lessons that we can derive from this week’s Torah reading that are relevant to our lives and society. All of us encounter plagues during our lifetime. They may be physical, mental, spiritual, financial, family-associated or work-related.

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Rabbi Jonathan Gewirtz

Back Off!

e all know the squeaky wheel gets the grease, but what about the wheel that doesn’t squeak because it won’t even turn? Yes, once again, I’m talking about shopping carts. Now, I don’t mean the kind that have some sort of gizmo attached that locks the wheels if you go past a yellow line, or the green line, or you enter the express lane with more than ten items. I’m not even sure how those work but they sound pretty cool. I’m also not sure they cut down on “misplaced” carts, but I’m told that it works to stop the wheel from turning, though I’ve never tried it myself. However, my topic today is the ones that inexplicably stop turning as you are strolling down the aisle minding your own business. There you are, with visions of sugarplums, or Brussels sprouts, dancing in your head and WHAM! Your cart suddenly stops short, almost throwing you headlong into the low-fat, high-fiber, gluten-free pita bread cracker snacks on the end of the aisle. You wrestle the cart back and forth. You get a little movement, but then you push forward again and are stopped in your tracks like Hannibal when his elephant got a hangnail. What’s going on? Is there some unknown electromagnetic field generated by the reach-in freezers that’s causing crazy hyper-gravity right where

you’re standing? Nope, it’s much simpler than that. Somehow you managed to roll

cart rolling smoothly now. You’ve managed to free the wheel, right? Not so fast.

You could try spinning your wheels (figuratively) to achieve something, but when you’re stopped in your tracks, sometimes it’s not necessary to use force. over a small piece of debris, like cardboard or Styrofoam or a toothpick, which acts like a doorstopper preventing the wheel from rolling. No matter how hard you shove, you can’t budge it because it’s wedged in there tighter than a hungry kid holding a sandwich. So what to do? Back off. That’s right, back off. I don’t mean move back and take a running shove, though that could lead to some pretty comical moments. No, I mean, slowly pull the cart backwards. Amazingly, you will find the

You see, you’ve only gotten halfway through the process. If you move forward now, you’ll just get the offending flotsam lodged again. Instead, you have to back off, turn the cart, and try going around the path you were on before. If all goes well, the obstacle will remain in place on the floor while you escape its trajectory. Now it just lies there waiting for some other unsuspecting person to come barreling down the aisle and wind up in the pita chips. The point I’m trying to make is not about the frustration of obstacles like this, nor the fun of watching someone else somersaulting over the produce aisle. The point is much deeper, yet simpler. You see, sometimes, when you find your path obstructed, the prudent thing to do is not keep pushing with all your might, but to back off and find another way to get where you want to go. You could try spinning your wheels (figuratively) to achieve something, but when you’re stopped in your tracks, sometimes it’s not necessary to use force. It’s not worth pushing and shoving because all you need to do is back off a bit and the object of your trouble may fall away. Sometimes a person will be against your ideas or suggestions. You can

vociferously make your case but for whatever reason they’re not buying it. Don’t turn it into a shouting match. Instead, back off a bit. Ask their opinion; find out the source of their objections. You may find out that the loggerheads you’ve reached are not really so large. It may be the tiniest item over which you disagree and by modifying your stance a bit you could have smooth sailing ahead. Trying to make “the perfect” presentation, party, event, flyer, or meal? Then some person insists on changing something which you know will throw the whole thing off? If push comes to shove, ask yourself just how much it will really make a difference. We all know that companies agonize over year-end cards to their clients and customers, with intense discussions over the photo, verbiage, colors and so on. Yet, when the customers get the cards, the first thing they do is check to see if any freebies are inside. If not, they simply acknowledge, “Oh, so-and-so sent me a card,” then chuck it in the nearest circular file to be recycled along with the empty milk carton and last week’s basketball sign-up sheet. Imagine how silly all the wrangling is when the senders nearly come to blows over whether it will say “Season’s greetings” or “Happy Holidays!” Take it from me and my little fourwheeled friend. When something gets in your way, sometimes the best course of action isn’t to forge ahead, but to back off and be a little flexible. Jonathan Gewirtz is an inspirational writer and speaker whose work has appeared in publications around the world. You can find him at www.facebook.com/RabbiGewirtz and follow him on Twitter @ RabbiJGewirtz. He also operates JewishSpeechWriter.com, where you can order a custom-made speech for your next special occasion. Sign up for the Migdal Ohr, his weekly PDF Dvar Torah in English. E-mail info@ JewishSpeechWriter.com and put Subscribe in the subject. © 2015 by Jonathan Gewirtz. All rights reserved.

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Parshas Metzorah

The Holiness of the Jews As Jews, we are commanded to be a holy nation. To help maintain our spiritual level, the Torah provides safeguards to protect us from sin. One of these is tzaraas. In the time of the Bais Ha’Mikdash (which should speedily be rebuilt), if a person spoke lashon harah, he contracted tzaraas. While the outer manifestation was a type of skin condition, a metzorah had entered a stage of tumah, which forced him to be removed from normal life. Anything that he then came into contact with became tameh, and he had to leave the encampment of the Jews and remain separated from the rest of the nation until he was purified. The Metzorah becomes Purified To become purified from this state, a metzorah had to go through a complex, three-part process. After the Kohain looked at his neggah and saw that it had healed, the first part began. The Kohain was commanded to take two live, kosher birds, a piece of cedar wood, and hyssop (a branch from a particular bush), and then tie them together with a string of purple wool, and dip them all into the blood from the first bird. Rashi explains that each of these was part of the kaparah, a correction and atonement for his sin. The cedar wood, which comes from a tall, strong tree, was to signify that his speaking lashon harah was caused by arrogance. The purple-dyed wool and hyssop come from lowly sources, and serve as a message to the metzorah that he should lower himself. And the reason for the kosher birds are that birds are constantly chirping, and lashon harah is an act of chirping. This Rashi seems difficult to understand. The chirping of the birds doesn’t seem to fit into the equation. If you listen to the sounds of birds chirping on a spring day, you’ll hear an unending

stream of sound, much like turning on the faucet in your kitchen sink. The flow begins, short chirps and long chirps forming some type of pattern, but it’s without thought; the birds just jabber away.

ly disregards the command of the King. Lashon Harah is Mere Chatter What we see from this is that much of lashon harah isn’t purposeful, malicious speech. In fact, it is rare that we

Without much forethought we fill the empty space with chatter. What connection does that have with intelligent speech? Speech isn’t merely the formation of sounds; speech is the highest form of communication, a power given to man alone to share his inner thoughts and understandings. Each word or phrase can represent entire concepts and ideas. Man alone can relay a world of understanding in but a few expressions. In what way can that be compared to the chattering of birds, a mindless, thoughtless, automatic reflex? The answer to this question is based on understanding how lashon harah comes about. The Chofetz Chaim points out that one of the prohibitions that a person violates by speaking lashon harah is chillul Hashem. He explains that if someone has a powerful desire to commit a sin and then transgresses it, it may be a serious offence, but there is a mitigating factor – he fought a battle and lost. Lashon harah , on the other hand, is very different. There is no driving, instinctive force that pulls us to speak disparagingly about other Jews. There is no magnetic pull that tugs at us. Therefore, if a person speaks lashon harah , it can be a chillul Hashem; since he is committing this sin without any powerful desire, it must be that he utter-

engage in intentionally divulging great secrets with the specific intention of ruining another person’s reputation or business. Rather, in the course of conversation, we sort of prattle on. “Hey, did you hear? I don’t know if you know this, but…” Most often, it is simple drivel. Without much forethought, and certainly without regard to the consequences of the sounds that are emanating from the openings in front of our faces, we fill the empty space with 

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BY MALKY LOWINGER

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2:00 A.M. and you ran out of formula. It’s 7:00 A.M. and you’re craving a good cup of coffee as you head off to work. It’s 3:00 P.M. and you’re in the mood of an ice cream cone. It’s 5:00 P.M. and your kids want hot dogs for supper. It’s late Thursday night, and your boys insist on a bowl of hot chulent. It’s Friday afternoon and your daughter needs a chocolate platter for her Shabbos hosts. It’s any time of the week and you need to stock up on some l a s t

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minute groceries. Where do you go? What do you do? Introducing Seasons Express, a new kosher store so innovative and unique, there’s nothing like it anywhere else in the Jewish world. Seasons, the people who brought outstanding kosher supermarket shopping to Lawrence, Queens, Scarsdale, and Manhattan, are once again raising the bar. Seasons Express, which will be located on the premises of the former Doughty Deli, is a brand new concept whose time has come. Ari, the manager of Seasons Express, says that when the deli location first became available, several prominent community members approached the Seasons management, urging them to take over the property and use it to serve the community. Its prime location near public transit and major roadways makes it an ideal spot for on-the-go convenience shopping. Thus the concept of Seasons Express was created. “The store is just a quarter mile from our flagship supermarket in Lawrence,” Ari explains, “but it’s a whole different concept in shopping. This is where you’ll be coming for all the products you need on the go, and for all the services which you previously had to run around town for. It’s all going

to be here and it’s all going to be open and available 24 hours a day!” Mayer Gold, vice president at Seasons, says that Seasons Express is designed to fill a void in the community. “It will serve as the local store for riders of the LIRR,” he points out, “and for last minute shoppers. More importantly, it will be the place for the family, featuring slush machines, frozen yogurt, and the only kosher location to have a Coca Cola Freestyle machine!” The Seasons management spent months planning

How about fourteen different coffee flavors brewed fresh every morning; seventy two bins of nuts, chocolate, candy, and dried fruit; one hundred and twenty five flavors of Coke products; and a sixteen foot grab-and-go fridge? every detail of Seasons Express, leaving no stone unturned in their efforts to anticipate all the needs of the community. The result is a roomy and spacious store with a refreshing upscale design, thirteen-foot high ceilings, and lots of modern conveniences. Every inch of space is carefully planned and utilized to offer maximum space and comfort.

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The curiosity of the community has been piqued, and most are eagerly looking forward to the upcoming grand opening of Seasons Express. They are already delighted with the Seasons reputation for excellence in quality and customer service. Says Ari, “A store has to be welcoming and accommodating. That’s why people actually look forward to shopping with us. They know the staff is friendly, the checkout lines are short, and the atmosphere is social and inviting.” The first Seasons supermarkets opened back in March 2011 in Lawrence, Manhattan, and Scarsdale. In June of that year, they opened a completely rebuilt store in Kew Garden Hills. In their constant efforts to update and improve, the Lawrence store was closed for close to a year and reopened in January of 2014 due to renovations. Shoppers flock to Seasons not just for the shopping, but also for the experience. Says Mayer, “From the fellow who feeds the meters to the young man who unloads your shopping cart, our number one priority is our customers’ convenience and needs. We develop close relationships with all our customers. We treat them like friends.” So much so that they actually deliver close to one hundred flower arrangements as gifts to their loyal customers before yom tov. That very same formula of outstanding customer care will permeate Seasons Express as well as two brand new Seasons supermarkets which are scheduled to be opening soon in the cities of Baltimore and Lakewood. Seasons is certainly spreading its wings. Residents of Far Rockaway, the Five Towns, and Queens areas will soon have the opportunity to watch a little piece of history unfold. Seasons Express promises to change the game in terms of kosher convenience shopping for all time. That’s good news for all of us. Because sometimes we all need to shop Express. 

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community grows, b”H, so do our responsibilities as well as our needs. We need to feed growing families, to get to work on time, to fulfill our social obligations, to prepare for upcoming simchas and yom tovim. But we’re also busy and pressured for time. Thus have mega-supermarkets cropped up across the Jewish world, offering everything under one huge roof for the hurried and harried shopper. They’re all good, but can we do better? Seasons Express is here for all those times we need to run in for a ketchup or a Slurpee, a tuna wrap or a box of diapers. With its quick and convenient parking, prime location, and family-friendly atmosphere, here is where it will all happen. What about the selection? How about fourteen different coffee flavors brewed fresh every morning; seventy two bins of nuts, chocolate, candy, and dried fruit; one hundred and twenty five flavors of Coke products; and a sixteen foot grab-andgo fridge? How about hot pretzels, popcorn, and Slurpees? Soups and salads? Sandwiches and wraps? Cappuccino, iced coffee, and soft-serve ice cream? Rolling hot dogs and sushi? Burgers and steaks and propane for the upcoming barbeque season? Flowers and dips for Shabbos? And all in a friendly, comfortable, and heimishe atmosphere.

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Turning his Rebbe's Vision into a Cherished Community Jewel Reb Dovid Sitnick discusses his 35 years at the helm of Siach Yitzchok BY NAFTALI HALPERN

hen I was asked to write an article about Reb Dovid Sitnick, I was hesitant for a number of reasons. First of all, knowing Reb Dovid, I knew that he is the last person who wants to be written about. Secondly, how

do you write about a person who is a father figure to you, your rebbe, and – in the truest sense of the word – a friend? Thirdly, I felt that the topic of Reb Dovid was too broad and multifaceted to be encapsulated in one article. But, on the other hand, this was an opportunity to have a different type of discussion with a person who I revere. So I sched-

uled a meeting. When I arrived at his house, Reb Dovid – with a dismissive flip of his hand – declined to talk to me about himself in a biographical sense. But, like a flowing waterfall, we spent hours talking about some of the things that are nearest and dearest to his heart, namely, his rebbe, Reb Shlomo Freifeld zt”l – who he affectionately refers to as “The Rebbe” – and the school that they started together 35 years ago, Siach Yitzchok.

73 115 Rebbe, but it is kosev al luach libi [it is written on the tablets of my heart].”

“We sat every day for an hour or two and would discuss

the children; we would discuss his views on chinuch and

he would answer all of my questions… He was interested and involved in every aspect of Siach Yitzchok.” So what changed? “I was being mishamash [assisting] the Ribnitzer Rebbe, zt”l when he went out of town one time and the Rebbe called me up and said, ‘Dovid, come home…you are starting on Tuesday morning!’” He chuckles and recalls, “I knew he meant business, so I booked a flight home and we started that Tuesday with two boys.” Rabbi Freifeld explained to Reb Dovid that he chose the name Siach Yitzchok because “everything that I know in chinuch, I learned from sichos [talking] with my Rebbe, Reb Yitzchok Hutner.” Rabbi Freifeld envisioned a school which would be the vehicle to disseminate his views on chinuch to the emerging frum community of Far Rockaway and the Five Towns. Despite his great hopes for Siach Yitzchok, Rabbi Freifeld instructed Reb Dovid not to put a sign outside of the school. He explained to Reb Dovid, “There will come a time for healthy PR, but your main PR always has to be through the success that you have with each individual talmid.” Reb Dovid wistfully points out that for several years there was no sign outside of the yeshiva’s building. He fondly recalls those early years when he spent hours on end discussing matters of chinuch with Rabbi Freifeld. “We sat every day for an hour or two and would discuss the children; we would discuss his views on chinuch and he would answer all of my questions… He was interested and involved in every aspect of Siach Yitzchok.” Reb Dovid laments, “I wish I wrote down everything I discussed with the

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ry that took place: There was a young boy in the third grade who was struggling in class. Despite his rebbe’s efforts, the boy continued to slack off and not do his homework. The rebbe felt that he had tried all of the tricks in his toolbox, yet he was not getting through to the boy. One morning, the rebbe decided to try something different. When the boy came into class, the rebbe didn’t ask him if he did his homework the night before, instead he engaged him in a conversation about how his night had been. The boy opened up to the rebbe about how some things were hard for him at home and how he feels like he doesn’t have his own space to do certain things. The rebbe simply listened and empathized with his talmid and didn’t mention anything to the boy about the importance of doing his homework. The following morning, the boy came into class and proudly handed his rebbe a page containing his homework, which was done perfectly. On the top of the paper, scrawled in marker, the boy had written, “I love my Rebbe.” Reb Dovid explains that this only happened because the boy genuinely felt that his rebbe was accepting him for who he is. To further illustrate the importance of appreciating and accepting

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ntil today, Rabbi Freifeld’s philosophy of chinuch is the life-force of Siach Yitzchok. When I ask Reb Dovid what the keys to chinuch are, he answers unequivocally, “Accepting and appreciating each boy for who he is” and “Challenging each child in ways which enhance his growth.” These paradigms of chinuch are so fundamental that they can be confused as being simplistic. But they are anything but simple. In my ensuing conversation with Reb Dovid, I observe that he has spent the last 35 years honing his understanding of these pillars of chinuch and giving them over to the rabbeim and teachers of Siach Yitzchok. When I ask Reb Dovid to explain why acceptance is so important in chinuch, he starts with a recent sto-

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hose who were close to Reb Shlomo Freifeld zt”l heard from him that one time his own Rebbe, Reb Yitzchak Hutner zt”l, was trying to convince him to undertake a challenging matter. When Rabbi Freifeld resisted, Reb Hutner turned to him and said, “Someone who has a talmid like Dovid Sitnick is worthy of taking on the challenge.” Rabbi Freifeld had no response and took on the challenge. It is no wonder then, that when the time came for Rabbi Freifeld to start an elementary school for the nascent Far Rockaway community, he called upon his talmid, Reb Dovid Sitnick, to be the menahel. At first Reb Dovid was reluctant. “I spent six months refusing,” Reb Dovid says of Rabbi Freifeld’s efforts to get him to start Siach Yitzchok.

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174 16 each child, Reb Dovid relates a story he recently heard from Harav Chaim Yehoshua Hoberman of Mesivta of Long Beach. Rav Hoberman was in a crowded shul and there was a child laying in the middle of the floor crying, “Tatte! Tatte!” Everyone was asking the child, “What’s your name? Who is your Tatte? What does he look like?” But the child continued to cry hysterically. One man went over, picked up the child, and said to him, “I’ll bring you to your father.” The child immediately calmed down and the man started asking him, “What does your father look like?” Within a few minutes they Reb Dovid with some of the talmidim of Siach Yitzchok at a school bonfire for Lag B'Omer a few years ago found the boy’s father. Rav Hoberman pointed out that what that man did differently than the others was that he went over to the boy and he gets the boy to give maximum effort, whether it be in doing his Hepicked him up – the first thing you have to know in chinuch is that you brew or English schoolwork or in any of his other interactions. have to pick the child up. The second thing is, once you pick the child up, But there is a fine balance between recognizing what each child’s you can’t put him down. capabilities are and driving children to success, he explains. He recalls “This anecdote is mamesh emes l’amito when it comes to chinuch,” an incident from over thirty years ago. Before telling the story, he admits, says Reb Dovid. “You can only lift a boy up and help him when you are “Back then things were different.” ready to take responsibility for him and that means you have to accept and appreciate him for who he is.” And a child is never too young to feel good about himself and to feel accepted. Reb Dovid’s face lights up when he talks about the Pre-1A Rebbe, Reb Yosef Lovett. “He makes it his avodah to find the nekuda tova in each boy,” says Reb Dovid, “and he focuses on that nekuda tova and builds the child up based on it.” In fact, Reb Dovid often tells the In the early years, when Reb Dovid taught classes, he would give a rabbeim to look at the maalos of each boy in the eighth grade and then demanding final test at the end of the year where each child was expected look back at their report cards from when they were in Pre-1A. They to know the whole parsha that they learned perfectly. If a child didn’t will notice that at that young age, Reb Yosef Lovett already spotted and know all of the material then extra time would be spent with him to make highlighted the young boy’s core. sure that when the test came he would know the material 100 percent. The end of the school year was approaching and the young boys were hen I ask Reb Dovid to explain his philosophy regarding reviewing for their final test on the parsha that they had just learned. One the right level of challenging the boys, he starts—as ex- of the boys in the class’s family owned a bungalow colony. The family pected—with the philosophy imparted upon him by Rabbi was set to leave to the mountains to prepare the bungalow colony for the Freifeld, which was: “Each boy has to give his one hundred percent.” summer. But their young child would miss the final test. Upon hearing Reb Dovid explains that to mean that a teacher is being successful when this, Reb Dovid called the parents and said, “You can’t do this to your son. He has worked so hard, he has to take the test. How can he go upstate early?” With a twinkle in his eye, Reb Dovid fondly recalls that the family changed their departure date by a few days so that their son could take the test. “Oh, was the boy upset at me,” he adds, “but that feeling of accomplishment that he got from studying and taking the test was invaluable.” Today that boy is a rav in the community.

On the top of the paper, scrawled in marker, the boy had written, “I love my Rebbe.”

Reb Dovid teaching a class. Reb Shlomo is seen sitting on the left

nyone who has walked the hallways of Siach Yitzchok knows that they are saturated with warmth. Reb Dovid considers this environment to be of paramount importance to the mission of giving over a love for Torah, Yiddishkeit and a stellar education. One of the essential ingredients to this environment is the chemistry of the staff. The culture is such that when a new rebbe joins Siach Yitzchok he is embraced by the other rabbeim in a way which makes him feel like he is an integral part of the school. Reb Dovid marvels at the selflessness of the rabbeim towards each other and the extent that they go to make each other successful. He recalls that a new rebbe recent-

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The current building

ly joined the school and was teaching a parallel class to a rebbe who is world renowned for his creative teaching methods for pre-schoolers. Without hesitation, this veteran rebbe shared his methods and material in their entirety, so that the new rebbe was fully prepared and equipped to have success with his new class. “It’s no wonder that when you have rabbeim who act this way amongst each other it spreads to the entire school environment and is felt by everyone,” says Reb Dovid. He points out the importance of the warm atmosphere by relating a study that was once conducted in Manhattan wherein the conductors of the study placed a stack of four quarters in a phone booth on a busy street. Nearly everyone who went into the phone booth took the coins, believing them to have been abandoned. For the first group, as the subjects exited the phone booth, they had someone walk over to them and sternly ask them if they found money in the phone booth. Most of the people in that group denied having found the coins. For the second group, they had someone walk over to them, place his hand on their shoulder, and in a friendly manner ask them if they found money in the phone booth. The result was that most of the people in the second group admitted that they found the quarters and promptly handed them over. “This is just one of countless studies which proves that a warm connection is integral to creating a positive environment,” says Reb Dovid. But he is quick to point out that even in a warm environment, a rebbe has to be trained to pick up signs and subtleties and to deal with them. He recalls how Rabbi Freifeld was a master at spotting important subtleties and pointing them out in matters of chinuch and life in general. He illustrates this with the following story: For many years Reb Dovid went to Rabbi Freifeld’s house early every morning to learn with him. One morning, Rabbi Freifeld came into the room and was very excited. He pulled out a newspaper and showed an article to Reb Dovid. There was a big picture of a building in Red Square with a collapsed wall. The article reported that the Kremlin admitted that the partial collapse was due to faulty construction. Rabbi Freifeld waved the newspaper and said, “Dovid, this is the first time in 70 years that they admitted to making a mistake! They are finished!” Within six months of that morning, the Soviet Union collapsed. Rabbi Freifeld was able to spot a slight crack in the veneer and recognized that it was an early ripple in a coming geopolitical tsunami. “The Rebbe was constantly teaching us and everything that he discussed with us, regardless of what the topic was, gave us a deeper under-

Rendering of the future home of Siach Yitzchok

standing and another perspective,” says Reb Dovid.

oday it can be said that Rabbi Freifeld’s early hopes and visions in chinuch have flourished into a thriving community school, servicing over 300 talmidim from across the entire spectrum of the community. From Bayswater to Hewlett and beyond, families turn to this makom Torah and savor the impact it has on their lives. One can easily spot the Siach Yitzchok boy joyously davening in shul, learning intently in a beis medrash, or enthusiastically performing an act of chessed. Throughout the neighborhood Siach Yitzchok’s unique brand of chinuch and its warm and exciting approach to Yiddishkeit continue to brighten the homes of its talmidim and alumni. Even beyond Far Rockaway and the Five Towns, many of its talmidim can be found learning and teaching in a wide range of yeshivos or making a kiddush Hashem as prominent, ehrlicher, baalei battim.

f Siach Yitzchok has always been a jewel to our community, it has been one encrusted in a bad neighborhood. What a beautiful new setting does for a diamond, its future new building will do for Siach Yitzchok—the value is still in the jewel, but the setting makes all of the difference. Likewise, Siach Yitzchok will continue to provide the same outstanding chinuch, but the new facilities will iy”H create a more comfortable physical environment, which Siach Yitzchok has not had in many years due to its exponential growth in its current, small building. When talking about the new building—that will hopefully be completed within two years— Reb Dovid gets visibly excited. He explains that for years, rabbeim, teachers and students have had to make due with a subpar facility, which was located in an inferior neighborhood. But the new building will be centrally located in the heart of Far Rockaway. “It will be a dream come true for me not to have to deal with the elements of an unsuitable building and a bad neighborhood,” Reb Dovid says. “When we are physically located in the heart of the community in a new facility, it will be a tremendous convenience to the boys and their families.” When I ask Reb Dovid how he faces the daily challenges of running a school, handling chinuch matters, and embarking on a project to put up the new building, he takes a deep breath and then smiles. If I understand his gesture correctly, it is an admission that he is selfless to the mission—the mission of Rabbi Freifeld, the mission of this community, and the mission of Yiddishkeit. 

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My Israel Home

Gedaliah Borvick

Hashmonaim

Small Town Values

ashmonaim, located on the outskirts of Modiin, is a popular community for English-speaking olim (immigrants). Its appeal emanates from the town’s warm, close-knit “small town” environment and its excellent central location. Also known as Ramat Modiin, Hashmonaim was established as a “yishuv” – or settlement – in 1984 and its first families moved into their homes in 1987. Today, the community has grown to a population of over 3,000 people. Over fifty percent of Hashmonaim’s residents are olim, most of whom having immigrated over the past fifteen years, and a majority of these families

are professionals, ranging from doctors and lawyers to high-tech and business people. As this is a commuter population, the residents appreciate Hashmonaim’s central location, situated equidistant between Jerusalem and Tel Aviv and a short drive from Ben Gurion Airport. Abutting Hashmonaim is a neighborhood called Ganei Modiin. Anglos initially gravitated toward Hashmonaim, while Ganei Modiin’s population has traditionally been more eclectic, including Jews of Ashkenaz, Sefard and Yeminite descent. Interestingly, there is a growing trend of Anglos buying homes in Ganei Modiin, as it is in short walking distance to Hashmonaim’s shuls, yet real estate prices

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are significantly lower. Hashmonaim is a religious community, comprised primarily of dati leumi (national religious) and also some chardal (charedi leumi) families. Accordingly, the roads are closed on Shabbat to cars (with the exception of ambulances and security vehicles). The yishuv has ten synagogues, offering a variety of daily and weekly Torah classes in both Hebrew and English. Hashmonaim’s Anglo sub-population in some ways mirrors Jewish communities in the U.S., in that it is a shul-centric community, whereby the synagogue is not merely a venue for prayer and Torah study but also serves as a focal point for social and chesed activities. Hashmonaim is known for its strong sense of community and a feeling of family, particularly amongst the new

Glenwood Shul in Hashmonaim

Many young couples have moved in to Hashmonaim, including numerous second generation residents. Interestingly, many of these couples are “home grown” as there are over seventy couples in which both the husband and wife grew up in Hashmonaim. Reflecting the community’s Anglo sensibilities, Hashmonaim has a baseball field, and its younger residents participate in baseball leagues. The yishuv also has several basketball courts, a soccer field, a new running track and numerous parks. In addition, construction of a brand new indoor sports complex will begin shortly. Hashmonaim has a makolet (grocery store), a bakery, a take-out food store, and a pizza shop. Due to its central location, many residents do Israel's baseball teams always have Hashmonaim representation their large shopping – olim. The yishuv has a couple of major and can enjoy many entertainment acemail groups and, reflecting the strong tivities – within a few minutes of home communal bonds, even a WhatsApp in nearby Modiin and Shilat. group for empty nesters to plan Shabbat meals together when their children are away. When interviewing people for Gedaliah Borvick is the founder of My Isthis article, I was impressed that many rael Home (www.myisraelhome.com), a real people focused on the feeling of being estate agency focused on helping people enveloped in friendship and warmth from abroad buy and sell homes in Israel. and being supported during joyous To sign up for his monthly market updates, contact him at gborvick@gmail.com. times as well as in challenging times.

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Chocolate, Anyone? the unfettered abuse slung like cow pies at my face. Some of my students speak this way to me... sometimes. When they do they don’t hold back any punches. Unlike flight stewards and hotel employees, teachers are not given intensive training to prepare for this kind of abuse. There is the occasional workshop, but such sessions seem to miss the mark: they are too general, or their focus is just out of range, meaning it’s easy to predict what might happen in the closed confines of a cabin, but not always to foresee the specific type of baggage any given student is carrying.

Walking into one particular class is an experience that requires a lot of mental preparation. There are days when I amusedly think I could do with an App that detects teenage moods before I get to my teacher’s desk. On the first day of school a student I had never met accosted me. He pointed his finger at me and said, “Who do you think you are! I don’t need English anyway!” and promptly walked out. “Put away your phone” is often answered with “I’ll do what I want!” “Please stop eating” by “Who are you to tell me what to do?” “Stop talking” with “I’m doing something. You have no right to make me do anything!” I am not singled out for this behavior. All of my colleagues have to deal with it. In a recent essay in which he discussed moral psychology, Rabbi Jonathan Sacks suggests that certain contemporary secular societies suffer from a narrowing of moral sensibilities. One component missing among many people is their lack of respect for authority. They develop an opposite trait, subversive behavior. There is no glue

that bind some of my students to the rich fabric of the society they live in. I know students from broken homes, poor homes, violent parents, incarcerated parents or parents suffering from mental illness. The institution I work in functions well. The administration does a fine job sailing a difficult ship. More harm than good would be done by casting ballast overboard. This is because the most difficult students we face represent somewhere around 10% of the overall student body and that number represents an important element in many schools, neighborhoods, and cities throughout the country, but particularly in the periphery. Nothing is gained by walking away from problem students. Punishment? Castigation? Threats? It’s not the way to go if you want to make a connection that will, over time, produce results. And we’re not talking about academic success. Oftentimes, a student is in more need of a caring educator than a good grade on a test. Patience in spades is a pre-requisite. That, and a boxer’s ability to absorb punishment without taking it personally. This may sound counter-intuitive, but it isn’t. When a student says, “Who do you think you are to tell me what to do?!” you cannot allow the bluntness of the statement to upset you. The more you praise a student, the more you show how much you care, despite their appalling behavior, and the more often you do it will eventually (hopefully) lead to trust and respect. It is amazing just how much can be gained once that barrier is broken.

he role of an educator is far removed from the confined contact stewards have with passengers. On the face of it both share similar experiences. Whereas flight attendants have fleeting experiences with passengers, educators have a chance to make a difference in the lives of their students. Next year I begin a three year journey as homeroom teacher to 20 troubled youngsters. The challenge this represents and the ultimate success the school strives for will determine if we can leave a positive mark on what in effect will become my new family. That’s why I sometimes come prepared for class carrying candy on the off chance one of my charges is more demanding than usual. My teacher’s desk becomes my duty free shop. And the candy is free. Rafi Sackville, formerly of Cedarhurst, lives in Ma’alot in Western Galil. He teaches in the local high school.

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wasn’t surprised because I’m used to hearing that tone of voice, the irrational demands, and

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hen a video of an Israeli woman verbally abusing a steward on a flight to Israel went viral recently many people weren’t surprised. The woman wanted the stewards to open the duty free bar and sell her chocolate. Her behavior warranted the intervention of security, particularly after her sister joined the fray and her husband physically threatened the crew. Two follow-up stories surfaced in which stewards claimed that, in the overall state of affairs, the chocolate story was low on the scale of incidents with which they have to deal. The articles described in detail how stewards have to cope with a growing number of Israelis who believe they can do what they like on flights. One well-seasoned flight attendant says many flyers can’t sit still, are unable to listen to safety instructions, occasionally steal food and drink from the galley, and they move freely between coach and business classes. One passenger found the bathrooms not sterile enough to his liking and so stripped in the galley until completed unclothed. He changed into a fresh set of clothes, but not before first breaking into a dance. A smoker ignored warnings not to smoke in the bathroom, but did so more than once. Flight stewards have been called on to break up fisticuffs or have caught passengers red-handed taking items from the duty free. The stewards undergo workshops to learn how to deal with unruly passengers. They learn how to speak to them calmly. They aren’t always successful. Ironically, one came to the defense of unruly passengers when she said that it’s difficult for some people to sit in a tin can. Some panic when they fly, while others drink alcohol to calm themselves. Whether these are mitigating excuses for inexcusable behavior is questionable. Over time many Israeli flight stewards have become punching bags. Yet they are reluctant to make complaints to the police. They don’t wish to turn away potentially good customers. When I watched the video I wasn’t at all struck by the woman’s behavior. Her entire demand revolved solely around herself and to the exclusion of everything and everyone around her. She didn’t see the shock and embarrassment on the faces of her fellow passengers. She didn’t see what a fool she was making of herself. Hers was a classic “mahgi’a li” (I deserve it) moment.

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Parenting Pearls

Rabbi Dani Staum, LMSW

Hakaras Hatov I feel like no matter what I do it’s never enough for my kids. For example, on Shushan Purim morning after we had a wonderful Purim, my older daughter asked me to make her pancakes. I was so upset. The night before we had a seudah with over 30 people after we had run around all day (in the snow) going to her and her siblings’ teachers and friends to deliver shalach manos. It was also Erev Shabbos and the house looked like a jet had landed in the living room. Am I wrong to be upset at my daughter for being so ungrateful? How can I teach her not be so selfish? Rabbi Staum Responds: We live in an “es kumt mir” world, where everyone, especially our children, feels a sense of entitlement. We must train our children to recognize that what we do for them is a gift done for them with love. The ba’alei mussar note that hakaras hatov is not a natural feeling. It is something we must first develop within ourselves, and then work on conveying to our children. The first step is the hakarah – recognizing what is done for us. Only then can we develop feelings of gratitude for the good done for us. I remember during my youth, while

we were in the car on the way home from Chol Hamo’ed trips, my father would ask the family who remembered to thank “Mommy and Abba” for taking them on a trip. It is up to us to remind our children to thank us for things we do for them,

the cookies he likes for Shabbos.” When I drive carpool and drop off my children in yeshiva, as they are getting out, if they don’t remember to do so on their own, I say, “Thank you Abba.” If they don’t get the hint I’ll repeat it again, and even again. One of our young chil-

If you want to have polite and grateful children you have to model it and expect it. even the daily things we take for granted. Children should thank their mother for making supper, and their father for learning with them. Of course the best way to teach is by example, as in when a child hears one parent thank the other. When a parent opens and holds the door for their child and the child doesn’t even say thank you, there is something wrong. Truthfully the child should be opening and holding the door for their parent, but at the very least the child should thank their parent. Parents can also make a big deal in front of the family when one child remembers to express gratitude for something done for them, e.g. “It was so special when Dovi thanked me for making

dren had a hard time getting the hang of it and even after he exited the car, his father rolled down the window and called out loudly, “Thank you Abba,” until he got the hint. B”H now I hardly ever have to remind them. It wasn’t that I needed the recognition. It was that I wanted him to realize that driving him to yeshiva is a favor and therefore it is his responsibility to be thankful. I want my children to thank their bus driver every day when they get off the bus. I want them to be pleasant and thankful to the cashier in the store. I want them to thank the garbage men or mailman if they happen to see them. So I try to ensure that they hear me doing so. It will make them far more pleasant peo-

ple, and their future spouses (and mothers-in-law) will be ever grateful. A mother related to me that she was driving with her son in the car when they arrived at a construction zone and had to wait a few minutes. When they passed the construction workers, she was surprised when her son rolled down his window and thanked the worker, who smiled and waved back. When she asked her son why he did that, her son explained that a few days earlier he had heard his rebbe do it. People are by nature self-centered and self-absorbed. Your children’s ingratitude is not the result of bad par-

enting. Still, if you want to have polite and grateful children you have to model it and expect it. Hakaras hatov is like a muscle which needs constant exercise and attention in order to keep it healthy and strong. Parents are often afraid or uncomfortable to demand respect and gratitude from their children. But if we as parents don’t demand it, our children won’t learn it. In your situation I think you should tell your daughter (after you have gotten over the audacity of her asking) why her question wasn’t appropriate. If it’s explained to her gently she probably will realize why it was wrong, and she will even learn to appreciate the things you do for her lovingly. Rabbi Dani Staum, LMSW, is the Rabbi of Kehillat New Hempstead. He is also the fifth grade rebbe and guidance counselor in ASHAR in Monsey, Principal of Mesivta Ohr Naftoli of New Windsor, NY, and a division head at Camp Dora Golding. Rabbi Staum offers parenting classes based on the acclaimed Love & Logic Program. He can be reached at stamtorah@gmail.com. His website is www.stamtorah.info.

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Suffering and Spoiling

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into narcissists by spoiling them. Well, I guess it is the same thing: Spoiling is abuse. So the child is suffering from the original abuse and then the child comes to believe that everything is coming to

yell. You should not be angry. A simple yes or no is just fine. My two-and-a-half-year old granddaughter did not like to be told it was naptime. So she raised her little hand

Teach what is right and what is wrong right away. him because of it. Forever. That means he will carry on that same bad attitude into his marriage and with his own children. Are you really sure that you want this for your child? If you feel bad or guilty about the behavior you and your spouse exhibit, then work on it! Stop the bad behavior. If you believe there is nothing you can do because the “fault” lies in your spouse, then get help. And don’t stop getting it. If you don’t care for the quality of help from your therapist or your rabbi, then go to someone else. Seek the answers you need for the sake of your children. And then start setting boundaries for your children. As I understand in our past parsha, the Jewish people were told not to come up on the Mountain when we were about to receive the luchos. The Mountain had to have a perimeter beyond which we could not go or we would be invading G-d’s space. Certainly, G-d is everywhere, but it is we, the people, who needed to learn boundaries. And we still need to learn them. So you start with your child. That said, this process does not have to be harsh. In fact, that would be a huge mistake. Boundaries can be set with a smile and definitely with love. They should be definite; there should not be any wishy-washiness in your voice, choice of words, or body language. Nevertheless your voice and words can be gentle; you should not

to hit her father. He immediately sent her to a corner. He counted rapidly to ten and told her quickly to come out – he was preserving her dignity because she was pretty embarrassed at the punishment. He was not angry but he was not pleased: “You don’t hit your father!” he exclaimed as he was sending her to her punishment. That’s how children learn. Because this punishment is given to the children at two, they won’t need it at ten. Teach what is right and what is wrong right away. To get your message across, never argue with children who have said something inappropriate. If your child criticizes you, calls you names, corrects you or in any way violates your position as parent, the child needs to

be punished. You may be surprised that children can’t correct their parents. The laws of kibbud av v’ aim indicate that they can’t even agree with you! If they say, “You’re right,” that means that they have the power to say, “You’re wrong” and they don’t! Or at least, they shouldn’t. None of this means that I believe children should be seen and not heard. When I was ten, my parents were discussing what color to paint the living and dining rooms. I chirped up, “I’m tired of blue. Why not paint the walls pink to bring out the mahogany furniture?” And they did! To this day, I remember that incident with pride. But that is quite a different situation from children who think – because adults have trained them to think that way – that they must be listened to. No, they do not run the house. You do.

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be and Susie were at it again. You could hear the arguing down the hall. They tried to keep it behind their closed doors, but when you’re in a rant or a rage, there is very little control left. At the other end of that hall, the boys peeked out of their room and looked at each other. It was a bit frightening but they were kind of used to it. They closed their door and, looking at each other, ran to the closet. Their parents’ fight would buy them a half an hour of play time in the big, walk-in closet. They giggled bravely. If they pretended they didn’t care, they could drown their fears in video games that could go on endlessly. Certainly, that worked better than trying to sleep. The next morning, the boys, needless to say, were grouchy and irritable. So were their parents. Susie plopped three cereal bowls in front of them and started pouring in the milk. Avi shoved the bowl away so forcefully that the milk splattered all over the table. Susie took out her frustrations on her oldest son and this gave Abe a perfect excuse to rush to Avi’s defense. Abe was still angry for the fight he did not win last night; it had been gnawing at him all night. “Now, you have to take it out on the children?” he sniped at his wife. Forget about the lost marriage and the lost dreams. We have here in the making, three lost boys. Boys who, by the looks of it, are suffering at their parents’ irritability, emotional neglect and instability, but who also will become spoiled, possibly spoiled rotten. I see this again and again. It goes together: One parent hurts the child; the other thinks he’s making up for it by spoiling that child. And the child will end up both hurt and spoiled, a double whammy. It can also work the same way down the generations: The parents were abused so they spoil their own kids. And, just because the parents didn’t learn good parenting skills, when their spoiled children start behaving like brats, then the parent loses patience and abuses the child. Another variation is spoiling the child as a guilt offering for divorce. Friends, please don’t do this to your children. I am not sure whether it is worse to abuse children or turn them

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Health & Fitness

David Elazar Simai, MD

A Father’s Prayer

racticing medicine opens doors for physicians to a marvelous world of miracles. Any simple activity such as breathing, thinking or speaking reveals wonders that cannot be mistaken for pure coincidence. For that alone, I feel privileged to be a practicing physician. Very often, I feel fortunate having witnessed inspiring medical cases and working with special parents. As I have mentioned in the past, in 2003 I resumed my first attending position in Kiryas Yoel, Monroe. While I started a solo practice in Cedarhurst in 2006, I kept my old position in Kiryas Yoel for the next 4 years. One Tuesday morning, I arrived in Monsey (where I usually prayed before traveling northwards to Kiryas Yoel)

earlier than usual. The Vizhnitz Bais Medrash has minyanim every 15 minutes, so I decided to pray there. I have

that morning, I asked Hashem to guide me in my practice and to continue assisting me in every case.

prayed there dozens of times, but being there early, in a less crowded minyan, felt special. With extra meaning

It was the beginning of February, and the practice was bustling that day. Flu-like symptoms brought many patients in to see us. At approximately 10:30 am, my nurse told me that we had a “really sick” patient in the next room. I always appreciated that the nurses I worked with were wise and could discern quickly which patients needed extra help. I decided to see this sick baby first. As always, the baby’s chart was on the door so I took a quick look at it. I knew the baby very well. His grandparents were pioneers in Kiryas Yoel and very instrumental in the community. I met the Zeidy after the baby was born and noticed that he was not extremely excited. Apparently, half of the males born into the family died prematurely from an unknown genetic disorder. This baby was merely 3 months old. By the age of 6 months, it would be apparent if this boy was affected by this disease. My partner and I paid very close attention to him. Apparently the baby was seen a day prior for fever and mild congestion. He had a blood test that showed a mild infection and a normal urine test. His fever persisted overnight according to the triage note. When I entered the room, I noticed that the baby was lethargic. He had a weak cry and poor muscle tone. I asked the mom if he had been nursing and she replied that he was too weak to have the previous two feedings. I immediately instructed my nurse to call Hatzalah. In a matter of a minute,

it was evident that he had an overwhelming infection. Can it be my second botulism case? Meningitis? A urinary tract infection? Time was extremely valuable. I had one nurse get a glucose level and the other run a CBC (complete blood count). While they were doing that, I drew a dose of antibiotics. When I heard that his glucose level was OK, I gave the baby an injection of antibiotics. The Hatzalah members now arrived. The director, Mr. Steinberg, was extremely caring. He would show up on many occasions and help. He asked me if I wanted to hospitalize the baby at LIJ. (He was and still is very excited about LIJ.) I replied that he may not make it there. The hospitals close by could not handle such an unstable baby, so I felt that the best choice would be Columbia Presbyterian Hospital. Hatzalah would usually get there within 40 minutes. We accompanied the baby with the mother in the ambulance and called the hospital to report the case. The initial response from the attending was very angry. Often the ER attending felt that patients should be stabilized at nearby hospitals and then transferred. But our fear was that the baby would not survive unless he was seen by a pediatric ER attending that could handle the severity of his illness. Reluctantly, the attending took my report and said he would do his best to see the baby quickly. We all prayed for the baby to arrive safely at the hospital. Exactly 45 minutes later, we called and received word that the baby arrived and the entire ER team was busy stabilizing him. On my way home, I called and spoke to the attending. He said that approximately 10 minutes after the baby arrived, while the team members were starting IV lines and drawing bloods, he stopped breathing. The team quickly intubated him. His presumptive diagnosis was meningitis. The baby was transferred to the pediatric ICU (intensive care unit).

n Wednesday evening, I went to visit the family at the hospital. At the bedside, the

bring a yeshua to the family. The late Satmar Rebbe had acted as the right messenger for the cause. Despite all odds, the baby did survive and recovered from meningitis. Apparently, it was not by chance that this baby ended up in the right hospital and at exactly the right time! Wishing you the best of health, David Elazar Simai, M.D. Dr. David Simai is a Board Certified Pediatrician from the Five Towns. He is a full time attending in his own private practice since 2007 in Cedarhurst, New York. In addition, he is an Attending Physician at LIJ-Cohen Children’s Hospital, NorthShore Manhasset University Hospital and South Nassau Communities Hospital. He can be contacted for consultation at 516 374-2228 or via email at davidsimai@yahoo.com. NOTE: name, gender, geographical area and other identifying information were deliberately altered in this article in order to protect the patient’s privacy. This article is not intended to help diagnose or treat any specific disease. Always consult your personal physician before diagnosing or treating yourself or your child for any of the above mentioned illnesses.

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well. This was a complete shock to the hospital doctors. Just a few days later, we received more news. Apparently, an astute endocrinologist at the hospital linked the abnormal blood test and the family history of the debilitating genetic disease to a very rare genetic syndrome that was explained only a few years prior. The disease is known as MCT8 – Mono Carboxylase Transporter 8 Deficiency or Allan-Herndon-Dudley Syndrome. Unfortunately, there is no current cure for this disease. We contacted Dr. Refetoff (a professor at University of Chicago School of Medicine) who discovered the deficiency and linked it to the syndrome and started the baby on experimental medication. Upon hearing this news my partner and I were glowing. Knowing this information is priceless for the family. Using the latest advancements in reproductive medicine, the entire family can use genetic screening in order to ensure that they have healthy children for generations. (While some poskim may not support this method fully, we know people in that community who gave birth to a handful of healthy babies using these advancements.) Indeed, the father’s prayer and act of complete trust in Hashem proved to

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baum) to pray for my son, and only then – I drove to the hospital.” With tears in my eyes, I tried to muster a smile and I replied, “If that is what you did, I am 100% sure your son will recover, and very quickly!” In my heart, I felt that something big was going to happen. But what could we expect? The baby was probably affected by the genetic disease; this was perhaps the reason for him being vulnerable to possible meningitis. On the other hand, a powerful act and such a prayer certainly cannot go unanswered! As I mentioned, my partner and I followed the baby closely even before the infection. One of the newborn screening tests happened to show an elevated thyroid hormone known as T3. We both did some research. I called the director of pediatric endocrinology at LIJ, faxed the results, and received a reassuring answer. However, we repeated the test and still found some elevation of T3. While communicating with the ICU staff, my partner took the opportunity to mention this abnormal T3 level and asked the hospital for an endocrine consult. In a matter of days, the baby started breathing on his own. His fever disappeared and he started nursing as

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abbi Yehuda (“Reb Yudee’le”) Horowitz, the former an infant. The plague comes via Aharon instead. dayan of Klausenberg, Romania, a son-in-law of Rabbi Remember: the entire Pesach drama begins with a new Pharaoh that Chaim Meir Hager, the Vizhnitzer Rebbe, survived the “knew not Joseph.” This doesn’t mean he didn’t recognize him in downDzikov ghetto, settled in Tel Aviv in 1947, and town Cairo. It refers to the rudeness reflected moved to London in 1985 where he lived out in ceasing displays of hakaras hatov to the the rest of his days in a self-imposed ta’anis man who prevented a catastrophic famine to dibbur. Speech was no longer a vehicle he Rabbi Yisrael Zev Gustman the Egyptian people. And G-d detests “the unwished to use. When asked about his war grateful,” the Pirke of Rabbi Eliezer ben Hyrexperiences in Hungary he politely declined canus, the rebbe of R’ Akiva, tell us. Why? never forgot that a canopy with a mere scarcity of words, “It is not feaBecause R’ Eliezer was convinced that those sible.” When asked for advice or a blessing he who are ungrateful to others eventually bewould not utter a word. come ungrateful to G-d. of trees hid him from the But he made one exception. When Rabbi Rabbi Yisrael Zev (“Avrohom Tzvi”) Yitzchok Friedman, who had become the BoGustman was a Holocaust survivor in the Hitlerites and “repaid” them husher Rebbe in the middle of the war (1943) mold of the Talmud’s R’ Nachum Ish Gamzu after his father-in-law R’ Mendel died, came who, no matter what misfortunes life handed to visit, he couldn’t stop expressing his hakohim, responded with Gam zu le’tovah. by taking special care of a ras hatov to the Rebbe for sheltering him in A popular alumnus of Grodno yeshiva, Romania during the Holocaust. Rav Gustman was the head of a yeshiva (Rasmall patch of trees, bushes, Rabbi Shlomo Halberstam, the Bobover meillis) and an up-and-coming dayan in VilRebbe, did the same. When he heard that the na, Lithuania. When the Germans arrived in Bohusher Rebbe was spending a Shabbos in 1941 he fled with his family and hid “among and plants outside his small New York he sent followers to his Shabbos corpses, in caves, in a pig pen” before fleetish to show gratitude for the shelter also proing to the forests to join the partisans. His yeshiva in Crown Heights. vided him during the war by Rav Friedman, family subsisted on plants. On liberation the an incredible one-man whirlpool of rescue Gustmans made their way to Crown Heights, activism who converted his beis medrash in Brooklyn, where he never forgot that the canBucharest into a dining room and dormitory for refugees. opy of bushes and trees hid him from the Hitlerites. In his desire to “reNone of this is surprising. Gratefulness and showing appreciation are pay” the protective foliage he took special care tending a small patch of in the Torah’s DNA. Consider the G-dly nod to hakaras hatov in the first trees, bushes, and plants outside his small yeshiva. three plagues of Egypt starting with G-d not wanting Moses to turn “the No matter what their new matzav was, the majority of survivors rerivers, canals, ponds, and all gatherings of water” into blood because that tained a life-long gratitude for those who selflessly helped them in their would show insolence to the very rivers of the Nile that protected him as hour of need. Whenever R’ Mordechai Dovid Bornster, a survivor of sev-

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being driven by emotions and not Torah sources. Yom Ha’atzmaut is no more than a display of hakaras hatov to a Jewish State that performed the largest act of pekuach nefesh and hachnosis orchim by taking in several hundred thousand refugees and survivors 67 years ago when the rest of the world didn’t want Jews. It’s a display of hakaras hatov for a Jewish State that has been the largest financial supporter of Torah causes since its inception in the history of Every motzei Yom Kippur Rabbi Chaim Shmulevitz, the long-serving Mir rosh yeshiva in Poland, Shanghai, and the Jewish people. ConJerusalem (above left), would urge his students not to take for granted the risks that Jewish soldiers take on sider: In 2013, through their behalf. Rabbi Shlomo Zalman Auerbach, rosh yeshiva of Kol Torah (above right), included the graves of fallen the Israeli taxpayer, Israeli soldiers in the category of kivrei tzaddikim the Jewish State gave $300,000,000 to educate the children in the Chinuch Atzmai chareidi school system, $120,000,000 to educate children in the Maayan HaChinuch HaTorani schools, and $180,000,000 so Kollelim can pay those who study full-time, not counthazal frowns on those who lack hakaras hatov. To be un- ing the money given to the schools of the Mizrahi Party. In addition, grateful is to be unpleasant, cold, hostile even. To give thanks $80,000,000 was given to fund religious needs throughout the country is a fundamental human goodness and was the driving force (Moatzot Datiyot) such as mikvos, shuls, kashrus, rabbi’s salaries, upkeep to turn the early Jew into a makir tova (i.e. a mentsch) via of cemeteries. This does not count money given to Orthodox causes by lothe mitzvah of voluntarily and readily giving up the “first cal municipalities. And the Jewish State contributed $40,000,000 towards fruits” (bikkurim). The introduction of brachos was for this purpose. The sustaining a network of betei din. very expression of a Jew (Yehudi), from Yehuda, the name Leah gives her If gratitude is a recurring theme in the Torah what then about its lack fourth child, is derived from the verb (l’hodos) “to acknowledge” which thereof? Its absence is a corruption of Torah values. Rabbi Yitzchak Hutis the prerequisite of giving thanks. ner, rosh yeshiva of Chaim Berlin, minced no words when he saw ingratiRav Moshe saw nothing wrong in orthodox American Jews keeping tude. He described them as “acts of self-destruction.” Thanksgiving and the Fourth of July (“I would rather be a street sweeper in America where I would be able to learn Torah freely, than a Rav in the Soviet Union suffering religious repression”). Hakaras hatov is a manifestation of deeds (such as a seudas hoda’a) fter the Jewish State was declared, a significant bloc of gedand words; its absence is offensive to all men of decency. “Doing the olei Yisrael were gracious and public advocates of praising right thing” is why parents insist children send “Thank You” notes after the Jewish State and all it did to help a Torah lifestyle take receiving gifts as an essential part of their chinuch. To stay silent as a benroot in the Holy Land. eficiary is arrogance, aloofness. Or as the chassidic master Reb Nachman Rabbi Avraham Yeshaye Karelitz (Chazon Ish) cauof Breslov articulates, “Gratitude rejoices with her sister ‘joy’ and doesn’t tioned Jews to be extremely sensitive before rebuking a fellow Jew and much like the old cronies of boredom, was opposed to efforts that tried to spiridespair and taking life for granted.” The tually “correct” other Jews if the results charismatic Rabbi Menachem Mendel of made matters worse. He was appalled Kotzk could never just throw away a pair at what he saw: a raw hostility that was of old shoes that had served him well. He chipping away at the basic goodness would gently wrap them and put them in of all Jews whether chassidic, Litvish, the garbage with care and affection. Mizrahi, Agudas Yisrael, Poalei Aguda, Which brings us to Yom Ha’atzmaut. Sephard, secular Zionist, unaffiliated. He This day of the year has nothing to do had not an ounce of bitterness or anger with differences of belief or ideology or toward fellow Jews. He was turned off politics or grievances past. It is not a tired by petty behavior, triviality, and recoiled excuse to bring up animosity or contenfrom intolerance. He never displayed tion, the antitheses to darchei shalom; any negativism, antagonism, or hostilnor is it a calendar bogeyman to dredge ity to the Jewish State. He supported After the war, Rabbi Yekutiel Yehuda Halberstam, the Klausenburganything that bettered the life of Jews, up machlokes. On the contrary, for orthoSanzer Rebbe (above left), embraced achdus Yisrael as the only viable religious or not, on condition it didn’t dox Jews it should be a serious, solemn modus operandi for continued unity and thus safety. Rabbi Yosef Shlomo encroach on practical Jewish law. He yet joyful time to show appreciation. Kahaneman, the optimistic and restless seer from Ponevezh (above encouraged Jews to work together for Rabbi Avraham Weinfeld, a prominent right), displayed genuine hakaros hatov to the Jewish state for rescuing the remnants of Hitler, even flying the state’s blue-and white flag over the overall good of the community and posek from Monsey, was correct when his yeshiva every year on Yom Ha’Atzmaut despite the pressures from the new country and, unlike recent years, he expressed concern that the issue was his colleagues not to do so

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eral camps including Auschwitz and a Nazi death march, saw his grandchildren he would instinctively say Baruch Hashem in gratitude for the extra days G-d gave him. Rabbi Moshe Yitzchok (“Reb Itzik’l”) Gewirczman of Pshevorsk never forgot that Itta Barber, a refugee from Lemberg, the capital of Galicia, cooked for him and his family when they were trapped in Siberia. He stood up for her whenever he saw her. “When I get up in the morning and recite Modeh Ani,” says Rabbi Yisrael Meir Lau, whose life’s experiences include three years at Buchenwald as a child, “I really mean it!”

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refused to call secular Zionist but are moser nefesh towards Jews sonnei Hashem or sonnei saving others for they too have Yisrael. a share in Olam Haba just like Rav Karelitz paskened that the martyrs of Lod who gave the traditional pre-Holocaust their lives for the city.” category of heretics no longer Yom Ha’atzmaut is a day applied. When pressed for speto display hakaras hatov to cific halachic sources, he simthe only country in the world ply responded, “I don’t know today where a Jew threatened the source, but my heart tells in Paris or Ukraine or Antme this is the absolute truth.” werp can simply hail a cab to This broadminded policy the airport, catch a plane, and was supported by many. Rabbi “go home” without begging to Rabbi Shaul Yedidya Elazar Taub, the Rabbi Gershon Edelstein, a rosh yeshiva at Ponevezh, popular second Modzitzer Rebbe, reminds his talmidim to praise IDF soldiers “even those who Aryeh Levine, the tzaddik of be admitted, Evian-style. We begged his colleagues to “cast aside do not adhere to Torah and mitzvos but are moser nefesh toYerushalyim and mashgiach should all show gratitude for self-interest…and rectify it with wards saving others for they too have a share in Olam Haba ruchani of Etz Chaim, never this because there but for the ahavas chinam, undeserved love” just like the martyrs of Lod who gave their lives for the city” uttered a negative word about Grace of G-d go you or I. irreligious Jews. Rabbi MeRemember: It’s never asnashe Yitzchok Meir Eichensur to give thanks. And finalstein, the Ziditchover Rebbe and former Rav of Petrozhen, Romania, set- ly: The only fact of indisputable import to know on Yom Ha’atzmaut tled in Petach Tikva after the Holocaust and avoided machlokes like the is this: The number of Jews who have died in the past 67 years (under proverbial plague, as did Rabbi Nosson Gestetner, a survivor who served 25,000) from wars and terrorism is less than three days at Auschwitz – as the Rav of the Agudas Yisrael neighborhood of Bnei Brak and on Rabbi and Auschwitz was not the only insatiable death camp.  Shmuel Wosner’s Zichron Meir bes din for thirty years, who was careful never to degrade another Jew. He disciplined himself not to use the word chiloni to describe a nonreligious Jew because it came from a negative Aramaic term (zar) for “foreigner.” Joe Bobker is the publisher and Editor-in-Chief of the Los Angeles Jewish Times, When the Jewish state came into being, the Gerer Rebbe, R’ Avraham author of the popular Torah With a Twist of Humor series, and of the 15-volume Mordechai Alter, was asked by his chassidim how they should respond. Historiography of Orthodox Jews and the Holocaust, due to be published this Rav Alter, who had massive personal family losses, went to the window year. He can be reached at jbobker@gmail.com and saw Jews, for the first time in years, happy, dancing, singing, clapping in the streets of Tel Aviv. He said nothing. In an astonishing essay titled An Aktueler Maamar Fun Modzitzer Rebbe (“A true word from the Modzitzer Rebbe”), Rabbi Shaul Yedidya Elazar Taub, the popular second Modzitzer Rebbe and a senior member of Agudas Yisrael in Europe, is scathing in his criticism of his colleagues for their extreme anti-Zionist leadership and begs them to step forward in support of a Jewish state (“Each party must cast aside its egotism, and each person his self-interest, when it comes to the matter of Eretz Yisrael… As my great-grandfather, Rav Yechezkel of Kuzmir would say: ‘The Temple was destroyed because of sinas chinam, undeserved hate; we must rectify it with ahavas chinam, undeserved love’”). Before the war Rabbi Yekutiel Yehuda Halberstam, the KlausenburgSanzer Rebbe, despised Zionism and Zionist Jews. After the war, armed with enormous energy and faith, he embraced achdus Yisrael as the only viable modus operandi for continued Judaic unity and thus safety. Meanwhile Rabbi Yosef Shlomo Kahaneman, the optimistic and restless seer from Ponevezh, changed the landscape of Torah in Palestine and did so not only without alienating other Jews but earning their respect and admiration in the process. He displayed genuine hakaros hatov to the Jewish state for rescuing the remnants of Hitler, even flying the state’s blue-and white flag over his yeshiva every year on Yom Ha’Atzmaut despite the pressures from his colleagues not to do so.

his is a day of hakaras hatov to the Jewish soldiers who protect Jews regardless of their level of religiosity. Every motzei Yom Kippur Rabbi Chaim Shmulevitz, the long-serving Mir rosh yeshiva in Poland, Shanghai, and Jerusalem, would urge his students (nosei b’ol chaveiro) not to take for granted the risks that Jewish soldiers take on their behalf. Rabbi Shlomo Zalman Aubarch included the graves of fallen Israeli soldiers in the category of kivrei tzaddikim. Today, this hakoras hatov is reflected in the persona of Rabbi Gershon Edelstein, a rosh yeshiva at Ponevezh, who reminds his talmidim to praise IDF soldiers “even those who do not adhere to Torah and mitzvos

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Forgotten Heroes

The Jews behind the Resistance in North Africa

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ovember 1942: World War Oran and Algiers were all to be invaded a French soldier and army was pivoted II had been raging for three on November 8, 1942 by an amphibious politician, who put against the Geryears. The Americans had force led by General Dwight Eisenhow- them in touch with man Afrika Corps been a belligerent for close to a year but er. The landings in Algiers were helped the Allied high comled by the Desert they hadn’t done anything significant by the resistance network led by Jose mand. Fox, General Erwin to fight the Nazis. They had stopped Aboulker who was assisted by his cousRommel. The Allies needthe Japanese advance in the Pacific and in Roger Carcassonne who founded the ed the cooperation Vichy French had won some important battles in that resistance movement in Oran. still controlled from the resistance theater of operations. However, only Algiers and even The resistance networks played that would start the the beleaguered forces of England and heavily into Allied strategy because no night before Operthough the high Russia were fighting the Nazi war ma- one knew the Vichy French’s intentions ation Torch was to commissioner, chine. British Prime General Henri Gimainly because they launch. This was Minister Churchill raud, cooperated were still angry with arranged with a seunderstood that it with the Allies, he the British for sink- cret meeting with American troops landing in North Africa, took time to build ordered the arrest ing their fleet. As it American General November 1942 the massive army turned out, the French Mark Clark (who was also Jewish). The of Aboulker. Giraud’s predecessor, Adthat America was were surprised by the Americans agreed to supply the resis- miral Darlan, was assassinated, and Gicapable of but Ruslandings and agreed tance with radios, weapons and other raud had his suspicions set on the resissian Premier Joseph to capitulate. Many supplies to the 400 civilian resistance tance. Aboulker and 26 other members Stalin wanted a secof its members lat- members in the area. In turn, these men who were also arrested were released ond front opened imer served with the and women would occupy strategic po- following the Casablanca Conference mediately. The U.S. Free French out of sitions and stop anyone that was loyal to in January 1943 (it was at this conferwasn’t prepared for ence that the term “unconditional surEngland and in June the Vichy French. a frontal assault on 1944 were among the This turned out well as the resis- render” became a reality for the Allies mainland Europe just Allied troops that re- tance forced the Vichy French to ne- who would only accept a surrender that yet so they decided captured France. gotiate with the Americans. The Vichy would end the war immediately). Jose Aboulker to attack Axis-held In October 1943, Aboulker made his Jose Aboulker were unable to put up much of a battle North Africa. The Vichy French con- was from an Algerian Sephardic fami- against the landings because they were way into German-controlled France to trolled many territorial areas in North ly and his father was a prominent doc- busy dealing with Aboulker and his provide medical services to the underAfrica but weren’t expecting a seaborne tor. Jose was in medical school when men. He was able to convince many ground. He returned to England for the attack. France had capitulated to Ger- WWII broke out, was recruited into the of them to give up their defensive po- invasion and then back to France to help many and many Frenchmen were offi- army and by 1940 was an officer cadet. sitions which were filled by men from establish military commissioners after cially fighting for the Axis under the Vi- In September of that year, he formed the resistance. The resistance members the liberation. After the war he went chy French government. (Free French a resistance network of students at the were poorly armed but set out to occupy back to medical school and became a troops were fighting out of England University of Algiers that soon swelled strategic buildings and mess with Vichy professor in neurosurgery in Paris. for the Allies under General Charles de to 800 strong. His cousins, Roger and communications. Many of his men sat Carcassonne was also sent back to Gaulle.) These landings, called Opera- Pierre Carcassonne, had done the same in the police headquarters impersonat- England to work for the general staff. tion Torch, were assisted in a major way thing in Algiers. Their mission was to ing officers while giving misinforma- His main job was to prepare agents for by underground resistance forces that harass the Germans in any way pos- tion to the Vichy. Algiers surrendered special missions in occupied territories. had several Jewish members prominent sible and with a to the Allies in fif- Both of these men were highly decoratamong their ranks. good number of teen hours without ed by France and were awarded AmerThe situation in North Africa was their members bemuch bloodshed or ican medals, the Medal of Freedom for a bit confusing. Morocco, Algeria and ing Jewish (up to Aboulker and Carcassonne received fighting. Tunisia were all under the French but 85% were known to In the other the Bronze Star, for their courage and since its capitulation in 1940 were run have been Jewish) two landing zones daring before and during the landings. under the Vichy French regime, which it was very easy to the Vichy French It was these landings that led to the Gerin turn was the puppet government of convince them to gave into the Allies man defeat in North Africa and soon the Nazis. The Allied high command help the Allies. Anwithin three days in opened the door for the invasion of was banking on the fact that the Vichy ti-Jewish laws had large part due to the mainland Europe. Without the Jewish French didn’t want to fight for the Nazis been decreed by the distractions pro- members of the resistance these landand would be willing to lay down their Vichy French, and vided by the resis- ings would have taken much longer weapons. The question then arose: who the Jewish populatance. Now Eisen- with more lives being lost. would command the French forces after tion in North Africa hower was able to the landings? After many heated discus- came running to the send forces to link sions, Admiral Darlan was selected. The call to start a moveup with the British Avi Heiligman is a weekly contributor to The Vichy French Navy was another story ment against their Eighth Army who Jewish Home. He welcomes your comments and the Allies were taking all precau- antagonists. They had been fighting and suggestions.for future columns and can Jose Aboulker – figure 2 – and Roger Carcastions including preparing their troops soon were in contact sonne – figure 1 – received the Cross of Libera- in North Africa be reached at aviheiligman@gmail.com. tion medal at the end of 1947 for their efforts to fight the Vichy French. Casablanca, with Henri d’Astier, for two years. This

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“Say What?” I’m starting to worry that when Hillary Clinton travels, there’s gonna need to be two planes – one for her and her entourage, and one for her baggage. – Republican presidential candidate Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY)

For the first time, a vegan gluten-free bakery has opened at Disney World. The place is called “It’s a Sad World After All.” - Conan O’Brien

President Obama has reduced the sentences of 22 federal prisoners who were arrested for drug-related crimes — eight of whom were serving life sentences. It marks the first time someone has said “Thanks Obama” but actually meant it. – Jimmy Fallon

Ben & Jerry’s is working with a beer company to develop a “salted caramel brownie brown ale” that will be sold later this summer. It’ll mark the first time you’ll actually feel great after finishing a second pint of Ben & Jerry’s. – Jimmy Fallon

Former New England Patriot Aaron Hernandez has been convicted of murder and sentenced to life in prison. His lawyer plans to appeal. He’s trying to get the sentence reduced down to two seasons with the New York Jets. – Conan O’Brien

Everything comes from above. Everything just comes from above. - Jeralean Talley, 116, of Michigan, who just became the oldest person in the world

It’s something I always wanted to do. And I didn’t have the opportunity to go and now 100 years later, here I am. - At a ceremony for Marie Hunt, 103, who received an honorary high school diploma from River Valley High School in Wisconsin (after 8th grade she started working to support her eight younger siblings) A Wisconsin woman recently got a high school diploma at the age of 103 and says she is now considering going to college. Friends are recommending a two-year college. - Conan O’Brien

We have a giant garbage can called YouTube for usergenerated content. – Jerry Seinfeld during a discussion about comedy and the internet

Hillary’s trying to appear downhome. Earlier today she was sitting on the front porch of a general store whittling a pantsuit. – David Letterman

The only fun thing about filing your tax return is getting a refund. About 80 percent of taxpayers get money back, which is a weird thing to be happy about. That means you’ve been overpaying all year long. It’s like if someone broke into your house and the police recovered the stuff and brought it back and you said, “Oh, presents.” – Jimmy Kimmel

In lieu of flowers, memorials may be sent to Shriners Hospital for Children. Also, the family respectfully asks that you do not vote for Hillary Clinton in 2016. R.I.P. Grandaddy. - Obituary for Larry Upright, an 81-year-old man who passed away in North Carolina last week

The ex-governor of Maryland, Martin O’Malley, said the presidency of the United States is not some crown to be passed between two families. Jeb Bush said that’s true. It should really just belong to one family. – Conan O’Brien All my grandparents, you know, came over here. – Hillary Clinton talking about immigration during her swing through Iowa (three of her four grandparents were born in the continental U.S.)

I think they’re all losers. - Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) on MSNBC, when asked about the field of Republicans He comes from a coal state. I don’t mean to be meanspirited, but he is a lump of coal. – Ibid, when asked about Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell(R-KY)

Have we all decided who we’re going to vote for president yet? You know you only have 574 days left to figure it out. - Jimmy Kimmel

We do have a plan. We have a plan for my plan. - Hillary Clinton when asked by the Washington Post for details of her campaign plans

If I put together a finance team that will make me financially competitive enough to stay in this thing… I may have the first all-Jewish cabinet in America because of the pro-Israel funding. - Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) joking about the fundraising he may have to do if he decides to run for president

Hillary’s roll out was about as spontaneous as open heart surgery. - Fox News Channel host Greg Gutfeld

A 95-year-old man has officially become the world’s oldest pilot. He’s also become the first pilot to fly at 25 miles per hour. - Conan O’Brien

I’m inside a plane, and I feel like it’s moving in the air. Flight 448. Can you please have somebody stop it? – From the 911 call made by a baggage handler who had fallen asleep inside the cargo hold of an Alaska Airlines jet bound for Los Angeles, and woke up when the plane took off (the plane returned to the airport)

Well, that’s got to be a first. - The TV announcer at a San Francisco Giants game when a play was disrupted by a fried chicken finger which fell from a bird’s mouth onto the field

It’s April 15, tax day. The federal tax code is over 74,000 pages long. But stick with it because after page 72,000, it gets really good. - Conan O’Brien

Jeb Bush welcomed his fourth grandchild. The new Bush grandchild is happy, healthy, and will be running for president in 2048. – Conan O’Brien

Hillary Clinton announced she’s running for president. Yesterday in Ohio, Hillary popped into a Chipotle and she ordered a burrito bowl with chips and salsa. And on her way out she said, “That locks down the Hispanic vote.” – Conan O’Brien

The Hillary team is driving around in a van. Sometimes people get those gag bumper stickers put on their van. Hillary has one on her van, and it says, “If this van’s rockin’, I’m deleting emails.” – David Letterman Tomorrow President Obama will host NASCAR racing champion Kevin Harvick at the White House. They both said they look forward to spending an hour or two not having the slightest interest in what the other is saying. – Jimmy Fallon

Hillary Clinton announced that she is running. Then she drove from New York to Iowa in a van. You can’t be president of the United States unless you agree to eat a corn dog in front of a small group of farmers. – Jimmy Kimmel

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Hillary is in Iowa to listen to what the people are saying — because if you want her to speak, that will cost you $200,000. So she’s there listening. – David Letterman

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As long as I have control of the craft, no one was going to get hurt. If I get blown to smithereens, I have no control of the smithereens. - Douglas Hughes, who flew a gyrocopter onto the Capitol lawn, recalling what he was thinking as he was flying through Washington, DC

In her Iowa round tables, she acted as though she were following dating tips from 1950’s advice columnists to women trying to “trap” a husband: listen a lot, nod a lot, widen your eyes, and act fascinated with everything that’s said. – Maureen Dowd, writing in The New York Times about Hillary’s recent swing through Iowa

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ee Hillary ride in a van! Watch her meet everyday Americans! Witness her ordering a burrito bowl at Chipotle! Which she did wearing shades, as did her chief aide Huma Abedin, yielding security-camera pictures that made them look (to borrow from Karl Rove) like fugitives on the lam, wanted in seven states for a failed foreign policy. There’s something surreal about Hillary Clinton’s Marie Antoinette tour, sampling cake and commoners. But what else can she do? After Barack Obama, she’s the best known political figure in America. She has papal name recognition. Like Napoleon and Cher, she’s universally known by her first name. As former queen consort, senator and secretary of state, she has spent a quarter-century in the national spotlight – more than any modern candidate. She doesn’t just get media coverage; she gets meta-coverage. The staging is so obvious that actual events disappear. The story is their symbolism – campaign as semiotics. This quality of purposeful abstractness makes everything sound and seem contrived. It’s not really her fault. True, she’s got enough genuine inauthenticity to go around – decades of positioning, framing, parsing, dodging – but the per-

ception is compounded by the obvious staginess of the gigantic political apparatus that surrounds her and directs her movements. Why is she running in the first place?

Or developed a new persona. She will, of course, go through the motions. Her team will produce a “message,” one of the most corrosive, debased words in the lexicon of contemporary politics – an

There’s something surreal about Hillary Clinton’s Marie Antoinette tour, sampling cake and commoners. Because it’s the next inevitable step in her career path. But that’s not as damning as it seems. It can be said of practically every presidential candidate. The number of conviction politicians – those who run not to be someone but to do something – is exceedingly small. In our lifetime: Ronald Reagan. And arguably, Barack Obama, although with him (as opposed to Reagan) a heavy dose of narcissistic self-fulfillment is admixed with genuine ideological conviction. Hillary Clinton’s problem is age, not chronological but political. She’s been around for so long that who can really believe she suddenly has been seized with a new passion to champion, as she put it in Iowa, “the truckers that I saw on I-80 as I was driving here”?

alleged synonym for belief or conviction, it signifies nothing more than a branded, marketing strategy. She will develop policies. In Iowa, she’d already delivered her top four, one of which is to take unaccountable big money out of politics. This is rather precious, considering that her supporters intend to raise $2.5 billion for 2016 alone and that the Clinton Foundation is one of the most formidable machines ever devised for extracting money from the rich, the powerful and the unsavory. She will try to sell herself as champi-

on of the little guy. Not easy to do when you and your husband have for the last 25 years made limo-liberal Davos-world your home. Hence the van trek to Iowa, lest a Gulfstream 450 invade the visual. Clinton’s unchangeability, however, is the source of her uniqueness as a candidate: She’s a fixed point. She is who she is. And no one expects – nor would anyone really believe – any claimed character change. Accordingly, voters’ views about her are equally immutable. The only variable, therefore, in the 2016 election lies on the other side, where the freedom of action is almost total. It all depends on who the Republicans pick and how the

candidate performs. Hillary is a stationary target. You know what you’re getting. She has her weaknesses: She’s not a great campaigner, she has that unshakable inauthenticity problem and, regarding the quality most important to getting elected, she is barely, in the merciless phrase of candidate Obama in 2008, “likable enough.” But she has her strengths: discipline, determination, high intelligence, great energy. With an immense organization deploying an obscene amount of money. And behind that, a Democratic Party united if not overly enthusiastic. That’s why 2016 is already shaping up as the most unusual open-seat presidential race in our time: one candidate fixed and foregone, the other yet to emerge from a wild race of a near-dozen contenders with none exceeding 20 percent. So brace yourself for a glorious Republican punch-up, punctuated by endless meta-coverage of the Democrats’ coronation march. After which, we shall decide the future of our country. Just the  way the Founders drew it up. (c) 2015, The Washington Post Writers Group

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his week is Yom Haatzmaut and I wanted to make an Israeli style dinner. I came up with a shwarma salad. Shwarma is my husband’s

favorite Israeli dish and this is a salad version of the shwarma sandwich. It’s a nice combo of a sandwich and a salad -- if you’ve had taco salad, now try the shwarma salad! It is also perfect salad for a Shabbat lunch. I served the salad with a side of homemade baked French Fries.

Chicken Shwarma Salad Ingredients 2 ½ pounds chicken cutlets, sliced into strips 2 onions, cut into ¼ inch-thick rounds 1 tablespoon turmeric 2 teaspoons kosher salt 2 teaspoons ground coriander 1 teaspoon ground cumin 1 teaspoon ground black pepper 1 teaspoon ground white pepper 1 teaspoon cayenne pepper ½ cup extra-virgin olive oil, divided 2 whole wheat pitas 1 head romaine lettuce, shredded 1 large tomato, cubed 5 Israeli pickles, diced 1 container prepared techina Preparation In a large Ziploc bag place onions and cutlets. Set aside. In bowl, mix turmeric, kosher salt, ground coriander, ground cumin, black pepper, white pepper, cayenne pepper and the olive oil and mix well. Set aside 1 tablespoon of spice mixture to brush on pita. Pour spice mixture into the Ziploc bag, coating the cutlets and onions well. Marinate in fridge for several hours. Preheat a grill pan (or an outdoor grill) and brush with a little oil. When pan is heated, place chicken and onions in batches on the grill and cook until chicken is no longer pink inside and onions are soft. Split the pita into 2 lengthwise so you have 2 round circles. Then cut each slice into 8 pizza wedges. Brush with remaining seasoned oil and place on the grill pan until they become crisp. TO SERVE: On a large platter toss lettuce, tomato, and pickles with techina until well mixed. Place chicken, onions, and pita crisps on top of vegetables.

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he toughest form of writing is the short story. Most authors know how to start a tale but are not disciplined enough to know when to stop. A short story requires the art of less is more. It’s very difficult to be educational, informative, witty in 1,500 words. But I’m happy to report that Rabbi Mordechai Kamenetzky, a popular and prodigious writer (Parsha Parables), has mastered this looks-easy-but-is-not format. His latest book, Streets of Life, consists of fifty-one short biographical gems that feel like installments of one long text where he connects Divine

fondness for self-deprecating humor without compromising the chain from Sinai. This was not easy; it was in fact a great challenge at a time when the Americanized Torah Weltanschauung was listening to Bob Dylan on tiny transistors, playing Ping-Pong on Shabbos afternoons, and going to mixed dances. The variety of the stories in Streets of Life will impress, and one need not read it from beginning to end. Pick it up at will, take any chapter, and within sixty seconds you will be smiling, within 120 seconds you will have learned something, and within a minute or more you will feel better about life, and yourself. Rav Kamenetzky belongs to that (disappearing) generation of Torah scholars and educators who know when and how to use an anecdote from the Chofetz Chaim as easily as from a populist Clarke Kent, as Rav Abraham Twerski did with his Charles Schulz Peanuts character and the Lubavitcher Rebbe’s urging that a children’s magazine have a more Dick Tracey feel. Meanwhile, any rabbi who mentions Abbot & Costello has my vote! The characters who drop in and out of this book – from Isaac Bashevis Singer to Jesse James to Gil Hodges (I had to look him up) – rub shoulders with the Seder Hayom from the 16th century and Likutei Meharich from the 19th century. Few graduates of today’s yeshiva are as comfortable in their street cred skin as Rav Kamenetzky is in his, a tribute to the wisdom and tolerance (and probably tons of patience and prayer) of his parents who let him collect baseball cards, although “my father never got a warm feeling about Mickey Mantle or Sandy Koufax,” the author admits. This book (check out the great photo of the rabbi and VP Biden!) has multiple appeals; it is light-hearted, a joy to read, but don’t be fooled, the author is very serious about his Judaism and the lessons that life gives us if we are willing to listen. “Savor the small stuff,” is his advice, incidents that are often overlooked in the “congested streets” that are sometimes “paved with pain,” sojourns that Rav Kamenetzky bravely faces and never flinches from. This engaging and sentimental collection of memories of “days of old” is a mature, intuitive, and thoughtful treatise. And his own passion with life shines through; and it’s infectious. Rav Kamenetzky reminds us that looking back does not just define the past but informs the present, a status that is wobbly unless there are legs of support from yesterday. Rabbi Mordechai Kamenetzky with his grandfather, R' Yaakov My personal favorite chapter? I don’t have one. For each was more poignant than the one before. Here’s to a sequel!

Few graduates of today’s yeshiva are as comfortable in their street cred skin as Rav Kamenetzky is in his. dots in “reflections” of his “amazing journey” (so far) through life, until 120. Rav Kamenetzky, alumnus of “Philly” and the skilled pedagogue principal at the Yeshiva of South Shore, founded by his father R’ Binyomin in 1956, is the scion of a “mixed marriage” – which is obvious from his Litvishe lamdus and contagious joyful chassidishe bounce. His maternal grandfather, R’ Pinchas Eliyahu Spiegel, was the Admor of Ostrov, a community on the border of Lithuania and Poland, who arrived in the United States in the late 1920s; his paternal grandfather, Rav Yaakov, was a young family man in the small Lithuanian village of Tzitivyan mired in such extreme poverty that “the room he sat in had no floor, the table and other sparse furnishings stood directly on the ground,” recalls a visitor. America became the beneficiary of the horrific poverty. The Jews of Tzitivyan couldn’t afford to pay a rabbi’s salary so Rav Kamenetsky, desperate, and like many other bread winners, (reluctantly) left for the United States in 1937 seeking a job, bringing his family out later, a decision that saved the family from Hitlerism. Both families are early American Jewish history’s Exhibit A of that famous rabbinic adage: “If you keep the Torah, the Torah will keep you.” Both resisted all temptations to adjust to their new country, neither compromising their values fun der heim, both considered themselves to be “in” America but not “of” America’s version of Yankee Yiddishkeit. And it shows with Rav Mordechai. Here is a learned einikel who has enough self-confidence to admit he went to such non-Jewish events as circuses at Madison Square Gardens in the 1960s. But this is where his spiritual strength lies. Being raised in what was considered “out-of-town” (Woodmere, Long Island) where “we had no kosher restaurants, no sefarim stores, no shtieblach, no eruv, no high schools…”, but in a home with a strong anchor of Yiddishkeit and menschlichkeit, he developed into a worldly, live-and-let-live guy with a

Joe Bobker is the publisher and Editor-in-Chief of the Los Angeles Jewish Times, author of the popular Torah With a Twist of Humor series, and of the 15-volume Historiography of Orthodox Jews and the Holocaust, due to be published this year. He can be reached at jbobker@gmail.com

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Turn a Lawsuit 180 Degrees? moment, his vehicle proceeded directly into the stopped SUV occupied by the father with his daughters. The 9-year old impacted her mouth, sustaining the injuries to her teeth.

Now, if the 9 year old was seated in the front, she had to be between her father, the driver, and her older sister, who was in the front passenger seat. In this regard, a quick check online for the

Could the injuries have been avoided if the 9-year old was belted in a proper seat? Naturally, the father and his daughters seemed free of all responsibility for the accident. In the meantime, the driver of the sedan was facing “motions” in the lawsuit that could seal his fate for excessive financial exposure. Stated another way, a lot of money was at stake. It was at that point in the litigation that the driver of the sedan became my client. When we got the file, it was already voluminous. I tackled it with gusto and what I uncovered no less than shocked me. Note that I was skeptical at the start because photographs of the post-accident vehicles did not reveal that there was an impact of great force. In other words, there was not too much damage to either vehicle. So what happened to cause the little girl to lose her teeth? Well, did you ever see a completed police report? It is full of codes that anyone – especially your attorney – can decipher with the proper code sheet. It seemed that no one had taken the fundamental steps to decipher the codes for the police report from this accident. That was now done. In fact, one code indicated that this sweet, little girl was not wearing her seatbelt when the accident occurred. Also, although the police report was less than clear, it seemed to indicate that she was seated in the front of the SUV.

“specifications” of their SUV revealed that their particular model only came with bucket seats in the front, separated by a console/armrest. In other words, there was no seating for a third person. With further review of the file contents, including statements by my new client, it was revealed that my client saw the 9-year old passenger in her father’s SUV through the windshield before impact and that she was positioned “very clear and high” in the SUV. That statement is public information. As an aside, in case you thought my client was some kind of villain for hurting a poor little girl, it turns out that he is actually an upstanding, responsible individual who describes the accident differently than was initially understood. While much of what he has to say is privileged and confidential information that cannot be imparted here, you can be assured that he did not simply hit a stopped SUV when the accident occurred. In any event, can you see what happened here? I believe the following scenario more closely resembles what occurred in the accident: Once upon a time, there was a loving father who wanted to take his young daughter for a quick ride to get his older daughter from a friend. After they got the older daughter, the remaining

trip was only a short drive home, so he assumed there was little concern and nothing to lose if they proceeded in a less than perfectly safe manner. As a result, he let his 9-year old daughter sit without a seatbelt, upfront, and on the console/armrest (or on his or his older daughter’s lap?) as he continued home. Maybe he even put his arm around his young daughter to secure her. As he approached a stop sign, one way or another, there was an unforeseen vehicle that approached from the intersecting street. That vehicle turned in their direction and, unexpectedly, came straight towards their vehicle. Then there was a head-on collision with a mild impact. However, since the 9-year old was not properly belted, her face was propelled forward and she hit her mouth on a portion of the SUV’s interior. She lost a significant number of teeth and emotional problems followed. While I agree that this is a sad version of events, implicating a loving father for making a grievous mistake, it seems to be what actually occurred. As the litigation proceeds, perhaps time will tell what truly happened. In the interim, please accept the lessons of this case, learn from the mistakes of others, and be careful. Could the injuries have been avoided if the 9-year old was belted in a proper seat? You be the jury. No column is a substitute for competent legal advice. Any additional or different facts could change or affect any legal analysis. Please consult with your legal professional of choice regarding any legal question you may have. Sol Z. Sokel, Esq. (a/k/a Shlomo) is associated with the AV rated law firm, McCabe, Collins, McGeough, Fowler, Levine & Nogan, LLP with offices in Albany, Buffalo, and Nassau County, which covers Downstate New York, at 346 Westbury Avenue, Carle Place, NY 11514, near the Supreme Court building in Mineola. He lives in Cedarhurst with his wife and their five children. He can be reached at (516) 941-0804 and ssokel@ mcmflaw.com.

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s indicated in my last installment of this column, I have joined a new law firm. My new office brings with it new cases, issues and opportunities to advance the needs of my clients. In fact, one of my first new cases was, in a sense, really nothing new but, in another sense, an amazing and provocative set of circumstances. Be that as it may, the case seemed appropriate for an article. It is questionable if I should be writing about pending cases, something I have only done once before, but with good results. Nonetheless, I think the lessons that can be learned from this case are better published sooner rather than later. If someone acts upon the lessons of this article, it is well worth it. Also, the risk always exists that the ultimate outcome of the pending case will not be good for my client, which I would obviously prefer to avoid publicizing. However, it goes with the territory for all litigators that we cannot win them all, so I am really not concerned about that either. When my firm was hired, we were retained as “incoming counsel” to replace another firm (“outgoing counsel”) in a lawsuit that was already in progress. The exchange of evidence known as “discovery” was nearly complete since there had already been multiple exchanges of information and depositions. Moreover, the lawsuit seemed indefensible. I was informed that it involved a two-vehicle accident that caused a sweet, nine year old girl to lose multiple teeth and allegedly caused her significant emotional distress. The girl had innocently joined her father for a short ride in the family SUV to pick up her older sister from a friend’s home, which was a short distance from their home. After picking up her sister, her father came to a routine stop at a stop sign. At the same time, a young driver in a sedan was coming from a professional hockey game with a friend. He was turning onto the block where the father and daughters in their SUV were stopped. However, it seemed that the young driver had been driving too fast and he lost control of his vehicle. At that

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Your Money

Allan J. Rolnick, CPA

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very year, the IRS Criminal Investigations unit (IRS-CI) releases a surprisingly entertaining report detailing their efforts to protect the Treasury from scammers, fraudsters, and cheats. This year’s edition reveals that, due to budget cuts, activity is actually down. In 2014, IRS special agents initiated 4,297 criminal investigations (down 19.1% from 5,314 in 2013) and recommended 3,478 prosecutions (down 20.4% from 4,364 in 2013). There were 3,272 indictments and 3,110 convictions, which shows the IRS won’t take you to criminal court unless they’re pretty sure they can really nail you to the wall. And 80% of those who were convicted won themselves an all-expense paid trip to a federal penitentiary. IRS-CI targets all sorts of misbehavior and shenanigans: Swiss banks, corrupt politicians, identity thieves, and crooked tax preparers. They also

cooperate with other federal agencies, helping the Drug Enforcement Administration catch drug smugglers and the Department of Homeland Security block funding for terrorists. But some of the most entertaining stories fall un-

then sold the credits to investors. Turns out he lied about how much he paid for the renovations. After Jefferson ‘fessed up to his fraud, the court released him on bond to sell properties to pay restitution.

promising to keep their money in a secure trust or insurance policy as required by state law. Instead, they “made use of funds paid by customers in ways that were inconsistent both with its prior and continuing representations and with the applicable state laws and regulations.” (That’s what prosecutors call it when you use your customers’ money to pay for a $16 million mansion in Nantucket, a charter yacht, and family vacations.) And because you’ll ask: no, they didn’t pay tax on the loot. The conspirators will But he used his freedom to bury spend up to 115 months behind up to $2.5 million in cash in a bars and owe their victims a cool PVC pipe behind his house, blow $435 million. (Let’s see, now... $2.15 million on trips to Vegas, that’s 11 cents/hour stamping and steal his brother’s identity to license plates times for how many book a one-way charter flight out hours?) of the country! For his efforts, • Practicing “law” without a Jefferson will spend the next 20 license: Diane Niehaus managed years in an unrenovated facility a bank in Centerville, Ohio, where where residents use cigarettes as her elderly customers entrusted currency. their money. Despite that trust, • G-d hears all prayers? Archie she forged all sorts of documents, Larue Evans including fictitious was pastor of gift letters and the Tilly Swamp fraudulent powers Baptist Church of attorney, to steal and owned over a million a gold and dollars from their silver business accounts. She used in Florence, the money to buy South Carolina. a $460,000 house Evans sold his and a different car parishioners for every day of Billy Gene Jefferson won't be enjoying his freedom any longer “investment the week. And of contracts” course, she forgot paying higher interest than to tell the IRS about her new the piddly amounts they were side venture. Oops! Now she’s earning at the local banks. The spending five years at a prison banks may not have been paying camp in West Virginia, where much interest — but they also she’ll get to discover if orange is weren’t running Ponzi schemes. really the new black. Obviously, he didn’t report Look, we know paying tax bites. anything to the IRS. Now Evans But you don’t have to cheat to bite back. will get to spend the next seven You just need a plan. There’s no shortyears ministering behind bars. age of court-tested, IRS-approved strat• Death and taxes: They say that egies for saving. What are you waiting nothing in life is certain except for? death and taxes. A group of six defendants in St. Louis, led by a Allan J Rolnick is a CPA who has been in disbarred attorney, found a way practice for over 30 years in Queens, NY. to roll both of those burdens He welcomes your comments and can be into a single con. For 15 years, reached at 718-896-8715 or at allanjrcpa@ the group sold prepaid funeral aol.com. contracts to 97,000 customers —

She used the money to buy a $460,000 house and a different car for every day of the week. der the “general tax fraud” category. Here are four to brighten your day: • Smoke ‘em if you got ‘em: Billy Gene Jefferson claimed over $12 million in federal and state historic tax credits for rehabilitating a former Philip Morris tobacco factory and ten other buildings,

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Rivki D. Rosenwald Esq., CLC, SDS

Spring Fever or Fervor?

t’s that time of the year again when the sun comes out, the weather warms up, and some connection to our sensory motor system is stimulated. We automatically reach for brighter, more vibrant clothing. I think it would happen even if our eyes were closed! Black ain’t so beautiful anymore once the sunshine kicks in. We begin our walking and exercise routines in full force. Did you ever notice how you could be planning a 7 mile bike ride, a 3 mile walk, or an hour of vigorous exercise in the gym but if you have to run upstairs for one more thing you’re ready to shoot someone? What is that about? Aren’t running up steps exercise? I guess not if it’s in your own home! Iced coffee! Now there’s a spring time staple. If you’re not toting a plastic cup with a straw and cover you haven’t ushered in spring yet! And if you’re not

a coffee lover there’s always passion fruit tea. After all, it is the season of love! Now what about those manicure places? Everyone is busy going. People are out on the Avenue. There are more weddings and events to attend. Practically every other store is a manicure/ pedicure place. Soon we’ll be able to have our fingernails done in one place while stretching out our legs to get a pedicure in another. What a brilliant time-saving scenario, and luckily we can support the newest shop as well. After all, we may need them to stay open just in case we grow a

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mitted to sprinkle on anything. Who can unearth the microscopic scoop of yogurt under there? It used to be all about the base, but now it ain’t about the base anymore! So what can I share with you about the spring that you don’t already know? It’s a time of fervor or fever. You can get excited or overly excited. Don’t just jump into anything! Just as the weather is often uncertain, life can be that way too. I’m not saying don’t take risks but take well thought out ones! And enjoy the warmer days. We are all so ready for that – that much I am certain of!

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requires planning, and some is spontaneous. s stated Many abstract works of art contain messagby Wases which are emotional, spiritual and can insily Kanspire the sense of sound. Abstract paintings dinsky: “Of all the do not have to represent anything. They arts, abstract paintstand on their own as magnificent pieces of ing is the most difart purely expressing an artist’s vision. ficult. It demands Mural by Jackson Pollock In order to understand how that you know how this developed, I did to draw well, that some research which throwing and splattering paint you have a heightfinalized the concluonto a canvas. ened sensitivity for sion that “color, line, There are artists who precomposition and form and texture supfer painting solely from their for colors, and that ply enough substance imagination. Others prefer to you be a true poet. to become the subhave a beginning point. Many This last is essenject of any painting.” will take their ideas from tial.” During the 1940’s photographs which have inSometimes, in Jackson Pollak painting in the summer of 1950 what was known as terested them and inspired order to showcase Abstract Expressionism them. It can come from a an idea, we use simplified drawings such as a circle for became popular. This was particular image, beautiful a sun. This way one can use colors and forms to repreaccomplished by artists brushstrokes, shapes, colors, sent what it is they want to express in a non-objective such as Jackson Pollock, scales, sizes, etc. Kandinsky manner. This became a trend in the twentieth century. Black and Violet by Wassily by dropping, dripping, Wassily Kadinsky Some “art abstraction” is geometric by nature, which (1866-1944) mentioned many times that he felt that emotions and feelings could be provoked by use of color and titled some of his works with names which were consistent with these feelings. As stated: “Kandinsky believed that colors provoke emotions. Red was lively and confident; Green was peaceful with inner strength; Blue was deep and supernatural; Yellow could be warm, exciting, disturbing or totally bonkers; and White seemed silent but full of pos— is proud to present — sibilities. He also assigned instrument tones to go with each color: Red sounded like a trumpet; Green sounded like a middle-position violin; Light Blue sounded like flute; Dark Blue sounded like a cello; Yellow sounded like a fanfare of trumpets; and White sounded like the pause in a harmonious melody. These analogies to sounds came from Kandinsky’s appreciation for music.” It is interesting to note that the titles Kandinsky gave to his artwork at times referred to the colors in a particular composition or to specific music which he appreciated. Torah-based thoughts and insights to help Art Abstraction can be based on a subject such as a bring familes and couples closer together landscape, figure or object but it can actually have ab>New shiurim daily >Geared for men and women of all ages and backgrounds solutely no connection to any source. It does not have >Give us 2-5 minutes and we’ll give you inspiration! to represent any concept or relationship to reality. It is therefore known as “non-objective art,” containing no our shalom bayis hotline can also be reached at the commitment to representation, falls under absolutely no same number sun/tues/thurs evenings 9:30-11pm umbrella, and does not have to have any inclination of SPONSORSHIP >Referral to local therapists >Resources and ideas for OPPORTNITIES AVAILABLE!! recognizable features in the artwork. marital harmony >Subsidized and fixed price This is a fantastic form of art to use with elemen>Sponsor a daily inspirational counseling shiur >Local keynote lectures for tary-age children, at school and at home, as it whets >Sponsor a newsletter well-known lecturers with >Sponsor an anonymous coufocussed workshops to help their imagination and offers a wonderful venue for exple’s therapy provide sustained positive >Sponsor a keynote program change pression. and workshop >Weekly Shalom Bayis News-

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Fidelity Payment, a nationwide electronic payment technology co. is hiring limited number of regional account execs with sales exper. Base salary (up to $1000 weekly) + lifetime residuals. Fidelity provides businesses with; credit card processing, online payments, check services, POS systems, invoicing, accounting integration, Gift programs, ATM machines Etc. Full training + support. Apply @ www.fidelitypayment.com/salescareer Growing Sephardic Brooklyn Girls Elementary School Seeks for the upcoming school year: • A dynamic and creative grade 5 Limudei Kodesh Morah For an Ivrit b’Ivrit class • General Studies teachers who are Certified for Pre-1A, Grades 2 and 5 • Minimum 2 years experience required • Excellent Salary, Benefits Email resume: rperlow@ydeschool.org Office assistants/Customer service FULL TIME help needed food company in Brooklyn: Phone calls, new projects, filing, collection, sales support Requirements: - Exceptional communication skills - Meticulous work - Top notch organizational skills - comprehensive knowledge of Microsoft Office (Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Outlook, Quick books) - Able to handle working with deadlines Please send resume to : rachel@246foods.com Yeshiva Ketana of Long Island in the Far Rockaway/5 Towns area seeks qualified, experienced and dynamic GENERAL STUDIES TEACHERS for grades 1-5 and junior high school SS, SC, ELA, and math positions. Please email resume to office@ykli.org Seeking substitute Special Education teacher for 3rd-4th grade Boy’s class, afternoons, in local yeshiva Starting in May through the end of school For more information, contact Shira at 516-295-3666 E-mail resume to shira@cahal.org or fax to 516-295-2899

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SPECIAL EDUCATION ENGLISH TEACHER for 12th grade H.S. yeshiva boys class Daily, afternoon hours E-mail resume to shira@cahal.org or fax it to 516 295-2899 For more information, contact Naomi Nadata at 516-295-3666

Looking for a registered nurse to work part time (3 hrs/wk) with adults who have developmental disabilities Strong health assessment skills needed Current NYS RN license and a minimum of 2 years of post graduate hospital experience required Contact OHEL Bais Ezra 718-686-3102 or email your resume to resumes@ohelfamily.org to apply

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