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Dear Readers,

believe I’m like most Americans when I say that I’m tired of politics. I’m tired of hearing about obstruction and Russia and “the Squad.” I’m tired of people saying that other people are racist because they bought a white dog as a pet or that we should give everyone $20 an hour to work at McDonalds and clear all their college debt – just because. I only wish that our government can run smoothly without the sharp barbs and smackdowns that have become de rigueur as of late. It’s sad when we learn more about our politicians from twitter than from the laws that they pass. Today, when I turned on the radio to hear the news and the weather, I was instead given snippets of the Mueller hearing. Here we go again, I thought. Hasn’t it been three years of this investigation? Didn’t he put out his report months ago? Why are we rehashing his findings – or lack of them? Many politicians started out their careers as attorneys. And if their background is not in law, their current occupation requires them to at least know the law – or employ many lawyers to help them know about certain areas that are supposed to be in their purview. As such, during these hearings they’re constantly saying, “Is it true, Mr. Mueller, that you wrote on line 175 in volume two of your report that…” and “During testimony, Mr. So-and-So said that he did thisand-that. Mr. Mueller, do you recall what he told you?” And on and on. They nitpick and tear apart every sentence, every scenario.

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Contents LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

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JEWISH THOUGHT Rabbi Wein

Leadership – Stay in Touch by Rav Moshe Weinberger

Parsha in Four by Eytan Kobre

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PEOPLE Inspiring a Generation of Chessed by Malky Lowinger Wilfred Ze’ev Canter by Avi Heiligman

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Dear Editor, I urge that Jewish organizations desist from photo ops, accepting speeches and the like, from (Silent) Charles Schumer and AOC apologist, Jerrold Nadler. Organizational leadership needs to recognize that despite their government grants, the greater harm will come to us all when Schumer and Nadler are silent in the face of, or even supportive in Nadler’s case, of anti-Semitic colleagues. Schumer is now in favor of the Iran deal, now that it was implemented. The recognition and applause they receive at organizational dinners are an affront to those who value Israel’s security and Jewish citizens in the USA. Don’t follow these lemmings. Michael Horowitz Fresh Meadows, NY

Dear Editor, Rafi Sackville’s “Read the Signs” article this week was great! I always get a laugh when I go to different countries and see the translations for some of their signs. Nothing says “dictionary” or “thesaurus” than “For restrooms, go back toward your behind.” Makes you feel like you’re home when you’re able to laugh a bit at the locals. Josh Hershkowitz

Dear Editor, After reading your interview with cookbook author Rivky Kleiman I had to go out to buy her book. (A great – or maybe not so great – book to read on a fast day!) I appreciated that Rivky encouraged cooks to have fun while cooking. So many times, I’m following a recipe and I get nervous when I don’t have a certain ingredient. But then I tell myself, Don’t worry – it’ll come out OK. Try it anyway. And I do and it comes out good. Sometimes when I make it again, it won’t come out as good as the first time when I made it without that ingredient. So, you never know. It’s good to have fun. Cooking can be an outlet, and healthy eating should be fun and enjoyable, especially when you’re serving your family filling, nutritious food! Sincerely, Yael G. Brooklyn, NY

Dear Editor, “From Rashi to Rose Bowl” by Yosef Murray (July 18, 2019 issue) is a must-read for almost everyone! I am so inspired by Yosef and Emunah’s journey. These two individuContinued on page 10

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als didn’t need to change their lives. They could have lived as good, G-d fearing people in their own way. But when they searched and searched and then found true meaning in their lives, they completely uprooted themselves and changed their lives dramatically. The most poignant passage in Yosef’s article was when he mentioned their children. We are so inspired for this couple but can understand the pain they have when they know that their relationship with their children has completely

changed. Surely, their children are happy for them, but they are certainly slightly perplexed. “Where did our parents go?” they wonder. It must be grueling for parents to have to change their identity and then distance themselves slightly from their wonderful children. I hope that as the years go by, the family will continue to be close and that the children will appreciate the sacrifice their parents have made. Surely, they can still maintain a close bond, with understanding and respect for the path that their parents have taken. Serena Mathias

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UK and Iran Remain at Loggerheads

The United Kingdom and Iran remain at loggerheads after Tehran seized a British oil tanker in the Persian Gulf on Saturday. Iran’s decision to seize the oil tanker Stena Impero near the Strait of Hormuz has infuriated British leaders, who call it a violation of international maritime law. On Monday, multiple reports suggested that Britain will announce a slew of new sanctions

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upon Iran until it agrees to return the ship and its crew. The sanctions will likely include diplomatic and economic measures and an Iranian asset freeze. London is also expected to push for the United Nations and European Union sanctions that had been removed as part of the 2015 Iran nuclear deal to be re-imposed. In addition, England said that it is now seeking to form an international naval coalition that would patrol the Middle East in order to ensure safe maritime transportation through the Persian Gulf. Calling Iran’s activities “state piracy,” Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt said that Tehran’s aggression demonstrated the need for such a force. “We will now seek to put together a European-led maritime protection mission to support the safe passage of both crew and cargo in this vital region,” Hunt told Britain’s parliament. Meanwhile, England continues its attempts to resolve the crisis via diplomatic means. In a letter to the United Nations Security Council, Britain strongly criticized Iran for its actions and rejected Tehran’s claims that the tanker was in Iranian territorial waters.

“The ship was exercising the lawful right of transit passage in an international strait as provided for under international law,” wrote Britain’s UN mission. “International law requires that the right of transit passage shall not be impeded, and therefore the Iranian action constitutes illegal interference. “Current tensions are extremely concerning, and our priority is to de-escalate. We do not seek confrontation with Iran,” the letter read. “But it is unacceptable and highly escalatory to threaten shipping going about its legitimate business through internationally recognized transit corridors.”

Middle East Tipping the Scales In April, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) launched a nationwide program aimed at getting its populace moving again. Using the #TakeTheStairs hashtag, citizens from all over the Gulf state joined in the initiative by documenting their new exercise regi-

men. The campaign had been started by Dr. El Zaqui Ladha, a surgeon at the country’s Bareen hospital who has been growing increasingly alarmed at the country’s rising rate of obesity.

“In the world that we live in, many of us lead sedentary lifestyles, where we spend a lot of time in our cars and at our desks. Statistics show 10 percent of people in the world are obese, and the UAE doubles that world average. People are putting themselves at higher risk of heath complications such as type 2 diabetes and heart diseases,” said Ladha. Currently, 37 percent of males in the UAE are suffering from obesity. The trend is even more alarming among children; according to the latest figures, up to 14 percent of boys are classified as obese and up to 18 percent of girls. The UAE is not alone. At 50%, neighboring Kuwait has the high-

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est rate of obesity in the world, with the figure steadily rising since 2002. Following Kuwait is Oman, and then Israel, with an adult obesity rate of 26%. At the bottom of the list is Iran, whose 25% obesity rate makes it 47 th in the world. Overall, the Middle East is struggling with an obesity problem that refuses to go away. Experts blame the fatty meat loved by locals and the pita bread rich with carbohydrates for the steady weight gain doctors fear will result in health risks such as cardiovascular and type 2 diabetes. In addition, the sweltering Middle Eastern climate discourages exercise, something that Arab leaders are attempting to reverse. Last year, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah Al-Sissi donned sweatpants and rode a bike in public, while Lebanon’s Health Minister publicized his weekly visits to the gym. “Nobody walks or does many physical activities outdoors in the Middle East due to the hot weather, and people get lazier (about making) any effort,” noted Ladha.

Ebola in Congo Declared a Health Emergency

The World Health Organization (WHO) has officially designated a deadly Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) as a global health emergency. The new classification is expected to shine more attention on the deadly plague and assist aid agencies such as the WHO and the United Nations in mobilizing resources needed to contain the disease. The declaration comes amid a year-long effort to fight the deadly disease that has already claimed the lives of more than 1,700 people. WHO Director-General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said that he decided to classify the Ebola virus as a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC) after consulting with the International Health Regulations Emergency

Committee. The change was made in light of signs that the Ebola outbreak is getting worse, including the first confirmed case in Goma, a city of almost two million people adjoining the Rwandan border. In announcing the change, Tedros pleaded for the international community to step in and assist in the efforts to contain the virus. “It is time for the world to take notice and redouble our efforts. We need to work together in solidarity with the DRC to end this outbreak and build a better health system,” said Tedros in a statement. “Extraordinary work has been done for almost a year under the most difficult circumstances. We all owe it to these responders – coming from not just WHO but also government, partners and communities – to shoulder more of the burden,” he said. News that Ebola has been identified in Goma has alarmed doctors, who now fear that the disease will move from the teeming border city to the surrounding countries. To-date, health officials have succeeded in preventing Ebola from spreading beyond the DRC to neighboring Uganda and Rwanda. More than 2,500 Ebola cases have been reported in the DRC since last August, with the death toll estimated at 1,700 people. As part of the efforts to stamp out the deadly plague, more than 164,000 people have been given experimental vaccinations, and quarantines have been imposed in cities all across the DRC.

FaceApp Raises Privacy Concerns

The breakout popularity of the popular FaceApp program has abated amid concerns that the program stole nearly all of its users’ personal data. FaceApp is a program that uses artificial intelligence to artificially “age” users. Unveiled earlier this month, it soon went viral and quickly become one of Facebook’s most popular apps. Yet FaceApp’s estimated 150 mil-

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lion users worldwide had no idea that the company behind the viral gimmick was vacuuming up their personal data. Within days, rumors abounded that the viral app was, in fact, a Russian information operation effort, leading to mass hysteria as millions wondered if their social media accounts were compromised. One major concern centered on the company’s vague privacy statement, leaving it unclear whether it had a right to a user’s name, password, emails, and browsing history. In addition, the Russian startup behind FaceApp uploads users’ photos to their own cloud, alarming users who were unaware that the photo editing was not occurring on their own personal device. Further claims included fears that user data was now on a Russian server that was able to remotely take control of their entire photo gallery on their cellphone. As the rumors abounded, FaceApp CEO Yaroslav Goncharov gave a series of interviews to a variety of news outlets in an attempt to mitigate the damage. Speaking to The Washington Post, Goncharov called the aforementioned claims “untrue” and denied that the startup was comprising users’

personal data. While confirming that FaceApp uploads users’ photos to a cloud, Goncharov insisted that it could “only upload a photo selected by a user for editing” while leaving the other photos on the cellphone. Rather than mandating users to hand over their personal data, Goncharov said that the company gives the option of using FaceApp without giving a name or email address. In addition, the CEO hit back at claims that his company was transferring user data to the Russian government and insisted that it does not “sell or share any user data with any third parties.” FaceApp later released an official statement highlighting company policy that allows customers to delete all of their data from the servers. “We accept requests from users for removing all their data from our servers. Our support team is currently overloaded, but these requests have our priority,” read the statement. “We don’t sell or share any user data with any third parties,” continued the statement. “Even though the core R&D team is located in Russia, the user data is not transferred to Russia.”

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Citing “unspecified reasons,” British Airways and Lufthansa canceled all of their flights to and from Cairo this past week until further notice Passengers who were scheduled to board a British Airways flight on Saturday were notified that it had been canceled and that the company would not be providing alternative booking. In a tersely worded statement, British Airways hinted at a security matter that was threatening the safety of its flights but refused to go into detail. “We constantly review our secu-

rity arrangements at all our airports around the world and have suspended flights to Cairo for seven days as a precaution to allow for further assessment,” British Airways said. A few hours later, Lufthansa announced that it decided to scrap its flights to the Egyptian capital, as well from Munich and Frankfurt. The company later resumed its flights on Sunday. While the threat in question remains unknown to the public, the British Foreign Office has informed British citizens planning to fly to Egypt that “there is an increased threat of terrorism against flights, and additional security measures are in place for flights departing from Egypt to Britain.” The United Kingdom has historically been wary of flights to and from Cairo due to the significant clout radical Islamic terror groups such as ISIS enjoy in Egypt. After a Russian passenger plane leaving Sharm el-Sheikh in Sinai exploded in 2015, Britain suspended flights to and from Egypt and issues consistent warnings about terror threats in the country.

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The hot springs of Iceland beckon tourists to the gorgeous country but the total amount at the bottom of their bill when they check out of their

hotel may make them sweat. Last year, consumer prices on the subarctic island were on average 56 percent higher than the rest of Europe, making Iceland the single most expensive country in the world, ahead of Switzerland (52 percent), Norway (48 percent) and Denmark (38 percent), according to Eurostat data. A dinner for two at an average restaurant in Iceland will run you around 85 euros (around $95), while a dozen eggs costs up to five euros. Want a glass of wine with your omelet? Maybe you’ll think twice when

it costs you at least 10 euros. A small population of 355,000 coupled with a high dependence on imported goods and high taxes on alcohol contribute to Iceland’s steep prices. “Iceland is so small. So it’s very difficult to get the same economies of scale as you have with companies in countries that are 100 times larger,” notes Konrad Gudjonsson, chief economist at the Iceland Chamber of Commerce. Regulation also plays a part, and imported products based on things like raw eggs or unpasteurized milk

face significant customs barriers. Large fluctuations in the Icelandic krona in 2016-2017 have also led to a general price increase. Gudjonsson points out that there is also a “strong link between how expensive countries are and the standard of living,” and Icelanders on average do well for themselves. In 2018, the median monthly wage for someone working full-time was 632,000 kronor before tax (about 4,450 euros), according to Statistics Iceland. In other words, tourists may be hit with sticker shock but locals earn enough money to be able to live

Boris to Lead Britain

oris Johnson will become Britain’s next prime minister after being elected leader of the Conservative party, defeating Jeremy Hunt in the party’s leadership contest this week. He will formally take over Theresa May’s position on Wednesday of this week. The former mayor of London, with his flying blonde hair, won the contest by a convincing margin of 92,153 votes to 46,656, with 66% of the vote. Turnout was 87.4% among 159,320 party members. In a characteristically flippant acceptance speech, Johnson conceded that even some of his own supporters may “wonder quite what they have done.” He said that at a pivotal moment in history, his party must show its “historic ability to balance competing instincts – marrying the desire to maintain a close relationship with the EU, with the desire for democratic self-government in this country.” He reminded his audience of ministers and party staff of his campaign mantra: “Deliver Brexit, unite the country, and defeat Jeremy Corbyn.” Pointing out that this spelled “dud,” he joked that the final e – “energize” – had been left out. “I say to all the doubters: ‘dude,’ we are going to energize the country!’” Johnson’s victory was almost immediately welcomed by U.S. President Donald Trump who tweeted: “He will be great!” Johnson is likely to embark on fresh negotiations with EU leaders and key Brussels decisionmakers involved with Brexit as soon as possi-

ble, with a view to securing changes to Theresa May’s deal in time for the October 31 deadline. But with no secure majority, and Labour determined to demand a referendum on any deal he brings back from Brussels, many MPs believe he could be forced to call a general election within months in order to win a mandate for his plan. Johnson has been known for his unkempt appearance and unfiltered points of view. In the past, he has said that women who wear Islamic face veils look “like letterboxes” and has called people from the British Commonwealth “flag-waving piccaninnies” with “watermelon smiles.” But Johnson is also a charmer and works to win people over – a classic politician. His ability to win over people served him well as mayor of London, a city generally tilting towards the UK’s center-left Labour party. Johnson served as mayor of London for two terms. Johnson is also a hard worker. He gets up at 5a.m., reads all the newspapers, and is working the phones by 6:30, itching to start the day. His staff says he cuts to the chase quickly and sees the forest for the trees, not getting stuck on details of certain agendas. Johnson has been a vocal supporter of Brexit. In 2016, under immense pressure from the then-prime minister David Cameron to back the Remain campaign, Johnson broke ranks and backed Brexit at the last minute. The UK has been stuck in its Brexit crisis for over three years now.

The single biggest reason Brexit hasn’t happened yet is that the UK’s political class can’t decide what it wants. The Withdrawal Agreement – commonly called May’s Brexit deal – failed to satisfy both the Europhile and Euroskeptic wings of not only the Conservatives, but across the lawmakers that sit in the UK’s House of Commons, who need to ratify any deal with Europe. Given that May has been governing without a parliamentary majority since the 2017 election, this lack of consensus meant that, without a compromise from Brussels or buying off opposition votes, May’s deal was always doomed. Johnson’s pledge to take the UK out of the EU on October 31 “do or die” has excited Brexiteers. His pledge to threaten Brussels with walking away without a deal and withholding the nearly $50 billion the UK owes Europe, unless Europe agrees to renegotiate May’s deal, is exciting to a certain type of Conservative. Even so, Johnson will have to sell his plan to the 27 other EU member states, who don’t view him so positively.

As prime minister, Johnson will also be looking towards the Middle East. This week, Iranian TV celebrated the seizing of a UK oil tanker, exulting that it was “justice two centuries in the making.” Earlier this month, the UK took control of a tanker accused of bringing Iranian oil to Syria. In turn, Iran retaliated with seizing the UK oil tanker this week. Johnson will also be urged by the U.S. to increase UK troop levels in Syria. Additionally, a court ruled in June that UK arms sales to Saudi Arabia were unlawful, and the UK said it would stop granting new licenses while examining the ruling. As U.S. President Donald Trump works on the “Deal of the Century” Johnson will be forced to straddle both sides of the aisle, as the UK is a U.S. and Israeli ally, but there are many voices in the UK that are critical to Israel and see the Palestinians as their friend. In other words, Johnson, who has long yearned to see himself as prime minister, is being handed a plate loaded with lots of complications. Let’s hope he didn’t bite off more than he can chew.

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course to contract by 0.4 percent in 2019, which would be the first time it shrinks in ten years. The worsening outlook is attributed in part to a decline in the island’s outsize tourism industry, which has been exacerbated by the collapse of Icelandic low-cost carrier WOW air. Meanwhile the fishing industry has been hit by a sudden

disappearance of capelin fish in Icelandic waters, leading to the government not issuing any fishing quotas at all in 2019 for the economically vital fish. Inflation has also picked up, reaching 3.1 percent in the first quarter of the year, “thus decreasing everyone’s purchasing power,” said Gudjonsson.

Yukiya Amano, who played a key role in negotiating the Iran nuclear deal as head of the UN’s nuclear watchdog, has passed away at the age of 72. Amano passed away from the unspecified illness that forced him to step down from his position as head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) last year. The veteran Japanese diplomat had headed the IAEA since replacing Mohammed Al-Bareidi in 2009, making him the top United Nations official on nuclear matters. “The Secretariat of the International Atomic Energy Agency regrets to inform with deepest sadness of the passing away of Director General Yukiya Amano,” said the IAEA. As IAEA leader, Amano played a central role in the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, which removed sanctions on Iran in exchange for Tehran scrapping its nuclear program. The deal remains controversial to this day and is currently on shaky ground after President Donald Trump left the accord and re-imposed sanctions on the Islamic Republic. Iran has since been bating the U.S. and other nations around the world and has been publicly flouting key terms of the accords. EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini eulogized Amano as a diplomat who strove to end conflicts around the world and ordered the flag at EU headquarters to be flown at half-mast. “A man of extraordinary dedication & professionalism, always at the service of the global community in the most impartial way. I’ll never forget the work done together. It has been for me a great pleasure & privilege working with him,” she tweeted. Born in Kanagawa Prefecture near Tokyo in 1947, Amano joined Japan’s Foreign Ministry after graduating from the University of Tokyo. He held posts related to nuclear energy and nonproliferation before being appointed ambassador to the

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Permanent Mission of Japan to the International Organizations in Vienna in 2005. He served on the IAEA’s board of governors in 2006 before becoming head of the preparatory committee for the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty review conference the following year.

Puerto Ricans Demand Resignation

Hundreds of thousands of Puerto Ricans have flooded the streets to demand the resignation of Governor Ricardo Rosselló after offensive text messages were recently leaked in a bombshell expose. Protesters battled police on Monday evening at a mass rally, including cursing officers and pelting them with water bottles. Police responded with tear gas and threats of large-scale arrests if the violence continued. The protests have swelled ever since Puerto Rico’s Center for Investigative Journalism published offensive text messages the governor had sent on the Telegram messaging app. In the 900 pages of leaked messages, the governor and his top aides used foul language and offensive nicknames for media figures, politicians, and even cabinet members. In the offending correspondence, which were sent in December 2018 and January 2019, a senior advisor was documented making fun of those victimized by the devastating Hurricane Maria. Two members of Rosselló’s Ccbinet have already resigned in wake of the scandal, with the protests being called the biggest the island has ever seen. The embattled governor had announced on Sunday evening that he would not run again after his current term expires. He did not offer his resignation. Rossello is currently two and a half years into his four-year term. “A huge portion of the population is unhappy and I recognize it,” Rosselló said in a Facebook Live address. “I’ve heard you. I love the island and people. ... Today I have the responsi-

bility to direct my strengths to try to find alternatives so that with G-d we may be able to move forward. “I’m going to be looking forward to turning over power to the person elected democratically.”

Indian Mission to the Moon Blasts Off

India’s second mission to the moon blasted off successfully on Monday, a week after delaying the launch due to technical issues. The head of India’s space program announced that Chandrayaan-2 had lifted off at 14:43 local time at the Sriharikota space station, adding that it “bounced back with flying colors” following a slew of glitches. “My dear friends, today is a historical day for space and science and technology in India,” said Indian Space Research Organization head Dr. Kailasavadivoo Sivan. “I’m extremely happy to announce that GSLV mark 3 successfully injected Chandrayaan-2 into the defined orbit.” Chandrayaan-2 will now orbit the Earth for 23 days before landing on the moon in August. If successful, India will join the former Soviet Union, the U.S., and China as the only nations that managed to land a spacecraft on the moon’s surface. The launch had been originally scheduled to take place last Monday at 02:51 local time but was stopped at the 56th minute due to a problem with the engine. The scrapped launch date was one of many for the spacecraft, which was slated to blast off in April 2018 before suffering from a wave of delays.

Iran: We Busted a CIA Spy Ring Iran announced on Monday that it had rounded up 17 members of a spy ring run by the CIA in what is the latest twist in the escalating tensions between the two countries.

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The Iranian intelligence ministry announced that the “spies” were rounded up in March after their “sabotage missions” failed. According to the statement, some of the alleged agents have already been convicted and sentenced to death.

“The spies were employed in sensitive and vital centers in the private sector that are connected to the economic, nuclear, infrastructure, military and cyber areas,” announced the ministry on Iranian television. “They collected sensitive intelligence information.” The Iranian press also published photos of the alleged operatives meeting with what Tehran claims were their CIA handlers. One of the defendants can be seen meeting with his supposed handler in the United Arab Emirates. Iran said that the accused were trained in operating advanced communication devices and were instructed to destroy any evidence if their cover was blown. The alleged agents were arrested on their way to what they thought was a meeting with the CIA outside of Iran that turned out to be a trap set by Iranian counterintelligence. The allegations were swiftly denied by President Donald Trump, who called it “totally false” in an early morning tweet. “The Report of Iran capturing CIA spies is totally false. Zero truth. Just more lies and propaganda (like their shot down drone) put out by a Religious Regime that is Badly Failing and has no idea what to do,” Trump wrote. “Their Economy is dead, and will get much worse. Iran is a total mess!” U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo dismissed Iran’s announcement. “The Iranian regime has a long history of lying,” he noted in an interview on Fox News.

Adam Peaty Smashes His Record Adam Peaty has set a new world record after posting a time of just

56.888 seconds in the men’s 100-meter breaststroke at the World Championships in South Korea. Peaty’s new world record breaks a previous record he himself set last year of 58.66 seconds and gave him the victory with a full two seconds over second place finisher Yan Zibei. With his record finish, Peaty becomes the first man to break the 57 seconds in the category. “There’s no other word except for ‘incredible,’” Peaty sаid afterwards. “Obviously I’ve been chаsing thаt for three yeаrs now, ever since I touched thаt wаll in Rio [in 2016] I wаs like, I could go fаster.”

Peaty added that the record is especially meaningful to him as it his first championship since suffering from unspecified mental issues following the gold medal he won at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio. “To stay No. 1 over this period of time is very hard and takes a toll on you mentally. It takes a toll on you physically,” he noted. Having won the world championships in the category for a record 14 times, the British swimmer is considered top in the world at breastroke and will defend his title at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo.

Hacker Steals Personal Data from Over 5 Million

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Venezuela Goes Dark

Once again, large swathes of Venezuela were stuck in the dark on Tuesday, the day after the country suffered its fourth nationwide blackout this year. The blackout, which officials blamed on a hostile “electromagnetic attack,” affected almost the entire country, including the capital Caracas. About 94% of Venezuela’s telecommunications infrastructure was hit by the outage, and internet connectivity was only running at 10% nationwide, according to Netblocks, a non-profit organization dedicated to tracking outages. As of Tuesday morning, power had been restored to Caracas, but other parts of the country that had been affected didn’t see their lights go on. Citizens were urged to stay at home. The government suspended all work and educational activities as well. Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro said that the armed forces had been mobilized to help deal with what he termed was a “criminal attack against the tranquility and the peace of the homeland.” Blackouts have become a daily occurrence across Venezuela as the economic crisis has worsened, but one of this magnitude is rare. The country saw three major blackouts in March alone, with residents in poorer areas of Caracas and outside the capital hit the hardest. The March blackouts stopped mass transit in Caracas, shuttered businesses and gas stations, and disrupted operations at hospitals. Millions were left without water access for days, forcing some to travel huge distances to collect water at rivers or streams. Some rural areas in the Venezuelan countryside never fully recovered from the March blackouts, with power continuously cutting in and out for hours or days at a time. The outages exacerbated a broader political crisis that has gripped the

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Drug-Resistant Malaria in SE Asia

According to two new studies, drug-resistant strains of malaria are spreading across Southeast Asia, raising fears of a “potential global health emergency.” The reports were published on Monday in The Lancet, warning that a multi-drug-resistant strain had evolved and was spreading across Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam. The new findings come as countries and health experts struggle to fight the parasitic disease. There have been some successes – Algeria and Argentina were declared malaria-free in May – but in other places, cases have been rising significantly. The evolution of the resistant strains in Southeast Asia has had

“disastrous consequences,” researchers noted. They have rendered a widely-used drug essentially ineffective, leading to treatment failures at “alarmingly high rates.” The drug, dihydroartemisinin-piperaquine (DHA-PPQ), has now reached a 62% failure rate in western Cambodia, 27% in northeastern Cambodia, 53% in southwestern Vietnam, and 87% in northeastern Thailand. The original strain of resistant malaria first spread across western Cambodia in 2008. Since then, it has evolved and mutated into several new subgroups of resistant parasites, said the studies, which were conducted by several institutes including the Wellcome Sanger Institute and the University of Oxford. The speed at which the subgroups have spread to neighboring countries suggest “enhanced fitness” and “an increased survival advantage,” noted the researchers, who urged countries to stop using DHA-PPQ. “This highly successful resistant parasite strain is capable of invading new territories and acquiring new genetic properties, raising the terrifying prospect that it could spread to Africa where most malaria cases occur, as resistance to chloroquine did in the 1980s, contributing to millions of deaths,” said Olivo Miotto, a researcher from the University of Oxford and the Wellcome Sanger Institute, in the statement. Now that the DHA-PPQ drug is failing, countries need to adopt alternative treatments and speed up elimination of the resistant strains before they spread globally. This is not the first time that malaria has become resistant to treatment. It was in this region that malaria became resistant to chloroquine in the late 1950s and to artemisinin in recent years. Malaria, which is transmitted through the bite of female Anopheles mosquitoes, is both preventable and treatable, yet an estimated 435,000 people die of it each year. Between 2000 and 2015, there was a 62% reduction in malaria deaths, according to the World Health Organization (WHO), and a 41% reduction in the number of cases. However, more recent data suggests that malaria is making a comeback: a 2018 WHO report found malaria cases had risen significantly in 13 countries and that there was an increase of 2 million cases globally between 2016 and 2017.

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Bibi is Longest Serving PM

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made history this week by overtaking David Ben Gurion to become Israel’s longest serving prime minister. As of Saturday, Netanyahu has been Israel’s highest elected official for a total of 4,876 days in a period spanning 13 years. In addition, Netanyahu also holds the record for the longest consecutive term in office, a

feat he reached earlier this month. According to the Israeli Democracy Institute, Netanyahu’s term is the third longest for a currently serving world leader, trailing Turkey’s Recep Erdogan and German Chancellor Angela Merkel. Netanyahu was first elected prime minister in 1996, beating favorite Shimon Peres in what many Israelis consider the most shocking electoral upset in the country’s history. However, his term was plagued by a series of failures, including a botched Mossad assassination in Jordan and a deadly helicopter crash in Lebanon that killed 96 IDF soldiers, leading voters to oust him from office in 1999. For the next nine years, Netanyahu found himself in constant battle with former Prime Minister Ariel Sharon for the leadership of the Likud party. Netanyahu’s return to the country’s top job only came in 2009 after rival Tzipi Livni’s Kadima party failed to cobble together a coalition. Netanyahu has reigned ever since, winning elections in 2013, 2015, and in April. However, he failed to form a government after his most recent electoral triumph, sending Israel to the polls in September.

Omar, Tlaib to Enter Israel

Israel will allow pro-Palestinian Congresswomen Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar to enter the country next month despite their history of controversial statements regarding the Jewish State. Omar and Tlaib both plan to touch down in Ben Gurion airport next month in a visit expected to be used as a platform to publicly besmirch Israel. Initial reports said that Prime Minister Netanyahu decided to make the decision himself whether to bar them under a law that forbids entry to supporters of the BDS movement. Yet on Friday, Israeli Ambassador to the United States Ron Dermer

announced that the prime minister would not bar the controversial duo from entering the Jewish State despite their embrace of anti-Israel boycotts. “Out of respect for the U.S. Congress and the great alliance between Israel and America, we would not deny entry to any member of Congress into Israel,” Dermer told The Times of Israel. Tlaib, who is Palestinian, and the Somalian-born Omar have both made a series of inflammatory statements concerning both Israel and Jews. Earlier this year, Omar suggested that Israel was buying domestic support, while Tlaib has repeatedly accused the IDF of committing war crimes. Omar also proposed a law supporting BDS in Congress last week and has expressed support for the Hamas terror group in the past. Both Tlaib and Omar are part of a group of radical left-wing freshman congressional representatives nicknamed “The Squad” that has become President Donald Trump’s main verbal target for being anti-American and anti-Semitic.

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Ayelet Shaked Leads the New Right

Former Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked has taken the helm of Israel’s New Right party, making her the only woman to head a political faction that is running in the September elections. Shaked’s new role became possible after former New Right head Naftali Bennett agreed to step aside in order to allow her to take the lead. Formally the head of the Jewish Home, Bennett and Shaked had split from their old party prior to the last elections to form the New Right. Shaked announced the change at a press conference on Sunday evening and promised that the party would promote Jewish and rightwing values under her leadership. “The New Right under my leadership will not be the shadow of another party,” asserted Shaked. “We will be a faction that aims to take the reigns of national leadership and to ensure a right-wing victory.” Shaked also called for the Jewish Home and National Union factions to begin negotiations for a joint run “immediately and without delay” in order to ensure that the ideological right-wing maximized its vote total in the upcoming elections. “True, there are disagreements between us, but in the face of the challenges before us, they are null and void,” said Shaked, adding that every faction leader needs to put their ego aside for the greater good. “Just now we’re ending the fast of the 17th of Tammuz, a day which forever reminds us that we were exiled from land and lost our independence because of baseless hatred. That won’t happen again,” asserted Shaked. “Even when we disagree, we will know how to maintain mutual respect and remember that we’re family.” According to reports, Shaked has been laboring in recent weeks to cobble together a joint party comprising

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all of the right-wing parties other than the Likud. The effort comes after Moshe Feiglin’s Zehut and the New Right failed to cross the electoral threshold in the previous elections in April, throwing away an estimated six Knesset seats. While National Union head Bezalel Smotrich is reportedly open to the idea of a joint run, Shaked’s plan of a broad right-wing slate faces pushback from Jewish Home leader Rab-

bi Rafi Peretz, who maintains that a secular woman should not lead a religious party.

E-Cigs’ Harmful Effects New research presented by the Israel Cancer Association found

that electronic cigarettes, also called e-cigarettes, may cause damage to neural stem cells. Stem cells are more sensitive to toxins. These cells, present throughout life from the fetal period to adulthood, are especially critical since they develop into tissue for various parts of the body. The continued presence of toxins affects the cells’ ability to multiply and specialize. According to the new research

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from the University of California, Riverside, nicotine from e-cigarettes breaks down brain cells, killing stem cells which would otherwise become neurons.

The damage also begins at a much earlier stage, the study published in the Cell Press journal and iScience noted. It estimated that this may be due to how the e-cigarettes’ liquid compounds break down and enter the stem cells’ energy centers. Using stem cells from lab mice, researchers focused on mitochondria, exposing them to the liquids. They found that high levels of nicotine, such as the amount in a Juul pod, cause the mitochondria’s defense mechanism – also called stress-induced mitochondrial hyperfusion (SIMH) – to malfunction, with the nicotine binding to “opening” receptors and allowing in large amounts of

both nicotine and calcium, changing or even killing both the mitochondria and the stem cells. Though this occurs with any nicotine product, the findings are especially concerning due to the high levels of nicotine in e-cigarettes. One Juul pod contains the same amount of nicotine as an entire pack of traditional cigarettes. Teenagers and pregnant women are particularly susceptible to these ill effects. Inhalation of the nicotine sends the chemical straight to the brain. UC Riverside’s Dr. Atena Zahedi, who coauthored the study, explained: “If the nicotine stress persists, SIMH collapses, the neural stem cells get damaged and could eventually die.” If this happens before they are able to become brain cells, “no more specialized cells – astrocytes and neurons, for example – can be produced from stem cells. “Although originally introduced as safer, e-cigarettes such as Vuse and JUUL are not harmless,” she emphasized. “Even short-term exposure can stress cells in a manner that may lead, with chronic use, to cell death or disease. Our observations are likely to pertain to any product containing nicotine.”

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UCR Stem Cell Center Director Dr. Prue Talbot added, “Nicotine exposure during prenatal or adolescent development can affect the brain in multiple ways that may impair memory, learning, and cognition. Furthermore, addiction and dependence on nicotine in youth are pressing concerns. It’s worth stressing that it is nicotine that is doing damage to neural stem cells and their mitochondria. We should be concerned about this, given that nicotine is now widely available in e-cigarettes and their refill fluids.”

Killer of Special Forces Soldier Gets Life in Prison

An IDF military court sentenced Islam Yusuf Abu Hamid to life imprisonment on Monday for killing special forces operative Ronen Lubarsky last year during an arrest in Ramallah. Abu Hamid was found guilty of deliberately causing death, the military court’s version of premeditated murder. The terrorist had killed Ronen in May last year by dropping a block of marble on his head from three stories up, which smashed through his helmet and critically wounded him. Ronen died in the hospital two days later. Ronen was a member of the elite Duvdevan counterterrorism unit, and his death was the first time one of their operatives was killed in battle. Ronen’s squad arrested Abu Hamid a few weeks after the murder from his hiding place in a refugee camp near Ramallah. Ronen’s parents blasted the court following the verdict for not giving their son’s killer the death penalty. “A shame and an embarrassment for the Israeli justice system,” his father, Vladimir, told the media. “Today we received further proof that it is very worthwhile to murder Israelis. I am infuriated.”

Ronen’s brother, Arik, added that the verdict caused “deep disappointment with the justice system. Israeli citizens should know terrorists go to summer camp in jail. A life sentence no longer scares the terrorists; therefore, the state should change its attitude to terror.”

Phone Smuggling Thwarted

Guards at the Opher Prison prevented the smuggling of multiple mobile phones to terrorists at the prison over the weekend. Two detainees, one affiliated with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and the other with Fatah, were found with 11 cellphones they had attempted to smuggle into the prison. Police became suspicious when one of the prisoners set off a metal detector. During interrogation, he told police that he had phones in his body and then excreted three phones when he went to the bathroom. The metal detector also detected metal in the lower back of the second detainee, who claimed to have metal pallets in his body, but after prison staff decided to send him to the hospital for an examination, he admitted that his body contained two packages with four phones each. The Israel Prison Service stated: “The IPS guards are at the forefront of the fight against terror and crime prevention every day and will continue to strive with determination and professionalism to achieve the goal and to ensure the personal safety of the residents of the State of Israel.”

Police Tossing Tickets For all those who have been speeding in Israel, it’s time to slow down. This week, the Israel Police announced that it was cancelling all

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the state prosecution t concluded that they would toss out all tickets given during that period and began full enforcement on Tuesday.

speeding tickets given out over the past 13 months, since June 2018, after a year of legal wrangling over the reliability of the national speed-camera system. This announcement sent sighs of relief to tens of thousands of motorists who were caught speeding by the cameras.

Protests Over Telescope in Hawaii

But now it’s time to be safe – and slow down. All tickets given starting on Tuesday, July 23, 2019 by the speed cameras will be enforced. The Acre Magistrate’s Court ruled last year that the cameras may not be accurate enough to count as legal evidence of a traffic infraction, rendering the hundreds of nationwide cameras essentially useless. Many hearings and multiple laboratory tests later, the courts gave police the okay to begin using the cameras again – but the status of camera evidence in the intervening 13 months is legally unclear. Therefore, police and

Hawaii state officials have said that they would not summon more National Guard troops to deal with the ongoing protests against the installation of a new $1.4 billion telescope on Mauna Kea. Despite rumors to the contrary,

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Gov. David Ige announced that the 80 soldiers from the National Guard were being utilized to transport equipment rather than for the purpose of riot control as had been reported. “We will not be utilizing tear gas, as some of the rumors have been (saying),” Ige said. “We are looking for the best way forward without hurting anyone.” Ige’s clarification comes amid an ongoing protest by Native Hawaiians and activists after a road was closed on Mauna Kea in order to facilitate the installation of the Thirty Meter Telescope. For over a week, protesters have prevented trucks from transporting equipment up to the mountain and have clashed with law enforcement. Aside from Mauna Kea, other demonstrations have broken out in Maui and at the state capitol in Honolulu. Amid the mounting protests, Ige signed an emergency proclamation that he said “gives law enforcement increased flexibility and authority to close more areas and restrict access” to the mountain. Protesters say that Mauna Kea is a sacred place that should not be used

by the U.S. government for research purposes. The mountain is described by the Office of Hawaiian Affairs as “a deeply sacred place that is revered in Hawaiian traditions” that is “regarded as a shrine for worship, as a home to the gods”. Intended for a major international astronomy project, the telescope’s construction was delayed for over a decade due to a series of legal battles. In 2018, the Supreme Court ruled that the project could go ahead, removing the telescope’s final legal hurdle.

Where are Millennials Moving To?

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cosmopolitan cities that are close to high-paying jobs. That was the conclusion of a recent study examining the living habits of America’s up and coming set. Millennials, which are commonly defined as people born between 1981 and 1996, are now the largest participant in the U.S. workforce and will soon outnumber baby boomers. The study was carried out by Haven Life insurance company and utilized information from the Census Bureau along with data from home appraisal website Zillow to reach their findings. According to the data, Portland is the most popular city among millennials to live in, and they comprise 18% of its total population. Coming in at second place is Seattle with its close proximity to major tech and manufacturing companies, followed by Denver. Meanwhile, San Francisco is in fourth place, with millennials making up 19% of the city’s residents, while Austin comes in fifth. “At the metropolitan level, the data shows that millennials tend to live in expensive locales with high wages, home prices and the overall cost of living,” concluded the study. “In these cities, experiences are plentiful and there are myriad opportunities to form relationships with like-minded people.” In analyzing the data, researchers concluded that the reluctance of millennials to get married and have children explains their preference for living in America’s most expensive cities. Without the considerable ex-

penses of child care, millennials prefer to live in urban locales that offer opportunity for a lucrative career. However, millennials who start a family generally consider other factors in choosing where to live, such as local schools, the cost of living, and crime rates. “Like other generations, as millennials have started having families, their housing interests have shifted in unsurprising ways,” noted Joey Campbell, a senior official at Rent.com. “They want more space, and they begin to care more about schools, safe neighborhoods, and access to family-friendly amenities.”

DA Robert Morgenthau Dies

Iconic District Attorney Robert Morgenthau, who presided over some of the most high-profile trials in the United States, passed away on Sunday in Lenox Hill Hospital. He was 99. As Manhattan’s longtime district attorney, Morgenthau earned a reputation as a fearsome crime fighter who put some of America’s most powerful people behind bars. Serving an

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unprecedented 35 years, Morgenthau was the enemy of mafiosos, crooked cops, and dishonest politicians alike. Some of the more high-profile cases he presided over includes the prosecution of subway hero Bernard Goetz, the Central Park Five, the killer of rock star John Lennon, and mob boss John Gotti. Once estimating that he had tried 3.5 million cases throughout his career, Morgenthau was known to be one of America’s most successful prosecutors when he retired in 2009 at the age of 90. As the one responsible for all criminal cases in Manhattan, Morgenthau made no allowances for the rich and powerful and repeatedly stressed that no one was above the law. “If you want people to have confidence in their government, you’ve got to show that people who have economic power or political power are not immune from prosecution,” he once said. Morgenthau was eulogized by his Cyrus Vance, who replaced him as Manhattan’s DA, as a “hallowed figured” for his success in bringing criminals to justice. “His crime-fighting strategies also played an important role in facilitating New York City’s remarkable decline in homicides and violent crime – and its

current status as America’s safest big city,” Vance said. Robert Morgenthau played an important role in founding the Museum of Jewish Heritage: A Living Memorial to the Holocaust in 1997 in New York and became the museum’s first chairman. In 2003, the museum named a major wing after him. “It’s important for people to understand what happens when criminals take over a government. Our museum stands as a symbol of the power of renewal after catastrophe,” he said in a 2007 interview with Hadassah Magazine. Morgenthau prevented two Egon Schiele paintings on loan to Manhattan’s Museum of Modern Art in 1998 from being returned to Austria. “That was the first time anyone had challenged in American courts the ownership of art that had been stolen from Jews. It caused a hue and cry because museums said I’d inhibit the show of art. But the result has been that museums have inventoried their collections and now have protocols in place. It’s made a huge difference,” he said. Morgenthau was born into a prominent New York Ashkenazi Jewish family that had emigrated from Baden, Germany, in 1860s. Mayer

Lehman, his maternal great-grandfather, co-founded the investment banking firm, Lehman Brothers. His grandfather, Henry Morgenthau Sr, was U.S. ambassador to the Ottoman Empire during the first world war and his father, Henry Morgenthau Jr, was secretary of the treasury under Franklin D. Roosevelt. He joined the U.S. navy one day after graduating from Amherst College in 1941, earning the rank of lieutenant commander and seeing action in the Mediterranean and Pacific. After the war, Morgenthau earned a law degree from Yale and joined a New York law firm. In 1960, he campaigned for his friend and fellow Democrat John F. Kennedy. The next year, the new president named him U.S. attorney for the southern district of New York. Morgenthau resigned after 17 months to run for governor against Republican Nelson Rockefeller. After a disastrous campaign, he was reappointed by Kennedy. He ran for Manhattan DA in 1974 after Frank Hogan resigned due to health problems. When he retired in 2009 at the age of 90, he told the AP, “I looked at my birth certificate, and I said, ‘It’s about time.’”

Joanne Von Saun, who directs the country’s foster care program, said that the very idea of using family courts as a punitive measure was an “unacceptable” measure that is “terrorizing children and families.” “This causes more antagonism so that when we’re knocking on the doors, families see us more as a threat instead of an agency that will provide support and lend assistance,” she said. “The foster care issue, that just had me,” added David Usavage, who serves as the school board’s vice president. “I couldn’t believe that that’s what it said.” Yet not everyone opposed the communication. Joseph Muth, a director in the school district who penned the controversial letter, stood by the threat as the only way for the township to recoup the $22,000 owned by parents. Calling it a “last resort,” Muth said that the school district’s tight budget mandated taking such a draconian step.

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Parents in Pennsylvania’s Wyoming Valley West were stunned after the local school district warned them that their kids would be put into foster care if their school lunch debt remained unpaid. The missive warned parents that they had already received “multiple letters sent home with your child” regarding the offending debt and threatened to haul the parents before a Dependency Court should the debt remain unsettled. “If you are taken to Dependency court, the result may be your child being removed from your home and placed in foster care,” continued the letter. The threat to remove children from their parents’ care caused widespread outrage and was condemned by Luzerne Country leaders and members of the local school board.

This week, President Donald Trump and bipartisan congressional leaders clinched a two-year budget agreement that would produce hundreds of billions in new spending and take the threat of a fiscal crisis off of Washington’s plate for more than two years. The deal, which finally came together in a sprint over the past two weeks, would eliminate – for good – the budget caps put into place in 2011 and suspend the debt ceiling until July 31, 2021. “I am pleased to announce that a deal has been struck with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy – on a two-year Budget and Debt Ceiling, with no poison pills,” Trump tweeted shortly after congressional leaders signed off on the final agreement in a Monday evening conference call. “This was a real compromise in order to give another big victory to our Great Military and Vets!”

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The agreement still needs to pass both chambers of Congress and then be signed into law. In a brief interview Monday evening, Pelosi said two factors above all played a critical role in her successful behind-the-scenes negotiations with Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin: avoiding a stock market collapse and the fiscal fallout from failing to raise the debt ceiling. The agreement marks the end of the Budget Control Act, put in place in 2011 on the grounds of threatening cuts so steep that agreements defined by fiscal restraint would be the only option – something that has consistently been undone by subsequent deadline driven budget agreements that sought to delay the spending caps and infuse new funds for both defense programs and domestic spending. It’s a move that has already drawn fierce backlash from conservatives, who have for years railed against the increased spending, yet is likely to be approved by Republicans who support increased defense spending and by Democrats who have backed boosts to domestic priorities. In total, the agreement would lock in a $1.3 trillion budget deal, which includes $320 billion in additional spending over the course of two years. The number falls short of what Democrats entered the negotiations requesting, but is still a marked increase with equal increases for both domestic and defense spending. The off-sets in the agreement – a key sticking point for days – ended up totaling $77 billion, which was half of what the White House had requested, and didn’t come from Democratic priorities, but instead through accounting shifts.

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state struggling with obesity in 2017. Mississippi (37.3 percent) and Oklahoma (36.5 percent) followed close behind. Iowa, Alabama, Louisiana, Arkansas, Kentucky, Alaska, and South Carolina rounded up the top ten most obese states in the nation. On the other side of the scale, Colorado was determined to the least obese state in the nation, with around 22.6 percent of adults in the state being obese as of the same year. America has long dealt with the issue of obesity. The condition affected 93.3 million adults in the country from 2015 to 2016, per the CDC. “In 1990, obese adults made up less than 15 percent of the population in most U.S. states. By 2010, 36 states had obesity rates of 25 percent or higher, and 12 of those had obesity rates of 30 percent or higher,” according to Harvard University’s School of Public Health. “While U.S. obesity rates have, overall, stayed steady since 2003, the rates are still rising in some groups, and disparities persist: Non-Hispanic black, Hispanic, and Mexican American adults have higher rates of obesity than non-Hispanic white adults,” the school added. Consumer Protect, which analyzed the CDC’s data, also looked at states where adults engaged “in zero physical leisure activity,” which they dubbed the “Couch Potato Index.” Kentucky was No. 1, with 34.4 percent of adults in the state engaging in zero physical activity. Mississippi and Arkansas followed behind with 33.2 percent and 32.5 percent, respectively. There are many obesity-related health conditions, namely heart disease, type 2 diabetes, some types of cancer and stroke, among other health ailments, according to the CDC. People looking to avoid these conditions are urged to eat healthily and take up physical activity.

Equifax to Pay $700M to Settle Massive Data Breach If you’re living in West Virginia, it’s time to put the burger down. According to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), West Virginia is the most obese state in the nation, with roughly 38 percent of adults in the

Credit reporting giant Equifax has agreed to pay $700 million in order to put an end to the multiple probes into a massive data breach that exposed the data of 147 million customers two years ago. The settlement was announced

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by the Federal Trade Commission on Monday and is the largest ever payout for a data breach. As part of the agreement, Equifax will pay $425 million to assist those victimized by the breach and will provide them free credit monitoring services for ten years.

In addition, Equifax will give all of its customers six free credit reports starting next January and will provide tips on how to recover from identity theft. The company will also be obligated to pay $175 million in fines to settle state probes into the breach and another $100 million to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. “This comprehensive settlement is a positive step for U.S. consumers and Equifax as we move forward from the 2017 cybersecurity incident and focus on our transformation investments in technology and security as a leading data, analytics, and technology company,” said Equifax CEO

Mark Begor. “The consumer fund of up to $425 million that we are announcing today reinforces our commitment to putting consumers first and safeguarding their data – and reflects the seriousness with which we take this matter,” he added. The massive data breach had occurred in 2017 and affected almost 44% of the total U.S. population. Following an investigation, Equifax concluded that hackers had managed to get their hands on extremely sensitive customer data such as credit card numbers, social security numbers, birthdays, and addresses.

7-11 Baby J’Aime Brown is only a few weeks old but she is set to forever remember 7-Eleven the rest of her life. J’Aime was born on July 11 at 7:11 p.m. and weighed an amazing 7 pounds 11 ounces. Her num-

bers-aligned birth has caught the eye of officials at the 7-Eleven convenience store chain, who are now setting her up for life.

would have been born at 7:47 would Boeing have donated an airplane? Discuss.

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The chain has pledged $7,111 to J’Aime’s college fund and has even donated diapers and 7-Eleven onesies to J’Aime for her incredible 7-Eleven feat. J’Aime’s parents, Johntez Brown and Rachel Langford, are overjoyed at her birth. Langford said J’Aime’s birth followed a pattern, adding that she saw the numbers 7 and 11 repeatedly over the course of her pregnancy. “I thought it was weird at first, and I didn’t know that (the numbers) meant so much,” she said. “A lot of the times (during the pregnancy) I would look at the clock and it was 7:11.” Some food for thought: If J’Aime

Well, it may be hot enough to fry an egg on a sidewalk but is it hot enough to bake biscuits in a car? The staff at the National Weather Service in Nebraska thought so. The team live-tweeted their attempt at baking biscuits in their car during the recent heat wave. “If you are wondering if it’s going to be hot today, we are attempting to bake biscuits using only the sun and a car in our parking lot,” NWS Omaha tweeted. “We will keep you posted with the progress.” The team placed the biscuits on a tray and placed the tray in the back window of a car left out in the sun. The pan reached a high temperature of 185 degrees during the experiment, which occasionally required the car to be moved to keep the sun shining

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estimate of $160,000. The Nike “Moon Shoe” is one of only 12 pairs created. It was designed by Nike co-founder and track coach Bill Bowerman for runners at the 1972 Olympics trials. The pair up for auction is handmade, Stadium Goods said.

on the biscuits. The biscuits began to brown on the outside and eventually seemed done enough on the outside to try eating after a total 8 hours in the car. Admitting that they were “pretty doughy” in the middle, the biscuits were consumed by the curious amateur scientists. Sounds like these weathermen and women know how to have a good time.

Sneakers @ Sotheby’s Think Sotheby’s and think jewelry. Or art. Or cars. But you don’t think sneakers. Think again. Recently, the auction house announced that it would produce

its first-ever auction dedicated to sneakers, underlining the shoes’ fast-growing status as collectibles able to command tens of thousands of dollars. Sotheby’s teamed up with streetwear marketplace Stadium Goods to auction 100 pairs of the rarest sneakers ever produced, including a sample of one of the first Nike Inc running shoes with a pre-sale high

Other sneakers include 2011 and 2016 versions of the “Back to the Future Part II” limited-edition shoes by Nike that were inspired by the 1989 film starring Michael J. Fox. The 2016 version of the futuristic shoe, complete with self-lacing technology, is expected to sell for between $50,000 and $70,000. “We’ve long talked about how sneakers are this generation’s luxury fashion, and being able to collaborate with a brand with the history and esteem of Sotheby’s is further proof of that,” John McPheters, co-founder of New York-based Stadium Goods, said in a statement. Other shoes in the online sale, which ended on July 23, include sought-after and limited-edition sneakers produced by Adidas, Air Jordan and rapper Kanye West’s Yeezy collection. Noah Wunsch, global head of eCommerce at Sotheby’s, said the sneaker sale was bringing together “art, culture and fashion” and marked another step in the auction house’s expansion of offerings of highly coveted luxury goods. The highest price fetched at public auction for sneakers is thought to be $190,373 in 2017 for a pair of signed Converse shoes said to have been worn by Michael Jordan in the 1984 Olympic basketball final. The shoes were auctioned through California sports memorabilia company SCP. Well, those shoes aren’t meant for walking.

Pretty Potholes When life gives you potholes, fill it with art. That’s what Jim Bachor has been doing for years. The Chicago art-

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ist first attempted to fill a pothole with a beautiful mosaic in 2013. He learned the art of mosaic-creation in Ravenna, Italy, and has been applying his talents ever-since. Bachor says people generally don’t question him while he’s in the process of creating his pothole art, which he posts to Instagram. “I still don’t know if it’s legal or not, but I have had discussions with police through the years, about a half dozen, and once they know what I’m doing they don’t have an issue with it,” he told WGN-TV.

The aim of his creations, which feature subjects including cats, flowers and comfort foods, is to bring smiles to faces. “I just think it’s fun to think somebody walking on the street and then just by chance noticing there’s something in the street that shouldn’t be there, a different color, and then realizing the pothole’s been fixed, which is good, but then realizing it’s a piece of art which is better,” Bachor said. His mosaics are arranged on his website in categories. Under “Vermin in New York,” for example, there are murals of a dead pigeon, a rat – and Donald Trump. “Pretty Trashed” depicts pieces of trash left on the street in a whimsical way. “Treats in the Streets” feature ice creams and ice pops, perfect for a hot summer day in New York. Burberry and Gucci are featured in the “Fanciest Potholes” categories. Considering all the potholes that dot the streets of New York, Jim will forever have material in which to exhibit his talents.

#BeHonest

A new food kiosk at the Halifax Stanfield International Airport in

Canada serves sandwiches, snacks, cookies, and drinks but there are no employees on staff. Instead, patrons are encouraged to choose the items they wish to purchase and then pay with a credit card or cash using the honor system. Najib Faris and Francesco Stara decided to open Mabata Honesty Shop in the airport after noticing the same honesty system used by nearby farmers when the pair was picking up ingredients for their restaurant, Mabata Glocal Eatery in Halifax. “We were so surprised with the idea,” Faris told CBC. “You know, you grab a sack of potatoes and drop in 10 bucks in the bucket and leave. And we’re like, wow, this is amazing.” The two trusting entrepreneurs opened the kiosk, which is adorned with a sign that reads, #BEHONEST, on July 10. So far, their trust in humanity has borne fruit. Everyone so far has paid for the items they’ve purchased. There’s a credit card reader at the store and a box for those who want to use cash. “We took a leap of faith and invested our trust in people,” said Faris. The two entrepreneurs are from Nova Scotia, a place they say values honesty above all else. In 2017, an experiment by Atlantic Credit Unions placed 12 wallets with 100 dollars throughout the province. Nine out of 12 were returned with the money still in them. “Nova Scotia has always been known as a place where honesty goes above all and a place where people really still hold onto the true core values of humanity, which is rare these days in the world,” Faris related. People have become enthused by the idea of trust between strangers. Since they opened, the pair has received thank you notes and even a gift card. “It’s that level of honesty that we’re so, so humbled and proud to see in this city,” said Faris. They hope to expand the project to schools, hospitals, and shopping centers, depending on the success of their shop. It’s a great way to earn an honest penny.

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77WABC’s Executive Business Forum

n Tuesday night, July 16, executives from a wide range of industries attended 77WABC’s Executive Business Forum, co-sponsored by Bottom Line Marketing Group and The C-Suite Network. Chaired by Jeffrey Hayzlett, chairman of the C-Suite Network, the event provided the opportunity for guests to discover the value of “Corporate Storytelling” and what it means to build a brand. Joseph Abboud, the noted fashion design icon, shared his insights on “Corporate Storytelling” on a panel moderated by Yitzchok Saftlas, host of 77WABC’s Mind Your Business radio show and CEO of Bottom Line Marketing Group. “When you love what you do, your work becomes a part of you, a part of your story,” he shared. “Brands today are so much more than the products they sell. Consumers are deeply invested in what’s going on behind the brand, and the story the brand is telling,” noted Mr. Abboud. Abboud also discussed the importance of brand consistency and making sure corporate messaging never wavers. “Inject your DNA into everything you do, across every product line, into every facet of your company,” he advised. “It was a truly unique experience

to attend the 77WABC Stage 17 Executive Business Forum. Hearing from Joseph Abboud was a lesson well learned, which I will be able to impart to the many students who attend Touro,” noted Mr. Grosberg, who serves as the Touro College Director of Career Services. The event left all the participants inspired, informed, and, of course, full, having been beautifully sponsored by Soho Platters, Herzog Wine Cellars and Haolam! The 77WABC Stage 17 Executive Business Forum was truly an evening to remember, leaving the guests with a newfound perspective on what it means to be a storyteller.

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A Special Day By John Mirzoeff

n Tuesday, July 15, it seemed to be like any other Tuesday in the Young Israel Of Hillcrest at the 8a.m. minyan, but that day was special – Mr. Aron Beidner turned 102 years old, ka”h, and fellow congregants were there to celebrate. Mr. Beidner, though, did not know that the minyan planned to celebrate his special day. I only found out about the birthday because our chief gabbai, Yossi Lebovitch, told me about it and so I went to Aron’s to purchase a cake the day before. On Tuesday morning, I brought the cake to shul and

placed it on the side. When Mr. Beidner walked in, he saw the cake and strolled by, not knowing who it was for. After davening, I asked the minyan to stay a few extra minutes so we could celebrate the special day. Mr. Beidner was about to leave the shul when I slowly took his tallis bag away and walked him over to the cake. Then, we all huddled around him and sang him a very special happy birthday – until meah v’esrim. Everyone at the minyan feels that it’s a big zechus to daven with Mr. Beidner. A special yasher koach goes to his daughter, Irene, who brings Mr. Beidner every day to davening

and takes him home. A special kudos goes to his son-in-law, Stephen, who brings him to Mincha every day. What’s amazing to me is that Mr.

Beidner walks faster than 75% of those in our minyan and he’s over 100 years old!

Emet Outreach Hosts Young Couples Shabbaton in Far Rockaway

habbat with Emet Outreach is always an uplifting spiritual experience, and the community of Far Rockaway welcomed the latest Young Couples Shabbaton. Led by Rabbi and Mrs. Nissim Musheyev, Rabbi and Mrs. Chaim Muskat, and Mr. and Mrs. Ben Kozuch, the couples were comprised of former Emet Fellowship students at various stages of marriage. The newest couple had only been married for a little over a week, and there were also families with young children. The participants were personally invited because they all have grown in Judaism through Emet, and some have been part of the Emet family for 10 years. Upon arrival, guests were

presented with a welcome basket that included a customized Havdalah set and matchbox; a transliterated copy of the Sefardi candle lighting and kiddush prayers; and articles of interest. The Shabbat program featured many meaningful elements. The group davened together

in the Sefardi minyan at the White Shul and separated into smaller groups of 3-4 couples for Shabbat dinner and lunch at different families in the community. They came together again on Shabbat afternoon for an Oneg Shabbat where Rabbi YY Rubenstein gave a lecture on “Discov-

ering Who You Really Are.” For the Shalosh Seudot meal, there were separate programs for the women and men. The women heard from Rebbetzin Tehila Jaeger at her home on “Women’s Unique Power of Speech.” Rabbi Nissim Musheyev spoke to the men at his home about “Shabbat: Disconnect in Order to Connect.” The Shabbat experience culminated in a musical Havdalah with Rabbi Moshe Green on guitar at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Aaron and Ellen Wolfson. “I’ve been involved with Emet for 8 years and have attended many Shabbatons and trips as a single girl. This was my husband Stanley’s first Shabbaton and our first as a couple with our 3-month-old daughter Rahel,” said Mira Gavriel. “It truly was like a

vacation within the comfort of home. We did not know our hosts but everyone treated us like family. We enjoyed a beautiful Shabbat together.” “At Emet we are devoted to our alumni and we strive to maintain relationships as they marry and build their own Jewish families,” said Mrs. Rivka Muskat, Associate Director. “As our students are growing in their Judaism, it is essential for them to have opportunities to experience Shabbat. Every Shabbat they spend with observant families helps to fill in the landscape until their ‘personal picture’ of Shabbat is enriched and they are prepared to continue on their own.” For further information on Emet programs or upcoming events, visit emetoutreach.org.

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My Vote Against BDS, and for Israel By Rep. Kathleen Rice

ne of my top priorities in Congress is to do everything that I can to strengthen the bonds between the United States and Israel and to ensure that the United States never wavers in our support for the State of Israel and the Israeli people. This is a priority for me because of the unique bonds that our district shares with Israel. I recognize and value the historical, cultural and religious bonds that have tied our countries and our people together for so long. And I believe our partnership with Israel is as beneficial to the United States as it is for Israel. Indeed, when we invest in Israel’s security and prosperity, we are investing in our own security and prosperity. And this week, I was proud to once again stand up for our deep and vital relationship with Israel by voting to condemn the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement, which passed the House of Representatives with overwhelming bipartisan support. There has never been a shortage of people who are vocal in their criticism of Israel and even in their deep-seated anti-Semitism. And with the passage of H.Res. 246, the House unequivocally rejected attempts to undermine Israel’s rightful place as the Jewish homeland. This vote was a critical step forward, because anti-Israel forces are turning more and more to the BDS movement as a tool to try to delegitimize Israel. In fact, the UN Human Rights Council even passed a resolution to create a “blacklist” of companies that operate or do business with entities that operate beyond the 1949 armistice lines. Much like the UN Human Rights Council, this movement is predicated on the belief that Israel is the main obstacle to peace and that Israel is standing in the way of a lasting reso-

lution to the current conflict. And while forces behind the BDS movement may claim to want peace between Israelis and Palestinians, we know that BDS will not help achieve that peace. As I’ve always said, a lasting resolution to this conflict will only come through direct negotiations between Israelis and Palestinians. The terms of that resolution will not be dictated by a third party – but that’s exactly what pro-BDS advocates and much of the international community want to do. Nevertheless, the BDS movement is gaining steam, which is why it’s never been more important for people to be vocal about our support for Israel and oppose this misguided movement – Democrats, Republicans, and Independents. We need to speak up about the fact that Israel is the only democracy in the Middle East and shares a region with neighbors focused on its destruction. That Israel, like the U.S., values freedoms of speech and religion and shares a deep commitment to human rights, women’s rights, and equality. Just two weeks ago, I had the opportunity to visit Israel as part of a bipartisan congressional delegation. While there, we met with Prime Minister Netanyahu, Ambassador David Friedman, leading Members of the Knesset and top security officials, where I was pleased to deliver a strong, bipartisan message of support to our critical ally. I’m not afraid to be vocal about my support for Israel, nor will I hesitate to stand up to those who seek to undermine Israel’s right to exist. And today, that’s what the House of Representatives did. We sent a clear message to our country and to the entire international community that the United States of America stands with Israel. And that is a message I will continue to send as long as I have the privilege of representing New York’s fourth Congressional district in Congress.

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Hindi’s Libraries Visits the Friedberg JCC

n Monday, July 22, Dovid Kanarfogel and Leslie Gang, co-founders of Hindi’s Libraries, paid a visit to the Friedberg JCC in Lynbrook where Hindi’s Libraries donated children’s books to the organization. Kanarfogel read The Little Engine That Could to the program’s toddlers and both cofounders along with Allison Fixler, Program Director, and the JCC teachers Miss Michelle S., Miss Marisa, Miss Jo, Miss Maryann and Miss Michelle G., assisted students in a dip-dot and sticker activity. Students also received a Hindi’s Libraries book to take home with them. Hindi’s Libraries is nonprofit organization that collects and donates new and gently used children’s books. Books are distributed to children and families throughout the United States. Currently we partner with more than 265 organizations, and books are shipped to locations spanning across 45 states. Each book is dedicated to Dr. Hindi Krinsky, a 32-yearold educator who suddenly passed away in August 2018.

CHAZAQ’s Groundbreaking Shidduch Initiative By: Shabsie Saphirstein

re you struggling with finding your bashert? Can you use a bit of guidance during the course of dating? CHAZAQ’s monumental Shidduch Initiative is the answer to your struggles. The mission remains clear amongst all walks of Jewish life: all singles need to find their match. Take your friends family down the block, they have a yeshivish son who is coming back from year three in Israel and is certainly of marriageable age, another son within a few years of age who qualifies as modern orthodox and has a respectable career, along with a wonderful bubbly daughter that fits right in the middle. All these wonderful children, products of your wonderful neighborhood of shuls and yeshivos, deserve the shidduch of their dreams. The responsibility to help the singles of our community find their match rests upon all our shoulders. The Young Israel of Kew Gardens Hills, 150-11 70th Road, KGH, NY, has graciously agreed to open its doors this Sunday, July 28, 2019 at 6p.m. for the opening of this remarkable community-wide project. Join singles, parents and the community at large for a spectacular gathering of tefillos and learn relevant yeshuos. The solutions exist, and they are literally at our fingertips. All participants will leave with an array of tools to successfully navigate

and expand their network throughout the entire shidduch process. Maran HaRav Chaim Kanievsky, shlit”a, is the most sought after gadol for brachos in our generation. We will have the unique privilege to hear words of chizuk from his esteemed son-in-law, Harav Yitzchok Kolodetsky, shlit”a, whose wife, Rebbetzin Leah Kolodetsky, continues in her mother’s, Rebbetzin Batsheva Kanievsky, a”h, legacy of chessed. Harav Kolodetsky is recognized in communities across the United States for his unique capabilities in shidduchim. To this end, the CHAZAQ Organization was honored with a beautiful memorandum from HaRav Kolodetsky with a haskama on behalf of his father-in-law blessing CHAZAQ with their efforts on this specific undertaking. This powerful gathering will feature a keynote address by world-renowned maggid, author and mohel Rabbi Paysach J. Krohn who is regarded for his exceptional dedication and involvement in the area of shidduchim. Take a moment and scroll through your phone contacts, talk to your community friends, and reach out to those in your family. How many single young adults do you come across? Every Orthodox shul must take upon itself the responsibility of creating a small yet effective shidduch committee that will be tasked with dissem-

inating the approved materials and coveted resources provided, monthly. From Modern Orthodox to Yyshivish, Sephardic to Ashkenazic, all segments of the community are urged to partake in this transcending display of unity and interacting. An informational session will follow where attendees will gain necessary tools to navigate and expand their network for prospective matches. There will be an opportunity to meet a slew of Torah-based prominent shidduch resources for individual guidance that have long been inaccessible to various sectors of the public. All aspects of the dating process will be touched upon from how to get set up, conduct oneself, and continue through the course of dating. As a community we are obligated to collectively unite and help our singles find their right one. There is no singular method to find one’s bashert, however, we can take advantage of the tools set before us. Some of the those showcasing success in making shidduchim include: Adopt a Shadchan’s founder, Mrs. Lisa Elephant, allows dedicated shadchanim to concentrate their time in a targeted fashion in a community-based manner pinpointing each subscribed shul. Baila Yaniv, founder of Partners in Shidduchim, who explains how everyone is empowered with finding their match their way by appointing their own shadchan and using an advanced

search filter to locate vetted singles of all ages and backgrounds as well as second-time arounders, while storing their records and ideas on one platform. The platform also offers monthly webinar training to guide their search. Marc Goldmann, the founder of Saw You at Sinai, described how his platform maintains over 250 screened and experienced shadchanim combined with sophisticated technology that reviews thousands of personalized profiles enabling one to find their bashert like its over 3,250 engaged members since inception in 2004. Margi Glatt, special projects coordinator at YUConnects, details how it is unique as it is a one-stop dating resource for all members of the Jewish community offering a matchmaking database, unique social events, educational seminars and academic research, alongside referrals, personal mentorship, and guidance. Join the CHAZAQ Shidduch Initiative this Sunday in Queens to experience these tools and many more firsthand with a new effective approach. The term shidduch crisis has long loomed throughout Jewish homes. Together, as a community, we will ensure this is an idiom of yesteryear. For more information on the vast array of CHAZAQ’s programming and the Shidduch Initiative or to sponsor in the merit of a shidduch, please contact Mrs. Odeleya Jacobs at Shidduch@Chazaq.org.

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Yeshiva Nishmas Hatorah Introduces Rabbi Michael Fink

eshiva Nishmas HaTorah is proud to introduce Rabbi Michael Fink as our new tenth grade rebbi. Rabbi Fink is an alumnus of Yeshivas Ner Yisroel in Baltimore where he learned for seven years. He then learned in Eretz Yisrael for ten years; first under Reb Tzvi Kaplan, and then in the illustrious Kollel Tiferes Tzvi (Brisker Kollel) under the guidance of Rabbi Moshe Aaron Rosengarten. In 2013 he was invited to join Yeshivas Ohr Hachaim as a shoel u’meishiv and maggid shiur in the mesivta. His warmth, enthusiasm, and love of life draw his talmidim close to him as their rebbe and role model. Rabbi Fink joins the Yeshiva as it continues its mission of building a strong connection between talmidim and their neshama. Yeshiva Nishmas Hatorah has a kollel, beis me-

drash, and mesivta. All three facets of the yeshiva come together to offer a unique setting where talmidim can connect and grow together. To learn more about the yeshiva please visit nishmashatorah.org.

A Notable Honor

tudent athlete, Estee Ackerman, 17, of West Hempstead, was recognized and honored on Monday, July 15, 2019 by Legislator Vincent T. Muscarella, during a Committee Meeting at the Nassau County Legislature for her incredible achievements in various table-tennis competitions around the country. Estee has recently been inducted into the Jewish Sports Heritage

Association, as the recipient of the Michael Freedman Outstanding Jewish Female High School Athlete of the Year Award. At the US Open Table Tennis Championship, held in December, she won four gold and one silver medal and most recently Estee won both a gold and bronze medal at the 2019 US Table Tennis Nationals, in Las Vegas.

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Around the Community Swimming, sports, skits and tons of smiles at Machaneh Hakayitz this week

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During the Three Weeks Ruach Day Camp is working on many chessed projects. Under the leadership of Rabbi Nafi Orlofsky, the campers wrote letters to the soldiers in Israel. The CIT/CAs will conduct their annual bake sale with the proceeds going to Gift of Unity. Camp Director Trudy Rubinstein organized the swimathon, which enables the campers to collect money for each lap that they swim and then donating the money to Chai Lifeline.

Avnet Campers Enjoy “Crazy” Fun

ow do you keep children occupied and entertained during an intense heat wave? The campers at HALB’s Avnet Country Day School were too busy having fun to notice the weather. The Agamim and Naharot girls hit the road for a sweet excursion to Hershey Park. They enjoyed a full day of rides and games while feasting on

chocolate. The boys in the G’vaot and Harim divisions set out for Six Flags Great Adventure where they experienced thrilling rides and attractions. Back at camp, it was time for Avnet’s annual “Crazy Hat Day.” Each group selected a theme and then got to work crafting hats to display on a musical march around the gym. The results included a dazzling array of designs,

and the children were eager to not only model their creations but to applaud their friends as well. Cooler temperatures returned, along with an amazing carnival, on HALB’s vast fields. Squeals of delight could be heard as children enjoyed a selection of inflatables and rides including a rock-climbing wall, soaring slide, hungry hippo game, challenging ob-

stacle course, and a relaxing train. “At Avnet, we never let the weather get in our way of keeping the fun in motion,” said Malkie Behar, director of camp operations. “We certainly make accommodations and ensure the children are hydrated, but our schedule is jam-packed and the action always continues.”

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YLX 1st Half Finale

he YLX program is just about halfway done. The first half of YLX was capped by a very special Thursday night first-half finale. Baruch Hashem the foreboding skies held out to allow for an incredible evening. As usual there was a lavish barbecue, basketball, and bonfire. In between basketball games the chevra paused for a meaningful siyum on mesechta

Chagiga made by fellow YLXer Michel Freud, who made the siyum in memory of his uncle. Sporadic celebratory dancing ensued. After that, YLX chavrusa R’ Shmuel Broderson grabbed the mic for a one-of-a-kind hip hop performance. Shmuel entertained the crowd with snappy lyrics about our fight against the yetzer hara. As the first half ends, YLXers

recalled the deep insightful sugyos they learned, including “ein od milvado,” magic shows, “verapo yerape,” and most recently “hishtadlus vs. bitachon.” The rainy Kumzits by guest performer Mordy Estohrsen was also especially memorable. There is a lot more in store for YLX for the second half, as director Rabbi Aryeh Dachs says, “We are just gettin’ started!”

YLX is a free summer program for teenagers in the Five Towns. The nightly food by YLX is sponsored by Traditions, Carlos & Gabby’s, Pizza’le and Sushi Tokyo. For more information contact Rabbi Aryeh Dachs at YIDLearningExperience@ gmail.com.

Record Heat Last Shabbos Didn’t Stop BJX from Incredible Kiruv

n July 20, 2019, Parshas Balak, the world celebrated the 50th anniversary of man landing on the moon. Man made history and accomplished the seemingly impossible by conquering new vistas in space and technology. On that same Shabbos in Brooklyn, NY, history was made at BJX (Brooklyn Jewish Xperience), the kiruv organization led by renowned mashpiim, Rabbis Yitzchok and Moshe Fingerer. On the hottest day of the year, with the real-feel index at close to 110 degrees, a Shabbaton took place for young men from secular families, some of them keeping their first Shabbos. Man did not reach the moon on this Shabbos; man reached the heavens. Shabbos has been described by many as heaven on earth. On this Shabbos, man conquered technology for 25 consecutive hours by cutting off from technology. Several students, who themselves attended public high school, and today, due to BJX are fully Shomeri Shabbos, were appointed to serve as madrichim for the Shabbaton.

Despite the extreme heat, the Shabbaton at BJX was very successful. The students kept their first entire Shabbos and loved it! These young men, who braved the boiling

heat, attend Edward Murrow and James Madison public high schools. Rabbi Moshe Fingerer had great mesiras nefesh and walked all over town in the extreme heat ensuring

the students were well taken care of and gave them a beautiful and inspiring Shabbos. Three students received “Bar Mitzvahs” on Shabbos morning. Dr. and Mrs. Avi Waldman, Neil and Barbara Kerman and Yehoshua and Sara Stein outdid themselves with extraordinary hospitality, providing the students with a Shabbos they will remember forever. Carole Kahana, a neighbor of both the Waldmans and the Kermans, credits BJX with her newfound observance which she began at age 70. Carole reflected on the Shabbaton’s success. “When I was raised, Judaism was ‘don’t.’ When you meet the right messengers, Judaism isn’t about constrictions or restrictions; it’s about freedom and expansion. The beauty of Shabbos with its 39 melachos is that it allows us to have the freedom and forget the garbage that drives us crazy all week. On Shabbos you sit back, relax and smell the flowers,” she said.

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CIT Program @ Hillel Day Camp

hey say you can’t have your cake and eat it too. At Hillel Day Camp, we are making the impossible happen. Welcome to the unique hybrid CIT program. It is truly the best of both worlds. Adolescents going into 8th and 9th grade get to experience a taste of what it is like to be a counselor, while still enjoying all of the perks of camper life. Through exceptional formal training sessions, our CITs learn the skills that are necessary to become an excellent staff member. In addition, all of our programming incorporates informal education so that our CITs enjoy a well-rounded summer. Two days a week CITs work in bunks and specialties as staff. In addition, we have a dedicated and supervised CIT-Land lounge on campus where kids can come to relax and shmooze with staff members. The other three days are divided between on-campus activities, off-campus specialties, and full day trips. Some of the places that we have visited so far are kayaking, Rye Playland, Avid Fitness, Launch, and Lawrence Country Club. We are looking forward to Six Flags, roller skating, and many more surprise activities. We are fortunate that Penina Wiener (of Elegant Events By Penina) takes time out of her busy event planning business to be our Director of CIT. She meets with her campers both individually and in

small groups to ensure that they are learning and getting the most out of their jobs. In addition, she has two talented and caring counselors who spend all day doing activities with the campers. Jack Ross, CIT boys’ counselorm loves his afternoons at Lawrence Country Club. He enjoys modeling for his campers how to use good sportsmanship while still winning championships. In addition to his athletic abilities, Jack is a talented

baal koreh and often leads the CIT private Shacharis minyan. Betzalel Englard describes his experiences in the CIT program. “Being a CIT is a very honorable job. You get to learn how to care for kids. Sometimes it may be challenging, but in the end you end up loving these kids because you have a connection and great experiences with them. Overall, I love being a CIT and everything I do here!” Another member who spends his

work time at the pool, Tani Poznanski describes his experiences as being “the best job I have ever had. In the past I have not had the best experiences with lifeguards. This gave me the inspiration to go out of my way to be a positive role model for kids. I want campers to have a safe and amazingly fun time at the pool. Thank you for such a great summer!” We hope that many of our CIT members will be the future counselors and staff members of tomorrow.

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Wills vs. Trusts: In Plain English By Monet Binder, Esq.

veryone has heard of Wills and Trusts. Most articles written on these topics, however, often presume that everyone knows the basics of these important documents. But many of us don’t – and with good reason – as they’re rooted in complicated, centuries-old law. Wills vs. Trusts: Defined A Will is a written document that is signed and witnessed. A Will is considered a “death” document as it only goes into effect when you’re no longer here. A Will: • provides for the distribution of assets owned by you, but not assets directed to others through beneficiary designations (e.g. life insurance or retirement benefits) • sends assets in your individual name or payable to your estate through the probate process • allows you to appoint permanent guardians for your minor

children • names the person you wish to settle your estate (e.g. executor or personal representative) • doesn’t always include protective Trusts for beneficiaries and tax planning because many Wills are simple 2- to 3-page documents • does nothing to prepare for incapacity or disability • tends to cost less than a Trust on the outset but costs more to settle during court proceedings after death A Trust is a legal document, and it is effective during your lifetime, during any period of incapacity or disability, and after death. Because the Trust is effective during your lifetime and you can change it, it’s referred to as a “living” document. A Trust: • has lifetime benefits • provides for the distribution of your assets • avoids probate if fully funded • provides for a successor Trustee upon your death or incapaci-

ty, someone you choose to automatically step in and take over without court intervention • allows for the management of your property – even if you’re incapacitated • enables you to keep your affairs private • often includes protective Trusts for beneficiaries and tax planning • permits you to revoke or amend your wishes during your lifetime • costs more than a simple Will on the outset but much less upon administration, while typically providing significantly more value The Probate Process: A Key Element in Deciding Between a Will and Trust One key element in deciding between a Will and a Trust is understanding the probate process. The term “probate” – which literally means “proving” – refers to the process wherein a decedent’s Will must be authenticated, outstanding legitimate

debts paid, and assets transferred to the beneficiaries. The downside is that probate can take a long time – even years – it’s expensive in many places and the entire process is completely public. Because of the public nature of probate, anyone can find out exactly who received what and how to contact them. In virtually all cases, the only upside of probate is that creditor claims are cut off. • Probate Guaranteed. If you use a Will as your primary estate planning tool, you own property in your individual name, or property is made payable to your estate, probate is guaranteed. • Probate Avoided. If you use a Trust as your estate planning tool, probate is avoided - saving your family time, money and privacy.

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Understanding Bordeaux Wine – Part I: The Secrets of Pomerol By Gabriel Geller Royal Wine/Kedem

everal months ago, the most recent issue of DiVine Magazine published an article written by yours truly, focusing on my visit to the kosher wine producing Chateaux in Bordeaux. Discussing my journey was essentially about relating my experience exploring ancient castles and mansions, which have been producing wines since the Middle Ages. Many of those wineries carry hundreds of years of history and tradition. If there ever was a people who respect and appreciate the importance of history and tradition, it’s the Jewish People. Bordeaux is a legendary wine region, a source of inspiration for wineries and winemakers all over the world. Most of the world’s better-known wine grape varieties either come from Bordeaux or were developed there including Merlot, Cabernet Sauvignon, Cabernet Franc, Petit Verdot, Malbec, Sauvignon Blanc, and Sémillon. The region is named after the city of Bordeaux, in the south west of France, which is located close to the Atlantic Ocean and the Spanish border. The land area of the Bordeaux wine region is approximately 450 square kilometers, with about 12,000 acres under grapevines. The region is home to multiple appellations and sub-appellations, some of which are

well-known like Margaux, Saint Julien, Pomerol, Pauillac, Pessac-Léognan, or Sauternes. Others sound less familiar to most people, such as Entre-deux-Mers, Moulisen-Médoc, or Fronsac. While Bordeaux has been producing some of the world’s most revered wines for many centuries, these wines were almost unheard of for the kosher drinkers until about 40 years ago. The real change came in 1988, when the first kosher wine (from the 1986 vintage) produced by the Barons Edmond &amp; Benjamin de Rothschild’s Château Clarke was released, and that is when the French kosher wine revolution began. Subsequent to the Rothschilds’ 30-year-old vision, kosher wines have been made at world-famous, and less famous wineries from almost every Bordeaux appellation. These appellations often have funny sounding names, which are difficult to pronounce for those not fluent in French. Most of them are called “Château Something,” often with a picture of an old castle straight out of a fairy tale printed on the label. Yet their prices vary from $10 to $250 (and a lot more for non-kosher wines). So what makes one Bordeaux wine different and or better from the next? Many have no idea really, so I decided it was time to create a platform to discuss the fascinating, yet complicated region. After reading my series you will be

able to walk into your local wine shop with an arsenal of knowledge about each appellation. Over the coming couple of months, we will review and summarize in these pages the most interesting facts and characteristics of each of the major Bordeaux appellations. Bordeaux wine country is divided into two main regions: the Left Bank and Right Bank, referring to both banks of the Gironde estuary which connects to the Dordogne and Garonne rivers. The river intersects through the entire area, including the city of Bordeaux itself. The Right Bank is the entire area northeast of the river, while the Left Bank is the area extending southwest of the river. Eight out of the 9 major and most prestigious appellations of Bordeaux have been included in one of three official classifications: 1. The 1855 classification of the wines of the Médoc includes the famous appellations of Pauillac, Margaux, Saint Julien, Saint-Estèphe, Haut-Médoc. Sauternes is also included as a separate region, situated south of the Médoc. 2. The 1953 classification of the wines of Graves includes the appellation of Pessac-Léognan. It is located in the Left Bank, as well. 3. The 1955 classification of the wines of Saint-Emilion, which is in the Right Bank. Let’s start our discussion with the appellation of Pomerol: Pomerol is the only major Bordeaux appellation which has no classification at all. It is also one of the smallest appellations, so small that one can walk within minutes from any of the few hundred Pomerol wineries to the next. Small yet mighty, Pomerol is home to some of the most respected Bordeaux wineries, such as Château Trotanoy, Vieux Château Certan, or

Château La Conseillante. The most famous Pomerol is called Pétrus, which has been cited in countless books and novels, and has become a symbol of luxury all over the world. Pétrus produces a very rare wine topping nearly every year the ratings of most wine critics, and it can retail for as much as $3,000 a bottle on release. The kosher consumer as yet to have the luxury and honor of having a kosher wine from Pétrus. The dominant grape variety in all of the Right Bank wines is Merlot, which is often blended with some Cabernet Franc and more rarely Cabernet Sauvignon, Malbec, or Petit Verdot. However, many Pomerol wines are made of 100% Merlot and you may be wondering why. This is where the importance of terroir comes into play. Terroir is a French word best explained as meaning “a sense of a place,” as it highlights the successful integration and acclimation of specific species, such as animals, plants, trees, and in this case grape varieties in a place. The terroir provides the ideal mix of soil type and climate for these specific varieties to thrive. The soil in Pomerol is

rich in gravel, and clay, boasting the highest concentration of blue clay in the world. The climate in Pomerol is mild to moderately warm during the growing season which runs from May through October. Day and night temperatures average 55 to 80 degrees Fahrenheit, with moderately cold winters where temperatures are rarely falling below 40F. These conditions allow the Merlot and Cabernet Franc grape vines to produce the highest quality grapes. The wines of Pomerol are often described as feminine, as they typically show flavor profiles combining elegance, power, complexity and generosity, as well as red fruits and floral characteristics. While Pétrus never made kosher wine, there are however several prestigious wineries in Pomerol that produce or have produced excellent kosher runs of their internationally acclaimed wines, and I would like to share here my personal impressions on some of them. Château Montviel, Pomerol, 2016: Part of the estates owned and operated by the highly respected Vignobles PéréVergé, which also produces the very rare Château La Violette. Deep garnet towards royal purple at the rim. On the nose, aromas of warm, ripe raspberries, black cherries, dried violets, fresh mint, toasted oak and freshly rolled cigars. Medium-plus in body,

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Around the Community with a rich, layered, and velvety texture. On the palate, notes of crushed raspberries, black plums, followed by graphite and tobacco leaves, medium acidity, with mouth-draping, teeth-staining tannins (but not firm, harsh or aggressive in any way) as well as notes of chocolate-covered cherries on a long, elegant and plush finish. 14% Abv. Delicious wine, somewhat approachable now for those who’d either like to taste, follow and evaluate the potential or those that like their wine on the primary fruit notes but best 20232030, perhaps longer. Château Royaumont, Lalande de Pomerol 2016: Lalande de Pomerol is a small, neighboring appellation which shares most of the same terroir as Pomerol. Also made by Vignobles PéréVergé. Deep ruby towards purple in color. On the nose

leafy, earthy minerals. Medium to full-bodied, the texture is somewhat juicy then turns creamy, nice baby fat indeed. On the palate, ripe red cherries, red currants, strawberries, great purity of fruit, nicely austere yet seductive with fresh, elegant fruit, hints of citrus, medium-plus acidity with powdery tannins and notes of bark on the very long and silky finish. Textbook Pomerol feminine elegance. 14% Abv. Drink 2022 to 2030.

ripe raspberries, blueberries and plums, as well as wet earth, smoky oak, and hints of green foliage. Medium, perhaps medium to full-bodied, with on the palate loads of black juicy plums, pencil shavings, tobacco leaves, smoky wild mushrooms, ripe strawberries, rich earth, medium-plus acidity with notes of bark and mouth coating

tannins on the long, rich and lush finish. Patience is required again here, but it should be rewarded accordingly. 14% Abv. Drink 2023 to 2030. Château Fayat, Pomerol, 2015: Deep ruby red, with on the nose juicy red currants, red cherries, earthy mushrooms,

Château Le Caillou, Pomerol, 2015: Deep ruby in color. On the nose, dried strawberries, wet forest floor, earthy minerals, green foliage and cold tobacco. Medium-bodied, elegant, with tart red berry fruit, hints of earth, graphite, mocha, medium acidity, soft, somewhat rustic tannins, with notes of tobacco leaves on the moderately long finish. Very approachable and pleasantly drinking now. 13% Abv.

Drink now to 2025. Stay tuned for our next episode on the appellation of Saint-Emilion, expected in a couple of weeks. In the meantime, here is some food for thought: did you know that Cabernet Franc is a parent grape variety of both Merlot and Cabernet Sauvignon? It was indeed discovered recently through DNA testing only about 20 years ago that Merlot is the result of a crossing of two varieties: Cabernet Franc, and the very obscure Magdeleine Noire des Charentes. Cabernet Sauvignon, on the other hand, is the result of the crossing of Cabernet Franc and Sauvignon (Blanc). If you have any questions on this article, or about wine in general and kosher one in particular, I would be happy to answer them and discuss. You may contact me by email at: GGeller@kedem.com.

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This Week TJH Speaks with... 1, 2, 3…8 weeks of amazing summer fun! For two months of the year our children bask in the sun, swimming, singing, and soaking up the fun every day. How are they spending their time away from their desks? In this annual feature series we speak with camp directors and head counselors to learn more about our community’s amazing, spectacular, incredible, marvelous, unbelievable (you get the point!) camps.

Camp Atara

By Susan Schwamm

Camp Atara was one of the first all- girls camp in the Far Rockaway/Five Towns neighborhood. Rabbi Weitman, a”h, wanted to ensure that his talmidos had an appropriate place to spend their summer! Parents, teachers and mechanchim all know how uplifting a summer can be for a child and Rabbi Weitman a”h took it upon himself to watch over his beloved talmidos 12 months a year and not simply the school year calendar. Throughout the past 20 years or so, hundreds and thousands of girls have enjoyed their summers in Camp Atara. Recently, Camp Atara hired a new director, Mrs. Aliza Yurman. Mrs. Yurman carved out some time to speak with us about Camp Atara: “Where every princess wears a crown!” The girl s who go to Camp Atara have the best time. Tel l us a bit about it.

Camp Atara is a name that is well-known to the community! Many women and girls can share their fond memories of summers spent in Camp Atara. Camp At a ra is run out of t h e magn i fi c e n t To r a h Academy

for Girls campus. We have an oversized building, an air-conditioned gym, an in-ground pool and an amazing waterpark! The classrooms are big and spacious. The pre-school classrooms are custom-made for our young ones and are equipped with all necessities.

The campus fantastic! I know your head staff puts their hearts and soul s into giving the girl s a great summer.

I have the most amazing and hard-working team! In Camp Atara, our head staff is one fantastic family and we are successful because we work as a team. To help balance all the responsibilities and details of camp, I have split the workload between two individuals: Bracha Gluck, the program director, and Aliza Schwadel, the head counselor. Bracha Gluck has previously spent many years in camp and came with a rich knowledge of organized programming. She

begins planning trips eight months in advance to ensure that our campers get first dibs on all the amazing available trips. Aliza Schwadel has been a head counselor and program director for many summers and in several different types of camp. Whether it is a bungalow colony camp or local day camps, she truly knows how to create a special ruach in camp. Aliza Schwadel comes with years of creativity because of her role as G.O. Coordinator in Machon Sara High school.

What are the different divisions in Camp Atara?

We have our pre-school division, which consists of nursery, kindergarten and Pre-1A. To ensure that our little ones receive the attention they deserve and need, we have an amazing division head who is an experienced morah and a staple in Camp Atara, Morah Faye Metz! We have a middle division which consists of grades 1-3 and our old-

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are dancing their way to their bunkrooms where they then daven. In the morning there are three activities followed by lunch. Lunch in Camp Atara is one fun party! While the campers are enjoying their tasty lunches, they listen to our amazing

e r d i vision, which is 4 t h -5 t h grade. They are under the careful watch of Morah Aliza Schwadel and their highly capable counselors. Lastly, we have an amazing traveling camp for girls going into grades 6-7 called Atara Adventurers. Atara Adventurers spend three days of the week on full day trips. The other two days they enjoy the amazing specialties Camp Atara has to offer them. This division is under the auspices of a seasoned 7 th grade teacher and an individual with several years of camp experience, Mrs. Tehila Ben-ari. When I refer to my amazing team it includes all the women mentioned above and of course all our fabulous specialties and counselors. Together we make up the Atara family!

What’s a “typical ” day like at Camp Atara?

There truly is no such thing as a typical day in Camp Atara. We work very hard to always have a special and unique thing taking place on a daily basis! However, I will try my best to describe the basics. The buses begin to pull into camp at around 8:37a.m. and the campers are greeted by the head staff. Once the buses have all pulled in, the fun begins! Aliza Schwadel does line-up with all the bunks. They begin with the basic cheers, a bit of aerobics, and end off with our very own Camp Atara Morning Song! By the time the bunks are dismissed, they

“By the end of the summer the campers - and staff - will know the four camp songs with motions and seven dances to seven different songs.” Camp Atara lunch song. Once our campers are finished eating, campers and staff will stand up and dance around the room to our camp song and all our camp Atara dances! The ruach in the room is palpable and makes lunch one of the highlights of the day. After lunch there are an additional three activities. O nc e a week our pre-school division has a special activity, which is a game or project based on the

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week’s theme. On Thursday, the middle and upper division enjoy their special activity. This past week we tie-dyed pillows and made tasty smores for special activity.

What are these Camp Atara dances that you mentioned before?

In Camp Atara, once a week, every bunk has a dance activity. In dance, every bunk will learn a dance to the same song and then we play those songs during lunch and dance along! By the end of the summer the campers – and staff – will know the four camp songs with motions and seven dances to seven different songs.

That sounds like so much fun! Can you describe some of your activities and specialties?

We enjoy a variety of over 12 specialties throughout the week. Over the course of the week, every bunk enjoys baking – twice! All campers sharpen their artistic tools in canvas painting and scrapbooking. We have swimming,

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Of Camp Atara CDs playing in cars and homes Fun-filled activites

Amazing camp specialties

Incredible place to spend your summer in a true Bais Yaakov environment!

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sports, waterpark, food decorating, shiur, dance, team building, and so much more! Our aquatics program is run by Mrs. Shoshana Heinemen. The campers enjoy free swim as well as professional instructional swim. For the upper division we have, new for this summer, jewelry making and never seen before ROBOTICS! The campers are building their very own robots from Lego and are then programming them to make them move. For our pre-school division, they enjoy additional sensory activities such as pre-school art and creative movement. Another special activity new to Camp Atara this summer is team building! Team building is led by Mrs. Ariella Newman, MSW, and every week they play different games or work through different obstacle courses to encourage all the girls to work together. This has really allowed the bunks to become a close unit and work b’achdus.

door to a different place or thing. Our first week we opened a car door and all the activities throughout the week were car-related. The next week we opened the door to a party and had a week of celebrations! From birthday parties to mock weddings, it is always a party in Camp Atara!

Tel l us about your amazing trips.

Our trip schedule is exciting and fun! The preschool division goes on trips bi-weekly, and the other weeks we bring in entertainment. Recently, the pre-school went to Lollibop and then the following week enjoyed Torah Tots. The middle and upper divisions enjoy trips weekly to places such as Bounce, bowling, Bouncers and Slydos, Artistic Stitch, Plaster Galaxy, Denos Wonder Wheel, and the list continues! Atara Adventurers just returned from their amazing time in Hershey Park. Our trips are very exciting and most importantly age-appropriate so the campers can really enjoy themselves!

I love that idea! Do you have a spe- Is there anything special you do during the Three Weeks cial theme or the Nine Days? Yes! From the beginning of the summer this year? Our t heme t h i s year is “openi n g doors in Camp Atara!” Every week we open the

grades 3-5 have been working on a very meaningful cantata performance; a performance of song and a play! The theme this year is mechila. It is beautiful to see the girls work together and practice lines with each other. Additionally, many bunks will package items for hospitals and the girls in Atara Adventurers will be visiting nursing homes and doing several other chassadim.

What makes Camp Atara unique?

There are many things that set us apart from

other camps. Camp Atara is in a huge building and b”H has several bunks and many campers. It may seem like a big camp where a camper is simply a number but in Camp Atara we know every camper’s name, bus number, neighborhood where they live and school. We worry about the needs of the entire camp and every individual camper. In Camp Atara our goal for the summer is for all our campers to have a “geshmak” time! We sing and dance our way to activities and you can feel the positivity in the air. The smiles are simply contagious.

Is there a refrain you hear constantly around camp?

There is a phrase we always hear: “In Camp Atara, where each princess wears a crown.” This is a line from our theme song and it seems to be a catchy line. Campers of all ages walk around humming that tune a n d dancing to the motions. This summer we g a v e out all four of our c a mp songs on a CD with an a cappella version as well. Now the girls can sing and dance all night long.

Mrs. Yurman, I can hear those camps songs being sung al l over campus. Thank you for speaking with us. Enjoy the rest of your summer!

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Camp Funshine By Susan Schwamm

Going to camp when you’re young is nonstop fun if you’re in Camp Funshine. Located in North Woodmere, Camp Funshine provides miles of smiles for more than 150 children in our community. Whether it’s singing, swimming or heading out on trips, these youngsters can’t stop giggling the whole summer through. This week we spoke with Suri Feuchtwanger, Camp Funshine’s director, to learn more about all the fun. Suri, Camp Funshine has been around for a whil e. Tel l us what’s different this year. Camp Funshine is in its sixth year but it underwent some significant changes last summer that we continued to build upon this year to bring the camp to the next level! We have added more specialties

this year. In addition to our amazing Creat ive Movement, Stor y telling, and Art specialties, we have Art and Ballet for our Pre1A girls and a Sports Specialty for our Pre1A Boys. Additionally, we have professional swim instruction with two experienced lifeguards. Last summer over 30 children, ages 4-5, learned to swim! Our bunks have already gone on two amazing trips this summer, including Spring Gymnastics and Once Upon a Treetop. We are also going to Cup of Fun, Woodmere Lanes Bowling, 7-Eleven, Berrylicious, Bounce U, and an amazing water park trip. We offer weekly shows/ entertainers, delicious hot catered lunches, extended hours, and so much more!

It sounds like a blast! How many campers enjoy Camp Funshine?

We have 160 adorable 2½- to 5½-year-old campers this summer. We offer bunks for boys and girls going into playgroup, nursery, kindergarten and Pre1A. The real differentiator of Camp Funshine is that we offer the perks of a large camp but the personal attention of a small camp! It’s truly the best of both worlds. Our incredible head staff knows the names of each and every child. Our amazing program director crafts each activity so that it is tailored to that specific age group. This allows each child to succeed and feel accomplished at the end of the activity.

Tel l us about your amazing staff.

Our staff hiring begins in October. We spend

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months going over applications and holding interviews to ensure we get the best counselors to fit our little campers’ needs. We pride ourselves in placing the perfect ratio of children to staff in each bunk. We have 4 to 5 staff members per bunk, with every bunk having an adult as a main morah. Our morahs and counselors are incredibly warm and loving. We have parents telling us on a daily basis how thrilled they are with their child’s morah. Our staff begins the day showing their campers how much they’re loved. Every morning we have a carpool line where 20 members of our staff are standing outside, rain or shine, to personally greet by name and escort every single child into the building. Our morahs truly go above and beyond to make sure each and every child is having the best day and the best summer.

How do you make the campers feel at home and excited to come to camp every day?

Camp Funshine’s slogan is “Funshine: Where Every child Shines.” We take our motto very seriously. We provide lots and lots of love to each and every camper. The campers want to come back every day to see their bunkmates and their morahs. Prior to the start of camp, we send out our amazing jam-packed calendar of events. We have two large copies of the calendar hung up in high traffic areas in camp as well. The children love looking at it to see what’s in store for the upcoming week! We also create multiple dress-up days that allow the campers to display their creativity, such as

Pajama Day, Opposite Day, Animal Dress Up Day, and Grand Shabbos Party.

How is the day structured?

We begin our day with a rotation of free play structured activities while the campers arrive and settle in. Each bunk is equipped with a Bluetooth music system to allow for streaming of kid-friendly Jewish music. We let the children take turns being “DJs” and selecting their favorite songs (our new Camp Funshine Opposites theme song is a favorite).

to our designated carpool rooms to receive an ices and get ready for 3:30 pick up. Some children get an extra hour of fun in our extended aftercare option which is a huge hit with working mothers who need that extra coverage!

The chil dren are young. How do trips work?

Our younger nurseries always stay back in camp. That’s why we have weekly shows or enter-

BY THE NUMBERS “Laughter and giggles are always present.” As soon as 9:30 hits, the rotation of activities begins! We offer a variety of specialties, crafts, and an amazing water park area. We have a multitude of shallow pools, water tables, water toys, large inflatable water slide, and our brand-new sw imming pool for instructional swim. We have a room with four inflatable bounce houses and ball pits and over 40 assorted rideon toys for all ages of fun. Throughout the day, our summer theme of Opposites is incorporated in many fun and creative projects and activities. We begin packing up at 3p.m. and head

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Shows! Carpools

Pony rides

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credible head counselor, have been teaching the campers the new Camp Funshine theme song. Laughter and giggles are always present. We do all we can to encourage it on a minute-by-minute basis. You can always hear these songs in the hallways. Another refrain we constantly hear is: “Is it time for swimming yet?” The pool is the highlight of many of our campers’ day. They absolutely love the large inflatable water slide, our many water toys, and our new swimming pool

tainers. This summer we are bringing an incredible group of shows to camp like a petting zoo, a magician, a juggler, a wacky science show, a Goowins Balloowins show, and a Morah Music concert. We take the kindergarten and Pre1A bunks on a variety of trips on our air-conditioned buses. Each trip is handpicked to be age-appropriate and completely geared to their abilities. We choose places that are self-contained and situate a staff member at the entrance and exit at all times. Our campers and staff wear their adorable green Camp Funshine T-shirt and have their matching Camp Funshine water bottles. We take attendance multiple times throughout the day and always have our morahs spread out throughout the facility to offer assistance. Our campers know that anyone in a green staff shirt can help them. This way, they’re having a blast while they stay safe.

As you walk around camp, what are three things that you hear the most throughout the day?

That’s easy. Singing, laughter, and pool talk. Our campers love to sing the most adorable songs with their morahs! Morah Tzippy, our amazing assistant director, and Morah Shani, our in-

“Our morahs trul y go above and beyond to make sure each and every child is having the best day and the best summer.” with instructional lifeguards. Getting the campers out after their time is up isn’t an easy feat!

What are the kids’ favorite lunches?

We use a professional caterer so the kids enjoy a variety of delicious, nutritious hot meals. Some of the biggest hits were pizza with watermelon, franks ‘n blanks with rice, and yummy fish sticks with mashed potatoes. We always have a vegetable, fresh bread, and plain noodles for our pickier eaters. We offer cold water throughout the day, as well as a variety of alternating drinks for lunch such as

fruit punch, iced tea, and lemonade. We end our amazing day with yummy ices.

Give us the top activities at Camp Funshine.

That’s easy – all of our specialties, which include Food Art, Creative Movements, Storytelling, Arts and Crafts, Ballet, and Sports. They’re all pretty self-explanatory, except Storytelling, so I’ll explain what that is. We have the incredible Morah Leah Gordon whho reads the campers a new book every week. Each book has an important lesson to be learned. Morah Leah brings in different modalities to reenact each story with the campers. She teaches them songs and does a craft project with them based on the story. When Morah Leah is in the room, you’re guaranteed to hear laughter filling the room.

Is there a theme this year?

Our theme this summer is “Opposites”! The list of opposites is endless, which lets us enhance the preschool experience with hands-on, fun activities. Up & down, day & night, hot & cold, hello & goodbye, big & little, dirty & clean, happy & sad are just a small list of our many opposite-themed weeks this summer. Campers make daily projects and perform activ ities to complement the theme.

Suri, it’s been exhil arating hearing about the Camp Funshine experience. Enjoy the rest of the summer!

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Icecreamologist Quiz In honor of National Ice Cream month, Baskin-Robbins partnered with taste and smell expert Dr. Alan Hirsch, founder of the Smell & Taste Treatment and Research Foundation, to associate personality traits that might correspond with its most popular flavors. Think you are an icecreamologist? See if you can match the flavors with their devotee’s associated behaviors.

A. Scrupulous, conscientious and a moral perfectionist

2. Chocolate

B. Generous, competent and a go getter

3. Very Berry Strawberry

C. Analytic, decisive and a pessimistic

4. Mint Chocolate Chip

D. Impulsive, easily suggestible and an idealist

5. Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough

E. Tolerant, devoted and an introvert

6. Coffee

F. Argumentative, frugal and cautious

7. Chocolate Chip

G. Dramatic, lively, charming and gullible

8. Rainbow Sherbet

H. Ambitious, competitive and a visionary

9. Rocky Road

I. Aggressive, engaging and a good listener

8. C

1. Vanilla

9. I 7. B 6. A 5. H 4. F 3. E 2. G

Riddle me this? What saying can you infer from these phrases?

1. D

You gotta be kidding The young man entered the ice cream shop at the amusement park and asked, “What kinds of ice cream do you have?” “Vanilla, chocolate, strawberry,” the girl wheezed as she spoke, patted her chest, and seemed unable to continue.

Fair ice cream Impartial pudding

“Do you have laryngitis?” the young man asked sympathetically.

Honorable jelly

“Nope,” she whispered, “just vanilla, chocolate, and strawberry.”

Righteous cake See answer to the right

Answer to Riddle Me This: Just desserts.

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So You Wanna Be an Ice Cream Seller? It takes more than simply knowing how to get the perfect swirl to be an ice cream salesman or saleswoman. Frozen desserts come in many forms. Each of the following foods has its own definition, and many are standardized by federal regulations. You don’t want the Department of Justice to come after you for misrepresenting your delicious products to your customers, do you? So brush up on your knowledge by matching the dairy frozen treat with the right description.

D. Must contain a minimum of 10 % milkfat, as well as at least 1.4 % egg yolk solids.

C. A frozen novelty such as a water ice on a stick.

E. Consists of a mixtu re of dair y ing redients. By federa l law, it m ust contain a t least 10% milkfat, b efore the addition of bulky ing r e dients, and must weig h a minim um of 4.5 pounds to the gallon.

F. Similar to sherbets, but contains no dairy ingredients.

G. Ha s a conmilkfat etween tent of b %, and a 1% and 2 weethigher s slightly n ice tent tha n o c r e en cream. of inimum m a s h Weig gallon s to the d n u o p 6 her ored eit v a fl is and er it or oth with fr u rizing characte nts. ingredie

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7. Novelties

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5. Sorbet

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4. Gelato

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2. Frozen Custard

B. Characte rized by a intense fl n avor and semi-fro is ser ved zen state in a that is sim ser ve” ice ilar to “so cream. It ft alian-sty than ice le is more cream, sin d c e e nse it has les uct. Ty pic s air in th ally, it ha e prods more m and also ilk than c contains r eam sweetene rs, egg yolks and flavoring .

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Torah Thought

Parshas Pinchas By Rabbi Berel Wein

Menachem Begin with the Lubavitcher Rebbe

udaism constantly stresses the importance and worth of the individual. Even though there are billions of people living on our planet, the worth of the individual should not be diminished by this fact. In the Torah reading of this week the L-rd informs Moshe that it was the action of one individual â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Pinchas â&#x20AC;&#x201C; that saved hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of Jews from destruction. The bold and audacious act of one individual had the power and ability to turn away, so to speak, the wrath of G-d from the Jewish people at a moment of crisis. Positive acts of individuals that are bold and different do not usually result in public approval. In fact, many times that individual is roundly criticized by the general public and his behavior is seen to be incorrect, if not even immoral. Yet, after time passes and the situation can be studied and analyzed in the light of later events and circumstances, it may become apparent

that the criticized action of the individual was not only correct but was and is of immense value to society. As an example, from recent history, Menachem Begin was pilloried and criticized for having prevented

was really one of human salvation and enormous merit. The greatness of individuals lies in the fact that some of them are willing to swim upstream and do what is right even if it is unpopular and dangerous.

The greatness of individuals lies in the fact that some of them are willing to swim upstream.

Saddam Hussein from acquiring nuclear weapons. All the do-gooders of the world and the United Nations clucked in disapproval and threatened action against Israel for this aggressive act. A decade later, the world begrudgingly acknowledged that this act of seeming aggression

One of the rites of passage into male adult Jewish life is the institution of bar mitzvah. In a very clear way this ancient Jewish celebration reinforces the idea of the worth of each individual Jew. When we add another individual to the Jewish nation, it is not just a matter of popu-

lation and numbers. It is rather the addition of a special personality with talents that are unique to him, to a community that can and will benefit from those abilities. In our synagogue this week a wonderful young man will be called to the Torah on the day of his bar mitzvah. Having grown up in our synagogue for the past four years he is known and beloved to all of us because of his wonderful talents, great smile, and exemplary conduct. He is an individual who will undoubtedly make a mark on the Jewish community in future years. Simply by knowing and appreciating him, as the synagogue membership has done over these past few years, the synagogue has reaffirmed this fundamental idea of the importance, uniqueness and greatness of the individual. All Jewish history, in fact all human history, is really the story of individuals and of their great accomplishments and even some of their disappointing failures. Shabbat shalom.

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Parshas Pinchas Leadership – Stay in Touch By Rav Moshe Weinberger Adapted for publication by Binyomin Wolf

e learn a halacha of historical significance in this week’s parsha. Following the daughters of Tzlafchad’s request for an inheritance because their father died without sons, the pasuk (Bamidbar 27:8) says: “Speak to the children of Israel to say, ‘If a man dies, and he has no son, you shall transfer his inheritance to his daughter.’” Chazal (Yalkut Shimoni, Remez 774) teach: “The portion of inheritances should have been taught through Moshe Rebbeinu, but the daughters of Tzlafchad were meritorious and it was taught through them, for good things happen through the meritorious and bad things thorough the guilty.” Why was the daughters’ request so meritorious? They made the following claim (Bamidbar 27:4): “Give us a portion among the brothers of our father.” As background, they informed Moshe (ibid. 3), “Our father died in the desert and he was not among the assembly that banded together against Hashem in the assembly of Korach. Rather, for his own sin he died…” While we understand that Korach did not have a good reputation, why was it relevant to their claim to make sure Moshe knew their father was not a follower of Korach? It must be that all of the complaints of Korach, his assembly, Dasan, Aviram, and their ilk shared one common denominator, as we see

from their never-ending grumbling: “Is it not enough that you brought us up from a land flowing with milk and honey to cause us to die in the desert?! … You have not even brought us to a land flowing with milk and honey…” (ibid. 16:13-14). Their complaints all revolved around negativity toward Eretz Yisroel. “Let us turn around and return to Egypt” (ibid. 14:4). The daughters of Tzlafchad wanted to make sure there was no room for error. Their claim to the land was only based on a love for Eretz Yisroel and a strong desire to cling to it. They were telling Moshe that their father was not part of Korach’s assembly. Rather, his “Zionist” credentials were impeccable. They wanted Moshe to know that their claim was based on a love for Eretz Yisroel. Nothing else. Their request was not based on a desire for wealth or property. That is why the pasuk traces their lineage back to Yosef (Rashi on ibid. 27:1). Just as Yosef loved Eretz Yisroel so much that he could not bear the thought of being buried in Egypt, so too the daughters of Tzlafchad were motivated purely by a desire to connect to the land. In their request, the daughters of Tzlafchad do not even use the word “inheritance” or “property.” Rather, they only ask for a “portion.” All they wanted was to connect themselves to Eretz Yisroel. That is why they want-

ed to ensure Moshe knew that their father was not among the people who negated the Jewish people’s essential connection to Eretz Yisroel. When Hashem tells Moshe to grant their request, He tells him (ibid. 7), “The daughters of Tzlafchad speak justly.” They word “kain, justly” does not only mean that they were right. It means, as the brothers said to Yosef as viceroy, “Kainim anachnu, We are honest” (Bereishis 42:11). Although Moshe Rebbeinu was unimaginably great, on his level he had somewhat of a blind spot. He had a suspicion that these young women only wanted a portion in Eretz Yisroel as a way of accumulating wealth or status. So Hashem had to tell him, “No, these women are honest. Their desire for a connection to Eretz Yisroel is based on a pure and simple love for the land.” Moshe, on his level, failed to recognize that the daughters of Tzlafchad were not part of the old generation, with its slave mentality and inability to intellectually and emotionally separate from Egypt. They were part of the new generation who was looking forward to taking possession of the land in order to live a full Jewish life there. The truth is that we still do not understand how Moshe could have forgotten the halacha that a daughter inherits from her father when he has no sons. Is it possible Moshe never

learned this halacha from Hashem? Rashi (on Bamidbar 27:5) explains differently: “The halacha eluded him. Here, he was punished for taking the crown by saying (Devarim 1:17), ‘And the matter that is too difficult for you, bring it – takrivun – to me and I will hear it.’” Outwardly, it seems that because Moshe showed too much confidence in himself, he forgot the halacha. The pasuk therefore says about him (Bamidbar 27:5), “Moshe brought – va’yakreiv – their matter before Hashem.” Could it be that Rashi means Moshe was being punished for a modicum of arrogance? Such an explanation is highly unlikely, as Hashem Himself testifies (Bamidbar 12:3), “And the man Moshe was exceedingly humble, more than any other man on the face of the earth.” We must also understand why Moshe was punished for saying, “And the matter that is too difficult for you, bring it to me and I will hear it.” Moshe said this almost forty years earlier, when he listened to Yisro’s advice and, instead of hearing all halachic questions himself, appointed judges over tens, hundreds, thousands, and tens of thousands. So why was Moshe punished at the end of the forty years in the desert for the statement that he made to the judges almost forty years earlier?

A New Generation Perhaps we can suggest an expla-

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nation. Yisro’s advice was certainly correct. It is impossible to lead a nation by personally adjudicating every personal question and interpersonal dispute that arises in the nation. It was necessary for Moshe to delegate his authority and handle only the most difficult cases. But the natural result of this was that, as the new generation grew up over the course of the forty years in the desert, Moshe Rebbeinu had virtually no personal contact with this new generation. He was busy managing the complaints of the Egyptian-born generation who were struggling with a fear of conquering Eretz Yisroel and a misplaced nostalgia for life in Egypt. Moshe was accustomed to leading Jews immersed in an exile mentality. For entirely legitimate reasons, Moshe lacked the opportunity for a personal connection with the younger generation who were ready, willing, and able to start a new life in the land of Israel. At the end of the forty years in the desert, they were the majority of the Jewish people. The new generation, the generation of the daughters of Tzlafchad, grew up without a direct connection with Moshe Rebbeinu. Perhaps that is why Moshe was baffled by them. Their true intentions were not clear to him. He did not know whether their claim was driven by a desire for wealth or a sincere longing to connect to Eretz Yisroel. That is why Moshe forgot this halacha relating to inheritance as a result of saying, “And the matter that is too difficult for you, bring it to me and I will hear it.” It was not a “punishment” per sé. It was a natural result of the fact that Moshe was not connected to the idealism and longing for Eretz Yisroel prevalent in the new generation. There is an amazing Midrash (Yalkut Shimoni, Chukas, Remez 763) related to this point: “And you shall speak to the rock before them and it will give forth its waters” (Bamidbar 20:8). When a child is small, his teacher hits him and he learns. When he grows up, [the teacher] rebukes him with words. So too, Hashem said to Moshe: “When this rock was young, you hit it, as it says, ‘And you shall hit the rock’ (Shmos 17:6). But now, ‘And

you shall speak to the rock before them and it will give forth its waters’ (Bamidbar 20:8). Teach one chapter [of Torah] over it and it will bring forth water from the rock.” We see from this Midrash that the

A chassid of the Rachmastrivker Rebbe in Boro Park, shlita, once introduced the Rebbe to an elderly Jew, proudly explaining that this man was “ah fartzeitiker chassid, an old-fashioned chassid.” Meaning it as a great compliment, the chassid

Moshe stood upon the mountain separating the past from the future.

leaders of the new generation were obligated to lead them differently than the previous generation. It was difficult for Moshe to lead a generation that did not grow up in slavery, who did not grow up under the Egyptian whip, the same way he led the old generation. The old generation grew up being treated like property. They were beaten and expected to be obedient subjects. They unfortunately only understood the language of the whip. But the young generation grew up with freedom and a sense of self-respect. That is why Moshe was unable to lead the new generation into Eretz Yisroel. He had limited contact with the young generation and therefore did not know how to communicate with them. The generation of Eretz Yisroel was the generation of “speak to the heart of Yerushalayim and call out to it” (Yeshayahu 40:2). Moshe’s difficulty in fully connecting with the new generation was the reason why, immediately after the story of the daughters of Tzlafchad, Hashem told him (Bamidbar 27:1213), “Ascend this Mount Avarim and see the land that I have given to the children of Israel. When you see it, you too will be gathered to your people just as Aharon your brother was gathered.” The new generation needed a new leader, Yehoshua, who knew how to speak with the generation and who was in touch with the nature of the people who would enter Eretz Yisroel. Perhaps Mount Avarim refers to the avar, the past. Moshe stood upon the mountain separating the past from the future.

wanted the Rebbe to understand that his acquaintance was not one of those new-fangled chassidim, with a “they don’t make ‘em like they used to” connotation. Unimpressed, the Rebbe responded, “I don’t know what it says in your Haggadah, but in mine, it says, ‘At the beginning our forefathers were idol-worshipers… But now, the

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Holy One brought us close to His service…’ I don’t need to meet old-fashioned chassidim. I want to meet new chassidim.” May we merit to be new chassidim who live with Hashem’s will for our lives now and not merely mimic what Jews have done in the past. At the same time, may we be protected from small-minded rabbis, the “little foxes who destroy vineyards” (see Rambam, Talmud Torah 5:4), who confuse the foreign ideologies they have imbibed with a true understanding of the needs of the generation. Instead, may Hashem cause us to merit more and more leaders who are connected to the past but understand the nature of our generation and lead us according to that understanding. With that, as it says in Shmonah Esrei, “Our eyes will see Your return to Zion with mercy.” 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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Weekly Aggada And Moshe brought their cause before G-d (Bamidbar 27:5) So said Raish Lakish: Moshe Rabbeinu knew this law [i.e., the law of a daughter’s inheritance]. But the daughters of Tzlafchad first went to the judges appointed over Tens [of people]. They said, “These are laws of inheritance; this is not for judges of our tier but of judges on a higher tier.” So the daughters of Tzlafchad went to the judges appointed over Fifties [of people], who saw how the judges appointed over Tens had honored them [by deferring to them]. They, too, said, “These are laws of inheritance; this is not for judges of our tier but of judges on a higher tier.” So the daughters of Tzlafchad brought their case before the judges appointed over the Hundreds [of people], and from there to the judges appointed over the Thousands [of people], and then to the Princes – all of whom answered in the same manner (by deferring to those greater than them). So the daughters of Tzlafchad brought their case to Elazar, who exclaimed, “Behold, Moshe Rabbeinu [is here. He should answer you.]” So the daughters of Tzlafchad – now accompanied by the many judges and the Princes and Elazar – came to Moshe Rabbeinu. When Moshe Rabbeinu saw that each group had deferred to a greater one, he thought, “If I tell them the law,

I would be taking the greatness for myself.” So, instead, he declared, “There is also one greater than me!” Hence, “And Moshe brought their cause before G-d” (Bamidbar Rabba 21:12).

Weekly Mussar To Shefufam, the family of the Shufamites; to Chufam, the family of the Chufamites (Bamidbar 26:39) Shefufam refers to Binyamin’s son Mupim, who is called “Shefufam” here in tribute to Yosef, who was exiled amongst the Nations of the World (Rashi). The name Mupim, in turn, connotes “hovering” (Sifsei Chachamim). While it is understandable that Binyamin would name his son in tribute to his long-lost older brother Yosef, why choose to highlight Yosef’s interactions with the Nations of the World? Was that really his greatest feat, or even a feat worth emulating? Citing the verse, “Like an eagle that stirs its nest, upon its young ones it hovers [yerachef ]” (Devarim 32:11), R’ Shmuel Dovid Walkin, rav of Lukatch, explains that it was not so much that Yosef interacted with the Nations of the World but how he interacted with them that was praiseworthy. Through a series of Divine and miraculous turns, Yosef ended up as viceroy of Egypt, then a world superpower. That position – which his life depended on – surely required extensive engagement with

the Nations of the World and with society at-large. But while it certainly would have been easier for him to do so, Yosef never immersed himself in that society – he never mistook it as his own, and he never permitted it to define or even impact his character. He merely “hovered” over it – doing what was necessary, but making sure never to adopt society’s mores as his own. And that is indeed high praise for Yosef – and a feat worth commemorating and emulating. While life necessarily brings us into contact with society at-large – which does present opportunities for sanctifying G-d’s name – we should never mistake it for our own or immerse ourselves in it to the point that it becomes part of our character. Instead, as Yosef is praised for doing, we should engage with society but only hover about it.

Weekly Anecdote Who shall go out before them, and who shall come in before them, and who shall lead them out, and who shall bring them in; such that the congregation of G-d shall not be as sheep that have no shepherd (Bamidbar 27:17) This teaches the importance for each Jewish community to appoint a spiritual leader to guide it and to rule on questions of halacha, so that the community “is not like the blind man who stumbles in the dark” (see e.g. Biur Halacha 53:24). When the Ponovezher Rov, R’

Yosef Shlomo Kahaneman (18861969), was a teenage boy, his father very much wished for him to attend the vaunted Telze yeshiva, led by its eminent Rosh Yeshiva, R’ Eliezer Gordon (also known as “R’ Laizer Telzer”). But spots in the yeshiva were so scarce – and competition for them so fierce – that the yeshiva was forced to impose a quota on prospective students: only one student from each town (across Europe) would be admitted to study in the yeshiva each year. That quota posed a huge problem for the teenage Ponovezher Rov and his father, as there was already a student in the yeshiva from their town of Kul. But the Ponovezher Rov’s father would not be deterred, so he devised a strategy. Just outside their hometown of Kul (itself with a population of only about 300) was a tiny “dorf” (village). This “dorf” was inhabited mostly by horses and cows...and only a handful of Jews. Surely none of the Telze yeshiva’s students was from this dorf, thought the Ponovezher Rov’s father. So the young Ponovezher Rov spent a few days living in a oneroom hut in the dorf near Kul, which he now regarded as his “town.” From there, he traveled to Telze to gain entry into the yeshiva. Upon his arrival, the Rosh Yeshiva, R’ Laizer Gordon, asked the boy where he hailed from, seeing as the yeshiva had a one-student-pertown quota. The young Ponovezher Rov explained that he hailed from a tiny “dorf” outside the town of Kul. R’ Laizer stroked his beard.

“Aha. I see. And who is the rav of your ‘dorf’ near Kul?” When the young Ponovezher Rov conceded that there was no rav of this tiny dorf, R’ Laizer shot back, “A town without a rav is no town at all!” (The Ponovezher Rov was, in the end, admitted into the yeshiva.)

days when the Mussaf sacrifice had been offered (Berachos 26b). Mussaf preferably should be recited after Shacharis, but one fulfills his obligation even by reciting it prior to Shacharis (Rama, Orach Chaim 286:1). Similarly, Mussaf ideally should be recited before the

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Mussaf before sunset may not do so afterwards nor may it be made up by repeating the ensuing prayer (Shulchan Aruch, Orach Chaim 286:1). If one has not yet recited Mussaf by the time Mincha may be recited, there is a dispute as to which should be recited first. Some maintain that

Weekly Halacha And on the Shabbos day… (Bamidbar 28:9) And at the beginning of your months… (Bamidbar 28:11) On Shabbos, Rosh Chodesh, and holidays, “additional” sacrifices – “mussafin” (or a “mussaf,” in the singular) – were offered in the Bais HaMikdash to complement the ordinary daily offerings (Bamidbar 28:9-29:39). When daily prayers were instituted to replace communal sacrifices, the Mussaf prayer was instituted as well, to be recited on

“A town without a rav is no town at all!”

end of the day’s seventh hour (as the Mussaf sacrifices were to have been offered by that time), but it may be recited at any time until sunset (although one who recites Mussaf after the day’s seventh hour is termed a “sinner”) (Shulchan Aruch, Orach Chaim 286:1). Still, unlike the other, daily prayers, one who fails to recite

Mincha should be recited prior to Mussaf because Mincha is prioritized as the more frequent prayer; others argue that Mincha should be recited first only if both prayers must be recited immediately (e.g., one wishes to eat but may not do so while prayers are outstanding); yet others hold that, at least in public,

Mussaf should be recited first so as not to confuse the public (Shulchan Aruch, Orach Chaim 286:4). If one has recited neither Mussaf nor Mincha, and there is time to recite only one prior to sunset, Mussaf should be recited because Mincha may be made up with the recitation of an additional Maariv (Mishna Berura 286:13). One who mistakenly recites a different Shemoneh Esrei instead of the unique Shemoneh Esrei of Mussaf has not fulfilled his obligation (even though an “additional” prayer has been recited) (Mishna Berura 423:6). The Weekly Halacha is not meant for practical purposes and is for discussion purposes only. Please consult your own rav for guidance. Eytan Kobre is a writer, speaker, and attorney living in Kew Gardens Hills. Questions? Comments? Suggestions? E-mail eakobre@outlook.com.

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A Reason to Transcend By Shmuel Reichman

he power of intellect is one of the most misunderstood concepts in the Western world, making the concept of chukim all the more important to understand. The common understanding is that a chok is meant to be held in contrast to a mishpat. A mishpat represents a logical and rational Torah law, such as the prohibitions of murder, lying, and stealing. Such laws appeal to the human intellect and innate morality present within all human beings, irrespective of religion, race, or ethnicity. A chok, however, represents the unique group of Torah laws that seem to defy human logic and rational explanation, such as the parah adumah (the red heifer), kashrus (Jewish dietary laws), and shatnez (the prohibition of mixing wool and linen). If there is no logical explanation for these mitzvos, then what is their purpose? Why does Hashem command us to do something that seems to have no justifiable reason? One possibility is that this form of mitzvah engenders obedience and submission to Hashem’s will. A life of truth is a life aligned with a higher will, Hashem’s will. Such a life requires practice and discipline. One way to discipline yourself is by obeying laws, regardless of whether or not you understand them. Comprehension and understanding are valuable, but chukim are necessary to create a firm structure of pure obedience to Hashem’s will. However, there is another layer here as well. It is possible that while chukim

do not have any rational or logical explanation, this is true only from the viewpoint of human logic and reason. In other words, there is, in fact, a reason behind chukim, but this reason transcends human reason and logic, residing in a deep spiritual realm, far beyond our intellectual capabilities. Within this line of thinking, there is an idea that while our human intellects can’t fathom or grasp the entirety of a chok’s meaning and depth, we can grasp shards of it and scratch the surface of comprehension. A clear expression of this is the fact that many Rishonim and later commentaries attempted to give explanations for chukim, despite their supposed irrational status. This suggests some comprehensible characteristic to chukim, despite their elusive and transcendent nature.

The Nature of Intellect The topic of chukim and our ability to grasp them intellectually brings up an even bigger question, albeit a simple one: What is the nature and purpose of our intellect? And in a related question, where does the use of our intellect end? Within the influence of Western culture, the intellect holds supreme status as the be-all and end-all of truth itself. Scientists, philosophers, and atheists often claim that Judaism is dogmatic and irrational, denying logic and reason. Is this so? What is the role and purpose of intellect within Judaism? Do we reject reason, embrace it, or perhaps take some sort of middle ground?

The Vilna Gaon famously said, “Where philosophy ends, Jewish wisdom begins.” It seems, therefore, that Judaism does not reject reason and logic, but builds off of it, eventually even transcending it. Let us explore what this means. Philosophy and logic are useful, and perhaps even necessary, tools in coming to know spiritual truths. For example, one of the most famous methods of proving Hashem’s existence is the “proof by design” approach. The universe is so infinitely complex and vastly beautiful, with endless layers of depth and organization. Examine just a single human cell, and you will be astounded by its sophistication. Analyze the principles of chemistry, and you will be blown by how perfectly everything fits. The only logical reaction to a universe so organized and sophisticated is to conclude that there must be a Designer Who created it. Such a work of art does not simply happen by accident. That’s proving Hashem’s existence using your wisdom and logic. However, there are multiple problems with the use of logic, and a careful study of the previously mentioned subject shows this quite clearly. One may logically come to the conclusion of Hashem’s existence: the world is so infinitely complex; there must be a Creator behind it. However, there is a major limit to logic. Logic may help us know that Hashem exists, but it does not help us know anything about Him. We may know, through the tools of de-

duction, that there is a Creator, but the fact that we have logic does not allow us to experience Hashem, or connect with Him. This is the very nature of negative theology. Philosophers never tell you what G-d is. They only tell you only what He is not. He is not finite, emotional, or within time. But where does that leave us? It leaves us with a G-d that is unknowable and completely removed from us. Therefore, it seems that our human intellect does have boundaries, ones that actually confine us immeasurably. Moving from the specific topic of belief in G-d to a more general understanding of the human intellect, there are other clear limits to the extent that logic can and should be used. Immanuel Kant, an 18th century philosopher, revolutionized the study of philosophy by questioning the very validity of human intellect in the first place. (It is essential to point out that while in the Western world Kant is credited with this novel idea, Jewish thinkers have already been teaching this concept for thousands of years.) He proposed the following idea: the entirety of physical human experience is transmitted through our five senses. Our conception of the physical world is based solely on our personal and subjective experience. We don’t experience reality itself; we experience reality only as it is subjectively experienced through the filter of our physical senses. We imagine that sounds are the way we hear them, sight is the

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way we see them, and tastes are the way we, personally, perceive them. However, the idea that our “translation system” – our five senses – allow us to sense things as they truly are is merely an assumption. There is no way of knowing if the world as I experience it is identical to the world as it truly is. Similarly, there is no way of knowing if the world as I experience it is identical to the world as you experience it. Meaning, we could each be living in our own subjective reality Following this line of reasoning, human logic is very limited. After all, the rules of physics and logic are based on our limited perception of a physical reality. And if reality is beyond our limited intellectual perception, we may be using the wrong tools to understand the ultimate truth. This is the view that the Ramban takes, articulating this point in his commentary to Sefer Vayikra (Vayikra 16:8). The Ramban criticizes the idea of logic being the ultimate tool for obtaining the truth, using the Greek philosophers as a paradigm of those who made this mistake – they denied anything that their intellects could not grasp, anything they could not scientifically quantify. They therefore created a limited subjective truth, confined only to that which they could explain logically. The fault in this lies in the simple fact that rational knowledge is always limited. If this is true, then what did the Vilna Gaon mean when he said, “Where philosophy ends, Jewish wisdom begins”? What is it exactly that transcends reason and logic? The answer is as follows: there is a deeper form of wisdom, one that we can refer to as post-rational and experiential wisdom. This is a state of consciousness that cannot be put into words, that exists in the spiritual realm of truth, and that the intellectual and philosophical mind cannot grasp. These truths cannot be proven, but they can be known deep within the bedrock of one’s soul. This should not be confused with the irrational and should also not be confused with emotional experience. These truths do not contradict reason, they simply cannot be explained by it.

Yetzias Mitzrayim vs. Matan Torah In Daas Tevunos, the Ramchal explains that this is the very different between the miracles of yetzias Mitzrayim and the miracle of Matan Torah. The miracles of yetzias Mitz-

ing behind it but that explanation lies beyond the human intellect. This leads us to a deep revelation. The reason why many commentaries oddly enough give rational explanations to the chukim is perhaps an expression of everything we have just

The Vilna Gaon famously said, “Where philosophy ends, Jewish wisdom begins.”

rayim merely revealed Hashem’s existence. Through the ten makkos, Kriyas Yam Suf, and the miracles in the midbar, Hashem revealed to both Klal Yisrael and the world as a whole that He exists. There was, however, no experiential knowledge of Hashem, nothing other than an external awareness through experiences using our five senses. Matan Torah was a miracle of a completely different category; it was experiential, whereby each member of Klal Yisrael had a personal experience of nevuah, where each individual had a post-rational, consciousness-expanding, transcendent experience of Hashem Himself. We didn’t witness Hashem outside ourselves, we experienced Him within our consciousness, within ourselves, beyond the limitations of reason and intellect.

The Purpose of Chukim This is the purpose of a chok, a mitzvah which our intellect cannot fully grasp. It is to teach us this important principle: that truth itself lies beyond logic and reason. Logic may lead us to it, but ultimately, truth resides in a realm beyond reason. This is why chochmah (wisdom) always resides in a realm that transcends binah (intellect/logic). Intellect is the prerequisite to wisdom and truth. Only by recognizing the limitations of intellect can we ever experience a deeper truth. It is for this reason that so many commentaries do not think that a chok is only a means to submission and obedience. There is, in fact, a mean-

explained. Truth is beyond the rational or the post-rational and experiential – it contains both. Judaism does not reject the rational, but sees it as a stepping stone to something transcendent. It is used as a stage in the process. This is true of chukim as well: the rational explanations are merely an expression of their tran-

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scendent, post-rational truth. You cannot understand any deep spiritual truth without experiencing it. You can talk about Torah, spirituality, Hashem, tefillah, and mitzvos all you want but until Torah life becomes an experiential reality, one that is more than intellectual or emotional truth, it will remain limited and incomplete. The journey of a Jew is the journey of emunah, of faithfulness, of seeking out higher and more genuine expressions of truth. May we be inspired to enjoy every step of that process, to embark on a genuine journey towards truth, and to endlessly expand our experiential and existential understanding of the ultimate truth. Shmuel Reichman is an inspirational speaker who has spoken internationally at shuls, conferences, and in Jewish communities. You can find more inspirational shiurim, videos, and articles from Shmuel on Facebook and Yutorah.org. For all questions, thoughts, or bookings, please email shmuelreichman678@gmail.com.

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Disabled EMT Serves as Head of Search and Rescue Unit By Raphael Poch

ast month, United Hatzalah volunteer Eli A lmoznino orchestrated the successful search and rescue operations which found three missing people. This is something Almoznino, who heads the organization’s Search and Rescue Unit, is quite used to doing. What is astounding is that Almoznino is a disabled amputee who volunteers as an EMT and in his position as head of the unit. “Each day I wake up, and I merit to be able to save other people’s lives. I feel an incredible sense of satisfaction with what I do, so much so that I cannot put it into words,” Almoznino said. His life was altered five years ago when a woman drove her car into his while Eli was on his way to work. “I was working in Be’er Yaakov at the time, and while I was on my way to the office, a woman drove her car into mine,” he recalled. “She was on her phone and was not paying attention to what was happening on the road. What I recall from the

incident was that I opened my eyes and saw the windshield on my face. There was intense pain all over my body. From the incident, I developed Complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS), otherwise known as reflex sympathetic dystrophy (RSD),

“After I was injured, I realized that I cannot let this injury keep me from doing what I love, which is helping others,” he shared. “I continued to respond to emergencies as an EMT whenever they happened in my area. My crutches slowed me

“I won’t say that walking or running to an emergency is an easy thing.”

which rendered my right leg unusable. I have been suffering from the pain ever since and a few months ago I finally decided to have an amputation done. Since then, I’ve been walking on a prosthetic.” For years Eli was walking with crutches but he never let that slow him down.

down a bit, but after the amputation, I am much faster.” Eli – who is 42 – lives in Lod and is a father to two children. He rushes out to emergencies with his private car, which was altered to account for his disability. H related, “I recall one medical emergency that I responded to very

clearly in my mind. The dispatchers alerted me to an incident in which a baby was choking. I dropped everything and rushed over. I found a baby who was just eight months old, blue and not breathing. I immediately began to treat the child and saw a small piece of food come out of his mouth. The baby began to breathe again and started to cry. That was the greatest sound that I have heard in a long time.” “I won’t say that walking or running to an emergency is an easy thing,” Almoznino said. “Walking on a prosthetic leg is not easy at all. But I do it. I walk and I can carry a backpack or a medical kit, whatever is needed. I have to persevere because I won’t give up on my dream – which is the most important thing to me – and that is to always help others and be there for them when they have an emergency. “Whether that is as an EMT or commanding the Search and Rescue Unit, it is my passion to help others whenever they need help.”

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Inspiring

a Generation of

Chessed By Malky Lowinger

obody can deny the importance of doing chessed. Since the time of Avraham Avinu, it’s part of our legacy, embedded in our DNA. During the Three Weeks especially, when we concentrate on our actions bein adam l’chaveiro, we are encouraged to reach out to our brothers and sisters and help them in any way we can. While many schools, camps and youth groups offer a chessed program as part of their curriculum, are these programs really inspiring our young people? Will it encourage them to become ba’alei chessed years down the road? Areyvut, an innovative chessed organization, brings this mitzvah to a whole new level. Founded in 2002, Areyvut works closely with schools, families, and organizations to craft tailor-made chessed programs in a meaningful and powerful way. The goal is to give Jewish youth the opportunity to become

thoughtful and giving members of their community. So far, Areyvut has touched the lives of 35,000 young people in schools and youth groups across the country. Rabbi Daniel Rothner, founder and director of Areyvut, was a teacher at HAFTR and Heschel Middle Schools when he had his “aha!” moment. “At HAFTR,” he says, “I did a number of special initiatives and programs. Lightbulbs went off in my head when it became apparent to me that chessed and kindness are core Jewish values that should be natural and organic for these students.” He realized that no one was addressing this at the time, and yet it was so crucial to the education of the students. “If I teach my class how the Shevatim were set up in the midbar, chances are that nobody will remember that years later. But if you ask them about the carnival we did on behalf of special needs kids, they will certainly remember,” he notes. “Experiential learning is a powerful tool and resource for us.” Rothner established Areyvut,

which essentially is a consulting agency and think tank for chessed programs. Rothner is determined to encourage young people who are full of energy and enthusiasm to develop a love and a passion for helping others. According to Areyvut’s website, “Our unique, meaningful and tailor-made programs inspire youth to get involved within their communities in ways they have never imagined, while also helping them to realize the immense power they have to make their communities and the world at large a better place.” The key to Areyvut’s success, says Rothner, is that programs are customized to the needs of the individual schools. Chessed is not one size fits all. Once a school contacts Areyvut, the primary goal is to assess the needs of its specific student body. “We want to make it meaningful to them so we can determine what their interests are. We ask them about their goals and objectives, and we design the program accordingly. Some prefer a hands-on experience, others prefer fundraising, and so on. A program in one shul

can be entirely different than one in a neighboring shul.” Most of Areyvut’s programs, says Rothner, are directed towards middle school and high school students but there are also early childhood and family education programs, “so it certainly runs the gamut.” Areyvut also organizes bar and bat mitzvah projects and Israel family tours. From mitzvah clowning in senior centers to donating sports equipment to organizing food drives, there is a large and varied list of options to choose from. Since September of this year, Rothner estimates that Areyvut has already made an impact on over forty organizations. “We are certainly a resource to the community,” he says. “Our objective,” shares Rothner, “is to engage people as much as possible in a way that is meaningful for them and their families.” And, he adds, to hopefully ensure that these youngsters will continue to do acts of kindness as adults. Rothner is thrilled when he learns that a bar mitzvah boy who did a project with him several years ago is to-

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day still connected with that organization and volunteers with them when he comes home for college winter break. That is his greatest nachas. In order to ensure that chessed projects are engaging and productive, Rothner recommends that they should be carefully thought-out. He advocates for chessed to become an integral part of the educational experience. “We don’t highlight it enough, but it’s what brings communities together,” he observes. Rothner shares some of his innovative chessed ideas with The Jewish Home.

“The more smiles and the more chessed we do, the better off the Jewish people and the whole world will be.” Philanthropy

Philanthropy, says Rothner, is about much more than writing out a check. It’s also about responsibility and accountability. “We developed a teen philanthropy program,” says Rothner. “Everyone gets a hundred dollars, and we create a system in which the kids learn to identify various organizations they are willing to fund. They are taught how to evaluate an organization and how to google the percentages and statistics, which is something many adults don’t even know how to do. Then they develop the sensitivity to determine where there is a dire need and to whom to

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allocate funds. And all this time, they are learning leadership and teamwork skills they never knew they had.” Rothner adds that once the organizations are decided upon, “we always try to do a hands-on chessed project with that program or volunteer for that agency. This teaches the kids that while the funding is important, it’s not just all about the money.”

Mitzvah Clowning

Mitzvah clowning, says Rothner, is a really powerful program because it teaches important communication and role-playing skills which “will impact these kids for the rest of their lives.” The best mitzvah clowning programs, he adds, are the ones in which parents and children participate together. Rothner explains that this program differs significantly from Lev Leytzan, an organization that sends highly trained mitzvah clowns to visit hospital patients. “Their training is more intensive,” he points out. Areyvut also trains its clowns, but they generally visit senior centers where the children learn how to be sensitive when interacting with the facility’s staff as well as its residents. Mitzvah clowning, he cautions, is not for everyone. But for those who do it, “it’s a higher level of engagement as well as a wonderful opportunity to learn basic people skills.”

Chessed with the Family

The check presentation from the H.O.P.E. Teen Philanthropy program

Individual canvases designed at a recent Paint for a Purpose event

Chessed is powerful, says Rothner, but it can be even more powerful if families work together. “Every family gives tzedaka,” Rothner points out, “but how many parents engage their kids?” He encourages parents to include their children when delivering food packages, visiting hospital patients, or organizing an upcoming event. Parents might also want to consider involving their children in the decision-making process when fifty tzedaka envelopes come in the mail. “Sit down with them and say, ‘Which ones should we give to? A large organization? An individual family? A special program where our donation would make a more profound impact?’ Let them feel empowered.”

You Matter

Sometimes chessed isn’t about the time or the money. Sometimes it’s

Areyvut has partnered with Billy’s BASEballs to send baseballs with messages of hope to soldiers overseas

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about letting someone know that they matter. Literally. That’s why Areyvut has intro-

duced “You Matter” cards to be distributed by schoolchildren to brighten up someone’s day. Cards can be

Messages of kindness

given to a teacher, a bus driver, a classmate, even a random stranger – basically anyone who needs a quick pick-me-up. “It’s a vehicle to spread cheer and hakorat hatov,” Rothner explains. “The impact is so simple but also so powerful and inspiring.”

Inspiring a New Generation

Areyvut is all about encouraging and molding youngsters into becoming caring and giving adults. “We can take a thousand dollars and send it to a food pantry,” says Rothner, “and that’s fine. But what if we did an educational program that taught kids what it means to be hungry? What if we developed a yom iyun about hunger? Then that thousand dollars is a real investment in the future.” Rothner remembers when a principal called him a few weeks after his school had participated in a program about hunger. “He told me that the students saw a homeless person in Grand Central Station and offered him food.” These youngsters developed a sensitivity and will probably never look at hunger quite the same way again. “Lots of school and organizations do a food drive,” says Rothner. “But we do one: ‘What does it mean to be hungry?’” Are today’s youngsters up to the challenge? Many consider this new generation to be self-absorbed and

overly focused on their electronic devices. Rothner disagrees. “There’s an unbelievable amount of chessed being done,” he says. “And that should be celebrated.” Having worked with young people for so many years, he has a different perspective. “Kids today are facing challenges that most adults cannot begin to understand,” he says. “The pressure and anxiety are tremendous. Even the most popular kids are dealing with stuff that none of us dealt with because the world is so radically different today.” That’s why Areyvut’s chessed programs are so crucial. “If we can build these kids up – especially those who aren’t necessarily academically inclined – if we can give them an opportunity to shine and to show them that they can make a difference, that’s tremendous!” he affirms. Rabbi Daniel Rothner may be a do good-er but he’s no Pollyanna. He recognizes the real issues and challenges of the world we live in. “The world is a fragile place and there’s lots of genuine need out there,” he says. But he prefers to focus on the solutions, one act of chessed at a time. “The more smiles and the more chessed we do,” says Rothner, “the better off the Jewish people and the whole world will be.”

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Dating Dialogue

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

Dear Navidaters,

Thank you for taking the time to read my email. I’m a 25-year-old professional woman. I am interested in dating my best friend’s older brother who has been divorced for two years now and has two children. I brought it up to my friend, who I thought would be elated by the idea, but to my complete shock and surprise she nixed it immediately. Not one to back down, I asked her what her hesitation was about. She said, and I quote, “You aren’t deep enough for my brother.” Firstly, I was and still am very hurt that my friend of 15 years thinks this of me. Secondly, it isn’t true at all. There is nothing shallow about me – I have meaningful and often intense conversations about life and religion and love with those I feel comfortable with, and she is one of them. So, to me this is some sort of excuse for wanting to keep her brother and me apart. I called her back a few days later and asked her again why she doesn’t want her brother and me to go out. She then told me I wouldn’t be a good stepmother to her nieces. No, I don’t have my own children but many women who her brother has dated post-divorce have either never been married or don’t have their own children. I am responsible and happen to have always been an incredibly maternal person, even as a little girl. So, Navidaters, I want to date my friend’s brother. I find him to be intelligent, attractive, someone who I am on the same wavelength with, and someone I would like to get to know better. As kids we had a chemistry, and the handful of times I’ve seen him at singles events or at mutual friend’s houses, it’s still there. Can I go about this another way? Through a mutual friend? I guess what I am looking for is permission or to rid myself of my guilty conscience, I don’t know. I feel badly doing this to my friend, and I want to do it in the way that will cause the least waves. Is that even possible? Looking forward to your responses. Thank you!

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, I respect your respectful approach and the straightforward way you are going about your interest in dating your friend’s brother. You have demonstrated sensitivity and honesty in directly bringing up the matter and got different reasons for a negative response to your interest each time. I think that taking a continued open and honest approach to this matter is appropriate. There is a way to respectfully go about doing this. However, you run the risk of losing your best friend. It seems like she has an issue with this and has given you more than one conflicting reason why she doesn’t think this is a good idea. You need to ask yourself if he is worth risking losing your longtime friendship with your BFF. Do the two of you have a healthy relationship? What does it mean to you? What if you don’t hit it off with her brother and you lose both? Will you be OK with this outcome? Do you have the emotional stamina and support to do this? You seem to indicate that he is worth it. You sound very mature and understand the implications of going ahead with your interest despite your BFF’s attitude. However, only you can answer these questions for yourself. If you think the matter through for a few days and decide you are going ahead with your plan to date her brother by involving someone else, you are going to need to be very careful. It might make sense to approach a third party to sensitively help facilitate the matter. Or you might go over to him directly. Either way, it makes sense to let your friend know immediately afterwards that you are doing so and that you are not doing it behind her back. The script can read something like this: I know you care about me and

care about your brother’s welfare. We are both special to you. And we are going to give it a go. Out of respect for you, I am letting you know. At the same time, you will need to tell the young man that his sister, your BFF, seems to have mixed feelings about the matter. Hiding is not healthy, and many relationships might blow up no matter how sensitive and respectful you are. Obviously, this is a pretty delicate situation from many angles. Unless the young man is very enthusiastic about dating you and you are strong enough to navigate the relational minefields here, I would look elsewhere for a young man to date. Dating a divorced guy with kids who need stability and unconditional support is complicated enough when it comes to reality. Navigating around your friend’s opposition may make it even more complicated. Lots of relationships have to work in a second family configuration; starting out with additional handicaps may be unwise.

The Mother Sarah Schwartz Schreiber, P.A. don’t know how to tell you this. OK, I’ll come right out and say it: There is NO WAY you’re going out with Matilda’s* brother. I’m not sure why Matilda is barring the door. But I can say, with certainty, her reason has nothing to do with your intellect, maternal gene or shoe size. To begin with, you and Matilda are best friends; you’ve been on big brother’s radar for fifteen years. You’ve shared many a Shabbos lunch; schmoozed on opposite ends of the sofa. You probably attended his aufruf and first wedding. If he duly felt the “chemistry” you describe, he would have asked you out before his first marriage. Now, even after the divorce, he

doesn’t see it working. Not because he’s thinks you’re shallow; those flimsy, hurtful excuses are Matilda’s clumsy way of telling you to move on; he’s just not into you. Another possibility. Maybe your best friend does have your best interests in mind. Her brother may have an active skeleton in his closet. Matilda may be wedged in that awkward position of maintaining her brother’s privacy (Wild temper? Gambling addiction?) while protecting her best friend from a fateful marriage. Finally, there’s always the possibility that Matilda is her brother’s self-anointed Gatekeeper/Protector. Even if he shows interest in you or a third party makes the suggestion, Matilda is determined to deep-six the proposal in his eyes. Perhaps she’s jealous of you becoming closer to her brother than she is. Perhaps, if she’s single, she prefers you to stay single so you can globetrot the seven continents together. For these, and maybe a dozen other factors, the shidduch will not happen. Above all else: no matter what the “true” motivation behind the “I can’t see it,” stay confident and positive. You know you are bright, warm and a great catch. Before long, be”H, you’ll soon be a wonderful wife to one lucky guy. And a loving SIL to his lucky sister.

The Shadchan Michelle Mond wish you had brought this question to us before you got your friend involved. If you had asked how to go about this initially, my answer would simply be to ask a mutual friend to suggest the shidduch to him directly and see what he says. It sounds like you have met him at singles’ events before, so you must have some mutual contacts. It appears that rather than going about this the simple way of asking

Her motives may be legit, but something tells me that she has her own agenda.

a facilitator from the event to redt it, you decided to take the more dramatic route: getting his sister involved in the process. Typically, and especially in a divorced sibling’s case, you will find the family to be understandably overprotective. It can certainly be that your friend, who knows both you and her brother well, truly thinks this is a bad match. You use your childhood chemistry as proof of possible compatibility but that does not help convince me of anything. Truth be told, if you truly had emotional depth on a level this man supposedly needs, you would not have gone initially to his sister to begin with, nor would you have persisted after she asserted her thoughts on the matter. At this point, for the sake of your sanity and closure, you can ask a facilitator from the singles’ event you met at, or mutual friend, to gauge his interest in you. If what I predict is correct, you will hear that his sister was likely mimicking her brother’s personal feelings that he does not think this match is a proper fit. After all, if he had been interested after meeting you multiple times, you would surely have heard about it through your many mutual personal connections. If this is the case, and he is truly uninterested, let this one go. There are many more fish in the sea, and the sea is a much broader range than just your friend’s brothers. Hatzlacha!

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The Single Tova Wein think your suspicions are probably correct. It seems clear that your “best friend” may be anything but. For some reason – and there’s no point in speculating – your friend does not want to see you going out with her brother. Her motives may be legit, but something tells me that she has her own agenda

and, for reasons that only matter to her, is creating a wedge between you and her brother. Sounds like you’re really “feeling it” and it would be a total shame to walk away, just so that you don’t upset your friend. It will take a bit of work to seal the deal, but go for it. You might try reaching out to one of his friends and ask that person to set you up. You may even try calling her brother directly and approaching the situation from a very mature

perspective. After all, you’ve known him for years and can therefore be honest with him about your feelings and your desire to go out with him. But I do feel it’s only responsible for me to point out one possible scenario (though probably very slim): you may not get the response you’re looking for. And though it’s probably a stretch, it’s possible that your friend knows firsthand that her brother does not want to go out with you and is protecting you. Anything is possible. But unless you go directly to the source, or as close to the source as possible, you will never know for sure,

Those flimsy, hurtful excuses are Matilda’s clumsy way of telling you to move on.

and it will always be itching at you, whether or not the two of you could have been a match. So be brave, override your friend’s advice, and see where it can get you.

Pulling It All Together The Navidaters Dating and Relationship Coaches and Therapists

o many different possibilities may be at play here. Let’s review all the insightful suggestions made by the panelists. 1. Your friend is protecting you from her brother’s rejection. She knows he doesn’t have feelings for you. Granted, she went about it the wrong way, but nonetheless she wants to keep you far away from the inevitable devastation. 2. Your friend doesn’t want you dating her brother. She meant what she said or she didn’t, but she wants you far away. He may have told her he is interested in you, and she had a similar response to him in which she puts him down in trying to prevent this shidduch. 3. Your friend is rude, downright obnoxious and insensitive, and isn’t much of a friend at all. Hurling insults and attacks at your very character without so much as an apology for her hurtful behavior is not friendship. I cannot tell you what to do, other than that you have to weigh the risk/reward ratio. The risk of

pursuing this f rom a not her angle is complicated. You may pursue this man and lose y o u r friendship, or however you define the relationship. It may cause ripple effects for the entire family. You may pursue this man and he not be interested in you. The reward, however, might be that he does indeed like you and you two grow to have feelings for each other and one day, a marriage. With regard to your guilty conscience and being granted permission to pursue this man further, only you can give that to yourself. The ruby shoes are yours, and you’ve had the power all along. The one piece of friendly advice I will give you is to speak to your friend and try to come to some understanding of where you stand with her. Bring your feelings to her. Tell her how much she hurt you and try to dig deeper to understand where her hurtful comments were stemming from. I’ve heard

of “crazier” stories than yours working out in the end, and I’ve heard of much less stressful stories not working out. This really is your call. Whatever you do, continue to handle the situation like the lady that you are; be upfront with your friend and be empathic to her feelings as best as you can. Some situations in life are black and white, but most are grey. I hope you can be at peace with whatever decision you make. All the best, Jennifer

Esther Mann, LCSW and Jennifer Mann, LCSW are licensed psychotherapists and dating and relationship coaches working with individuals, couples and families in private practice in Hewlett, NY. Jennifer is looking forward to teaching a psychology course at Touro College in the fall. To set up a consultation or to ask questions, please call 516.224.7779. Press 1 for Esther, 2 for Jennifer. Visit www.thenavidaters.com for more information. If you would like to submit a dating or relationship question to the panel anonymously, please email thenavidaters@gmail.com. You can follow The Navidaters on FB and Instagram for dating and relationship advice.

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

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Dr. Deb

When You Have 31 Different Diagnoses Part II By Deb Hirschhorn, Ph.D.

ast week I introduced you to my all-time favorite clinical topic: neuropsychology research for understanding, uncovering, and healing trauma. I introduced you to Bessel van der Kolk, one of the world’s leading researchers in this area. The question in the title was not answered; instead we took a look at why a person who was traumatized would be drawn towards danger and away from normal, boring life. Today, we will get a glimpse of what van der Kolk was trying to achieve and the implications of the current status of diagnosis today. By “implications,” I mean how it affects you or someone you care about. I never liked the idea of giving someone a diagnosis. It always seemed like I was elevating myself to the level of Herr Doktor at the expense of someone beneath me. Who are any of us to put a label on someone else? Now, mind you, when I broke my 5th metatarsal, I needed to know – specifically – whether it was broken or not: a diagnosis was needed, in short. So maybe what I really didn’t like was

that the practice of giving diagnoses as recommended by the psychiatrists who created the bible of insurance company reimbursements was its imprecision. I mean, take 10 psychiatrists and let them interview one person and they will most likely come up with six or seven different diagnoses. That’s a terrible level of precision. Nevertheless, van der Kolk made a strong case for having a diagnosis for traumatized people – provided it is accurate. He says: “Diagnostic reliability isn’t an abstract issue: if doctors can’t agree on what ails their patients, there is no way they can provide proper treatment. When there’s no relationship between diagnosis and cure, a mislabeled patient is bound to be a mistreated patient. You would not want to have your appendix removed when you are suffering from a kidney stone, and you would not want to have somebody labeled as ‘oppositional’ when, in fact, his behavior is rooted in an attempt to protect himself against real danger.” But the reality, sadly, is that the

Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders lacks reliability and validity. This is a pattern that has been true for every DSM produced. DSMIII, 1980, considered a “landmark” attempt to organize and understand mental illness, had in its forward a caution that it was “too imprecise” to be used for insurance or forensic purposes. Nevertheless, the insurance industry ignored that, and the DSM is treated as if it is solid and rigorous. The latest version of the DSM, the fifth one, is no different. The American Journal of Psychiatry’s published studies on the new diagnoses indicated that they, too, lacked reliability and validity. In other words, the diagnoses were not based on solid, repeatable evidence. Could it be, van der Kolk wonders, that the $100 million that the previous version, #IV, earned was a big enticement for the American Psychiatric Association to go ahead with publication of the new one? If what’s governing the APA’s behavior is just money, the problem has an adverse effect on the most vulner-

able of people. The problem goes way beyond the annoying necessity for therapists to create a diagnosis or for individuals who want insurance to pay for their therapy to have to get one. Van der Kolk’s career in trauma research and clinical work began with his time at the VA in Boston in 1978. A Vietnam veteran came into his office, agitated. It was just after the 4th of July, and the vet explained that he had to retreat to a hotel for the holiday as he was afraid of what he might do to his small children. The vet was an attorney, a successful, responsible man. But the fireworks and the backyard foliage did something so fierce to him that he had to spend the day in self-imposed retreat, drinking himself into a stupor. He dreaded falling asleep, too. The nightmares were even more terrifying than his unexpected explosive rage in the daytime. Worst was that after ‘Nam, this man felt nothing for his wife and for ordinary life. He was numb inside. Van der Kolk was struck by the similarity in this veteran’s story and

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that of his quiet, considerate father and uncle who also were veterans (World War II) and prone to unexpected explosive rages which terrified him as a little boy. He kept working with veterans, gathering an impression of how very difficult it was to understand what was happening to them. For example, one man he called Bill could not handle his own newborn’s crying. He panicked and called his wife home from work the first day he’d volunteered to take care of their child. “He kept hearing the sounds of babies crying and seeing images of burned and bloody children’s faces. My medical colleagues thought that he must surely be psychotic because the textbooks of the time said that auditory and visual hallucinations were symptoms of paranoid schizophrenia…. As I arrived at the intake office that day, I saw Bill surrounded by worried doctors who were preparing to inject him with a powerful antipsychotic drug and ship him off to a locked ward.” Eventually, the APA decided to include PTSD as a new diagnostic category due to the pressure of veterans and therapists who lobbied with them. However, van der Kolk wanted to study this newly named phenomenon more and applied for a grant. The VA’s rejection of that application read, “It has never been shown that PTSD is relevant to the mission of the Veteran’s Administration.” (Luckily, the VA eventually reversed their position and “between 2007 and 2010, the Department of Defense spent more than $2.7 billion for the treatment and research on PTSD in combat veterans” and in 2009, the Departments of Veterans Affairs spent $24.5 million on this area.) Discouraged, van der Kolk left his VA job and started working at Harvard’s teaching hospital, Massachusetts Mental Health Center, where he’d trained. His VA experience repeated itself there – with a twist. Now he kept hearing women who would have been given a diagnosis of depression describe “molestation and family violence. I was particularly struck by how many female patients spoke of being sexually abused as children. This was puzzling as the standard textbook of psychiatry at the time stated that incest was extremely rare in the United States, occurring about once in every

million women. Given that there were then only about one hundred million women living in the United States, I wondered how forty-seven, almost half of them, had found their way to my office.” He goes on to say, “In many ways these patients were not so different from the veterans I had just left behind at the VA. They also had nightmares and flashbacks. They also alternated between occasional bouts of explosive rage and long periods of being emotionally shut down.” However, as van der Kolk collaborated with another Harvard clinician, Judith Herman, in trying to understand their traumatized women patients, one thing stuck out that was markedly different from the symptom picture of war vets: these women had a high frequency of being diagnosed

majority” starting before age seven. This study was replicated “numerous” times. As adults, the patients who regularly self-harmed “told us that they did not remember feeling safe with anybody as a child.” “Our study confirmed that there was a traumatized population quite distinct from the combat soldiers and accident victims for whom the PTSD diagnosis had been created.” One of the key differences, in addition to what is listed above, was that “the adults who had been abused as children often had trouble concentrating, complained of always being on edge, and were filled with self-loathing…. They also had large gaps in their memories…and had a host of medical problems.” It was because of the serious de-

“The first time I heard Robert Anda present the results of the ACE study, he could not hold back his tears.”

as Borderline Personality Disorder. “BPD is marked by clinging but highly unstable relationships, extreme mood swings, and self-destructive behavior including self-mutilation and repeated suicide attempts.” The National Institutes of Health rejected their proposal to study this connection between BPD and childhood trauma, so they financed it themselves. They began by developing a questionnaire geared to slowly help subjects open up about their histories, the Traumatic Antecedents Questionnaire. For example, early questions asked who does the cooking where they live and later questions asked how discipline was enforced growing up. Unfortunately, as they started questioning their subjects – 55 of them – horrific stories emerged. Their landmark study reported in the American Journal of Psychiatry showed that 81 percent of patients had, indeed, been severely abused with the “vast

partures from the soldiers’ and natural disaster victims’ PTSD descriptions that van der Kolk and colleagues presented these distinctions to the DSM-IV work group to be included in the upcoming tome as Disorders of Extreme Stress or Complex PTSD. Unfortunately, that, and the subsequent DSM ignored these findings. In their letter of rejection – in 2011 – the APA stated, “The notion that early childhood adverse experiences lead to substantial developmental disruptions is more clinical intuition than a research-based fact.” But it is a research-based fact. In 1990, internist Vincent Felitti, chief of Kaiser Permanente’s Department of Preventive Medicine teamed up with Robert Anda of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to create new questions for 17,421 Kaiser patients who agreed to participate. This investigation was called the Adverse Childhood Experiences study whose participants were “mostly white, mid-

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dle class, middle aged, well educated, and financially secure enough to have good medical insurance – and yet only one-third of the respondents reported no adverse childhood experiences.” Here are some results (all direct quotes): • One out of ten individuals responded yes to the question, “Did a parent or other adult in the household often or very often swear at you, insult you, or put you down?” • More than a quarter responded yes to the question, “Did one of your parents often or very often push, grab, slap, or throw something at you?” and “Did one of your parents often or very often hit you so hard that you had marks or were injured?” In other words, more than a quarter of the U.S. population is likely to have been repeatedly physically abused as a child. • To the questions, “Did an adult or person at least 5 years older ever have you touch their body in a[n inappropriate] way?” 28 percent of women and 16 percent of men responded affirmatively. • One in eight people responded positively to the questions: “As a child, did you witness your mother sometimes, often, or very often pushed, grabbed, slapped, or had something thrown at her?” “As a child, did you witness your mother sometimes, often, or very often kicked, bitten, hit with a fist, or hit with something hard?” Van der Kolk concludes, “The first time I heard Robert Anda present the results of the ACE study, he could not hold back his tears.” Child abuse, he says, is “the gravest and most costly public health issue in the United States. [Anda] had calculated that its overall costs exceeded those of cancer or heart disease and that eradicating child abuse in America would reduce the overall rate of depression by more than half, alcoholism by two-thirds, and suicide, IV drug use, and domestic violence by three-quarters.” Next week, we will take a look at how trauma changes the brain. 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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The Perfect Pantry By Aliza Beer MS, RD, CDN

ne of my favorite perks of setting up house was getting to stock my own pantry. However, with great power comes great responsibility. A properly stocked kitchen is singlehandedly the most essential factor to sticking to a healthy lifestyle. When the munchies hit, it’s important to be prepped and eliminate the temptation for that sugary, salty, crunchy, oily food you have stocked. Having a well-stocked kitchen makes it so much easier to stick to a balanced diet. Half the battle is bringing the right foods into the house. Opening your fridge and seeing Greek yogurt, prepped veggies, and cold water bottles will shift your mindset positively, as well. With a number of healthy staples, you’ll always have the ingreadients on demand to make an array of nutrient-dense snacks and meals.

Phase 1: The Purge In order to begin, you need a clean slate to work with. Start with your freezer, perhaps the most daunting task. Freezers are where food goes to die, essentially. Those frozen strawberries you bought during your smoothie kick? The last few frozen broccoli florets that never made it to the pan? It’s a common misconception that freezing food will make it last forever. However, although edible, freezer burn will suck the life out of most frozen foods rendering them lacking in flavor. Food will keep at its optimum for about three weeks. Begin by taking everything out of

your freezer and discarding foods that have passed the cutoff point. For fridge items, get rid of those squished peaches at the bottom of your crisper bin and chuck expired cream cheese and hummus. For pantry items, donate anything unopened that’s been sitting around uneaten and toss anything that’s extpired.

Phase 2: Organization Wipe down your sad-looking, empty pantries till they’re gleaming. Invest in some pantry bins and air-tight food containers. If you’re willing to splurge, OXO containers are an organized pantry staple and keep food sealed and fresh but can be upwards of $20 a piece. If you’re not looking to spend a lot, different size mason jars work just as well and also add a rustic touch.

Phase 3: The Shopping Spree Time for the stock up! You want to buy as many versatile ingredients as possible. I divide up my kitchen essentials in set categories and vary the ingredients each grocery run. 1. Whole Grains: Carbs get a bad rap. Unaccredited sources love to paint carbohydrates as the enemy of a healthy diet when, in actuality, your body needs carbs! The important distinction is quality of carbs. A doughnut and a slice of sprouted grain toast are both carbs yet both tell a very different nutrient story. Some healthier carbs you can stock up on are: • Oats: A breakfast staple that can be transformed with add-ins

like berries, almond butter, and agave. • Brown Rice: Steer clear of white rice and make the switch to its darker counterpart. White rice is stripped of its germ and nutrients while brown rice keeps you fuller for longer and has a variety of vitamins and minerals. • Whole grain pasta: Try buying fun shapes like Cavatappi, a tubular pasta, to distract your picky eaters from the slight difference in flavor. • White whole wheat flour: Made from a white variety of wheat berry, white whole wheat flour keeps the germ, fiber, and nutrients intact while providing a sweeter, lighter flour that resembles white flour. This flour variety is perfect for baking and can essentially be used as a 1:1 replacement for most white flour recipes. • Popcorn Kernels: For when the crunchy, salty cravings arise. Whole grain kernels popped in a small amount of oil are a healthy snacking alternative. The storebought or microwave versions are often laden with sodium and additives and should probably be avoided when possible. • Whole grain bread: There are so many varieties of whole grain bread on the market, some significantly better than others. Always check the nutrition facts to make sure your bread is actually whole grain and not just partially whole grain. Check for sugar content as

many brands will add syrups and sweetener for flavor. I love Ezekiel bread, which makes for a good toast in the morning. 2. Canned Items: Convenient, long-lasting, and usually cheap – what more could we ask for? Look out for low-sodium varieties to keep the salt levels low. • Black Beans: Full of protein, fiber, and folate, black beans are a great addition to salads and soups. Black bean burgers can be made ahead of time, frozen, and enjoyed throughout the week. • Crushed, Whole, or Diced Tomatoes: A staple for making soups or stews, I love having canned tomatoes on hand. Different recipes call for different varieties but often they’re interchangeable. • Canned Tuna: As long as you purchase the low-sodium, in-water version, tuna is a high-quality protein that is very versatile. • Canned Veggies: String beans, baby corn, and hearts of palm are all good canned veggies to have on hand just in case you don’t have time to run to the store. 3. Nuts and Seeds: Healthy fats, great for snacking, and perfect to settle the crunch craving. Nut butters are great as a topping and can be used in salad dressings as well. • Almonds or almond butter: High in vitamin E and antioxidants, almonds and almond butter are great for snacking. Buying in bulk saves money and ensures you’re al-

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ways stocked. • Natural Peanut Butter: Ditch the Skippy and opt for an all-natural, peanut-only variety. Chunky or smooth? That’s all up to you! • PB2: If you are looking to lose weight then try this low-calorie, low-fat powdered peanut butter. It will last on the shelf up to a year. • Pecans: Great for your heart and healthy when not smothered in caramelized sugar. • Chia and Flax Seeds: Proven to be a powerful source of omega-3s, fiber, antioxidants, and healthy fats, these seeds are great sprinkled on anything from salads to oatmeal to yogurt. They absorb liquid and take on a gel-like consistency when mixed with water and can be used to thicken smoothies, as well! • Sunflower Seeds: Rich in vitamin B and perfect in salad or trail mix! 4. Oils and Vinegars: Similar to carbs, fat’s reputation has also taken a toll in recent years. Processed foods contain a lot of fat which leads people to think fat is always bad. However, it’s quite the contrary. Fat keeps you full and contains an abundance of essential nutrients our body needs to function. • Avocado Oil: Avocado oil is high in monounsaturated fatty acids and can potentially lower bad cholesterol and blood pressure, according to some studies. It can be used as a cooking oil or to finish off a soup or salad. • Extra Virgin Olive Oil: A staple that can help protect against type 2 diabetes, stroke, and heart disease. Be cautious not to use it in high heat cooking situations as the smoke point is not very high. • Coconut Oil: While the health benefits of coconut oil are still being studied, many agree that this fat is one to keep in mind when looking for healthy alternatives to butter. High in healthy saturated fats, coconut oil can be incorporated into challah for a buttery flavor and softer dough. • Oil Spray Bottle: When roasting veggies, use a spray bottle filled with olive oil to evenly coat your vegetables. This minimizes the amount of fat used and ensures that each piece has just enough droplets

for browning. • Apple Cider Vinegar: This vinegar has gone up in popularity in recent years, and for good reason. Used as an ancient remedy, ACV can kill harmful bacteria and allows the good bacteria to flourish. It

never deprive anyone of that. • Honey: Honey is a “less-bad” sugar but should still be used in moderation. If you’re replacing honey for sugar in a muffin recipe, you won’t really reap any great benefits. Use honey in dressings, marinades,

A well-stocked pantry and kitchen is key to a healthy lifestyle for the entire family.

is touted as a cure for many things and has gained a tremendous following. Some people put 1-2 spoons of apple cider vinegar into a large cup of hot water to drink, adding a little honey for sweetness. • Red Wine Vinegar: Flavorful, robust, and perfect to dress a salad. • Balsamic Vinegar: Tangy and deep, the perfect addition to any marinade. 5. Sweets: Everyone needs a little sweetness in their life, and I would

tea, and to drizzle on oatmeal or yogurt. • Agave: Less calories than honey, agave will not spike the blood sugar like honey. • Truvia/Stevia/Monkfruit: Tthe healthiest sugar substitutes to use right now. • Dark Chocolate: Contains antioxidants, but use in moderation since it’s not low in calories, sugar, and fat. 6. Protein: Keep some lean and

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complete proteins handy at all times, this way you can always make a meal in a pinch. Eggs take five minutes to scramble, and salmon can take 30 minutes to bake. • Meat/Chicken/Fish/Eggs: Buy lean ground turkey, chicken breast and salmon fillets for delicious lunches and dinners. • Dairy: Stock up on low-fat cottage cheese and non-fat Greek yogurt. These low-fat/non-fat dairy proteins make great breakfast and snack options. 7. Fruits and Veggies: Keep the following fruits and veggies handy for a snack or to make a quick salad. If you keep cut up veggies in your fridge in Ziplock bags or containers, you will ultimately use them more often in salads, omelets, and as on-the-go snacks instead of pretzels or chips. • Spinach • Kale • Frozen Broccoli • Frozen Strawberries • Sweet Potatoes • Onions • Apples/Pears • Peppers • Cucumbers-I love the mini ones where you can wash them and eat them whole with the skin. • Baby Carrots A well-stocked pantry and kitchen is key to a healthy lifestyle for the entire family. Although it may not be entirely possible nor advisable to remove every unhealthy food item from the house, as you and your children deserve treats and snacks in a balanced manner, it is still important to expand your pantry and palette to include more healthy and natural products. If you don’t bring in the processed foods and high-sugar/high-fat treats, then you cannot eat it. Just like when you clean out the “chometz”, cleaning up your pantry from the unhealthy foods and adding in healthier options will be an important step to cooking, eating, and living healthier.

Aliza Beer is a registered dietitian with a master’s degree in nutrition. She has a private practice in Cedarhurst, NY. Patients’ success has been featured on the Dr. Oz show. Aliza can be reached at alizabeer@gmail.com, and you can follow her on Instagram at @alizabeer.

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Lyme Disease How to Prevent the Disease and What to Look for By Sidney Jakubovics, M.D.

ccording to the Center for Disease Control (CDC), tick-borne diseases increasingly threaten the health of the people in the United States. The incidence of Lyme disease, caused by bacteria of the spirochete class carried by infected deer ticks, has tripled since the 1990s. The growing threat includes expanding geographic range for ticks in the Northeast. As we and our children so often spend summer vacations in areas where Lyme disease is endemic, it is important to understand the basics about this all too common disease so that appropriate preventive measures in tick-infested areas can be taken and so that necessary medical intervention may be sought in a timely manner. In the United States, Lyme disease is caused by bacteria of the spirochete class, which are carried primarily by deer ticks. To contract Lyme disease, one must be bitten by an infected tick. Bacteria then enter the bloodstream through the bite. In most cases, to transmit Lyme disease, a deer tick must be attached for 36 to 48 hours. Removing the tick as soon as possible might prevent infection.

Symptoms The signs and symptoms of Lyme disease vary. They usually appear in stages, but the stages can overlap: The initial sign of about 80% of Lyme infections is a reddish Erythema migrans (EM) rash at the site of a tick bite. The rash appears typically one or two weeks after the bite and expands. In some cases, the rash gradually clears from the center toward the

edges, forming a “bull’s eye” pattern. Typically, it is not itchy or painful but might feel warm to the touch. Erythema migrans is one of the hallmarks of Lyme disease, although not everyone with Lyme disease develops the rash. Generalized viral-like symptoms such as fever, chills, fatigue, body aches, headache, and swollen lymph nodes may accompany the rash. These symptoms may also appear without a rash or may linger after the rash disappears. It is important to note that Lyme disease can progress to later stages without a rash or these symptoms.

and cognitive difficulties, insomnia, a general sense of feeling unwell, and changes in personality. In rare cases, untreated Lyme disease may cause frank psychosis. In up to 10% of untreated cases in the U.S, about one month after the tick bite, the infection may cause heart complications known as Lyme carditis which adversely impact the heart’s electrical conduction system. Symptoms may include heart palpitations, fainting, shortness of breath, and chest pain, and may progress to congestive heart failure.

Removing the tick as soon as possible might prevent infection.

In 10-15% of untreated people, Lyme disease causes neurological problems which may appear 4-6 weeks after the tick bite. These may include meningitis with headaches, cranial neuritis, radiculopathy with severe pain, and weakness in the affected body area. Weeks, months or even years after infection, patients may develop cognitive problems, temporary paralysis of one side of the face (Bell’s palsy), numbness or weakness in the limbs, and impaired muscle movement. A neurologic syndrome called Lyme encephalopathy is associated with subtle memory

Lyme arthritis may occur in up to 60% of untreated people, typically starting about six months after infection. Patients may develop bouts of severe joint pain and swelling, which are especially likely to affect the knees, but may also affect the hips or other large joints. Because symptoms of Lyme disease (which may include rheumatological symptoms, cardiac symptoms, cognitive symptoms, and neurological symptoms) are protean, diagnosis may be difficult. One lab test used to identify antibodies to the bacteria is the ELI-

SA test, which may not turn positive during the early stage of Lyme disease and which may produce false positive test results. A Western blot rest is often done to help confirm the diagnosis.

Treatment The standard treatment for early stage Lyme disease is oral antibiotics. For most people with early localized infection, oral administration of doxycycline is widely recommended as the first choice, as it is effective against not only Borrelia bacteria but also a variety of other illnesses carried by ticks. A 14- to 21-day course of treatment is usually recommended. People taking doxycycline should avoid sun exposure because of higher risk of sunburns. In general, recovery will be quicker the sooner treatment is begun. Doxycycline is contraindicated in children younger than eight years of age and women who are pregnant or breastfeeding. Alternatives to doxycycline are amoxicillin and cefuroxime. People who receive recommended antibiotic treatment within several days of appearance of an initial EM rash have the best prospects for recovery. More advanced stages of Lyme disease generally require intravenous antibiotics. Individuals with symptomatic cardiac disease, Lyme arthritis, or neurologic symptoms are generally treated with intravenous administration of ceftriaxoneis for up to four weeks. Several months after treatment for Lyme arthritis, if joint swelling persists or returns, a

second round of antibiotics may be considered. Intravenous antibiotics are preferred for re-treatment in case of poor response to oral antibiotics. It may take some time to recover from more advanced symptoms. About a third of people with Lyme carditis need a temporary pacemaker until their heart conduction abnormality resolves, and 21% need to be hospitalized. People who have nonspecific, chronic subjective symptoms such as fatigue, joint and muscle aches, or cognitive difficulties for more than six months after recommended treatment for Lyme disease are said to have post-treatment Lyme disease syndrome. The condition is generally managed similarly to fibromyalgia or chronic fatigue syndrome. Treatments may include analgesics, anti-depressants, and therapy.

Prevention Lyme disease can be crippling. The following are steps that may be

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The classic bulls-eye rash that can ensue after getting bitten by a tick

taken to help prevent the disease and from coming into contact with ticks: 1. Avoid wooded or bushy areas with long grass, especially in endemic areas. 2. When in grassy areas, wear long pants and long-sleeved shirts.

3. Apply insect repellant with a 20% or higher concentration of DEET. Chemical repellants may be toxic, so follow directions closely. 4. The longer the tick remains attached to your skin, the greater your risk of getting the disease. Check your

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body and your clothing carefully for ticks, especially after spending time in the brush. Deer ticks are tiny, so check closely. If you remove a tick within two days, your risk of acquiring Lyme disease is low 5. It’s helpful to shower as soon as you come indoors, to prevent ticks on the skin from attaching themselves. Lyme infection is unlikely if the tick is attached for less than 36 to 48 hours. 6. If you find an attached tick that looks swollen, it may have fed long enough to transmit bacteria. 7. If you think you’ve been bitten and have signs and symptoms of Lyme disease – particularly if you live in an area where Lyme disease is prevalent – contact your doctor. Treatment for Lyme disease is more effective if begun early. Consult your doctor even if signs and symptoms abate – the improvement of symptoms doesn’t mean the disease is gone. Lyme disease, left untreated, can cause damage to multiple organ systems over months and years.

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Beer Battered Fish By Naomi Nachman

Growing up in Australia we ate tons of fish and chips, which is an iconic dish of Australia (and also England). Fish and chips are a personal favorite of mine, and they remind me of my youth. It’s not something I make too often because it is caloric but when we want a fun treat (like coming home after camp), I’ll make this as a special dinner for my kids. I use up the leftover batter by incorporating some eggplant, onions, or zucchini.

Ingredients 1½ cups of flour 1 teaspoon salt ¼ teaspoon freshly ground black pepper 4 large eggs 1 (1-oz.) bottle of beer, room temperature Canola oil 1½ pounds of flounder

Tartar Sauce 4 TBS mayonnaise 2 TBS sweet relish 2 TBS Dijon mustard 2 TBS white wine or apple cider vinegar

Preparation Sift 1 cup of flour into a bowl. Add salt and pepper. Whisk in the eggs. Slowly add the beer, whisking after each addition. Allow the batter to sit at room temperature for 30 minutes. Heat 3 inches of oil in a large pot, skillet or deep fryer to 360˚-375˚F. Dredge fish in the remaining flour, shaking off excess. Coat the fish in the batter. Add the fish to the hot oil and fry until golden brown, about 3-4 minutes. Drain on a wire rack to help retain its crispiness. Prepare the tartar sauce: Whisk all the tartar sauce ingredients by hand until smooth. Serve alongside the fish.

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?!”

I don’t believe that writing a check is gonna be enough…. And the worst thing that I think could happen is that checks get written and then everybody says, “OK, stop talking about this now” without addressing the systemic inequities that are deep and require investment. - 2020 presidential hopeful Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Cali.) stating in an interview that paying reparations to descendants of slaves is not enough

The mistake I made was trusting President Bush, who gave me his word he was using it for the purpose of getting inspectors in to see what was going on, whether they were producing nuclear weapons. I do not.

- 2020 presidential hopeful Joe Biden at a campaign rally on Sunday trying to explain away his support for the 2002 Iraq war

- Jew-hating Congresswoman Ilhan Omar (D-MN) when asked on CBS last Sunday if she regrets her previous anti-Semitic tweets

Americans of conscience have a proud history of participating in boycotts to advocate for human rights abroad including…boycotting Nazi Germany from March 1933 to October 1941 in response to the dehumanization of the Jewish people in the lead-up to the Holocaust. - Ibid., while introducing a pro-BDS against Israel in Congress this week, comparing Israel to the Nazis

Folks. Due to the extreme heat, we are asking anyone thinking of doing criminal activity to hold off until Monday. Stay home, blast the AC, binge Stranger Things season 3, play with the FaceApp, practice karate in your basement. We will all meet again on Monday when it’s cooler. - Social media post by the Braintree (Mass.) Police Department last Friday

If you like your health care plan, your employer-based plan, you can keep it. If you like your private insurance, you can keep it. - 2020 presidential hopeful Joe Biden, at an AARP event in Iowa last week making a familiar claim

I say this as a Democrat. President Trump has been heroic and historic in taking the actions he has to break the Iran nuclear agreement, to impose sanctions on the Iranian government. - Former U.S. vice presidential candidate Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-CT) at the 2019 Free Iran rally last weekend

The violations of the Zionist regime have been censured by the United Nations. If someone else says these things, does that make him an antiSemite? You’re Jewish and I’m Muslim, and we’re talking. Are we fighting? Are we at war? - Former Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who has denied the Holocaust and promised to wipe Israel off of the face of the earth, in a telephone interview with The Times of Israel, denying that he is an anti-Semite

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The Apollo program was designed by men, for men. If we do not acknowledge the gender bias of the early space program, it becomes difficult to move past it. - Tweet by The New York Times on the 50th anniversary of the Apollo mission to the moon

Cosmonaut diversity was key for the Soviet message to the rest of the globe: Under socialism, a person of even the humblest origins could make it all the way up. -From a New York Times op-ed, arguing that the Soviets – who murdered more than 50 million people in the name of Socialism – “won the space race for equality” by sending up women and minorities to space before the U.S. did

An essay about gender bias in American space exploration misstated the genders of people involved in testing of the SpaceX’s Crew Dragon capsule. The testing included both men and women, not only men. - Correction in The New York Times the following day

We send things up into space, but they are all made on Earth. Eventually it will be much cheaper and simpler to make really complicated things, like microprocessors and everything, in space and then send those highly complex manufactured objects back down to Earth, so that we don’t have the big factories and pollution generating industries that make those things now on Earth. And Earth can be zoned residential.

To me, it’s kind of a non-issue. I’m not really sure why he decided to make such an issue about it. I know [the ball] hit his caddie’s mom’s hand off the bounce, and that’s unfortunate, but as far as I’m concerned, a number of people yelled, “Fore.” - British Open golfer Kyle Stanley, responding to criticism from fellow player Bob MacIntyre for not yelling “fore” before an errant shot hit MacIntyre’s caddie’s mother at the British Open

Maintenance holes. - The new term for manholes in Berkley, California, after the city council determined that the term manhole is gender-discriminatory

- Amazon founder Jeff Bezos speaking at a symposium about the 1969 moon landing

Some Twitter users interpreted Trump’s present to her eight-year-old daughter Arabella Rose Kushner as a sign the senior White House adviser prefers whiteness, like her father President Donald Trump has been accused of preferring. - Newsweek reporting about some people’s suspicions that Ivanka Trump may be a racist because her new puppy is white

So Rashida can call for deporting thencandidate Trump, but there’s total outrage when the sentiment is returned?! How does this “standard” work?#DemDuplicity. - Tweet by Dov Hikind decrying the double standard after a tweet from 2015 by Rashida Tlaib was unearthed in which she said about then-candidate Donald Trump, “Deport this [expletive]!”

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I would say, come on, Donald, come on, man. How many push-ups do you want to do here, pal? - 2020 hopeful Joe Biden on MSNBC disclosing how he would respond if President Trump questions his physical or mental faculties during a debate

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Democrats Say No One is Above the Law – Except Illegal Immigrants By Marc A. Thiessen

e have heard a lot about the importance of the rule of law from Democrats lately. During special counsel Robert Muller’s investigation of President Trump, Democrats in Congress delivered a clear and unified message. “No one is above the law, especially the president of the United States,” declared House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif. “Donald Trump is the most corrupt president in our lifetime…. No one is above the law. Not even the president,” said Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass. “Everyone should be held accountable. And the president is not above the law,” said Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif. Republicans “are basically saying that in America one man is above the law and that’s not a fact,” said Senate Minority Whip Richard Durbin, D-Ill. “No one is above the law [and] everybody ought to be held accountable,” said South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg. No one, that is, except illegal immigrants. Fast-forward to this past weekend, when the Trump administration announced that Immigration

and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers would soon begin enforcement actions to remove illegal immigrants who have been issued final deportation orders by a federal judge. Those same Democrats and the rest of their party delivered a clear and unified message. “It’s so appalling, it’s outside the circle of civilized human behavior,” said Pelosi. “The Trump administration’s cruelty runs bone-deep. A Warren administration will not rip families apart to try and score political points,” said Warren. “The aim is to scare immigrant communities…. And so, he’s going to…do these raids which is a crime against humanity,” said Harris. “We are on your side, we stand with you together,” Durbin told activists protesting ICE enforcement. “It’s really designed to strike fear into people at a moment when fear is something we’ve got way too much of in this country,” said Buttigieg. So, Democrats were for rule of law when it comes to the Mueller probe, which did not find that the president broke the law. But they are against rule of law when it comes to illegal immigrants who have been found by a federal judge to be in violation of U.S. immigration law.

Illegal immigrants subject to ICE enforcement have been given their constitutional right to due process, with the right to a hearing in a federal immigration court and the right to be represented by counsel. If they show up at their hearing and are not granted relief by an immigration judge, they have the right to appeal. If they lose that appeal, they are issued a final order of removal. Once such an order is issued, they must either voluntarily depart the country or turn themselves in to an ICE facility for deportation. If they fail to depart or turn themselves in, then their case is referred to the ICE fugitive unit, which is tasked with finding them. It is a long process to get to the point where ICE is knocking on someone’s door to enforce a final order of removal. Those now subject to a final deportation order either failed to show up to immigration court; showed up and lost their case; waived their right to appeal; lost their appeal; did not show up for their appeal hearing; were granted voluntary departure but did not leave; or failed to turn themselves in to ICE for court-ordered removal. In each case, a federal judge has ruled that they do not have the right to be in the United States and must leave.

But Democratic leaders are now saying they should be allowed to stay, in contravention of our immigration laws. Then again, Democrats didn’t think this way when they held the White House. President Barack Obama deported far more illegal immigrants than Trump. Axios reports that “under the Obama administration, total ICE deportations were above 385,000 each year in fiscal years 2009-2011, and hit a high of 409,849 in fiscal 2012.” I don’t recall Democrats in Congress accusing Obama of a “crime against humanity” or actions “outside the circle of civilized human behavior.” Back then, Democrats agreed, as Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., put it in a 2009 speech, that “illegal immigration is wrong, plain and simple.” Since Trump took office, Democrats have become the party of illegal immigration. They want to decriminalize illegal border crossings, cut ICE detention beds to force the agency to release illegal immigrants, and then refuse to enforce lawful deportation orders. So, it’s a little hard to take Democrats seriously when, in investigating Trump, they claim to be fighting for the principle that no one is above the law. (c) 2019, Washington Post Writers Group

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If They Won’t Pass His Trade Deal, Trump Should Make Democrats Own NAFTA By Marc A. Thiessen

ere we go again. Last week, President Trump appeared to renew his threat to withdraw from the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) if Democrats do not pass his new United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA). His threats may worry pro-trade Republicans, but they are music to the ears of anti-NAFTA Democrats, who would love nothing better than to get rid of NAFTA without giving Trump a trade victory. Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, has a better idea: Trump should tell Democrats that they will own NAFTA if they oppose his deal to replace it. The message should be “if you’re a Democrat, you essentially are voting for NAFTA if you vote no on USMCA,” Portman explained in an interview on the American Enterprise Institute’s new podcast, “What … Is Going On,” which I co-host. If the USMCA fails, he says, “you go back to the status quo, which is NAFTA.” Besides, Portman says, there is no good reason for Democrats to oppose the USMCA because “it is such a much better agreement for Democrats than NAFTA. ... It’s everything that they’ve been asking for, in terms of improving the NAFTA accords.”

Take the automobile industry for example. America has lost about 350,000 auto jobs since NAFTA was ratified in 1994, which is a third of all jobs in the industry. Meanwhile Mexico has gained hundreds of thousands of auto jobs during that time. The USMCA will reverse that decline and bring auto jobs back to America. It increases the percentage of a vehicle that must be made in North America from 62.5% to 75%. It requires at least 70% of a vehicle’s steel and aluminum to be from North America. And it requires between 40% and 45% of a vehicle be produced by workers earning a minimum of $16 per hour. Portman’s office estimates that, given Mexico’s low wages, this will significantly shift auto production from Mexico to the United States. “Look at the details of this agreement,” Portman says. “There’s a minimum wage in Mexico for autoworkers. That’s not a Republican approach, but it’s very helpful for autoworkers. ... The rules of origin, where you have to have more things made in North American countries. ... That’s something Democrats have been asking for years.” How, he asks, can Democrats vote against that and

in favor of the NAFTA status quo? Portman points out that the U.S. International Trade Commission estimates that the USMCA would raise U.S. employment by 176,000 jobs. And the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) says the USMCA would result in $23 billion in new U.S. auto part purchases and create 76,000 U.S. auto jobs. Would Democrats prefer those purchases and those jobs go to Mexico? Or, take labor and environmental standards, longtime Democratic priorities. There are none in NAFTA. Labor and environment commitments were added only after the fact, as “side letters” by President Bill Clinton, but since they were not in the actual agreement, they are not enforceable. USTR says the USMCA “includes the strongest, most advanced, and most comprehensive set of environmental obligations of any U.S. trade agreement” and “unlike the NAFTA, the USMCA’s environmental provisions have been incorporated into the core text of the agreement [and] are fully enforceable.” As for labor standards, the USMCA guarantees secret-ballot votes by workers on collective bargaining agreements, and according to USTR,

it requires the three countries to “practice core labor standards as recognized by the International Labor Organization, including freedom of association and the right to strike, to effectively enforce their labor laws.” Do Democrats want to throw all that away in favor of an agreement with zero enforceable labor and environmental standards? Portman says Trump should tell Democrats, “Wait a minute, this is all the stuff you said you wanted.” If Democrats block the USMCA, so long as NAFTA remains in place, Trump can it hang around their necks in key battleground states such as Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and Ohio, which they need to win the presidency. He can tell working-class voters that Democrats voted to keep sending auto jobs to Mexico and voted against the environment and the right to strike. Democrats understand this, which is why Portman thinks the USMCA will pass. “I think it’s going to get done for a very simple reason, which is logic will ultimately prevail.” But logic will prevail only if Trump stops threatening to leave NAFTA. (c) 2019, Washington Post Writers Group

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Wilfred Ze’ev Canter A Hero in the Skies By Avi Heiligman

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nlike their southern neighbors, Canada sent soldiers to fight in World War II from the outset of the war in Europe. While the U.S. had over 16 million servicemembers in combat by the end of the war, Canada sent 1.1 million servicemembers into the military. 42,000 were killed, as Canadians were sent to every major theater of war. Approximately 17,000 Jewish Canadians served in the military, and 450 of them paid the ultimate sacrifice. One Jewish officer who became a legend in the Royal Canadian Air Force was Wilfred Canter who was killed while fighting for Israel in 1948. A native of Kiev, Ukraine, Wilfred Ze’ev Canter and his family moved to Toronto when he was five years old. After graduating high school, Canter enlisted in the Royal Canadian Air Force and trained to fly a Handley Page Halifax four engine heavy bomber. Unlike their German counterparts, the Allied air forces had heavy bombers that could strike deep within enemy territory and were very durable at the same time. Over 6,000 of the British-built Halifax bombers were produced and were used until the 1960s. After a year of intense training Canter was sent to England to start flying missions against Nazi-held Europe. In April 1941, while flying on a mission over Stuttgart, Germany, his

plane was shot out of the sky. Canter parachuted out of the plane before it crashed into German-controlled territory in France. The rest of the six man crew were either captured or killed. However, Canter managed to avoid capture even though he had broken his leg as he landed. Local French resistance members helped him escape the Gestapo by hiding him and then smuggling him first to Paris, then Bordeaux, before trekking over the Pyrenees into neutral Spain. Finally, he made his way to Gibraltar and then back to England. Upon Canter’s safe return to England, King George VI invited him to Buckingham Palace to award him the Distinguished Flying Medal. The aviator then went back to Toronto for a month before returning to flying duties out of England. On another mission his bomber was hit, although this time the plane was able to return its crew safely back to base without crashing. Some accounts of Canter’s story have his third bomber shot out of the sky in April 1942, while others have it later in 1944. This time, however, it was over Germany, and Canter and his crew were taken to Dusseldorf. The Gestapo grilled him at length but it seems they never found out he was Jewish. Canter was taken to the infamous Stalag Luft III. Some accounts have it that while there he helped plan

the Great Escape but wasn’t successful in leaving the camp. Fifty prisoners of war were recaptured and executed on Hitler’s ym”sh orders. Canter was not among the fifty and evaded death yet again. Another version of Canter’s tale has him arriving in Stalag Luft III a month after the Great Escape. As the war was drawing to a close, the Nazis force-marched all of the prisoners away from the advancing Allied armies. Canter escaped this march and made his way back to England. He later told family members that while escaping from the march a Nazi briefly recaptured him. Resistance members then appeared and proceeded to shoot the Nazi officer dead, allowing Canter escape back to England. Returning to Toronto after the war, Canter struggled to find a job and longed to be of help in a way to assist other people. He finally found his calling when the newly created State of Israel was looking for volunteers to fight against the invading Arab armies. Experienced pilots were especially needed, and Canter happily agreed to fly for Israel as he now had a chance to fly again. From August 5, 1948 to October 24 of that year Canter flew several missions for the new Israeli Air Force. Most of the IAF’s planes were left over from World War II, and Canter’s

Douglas C-47 Dakota Skytrain had seen better days. His navigator was Willy Fisher of Winnipeg, and Fred Stevenson (who was not Jewish) of Vancouver was his co-pilot. The three Royal Canadian Air Force veterans served in 103 Squadron. Altogether there were five crewmembers on the transport on the night of October 24. They were on a mission to resupply an isolated outpost in the Negev when one of their engines caught fire. Canter redirected to make an emergency landing but the engine exploded just as they sighted the airfield. A wing broke off, causing the plane to spiral into the ground. All five crewmembers were killed on impact. Wilfred Canter is buried in Rechovot and was posthumously promoted by the chief of staff. Canter’s story is unique for the bravery shown in the air and getting back into the pilot’s seat after being shot down so many times. Like many World War II and Israeli War of Independence airmen, Canter is unknown to the public. There have been petitions to the Israeli government to remember these forgotten heroes.

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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verybody needs money. Maybe that’s why the heist movie is still a Hollywood staple. It’s been a while since we thrilled to classics like Heat, or Oceans 11, or The Sting. But who can resist the heist film’s enticing promise: the coolest crew coming together to take the ultimate shortcut to the American Dream, the one huge payday that means never working again? They say Washington is Hollywood for the less-than-talented, so it shouldn’t surprise you that Washington likes a good heist, too. Except, in Washington, the thieves aren’t eyeing priceless art, jewels, or stacks of bearer bonds. (Why do bearer bonds even exist other than to get stolen in heist movies, anyway?) In Washington, they’re after your money – and they’re tiptoeing as carefully after it as the stealthiest cat burglar. On May 12, the House voted 417-3 to pass the “Setting Every Community Up for Retirement Enhancement” (SECURE) Act. (Someone on the Government Office Acronym Team worked overtime on that.) Now, “SECURE Act” probably conjures up images of happy seniors sipping lemonade on the porch, watching the grandchildren frolic in the sprinkler. And the bill includes a

grab-bag of provisions designed to keep Grampy and Nona smiling, like adding annuity options to defined contribution plans and pushing back the required minimum distribution age from 70½ to 72. But the bill sneaks in one move that even Danny Ocean would admire. Under current law, your non-spousal

Hidden Efforts Imposing Stealth Taxes (HEIST) Act! The SECURE Act won’t just make your beneficiaries pay tax faster. It’s probably going to make them cough up more. That’s because they’ll have to pile those forced distributions on top of their regular income. Imagine a six-figure executive or professional inheriting

In Washington, they’re after your money - and they’re tiptoeing as carefully after it as the stealthiest cat burglar.

beneficiaries can keep your retirement accounts on life support, even after your death, for as long as their own life expectancy. It’s called a “Stretch IRA,” and it can mean decades of extra tax-deferred compounding. The SECURE Act forces them to take everything out – and of course pay tax on it – over just 10 years. Maybe they should have called that provision the

a significant IRA. The extra cash could easily push them into higher tax brackets at both the federal and state levels. Had enough? It gets worse. Right now we’re enjoying the lowest tax rates in a generation, thanks to the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017. But those rates are scheduled to self-destruct after 2025, making SECURE Act distributions even pricier. (While we’re at it,

if your grandchildren are heading to college, the extra cash could blow up their FAFSAs, too.) Right now, the Act is stalled in the Senate. Texas Senator Ted Cruz, who’s never been afraid to irritate his colleagues if it means scoring brownie points with his base, is the roadblock. He’s holding it hostage because it doesn’t let families raid their kids’ 529 accounts to pay for home schooling costs. It’s almost a shame…in today’s Congress, a 417-3 agreement is more precious than the Monet Pierce Brosnan targets in The Thomas Crown Affair. Still, the Capitol Hill Bandits will probably wind up taking down the score. The greatest trick a thief could ever pull is convincing authorities that he doesn’t exist. And just like that, your money’s gone. Good thing you’ve got us to keep an eye on Congress. So call us whether Washington gets away with this one or not — either way, we’ll have your plan!

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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enough to become very compelling. The individual starts to pay less attention to and be less drawn to the ordinary. That’s because it is just ordinary, and our brains are hardwired to attend to what’s not ordinary. That is part of the negativity bias of the

nightmares – will nevertheless be drawn to the horror and drawn away from day-to-day life. What has all this to do with marriage? The sad reality is that a good, sizeable percent of people were not

“Not being fully alive in the present keeps them more firmly imprisoned in the past.”

brain. Evolutionists believe that that was part of brain function so that we would attend to danger very readily to protect ourselves. So, with this in mind, it makes sense that people suffering horrific flashbacks – so horrific, in fact, that many will forego sleep for fear of the

brought up well. Whether they were put down or neglected or told, “I’ll give you something to cry about,” they suffer trauma. They may not remember episodes and they may not have nightmares and flashbacks, but their experiences still impact their lives and the lives of their loved ones.

Yes, child abuse is trauma. The definition of trauma includes the notion that the individual is mortally afraid. When a parent tells a child that they are leaving or will leave, or doesn’t even tell the child but simply is not there one day when the child gets home from school, that is frightening. Whether the child recognizes the fear or turns it off to survive, it’s frightening. It therefore is necessary for those loved ones who are married to those grown up children to understand what’s happening. Obviously, understanding is only the first step in dealing with the problem, but it’s a vital one. Stay tuned for more on this. I know I still didn’t answer the question we started with. 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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panying stress hormones engrave those memories ever more deeply in the mind. Ordinary, day-to-day events become less and less compelling.” Not only that, the individual to whom this is happening is so pre-occupied with the trauma fragments that he or she will miss out on the ordinary joys. So not only is the ordinary “less compelling” but the individual to whom this happens doesn’t even know what it is. Reality starts to feel unreal, and the memories of the past are ever-present and very much real. This, in turn, means that “not being able to deeply take in what is going on around them makes it impossible to feel fully alive. It becomes harder to feel the joys and aggravations of ordinary life, harder to concentrate on the tasks at hand. Not being fully alive in the present keeps them more firmly imprisoned in the past.” Do you see the vicious circle here? The trauma fragments flash often

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Men and the Bible By Rivki D. Rosenwald Esq., MFT, CLC

ll of a sudden there’s a run on men. One gets swallowed up by the ground. Another communicates with a donkey. And the best of them drives a spear right through a couple. And we think the pickings are slim

these days! I mean, let’s say you went on one of these popular dating websites and these were the choices. You’d pass out. But somehow these seem to be the men highlighted by the Torah portion for the past few weeks.

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Maybe it should give us a moment to appreciate the men in our lives. Maybe, they don’t do the gardening, but at least they stay above the ground and are available for other things. Maybe, they don’t always talk to you when you want a deep and meaningful conversation but they’re not ignoring you to converse with some mule or other outdoor creature. And maybe they don’t always like to interact with the couples you enjoy mixing with but, they don’t decimate them altogether, do they?

ployee to employer, mother to child, it all seems to go back to one thing: relationships! After all life’s guided very much by who we spend our time with, how we should treat them, and do we appreciate them. I’d say these guys certainly make it easier to appreciate the men we have or may not have in our lives. So whomever it is you have in your life or whoever you are looking to have, maybe we can say this: if he’s surface-mounted, that means living above, not below, ground; and con-

These guys seem a little, shall we say, extreme.

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Yes, these Torah portions certainly give us some perspective. There’s a saying, guys will be guys, but these guys seem a little, shall we say, extreme. So the Bible must be highlighting them in order to teach us something. Of course, you can say, well, maybe it’s coming to teach us something but not necessarily something about relationships. But seriously, isn’t it all about relationships?! Whether it’s friend to friend, man to Maker, em-

versing with humans rather than ones guided by animal instinct alone; and respecting boundaries rather than on the attack then we should definitely give him some time and recognition. After all, the Torah’s been showing us that it could be much worse!

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

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