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Dear Readers, It’s hard to think of Germans as our advocates, but last week a German judge equated anti-Zionism to anti-Semitism when she convicted Taylan Can of incitement against an ethnic minority when he used the word “Zionist” to target and rile others against the Jews. “‘Zionist’ is the language of anti-Semites, the code for ‘Jew,’” Die Welt quoted Judge Gauri Sastry as saying.

The State of Israel has made it easy for anti-Semites to mask their hatred for Jews.

After all, they don’t dislike the children of Israel, they abhor their country. They don’t hate a religion, they hate the democratic state that happens to be Jewish.

Last month, New York City Councilman David Greenfield so eloquently pointed this out at a Council meeting. The YouTube video of Mr. Greenfield defending his people has been viewed at least 1 million times. Apparently, there are many others who agree with what he said.

“What you saw here today was naked, blind anti-Semitism,” he said, referring to a pro-Palestinian group disrupting the Council during a vote on a resolution to honor the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz.

“While we were discussing a resolution regarding the murder of 1.1 million

human beings … they had the chutzpah, the nerve, the temerity, to unfurl a Palestinian flag and yell at us,” the councilman said. They unfurled their flag because “Hitler had not finished the job. He only wiped out half of my family.” Their hatred towards Israel was only a façade, an excuse for their disdain of the Jewish people.

Next month Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is set to address Congress at Speaker Boehner’s invitation. The invite—and his acceptance—has created a global uproar. How dare the prime minister accept the invitation of the head of the Republican Party in Congress? This is a breach of protocol, the White House said, they were never consulted. Ah, but they were, just shortly before the invitation was extended, as now revealed by several news outlets. So what’s the hubbub all about?

In 2011, Boehner also invited Netanyahu to address Congress and consulted with the White House, only to have them drag their feet in response. Ultimately, Netanyahu did speak and there was no brouhaha at that point.

What concerns me most is the demonizing of the prime minister of Israel, and by proxy the State of Israel. The harsh innuendos being lobbed at Prime Minister Netanyahu almost seem to be blurring the lines between politics and anti-Semitism.

The Congressional Black Caucus has announced that they will be boycotting the speech and one of its members, Rep. Hank Johnson (D-GA), said, “It’s not simply about President Obama being a black man disrespected by a foreign leader. It’s deeper than that.”

When I heard that statement, I was confused—the fact that President Obama is an African-American obviously has nothing to do with the situation; why is that being made part of the discussion?

But then I remembered: one of the first geopolitical tools used against Israel was the “Zionism is Racism” resolution adopted by the U.N. in 1975. This ridiculous and anti-Jewish resolution was thankfully repealed in 1991. But it remains a tool that the world is always willing to use to delegitimize Israel. My fear is that some lawmakers in the U.S.—which has a staunch relationship with Israel—are sticking their hand in that very dangerous toolbox, to delegitimize Prime Minister Netanyahu and Israel.

It is my fervent hope that cooler heads prevail and that the politicians in Washington come to their senses and not serve to further damage Israel’s standing in the world.

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Dear Editor, President Obama, former Democratic Senate Majority leader Harry Reid and former Democratic House Minority leader Nancy Pelosi have had plenty of opportunity to extend an invitation for Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to address Congress.

We are living day-to-day in a time of internal crises between the growing terrorist threats of ISIS, Hezbollah, al Qaeda and Iran on the verge of acquiring nuclear weapons. Republican House Speaker John Boehner has extended an invitation to Netanyahu to

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address Congress. Pelosi’s first public reaction was to say she wasn’t sure if she or other Democratic members of Congress would attend. Within days, Pelosi backpedals and says she will attend but with a caveat. Many other Democratic Congressmembers may not be able to attend because “it’s not a high-priority item for them with all the other important work going on.” Vice President Joseph Biden says he has a previously scheduled engagement out of town and will not be able to attend.

Actions speak louder than words.

Israel is our most reliable ally in the Middle East and world today. Now is the time for all elected officials, Democrat or Republican, to stand up and show their support. There is no excuse for not being able to find an hour or two to attend. Let’s see if Senators Chuck Schumer, Kirsten Gillibrand and all members of the New York Congressional delegation vote with their feet and attend. Friends of Israel should remember who showed and who didn’t show up when they stand for reelection in 2016. Any elected official who fails to show is treif to the Jewish community and Israel. They are not worthy of your vote.

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“boycotting” this speech. The term boycott is becoming way too prevalent in the discussion about Israel and is really dangerous.

It is a mighty shame that some of our very own elected officials are participating in this boycott. It is unacceptable and we should not stand for it.

We need to stand up for Israel. We need to be bold and voice our opinion.

Find out if your congressman plans on skipping Netanyahu’s speech. If he or she is planning to do so, I urge you to call their office and respectfully voice your displeasure.

Sincerely, Benjamin Hoch

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Dear Editor, Most of your readers are probably aware of the blatant anti-Israel senti-

ment that President Obama is displaying vis-a-vis Prime Minister Netanyahu’s impending speech to Congress.

What they probably don’t know is that many of their own elected officials plan on boycotting the speech.

It is an absolute disgrace that politicians who represent a district which is highly pro- Israel can take such a stance.

Why are we silent?

Don’t be fooled by the argument that Bibi is violating protocol by giving this speech. Do you know how much protocol goes into every sneeze a politician makes? There is no way Bibi accepted Speaker Boehner’s invite before dotting his i’s and crossing his t’s.

So what happened, you wonder?

Obama is trying to embarrass him, the same way he tried to embarrass him in 2009 when he made him use the White House entrance where they store the trash. And don’t forget, Obama wants him to lose the election and he thought that this snafu would negatively impact him in the polls. (It actually have helped him because Israelis may not like Bibi, but they like Obama even less.)

Another proof that this is not about a violation of protocol: the White House said that the speech is inappropriate and that the president would not meet with Bibi because they don’t meet with leaders right before their elections as they don’t want to meddle. If so, why did Kerry and Biden meet with Isaac Herzog, who is Bibi’s chief opponent, last weekend?

Oh, and by the way, according to the (generally pro-Obama) Washington Post, the Obama administration was informed about Bibi’s speech before he accepted the invitation and they only objected to it once Bibi agreed to speak. The New York Times, in an obscure correction to an earlier article excoriating Bibi, noted the same thing.

So this was nothing more than the Obama administration’s attempt to make Israel and Bibi look bad.

What concerns me most about this episode is that some Democrats are

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Dear Editor, Two weeks ago, the Metropolitan Transit Authority (“MTA”) approved fare increases, condemning countless Long Island residents that rely on the Long Island Rail Road (“LIRR”) and the subway to ever-higher prices in order to commute and make a living.

Sadly, this is business as usual for New Yorkers, as this is the third increase in the past four years alone.

If you were not aware of this, you can be excused. The MTA did not hold a hearing in Nassau County concerning the fare increase. Apparently, your voice doesn’t really matter. This is clearly unjust. After all, Nassau riders don’t just depend on the train—they also keep it running by footing the bill.

That is why I have co-sponsored a bill that would require public hearings in every county affected by an MTA fare increase. Requiring an increased number of hearings will go a long way toward giving MTA passengers the voice they deserve.

But we must not stop there. We must also begin to hold the MTA accountable for their financial mismanagement.

The unprecedented $15 billion shortfall in its five-year capital budget is unacceptable, and it is unfair to put the responsibility of compensation on the public. The legislature in Albany should serve as a watchdog and require evidence from the MTA that its finances are being used efficiently.

Our transit systems are essential to the hardworking individuals who use them, as well as to our local economies.

It is imperative that the MTA reevaluates its finances, brings the public into important discussions, and proves once and for all that its primary function is to serve the public – not to use the public as its personal piggy-bank.

Sincerely, Todd Kaminsky Todd Kaminsky is the Assemblyman for the South Shore’s 20th District.

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Global HSBC in Hot Water After a “SwissLeaks” cache of secret files emerged online, HSBC faced damaging claims on Monday that its Swiss division helped wealthy customers evade millions of dollars in taxes.

The documents that were released over the weekend claim the bank helped clients in more than 200 countries evade taxes on accounts containing $119 billion.

The huge cache of files, which was stolen by an IT worker in 2007 and passed to French authorities, has sparked criminal probes in several countries and attempts to claw back the cash. Israel was ranked sixth on the list

of countries with the most money in the hidden Swiss accounts, with an estimated $10 billion overall. The funds were distributed among over six thousands clients in Israel—although only about half of them are Israeli citizens—and 9,769 accounts.

The documents showed that HSBC provided accounts to international criminals, businessmen, politicians and celebrities, according to the ICIJ.

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The revelations are likely to stoke calls for a crackdown on sophisticated tax avoidance by the wealthy and by multinational companies, a key political issue across Europe. Tax avoidance is legal, but tax evasion is not.

“HSBC profited from doing business with arms dealers who channeled mortar bombs to child soldiers in Africa, bag men for Third World dictators, traffickers in blood diamonds and other international outlaws,” ICIJ reported.

A range of former and current politicians from Russia, India and a range of African countries, as well as Saudi, Bahraini, Jordanian and Moroccan royalty, and the late Australian press magnate Kerry Packer were named in the files.

HSBC’s Swiss banking arm has insisted it has since undergone a “radical transformation.” “HSBC’s Swiss Private Bank began a radical transformation in 2008 to prevent its services from being used to evade taxes or launder money,” Franco Morra, the head of HSBC’s Swiss unit, told AFP in an email.

He said the bank had closed “the accounts of clients who did not meet our high standards and ensuring we have strong compliance controls in place.”

“We have no appetite for business with clients or potential clients who do not meet our financial crime compliance standards. These disclosures about historical business practices are a reminder that the old business model of Swiss private banking is no longer acceptable,” he added.

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A digital currency would, in theory, allow Ecuador’s central bank to issue new money that isn’t directly tied to its U.S. dollar reserves. But Ecuadorean officials have repeatedly denied that there are any such plans.

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A new study looks at how Indian schoolbooks present the Holocaust in their history class curriculum. Sadly, it was found that Indian school history textbooks don’t even use the word “Holocaust” while teaching world history and the Second World War. In one instance, where a government-prescribed textbook was published during the Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) previous reign, even the details of the mass genocide are completely glossed over.

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization and the George Eckert Institute for International Textbook Research ran the study called “International Status of Education About the Holocaust.” They aimed to compare how the Holocaust

Paper Money? Soon a Thing of the Past in Ecuador

dor’s electronic money system kicked off in December by allowing qualifying users to set up accounts, and it will begin acting as a real means of transaction this month.

Once the government flips the switch, the South American nation of 16 million will host the first-ever state-run electronic payment system.

(Other countries, such as Sweden, use digital currencies widely, but they’re not state-sponsored.) But the Ecuadorean government says the arrangement is designed to support its dollar-based monetary system, not replace it. “Electronic money is designed to operate and support the monetary scheme of dollarization,” wrote economist Diego Martinez, a delegate of the President of the Republic to the Board of Regulation and Monetary and Financial Policy. Martinez said that Ecuadorian law expressly states that economic transactions are conducted in U.S. dollars.

Electronic money will not only help the poor, he added, but will act as a cost-saving mechanism for the government: Ecuador spends more than $3 million every year to exchange deteriorating old notes for new dollars, Martinez pointed out. There would presumably

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How’s the Holocaust Taught in India?

is taught in countries around the world and find out whether the dissemination of information about the Holocaust is fragmented or distorted in any way to serve political ends.

In surveying five prescribed textbooks in India, the study found that none of them makes a mention of the term “Holocaust” or its Hebrew equivalent “Shoah.” It is only mentioned as part of several events that occurred during the war.

The five textbooks, published between 1995 and 2006, greatly differed in their descriptions of the Holocaust and the treatment of the Second World War. Most of the lessons in these textbooks attempt to relate the events of the war to local happenings in India. Some refer to Mahatma Gandhi’s letters to Adolf Hitler appealing for peace while others suggest comparisons between the German persecutions of people of color with colonialism in India.

One textbook published in 2002 when the BJP government was in power totally disregards the Holocaust.

This, the study’s authors said, “may be ascribed to the fact that its authors appear to sympathize with the nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party and with its radical nationalism and the goal of territorial unity akin to that of the National Socialists [in Germany].”

The study found that textbooks in Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Bhutan all make only oblique references to the Holocaust, with the attention on this period in world history falling on the events of the war. Schoolbooks in Nepal were found to simply ignore the Holocaust completely.

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than three dozen people last week. The area’s deadliest attack happened in the New Baghdad section of the city. Police officials said a suicide bomber targeted a street filled with hardware stores, killing 22 people and wounding at least 45.

The second attack took place shortly afterward. Police said two devices detonated 25 meters apart from one another, killing at least 11 people and wounding 26. Another four people were also killed and 15 wounded when a bomb detonated outside an outdoor food market.

The incidents came ahead of Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi’s decision to lift Iraq’s longtime curfew. Baghdad has remained relatively calm amid a rampage in northern and western Iraq by the al Qaeda-inspired Islamic State group.

Recent bombings have frequently targeted Shiite-majority areas in the capital, but the violence has been considerably subdued from the country’s darkest days in 2006 and 2007.

Iraqi officials have repeatedly assured citizens that the capital is secure, despite the occasional targeting of Baghdad’s Shiite-majority neighborhoods by the Sunni militant group.

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While Helmand officials said six people had been killed, the U.S. Army said coalition forces used a “precision, guided munition” to kill eight people who were considered a threat. “We are working to confirm the identities of those killed in the strike,” said a U.S. Army spokesman, Colonel Brian Tribus.

He declined to say if a drone launched the missile.

Afghanistan’s main intelligence agency, the National Directorate of Security (NDS), said in a statement Rauf was in charge of ISIS in southwestern Afghanistan and he was killed just after mid-day in “a successful military operation.”

Rauf has been influential in Afghanistan’s jihadi movement for well over a decade. Media reports last month said he had begun recruiting for Islamic State, part of a push by the movement to gain traction beyond its stronghold in Iraq and Syria.

Last month, Islamic State announced it was expanding into Khorasan, a term Islamists use to describe a region en-

compassing Afghanistan and Pakistan, and declared a former commander from the Pakistani wing of the Taliban “governor” of the region. Although there is little evidence of operational ties between IS and the Taliban, a number of militants have pledged allegiance to ISIS, apparently drawn by its successes in the Middle East.

Saddam Rope to Go for Millions It seems that many people are happy to see Saddam Hussein dead. So happy, that they’re willing to pay millions of dollars to own the instrument of his death.

Mowaffak al-Rubaie, a former Iraqi politician and current civil rights campaigner, has put the rope used in the 2006 execution of the former dictator up for sale. The bid reportedly stands at $7 million, but he’s asking for more.

According to Middle East Eye, a hefty bidding war for the item reportedly includes an Israeli family, a religious Iranian organization, and a pair of Ku-

waiti businessmen.

Rubaie had put the item up for sale after an image of him standing in front of a bronze bust of Iraq’s former leader with a portion of the rope tied around the its neck surfaced. The statue reportedly once belonged in Hussein’s palace in Rihab. Now, it is a fixture in the foyer of Rubaie’s Baghdad home.

But not everyone is happy with the impending sale. Iraqi activists are demanding that the proceeds from the auction go into public finances. Iraqi activist Ahmed Saeed reportedly said the rope was “appropriated” by Rubaie after Hussein’s “much-criticized execution,” and that any profits were “not his [to keep],” Middle East Eye notes.

Video footage of Saddam’s execution had been leaked to the public after what Rubaie described as “ill-educated security guards” recorded the incident on their cell phones. Rubaie said the leak was “extremely damaging on all fronts.”

After 23 years of dictatorial rule, Hussein was sentenced to death by hanging when the Iraqi Special Tribunal found him guilty of crimes against humanity. The Kurdish Judge Raouf Abdul Rahman was reportedly kidnapped and executed by ISIS militants last year in retaliation for ordering Saddam Hussein’s execution.

Western and Arab countries, said that Iraqi troops would begin a major ground offensive against the jihadists “in the weeks ahead.” “When the Iraqi forces begin the ground campaign to take back Iraq, the coalition will provide major firepower associated with that,” he told a Jordanian news agency, stressing that the Iraqis would lead the offensive.

The air force chief said airstrikes had destroyed dozens of targets, including barracks, training camps, ammunition and fuel depots, and residential centers. “So far, the campaign has destroyed 20 percent of the fighting capabilities of Daesh,” Jobour said, using another name for ISIS. Jobour said more than 7,000 ISIS militants had been killed since Jordan began participating in coalition airstrikes.

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In response to the capture and killing of one of its air force pilots, Jordan announced it has carried out dozens of airstrikes on the Islamic State group.

Jordanian air force chief Major General Mansour al-Jobour said the kingdom had launched 56 air raids in three days as part of an international assault against ISIS that Washington says is beginning to bite.

“On the first day of the campaign to avenge our airman Maaz al-Kassasbeh, 19 targets were destroyed, including training camps and equipment,” Jobour told reporters. John Allen, the U.S. coordinator for the anti-IS coalition of

Last summer saw a huge increase in anti-Semitism across Europe. Many used Operation Protective Edge as an excuse to allow their simmering hatred for Jews to come to a boil. This week, an unprecedented case was heard half a year after violent anti-Israel demonstrations erupted in Germany. Judge Gauri Sastry convicted 24-year-old Taylan Can for incitement against an ethnic minority for events at a July 18, 2014 anti-Israel demonstration in the town.

Eyewitness accounts report hostile anti-Israel chants and stones thrown from the anti-Israel camp to the smaller group of Israel supporters. According to the Anti-Defamation League, a breakaway group headed toward a local synagogue, intending to attack it.

A YouTube video of the demonstration shows fields of Palestinian flags and Turkish flags, and a motley group of young men running and chanting “Adolf Hitler” and “Death to the Jews.” In the video, popular Muslim rapper Sinan-G speaks to the camera explaining this is a counter-demonstration against the Jews. “The Jews insulted us, man, this is crazy stuff,” he said. Despite the large

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Fun Turns to Fear at Egyptian Soccer Match

Missing Wreckage Found Half Century Later Mountaineers in Chile say they have found the wreckage of a plane that crashed in the Andes 54 years ago,

It was intended to be a high-energy sporting event. Two Egyptian Premier League clubs, Zamalek and ENP-

President Mohammed Morsi.

An eyewitness fan who tried to attend the game who spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity out of fear of being targeted by police, said that the stampede was caused by police who fired tear gas at the tightly packed crowd.

“Those who fell down could not get back up again,” he related.

The exact source of the violence remains unclear but security officials said that it all began to unravel when Zamalek fans attempted to enter the match without tickets. However, Zamalek fans, known as “White Knights,” had a very different account of the story. In a message posted on their group’s official Facebook page, the violence ensued because authorities opened only a single narrow, barbed-wire door for entry. That sparked pushing and elbowing from those trying to enter and police officers responded with tear gas and birdshot.

An emergency meeting was held to discuss the violence that took place last week at the game, and the Cabinet announced that all upcoming soccer matches are postponed till further notice. Egypt’s public prosecutor issued a

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The disappearance of the Douglas DC-3 carrying members of the top-division Chilean team Green Cross on April 3, 1961 was one of the great unsolved mysteries in the South American country and at the time stunned the sporting world. The club had played an away match in Osorno in the Copa de Chile and was returning to Santiago. The team and staff were flying in two separate flights. One of the planes reached the Chilean capital and the other apparently vanished.

Rescuers spent fruitless weeks searching for the missing plane and symbolic funerals for the missing players drew huge crowds in Chile.

“It was a breathtaking moment and we felt all kinds of sensations. One could feel the energy of the place and breathe the pain,” Albornoz said of discovering the wreckage. The mountaineers said they could see a good part of the fuselage without needing to dig it out and found scattered debris and bones.

It’s understandable why it took over fifty years to locate the missing plane.

The location of the wreckage was not where official publications indicated it should be.

PI, were to go head-to-head at the Air Defense Stadium east of Cairo but the scene quickly turned tragic after a riot erupted.

A stampede broke out and a clash developed between police and soccer fans leaving at least 25 people dead, authorities said. Three years ago, a similar violent situation occurred at a soccer match leaving 74 people dead. Following that attack in 2012, there were days of protest against police officers. The police force is under scrutiny for those riots after a video surfaced on social media showing a female protester being shot by police in Cairo following the arrest of protesters for breaking a law that restricts demonstrations.

Egypt’s die-hard soccer fans, known as Ultras, tend to clash with police inside and outside of stadiums. They are extremely politicized and many participated in the country’s 2011 uprising that forced out President Hosni Mubarak.

Some analysts consider them one of the most organized movements in Egypt after the Islamist Muslim Brotherhood, which the government later outlawed as a terrorist organization following the 2013 military overthrow of Islamist

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police presence, the crowd was clearly out of control. While police originally arrested 49 protesters, forty-five cases were dismissed in December.

Born in Germany to a Turkish family, Can is well known for his anti-Israel activism. Recently, at a Copenhagen protest, Can shouted virulent anti-Israel slogans into a borrowed police megaphone. Elsewhere, at a demonstration he organized in his German hometown, anti-Israel protesters shouted, “Hamas, Hamas—Jews to the gas chamber.”

At his hearing this winter, Can was prosecuted for his use of the term “Zionist” as incitement against a minority. During the hearing, Can claimed he was not an anti-Semite and had nothing against the Jewish people but only against the Zionist state. In response, Judge Sastry pointed out, “‘Zionist’ is the language of anti-Semites, the code for ‘Jew.’” Sastry’s judgment, which does not form a binding precedent in German law, semantically equates anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism. Can was sentenced to three months’ probation and a fine of 200 euros. He has one week to appeal.

Nathan Norman Gelbart, the head of Germany’s Keren Hayesod (United Jewish Appeal), is not confident the verdict will be upheld on appeal. “It’s a very brave verdict… The court has said clearly what our political scientists have known for decades,” said Gelbart.

“It will cause a lot of attention, especially among those who claim they’re not against Jews, but only against Zionists,” he said. Gelbart, who is a lawyer, explained there are many politicians from across the political spectrum, including parties in the German parliament, who use the word “Zionist” to express hatred against Jews while avoiding prosecution.

He doubts the case will stand on appeal since the defendant can be acquitted if there is even a shadow of doubt that he did not intend to incite against the Jewish minority. “We have an anti-Zionist industry across Europe who are living off this legitimacy to spread hatred through using the word ‘Zionist,’” said Gelbart.

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reflects the severity of the crime and the number of people killed and/or injured.

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Bombers: The More They Kill, the More They Get Paid It has come to light that the Palestinian Authority has been issuing monthly payouts between $3-7 million as salaries and other financial rewards to specific terrorists and their families. The money was channeled, in part, through the Ministry of Prisoners pursuant to the Law of the Prisoner. But not every terrorist receives the same compensation.

The law sets forth a graduated scale, pegging monthly salaries to the length of Israeli jail sentences, which generally

Reporter Edwin Black has obtained and published thousands of documents that demonstrate that these payouts are not blind automated payments. Rather, senior Palestinian Authority officials as high as President Mahmoud Abbas scrutinize the details of each case, the specific carnage caused, and the personal details of each terrorist act before approving salaries and awarding honorary ranks in either the PA government or the military.

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annually. About ten percent of the PA budget—more than $400 million—is contributed annually by United States foreign aid. The U.S. and many other countries have enacted laws forbidding any payments when the monies directly or indirectly support or encourage terrorism.

One of the many prominent examples of salaries being paid in proportion to severity of the crime involved Ahmad Talab Mustafa Barghouti, who personally coordinated numerous terrorist acts.

These included a January 2002 shooting spree on Jaffa Street in Jerusalem, killing two and wounding 37; a March 2002 shooting spree at a Tel Aviv restaurant, killing three and wounding 31; and finally a March 27, 2002 attempt to smuggle an explosive suicide belt in an ambulance. Eventually he was arrested by the IDF. On July 30, 2002, a military court concluded that he was responsible for murdering 12 Israelis, and he was sentenced to 13 life sentences.

According to ongoing internal Palestinian Authority security reviews dated February 3, 2009 and July 6, 2009, Barghouti’s special compensation began retroactively back to July 1, 2002. At the time of his arrest, Barghouti was a sergeant in the Palestinian Police. As a reward, while in an Israeli prison, Barghouti’s annual salary of 12,953 Israeli shekels was sustained and gradually escalated when he was promoted to Warrant Officer (even though he was behind bars at the time). All payments were recorded and are shown to have been given to his beneficiaries.

Barghouti is just one of hundreds of terrorists who are rewarded for their actions — not in a blind, faceless program, but in a meticulous, exacting official process that can remain in place for years. The money is represented to donor countries as “government salaries.”

ish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu told reporters at a press conference.

Heads of state as well as other top diplomatic and military officials attend the annual Munich Security Conference. Israeli Intelligence Minister Yuval Steinitz, who is attending the conference along with Labor party leader Isaac Herzog, said Israel will attend every important international conference “whether Turkey likes it or not.”

“Israel wishes to express its astonishment over the Turkish decision,” Steinitz said. “As was planned well in advance, I intend on representing Israel with pride before such an important panel. … Turkey’s boycott is essentially Ankara’s expression of sympathy for radical Islam and terrorist organizations like Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood.”

Turkey’s disdain for the Jewish State is nothing new. Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu recently compared Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to the perpetrators of last month’s Islamist terrorist attacks in Paris, saying Netanyahu committed “crimes against humanity” during last summer’s Gaza war. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, meanwhile, accused Netanyahu of carrying out “state terrorism.”

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Turkey Backs Out of Security Summit The relationship between Israel and Turkey reached a new low this week.

Ankara is willing to compromise on international security rather than be in the same room as Israelis. After Israel was invited to participate in a major international security conference in Germany, Turkey decided not to attend. “We have decided not to participate in the Munich Security Conference because they have subsequently invited Israeli representatives to the Middle East session,” Turk-

A senior Iranian diplomat has been expelled from Uruguay over last month’s planting of a dummy bomb near Israel’s embassy in Montevideo.

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“Investigations carried out by Uruguay’s intelligence services after the discovery of the device yielded information pointing to a possible involvement of someone at the Iranian embassy,” the official said. He noted, “The Uruguayan government turned to Iran’s government for information and after consultations between the two, it was decided to expel one of the senior diplomats at Iran’s embassy.”

On January 8, Montevideo bomb squad officers detonated what turned out to be a fake bomb near the Israeli embassy, located in the World Trade Center office complex in the city. The authentic-looking fake – complete with a fuse, detonator and other elements found in a real bomb – was detected some 70 meters from the building by bomb-sniffing dogs.

After destroying the device, bomb brigade Lieutenant Colonel Alfredo Larramendi told reporters that it “never posed any danger” but might have been part of a dress rehearsal for the real thing. “It might have been put there to see the response time” of responders, or to size up the “quality of the security of Israel’s embassy,” Larramendi said.

Iran has a long history of sponsoring attacks against Israel around the world, using its proxy terrorist groups, Hezbollah in Lebanon and Hamas in Gaza.

In 2013, Argentine prosecutor Alberto Nisman revealed that Iran opened secret intelligence stations in several South American countries to plan and conduct terror attacks. Nisman was found dead in his apartment last month on the eve of a congressional hearing at which he was expected to accuse President Cristina Kirchner of covering up Iranian involvement in a 1994 bombing at a Buenos Aires Jewish center. The bombing killed 85 people and wounded 300, the deadliest such attack in Argentina’s history.

PM Set to “Go to Washington’ This week, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he was “determined to go to Washington” despite many people opposed to his address in front of Congress next month. Speaking at a Likud conference for Russian immigrants, the prime minister’s comments came following a news report that said Net-

anyahu was looking for ways to pull out from his intention to address Congress.

Netanyahu’s accepting an invitation from House Speaker John Boehner was perceived by many in the U.S. as an attempt to sidestep the White House. Netanyahu’s words, however, were carefully chosen, since he is also scheduled to address AIPAC and would need to be in Washington anyway at that time.

Meanwhile, across the Atlantic, President Obama was holding a press conference with German Chancellor Angela Merkel dedicated mostly to the crisis in east Ukraine. Obama did answer a question on Netanyahu’s invitation to the U.S., and facetiously said that as much as he “loves Angela,” he would not meet her “two weeks from an election.” Obama also mentioned “substantive differences” with Netanyahu on Iran, even as he stressed their frequent conversations and “ongoing coordination.”

Highest Court Orders Homes Demolished Israel’s Supreme Court has ordered the government to demolish nine homes in Judea-Samaria that were allegedly built on private Palestinian land.

According to the ruling, the authorities have until 2017 to carry out the demolitions in Ofra, north of Jerusalem.

“Given the difficulty in implementing the demolitions, where families live in most of the buildings and to allow them to find alternative accommodation, I propose that the demolition orders be carried out within two years of this judgment,” judge Asher Grunis wrote.

It was a long-awaited response to a petition filed in 2008 by five Palestinian landowners and leftist NGO Yesh Din. “The petition before us relates to buildings about which there is no disputing the fact that they were constructed illegally,” the court said.

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6 Bosnian Immigrants Indicted for Funding Terrorism

A federal indictment has charged six Bosnian immigrants for sending monAfter living for 100 years, the oldest living crewmember of the battleship USS Arizona to survive the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor has died in Northern California. Retired Navy Lt. Commander Joseph Langdell left this world on February 4 at a nursing home in Yuba City, Calif., according to his son, Ted Langdell.

A tally maintained by the USS Arizona Reunion Association, for which Langdell had served as president, identified him as not only the oldest Arizona survivor, but the last surviving officer from the naval ship that lost 1,177 men — nearly four-fifths of its crew — when it was bombed on December 7, 1941.

Langdell was an ensign on an assignment that had him sleeping on a military base adjacent to the ship in Honolulu on the morning Pearl Harbor was attacked. He spent the following hours and days trying to rescue shipmates from the burning water, preparing for another possible air assault and leading the survivors tasked with removing the remains of the dead from the partially sunken ship.

The New Hampshire native spent another four years in the Navy before going to work as an auctioneer, a furniture manufacturer’s representative, and eventually, the long-time owner of a Yuba City furniture store.

Ted Langdell said his father did not talk about Pearl Harbor during his child-

ey and military equipment to extremist groups in Syria using Facebook, PayPal and other readily available websites.

All are charged with conspiring to provide and providing material support to groups designated by the U.S. as foreign terrorist organizations. The groups include the Islamic State and an al Qaeda-affiliated rebel group known as the Nusra Front.

The indictment alleges they plotted by phone, Facebook and email; shared videos and photos related to their plans on social media sites; sent money via PayPal and Western Union; and shipped boxes of military gear through the U.S. Postal Service. The defendants are accused of donating money themselves and, in some cases, collecting funds from others in the U.S. and sending the donations overseas.

Two of the defendants, a husband and wife in St. Louis, used some of the money to buy U.S. military uniforms, firearms accessories, tactical gear and other equipment from local businesses and ship it to intermediaries in Turkey and Saudi Arabia who forwarded the supplies to fighters in Syria and Iraq.

One of the suspects, Mediha Medy Salkicevic, is a 34-year-old mother of

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hood and returned there for the first time since the war in 1976, when his older son was in the Navy. After that, Langdell took comfort in meeting with fellow survivors and expressed pride in always wearing a USS Arizona hat.

Per his wishes, Langdell’s ashes will be put aboard the USS Arizona Memorial in Hawaii, mostly likely next December 7. The reunion association said there are now only eight remaining survivors of the Pearl Harbor attacks.

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It’s different strokes for different folks when it comes to paying taxes.

Depending on where you live, Uncle Sam manages to reach into your pockets for different reasons.

For those living in Maryland, flushing your toilet is going to cost you.

There is a $60 “flush tax” that the state uses to update treatment plants and protect the Chesapeake Bay, which has experienced a decline in water quality. The tax was implemented in 2004 and was then doubled in 2012.

New York is the home of the best bagels, but eating those chewy breakfast items will cost you. There is a “bagel tax” in New York—about 8 cents a bagel—unless you purchase it to go, unsliced, unheated or in the same way you’d find it in a supermarket or grocery store. If you opt for a shmear, Uncle Sam is going to enjoy that bagel along with you.

Sporting legends better beware.

Around 20 states—including Arizona and New Jersey—tax the revenue of professional athletes who come and play in their jurisdiction. Dubbed the jock tax, it was started by California in the early 1990s when the Chicago Bulls visited.

In Maine, a tax on wild blueberries may have you singing the blues. It’s about $1.50 per 100 lbs. on those fruits processed in the state or unprocessed but shipped outside the state. The state is using the money to conserve and promote the wild blueberry industry. It produces 99 percent of all the wild blueberries in the U.S. Playing cards in Alabama? Make sure it has the revenue stamp on it showing the tax on it has been paid. If it doesn’t, you’re playing with contraband goods. Alabama imposes a tax on decks of playing cards that contain no more than 54 cards. Maybe the song should be changed to “Alabama Hold ‘Em”— your taxes, that is.

Ever see a cowboy wearing a rope

around his waist? Well, it could that he comes from Texas, where belt buckles— not ordinary belts—are taxed. Texans can choose to go belt buckle-free until the sales tax holiday week, which takes place every August.

Bodybuilders across the nation, listen up. The cost of your body oil is tax deductible. It’s considered a business expense since they use it to prepare for and pump up before competitions, according to a 2004 tax court case. How about their vitamin shakes or wheatgrass shots? No such luck there.

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All six people who are charged are natives of Bosnia who were living in the U.S. legally. Three are naturalized citizens; the other three had either refugee or legal resident status, according to the U.S. Attorney’s office.

Grover Norquist, said, “Brady will face income tax at the top rate of 39.6 percent. In addition, since this is a wage, he will also owe the top Medicare tax of 3.8 percent, half of which will be picked up by the NFL. Put those together, and Brady will pay $42,000 in federal taxes on the game.”

Uncle Sam Comes Knocking After Super Bowl Win Winning the Super Bowl comes with a price tag—payable to the IRS. Super Bowl MVP Tom Brady is facing a $60,500 bill from the IRS just for winning the game, according to a new report. Americans for Tax Reform said he will have to pay $42,000 on his share of the $97,000 for playing in the championship.

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Brady ever so nicely re-gifted the red Chevy Colorado pickup truck he won for being appointed MVP. He gave it to fellow Patriot’s player Malcolm Butler, who caught the game-winning interception. According to experts, Brady is

responsible for paying about $13,000 in income tax on the prize, plus another $5,000 “gift tax” for being such a good sport.

“That’s a $5,000 gift tax on top of a $13,500 income tax on the truck, for a combined federal tax hit of $18,500,” ATR pointed out.

The total tab for just the Super Bowl saga: $60,500. Let’s hope Brady has a good accountant.

factor in Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia, the countries at the epicenter of the devastating epidemic of the virus that has killed nearly 9,000 people in just over a year. IATA blamed the slump on “negative economic developments in parts of the continent including Nigeria, which is highly reliant on oil revenues.”

Global airline capacity rose by 5.6 percent, while the average load factor, or percentage of seats occupied, was 79.7 percent, a 0.2 point increase over 2013.

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“Flight attendants, get ready for takeoff,” was heard by a record 3.3 billion passengers last year, creating a new record. In 2014, 170 million more passengers flew than in 2012, according to the International Air Transport Association (IATA).

“Demand for the passenger business did well in 2014. With a 5.9-percent expansion of demand, the industry out-performed the 10-year average growth rate,” IATA chief Tony Tyler said in a statement released on Thursday.

A tremendous amount of growth, more than half can be specifically accredited to airlines in emerging markets, including Asia-Pacific and the Middle East. “Robust travel on low fare airlines as well as airlines registered in Turkey offset economic weakness and risks in the region,” IATA explained.

The strongest overall growth was recorded by carriers in the Middle East (13 percent), followed by the Asia-Pacific region and Latin America, with 5.8 percent each. Europe, meanwhile, saw its market swell 5.7 percent, marking a clear hike from the 3.8-percent growth seen in 2013. North America saw demand rise 3.1 percent in 2014, compared to just 2.3 percent a year earlier and boasted the highest load factor of all regions at 81.7 percent.

African airlines experienced the slowest annual growth of just 0.9 percent, after rising 5.2 percent in 2013.

Many may assume that a slowdown in the African airline industry is solely attributed to the Ebola epidemic, however experts believe that Ebola was only a

In case we needed more proof that the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer….As of 2013, the wealthiest 20% of Americans had more total income than the bottom 80% combined.

State and local governments are largely responsible for redistributing income amongst people. The nationwide average effective tax rate for the poorest 20% of Americans was 10.9%, roughly double the 5.4% rate for the top 1%.

When looking at taxes paid as a share of the income earned, all states have a regressive tax system, which means poorer residents are taxed at higher percentage than their wealthy neighbors.

The actual difference in effective tax rates between income groups, however, varies widely between states. According to “Who Pays? A Distributional Analysis of the Tax Systems in All 50 States,” a report released by the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy (ITEP), Washington has by far the most regressive tax system nationwide. Based on the index score, a ratio calculated from a range of factors to measure income inequality before and after taxes, these are the states with the most unfair tax systems for the average American.

In seven out of 10 of these “worst” states, the poorest 20% of individuals paid at least 12% of their total incomes in state and local taxes. The wealthiest 1% of residents, on the other hand, paid no more than 3% in state and local taxes as a share of income in six of the 10 states.

The middle class is highly affected,

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report released, under the strict orders of President George W. Bush who felt that divulging intelligence sources and methods could pose a potential threat.

Officials on both sides of the debate acknowledge that protecting the delicate U.S.-Saudi relationship also played a role.

“We owe the families a full accounting,” said Rep. Stephen Lynch of Massachusetts, a Democrat who claims to have read the 28 page classified document written in 2002. Lynch claims that the FBI-generated investigations “are consistent” with Moussaoui’s testimony.

“There are specifics, there are transactions, there are names,” Lynch said.

The current relationship between the U.S. and Saudi remains fragile. Saudi Arabia’s new king is pro-American and the Middle Eastern country has agreed to join with the U.S. to confront the Islamic State, the turmoil in Yemen, and Iran’s nuclear aspirations. However, many activists and many politicians continue to admonish Saudi Arabia over human rights abuses, such as the recent flogging of a blogger.

15 of the 19 hijackers in the 9/11 attacks were from Saudi Arabia.

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that “provides good wages while giving management the flexibility it needs” to remain competitive in the industry.

Union spokeswoman Lynne Hancock said the workers are seeking better health care benefits and limits on the use of contractors to replace union members in maintenance jobs. She said wages are not an issue.

In the last 35 years, factories have become more automated and machine-run. Additionally, management has been able to use nonunion workers and contractors to keep the refineries running.

“Generally production is not impacted by these work stoppages, but prices can go up because of the perception” of an interruption, said Tom Kloza, chief oil analyst at the Oil Price Information Service. “We’re seeing that on the West Coast.” Wholesale gasoline prices there have increased about 65 cents per gallon since hitting a low in mid-January. Kloza said he also attributes the decrease partially to maintenance shutdowns and usual seasonal trends in gasoline prices; the peak driving season is right around the corner.

Contrary to what John Kerry may think, a survey of U.S. international relations scholars has ranked the secretary of state the least effective politician to fill that role in the last 50 years.

Every year, the Ivory Tower survey conducted by Foreign Policy magazine polls over 1,600 scholars from 1,375 colleges nationwide to gather statistics regarding the best schools and study programs in their field and on political issues. This year, in their most recent survey, Henry Kissinger was chosen by 32.32% of respondents as the most effective secretary of state in the last half-century. Kerry only garnered 0.31%

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Since 1980, there hasn’t been a nationwide strike at U.S. oil refineries.

On February 1, about 3,800 steelworkers began to strike at refineries across the nation, including California and Kentucky. The workers are claiming that negotiations with Shell Oil Co. have broken down. Shell is negotiating the national contract for other oil companies.

In response, a BP spokesman said that the company expects to continue operating with replacement workers and doesn’t expect a significant effect on production, meaning you shouldn’t feel the sting at the pump.

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Recently, an unsubstantiated court testimony by Zacharias Moussaoui, a former al Qaeda affiliate serving life in federal prison, has reintroduced the suspicion that classified documents contain very relevant and shocking information regarding Saudi Arabia’s involvement with al Qaeda and the September 11 attacks. Moussaoui testified that significant members of the Saudi royal family continued to fund al Qaeda in the late 1990s, even after the organization had declared war on the House of Saud. He also described plotting with an employee of the Saudi Embassy in Washington to shoot down Air Force One. Supposedly this information was excluded from the public version of the

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too. Average income earners carried a heavier tax burden compared to the richest residents. The middle 60% of earners in all of the 10 states paid at least three times what the wealthiest 1% paid, as a share of income, in state and local taxes.

So where do you not want to be living on April 15? Here are the ten states that have the worst taxes for the average American: 1. Washington 2. Florida 3. Texas 4. South Dakota 5. Illinois 6. Pennsylvania 7. Tennessee 8. Arizona 9. Kansas 10. Indiana

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Since Kerry has held the position, the U.S. has dealt with the rise of ISIS, the crisis in Ukraine, Iran’s nuclear ambitions, and of course, the never-ending Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Respondents were also asked to name the most urgent foreign policy issues. Armed conflict in the Middle East came in at number two with 26.81% of the vote, with climate change leading the pack (40.96%) and global terrorism at number 5 (21.23%).

Lyin’ Brian Disappoints Viewers This week, Brian Williams announced that he is taking a leave absence as NBC’s Nightly News Managing Editor and anchorman.

The leave comes after it was revealed that Williams fabricated a story about being under fire in Iraq. He is admitting that the scrutiny and criticism from viewers became a distraction for

the network and therefore was stepping aside for several days.

In a recent story published by Stars and Stripes, Williams was accused of making false statements about an encounter while covering the war in Iraq in 2003. He claimed he was in a helicopter with his team and was hit by rocket-propelled grenades. Witnesses, however, disprove his story. Traveling in front of the crew was the aircraft that was actually hit.

Williams, 55, officially apologized on air on Wednesday but that didn’t satisfy the public—many are demanding a resignation from the reporter who is tasked to tell the news and not exaggerate or misconstrue events. He said that his “faulty memory” was due to the terror of being in a warzone. “It was like

landing on the surface of the moon,” he told Stars and Stripes. “And I’m going to have a far different recollection than the professionals.”

In the aftermath of this scandal many are beginning to question William’s overall credibility. Questions have been raised about his claim that he saw a body or bodies in the Hurricane Katrina floodwaters that hit New Orleans.

In an internal memo released Friday, NBC News President Deborah Turness said that the network has assigned the head of its own investigative unit to look into Williams’ statements. The investigation will be led by Richard Esposito, the head of NBC’s investigative unit.

In December, the network extended Mr. Williams’s contract. The terms were reported to be as much as $10 million per year for five years, and some are claiming his salary may even be as much as $13 million. According to estimates, Williams has a net worth of $40 million.

On Tuesday, it was reported that Williams was suspended for six months without pay.

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Sales of protein supplements for use beyond sports also grew 21 percent in 2014 to $487 million in the U.S., according to data from Euromonitor.

“The protein craze is so powerful, in fact, that it has moved well beyond reason and into something more emotional,” NPD Group noted in the recent report on spending. “For example, consumers say they want more protein in their diet, but some 71 percent of them also say they don’t know what the recommended daily amount of protein is.”

After eating all that protein, shoppers may just want to sit around the house. And so they keep on buying socks. Yes, sales in that category grew 2 percent to $5.6 billion in the 12 months ending in August, outpacing the overall apparel market.

Women preferred athletic socks—I guess they want to burn off that extra protein—while men were buying dressy socks. But plain, old socks wouldn’t do it for them. Men are seeking trendier and more colorful dress socks, driving a busier market in that industry.

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This week, Drew Peterson, the former police officer who was convicted of killing his third wife three years before his fourth went missing, has been

charged with plotting to kill the prosecutor who put him away. According to the Illinois attorney general’s office, Peterson tried to hire a hitman to kill Will County State Attorney James Glasgow, who led the 2012 murder trial. The 61-year-old has been charged with one count of solicitation of murder for hire and one count of solicitation of murder.

Peterson allegedly tried to arrange the hit on Glasgow between September 2013 and December 2014 from Menard Correctional Center, the maximum-security prison where he is serving a 38-year prison sentence for the 2004 drowning death of Kathleen Savio, his third wife.

Savio’s 2004 death was originally ruled accidental, but the case was reopened after Peterson’s fourth wife, Stacy, disappeared in 2007. Savio was found dead in the bathtub in her home.

The couple was in the process of divorcing. Peterson is the only suspect in Stacy’s disappearance, but he has yet to be charged in that case.

Peterson made an initial court appearance on the charges Monday, and a preliminary hearing is set for March 3.

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of 20 to 40 years; solicitation of murder carries a mandatory sentence of 15 to 30 years.

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Americans are a giving nation but some are more giving than others. A list released this week by The Chronicle of Philanthropy lays out the donations made by the 50 most generous Americans in 2015. Who’s the most philanthropic American? Our favorite couple, Bill and Melinda Gates, who gave at least $1.5 billion worth of Microsoft stock to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Trust in November 2014. The trust manages the foundation’s endowment.

According to Gates Foundation spokeswoman Amy Enright, the foundation hasn’t yet put together a total for the

Gates’ giving in 2014, which will be greater than $1.5 billion.

The foundation works on reducing poverty and advancing health worldwide and expanding educational opportunities in the U.S. Even after all of his donations to the foundation, Gates is still the richest person in the world, worth $78.7 billion, according to Forbes’ calculations. He and Warren Buffett formed the Giving Pledge in 2010, inviting other philanthropists to join them in promising to give away more than half of their fortunes during their lifetimes. So far, 128 people have joined the pledge.

This year’s Chronicle list shows that an unprecedented number of people in the technology field are following the Gates’ lead. Eleven of 2014’s top 50 made their fortunes in technology.

Young tech entrepreneurs are stepping up, with three donors who are under 40.

In 2013 there was only one under-40 tech donor couple, Mark Zuckerberg, now 30, and his wife, Priscilla Chan, 29.

WhatsApp founder Jan Koum, 38, was the most generous of 2014’s young donors, with a gift of $556 million to the SVCF, putting him in fourth place on the list. Koum grew up in Ukraine,

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A Gem of a Ride On Tuesday, President Barack Obama and the family of U.S. aid worker Kayla Mueller confirmed that the last-known American hostage held by Islamic State militants had died, with Obama promising to “find and bring to justice the terrorists who are responsible.”

U.S. officials said the family received an email and photograph over the weekend from Mueller’s captors that confirmed her death but said the circumstances in which she died remained unclear. Islamic State said on Friday that Mueller was killed when Jordanian fighter jets bombed a building where she was being held outside Raqqa, a stronghold of the Islamist militant group. Jordan and U.S. officials have expressed doubt over the account of her death offered by Islamic State, an al Qaeda offshoot that controls wide areas of Syria and Iraq.

Mueller, 26, was captured in August 2013 while leaving a hospital in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo. She previously had been working in Turkey providing humanitarian assistance to refugees from Syria’s bloody civil war.

Mueller was Islamic State’s only American woman hostage known to have died. The group has killed three other Americans, two Britons and two Japanese hostages – most of them aid workers or journalists – in recent months.

“ISIL is a hateful and abhorrent terrorist group whose actions stand in stark contrast to the spirit of people like Kayla,” Obama said. “Kayla’s compassion and dedication to assisting those in need shows us that even amongst unconscionable evil, the essential decency of humanity can live on,” Obama said.

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Napster founder and former Facebook president Sean Parker, 35, was the next-most-generous after Koum. He gave $550 million to his own foundation and to a donor-advised fund he set up through the Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund. A sufferer of severe allergies, including a dangerous peanut allergy that has repeatedly landed him in the hospital, in December he announced that he made a $24 million grant to establish the Sean N. Parker Center for Allergy Research at Stanford. He is worth $2.9 billion according to Forbes’ latest estimate.

After Gates, the second-largest gifts is a $1 billion posthumous bequest from the late owner of the Buffalo Bills, Ralph Wilson Jr., who died in March at 95. In third place is Ted Stanley, 83, who amassed a fortune selling sports collectibles. His $652.4 million gift broke new ground in medical research philanthropy. He is supporting the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard’s efforts to study the genetics of psychiatric disorders. In 2007 he gave $100 million to create the Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research at the institute. Later, he gave another $50 million. His 2014 gift vaults the center’s research forward at a time when drug companies have pulled back on funding for psychiatric research. Stanley has a personal stake in the cause. His son Jonathan responded to treatment for bipolar disorder and became a successful lawyer.

Of the 50 people on the Chronicle’s list, 22 appeared on the latest Forbes 400. That group gave a total of $4.6 billion.

Michael Bloomberg was the seventh most giving person last year, giving away $462 million. Sergey Brin, founder of Google, gave away $382.8 million—the ninth largest gift in 2014.

America’s other biggest private giver along with Gates, Warren Buffett, is absent from the list. That’s because of methodology. It does the Chronicle’s not count pledges made in previous years, even if the money didn’t flow until 2014. Buffett would be No. 1 for 2014, ahead of Gates, had the maga-

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Since 2005, when his car broke down, Robertson had been making the 42-mile round trip trudge through some of the roughest neighborhoods in Detroit to his manufacturing job in Rochester Hills, Michigan. He makes $10.55 an hour.

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13 years ago, a hungry patron paid for his pizza with a bad check. The guilt over his lack of payment has been eating up his insides for 13 years—and now, the customer sent the pizza parlor owner a letter with an apology and the amount he owed for his meal.

The anonymous letter writer claimed poverty and a hungry child at home as context for the deed — but also shared something else: “I think of this often and I am incredibly ashamed and embarrassed at my behavior. I have visited your store several times in the last few years and have always wanted to confess and ask you to forgive me, but I have not been able to summon up the courage, so I just eat my pizza and leave,” he wrote inside the typed letter.

But his confession is not all that was enclosed in the envelope. The letter writer enclosed a money order for $54.39, which includes 8 percent interest compounded since 2002 on the assumed $20 food bill.

The pizza parlor owner posted the letter on Reddit, commenting, “I’m speechless.”

“I feel bad for the poor guy,” he added. “I probably forgot about him when I wrote the check off as a loss and never gave him another thought. This poor dude has been dwelling on this for over a decade. If I find out who he is I’m going to have a beer with him—I’m buying.”

“The guy didn’t have to do anything, this is a big showing of his character. To include interest was really generous,” the storeowner added.

The photo of the letter inspired others. One commenter noted that the story of after-the-fact honesty made the day better: “Thank you for sharing this, it added a real spring to my step today.

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A Paul Gauguin painting of two Tahitian girls has smashed the record for the world’s most expensive single work of art after Qatar bought the canvas from a Swiss collector for almost $300 million.

The 1892 oil painting by the French Post-Impressionist called Nafea Faa Ipoipo (When Will You Marry?) was sold by the private collector Rudolf Staechelin, a retired Sotheby’s executive from Basel, reported The New York Times.

Mr. Staechelin, 62, declined to name the buyer but it was thought to be the state-financed Qatar Museums. The Gulf nation had set the previous record in 2011 when it paid $259 million for The Card Players by Paul Cezanne, and has spent millions more on Western modern art in recent years.

The painting had been hanging in Basel’s Kunstmuseum (art museum) on loan more than 60 years, but was sold after Mr. Steachelin apparently fell out with the institution, withdrawing all his works.

“We are painfully reminded that permanent loans are still loans,” the Basel museum said.

Mr. Staechelin said that he made the sale to diversify his family trust’s investments, which are largely tied up in a collection of 26 valuable Impressionist and Post-Impressionist works amassed of by his grandfather.

Nafea Faa Ipoipo depicts two young women in bright colors before a landscape – one in native dress, the other in a colonial, missionary style dress – symbolizing European convention and Polynesian custom. Gauguin painted the work during his first visit to Tahiti, aged 43-44, where he travelled to escape “everything that is artificial and conventional” in Europe.

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Around The Community Achdut Always at DRS Stop any student in the halls of DRS and ask him to describe DRS’s mission in one word, and they will inevitably say “achdut.” DRS prides itself on building an environment in its school where every student feels like an important part of their class and one in which everyone in the school gets along with each other. To that end, DRS focuses many of its extracurricular programs on establishing that sense of chevra and camaraderie. On the very first Shabbos as a DRS student, the freshmen are taken to Camp Kaylie for their Freshmen Shabbaton. In addition, throughout the year, DRS holds various “mini-Shabbatons” for its students.

This past Shabbos, the ninth grade had its “mini-Shabbaton” in Woodmere.

Students living in the neighborhood made sure that those students who live in

Queens, Brooklyn, and West Hempstead had a place to stay. On Friday night, the entire grade joined together at a tisch at DRS Menahel Rabbi Kaminetsky’s house. The tisch was highlighted by

lively singing, divrei Torah, chulent, kugel, and great company. Throughout Shabbos, students were invited to meals at their Rebbe’s homes. On Shabbos afternoon, freshmen Josh Weiner hosted a

grade-wide Seudah Shlishit for the entire grade at his home. These programs certainly make every student feel a part of the DRS family from the very beginning.

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Over 2,000 women gathered together in Brooklyn, on January 19, to hear divrei hisorerus from our Rabbanim ‫ שחיחח ח ח‬and Rebbetzin Twersky ‘‫ תחיחח‬.

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Around The Community Israel Advocacy at Rambam Rambam has always been at the forefront of providing its students with the knowledge and information necessary to combat the ever-growing trend of anti-Israel sentiment and propaganda in the media and the world at large.

The driving force behind this program has been Rambam’s Principal, Rabbi Yotav Eliach, one of the nation’s

foremost experts in religious Zionism and Israel advocacy. Coupled with his course in Zionism, Rambam’s Annual Mitnadvim Program of students volunteering on Israeli Army Bases during winter break, and assemblies with members of Knesset, knowing and feeling what concerns Jews in Israel is a concern for Rambam students alike.

It is for this very reason that when tragedy struck in Har Nof last month,

Rambam students spearhead a fundraising drive which raised significant money for the families of the victims of terror.

This past Friday, students had the opportunity to hear from Rav Avichai Rontzki, former Chief Rabbi of the Israeli Defense Forces. Rav Rontzki spoke in Hebrew and he mentioned that he was not religious when he entered the army.

“I vividly recall the march our group took from the Suez Canal to what is identified as Har Sinai—we climbed to the top of the mountain and there we were Jews, thousands of years later standing on the same mountain as the men who made Jewish history and forged us into nation.

All of us were overcome by a strong feeling that we literally were one people united with one heart and one mission – to protect and defend our people, heritage and our land. This inspired me to become religious,” said Rav Rontzki.

Rav Rontzki spoke about the challenges and issues he had to confront during his tenure as Chief Rabbi, and more recently as a volunteer during last summer’s war against Hamas. He said that on many occasions battalion commanders who are not religious would read from the Torah, verses that would instruct and inspire troops before they went out to battle.

The message was clear to the talmidim of Rambam: “Am echad b’lev echad.”

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Rabbi Wakslak and Joseph Langer, a past Rabbi Chaim Wakslak, Rabbi Baruch Levine, Shlomie Dachs and Yisroel shul president, concep- Levine who performed with his father tualized this scholarship concert eighteen years ago. Since Chiger and David Chiger. that time, the proceeds from this scholThe Young Israel of Long Beach is arship concert has allowed many local the cornerstone of the Orthodox Jewish community youngsters to attend Yeshiva Long Beach community and is led by and/or overnight summer camps. Nine Rabbi Dr. Chaim Wakslak. At the presyears ago, following the untimely p’ti- ent time, the synagogue is sponsoring an rah of Robert Chiger z”l, a young, vi- incentive program designed to encourbrant member of the congregation, it age young couples to rlocate to Long was decided that his memory would Beach and serve as a nucleus to estabbe most appropriately perpetuated by lish the community as a focused considre-naming this scholarship fund “The eration on par with other communities.

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As the New England Patriots and Seattle Seahawks battled for first place on the field in this year’s Super Bowl, the clear winner off the field was Kids of Courage. The unique non-profit organization put together its seventh annual Super Bowl party, hosted in the Five Towns by the always gracious Moradi family. Couragers from all over the tristate area—and as far away as Baltimore—enjoyed an awesome tailgate buffet, courtesy of generous sponsors Seasons, Gourmet Glatt and Hapina while watching the game on three separate screens with their K.O.C. friends.

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at that he received from the students.

“It is so powerful to witness firsthand the incredible growth and development of our students and how beautifully it builds upon the solid foundation that This past week, Rabbi Shlomo Adelman, the Menahel of HANC High School, visited with alumni learning in Israel. Rabbi Adelman met with each of the students in their seminaries and yeshivot, as well as at the annual Shana Aleph reunion, which was held this year in Soyo—an elegant restaurant in the heart of Yerushalayim. The reunion was an opportunity for the students to

share divrei Torah, relive high school memories, and reconnect with each other, all while enjoying a delicious meal. Rabbi Yisrael Weingot, a beloved rebbe at HANC High School, joined Rabbi Adelman on the yeshiva visits and provided special divrei chizuk at the reunion.

Upon return from his trip, Rabbi Adelman proudly described the nach-

TJH would like to wish congratulations to Assemblyman Todd Kaminsky and his wife, Ellen, on the birth of their son, Rafe Alexander Tobin Kaminsky.

May he bring them much joy and happiness.

they received at HANC. The hakarat hatov that each of the students has for their HANC education and experience was a recurring theme at each and every yeshiva and seminary that I visited.”

Snow Day Shiurim at Yeshiva Tiferes Moshe As New York City was shutting down for what was expected to be a blizzard, it was obvious that the talmidim of Yeshiva Tiferes Moshe would have a day off from school. Rabbi May reminded the boys that although school would be closed, the mitzvah to learn Torah continues. Thanks to the quick thinking of some of the yeshiva’s dedicated rebbeim who offered special shiurim on the snow day, it did!Rabbi Aryeh Estersohn’s second grade class went home with worksheets that they would have done in class on the snow day. Nearly the entire class completed their worksheets on Tuesday morning, and then called into the class hotline to listen to their rebbi teaching that day’s Chumash lesson. Later in the day, the

boys were able to listen to a recording of the parsha lesson as well.

Rabbi Yaakov Levine’s fifth grade was invited to walk to their rebbi’s home and participate in a special shiur on the halachos of snow. For those boys who were unable to come, Rabbi Levine setup a special conference call for them to call into. Everyone who came was treated to hot cocoa and freshly baked cookies. Over half of Rabbi Levine’s boys participated.

The yeshiva is proud of all of our talmidim who made sure to devote time on the snow day to learn and thank their dedicated rabbeim for continuously helping the talmidim grow into bnei Torah.

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Around The Community Christian Mendoza does Battle with the Shmorgasbord and Shul Kiddush

By Yitz Grossman I hate working out! I’m not alone.

Most of us don’t enjoy exercising and though we logically chap (understand) that exercise is necessary for one’s heart and overall good health, unless you are a gym rat – most aren’t – going to the gym is torture. Broken commitments to a gym regimen and/or regular exercise, lie atop the heap of other broken New Year’s (and other) resolutions. Many of us would rather schedule a few hours in the dentist’s chair or even a regular learning seder than dedicate an hour a day or a few hours a week to exercising, fitness and weight control.

I first met Christian Mendoza back in 2008 while suffering with lower back issues. He truly healed me and has nursed many with physical injuries back to good health. Moreover, he doesn’t ever make anything worse and that sentiment was repeated over and again by the many I have run into in the last seven years or interviewed for this article. He is trained in physical therapy and is a master stretcher. And yes, every workout concludes with a few

minutes of feel-good stretching. Some start that way. He’s full of surprises and he’s heard me yell more than once. In fact, there have been times when this body was just too broken for a workout and the entire workout consisted of stretching. That was good! My story is not unique, other are more compelling.

As an aside, Christian is somewhat of a germaphobe and no sooner is your session over when you will find him on the floor spraying and wiping down your mat. He loves clean!

Let’s face it, the Jewish diet and in particular the orthodox Jewish Shabbos diet has always been and remains on a collision course with healthy living.

Our lives are anchored in shul where, in addition to, or besides the main event – the davening – members and their families look forward to the Kiddush. Some shuls might close without one. And while upscale caterers are always tinkering with new ideas and dishes, trying to keep pace with the latest trends in upscale dining and fine cuisine, the reality is that we are conditioned, Pavlovian style, to make a beeline for of-

ferings which include chulent, kugil, kishka, carved meats, and anything else that might permanently attach itself to our waistlines, thighs or other parts of our bodies. Dessert on the way out is of course mandatory. Though Jewish people have adopted sushi – a somewhat healthier food item – as if it were part of our heritage dating back to Har Sinai, eating a healthy portion of fatty Kiddush food is a requirement, almost a commandment, before we make the journey home to enjoy a full lunch with the family. And because our stomachs might be growling for yet more along the way, some have the minhag (custom) to Kiddush-hop from shul to shul or even at a neighbor’s house for extra helpings. Many will regret these choices later in the day or when they dare step onto a scale, but the cycle repeats weekly. Let’s get real. No Jew has ever won the battle of the smorgasbord. It’s ever powerful, perhaps stronger than the yetzer horah himself! Such is life!

Our weekday schedules which include a healthy dose of organizational dinners, engagement parties, wed-

dings, bar mitzvahs and other reasons to gather and consume a few thousand calories, all while standing and all in under five minutes, aren’t much healthier. We need to exercise! Who among us couldn’t benefit and whose looks wouldn’t be somewhat enhanced having shed a few pounds?

In the late spring of 2011, I wrote an article about LEGACY FITNESS and its proprietor and head trainer, Christian Mendoza, which was published in THE JEWISH HOME, an enjoyable Five Towns weekly paper/magazine. We’ll call it more of a magazine because of its glossy cover and ease of beginning and completing articles of interest. In addition to its roundup of world and regional news, weekly Torah thoughts and the necessary fuel to operate the magazine in the form of advertising from local and other merchants, it also, from time to time, features health tips and other interesting gems.

Back then LEGACY was a highly personalized gem of a gym, located discretely above Brach’s Kosher supermarket. It still is! No longer the secret it

Around The Community ing a trainer text and call you to make and keep an appointment might just be what your heart and body need. It’s worth the price just for the stretching.

And the price? Surprisingly, quite affordable. I know whereof I speak. The bottom line: it seemingly takes a good Christian, or at least a Christian Mendoza to fight the battle of the shmorg. Am I a paid spokesperson for LEGACY? Not! In fact, I remain a full-paying, thankful and satisfied client.

Christian can be found above Brach’s or by phone at 917-709-2740.

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ACY shortly after the first article ran in the The Jewish Home (May 2011).

Since that time, David has referred his father, brother, wife, daughter and sister-in-law. They are all active members.

“Christian is unique in that he can work with any age person, from young to old, and understands each person’s strengths and limitations. He has exceptional knowledge of the body and if one part of the body hurts, he will work with another. I have entrusted him with my father and very close family members; they’re all very happy.” Dr. and supermom Rivki Hirt, a fulltime working obstetrician and gynecologist, stated that she has been with Christian for nearly eleven years. Her parents, sister-in-law and nephew all joined as a result of her recommendation. “Christian is accepting and accommodating of each client’s abilities and limitations. He finds ways to work around any such limitation and above all, he is careful not to injure.”

Are all gyms the same? Certainly not! Of course not everyone needs that push; some are in fact disciplined, some are even gym rats. If you are not self-motivated about exercise – sadly most aren’t, it’s not in our DNA – hav-

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Back in 2011, high profile defense attorney Ben Brafman, who attends more dinners that most – usually as the Master of Ceremonies or to deliver a speech – and whose line of stressful work lends itself to noshing and binge eating at irregular hours told me that Christian had, for the better, changed his body and his diet. Yes, he did show me his biceps. But how was he faring four years later? Had he maintained his discipline? Was he still in shape and fighting? Indeed he is; today he is stronger than ever and has added boxing to his workout routine. And when asked, he stated, “I have been training with Christian three times a week for several years. I am a very disciplined, grateful client. I feel strong and have much greater stamina which in my line of work is pretty important. Thank you Christian!”

“I trust him implicitly,” said Lawrence resident Dr. Barbara Schwartz, herself a physiatrist who had been working out with Christian for over ten years and who understands more than the average person the physical body, its needs and importance to be well maintained. She told me that Christian was “very knowledgeable and can, not only help you get into shape, he knows the body and won’t hurt it. Others have overstretched and overworked their clients.” Barbara has a religiously scheduled slot with Christian; don’t mess with it!

Earlier this week, a bit early for my 7am appointment, I ran into Lawrence resident Miriam Goodman who was just putting her coat on to leave.

While I was warming on the elliptical, she walked over and said, “I’m telling you that the man is healer. I walked in this morning with horrible lower back pain because I stupidly was schlepping weighted bags of wet clothing due to a flood in my basement, and 45 minutes later, I’m pain-free. He just knows what to do.” Sylvia Kain, who has been training with Christian for 5-6 years – she wasn’t sure – said, “He’s very caring, very attentive and safety conscious which is critical to me. I love the stretching which has dramatically increased my flexibility and I really feel that he keep me in good health. He’s a gem!”

A gym’s success depends on many factors, but referrals from satisfied clients is perhaps the number one key to growth and longevity. To that end I spoke to two other members, each of whom has since referred family members and others. David Englander of Lawrence began working out at LEG-

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once was, LEGACY, nearly four years later, continues to offer the same high level of personal one-on-one training.

In a world of mega gyms, LEGACY remains a boutique operation. In an era of large supersized gyms with dozens of bikes and rows of equipment, LEGACY pales by comparison. Instead, it remains in its original location, still sign-less, atop Brach’s here in Lawrence. But dare walk approximately 20 feet to the right of the store’s entrance and you will find a blue door, usually ajar, leading to a staircase which takes one up to the 2nd floor. Enter LEGACY, a two room micro-gym where you will always receive personalized attention, one-on-one training with either Christian Mendoza, or one of several dedicated trainers.

But not for a barrage of texts, calls and follow-up texts offering me a workout slot as early as 6:15AM and guilting me into accepting, I would long ago have dropped out. Let’s face it. Statistically speaking, the gym dropout rate is alarmingly high. Most of us have! In fact, gyms count on no-show memberships; it’s part of their business model. They don’t really care if you come or not. Many enthusiastically join and then hope that membership will automatically translate to fitness and weight loss. Sadly it doesn’t work. At LEGACY, Christian and his trainers know each client and make sure they make and keep appointments. More interesting is that the trainers know each person’s needs and body. They know when to push and when to let the body rest.

Every session is different.

Over at LEAGACY don’t be surprised to find congregational rabbis, school principals, doctors, and other high profile people who seemingly benefit greatly from the ever-evolving workout sessions Christian prepares.

They are all clients or members but the truth is that you will rarely meet them because LEGACY operates quite differently than do most gyms. More typically, it’s you and your trainer and maybe one or two others with theirs.

It’s actually quite a private experience, preferred by many for various reasons.

I’d been thinking about a follow-up article for some time. I was wondering how the people were faring four years later. Were the dropout rates at LEGACY as high as at other gyms? Such an endeavor dictated that I check in with some of those originally interviewed and others I have seen coming or going.

Were they still members, still active?

Or, did they, like some many before them, succumb to the shmorg?

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Around The Community Bais Yaakov Ateres Miriam Third Annual Dinner “V’chut hameshulash lo b’mheirah yinateik” The weather outside is cold and dreary, but inside Bais Yaakov Ateres Miriam the classrooms and halls are lit with the sounds of laughter and learning. Since opening three years ago, BYAM has experienced rapid growth and demand has remained very high.

“What we are trying to do here is build upon the proven vision of Sarah Schenirer with classic Bais Yaakov hashkafos, accentuated with our own brand of individualized attention which creates the special warmth of our school,” said Rabbi Nosson Neuman, founder and Menahel of BYAM. And it is precisely the sense of warmth, encouragement, and genuine Torahdike middos that has made BYAM such an appealing school to so many parents from all across Far Rockaway and the Five

Towns. Beginning with 31 girls in its first year to having 150 girls enrolled this year and almost 200 registered for next year, the school is clearly on a successful track.

Mrs. Leah Zytman, Pre-School Director and General Studies Principal, continues to draw upon her extensive career in chinuch ha’banos to strike the right balance between the girls’ natural drive to learn through play and curiosity with structure and age-appropriate curriculum. Mrs. Zytman said, “Bais Yaakov Ateres Miriam offers a rich learning environment using the developmental approach to learning. Our curriculum is a challenging one that coincides with the capacities and needs of children at various stages of growth. We connect teaching and

learning meaningfully so the children can remember, apply and enjoy what they learn.”

On Motzei Shabbos, February 21, BYAM will be having its Third Annual Dinner. Due to the overflowing, standing room only crowd of last year’s event, the school leadership has decided to hold the dinner this year at the larger Congregation Beth Shalom in Lawrence. The school will be honoring parents Bumi and Tova Fried as Guests of Honor, Pinny and Yael Farkas with the Kesser Shem Tov Award, and their beloved nursery teacher Morah Tehilah Negreann with the Chinuch Award.

The parents being honored have been leaders in every facet on behalf of the school and have always extended themselves to help in any way that they

can. Morah Tehilah is adored by her talmidos and beloved by the parents as well. Her ability to convey the true essence of a Bais Yaakov girl in a loving and caring fashion is a special gift and the school is pleased to honor her.

As the theme of this year’s dinner connotes, it is precisely the third strand that makes the rope strong. “V’chut hameshulash – lo b’mheirah yinateik.”

Bais Yaakov Ateres Miriam thanks the Ribbono Shel Olam for bringing them to this point. May they continue to grow and flourish.

To place an ad for this year’s dinner, please visit www.baisyaakovam. org or call the school at 718-868-3232.

You can also submit your ad or get more information about the dinner by emailing dinner@baisyaakovam.org.

Assemblymen Goldfeder and Kaminsky Sponsor Bill to Ease Electric Costs for Yeshivas In an effort to ensure that local Yeshivas are protected from rising utility costs, Assemblymembers Phil Goldfeder (D – Far Rockaway) and Todd Kaminsky (D – Cedarhurst) have sponsored a bill (A.0467) that would add both public and nonpublic elementary and secondary schools to the list of the New York Power Authority’s mandated customers. Under New York State law, mandated customers receive low-cost, renewable-energy electricity from the state, providing millions in savings.

“We must ensure that all our schools, both public and private, are not burdened by rising utility costs. The Yeshivas in our community not only provide quality education to our children, but they also serve a valuable role as places of community gatherings and events,” said Assemblyman Phil Goldfeder. “This bill will provide local yeshivas have affordable, dependable energy they need as they work to educate our children and serve the community.”

“Over the past several months I have visited numerous yeshivas and have been extremely impressed and inspired to help them fulfill their educational mission.

This bill will help yeshivas in my district save thousands upon thousands of dollars on their electric bill,” said Assemblyman Todd Kaminsky.

The proposed Assembly bill A.0467 would amend the public authorities law to add public and private elementary and secondary schools to the list of entities that receive subsidized electricity from the New York Power Authority (NYPA), the largest state power organization in the country.

Current entities on the list of mandated customers include the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, the Port Authority of NY & NJ, various city and state organizations, select hospitals, and some 250 private corporations including Steinway Piano and The New

York Times. The bill would also direct the NYPA to make energy-efficient services and clean energy technologies available to schools.

“Having equal access to discounted energy rates will provide basic equity to the private schools in New York State—which will also benefit our schools’ families and students.

Sponsor Sean Ryan and co-sponsors Phil Goldfeder and Todd Kaminsky should be applauded for their commitment to getting this legislation passed. We thank our coalition partners – in particular the UJA-Federation of NY – for their work on crafting this bill,” said Maury Litwack, Director of Political Affairs, Orthodox Union.

“The Energy Parity Act, which was just re-introduced this session, has the potential to save tens of thousands of dollars to Yeshivos across the State,” said Rabbi Mordechai Kamenetzky of Yeshiva of South Shore. “We applaud Assemblyman Kaminsky and Assemblyman Goldfeder for working on behalf of our community to get this important legislation passed.”

“This legislation could provide significant annual energy savings to our school,” said Reuben Maron, Executive Director of Hebrew Academy of the Five Towns and Rockaway. “We thank the sponsor Assemblyman Sean Ryan for his leadership on this issue and our local representatives, Assemblymembers Goldfeder and Kaminsky, for their commitment to getting this passed this session.”

In introducing the legislation, lawmakers acknowledged the important role schools provide in the community as places of meeting for community groups. The bill also notes that providing reliable energy to public and private centers ensures centers role in providing shelter and services during disasters.

During Superstorm Sandy, many Yeshivas opened their doors to victims, providing essential relief to local families.

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Around The Community CHAZAQ Hosts Children’s Extravaganza February 8 was a cold and windy Sunday afternoon, but that didn’t stop hundreds of children from attending CHAZAQ’s special extravaganza featuring Uncle Moishy and the Mitzvah Men at the Young Israel Kew Gardens Hills.

This was Uncle Moishy’s second performance for CHAZAQ this year and he got the children (and parents!) standing and cheering as he was singing some of his big hits. “It was a nice way to warm up the family during this brutally cold winter,” said Dina, a mother of three from the neighborhood.

CHAZAQ is known for its wide variety of programs targeting all segments of

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Banner Week for Rambam Teams In the wake of Rambam Mesivta once again being reaccredited as a Middle States School of Excellence and the news that Rambam is a Finalist for the Department of Education’s prestigious Blue Ribbon Award, Rambam’s teams put accolades into action in various enterprises.

The Rambam Mock Trial team defeated JFK High School this past week in what is hopefully the start of another successful campaign. The Nassau County Mock Trial Tournament includes 44 schools and is one of the most competitive academic competitions.

Over the last three years, under the leadership of Professor Joanne Stevens, the team has finished in the elite eight once and has had two final four appearances.

Both attorneys and witnesses were at the top of their games, and the team hit the ground running. One person present said, “They could have held their own or surpassed most attorneys seen in Court.”

The Rambam College Bowl teams, both JV and Varsity, were also victorious, going a combined 5-1 at last week’s meet. Rambam looks forward to a playoff run as well as defending the JV Championship in their 5th Annual Rambam Mesivta College Bowl Challenge which is scheduled for late February.

The team also looks to regain the United Cerebral Palsy Association’s Trivia Challenge Championship as they have

held that distinction two out of the last three years.

Rambam’s JV Hockey team also finished its season last week going 10-0 on the year. With newly engaged Coach Avi Herschman and Rambam Class of 2009 at the helm, the team hopes to make it back to the Championships for the second year in a row. They won their final game in a 5-0 shut-out playing back-up goalies Benjy Aryeh and Doniel Fodiman.

While winning competitions is nice, another group of Rambam students met this past week as the Rambam Mesivta Writers’ Guild continues to grow. A group of students, dedicated to the craft of writing and appreciating literature, met with Assistant Principal and English teacher Hillel Goldman in a small setting and reviewed their stories. The original works take about three weeks to write and then they are compiled and read before the group meets. Everyone shows up with notes and offers constructive criticism and feedback in what is a safe, fun community of writers. The Guild plans on producing a journal of the best stories and reaching out to local writers for their feedback.

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Around The Community Five Towns Marriage Initiative Letting Go of Your Expectations There was a fellow in a new yeshiva. He was upset because there was a drip in the faucet of his dorm room.

He told the administration and they said they would take care of it but a few nights passed and nobody came.

He was having a hard time sleeping at night from the constant dripping, so he was thrilled one morning to finally see a repairman come into the room and take care of the leak. He went to sleep

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calmly that night, anticipating a quiet night’s sleep, when suddenly he heard the annoying noise again. He went over to the sink to check but the sink was dry, and then he realized that the noise was from outside; it was raining.

He went back into bed and peacefully fell asleep. Even though the dripping sound had kept him awake the previous nights, this night it barely impacted him. The next morning he thought about it and realized it was all about his expectations. As long as he was waiting for a repairman to take the problem away he felt annoyed and aggravated by the dripping sound. With the rain, though, he simply accepted that there was nothing to be done and he fell asleep.

Success in marriage is hinged upon expectations. When we have unreasonable expectations of our spouse we are setting ourselves up for failure. When we minimize our expectations though, we will be surprised at how much joy

we feel when our spouse goes beyond and out of their way. When a couple enters a marriage, their own parents and family members color their expectations. Things that bother a person might have nothing to do with a spouse doing something wrong, but rather stem from the way the person grew up.

In terms of expectations, let’s assume Malky makes chicken soup each week. Her husband expects variety and finds her repetitive Shabbos chicken soup very aggravating. Malky has no way of knowing this, though. She grew up with chicken soup on Shabbos and assumed that’s what her husband wants to see as well. Malky’s husband has a choice. He can forgo this expectation and realize that this is just Malky’s way of doing things, or he can say something nicely to her. To let frustration build up over this would be ridiculous, yet all too often scenarios like this play out in one home too many.

The goal is to turn our lens onto

ourselves. Rather than expecting more of our spouse, we should focus on pushing ourselves harder and raising the bar of our own achievements. By looking for more opportunities to be sensitive and aware of what our spouse is interested in and being prepared to effectively communicate our needs, our interests, our frustrations and concerns, we can help achieve the best possible harmony in the home and enable us to preempt problems often before they even begin.

Five Towns Marriage Initiative provides educational programs, workshops and referrals to top marriage therapists. FTMI will help offset counseling costs when necessary and also runs an anonymous shalom bayis hotline for the entire community Sunday, Tuesday and Thursday evenings, 9:3011p.m. For the hotline or more information, call 516-430-5280 or email dsgarry@msn.com.

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Rabbi Yankelewitz’s first grade in Yeshiva Darchei Torah visited Tiferes Stam last week to learn about sifrei Torah, tefillin and mezuzahs.

Parents of Slain Israeli Teens in New York for Jewish Unity Event PHOTO CREDIT: UJA-FEDERATION OF NEW YORK

(left to right) Ofir Shaer; Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat; Beverly Barkat; Racheli Fraenkel; Editor-in-Chief of The Forward, Jane Eisner; UJA-Federation of New York CEO, Eric S. Goldstein; UJA-Federation of New York President, Alisa R. Doctoroff

The parents of two of the three Israeli teens who were murdered by Hamas last summer preceding Operation Protective Edge spoke at a UJA-Federation of New York event on Thursday celebrating the Jerusalem Unity Prize.

Racheli Fraenkel, the mother of Naftali Fraenkel, z”l, and Ofir Shaer, the father of Gilad Shaer, z”l, joined Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat and Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks, Emeritus Chief Rabbi of the United Kingdom, in a discussion moderated by The Forward’s Jane Eisner to discuss how the tragedy led to the creation of the Jerusalem Unity Prize.

The prize was conceived in partnership with the families of the three boys and the Jerusalem-based organization Gesher as a way to perpetuate the spirit of unity across Israel and around the world during the days following the boys’ kidnapping.

“The support the world has shown us has been incredible,” said Mrs. Fraenkel. “During those tense days I felt a sense of unity that transcended my anxiety and the desperation of the

search for my son. People called from all over Israel and, then, from all corners of the world.”

“After our son’s tragic murder, the most important decision my family made was to open our hearts,” said Mr. Shaer. “We feel an obligation to ensure that the personal pain that we have experienced be channeled for the betterment of people all over the world and this is what we all hope this prize will accomplish.”

“The unity that has developed from this tragedy is one of the most important and empowering things I’ve seen in the last decade,” added Barkat, who has been one of the driving forces behind the Unity Prize. “If Hamas had known how its act of terror would bring us together, they wouldn’t have dared kidnap our boys. Unity is a central value in our identity as a people and this prize will afford us the chance to advance these ideals across Israel and around the world.”

The Jerusalem Unity Prize will be presented in three separate categories, each with a prize of up to 100,000 NIS ($25,000). A committee chaired by

(left to right) Editor-in-Chief of The Forward, Jane Eisner; Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat; Racheli Fraenkel; Ofir Shaer.

Barkat, the parents of the three boys, and dignitaries from Israel and the Diaspora will choose the winners.

Eric. S. Goldstein, CEO, UJA-Federation of New York said: “These past months have shown us how well we bear each other up in the worst of times.

The Jerusalem Unity Prize, which was developed by the families of the three

boys— together with Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat and Gesher, and with support from UJA-Federation and others, reminds us to find common ground and raise each other up, not just in crisis — but always.”

For more details about the Unity Prize, please visit: http://www.unityprize.org/en.

Around The Community The Flatbush Basketball League Championship Recap In the China Glatt Division: In the final game of the season between Avenue N neighbors father and son stores, the #1 seed Pizza Heaven and

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#2 seed Supreme RX Pharmacy, high hopes were in the air for an unforgettable battle. As the game began, Shimon Greenwald showed why he deserved to be in the championship game, scoring from all angles with 18 points. His sidekick, Yitzy Waxman, was there alongside him throughout the season and of course, during the biggest game of the year with 8. The full court game proved to be too much for Supreme as they could not handle the pressure and could not keep the momentum alive.

Ezra Beyda led scores with 13; however, the rest of the team seemed to just let this one ride out of their hands. Pizza Heaven reigned “Supreme” and won by a score of 32-20 and took home the coveted FBL trophies.

In the Jewish Home Division: Tensions were extremely high as #1 seed Pizza Nosh faced #2 seed Holy Schnitzel for all the marbles. Early on, the score was ever so tight, as each scored basket for basket. At half, it was as close as can be—16-16. As the third quarter began, a technical foul was given out as frustration was mounting for Holy Schnitzel.

They went on to start the third on a 6-0 run, 4-6 grade division champs and then later a 14-4 run, with minutes left in the third quarter. game with excitement filling the gym Pizza Nosh seemed very rusty, and with at Hudde Jr. High we can now call PizMr. Weiss coaching them on, every of- za World Champions of The Flatbush fensive and defensive move was crucial. Basketball League. With PAL up 12-4 The fourth quarter began, and the ten- after the first and taking a 21-18 lead sion was palpable; Holy Schnitzel took into the half, was that an upset we felt over though, as Eliahu Hara (8 points) in the air? Mendy S., where were you and Ahron Antar (5 points) were drain- for this one? I thought you took off last ing threes. Uriel Mahperi (8 points) had week. Tzvi B, what happened? No one some nice plays of his own as well. For on Pizza World scored in double digits Pizaa Nosh the struggle was too much to as they held off a late surge by PAL to bear, and the W slipped away from their take home the Championship trophies. hands. Sholom Weiss and Moshe D. League MVP honors but of course

7-8 grade division champs

Rosenberg led scores with 7 each. Holy Schnitzel celebrated this one in style as they took the trophies after an amazing season-ending game, 34-25. Mr. Muller, where were you for the biggest game of the season?

In The Jewish Connection Division: Where do I begin? Let’s begin at the end. Meir’s Pizza World: 36, Abe’s Plaza Auto Leasing: 35. In an amazing

Yehoshua Fonfeder with three treys .Thanks to our BM guys for making this work.

The Flatbush Basketball League, “The Only Game in Town,” would like to thank all its members for a great season of basketball. To our sponsors, a big yashir koach for all your help. We look forward to another successful season iy”H next year. Stay tuned here for the FBL’s Year in Review coming soon.

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By Shmuel Landesman As is well-known, at the first Knessiah Gedolah of Agudas Yisrael which took place in Vienna, Austria, the legendary Gadol, Rav Meir Schapiro zt”l, proposed in Yiddish the concept of Daf Yomi. It caught on from the start; in 1923, when the Rebbe of one of the largest Chassidus in the world, in the country with the largest frum population in the world, let it be known that he was learning Daf Yomi. HaRav Avraham Mordechai Alter, the Gerrer Rebbe in Poland, ensured the success of the Daf Yomi program. Before the Holocaust, approximately 250,000 Jews learned Daf Yomi, almost all in Yiddish in Eastern Europe. Then came darkness.

Never could anyone have imagined that on Tu B’Shvat 2015, the Syrian Jewish community in Panama would make a siyum on Gemara Yevamos, learned through the Daf Yomi program, and the Moroccan Jewish community in Cote St. Luc, Quebec, would make a siyum on all of Shas, also learned through the Daf Yomi program. Both events were co-sponsored by the Daf Yomi Commission of Agudas Yisrael of America.

On Tu B’Shvat, 156 Jews in Panama City were mesayem Gemara Yevamos.

That is not a misprint. It really was 156.

There are only approximately 13,000 or 14,000 Jews living in the country of Panama out of a total population of 4 million. 85% of the Jews are Sephardic, almost all from Aleppo, Syria. They support eleven daily Daf Yomi shiurim and 19 kosher restaurants.

Ezra Cohen, Director of Daf Yomi in Panama, is the dynamo behind this Daf Yomi success. A decade ago there was no Daf Yomi program in Panama. Mr. Cohen frequently listened to Rabbi Eli Mansour’s shiurim on CD. He heard his fellow Chalabim (Jew of Aleppo Syrian descent) talk about Daf Yomi, so Mr. Cohen decided to try it out. He and his friends figured it would peter out after a couple of months. To their amazement, they were able to stick with it. Three years ago, a dozen Panamanian Jews finished all of Shas through the Daf Yomi cycle! It has since really taken off.

They now have in Panama City six Daf Yomi shiurim in the morning and five in the evening. 10 are taught in Spanish and one in Hebrew. Almost none of the Daf Yomi learners has a yeshiva background.

The siyum last week was held in Congregation Shevet Achim (Rav Avraham Silvera) in Panama City. 175 Jews

Making a siyum haShas in West Hempstead

attended. Ezra Cohen was the Master of Ceremonies. Mr. Marco Kassab, popular Daf Yomi maggid shiur, made the siyum in Spanish. Rabbi Eliyohu Simcha Bamberger, Agudath Israel of America’s indefatigable Spanish-speaking Daf Yomi coordinator, spoke. The main drasha was delivered by Rabbi David Ozeri, Rav, Yad Yosef Torah Center in Brooklyn, a noted educator and inspirational speaker who travelled to Panama to address the mesaymim. He truly inspired all those present with his fiery words.

Rabbi Yitzchak Turgeman started teaching Daf Yomi seven and a half years ago at the Cote St Luc (Montreal) Kollel Avreichim based in Congregation Shuvah Yisrael (Rabbi Yehuda Benoliel). The community consists of first or second generation immigrants from Morocco. Last week, seven made a siyum on Gemara Yevamos and three finished all of Shas. Rabbi Tugerman is the only one who is yeshiva educated.

He delivers the Daf Yomi shiur at 6 am in English. The frigid Montreal winters don’t scare off the committed Daf Yomi learners. They have even come out in -22 degrees Fahrenheit weather (not counting the wind chill).

The siyum program on Tu B’Shvat consisted of divrei bracha from the Marah D’atrah (Rabbi Benoliel), Gad Pitom who sponsored the siyum in memory of his father and Rabbi Tujerman who then made the siyum. The guest speaker was Rabbi Yaakov Reisman, Rav of Agudath Israel of Long Island, who made the trip to Montreal for this Siyum HaShas. His heartfelt message of chizuk was well received by the participants.

Equally impressive, the Daf Yomi group (chaburah) at Congregation Etz Chaim in West Hempstead, NY, led

by Rabbi Avraham Sebrow, completed all of Shas last week when they were mesayem Gemara Yevamos. Also last week, the lunchtime Daf Yomi shiur at Agudath Israel headquarters at 42 Broadway in Manhattan, taught by Rabbi Mechel Schiffenbauer, made a siyum on Gemara Yevamos.

At the siyumim in Panama and Cote

St Luc, the simcha shel mitzvah, the temimus (wholesomeness/sincerity) of the baalei batim and these examples of the renaissance of Torah learning among the kehilot of the Eidot haMizrach are difficult to explain in words. The writer recommends watching the videos of the siyumim. Your eyes will probably tear up. Mine did.

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Around The Community Dirshu Delegation of Rabbanim Davens for Klal Yisrael in Emotion-Filled Trip to Kever of Chofetz Chaim

By Chaim Gold Mishnah Berurah along with great defender and advocate The beis hakevaros in Radin was a short daily portion of musof Klal Yisrael, the Chofetz still, snow-covered. sar from one of the Chofetz Chaim.

Last week one of the most moving Chaim’s numerous mussar moments transpired on the hallowed seforim.

“Rebbe! Am Yisrael Needs earth where the holy Chofetz Chaim is “Rebbe,” Rav MishRachmei Shomayim!” buried. Venerated rabbonim and poskim kovsky exclaimed, “this is HaRav Aharon Toisig, walked slowly, heads bent in hachnaah what you wanted! That Yidone of the great mashpiim in as they approached the admas kodesh, den across the world should Eretz Yisrael, spontaneousthe holy soil, where the Rabban Shel live their daily lives in acly rose to speak. In front of Kol Bnei Hagolah ad sof kol hadoros, cordance with halacha by the kever of the holy Chofetz the great Kohein Gadol, the Chofetz learning your Misnhah BerChaim he gave voice to the Chaim is buried. urah; that Yidden should live deep feelings that so many These rabbonim and poskim wept their lives in accordance with were feeling. He said, “Rebopenly and unabashedly as the Mashgi- your Sefer Chofetz Chaim Kriyas HaTorah in the building which once housed the Chofetz Chaim’s yeshiva be, Yidden have started learnach, HaGaon HaRav Chizkiyahu Yosef and Shmiras Halashon on the ing your Mishnah Berurah Mishkovsky, shlita, stood in front of the laws of lashon hara and your that anyone currently learning the Daf daily in great numbers. Yekever, hand raised to Shomayim, eyes other mussar seforim. In this zechus, HaYomi B’Halacha or anyone who ac- shiva bachurim, kollel avreichim, baatightly closed, saying, “How many tears please may Hashem grant all lomdei cepts upon himself to start the program, lei batim and even children in 7th and have poured forth at this holy place Daf HaYomi B’Halacha – those cur- whether this week as the program em- 8th grades are all en-masse learning the begging Hashem that in your zechus, rently in the program and those who barks on the relevant halachos of Purim Mishnah Berurah ...” heiliger Rebbe, Yidden should expe- have undertaken to join the program or for the next machzor in the month Rav Toisig burst into tears, “Am Yisrience yeshuos?!” Rav Mishkovsky, – hatzlacha in all of their endeavors, of Nissan when the program will again rael needs Rachmei Shomayim. Hashcontinued, “Heiliger Rebbe, may your nachas from their children, yeshuos, re- begin Chelek Aleph, will be inscribed em from upon high look at us! In the zechus be a meilitz in a special sefer entitled Sefer HaGib- zechus of the heilige Chofetz Chaim yosher on all Yidden see how every house in Klal Yisrael is borim. and on all lomdei One of the moving moments at the suffering, people are crying, the malach Dirshu and in your kever was when the beautiful, leath- hamashchis is everywhere! The Mishzechus may Dirshu er-bound Sefer HaGibborim, was nah Berurah tells us that if we properly continue to faciliplaced for posterity in a secure place in observe Shabbos we will be saved from tate so much limud the special ohel built around the kever tzaros. If we learn Torah, the Chofetz haTorah.

Please Chaim tells us, the koach haTorah will of the Chofetz Chaim. grant them the siyathelp us. We beg Hashem give bracha to Klal Yisrael, both in ruchniyus and ta diShmaya to help Explosion of Emotion in a gashmiyus. Yidden need good health. so many Yidden Frozen Land learn the seforim of Then came the focal point of the trip So many are suffering! Yidden need the Chofetz Chaim – the visit to the kever of the Chofetz parnassah, Yidden need hatzlacha in and spread his ToChaim which aroused a heartfelt out- chinuch. So many are falling, R”L!” rah. We beg Hashpouring of tefillos accompanied by coA Silence that Spoke Volumes! em, halevai!” pious shedding of tears.

Rabbi Avigdor Bernstein, a senior Indeed, the As the group of talmidei chachodeeply inspiring HaRav Chizkiyahu Yosef Mishkovsky addressing the Dirshu delegation mim finished saying the Tehillim, some- member of Dirshu’s hanhala, said, moment at the kever thing absolutely remarkable transpired. “I can’t describe to you the quiet that also featured heartfelt tefillos and Tehil- fuos and parnassah!”

One of the rabbonim started mention- reigned as we left the beis hakevaros. lim led by HaGaon HaRav Binyomin Upon arriving in Radin, the delega- ing the names of the many people who Everyone was silent. They couldn’t Finkel, shlita, mashgiach of the Mir tion entered the building that housed the had asked him to daven for them at the talk. No words could describe the depth Yeshiva, and a potent tefillah especial- great Radiner Yeshiva. Who can forget kever. This one desperately needed a of emotion felt by all. The silence rely written for the occasion by the well- that powerful Monday morning Tefillas refuah, another had difficulties with a flected the emotion, an emotion so powknown mekubal and Rosh Yeshiva of Shacharis within the walls that housed wayward child, the other had not yet erful, so tangible it could practically be Ahavat Shalom, HaGaon HaRav Yaa- the beis medrash of Radin? been blessed with children and this one cut it with a knife.”

That bracha and that special zechus kov Hillel, shlita.

After Shacharis, Rav Dovid Hofst- desperately needed a shidduch. Within edter, Dirshu’s Nasi, delivered the daily moments, the others joined in, mention- of the Chofetz Chaim is available and Filling the Desire of the Chofetz Daf HaYomi B’Halacha shiur from the ing the myriad Yidden who had begged ready to access for anyone who accepts Chaim: Learning Halacha Daily Sefer Mishnah Berurah written by the them to daven for yeshuos and… the upon himself to begin learning the Daf HaYomi B’Halacha. Yidden are joining The Dirshu delegation arrived in Chofetz Chaim in front of the beis me- floodgates opened.

Radin on Monday, 13 Shevat/February drash founded by the Chofetz Chaim.

Tears started flowing, hot tears re- by the thousands. It’s time you joined 2. The trip was undertaken in advance The symbolism was not lost on anyone. flecting the pain and torment plaguing too! of the siyum of the first machzor of DirIn truth, the ultimate purpose of the so many Yidden throughout the world.

To join Daf HaYomi B’Halacha, shu’s Daf HaYomi B’Halacha program. trip was on behalf of the Daf HaYomi The fountains of tears poured straight Dirshu’s Daf HaYomi B’Halacha, the B’Halacha program. Over the last few from the hearts of each individual pres- please call, 1-888-5-Dirshu or e-mail, popular daily halacha program, fea- weeks Dirshu presented an enticing of- ent as they unburdened Klal Yisrael’s info@kollelDirshu.org. tures the learning of a daily Daf of fer to all of Klal Yisrael. The offer was pain onto the great oheiv Yisrael, the

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The Gift of Shabbos two week program at Bais Yaakov of Queens was a smashing success! The girls have been internalizing their beautiful Shabbos lessons and their eyes and hearts have been opened to the spiritual gift of Shabbos.

The school building has been decorated magnificently under the very talented direction of Morah Yocheved Jurkowitz. The program began last Monday with a realistic and humorous teachers’ play written by Mrs. Esther Rockove.

Both Rabbi Gewirtz and Mrs. Jurkowitz addressed the girls on this topic. The eighth graders then presented the program theme song, which was taught to all the girls. The song was played over the school intercom twice daily and it enhanced the program greatly. Each student received a gift bag with special items to be used on Shabbos, including jewelry and Shabbos nosh. The Zemiros raffle cart collected Zemiros raffle tickets each day. The familiar Zemiros songs heard as the cart came around, added to the real Shabbos ambiance.

Last Thursday, grades 1-4 were treated to a lively Shabbos Music and Song Festival. The third and fourth grades presented Shabbos choirs which were followed by a music video and dancing. Mrs. Karen Daitchman enhanced the program with her live musical accompaniment. Throughout the two weeks, grades 5-8 have each watched the dramatic Torah Umesorah video titled, “To Leave and Believe.” The video parallels the mesiras nefesh of a shemitta farmer with that of a Jewish girl in the early 1900s trying to keep Shabbos. The viewings were followed by grade-wide discussions on the topic.

Each day the teachers gave over beautiful and uplifting Shabbos lessons.

Some topics were oneg Shabbos, uplifting the physical, Me’en Olam Haba, “Os Hi L’Olam,” the eternal sign, and thinking about Shabbos all week long.

Last Thursday, grades 1-8 attended a special Shabbos assembly. The assembly featured an inspiring video created

by Miss Bracha Harris. Following the video, Mrs. Taub picked winners from each class from the Zemiros raffle cart.

The eighth grade once again presented the program theme song and it was powerful to hear the entire school singing it together. At lunchtime on Thursday, the girls were treated to a “taste of Shabbos” with piping hot and delicious potato kugel made by our own kitchen staff under the direction of Rabbi Noble. To celebrate the culmination of the program on Friday, the girls were allowed to wear Shabbos tops to school instead of their uniform shirts. Mrs. Taub came around one last time with the Zemiros cart and the school-wide raffle winner was later announced. Each girl also received a pink Shabbos Kodesh card with 20 ideas of how to enhance their Shabbos each week.

We are sad to end The Gift of Shabbos program but we will continue to emphasize Shabbos topics and we hope that our girls have learned how to experience a more meaningful Shabbos.

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In celebration of 58 years of Torah education, the Yeshiva of South Shore will honor vibrant community leaders at their 58th Annual Banquet to be held on Sunday evening, March 1, at The Sands of Atlantic Beach, 1395 Beech Street, Atlantic Beach, NY, says dinner chairman, Sholom Jacobs.

Our Guests of Honor, Meir and Alisa Krengel’s relationship with our Yeshiva and our community dates back to its founding, with Meir’s great-grandparents, grandparents and parents’ integral contributions to the Yeshiva and the infrastructure of Torah life and values in the Five Towns. Since he entered the Yeshiva almost 40 years ago as a preschooler, Meir has become a vital part of

Marbitz Torah Awardee, Rabbi Yaakov Pressman

Torah Legacy Awardees, Seymour A. Moskowitz and Paul D. Moskowitz

the proprietor of Ciao Bimbi. The Krengels’ children, our alumnus Moishe, an 11th grader at MAY, Chaim, an eighth grader at YOSS, and Ahuva, a first grader at Shulamith, are a source of nachas and following in their parents’ footsteps.

Our Parents of the Year, Shmulie and Rochelle Klier, exude enthusiasm for Yiddishkeit and our community. Shmulie is the Chief Financial Officer at van Bie-

Parents of the Year, Shmulie and Rochelle Klier

the neshama of YOSS. His involvement in avodas hakodesh transcends his daily activity in the Yeshiva where he serves on the Presidium. From Congregation Bais Medrash where he serves as gabbai, to MAY and Achiezer, where he serves on the board, and to Hatzalah and countless other organizations where he is involved, Meir’s pro-active approach makes him one of the foremost go-to people for every need imaginable. With level-headed sage advice and positive response, Meir, together with his wife Alisa, have a heart and soul which is one with every member of the community. Alisa, an anchor of support for her husband’s endless activities, is a past President of their shul’s Sisterhood, a volunteer for Achiezer and

Guests of Honor, Meir and Alisa Krengel

ma Value Partners, an asset management firm, and chairs our Young Leadership Committee. Rochelle, a Speech-Language Pathologist who specializes in the Orton-Gillingham multi-sensory approach, is a volunteer for “Safety Kid” and Magen Li. Active members of Congregation Bais Ephraim Yitzchok, Shmulie serves as Vice President and Rochelle is a member of the chesed committee.

Shmulie and Rochelle have four amazing children: Shani, Leora, Talia and our dear talmid, Aryeh.

Our Torah Legacy Awardees, Seymour A. Moskowitz and Paul D. Moskowitz, are kindhearted brothers who

have continued the tradition of their beloved parents, Louis and Ruth Moskowitz of blessed memory. The friendship between the Hirsch-Moskowitz and the Kamenetzky families is bound with their love for Jewish education and children, going back decades to Rabbi Yaakov Kamenetzky zt”l, Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshiva Torah Vodaath, where their cousin Henry Hirsch served as President. For decades, their parents generously supported our Yeshiva, and Sy and Paul have continued that tradition through generous scholarships in their memory, thus assuring a Jewish education for scores of Jewish children over the last decade.

The principals of Rumal Realty and other residential real estate holding corporations, Sy and Paul are members of the Atlantic Beach and Hewlett communities and are strong supporters of the Atlantic Beach Jewish Center and Israel Bonds.

Mr. Ronald Krigsman’s z”l love for learning Torah and for those who embody Torah study was a force that drove him and his beloved wife, Sonya yblc”a, to raise a family of committed b’nei Torah. He was known for his amazing work ethic, open heart and brilliant career which was revered by everyone in the engineering and building industries, as well as our community. The Krigsmans are a true Toras Chaim family from Ronald’s years in Yeshiva Toras Chaim in East New York to their years as parents of Saadya, Chaim and Tzvi as well as their daughter Sharon, who attended the preschool of YOSS. It is our honor to dedicate our celebrated Alumni Wall of Fame in his memory.

Mr. Ronald Krigsman z”l

Our Marbitz Torah Awardee, Rabbi Yaakov Pressman, embodies the era when a Rebbe was more than someone who taught you Torah. A talmid of Yeshiva Torah Vodaath where he learned under HaGaon Rav Yaakov Kamenetzky zt”l, Rabbi Pressman imparts a living example to his talmidim of a true talmid chochom in the way he davens, eats, speaks – and even relaxes. In addition to Rabbi Pressman teaching Torah in the Yeshiva for almost five decades, he has scores of talmidim throughout the area who he has learned with and continues to learn with on a constant basis. The Yeshiva is proud to honor him as an icon and a true treasure to our Yeshiva and community.

From its founding in East New York 88 years ago in 1927, and for 58 years on Long Island, Yeshiva Toras Chaim of South Shore has inculcated thousands of children and young men with Torah values and the leadership skills to enable the torch of Jewish leadership to pass to future generations. Today the yeshiva is proud of its largest enrollment in history with expanded facilities, programs and individualized education on every level.

By attending our 58th Annual Banquet on Sunday, March 1, you will assure the continuity of our pioneering Yeshiva as a vibrant Torah center for our community, our families and our children. For more information, please contact the Yeshiva at 516-374-7363 x 12 or banquet@ yoss.org, or simply click on the Yeshiva’s website www.yoss.org.

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Around The Community HAFTR High School Tu B’Shvat Yemei Iyun This year is a Shemitta year, a year when working and harvesting the land in Israel is strictly forbidden according to the Torah. Reasons given for the origin of Shemitta range from “keeping the land fertile” to “following the concept of resting on the seventh part of a cycle, like Shabbat,” but HAFTR students have had the opportunity to focus on a key universal element of the Shemitta year: emunah or belief in G-d. Each grade, through a series of shiurim,was able to really grasp the concept through fascinating anecdotes and enriching halachic interpretations.

Each class in the Judaic Studies department of HAFTR focused on a different aspect of this all-important year. The Lashon teachers described the celebration of Tu B’Shvat in Israel and detailed the fascinating intricacies of this beautiful holiday. The senior girls were fortunate enough to have a real, Israeli Tu B’Shvat seder organized and run by Mrs. Semadar Friedman, head of the Hebrew Language Department, and Hadar Abu, HAFTR High School’s Bat Ami. The senior boys were also treated to a Tu’ B’Shvat seder led by Rabbi Hubner and Rabbi Simantov.

The afternoon was packed with learning and fruit of all kind, and was an enriching experience for all of the students. Additionally, the Chumash classes learned, in depth, the halachot

of Shemittat Karkaot and Ksafim, the Tanach Classes analyzed the significance of kedushat sheviit, and the Talmud classes focused mainly on the theme of the week – emunah and bitachon.

Out of the classroom, students from each grade were given the unique opportunity of hearing from a variety of wonderful and inspiring speakers.

The freshmen and sophomores heard from Rabbi Feuer of the Young Israel of Wavecrest/Bayswater. Rabbi Feuer spoke extensively about needing emunah in order to achieve simcha, and explained to the students that trusting G-d will always have positive repercussions. Continu-

ing with the theme, the juniors heard from Rabbi Yosef Richtman, Director of Community Outreach of the Yeshiva Gedolah of the Five Towns. Rabbi

Richtman added to the ongoing discussion of emunah and bitachon and left the juniors with some serious food for thought. Finally, the seniors were privileged to hear from Dr. Szenberg, a Holocaust survivor and a world renowned author and teacher. Dr. Szenberg inspired the class, encouraged them to never give up, and to make good impressions and form lasting relationships with their peers. Most of all, Dr. Szen-

berg taught the students about bravery, and of course, about emunah, and how these two concepts were his saviors.

The seniors were left both smiling and tearing up at Dr. Szenberg’s wonderful presentation.

This incredibly enlightening and empowering week really enabled students to introspect and to fully grasp the concept of not only Shemitta but also faith in G-d.

A big yashar koach to Rabbi Gedaliah Oppen, our Principal of Judaic Studies, and Rabbi Nadelbach, our Director of Student Activities, for organizing and arranging this amazing program, as well as to all the outstanding Judaic Studies faculty for not only teaching us, but for creating a true makom Torah, where students were encouraged to ask, debate, seek knowledge and understanding to not only what, but why a ben or bat Torah has to observe and perform the mitzvot.

Rabbi Yosef Mizrachi to Speak in West Hempstead Rabbi Yosef Mizrachi, world renowned speaker and founder of DivineInformation.com, will be speaking at Congregation Anshei Shalom on Sunday, February 15 at 8pm. All are welcome and invited to attend.

“The Garden of Eden” event is open to all and is free to attend. A dessert re-

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to receive their siddurim from the Menahel, Rabbi Michael Weichselbaum.

“Each year we have a siddur play and present the girls with their siddurim, it never gets old. Their excitement is contagious.”

This month, the Israeli government watchdog organization Ometz awarded the volunteer emergency rescue organization United Hatzalah in its first ever ceremony honoring Israeli institutions in medicine and science. The event was held at the Eretz Israel Museum in Ramat Aviv.

Ometz believes in the promoting economic, social and moral equality, and annually honors leading individuals and institutions that exemplify these values, as well as justice, decency and good governance.

“It was a true honor to receive this prestigious award, along with other great men and women,” said Eli Beer, founder and president of United Hatzalah. “Getting the Ometz prize gives us at United Hatzalah the motivation to continue our fight against our biggest enemy: time. Our goal is to have a response time under 90 seconds and this recognition reinforces that we are doing the right thing and gives us cour-

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The first grade students at Bnos Malka Academy took part in a milestone event – the First Grade Siddur Play. Not only did each girl perform beautifully and receive their first siddur, they each decorated the cover of this special memento. The presentations included an exploration of the siddur through song.

It was indeed remarkable how much they have learned. Mrs. Herzberg, the first grade morah, along with Mrs. Gemal and Ms. Shani Goldstein, the first grade assistants, did a wonderful job preparing the girls. The performance, which included live music by Morah Reena Greenberg, was the perfect venue for the girls to display their poise, self-confidence, and enthusiasm. It is hard to say who was filled with more pride: the first graders or their grandparents. After the presentation concluded, the students were called up one by one

United Hatzalah Wins Prestigious Ometz Award

age to continue the fight.”

Established in 2006, United Hatzalah operates a network of volunteer medics, paramedics and doctors.

Today, there are 2,500 volunteers serving Israelis across the country through emergency medical aid to the sick and wounded. The organization was recognized for its efforts in effectively and efficiently assisting in accidents and crises and working tirelessly to save lives.

The honor was granted by Ometz in conjunction with the Israel Medical Association and Israel Health Consumers.

CAHAL Sukkos Project

Ruchniyus at Rocking Horse Ranch Resort On Wednesday, February 4, the Shevach High School students were treated to an overnight trip to the Catskills. The event was organized by Mrs. Devora Kovitz, Educational Administrator at Shevach, and held at the Rocking Horse Ranch Resort. The students and staff alike were energized by the skiing, snow tubing and the indoor water fun. However, all agreed that the highlight of the trip was being addressed by Rabbi Gavriel Sanders. Rabbi Sanders, a chemist by profession, is a ger tzedek who has been working for many years editing Artscroll/ Mesorah publications. His mastery of Judaica is quite impressive.

Rabbi Sanders described his journey, and the reasons for his journey, from being a Catholic, to a charismatic evangel-

ical minister, to an Orthodox Jew. With a balance of humor and depth, he related his discovery of the emes in Judaism, which was so lacking in his previous life.

The students were riveted by his presentation and many stayed long after to talk to him and ask questions. The girls came away with an enhanced appreciation of their own mesorah and pride in what they are.

The admiration seems to have been mutual. “These students are on a very high level in their identification with their heritage,” Rabbi Sanders said. “I speak in so many venues, and I am truly impressed by the caliber of the young ladies at Shevach High School.”

The trip greatly invigorated the students, both physically and spiritually.

The hanhala and rebbeim of Yeshiva Darchei Torah frequently facilitate special opportunities to enable their students to truly experience what they are learning. After delving into the first and second perakim in Mesechta Sukkah, the fourth grade boys were challenged to build representations of the various sukkos they learned about to display at the annual Sukkah Fair, coordinated by Rabbi Dovid Morgenstern, Menahel of the Yeshiva.

Using the specific facts and details that the CAHAL boys learned in their Mishnayos shiur under the guidance of Rabbi Binyomin Jacobs and Rabbi Dovid Schwartz, each boy chose a case

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to represent. The boys did their work on their own, and the results were outstanding. Their projects included a sukkah partially covered by tree branches, a sukkah built above another sukkah, one who sleeps under a bed used in a sukkah, and finally, a sukkah built on the back of an almost life-sized giraffe (as there was no large camel available).

The boys’ finely designed projects were displayed alongside those of all the other fourth graders and were viewed by many other students and their families. It was an opportunity for sharing, and one in which each of the boys truly shined. Yasher koach to the CAHAL students for a job well done!

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Mesivta Ateres Yaakov’s annual Chinese auction brought the “warmth of MAY on a winter day” to all those enjoyed and attended the spectacular event held last Motzei Shabbos.

SKA Engineering Goes to Israel on CIJE-Tech Program

Ten engineering students from the Stella K. Abraham High School for Girls, accompanied by their teacher, Mrs. Paula Berger, participated in CIJE’s first tech trip to Israel for high school students. The CIJE Tech: Journey to the Start Up Nation program from January 13-23 was the latest effort

by CIJE (The Center for Initiatives in Jewish Education) to get students interested in STEM – science, technology, engineering and mathematics – careers of the 21st century. The trip, which included about forty other students from yeshiva high schools throughout the United States, emphasized life sciences and biotechnology and took the students to places like the Technion, the Herzliya Interdisciplinary Center and biotech firm Given Imaging, as well as startups, Google Labs Tel Aviv, and venture capital and entrepreneurial firms.

SKA sophomore Golda Daphna, quoted in The Times of Israel, felt the trip was a real eye-opener in a number

of ways. “I am hoping to study chemical or biotech engineering, and what we saw at the Technion in these areas was amazing. I didn’t know they had this kind of technology in Israel. We spoke with one of the Technion’s top biotech researchers, who happens to be religious, and a mother. She is a really good role model for any young woman thinking of a science career – it was great how she could combine those different roles and get so much work done.”

In addition to meeting entrepreneurs, the SKA students – Miriam Alyeshmerni, Golda Daphna, Adina Goldberg, Rachel Kellner, Avital Kohananoo, Shira Kurland, Shoshana Laufer, Tamara Morduchowitz, Danielle Nussbaum, and Soshi Tuchman – worked together with other participants to develop product and technology ideas.

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HALB’s seventh grade boys celebrated the important milestone of reaching and becoming a Bar Mitzvah this week. Rabbi Jeremy Fine and Rabbi Reuvein Levine guided and directed the boys as the group studied the general importance of all 613 mitzvot. After reviewing the individual mitzvot, each boy chose one special mitzvah that they wanted to learn more about. The boys did research on their specific mitzvah, including the origin, the reason behind it and how to apply the mitzvah to daily life. The boys presented their mitzvah to all the parents and students of the seventh grade during a Sunday school breakfast. The breakfast was a huge success complete with great food and dancing!

Iy”H, the boys will take this experience and take all the mitzvot to heart as they become b’nai mitzvah and bring nachat to their families and Rabbeim for many years to come.

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Kicking the Bomb Down the Road with Iran

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hear Barack Obama tell it back in July, by now the U.S. and Iran should be sitting lock-armed around a peaceful, nuclear-powered bonfire in Tehran singing the Arabic equivalent of “Kumbaya” and roasting lamb kebabs. Back then, Iran and the West had been already involved in discussions regarding the rogue state’s said peaceful nuclear program for close to six months, and the White House (along with many Democrats) was sticking to its original position that Iranian President Hassan Rouhani was not, in fact, a “wolf in sheep’s clothing”—to quote Benyamin Netanyahu—but an authentic vanguard of a new, post-Ayatollah Iran.

The American president had even made history ten months before when he had a phone conversation with Rouhani, the first such dialogue between the two states in over 30 years. “It is clear to me we’ve made real progress in several areas, and that we have a credible way forward,” said Obama.

Now, more than a year after the Obama administration began calling for easing trade sanctions against the country, Washington is more torn than ever over the reality of the Islamist country with nuclear capabilities. Last month, in his State of the Union address, the president claimed that his administration has been successful in halting Iran’s nuclear program and reducing its nuclear stockpile. Any sanctions that the U.S. will choose to place on the country would only lead to war, was the president’s threat to his Republican counterparts in Congress. But many in Congress seem to be nonplussed. A recent bill proposed in part by Illinois Senator Mark Kirk and New Jersey Senator Robert Menendez, himself a Democrat, intends to impose increased sanctions on Iran if the negotiations fail to “dismantle—not just stall—Iran’s illicit nuclear program and prevent Iran from ever becoming a threshold nuclear weapons state.”

But Obama may be forging ahead with his idea of a strategy regardless of

what the other branches of government think. Just a year ago, it was reported that Benjamin Rhodes, deputy national security advisor for strategic communication and a key member of Obama’s close circle, shared some private information with a group of Democrat activists. He said that the November 2013 nuclear agreement between Tehran and the “P5+1”—the five permanent members of the UN Security Council plus Germany—represented not only “the best opportunity we’ve had to resolve the Iranian [nuclear] issue,” but “probably the biggest thing President Obama will do in his second term on foreign policy.” This conversation was private and Rhodes was unaware that his words were being caught on tape. “We’re already kind of thinking through, how do we structure a deal so we don’t necessarily require legislative action right away,” an effort to keep Congress in the dark.

While Obama’s representations about the achievements of the West’s talks with Iran may be somewhat murky, what is clear is that the West has allowed the Iranians to practice the game of kicking the can down the road for close to a year already. Negotiations were originally not supposed to go past July 20, after which sanctions on Iran were to be tightened to their original severity, but Iran has so far been successful in allowing that deadline—along with a subsequent November deadline—to lapse without suffering any consequences, and the Obama administration seems to be content with them playing that game. Menendez’s bill, “The Nuclear Weapon Free Iran Act,” is a direct response to the White House’s passivity. The sanctions posed in the bill would kick in should Iran fail “to reach a final agreement in a discernible timeframe.” And while the president has wielded the power of his veto to strike down any restriction proposed on Iran that would possibly derail negotiations, the Menendez bill has bipartisan backing in Congress, making it a tough veto target.

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if a nuclear Iran is not enough cause for tension, the recent jockeying over the negotiations has created much political conflagration.

The New York Times reported recently that Senator Menendez and the president wound up in a heated exchange at the Senate Democratic Issues Conference a few weeks ago. The senator stood up to face the president while he was at the speaker’s podium and announced that he took “personal offense” at Obama’s suggestion at the time that Menendez’s hawkish stance came from his desire for short-term political gain and not from a more long-term view.

Not one to miss out on the political melee, House Speaker John Boehner has found a very willing confederate in rousing the Republican opposition in Benyamin Netanyahu. Last month, Boehner invited the Israeli prime minister to address a joint session in Congress in March. Boehner’s offer, which was extended without any White House involvement, has been called by the White House a “breach of protocol” and draws a glaring line between where the administration and Congress stand on Middle East policy. “Prime Minister Netanyahu is a great friend of our country, and this invitation carries with it our unwavering commitment to the security and well-being of his people,” Boehner said in a statement. “In this time of challenge, I am asking the prime minister to address Congress on the grave threats radical Islam and Iran pose to our security and way of life.”

Netanyahu, as Israeli prime minister, has much to gain politically from this visit; addressing Congress is considered to be an honor for any world leader and Netanyahu is suffering in Israel from an image of having difficult

Obama may be forging ahead with his idea of a strategy regardless of what the other branches of government think. relations with the U.S. Despite the president’s assertions to the contrary, feelings between the two leaders can be described as icy. According to Aaron David Miller, a former Middle East negotiator, “Obama thinks Netanyahu is a modern-day snake oil salesman conning him on Middle East peace and disrespecting U.S. interests.” And Netanyahu is of the opinion that Obama is a mistaken intellectual who could use a strong dose of realpolitik. But Netanyahu will be addressing Congress despite the breach of accepted protocol because of his profound concern over the Iranian threat. Essentially, it’s principle over protocol for him.

The president has said that he will not be meeting with Netanyahu when he comes to address Congress, citing a policy of not meeting foreign leaders in close proximity to their election; the Israeli election is scheduled for March 17. It’s hard to believe that this is considered policy when just a few years ago then-President Bill Clinton met with Prime Minister Shimon Peres in the White House on April 30, less than a month before the elections that year. (Peres ended up losing that election to Netanyahu.)

Senator Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi chastised Netanyahu for accepting the invite, saying, “I don’t think that’s appropriate for any country—that the head of state would come here within two weeks of his own election in his own country.” Last Thursday, Pelosi proclaimed that there was no organized boycott of the prime minister’s speech, although some lawmakers may be too “busy” to make time to attend the speech. “I don’t think anybody should use the word ‘boycott,’” she said in her weekly press conference.

“When these heads of state come, people are here doing their work, they’re

trying to pass legislation, they’re meeting with their constituents and the rest.

It’s not a high-priority item for them.” At least two Democrats have made public their intentions to skip the speech.

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exactly is the president’s rationale in allowing the West to be humiliated by Iran’s stalling tactics? What was he even thinking to begin with over a year ago when the countries agreed to sit down and talk? It could be argued that the Iranians never had any ulterior motives in their pursuit of nuclear capabilities. In 2012, a CIA report concluded that while Iran is pursuing research that could enable it to build a nuclear weapon of mass destruction, it was not attempting to do so at that time. The main issue with the country, however, has been its consistent lack of transparency when it comes to its nuclear capabilities and ambitions. Between 2006 and 2010 the UN Security Council adopted six resolutions requiring Iran to stop enriching uranium, all a result of Iran’s failure to comply with the international inspections.

In the past year and a half and in his recent State of the Union address, the president laid out his plan as the only possible route to ensure peace with an inexorably nuclear Iran. In 2013, the president said of his plan that it “opened up a new path toward a world that is more secure — a future in which we can verify that Iran’s nuclear program is peaceful and that it cannot build a nuclear weapon.” Recently, the president has been even more explicit about his belief that not settling with Iran will only lead the U.S. and the West into war with them. In fact, the White House has referred to the Kirk-Menendez bill as a “march into war.” But one would hope that after so much time spent at the negotiation table and so little concessions made on the Iranians’ part, the president would have learned a bit more about his counterparty and the ability to reach any agreement with them.

Does Iran have a concrete plan a nuclear weapon in the near future? Who knows. Will it have the ability to do so in the near future? Certainly. The country has already developed the capacity to enrich uranium and separate plutonium to weapon-grade form. And it already has ballistic missiles with the ability to deliver a nuclear warhead to the country’s targets. In February, Defense Minister Hossein Dehqan boasted that Iran’s new, laser-guided, ballistic missile has the ability to avoid anti-missile defense systems. John Kerry said last year that it could possibly take only two months for Iran to build a nuclear weapon if it decides to do so. But Kerry also said in December that allowing Iran to go full steam ahead with its program, without any concessions to the international community or Western oversight, would be “the height of irresponsibility, it would be against our own interests and those of our closest partners, to walk away from a table when and if a peaceful resolution might really be within reach.” If negotiations succeed, he claimed, “The entire world — including Israel — will be safer for it.”

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philosopher George Santayana is credited for the most wellknown and oft-repeated summation of the importance of learning from history: “Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.” Is Barack Obama the 21st century’s Neville Chamberlain? In 1938, Chamberlain said of his negotiation with Adolf Hitler that it “achieved peace in our time.” That time, however, turned out to be quite short. The real hero of World War II politics turned out to be Chamberlain’s successor, Winston Churchill, whose resolute stance against international aggression helped return stability to Europe. Is the administration’s insistence in dealing with a rogue nation diplomatically a grave ignorance of history’s lessons? Or is it really a response to the lessons taught to us by the last decade’s deadly operations in Iraq and Afghanistan? No one knows. What would be helpful, though, is if our politicians actually recognize how little they do know. 

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How do you do that?

There are two parts of our effort. The first is to get good quality information out into the community—to write articles, give workshops, build a website, a Youtube channel, to use any way available to get people talking about the world of work. To plant the idea that everyone can choose a satisfying career, that there are ways to look for a job which are proactive and really work, that working should never mean being stuck in a dead-end job. This needs to become a conversation throughout our community so that there is an awareness of what is possible.

The second part of our work is to coach individuals in actually taking the steps needed, whether in career choice, job search, career development…anytime throughout their working life. Making changes is hard, making life-altering decisions is hard, and anything

I started working at Met Council on Jewish Poverty in a program called Connect-to-Care, which was aimed at people who had been hurt by the downturn of 2008-2009. My job was to connect my clients to a menu of benefits and services that were available. But what I learned was that more than anything else, they wanted to find another job. These were solid middle-class workers with years of experience, and people treated them like they’d crawled out of a dumpster. The conventional wisdom was that the changing economy had left these people behind.

When I left Met Council, I had to decide what I wanted to do next. The pain that I had seen pushed me to dig into the problem of displaced workers: was there something out there that could help them find new jobs? What I found is called “outplacement,” or “career transition.” That’s what happens when a company needs to let workers go, usually upper-level people. They want them to go away happy, for a number of reasons. So they hire career transition counselors to help them find new jobs. The people I wanted to help weren’t getting treated to company-paid counselors, but it sure sounded like the service they needed. And the same approach can be used to help people at any stage of their working lives, from green beginners to grizzled veterans.

Making changes is hard, making life-altering decisions is hard, and anything that involves parnassa is even harder. that involves parnassa is even harder. So Pathways offers one-on-one coaching to help people succeed in moving forward.

So you are basically an educator?

I remember a Peanuts cartoon from many years ago. It showed Lucy teaching her little brother Linus all kinds of important things—all of which were completely wrong. And Charlie Brown sighed, “Poor Linus. It will take him twelve extra years of school to un-learn everything Lucy has taught him.”

I’m in much the same situation. I want to teach people how to take the right steps, but first I have to teach them to stop taking the wrong ones. There are so many things that people do when they’re looking for a job that just don’t work. But they keep doing them because they “have to do something!” So I’m an educator and an “un-educator.”

It sounds like it’s something that is really needed in our community—and every community! What motivated you to start this organization?

I’ve been working on community projects all my life. I’ve learned a lot about the pain that families suffer when the parnassa situation is not good. In 2009,

So you became a career transition counselor?

Well, in a self-taught kind of way, I did. Of course, my first client was myself. I found the book that is the foundation of the whole field: “What Color is Your Parachute?” by Richard Bolles. It has been a bestseller for 40 years—and it’s re-written every year. From there I went on to find fantastic books on each stage of the job search process, and I found courses in several important areas. Of course, I learn from each client that I work with, but that is where the basis was built.

So in “counselor speak,” I’m a mid-life career-changer who became a non-profit entrepreneur.

There are career coaches, resume writers, and other paid professionals that help people find jobs.

How is your service different from theirs?

In two ways. First, because Pathways is a non-profit, the coaching that I do is available to anyone, regardless of their ability to pay. There is a suggested donation of $100 per session, but my clients pay whatever they are comfortable with, or nothing. As long as they stick with the program, I’ll give them as much time as they need.

Second, Pathways begins from the viewpoint that the right job to search for is the one that takes maximum advantage of each person’s unique set of talents, skills and experiences in producing value for the employer or the customer. In order to look for that job,

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TJH: Rabbi Kruger, thank you for your time.

Can you tell us more about Pathways to Parnassa?

RMK: Pathways to Parnassa is an organization that educates and guides all members of our community in the best methods of career choice, job search, career development, and entrepreneurship.

each person must recognize what their skills and talents are, and understand how they can be used to meet the needs of the employer. Then each person must build a personal network that will connect him to employers that need what he can offer. Communicating effectively through these personal connections is the strongest route to a job. Pathways works with each client individually on each part of this process.

Do you think that finding a job has gotten harder? Why do you think that is?

Yes, especially when we are talking about the jobs that will pay enough to support a Jewish family. There are lots of jobs out there, but they require very valuable, very specific skills. Every worker has to represent a value to the employer or else he’s not needed.

Having these skills is the first step toward getting a job. But it is not enough, because many other people have the same skills. The second step is knowing how to get hired. I like to call this “Hire Education.”

Even people with great skills and experience will have a hard time finding a job if they haven’t had “Hire Education.”

It’s a wonderful position that you have—to be able to help others find a job is worth so much. You know what they say, Give a man a fish, feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, feed him for a lifetime.

Well, I think that our community has an obligation to make “Hire Education” widely available. We have been blessed with astonishing economic success, more than any other community in Jewish history. We need to sustain that blessing for the future by giving every person the best chance possible to succeed. That means teaching them how to maximize their talents and their ability to get good jobs. So the Pathways mission is to get lots of people talking about developing talents, about preparing for a life of satisfying work, and about finding and keeping good jobs in a competitive environment. And then taking the steps that make those things happen. That is the purpose of Pathways to Parnassa.

Rabbi Mordechai Kruger is the Director of Pathways to Parnassa, an organization dedicated to educating our community in all aspects of career choice and job search. He can be reached at myparnassa@gmail.com.

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You approach two magic talking doors. One door leads to the City of Truth, while the other door leads to the City of Liars. You do not know which door is which. You are able to ask only one question to determine which door is which. The door that leads to the City of Liars always speaks lies, while the door that leads to the City of Truth always speaks the truth. You want to go to the City of Truth. What question should you ask to determine which door leads to the City of Truth?

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Cinderella, Superman and Pinocchio die and go to heaven. On their way, they talk.

Cinderella: “I want to be remembered as the most amazing girl in the world.”

Superman: “I want to be remembered as the strongest person in the world.”

Pinocchio: “I want to be remembered as the greatest liar in the world.”

It’s Cinderella’s turn. She goes into the room and comes out smiling, saying, “It’s done. I’m the most amazing girl in the world!”

Then goes Superman. He goes into the room and comes out happy, saying, “It’s done. I’m the strongest person in the world!”

Finally Pinocchio goes into the room. He storms out two minutes later and angrily says, “Gosh! Who’s this Brian Williams guy?!”

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3. Her reported $15 million yearly salary made her the highest-paid news host in history. Who is she? a. Barbara Walters b. Katie Couric c. Diane Sawyer d. Liz Cho 4. How many times was Larry King (who changed his name from Lawrence Harvey Zeiger) married? a. 1 b. 2 c. 3 d. 4 e. 5 f. 6 g. 7 h. 8 5. He was host of Monday Night Football for 14 years. Despite his nasal, Brooklyn-infused staccato style of speech, he was arguably the biggest sportscaster in America in the 1970s and 1980s. He once said about himself, “Arrogant, pompous, obnoxious, vain, cruel, verbose, a showoff—I have been called all of these. Of course, I am.” His original name was Howard William Cohen. Who is he? a. Marv Albert

6. Who said, “If I’ve lost Cronkite, I’ve lost middle America”? a. President Nixon after Walter Cronkite commented on the evening news that “something is fishy” b. The president of CBS News after Cronkite switched to ABC after a failed contract extension c. Barry Goldwater, when Cronkite criticized his campaign d. President Lyndon B Johnson, after Cronkite started criticizing the Vietnam War 7. This radio broadcaster mastered the art of reading commercials during his shows. He once explained, “Without advertising in this country, my goodness, we’d still be in this country what Russia mostly still is: a nation of bearded bicyclists with B.O.” He was famous for ending his monologues by saying, “And now… you know…the rest of the story.”

Who was he? a. Mike Wallace b. Paul Harvey c. Elmer Davis d. Edward R Murrow Answers 1. 1/B, 2/C, 3/D 4/A 2. A 3. B 4. H 5. C 6. D 7. B Wisdom Key 6-7 correct: You really know a lot about news anchors. How is the AARP treating you?

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1. Match the anchor with their sign off phrases: 1. Walter Cronkite A. “ Good night and good luck” 2. Edward R Murrow B. “And that’s the way it is” 3. Charles Osgood C. “Good day” 4. Paul Harvey D. “See you on the radio”

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Rafi Sackville

Where’s My Mail?

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he accompanying photo of the mail collection center close to where we live doesn’t do justice to the problems it has caused since it was cemented into place many years before our arrival in Ma’alot.

What you can see is how the collection center was positioned as far away from the road as possible. There are red and white striped lines that clearly forbid parking. A car is parked illegally at the point where the road turns right.

What you can’t see as it’s just out of view, but can imagine, is how the road veers away sharply to the right and descends steeply. What you can’t know is that the road is used often not only by cars, but by three bus routes.

Why is the car parked there? Why are cars always parked there? The answer is simple: where else are drivers going to park while they collect their mail?

They could park down the road where there are black and white stripes, but they start almost thirty meters away from the center. They could park around the corner and take a longer stroll…they could. They are two civilly correct options, but an inconvenience to the lazy and civilly incorrect.

The crane had positioned ropes on each corner and simply lifted the center up and placed it on the truck, where we watched as it was strapped into place.

In charge was a worker from the council. He was directing traffic around the truck and calmly explaining to those who asked why the move was necessary. One person complained that he only lived a few doors away and that the traipse down the road to the new location was out of his way. A woman begged permission to climb on the truck so she could retrieve her mail.

The council worker claimed he was not the appropriate address for their complaints. I thought his comment funny. I laughed aloud.

All in all, I was quite happy. The new collection location is very close to where we live. Parking there is both ample and legal.

Yehuda and I walked back to shul just as the truck began reversing towards the corner. A bus was blocking traffic up the road. Cars were honking. People were in animated discourse.

Two drivers pulled up at the red and white lines and got out to look for their mail. One saw the center on the truck.

The other didn’t and went looking for it. “Hey, where’s my mail?” he called out when he couldn’t see the center. The first driver pointed at the truck and walked back to his car. “He’s not stealing our mail, is he?” asked the second driver. Yehuda thought the question very funny. I told him not to laugh too loudly.

The debate in shul after Ma’ariv was just as animated. Those not in favor of the move were a mixture of anger, bewilderment and disgust because the council had not given them fair warning. What difference a municipal warning would do was beyond my limited comprehension. Although he wasn’t present, Doctor Cohen’s name was invoked by those in favor. “It’s been a danger for years,” replied someone.

The arguing was superfluous. The move was on and there was nothing that anyone could do to stop it.

The post office boxes were on their way to a better home.

Or so I thought.

Later that evening we sat in the comfort of our living room and listened to the truck’s crane screeching and heaving. There were loud sounds of yelling. When the noise finally died down we assumed the center had finally found its new home. I decided to walk outside to see for myself. I arrived just as a car driven by a municipal worker pulled up. He got out of his car in a fit of anger. He looked like a man who is used to being in charge.

“What do you think you’re doing?” he said to the worker who had overseen the project till then.

“What does it look like we’re doing?” he replied with the tone of the voice of someone who can’t believe the person speaking to him could ask such a stu-

He looked about as happy as a man caught in a rainstorm without an umbrella.

Dr. Boaz Cohen is a man with a conscience who for years has waged a one man battle against illegal parking on the corner. When he speaks in shul he usually precedes his divrei Torah with warnings about the dangers inherent in such a poorly planned corner. He mentioned the buses, people overtaking where it is obviously illegal to do so, and he talks about why a 30 meter walk or further shouldn’t be beyond the physical capabilities of most of us. Whether people choose to listen to him or not doesn’t detract from the truth that he preaches. The corner is dangerous. Very dangerous.

For example, when people park on the corner and traffic is moving up towards the corner and just as buses swing around to the right, there is no room for both vehicles to pass. The buses always have precedence, not because they’re in the right, but because they’re big. There are many near misses on this corner.

Which is why it came as a surprise when, after years of pressure, the local council decided to move the collection center to another area in our neighborhood. The news came via my son Yehuda, who excitedly came into shul after Mincha one afternoon and said he couldn’t get the mail because the collection center had just been placed on a truck.

As it’s only a few meters away, I walked outside to see for myself. The center is rectangular in shape. On three of its sides are post office boxes. On the fourth is a door through which a postal worker enters to distribute mail. The centers are placed on a flat slab of concrete before a row of bricks are cemented into place around the three sides.

pid question.

“You can’t cement that into place there?”

“We just did. And why can’t we?”

“When was the cement foundation for this location prepared?”

“Last week.”

“Why wasn’t I told?” said the more senior of the two.

“What was there to tell you?

The job is almost finished. What’s wrong with it?”

“And how do you think you’re going to hook it up to electricity grid?” The gentleman from the car raised both his hands in disgust. He raised his voice until he was yelling. “WHERE ARE YOU GOING TO HOOK IT UP?” “TO THE ELECTRICITY WIRES RIGHT ABOVE ME,” the overseer yelled back.

And as he raised his hands and noticed the wires, you could see that a penny had dropped inside that busy little head of his. He had understood what the guy from the municipality had been yelling about. He sighed... he sighed deeply and then said something disparaging about someone’s mother, or maybe it was everyone’s mother.

I looked up and saw those familiar inverted spikes on certain electricity poles that are placed a few meters above eye level. They read, HIGH VOLTAGE. DANGER OF DEATH! The top of the collection center had been dangerously positioned close to the offending wires.

“You’re going to have to take the center back,” said the man in charge. “Don’t leave it until tomorrow. Do it now!”

“But it’s getting late,” insisted the overseer.

“Too bad! This center cannot stay here, period! I expect it back in an hour.”

The crane operator, the man with the truck, didn’t seem to mind when he was told he’d have to go through the process again. “Hey, I’m getting paid by the hour.

I’m totally cool with it,” he said.

By now a crowd had gathered to watch the drama take its next turn. The ropes were re-fastened and the crane began wrenching the center out of the still fresh cement blocks around its perimeter. As it hovered above the truck, the same woman who had earlier asked if she could climb the truck to retrieve her mail got out of her car.

“What’s it still doing up in the air? I have to pay bills tomorrow morning.” she complained.

The overseer was having none of it. He looked about as happy as a man caught in a rainstorm without an umbrella. He began yelling at all to back off out of the way of the crane. The entire procedure took more than two hours before the corner was finally quiet.

The collection center is back where it has sat for 25 years. Some people still don’t know it ever moved.  Rafi Sackville, formerly of Cedarhurst, lives in Ma’alot in Western Galil. He teaches in the local high school.

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Exchange between Rep. Alcee Hastings (D-Fla.) and Rep. Michael C. Burgess (R-Texas) at a hearing on Obamacare: Rep. Hastings: I don’t know about in your state, which I think is a

crazy state to begin with — and I mean that just as I said it.

Rep. Burgess: The gentleman made a very defamatory statement

about my state, and I will not stand here and listen to it!

Rep. Hastings: Well, fine, you don’t have to listen. You can leave if

you choose. I told you what I think about Texas. I wouldn’t live there for all the tea in China, and that’s how I feel.

The inventor of the soy sauce dispenser bottle has passed away. He actually died months ago but was just found in the back of the fridge.

– Conan O’Brien

I am grateful. I have come to see that there is good in every situation, sometimes we just have to look for it.

- From a letter written by ISIS hostage Kayla Jean Mueller to her family sometime before she was killed by the terrorist group

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Ew, I start this … job tomorrow.

- Tweet by a girl who was about to start a job at a pizza shop in Texas

- A sign posted by Pennsylvania’s Conoy Township at the entrance to the town

No you won’t start that … job today! I just fired you! Good luck with your no money, no job life!

- Pizza shop owner’s tweet in response the following morning

OK, let’s stop whining. OK, let’s stop whining. It’s hard to understand you.

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- Brian Williams apologizing on air after he was busted for lying about being in a helicopter that was shot down over Iraq

Scientists have discovered that a 5,000-year-old mummy is covered with at least 60 tattoos. Scientists are calling him the earliest known member of the NBA. – Conan O’Brien

The Americans are begging us for a deal on the negotiation table.

- Mohammad Reza Naghdi, a top Iranian army commander, in recent comments to the Iranian state media

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- Bishop E. W. Jackson on Fox News

– Jimmy Fallon

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I have a message for the president with all due respect to him and to the office: Mr. President, if you don’t want to give terrorists a recruitment tool, instead of closing Guantanamo Bay, frankly sir, you ought to close your mouth. Because you just gave them a gigantic propaganda tool. They called us “crusaders” and you just confirmed it…

Mr. President, we’re not on our “high horse.”

What we are is on high alert. And the American people would like for once, to know that you are willing to defend Christianity and defend America instead of defending Islam.

President Obama unveiled a $4 trillion budget for 2016 that would increase taxes on the wealthy and spend more money on education.

He also made a snowball and put it in the oven, just to see which would last longer, his budget or the snowball.

I am in the camp that is concerned about superintelligence. First the machines will do a lot of jobs for us and not be superintelligent. That should be positive if we manage it well. A few decades after that though, the intelligence is strong enough to be a concern. I agree with Elon Musk and some others on this and don’t understand why some people are not concerned.

- Bill Gates, discussing artificial intelligence in a Reddit interview

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And lest we get on our high horse and think this is unique to some other place, remember that during the Crusades and the Inquisition, people committed terrible deeds in the name of [Yushka]. In our home country, slavery and Jim Crow all too often was justified in the name of [Yushka]. Michelle and I returned from India – an incredible, beautiful country, full of magnificent diversity – but a place where, in past years, religious faiths of all types have, on occasion, been targeted by other peoples of faith, simply due to their heritage and their beliefs – acts of intolerance that would have shocked Gandhi, the person who helped to liberate that nation. So this is not unique to one group or one religion.

– President Obama at the National Prayer Breakfast addressing the rising tide of radical Islam

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You are a sad person. Why would anybody write such a hateful letter? I am just guessing but I’ll bet your life is a mess and you are a hateful mess. What have you done that anyone would consider positive or nice? I am betting nothing. In fact, I’ll bet you are negative force in everyone who comes in contact with you. You most likely have made your family miserable. Alcoholic maybe. I just celebrated my 21 year anniversary of sobriety. You should try it. Maybe it will help you become a person that folks would like to have around. In the meanwhile start rooting for the Nets because the Knicks don’t want you.

- Excerpt from an email by Knicks owner James Dolan in response to a testy email he received from a Knicks fan

According to a recent survey, 12 percent of Americans say that it’s fine to cheat a little on your taxes.

While the other 88 percent know not to talk to a guy with a clipboard asking them if they cheat on their taxes.

– Jimmy Fallon Brian Williams of NBC News has admitted he embellished a story about being in a helicopter that was shot at in Iraq. Williams says the helicopter part was true but it was a coin-operated helicopter outside of a Chuck E. Cheese. And it was in a bad part of Connecticut.

– Conan O’Brien

Lance Armstrong and his girlfriend were out at a party and he accidentally banged into two parked cars. So then he told the cops that his girlfriend was driving. That’s the kind of thing that can hurt the man’s image.

– David Letterman

During an interview last weekend, President Obama was talking about the next race for president and refused to choose between Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden, saying quote, “Love ‘em both.” Which was nice until he said he’d support the nominee, regardless of who she is.

– Jimmy Fallon

At today’s National Prayer Breakfast, President Obama and the Dalai Lama avoided a direct meeting.

Uh-oh, sounds like there may be some Obama-Lama drama.

– Seth Myers Did they only come for lice and petloleum [sic]?

– A tweet by Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, while visiting China to negotiate a loan after meeting with a group of Chinese businessmen Sorry, the levels of ridiculousness and absurdity are so high they can only be digested with humor.

– Ibid., shortly after sending out her first tweet

The CDC announced that there are currently 102 measles cases in the U.S. Some say it’s because people aren’t vaccinating their children. You can tell things are getting bad. Today Disneyland opened a new ride called “It’s a Smallpox World.”

Staples has agreed to buy Office Depot for $6 billion. The funny thing is they just popped in there to buy envelopes and then they just got carried away.

– Conan O’Brien Staples has reached a deal to buy Office Depot for $6.3 billion. While RadioShack has reached a deal to buy an old futon on Craigslist.

– Seth Myers

– Jimmy Fallon Congress is threatening to walk out on Bibi…I am not only bewildered, I feel betrayed. If Bibi did make a mistake, which is debatable now because we have learned he did tell the White House before he accepted.

But, even if it weren’t, imagine that a friend of yours is in fear for his life, he comes to your door to beg you and to tell you what the situation is and you say, “Gee, you didn’t knock. No, there wasn’t proper courtesy.

You failed in the etiquette of entering my home.”

- Professor at Yeshiva University Rabbi Benjamin Blech on “Your World with Neil Cavuto” on the Fox News Channel

Harper Lee to publish second book 55 years after To Kill a Mockingbird, and you thought you had writer’s block?

- Michael Goodwin, New York Post

Harper Lee, the author of To Kill a Mockingbird, is publishing her second novel after a 55-year hiatus. This one is called Mock 2: Mock Harder.

– Conan O’Brien Harper Lee announced today that she will release a sequel to To Kill a Mockingbird, which was published in 1960.

Apparently she releases a new book every time the measles comes back.

– Seth Myers

I think that the number that comes out of BLS [Bureau of Labor Statistics] and the Department of Labor is very, very accurate. I need to make that very, very clear so that I don’t suddenly disappear.

I need to make it home tonight.

- Jim Clifton, the Chairman and CEO of Gallup, joking on CNBC after he released an article calling into question the government’s new unemployment figures

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Parshas Mishpatim bled by seeming moral inconsistencies and who search for Torah relevance in our everyday lives, this type of question gnaws at us.

The Talmud many centuries ago pointed out the inefficiencies and eco-

The Talmud many centuries ago pointed out the inefficiencies and economic backwardness that slavery inflicts upon society.

Yet, in the final analysis it does not speak out against the practice nor does it forbid it as being a moral and legal wrong. To the true believer, this question like all questions regarding religion and faith, has really no validity. To the nonbeliever, there never is an acceptable answer to any of one’s doubts and questions regarding faith and revelation.

To many if not most of us who, though believing are nevertheless trou-

nomic backwardness that slavery inflicts upon society. Its famous statement was: “One who purchases a slave to serve one’s self is in reality acquiring a master over one’s self.” Yet, even here it is the impracticality of slavery that is being attacked and not the immorality of the institution itself.

Many of the great Torah commentators, especially of the last few centuries, have attempted to deal with this issue.

They saw in it – in this Jewish attitude toward slavery – an institution that could rehabilitate the criminal, give opportunity to the helpless poor, educate the ignorant and bring the pagan to monotheistic society and its enlightened practices and attitudes.

As true and high sounding as these goals are at best, they still do not sound a ringing condemnation of the institution of slavery itself. I think that we are forced to say that since the Torah was given to all societies and all times – an idea emphasized by Maimonides throughout his works – the Torah, as was its wont in many cases, spoke to a current and long-lasting society that could not imagine a world where slavery should no longer exist. It regulated the institution and look forward to a time such as ours where, in most human societies, that institution would no longer exist. The Torah never commanded the acquisition of slaves. It tempered the practice, waiting for the time when it would cease to be an issue.

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tainly to ourselves if not publicly, why does it seem that the Torah accepts and even condones the practice of slavery? It devotes a great deal of space and thought to regulating it, limiting it, and making it more humane and less brutal.

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ne of the most puzzling, if not even disturbing subjects, discussed in biblical and halachic detail, appears in this week’s Torah reading. That subject matter concerns itself with the institution of slavery – of literally owning another human being and defining them as human chattel. Certainly, the entire subject matter grates on the ears and sensibilities of Western citizens in our current twenty-first century.

We remember the words of Abraham Lincoln that if there is any wrong in human society, slavery is certainly that wrong. Yet, as a matter of cold, hard fact and reality, slavery still exists in a large part of human society today and was certainly the norm in all human societies for many millennia. Only in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries did Western societies begin the slow, painful and always violent change of mindset and practice and legally abolish slavery.

Large parts of the Muslim world today still incorporate slavery as part of their social and economic fabric of life.

So, we moderns ask the question, cer-

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Parshas Mishpatim

The Infinite Love of our Creator “When a man steals a cow or a sheep and he slaughters it or sells it, five cows shall he pay for the cow and four sheep in place of the sheep.” – Shemos 21:37 In Parshas Mishpatim, the Torah delineates various prohibitions and punishments. With regard to stealing, we see something unusual. If a man steals a cow, he must pay back five times the amount that he stole, however, if he stole a sheep, he must pay back four times the amount. Rashi is troubled by the difference in punishments.

He explains that the difference lies not in the crime, but in the mental state of the thief.

When a man steals a cow, he walks it out of the barn. When a man steals a sheep, he has to place it on his shoulder’s to carry it away, and this degrades him. After all, to put a mere animal on

one’s shoulders is a humiliation to the greatness of man. Since the thief is already suffering the embarrassment of carrying a sheep around, the Torah

when he nudges your shoulder, your attention is diverted to that area, and you don’t even feel your wallet being lifted out of your pocket. So too, this

Hashem loves every one of His creations to an extent that is beyond human comprehension. considers it as if he has already received part of his punishment, so his payment is decreased.

The Rosh HaYeshiva, Rabbi A.H. Leibowitz, zt”l commented that this Rashi is difficult to understand as it is hard to imagine that this man is preoccupied with his embarrassment.

He is a common thief, engaged in the act of breaking and entering.

He probably isn’t even aware that carrying a sheep is considered demeaning, and he certainly isn’t thinking about it as he makes his escape.

As an illustration: one of the tricks of a good pickpocket is to bump your shoulder as he reaches in to steal your wallet. Since the nervous system can only process one stimulus at a time,

thief. If he is thinking about anything other than not getting caught, it would be about tonight’s dinner that he is happily carrying home with him. Why would the Torah consider part of his punishment already received when it is unlikely that he even feels that embarrassment?

The answer to this question can best be understood by focusing on our relationship to our Creator.

Hashem Loves You More than You Love You The Chovos Ha’Levovos explains that one of the most basic facts in my relationship with Hashem is that Hashem loves me more than I love myself.

Hashem is more concerned for my good than I am. Hashem looks out for my interests more than I do myself.

This concept is the foundation of bitachon. Without it, trusting in Hashem is foolish. How can I rely on Hashem if He doesn’t care about me? How can I trust in Hashem if I am irrelevant to Him? The only way that a person can develop a true reliance on Hashem is by understanding that Hashem loves every one of His creations to an extent that is beyond human comprehension.

And because of Hashem’s infinite mercy and kindness, even if I do not deserve something, Hashem may give it to me anyway.

The Rosh Ha’Yeshiva, zt”l, explained that this seems to be the answer to this Rashi. It may well be that as this thief is making his escape, he is unaware of the embarrassment that he is suffering, nevertheless it makes an impact deep within him. He is a human

as all other humans, and was created in the image of Hashem. As such, he has the same sensitivities and delicate nature of all humans. He was created for greatness, and there is a part of him that cries out in pain when a mere animal is placed over him. Granted, while he is engaged in this act, he might be oblivious to the pain. But the pain is there, and it leaves its imprint, even if he is unaware of it.

This is a powerful illustration of Hashem’s compassion – even for a man who has deadened his heart to pain. The heart still feels it, and Hashem considers that pain significant and counts it as partial punishment for the crime.

This point becomes even more salient because this man is no tzaddik.

The Torah is describing a man who has veered off the Torah’s way. He is sneaking into his neighbor’s barn and committing a crime. Even so, Hashem has mercy on him and feels his pain, even more than he does himself. This stems from the love that Hashem has for each of us. The extent that He cares for our good is even greater than the extent we care for ourselves.

While this concept has many applications, it has particular relevance when we come to that rude awakening of “I have messed up.” At various points in our lives, we will reach the clarity to understand that we are human, and by design we have flaws and imperfections. With that recognition should also come the desire to correct our course and do teshuvah. Being aware that Hashem has infinite love and patience can allow us to embark on that most difficult task given to the human: growth, change and ultimately returning to our Creator, who loves us more than we can ever imagine.

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out the courtesy clerks and prevents the homeless from capturing a cart.

4. Ask the cashier or bagger to double the bags. If you have to walk somewhere, don’t use a cart to assist you in carrying things.

alize that the extra few seconds won’t make much difference to us, but it will to someone else.

For example, you’re leaving the grocery store where you spent a leisurely hour shopping, shmoozing, calling your

Some in the Jewish community like to call it the “Cart Crisis,” but it’s been going on for so long hardly anybody even thinks about it anymore.

5. Have a bagger escort the cart to the vehicle to help you unload groceries.

He or she then will wheel carts back to a designated area.

Some Tips • If you are shopping light, take a basket instead.

• Most places now currently have devices installed on the wheels, so that the carts lock up when going past a marked line.

Warnings • Anyone caught tampering or stealing shopping carts may deal with the police.

What I see from here is that they’re more worried about runaway carts disappearing from the stores than what I am concerned about. You see, I find the problem to be that the carts very much stay in the parking lot, just strewn across it and blocking parking spaces from being used by the next customer.

Of course, we have good excuses, because we are in a hurry, but how many times have you come home to find that had you been there fifteen seconds earlier (the approximate time it takes to put the cart in the right place) you would have won a million dollars? OK, what if it was fifteen minutes? Probably not such a biggie either.

Often, we figure that we’re in a hurry so every second counts. If we stopped and thought about it, we’d re-

house to find out what else you were supposed to pick up. Now, you come outside, unpack your groceries into your car, stop to talk to a friend who hasn’t yet gone in, and now you suddenly don’t have the extra few moments it takes to bring the cart to the store. No problem! Leave it in the handicapped parking space. That person with the wheelchair-accessible van won’t mind parking on the other side of the lot. “If they knew how many things I had to do they’d understand.”

Now that person comes and can’t park there. As it just snowed, there are very few spots that can accommodate their van so they end up driving around for five minutes (blessing you every inch of the way) and all because you couldn’t be bothered.

OK, so you’re more courteous and leave the handicapped space alone. Instead, you carefully angle the cart at the front corner of your spot. That smart move saves you a precious 1.56 seconds, except that you have to go back and readjust it when it starts to roll. Otherwise, it would have been a smart move.

Now, your sister-in-law comes to shop and, seeing a spot open from afar, zooms in, only to screech to a halt halfway in when she sees the cart previously obscured from vision. Real nice.

The best I saw was when someone couldn’t be bothered to bring their cart

to the store so they lamely shoved it towards the front door and drove off.

Except that when they backed up, they let out a loud expletive because they slammed into a cart some idiot had left halfway between the parking spots and the door. Oh yeah… that was them.

I was in Florida recently and I was about to pull into a spot when I saw there was a cart in it. I moved down a few spaces, then on my way to the store, went and got the cart from the space. A woman who saw me asked if I needed it and I said, “I was just moving it so somebody could park there.” She was amazed. “That’s so nice!”

As I had a yarmulka, which probably stands out quite a bit in South Florida, I know I made a kiddush Hashem.

Had I been in Monsey, where most of the people at the supermarkets I go to are Jewish, I could have gotten even more mitzvos for thinking about others and fulfilling v’ahavta l’rayacha kamocha.

So, this February, when you go shopping, grab a cart from the lot and bring it in to the store with you. Leave your cart at the front instead of making people run a slalom course in the lot, and actively think of the people you’re helping and how you’re improving your own middos.

Take the extra few seconds to turn indifference into a cause for celebration.

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hazal tell us that when Klal Yisrael is doing the will of Hashem, their work will be done by others. I don’t know whether I’m doing the will of Hashem, but my job was definitely made easier by whoever makes up all these special holidays.

According to the United States Census Bureau and Chase’s Calendar of Events, which its publisher McGraw-Hill says is “the most comprehensive and authoritative reference available on special events, worldwide holidays and festivals, civic observances, historic anniversaries, famous birthdays and much more,” February is Return Shopping Carts to the Supermarket Month.

Can you believe it? A whole month dedicated to one of the most common problems in our society. Some in the Jewish community like to call it the “Cart Crisis,” but it’s been going on for so long hardly anybody even thinks about it anymore.

Cart Month was the idea of Anthony Dinolfo, a grocery store owner whose carts had turned up just about everywhere imaginable. As he watched the 1969 historic event of Neil Armstrong walking on the moon, he had amusing thought. “I said I wouldn’t be surprised if he found a shopping cart in one of the craters,” Dinolfo told the Chicago SunTimes at the time.

Now, most of the places you hear about this festival will talk about the financial losses to the stores (each cart can run $100 or more) or the impact on the environment (for example, at treehugger.com – and no, I’m not making up that name.)

There are even special rules about how to celebrate this holiday. Here’s what I found: How to Celebrate Return Your Carts to the Supermarket Month: 1. Return your cart to a designated “cart rack” or aisle. These can be found in various places throughout the parking lot or nearby the store’s entrance.

2. Leave your cart near the entrance and carry grocery bags to your vehicle by hand. It’ll be courteous to another customer.

3. Take a cart that is near your vehicle to shop with instead of taking one by the entrance. This method helps

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Rabbi Naphtali Hoff

Cooking Up an Unethical Conclusion

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espite the general impression that this week’s parsha focuses almost exclusively on torts and damages, the fact is that much of Mishpatim deals with the interpersonal side of human relations, even when no physical harm has been caused.

And whoever kidnaps a man, and he is found in his possession, shall surely be put to death. And one who curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death. (Shemos 21:16-17) In his commentary on the above pesukim, Rav Samson Raphael Hirsch suggests, “Stealing people is actual destruction of the dignity of a human being. Towards a father and mother one does not need to go so far, even expressing the desire for their ruin incurs capital punishment.” Subsequent concepts continue along the theme of empathy and interpersonal consideration, for such matters as not accepting a false report, not serving as a false witness, not following the majority for evil purposes, and not oppressing a stranger.

However, the pattern shifts abruptly in the second half of the fifth aliyah.

There, the pesukim transition to discuss Shemitta, Shabbos and the three primary festivals. The aliyah concludes with the seemingly incongruous prohibition of cooking meat and milk together.

“You shall not cook a kid in its mother’s milk.” (Ibid 23:19) At first glance, this last dictate

would appear to have no relation to anything that had appeared beforehand.

Certainly, it does not have any obvious connection with the general theme of

Laws are created to maintain order, to allow for healthy, productive societal function. In a Torah society, they go one step further, providing a context though

The mitzvos of Shemitta, Shabbos and the chagim teach us that we are not the final arbiters of life, sustenance and integrity.

Mishpatim, the laws that govern interpersonal relationships and civic responsibilities. What is it about this mitzvah that justifies its selection as the culminating message of Mishpatim? And how do such concepts as Shemitta and Shabbos/yom tov serve as a proper bridge between this particular prohibition and the many laws which precede it?

Perhaps the answer lies within the powerful symbolism suggested by the precept. The imagery of cooking a child in its mother’s milk is most striking.

Milk serves as the lifeline of a young child; it is through its mother’s personal nourishment that a kid manages through its most delicate stage of infancy. To “cook” it in that milk is to somehow use the very life source in a way that is most damaging and destructive to the youngling.

which we are to view each other and our duties to our neighbors and our Maker/ Lawgiver. When the Torah speaks of not cooking a kid in its mother’s milk, it is telling us to refrain from manipulating a particular dictum by using the “milk” that sustains it in a manner that is not only inconsistent with its intended purpose but runs directly counter to it. This is true whether your goal is self-service or even leveling the social playing field.

Neither shall you glorify a poor man in his lawsuit.

(Ibid 23:3) You shall not bestow honor upon [the destitute man] by deciding in his favor in his lawsuit, saying, “He is a poor man; I will decide in his favor and honor him.” (Rashi) So often we find ourselves in situations where we rationalize our decisions and conduct based on the ends that they provide. The pull of profits, social standing or social justice may motivate us to place a personal spin on a concept, to understand justice in a manner that fits neatly within our own agendas. This is where Shemitta et al come in.

The mitzvos of Shemitta, Shabbos and the chagim teach us, each in their own way, that we are not the final arbiters of life, sustenance and integrity.

Despite our many efforts in the field or

the workplace, we are reminded that there is a higher Source, one that ultimately provides for us and determines the outcome of our labors. We are told to step back and to rest, to reflect upon the special relationship that we enjoy with our Maker. And we are also directed to make His will ours and allow for the timeless principles that emanate from His word to guide us in every circumstance.

Ethical leadership is a form of leadership that emerges from strong, timeless values. It exists when leaders tap into a reservoir of principles to govern how they approach their position and the many challenges that come with it.

At a time when prominent politicians and other leaders are once again in the

public spotlight for all of the wrong reasons, such as political payback and misappropriating federal dollars for self-aggrandizement, we must once again circle back to the enduring values of Mishpatim as a way of gaining clarity and direction so as to live a most fulfilling and complete existence. “Rav Yehudah said, ‘He who wishes to be pious must fulfill the laws of Nezikin.’”

(Bava Kama 30a)

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trolling down Central Avenue, waving a flag during the Veterans Day Parade, greeting residents in the park, Mayor Andrew J. Parise was a Cedarhurst institution, leading the Village as mayor for more than 43 years. Sadly, Mr. Parise passed away on Sunday at the age of 90, leaving a vibrant family and a town that will surely miss their veritable leader.

The mayor loved people—and enjoyed helping them—and he made his mark as a public servant for more than 60 years, starting out as a legislative aide to the New York State Assembly in 1954. In an interview with the Herald in 2011, he explained, “I like people, and I like doing things,” when asked why he took the job of mayor. He took the post in 1995.

During the over-40 years as the leader of Cedarhurst, Mr. Parise had an open-door policy, inviting residents to visit Village Hall and speak with him about their concerns. In fact, just a few months ago, I spoke to the mayor after he called the TJH office to express

His license plate, CEDMAYOR,

annual summer concerts so they could meet with the mayor and shake his hand.

But Mayor Parise wasn’t just a brilliant smile. He worked hard for his district, endeavoring to keep businesses open and storefronts full. Legislator Howard Kopel pointed out that the mayor was responsible for the wonderful quality of life that residents of Cedarhurst enjoy. “As the mayor of Cedarhurst for the past two decades, Mayor Parise’s unwavering leadership was evident in the fact that he could be found behind his desk in his Cedarhurst Village Hall office virtually every day,” the legislator said.

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ayor Parise was a life-long Five Towns resident, growing up in Inwood and walking to the Number Four School every day at a time when orchards lined Rockaway Turnpike where gas stations now stand. After graduating from Lawrence High School, Mr. Parise enlisted in the U.S. Army and was assigned to the 87th Infantry Division 312 Combat Engineers from February 1943 to December 1945.

He served 154 days on the frontlines of the World II, fighting in eleven battles.

The frigid temperatures, the evil enemies and the injuries he sustained were his duty for his country. Mr. Parise fought in the infamous Battle of the Bulge, the longest and fiercest land battle by the U.S. Army, and was awarded the Purple Heart military decoration along with several other medals and awards.

During his time in the army, Mr. Parise was witness to one of the most horrific events in the world’s history: the mass extermination of the Jews. In April 1945, he was one of the liberators of Buchenwald concentration camp. When his unit came to Buchenwald,

blared his allegiance and his broad

smile beamed at Cedarhurst events. his gratitude about an article that was written. “Feel free to come in anytime,” he said as we ended the call.

“I love to speak with my constituents.”

It was clear that he loved his Village. His license plate, CEDMAYOR, blared his allegiance and his broad smile beamed at Cedarhurst events. In fact, I would look forward to bringing my children to the

only corpses were left piled high. But the ovens, the torture chambers, the human remains—all that attested to the horrors of the Nazis’ plan as they slaughtered 6 million Jews. General Eisenhower wanted each soldier to bear witness so that no one would be able to doubt that such an atrocity could have occurred. It was a sight that the mayor said he would never forget.

In an interview with TJH in August, Mayor Parise related that the world now is so different than what is was back then. “I find it very sad. It’s a different world than what we fought for. For those that have to go in now, they don’t know their enemy,” he said. “Netanyahu is a great guy, having to stand up for his people while people are shooting at them,” he said, referring to the war in Gaza this past summer.

He continued, “Our country is not into it like they used to be. It’s incomprehensible. The world was different and we were different,” he lamented. “People don’t have the gumption to get together and do something about it.” As a man of action, he couldn’t comprehend how people would not be galvanized to stop the atrocities that are being committed worldwide today.

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n 2011, the Village honored the mayor, renaming Cedarhurst Park “Andrew J. Parise Cedarhurst Park.” Mayor Parise helped to refurbish the park, creating a fun water park for children in the summers, building a memorial area, and adding a baseball field. He also helped establish the annual summer concert series. It was a fitting honor for the mayor. His office overlooks the park and it was his greatest joy to see his residents enjoying his town, having families play together, and the community join together in song.

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Empire to take Constantinople and the entire Allied army would link up to crush the Ottomans.

In August, the Australians were sent in as a diversion to a major assault. The Battle of Lone Pine, named for a single pine tree that stood near where the battle took place, started on August 6 between the Australians and the Ottomans. The objective of the Australian 1st Battalion was to draw away Ottoman reinforcements from other areas and in this they were successful. There had been several skirmishes in the area since the initial landings in April, and trenches had been dug to form defensive positions. On August 6, the troops managed to capture the main Ottoman trench but had to endure three days of intense counterattacks.

Grenades, sometimes called bombs during the war, were Australian soldiers in captured Turkish trenches at Lone Pine being used in warfare for the first time and as poli Peninsula with the Dardanelles such had several defects. There were Straits, and the British launched an in- two types: one that detonated on imvasion which ultimately failed to take pact and another that exploded after a the strategic land on the Black Sea. time fuse ran down. Both were conAfter the naval bombardment failed, sidered to be duds for a variety of reathe British Empire sent in troops, in- sons and many of them didn’t pack a cluding a 29 year old Jewish Austra- powerful punch. The Ottomans mainlian named Leonard Keysor. ly used the latter type and began tossKeysor was born in London, En- ing them across into the Australian gland, in 1885. At the age of 19, he trenches. However, they were countmoved to Canada and ten years lat- ing on someone tossing the grenades er moved again, this time to Sydney, back. Keysor was right there to either Australia, where two of his siblings smother the explosion with sandbags were living. He had taken a clerical or throw them back into the Turkish position but just three months after trench. During the battle, he became he moved, the war broke out. Feeling so good at this dangerous practice that that it was his duty to serve, he enlist- he actually started catching the ticked in the Australian Imperial Force in ing time bombs before hurling them the summer of 1914. After joining the at the enemy. He even used his trench First Battalion, he landed in Egypt for coat to defuse the grenades before further training and to protect the Suez they exploded.

Canal.

The grenade-tossing infantryman In April 1915, Keysor went ashore was wounded twice but kept on saving at Gallipoli and two months later, he the lives of his countrymen by getting was promoted to lance corporal. The rid of the live bombs. For over two Russians, who were fighting a brutal days, he remained on the front refuswar in Europe, called in the British ing to be treated for his wounds un-

til the danger of his place, he bombed unit’s position being the enemy out of overrun had passed. a position which Finally, he allowed made his trench himself to be sent to vulnerable. He was the rear only to find again wounded. out that he was sufAlthough he was fering from typhoid. marked for hospiAfter the battle, tal he stayed in the Keysor was evactrenches and threw uated to England bombs for another and in March 1916 company which had was sent back to his lost its bomb throwunit which was servers. Keysor kept ing in France. He throwing both Turkfought for another ish bombs and crude two years and gradAustralian bombs, Leonard Keysor ually worked his manufactured on way to a battlefield the beach, for fifty commission as a lieutenant for his hours before he allowed himself to be bravery. Gas attacks were prevalent evacuated for treatment.” during WWI, and in March 1918, he Keysor returned to civilian life was gassed and was evacuated again. and went into the family business of He returned to Australia to recruit for importing clocks. At the beginning of the army but soon the war was over WWII, he tried to reenlist but was reand he was medically discharged. jected on medical grounds. He died in For his bravery, Keysor was 1951 but will always be remembered awarded the Victoria Cross—the high- for his selfless acts of bravery that est honor for a soldier in the British saved his unit in the Battle of Lone Empire. His citation reads as follows, Pine.

“On 7 August Keysor was in a trench which was being heavily bombed by the enemy. At great risk to himself Avi Heiligman is a weekly contributor to he picked up two live Turkish bombs The Jewish Home. He welcomes your comand threw them back at the enemy. ments and suggestions.for future columns Although wounded, he kept throw- and can be reached at aviheiligman@ ing bombs. The next day, at the same gmail.com.

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xactly a century ago, World War I was raging across the globe as several campaigns were taking place at the same time. It was something that hadn’t been seen before in history but would be repeated a mere 25 years later. The Ottoman Empire (Turkey) had control over the Middle East including Palestine but by the end of the war the British wrested control of many areas from the Ottomans. The campaigns weren’t easy and their first attempt to defeat the Turks resulted in a retreat. At the Eastern part of Turkey sits the Galli-

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hey sat there hurling insults at each other, and as much as I theoretically am “used to” this, my jaw dropped at the creative ways they found to get under each other’s skin. “Stop!” I said. “You cannot do that here in my office. And you cannot do that at home, either. You’re a tzelem Elokim [image of G-d] and this is beneath who you are.” They were good for maybe five minutes and then it started again. The second time around, one of them said, “I can’t help it. This is who I am.” But when he attacked his partner for “being who she is,” I pointed out the inconsistency.

“Either you accept the imperfections that all of us humans have or you better go live on an island somewhere that is uninhabited,” I suggested. There was silence as they absorbed this idea.

Why do people verbally attack each other? Why is it so bad, anyway?

Just to play devil’s advocate (i.e., the yetzer hara) isn’t it good to vent and “get it out of your system”? If not, isn’t it bad to stuff it inside where it festers?

Why do people verbally attack each other?

It begins innocently enough: You just want to get through to someone who is not, apparently, receiving it.

Maybe in your family everyone yelled or everyone said nasty things so, to you, it’s no big deal. Kind of like the talk you hear when you take the train – stuff most of us don’t include in daily conversations.

Generally, people who attack feel that in some way they’ve been victimized. I realize this may sound strange to you. You got attacked and you are quite sure that you did not victimize someone else. This is where miscommunication – and even worse, misinterpretation – come in. People often will “take” something said lightly as if it were an attack which then gives them the “right” to attack back. One guy thinks he’s saying something innocent but his sweetheart is insulted. Another gal thinks she is putting some needed cards on the table but her over-sensitive husband can’t hear that.

So he feels attacked.

Why is it so bad, anyway?

For a person to feel as if they have no alternative but to lash out at another person, there is one absolute requirement. “Feeling hurt” is not the answer because someone who feels hurt may choose one of several other options –

bering won’t work. It will just fortify his position. That’s the second problem with the verbal attack: You feel this is what is needed to get through – but you will not succeed anyway.

Not with a person who is unable to take in advice or feedback. You would

People who attack feel that in some way they’ve been victimized. not say anything, say it assertively but not rudely, cry, etc. No, the absolute requirement for lashing out is that at that moment you cannot feel one iota of compassion for the person at whom you lashed out.

This is big.

It means that in that moment, the other person is not actually a “person.” He or she is a thing, an it. A brick wall that needs to be torn down.

A terrorist. But not a person. You have “othered” him in the same way the Nazis managed to dehumanize their victims and terrorists do the same today. If there is a shred in your heart of feeling connection or compassion, you can’t bring yourself to attack.

There are four problems with this state of being. One is that the other person really is a person no matter how angry with him you are. He or she is still a person. He (or she) may be, as our morning brachos warn, a person of azus panim – Artscroll translates it as brazen, but it is worse than that.

As Debbie Greenblatt explained in her gorgeous Shabbos shiur for Parshas Yisro, a person who is azus panim does not need or want input from you; they are just fine the way they are, thank you, and you have nothing to offer them. Now, that is an extremely frustrating person to deal with, isn’t it?

But he’s still human.

So you can’t treat him as if he weren’t. He is suffering from a malady, azus panim, which makes him so bone-headed that you want to clobber him just to get through. But that clob-

think that if you up the ante, it will get through, but it doesn’t.

And the third reason this is a bad approach is what it does to your neshama. You may be a feisty soul who will not take mistreatment from anybody but slinging it back lowers you.

It puts you in the company with the very person that you think is so beneath you. Once you do the slinging, you’re there, too, sharing that lowly space.

But isn’t venting a good thing?

Actually, no. Murray Straus at the University of New Hampshire (he’s the guy who wrote the book, Behind Closed Doors, a term which has become a common expression) did research that showed that venting makes things worse. Here’s why: When you vent, you connect with your pain for as many minutes as you are venting.

This, in turn, not only makes you angrier and more injured, but more likely to strike out – something we’ve said is no good. You are not solving the problem and you are feeling worse than when you started.

And, of course, the fourth reason is that the Torah is decidedly against it. No exceptions. According to the Gemara, even calling someone by a nickname is such a derogatory form of speech that the speaker will lose Olam HaBa for it. And that is even if the named party claims he doesn’t mind the nickname.

But isn’t it bad to stuff it inside where it festers?

Of course. That is not the right

choice, either. Here is a better decision tree: 1. Is the person you are dealing with a true azus panim?

If so, then give up the argument.

You may need help deciding if this is really the case, but if it is, then the best thing to do is to keep a distance from such a person so that there won’t be future occasions to be mistreated.

Meanwhile, calm yourself by doing deep breathing and – as Mary Poppins suggested – thinking happy thoughts.

No, that is not stuffing it.

That is dispelling it, putting it where it belongs. To understand this better, read Natan Sharansky’s book about being in the Russian Gulag. It is called Fear No Evil. Or see a much shorter YouTube video of Alice Herz Sommers, the concert pianist who lived through the Holocaust playing piano for the Nazis. It’s about putting your head in a good place rather than a bad one. Or read anything by Viktor Frankl.

2. Is the person you are dealing with rational and open?

If so, then you don’t need fireworks to discuss a touchy subject.

Don’t clobber him. Be calm, assertive, clear-headed, and kind. Start with a compliment to soften the impact of what you want to say. Think of times that this person treated you right and bring those up. As Marry Poppins advised, a spoon full of sugar makes the medicine go down.

Dr. Deb Hirschhorn, a Marriage & Family Therapist and best-selling author of The Healing Is Mutual: Marriage Empowerment Tools to Rebuild Trust and Respect— Together, is proud to announce that readers of The Jewish Home will receive a $50 discount on every visit to her Woodmere office. Attend the Food For Thought lectures at Traditions Restaurant in Lawrence on Tuesdays at 12:30 PM. (There is a lovely optional lunch menu for $12 cash.) Any questions, call 646-54-DRDEB or check out her website at http://drdeb.com. All stories in Dr. Deb’s articles are fabricated.

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The Picky Eater

most of us in the Northeast appear to be deficit in) and calcium.

Too much milk intake, however, turns out to be a major cause of anemia, failure to thrive (extremely poor growth), chronic fatigue, constipation and chronic nausea. Many studies have already established the triad of exces-

for kids 4-8 years old.

If your child loves milk – limit the intake to 16 oz. per day. Try to stay strong for two weeks and please let me know if you notice a huge turnaround in your child’s appetite.

Try and wean your toddler from drinking a bottle of milk in bed. Some

Some of the most horrific dental decay I have seen in my office is from drinking milk in bed at night. sive milk intake, causing anemia and subsequent developmental delay.

It appears that excessive milk intake can suppress the appetite of a child for ironrich foods. Furthermore, milk binds iron in our gut and hinders its absorption into our body. Even when you are finally successful in feeding your child a chicken leg, the milk in his stomach from an earlier snack will lower the absorption of the much-needed iron.

of the most horrific dental decay I have seen in my office is from drinking milk in bed at night. This is why I make sure that I ask at least two questions about milk intake at every toddler’s physical exam: How much and when a child drinks the milk. If your child insists on drinking milk in bed, try and give an extra-large cup of milk an hour prior to bedtime and leave out the bedtime bottle.

tiating family feuds while your children are enjoying their warm and loving grandparents. Letting your children enjoy those cherished moments and to have fond memories of their Bubby and Zaidy is much more important than the negative effects of some extra milk. To put it into perspective, it would take at least a few weeks of exclusive milk intake to cause anemia in your child. But at your own house, set the rules straight.

Don’t replace meals with sweetened or even plain yogurt and cheese. Eating an exclusive dairy diet will have the same horrible outcome as excessive milk consumption.

For those of you who would like to know exactly how much calcium and vitamin D your child needs per day, I found a very useful website from the NIH that has clear and concise charts for each age category. Please visit http:// ods.od.nih.gov/factsheets/Calcium and http://ods.od.nih.gov/factsheets/VitaminD for that information.

Wishing you and yours strong bones and clear minds, Sincerely, David Elazar Simai M.D. P.S. If you would like to support the Five Towns Eiruv and join me in showing appreciation for their devoted work, please visit http://fivetownseruv.org.

So here is my suggestion for your child’s milk and dairy intake: If your child hates milk – don’t panic!! Even though milk is enriched with calcium, many other foods, such as green leafy vegetables or grains, contain calcium as well. Additionally, if your child agrees to eat an 8 oz. serving of yogurt and a 2 oz. slice of cheese per day, they will get 800 mg of calcium, which is the recommended daily intake

Keep in mind that dairy products are made out of…milk. It turns out that grandmothers across ethnicities share a common gene – “the spoiling gene.”

I strongly discourage any sane parent from taking this article and trying to change this compassionate characteristic that our own parents have. I do want to remind you that we parents sometimes lack this benevolent “spoiling gene.” Please try and refrain from ini-

Dr. David Simai is a Board Certified Pediatrician from the Five Towns. He is a full time attending in his own private practice since 2007 in Cedarhurst, New York. In addition, he is an Attending Physician at LIJ-Cohen Children’s Hospital, North-Shore Manhasset University Hospital and South Nassau Communities Hospital. He can be contacted for consultation at 516 374-2228 or via email at davidsimai@yahoo.com.

NOTE: name, gender, geographical area and other identifying information were deliberately altered in this article in order to protect the patient’s privacy. This article is not intended to help diagnose or treat any specific disease. Always consult your personal physician before diagnosing or treating yourself or your child for any of the above mentioned illnesses.

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irst, I would like to dedicate this article to a very unique cause. As I exited our shul late one evening, my chavrusa, Yishay Honig, noticed a truck nearby. Being that repairs were ongoing, we assumed that these were utility workers working around the clock to repair downed wires. However, as we neared the truck, we recognized the special people in it – Rabbi Zomick and Rabbi Picker from Yeshiva Gedolah of Five Towns. They were driving around town at this late hour to fix the damaged eiruv. As we thanked them for their dedicated work on behalf of our community, it occurred to us that they literally put their lives on the line, climbing high poles in the darkness of the night in order to facilitate our enjoyment and shemiras Shabbos. Therefore, I would like to salute the people serving on the eiruv committee and the Yeshiva Gedolah of Five Towns.

In last week’s article, I made some suggestions about picky eaters. The main thrust of this week’s article is – how much milk is enough for toddlers?

After thousands of discussions during physicals at my office, I noticed a clear trend. When a mother appears distraught and in total desperation when she is asked about her toddler’s nutrition, I pause, and ask one question: “How much milk does your child drink?” It appears that the more milk a toddler drinks, the poorer his appetite is and the more frustrated the mom becomes.

I am sure that those of you who raised a few kids have noticed this pattern already. It is usually the first time parents that have the somewhat naïve notion of “Milk – it does the body good.” I wonder if the media should be blamed for this. After all, we all grew up hearing the slogan, “Got milk?” With those preconceived notions in the minds of parents, as an infant transitions into his toddlerhood and becomes a picky eater, we may reflexively decide to give him a bottle of milk instead of the dinner he just spilled all over the kitchen floor. After all, we all know that milk has great nutritional value – it contains fats, proteins and carbohydrates, and is even fortified with Vitamin D (which

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Shake Your Salt Habit

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n average, Americans consume a whopping 3,436 mg of sodium daily. Whether at a restaurant or at our own kitchen table, we constantly reach for salt. Because most things we buy already have salt added to them, this habit can be dangerous to your health.

Sodium chloride is more commonly known as table salt. Sodium is used as a preservative in all processed foods and is found naturally in some foods.

It’s an essential nutrient that helps maintain blood pressure and volume, muscle contractions, and nerve transmission.

However, our bodies only require a small amount to function. Too much sodium in a diet can cause serious health complications such as hypertension, cardiovascular disease, cardiac arrest, changes in nerve and muscle function, and shortness of breath, as well as fluid retention, which causes weight gain.

The American Heart Association recommends that a healthy person consume no more than 2,400 mg of sodium daily. However, those with high blood pressure or cardiovascular disease should keep their sodium intake to fewer than 2,000 mg per day.

It is important to read food labels to keep within your recommended daily amount. The only way to know the exact sodium content is by looking at the nutrition facts. However, at a quick glance, some of these terms can give you a good idea of what to expect.

“Sodium free” means there’s less than 5 mg of sodium per serving. “Very low-sodium” means no more than 35 mg of sodium per serving. “Low-sodium” means 140 mg or less of sodium per serving. “Reduced sodium” means that the usual sodium level is reduced by 25%. Lastly “unsalted” and “no salt added” mean that the only sodium in the product is naturally there.

When baking or cooking, keep in mind that with one small splash, you can be adding a whole lot of sodium.

One teaspoon of salt has 2,300 mg of sodium, more than the recommended daily allowance, and a tablespoon of baking soda has 1,000 mg of sodium.

Learn to use spices and herbs and enjoy the natural flavor of food. Next time you are cooking, instead of reaching for the salt, experiment with your spice cabinet. You can use allspice in meats, stews, and sauces. Basil tastes great on fish, meats, salads, and soups. Experiment with curry powder when cooking with meats and chicken. Garlic adds great flavor to meats, fish, soups, salads, and vegetables. Onion, pepper, cumin, ginger, and cinnamon are spices that contribute taste and possible health benefits too.

Make sure to limit foods that are very high in sodium. There are some foods that, even before looking at the sodium content, you should know to use sparingly. Some examples are bouillon cubes, soy sauce, ketchup, canned foods, hot dogs, salted nuts and pretzels, luncheon meats, American cheese, salad dressings, fast food, pickles, olives, and dips.

Sodium is an acquired taste. Reduce the sodium in your diet for eight weeks and your taste buds will adapt.

Start by avoiding table salt. Learn to use the myriad of spices and herbs that are on the shelves at your local supermarket. Eat fresh and frozen vegetables rather than canned. Limit salty snacks and avoid processed foods. It may seem daunting, but one step at a time you can make simple changes to your diet and reap many health benefits as a result.

Aliza Beer is a registered dietician 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.

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Kosherology

C&R Kitchen, Philadelphia, PA

&R Kitchen is traditional, redefined and easily one of the best restaurants at which I have ever dined. Opened in 2012 as Citron & Rose and recently re-branded as C&R Kitchen, this hip kosher spot in the heart of the Philadelphia Jewish community is a real kosher gem. Owner and community philanthropist David Magerman opened C&R three years ago to introduce a new level of fine kosher dining to the Philadelphia community, but the restaurant has proven its popularity by drawing diners from New York, New Jersey, and other nearby surrounding areas.

The newly re-branded C&R Kitchen is under the leadership of executive-chef Val Bay, who joined the C&R team in September and has created a menu that is traditional, but with a spin.... Offered as a seasonal menu, the fare at C&R is a palatable sensation of fine cuisine, while retaining a sense of also being nostalgic comfort food. Not in my wildest imagination would I have ever thought of serving a fresh, hot soft pretzel painted with shmaltz and served with a honey-shmaltz butter and a Guinness mustard as an awesome appetizer...a truly an outstanding way to begin an ultimate culinary experience.

Accompanying my soft pretzel, I highly enjoyed the truffle fries, which were delicate, crisp, and perfectly seasoned. My starters were followed by a succulent, juicy souvis lamb shoulder roast seasoned with sweet Moroccan spices over a bed of couscous and accented with a mint pesto. Also on the menu (and a very popular item) is the dry-aged rib eye steak, which is aged for five weeks and rubbed with bourbon for the last two weeks to impart a subtle distinguished flavor. A fun and flavorful menu of weekly and nightly specials, including house-made sausages, lamb bacon, prime rib, lamb, as well as a trendy bar menu add to the excitement that is C&R. The atmosphere is warm and welcoming, calm and cool with music of the ‘50s-‘60s ( Stevie Wonder, the Beatles, Elvis, and the Isley Brothers, among others) serenading your senses and jogging a nostalgic walk down memory lane. The staff is pleasantly attentive to the guests and knowledgeable with regards to the menu, lending to an ultimate dining experience that you can be sure will be anything but boring.

For more information on C&R Kitchen, visit their website at citronandrose.com. C&R Kitchen is under the kosher supervision of the Community Kashrus of Greater Philadelphia.

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A New Spin on Hamantashen not a big baker. Some of our holidays, such as Purim, involve baking dessert

foods, like hamantashen. I decided to come up with a savory way to use this iconic cookie as a side dish as part of my dinner, rather than serving it for dessert. I thought of a number of ideas and finally came up with a couple of new twists that I hope you will find as appealing as I do.

The first one is an adaption of a recipe first developed by my friend, Leah Schapira of www.cookkosher.com, for what I coined “Pastrami Hamantashen” that incorporates Abeles and Heymanns deli.

My next idea came as an inspiration, as Shushan Purim falls out on a Friday this year.

I thought it would be appropriate to have some carry-over into Shabbat. You can also use it for the Purim seudah too. I call it “Gefilte Fish Hamantashen”.

Pastrami Hamantashen Ingredients 1 tablespoon oil 1 medium onion, diced 6 oz. chopped pastrami (or deli of your choice) 1 tablespoon mayo 1 tablespoon ketchup 1 tablespoon honey 1 squirt sriracha sauce ½ tablespoon soy sauce 20 round wonton wrappers 1 teaspoon cornstarch, dissolved in 3 tablespoons water Directions Preheat oven to 400°F. Heat oil in a sauté pan over medium heat. Add onion and sauté until extra soft and golden, about 10 minutes. Add pastrami and sauté for 1 to 2 additional minutes. Stir in mayonnaise, ketchup, honey, sriracha, and soy sauce.

Place 1 teaspoon filling in the middle of each wrapper. Brush cornstarch mixture around the

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edges (this will help seal the hamantashen). Fold into hamantashen shape.

Place hamantashen on a lined baking sheet and spray the tops with nonstick cooking spray. Bake for 8 to 10 minutes.

Alternatively, you can fry the hamantashen (of course, it’s much tastier this way and that’s the version I prefer). Heat 1 inch of oil in a sauté pan over medium-high heat. When hot, add hamantashen and fry until golden and crispy, about 3 to 4 minutes per side.

Geflite Fish Hamentashen Ingredients 1 loaf frozen geflite fish 1 large carrot, peeled and whole ½ cup sugar 2 stalks celery, chunked Onion, halved Water to fill pot enough to cover loaf Directions In a large pot place the gelite fish loaf with all the ingredients and boil for 1 ½ hours.

Drain and cool the fish and set aside. Save the carrot and dispose of the other vegetables. Once the fish and carrot have cooled, place on a chopping board and slice the fish into 1 inch rings, and the carrot into ¼ inch rings. Then cut each ring into tri-

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angles. The triangular carrot should lay in the center of the triangular piece of fish, imitating a hamentashen filling.

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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Proper Supervision When a child is ready to attend davening in shul, it is essential that he be seated next to his father for the entire davening for two reasons: 1. To ensure that he does not wander about, do anything that is disrespectful to the kedushas bais haknesses (such as play games) or disturb others. It is also a lack of responsibility for fathers to allow their children to wander around the area in front of the aron hakodesh or bimah (Rav Shlomo Wolbe, Zeriya U’Vinyan B’chinuch p. 44).

2. To learn how to behave and daven properly by observing his father’s davening and conduct in shul (Rav Chaim Friedlander, Mesilos Chaim B’Chinuch, p. 74).

Rav Pam once remarked that young girls should also not go to shul unsupervised by their parents. If the mother is unable to accompany her daughter in the ezras nashim and she is too old to sit with her father, she should stay home and daven. Additionally, a young girl

should also be trained to daven at home, since she will probably be doing most of her davening there after marriage.

Choosing the Proper Shul Rav Wolbe writes (ibid) that it is of utmost importance to find a minyan that is suitable for your child.

He lists the following conditions: 1. The minyan should be characterized by an orderly and

organized tefillah.

2. There should be no talking during davening or kriyas haTorah.

3. The minyan should reflect the true value of davening for the child to absorb.

4. The davening shouldn’t be too fast or too slow.

When a Child Refuses to go to Shul There are many reasons why some young children refuse to go to shul, and parents should use motivation rather than force to try to solve the problem.

This might take the form of a class project initiated by the rebbe and include returning a signed note after Shabbos, or simply earning a treat for suitable davening and behavior in shul. However, motivation might not always work, especially if his resistance is caused by: a. The minyan or davening not being suitable for him (see above); b. His being an active child who is bored when sitting idle, especially during kriyas haTorah; c. Wild children present during davening; d. Exhaustion from the week’s learning, homework and helping in the house and simply needing a break However, the one thing that parents should not do is use force. A child who is forced to go to shul can develop an aversion to davening because he associates it with unpleasant experiences and may decide to stop going to shul altogether one day.

At times, the child is simply not ready to go to shul, and I advise parents to wait as the child will probably outgrow this stage. Parents should realize that the age of chinuch only starts at six or seven years of age, and they still have many years until bar mitzvah to train their child in mitzvos. Additionally, as the child gets older, his rebbi will

encourage him or make a class project to daven in a minyan.

Davening in shul should be a pleasant experience, and parents should do their utmost to ensure that it is.

As final note about bringing a child to daven in shul: Parents should try to understand the difficulty in a young child’s inability to sit still orderly in shul. Besides the natural restlessness that children exhibit when they are idle, this child is also saying words without understanding their meaning. Imagine

reading hundreds of words in French; how long do you think you could last doing that?

Nevertheless, once a child is able to act properly in shul, he should be brought there to be inspired by the davening, as the Steipler Rav advised parents: “Purchase a seat for your child for the Yamim Noraim because hearing tekiyas shofar and seeing people weep during davening will give him yiras Shamayim for a lifetime” (Ashkavtei D’Rebbi, vol. 2, p.161).

Main point to work and focus on with infants and toddlers for the coming week: > The parent should make sure that his children are seated next to him during the davening. > Parents should daven in a minyan that is suitable for their children. > Parents should not force a child to go to shul, and if he refuses, they should try to source the problem as mentioned above.

Rabbi Morgenstern does family counseling and lectures extensively in Israel and abroad on shalom bayis, chinuch habanim, family communication, shidduchim, dating and personal growth, and has produced a popular CD series on these topics. His articles on these topics and Jewish hashkafa have appeared internationally in Jewish newspapers and magazines.

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The other day I was walking down the street and noticed a piece of paper on the sidewalk. Though laden with packages, I imagined it was some interesting love note and couldn’t resist picking it up. Then I realized it was even more important. It was someone’s grocery list.

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I have lists everywhere. On papers, in notebooks, on my iPad. I need a list just to keep track of where I have lists. And of course I have one ready to go on my nightstand. After all, how else could one get through the night?

My mom wrote a book entitled, Live, Love, Laugh, and Other Things I Do before Breakfast. She thinks of it as a title. I think of it as her early morning instruction list.

Sometimes in the middle of the night, I think of things I need to do. I feel I can’t go back to sleep until I make a note of it. Then I come up with a brilliant idea, a mnemonic for remembering. For example, Fix the faucet, Listen to my voice mail, Open an account, Write an article. “FLOW” = fix, listen, open, write. I repeat it a few times.

Now how to remember the word flow?

Let the ideas “flow” back into my head.

That’s good. I can go back to sleep.

Morning rears its head. I am psyched. I totally remember the word

Flow. Here we go ... F - F- fix. Yes, wow I am good! Fix what? Fixxxx what? What did I remember was broken? OK, try L. L - Listen, yup, listen – to my original instincts. O, O, Ooh my gosh, I should have written it down on the notepad on the nightstand like I planned in the first place!

It’s good I never got to the W in “FLOW.” I’d be there forever thinking W - Wa - Wa. I’d never get the word “write” from that. It’s more like W for What in the world was I thinking?

Lists are the most important organizing tool we have. Some use their calendars, others a memo pad, some even risk recording it to memory, but rarely does one function without any. After

all, so much of our sense of achievement derives from making those little tick offs, checkmarks, cross outs, whatever. We are total suckers for it.

In fact, in going for my coaching license I learned the valuable lesson that one should always make at least one daily list verses that endless to do list.

That’s because you’ll never feel really accomplished if you can never get your whole list done! What a great feeling to cross every single thing out – at least for the 10 seconds before you feel the need to start one again!

Well, I’ve got to go now, sending this in for print is next on my list!

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

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My sister told me that her husband wants a divorce and that he wants to use a mediator because they are cheaper, but then they each have

to get an attorney to go over the paperwork. I told her to talk to an attorney just to get some information but she is afraid that if she goes to an

attorney, her husband will find out and then he’ll get one and they will end up in court. I’m worried that she is going into this with no informa-

tion and she will have a bad result.

Do you think she should consult with someone?

The Attorney Responds: Absolutely! She will feel more comfortable with the divorce process if she has some basic information on what to expect. I have a mediation certificate as well as a law license like some other divorce attorneys so I can explain the divorce process whether a mediator or an attorney is used.

First, let me explain a bit about how divorce works in New York State. In New York, divorce was traditionally a “grounds” state where there had to be a reason for the split.

A few years ago, New York added a new ground “irretrievable breakdown of the marriage,” which is essentially no-fault divorce. This way no one has to be the “bad spouse.” Someone does

The use of mediators has increased in recent years as people are looking for a more peaceful way to divorce.

need to be a Plaintiff and the other spouse needs to be the Defendant but no one has to be blamed for the marriage ending. Whether using a mediator or attorneys, the Plaintiff has to file an action in the Supreme Court of the County (usually where one of the parties’ lives) and the Defendant must be served with the action. Where attorneys have already been hired, the Defendant’s attorney can accept service on the behalf of their client, otherwise a process server needs to be utilized.

The use of mediators has increased in recent years as people are looking for a more peaceful way to divorce.

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Not all mediators are the same, however. I believe a better result will be had from a mediator who has been trained in mediation and also has knowledge of New York divorce law. This is important so that any agreement reached complies with the law and can actually be enforced. A mediator can help the divorcing couple come up with solutions with regards to custody, support and equitable distribution, but they do not represent either party. Should the parties be unable to reach an agreement, the mediator cannot continue with either side. If an agreement is reached, then each party should have their own attorney review the agreement. Sometimes minor changes get made and then the final divorce papers can be drafted, executed and filed with the court.

By contrast, the parties can each hire an attorney and still have a fairly amicable divorce. Often, the parties will have a meeting together with their respective attorneys to discuss an agreement. Frequently, the parties will exchange some financial information prior to or at the meeting in the form of a document called a “statement of net worth� which details each of the parties income, debt, assets and liabilities. This way, the parties are making decisions based on facts about each of their financial situations. The attorneys will base their positions on the facts of the case and the financial disclosure and how it would be decided if it went to trial. By negotiating an agreement based on the likely trial result, the parties can be spared the time and expense of having a trial. Moreover, important issues such as child custody and visitation will be decided by the parties rather than a judge.

The parties are in a better position to make decisions about their children than having a stranger making those decisions Should an oral agreement be reached at the meeting, typically one attorney drafts the agreement and the other attorney drafts the final divorce papers such as the findings of fact and conclusions of law and the divorce judgment itself. The papers, together with the agreement, are then submitted to the court where a judge eventu-

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In the meantime, being dead doesn’t seem to be cramping Meinstein’s style.

“It isn’t really a problem in my daily life,” he told the Columbus Dispatch. “Everybody accepts my money.” Even the IRS still cashes his checks!

If you’re alive to read this, congratulations! Dealing with taxes isn’t much fun, but it’s a key to your financial de-

fense and a crucial part of any financial plan. Make sure to make a plan so you can pay less taxes—for the rest of your long, healthy life!

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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“‘The old-timer’s troubles began in April when he filed his tax return online through his accountant. The IRS rejected the return and the reason given was because the filer was dead according to the Social Security Administration.

A few days later, Meinstein and his son went to the Social Security office in Columbus and were told that their records did not list the elder Meinstein as deceased. The office gave the Meinsteins a letter to send to the IRS. They did, only to have the IRS kick it back to Social Security.

There was some back-and-forth and then Meinstein and his son visited the local IRS office where they were informed that the problem would be resolved.

Instead, the senior citizen received a letter from the IRS that said, ‘We are unable to process your tax return. Our records indicate that the person identified as the primary taxpayer…was deceased prior the tax year shown on the tax form.’”

The IRS sent another letter reminding him that he was still dead in September.

And again in November. His daughter-inlaw appealed to the Taxpayer Advocate’s office, which resolves problems that fall through the regular IRS cracks, and they said they had miraculously brought Mein-

stein back to life. Then, like a bad penny, the letter showed up again in December.

The IRS says they’re working to resolve the problem. But of course the gears of bureaucracy grind very slooooooooowly, and they’re slowing even further after recent budget cuts. Here’s hoping the IRS gets it all fixed before Meinstein owes estate tax!

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etting mail from the IRS is rarely something to celebrate. If it’s a bill, consider yourself lucky — at least you can just pay it and be done. If it’s a “CP 2000” notice proposing a change to your taxes, get ready for a ride on the paperwork tilt-a-whirl. If it’s an audit notice, all bets are off. (Relax — it only feels like you’re a prisoner at a CIA black-ops site.)

But one taxpayer may have won the booby prize for “worst IRS correspondence ever” when he got a letter helpfully notifying him he had died. Deceased.

Croaked. Bought the farm.

Siegfried Meinstein is 94-year-old World War II veteran. He’s currently enjoying his retirement in an assisted-living facility just outside Columbus, Ohio. And granted, he is 94 — but plenty of 94-yearolds are doing just fine, thankyouverymuch. Here’s how Fox News summed up his story:

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