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ast night, as we were sitting down to dinner, I told my kids that my babysitter, Jenny, had helped to make the schnitzel for dinner. “We need to be thankful to her for helping me put dinner together,” I told them. “But she’s not even here,” one of them replied. “True,” I answered. “But it’s incumbent upon us to be grateful to someone who helped us – whether or not they’re there to hear our appreciation.” My kids understood. And then we got into the concept of gratitude and showing appreciation. Being grateful, we agreed, is more for the person expressing the gratitude than about the person receiving it. Yes, we need to recognize and show people that what they did for us is valued and appreciated. But when someone says “thank you,” they’re refining themselves too. As Jews, our days are supposed to be filled with gratitude. In fact, we start our days, “Modeh Ani,” with a statement affirming that we recognize that Hashem has given us our lives once again and that we appreciate that gift that we receive daily. Hashem, of course, does not need our thanks. He doesn’t need our appreciation – but He wants us to be appreciative because that’s what makes us more wholesome, complete, higher versions of ourselves. Being a makir tov changes our whole being. A person who recognizes the good that others do for him is someone who has developed the middah of seeing the good around him, acknowledges that it’s being done for him, and humbles himself to the giver of all that good.

A few months ago, I met with Rabbi Dovid Refson, the founder of Neve College for Women. He mentioned the importance of hakaras hatov and told me that when his daughters were dating, he told them to look out for that middah. “If a boy doesn’t have hakaras hatov, don’t continue to go out with him,” he advised them. “Someone who isn’t makir tov won’t be a good husband.” At first, when I heard him say that so emphatically, I was surprised. Why is hakaras hatov so important in a marriage? But as I thought about it, I realized that being grateful is the foundation of so many relationships. A child needs to have hakaras hatov to his parents; a talmid has hakaras hatov to his rebbi; a spouse has hakaras hatov to their partner; a friend has hakaras hatov to his friend. Showing appreciation makes for a healthier, more robust connection. It’s been proven that grateful individuals are happier people. One study asked college students to write down ten things that they are grateful for every day. After documenting their feelings of gratefulness every day for ten weeks, those students reported being happier, more optimistic, and more positive than before. This year, we have been thrust into a reality like no other. And yet, if we look closely, we can see the sun shining through the clouds. There is so much we can be thankful for when we start to see the abundant good in our lives. Have a wonderful week, Shoshana

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Contents LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

COMMUNITY 8

Readers’ Poll Community Happenings

OpEd: Thankful by Zvi Gluck

NEWS

Global

National

Odd-but-True Stories

ISRAEL Israel News

World Builders

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The Killing of a Terrorist JEWISH THOUGHT Rabbi Wein on the Parsha

We Are the Ladder by Rav Moshe Weinberger

Parsha Ponderings

PEOPLE The Wandering Jew

78 The Heroes of Machal by Avi Heiligman

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Love Yourself by Dr. Deb Hirschhorn

Planning Makes Perfect by Cindy Weinberger MS, RD 92 Parenting Pearls

To the Editor: Differences of opinion, as expressed in the Letters to the Editor section, generally are to be celebrated. After all, if we all thought alike, discussions would be very boring! G-d created us to be independent thinkers. However, there is a line between the acceptable and the unacceptable, and letter-writer “I Want Moshiach” (Nov. 19 issue) clearly crosses that line. The writer has somehow divined that Covid-19 is a punishment from on High because, two years ago, “thousands of Jewish children were thrown out of yeshiva for not receiving the MMR vaccine.” This, argues the writer, was a violation of the “religious exemption principle” that protects people from acting against sincerely-held beliefs. Further, he/ she writes, Rav Chaim Kanievsky, Rav Shmuel Kaminetsky and Rav Malkiel Kotler advised against bar-

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ring unvaccinated children from yeshivos, yet these gedolim were ignored. There is a lot to unpack here, and it is not pretty. To be clear: there is overwhelming evidence that vaccination is a necessity, wherever possible. Moreover, if one does not vaccinate his/her child against measles, mumps, and rubella, one is exposing that child to those diseases. This, in turn, exposes other children, especially compromised kids who are unable, not unwilling, to be vaccinated. One has no religious right to endanger the health, perhaps even the life, of others. As an example, if one has a religious reason not to purchase car insurance, the state is fully entitled to prevent that person from driving, because lack of insurance creates a public danger. To put it another way, your rights end where my nose begins. Therefore, yeshivos and other institutions were not only correct in denying admission in cases of non-compliance; they were morally obligated to do so! (As of June 13, 2019, New York State does not recognize a religious exemption, making the point moot.) Further, the writer assumes that an anti-vaxxer can find grounding for his view in Jewish law. Au contraire: Halacha places an extreme premium on safety; from our perspective, there is no legitimate arguContinued on page 10

FOOD & LEISURE The Aussie Gourmet: Ravioli Three Ways

LIFESTYLES Dating Dialogue, Moderated by Jennifer Mann, LCSW Your Money

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ment against vaccination. As for the rabbanim mentioned, I will grant them the benefit of the doubt. To arrive at a correct decision, a halachic authority must be given accurate information. Perhaps these esteemed rabbanim were advised erroneously. A common misconception among some observant Jews is that gedolim have some divinely revealed expertise in medicine. I wish that were the case, but it is not. Rav Moshe Feinstein, zt”l, perhaps the greatest posek of our time, relied upon his sonin-law, Rabbi Dr. Moshe Tendler, for medical input. And Rabbi Dr. Aaron Glatt, who is both a community rabbi and a doctor, has written about the necessity to vaccinate because that is the consensus of the medical community. He also cites an impressive list of gedolim who insist upon vaccination. (Rabbi Glatt’s views can be accessed at https://matzav.com/the-anti-vaccination-disgrace.) The rabbanim cited by the letter-writer are heavyweights, but their position does not outweigh that of the broad medical community. In summation, the letter-writer besmirches the good reputation of yeshivos that did the right thing by refusing admission to unvaccinated children. One can only wonder if the writer opposes the noble effort of drug companies to find a vaccine that will defeat Covid-19. Meanwhile, let us continue to daven that Hashem will guide us out of this pandemic. Avi Goldstein Far Rockaway, NY Dear Editor, Steven Genack’s “French fry moment” letter in this week’s issue was epic! Steven, keep those letters coming! A Fan

Dear Editor, The Dating Dialogue question this week horrified me, and I hope shocked many other people as well. The person writing in spoke about an issue she had having children and how parents, before allowing their son to date her daughter, wanted to read medical documentation and speak with her doctor about her years-ago issue. This is, quite frankly, appalling. But perhaps it speaks to a bigger issue in the dating world. At times, people take “information gathering” a bit too far. Questions that are asked, people who are approached, and issues that are probed cross many lines. Yes, we need to ask around to ascertain and ensure that the two people going out are compatible and healthy. But too much digging and too much nitpicking will lead either to: A) no dates, since no one can possibly measure up; or B) a voyeurism that is not becoming for those in our community. I understand that people hear horror stories of young ones dating and finding out things after marriage that were never raised. In many of those cases, their parents asked and asked and asked around – and for what? The kids got married anyway and they never heard about this particular issue. So what was accomplished? A lot of yenta-ing. I think that each family has to decide for themselves which type of family they’d like to be: a family that asks information, enough to decide if the children and families are compatible, or a family that is nosy, inappropriate, and relishes in lashon hara. Most importantly, we should all daven that those who are looking for their bashert should find him or her in the right time, easily and speedily, without heartache. Sincerely, Chava Feld

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UN: Schools Should Reopen

The UN agency tasked with promoting the welfare of children worldwide says that the costs of keeping schools closed during the worldwide pandemic outweighs the benefits. After reviewing months of data from hundreds of countries, the international body concluded that there is no significant link between school re-openings and Covid-19 transmission rates. The report, which is titled “Averting a Lost Generation” and was released last Thursday, questions the rationale of governments that have kept their school systems closed since the onset of the pandemic last February. “Evidence shows that the net benefits of keeping schools open outweigh the costs of closing them,” wrote UNICEF. “Data from 191 countries show no consistent association between school reopening status and Covid-19 infection rates.” The report added, “Other consequences, such as a year of interrupted school with little learning or getting a virus without suffering severe symptoms may not seem all that serious against the backdrop of this global pandemic,” the report continued. “But these experiences reverberate into the future of every child who goes through them. “And there are more hidden impacts – loss of future employment potential, rising violence, increased poverty, mental health issues and Covid-related long-term morbidity for children who are malnourished or already vulnerable.” While admitting that the coronavirus is especially lethal for children with pre-existing conditions, UNICEF contended that school shut-

downs cause irreparable harm to the younger generation’s wellbeing. “Greater threats to children’s health, however, are caused by the disruptions in critical services that protect and support children and young people caused by efforts to contain the virus,” said the report. The report also highlighted the devastating toll the worldwide economic slowdown has taken on children. Since the initial Covid-19 outbreak forced countries to shut down their economies, close the borders, and issue draconian lockdowns, there has been a dramatic rise in “poverty across every dimension of a child’s life, including health, education, nutrition, housing, water and sanitation”. The UN also warned that the lack of services and threats to food security worldwide can result in 2 million additional child deaths and 200,000 additional stillbirths over the next year. “Approximately 150 million additional children are living in multidimensional poverty. This represents a roughly 15 percent increase compared to pre-pandemic levels,” it noted. Overall, 572 million students were hurt by 30 country-wide school closures – 33 percent of the enrolled students worldwide.

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ditors with the necessary documents. This development is a troubling sign for Lebanon, whose banking system is on the verge of collapse resulting from decades of corruption and mismanagement. The financial crisis led Lebanon to default on its debt last March as it struggles with depleted foreign currency reserves and a liquidity crunch. The dire economic state led hundreds of thousands of Lebanese to take to the streets in October 2019 after the country’s currency collapsed. Since then, the Lebanese pound has plummeted to lose 80 percent of its value against the dollar, while 50% of the Lebanese people fell under the poverty line.

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China Wants to Track You

Chinese President Xi Jinping proposed to restart international travel amid the Covid-19 pandemic by collaborating on a new global tracking system. The system would be based on QR codes, a barcode storing people’s health and travel history that can be scanned by smartphones. Introduced in China earlier this year, the tracking software classifies people according to different colors based on their potential exposure to the coronavirus. Green is the safest and allows for free travel, while those defined as orange and red face restrictions and even quarantine. Xi’s comments came during a meeting with global leaders on Saturday at the G-20 Summit in Riyadh. The Chinese leader contended that adopting his country’s tracking system would enable global travel to return to where it was before

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Voting in Burkina Faso

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Israeli Firm Nabs Thieves

An Israeli business intelligence company played a key role in foiling what was dubbed “the largest jewelry heist in modern German history.” The robbery in question occurred on the night of November 24, 2019, and saw a pair of masked robbers break into the Green Vault museum in Dresden. CCTV footage showed the burglars smashing the display cases with an axe before making off with hundreds of diamonds and other precious stones. While the pair had been spotted by the museum’s security guards, the guards decided to wait until police arrived rather than confront the robbers themselves. By the time law enforcement arrived, the criminals were long gone in their stolen Audi getaway car. Nearly a year after the $1 billion heist, police believe that they have succeeded in finding the culprits. On November 17, 2020, over 1,600 policemen descended on 18 different sites throughout Germany. Officers ransacked vehicles, homes, and garages, even digging up gardens in some locations and confiscating hard drives, cell phones, and clothing. Three men were arrested for their role in the Green Vault burglary; police say they belonged to a Berlin-based crime ring. Assisting German law enforcement in finding the culprits was CGI Group, a Tel Aviv-based private intelligence firm headed by former Shin Bet chief and Knesset member Yaakov Peri. The company had been hired soon after the robbery by German officials to spearhead the investigation and quickly linked the Green Museum heist with the 2017 theft of a huge solid-gold coin from Berlin’s Bode Museum. CGI Group investigators then succeeded in pinpointing a museum guard who was a distant relative of

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one of the suspects in the Bode Museum heist. Contacting him on the darknet, the team convinced him to agree to sell them part of the stolen goods for $25 million. German law enforcement then took it from there, arranging a meet that was actually a sting operation. Upon being arrested, the underworld figure supplied a wealth of information to interrogators that enabled police to round up the criminal gang. “Immediately after the robbery, we were approached by a European law firm that asked that we look at the security arrangements at the museum,” Peri recounted to Israel’s Channel 12. “I can’t take the credit for solving [the case]. I can say we assisted. “Early on in the probe, it appeared likely that the thieves had cooperation on the inside. One of the museum employees likely cooperated with the infiltrators,” Peri continued. “We gave all the material we had to the chief prosecutor in Dresden. “We cooperated with [the potential suspect] as though we will come and buy the stolen goods. We created a map marking out the areas where they offered to make the sale. This too we sent to the German prosecutors.”

UN Pleads for Ceasefire in Ethiopia

The UN called for a temporary humanitarian ceasefire in Ethiopia in order to allow civilians an opportunity to escape the fighting. Hundreds of civilians have been killed since the Ethiopian military began an all-out offensive against rebels in the Tigray region. In a statement released last Friday, the UN asked both sides to agree to a 48-hour ceasefire and to establish a humanitarian corridor for non-combatants. “A temporary ceasefire with immediate effect is needed to allow humanitarian corridors to be established,” said Babar Baloc from the UN High Commissioner for Refugees

(UNHCR). The aid agency added that it expected to be flooded with hundreds of thousands of refugees displaced by the fighting and asked for $200 million in donations to cover expenses related to food, medical care, and shelter. Over 33,000 refugees have already fled to Sudan since the conflict began, with the UN predicting that the number could swell to 200,000 by May if the crisis isn’t solved. “It’s not something which is anticipated; it’s a planning figure in order for us to be fully prepared, should this happen,” said Axel Bisschop, the representative in Sudan for UNHCR. He added that the UN had begun to solicit donations from world powers into order to prepare for the unfolding refugee crisis. “We are going to be calling for an initial $50 million to start this response, which will most likely increase over time, and especially into 2021, and raise to about $200 million,” said Bisschop. The fighting began on November 4 after Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed sent in the military to confront the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF), a powerful sectarian party. The TPLF responded by declaring war on Ethiopia’s central government, resulting in weeks of clashes between the Ethiopian army and forces allied with the TPLF.

Pollard Finally Free

Convicted Jewish-American spy Jonathan Pollard is now free to emigrate to Israel. Pollard is now free to fulfill his dream of moving to the Holy Land after the U.S. Parole Commission lifted all the restrictions Pollard had been subject to since his 2015 release. “After a review of Mr. Pollard’s case, the U.S. Parole Commission

has found that there is no evidence to conclude that he is likely to violate the law,” said the Justice Department. Ever since his release five years ago, Pollard had been subject to a slew of draconian restrictions, including a ban on contacting the media, a nightly curfew, and U.S. government monitoring of his home computer. Pollard was also prohibited from emigrating to a different country, preventing him from moving to Israel until Friday’s decision. Pollard celebrated his newfound freedom by releasing a video on Sunday of him cutting the electronic bracelet he was forced to wear since his release. While expressing their happiness at being able to move to Israel “as soon as possible and fulfill their dream of living together in Israel,” Pollard and his wife Esther said that they first needed to arrange treatment for the latter’s breast cancer. The Pollards are expected to move to Esther’s home in Jerusalem, where she lived prior to marrying the longtime prisoner. Senior Israeli officials hailed the news, telling Pollard that they await the day in which he will finally move to Israel. “The prime minister was committed to his release for many years and worked tirelessly for his return,” said a statement released by Prime Minister Netanyahu’s office. President Reuven Rivlin added that Israel “felt his pain all these years and felt a responsibility and an obligation to bring about the release of Jonathan Pollard.” Speaking to The Jerusalem Post, Health Minister Yuli Edelstein said that the State of Israel stood ready to make the necessary arrangements to facilitate Pollard’s aliyah. “We will do whatever it takes in terms of medical treatment,” Edelstein said. “I am sure everyone in the Israeli health system will cooperate with the necessary treatments to enable the Pollards to come home. It is so clear to me that they will get the best medical treatment,” he added. “Israel is waiting for Pollard. This is happy news after the state abandoned him for too many long years. Soon we will be able to see Jonathan in Israel.” Pollard was released in 2015 after serving a 30-year sentence for spying on behalf of Israel. Until his arrest in 1985, the U.S. Navy Intelligence analyst passed highly classified information to his handlers from an obscure Israeli scientific-intelligence unit.

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Pollard’s espionage caused a serious rift between Israel and the U.S., which refused to release him despite decades of Israeli pressure. In 1998, President Bill Clinton reneged on an agreement with Prime Minister Netanyahu to free Pollard in exchange for concessions to the Palestinians after senior U.S. intel officials threatened to resign.

Netanyahu’s Secret Visit to Saudi Arabia

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman (MBS) in a clandestine visit he made to the kingdom on Sunday.

Netanyahu was accompanied by Mossad chief Yossi Cohen and traveled on a private jet to Neom, a futuristic Saudi city under construction about 10 miles south of Eilat. The trip was confirmed by two Saudi officials, who told the Wall Street Journal that Netanyahu, Pompeo, and the Saudi monarch discussed the fight to stop Iran’s regional influence and normalization. The two officials added that the meeting did not lead to any breakthroughs regarding normalization. Despite intense U.S. pressure, Saudi Arabia has refrained from joining the UAE, Bahrain, and Sudan in establishing full diplomatic relations with Israel. The visit is historic, as it marks the first time an Israeli leader visited the desert kingdom. Netanyahu and Cohen had arrived at Neom via a private jet belonging to Israeli businessman Udi Angel. Angel’s plane, which Netanyahu had used in the past for surreptitious meetings with Arab leaders, attracted attention after journalists noted the jet’s odd Tel Aviv-Neom flight path on international radar tracking stations. The Gulfstream IV had lifted off at 5:40 p.m. on Sunday morning from

Ben Gurion Airport and hugged the Israel-Jordan border before landing at Neom 90 minutes later. The aircraft then waited on the tarmac for a little over three hours before heading back to Ben Gurion Airport at 9:50 p.m. The rising speculation as to the purpose of the trip led the IDF military censor to impose a gag order on the matter until permitting the press to report the historic journey on Monday morning. Netanyahu’s spokesperson had originally disguised the journey to Neom by telling the press pool that the prime minister spent Sunday evening examining new software developed to fight Covid-19. Netanyahu reportedly kept Defense Minister Benny Gantz and Foreign Minister Gabi Ashkenazi in the dark about his unusual meeting with Pompeo and MBS, leaving them to learn about the trip from the media. While MBS is said to support normalizing relations with Israel, Saudi Arabia’s aging King Salman has quashed the move until the establishment of a Palestinian State. Nevertheless, the Kingdom began allowing Israeli-bound flights to overfly its territory in September and gave Bahrain the go-ahead to sign the Abra-

ham Accords. “We have supported normalization with Israel for a long time, but one very important thing must happen first: a permanent and full peace deal between Israelis and Palestinians,” said Saudi Arabia’s Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud on Sunday.

IDF Tank Mistakenly Attacks Gaza

The IDF opened an investigation after a tank crew pounded Hamas positions in the Gaza Strip without authorization last weekend. The tank in question fired at least three shells at Hamas observation posts on Saturday evening after a missile landed in Ashkelon. In the hours

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UAE had already ratified the deal earlier this month.

The visa exemption agreement will now go into effect in late December, making it easier for Israelis to visit the UAE. The deal was inked on October 20 during a visit by a high-ranking Emirati delegation to Israel. The unprecedented agreement is designed to spur tourism in both countries and highlights Israel’s close relationship with the UAE, a country which didn’t recognize Israel’s right to exist until this past August. It comes despite opposition from Israel’s defense establishment, with the Shin Bet internal security service strongly opposing the visa exemption on the grounds that it would make it harder to track who entered the country. “This is the first Arab country with which we have signed such an agreement, and this is a step that will facilitate reciprocal tourism,” said Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu after the vote. “Of course, this will develop and strengthen ties between the countries as well as economic links. I believe that every citizen of Israel, the entire world, sees the great change that we are bringing to our region in every field.”

West Bank Products: Made in Israel

Israel-UAE Visa Exemption The Israeli government ratified the visa exemption agreement signed with the UAE last month, the first time it has reached such a deal with an Arab country. The agreement was approved during Sunday’s cabinet meeting and allows UAE and Israeli citizens to visit each other’s countries without needing to apply first for a visa. The

The Trump administration will now allow products originating in Judea and Samaria to be labeled as “Made in Israel.” Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced the new guidelines during a visit to the West Bank town

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of Psagot last Thursday. “Proud to support American policy and stand with our great ally Israel,” tweeted Pompeo. “New guidelines outlined today protect Israeli producers and put the United States, and the world, on track towards recognizing reality.” Under the new guidelines, all goods manufactured in areas where Israeli authorities have full authority – especially Area C in the West Bank where Israel has full security and civilian control – will be required to mark the products as “Made in Israel” when exporting to the United States. The new regulations cover both Israeli and Palestinian products that were made in the West Bank’s Israel-controlled Area C. Goods manufactured in the Palestinian Authority-run Areas A and B and the Gaza Strip will continue marking their products as “Made in the West Bank.” “We will no longer accept ‘West Bank/Gaza’ or similar markings, in recognition that Gaza and the West Bank are politically and administratively separate and should be treated accordingly,” confirmed the State Department. According to Pompeo, the new policy “recognizes that Area C producers operate within the economic and administrative framework of Israel and their goods should be treated accordingly.” The announcement is a fundamental policy shift and is viewed as de facto U.S. recognition of the territories Israel captured during the Six Day War in 1967. Refusing to recognize Israel’s presence in Judea and Samaria, the U.S. had traditionally mandated that goods coming from the disputed territories be labeled as such. In 2016, the Obama administration reissued the labeling order and introduced fines for West Bank companies that used the “Made in Israel” tag. Pompeo’s announcement reflects the Trump administration’s different approach to Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria that saw the secretary of state declare in 2018 that such settlements do not violate international law. Pompeo’s visit last week to Psagot was also unprecedented, as it marked the first time that a U.S. foreign policy chief visited a settlement. During his tour of the Psagot winery, the secretary of state was presented with an ancient coin discovered in a local wine cave bearing Hebrew writing.

Israelis Rescued from Ethiopia

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UN Res. for Palestinian Statehood

A UN resolution calling for the establishment of a Palestinian State was approved in a landslide margin of 163 to 5 last week. The decision called for the immediate end of Israel’s “occupation” of “Palestine” along with a call for the two sides to reach a “peace settlement” based on the two-state solution. The resolution highlighted “the right of the Palestinian people to self-determination, including the right to their independent State of Palestine” and “stressed the urgency of achieving without delay an end to the Israeli occupation that began in 1967 and a just, lasting and comprehensive peace settlement between the Palestinian and Israeli sides.”

The U.S. was the only major world power to vote against the bill, with Canada jettisoning its usual pro-Israel stance to cast a vote in favor. Other countries voting against the resolution were the Marshall Islands, Micronesia, and Nauru, while Australia, Cameroon, Guatemala, Honduras, Kiribati, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Rwanda, Togo and Tonga abstained. Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) also supported the decision despite inking a peace agreement with the Jewish State in September. The resolution was part of a bundle of 20 UN anti-Israel decisions that the body passes every year. The Palestinian Authority hailed the vote as an answer to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, who had made history earlier in the day by becoming the first U.S. foreign policy chief to visit a West Bank settlement. The vote is “a natural response from the international community to the Israeli occupation’s violations, as well as a response to the U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s visit to the colonial Israeli settlements,” asserted Palestinian Authority Foreign Minister Riyad al-Maliki.

Vaccine on Its Way

The first doses of Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccine will arrive in Israel as early as December after the pharmaceutical giant asked the Food and Drug Administration for an emergency use authorization. According to reports, the first shipment will arrive in Israel in mid-December and will include between 200 and 500 thousand doses, enough to inoculate as many as 250,000 people. Medical staff will be the first to receive the experimental vaccine due to their high risk of infection, followed by senior defense officials and government ministers. However, no additional shipment of the dose is expected to arrive before January, forcing Israel to undergo the winter without vaccinat-

ing the public. Pfizer had asked the FDA on Friday to allow it to begin distributing its vaccine after clinical trials showed a 95% success rate in preventing Covid-19 infections. The vaccine is given in two doses and must be kept in extreme subzero temperatures until it is administered. Pfizer urged the FDA to move forward with the authorization, vowing that it could produce as much as 50 million doses before 2021 should approval be granted. “Our work to deliver a safe and effective vaccine has never been more urgent, as we continue to see an alarming rise in the number of cases of Covid-19 globally,” said Pfizer CEO Dr. Albert Bourla. “Filing in the U.S. represents a critical milestone in our journey to deliver a Covid-19 vaccine to the world. We now have a more complete picture of both the efficacy and safety profile of our vaccine, giving us confidence in its potential.” Israel had paid NIS 650 million to purchase 8 million doses of Pfizer’s vaccine after it was rolled out earlier this month in a deal that will see Pfizer ship half a million units

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each month throughout 2021. The Health Ministry also inked a separate agreement to preorder 4 million doses from rival Moderna after it reported a 94.5% efficacy rate.

Gantz’s Commission into Sub Deal

Defense Minister Benny Gantz has established an official commission of inquiry to probe the massive fraud scheme connected to Israel’s purchase of submarines and missile boats. Known‌ ‌as‌ ‌Case‌ ‌3000,‌ the ‌ sprawling investigation revolved around

several senior defense officials who gave and took bribes on behalf of German Shipyard ‌Thyssenkrupp‌. The case has already landed a slew of decorated officers behind bars and is considered among the worst corruption cases in Israel’s history. Despite his closest advisers having played key roles in the affair, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has never been investigated regarding what he knew. The immunity Netanyahu received from Attorney General Avichai Mandeblit has enraged left-wing parties, who have called for a commission of inquiry to expose what role the prime minister had in the matter. Netanyahu himself has torpedoed similar attempts to establish an investigatory panel in the past, including a contentious Knesset vote he narrowly won last month. Gantz announced the formation of the investigatory panel on Sunday morning after weeks of deliberations with close aides whether to move forward. The probe will be headed by retired judge Amnon Straschnov and will be tasked with rooting out Netanyahu’s role in Case 3000. Specifically, the jurists will ex-

amine why Netanyahu ordered the Defense Ministry to purchase seven Dolphin-class nuclear submarines despite unanimous opposition from the IDF because of their exorbitant cost. Also on the agenda is the goahead Netanyahu gave to German Chancellor Angela Merkel to sell the advanced warship to Egypt without first consulting with, nor informing, the defense establishment. Gantz decided on establishing the commission of inquiry following months of pressure the former IDF chief of staff received from hundreds of retired defense officials. In op-eds, petitions, and television interviews, figures such as former Defense Minister Moshe “Bogie” Ya’alon and ex-Mossad Chief Tamir Pardo alleged that Netanyahu endangered Israel’s security for personal financial gain. “In light of these consultations and current information to which he is privy, Gantz has come to the conclusion that a formal inquiry by a Defense Ministry commission will be able to shed light on some of the processes that led to the procurement of submarines and patrol boats, looking at the procedures and contracting execution,” said Gantz’s spokesperson. “The defense minister instructed the committee members to work with the professional echelon in the Ministry of Defense and emphasized to them that they are required to carry out their work independently, without the involvement of the political echelons.” The establishment of the commission of inquiry will likely inflame an already tense relationship with the Likud party. With the national-unity coalition already on shaky standing, investigating Netanyahu’s role in Case 3000 is widely viewed as a move that can send Israel to its fourth round of elections in the last two years.

Illegal Pics? Photos with Israeli celebrities are landing an Egyptian singer in hot water. Mohamed Ramadan, an Egyptian singer and actor, is being accused of causing “offense to the Egyptian people” with the pictures, which sparked charges on social media of “betraying” the Palestinians.

The case against him is set to be heard on December 19. Ramadan, a 32-year-old actor and rapper, boasts millions of followers in the Arab world. He is a close friend of Morocco’s King Mohammed VI and won the 2019 All Africa Music Awards prize.

Ramadan came under fire over the weekend after Emirati journalist Hamad Al Mazrouei tweeted a photo of the star embracing Israeli singer Omer Adam during a trip to the United Arab Emirates. He captioned the shot: “The most famous artist in Egypt with the most famous artist in Israel, Dubai brings us together.” However, he later deleted the picture as outrage grew. The picture gained further traction when it was retweeted by the State of Israel’s Arabic Twitter account under the caption “Art brings us together.” Adam, 27, is one of Israel’s most well-known singers, with his “Shnei Meshugaim” single viewed over 61 million times on YouTube, and numerous other singles racking up over 30 million views. A dual U.S.Israel citizen, he has made several appearances in Dubai in recent months. Another widely shared photo of Ramadan, with Israeli soccer player Diaa Sabia, also caused a stir online, with the hashtag “Mohamed Ramadan is a Zionist” trending on Twitter. Though Egypt officially has ties with Israel, its government has not encouraged a warm peace with the Jewish state and normalization remains frowned upon there. That is in stark contrast to the UAE, which has attempted to foster cultural exchange and warm relations between peoples in its brand-new normalization with Israel. On Saturday, in reference to the outrage, Ramadan posted a picture of himself with fans, saying: “There is no room for me to ask everyone about his identity, color, nationality, and religion.”

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Mafia Sweep A federal indictment in Philadelphia unsealed this week shows that more than a dozen mobsters have been charged in a slew of crimes. The suspects are accused of everything from illegal sports betting to heroin-peddling to offering loans at 400 percent interest along with plotting to kidnap and possibly murder a drug dealer to save their reputations after the man sold them fake narcotics. Anthony “Tony Meatballs” Gifoli, 72, was named in the superseding grand-jury indictment along with others including accused La Cosa Nostra underboss Steven “Stevie” Mazzone and alleged capo Domenic “Mr. Hopkins” Grande. Underlings targeted by the indictment include Louis “Louie Sheep” Barretta, Joseph “Joey Electric” Servidio and Daniel “Harry” Castelli, the FBI said. The crime syndicate has been working from Philadelphia to Atlantic City, NJ. Federal officials said that, unlike New York City, where several crime families have ruled over the years, Philadelphia and its surrounding area has been continuously under siege from the same single Mafia family since 1931. The court documents only identified the family’s current “street boss” by the initials “M.L.” The street boss can serve in place of the boss when the higher-up is “incapacitated due to imprisonment,” the papers said. The Philly crime family’s consigliere – “typically an older, experienced mobster who counsels [the boss] on important issues” – was referred to by the initials “J.L.”

“Made men” or “soldiers” in a Mafia crime family, according to the indictment, must be of 100 percent Italian ancestry and vow at a secret initiation ceremony to “burn … if I betray my friends.” If they turn “rat” and break “Omerta,” or the mob “Code of Silence,” they can be killed. Mob “associates,” on the other hand, are not “made men” because they either haven’t been initiated yet or they lack full Italian heritage. The group’s main hangouts included the now-defunct Broadway Theatrical Club in South Philadelphia, an Italian restaurant in Collingswood, NJ, and a cafe and lounge in Margate, NJ. “The charges unsealed today against these 15 alleged members and associates of the Philadelphia La Cosa Nostra show that the mafia remains a criminal presence in our city and beyond,” said Michael Driscoll, special agent in charge of the FBI’s Philadelphia Division, in a statement. “This group should’ve learned by now that the FBI is as committed to eradicating organized crime as wise guys are to embracing it.”

CA Lockdown

California’s draconian lockdown went into effect over the weekend as the liberal bastion attempts to curb surging coronavirus infections. The shutdown began on Saturday after Governor Gavin Newsom signed the nation’s harshest stay-athome law three days earlier. It will last until December 21 with an option to extend if needed. Featuring a curfew from 10 p.m. until 5 a.m., California’s lockdown includes some of the harshest measures in the United States. Restaurants will be restricted to takeout and may be shuttered entirely if cases continue to rise. Citizens are forbidden from leaving their homes other than for essential reasons such as medical care or to fill prescriptions. The lockdown affects 41 out of California’s total

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58 counties, including Napa, where Newson was caught violating his own regulations to party with lobbyists at a fashionable French restaurant. While first denying it, Newsom admitted that the meal at The French Laundry in Napa Valley – in which he had been photographed socializing without a mask – had been “a bad mistake.” The restrictions come as a response to skyrocketing infections across California, with hospital admissions having jumped by 61% since October. Over a 7-day period that ended last Sunday, an average of 10,981 people in the state were infected with the coronavirus each day, a rise of 200% over the past month. For the first time since last March, California recorded three days in which it recorded more than 13,000 new infections daily. “The virus is spreading at a pace we haven’t seen since the start of this pandemic, and the next several days and weeks will be critical to stop the surge. We are sounding the alarm,” Newsom said. “It is crucial that we act to decrease transmission and slow hospitalizations before the death count surges. We’ve done it before, and we must do it again.”

Biden’s Cabinet Picks

President-Elect Joe Biden’s new picks for plum cabinet positions include the first-ever female Treasury secretary and a Cuban Jew who immigrated to the U.S. as a child. Biden’s defense and diplomatic team were announced on Monday as his transition team accelerates its prep work ahead of replacing President Trump in January. The picks were largely veterans from the Obama and Clinton administrations. Antony Blinken was tapped to be Secretary of State, replacing Mike Pompeo as America’s foreign policy chief. A Jewish American born to Holocaust survivors, Blinken has been close with Biden for decades and was said to be the favorite for the role. Blinken, 58, previously served on

the National Security Council (NSC) under the Clinton Administration and was Biden’s defense advisor before becoming Deputy Secretary of State in 2014. The veteran diplomat is said to espouse a neo-liberal approach to geopolitics that prizes cooperation with other countries and international organizations such as the UN, in what is a sharp contrast to Trump’s “America First” approach. John Kerry, the last Democrat to serve as Secretary of State, will become Biden’s special envoy on combating climate change. The longtime senator had prioritized environmental issues in the four years he spent heading the State Department, including joining the Paris Climate Agreement and launching a celebrity-laden initiative to fight climate change known as World War Zero. “It’ll be an honor to work with our allies and partners, alongside rising young leaders in the climate movement, to tackle the climate crisis with the seriousness and urgency it deserves,” Kerry tweeted. Meanwhile, Janet Yellen is tapped to be Treasury Secretary, making her the first-ever female to oversee the U.S. financial system. Yellen had become the first woman to chair the Federal Reserve upon her appointment in 2014 and led the Council of Economic Advisers under Bill Clinton. Biden also nominated Alejandro Mayorkas to lead the Department of Homeland Security, making the Cuban Jewish immigrant the first Latino to fill that position. Born to a Cuban father and Romanian Holocaust survivor mother, Mayorkas worked closely with Jewish groups to combat anti-Semitism when serving as deputy secretary of Homeland Security in the Obama administration. “Alejandro Mayorkas is the first Latino and immigrant nominated to serve as secretary of Homeland Security,” said Biden’s transition team. “He has led a distinguished 30-year career as a law enforcement official and a nationally-recognized lawyer in the private sector.”

Tibet Leader Visits WH The White House hosted the head of the exiled Tibetan government for the first time since 1960, in a move that is likely to enrage China. Lobsang Sangay, who serves as

president of the Central Tibetan Administration (CTA), met U.S. Special Coordinator for Tibetan Issues Robert Destro at the White House last Friday. The visit is the first such meeting in six decades and is highly unusual, as the U.S. has refrained from hosting Tibetan leaders to avoid infuriating Beijing.

The CTA later released a statement that pointed out the U.S. policy shift vis-a-vis Tibet and revealed that Sangay has secretly met with American officials dozens of times over the past decade. “This unprecedented meeting perhaps will set an optimistic tone for CTA participation with U.S. officials and be more formalized in the coming years,” said the CTA. Sangay added that he was happy and proud to hear that there is a formal recognition and respect for the Tibetan exile administration. In the past, Sangay was barred from the U.S. due to longstanding policy that does not recognize his government. The public welcome given to Sangay is just the latest step by the Trump administration in its battle to stem China’s expanding world influence. Located on the Sino-India border, Tibet has been occupied by Beijing since 1950, with the latter killing an estimated 1.2 million residents and exiling Tibet’s leadership. While China calls the invasion and subsequent occupation a “peaceful liberation,” prominent Tibetans such as the Dalai Lama describe it as a human rights catastrophe and cultural holocaust. The Trump administration has promoted Tibetan independence in recent years as part of its broader offensive against China, with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo declaring in July that the U.S. supports the region’s “meaningful autonomy.”

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co-found the Ice Bucket Challenge, passed away on Sunday at the age of 37. Quinn’s family announced his passing on social media. “He was a blessing to us all in so many ways,” read the press release.

A native of Yonkers, NY, Quinn was diagnosed in 2013 with ALS, or Lou Gehrig’s disease, and was given only years to live. Quinn’s battle with the disease led him to cofound the Ice Bucket Challenge, an online campaign in which people dumped freezing cold water on their heads to raise funds and awareness for ALS research. The campaign went viral during the summer of 2014, leading 17 million to participate, including prominent celebrities such as Oprah Winfrey and Meghan Markle. The Challenge raised $115 million for the ALS Association in what the charity described as “the single largest episode of giving outside of a disaster or emergency.” Quinn continued his effort to raise funds to combat ALS even after the Ice Bucket Challenge ended, traversing the country to speak at universities and hospitals. “The Ice Bucket Challenge connected with a sweet left hook to the jaw of ALS and shook the disease up, but by no means is this fight over. We need to knock this disease out,” Quinn said in 2019. The ALS Association eulogized Quinn after his passing as a tireless activist who dedicated the remaining years of his life to raise awareness of the disease. “Pat fought ALS with positivity and bravery and inspired all around him. Those of us who knew him are devastated but grateful for all he did to advance the fight against ALS,” said the organization in a statement. Known as Lou Gehrig’s disease after the Yankee slugger who ended his career due to the condition, ALS is a neurodegenerative disease that weakens the body’s muscles by killing nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord. An estimated 15,000 Amer-

icans suffer from ALS, and so far, there is no known cure.

Swimmer Smashes Records

dy Gaines called Dressel “the best swimmer on the planet, bar none.” “He is definitely not human,” Gaines said. Dressel burst onto the scene in the 2016 Rio Olympics, winning two gold medals in relays. Since then, he has gone on to win 13 golds medals and two silvers at the last two World Championships. He is expected to be one of the top stars at next summer’s Tokyo Olympics and could qualify for seven separate events including relays.

Tallest Teen

Musk Number 2 On Saturday, American swimmer Caeleb Dressel smashed two world records as he competed in the International Swimming League final in Budapest, Hungary. Dressel broke the previous 100-meter butterfly world record of 48.08 seconds to 47.78, pushed by previous holder Chad Le Clos, in turn becoming the first man ever to complete the 100-meter butterfly in under 48 seconds. Then, around 40 minutes later, he returned to the pool to reduce his own 50-meter freestyle world record time by 0.08 from 20.24 seconds to 20.16. “It was a really exciting day, and I’m so pleased with the times,” the 24-year-old told BBC Sport afterwards. “It’s like an amusement park for swimmers, and I’m loving it at the ISL this season, but we want to win this as a team – that’s the end goal.” Dressel’s sublime speed helped his team, Cali Condors, to a firstday lead over defending champions Energy Standard, with London Roar third and LA Current fourth. The ISL is contested in a shorter, 25-meter pool. Bigger events, such as the Olympics, world championships and national championships, are held in 50-meter pools. Dressel’s double world record-breaking day comes just a weekend after he became the first swimmer ever to dip under 50 seconds in the 100-meter individual medley. He took almost half a second off the previous record set by the Russian Vladimir Morozov in 2018, finishing with a time of 49.88. Afterwards, three-time Olympic gold medal winning swimmer and now ISL commentator Row-

After Tesla’s stock soared on Monday, its CEO briefly became the world’s second-richest man. Elon Musk’s net worth climbed to $127.9 billion, according to Bloomberg Billionaires index. That number put Musk slightly above Bill Gates’ net worth, which is estimated to be worth $127.7 billion. Musk’s fortunes are directly linked to those of Tesla. His biggest asset is the company’s stock, of which he last owned about 20%, according to Bloomberg. This year has been very good for the entrepreneur. So far in 2020, Tesla’s stock has shot up almost 524%, helping Musk add more than an estimated $100 billion to his wealth. That’s more than anyone on Bloomberg’s global rich list, the outlet reported. Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos is currently the world’s richest person, with an estimated net worth of $182 billion. Musk also oversees SpaceX, the space exploration firm that recently kicked off a landmark mission with NASA. Musk himself appeared to be just as surprised as anyone else by his soaring wealth this week. When a Twitter user pointed out the stock move on Monday, he responded with just one word: “Wow.”

How do you say “tall” in Chinese? Better yet, how do you say “really tall” in that language? Ren Keyu just recently celebrated his 14th birthday but it’s not just his age that he’s celebrating. The teenager from Sichuan Province, China, is now officially the tallest teenage male in the world. He towers over us plebians with a height of 221.03 cm – a tad over 7-feet, 3-inches. Ren’s nickname is Xiaoyu (don’t ask us how to pronounce it!), and he’s in ninth grade. In kindergarten, people already thought he was in elementary school. Xiaoyu’s family is not too shabby in the height department. His grandmother 5’7” and his mother and grandfather are well over 6’2”. In order to qualify for the distinction of tallest teen, Xiaoyu’s standing height, lying height, hand length, hand span, foot length, foot width, arm span, and half-arm span had to each be measured three times throughout the day. Being tall has its advantages – hello, basketball – but there are some disadvantages too. The desks and chairs at school and home need to be tailor-made for the teen. His bed, clothes, and shoes are also made specially for him. But his teachers love him: Xiaoyu is great at cleaning the high windows in the classroom and wiping the top of the chalkboard. He’s gotta be the tallest teacher’s pet around.

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Driving While Eating Candy

drivers like Keefe. He said he hadn’t realized how potent the candies were. “I was still eating them, very confident that I was going to pass. Turns out, I didn’t.” The 44-year-old father of six pleaded guilty and was given the reduced sentence of a three-month license suspension and minimum fine for the August infraction. “I’m very thankful to the judge for doing that,” he said. Better stick to licorice next time.

Hawaii Helpers Better watch your candy intake at your next Chanukah party – and not because of the pounds you’ll be putting on. A man from Perth, Australia, failed a Breathalyzer test after consuming too many rum balls. Tommy Keefe had started eating the confections at a friend’s birthday party. He was still scarfing them down on his drive home when he was pulled over. His blood alcohol content level clocked in at .038, higher than the legal limit of .02 for recently licensed

This is a win-win for all involved. Hawaii is offering a free night in a hotel for those heading to the Aloha State to lend a hand. The program, called Mālama Hawai‘i, encourages visitors to “take a trip that gives back.” Tourists can

volunteer for projects ranging from tree planting and reforestation to beach cleanups, ocean reef preservation and even making Hawaiian quilts for the elderly. In exchange, tourists can receive a complimentary extra night at participating hotels across Kauai, Maui, Oahu, and the Big Island. The list includes Four Seasons Resort Maui at Wailea; The Ritz-Carlton Residences at Waikiki Beach; the Fairmont Orchid in the Big Island of Hawaii; and the Sheraton Kauai Resort. Additionally, volunteers will be helping the planet. Alaska Airlines has said that it will be planting one tree for each flight the carrier makes to Hawaii through the end of the year. Hawaii thrives on visitors. Since the pandemic began, the islands saw a plunge of 90% of tourists heading to the state. Hawaii may be a great destination for your next vacation. Last month, the Aloha State launched its longawaited pre-travel testing program, allowing travelers to skip a 14-day quarantine requirement if they provide proof of a recent, negative COVID-19 test. Beautiful beaches and majestic volcanoes with a pina colada thrown in – what could be better?

Reinbeer

Residents of Colorado may be having surprise guests this year. Breckenridge Brewery in Colorado is offering fans the opportunity to have a pair of reindeer deliver their beer. According to the website, it’s a great way to “spread some holiday cheer” while also “staying safe at home to celebrate.” According to the website, the offer is open to residents of Denver and Cascade (which are located in an area that the brewery describes as the North Pole of Colorado). Once the delivery is made (which will consist of a mini-keg of the brewery’s special holiday ale), the recipients will have an opportunity to pet and feed the reindeer. The brewery touted its “Reinbeer Deliveries on December 5 and 6” on Instagram.

Five winners will be chosen from each city. Delivery times will be set ahead of the event, so, you know, you don’t miss those reindeer when they come a’knocking at your door.

Shidduch Flight

Watch out Saw You At Sinai, EVA Air may have the answer to dating in a pandemic. The Taiwanese carrier has launched a speed-dating event for singles in which 20 men and 20 women board a plane for a three-hour ride – to nowhere. The flight lasts three hours, and the passengers disembark right where they started. After the flight, a two-hour date is scheduled for when they’re back on terra firma. The flights are set to take to the skies on December 25, December 31, and January 1. Each flight will take off from Taoyuan International Airport in Taipei. Daytime treks will soar over Taiwan’s east coast with views of mountain ranges, while the nighttime ascents will fly over the western shore with vistas of illuminated cities below. Singles will be given assigned seats and will be offered meals prepared by a Michelin-starred chef. “Because of Covid-19, EVA Air has been organizing ‘faux travel’ experiences to fulfill people’s desire for travel. When single men and women travel, apart from enjoying the fun in travel, they may wish to meet someone – like a scene in a … movie,” Chiang Tsung-Wei, the spokesperson for Mobius’ speed-dating arm You and Me, explained. This is not the first flight to nowhere that has gained traction. In Australia, a seven-hour Qantas flight to nowhere scheduled for October sold out in 10 minutes. They’ve also been popular in Hong Kong as a method for sightseeing. The cost of the Taiwanese speed-dating flight? A mere $295 a person – a bit more costly than a Coke in a hotel lobby and parking in Manhattan.

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Community Kriyah Kickoff

his week, at IVDU Long Island, Morah Frumit’s class kicked off the start of our Kriyah Program with a sweet and memorable celebration. Students were treated to the traditional honey on Aleph Bais charts, made their own chocolate aleph bais letters and made aleph bais pekalach to mark this exciting milestone. IVDU’s kriyah program infuses elements of the Orton Gillingham method including daily multi-sensory drills that offer auditory visual and kinesthetic input to help reinforce the learning. Under the direction of our curriculum coach, Dr. Rebekah

Gutkind, previous months of literacy learning have focused on developing a plethora of phonemic awareness skills, a necessary groundwork for learning a phonetic language. With Dr. Gutkind’s guidance, the uniquely developed program at IVDU will help students to build meaningful language connections as they progress in their kriyah skills. The IVDU differentiated learning model will provide students with small leveled groupings to ensure appropriate scaffolding, progress monitoring, and ultimate success. Much hatzlacha and sweet months of learning ahead!

Preparing for Bat Mitzvah

t Shulamith Middle Division, the sixth grade started a series of activities to celebrate their bat mitzvahs. Mrs. Shonie Schwartz explained to the girls the importance of fulfilling the mitzvah of challah. She also demonstrated different methods to braid their challot. This was an inspirational, useful, and fun activity! Thanks to the sponsors of the challah bake, Rabbi and Mrs. Eli Brazil and Mr. and Mrs. Dovi Wachsler.

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Ezra Academy Gets Creative

zra Academy students have become very aware of the importance of Rosh Chodesh and are cognizant of when each month’s Rosh Chodesh falls out on the calendar. This is due to the exciting and creative schoolwide breakfasts that are held. Each year, a unique and fun theme are chosen from the onset. This year, the theme is “Games.” In addition to that, each month carries a specific aspect of that theme. That idea then gets tied into the breakfast with decorations, the food, divrei Torah and oftentimes carefully chosen songs. Covid-19 has made those

breakfasts impossible to run. However, that was not going to stop the highlight of every month. The program would just need to be tweaked. Last month, Cheshvan, the challenge of the Rosh Chodesh breakfast was even more difficult as we were learning on Zoom for two weeks following Sukkos vacation. The theme for the month was Twister, which was appropriate as some of the staff twisted and turned up and down the streets of Queens, Long Island, and Brooklyn delivering Rosh Chodesh packages. Each introduced the month’s theme and contained both a light breakfast and meaning-

ful message. This month, Kislev, the challenge was a little different. Each class needed to stay within their class as opposed to all gathering together. Each classroom was given a different theme, somehow connected to the number eight both because of Chanukah (eight nights) and the monthly game, Crazy Eights. One room was traffic signs (a stop sign has eight sides), another was “It’s a boy” (brit milah is on the eight day), and other similar ideas. Each class was provided with a few related decorations and then encouraged to bring in more of their own to enhance their rooms.

The rooms were judged by the school’s administration. Rabbi Diamond’s class, Dalet Boys, won first place, earning them a complimentary breakfast at a later time. Their theme was BBQ (because hot dog and hamburger buns are often sold in packs of eight…yep), and they went all out including grills

HANC Live!

Chagigat Chumash

n Monday evening, November 16, eighth grade prospective students and their parents got to experience HANC Live!, the fantastic and innovative drive-in open house for HANC High School. Given the pandemic restrictions that prevented the traditional open house format, HANC set out to give prospective students and parents an experience to remember. Instead of relying on the typical Zoom and webinar formats, HANC High School set itself apart in its unique presentation. In attendance were 160 cars filled with prospective students and parents who were greeted by the principals and various members from the HANC faculty. As each car pulled up, they received a pie of pizza, along with important HANC information, a playbill, and fun snacks. The viewers then settled in to experience HANC through a video presentation that followed the format of the ever-popular Jimmy Kimmel Live. In addition to the classic opening monologue delivered by HANC’s new principal, Rabbi Eli Slomnicki, the video included interviews with both student and staff celebrities, model HANC classes, and comedy sketches often involving fun-school themed games. The show even featured HANC’s very own in-house band, BluSol. In order to maximize the number

of viewers who could learn about all that HANC has to offer, there were two showings. Also in attendance were numerous current students who were on hand to greet guests, cheer on their classmates’ appearances, and enjoy the show. Reviews began rolling in praising HANC for its creative and out-of-thebox thinking. Admiration and appreciation for creating an “open house experience” that really demonstrated what HANC High School is about. Thank you to those students who starred in the show, the student producers, and all who helped to create an amazing and memorable open house. Thank you to all guest students and parents who attended the show! Live HANC High School Episode II will be airing virtually on November 30 for all those who register. To apply to HANC High School, please visit hanc.org or contact Director of Admissions, Mrs. Miriam Steiner, at msteiner@hanc.org.

he cool temperature and overcast weather could not dampen the spirits of the HAFTR second grade students as they received their first Chumashim. Chagigat Chumash is a major milestone for HAFTR boys and girls, and despite guidelines limiting some activities, this was still a memorable event. Held outside on our Washington Avenue property, students and their parents walked down the aisle as their names were announced. They were met by their teachers and presented with their personalized sefer Bereishit. Students and their parents received special treats and projects while a photographer captured the beautiful moments. In preparation for the event, students created Torah frames for their pictures. Upon returning home, each student decorated his/her Chumash cover, which will be used to protect their precious sefer. Everyone had a wonderful time and the talmidim/ talmidot are eager to learn inside their Chumashim. The excitement was palpable as students opened their chumashim for the very first time to learn Torah and joined Rabbi Feigenbaum for a presentation on how a sefer Torah is actually made and written. We would like to thank our event

and (toy) BBQ food. In the second place room, Morah Sarah’s room, with the theme of Under the Sea (try to figure this one out on your own), had the best dvar Torah written and delivered by Michelle Simkin. The students are eagerly anticipating the creative breakfast and theme that will be coming up for Tevet.

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The Pre-1A boys at Yeshiva Shaarei Zion made special crowns in honor of Rosh Chodesh Kislev

Expansion of Free COVID-19 Testing

s the rate of coronavirus infections continues to rise on Long Island and across the state, Supervisor Don Clavin and the Hempstead Town Board implemented three major COVID-19 testing initiatives in an effort to combat the incoming second wave of the dangerous virus. During a special Town Board meeting, Supervisor Clavin, Senior Councilwoman Dorothy Goosby, Councilman Bruce Blakeman, Councilman Anthony D’Esposito, Councilman Dennis Dunne Sr., Councilman Tom Muscarella and Councilman Chris Carini unanimously approved the measures, which include free rapid and PCR diagnostic COVID-19 testing for Town of Hempstead residents through December 30. This program was made possible utilizing monies from the Town of Hempstead’s $133 million in federal CARES (Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act) fund. Supervisor Clavin and the Town

Board approved up to $445,967 in grant monies to Mount Sinai South Nassau, which will open a drive-thru rapid testing site for Town of Hempstead residents in Oceanside. In addition, Clavin and the Council Members also amended an existing agreement with Northwell Health, part of a $1.5 million grant approved in October, which expands its current PCR diagnostic testing program for Essential Workers and First Responders to also include free COVID-19 testing for all Town of Hempstead residents. “Unfortunately, the coronavirus infection rates are rising across Long Island, and no community is immune from the spread of the virus,” Supervisor Clavin said. “Utilizing federal CARES money, which was secured thanks to Senator Charles Schumer, we want to take on the second wave of COVID-19 by providing expanded free testing options for all residents. I’m proud to join with my Town Board colleagues to provide

residents with free rapid and PCR diagnostic testing to help curb the spread of COVID-19.” Under the agreement with Mount Sinai South Nassau, Town of Hempstead residents will have a dedicated phone line to make appointment for a drive-through rapid testing unit in Oceanside. The testing will be conducted at a mobile drive-through unit at Mount Sinai South Nassau (1 Healthy Way, Oceanside) six days a week, 12 hours a day from November 29 through December 30. More information on this program will be announced in the coming days. The testing program with Northwell Health expands an existing collaborative effort to provide COVID-19 testing to first responders and essential workers. Utilizing funds from a $1.5 million grant that was approved by the Hempstead Town Board in October, free COVID-19 testing will be available for all Town residents at various times and locations, by appointment by calling 516-821-2500,

through the end of the year. Through the Town’s COVID-19 testing and education program with Northwell Health, more than 10,000 tests have been administered to Town of Hempstead residents. This effort included a six-week antibody testing program, a three-week PCR diagnostic testing program in September for Town residents, and an ongoing COVID-19 PCR diagnostic testing service for first responders and essential workers that commenced in October. In addition, Supervisor Clavin and the Council Members also announced an agreement with Baseline Health Management, LLC., to conduct mobile rapid COVID-19 testing for Town of Hempstead employees as they continue to provide residents with essential services throughout the pandemic. For more information on these testing programs, and the Town of Hempstead’s other COVID-19 initiatives and resources, visit hempsteadtownny.gov.

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Hidden Sparks Provides Guidance Gratitude at SHS

ith children’s emotions and routines becoming a daily victim of the tumult caused by the pandemic, Hidden Sparks, which helps teachers and schools educate struggling learners, has provided six tips for parents to support their children experiencing anxiety during this time. Hidden Sparks spent the summer months focusing on Social Emotional Learning (SEL) techniques with teachers across the country to help them prepare for welcoming students back after months spent zooming at home. Yeshiva University’s Azrieli Graduate School of Jewish Education and Administration Dean and Hidden Sparks Co-Educational Director, Rona Novick, PhD., has developed these tips for parents looking to help their children cope during the pandemic: Offer reassurance. Always begin by offering validation and showing you understand and accept children’s feelings. This can be as simple as repeating back their concerns to them with something like, “I see you are really upset …” As tempting as it is to say, “There’s no need to worry,” you will not wash away worries by negating them, and your child may feel unheard and misunderstood. Focus their energies. For younger children, distraction can be helpful. For older children, distraction may work, but they can also find it helpful to think of things they can do to make a difference. Try encouraging them to focus their efforts on projects that can allow them to have a meaningful impact in these trying times. Some examples can be writing thank you cards to frontline workers, making signs, sewing masks, etc. This helps transition from passive worrying to active helping. Highlight the positive, the efforts we are all making. It’s vital that our children don’t feel like our society is powerless in fighting the virus, so reassure them with comments like, “There are doctors working on cures, government offices trying to make sure that everyone can stay safe and get the help they need…and you do your part every time you wear a mask, etc.” Monitor media intake. So much on the news these days can trigger additional anxiety. Keep track of

how much and what media exposure your child has and provide opportunities for discussion about what they see and hear to help them process the information and to support their understanding of the situation. Be mindful of the conversations that you have in front of your children. One of the greatest determinants of your child’s reaction to the current situation is what your reactions are in their presence – whether you are aware they are watching or not. Keep track of your own reactions to changes or disruptions. Children will take their cue from you if they see and hear a hopeful tone. Live healthy. Your child will gain from common lifestyle adjustments that promote general anxiety management. Make sure they are keeping a routine, getting enough sleep, eating healthy and engaging in regular physical activity as all three fuel the basic biology that helps reduce anxiety. “As parents, we play a critical role in modeling a hopeful, calm, ‘we’ll get through this together’ stance. To the extent we can maintain and model healthy routines and conversations, our children will be the stronger for it. It is also always a good time, and especially now, to show an active interest in something that is important to them, whether a hobby, book or movie, talk about it or even watch it together, to engage together in activities that they find uplifting and nurture your bond,” said Hidden Sparks Executive Director Debbie Niderberg. Founded in 2006, Hidden Sparks is a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping teachers and schools educate struggling learners. Through professional development programs and on-site coaching for teachers, it helps educators deepen their understanding of learning and approaches for teaching all kinds of learners, particularly those who struggle. With 110 participating day schools and a total of 3,875 educators trained by the Hidden Sparks curriculum, the organization has impacted a total of 47,450 students since its inception. For webinars and tips for parents, please visit hidden-sparks-withoutwalls/parents. For more information please visit: hiddensparks.org.

ith the current chaotic times and Thanksgiving approaching, Shulamith High School began a week of 7 Days of Gratitude, with each day dedicated to recognition and feeling thankful. Wednesday, November 18, started the seven days with Custodian Appreciation Day. Students and faculty lined the hallways cheering and thanking the whole custodial staff. Their walk ended with signs and breakfast and students made sure to stop and thank any custodians they saw throughout the day. The week continued with club period being dedicated to recognizing what makes their club special, and Friday was, of course, “Thank You Hashem!” Motzei Shabbos had seniors feeling especially grateful. SHS GO

President Ellyana Pilevsky and Director of Student Activities Ms. Esty Munk planned an incredible melava malka. After dinner and a moving speech by 12th Grade Advisor Mrs. Naomi Munk on forgiveness as it relates to Parshat Toldot, seniors were taken outside to an inflatable laser tag course. After being divided into teams, faculty and administrators joined students in several rounds of laser tag, where it was discovered that Principal Mrs. Sara Munk is an excellent sharpshooter and Asst Principal Mrs. Danyel Goldberg is not. The evening ended with a beautiful kumzits lead by Dean of Students Mrs. Ricky Gaerman and twelfth grader Tali Hertz. As with all weeks, students feel grateful for another week at SHS.

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HAFTR Students Give Thanks

s part of HAFTR Middle School’s school-wide advisory program, where all students are placed into small groups with an assigned faculty advisor, November’s advisory session focused on gratitude. Students learned about the importance of hakarat hatov, acknowledging the good, giving thanks, and expressing gratitude, and delved into the tremendous role that gratitude plays in Judaism. Students also delved into research that highlights the many benefits of gratitude, including greater health, academic growth, social support, and even better sleep. Students were then given a “gratitude leaf” and were asked to write down three specific things that they are thankful for. Each advisory

group then played a “Gratitude Guess Who” game, where students had to guess which classmate authored each gratitude leaf. These leaves are now hanging throughout the school, highlighting the many blessings students are giving thanks for. Dr. Yali Werzberger, the program’s director, explained, “Among the many positive psychological interventions, practicing gratitude is a significantly potent one due to the lasting beneficial effects it has on children, teenagers and adults alike. During this session, students were able to quickly be makir tov, identifying the good they have in their lives. We look forward to incorporating the practice of gratitude throughout our curriculum this year.”

At HANC Early Childhood Center, the children in Morah Caryn and Morah Sharona’s Nursery Bet Class, together with their families, created wings on a turkey where they wrote everything that they were thankful for. The children then used their creativity and math skills to craft beautiful necklaces and headdresses to be worn at our yearly Thanksgiving Feast.

Cedarhurst’s Annual Midnight Madness Shopping this Weekend

his year, the Village of Cedarhurst is kicking off the Holiday Season with their Annual Black Friday Shopping weekend event on Friday, November 27 until Sunday, November 29. Merchants are starting their holiday season with a bang by offering upscale merchandise at bargain prices. Shoppers will find major discounts that weekend, BOGO deals, and free gifts. The highlight of this weekend coincides with American Express Small Business Saturday, November 28 where over seventy stores up and down Central Avenue will be open for Midnight Madness from 8pm until midnight. There will also be a cash raffle contest for both merchants and customers across three different plat-

forms: social media, blogger inspirations, and print advertising as well as a Village of Cedarhurst Holiday Coupon book featuring more deals throughout the holiday season. The raffle entries may be printed online and dropped off at specified locations. Look for the ad! Black Friday Weekend and Midnight Madness have been held in Cedarhurst for the past 15 years. Cedarhurst is home to many fine dining and unique retail stores that epitomize small town shopping at its best. Cedarhurst merchants are prepared for a wonderful safe holiday season. Stores participating in Midnight Madness this year include: {9} New York; 925 Sterling and Art; AHC Appliances; Alistby100percentkids; A Little Different; Andrew Lock Cus-

tom Menswear; A Shoe Inn; AVID FITNESS; Baho; Blue Door Books; Buckles; Cafe Chocolat; CarolinaandLaura; Central Galleries; The Cheese Store; Clementine; Crawford’s Coffee; David Desso; David’s Den; Dimples; Emporio; The Emporer’s Old Clothes; Events 360; FAME; Five Towns Gifts & Crafts; Goldmine; Goodnight Moon; Hemp Supply Plus; Insight Optiks; The Jewelry Showroom; Jildor’s; Judaica Plus; Kidichic USA; Lagoon; Lavish Layette; Legaacy; Level; Lulu’s; Make It!; Mezzo; Midnight Bleu; Molly’s Jewelers; Morton’s; Nikia; Orly; Panther Creations Fine Jewelry; Petite Pram; PJ Sterling; Poppy Medi-Boutique; Prestigio Wigs; Runway; Secret Me; Sherel’s Hats; Something Pink; Sox World Plus; Sparkle by Sima; Ster-

ling Electronics & Kitchenware; Stop Chop & Roll; Stop Wok & Roll; Suit Central; Tassel Children’s Shoes; The Shell Station; The Suitery; Tiptoe Boutiques; Trees @ Jildor; Tutus and Suspenders; Under 5’10; Vendome 2; Warren Levi Martial Arts & Fitness; Wok Tov; Yakira Bella; Z Berman Books; Zoe & Co. and Zohar Shoes. It is important to note that masks must be worn by all, and stores have set limits on how many customers can shop at once. So bring your shopping list and shop, dine and stroll on the best weekend of the year; it will definitely be worth the trip. -Cedarhurst BID Association For more information, email cedarhurstbusiness@gmail.com.

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HALB celebrated Rosh Chodesh Kislev with dreidels in the preschool, giant chocolate coins in the middle school, and fresh muffins from Central Perk for the staff

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they may not share classes with. On Wednesday, November 18, freshmen had an amazing time bonding with their friends and rebbeim at Top Golf! They can’t wait for their next exciting event, a special late night extravaganza at MTA, coming up in just two weeks!

n Wednesday, November 18, former NFL and CFL quarterback Quinton Porter met with MTA’s Sports Management Club over Zoom for a Q&A session. Following his professional football career, Porter established himself as a sports startup executive, first as Head of Partnerships at Zoomph, and presently as the Vice President, North America at Pico - Get Personal. More than 40 club members attended the event, where Porter shared his career highlights and answered questions ranging from the parts of pro sports that go unnoticed to whether or not he has considered returning to football. He also discussed how and

why he joined the business world, how he balanced college sports and earning a degree, and the lessons he has learned as a professional in both the pro sports and business arenas. Porter also shared his thoughts on how to gain the respect of a locker room and a boardroom. Participants learned a lot about the world of professional sports and the sports management industry and look forward to applying these lessons in their own future careers. MTA’s Sports Management Club offers exclusive opportunities like this one throughout the year, where talmidim can hear from experts in the field and explore what a sports management career looks like, often from a Jewish perspective.

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ֿ ְ ‫א ַל‬ ‫מַנֵּֽצ ַח ַעל יְ דּותּון ְלָאָס‬ ִ ‫ ב‬.‫ִמזְ מֹור‬ ‫קֹולי א‬ ִ ;‫ֱאל ִֹהים וְ ֶא ְצָֽעָקה‬ ‫קֹולי ֶאל ֱאל ִֹהי‬ ֲ ‫וְ ַה‬ ‫ ג ְּביֹום ָצָר ִתי ֲאד‬.‫אזִ ין ֵאָלי‬ ‫ָּדָֽר‬ ‫ְׁש ִּתי; ָי ִדי ַֽליְ ָלה נִ ּגְָֿרה וְ ל ֹא ָתפּו‬ ָ‫ֵמ ֲא‬ ‫ ד ֶאזְ ְ ּֿכָרה ֱאל ִֹהי‬.‫נה ִהָּנ ֵחםַנ ְפ ִׁשי‬ ָ ‫ ָאִֽׂש‬,‫וְ ֶא ֱהָֽמָיה‬ ‫יחה וְ ִת ְתַע ֵּטף רּוח‬ ‫ה‬ ‫ֶֽסָל‬ ‫ נִ ְפַֽע ְמ ִּת‬,‫ ָאַֽחזְָּת ְׁש ֻמרֹות ֵע ָיני‬.‫ה‬ ‫וְ ל ֹא‬ ‫ ו ִחַּֽׁש ְב ִּתי ָי ִמים ִמֶּֽק ֶדם‬.‫ֲאַד ֵּבר‬ ‫ְׁשנֹות‬ ָ ‫ ז ֶאזְ ְ ּֿכָרה נְ גִ ָינ ִת‬.‫עֹול ִמים‬ ָ ‫ַּבָּֽליְ ָלה; ִעם ְלָב ִבי ָאִֽׂש‬ ‫ ַויְ ַח ֵּפׂש‬,‫יחה‬ ִ ָ ‫ ח ַה ְל‬.‫רּוחי‬ ‫ וְ ל ֹא‬,‫עֹול ִמים יִ זְַנח | ֲאדָֹני‬ ‫י ִֹסיף‬ ‫ ט ֶהָא ֵפס ָלֶֽנַצח‬.‫ִל ְרצֹות עֹוד‬ ‫ַח ְס‬ ,‫ּדֹו‬ ָֽ ‫ּג‬ ַ ‫מ‬ ‫ר‬ ֽ ‫א‬ ֶ ‫ֹמ‬ ‫ר‬ ְ ‫ל‬ ‫ד‬ ‫ֹר‬ ‫י‬ ָ ‫ו‬ ‫ד‬ .‫ֹר‬ ‫ֲהָׁשַכח‬ ‫ַחּנֹות‬ ‫ ִאם ָקַפץ ְּבַאף ַר ֲחָמיו‬,‫ֵאל‬ ִ ‫ ַח ּֽל‬:‫ יאָואַֹמר‬.‫ֶֽסָלה‬ ‫ ְׁשנֹות‬,‫ֹותי ִהיא‬ ‫יְ ִמין‬ ,‫ יב ֶאזְ ּכֹור ַֽמַע ְ ֿל ֵלי ָיּה‬.‫ֶע ְליֹון‬ ‫ִּכי‬ ִ ‫ יג וְ ָהִֽג‬.‫ֶאזְ ְ ּֿכָרהָ ִמֶּֽק ֶדם ִּפ ְלֶֽאָך‬ ‫יתי‬ ָ ‫ילֹות‬ ַ ,‫ְבָכל ָּפ ֳעֶֽלך‬ ֶֽ ‫ּוב ֲע ִל‬ ָ ‫יך ָאִֽׂש‬ .‫יחה‬ ָ‫יד ֱאל ִֹהים ַּב ּֽק ֶֹדׁשַּד ְרֶּֽכ‬ ‫ך‬ , ִ ‫מ‬ ‫י‬ ֵ ‫א‬ ‫ל‬ ָ ‫ּג‬ ‫דֹול‬ ִ ‫ֵּכאל‬ ‫טו‬ ,‫ ַאָּתה ָה ֵאל ֽע ֵֹׂשה ֶֽפ ֶלא‬.‫ֹהים‬ ָ ַֽ ְ ‫הֹוד‬ ַ ‫ טז ָּגַֽא ְלָּת ִּבזְ ֽר‬.‫ָעָּת ָבַע ִּמים ֻעֶּֽזך‬ ‫ֹוע‬ ָ ‫ יזָר ֽא‬.‫יֹוסף ֶֽסָלה‬ ֵ ְ‫ ְּבנֵ י ַי ֲעקֹב ו‬,‫ַעֶּֽמך‬ ‫ּוך‬ ָ ‫ַּֽמיִ ם‬ ‫ ַאף‬,‫ ָר ֽאּוך ַּֽמיִ ם ָיִֽחילּו‬,‫ֱאל ִֹהים‬ ‫יִ ְרּגְ ֿזּו‬ ,‫ יח זֽ ְ ֹֿרמּו ַֽמיִ ם ָעבֹות‬.‫ְתהֹמֹות‬ ָ ‫ ַאף ֲחָצֶֽצ‬,‫קֹול ָנ ְ ֿתנּו ְׁשָח ִקים‬ ‫יך‬ ָֽ‫יִ ְתַה‬ ‫ּל‬ ָ ‫יט‬ .‫כּו‬ ‫קֹול‬ ַ ‫ר‬ ,‫ַע ְמך ַּבַּג ְלַּגל‬ ‫ֵהִֽא‬ ‫ ָרגְָֿזה ַו ִּת ְרַעׁש‬,‫ירּו ְבָר ִקים ֵּת ֵבל‬ ָ‫ כ ַּבָּים ַּד ְרֶּֽכ‬.‫ָהָֽא ֶרץ‬ ָ‫יל‬ ‫ך‬ , ְ ‫ּוׁש‬ ִ ‫ב‬ ְ ֿ ‫ך‬ ְ ‫ּב‬ ַֽ ‫מ‬ ִ‫י‬ ‫ם‬ ; ָ ‫ַר ִּב‬ ;‫ים‬ ְ‫ו‬ ִ ‫ע‬ ְ ֿ ‫ּק‬ ֶֽ ‫בֹות‬ ‫יך‬ ‫ל‬ ‫ֹא‬ ‫נ‬ ָֽ ‫כא‬ . ‫ית‬ ָ ‫ ָנִֽח‬.‫ֹדעּו‬ ָ e .‫ ְּבַיד מ ֶֹׁשה וְ ַא ֲהרֹן‬,‫ַכּצֹאן ַעֶּֽמך‬

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A Virtual Model Congress By Meir Farkas

his past Wednesday, HAFTR hosted one of the biggest Model Congress tournaments with a total 60 students, seven chambers, and 80 participants including judges and presiding officers. The virtual format for the tournament gave students an opportunity to compete with many other schools. In fact, nine schools from New York and New Jersey participated including: DRS, Ezra, Flatbush, HAFTR, Lynbrook, Maayanot, SAR, SKA, and TABC. “The new Zoom Model Congress format has really expanded the HAFTR competitions,” said Coach Alex Libkind. “Before we were limited to just competing with students within driving distance to HAFTR, now we can expand our program to students in New Jersey and hopefully beyond.” The students tackled some of our nation’s toughest issues. They wrote bills prior to the tournament, researched their perspective on key issues, and then debated topics including Federal Minimum Wage, Abortion, Sentencing Minimums, Section 230 of FCC, E-Cigarette Ban, and Veteran Mental Health.

The tournament was full of spirited debate from both sides of the aisle, and we are proud to report that HAFTR students represented our school very admirably. Congratulations to the winners: • 1st Place Tie - Devorah Gottesman, Lulu Morse, Jordana Mastour (HAFTR), Ephraim Boczko (DRS) • 2nd Place Tie - Jesse Muller (HAFTR), Ari Zelefsky (DRS) • 3rd Pace Tie - Deborah Becker, AJ Solinsky (HAFTR), Josh Shain

(SAR) • 4th Place - Gabby Gotesman (Maayanot) • 5th Place - Mikayla Corney (HAFTR) Model Congress provides high school students with the unique opportunity to participate in simulated legislative sessions modeled after the United States Congress. Students become the nation’s elected leaders, discussing domestic policy questions and drafting legislation

to address contemporary issues. Model Congress is a great opportunity for all students to explore interests in history, politics, and law and at the same time build real life skills. So, if you are thinking of how you might one day change your world, Model Congress is a great place to start. =Thanks to our amazing coach, Mr. Alex Libkind, for his invaluable advice, and to all of our judges, presiding officers and participants.

Volunteers find themselves navigating cultural differences, language barriers, and the challenges of building trust with kids who come from vastly different backgrounds. Despite these challenges, volunteers return every year for the unique experience at KH. Rachelli Klibanoff, a KH alumnus, grew up in Livingston, NJ. She heard about KH from previous volunteers and was intrigued. When her parents celebrated a bat mitzvah at one of Emunah children’s homes and suggested she attend KH, it solidified her decision. Giving back was so transformative and impactful for Rachelli, she returned for two more summers! This upcoming summer, she will join KH as a coordinator to help inspire our volunteers the same way she has been inspired. Rachelli highlighted how KH “has humbled me, it makes me aware of my surroundings. I have learned that there are many people who need help and I am fortunate enough that I am able to help them.”

Amiel Kerstein first heard about KH as a junior. That summer, most of his friends were going to a different camp in Pennsylvania. KH was an opportunity to get out of his comfort zone, and he wouldn’t have a single friend on the program. Amiel highlighted how KH taught him “how to be uncomfortable and uncertain about things and that it’s ok to feel that way sometimes.” He expressed how his connection with Israel was always very “American” – but never really “Israel.” Amiel’s experience on KH in an Emunah home was the complete opposite! Living with Israeli children in an Emunah home in Israel forces you to immerse yourself into the culture and to truly learn where the children are from and who they are. The connection he established with these children and Israel has had a profound, lasting effect on him; Amiel will be going to Israel and drafting into the army this coming year. Laurie Szenicer, CEO of Emunah

of America, said, “Kol HaNearim is an important partnership for Emunah. We are grateful to Michael Reidler and Ezra Gontownik for this groundbreaking camp model. The Kol HaNearim volunteers have an incredible impact on the children living in Emunah’s homes, creating a meaningful and exciting summer experience for Emunah’s children and Kol HaNearim volunteers.” These Kol HaNearim voices offer a peek into how volunteerism empowers teens and shapes their futures. KH volunteers have been transformed by their amazing experiences. We look forward to inspiring many more of today’s teens through our incredible KH program. For more info, please contact Andi Koppelman, executive director, andi@kolhanearim.org. For more information about Emunah, please go www.emunah.org.

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ummer camp is essential to Jewish educational experience. Summer programs launch friendships, cultivate life skills, and instill Jewish values unlike any other Jewish institution. Today, parents have a vast array of summer programs to choose from – sports, travel, art, coding, drama and the list goes on! One new program catching the attention of teens and parents is not a camp but a volunteer program called Kol HaNearim (KH). Established in 2010 by Michael Reidler and Ezra Gontownik, Kol HaNearim flips the summer experience by empowering teens to become big brothers and sisters to at-risk children living in Emunah’s and other programs’ residential children’s homes in Israel. The work is hard, the hours are long, and comfort zones are often left in the dust. Founder Michael Reidler is famous for reminding participants that everything they do on KH is FTK- For The Kids – not themselves!

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n Sunday, NovemberÂ 15, Netzach HaTorah held their annual open house for prospectiveÂ students. Like other schools, this year was markedly different than in the past, with the presenters speaking to an empty room. Due to the restrictionsÂ related to Covid, the Mesivta hosted their open house with an entirely differentÂ approach, going fully virtual and streaming live. Parents and childrenÂ joined the live stream from many communities, including those on the West Coast and from neighboring states. Throughout the program, participants of the virtual open house could text in their questions and receiveÂ live updates at the stream. The Menahel, Rabbi Yitzchak Yurman, spoke about the Mesivta and overall approach of the Yeshiva, from the time the boys enter in ninth grade and how they continue in their lifeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s journey after twelfth grade. Rabbi Yirmiyahu Lebowitz, the general studies principal, spoke about the robust program that the Mesivta has structured for their students, from the core classes preparing students for college and the electives

program allowing the students to pursue their individual interests. Following the presentations of the menahel and principal, the participants were taken on a virtual tour of the building and had the opportunity to see portions of the school day in action, meeting students and teachers in the hallways. Up next, and using a split screen, on one side of the podium stood a ninth grade student and on the other, a twelfth grade student, both speaking of their respective feelings on what it feels like entering the Mesivta, and conversely, how it feels after attending for four years. Mr. Robert Kurtz, parent of a current Netzach student, then moderated a panel of parents and their children, currentÂ Netzach students, fielding live questions from the viewers. The virtual open house closed with an invitation for prospective families to apply online at Netzachhatorah.com and to set up personal tours of the building and day of learning. For more information, please visit their website or call the office at 516437-6777.Â

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More Than $1.2M in STEM Grants for Local Yeshivas, Day Schools

enator Todd Kaminsky announced this week that he helped secure more than $1,205,276 in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) education grants for local Five Towns and West Hempstead yeshivas. The funds from the New York State budget awarded to more than 15 local Jewish day schools will be used to reimburse the cost of STEM equipment, educational resources and teachers. “I am proud to continue advocating and delivering for our local yeshivas to ensure they have all the tools they need to continue providing a first-rate education to our community’s children,” said Senator Todd Kaminsky. “This investment in our Jewish day schools will further prepare our students to tackle the challenges of tomorrow’s complex, technology-driven world. Importantly, the more money we secure for our yeshivas from Albany, the less hard-

Amir Kornblum, chairman of the board of HAFTR, Senator Todd Kaminsky, and Ari Solomon, HAFTR Executive Director, at HAFTR Elementary School’s new Gilad Kolter Stem Lab in Lawrence

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debt of gratitude to our State Senator, Todd Kaminsky, for his important role in securing this funding, and we hope this program continues to grow,” said Richard Hagler, Executive Director of the Hebrew Academy of Long Beach (HALB). “HAFTR is so grateful to our representatives in Albany and all they do for our school, especially when it comes to STEM funding. STEM is one of the most important areas of study at HAFTR, and we are proud to lead the field in yeshiva day school STEM education. We have recently completed our brand new, state of the art, Gilad Kalter a”h STEM and Innovation Lab in our Lower School. This project was made possible with the help of some very generous donors as well as the wonderful support from Albany and with the help of our local representative Senator Todd Kaminsky,” said Ari Solomon, Executive Director of the Hebrew Academy of the Five Towns and Rockaway. Local Jewish day schools that were awarded STEM grant funding include: • The Stella K. Abraham High School (SKA): $119,858 • The Davis Renov Stahler Yeshiva High School (DRS): 175,807 • The Torah Academy for Girls (TAG) High School: $72,952 • The Torah Academy for Girls (TAG) Elementary School: $97,664 • Yeshiva Darchei Torah (YDT): $98,200 • Mesivta Shaarei Chaim: $13,990

• The Hebrew Academy of the Five Towns and Rockaways (HAFTR) High School: $137,043 • The Hebrew Academy of Nassau County (HANC): $27,495 • The Hebrew Academy of Nassau County (HANC): $103,591 • Mesivta Ateres Yaakov (MAY): $18,509 • The Brandeis School: $76,336 • Mesivta Ateres Yaakov (MAY): $18,509 • The Shulamith School for Girls: $37,005 • Rambam Mesivta: $20,646 • The Kulanu Academy: $9,253 • Midreshet Shalhevet: $13,761 • Bnos Bais Yaakov: $46,391 • Yeshiva Ketana of Long Island (YKLI): $4,627 • The Yeshiva of South Shore (YOSS): $33,948 Senator Kaminsky has been a champion for yeshivas, securing more than hundreds of millions of dollars in state aid for non-public schools each year in the state budget. Kaminsky has been committed to combating the yeshiva tuition crisis, and secured tens of million dollars in security aid for Jewish day schools and community institutions in the budget as well. Most recently, Senator Kaminsky led the Long Island Senate Majority delegation in blasting proposed state regulations that would allow bureaucrats to interfere with yeshiva education and infringe on students’ education.

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A new mesivta for serious bnei Torah, Yeshiva Kol Torah, held their open house this past week at Bais Tefilah of Inwood. For more information about this new mesivta for our neighborhood, please call 718-669-0220 or email info@YeshivaKolTorah.org.

Ohel Rocks Chanukah

or decades, and with great thanks to our sponsors, Leah and Sammy Trencher, Ohel has been hosting large scale, agency-wide Chanukah parties for clients, staff and family guests. As the highlight of the entire year, there is an abundance of food (think mountains of latkes and doughnuts), music (envision Shloime Dachs performing with Ohel clients), entertainment (picture magicians, other live performances and more), and gift-giving to the delight of Ohel’s clients and guests. Another joy of the season has been Ohel’s well-known Chanukah Gift Drive with participation from 200+ schools, synagogues and organizations across the tri-state area. This Chanukah initiative has ensured that every Ohel individual receives an age-appropriate holiday gift. Enter 2020. Isolation, quarantine, masks, social distancing, and red zones are part of everyone’s reality during the pandemic. With Chanukah around the corner, Ohel faced a huge conundrum. How is Ohel going to light up the lives of the hundreds of foster children, children and adults with

developmental and psychiatric disabilities, women and children who live in Ohel’s domestic violence shelter, and so many community members for whom Ohel is their lifeline? With innovation, creativity and commitment, Ohel’s team of devoted professionals has decided to adapt the successful Chanukah programming of the past to the need for a safe, yet joyous present. Fortunately, the Trencher family has agreed to serve once again as the major sponsor of Chanukah at Ohel. They, too, said there has to be a way to share Chanukah happiness and bring light to the Ohel Family. The plan is to bring the epic Chanukah ever to thousands who rely on Ohel! If you cannot bring a gift physically by delivering to a nearby school or shul campaign – just visit https://giftcatalog.ohelfamily. org/. Every kind contributor can purchase a gift(s) for Ohel individuals ranging from a warm scarf for a senior to a craft set for a foster child or a watch for an adult with disabilities. Our clients collaborated with us in choosing the gifts that they would most appreciate. Please help

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us make all of their wishes come true! There are choices at all price levels, ranging from $18-$500. If you or a member of your family would still like the in-person, yet safe, opportunity to give, Ohel has partnered with a number of steadfast schools, synagogues, individuals and organizations in the tri-state area who are still hosting in-person Ohel gift drives. The following are some of the gifts we need: • Toys, including board games, puzzles, craft projects for kids • Jewelry, handbags, gloves, and other accessories for adults • Visa or Amazon gift cards so that adults with disabilities can choose their own gift And what about the party? With the goal of brightening the lives of over 500 kids and adults who are part of the Ohel network, they will be celebrating with a “Party in a Box.” Michael Schick, a long-time friend of Ohel and caterer par excellence of Ohel’s Annual Gala, has come to the rescue. Ohel clients living in a residence, foster children and their foster families, women and children living in Ohel’s Domestic Violence Shelter, and other clients will be treated to a “Make-your-own Pizza Party.” Each high-quality box will consist of everything needed to make a delectable pizza pie with all the toppings, as well as latkes, doughnuts, drinks and festive party goods. The music will continue! Without song and dance, the

package would not be complete. Shloime Dachs, a dedicated Ohel board member who has often performed at Ohel’s Chanukah parties and is beloved by our clients, decided to partner with Sammy Trencher and Ohel staff to introduce The Chanukah Float Drive, a traveling float that will visit several Ohel residences and provide a musical performance to each. It would not be a full Chanukah package without gift distribution and doughnuts for all. Ohel is fortunate to have the following angels on board to make these magical moments happen at Ohel this year: The Trenchers, Shloime Dachs Orchestra, Jerry & Barbara Weissman, and others who prefer to remain anonymous. Ohel plans to rock the house this Chanukah – your house, an Ohel residence, a foster child’s home…and beyond. Wherever you are, you can be a part of Ohel’s efforts in bringing joy to so many. We are not going to let the struggles of COVID rob the many Ohel individuals from feeling the light of Chanukah. We hope that you can be a part of these joyous experiences through your support and friendship too. For more information about participating in the Ohel gift drive or to sponsor some of these celebrations, please contact Kaila Lasky, Coordinator of Volunteer Services at 347786-0788 or email at Kaila_lasky@ ohelfamily.org.

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Around the Community Dana Aderet Brody, Esq. (3rd from right, flanked by her parents, Ateret Cohanim Executive Council Member Dr. Paul & Drora Brody and her siblings), a Great Neck activist completing her LL.M in International Law and Human Rights at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, having graduated from Penn. Law, officially went on Aliyah via Nefesh B’Nefesh, on Rosh Chodesh Kislev. Ms. Brody is an alternate Delegate on the ZOA-Likud platform for the WZO and was an invited guest to attend the signing of the Abraham Accords on the White House Lawn. Dana will reside in Yerushalayim.

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wo renowned attorneys are collaborating their practices. Noted attorney, Steven Cohn, Esq., and Martin E. Friedlander, Esq., are collaborating and expanding their respective law practices. Steven Cohn, Esq., an icon in both the legal and political community of Brooklyn, New York, has been at his practice of Goldberg and Cohn, LLP, since 1978. Mr. Cohn and was the former president of the Brooklyn Bar Association, is a Delegate to the New York State Bar Association Second Judicial Department, and a past member of the Grievance Committee for the 2nd and 11th Judicial Districts for the Appellate Division. Mr. Cohn was a past Democratic State Committeeman. He is vicechair of New York State Democrats and colonel of the New York Guard. His services also included the Honorary Board of Trustees for Pesach Tikvah Hope Development, Corp. and was on the Board of Directors for Yeshiva of Flatbush. Mr. Cohn has published and authored many articles regarding Family Law and is an expert in the same. Mr. Cohn also possesses the requisite of knowledge of administrative agencies and has successfully represented clients in actions brought by the Attorney General of the State of New York, including those brought

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against the Town of Huntington (Long Island), mortgage brokers in the Delta Funding case, title companies and real estate. He has published many scholarly articles and has lectured extensively on Family Law and Autism. Martin E. Friedlander, Esq., an attorney with over 28 years of experience in matrimonial and family law, began his career with the Honorable Jeffrey Sunshine in Brooklyn, New York. Mr. Friedlander has represented clients throughout New York City and Nassau County. Mr. Friedlander has also appeared before the First, Second, and Third Department of the Appellate Division. He appears regularly before batei dinim and is proficient in issues relating to the get and the halachic related issues.

Mr. Friedlander is also a court-qualified mediator. He has expanded his practice to include mediation services. He is a co-founder of the Yashar Coalition, which founded a prenuptial agreement which facilitates alternative dispute resolution and is approved by leading rabbis throughout the United States and Israel. Mr. Friedlander has semicha from Rav Pam, zt”l, of Yeshiva Torah Vodaath. Mr. Friedlander lectures extensively on all areas of Family Law. He has been featured on panels with Supreme Court Justices and psychologists and has provided many lectures for CLE providers, including the New York County Bar Association and AFCC (Association of Family and Conciliation Courts). His writings have been featured in the New

York Law Journal and many other prominent publications. He is sought out for lectures in both the religious and secular communities. Most recently, he has lectured for the AFCC on the cultural and religious factors affecting custody evaluations and decisions. Mr. Friedlander has lectured throughout the United States and in Israel for the Tahel Crisis Center and has assisted in their legal presentation at their conference in Israel. Additionally, he has lectured on abusive conduct and its religious implications at Global Summit on child sex abuse in the Jewish community. He sits on the Kings County Matrimonial Mediation Stakeholders Committee, which is introducing mediation into the Courthouses. Together, the firms now handle all mediation and arbitration, matrimonial, family, business litigation, real estate, and government compliance, law. Consultations are now available in Nassau County and Brooklyn, as both firms practice throughout New York City and Nassau County areas. Both Mr. Friedlander and Mr. Cohn maintain and adhere to the CDC requirements and are now taking appointments virtually, by request. Please contact Shirley Chera for more information: sc@mflawyer. com or (212) 321-7092.

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Central Virtual Open House

he first-ever Central Virtual Open House was held this past Motzei Shabbat. In order to add a personal touch, before the event even began, Central faculty, parents, and students formed a “pizza brigade” and personally delivered a pie of pizza to the home of each prospective student. Then, the program began, featuring addresses from senior Shira Ebbin, G.O. President, Rabbi Joshua Goller, Masgiach Ruchani, senior Rebecca Mermelstein, and Head of School, Ms. Bracha Rutner. A student panel, which allowed students to share their various Central experiences, was moderated by Associate Principal Ms. Leah Moskovich. After the conclusion of the formal event, an email was sent out with additional links to classroom lessons, a virtual tour, a parent video, and our virtual Club

Long Beach Jewish Community Delivers 100 Cards of Thanks

Shira Ebbin, GO President

Fair, so that prospective parents and students could continue their exploration of Central. It was a wonderful evening with an amazing turnout, including many current students and faculty. Tremendous thanks and kol hakavod to our Admissions team, Mrs. Aliza Gewirtz, and Ms. Kymmie Baker, on a job well done!

Did you know? A man once robbed a bank armed with apple pies. He claimed that he had a pair of bombs with him, but they turned out to be apple pies from McDonalds.

here’s no better way to celebrate Thanksgiving than actually saying thank you! This past Sunday, November 22, Rabbi Benny Berlin of the BACH Jewish Center in Long Beach took the opportunity to teach the children of the congregation about hakaras hatov, the Jewish concept of expressing gratitude, by writing thank you cards for local first responders. Participants drafted a total of 100 cards which were then delivered to the City of Long Beach Police Department, and the fire department and EMS dispatch center, located at Station 1, ahead of the upcoming holiday. The cards contained heartwarming messages from kids of all ages: “Thank you for all that you do!” wrote one eight-year-old girl. “We love the firefighters,” wrote a seven-year-old along with a drawing a firetruck. The children personally delivered their thank you letters to the local police precinct, received warmly by Sgt. Allan Alexandre, the desk sergeant on duty. The remaining cards for the fire

department and EMS dispatch center will be delivered on Monday, November 23, so that they can be read and enjoyed ahead of Thanksgiving. “Thanksgiving is about reflecting on how lucky we are and what we have to be thankful for, and this year that message hits closer to home for many of us as we continue to battle the COVID-19 pandemic,” said Rabbi Benny Berlin. “The local first responders of Long Beach are incredibly deserving of our gratitude for the sacrifices that they have made throughout this pandemic and beyond. Our children were very enthusiastic about the opportunity to share their appreciation with the first responders who continue to keep our community safe.” Founded in 1946, Bachurei Chemed – BACH Jewish Center is one of Long Island’s most prestigious and oldest synagogues. Members hail from Long Beach, Lido, Atlantic Beach and Island Park. For more information, please visit https://www. bachlongbeach.com/.

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Rambam Spirit Week Edition

ambam students and staff sported their favorite attire for Spirit Week this past week in a fundraiser to benefit Achiezer. Students dressed both up and down for the festivities, with each day having its own theme. The initiative was led by the Rambam Chesed Club, shepherded by Joseph Waide and Zachary Sicklick, and with the help of Jeremy Sicklick, Yaacov Lazar, Baruch Deutsch, and Yaakov Zerykier, students donated a dollar a day to Achiezer to participate. Spirit Week kicked off on Monday with “Wear Your Favorite Sports Team Gear.” From Islanders to Rangers, to Mets and Yankees, to the new Miami Heat jerseys, sports fever was on display. Dovid Daskal won for “Best Dressed Sports Team Gear,” and varsity basketball star Daniel Steiner was named the runner-up. All “Best Dressed” winners were given snacks to celebrate their win with the “Best Dressed of the

Week” coming away with a highly coveted Rambam plaque. “Fancy Ties/Hat Day” followed on Tuesday and was won by none

play Wednesday as students came fully clad in school-themed shirts, sweatpants, and sweatshirts. Students were mostly dressed in red

other than the Rosh Mesivta himself, Rabbi Zev Meir Friedman, with Binyamin Werner, SGO Co-President a close second. School Spirit was on full dis-

and black, the school colors, and every team and club from hockey, to flag football, to Mock Trial, Writers’ Guild, Masmidim and more was being repped. Junior Yaakov Zerykier

won “Best Dressed Rambam Gear,” with sophomore Boaz Duftler coming in second thanks to his throwback gear. Thursday was an opportunity for the students to share their favorite Hobby/Movie/TV Show on “Hobby Dress Up Day.” Benny Herskowitz, dressed as Office legend, Dwight Schrute, was the winner, and Dovid Daskal came in as runner-up. As the week came to a close, “Crazy Hat Day” arrived, and Dovid Daskal won again, with Ami Dube, dressed as Slash;Yaakov Zerykier sharing runner-up honors. After a hotly contested vote amongst the Chesed Committee, there was a run-off election with Binyamin Werner emerging as the “Best Dressed of the Week” and Dovid Daskal ranking right behind him. It was a spirited week that was about style and the substance of giving back and seeing beyond oneself.

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Shabbat Across SKA

he essence of Shabbat and the outpouring of school spirit that usually accompanies the annual Shabbaton of the Stella K. Abraham High School for Girls were very apparent the week of November 16! An introduction to the week-long SHABBAT ACROSS SKA took place on Friday, November 13, with a video presented by SKA’s Student Council and shown to the entire student body. Every grade then enjoyed savory potato kugel in anticipation of Shabbat. Each day of the week contained an activity guaranteed to foster preparation and enjoyment of Shab-

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bat and school unity. SKA students and faculty were honored to hear from Rabbi Dovid Bashevkin, Educational Director of NCSY, who spoke on Zoom on Monday, November 16, about reimagining the normal stresses of preparing for Shabbat. Noting that when we uncover our eyes after lighting candles and saying the bracha, Rabbi Bashevskin explained that everything in that moment is perfect because Shabbat is perfect. Throughout the week, each grade competed to make the best video of the Shabbat experience for Friday’s finale. Filming around the building, the students had a great time visually translating and displaying the Shabbat table, Shabbat clothing, Shabbat parties and Shabbat games. Tuesday’s “Ask the Rabbi” Zoom on hilchot Shabbat gave the students the opportunity to hear from three local rabbis answering relevant questions the girls had previously submitted. Our thanks goes to Rabbi Aaron Feigenbaum, rabbi of the IPM minyan, Rabbi Isaac Rice, head of SKA’s Torah S’beal Peh Department and Assistant Rabbi of Congregation Anshei Chesed, and Rabbi Akiva Willig, rabbi of Beit Medrash of Woodmere. The morning’s session was followed by entertaining grade-wide socially distant Shabbat parties where the

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SKAers dressed as Shabbat imas! The highlight of Wednesday’s activities was a delicious Challah/ Babka Bake. Every student received a prepared package of raw dough and other ingredients to make two challahs or babkas – one for themselves and one to give to a shut-in or anyone who could use a lift. The morning’s event was introduced by Rabbi Yussie Zakutrinsky, rav of K’hal Mevakshei Hashem, who added much spiritual insight about the secret of Shabbat to our culinary session. Student panels on Thursday discussing their Shabbat experiences gave the girls the opportunity to hear from their fellow students and learn from each other. After listening to several girls describing their own Shabbat, surveys were con-

Keeping Your Head Up and Your Feet Steady

By Gabi Moskowitz

tudents of the Shulamith Middle Division took part in a walkathon to raise money for each student to receive a Chromebook. Each grade got a slot to walk,

run, or dance around the schoolyard in the back of the building. The weather couldn’t have been more perfect, and the girls had a wonderful time. Students got friends and family to sponsor them, and all together the event was a great success!

ducted using an internet app to view student responses to “What do you like best about Shabbat?” and other questions. Comments ranged from “spending quality time with my family” to “peacefulness of being away from social media.” Later that day, a Silent DJ in SKA’s backyard had the headphone-wearing students moving to the music and waving pool noodles used for social distancing; the only sound that was heard out loud was laughter! Shabbat Across SKA culminated on Friday with Shabbat pictures of girls dressed in their Shabbat best and the presentation of the grade videos. By the end of the week, SKA students certainly gained a greater appreciation for the beauty and magic of Shabbat.

ast week, Mrs. Elana Fertig, Early Childhood Director of Yeshiva of South Shore, presented a parenting webinar for mothers planned by Sparks of Inspiration and the Aish Kodesh Sisterhood. In a friendly and realistic manner, Morah Elana shared her simple and doable ideas, which she has learned through her experiences in raising her own children, as well as her experiences in helping raise other people’s children over the last over decades. Her first message is that we, as mothers, need to remember this mantra: “I am a Superwoman, and I know no one is perfect.” We need to realize

that we are our biggest critics, and that we need to support ourselves, and applaud ourselves. Some of her messages were about the importance of routines, schedules, the value of sleep and the ability of our children to make us feel guilty (“it’s in our DNA as Jewish mothers to feel guilty, and it’s in their DNA to know how to make us feel guilty”). Mrs. Fertig ended by saying, “Parenting is like the hokey pokey: sometimes you have to put your whole self in, mind, body and soul… and sometimes you just have to shake it all about...and let it go.” The recording of this webinar can be found at www.yoss.org.

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Central Offers Stern College Courses

The “Aussie Gourmet” Comes to Shevach

ur seniors are privileged to have the opportunity to learn at Stern College this year on Zoom and earn college credit while learning with preeminent Judaic scholars. Nine students spend Monday and Wednesday mornings in “Personalities in Shmuel” with Mrs. Moriah Rosensweig, “Challenging Situations in Tanach” with Dr. Gila Schwerd, “Medical Ethics” with Rabbi Saul Berman, and “Nachmanidies”

with Rabbi Mordechai Cohen. Central students are held to the expectations of regular college students, including a midterm and a final. Senior Gabriella Steinberg says, “I am really enjoying the experience of learning on such a high level with like-minded girls who also want to challenge themselves. You can’t get this in any other high school! I am hoping to go to Stern College after my year in Israel.”

ith Chanukah fast approaching, the Shevach G.O. welcomed in Kislev with a bang. Under the direction of Shevach Educational Administrator Mrs. Devorah Kovitz, the G.O. heads, Elana Adler, Chaya Shalva Boiangu, Hadassah Gottesman, Chaya Prager, and Miriam Romm, invited Mrs. Naomi Nachman, a.k.a. “The Aussie Gourmet,” to present a cooking demo. On Tuesday, Rosh Chodesh Kislev, smells of bread baking and simmering soup wafted through the halls of Shevach. These tantalizing aromas kept all the students eagerly anticipating their turn at preparing these mouthwatering appetizers with Naomi Nachman. Each grade had its own time slot with The Aussie Gourmet, during which she taught the girls many skills, from techniques for cutting onions to how not to kill yeast. Mrs. Nachman’s en-

gaging personality, combined with her delightful accent from “Down Under,” added to the atmosphere, keeping everyone captivated. After learning how to make Creamy Roasted Garlic and Broccoli Soup, while it was cooking, each student made and shaped her own Whole Wheat Crescent Roll. The excitement culminated with all the students enjoying a warm and delicious bowl of soup on what had been a chilly day. The girls left with their rolls ready to be baked and enjoyed in their own homes, where their families were also able to enjoy the scent of bread baking. In the words of one senior, “It was so much fun to learn all we did today because one day we will iy”H be married and will definitely be using these skills.” The Rosh Chodesh Kislev program at Shevach High School was clearly a resounding success.

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TJH Jimbo’s Turkey Cooking Ritual Step 1: Go buy a turkey Step 2: Take a drink of whiskey Step 3: Put turkey in the oven Step 4: Take another 2 drinks of whiskey Step 5: Set the degree at 375 ovens Step 6: Take 3 more whiskeys of drink Step 7: Turk the bastey Step 8: Whiskey another bottle of get Step 9: Ponder the meat thermometer Step 10: Glass yourself a pour of whiskey Step 11: Bake the whiskey for 4 hours Step 12: Take the oven out of the turkey Step 13: Floor the turkey up off of the pick Step 14: Turk the carvey Step 15: Get yourself another scottle of botch Step 16: Tet the sable and pour yourself a glass of turkey Step 17: Bless the dinner and pass out

Centerfold You Gotta Be Kidding! The pro football team had just finished their daily practice session when a large turkey strutted onto the field. While the players gazed in amazement, the turkey walked up to the head coach and demanded a tryout. Everyone stared in silence as the turkey caught pass after pass and ran right through the defensive line. When the turkey returned to the sidelines, the coach shouted, “You’re terrific! Sign up for the season, and I’ll see to it that you get a huge bonus.” “Forget the bonus,” the turkey said, “All I want to know is if the season goes past Thanksgiving Day.”

Riddle me This? There are four people, and all of them are sitting at a square table eating turkey. Their names are Mike, Al, Paul, and John. Use the clues below to figure out who sits where at the table. John is at the left of Mike. Mike sits on the right side of the table. Al is on the right of Mike. Where does Paul sit? Answer on right page

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Let’s Talk Turkey T

“TV dinners” were invented during the lead-up to have Thanksgiving in 1953, when Omaha-based C.A. Swanson & Sons had a shortage of turkeys so they decided to slice them up and repackage them with some trimmings on the side.

Later, when the Spaniards came to America, they found a bird that tasted like those guinea fowls. When they were sent to Europe, the English called these birds “turkeys” as well.

In 1939, Franklin Roosevelt changed the date of Thanksgiving from the last Thursday in November to the second-tolast in an effort to lift the economy during the Great Depression. It caused such a public outcry that people began referring to it as “Franksgiving.” After two years, Congress ditched the new policy and set the fourth Thursday of November as the legal holiday.

According to Roto-Rooter, Black Friday is the busiest day of the year for

them.

When Abe Lincoln declared Thanksgiving a national holiday, it was thanks to the tireless efforts of a magazine editor named Sarah Josepha Hale. Her other claim to fame? She also wrote the nursery rhyme, “Mary had a little lamb.”

Gobble, gobble? Not really— only male turkeys, called toms, gobble. Females, called hens, cackle.

If Ben Franklin had his way, the turkey would be our national bird. An eagle, he wrote in a letter to his daughter, had “bad moral character.” A turkey, on the other hand, was a “much more respectable bird.”

Why is it called a turkey? Well, back in the day, the Europeans took a liking to the guinea fowls imported to the continent. Since the birds were imported by Turkish merchants, the English called them turkeys.

In 1920, U.S. turkey growers produced one turkey for every 29 persons in the U.S. Today, growers produce nearly one turkey for every person in the country.

The average person consumes approximately 4,500 calories on Thanksgiving.

There are a number of towns in the United States named after the holiday’s traditional main course. Turkey, Texas, was the most populous in 2005, with 492 residents; followed by Turkey Creek, Louisiana (357); and Turkey, North Carolina (269). There also are nine townships around the country named “Turkey” – three in Kansas.

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Answer to riddle: Paul sits on the left of John and across from Mike.

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Torah Thought

Parshas Vayeitzei By Rabbi Berel Wein

e are all aware of the famous comment of Rashi on the opening word of this week’s Torah reading: that the departure of a pious man from the community leaves a void and a negative impression. This comment is in line with the pattern that we have seen from the beginning of the Book of Bereishit, i.e. that the Torah is more interested in the lives of indi-

viduals than in the general pattern of societal history and culture. It is the individual that makes the diﬀerence between good and evil, between eternity and the mundane, that evaporates so quickly. Therefore, the presence of a righteous person in a community is a precious asset that should not be ignored, minimized, or trivialized. One righteous person represents an entire world and can

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stroyed societies. This is not so in the Jewish belief, for we are convinced that the individual has inestimable worth, power, and influence. We believe that Heaven responds to, and, in fact, guides the life and deeds of individuals. No one is worthless or extraneous on the face of this planet, and it is wrong to think that individuals should be sacrificed for what is temporarily considered to be the greater general good. That was the idea behind of the binding of Isaac by Abraham. In the world of that time, sacrificing human beings to appease the gods was an acceptable practice, believing then that the general population could

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teous individual once lived there and was of inﬂuence. In a world population of billions of people, we tend to believe that the individual does not count for much. This is an erroneous and certainly a secular view of life. It was the Soviet Union and communism that saw people as being mere cogs in a great machine, the state, where everything had to be sacriﬁced in order to maintain that machine, even when it crushed millions of people and de-

somehow beneﬁt. When the angel tells Abraham to stay his hand and touch Isaac, and certainly not to kill him, the angel is also saying that one Isaac is worth an entire world. This idea must be reinforced repeatedly, for human society tends to forget or even ignore this concept. This is a powerful lesson for our time, and we should ponder these words of Rashi that introduce this week’s Torah reading to us. Shabbat shalom.

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From the Fire Parshas Vayeitzei

We are the Ladder By Rav Moshe Weinberger Adapted for publication by Binyomin Wolf

he story of Yaakov Avinu is the story of all of our lives in galus, exile. Every single moment, we live with “and Yaakov went out of Beer Sheva and went to Charan.” According to the Zohar (Vayeitzei 147a), “Charona, to Charan,” comes from the words charon af, anger. In other words, whenever we leave our little Eretz Yisroels, our shuls and our yeshivos, and go out into the world, we are in a strange place, in exile. As spiritual people, we are strangers in our daily physical lives. We therefore live with the story of Yaakov Avinu entering his exile every single moment of every single day as we go into our own personal exiles. What does Yaakov’s experience teach us about how to view our life in galus, exile? When Yaakov lays down to sleep, the pasuk says, “And he dreamt and behold there was a ladder standing on the earth and its top was in the heavens and behold, angels of G-d were ascending and descending bo.” There

is a dispute in Bereishis Raba (68:12) regarding the subject of the word “bo,” which could be read to mean “on him” or “on it.” One opinion is that the angels were ascending and descending the ladder. But the Medrash oﬀers the following explanation according to the opinion that the angels were ascending and descending on Yaakov Avinu: The [interpretation of the fact that the] angels were ascending and descending on Yaakov is that they were praising him (ascending) and criticizing him (descending). As it says in Yeshaya 49:3, “Yisroel, in whom You are glorified.” “You are the one whose face is carved above.” They ascended and saw his face, and they descended below and found him sleeping. The angels wondered, “How could it be that this person who is so great that Hashem takes such pride in him and his face is carved above under the Throne of Glory is sleeping his life away?”

Each of our faces, the children of Yaakov, living in exile just as Yaakov was, are also carved up above on Hashem’s Throne of Glory. We have such great potential that Hashem exults in our greatness and carved each and every one of our faces above in heaven. We do not realize our own greatness and meaning, so we sleep our lives away. In prior generations, it was hard for someone to imagine how one could be in one place and his face could be somewhere else. Even in the time of the Chofetz Chaim, someone told him about the invention of the telephone, and he commented, “Listen to the power of speech; a Jew can say something in Radin, and someone will hear him in Vilna!” Today it is easy for us to imagine this concept. This is the struggle that each of us faces when we go out into the world. We also struggle with the angels who say about us, “This is the person whose face is carved onto the Throne

of Glory! Look, why is he sleeping?!” We learn from Yaakov that we cannot sleep through our lives, thinking, “Who am I? I’m just a stam person, a regular guy.” We are not just “regular guys.” Angels, which deliver Hashem’s Divine influence to the whole world, pass through us to do their work. When Yaakov wakes up, he says (Bereishis 28:16), “Achein, indeed Hashem is in this place, and I did not know it.” Tzdadikim explain this pasuk in the following way: The letters of the word “achein, indeed” in that pasuk stand for the words aryeh, keruv, nesher, lion, angel, and eagle, the three animals whose images Yechezkel says are carved on the great chariot in heaven (10:14). In other words, Yaakov started oﬀ knowing that in lofty places there are mystical creatures, the cherub, the angel, and the lion. But once he hears that the angels say that Yaakov’s own face is also carved above, he says, “V’anochi lo yadaati, and I did not know it.” The

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Hebrew word for “I” is anochi. The letters of the word anochi stand for the words aryeh, keruv, nesher, the lion, cherub, eagle – and Yaakov! He was saying, “I knew there were great and spiritual things in Heaven, but I never knew that I was one of them!” Yaakov was living the good life before he left Beer Sheva. He was able to sit and learn Torah all of the time. He had a mother who loved him dearly. Everything was good. But it was only after Yaakov left home and went into exile on the way to Charan that it was revealed to him that Hashem glorifies Himself in him and that his face is carved in the Kisei HaKavod. Only in exile did he realize that he was the ladder, the conduit through which Hashem sends his Divine influence into the world. We too are carved in Hashem’s throne. We must realize that we are important, and not stam, not simple, regular people. Everything in this world is dependent on us. There is a story that the bochurim

in the yeshiva in Radin were complaining to one another about the Haskala, the Enlightenment’s prevalence in Paris, which was plaguing the religious Jews there. The Chofetz Chaim told them that it is because of their bitul Torah, the time they waste

wake up to take up the challenge of our potential and our importance in the world. “Va’yikatz Yaakov mi’mishnaso, and Yaakov awoke from his slumber.” In contrast, with regard to Paroah, it says (Bereishis 41:4-5), “Va’yikatz Paroah va’yishan, and

Everything in this world is dependent on us.

when they should be learning Torah in Radin talking about what’s happening in Paris, that makes it possible for Jews to fall prey to the Enlightenment in Paris. Our job is to wake up from our sleep and realize that we are the ladder, our faces are carved in the Throne of Glory above, and Hashem takes pride in us. So it is up to us to

Paroah woke up and went back to sleep.” We cannot be like Paroah and fall back asleep once we realize that we are great and that we really matter. We must also realize that as a kehillas Yaakov, a congregation of Yaakov, the image of our kehillah, our congregation, is also carved on Hashem’s throne. We must look at

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ourselves and see if we are living up to a higher image of ourselves or whether we have become complacent and begun taking liberties in our kavod ha’tefillah, our respect for the davening in the shul, in our learning, and in our bein adam l’chaveiro, the way we treat one another. With Hashem’s help, may we be zocheh to wake up from our slumber and realize our importance and that we are the conduit through which Hashem brings everything good into the world. Through the openings that we create may we be zocheh to go together to Yerushalayim, b’viyas go’el tzedek b’mheira b’yameinu, with Moshiach Tzidkeinu, soon in our days.

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

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Parsha Ponderings Parshas Vayeitzei

Exile Prep By Rabbi Shmuel Kamenetzky

n Parshas Vayeitzei, after tricking Eisav and receiving his father Yitzchok’s blessing, Yaakov flees to Charan to escape the wrath of his brother Eisav and to seek out a wife for himself. Rashi tells us that before he actually arrived in Charan, he stopped to learn in the yeshiva of Shem for 14 years straight. 14 years! Not only did he learn, but the entire time he was there, he did not sleep. He finally laid down to rest on Har Hamoriah, where he had his dream with the angels ascending and descending the ladder. Why did Yaakov make a detour specifically now to learn? And why specifically in the Yeshiva of Shem and Eiver? Even though the story below does not necessarily illustrate the answer to the question, it sheds light on the situation of the “American Exile” of the early 20th century.    When HaRav Yaakov Kamenetzky, zt”l, arrived in Seattle to serve as an interim rav in Seattle in October 1937, he found the Hebrew school with budgetary issues. One of the board members, in an effort to solve the deficit, compared the situation to bread and butter. “Bread is a necessity, and butter is a luxury. When there is money, you eat butter with your bread. But when money is tight, you skip the butter.” He then suggested that the Hebrew school teach only Chumash, but not Gemara. That Shabbos was Parshas Toldos, and Rav Yaakov used his sermon to address this comment. “When Yaakov and Eisav were young, one was

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not able to tell the diﬀerence between them,” the young rav began. “However, once they turned thirteen, Eisav roamed the ﬁelds, while Yaakov prepared himself to fully acquire Gemara, as the Mishna says,

Yaakov’s message and raised the necessary funds for a complete Gemara curriculum.    My grandfather would often repeat the timely explanation to the

The Yeshiva of Shem held the secret of remaining a true tzaddik even in a galus.

‘The age of learning Gemara is ﬁfteen’ (Avos, Ch. 5). At ﬁfteen, Eisav was already entrenched in his evil ways, while Yaakov was on his path to greatness.” The congregation understood R’

question above given by his father, HaRav Yaakov Kamenetzky, zt”l, the rosh yeshiva of Yeshiva Torah Vo’daath. Yes, there were many places to learn, and there was plenty of time to

learn. But Yaakov was put in a unique situation at this very moment. Until now, he lived together with his father Yitzchok. There was no foreign influence, and there was no threat to his spiritual wellbeing. Now, however, he was thrust into a foreign environment and was on his way to live together with his Uncle Lavan, a notorious gangster and idol worshipper. How would he remain true to his faith and remain the tzaddik that he was? He knew that the answer can be found in the Yeshiva of Shem. Shem lived in the Generation of the Flood, and Eiver grew up amongst those who built the Tower of Bavel after the Mabul. They both remained steadfast in their service of Hashem. The Yeshiva of Shem held the secret of remaining a true tzaddik even in a galus. Only they would be the right rabbeim for Yaakov to teach him how to survive in exile. Yaakov stopped off specifically in that yeshiva, and learned for 14 years, to prepare himself for the long road of exile ahead.

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

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The Wandering

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Palm Springs By Hershel Lieber

My Uncle Ben and Aunt Jean

e were in Palm Springs, California, in 1988. We were back in 1989. Then we went back again in 1990 – not that we were in the habit of taking annual winter vacations. Nor could we at that time afford any costly vacations. Yet we did go, three years in a row! The story began when one of my accounting clients, Moses Eastman, opened a store at the Marriott Desert Springs Resort. The resort was the height of opulence, with flamingoes strutting on the manicured lawns. There were gondolas that glided out from the lobby to the streams and lakes surrounding the hotel. The exclusive vendors sold the finest luxury items from fashion clothing to costly antiques. Moses’s store sold objects d’art, such as paintings, sculptures, Chinese porcelain vases, Persian rugs, ivory carvings, jade ornaments, and a lot more. These artistic items were geared to the very wealthy and the prices were hefty as well. Moses Eastman, who still is a close friend of mine, asked me to come out to work on his books. This was before the age of personal computers, internet or email, and my

With Moses Eastman in his house

presence was necessary. He rented a beautiful house in Palm Springs near the Chabad shul and offered that Pesi and I should stay there. My trip would become a combination of work and vacation. For all practical purposes,

Moses Eastman at his Marriott shop

kosher food specialties for Shabbos, and drive out to Palm Springs. On the way home, we would drive back from Palm Springs to Los Angeles, eat lunch, return the car, and take the red-eye flight to New York. On two

It does not take much to convince me to enlist for an unusual experience.

the only outlay I would have would be our plane tickets and a rental car which would be well covered by my accounting fees. We would be away for only five or six days each time, and it would include a Shabbos. Needless to say, we accepted the challenge – or rather I should say, we accepted the offer! All of these trips had a commonality in that we would arrive in Los Angeles, rent a car, eat lunch in one of the many restaurants there, buy some

occasions, we also visited my Uncle Ben and his wife Jean who were living in Los Angeles. The drive usually took under two hours but with traffic, the time could double. I specifically remember the first trip since it was our first exposure to the desert, and we were truly enthusiastic to see the combination of mountains, sand dunes, palms, and cactus plants under a sunny blue sky. During each trip, I would spend some time at Moses’s store going over

the books and preparing for the annual tax reports. I cannot say that I overworked myself. On the contrary, most of the time was purely vacation, with a little work to justify the trip’s purpose. Moses was a great host and fantastic company, and though we didn’t see much of him during the day, we spent our late evenings together which we enjoyed immensely. Since Moses was away until late every day, we had the pool to ourselves, which added to our comfort. Relaxing is always nice, but for me and to some extent for Pesi, there is a need to be doing something or going somewhere to fulfill our vacation expectations. So, what did we do? On two of our trips, we took the tram up to the San Jacinto Mountains where the weather can be forty degrees cooler than below. There was a considerable amount of snow up there, but with the bright sun it was quite comfortable. This is a great place for hiking, which we did together with Shiya and Edith Zeitman, friends from Boro Park whom we met on top. We also met Rabbi Moshe Horowitz from Yeshivas Be’er Shmuel and his rebbetzin and spent time walking with them as well.

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There were trails for mule riding, but the poor creature was not accustomed to carrying my weight. One time, we drove up to the mountaintop town of Idyllwild to browse in their gift shops. Palm Canyon is a two-acre tropical oasis with hundreds of palms of nearly sixty species. It was a lovely

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Pesi at the foot of San Jacinto Mountains

place to spend an afternoon and a treat for my camera. Palm Canyon Drive and the many exquisite shopping malls were for browsing only, since any significant purchase would have put me at the brink of bankruptcy. One afternoon, Moses came back early and took us to a stocked

fishpond where we went fishing and brought home our catch. Moses knew how to skin and remove the innards, and he grilled the fish for dinner. Whenever we returned from being away, the pool was waiting for us. We alternated between the water and the beach chair and then between the sun

and the shade. I also took the opportunity to teach Pesi how to ride a bike, to no avail. A truly welcome feature was the Chabad shul under the leadership of Rabbi Yonason Denebeim. The shul was small but comfortable, and I was able to daven almost all my tefillos

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Herman Wouk, author of ‘This is My G-d’

with a minyan. The minyan was made up by the locals, including the Pulitzer Prize winner for “The Caine Mutiny,” writer Herman Wouk, whose book, “This Is My G-d,” had an incredible effect on the growth of Orthodox Judaism. I went to hear a lecture that he gave Shabbos afternoon on Pirkei Avos. In addition, there were the vacationers, including chassidishe rebbes and rabbonim. The shul had just completed a spa-like mikvah which I was able to use erev Shabbos. Rabbi Denebeim was very close with Moses and was extremely friendly to me. During my stay in 1990, the Bobover Rebbe Rav Shloma, zt”l, was there, and I had the opportunity to

With Rabbi Shmiel Krauss and Stanley Diller

talk with him a number of times and once even walked him back to the place he was staying. Before leaving New York, I heard from Moses that the Rebbe was there, and I realized that I would be davening together with him daily. I was a bit embarrassed that I did not wear Rabbeinu Taam tefillin and was worried that he may notice. Nevertheless, I was not ready to commit myself to that minhag. Since I had my father’s a”h Rabbeinu Taam tefillin I checked them out, had them fitted for me, and made a tenai (a conditional acceptance) that I would wear them only for this period of time. This would not obligate me to wear them in the future. I always

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say jokingly that “the Bobover Rebbe made me wear Rabbeinu Taam tefillin.” In a sense that’s true, because I never stopped wearing them since. A highlight of our stay in 1988 was the Shabbos that we spent in Desert Hot Springs. Moses was close with Rabbi Shmiel Krauss, a self-made Chassidishe Rebbe who was mekarev many lost souls and people seeking spiritual growth and guidance. Moses wanted to go for Shabbos, and he hoped that we would be willing to join him. It does not take much to convince me to enlist for an unusual experience. Pesi is also a willing partner to partake in out-of-the-ordinary activities. And so, we packed our bags and joined a most eclectic group of consisting of FFBs and BTs and anyone in between for a group spiritual ascent. Among the attendees was millionaire Stanley Diller

from Los Angeles. Rabbi Krauss had the group mesmerized with his mystical talks and passionate zemiros. The Rebbe’s sense of humor put everyone at ease and there was plenty of laughter during the tisch. The Rebbe was a former cook, and for Shabbos he alone cooked up a storm. The singing and the joy were contagious, and the camaraderie was genuine. On Motzei Shabbos, we took some photos and reluctantly took leave from an extraordinary event, an event that would long be remembered. After our three trips to Moses in California, Pesi and I spent a Shabbos with him at his home in Deal, New Jersey. From time to time, I still meet him for a quick bite at the Deal pizza shop. We always fondly reminisce about the times that we spent together in Palm Springs, times which bonded our cherished friendship.

Hershel Lieber has been involved in kiruv activities for over 30 years. As a founding member of the Vaad L’Hatzolas Nidchei Yisroel he has traveled with his wife, Pesi, to the Soviet Union during the harsh years of the Communist regimes to advance Yiddishkeit. He has spearheaded a yeshiva in the city of Kishinev that had 12 successful years with many students making Torah their way of life. In Poland, he lectured in the summers at the Ronald S. Lauder Foundation camp for nearly 30 years. He still travels to Warsaw every year – since 1979 – to be the chazzan for Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur for the Jews there. Together with Pesi, he organized and led trips to Europe on behalf of Gateways and Aish Hatorah for college students finding their paths to Jewish identity. His passion for travel has taken them to many interesting places and afforded them unique experiences. Their open home gave them opportunities to meet and develop relationships with a variety of people. Hershel’s column will appear in The Jewish Home on a bi-weekly basis.

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World

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Saving Her Child By Raphael Poch

owards the end of 2019, Roxanne Weinberg took an EMT training course to become a United Hatzalah volunteer EMT so that she could help others. Little did she know that what she learned in the course would save the life of her own daughter. The incident occurred three weeks ago, in the middle of the night, when Roxanne’s greatest nightmare came true as her daughter, Talia, who was born as a premature baby, choked right in front of her eyes. As if a choking premature infant wasn’t harrowing enough, two years prior to the incident, Roxanne and her husband Michael lost a premature baby, a son, only eight days into his short life. The post-traumatic fears of having already lost a baby gripped Roxanne, but she did not allow the fear to prevent her from taking action. With a sense of clarity and level-headedness that bordered on the inhuman, Roxanne, who was at the time a new trainee, began to perform CPR on her own daughter while instructing her husband to call for help. Roxanne saw that the back blows she was giving her daughter were ineffective and began compressions

and assisted breathing and carried on until her friend and fellow United Hatzalah EMT Kalanit Taub, who lives nearby, arrived to assist. “The whole incident brought me back to when my infant son passed away,” Roxanne said. “It was incredibly hard to move in that moment

ing again even before the ambulance arrived. When the ambulance arrived, they took Talia and Roxanne to the hospital for further care and observation but the immediate danger was over. Now, a few weeks later, as both mother and daughter are at home,

“The whole incident brought me back to when my infant son passed away.”

when I saw my daughter choking. While I thought that I wouldn’t be able to save her, I knew that if I did nothing she would die as well. “I forcibly distanced myself from my own emotions and did whatever I could to save her life. I fell back on my training and on the information that I learned in my EMT course.” Roxanne and Kalanit succeeded at opening Talia’s airway by using suction to remove the liquids that had collected in her throat. The pair moved so fast that Talia was breath-

Roxanne reflected on her decision to become an EMT and explained how important it is for every mother to take at least a basic CPR and first aid course. “We have no way of knowing what will happen and when or where it will happen. As a mother, we are often the closest person to our child. It is incredibly important to know what to do if an emergency arises. It can save the life of your child, just like it saved the life of mine.” Roxanne lives in Efrat and has two children. Talia was born at the

beginning of July at 27 weeks. the same day that she was born, Roxanne was supposed to participate in the graduation ceremony from her EMT training class. Instead, she watched the ceremony from the hospital while she was in labor. Talia stayed in the hospital until the beginning of September. Today she is four months old and is still connected to a monitor and a feeding tube but she is expected to grow and live a normal life. President and founder of United Hatzalah Eli Beer spoke about the incident and said: “United Hatzalah volunteers work within their communities. Often, they save people close to them, their neighbors, sometimes their friends or acquaintances. Roxanne saved a person who was more dear to her than anyone, and she did it by implementing the training she was given during her EMT course. We are truly proud of her, and we look forward to her being an active member of our network of volunteers. Just two days ago, while driving with her family to do some errands, she responded to a serious car accident on Highway 60 and treated a Palestinian driver who was badly injured, until an ambulance was able to arrive.”

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The Killing of a Terrorist How Israel Assassinated an Al-Qaeda Leader BY SHAMMAI SISKIND

n Friday, August 7, 2020, at around 9:00 p.m., five rapid gunshots were heard in the prosperous Pasdaran district of Tehran. Two victims were later found dead in a white Renault sedan, a middle-aged man and a young woman. Two individuals on a motorcycle were reported fleeing the scene. Iran’s official news media identified the victims as “a Lebanese history professor” by the name of Habib Daoud and his 27-year-old daughter “Maryam.” The Lebanese news channel MTV and social media accounts affiliated with Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps reported that Mr. Daoud was a member of Hezbollah, the Iranian-backed militant organization in Lebanon.

THE COVER UP In addition to the complete lack of credibility Ayatollah-controlled media is known for, the story presented by Iranian sources seemed implausible on its face. The killing was clearly a professional assassination carried out with immense precision. Why would a simple history professor be the target of such a hit job? In mid-October, a Twitter account with the handle “AnbaJassim” – purportedly belonging to a free-

lance journalist in the United Arab Emirates – suggested in a post that the victims of the shooting were, in fact, the infamous Al-Qaeda operations mastermind Abu Muhammad Al-Masri and his daughter Miriam. AnbaJassim claimed he had received this information from jihadi veterans of the Afghan wars and that “their response confirmed to me that those

killed are Abu Muhammad al-Masri” and his 27-year-old daughter. Two weeks later, a Pashto language outlet called Shamshad News, which describes itself as an Afghanistan-based radio and television news outlet, also claimed that al-Masri had been killed in Tehran. The Iranian government was quick to counter these claims.

The Ayatollah with leaders of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards

Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson Saeed Khatibzadeh denied that Al-Masri was in Iran at all, let alone that he had been assassinated inside the country. In an official press release, Khatibzadeh advised the American media to resist being “entrapped by the Hollywood-style scenarios fabricated by the U.S. and the Zionist regime’s officials.”

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It would take three months for any substantial confirmation of Al-Masri’s death. In mid-November, U.S. officials began speaking about the incident confirming to several outlets that Al-Masri had been killed. WHO WAS AL-MASRI? Abu Muhammad Al-Masri was born Abdullah Ahmed Abdullah in the Al Gharbiya district of northern Egypt in 1963. Al-Masri became his nom guerre only later in life. When he was younger, he pursued a successful football career that was cut short following the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979. Al-Masri joined the jihadist movement that was beginning to take shape to assist Afghan forces. Ten years later, with the Soviets withdrawn and Al-Masri barred from returning to Egypt, the now seasoned fighter remained in Afghanistan where he eventually joined Osama bin Laden in the group that was later to become the founding nucleus of al-Qaeda. In the early 1990s, he traveled with Bin Laden to Khartoum, Sudan, where he began forming military cells. Over the next several years, Al-Masri undertook campaigns to export militant methods and jihadism around central Asia and North Africa. He was, for instance, instrumental in training the Somalian Mohamed Farrah Aidid and his men, terrorists responsible for the Black Hawk Down attack in Mogadishu in 1993. Al-Masri became renowned for his operational acumen. One of his more famous exploits was the planning of the 1998 attacks on the American embassies in Nairobi and Dar es-Salaam, which caused the deaths of more than 200 people and wounded more than 4,000. As he was a founding member of al-Qaeda and one of its more adept officers, many believed Al-Masri would be the natural heir to Osama bin Laden following his death at the hands of American special operators. But it was not to be. IRAN’S PROTECTION Following the September 11th attacks and the global manhunt for al-Qaeda leaders, Al-Masri was one of the few high-ranking members of the organization to evade capture. He did this by fleeing to Iran through the country’s porous border with Afghanistan.

Al-Masri was responsible for the bombings of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania

His escape into the hands of the Ayatollahs was a mixed blessing. On the one hand, he was somewhat out of American reach. On the other, he was now under the authority of a bitter enemy. Iran, a Shiite Muslim theocracy, and al-Qaeda, a Sunni Muslim jihadist group, have been at odds for decades. Their forces have even fought each other on the battlefields of Iraq and other places. But Iran found an interest in harboring and protecting Al-Masri. Some have suggested that keeping al-Qaeda officials in Tehran would provide some insurance that the group would not conduct operations inside Iran. American counterterrorism officials believe Iran may have allowed them to stay to run operations against the United States, a common adversary. Indeed, the “enemy-of-my-enemy” principle is one that has been used not infrequently by Iran’s leadership, which has lent support to Sunni organizations in the past. Hamas, for instance, has received financing, material, and almost certainly training by the Islamist regime for over a decade. Whatever its motivation, Tehran seems to have played an active role in protecting the al-Qaeda officer. Some officials have said that Habib Daoud was an alias the Iranians gave Al-Masri and that the history teaching job was a cover story. This theory seems to have support. In October, the former leader of Egypt’s Islamic Jihad, Nabil Naeem, a longtime

friend of Al-Masri, told the Saudi news channel Al Arabiya that Iran was providing Al-Masri with protection and an alternate identity. ISRAEL’S INTEREST Many reports in the media have alleged that the assassination was essentially an American initiative carried out by Israeli agents. The official story: the attack was carried out by Israeli operatives at the behest of the United States. Several outlets have quoted American intelligence officials saying that the U.S. intelligence community was tracking Al-Masri for years. While the U.S. almost certainly contributed information and logistics, it would be a mistake to assume the operation was for American interests only. Israel had plenty of reasons to go after al-Qaeda high-ups. Firstly, Al-Masri was wanted by Israel for the plot he orchestrated to shoot down an Israeli Arkia Airlines plane that departed from Mombasa International Airport with 271 people on board in 2002. The missiles narrowly missed the plane, which was then escorted by Israeli fighter jets to Ben Gurion Airport, where it landed safely. A more pressing concern Jerusalem had with the al-Qaeda founder was his calls for attacks on Israel-connected targets following the Trump administration’s recognition of Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights.

Al-Masri had shown himself capable of executing such attacks. Back in 2002, Al-Masri was behind the bombing of an Israeli-owned hotel in Kenya in which three Israelis were killed, 13 locals were murdered, and 80 others were wounded. In that same year, al-Qaeda was behind an attack on the El Ghriba synagogue in Tunisia. Credible reports indicate that the group attempted to do the same with synagogues in Turkey and the United States in later years. MOSSAD STRIKES AGAIN Israel has regularly been able to hit targets in Iran over the past 30 years. The frequency of these incidents has increased dramatically over the past ten years as Iranian expansionist policies as well as the country’s nuclear program have become key issues of concern for Israel and the region as a whole. Israel’s capability in this regard did not develop overnight. It is the result of a decades-long policy focusing on the recruitment of Israelis with an Iranian background. In Israel today, there are roughly half a million citizens who either grew up in Iran or grew up in Israel speaking Farsi in their homes. Many of these individuals speak more authentic-sounding Farsi than Hebrew. This rather large pool is closely watched by Mossad and Military Intelligence and are an important source of analysts and agents. These assets have allowed Israeli intelligence to con-

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duct deep-penetration operations in Iran. The topic of Israeli clandestine activity in Iran started to catch the world’s attention in the early 2000s. It was then that claims of Mossad activity in the country began to circulate the international media. Between 2009 and 2012, at least five Iranian nuclear scientists were assassinated, reportedly all with Israel’s involvement. Barring a striking resemblance to the Al-Masri killing, many of the jobs involved motorcycle-mounted men targeting their victims while they were seated in their vehicles. Some of the scientists were shot and killed, similar to Al-Masri, while others had specialized explosives magnetically attached to their cars which were then detonated from a distance. Other attempts on figures in Iran’s nuclear program may have been carried out as late as 2015. Three years later, Israel conducted another major operation in Iran. This time, the mission was not an assassination but an intelligence collection. In the heart of Tehran, Israel managed to steal a trove of data related to Iran’s nuclear program. The much-lauded operation was unique in that it was perhaps the only clandestine action in Iran Israel ever admitted to carrying out. The raid resulted in the procurement of some 100,000 documents, images, and videos related to Iranian nuclear plans. This was a fiasco for Iranian counterintelligence. Because of their

operations in Iran – a series of explosions that destroyed several installations in the country this past summer. Many of the locations hit were known nuclear facilities, such as the Natanz advanced centrifuge development and assembly plant. INTELLIGENCE FAILURE There are two very important points to consider when assessing the recent Israeli assassination in Tehran. First is what it says about Iran’s internal security. The fact that Israel was able to pull off this action means the Ayatollahs missed more than a few lone Israeli agents slipping through Iran’s borders. Operations like Al-Masri’s killing take time to plan – perhaps years. All of the procurement and smuggling of resources, reconnaissance, and logistical planning that occurred during that time was not identified by Iranian counterintelligence. Furthermore, there were more operatives involved than actual Israeli agents. Israel without a doubt had the assistance of local opposition militias the likes of the Balochistan Freedom Fighters or the Iranian People’s Mojahedin. The Ayatollahs failed to identify the movement and activity of these groups as well. Zooming out and looking at the string of Israeli operations in Iran over the past decade, it is clear that the Mossad and its allies have been able to identify and capitalize on a slew of weaknesses in the Iranian intelligence apparatus. It has been

THE CORPS’ TRADITIONAL INSISTENCE ON KEEPING JOBS AND POSITIONS “IN THE FAMILY” TO ENSURE SECURITY HAS ONLY WEAKENED ITS EFFICACY access to those documents, Israel and (most likely) U.S. intelligence were able first to identify sensitive locations related to Iran’s nuclear program. This information was used in the next spat of Israeli-backed

two years since the heist of the nuclear documents cache in Tehran. No doubt the Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) have since been scrambling to shore up their security and hone their spy-catching skills.

In 2005, Abu Muhammad al-Masri (left) attended the wedding of Hamza bin Laden (center) to his daughter in Iran

Israel’s Prime Minister Netanyahu with a trove of documents and information smuggled out of Iran by Israeli agents

One glaring reason that Iranian counterintelligence has still failed to get its act together is the structural issue of nepotism rampant throughout all of IRGC’s units. In an ironic way, the Corps’ traditional insistence on keeping jobs and positions “in the family” to ensure security has only weakened its efficacy by keeping the most competent people out of key organizations. In the wake of the Al-Masri killing, the breakdown of Iran’s counterintelligence has become all too apparent and, as some researchers have pointed out, Iran could be pushed to seek help and guidance from its allies China and Russia in strengthening these capabilities. BIDEN BEWARE The final question to consider is what are the broader geopolitical ramifications of Al-Masri’s assassination a few months ago.

Israel had an interest in leaking the information about Al-Masri’s death at the hand of Israeli agents at this particular juncture in order to send a signal to the West at large and the United States specifically. The likely incoming Biden Administration has stated its intention to reach out to the Iranians and re-enter the JCPOA, the landmark 2015 nuclear deal negotiated by the Obama administration and then dropped by the Trump Administration. The deal brought an end to sanctions against Iran in return for certain commitments from Ayatollahs regarding their nuclear program. Israel needs the United States to remember that the Iranians are still the top state sponsors of terror and will even harbor members of their sworn enemy al-Qaeda to harm the U.S. It is this regime that Washington will have to deal with when re-engaging with Tehran.

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Dating Dialogue

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

Dear Navidaters,

I am a second time around writer to your column. I wrote in many months ago about a situation I was in.

I was dating a nice girl from Italy whose parents turned out to be absolutely wacky, controlling, abusive, and much more – she was practically married to them as well and could not cut the cord. We only found this out once my parents met hers. At the time, you all gave me the chizuk I needed to end the shidduch. One of my worries ending the shidduch was missing out on what could be my bashert because I was looking for something so specific. At the time, you all encouraged me to keep looking because the situation seemed very unhealthy and I am so glad I did. I am now dating an amazing girl from an incredible family here. They are a family I feel comfortable with and, most importantly, are emotionally healthy. This is not much of a question, but more along the lines of starting a conversation about being true to oneself and having the confidence to end things when something does not seem right. I would love to hear more about this to give anyone in the same position I was in the ability to think for themselves. Thank you. - Grateful

Disclaimer: This column is not intended to diagnose or otherwise conclude resolutions to any questions. Our intention is not to offer any definitive conclusions to any particular question, rather offer areas of exploration for the author and reader. Due to the nature of the column receiving only a short snapshot of an issue, without the benefit of an actual discussion, the panel’s role is to offer a range of possibilities. We hope to open up meaningful dialogue and individual exploration.

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The Panel The Rebbetzin Rebbetzin Faigie Horowitz, M.S. irst, thank you for getting back to us. A one-way conversation is not a dialogue. Follow-up is valued not only for its rarity but also for its openness. Please keep in mind that writing to a dating column is not the same as speaking with someone in person. While I appreciate you wanting us to tell people to follow up on what their instincts are telling them, it is important for me to clarify and qualify my words. In general, as you may have noticed, I do not choose to expand on broad issues that impact shidduchim in this column. I think it is healthy to respond to the query in a narrow sense. It seems to me that that

is what the writer wants: a response to the personal dilemma s/he is facing. Sometimes that can be a lesson for readers; sometimes it seems like a one-off. However, the popularity of dating columns in many Jewish periodicals at present leads me to believe that people are interested in the perspectives of others and are ready to learn, grow, and question based on what they read. This is my reasoning for responding to your request. If a person is developed in character, self-awareness, maturity, and relationships, they definitely should trust their instincts when it comes to dating. If they know themselves, have healthy relationships, and have grown, their radar should be good. If something feels off, they should investigate it – but not by asking a

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friend of the person they are dating or someone who knows them. They should directly bring up the issue with the person they are dating after thinking the matter through. Asking someone else why did they do this or say this is neither smart nor healthy. Deal with it yourself to clarify your questions, suspicions, and doubts and don’t assume anything. I have been told by divorce mediators in the community that many parties that get divorced noticed a problem during the dating period that later caused a serious problem in the marriage. Don’t ignore issues; face them directly with some sensitivity and care. Have the confidence to rely on your radar’s readings. At the same time, it is valuable to have a mentor, dating coach, or advisor of some sort to discuss things with.

Staying in a relationship out of fear of being single again is the wrong thing to do. It should be someone who knows you well, who is a good listener, who has good judgment, and whom you trust. Oftentimes, it’s not just what the person advises, but what you clarify to yourself as you share that is most important. Talking to someone else forces you to articulate your concerns, thoughts, and emotions in a clear manner.

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Everyone is different when it comes to their progress in their personal journey. Confidence is earned along the way through experience of failure as well as success. Not everyone has the courage to trust their instincts or their judgment. These people can surely benefit from talking to a wise, experienced person. I hope this is helpful to all readers who are trying to move forward on their paths to communication, marriage, and relationship success.

The Shadchan Michelle Mond

irstly, thank you so much for sending us a letter with an update. You don’t know how often I wonder how each of our letter writers are doing; more of our readers should do the same. Secondly, I am so happy to hear about your new relationship, what a bracha!

Trusting your instincts is an extremely important topic, and I am glad you’ve raised it. Yes, we must always trust our instincts and, more importantly, act on them. We first, however, need to properly be able to hear our gut instincts over the static of fear and anxiety. In order to tap into our instincts, we must first be self-aware. It is very easy to see red flags wherever you go. He’s late to a date? Red flag. He forgot what I said last week about my schedule? Red flag. She doesn’t live at home? Red flag. She talks to her mother too often? Red flag. If a person struggles with anxiety, depression, OCD, or self-esteem issues, it is very easy to blame “red flags” on every relationship gone awry. Your case, as I remember vividly, was a bizarre and twisted story. Things were cut and dry in your case – but in many instances it is not. So although our panel unanimously encouraged you to move on then, we

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would not necessarily all agree had the details been different, even if the letter writer was blaming it on his instincts. If a person is self-aware enough to differentiate his instincts and inner voice from his anxiety or fears, he will properly tap into his instincts and should certainly follow what his gut is telling him. Staying in a relationship out of fear of being single again is the wrong thing to do. One’s relationship should feel good, pleasant, safe, and comfortable. This does not mean times won’t get hard and there will be difficulties, but you will work through those times together as a team. Again, it was so nice to hear that you are doing well. Keep us posted with good news!

The Zaidy Dr. Jeffrey Galler et me explain how your follow-up letter, today, contributed mightily to my own shalom bayis. Your original Navidater

Have the confidence to rely on your radar’s readings. question was published last year at Thanksgiving time, and I remember it clearly. You were right in the middle of a stressful dental residency, and my response was one of the first that I had ever written. I advised, “You are an expert in oral pathology, but you lack expertise in diagnosing family pathology. Trust your instincts. There is something very sick about Sara’s family dynamic. Run away from this pathology!” At that time, my wife was not happy with what I had written. She felt that I had no right to encourage breaking up the relationship. Thanks to the positive feedback in your current letter, I now can enjoy an entire week of telling my wife, “Ha! I told you so!”

Pulling It All Together The Navidaters

er that you needed to walk away. Dating and Relationship Coaches and Therapists However, there are many situations that are not so black and white. I hesitate to make sweeping statements ear Grateful, in a column because evintuition during the datThank you for writing in with ery situation is truly unique. ing period. It is important a follow up! A quick google search Kudos to you for getting out of for people to be able to differled me to your column from one year that relationship by following your entiate between their own, unreago. I am so happy to hear that you own intuition. We cannot enter a solved anxieties or other potential are dating someone with whom you marriage from a place of fear. The issues surrounding dating/settling enjoy a mutually satisfying, organic greater concern is entering a mardown and their intuition. connection with. As a general rule, riage that you know in your bones is In your case, it was so clear that I do encourage people to trust their wrong, only to get divorced down the this woman was from a toxic family instincts when dating. If something road. It is important to feel a sense and without her own ability to differfeels incredibly off, it most likely is. of confidence that the person you entiate and individuate from her famIf you speak with people who are in are with simply lights you up from ily, your life would likely have been unsatisfying marriages or people who within. There should be a sense of beholden to her dysfunctional family. are divorced, many, if not most, will comfort, friendship, respect and adIn my mind, it was a clear no-braintell you that there was some ignored

miration. One general tip I give to single people is the following: when you feel it, you will know. There will be a natural chemistry; an excitement; a desire to see the person again. If you are plagued with doubts (and they are valid doubts), the best bet is to talk about it with your partner and see how it gets resolved between the couple. Oftentimes, if a couple can’t work through concerns, and the concerns begin to separate you instead of bringing you closer together as a unified couple, the answer is right there. Once again, we are thrilled to hear from you and to know that you are doing so well! Thank you for taking the time to write in and keep us posted! Sincerely, Jennifer

Jennifer Mann, LCSW is a licensed psychotherapist and dating and relationship coach working with individuals, couples, and families in private practice at 123 Maple Avenue in Cedarhurst, NY. She also teaches a psychology course at Touro College. To set up a consultation or to ask questions, please call 516-224-7779, ext. 2. Visit www.thenavidaters.com for more information. If you would like to submit a dating or relationship question to the panel anonymously, please email thenavidaters@gmail.com. You can follow The Navidaters on FB and Instagram for dating and relationship advice.

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Dr. Deb

You Can’t Love Someone Else If You Don’t Love Yourself By Deb Hirschhorn, Ph.D.

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cheerleading squad in the form of your love that they’ve given to you. Now, during the dating period, of course you give that to them to the degree possible. You are so thrilled and relieved and happy to receive their love that you joyously give it back.

ou can’t love someone else if you don’t love yourself!” “That’s not true, Dr. Deb!” I can hear you saying. “I know plenty of people who don’t love themselves but they fell in love with someone else!” And, may I ask, how are they doing now, these people? “Oh, well, they’re having marital problems….” Yeah, thought so. See, here’s the reason that is the way it goes down.

When the Honeymoon Is Over

The Internal War When a person doesn’t completely love themselves, there’s a war inside of them. This may be totally out of their awareness but here are some of the symptoms of that war: • Bad mood • Flashes of anger • Feeling depressed • Unable to make decisions • Getting easily irritated by others • Self-harm • Addictions • Obsessions • Compulsions • Anxiety Why is that? The answer is that a part of them feels critical of all their choices, actions, and feelings. Nothing they do is right. Or not much. Or perhaps they grant themselves permission to be happy in only one area of their lives, say their work, but not in their social relationships. People often call this feeling or “voice inside my head” their inner critic. So if their inner critic doesn’t like much about them and lets them know either non-verbally, just through a

feeling, or actually in words, well, that would plunge anybody into a sour mood. That path to yuckiness is perfectly normal. And a bad mood can easily lead to anger, depression, and all of the other things on the list above. It’s tiresome! No one wants to go around feeling miserable all the time. Here’s where love comes in.

Stealing Someone’s Love If you don’t love yourself and you’re mad at yourself, then you’re going to be in a crummy mood. But there is a rational part of you, too, that absolutely knows this is not true. That rational part has a tiny bit of awareness of your good points, your strong points. You don’t think about those much because that critical, judgmental feeling within you generally overpowers the soft voice saying otherwise.

Now, along comes someone of the opposite gender and they see all the good qualities that you don’t see and you don’t believe make a diﬀerence. That is so wonderful! That feels so good, like a breath of fresh air after being cooped up in a hot, smelly house for too long. It is not only wonderful, it is addictive. Because we human beings were not meant to go around being miserable. We weren’t meant to spend so much energy against ourselves. That just isn’t efficient or productive. We need to get an infusion of hope and goodness to survive emotionally. So we cling to the love of this new person. All the negative voices are overpowered now. This is the best thing that ever happened. Or so we think. But there’s a big problem here. The giver of all this love needs something back. They need the same

Unfortunately, the voice of the inner critic starts to make itself heard not long into the relationship, whether the couple gets married or hasn’t taken that step yet. This takes the form of the giver of all the appreciation feeling a sense of unfairness, of imbalance in the relationship. True, the receiver has said some nice things and smiled with appreciation at receiving compliments, but the receiver hasn’t actually given anything. Why not? Because they don’t have it in them. If this person who doesn’t love themselves has never won the battle with an inner critic, then they have not been in the habit of thinking good things about themselves. Yes, they may grudgingly acknowledge something good about themselves once in a while, but this is not spontaneous and it is very infrequent in any case. To them, it doesn’t feel like much. They also haven’t been in the habit of doing nice things for themselves. And no, giving into addictions, compulsions, and rages does not count. Obviously. So here we have a person who is far from self-affirming and therefore

doesn’t know how to acknowledge good in themselves or do good things for themselves. They may want to acknowledge good and do good things for their spouse, but they’re unskilled in doing it. They’re just not used to thinking that way. It doesn’t come naturally or easily. So the spouse starts to feel this is a burden, this is unfair. They may start to pull back just a little. Just a tiny bit. But, oh boy, that’s a marriage killer for this marriage. Because now, the self-invalidating spouse suddenly is angry with them! “What! You didn’t [fill in the blank: let me know you’d be late, pick up a box of chocolates for me when you were getting groceries like you did when we were dating, etc.]. This is pure neglect!” A horrible, ugly feeling curls up the spine of the self-disliking person. It’s the return of the mafia, the critic, the judgmental part. With a vengeance. Getting the absolute love and attention and affirmation of the

spouse is more than nice. It’s a need. The way an addict thinks he has a need for his substance of choice. The person is frantic for this missing affirmation. To return to the days of self-hate is too unbearable. So they can go one of two ways: Bad-

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able so even when the spouse has not stopped showering attention, affirmation, and kindness on them, they will often twist goodness into bad. They will distort – in their own minds – innocent things that happen as markers of the spouse’s absolute

They have not been in the habit of thinking good things about themselves.

gering the spouse to get all the missing love or sink into deep depression, worse than any they had before all their hopes were crushed.

Making It Worse This is only the beginning of self-torment. The self-hating person believes at the core that he or she is unlov-

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lack of love. And this can happen easily. All that is needed is a little confusion to make it possible to distort someone’s good intentions. I had a whole series on giving the benefit of the doubt when circumstances point in the wrong direction, so I won’t get into that now. Bottom line: a person who lacks self-love will find ways to believe that they are not

loved. Then they will either be frantic to get it back or sink into a depression, shutting the door on the person who was showering them with love up until that point.

The Solution It is for this reason that after years of working with couples together on their marriage I now work first with the individuals in the relationship separately to gently and lovingly get the inner critic to release hold on their minds and find something else to do with their energy. I’m becoming convinced that the enemy of marriage is not the lack of communication but the lack of selflove.

Dr. Deb Hirschhorn is a Marriage and Family Therapist. If you want help with your marriage, begin by signing up to watch her Masterclass at https://drdeb. com/myw-masterclass.

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Health & F tness

Planning Makes Perfect Cindy Weinberger MS, RD, CDN

ll too often I hear, “I know which foods I should be eating. I just never have the food ready, and I end up eating whatever is available.” Or, “I come home starving and just eat the first thing I find.” And, “My problem is at work – I don’t bring lunch with me so I snack on whatever I can find.” All of these problems cause downfalls in healthy eating, yet they all have a common denominator and

can be easily prevented. The key is meal prep. Sure, at the end of a long day at work, or staying home taking care of the kids, you are beyond exhausted and the last thing you want to do is take the time to prepare a healthy dinner, or even more so, lunch for the next day. I don’t blame you. I can’t either find that energy or willpower at night. That is why I strongly urge all of my clients to meal prep.

Why is meal planning and prepping so advantageous to healthy eating? First of all, as mentioned above, after an exhausting day, the thought of cooking can be a daunting task. So we tend to opt for the easy way out; make a quick sandwich, eat a bowl of pasta, or a bowl of cereal, anything that does not require extensive work, yet also lacks essential nutrition, and tends to be high in calories. Not only do we sometimes get lazy to prepare dinner, many times, we come home starving and are “too hungry” to prepare dinner and wait for it to be ready so out of sheer starvation and impatience, we grab the first thing we see, which most probably is not an ideal nutritious dinner. Even worse, if you do have the energy and willpower to prepare a healthy dinner and did not plan properly, you open the fridge to start cooking dinner and realize that you don’t have the correct ingredients and therefore turn to the easy way out, which once again may not be the most nutritious choice. This is, of course, a vicious cycle. Therefore, meal planning and prepping is strongly advised, and I will help guide you on how to do it. Before the prepping even starts, you need to make sure that your pantries and freezers are well stocked. Keep your pantries and freezers stocked with grains, brown rice, quinoa, wild rice, nuts, canned vegetables, canned tuna, frozen vegetables, frozen fruits, whole grain bread,

poultry and meats. Next, have a standard shopping list that includes fresh fruits, fresh vegetables, dairy products, and perishables. Having healthier items on hand will allow you to make healthier choices. Using recipes will be much easier when you have a big stock of items at home already. Keep an inventory of what you have so that you don’t lose track and stuck missing items. When stocking up your freezer, it’s best to be organized and clearly label what you put in so that you know what you have. It’s also important to organize by date and use what you have according to the FIFO rule: first in, first out. Don’t just use the newer products and keep the old ones hidden in the back. They will eventually get freezer burnt or forgotten about and wasted. Now that you have the basic essentials readily available, make a template for a menu before the week starts. Once you create your menu, review it to make sure you have all the ingredients, especially when using an actual recipe, and definitely if using a new recipe. Planning a menu does not have to be complicated or fancy as if you are planning a yom tov menu. If you like to have a variety and try new recipes, that’s fantastic. Your menu can be basic and routine with a few changes here and there so that you don’t get bored. For example, every Monday dinner can be chicken legs, a whole grain, and a vegetable. This way you

know that you need to be stocked with chicken (in your freezer), vegetables (in your freezer or fresh vegetables), and a whole grain from your pantry. Then, when Monday comes, you pull out the chicken but make a different sauce, or use a different spice rub, or grill it, or bake it so that it is not the same chicken recipe every week, but it’s still basic enough that it does not require much thought and planning. Next, simply pull out any frozen vegetable from your freezer – whether it’s broccoli, cauliflower, Brussel sprouts, or green beans, it’s readily available, easy to prepare, and different from the week before. Or, use fresh vegetables to make a salad of your choice. It does not have to be the same thing each week, just within the same lines to make your life easier. Then, you open up your pantry and either cook up a pot of brown rice, wild rice, quinoa, or any whole grain that you desire. Again, keeping it simple, with variety, yet routine.

Another night can be dairy/ parve night. That meal can be a fish, so keep a stock of fish in the freezer or fresh in the fridge and use basic ingredients or rotate a few simple recipes. Eggs also make a great, simple and quick dinner. Make sure you have eggs in the fridge, and you

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cooking in bulk and freezing in portions. That way, you simply pull it out of the fridge or freezer and heat it up. When it comes to lunch prepping, I highly recommend making salads for the week on Sunday so that it is readily available to pull

Having healthier items on hand will allow you to make healthier choices.

can make different eggs each week. There is so much variety within keeping to a routine that can make meal planning so much easier. If making dinner every night is not feasible for you, due to your schedule, I suggest prepping a few meals on Sunday for the week or

out of the fridge and slip into your work bag. It’s also extremely helpful to boil up a pot of hardboiled eggs for the week so you can grab and go. Buy fruits that are easy to take on-the-go, such as bananas, apples, and oranges. And when you buy fruits that require cleaning and

cutting, portion them in containers as well so that you can take them to work with you or eat it on-the-go as a healthy snack. Meal prep does not have to take a long time and is not as scary as many make it out to be. It can only be helpful and advantageous to your busy lifestyle and diet. If you even start to do one part of anything that I suggested, you are moving in the right direction.

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

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Parenting Pearls

Money Matters By Sara Rayvych, MSEd

ears ago, one of my little ones was receiving occupational therapy services, and the non-Jewish therapist provided some coins and a bank or tzedakah box to place them into. I joked that all of that time that I thought I was teaching him about the value of charity, I was really teaching him fine motor skills. She replied that I was teaching him more than just fine motor skills since he happily put the coins in thinking he was giving charity; a previous student had immediately pocketed the money. Parents have a large and underappreciated role in educating their children about personal finances and how to think of money. I don’t want to mislead you; this isn’t going to be an involved discussion on stocks, taxes, or portfolios. For that you can turn a few more pages to “Your Money” and get that information along with entertainment. I simply want to start the discussion among parents about a basic but important role they play in their child’s financial future. I know of adults who entered adulthood without financial competence, many of whom ended up making major financial mistakes

that have affected their adult life for years to come. As parents, we have the ability to introduce our children to the basics of understanding money. Additionally, you have the opportunity to give over some of your hashkafos on financial spending. I won’t discuss the hashkafic aspects in this article, as that is a personal decision for each family.

Why discuss finances? Young children are naturally immature about money. We all know how most kids are happy to spend their parent’s money faster than they can count it. Each child has their own natural financial personality. Some are natural spenders, while others are natural savers. It’s important for children to have a balanced view of money. We assume a child’s view of money matures as they do but that’s not an assumption you can safely rely on. Additionally, we take for granted that children understand how credit cards, debit cards, banks and accounts work. What seems obvious to us isn’t obvious to a child, and many children assume credit cards are unlimited funds. I remember when one of my little ones saw someone

collecting tzedakah and innocently asked why that man didn’t just go to the bank. I had to explain that you can only take money out that you’ve already put in. This was a shock to him/her.

to record all financial transactions. Those days of paper trails are nearly gone. As technology progresses, as in all areas, we need to adjust, and our children’s chinuch is no different.

The financial basics

There is no way I can properly discuss the importance of tzedakah in a single, or any, article. I do want to briefly mention that there are important halachos regarding tzedakah. Older children may benefit from learning those halachos in-depth with a parent. Children may also enjoy it if you share with them some of the important ideas or stories you learn about tzedakah. This can only enhance the mitzvah for them. We are familiar with the concept of ma’aser, giving a tenth to charity. Children of all ages can appreciate taking ma’aser from their personal income, irrelevant of how much they make. Young children enjoy giving tzedakah, and we even have a family song we sing as they put the coins in the tzedakah box. The song is accompanied by dancing with the box, but I won’t demonstrate that in an article. Many older children have summer salaries or make money on a somewhat regular basis. It’s been my

Each family has what they will consider the basics of financial education. For some families that will include stocks and portfolios but for others that education won’t extend much further than balancing a checkbook. In my humble opinion, I think the absolute basics are tzedakah, saving, and spending. I also think it’s important that children understand the basic ways money is saved and spent – this includes banking, debit and credit card usage. Think of what is important to you and what’s the best way to give that over to each child, bearing in mind their own personal financial tendencies, personal strengths, and weaknesses. As technology progresses, you may want to include electronic banking and ATM usage. I remember when my kids were little, and I taught them how to fill out deposit slips. I also remember when I was little, and we had little bank books

Tzedakah

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personal experience that our children have enjoyed picking where their tzedakah goes. They can usually find an organization that is meaningful to them. There are many important local organizations that your child will be familiar with and will appreciate donating to. Often, they can make a small dedication of some form, and some children will enjoy that, as well. It’s been my personal experience, both from when I was a teen and as a parent, that organizations really appreciate and value donations of any size but that they particularly appreciate receiving from children. I’ve seen how these organizations recognize what a big deal it is for a child to give and they have often given extra attention to their youngest donors. It’s a great chizuk for kids to see that their donation can make a real difference, and this helps them to appreciate that giving tzedakah is really winning, not losing, money.

Saving Most people appreciate the importance of saving money, and it’s probably one of the first steps children will be taught about personal finances. Many children will have savings accounts even before they can write their names. Some children will save towards a larger goal, while some will simply enjoy having funds for a rainy day yet to come. Children naturally have trouble delaying gratification, and a savings account or other form of saving money helps them learn to not let their cash burn an immediate hole in their pocket. Many grandparents who are financially able will enjoy contributing a little to their grandchild’s account, and it’s a great place for extra birthday money. It’s also a famous destination for bar/bat mitzvah money. Savings accounts for kids usually don’t grow fast, but many young adults are pleasantly surprised by how much their small deposits have added up to. The truth is that I don’t think much needs to be said about saving your funds because it’s one of the more obvious aspects of finance.

Spending In many ways, I think teaching spending is an under-appreciated part of personal finance education

for children. We instinctively understand that kids need to save but we often forget that kids often don’t know how to spend intelligently. Ironically, while we associate kids as natural spenders, there are some that are natural savers, almost to

Chase allows teen checking accounts starting at age 13 but every bank will have its own rules. We have taken advantage of the debit cards to teach them how to use money that they can’t see. It’s very easy to lose track of funds when they’re not cash in your

A savings account helps them learn to not let their cash burn an immediate hole in their pocket.

the point of being cash hoarders. It’s important for there to be balance. I was very impressed when one of my teens divided up his summer money by putting away ma’aser, setting aside a reasonable portion for savings and then designating some funds for his personal spending. He decided in advance what he wanted, and he had fun purchasing with his earnings. Each parent will decide how to teach spending but it’s something you should consider consciously teaching. Some kids will spend everything on the first item they see but may end up feeling disappointed when they don’t have enough for that bigger prize they really wanted. Learning to delay gratification is very healthy, and most children can understand waiting a bit for what they really want. Children can be taught how to price things, evaluate the quality of an item and other factors adults take into consideration before spending our own money. It may be helpful for you to explain some of the different factors you take into consideration before purchasing an item. Marketing can be discussed, particularly with older children. Additionally, if you’re making a purchase online, you can help them understand how reviews and the unique, sometimes ugly, nature of online marketing works.

Debit and credit cards I’m not advising you to get a credit card for your toddler. We do have teenage checking accounts for our teens, and they do have debit cards.

hand. It’s hard for kids (and adults) to realize they’re spending money when they don’t see it. It’s easy to lose track of how much is spent and only later realize you’re overdrawn. As an aside, the teen checking accounts we use have lots of protections so the

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kids can’t get overdrawn – their card will just refuse the purchase. Most adult purchases are made without bills and coins, and it’s important to teach children to know how to responsibly use these other methods. Money is a mature topic but one most kids can understand, even if only on a basic level. Teaching children the basics of finances is helping prepare them for their adult lives. You may be surprised by how mature your youngster is and how well they budget once they understand what goes on behind the scenes. Everything else aside, make sure your children know you love them because there are many things money can’t buy.

Sara Rayvych, MSEd, has her master’s in general and special education. She has been homeschooling for over 10 years in Far Rockaway. She can be contacted at RayvychHomeschool@gmail.com.

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Thankful By Zvi Gluck

o put it mildly, 2020 has been an interesting year, one that will likely go down in history for trials and tribulations that none of us could have ever imagined. With no end to the madness in sight, I find myself contemplating the well-known Serenity Prayer, which was w ritten nearly 100 years ago and, more recently, has become popular as a cornerstone of twelve-step programs. The words, “G-d, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change,” are timelier now than ever before as we wake up every morning wondering if our shuls will be allowed to stay open, if our kids will have school, and which businesses and institutions will be forced to close indefinitely. This year has taught every one of us how important it is to make the best of every situation, no matter how difficult it may be, a lesson that we have most definitely learned the hard way. And yet amid all the craziness, there is so much to be grateful for. We should be grateful for the fact that so many people felt comfortable reaching out for help during the pandemic, knowing that they didn’t have to worry about being stigmatized and that reaching out for assistance now could save them from much larger issues later. We should be grateful for the dozens of mental health professionals who voluntarily stepped up and answered nearly 3,000 calls from those

in crisis during the pandemic. That gratitude should also be extended to Amudim’s dedicated case managers, and the many therapists, and those who went above and beyond the call of duty as they responded to the unprecedented pleas for help as COVID’s devastation went far beyond the physical. Equally deserving of our appreciation are the many lay leaders and donors who went all out to ensure that agencies like Amudim could weather

of jobs, homes and worse yet, loved ones, their assistance has been invaluable. We should be grateful for the many civil servants who have stepped up and gone the extra mile in recent months, from agencies including the State Department, Customs and Border Protection, U.S. Citizen and Immigration Services, the Port Authority, the Israeli Foreign Ministry, the Consulate General of Israel in New

All of us, no matter where we live, have reasons to say thank you every day.

the storm and be a source of support during the crisis. We should be grateful to America, a country that welcomed us with open arms and allows us to practice our religion freely. It is important to remember that giving thanks isn’t a concept that is uniquely American – all of us, no matter where we live, have reasons to say thank you every day. We should be grateful to the many community organizations, foundations, and government agencies who have been there to oﬀer their support in so many areas. Faced as we have been with poverty and the loss

York and so many others who understood the magnitude of the tragedies we have sustained. The painful moments of burying a loved one, medical emergencies, students being able to travel abroad, and numerous other life crises were alleviated through their eﬀorts, the term public service forever redeﬁned by their dedication. And yes, we should even be grateful for the lessons of 2020. As we have seen at Amudim over the past six years, those facing mental health challenges feel perpetually lost, something we have all seen during the pandemic, as chaos and fear swirled all around. Having ex-

perienced these emotions give us a greater appreciation for people who struggle every day, every hour, every minute and inspires us to do whatever we can to make the world a better place for them. We should also be grateful for having learned how to move on to Plan B when life throws you a curveball, skills that we at Amudim ask our clients to put into play on a daily basis. Realizing that while we don’t have the ability to change every circumstance in our lives, we can still seize the opportunity to learn from every one of those experiences is a priceless lesson. As we sit down with our families on Thanksgiving, albeit in a more limited fashion than usual, we should be awash in an ocean of gratitude as we are reminded once again that no matter what is going on in the world, there are always things to be thankful for, a truth we understand today like never before. So even amidst the pandemic, we should be grateful. Very grateful.

Zvi Gluck is the CEO of Amudim, an organization dedicated to helping abuse victims and those suﬀering with addiction within the Jewish community and has been heavily involved in crisis intervention and management for the past 21 years. For more information go to www.amudim.org.

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Ravioli with Three Sauces By Naomi Nachman

On a cold wintry night, there is nothing better than coming home to a piping hot bowl of pasta. It sticks to your bones and warms you up mentally and physically. One can always buy pasta sauces from the stores, but I like to make them myself � which guarantees delicious, natural ingredients. The marinara sauce can easily be doubled and frozen.

Ravioli

Ingredients b2 lbs. store-bought tomato ravioli

Preparation 1.

the heat and reduce for a few minutes until it thickens. 3. Garnish with shavings of parmesan cheese. Note: The butter cooks and browns quickly so you will need to stand by and stir it till it is ready.

Cook ravioli in a large pot of boiling salted water just until they ﬂoat to the top. You can also follow directions on the back of the ravioli package. Drain pasta; return to pot. 2. Choose one of these three sauces to serve the ravioli with.

Homemade Tomato Sauce

Brown Butter Sage Sauce

b½ lb. (2 sticks) butter b1 cup fresh sage leaves (about 12–14) bSalt and pepper bParmesan cheese for garnish

b2 tablespoons olive oil b1 medium onion, chopped b3 cloves garlic, minced bCoarse salt and ground pepper b1 ½ teaspoons dried thyme or oregano b1 (28 oz.) can whole tomatoes b1 (28 oz.) can crushed tomatoes b2 cups marinara sauce b1 ½ cups shredded mozzarella cheese b½ cup grated Parmesan cheese

Preparation

This buttery sauce has a deep and rich nutty ﬂavor from cooking in the butter.

Ingredients

Melt the butter and the sage in a large sauté pan over low heat and cook until the foaming subsides. The sauce should be golden brown in color, and the sage leaves will be nice and crispy. 2. Season to taste with salt and pepper. If the sauce looks separated or too oily, add a bit of warm water; if it looks too watery, keep it on

This chunky sauce has texture that provides a boost of ﬂavor to your ravioli.

Ingredients

Heat oil in a large saucepan over medium heat. Add onion and garlic, and season with salt and pepper; cook, stirring occasionally, until softened, about 5 minutes. Add thyme, tomatoes, and marinara sauce. Bring to a boil, reduce heat, and simmer, breaking up tomatoes with spoon, until sauce is thickened.

Creamy Pesto Pasta

For all the alfredo sauce lovers out there, try our family favorite with the added bonus of goat cheese and pesto.

Ingredients b5 tablespoons butter b1 clove garlic, crushed b¼ cup ﬂour b¼ cup sour cream b2 oz. goat cheese b4 tablespoons prepared pesto b1 ½ cups milk bSalt and pepper to taste

Preparation 1.

In a deep sauté pan on low heat, melt butter and then add in a clove of garlic and stir. Add ¼ cup ﬂour and mix into the butter until it becomes a thick paste. This is called a roux. 2. While continuously stirring, add the sour cream and goat cheese, then add pesto until it also becomes thick. Add in the milk slowly, and continue to whisk until it becomes thickened, which will happen at a boiling point. 3. Toss in cooked pasta and mix well. Serve with a poached egg on top.

Naomi Nachman, the owner of The Aussie Gourmet, caters weekly and Shabbat/ Yom Tov meals for families and individuals within The Five Towns and neighboring communities, with a specialty in Pesach catering. Naomi is a contributing editor to this paper and also produces and hosts her own weekly radio show on the Nachum Segal Network stream called “A Table for Two with Naomi Nachman.” Naomi gives cooking presentations for organizations and private groups throughout the New York/New Jersey Metropolitan area. In addition, Naomi has been a guest host on the QVC TV network and has been featured in cookbooks, magazines as well as other media covering topics related to cuisine preparation and personal chefs. To obtain additional recipes, join The Aussie Gourmet on Facebook or visit Naomi’s blog. Naomi can be reached through her website, www.theaussiegourmet.com or at (516) 295-9669.

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Notable Quotes “Say What?!”

You aren’t fired for parking in a handicap parking spot at the FBI, are you? - Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) to former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe for denying he was fired for lying to the FBI

Is this what we’re going to have to sit through for the next four years— Republicans just doing investigations and refusing to legislate? - Joy Reid, discussing the possibility that Republicans in the Senate will investigate Hunter Biden, in a conversation with Rep. Adam Schiff, of all people, who for the past four years investigated Trump endlessly and even led the sham impeachment

While he accepts his award, many of us just accepted caskets and urns of our loved ones. - Fox News meteorologist Janice Dean, who lost a family member in a “Cuomo Covid killer nursing home,” ripping the governor over his acceptance of an international Emmy award for his coronavirus leadership

While, in hindsight, the choice of words was a poor one. Giant had no intentions of insensitivity. - Giant Supermarket apologizing for an ad which stated “Hosting? Plan a super spread”

Now a law enforcement officer says, “I choose not to enforce that law.” I believe that law enforcement officer violates his or her constitutional duty. I don’t consider them a law enforcement officer because you don’t have the right to pick laws that you think you will enforce and you don’t enforce laws that you don’t agree with. That’s not a law enforcement officer. That’s a dictator. You’re not a law enforcement officer. You can’t pick and choose. – In an irony of ironies, Gov. Cuomo, referring to a sheriff as a “dictator” because he is refusing to enforce Cuomo’s Covid rules

The pressure is because of Israel’s deep impact [influence] in the U.S. This [influence] was, in fact, extraordinary during the Trump’s stint. - Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan, who is an Islamist, in a recent interview disclosing that the Trump administration put “extraordinary” pressure on his country to recognize Israel

My email is pretty public, so I get pitches via email, and I’ll respond directly. Remember 90% are delete, delete, delete, glance and delete. I’ll read the first paragraph or two, and if it is something that catches my attention, and is interesting, and I think is forward-thinking, then I will just start peppering them with questions. - Mark Cuban on the “Raising The Bar” podcast with Alli Webb, co-founder of Drybar, and leadership coach Adrian Koehler

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This is idiotic. @SherrodBrown is being a complete [loser]. He wears a mask to speak — when nobody is remotely near him— as an ostentatious sign of fake virtue. @DanSullivan was over 50 feet away, presiding. Last time I checked, 50 feet is more than 6 feet. - Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) tweeting in response to Sen. Sherrod Brown’s (D-OH) criticizing another senator for not wearing a mask in an almost empty hearing room

For those people who say we should just appease Trump, how did that approach go for Neville Chamberlain? - Tweet by Andrew Weissman, who ran the Mueller investigation, comparing Trump to Hitler

Religious liberty is in danger of becoming a second-class right. - Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito, in an address to the conservative Federalist Society

I made a bad mistake. - California Gov. Gavin Newsom after he was busted at a party while not wearing a mask and not social distancing, in violation of the draconian measures that he himself put in place

We have this big debate: “Is it $2.2 trillion, $1.5 trillion?” You’ve got to be kidding me. - JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon calling on Congress to pass another stimulus package

Today, I want to make one announcement with respect to a decision by the State Department – that we will regard the global anti-Israel BDS campaign as anti-Semitic. - Sec. of State Mike Pompeo during a press conference with Prime Minister Netanyahu

To get the virus under control, we need to pay people to stay home. – Tweet by Rep. Ocasio-Cortez (Socialist/Dem- NY)

The masks aren’t working, social distancing’s not working. What is my proof? The numbers. The numbers are going through the roof. So all these mask mandates have had no effect on it. The incidence of the virus has gotten worse since we’ve done lockdowns. We should not comfort ourselves with masks. We should push hard to get the vaccine released. - Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) on Newsmax

So long as [Blinken] doesn’t suppress my First Amendment right to speak out against [Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin] Netanyahu’s racist and inhumane policies. - Jew hater Rashida Tlaib (Michigan Democrat Congresswoman) responding to the news that Joe Biden has chosen a Jew to be his Secretary of State

[Fauci] is going to keep us masked until the end of time, which does very little of anything to change the course of this. – Ibid.

I would absolutely expect the president to stay involved in politics and would absolutely put him on the shortlist of people who are likely to run in 2024. - Former Trump White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney saying on Thursday that he “absolutely” expects President Trump to run again in 2024 if Biden is ultimately deemed the winner of the 2020 race

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George Soros is threatening Hungary and Poland… George Soros is one of the most corrupt people in the world; he has plenty of politicians in his pocket who now want to blackmail Hungary and Poland for access to EU funds. - Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orbán blasting radicalleftist-billionaire George Soros after he called on the European Union to make Hungary and Poland submit to “open society” values

This is no different than what happens if there’s a party down the street, and it’s keeping everyone awake. What do neighbors do [in that case]? They call law enforcement because it’s too noisy. This is just like that. It’s like a violation of a noise ordinance. - Oregon Governor Kate Brown (D) encouraging residents to call the police on any neighbors who violate her rules and have more than six people at their homes for Thanksgiving dinner

I almost got Covid back in August, thankfully I made it back to my house at 9:58 PM, right before the 10 PM curfew. - Tweet by Actor Kevin Sorbo, mocking California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s (D) coronavirus curfew

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Political Crossfire

Trump Isn’t the Obstacle to Coronavirus Aid. Pelosi Is By Marc A. Thiessen

hree weeks before Election Day, CNN anchor Wolf Blitzer asked House Speaker Nancy Pelosi what millions of Americans were thinking: Why was she refusing a White House offer of $1.8 trillion in Covid-19 relief? “There are millions of Americans who have lost their jobs, they can’t pay the rent, their kids need the food,” Blitzer told Pelosi. He noted that she had written to her caucus that “the president only wants his name on a check to go out before Election Day” and asked, “Is that what this is all about: to not allow the president to take credit if there’s a deal that would help millions of Americans right now?” “No, I don’t care about that,” Pelosi claimed, and repeatedly accused Blitzer of being an “apologist” for Trump throughout the interview. It was a laughable charge, intended to obscure the fact that the truthful answer was yes – that’s exactly what this is all about. Struggling Americans don’t care whose name is on the check. They just need the money. But Pelosi seems to care less about getting them the help they need than stopping Trump from sharing credit for a bipartisan solution. Why else turn down multiple GOP offers for Covid relief? In July, Senate Republicans offered $1.1 trillion, including $300 billion for stimulus checks to Americans, $200 billion to help small businesses, $110 billion for unemployment benefits, and $105 billion in aid to state and local governments. In September, the White House raised the offer to $1.6 trillion. In October, the president increased it further to $1.8 trillion. But Pelosi steadfastly refused, insisting on $2.2 trillion or nothing. Twice, Senate Republicans

tried to pass more limited $500 billion bills, but Democrats ﬁlibustered both. Why not accept one of these offers? The only logical answer is that any stimulus would have boosted the economy before the election, and Pelosi was willing to drive the economy into a ditch to hurt Trump.

is shameful. We are in the midst of the worst spike in new Covid cases since the pandemic began. Many states are imposing lockdown orders, businesses are being forced to close, and workers are once again being laid oﬀ. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has oﬀered to pass the $500

Pelosi was willing to drive the economy into a ditch to hurt Trump.

Well, Trump lost – but so did Pelosi. Voters took their anger out on House Democrats. Pelosi will now preside over the smallest House majority in years and is in danger of losing the House in 2022. So, has she learned her lesson? Apparently not. Pelosi is still insisting on $2.2 trillion or nothing. This

billion package immediately, which includes a $300-per-week enhanced unemployment beneﬁt and more Paycheck Protection Program loans for small businesses. Why not get immediate help into people’s hands for the next few months and then pass another larger bill when we have a new Congress and a new president?

Any effective legislator knows the way to get things done on Capitol Hill is to take what you can get and then come back for more later. If Democrats win the Georgia Senate runoffs in January, they are going to have total control of government in less than two months and the power to pass anything they want. And if Republicans keep the Senate, Democrats will have to compromise down the road anyway – so there is no downside to compromising now. Pelosi’s all-or-nothing approach is immoral. Before the election, Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif., criticized Pelosi for turning down Trump’s Covid-19 relief offers, tweeting, “People in need can’t wait until February.” That is still true today. There is one Democrat who could make Pelosi see reason: President-elect Joe Biden. But at a recent news conference, Biden admonished Trump for playing golf instead of leading Covid relief negotiations and called on Congress to pass a $3 trillion bill he knows has zero chance of approval. Sorry, Trump is not the obstacle to progress here. If Democrats don’t change course, Biden will pay the price as he will inherit a weaker economy than he would have had if Pelosi accepted the Republican offer. During his victory speech, Biden declared, “The refusal of Democrats and Republicans to cooperate with one another – it’s not some mysterious force beyond our control. It’s a decision, a choice we make. And if we can decide not to cooperate, then we can decide to cooperate.” It’s about time Biden told Pelosi to decide to cooperate. (c) 2020, Washington Post Writers Group

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Democrats Just Don’t Get Minorities By Fareed Zakaria

ore than 140 million Americans made their own personal decisions when they voted in this year’s election. Now, it becomes the unenviable job of the commentators to explain the “meaning” of those choices. At the broadest level, it is fair to say that the vote was a repudiation of Donald Trump. Presidents rarely lose their bids for reelection – only ﬁve have in the past 125 years – and Trump seems on track to lose the presidency. And he will lose the popular vote by a larger margin than when Jimmy Carter defeated incumbent Gerald Ford in the wake of Watergate. And yet, it’s obvious that the country remains deeply divided. After an impeachment, a pandemic, and the worst economic paralysis since the Great Depression, Republicans overwhelmingly voted for their party, and Democrats did the same. Polarization is now deep, tribal and existential – largely unaﬀected by events or job performance. In fact, as when things get bad in sports, it seems to have become a greater test of loyalty to stay with your team. Democrats are more disappointed because they had hoped that this would be an election that resoundingly repudiated Trump and realigned politics. Those expectations were fed by their success in 2018 as well as in recent polls, which seem to have been about as inaccurate as those in 2016. The largest disappointment surely should be that in a year in which Democrats fully embraced ideas about multiculturalism and movements such as Black Lives Matter, Trump appears to have won a larger share of the minority vote than any Republican since 1960. He won the largest percentage of the Black vote since 1996 (though he still got only about 12% of the Black vote).

One poll indicates he won 35% of the Muslim vote. What happened? There are probably many answers. Partly, Democratic strategist James Carville is still right – it’s the economy, stupid. Many of these groups prospered during most of Trump’s presidency and seemed unwilling to blame him for the coronavirus pandemic and the ensuing

proach is that minority groups face deep (systemic) discrimination and need to be protected with active measures by the government across a series of fronts. This idea is rooted in the experience of Black people, for whom it is entirely applicable. America’s treatment of Black people has been cruel, with policies that have broken their

Polarization is now deep, tribal and existential.

economic collapse. To the extent that Democrats got associated with lockdowns and Republicans with reopening the economy, Covid-19 may have helped Trump with some voters as well. But my own interpretation of these results is informed by feelings I have always had about the Democratic Party’s ideology of multiculturalism. It lumps a wide variety of ethnic, racial and religious groups into one “minority” monolith and approaches them from a perspective that does not ﬁt us all. The dominant Democratic ap-

families and treated them as either subhuman or as second-class citizens. Historical, structural barriers have left a lasting imprint, and discrimination persists to this day. Other immigrants – almost all of whom came voluntarily, not bound in chains –have had a very diﬀerent experience. While we have also encountered discrimination and exclusion, we have found a country that on the whole has been far more open and receptive to foreigners than most other places. That means an ideology born out of the treatment of African Amer-

icans will ring false to American immigrants and their descendants. For us, harsh treatment by White Americans is not the single searing experience that shapes our politics. Some of us are socially liberal, others conservative. Some view themselves as self-reliant entrepreneurs, while others demand a more active role for government. Some seek to assimilate by distancing themselves from newer immigrants or Blacks. Some of the most racist Americans I know are themselves “minorities.” Even African Americans vary much more widely on policy than one might imagine. A recent Gallup poll, for example, found that only 19% of Black Americans want less police presence in their neighborhoods, while 61% want the same amount and 20% actually want more. So slogans such as “defund the police,” pushed by the most woke activists on Twitter, might unwittingly turn off mainstream African Americans. Let me give you a personal example to explain one minority mind-set. Ever since I applied for a scholarship to colleges in the United States 39 years ago, I have almost always left blank the line on forms that ask for my ethnic or racial classification (except when it is legally required, as in the census). I don’t feel right piggybacking on tragedies that have affected Black people, Native Americans and others who have truly faced discrimination. But most of all, to quote a great American, I have always wanted to be judged by the content of my character, not the color of my skin. The Democratic Party should remember that, for many minorities, our greatest aspiration is simply to be regular Americans – treated no worse, but no better either. (c) 2020, Washington Post Writers Group

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Forgotten Her es

The Heroes of Machal By Avi Heiligman

Chalmers “Slick” Goodlin

he Israeli War of Independence started as soon as the country was founded, and the newly formed IDF needed volunteers. Soldiers, sailors, airmen and others

Tom Derek Bowden died last year at the age of 97

from around the world answered the call and came to Israel. These brave men and women joined the ranks of the Palmach and IDF in newly created Machal units.

Paul Shulman with Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion

Machal stands for Misnadvei Chutz L’Aretz, or volunteers from outside the land. Most of these volunteers, which included Jews and non-Jews, had combat experience during World War II (1939-1945) and were eager to help Israel in their time of need. The stories that follow are of servicemen who decided to help Israel fight for their country. Finding experienced pilots was quite a daunting task for the new Israeli Air Force but that’s exactly what they got when Chalmers “Slick” Goodlin showed up in the fall of 1948. Goodlin was born in Pennsylvania and joined the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) in January 1941 because the U.S. hadn’t yet joined the war. He was sent to England in 1942 and left the RCAF to join the U.S. Navy to become a test pilot. In 1943, he left military service altogether to become a test pilot for Bell Aircraft. Bell developed several innovative aircraft including the rocket powered X-1, which was on track to go faster than the speed of sound (Mach 1). After the war, Goodlin was the main test pilot for the X-1 and flew the plane 26 times but never flew supersonic. Soon the Air Force took over the program, and Chuck Yeager flew the X-1 to a speed of Mach 1.06 in 1947. In 1948, Goodlin heard from a friend that Israel was looking for experienced pilots, and even though he wasn’t Jewish, he became a Machal volunteer. He joined the 101 Squad-

ron flying British-built Supermarine Spitfires. Goodlin flew several missions and in early 1949 was involved in an aerial dogfight that brought down several unmarked planes. Later, Goodlin became Israel’s first test pilot and also flew on missions that brought Iraqi Jews to Israel. Before World War II, while being stationed in Eretz Yisrael, several British officers and soldiers became friendly with the Jews living in the Yishuv. Tom Derek Bowden was one of these soldiers who served in the Royal Scots Greys under the command of Orde Wingate (an unconventional general who helped the Jewish cause while stationed in the Middle East). The unit was a cavalry regiment that fought the Vichy French (French soldiers who had joined the Axis) in Syria. Several Allied soldiers were wounded, including Bowden and a young sergeant, Moshe Dayan, who lost an eye. Bowden spent six months recovering in Tel Aviv with a Jewish family. After recovering enough to rejoin the British Army, Bowden volunteered to become a paratrooper. He parachuted into the Netherlands as a part of Operation Market Garden and was taken prisoner. The Gestapo found letters from the time he spent on a kibbutz and sent him to Bergen-Belsen. Bowden survived the horrors of the camps and after the war went to Yugoslavia to help start a parachute school. Bowden heard that Israel was

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about to be established, “and I thought to myself, I’d better get there – we don’t want another Belsen.” He joined the Haganah by traveling through Cyprus and when the war began, Bowden was assigned to the 7 th Brigade. They fought at the Battle of Latrun while struggling to keep the road to Yerushalayim open. After the armistice in 1949, Bowden started Israel’s first parachute school and with a lot of help on the translation wrote a training manual in Hebrew (which he didn’t speak very well) for the soldiers. Of the thousand or so Machal volunteers that served during the war only a handful served in the fledgling Israeli navy. The commander of the navy was Paul Shulman, a graduate of the U.S. naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland. He grew up in Stamford, Connecticut, to Zionist parents – his mother being a close friend of future Prime Minister Golda Meir. Shulman arrived in Italy in 1947 to help send off some Aliya Bet ships, and a year

later David Ben-Gurion asked him to lead the Israeli navy. When the U.S. found out that he joined the ranks of the Israelis, they asked him to resign his commission. He resigned from his position in the American Navy in

les, came from outside Israel to help in the war effort. Lola was born in Germany and was part of the Kindertransport that saved many children during the Holocaust and sent them to England. She served in the Medical

“I thought to myself, ‘I’d better get there – we don’t want another Belsen.’”

1947 to join the seamen helping Aliyah Bet immigrants. At the request of Ben Gurion, he came to Israel to organize the navy. He was 26 years old, and in October 1948 he was appointed Navy Commander. Israel’s Army Medical Corps treated tens of thousands of patients during the war despite not having the bet medical equipment available. Many in the corps, like Lola Sprinze-

Corps for two years and later married another Machal volunteer before settling in the U.S. Ruth Stern was from South Africa and arrived in Israel via a boat packed with Holocaust survivors. She was accepted into the Medical Corps and sent to a military hospital staffed with many English-speaking Machal volunteers. Her experiences were shared by many who worked in

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the medical field. There was a lack of proper medical supplies and other essential products, long hours and work through hazardous conditions. However, their dedication to their patients paid off, and the conditions improved slowly but steadily. By the end of the war, Ruth had been promoted to first lieutenant and after leaving the army stayed in Israel to become an English teacher. Machal soldiers flocked from around the world to join the newly created IDF, and many of those served with distinction. For the servicemen and women mentioned here, and for many others, it was more than just another battle – it was to help Israel in her most desperate hour.

Avi Heiligman is a weekly contributor to The Jewish Home. He welcomes your comments and suggestions for future columns and can be reached at aviheiligman@gmail.com.

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Money

Sure, Marcia By Allan Rolnick, CPA

ere in our United States, our government is sliced and diced between Uncle Sam, 50 states, 3,141 counties, and 89,000-odd cities, towns, and villages. You would think that 244 years of independence, along with a dollop of Yankee ingenuity, would produce a crisp, streamlined system for paying for it all. Instead, we’ve got a janky assemblage of income taxes, property taxes, sales taxes, and tariffs, sutured together like Frankenstein’s monster. Seriously, isn’t it time for the villagers to start climbing the mountain with pitchforks and torches? Naturally, some of the brightest minds in public policy are working to come up with new ways to feed the beast. Bernie Sanders proposed a wealth tax starting at %1 on amounts above 32$ million and climbing to %8 at 10$ billion. Will we feel sorry for poor Jeff Bezos when he’s down to his last $98 billion? Bill Gates, seeing a future where robots have muscled aside human workers, suggests taxing the robots equal to what those human workers would have paid. What will he imagine when he sees us ditching environmentally destructive animal protein for Soylent Green? It shouldn’t surprise you, then, to

learn that someone has figured out how to leverage one of 2020’s biggest disruptions into more government revenue. Economists from Deutsche Bank have proposed a tax on…wait for it…working from home. And so, as the world gets ready for Lockdown Two: Corona Boogaloo, let’s take a look at why they welcome a Schedule WFH coming soon to a Form 1040 near you!

earns $55,000, a 5% tax would run about $10/day — roughly what they would have spent on commuting, food, and laundry. (You’d think economists would realize there’s no lunch fairy filling home refrigerators for free, but that’s a subject for a different day.) As for who gets stuck paying the tax, Deutsche Bank recommends em-

It’s the financial equivalent of Cuba’s car fleet, with mechanics keeping an island full of ‘57 Chevys operating with old lawnmower engines and broken toaster parts.

Why should working from home be taxable? Deutsche Bank argues that remote workers enjoy direct and indirect financial benefits that their office-bound counterparts don’t. Working from home eliminates boatloads of spending on travel, lunch, $5 lattes, and dry-cleaning. Assuming the average stay-at-home employee

ployers cover it when they don’t give employees permanent desks. Those with desks would pay it for days they choose to work at home. Deutsche Bank estimates that U.S. workers will spend 4.6 billion days/ year working from home post-Covid, suggesting the tax could raise $48 billion. They propose redistributing

that money to low-income workers like grocery store baggers who don’t have the luxury of smushing your bread and cracking your eggs from the comfort of their living room. Look, our tax system is a mess. It’s the financial equivalent of Cuba’s car fleet, with mechanics keeping an island full of ‘57 Chevys operating with old lawnmower engines and broken toaster parts. Is the work from home tax genius? Or is it the sort of idea that sneaks up on you, then leaves you dazed in an alley without your watch or purse? The possibilities, we’re sure you’ll agree, are endless. 2020 is bringing us a different sort of Thanksgiving, with less friends and family. But if you’ve made it this far, you’ve got reason to celebrate. Have confidence in knowing that if Washington ever does hit us with a work-from-home tax, we’ll be here to make the best of it. Have a safe and happy holiday!

Allan J Rolnick is a CPA who has been in practice for over 30 years in Queens, NY. He welcomes your comments and can be reached at 718-896-8715 or at allanjrcpa@aol.com.

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Poems Belong On Bookshelves Rivki D. Rosenwald Esq., LMFT, CLC, SDS

obody knows where this sneaky character is coming from. There are no signs that he’s about, and yet when he is gone, the damage has been done.

Mr. Nobody I know a funny little man, As quiet as mouse Who does the mischief that is done In everybody’s house. Though no one ever sees his face, Yet we can all agree That every plate we break was cracked By Mr. Nobody. ‘Tis he who always tears our books, Who leaves the door ajar, Who pulls the buttons from our shirts, And scatters pins afar. That squeaking door will always squeak For – this is plain to see – We leave the oiling to be done By Mr. Nobody

‘Tis he who brings in all the mud That gathers in the hall. ‘Tis he who lets the front door slam, And scribbles on the wall. When we can’t find the scissors, Or have lost the back door key,

This is a poem I remember from year ago. This is often how things feel in everybody’s households. The damage is done, but no one has any idea how it happened or who the culprit was. “It wasn’t me.” “How should I know?!” Familiar rhetoric?!

Someone was with someone who went somewhere somehow with someone.

The one to blame in every case Is Mr. Nobody. We know he cracked the window And broke the china plate, We know he left the kitchen floor In such a dreadful state. We know his faults and failings, His sins are plain to see, And so we always put the blame On Mr. Nobody.

That’s the lives we all seem to be living these days as well. “It wasn’t me.” I had on a mask. I stood six feet apart. I stayed there a short time. It must have been spread to everyone by “Mr. Nobody!” Well, hopefully Mr. Nobody doesn’t like turkey! Because people want an opportunity to feel that life has some normalcy. The American holiday of grati-

tude is upon us, and we don’t want to be left feeling ungrateful. Even when we are just with family, everyone realizes life is truly affected by six degrees of separation. Someone was with someone who went somewhere somehow with someone. We can’t figure out who’s causing the trouble, so it must be Mr. Nobody! Well, now, it’s time for Mr. Somebody to figure out Something. That way, we can all get out of our homes and get away from the need to blame anything on Mr. Nobody. The mess, the cooking, the cleaning, all of it, needs to go away! With everyone back to work, school, outings – whatever – the mess will be a lot lighter. And we’ll be able give Mr. Nobody a chance to rest back at the library, where he belongs!

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

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