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JCCRP Hosts Successful Legislative Breakfast

TJH Presents

200+ Photos !

Your Purim Photo Album

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Bnos Bais Yaakov 22nd Annual Dinner Draws Large Crowd

TJH Speaks with

Chris McGrath, Candidate for State Senate

Simchas Purim with Siach Yitzchok’s Purim Parade

Bais Tefila of Inwood Celebrates its 7th Annual Dinner

Don’t Worry. TIPS ON HELPING YOUR CHILDREN Be Campy. BE HAPPY, WELL-ADJUSTED CAMPERS pg102 Page 4

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ooking for cookies or pasta in the grocery? You may have to enjoy them gluten-free. It seems like the second Purim is over – or even before then – the supermarkets have started making way for Pesach. They’re like squirrels, busily moving chometz items to every nook and cranny in the store to start stocking their shelves with kosher for Pesach foods. I have found spices in the pasta aisle and crackers above the refrigerated meat section. Perhaps it’ll be easier if I just start buying kosher for Pesach items now. I can barely find the regular foods out there and what’s a few more weeks without bagels or bread? I hope my family isn’t reading this but I’m sure they’ll start wondering about my new initiative when they see macaroons in their lunch bags. The truth is that Purim ended less than a week ago. But the simcha of Purim shouldn’t dissipate like the crumbs at the bottom of the mishloach manos bags. So we at TJH have tried to extend the excitement for just a few more days. We have

pages and pages of photos from our readers in their festive costumes on Purim for you to peruse. Don’t just look at the pictures. Put yourself back into the Purim mood – smile, laugh, and remember the joyful day. I, for one, cannot help but be amazed at our unbelievable readers! Some of these costumes were homemade – can you imagine the work and ingenuity that went into planning and sewing these outfits? Other families all dressed alike or had a cute theme when planning their costumes – they looked perfect! Still some let their kids use their own imaginations when choosing what to wear. But no matter how our readers dressed up, there was one thing that they had in common: they all wore a smile on their faces. Enjoy your extra “simchas Purim” over the weekend ‘cuz after flipping through the pages there’s work to be done – Pesach is only a few weeks away! Wishing you a wonderful week, Shoshana

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Contents LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

COMMUNITY 8

Readers’ Poll Community Happenings

TJH Purim Photo Album

70 & 108 NEWS

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Global

National

Odd-but-True Stories

ISRAEL Israel News

Off the Rack by Rafi Sackville

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PEOPLE TJH Speaks with Chris McGrath, Candidate for State Senate Flying Fast, Part II by Avi Heiligman

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PARSHA Rabbi Wein

JEWISH THOUGHT Preaching to the Choir by Rabbi Jonathan Gewirtz

The Sound of Silence by Eytan Kobre

Finding True Favor by Rabbi Naphtali Hoff

JEWISH HISTORY Amulets, Accusations & Controversy: The Devastating Polemic Between Rabbi Yaakov Emden and Rabbi Yonason Eybeschutz, Part X by Rabbi Pini Dunner 92 HEALTH & FITNESS Alcohol and Weight Gain by Aliza Beer, MS RD 99

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Yoga is Invalidating by Deb Hirschhorn, PhD 100 Don’t Worry. Be Campy by Shragi Chafetz, LMSW 102

Dear Editor, This week, a reader wrote about the Obamas’ trip to Cuba. I’d like to point out one more thing: it’s one thing if the president feels that he needs to bring his wife and children along with him on a trip abroad. But his mother-in-law? Please! It’s enough that she’s living in the White House and that Americans are paying for her room and board. Now we have to pay for her vacations too? Give me a break! Before the Obamas moved into 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, Marian Robinson did not live with them. But after the inauguration she moved in for a “few weeks” so she could help with the children. She hasn’t left since. It seems that Malia and Sasha still need her to pack their lunches and read them bedtime stories while their mother is performing her “first lady” duties. It’s good she was able to come along to Havana with them. Maybe she helps pack their snacks for the trip too. Sincerely, Robert Levy Dear Editor, There’s been much talk and controversy surrounding the meters on Central Avenue. I have one thing

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Dear Editor, On the topic of the new parking meters in the Village of Cedarhurst, I just want to say that if an individual acted the way the Village is acting, the individual would be an outcast. It’s all a “gotchya” game for the Village to take as much of our money as they can get their hands on. They are parasites. I work hard for my money; I pay high taxes, tuition, etc. What makes the Village think that this is some game of “how can I pull another $50 out of that guy’s wallet?” If they have a revenue problem, let them cut down on the amount of employees making fat salaries and other expenses. I’m not saying that there shouldn’t be parking meters and fines for expired meters, but it is being done in an overzealous manner and it’s not right. Try going Continued on page 12

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to add, but I hope that people won’t start throwing things at me. We live in the 21st century. Yes, it may be uncomfortable that Uncle Sam has his eye in the sky, but that’s how life is now and it will only get more intrusive as technology becomes more advanced. Ever go to CVS and wonder how they knew that you needed more toothpaste and gave you a coupon for that? Want to know how the supermarket knows just how much you ordered last week and where you live when you swipe your card? That’s life how we know it. We get to enjoy its perks and we also may feel slightly uncomfortable by it but it’s here and it ain’t changing. Steven Rudinsky

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LIFESTYLES Dating Dialogue, Moderated by Jennifer Mann, LCSW

Your Money

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That Secret Fraternity by Rivki Rosenwald, Esq., CLC

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HUMOR Centerfold Uncle Moishy Fun Page

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POLITICAL CROSSFIRE Notable Quotes

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The Empty Promises of Trump and Sanders by Michael Gerson

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Anti-Muslim Rhetoric Profits the Enemy by Michael Gerson

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Obama’s Ideological Holiday in Havana by Charles Krauthammer

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Dear Editor, I loved to read about the different badchanim and comedians in your Purim issue. It was refreshing to learn about how they got started and

also to see different “funnymen” from different walks of life. Jews have always had a wonderful sense of humor; it’s how we survived with our sanity through so many generations of hardships. If you think of the different comedians of yesteryear, so many of them are from the Chosen Nation. Even certain Chassidishe rebbes were known for their wit and were able to give over a sharp lesson with their acute sense of wording and understanding. Seeing the humor in life is a wonderful character trait. Life doesn’t always have to be so serious and if you’re able to see the light and make “light” of certain situations, then that will help carry you through. Sincerely, Chana E.

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In Hijacking, Suicide Belt was a Fake

On Tuesday, an EgyptAir plane flying from Alexandria to Cairo was hijacked and forced to land in Cyprus. 81 people had been onboard the plane and all of them were freed unharmed. The hijacker, Ibrahim Samaha, was arrested after giving himself up. It is unclear what his motives were, although some are reporting that he demanded the release of

female prisoners in Egypt. Later in the day, it was determined by authorities that the suicide belt worn by the Egyptian man who attempted to take over the plane was a fake and did not contain explosives. Speaking to reporters after the crisis ended, Egyptian Prime Minister Sherif Ismail said the hijacker was an Egyptian national but that his motives remained unclear. Cypriot foreign ministry official Alexandros Zenon added that he seemed unstable. The plane’s pilot, Omar al-Gammal, had informed authorities that he was threatened by a passenger who claimed to be wearing a suicide explosives belt and forced him to divert the plane to Larnaca. Photographs shown on Egyptian state television showed a middle-aged man on a plane wearing glasses and displaying a white belt with bulging pockets and protruding wires. Although Tuesday’s incident ended positively, it will surely deal another blow to Egypt’s already limping tourism industry. This comes on the heels of the crash of a Russian passenger plane in the Sinai in late October which was brought down in a terrorist attack, killing all 224 people onboard.

Brussels Seeks Public’s Help in Manhunt

Belgian authorities are searching for a man they believe to be behind the horrific bombing attacks perpetrated against their country last week. The “Man in White,” currently the most hunted person in Europe, has not yet been identified as a fresh appeal for information was made by the Belgian government this week. His picture, taken from an airport security camera feed, has been released to the public in the hopes that a Good Samaritan will be able to identify the man. A suspect named Faycal Cheffou

had been in custody, but was released due to a lack of evidence. Belgium’s federal prosecutor would not release any more details on Cheffou’s release. In the chaos after the attack, a lot of misinformation was taken as fact and many suspects have been cleared upon further investigation. Police sources had at one point named the man in the hat and light jacket as Najim Laachraoui, the suspected Paris attacks bomb-maker. However, officials later said Laachraoui had died in the attack. Belgian prosecutors last week said the “Man in White” had fled the airport just before the two blasts hit and had left behind a large bag. His bag contained the largest explosive charge, the prosecutor told a press conference last week, saying it detonated “just before the bomb squad arrived” due to the instability of the explosives. No one was hurt. The 32-second video released by police blurred out the faces of the other two men in the frame — who have previously been identified as Laachraoui and Ibrahim El Bakraoui. It showed the third suspect — in a dark bucket hat, glasses and light jacket — pushing a luggage cart loaded with a black bag.

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El Bakraoui had been flagged for Belgian authorities as a suspected militant when he was deported by Turkey in June. He was also convicted in 2009 of shooting at police with an assault rifle. His brother Khalid was a suicide bomber in the Brussels subway. Tuesday’s attack also targeted the Molenbeek metro station in the center of Brussels, close to several EU institutions. Brussels was the second large-scale attack on an EU capital city claimed by ISIS, after gunmen and bombers killed 130 people in Paris last November. At least 35 people died in last week’s terrorist attacks in Brussels.

stabilize their own regimes. Iran also publicly supports the regime of President Bashar al-Assad. Jubeir said Iran “knows what to do to have normal relations with Saudi Araba and the rest of the Islamic world and that is to change its behavior… and the door will be open for normal relations.”

Netherlands to Shut Federal Prisons

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Saudi Foreign Minister Adel alJubeir said on Sunday that Iran must repent and change its “behavior” towards his country if it wants to maintain ties. Jubeir, speaking at a joint news conference with his South African counterpart, said Riyadh “wants to have peaceful relations” with Tehran but they have not kept their end of the deal with the oil-rich nation. Over the last three decades the two countries have attempted to forge closer ties with Iran for more than three decades but, Juberi related, “in exchange we received nothing.” Instead of “relations and friendship” with Iran, Saudi Arabia has been “confronted with interferences in our domestic affairs … attacks against our embassy,” he asserted. The final straw was when the Republic of Iran attacked the kingdom’s embassy in Tehran and a consulate in the city of Mashhad back in January. After those incidents Saudi Arabia rightfully severed all links with the Islamic Republic of Iran. Sunni powerhouse Saudi Arabia and fellow Gulf nations also accuse Iran of supporting Shiite rebels in Yemen, as well as attempting to de-

The Netherlands has a problem, but it’s a good one. The cost of maintaining their national prisons is too high because there aren’t enough prisoners. The country plans to shut down five of its prisons over the next few years. The kingdom has had a consistently declining criminal rate over the last decade and there are thousands of prison cells unoccupied. In recent years, the Netherland’s crime rate has declined about 0.9% on average every year, according to Dutch News. Ard van der Steur, the Dutch minister of security and justice, said that another reason jails are not very popular is because modern judges in the land tend to grant shorter sentences. The news was first reported by the Telegraaf, a Dutch news site, which obtained government documents disclosing the plan to close five jails. The downside of this plan is the loss of jobs – it is predicted that 1,900 prison employees will be unemployed due to these closures. Closing prisons is not a new phenomenon in the Dutch country. Back in 2009, the Netherlands closed eight jails due to the same reasons and another 19 prisons in 2014. That’s when their friends and neighbors started thinking of how this too-good-to-betrue problem can benefit them. In 2015, Norway transferred more than 1,000 of their inmates to a jail in the Netherlands because it was seeing the opposite trend; they didn’t have the space or resources to contain all

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reigned over the desert city. Although the intention was to capture Iman, he was killed when the commandos’ helicopter was fired on.

“We are systematically eliminating ISIL’s cabinet,” U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter told reporters at a briefing at the Pentagon. Carter said Iman was responsible for compensating fighters in northern Iraq and that other top ISIS leaders were believed to be killed during the attack as well. U.S. Marine General Joseph Dunford, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, related that the deaths reflected “indisputable” new momentum in the fight against Islamic State. Iraq’s military said on Friday that Iraqi Yazidi and tribal fighters had taken a border area in the Sinjar region next to Syria from Islamic State, cutting an important supply line for the militants. U.S. officials said they were helping Iraqis prepare for a major operation in Mosul to take back more territory from the militant group. As Russia and the U.S. continue to battle it out with ISIS in Palmyra, Syria’s antiquities chief, Maamoun Abdulkarim, said pushing Islamic State out of Palmyra would be a victory for everyone. “After all the tragedy we have suffered in Syria for five years, and the 10 months in Palmyra after it fell ... it’s the first time we feel joy,” Abdulkarim said. “We pray for victory soon, so that the damage is limited. Palmyra, under their control, was the loss of a civilization.”

The Japanese Diet their criminals. Sweden has faced similar “problems” to the Netherlands. Prison numbers fell by about 1% per year from 2004 to 2011. Then, between 2011 and 2012, they declined by 6%. In 2013, the country announced it would close four prisons and one other correctional facility.

Another Blow to ISIS The U.S. celebrated another success in its fight against ISIS last Friday. Just three days after ISIS carried out its brutal attack in Brussels that

left 35 dead, U.S. Special Forces carried out a strike against Haji Iman, an alias for Abd ar-Rahman Mustafa al-Qaduli, a senior Islamic State leader in charge of the group’s finances, in Palmyra in Iraq. Palmyra has been the focal point of the conflict between Syria and ISIS in the last several months, as the terrorist group

Want to live long? Eat like the Japanese. A new study reveals that the

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high life expectancy enjoyed in Japan is largely due to the nation’s healthy diet, which includes foods high in certain carbohydrates, vegetables, and fruits as well as fish and meat. The Japanese nation has one of the lowest mortality rates in the world. Citizens generally consume foods that are low in saturated fats and processed foods and high in carbohydrates found in rice and vegetables. In 2005, the Japanese government outlined a healthy eating plan for the nation. Around a decade later, researchers at the National Centre for Global Health and Medicine in Tokyo investigated how following the food guide affected the country’s mortality rate. It was found that those who followed the food guide had a 15 percent lower mortality rate than the others in the study. The study concluded: “Our findings suggest that balanced consumption of energy, grains, vegetables, fruits, meat, fish, eggs, soy products, dairy products, confectionaries, and alcoholic beverages can contribute to longevity by decreasing the risk of death, predominantly from cardiovascular disease, in the Japanese population.”

James DiNicolantonio, a cardiovascular research scientist at St. Luke’s Mid America Heart Institute who was not involved in the study, told the Huffington Post: “We can learn a lot about how to be healthy from the Japanese, and it really comes down to ‘eat real food’ and ‘exercise.’”

Fidel’s Not Buying What Obama’s Selling

Fidel Castro was conspicuously nowhere to be found during Barack Obama’s historic visit to Cuba last week. In his first published remarks about the visit, Castro seemed unwilling to forgive and forget more than a

half-century of enmity between the two countries. The 89-year-old highlighted how he feels about America in an opinion piece, stating that his country “has no need of gifts” from the United States. “Listening to the words of the U.S. president could give anyone a heart attack,” Castro said. “Nobody has any illusion that the people of this noble and selfless country will surrender glory and rights and the spiritual wealth that has come through the development of education, science and culture.” Obama thrilled Cubans by calling for democracy and greater freedoms in Cuba. At the first presidential visit in 88 years, he took part in baseball diplomacy during a match between Cuban and American professional players. The landmark visit was arranged by the U.S. State Department and Cuba’s current leader Raul Castro. Raul has proven to be far more reform-minded than his older brother, whom he succeeded as the island’s president a decade ago. Since handing the presidency over to his younger brother, Fidel Castro has spent his time writing reflections which occasionally appear in the Communist party press.

Brutal Bombing Sparks Outrage in Pakistan

Islamist militants in Punjab are officially Pakistan’s primary target. After a bombing killed 70 people in the country’s richest and most powerful province, officials announced a paramilitary operation to rout out extremists in the region. The Taliban’s Jamaat-ur-Ahrar faction claimed responsibility for the suicide attack which took place at a public park this week. The group, which at one time swore its allegiance to ISIS, said it was targeting Christians. The brutality of the attack, Jamaat-ur-Ahrar’s fifth bombing since

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December, reflects the movement’s attempts to raise its profile among Pakistan’s increasingly fractured Islamist militants. Pakistan is a majority-Muslim state but has a Christian population of more than two million. At least 29 children were among those killed when the suicide bomber struck the busy park in the eastern city of Lahore, the power base of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif. Over 340 others were wounded. It was Pakistan’s deadliest attack since the December 2014 massacre of 134 schoolchildren at a military-run academy in the city of Peshawar that prompted a government crackdown on Islamist militancy. Security and government officials told reporters that the decision had been made to launch a full-scale operation involving the paramilitary Rangers, who would have powers to conduct raids and interrogate suspects in the same way as they have been doing in the southern city of Karachi for more than two years. The move, which has not yet been formally announced, represents the civilian government once again granting special powers to the military to fight Islamist militants. It is likely to be controversial in Punjab. In Karachi, the Rangers’ crackdown has drawn accusations of human rights abuses and the targeting of opposition politicians, though the rate of militant and criminal violence has dropped sharply since the paramilitary force arrived. Sharif’s own party has long opposed any militarized operation against militants in its Punjab heartland.

Days later, outrage over the corruption allegations that have engulfed much of the Brazilian government, as well as former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, surged again when Rousseff decided to appoint Silva as a Cabinet minister. Silva, the former president popularly known as “Lula,” is now caught in an ever-widening corruption probe known as “Operation Car Wash” that focuses on an enormous money laundering and bribery scheme involving state-run oil giant Petrobras. Many of Brazil’s leading businessmen and politicians have been implicated in the scandal already. While Rousseff has not been charged in the Petrobras scandal, many members of her party have been. Rousseff is also ensnared in her own scandal after a federal audit court found that her government defied accounting laws to disguise the size of the country’s budget deficit. Following months of administrative dispute, impeachment proceedings started on March 17 in Congress. While Rousseff herself has called the impeachment proceedings a “coup attempt” from her opposition, a growing majority of Brazilians support such an eventuality. In one recent poll conducted on March 19, 68 percent of Brazilians said they would support Rousseff’s impeachment. Criticism of Rousseff goes beyond the corruption scandal. She must also contend with the fact that Brazil is approaching its worst recession since 1901. Brazil’s lower house of Congress will vote on whether to move forward with the impeachment by the end of April after they hear Rousseff’s defense. Should the motion clear, the Senate will have the final word.

Brazil Ensnared in Corruption New York’s New Consul General Brazil has been going through a lot of turmoil both politically and financially in recent months. As further accusations of bribery and corruption build up against President Dilma Rousseff, 3 million Brazilians hit the streets to march in protest.

After months of Brazil rejecting the appointment, Israel has changed former settler leader Dani Dayan’s appointment as ambassador to Brazil. Dayan will instead serve as Israel’s consul general in New York. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who is also Israel’s foreign minister, had announced the nom-

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ination of Dayan as ambassador to Brazil on August 5, 2015. But after a few months, it emerged that Brasilia was refusing to accept Dayan due to his past position as chairman of the Yesha Council, a committee representing Israeli “settlements” in the West Bank, and also due to the unorthodox way in which his appointment was announced.

him as ambassador. Still, he reinterpreted his appointment in New York as a success for Israel. “Those who didn’t want a settler leader as ambassador in their capital got a settler leader in the capital of the world,” he said. “So, at the end of the day, it’s a victory over BDS.”

Israel’s Global Terror Ranking

Brazilian officials confirmed their government’s refusal to accept Dayan, a resident of Ma’ale Shomron in the West Bank, first anonymously and later on the record, but Jerusalem refused to back down. In January, Netanyahu made plain that he had no intention of replacing Dayan. “I believe that Dani Dayan is an exceptionally qualified candidate,” he told foreign journalists at a press conference, “and he remains my candidate.” Now, after two more months of sticking to its guns, the Foreign Ministry’s human resource department published a tender for the ambassadorships in Brazil, Asmara and Budapest. “This morning the human resource department of the Foreign Ministry published a tender for the post of ambassador in Brasilia. That means Dani Dayan is no longer our candidate for the post,” a senior diplomatic official announced. According to Dayan, he asked Netanyahu to serve as consul general in New York long before he was put up for the Brazil post. “I believe I can implement an Israeli public diplomacy revolution in North America, whose beating heart is New York,” he said in a statement. “I will be sure to conduct comprehensive and respectful dialogue with all segments of American Jewry — Orthodox and Reform, liberals and conservatives, and with supporters of both parties — all while representing the positions of the State of Israel faithfully and devotedly.” Dayan will succeed Ido Aharoni in the role. While speaking at a conference on the Boycott, Divest and Sanctions movement in Jerusalem, Dayan admitted that BDS activists had some influence on Brazil’s decision to reject

Unfortunately, these days a worldwide census of terror is needed. Of the 162 countries that are ranked by the Institute for Economics and Peace in the Global Terrorism Index, Israel came in 24th place. The system is designed to rank which countries are the most and least affected by terror. The index evaluates the five year average for criteria as the number of terrorist incidents endured by a country, how many fatalities were suffered in those attacks, how many injuries were caused, and the level of damage to property. It also weights the scores for each nation according to the longterm psychological damage of the attacks. The Institute for Economics and Peace used information from a global terrorism database at Maryland University, which includes more than 125,000 terrorist incidents. Israel received an overall score of 6.03 out of 10. Israel’s ”GTI indicators” for 2015 included 260 attacks, 20 fatalities, 115 injuries and 290 instances of damage to property. The United Kingdom ranked at 28th, and the U.S. at 35th. France, following the attacks on the Charlie Hebdo offices in the beginning of 2015 and the deadly terror attacks at the very end of the year, was ranked 36th. Iran, which Israel has often accused of sponsoring terrorism in other countries, came in at number 39, while Syria, which has for five years endured a devastating civil war, was placed fourth. Islamic State and Boko Haram, the two most extreme Sunni terror groups, were together cited as being responsible for 51 percent of terror attacks around the globe. Iraq, Afghanistan and Nigeria

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were the worst hit countries. In Iraq in 2014, 9,929 people were killed in terror attacks or died from injuries related to terror attacks, which the GTI said was the highest ever number recorded in a single country.

Drone Hacker Taken to Court

According to Israeli prosecutors, a Palestinian terror group has been hacking Israeli spy drones. Authorities arrested the hacker, 23-year-old Maagad Ben JuwadOydeh, who was able to gain access to the drone’s video feed. Oydeh belongs to the terror group Islamic Jihad. The hack had obvious value to terrorist leaders as they planned their operations against Israeli troops and civilians.

On March 23, the Beersheva District Court indicted Oydeh on charges of spying, conspiracy, contact with enemy agents, and membership in an illegal organization. Israeli authorities have not released many details on Oydeh’s background and crimes. Israeli media outlets are quoting the indictment as saying that Oydeh first came into contact with Islamic Jihad while working in his father’s electronics store in Gaza. The terror group reportedly provided Oydeh a satellite dish for picking up radio signals and a frequency counter for pinpointing the signal’s location on the electromagnetic spectrum. It reportedly took Oydeh three attempts to intercept the signals from Israeli drones flying over Gaza. On the third attempt in 2012, Oydeh was allegedly able to record the video that at least one of the unmanned aircraft was beaming to a military ground station. The court claimed that during his four-year terror career, Oydeh also tapped into groundbased security cameras belonging to the Israeli military and police – and also electronically infiltrated the data network of Israel’s Ben Gurion Airport.

Hacking drone video feed is not new. Edward Snowden – the infamous whistleblowing former U.S. National Security Agency analyst – provided evidence that American and British spies based in Cyprus had tapped into Israeli drones feeds in 2009 and 2010. That’s not hard to do because drones’ video streams are, by design, meant to be easily accessible. To that end, the feeds might be totally open and unencrypted. Israeli Defense Force drone feeds are particularly open, as the IDF tries to make overhead video available to as many frontline soldiers as possible. “It’s hard to make this feed both secure and conveniently accessible to any IDF forces who need it,” Todd Humphreys, a professor at the University of Texas’ Radionavigation Laboratory, said. “With the right encryption and strict security protocols, there is no way even a ‘master hacker’ like Juwad Oydeh could get access to these feeds,” Humphreys added. “But sometimes the strict security put in place also keeps IDF Lieutenant X from seeing the feed when he desperately needs it. It’s a classic security-convenience tradeoff.”

Rescuing our Yemenite Brothers

A secret mission to rescue some of the last remaining Yemenite Jews was conducted successfully last week. The Jewish Agency announced that with the help of the U.S. State Department, 19 members of the dwindling community in Yemen were flown to Israel. These Jews represent the final batch of 200 Yemenite Jews brought to Israel by the Jewish Agency in recent years. Fourteen of the new Olim came from the town of Raydah, while one family hailed from the capital city of Sanaa. “The group from Raydah included the community’s rabbi, who

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brought a Torah scroll believed to be between 500 and 600 years old,” the agency said. “Some two hundred Jews have been secretly rescued from Yemen by the Jewish Agency in recent years, including several dozen in recent months, as attacks against the Jewish community have increased and the country has descended into civil war,” the agency said, providing rare details on an effort that was kept tightly under wraps for years. American officials helped coordinate the complicated handover. According to Saudi sources, the Houthi rebels who controlled the area where the family lived were bribed to allow safe passage for the Jews. From the Houthi-controlled city of Sanaa and the nearby village Raydah in western Yemen, they flew to Amman, Jordan and then to Israel. This was the fourth attempt to rescue them. Approximately 50 Jews now remain in Yemen, with 40 living in Sanaa in a compound adjacent to the American Embassy. Despite the ongoing civil war, they refuse to leave the country. Last week’s operation effectively ends the Jewish Agency’s efforts to bring Jewish immigrants to Israel from Yemen. Similar initiatives in recent years have helped bring the last few remaining members of the community to Israel as the country descended into civil war. In 1949-50, 49,000 Yemenite Jews were brought to the newly born State of Israel in Operation Magic Carpet.

Authority and Arab states, required UN human rights officials to produce a database of “all business enterprises” that have enabled or profited from the growth of Israeli “settlements.” It includes a condemnation of settlements and called on companies not to do business with Israeli companies in those areas. The vote was delayed several times as American and European officials sought to soften its wording. John Kerry phoned PA President Mahmoud Abbas in an attempt to prevent the blacklist clause, but was rebuffed. While European Union nations opposed the creation of the list, they did not vote against the resolution, electing merely to abstain. It passed with 32 nations voting in favor and 15 abstentions. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu blasted the outcome of the vote, saying the international body “has turned into an anti-Israel circus, which attacks the only democracy in the Middle East and ignores the blatant violations of Iran, Syria and North Korea.” “The absurd thing is that instead of dealing with Palestinian terrorist attacks and Islamic State attacks in Europe, [the Human Rights Council] decides to condemn Israel,” he continued. “Israel calls upon responsible governments not to respect the decisions of the council which denigrate Israel,” he said. Danny Danon, Israel’s Ambassador to the U.N., pronounced, “When the U.N. marks Jewish businesses so that they can be boycotted it reminds us of dark times in history.”

“Settlement” Companies Blacklisted by UN Hamas: Hebron is New “Focal Point” of Terror

None of countries on the United Nations Human Rights Council voted against the creation of a “blacklist” of companies operating in the West Bank, East Jerusalem and the Golan Heights. Last week’s resolution, which was put forth by the Palestinian

Hebron is the new focal point of terror attacks in Israel, according to Hamas. Since September 2015, 20 Palestinians have been killed conducting terror attacks in the city. Earlier last week, two Arab terrorists were shot after stabbing a soldier in

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Dear Friend, I’m writing to let you know why I support Todd Kaminsky for State Senate. I’ve known Todd Kaminsky since his time as a federal prosecutor and I supported him when he ran for the State Assembly. Back then, I told you that I believed that his integrity and work ethic would serve our community well — he has since proven me right. Since taking office, Todd has fought tirelessly for our community. Just consider his many accomplishments on our behalf: He cares about our security — by ensuring that surveillance cameras were installed at LIRR stations to deter anti-Semitic graffiti; and by securing state and federal monies for Shul security. He stood up for Yeshiva parents by supporting the Education Investment Tax Credit and by securing record funding for local Yeshivot. Leading the fight against the BDS movement — he has proven that he will always stand up for Israel. It is easy to talk about being the sort of friend to us that Todd has been, but it’s not so easy to actually do. Isn’t it time that we stand by the person who has stood by us? I am — that’s why I’m supporting Todd Kaminsky for State Senate on April 19th. Sincerely, Benjamin Brafman

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the Tel Rumeida neighborhood of central Chevron. The following day, a female terrorist was arrested at the site with a knife in her bag. The Hamas newspaper Palestine specified the areas of Tel Rumeida, Hashuhada Street and the Ma’aras HaMachpela as hot spots of the current intifada terror war. IssaAmru, coordinator of the “Youth Activists Against the Settlements” organization, was quoted in the terrorist paper as saying the situation in Hebron teaches about “the fascism, the racism and the hatred of the occupation state and the soldiers of its army who use all means to bring the end of the intifada, including killing and field executions.” According to Amru, the rampant terror activity in Hebron is a blow to the “settlement enterprise, the dream of the settlers and the occupation state.” Meanwhile, political commentator Hani Abu Saba’a told the Hamas paper that the terrorism in Hebron delivers a message to Israel that the area is holy to the Palestinians and that the residents of Hebron will defend it. The city is a stronghold for Hamas, and all of the local elected city council members are said to be members of the Islamist terror organization.

IDF Soldier Faces Murder Charge An IDF soldier is being charged with murder by the Israeli Military Court after shooting a Palestinian terrorist in Hebron. Army prosecutors charged the unidentified soldier after an initial investigation concluded that he shot a disarmed and wounded Palestinian assailant after the latter no longer constituted a threat. Both Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon say the soldier’s actions violated the army’s ethical code. The case is causing a lot of controversy as other politicians and the soldier’s family claimed he was being “lynched” in the media, after videos of the incident were posted online. “There are dozens of incidents in the IDF each day, on land, in the air and at sea,” IDF Spokesman Brig. Gen. Moti Almoz said in a statement. “All the incidents are investigated on professional grounds – procedures, operations, methods, [soldiers’] judgment and more. When necessary, the moral dimension is also examined,” he said. He rejected right-wing criti-

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cism that the army’s swift response to the incident was an attempt to pander to left-wing critics. “These incidents are not examined and investigated in order to appeal to anyone – not because of the B’Tselem organization [a rights group that published a video of the incident] and not because of any fear of international pressure – but

for ourselves, our character and our values,” Almoz said. The shooting took place after Abdel Fattah al-Sharif, 21, and another man stabbed a soldier and were shot by responding troops. Footage that emerged the following day showed Sharif lying on the ground before being approached by a soldier, who fired

a single bullet into his head. The army later released findings showing that the soldier under indictment allegedly spoke out in favor of killing the surviving stabber before the shooting, and told his commanders afterward that the Palestinian assailant deserved to die. But the soldier’s attorney said his client de-

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nied the comments attributed to him. “Justice is done in court, not in the media,” the attorney insisted. Almoz said the IDF would resist any political pressure to drop the case. “We say loudly and clearly – we set the norms,” he said, referring to the army’s commanders. “This incident is serious, and we insist on

keeping political discourse out of the IDF. We support a fair investigation, which has only just begun, and there is no call to prejudge its outcomes.” He insisted the soldier would be given a fair trial. “We are listening to [the soldier], and we will continue to listen to him. We are hearing his version, and law enforcement and the

courts will be those who decide” as to his guilt. “We will not abandon him. This is not summary justice. This is not a ‘lynching,’” he reiterated. Army officials insisted that the army stands by soldiers who “make mistakes” that amount to reasonable misjudgments of combat situations, but said this case was different.

As the race for the presidential nomination nears its end, Fox News ran a poll to determine how voters feel about the direction the election seems to be going. So what are Americans thinking? Voters are intensely interested in the presidential election, and it’s also making them nervous. Many also appear to be at either at ease or resigned to the frontrunners from both sides of the aisle. For the most part, individuals in both parties are content or at least accepting of the front-running candidates. 67% said that they would be “satisfied” voting for either Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump; 63 percent of Republicans, 55 percent of Independents and 79 percent of Democrats agree with this. But there is a whole other 21% who are not happy with either of the two options and would consider a third party candidate. About 24 percent of Republicans, 30 percent of Independents and 13 percent of Democrats would consider someone else. This might be promising news for Gary Johnson, the likely Libertarian Party nominee; he ran for president in 2012 and won 1.2 million votes. Many voters admitted to feeling disgusted or disinterested in this election. 9% don’t intend to cast a vote for president at all; 10 percent of Republicans, 13 percent of Independents and 6 percent of Democrats agree. No matter your stance, one thing most voters agreed on is that we all feel a certain sense of anxiousness. 82% feel “nervous about American politics today”; 84% of Republicans, 82% of Independents and 82% of Democrats agreed with that statement.

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What do these groups have in common? They portray Israel as a “racist” and “apartheid state” that commits “war crimes”. The primary goal of such demonizing language is to isolate Israel internationally. Many of these organizations are also leaders in the international BDS movement

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Capitol Put on Lockdown

It was around 3pm on Monday when gunshots were heard in the Capitol Visitor Center. Officers immediately shot and wounded Larry Dawson after he drew his weapon. A lockdown was then instituted for Capitol Hill. This is not the first time Dawson had a run-in with the law. The 66-year-old was arrested inside the House of Representatives in October after he shouted, “I’m a prophet of G-d.” Tourists in the Capitol who didn’t hear the shots quickly learned something was wrong when security officials told them to shelter in place. Eventually, the lockdown was lifted later in the afternoon. Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.), who is in his home state during the Senate’s recess, issued a statement on the shooting that recognized the Capitol Police and D.C. Police. “Thanks to their swift actions, no innocent people were seriously injured and the suspect was quickly taken into custody,” he said. “These dedicated men and women work tirelessly to keep us safe, and their bravery was on full display today.”

Feds Finally Unlock Terrorist’s Phone

Apple after they found a method to crack the security function of the San Bernardino terrorist’s iPhone without erasing its contents. Syed Farook and his wife, Tasheen Malik, killed 14 people in a terrorist attack that took place in December. The battle between Apple and the FBI raised concerns and generated controversy across the nation. The government maintained it was looking for access to one phone, but Apple countered that asking for a code that could access the iPhone 5c would create a backdoor to all such devices that was exploitable by other entities. “This case should never have been brought,” Apple said in a statement released late Monday. “We will continue to help law enforcement with their investigations, as we have done all along, and we will continue to increase the security of our products as the threats and attacks on our data become more frequent and more sophisticated. ... This case raised issues which deserve a national conversation about our civil liberties, and our collective security and privacy.” In an editorial written last week, FBI Director James Comey wrote, “The San Bernardino case was not about trying to send a message or set a precedent; it was and is about fully investigating a terrorist attack.” Privacy issues have both societal and financial implications. Given the ubiquity of smartphones and tablets, concerns loom about how rogue regimes could leverage back doors into tech products to go after detractors. Companies like Apple, whose brand identity is anchored to data security, could face declining sales if smartphones and tablets prove hackable. But what about public safety and security? It’s obvious that terrorists can take advantage of these clauses and plan their attacks with smartphone communication, as evidenced in the recent attacks in Brussels and Paris.

Don’t Walk and Text!

It took a while, but they finally got it done – without Apple’s help. On Monday, the Justice Department withdrew its legal action against

In recent years as texting has become the preferred mode of communication, there has been a huge initiative warning drivers not to text while driving. Eleven percent of all fatalities in 2005 involved pedestrians, but sadly that number rose to 15 percent in 2014. But there is also a whole oth-

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er group that is responsible for texting and risking their safety and the safety of others: walkers!

Experts believe that as people rely more and more on their handheld devices, distracted walking grows into a real epidemic. Some people use their devices mostly for personal use, while others use it for business and often barely look up from these devices as they cross the street. Some states have introduced bills that target pedestrians and/or bicyclists who are texting. For instance, a bill pending in Hawaii would fine someone $250 if he or she crossed the street with an electronic device. In recent years, similar bills have failed in states including Arkansas, Illinois, Nevada and New York. In the most recent measure, New

Jersey Assemblywoman Pamela Lampitt wants to ban walking while texting on public roads. In her proposal she suggested that violators would face fines of up to $50, 15 days imprisonment or both, which is the same penalty as jaywalking. Half of the fine would be allocated to safety education about the dangers of walking and texting, Lampitt, a Democrat, said. The main concern with the proposed legislation is whether or not police enforcement will be able to consistently implement the policy. Often police have larger issues to deal with. However, Lampitt insists that the measure is needed to dissuade and penalize “risky behavior.” She cited a National Safety Council report that shows distracted walking incidents involving cellphones accounted for an estimated 11,101 injuries from 2000 through 2011. The study found a majority of those injured were female and most were 40 or younger. Talking on the phone was the most prevalent activity at the time of injury, while texting accounted for 12 percent. Nearly 80 percent of the injuries occurred as the result of a fall, while nine percent occurred from the pedestrian striking a motionless ob-

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FBI Seeks Iranians Responsible for Attack

Cyber-attacks are the fastest growing crime in the nation and lawmakers are attempting to crack down on this elusive but dangerous market. Last week, seven Iranians employed by two Iran-based computer firms with ties to the government and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps were indicted on computer hacking charges. They allegedly disrupted U.S. banking operations and other American systems between 2011 and 2013. The suspects were charged in a denial-of-service campaign against 46 victims, including an intrusion into the Bowman Dam systems in Rye, New York, in 2013. The breach, attributed to Hamid Firoozi, 34, allowed him to obtain operational information on the dam to include remote, manual control over water levels and flow rates. During the time of the hacks, however, Firoozi was unable to exercise their controls because the system had been taken offline for maintenance, prosecutors said. “The attacks were relentless, systematic and widespread,” Attorney General Loretta Lynch said at a briefing on Thursday at the Justice Department. “They threatened our economic well-being and our ability to compete fairly in the global marketplace.” The series of cyberattacks was responsible for disabling bank websites, preventing customers from accessing their online accounts, and costing the victim entities tens of millions of dollars in efforts to neu-

tralize the intrusions. FBI Director James Comey announced that all seven people responsible have not yet been caught and that nabbing them may be difficult. “The world is small, and our memories are long,” Comey warned. “There is no place safe in this increasingly small world.”

A City Divided

The Confederate flag has come to symbolize racism and white supremacy and its very presence has caused uproar and protests in the South. Currently, New Orleans is the center of controversy regarding several historic monuments that bear the Confederate symbol. At the end of last year, on December 17, the majority-black City Council voted 6-1 to approve the mayor’s plan to take down the monuments, including towering figures of Gens. Robert E. Lee and P.G.T. Beauregard. New Orleans is a mainly African-American city, although the number of black residents has fallen since 2005’s Hurricane Katrina drove many people from the city. Mayor Mitch Landrieu, who proposed the monuments’ removal, rode to victory twice with overwhelming support from the city’s black residents. However, there has been so much opposition that the city cannot find a contractor willing to take on the job for fear of potential backlash from those who oppose its removal. One contract company, H&O Investments LLC of Baton Rouge, had agreed to remove the monument but then they received death threats, “unkindly name-calling,” and threats of other clients canceling contracts, and pulled out of the project. One day, several protesters approached the site while H&O workers took measurements. Some of the protesters wore materials “with affiliation to white supremacy groups,” said Roy Maughan Jr., a lawyer for the contractor. Later that day, Maughan

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said, “a specific articulated threat” was phoned into city authorities warning workers at the monuments to leave for their safety. On January 12, H&O sent the city a letter formally stating that it was retiring from the job, but that didn’t end the backlash they received. On January 19, a Lamborghini belonging to the owner of H&O Investments that was parked outside his Baton Rouge office was set on fire. It is not uncommon for states in the South to show resistance at the removal of Confederate paraphernalia. Save Our Circle, a group with thousands of supporters, is supposedly responsible for most of the opposition. They want the massive monument to Lee in Lee Circle preserved in the spot where it has stood since 1884. They counter that the monuments are an integral piece of the city’s history. Since the incident with H&O, the city has closed public viewing and the bidding process and is meeting with contractors privately without disclosing their names to the public. They are considering the possibility of carrying out the demolition activity at night to avoid upsetting anyone and causing further chaos.

A Hack of Hate

Students and staff at seven colleges across the nation received a disturbing message last Friday afternoon. Anti-Semitic fliers appeared at public printers and fax machines in Princeton University, Northeastern University, UMass Amherst, Smith College, Holyoke, University and Depaulia. The flier read in large bold black letters: “White man … are you sick and tired of the Jews destroying your country through mass immigration and degeneracy? Join us in the struggle for global white supremacy at The Daily Stormer.” The page was adorned with a pair of swastikas and a web address. The Daily Stormer is a white supremacist website described as a “neo-Nazi cesspool” by the Southern Poverty Law Center. The discovery left students and faculty uneasy about their physical and cyber-security as authorities in-

vestigated the source of the offensive words. Shortly after, they were able to trace the incident back to Andrew Auernheimer, 30, a computer hacker. He confessed to his involvement. Auernheimer, better known by the alias “weev,” told The Washington Times he was behind the breach, using a freely available tool to scour “basically … the whole English-speaking Internet” for vulnerable devices that could be remotely accessed. He says that he was able to identify 29,000 printers that were connected to the Internet and could be exploited through an open port within minutes. He then automated a procedure that sent each machine a command to print the Daily Stormer ad. As many react to the vulnerability of the campus devices, Auernheimer wants the world to know that we are missing the point. His intention was indeed to spread his personal views. “This isn’t a security issue,” Mr. Auernheimer told The Times. “I am communicating a political message solely by transmitting something incendiary. All the devices in the chain are acting in the exact manner of their designers. People are now calling the cops and crying hacking and hate crimes as a response,” he said. “This flies in the face

of our traditions of free speech and the marketplace of ideas. I have the right to send you a message you dislike in an envelope. It’s your right to decide how to process that message, which may include throwing it in the trash.” Auernheimer called his experiment “a lesson in how positively hilarious the IoT will be in the future,” referring to the Internet-of-Things, or the phenomena in which devices are exponentially designed to be Internet-ready.

Who is Happier: the Introvert or Extrovert?

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swer to both questions is yes, according to recent research published last month in the British Journal of Psychology. According to the researchers of the study, if you’re an intelligent person living in an urban environment, spending less time with your friends might make you happier. Researchers based this conclusion off of a collection of data from a national survey that questioned 15,000 adults between the ages of 18 and 28. The survey asked questions about their living environments, well-being, IQ and relationships. After controlling the data for socioeconomic status, the researchers found that people who were less intelligent than average (as measured by IQ tests) and lived in higher population-density environments (like big cities) reported lower levels of overall life satisfaction than those who lived in rural areas. The data also revealed that the more social interactions with close friends they had, the happier these lower-IQ adults reported themselves to be. But the opposite held true for individuals with higher than average IQs. More intelligent people were more satisfied with their lives when they lived in a city, and they were happier when they spent less time with their close friends. The explanation offered by Dr. Satoshi Kanazawa, a psychologist at the London School of Economics and the study’s lead author, is that the average human brain may have evolved to function best in a rural environment with fewer people. When placed in an urban setting with a higher population density, our brains may signal for us to split into smaller social circles. This conclusion supports the “paleo diet,” the savanna theory (or “paleo happiness”), that the human brain and body still prefer the conditions of earlier times. The theory goes further to suggest that intelligence helps humans evolve to become concerned with more than merely surviving. Therefore, people with higher-than-average IQs may now be especially well-equipped to overcome stressors that our ancestors wouldn’t have been able to mentally process. “More intelligent individuals are better able to...see such evolutionarily novel situations as higher population density as what it truly is – a benign situation that requires no alarm or discomfort,” Kanazawa said. “Hence more intelligent individuals are less likely to experience lower levels of happiness in response to higher

population density than less intelligent individuals.”

Govt Cracks Down on Prescription Pills

The Obama administration has been attempting to tackle the abuse of opioid painkillers, a growing epidemic in recent years. In its latest move, officials want to require all doctors who prescribe drugs like Vicodin and OxyContin to log into a pill-tracking database in order to keep record. However, physician groups have voiced concerns that this sort of system would be cumbersome and time-consuming for doctors prescribing these popular drugs for pain, anxiety and other ailments. They also point out that this would force patients to be subjected to longer waits and less time with their physicians. “There really is a patient safety and quality-of-care cost when you mandate the use of tools that are not easy to use,” Dr. Steven Sacks, president of the American Medical Association, said. Opioids are highly addictive drugs that include both prescription painkillers like codeine and morphine, as well as illegal narcotics, like heroin. Deaths linked to opioid misuse and abuse have increased since 1999 to more than 29,000 in 2014, the highest figure on record, according to the CDC. The push for this system is being backed by a multi-million lobbying campaign funded by Gary Mendell, a former corporate executive who has turned his attention to fighting addiction. “Their role is to say what needs to be done, my role is to get it done,” said Mendell, current CEO of the non-profit Shatterproof, which is lobbying in state capitals to tighten prescribing standards for addictive drugs. Mendell’s story is personal; he founded the organization in 2011 after his son died after years of battling an addiction to painkillers. Prior to the tragedy Mendell was CEO of HEI Hotels and Resorts, which operates

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Page 1 quire pharmacists to upload drug dispensing data on a daily basis. The databases are “a proven tool for reducing prescription drug misuse and diversion,” said Michael Botticelli, National Drug Control Policy Director. There are currently seven states that have mandated database usage: Kentucky, New York, Tennessee, Connecticut, Ohio, Wisconsin and Massachusetts. In Kentucky, deaths linked to prescription opioids fell 25 percent after the state required log-ins in 2012.

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upscale hotels. To date, Mendell has invested $4.1 million of his personal money to hire lobbyists, public relations experts, and 12 full-time staffers. A new report released by Shatterproof highlights recommendations for monitoring prescriptions more effectively. Many of these recommendations are currently used in 49 states. The systems collect data on prescrip-

tions for high-risk drugs that can be viewed by doctors and government officials in order to detect any suspicious patterns. The goal is to stop “doctor shopping,” where patients visit many different doctors in order to get new prescriptions to feed their pill addiction or to then sell on the black market. As of now, in most states, doctors are not mandated to check the databases

before writing a prescription. However, doctors are strongly recommended to check before prescribing. In states where doctors log in voluntarily, they generally only do so 14 percent of the time, according to data from Brandeis University. Last week, the White House sent letters to all 50 U.S. governors recommending that they require doctors to check the databases and re-

Hopefully in the next few months, the feds will be able to finally uncover what really went on with Hillary Clinton and her controversial emails and put the matter to rest. As the lengthy narrative of Clinton’s blurred lines between home and work continues to unfold, federal prosecutors are expected to interview Clinton herself and other top aides. The case is expected to continue to drag out, at least through primary season. The former first lady and secretary of state continues to battle it out with Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders in the Democratic presidential race. Meanwhile, The Washington Post published an extensive report on Monday about the origins of Clinton’s unique set-up using a personal server and email for State Department business. Clinton’s troubles began soon after she became secretary of state, when her team tried to change protocols so she could use her BlackBerry in secure facilities for classified information. According to The New York Post, officials complied with Clinton’s requests despite receiving repeated security warnings indicating a breach. The Post reported that, according to a lawmaker briefed by FBI Director James Comey, the FBI has assigned 147 agents to the case and has accelerated the probe in order to avoid taking any action close to the November election.

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A Clinton campaign spokesman told the newspaper they are ready to cooperate with investigators. “She first offered last August to meet and answer any questions they might have,” Brian Fallon said. “She would welcome the opportunity to help them complete their work.”

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She’s a lawyer. I mean, she’s a liar. Or maybe she’s both? Kimberly Kitchen had it all. The 45-year-old worked at a large law firm and was about to be named partner until it was revealed that she didn’t have everything. What was missing? Well, a law degree, for starters. Years ago, Kitchen forged her law license, bar exam results, an email showing she attended Duquesne University law school, and a check for a state attorney registration fee. She worked as an attorney for a decade handling estate planning for more than 30 clients. She even held the position of president of the Huntingdon County Bar Association at one point. “She’s an incredibly competent person and she worked very diligently and was devoted to the people she served in the community,” her attorney Caroline Roberto said. “There are things about the charges we don’t agree with so we’re going to be fighting some of the charges.” Hmm, an attorney needing an attorney. Something doesn’t sound right. Kitchen’s fraud was discovered last year. She now faces a few years in prison, although this time she’ll be on the other side of the bars.

An Arresting Film “Be kind, rewind.” Remember VHS tapes, videos that came in a box and needed to be rewound before returning them to the store? (Remember when there were video stores where you’d rent videos? Forget it – I’m ag-

After dropping off his daughter, Meyers turned himself in to police and was booked on a single charge: failure to return rented property. He now has to appear in court and faces a possible fine. Too bad he doesn’t live in the Five Towns. The new meters on Central Avenue could have arrested him instead.

China: Too Many Manhattans

According to the Chinese, there are too many Manhattans. There are also too many Venices. Amid decades of frenzied building in Beijing, the government has announced that too many streets and developments have foreign-sounding and bizarre names. Civil Affairs minister Li Liguo said in a recently televised speech that the government will change over-the-top or imported names and encourage real estate developers and city planners to seek inspiration instead from China’s rich cultural heritage. “Some cities have multiple ‘Manhattan’ or ‘Venice’ roads,” Li said. “It’s not only an inconvenience to travelers but also erodes a sense of home.” A report by the official Xinhua news agency framed Li’s remarks on place names as a matter of national

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The Break Room

Ahh, the breakroom. Every office has it. It’s a place to bond, drink coffee,

eat lunch, and chew on granola bars. For some, it’s a place to get away from the computer, for others it’s a place to blow off some steam. If you’re in Melbourne, Australia, though, and you really need to get something off your chest, perhaps you should check out The Break Room. Here visitors are outfitted in safety gear, including a visor, gloves, and steel-toed boots. Why do they need all this riot-gear? Well, it’s a place where those with too much pressure can smash a plate or two instead of taking deep breaths. Stressed out individuals can choose from a range of plates and bottles to break, as well as other items “at the end of their life span,” like outdated technological devices. Ed Hunter founded the smashin’ spot in January. He said that although he’s generally a relaxed person, when he get stressed, he sometimes has the urge to break things. “Whether it was using a piece of technology that wasn’t going my way or just feeling overwhelmed I’d have what I feel is a fairly natural compulsion to throw my phone at a wall, just something to release the pressure,” he explained. Hunter emphasizes that The Break Room isn’t designed as an outlet for anger, but as a way to relieve some stress and have fun. “We’re here if you’d like to have a good time smash-

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Living in a Box

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Community In honor of Parshas Shemini, the parsha which speaks about kosher and non-kosher animals, the boys in Yeshiva Ketana of Long Island were privileged to have Rabbi Ami Cohen present his famous show about kosher animals and their simanim. The boys answered questions and watched as Rabbi Cohen showed them hooves and horns, rodents and rams, what is considered a split hoof and what isn’t. The boys left with a handson understanding of the pesukim and an appreciation of Hashem’s creations.

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n Sunday, March 20, 15 members of Team OHEL crossed the finish line at the 2016 United Airlines NYC Half Marathon. Despite the extremely cold temperature, Team OHEL cheerleaders provided tons of cheering, music, fan signs and blow horns encouraging all the runners to get to the finish line! Team OHEL has participated with NYRR as a charity partner in the annual TCS NYC Marathon since 2009, but this was the first time that Team OHEL participated as a charity partner in United Airlines NYC Half. “We are very appreciative of all of our runners fundraising efforts that benefit children and adults with disabilities, foster children, and children in domestic-violence shelters,” said Meital Cafri, Event Coordinator for OHEL.

“Running in the NYC Half Marathon was so much fun. This was my first race, first half marathon and obviously first personal best! I really felt like I was making a difference in the lives of children and families of OHEL; I only wish I could have done more. I can’t wait to do it again! The organization was amazing. It wouldn’t have been the same intensity for training and commitment if it were not for the inspiration from OHEL,” said Team OHEL member Linda Isaacson, who was our second top fundraiser. Our top fundraiser for the Half Marathon was Bruce Prince. Top runners of Team OHEL ranked as follows: 1st place = Max Tawil (1:28), 2nd place = Morris Elbaz (1:45), 3rd place = Gabriel Sutton (1:47), and 4th place = David Brand (1:48). While Team OHEL has crossed the finish line, there’s still the incredible opportunity to support

the OHEL Simcha Fund. This fund covers the cost of lifecycle events of hundreds of OHEL children and adults—from celebrating births and b’risos, to bar/bat mitzvah, to graduation. If you are interested in participating in other Team OHEL events, such as the New York 5 Boro Bike Tour (May 1), OHEL Xtreme Challenge (May 15), or the 2016 TCS NYC Marathon (November 6), please contact Meital Cafri at 718686-3217 or meital_cafri@ohelfamily.org. Those who have already secured spots in the 5 Boro Bike Tour and 2016 TCS NYC Marathon are welcome to become part of Team OHEL and support the team’s sponsorship goals. Those who aren’t running can still stay in the race by sponsoring a Team OHEL member or making a contribution.

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Bais Tefila of Inwood Celebrates its 7th Annual Dinner

Rabbi Pinchus Weinberger, Mara D’Asra of BTI, addressing the crowd

ais Tefila of Inwood (“BTI”) and the entire Inwood community marked another milestone with their seventhth Annual Dinner held at the Inwood Country Club last Sunday evening, March 20, 2016. The community, its friends and supporters from near and far all gathered to pay tribute to two distinguished honorees – Asher and Shana Halpert and Rabbi and Mrs. Simcha Lebowicz. Both of whom were chosen as representing the genuine values and Avodas HaKlal that embody what the community stands for. The dinner was a resounding success and all attendees left with

a profound sense of pride – and indeed amazement – at the incredible growth of the Inwood Kehila. The Shul utilized the evening as a time to realize the strides they took in their short history but were inspired to continue strengthening their drive to grow. Many would agree though that what makes BTI such a special makom Torah u’tefila is not just the sheer number of members but rather the incredible achdus, chesed, and limud HaTorah that has become so commonplace. Under the tutelage of their Mara D’Asra, Rav Pinchus Weinberger,

Shlita, the Shul has opened a community discretionary fund, a loan gemach, a flourishing N’shei, holds regular weekly and Shabbos shiurim, as well as hosting on occasion very choshuve scholars in residence for Shabbosim. The Inwood community as a whole continues to blossom as a community of choice for many families and it is no doubt this is due to the incredible accomplishments of Bais Tefila of Inwood. For more information about Bais Tefila of Inwood, and the Inwood community, visit www.inwoodshul. com.

(L-R) Baruch White, Avi Wohlgelertner, Chaim Hominick - Members of BTI

The Board and Rav of BTI presenting a surprise Hakaros HaTov award to the Brach and Stoll families. (L-R) Pictured is Adam Mayer, Leon Lantsman, R’ Eli Katz, Yehuda Zachter, Sendy Rabinowitz, Pinny Ackerman, Rabbi Pinchus Weinberger, Simcha Stoll, and Mrs. Avigayil Stoll

(L-R) Nussie Tempelman, Gabbai of BTI, and Rabbi Pinchus Weinberger, Mara D’Asra of BTI

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Mr. and Mrs. Asher Halpert accepting their award

(L-R) Rabbi Pinchus Weinberger, Rabbi Shaya Cohen, Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshiva Zichron Aryeh, R’ Simcha Lebowicz, Pinny Ackerman, and Leon Lantsman

Rabbi and Mrs. Simcha Lebowicz accepting their award

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Team OurPlace is pictured outside of Cafe Rimon during the team’s pre-run pasta party two weeks ago. The team consisted of 40 dedicated runners participating in Friday’s Jerusalem marathon to help raise desperately-needed funds for OurPlace. 15 team members flew in for the weekend just for the race, while the other 25 members consisted of gap-year yeshiva & seminary students. This was OurPlace’s first year participating in the Jerusalem Marathon, raising over $70,000 with the help of its Team Sponsor, Goldmont Realty. OurPlace, based in Brooklyn, NY, provides critical life-saving services to over 1,000 at-risk and in-pain Jewish youth each year.

DRS Student Delegation Advocates for Israel at AIPAC Conference

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ore than 18,000 people traveled to Washington, D.C., to attend the largest-ever AIPAC Policy Conference and show their support for Israel last week. Nearly 200 attendees were high school activists and seven of those were DRS delegates. DRS sent seven students along with General Studies Principal Dr. Kirshenbaum and his wife to AIPAC for two and a half days. While at AIPAC, they heard some of the most inspiring and informative speakers in the world, including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Vice President Joe Biden, Speaker of the House

Paul Ryan, and four of the five presidential candidates. Students had the opportunity to attend several breakout sessions on a variety of topics over the three-day conference. DRS is especially proud of senior Michael Fagin, who introduced a breakout session on Sunday about soldiers with special needs who serve in the IDF. On Tuesday afternoon, the last day of the conference, Dr. Kirshenbaum accompanied the students to Capitol Hill to lobby Congresswoman Kathleen Rice. This year’s AIPAC conference was one that will be remembered for a long time.

ut of a record-breaking crowd of over 18,700 participants including 4000 students, a handful of high school students were selected to give introductory remarks at the AIPAC policy conference in the nation’s capital. Yoni Nirenberg, a senior at Rambam Mesivta, was one of those chosen. Yoni, along with Ezra Cinamon, another Rambam senior, were recognized by AIPAC for their involvement and activism during their high school years. “Yoni and Ezra are part of a cadre of bright, motivated ,dedicated, well informed, and passionate students who I have the pleasure to teach in my Zionism class, which traces the history of Am Yisrael in Eretz Yisrael from Avraham Avinu 3,800 years ago to the present,” said Rabbi Yotav Eliach, Rambam’s principal.

Rabbi Eliach initiated Rambam’s involvement with AIPAC over a decade ago taking a group of Rambam students to Washington, to what was then a much smaller conference. “We are proud to partner with our parent body in teaching and inspiring our students to be activists on behalf of Klal Yisrael,” expressed Rambam’s Rosh Mesivta, Rabbi Zev Meir Friedman. This year, as in years past, Rambam students made the trek to Washington to express their support for Israel and learn about the legislative initiatives that can strengthen the Israel American bond. The Rambam delegation is dedicated to the memory of Mr. Joel Shiff who was an avid and active supporter of AIPAC and Israel during his lifetime.

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Rambam Wins College Bowl Tournament Rabbi Shlomo Drebin presents Azriel Rosenbaum with a prize on the final Motzai Shabbos of Yeshiva of South Shore’s Motzai Shabbos Learning Program

A Week of Chessed

ed by Senior Zechariah Rosenthal, a National Merit Finalist, the Rambam Varsity College Bowl team won the 6th Annual Rambam College Bowl All-Star Challenge. The tournament hosted HAFTR, HANC, DRS, Shalhevet and Heschel, and featured a dynamic format where everyone participates all the time. The tournament is the only inter-school Yeshiva run contest of its kind, as is the school’s Chess Tour-

nament of Champions held earlier this year. In addition to the College Bowl and Chess Tournaments, Rambam also hosts an inter-school annual Debate, as well as the first Poetry Slam of the year, every year, since the Yeshiva Poetry League’s creation six years ago. Rambam is constantly creating new and exciting programming that not only benefits the students of Rambam, but students at other schools as well.

Mishna Yomis Program Begins

e extend a hearty yasher koach to the members of the Central family who flew to Israel for the Jerusalem Marathon, raising money for the Shalva National Children’s Center. Upon their arrival in Israel, Ms. Bracha Rutner and students Risa Friedman (‘17), Melanie Goldsmith (‘17), Avigail Grajower (‘17), Atara Schreier (‘16), Kayla Wolnerman (‘16), and Lianne Yaacoby (‘17) visited Shalva, an afterschool program for young children with developmental disabilities. At a pasta party on Thursday night, the Central visitors were treated to a musical performance by the Shalva members. The 10K route on Friday morning led our intrepid runners through the heart of Jerusalem, through the Old City, and onto Gan Shacher. Together with students from Yeshiva University High School for Boys (MTA), our girls have raised over $60,000 for Shalva to date! A bit closer to home, this past

week our sophomores participated in our annual Central Service Initiative (CSI) trips, on which groups of students complete chesed activities together with their Homerooms. As usual, our students participated in a broad range of meaningful activities, including visiting children in hospitals, volunteering in soup kitchens and food pantries, and delivering messages of appreciation to police and fire stations. Ms. Laura Fruchter shares that after her group’s visit to Mt. Sinai Hospital in Brooklyn, she received a thank you email from one of the hospital administrators, who said, “It really was a tremendous kiddush Hashem for the entire staff to see young, religious, dedicated students take time to visit the patients in our hospital and spread so much cheer. I do not have to remind you how thrilled the patients were to see you, and that feeling stayed with them way after you left.” Tizku l’mitzvot!

arch 30, 2016 begins the newest cycle of the Mishna Yomis program, le’ilui nishmas the 1.5 million children killed in the Holocaust. Beginning with Maseches Brachos, by learning two daily mishnayos, a person completes roughly one seder of Shas every year, and all of Shas in a little more than 6 years, a phenomenal accomplishment. Several shuls in the neighborhood, as well as many individuals, already participate in this wonderful learning project. Congregation Anshei Chesed under the leadership of HaRav Lefkowitz, shlita, just held its fourth siyum on all of Shas this past Shabbos, with several of the participants mentioning how meaningful the learning has been for them. Dr. Peter Steinhertz was mesayeim and Rabbi Dovid Meisels began the new learning cycle. The Young Israel of Woodmere, under the leadership of HaRav Billet,

shlita, will be hosting a special shalosh seudos siyum this Shabbos. The 7:30 AM daily Shachris minyan will be completing its second siyum haShas, with several of the ba’al habatim of the minyan (alternating daily) giving the shiur at the conclusion of the davening. They include Elliot Platt, Avi Schreier, Johny Polansky and Dr. Stuie Rappaport and Dr. Yoni Zinberg, coordinated by gabbai Joey Schiff. Many other shul members have completed the program on their own, in chavrusa, or listening to shiurim online in several venues including Kol Halshon and OU Torah. Please join in this exciting Torah learning which takes only a few minutes a day. Schedules are available online (Google mishna yomis schedule). It will change your life, and iy”H provide a wonderful background to many sugyos of Torah not covered in the daf yomi or Shulchan Aruch. What are you waiting for?

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Noted community physician Dr. Hylton Lightman visited Mesivta Ateres Yaakov to deliver an informative pre-Purim awareness seminar to its talmidim

Tefillah Gathering Inspires

tudents of Shulamith Middle Division were fortunate to join many other local schools in participating in a special tefillah gathering on Taanit Esther. In anticipation of the event, grades six through eight completed the recitation of the entire Sefer Tehillim. Addressing the students assembled around the globe, Rabbi Mordechai Willig of Yeshiva University explained the motivation for the event. He said that just as in the times of Queen Esther the Jewish people were threatened by evil people who wished to destroy them, in our times as well, Jewish people the world over are threatened by evil terrorists

who wish to destroy us. Just as Esther asked Mordechai to gather all the Jews in Shushan to pray for salvation and redemption, so too, students from many different locations all gathered in unity to beseech Hashem for yeshuot in our difficult times. The event included the responsive recitation of a number of Pirkei Tehillim, as well as a live hook up to the Kotel. Speaker Gavriel Sassoon beseeched the viewers to have emunah in Hashem and to stay united. Singer Chaim Dovid ended the event with the inspirational song, “Acheinu.” As students linked arms and sang along, it was evident that the message of unity resounded loudly and clearly.

Learn & Live: Hot Stuff At Learn & Live this week, “The Return of Cholent” was hot stuff as R’ Yehuda Deutsch “returned” to present the final melacha of the sedurei d’pas and the final melacha for this year, bishul. R’ Deutsch had his makeshift stovetop and blech and went through the different hot zones as well as other halachos “hands on”

regarding cooking and returning food to the oven and blech. As they left, each boy received their very own bowl of hot cholent courtesy of Yanky Potash. This week at L&L, “It’s Time to make the Pizza.” For more information, email learnandlivefr@ gmail.com.

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JCCRP Hosts Successful Legislative Breakfast

n the first day of spring last week, over 500 people showed their staunch support for the Jewish Community Council of Rockaway Peninsula (JCCRP). The annual legislative breakfast, held Sunday morning, March 20th at the White Shul, was an amazing success. From high ranking politicians to local community members and actual clients, people from all over came to express their appreciation and gratitude for the all-encompassing nature of the work done at the JCCRP. Executive Director Nathan Krasnovsky started the breakfast proceedings by welcoming the community officials and individuals and by introducing the emcee for the event, Board President Mordechai Zvi Dicker. Mr. Dicker in turn invited Rabbi Eytan Feiner of the White Shul to begin the breakfast with a dvar Torah. Rabbi Feiner told the attendees of the importance of community leadership, reflecting on the exceptional leadership role that the JCCRP has stepped into.

As Rabbi Feiner noted, “They are not here to take. They want to give, and that is what defines them.” Public Advocate for the City of New York, Letitia James, spoke next and said her former position as councilmember for Crown Heights made her an “honorary Lubavitch.” She spoke of her recent trip to Israel and of the city’s fallen heroes, and praised JCCRP for “going green” and putting iPads on every table to feature their virtual journal. Ms. James led the entire hall to multiple standing ovations in honor of the NYPD and specifically in memory of Detective Randolph Holder, Jr., killed in the line of duty last year. Richard Altabe, Chairman of the Board at JCCRP, took the stand next and welcomed NYC Comptroller Scott M. Stringer. Mr. Stringer is known for his strong advocacy on behalf of New York’s middle class and support of fiscal health and good government. He presented the JCCRP with a Commendation Award for all the outstand-

ing community service they provide. He noted that he supports Israel as a “strong investment” and came out harshly against proponents of boycott, disinvestment and sanctions (BDS) against Israel. Melinda Katz, in her capacity as Queens Borough President and previously as a city councilmember, is very familiar with the great work that the JCCRP accomplishes, and she noted that “people out here come together to help each other.” She presented the City Legislative Leadership Award to NYC Councilwoman Karen Koslowitz. Ms. Koslowitz has been a staunch supporter of the JCCRP and since her appointment as Queens Delegation Chair, the JCCRP has benefitted tremendously from her efforts. Far Rockaway Councilman Donovan Richards Jr. praised the JCCRP for providing much-needed help to anyone in the community in need. He presented the JCCRP’s Public Service Award to community activist Betty Leon, Esq. Ms. Leon is a member on several boards, including Community Board 14 and the Rockaway Development and Revitalization Corporation. She helped incorporate the medical insurance department into the JCCRP and secured much needed funding after Hurricane Sandy. State Assemblyman Phil Goldfeder presented the State Legislative Leadership Award to Senator Joseph P. Addabbo, for his superb efforts on behalf of the JCCRP and the community.

Senator Addabbo’s top priority is constituent services, and together with the JCCRP, he makes that a reality. Jeffrey S. Leb, Managing Director for Government and External Relations for UJA-Federation of New York, was presented with the Chessed Award by Rabbi Mordechai Kamenetzky, Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshiva of South Shore. In his current position, Mr. Leb develops and implements the government and external relations strategy for UJA-Federation, JCCRP’s biggest supporter, including efforts to maximize government and foundation funding for programs like the JCCRP. Next to speak was Yoni Dembitzer, JCCRP board member and police liaison. He mentioned the importance of the solid relationship between the NYPD and the JCCRP. 101st Precinct Community Affairs Officer Kevin Campbell proceeded to present the Humanitarian Award to Detective Randolph Holder Jr., posthumously accepted by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Randolph Holder Sr. Officer Holder was killed in the line of duty and subsequently promoted to Detective, in honor of the ultimate sacrifice he made. Lastly, Chairman of the Board Richard Altabe presented the Hakaras Hatov Award to StaffPro, which was accepted by its managing director, David Greenbaum. Mr. Greenbaum and StaffPro were instrumental in JCCRP’s growth by providing in-house human resources. The JCCRP is extremely grateful

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to all the supporters who helped make the breakfast a success. They specifically want to thank their sponsors: Apple Bank, Bluejay Management, Cross River Bank, Five Towns Jewish Times, Joseph P. Addabbo Family Health Center, Lodestone Capital Group, Met Council, New Horizon Care Coordination, Prism, Sage Healthcare Partners, StaffPro, St. John’s Episcopal Hospital, The Jewish Home, The Jewish Star, Traditions, and the UJA-Federation of New York.

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

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Breaking Ground

round was broken for Congregation Bais Ephraim Yitzchok’s new building on Sunday, March 20. The new building for the Shul will be built on the same site as its prior location on the corner of Peninsula Boulevard and Island Avenue. Rabbi Binyomin Kamenetzky, Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshiva of South Shore – Yeshivas Toras Chaim, led those in attendance with a prayer from the Book of Psalms to open the event. The Shul was also honored to have in attendance rabbinic representatives from the Cedarhurst/ Woodmere synagogues and local Roshei Yeshiva. Elected officials and dignitaries who also paid tribute to the groundbreaking included Town of Hempstead Supervisor Anthony Santino, Councilmen Bruce Blakeman and Anthony D’Esposito, Director of

Constituent Services for County Executive Edward Mangano’s office Ann DeMichael, Assemblyman Todd Kaminsky, Representative of Nassau County Legislator Howard J. Kopel,’s office, Special Assistant to the Town Board and the Supervisor at the Town of Hempstead Avi Fertig, and State Senate Candidate Chris McGrath. Rabbi Zvi Ralbag, the rabbi and leader of the Shul, spoke highly of the individuals who worked tirelessly to bring the Shul to this momentous occasion and called upon its members to continue to work together and be unified in all its actions. Shul President Meir Maltz presided over the ceremony and spoke of the remarkable milestone this was for the Shul and reminded those in attendance how Hurricane Sandy was a high watermark for Rabbi Ralbag’s inspiration for Shul members and the community as a whole.

L-R: Rabbi Zvi Ralbag, Assemblyman Todd Kaminsky, Councilman Bruce Blakeman, Supervisor Anthony Santino, Councilman Anthony D’Esposito, State Senate Candidate Chris McGrath, and Ann DeMichael, Director of Constituent Services for County Executive Edward Mangano’s office

L-R: Mayer Maltz, President Congregation Bais Ephraim Yitzchok; Berel Daskal, Member, Congregation Bais Ephraim Yitzchok; Rabbi Binyamin Kamenetzky, Rosh Yeshiva - Yeshiva of South Shore, Rabbi Zvi Ralbag, Rav, Congregation Bais Ephraim Yitzchok; Supervisor Anthony Santino; Dr. Marcel Scheinman, Member, Congregation Bais Ephraim Yitzchok; and George Auspitz, Member, Congregation Bais Ephraim Yitzchok

Some of the local Rabbonim and Roshei Yeshiva who attended the event

RZA Organizes Student Mission to Boost Continued Torah Learning By Isaac Blachor, RZA Vice President

s is their purpose, terror attacks create fear. After the brutal terrorist murder of Ezra Schwartz, an American studying in an Israeli yeshiva for his “gap” year, American parents became nervous and hesitant to send their children to Israel. Religious Zionists of America reacted to this insidious threat by attempting to demonstrate solidarity with Israel by encouraging American students to spend their winter break time learning in Israel. It did so by offering a subsidy to reduce the cost for students choosing to return to the yeshiva or seminary they had previously attended.

Two graduate students, Jacob Bernstein, studying for Smicha at RIETS, and Sarah Robinson, attending GPATS, the graduate Talmud program at Stern, volunteered to coordinate this special mission. Of the more than two hundred applicants, seventy five students were accepted and attended a variety of educational institutions in Israel. As part of their stay, the participants attended a Yom Iyun at the World Mizrachi headquarters in Yerushalayim. They heard talks and shiurim from Rabbi Shlomo Riskin and Rabbi Yosef Tzvi Rimon, and noted women educators, Racheli Frankel and Shani Taragin. They were introduced to the founder of Shurat Hadin, Mrs. Nitsana Darshan-Leitner, an organization which uses law suits to

combat the financial backers of terrorism. The program also introduced them to the role of World Mizrachi in promoting Torah education around the world from a Religious Zionist perspective with presentations by Rabbi Doron Perez, Head of World Mizrachi, and RZA President Rabbi Yosef Blau, as well as a panel composed of Steven Flatow, Yishai Fleisher, and Rabbis Blau and Perez who discussed being a Zionist while living outside of Israel. All of the participants expressed their appreciation to the RZA for enabling them to return to their Yeshivot and Seminaries for the additional uplifting experience of learning in Eretz Yisroel. The respective Israeli schools were in turn thrilled and uplifted to have these students return, and all

agreed it was a tangible public declaration that terrorists will not succeed in reducing the commitment to the learning of Torah in the land of Torah.

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Meet & Greet at The Long Beach Hotel

n Thursday, March 17, a newly founded organization, The Jewish Professional Network of Long Beach & The Greater Five Towns, hosted a Meet & Greet with candidates for State Senate, Chris McGrath & Todd Kaminsky. According to founding member, Asher Gulko, “The Jewish Professional Network’s (TJPN) mission is to gather likeminded individuals and foster personal and professional relationships and connections with

others in the community. Only good things can happen when you bring such a large volume of people together for a positive cause.” The event set precedent with candidates from both the Democratic and Republican parties being present under the same roof at the same time. “It was a beautiful sight to see: participation by all the shuls here in Long Beach, people from all different backgrounds and denominations, and both political parties coming out to support a great cause,” remarked

Rabbi Dr. Chaim Wakslak of The Young Israel of Long Beach. Between 200-300 people attended the event and enjoyed the delicious refreshments provided by Gourmet Glatt while meeting some old and new faces. The newly revamped venue at the Long Beach Hotel provided the perfect ambiance and the staff could not have been more helpful and welcoming. Chris McGrath, was eager and excited to attend and support the organization. “I am a proud sup-

porter of the Jewish community here in Long Beach and wouldn’t have missed it for the world,” commented McGrath. Assemblyman Todd Kaminsky expressed, “I really appreciate the opportunity to meet so many old and new faces where I am able to share my views of what I hope to accomplish in the State Senate.” People ranging in all ages were excited about meeting and interacting with the candidates one-on-one in the intimate setting.

The Sounds of Music Heard at The Marion and Aaron Gural JCC

or three consecutive weeks women of all ages and from all neighborhoods gathered to experience and enjoy a special JCC sponsored presentation, SONGS OF ISRAEL. This free series which was made possible by a grant from the Petschek Fund of UJA-Federation of New York was held in the beautiful music room at Temple Israel in Lawrence. Hosted by musician and music educator Debbie Eisikowitz, this wonderful 3-part series featured an interactive workshop were participants listened to, analyzed and sang a varied selection of Shirei Yisrael, mindful of the time-bound messages they convey. Discussion, led by Mrs. Eisikowitz, celebrated the strength and beauty of Israel through examination of evolving musical styles, mindset of the people and recurring themes of faith, historical personalities, treasuring the land, longing for peace, social connection and self-understanding. Some of the selected melodies were haunting, others emotional, all inspiring. The classes brought back poignant memories for many releasing feelings of nostalgia and joy. Mrs. Eisikowitz’s

detailed description of the songs’ origins and the authors’ background and motives for creating the pieces gave a clearer understanding for all of the music many of us recognized but never quite appreciated. The series concluded this week with a lovely and touching Neshima Chamber ensemble performance of relevant works featuring Faya Cohen, on the clarinet, Liane Safier on the cello, Debbie Eisikowitz conducting and on the piano and guitar and vocalist Chava Willig Levy. Program participant Gail Weinstein graciously helped out on the xylophone. The sounds of music flowed through the room inspiring several women to break out into Israeli folk dance at the end of the performance and all to sport huge smiles. Songs of Israel is just one example of the myriad of cultural arts and educational community-wide programs offered by the Marion and Aaron Gural JCC. For more information about these and other JCC events call (516)569-6733 or visit our website www.guraljcc.org.

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At the Kotel

New York City Comptroller Scott M. Stringer, right, met with Yuli Edelstein, the Speaker of the Knesset, at the Knesset in Jerusalem.

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Bais Yaakov Ateres Miriam Brings Chesed to Life

he second and third graders of Bais Yaakov Ateres Miriam brought the joy of Purim to the seniors at the JASA Center in Far Rockaway. As they marched into the dining room of the center and walked onto the stage, the residents clapped and cheered. The girls sang their Purim songs and then distributed the Purim cards they had made for the seniors. Upon returning to school, the girls discussed the feelings they had from

the experience. Many girls were happy to see that the people were not scary but were nice and smiling. Others said that they left with a good feeling because the people were so happy to see them and hear them sing. Some girls said they want to keep going back because it made the seniors so happy. The second and third graders were able to internalize the message that when you give to others you are really giving to yourself.Â

At the Western Wall Plaza in Jerusalem.

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Jinspire Inspires Bakers and Buyers By Tammy Mark

full schedule of Purim festivities kept the community hopping last week. Along with the usual holiday celebrations also came the tremendous display of charity and community service. The Jinspire Long Island pre-Purim bake sale was one successful example of people coming together for a great cause. Jinspire is a grass roots organization committed to sharing Jewish education and spirituality, seeking to promote connection between Jews and increase unity across the spectrum of Jewish affiliation. It is a volunteer-based national initiative, with local affiliates in various Jewish communities across America. Jinspire offers a range of meaningful programming including trips to Israel, one-toone learning opportunities, and a variety of inspiring educational initiatives, both online and in person. Volunteer Suzie Schwatrzstein became involved with the organization after participating in a moving trip to Israel last summer with Jinspire.

Traveling with women from a range of backgrounds she was able to see the beauty of the Holy Land through the eyes of others who were seeing it for the very first time, and also make impactful connections with new friends. “It was an amazing experience to meet other Jewish women from our area that I would never had a chance to otherwise,” says Schwartzstein. “It was a great opportunity for increased Jewish unity.” Esti Stahler is extremely passion-

ate about her work with Jinspire. “We connect secular families to the Jewish heritage through the trips to Israel and through other amazing programs, ultimately preventing intermarriage. The mother is the key to inspiring the family and community,” she explains. “When we reach out to unaffiliated Jews they can feel the beauty warmth and values of Judaism, and we are ensuring a Jewish future for generations to come.” With a beautiful display of home-

made and donated items, the neighborhood came out to shop and show support raising awareness and funds for the organization. Graciously hosted by Shiffy Edelman of Lawrence, the event was a great success thanks to the hard work and dedication of the committee and the graciousness of the community. To find out more about Jinspire’s mission and upcoming events, please visit www.jinspire.org or contact Esti Stahler at 516-724-7777.

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JCCRP Passover Food Drive Dedicated L’iluy Nishmas Dr. Esther Rose Lowy a”h

or over 50 years the Combined Passover Fund has served the Jewish poor in our Five Towns and Rockaway community. With the funds that you help provide, we are able to give families and the elderly checks that enable them to purchase food and other necessities to help celebrate Pesach. 100% of the funds collected are allocated directly to needy individuals and families. Your contribution makes this possible. This year, we are dedicating the funds raised in memory of Dr. Esther Rose Lowy a”h, a beloved woman who was born and raised in Far Rockaway. She is remembered for her passion, her love of Israel, and her intense dedication to her family, her community, and her students. Despite her own illness, Dr. Lowy cared for her elderly mother, without the help of any professional aides, until a few weeks before her own passing, refusing to give up on the mitzvah until she was no longer

physically capable. Dr. Lowy, a”h, passed away on December 19, 2014. She is survived by her husband Rudy, her children Elie, Ephraim, Mindi Weinberg, Tova Pfeffer, Devorah Pelman, Naphtali, Shuli, and Chaim, her mother Edith, her brother Abraham and many grandchildren, most of whom live locally. Ephraim Lowy, the son of Dr. Esther Rose Lowy a”h, remembers his mother for being the ultimate manifestation of the word “chessed.” “My mother viewed her home as ‘hers’ in name alone. It was a home where everyone was welcome, regardless of background, views, or even an invitation for that matter. Whatever we had, we had to share. I cannot think of a single time my parents said no to the opportunity to host someone. People would come for Shabbos, for meals, or to vacation in Los Angeles, and they would always feel as if they were in their own home. It is with the memory of my mother’s recent pass-

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ing in mind that I am spearheading our communities food drive to feed the needy this Passover. Holidays are especially difficult for the needy as their needs increase when their funds are most scarce. Helping feed the needy is an essential component of simchas yom tov according to the Rambam. I remember how much pain it would cause my mother to see those in need and I hope to contribute to her legacy by doing just a little bit to help the less fortunate. Please join me this year as we continue to spread her legacy by helping our local families this yom tov.” This year, we ask that you be a little more generous than you have in the past. The dire economic conditions have affected many in our community forcing more people to seek assistance, as the price of food has risen sharply. As a result more people will seeking assistance in making Pesach will find their way to our door.

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HALB Family “Chases” Chessed

en Leifer, freshman at DRS, decided to do something extraordinary with his Labradoodle named Chase. Ben and his family took Chase home from a breeder in Connecticut three years ago when Chase was just 8 weeks old. As Chase grew up, Ben noticed that Chase was an exceptionally loving dog with a wonderful temperament and decided to train Chase to become a certified companion dog. Ben dedicated close to 10 hours of his personal time by going to classes with Chase and training him accordingly. Linda Keehn, director of the training program and Certified Professional Dog Trainer, said, “I was so impressed by Ben and how he was able to train Chase and take responsibility for the entire process. He was the only young person in class with all adults and held his own even doing better than some experienced handlers. He is a special young man and

made a true kiddush Hashem.” Last week, Ben, accompanied by his proud family, and Chase went to the final test and passed with flying colors! Ben plans on taking Chase to nursing homes, children hospitals and visiting anyone in need. We wish Ben and Chase lots of hatzlacha on their endeavor – you guys make a PAWfect team!

B’gan Onion Rings Have Everyone Sizzling With Excitement

ou’ve probably tasted onion rings in your life. But until you’ve tasted B’gan’s totally tasty, perfectly crunchy Onion Rings, you haven’t tasted the real deal – authentic, delicious onion rings the way they’re meant to taste. B’gan has totally reinvented the onion ring to a whole new degree of delicious. Starting with perfectly cultivated onions, they are prepared with an exclusive blend of ingredients and seasonings to produce a perfect crunch – every time. The onion rings are then packaged in a specialized process which ensures that they remain fresh, tasty and crunchy when you eat them as when they were made. B’gan Onion Rings can be baked or fried, enjoyed as a perfect side dish for lunch, dinner or any time. They make the perfect mid-day, midnight or middle-of-anywhere snack. Busy Pesach cleaning and need a quick, easy side dish that doesn’t take too long to make and doesn’t require any cleanup? B’gan Onion Rings are the perfect choice for you! B’gan Onion Rings are turning heads – a full 360 degrees! – in ko-

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SKA at AIPAC

IPAC’s annual Policy Conference brings together close to 20,000 pro-Israel activists in Washington DC for three powerful days of learning, advocacy and celebration of the America/Israel partnership. This year’s conference had a record 4,000 college and high school students attending, among them a strong delegation from SKA. What a source of pride it was to learn that of the hundreds of universities, colleges, and high schools in attendance, SKA was one of two schools to receive the coveted Early Engagement Exemplar Award! Annie Watman, South Shore Associate Director of AIPAC, noted in her email to the Long Island delegates in advance of Policy Conference: “And to share some Long Island Pride, Stella K. Abraham High School for Girls located in Hewlett will be receiving the Early Engagement Exemplar Award for 2016! In addition to generating more calls and emails to members of Congress than

any other single high school in the country, building a solid relationship with member of Congress Kathleen Rice, and authoring numerous leadership statements and engagement petitions, 3 of the top 10 students on AIPAC’s student engagement app who are attending PC come from SKA! Please join us in offering these girls a very deserving congratulations.” The SKA student delegation to AIPAC was recognized at several sessions for their achievements and highlighted on the big screen at Verizon Center on Monday morning before the plenary. Several of them were asked by AI-

PAC leadership to introduce sessions throughout the conference, a daunting but exciting prospect for them. Junior Ayelet Klahr introduced a session in the AIPAC village on Sunday titled “Israel’s Economic Ecosystem.” She shared the following reflections on that moment and the entire AIPAC experience. “It was a privilege and honor to have been selected from among the thousands of young students to introduce a breakout session at the conference. It was an exhilarating and fulfilling experience to have participated in this way.” Senior Zehava Gros, one of SKA’s most dedicated Israel activists, ranked among the top three students nationwide on AIPAC’s Nguage program. She introduced a breakout session at Policy Conference titled, “The Falling Price of Oil: Does America Win or Lose?” “It was very moving to see how AIPAC focused on the rising generation of activists, high school and college students,” noted Zehava. “Many of the speakers, including the presidential candidates, noted the 4,000 young people in attendance, and charged us to go out and make a difference in the world.” Senior Sara Raizel Jedwab shared her thoughts on the historic experience of hearing directly from four presidential candidates at AIPAC. “The relationship between Israel and the U.S. is, and always has been, very dependent on the President’s convictions. I’ve had the same president, with the same views, for close to half my life, and definitely for the entire time that I’ve been politically involved. So hearing from the various presidential candidates with their varying opinions about Israel was empowering for me! It gave me the chance to think about how I want my president to relate to Israel in the upcoming years. While I recognize that not all campaign promises are ultimately fulfilled, just sitting there and

hearing each candidate firmly pledge their alliances to Israel, was enough to make me feel proud to be a Jew in America.” Junior Adina Markowitz was attending Policy Conference for the very first time. “Policy conference was an enlightening experience for me,” commented Adina. “I learned about the importance of AIPAC staying bipartisan in order to remain successful. It touched me to hear Ted Cruz talk about Purim and the modern day crisis with Iran and hear him say “Am Yisrael Chai.” Sarah Kurtz, a member of SKA’s lobbying committee, spoke about her experiences throughout the year meeting with congressional offices, particularly that of Congresswoman Kathleen Rice whom she describes as “a great friend to SKA and a great friend to the Jewish community,” as being a significant prelude to the experience of Policy Conference. “Seeing that our words really matter to our elected officials makes me realize that all of us, even those not yet of voting age!- can truly make a difference.” Klahr summed up the experience on behalf of her peers: I cannot describe how truly inspiring it was to be sitting in a room with 18,000 people, people of different ethnicities, races, religions, viewpoints, but all joined by a common bond of supporting the State of Israel. I think this demonstrates how Israel has so many aspects to it, allowing people from such varying backgrounds to all find a connection the Jewish State. Some are drawn to its technology and innovations, others are drawn to it as the only true democracy in the middle east, others feel a connection to Israel’s idealism, and others to its biblical origin...experiencing our shared commitment, and the power of what we can achieve when we stand together, is a lesson I will take with me forever.

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Gurwin Jewish Nursing & Rehabilitation Center Accepting Entries for its Annual Photo Contest

Last year’s winning entry

ntries are now being accepted for Gurwin Jewish Nursing & Rehabilitation Center’s Annual Photo Contest. Now in its 23rd year, the contest offers amateur photographers an opportunity to enter photographs in 12 categories: Landscapes, Travel, People, Pets, Children, Wildlife, Nature, Still Life, Computer Manipulated, Student and its two newest categories, New York and Sports/Action. A maximum of seven entries per photographer will be accepted for a fee of $5 per submission. Photographs will be judged by a panel of professional judges at the close of the contest. Winners will be chosen based on clarity, composition, subject matter and suitability for display at the Center. Winning photographers will be awarded various cash prizes at a June reception and winning photos will be enlarged and permanently displayed at the Gurwin Center for the enjoyment of residents and vis-

itors. The deadline for submissions is April 15. Applications are available at www.gurwin.org/about/photo-contest/ or by calling the Public Relations Office at 631-715-2568. The Center’s renowned contest is made possible by long-time sponsor the Tiffen Company (Hauppauge) in memory of Helen and Nat Tiffen, the company’s founder and a former Gurwin resident. The Tiffen Company is a leading manufacturer of glass filters and other fine products for digital, still, video, motion pictures and television. The Gurwin Jewish Nursing & Rehabilitation Center is a 460-bed nursing care facility located in Commack, Long Island. Gurwin offers skilled nursing care, short-term rehabilitation, medical/post-surgical subacute care, respiratory and ventilator dependent care, an adult day health program, on-site dialysis, palliative and hospice care, home care and assisted living.

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Jay Leno Steps up for Israel Once Again

amed comedian and longtime “Tonight Show” host Jay Leno will be stepping up once again in support of Israel. For the third year running, Leno will headline a special night to benefit Israel. In 2014 and 2015, Leno hosted the Genesis Prize award ceremony in Israel, following which he was attacked on social media for his support. In a move that is completely in line with his character, Leno has turned a deaf ear to the naysayers and is headlining a night in support of Israel once again. This time it is a benefit concert for United Hatzalah of Israel, which will be taking place on Sunday, April 10, 2016, at the Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Rose Theater. The evening, which is being billed as “An Evening of Laughter and Music,” is being held as a fundraiser to support the work of EMS first responders in Israel who have been tirelessly saving lives every day in face of the ongoing terror wave that has struck Israel in the past six months. The funds raised during the evening

will be used to purchase much needed medical equipment and supplies, such as defibrillators and ambucycles. Eli Beer, the Founder of United Hatzalah, said that there were numerous reasons why Mr. Leno of all celebrities was asked to headline the event. Among them was his previous relationship with Israel and the high quality and cleanliness of his performances. “Jay Leno has hosted two landmark events in Israel over the past two years, the Genesis Prize awards ceremonies, and has said wonderful things about the country. We need more good PR for Israel and we couldn’t think of a better person to have headline the show than Mr. Leno.” Mr. Leno came to Israel in May 2014 in order to host the Genesis Awards and present an award to former New York Mayor and philanthropist Michael Bloomberg. Mr. Leno stated at the time how much he liked Israel. “I love Israel, that’s why I’m here,” reported Yediot Aharonot

news site. A year later, Mr. Leno hosted the second Genesis Prize event that was awarded to Michael Douglas. At the time, Stan Polovets, co-founder and chairman of the Genesis Prize Foundation, called Mr. Leno “a true friend of Israel” in an article that appeared in the Jerusalem Post. Mr. Leno said that he was excited to be in Israel and was honored to help out. He acknowledged that just visiting Israel could be interpreted as a political statement (although he said that he didn’t view it as such) and that there were some who encouraged him not to come. This time, as well, a source within United Hatzalah shared concerns that the BDS movement may target the concert. “We haven’t seen any active targeting yet, but the threat is there whenever one holds a major pro-Israel event abroad, even in New York. When a big-name celebrity gets involved the pressure is all the greater, as it becomes a bigger story.” For his part, Mr. Leno shrugged off the threats and encouragements to drop his Israel-related engagements. Last year Mr. Leno said, “I don’t get these boycotters. I don’t think they quite understand the whole situation. To me, if you want to understand a place you go there and you look the people in the eye and you get a feeling for it. Either it feels good, or it doesn’t feel good. And that’s what works for me.” Leno, who has been a friend of Israel for some time, went on further to explain why Israel has such a bad image and what it can do to change that image. “It’s an odd situation that you have Israel here surrounded by a gazillion people…and somehow they’re the underdogs. I think Israel is so efficient in defending itself and so good at it, that to the rest of the world it looks like bullying. It’s mystifying.” Uncowed, Leno is stepping out into the limelight for the third time in a very public forum to support Israel, especially when the event is also honoring Lone Soldiers who went from the United States to volunteer in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). According to United Hatzalah, some of the sponsors of the evening, Jay and Judy Schottenstein together with Bob and Amy Book and Mendy and Barbara Silber, have

JAY LENO (PHOTO CREDIT- COURTESY)

teamed up to purchase one hundred pairs of tickets to be given out to the men and women in the greater New York area who have served as IDF Lone Soldiers sometime within the past five years. This tremendous donation is a tip of the hat to those who volunteer to serve and protect in Israel, during a night which is honoring volunteer EMS personnel as well. “The idea of coming together, to unite in our support of saving lives in Israel, is what this evening is all about,” said Eli Beer. “What better way to show that than by inviting 200 of the people who literally went out of their way and put their lives on the line to defend our country. They volunteer in their style and the volunteer EMS personnel voluntarily drop everything they are doing to save lives in their style. It is a win-win situation for everyone.” An Evening of Laughter and Music will take place on Sunday, April 10, at 7:30 pm at the Rose Theater, at the Lincoln Center in Central Manhattan. For tickets please call 1-646-833-7108 or e-mail: office@israelrescue.org Lone Soldiers who live in the U.S. and who served in the IDF over the last five years can email the New York office of United Hatzalah at office@israelrescue.org to claim your complimentary tickets. Please include your name and phone number to qualify for the ticket.

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Bnos Bais Yaakov 22nd Annual Dinner: A Huge Success

arch 20th. It was the first day of spring and it was also the date of the Bnos Bais Yaakov dinner. Outside it was incongruously blustery and cold, but inside the Sands Atlantic Beach the atmosphere was appropriately warm and welcoming. The dinner program was simply brilliant. Masterfully and succinctly MC-ed by Mr. Motti Hellman, the program allowed the huge crowd to hear BBY’s new Executive Director speak publically for the first time. Rabbi Ephraim Blumenkrantz boldly acknowledged the hardships that BBY had endured these past few years. But, in a voice brimming with the passion of his message and the intensity of his mission, Rabbi Blumenkrantz focused on the miraculous conclusion to BBY’s near foreclosure. He lauded the strong showing of parental devotion to BBY, the extreme dedication of the Board of Trustees, and the BBY staff’s unstoppable pursuit of excellence. Assemblyman Phil Goldfeder regaled the attendees with his description of the innumerable students who come to Albany every year to witness politics in action. Invariably, Mr. Goldfeder stated, it is the girls from Bnos Bais Yaakov who make a tremendous kiddush Hashem by their respectful and dignified behavior. He thanked BBY profusely for the superiority of their education, and every parent in that room agreed in silent but sincere acquiescence. Mr. Mel Zachter, Dr. Sam Bergman, and Mr. Moshe Hirth are the members of the Board of trustees who have put forth tremendous effort for BBY. Mr. Zachter spoke about the future plans for BBY’s expansion, and Dr. Bergman presented an award to Mr. Eli Moskowitz, Esq., an esteemed member of the prestigious law firm Davis and Polk. Mr. Moskowitz spent

endless days and nights and logged countless hours helping BBY negotiate its way through their financial difficulties. On top of his brilliant assistance and incredible devotion to the BBY cause, Mr. Moskowitz performed his herculean labors on a pro bono basis. The grateful crowed rose to its feet in appreciation as Mr. Moskowitz accepted his award. The school video, produced by KolRom Studios, was inspiring, adorable, uplifting, and creative. It was a delectable slice of BBY life, and everyone savored the experience. The three short videos on which the honorees spoke were equally captivating. This year’s honorees, Mr. and Mrs. Yosef and Fagie Lowinger (Guests of Honor), Rabbi and Mrs. Mendy and Adina Edelstein (Parents of the Year), and Rabbi and Mrs. Simchie and Suri Weingot (Kesser Shem Tov), all spoke movingly about their gratitude for the education their girls are receiving in Bnos Bais Yaakov. Each of the honorees represents all that is fine and elevated about Bnos Bais Yaakov. The evening ended shortly before 9:00 p.m., a fact much appreciated by all. An additional sweet touch, aside from the delicious donuts and cookies to be enjoyed as tzaidah la’derech, were gifts of bridge tokens. Every guest was offered a token for the Atlantic Beach Bridge as a token of thanks for attending the dinner. And that’s BBY for you – they pay attention to the details. Whether it be the Morah who bought her student a new coat to replace her frayed one; the principal who knows every child’s name within the first few weeks of school; the student who asked for the old desk so the new transfer student could have the new one; or the bridge tokens for the trip back home from the dinner – it’s all in the details.

Flatbush Chametz Gemach Between Purim and Pesach, bring non-perishable, closed-package chametz to the Flatbush Chametz Gemach which will sell it. After Pesach, food will be distributed to people in need. The Gemach is located at 1101 East 3rd Street (between I/J). The gemach also accepts monetary donations to purchase supplies or even extra food. The donation deadline is the day of b’dikas chametz. In six years, we have col-

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Taking on the World of STEM... Shulamith High School for Girls

akerspace: A space dedicated to creating, making and idea generating. We are thrilled to announce that Shulamith High School is creating a Makerspace for our students to further their 21st century learning. Here, students can think, invent, discover and innovate. The Makerspace will complement our student-centered learning environment, enhance our existing STEM program and enrich our arts curriculum. Discovering STEAM – science-technology-engineering-arts-math – through a Makerspace is the ideal environment to foster creativity and problem solving in a truly hands on experiential setting. The Technion Challenge: This month the STEM Club is partaking in The Technion Jewish Day School challenge. As part of this competition, students are designing and building their own Rube Goldberg machine – a machine that is over-engineered to complete a simple task. Their machine, which the STEM club has spent hours imagining, building, adjusting, rethinking, and rebuilding, will depict the story of Pesach through buttons, motors, dominoes, tubes, and much more. The machine is still under construction, but stay tuned for a video of the final product! 3D printing prototype competition: Students were tasked with designing a functional, everyday item that would make their lives just a little bit simpler. Students brainstormed and imagined what they

could create, learned to use the website Tinkercad to design their ideas, and printed their first prototypes. They then assessed how their first drafts could be improved, made their changes, and printed their final versions for this week’s 3D printing competition! The winner of the competition will have the chance to have their design printed professionally, which will enable them to select whichever material they feel is most suitable for the function of their item, and give them finer control over scale and color. Hands-on Biology: Students wrapped up biology last week by learning about the circulatory system with a visit from vascular surgeon, Dr. Gary Gelbfish. Dr. Gelbfish taught us about the physics behind medical imaging and brought in a sonogram machine to show our stu-

dents how arteries and veins look below the surface of their skin! They were able to see (and hear) blood pulsing through their arteries and flowing through their veins. Students saw how valves function and witnessed the changes that occur in their blood vessels as they activated different muscles. Students also had the opportunity to test out the machine on their own bodies. Dr Gelbfish also demonstrated how an infrared camera can be useful in a number of fields, from medicine to real estate and experimented with different features of the camera. Dr. Gelbfish’s visit enabled students to make the leap from the content covered in the classroom to real world discovery and applications. Part of the goals of the STEM program and student-centered

learning is to facilitate collaborative learning, wherein students explore and discover, rather than listen and memorize. This week’s biology class highlighted that technique. Students built a model respiratory system and used that to discover what causes our lungs to fill with air. After a few minutes of tinkering, one group gasped with excitement as their balloon lungs filled with air when they pulled down on the plastic bag at the bottom of their contraption! Breathing, they discovered, is caused by change in air pressure caused by contraction and expansion of the diaphragm – a dome like muscle located under the lungs – rather than by the forced inhalation of air. It is our hope that this student-centered discovery process will inspire a lifelong love for ideas, creativity and curiosity!

Yeshiva Ohr Simcha of Englewood Breakfast By Soshie Hirth

ne would be hardpressed to find adjectives to describe Yeshiva Ohr Simcha of Englewood. However, it would come easily to me, since I am the proud sister of its Rosh Hayeshiva, Rabbi Yosef Strassfeld. Words, like dedication, devotion, and mesiras nefesh are common phrases that roll off one’s tongues. But as someone who has witnessed the birth pangs of this yeshiva and knows firsthand about its growth, these words take on added meaning. Rabbi Strassfeld worked for years in Agudath Israel heading their COPE project. In his spare time in Monsey, New York, where he re-

sided, he founded an organization to help provide free tutorial services for young boys who seemed to be floundering in the Yeshiva system. One of his major kochos has been to build a boy, layer by layer, starting with infusing him with confidence, a sense of belonging and love. It was this koach that came into full play when he was given an opportunity to start a yeshiva in Englewood, New Jersey a number of years ago. With an outstanding devoted staff of Rebbeim and teachers who share his derech of limud, the yeshiva currently has many students who are shteiging not only in their learning, but in middos tovos. The Englewood community, hesitant at first about such a yeshiva, has bene-

fitted greatly from their presence and is a source of constant support and encouragement. The boys help tutor local students, learn with individuals, and bring keilim to the mikvah, along with providing the simcha of Torah learning. Now, as a proud Bubbie of a talmid, I really appreciate what this yeshiva accomplishes on a daily basis. This past year, has been an extremely difficult one for the yeshiva, since my dear brother fought a long and emotionally draining health issues. As one of the main fundraisers of the Yeshiva, he was unable to help raise the much needed funds. Boruch Hashem, as he is now recovering and with the help of the yeshiva’s phenomenal Executive Director,

Rabbi Elchonon Butrmovitz, and the alumni headed by Rabbi Menachem Strassfeld, the Yeshiva has managed to stay afloat. This Sunday, April 3, 2016, a worthy Rabbinic committee, consisting of Rabbi Yisroel Meir Blumenkrantz, Rabbi Menachem Feifer, Rabbi Yaakov Feitman, and Rabbi Yaakov Reisman, will be joining the reception committee at a breakfast to benefit Yeshiva Ohr Simcha of Englewood. The gracious hosts, Barry & Bonnie Septimus, look forward to greeting you personally at their home, 207 Harboview South in Lawrence at 9:30 a.m. May the tzedakah raised serve a zchus for the continued recovery of Yosef Yitzchak ben Sarah.

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An Amazing and Memorable Chasunah By: Ariel Blumstein (11th Grade)

magine a couple getting married, but there is no minyan. Such was the call that came to Rambam Mesivta’s Rosh Mesivta, Rabbi Zev Meir Friedman, from Rabbi Yagod of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, asking for a few students to spend Shabbos with him, make the minyan and to be misamech the chasan and kallah. Rabbi Friedman approached me, Aharon Goldblatt, Seth Marcus, Pinny Verstandig, and David Fodiman with this offer, and we all eagerly accepted. This past Friday, accompanied by Rabbi Yaacov Weisenberg, a Rebbe from Rambam, and his wife, we headed down to Pennsylvania for the experience of a lifetime. Shabbos was quickly approaching. As we were preparing ourselves, Rabbi Yagod, after Mincha, called us outside for a quick meeting. The words that he said to us still ring in my head very clearly, “I took you all outside at this time, so that we may

enter Shabbos correctly. Take a look around, listen to the sounds. When one’s mind is at ease, then, and only then, can one enter Shabbos.” We didn’t really understand right away what Rabbi Yagod was saying. But then we all turned around. We saw the sun set like we had never seen it before. We heard the rustling of a willow tree as it moved with the wind. Our minds were eased, and we entered Shabbos.

After that experience, our whole Shabbos was uplifted. We were able to enjoy Shabbos to the fullest extent. If I talked about the meaningful tefilot, the sumptuous food, the joyous zemirot, and the astounding divrei Torah, I would not be telling the half of it. A Shabbos like this cannot be put into words. Unfortunately just like any other, Shabbos came to an end. However, we are likely never to forget about it.

Sunday came, and so did the wedding. It was a very small wedding, but the spirit was fantastic. We had the honor of holding the chuppah for the chasan and kallah and some of us even were honored with reciting some of the Sheva Brachos. The chasan and kallah were uplifted, and we, the ones who were supposed to bring joy to them, were brought to a new level of simcha ourselves!

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Purim Simcha at Siach Yitzchak Purim Parade

ust when you thought Purim couldn’t get any better…it just did! This year, at the Siach Yitzchak Purim Parade, Reb Dovid Sitnick, the Menahel, who some thought was Mordechai Hatzaddik, was seen leading the parade down Reads Lane in Far Rockaway on a white horse. As joyous music played lively Purim niggunim, the Siach Yitzchok talmidim, their parents and Rebbeim danced alongside the horse drawn carriage in this modern day Shushan-style parade. Many onlookers, children and adults alike, took turns riding on the horse and in the carriage for some quite memorable Purim pics! It was such an enjoyable ruach-filled parade that brought extra smiles and happiness to the faces of so many people on an already happy day. Many commented later how much they loved the parade. “Please do it

every year!” said one mother. Another said, “I can’t believe these kinds of things happen outside of Eretz Yisrael!” Still another mother said, “Rather than spending hours in traffic delivering shalach manos, this year we joined the parade instead. Watching my children dance and sing with true simchas Purim and having them enjoy riding in the carriage down Reads Lane really made our Purim! Thank you Siach Yitzchok!” This wonderful ruach that the Purim parade created is not a new hargasha in Siach Yitzchak. “The Cheder” as it is affectionately called, founded by Rav Shlomo Freifeld zt”l, continues to permeate with Rav Shlomo’s unique chinuch and ruach. Rav Shlomo believed in bringing out the potential of every child, encouraging them to “Be Big” and to shine both inside and outside the classroom. Under

Reb Dovid Sitnick’s leadership, and through unbelievably dedicated Rabbeim and Moros, the children grow daily. Every yom tov at Siach Yitzchak is a chance for the school to imbue its special geshmak upon the children. Through niggunim and dance filled events such as the annual Dreidel Drop, the Lag Ba’omer Hadlakah

and now the Siach Yitzchak Purim Parade, this Cheder continues to teach its talmidim about the breadth and depth of Yiddishkeit. By having this wonderful Parade, that special geshmak and ruach reached out to the community at large. We hope to see everyone next year at the 2nd annual Siach Yitzchak Purim Parade!

Purim Fun at Bais Yaakov Ateres Miriam

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val. Smiling students abounded as they went from booth to booth doing all the varied activities. Face painted students ended the day content and happy from a Purim spirited day!

The preschoolers marched around the school and then gathered together to dance and show off their Purim costumes at their pre- Purim party. Morah Music’s Purim concert

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Purim at YHT

he week of Purim was filled with laughter and fun at Yeshiva Har Torah with a number of different events. Inter-grade readings were a big hit, with elder students reading Purim stories to the younger students. On Tuesday, the eighth graders at YHT put on their annual Pre-Purim carnival for the entire school which featured booths

Shulamith’s Annual Mitzvah Masquerade

and attractions, all of which were designed by the students themselves. On Shushan Purim there was an auction to benefit tzedakah with teachers and staff offering fun prizes and opportunities to do lunch together. Shushan Purim was great with staff and students dressed up and in the Purim spirit!

A “Sense”ational Purim Carnival at Gan Chamesh

he Annual Mitzvah Masquerade and Contest is a highlight of Adar for students in the Shulamith Lower Division. Third and fourth graders work in groups to create costumes that represent a bracha, a mitzvah, or something that they’ve learned about in Chumash. On Tuesday, March 22, students took to the stage to explain their costumes in three minutes or less. The competition was compelling, and the creativity and cleverness of the costumes was incredible. The panel of judges had a difficult time choosing the winners, but

after careful deliberation, the judges awarded prizes based on the creativity of the costumes, the presentation by the students, and on how well the costumes depicted the mitzvah. And the winners were: Leora Bindiger and Daniella Weinstein for “Hafrashat Challah”; Shiri Katz and Leora Klier for “Thunder and Lightning”; Goldee Diamond, Baylie Habib, Kayla Herman, Atara Baila Guttman, Shani Laufer, and Eliana Mishaan for “Rainbow.” The Annual Mitzvah Masquerade was a marvelous prelude to Purim Day!

Purim at Chabad of Far Rockaway

an Chamesh, Chabad’s Early Childhood Center, ushered in Purim with a “Five Senses” Carnival. The children internalized the lessons of Purim while using all of their senses in a fun way. The interactive activities at the carnival presented a multi sensory experience and an age appropriate learning opportunity for the children. The children donned costumes and visited Queen’s Esther’s beauty parlor to have their faces and nails painted. They wrote their own Megillahs, using parchment, quills and ink. The children enjoyed hearing the sounds of many different graggers. They constructed their own graggers out of plastic eggs which they filled and decorated. They loved using the graggers

as they heard the Megillah in a special “sound” booth. The children found the hamantashen decorating station to be a highlight of the carnival as well. They also enjoyed bowling and knocking down pins that were decorated to resemble Haman. They dug through a bin of feathers searching for hidden coins as well. They put the coins in tzedakah boxes that were earmarked for matanot l’evyonim. The day ended with a performance by the fantastic Morah Music, and the children loved singing and dancing along to the festive music. The children all used their five senses to experience and enjoy the carnival. It was a perfect way to bring to life all the important Purim lessons they had learned.

n Wednesday evening, Chabad of Far Rockaway hosted a cowboy show, presenting various lasso tricks, whip-cracking, and others. Even the children got to try them on their own! When it was the z’man the Megila was leined by expert baal kriah, ha-

bachur Menachem Schmerling. Throughout Purim day, there were various leinings taking place at Chabad, and numerous nursing homes were visited enabling the residents to fulfill the various mitzvos of the day – Megilla leining, mishloach manos and matanos lo’evyonim.

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Purim Around the World with SKA!

t was a truly international scene this year at SKAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s annual Purim Chagiga on Tuesday evening, March 22, and everyone had a blast! The gym, decorated with displays from various countries, was filled with joyous students, delicious food,

photo booths and even a professional mime who stumped the faculty convinced she was one of their students. In addition to the hilarious Purim spiel, the girls were treated to a concert by Simcha Leiner whose amazing voice led the dancing to spirited

heights. With individual grade Purim parties on Wednesday night and an open house on Purim day hosted by Mrs. Helen Spirn, Head of School, the girls of the Stella K. Abraham High School really enjoyed simchat

yom tov. Many thanks to the Alyeshmerni, Kimmel and Yudin families and the wonderful faculty members, Mrs. Elisheva Kaminetsky, Mrs. Ellen Lavner, Mrs. Paghit Ralbag and Mrs. Spirn, for opening their homes to the students for merrymaking.

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Purim at Margaret Tietz

urim was celebrated and supported in a very big way at the Margaret Tietz Nursing and Rehabilitation Center. With Megillah readings each day and a beautiful Seudah on Thursday, everyone had a very festive time. Residents, family members, children, Lander College

students in full costume, lovely young women from Woodmere in the Five Towns with mishloach manot bags for all, it could not have been more freilich! Margaret Tietz staff and volunteers assembled 400 mishloach manot bags which were distributed to shuls and shul senior

centers. Parties were supported at the YI Forest Hills Senior Center, YI Queens Valley Senior Center, YI Holliswood Senior Center, and mishloach manot bags distributed to the Ohr Natan Community Center, Temple Gates of Prayer, Hillcrest Jewish Center, Rego Park Jewish Center

and Forest Hills Jewish Center. On Friday, beautiful girls from Bais Yakov and members of Chazaq came by with more mishloach manot bags for our residents continuing to spread the Purim spirit. The community really came together in a big way for this joyous holiday.

race, bounce house and numerous carnival games. The students ate cotton candy and popcorn as laughter was heard throughout the Yeshiva. All of the students and much of the staff dressed up in costumes and enjoyed this special yearly event celebrating Shushan Purim. The YCQ Debate Team participated against Yeshivat Noam and Yeshiva of Flatbush in a tournament sponsored by the Middle School Yeshiva Debate League. Ari Ostrow won first place individual speakers, Shira Schwartz and Leah Inoyatov won second place team, and Dylan Saltzman and Ari Ostrow won third place team. All the team members worked hard and it showed in the

outcome of the tournament. To end off this activity filled week, YCQ had its last Parent-Child Learning Program. Rabbi Finkelstein spoke to the students and their parents on the topic, “If you see something, say something.” All participants received a sefer, containing a linear translation of the Shmoneh Esrei.

Excitement at YCQ

rom Playoffs to Purim, YCQ students have had an exciting couple of weeks. The boys’ Varsity Basketball team played an amazing championship game, going head to head with MDY in the HAFTR gym. The highlight of the event

was all the fans who showed up to cheer on the YCQ Wildcats. As athletics came to a close for the year, the grade 8 students with the support of the PTO ran a fun and exciting Purim carnival for the entire school. There was a blow-up relay

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Purim at Ptach

his past week, the students of the PTACH program at Chaim Berlin Elementary School visited the residents of Ateret Avot Nursing Home in Flatbush. The purpose of the visit was not only to lift the spirits of the residents, but also for the students to put into practice what it means to give of oneself to others. The students learned a valuable lesson in empathy and charity and even had fun while doing it. Each class chose one representative to perform his affinity

to the residents. The students benefited from stepping out of their comfort zones to perform. The residents came alive while the students played music, Purim Bingo, danced, and delivered mishloach manos. There was abundant laughter from the residents, staff, and students alike. It was an amazing experience where the Purim spirit was felt by all and the students walked away feeling very uplifted. PTACH services students with learning differences from the New

York Metro area for over 35 years. For further information or to come visit one of PTACH’s center based model programs located at Bais Yaakov D’Rav Meir Elementary, Yeshiva

University Girl’s High School, Yeshiva University Boys High School, and Yeshiva Rabbi Chaim Berlin Elementary and High School, please call 718854-8600 x 102.

MAY Purim Mesiba – An aMAYzing Event!

n Motzei Shabbos Parshas Zachor, Mesivta Ateres Yaakov held their annual Purim Mesiba. An event not to be missed, the evening included a live DJ, pizza, a talent competition, a costume contest, and a Purim shpiel compliments of the senior class and the Rabbeim of the Mesivta. It was definitely an a-MAYzing event by all counts. The evening began with a beautiful Melava Malka, featuring pizza, soda and refreshments. Talmidim arrived at the Mesivta in full Purim gear, posing for pictures and videos together

with their Rabbeim. Segueing from the Melava Malka, Rabbi Yaffe conducted his annual costume contest in which over 80

talmidim participated. The volume of cheering from their peers served as judgment in the contest so, as one would imagine, it got pretty loud! Congratulations to sophomore Shlomo Netzer, first place winner, and senior Yehuda Stern, runner-up. Following the costume contest, the annual talent competition began. From renditions of some classics to original musical compositions, talmidim had a blast participating and singing along with their friends. Concluding the talent competition, Assistant

Simchas Purim at Young Israel of North Woodmere

Menahel, Rabbi Yossi Bennett, together with a number of the Rabbeim, performed a new, original satirical composition, which was a crowd-pleaser. Enthusiastic dancing then broke out in true Adar spirit as the live music enhanced the atmosphere. It was a heartwarming and uplifting for all those who participating! The Mesiba closed with the annual Purim Shpiel provided by the senior class and some surprise faculty members contributed shpiels of their own.

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R’ Yaakov Rokach, Rosh Yeshiva Bayonne, giving a Purim shmuess in Mesivta Shaarei Chaim

Simchas Purim at HANC High School

Purim at Yeshiva Ketana of Long Island

Rabbi Moshe Bamberger with his talmidim in ‘The Purim Shack’

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TJH: Chris, it’s a pleasure meeting with you. As a matter of fact, I just spoke with someone yesterday who told me that you taught him at Hofstra Law School and he called you a real mensch. How long have you been teaching there? CM: That’s nice of him to say about me. I’ve been teaching there since 1991. I also taught in HAFTR in their law program for ten years. You’ve been a personal injury attorney for 33 years at the same firm. What made you decide to go into politics? As an attorney, I’ve had more success than I can ever imagine. But when it was brought to my attention that the Party could lose the seat and that I was the one who could win it, I knew I had to step up. Look, I think of my children; my daughter just got married. I don’t want them to be forced to move out of state because of what could happen to the area if the Democrats win. I can do good – I’m beholden to no one. What makes you the right person to win this seat? I think the people need to see hon-

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esty and integrity in their officials. I’ve lectured on every civil topic, I’ve been involved in charity all my life. I represent special children who need services – I do that on my own time. I show up at board of education meetings and they know that means that something needs to be fixed. I live now in Hewlett Harbor and I grew up in Inwood, so I know the area quite well. I know the people’s concerns. We need to keep property taxes low. And we need to help people who send their children to private schools with vouchers and credits. I went to Catholic school and public school growing up. My mother couldn’t afford to send me the Catholic school for high school, so I know the struggle people have in paying tuition. I also think that the security in our nation needs a lot of improvement. We live in a different world now than when I was growing up. We have to be more careful, more vigilant. Are you encountering any pushback because you don’t have a political background? Not at all. The only thing I see is that people who are in politics for longer can handle the negative attacks better. It still hurts and bothers me

that my opponent is running such a negative campaign. But a lot of the people in the district know me and they know that I’m the right person for the job. The district is huge. Looking at the map, I would think that your opponent has the Long Beach area locked up. I wouldn’t agree. The people in Long Beach are smart. And they’re not necessarily in favor of certain bills that he sponsored. A certain bill was passed by the Assembly and only the Republican-controlled Senate prevented it from becoming law. I don’t think they’ll support him for wanting free college tuition for illegal immigrants. You can’t afford to send your kids to college because you’re paying for illegal immigrants to go. And on the topic of corruption, my opponent is all about the forfeiture of the pension of elected officials who are convicted of corruption. That bill is great. It was negotiated between the Speaker, the Majority Leader and the governor and was passed by the Republican-controlled Senate last year. But Kaminsky opposed it because he got pressure that it would apply to their staff as well.

He says that I’m connected to Dean Skelos. So let’s talk about that. For 30 years, Skelos represented this district, and he represented it well. A lot of people and centers benefited from him. What he chose to do with him and his son has nothing to do with me. I never worked for him, I never went to lunch with him. I had nothing to do with Skelos. So good luck trying to find a link between me and him. In that same vein, why isn’t my opponent linked to Sheldon Silver? Silver sat in Long Beach on the boardwalk and said he handpicked Kaminsky to replace Harvey Weisenberg. My opponent said that this is a dream job for him – yet he hasn’t even finished his first term and now he’s saying he wants to get another job. And then he told Skelos on that boardwalk, I want to be just like you, Senator Skelos. So when has that changed? Kaminsky led an anti-corruption campaign before the Assembly. But his very first vote in the Assembly was to elect Silver as Speaker of the Assembly even though he had a federal corruption probe into him. I am beholden to no one. I asked no one for this spot. They came to me to run.

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 With Majority Leader John Flanagan

April 19 is a special election. Looking up the numbers, it seems that the voting balance won’t necessarily be skewed if a Democrat wins this seat because some Democrats vote with the Republicans. They may vote with them now, but they will have intense pressure to start voting with the Democrats. Look, let’s look at history. Remember 2009, 2010? Two Democrat senators were elected on Long Island, Craig Johnson and Brian Foley, under the same platform – to clean up Albany. The Senate turned Democrat at that time. So what happened as a result of that? $14 billion in taxes. Another $14 billion in extra spending and then they left us with a $10 billion budget deficit after two years. Property taxes went up, school services went down. Jobs were lost, programs were cut. That’s what happens when the Democrats are in charge. And remember, if I don’t win, the number one man in New York won’t be Cuomo; it’ll be de Blasio. He’s going to have a City Democrat as majority leader and a City Democrat as Speaker, he will control what happens in the state. So all the money will leave Long Island and go into the City, just like it happened in 2009, 2010. We have to learn from history. When did it swing back? It swung back right after two years because it was such a disaster. Once the Republicans were able to come back into power, we were able to give people the 2% property tax cap, so people aren’t getting killed with property taxes anymore and schools are giving back money that was lost. We can’t let it go backwards once again. During

this

campaign,

you’ve been meeting with constituents all around the district. What are on people’s minds? The number one thing on people’s minds is reform in Albany. I’m in favor of true reform – term limits, forfeiture of pensions for corrupted elected officials. Remember, state senators don’t fight corruption. The attorney general and the district attorney do that. If you do something wrong, you get prosecuted. Kaminsky had nothing to do with Silver or Skelos getting prosecuted, that was the U.S. Attorney. As a senator, I can introduce bills to help stem corruption. Another thing that people are concerned about are property taxes. They’re always on people’s minds. People are struggling. And depending where you are, which community you’re from, people really want tax credits or vouchers if they are sending their children to private schools. I feel like we keep talking about vouchers and tax credits but nothing really happens… Yes, we keep talking. I think it’s really important and we can make it happen. My opponent is against them. If parents can’t afford to send their children to private schools, then the schools will close. When I talk to leaders in religious schools, sometimes as high as 40% of parents cannot afford to pay the tuition. Once that goes to 50%, schools will need to consolidate. You cannot pay the bills if no one is paying tuition. Why do we keep electing people who don’t vote for vouchers and credits? Other states have seen success. And there are enough votes to get this passed in New York but Albany won’t allow for the bill to come to the floor if there are not enough Democrat votes

for it to pass. There are enough votes if you include the Republicans who will vote for it, but the Speaker won’t allow it to come to the floor. What else is on people’s minds? Security is a concern. Parents don’t feel safe going to their religious institutions and sending their children to school. We border JFK Airport. Unfortunately, the way things work today is that we have to wait for a nightmare to take place before we do something. You know, the Democrats have it backwards when it comes to Israel. They are making deals with Iran. What will they do with the 114 planes they just bought? We’re making it easy for them to kill people. I can’t wrap my brain around it. We need to show Israel that we are their allies. Can you tell me why the Democrats voted against a bill that was anti-BDS? We had a press conference in Cedarhurst Park about it. We asked them to explain why they wouldn’t vote for it. The issue of Israel is very big. Being anti-Israel – that’s where the Democrats are now. A quarter of the members of the Democrat Party in the state are not pro-Israel. It’s a big issue. What do you think about the presidential elections? Right now, I’m so focused on April 19 that I’m not thinking about November. After April 19, I’ll start paying attention, but I’m probably going to support the Republican candidate, whoever that is. This election has taken me everywhere in the district. I am so busy every day. It’s the most important seat in the history of the state. And I know, come April 19, people will show up at

the polls. It’s exciting. What do you do to relax? Now, because of the election, there’s no time to relax, but I like going to the gym. When softball season starts, I’m in many leagues. I like being involved in charity projects. But now it’s busy. When my kids were younger, I was a coach – I coached soccer. I think I was the longest tenured soccer coach they had. I have three daughters. One is married. The oldest works for a federal judge, the middle one is a lawyer on Wall Street and my youngest works at JP Morgan Chase. I am proud of all of them. They used to play soccer and lacrosse. If you looked in my garage you would’ve thought I had six boys instead of three girls. Any advice for young athletes? Just swing the bat from both sides. It’s important to be a switch hitter. You never know who is going to become a great athlete. I know some kids who weren’t too great at five, and then they became the best athletes at 12. They should just keep trying. April 19 is just a few weeks away. How confident are you that you will win the seat? I am extremely confident. I know that people will see the facts and will be smart enough to vote for the person who will best represent them. In fact, we’re going to be doing a live debate on April 14 and I know it will be an eye-opener for them. It’s one of the most important elections on Long Island and it’s important that we all come out to vote. Thank you, Chris. Best of luck on April 19.

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Centerfold

Types of Little League Parents (from sportsdadhub.com)

THE VOICE COMMAND PARENT This parent thinks he has to control every movement his son makes. It’s as if he thinks his son is a robot that functions on voice commands. I’m sure you’ve heard this guy before. “Stop kicking dirt!” “Watch the batter!” “Touch the base!” “Pay attention!” “Put your hat back on!” “Don’t do that with your glove!” “Go to second, go to second!” “Slide!” “That’s your ball!” “You’re too close to the base, scoot over a few steps.”

THE POSITIVE CHEERLEADER

what this Sports Parent says, it’s how loud he says it. Everything is amplified. Every play is cause for a loud, booming compliment. You don’t want to be next to this guy without some aspirin or noise-cancelling headphones.

THE BLAMER

This parent is so fearful of his/her son’s confidence being damaged by a ball he missed or a goal he allowed that he or she showers him with praise the entire game. Their favorite phrases are: “That’s OK, good try!” “You’ll get ‘em next time, buddy!” and “Great job!” I’m all for keeping things positive for your kids, but there’s just no need to have a positive remark ready to go every time your son is involved with a play.

In the eyes of this parent, it’s everyone else’s fault if his son doesn’t succeed. He can’t accept the fact that his son won’t actually bat .1000. No, this dad has to blame every other factor possible. “That was a ball!” “His coach has been messing with his swing lately.” “The ref wanted the other team to win!”

THE ULTRA-COMPETITIVE GUY

THE INSULTER

Like most Sports Dads, this guy means well. He’s usually a pretty good athlete himself. He wants his son to succeed so much that he just can’t control himself. He doesn’t shout most of his comments. For the most part he’s just thinking out loud and it’s only audible for the people around him. Things like, “C’mon, go to the ball.” “Hustle!” “Pass it!” “Shoot!” “Go to the goal!” “Follow your shot!” “Adam, that’s your ball!” This dad is a good guy and fun to talk sports with. He may even be one of your buddies. This Sports Dad is the kind I can be influenced by if I’m not careful. Being a competitive guy myself, it doesn’t take much to get me excited about a game. Hearing this dad’s excitement and intensity sucks me into the competition even more. I just have to remind myself that it’s not about me. No matter how excited I get or how much I yell, it’s not going to affect the outcome of the game or how my son plays.

This is the Sports Parent I simply don’t understand at all. While I can usually sense that, deep down, other over-thetop parents generally mean well…this kind of parent is just mean. He makes fun of his own son. Even when his son makes a good play this dad will say stuff like, “Hey, it’s better to be lucky than good.” This is the absolute worst parent to sit next to. He makes the entire game uncomfortable. You end up feeling so bad for his son that it’s depressing. If he makes these kind of comments in public, who knows the insults he tosses around at home.

THE LOUD CHEERER This Sports Parent doesn’t just yell for his own kid. He spreads the cheering around to every player. It’s not so much

THE TAILGATERS This is a group of Sports Parents who confuse their son’s sporting events for their college football tailgating days. They usually stand off to the side of the bleachers with a concession stand [soda] in hand. Some of the dads will make fun of other kids on the field. Each one trying to make a funnier comment than the next. Some of them don’t even pay attention to the game. Their son’s game is merely an excuse to hang out and socialize with friends.

Answer to riddle: Paige - 5 - Tar Heels; Martin - 7 - Wildcats; Michael - 12 - Syracuse

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March Madness Trivia

1. Which men’s basketball college coach won the most NCAA titles? a. Mike Krzyzewski b. Jim Calhoun c. John Wooden d. Bob Knight 2. In 1985 Villanova beat Georgetown 66-64 in the NCAA championship game. Who was the starting center on Georgetown? a. David Robinson b. Patrick Ewing c. Hakeem Olajuwon d. Shaq

a jumper from the left wing with 17 seconds left to give his team the victory: a. Michael Jordan b. Isiah Thomas c. Reggie Miller d. Mark Jackson 5. How many teams are in the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament? a. 50 b. 58 c. 64 d. 68

3. Which school’s 1991 team was known as the “Fab Five”? a. Michigan College b. College of Michigan c. University of Michigan

6. Which team won the 2015 NCAA championship? a. Kentucky b. Duke c. Connecticut d. Kansas State

4. With the Tar Heels trailing by one in the 1982 national championship game, this player knocked down

7. Which school has the most NCAA championships? a. North Carolina

You gotta be

kidding

In the middle of the first little league game of the season, the coach calls over 7-year-old Johnny for a chat. “Do you understand what cooperation is, and what a team is?” The little boy replies, “Yes.” “Do you also understand that what matters is not whether we win or lose, but how we play together as a team?” Johnny nods his head. “Do you know not to argue with the ref?” Again, Johnny enthusiastically says, “Yes.” “And when I call you off the field so that another teammate gets a chance to play, it’s not good sportsmanship to scream at me, now is it?” The little Johnny answered, “No, sir.” “Good,” said the coach, “Now please go over and explain all of that to your father.”

b. UCLA c. University of Kentucky d. Connecticut Answers: 1. C 2. B 3. D 4. A 5. D 6. B 7. B Scorecard 5-7 correct: You are the guy who sleeps with his brackets under his pillow. 3-4 correct: You are like a 16th seed…but at least you made it! 1-2 correct: You are the guy who wonders how someone doesn’t get a neck ache if he sleeps on his bracket all night.

Riddle me

this?

After the NCAA season, the Wildcats, the Tar Heels and Syracuse are in the first three positions. The captains are Michael, Martin and Paige. Here is what you know: - Syracuse won as many games as the Wildcats and Tar Heels combined. - Paige is not the captain of the Syracuse or Wildcats. - Michael’s team won twelve games. - The Wildcats won two more games than the Tar Heels. - Michael is not the captain of the Wildcats. Who is the captain of which team? How many games did each team win? Answer on opposite page

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Torah Thought

Post Purim Hangover By Rabbi Berel Wein

ow that the holiday of Purim is safely behind us, many find themselves suffering from a state we call the hangover. There are those who are suffering from this hangover in a literal sense – too much drink, too much food…just too much. Well, a long nap and an analgesic to soothe the stomach and a cold compress for the headache will eventually provide relief for this type of post-Purim hangover. But I feel that there is a deeper, more persistent and much more painful discomfort that descends upon us after Purim. And that hangover is occasioned by the realization that though one Haman was vanquished many centuries ago, there was and are many others ready to take his place. The story of Purim is therefore not a onetime event, an aberration of history, an accidental madman rising to power. It is rather the ultimate hangover that just refuses to go away. If that be the case, then why all of the merriment and celebration on Purim? The triumph over Haman is only a temporary one, a short respite until the next onslaught against Jews, Ju-

daism and the values that the Torah preaches and represents. And what a pounding hangover that realization can be! Are there cures for this type of hangover? For many centuries, for most of Jewish history in fact, Jews were convinced that there really was no permanent cure for our hangover. Jewish survival and our eventual triumph over all of the various Hamans who constantly arose to persecute us lay in our strength of spirit, our tenacity of faith and tradition and in our attempts to outwit our enemies (for we certainly had no ability to outgun them). Jews suffered and died and Haman always appeared triumphant. But eventually Haman fell, and the Jewish people, bloodied and battered, persisted and survived. Jews saw this pattern of persecution and survival as a given, a facet of our existence that was almost inexorable and unable to be prevented. In a most ironic and paradoxical way, Purim represented not triumph or the elimination of Hamans from our world but rather the ability to survive and be productive and creative in spite of the fact that there

would always be a Haman and that we would always have to struggle to survive his persecution. Because of this view, Jews really did not suffer from a post-Purim hangover as they never had any illusions that Haman was really going to disappear on a permanent basis. Only when great expectations are fostered and permanent solutions promised, and in spite of all of our efforts, Haman still mocks us and continues to threaten our annihilation, does the sickening feeling of the post-Purim hangover take hold. Purim warns us that the story is not complete and that we are, at best, only granted respite in the words of Achasveirosh to Esther of “up to half of a kingdom.” To expect the whole kingdom would certainly lead to disappointment and depressed spirits, not to mention a splitting headache. Purim is connected with the commandment in the Torah regarding remembering Amalek. In that struggle against evil and murder, the Torah states explicitly that this a never-ending battle, a war of G-d and G-dliness against

Amalek from one generation until the next. From this it is easy to deduce that Amalek is not subject to a one-time knockout punch that will end the struggle once and for all. It is rather a continuing struggle that

lienicki, to Hitler and to the current president of Iran. These people really meant to destroy us….and continue to do so. No words are minced and no threats are veiled. It would be foolhardy at the least to pretend

The story of Purim is therefore not a onetime event, an aberration of history, an accidental madman rising to power.

every Jewish generation faces and must overcome, each generation in its own way and under its particular circumstance. The joy of Purim is always tempered by the fact that there are many more Purims that will be necessary to sustain us. In the Haggadah of Pesach, which we will recite at the Seder table in a few short weeks, we are reminded that there is a continual line from Pharaoh to Haman, to Titus to Chme-

that no real danger exists to our survival. Yet, as all of our history tells us, we should not be overly pessimistic about our future. We should not fall prey to the post-Purim hangover syndrome. Rather, our reality should include the lessons of faith and tenacity that have stood us in such good stead over the ages. The tempered joy of our Purim will help usher us into the moment of redemption and renewal that Pesach signifies. Shabat shalom.

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The Observant Jew

Preaching to the Choir By Rabbi Jonathan Gewirtz

ne of the most natural activities in life is singing. It comes from our souls, and when we’re happy it bursts forth. When we were saved at the Red Sea, we sang. In the Bais HaMikdash, the singing of the Levi’im was integral to the service performed. Even the angels sing constantly to Hashem. However, some of us have “less than Heavenly” voices. I have vivid recollections of trying out for the choir in camp and being passed over year after year. I guess to me I felt like I had a decent enough voice, but then, I didn’t have to listen to myself. Be that as it may, I wasn’t picked for the choir. As I grew up, and had friends with voices that were easier on the ear, they would tell me, “You can’t sing, Jonny. Don’t.” They encouraged me to sing tenor – ten or twenty miles away. Those sort of thoughts kept me from burdening others with my less than stellar vocal abilities for a while. At my wedding, though, I recall taking the microphone and singing to my beautiful kallah. OK, I wasn’t really singing to her; it was more that the band was playing a song that was within my range, but I loved every second of it. My mother a”h used to like to hear me sing and thought I had a nice voice, but then, she was my mother so I don’t think it counts. I still sing zemiros at home (and away) on Shab-

bos, but then those songs are meant to be sung by everyone and as long as you’re close to the right tune you’re fine. There is one time, though, when I still feel comfortable singing. I noticed it when I went to a simcha and a group of singers had been hired to enhance the davening and zemiros. I shared this insight with them after davening and I knew I was preaching to the choir. During kedusha, as dozens of voices came together with the voice of the shliach tzibbur, I was singing along quite loudly. I recall hearing a famous chazzan quote the Chasam Sofer as having said that when one sings along with the chazzan (instead of leaving him to warble on alone) he is fulfilling “Lo sa’amod al dam rayecha,” do not stand idly by when your brother’s blood is being shed. Anyone who’s ever tried a new tune for davening and had the others in shul stand there in hushed silence instead of singing along knows how embarrassing and terrifying it can be. So, I sing along. Sometimes, when there’s a large group singing together, I will stop for a moment to hear the majestic sound of the voices enmeshed in prayer, rising and falling with the tune. I did that this time and noticed something. Without my voice, it was obviously softer and it would be that way if someone else stopped singing. I wondered if by my

pausing to listen I reduced the pleasure and magic of the moment for someone else. I quickly began singing once more. As I thought about it, I realized that though my voice may not be one that people want to listen to on its own, it is a valuable part of the greater voice of the congregation in

should ever think that we or someone else have nothing to contribute because that couldn’t be further from the truth. Every one of us makes a difference and even one voice would be missed from the symphony of Klal Yisrael. So let us seek to make our voices heard, to encourage each oth-

Every Jew is a part of the great choir that praises Hashem just by being who he or she was created to be.

prayer. By virtue of its joining with other voices, it becomes beautiful and noteworthy. (Pun intended.) Just as an orchestra has some instruments that provide gentle, lilting sounds, while others may add clanging or deep bass – yet all are necessary for the full effect – so are all the voices davening together important and essential to reach its full beauty. But of course it doesn’t stop at singing. Singing is an outgrowth of the soul so it’s logical to apply this approach to our souls as well. Every Jew is a part of the great choir that praises Hashem just by being who he or she was created to be. None of us

er to play our parts, and thereby give Hashem the pleasure of this music to His ears.

Jonathan Gewirtz is an inspirational writer and speaker whose work has appeared in publications around the world. You can find him at www.facebook.com/ RabbiGewirtz and follow him on Twitter @RabbiJGewirtz. He also operates JewishSpeechWriter.com, where you can order a custom-made speech for your next special occasion. Sign up for the Migdal Ohr, his weekly PDF Dvar Torah in English. E-mail info@JewishSpeechWriter. com and put Subscribe in the subject.

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Between the Lines

The Sound of Silence By Eytan Kobre

There are times when silence is the best way to yell at the top of your voice. - O.A. Battista

e Jews don’t talk much about silence. And let’s face it: it’s not our strong suit. We’re a noisy bunch. We thrive on dialogue and argument. We schmooze. We bicker. We kibitz. But the benefits of silence cannot be overstated (Chullin 89a; Kiddushin 71b). Silence is a cure-all (Yerushalmi, Berachos 9:1), and if “a word is worth one coin, silence [is worth] two” (Megilla 18a; Koheles Rabba 5:3). Silence protects the person and safeguards wisdom (Avos 1:17; Avos 3:13; Yoma 7a; Mishlei 10:19; Rambam, Dei’os 2:4; Iggeres HaGra). As Abraham Lincoln put it, “Tis better to be silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt.” Sometimes, silence is meant to be more than just the breaks between words

to catch our breath. There is also sanctity to silence, and it reverberates louder than sound. Silence can be a form of praise to G-d (Tehillim 65:2). Silence can be “an expression of something, not [merely] the absence of something” (Tosefta, Nedarim 7; Alei Shur, Vol II, pg. 35). At the consecration of the Mishkan, two of Aharon’s sons were killed by a “strange fire” because they had committed some sin. Whatever the root cause of their deaths, their father Aharon responded with silence (Vayikra 10:3). In tragedy, he did not cry as a human, he did not roar as an animal, he did not shrivel as a plant. He was not emotionless, but he was expressionless. He was completely and utterly silent. It wasn’t that he lacked the right words or that he was in shock or that he was detached; Aharon could have responded to the tragedy in any number of ways – anger, despair, grief, sadness, disbelief. But silence is not honorable unless an audible response is possible but foregone deliberately. R’ Yisroel Hager, the Vizh-

nitzer Rebbe, was once walking with his students when he stopped in front of a large, well-appointed home and knocked on the door. The students had no idea what the Rebbe intended. After all, this house belonged to the manager of the local bank. Not only was the man not a follower of the Rebbe, he was, in fact, a local leader of the “Enlightenment” movement. Inside, the bank manager could hardly believe his eyes – the Vizhnitzer Rebbe in his house! While he certainly did not adopt the Rebbe’s “antiquated” ways, the bank manager was a refined gentleman, and, as such, he appreciated the visit from this distinguished, albeit antediluvian guest. After initial pleasantries, he waited for the Rebbe to state the reason for his unexpected visit. A few minutes passed in silence. The host grew uncomfortable. But, a cosmopolitan man as he was, he would never presume to confront his guest about the reason for his visit. The bank manager looked at the Rebbe. The

Rebbe looked at the bank manager. Silence still. After several more minutes, the Rebbe stood up and walked towards the door. The bank manager escorted the Rebbe out and followed him all the way back to the Rebbe’s house. Now the bank manager could no longer contain himself. “Rebbe! Why did you come to my house? While you were my guest I would not presume to ask, but now we are at your house, so I can.” “I came to your house to fulfill a commandment,” explained the Rebbe. “Thank G-d, I’ve succeeded.” “Which commandment is that?” “We are taught that just as one must speak when he or she will be listened to, so too one must remain silent when he or she will not be listened to (Yevamos 65b). But obviously that entails more than sitting alone in silence. It means one must go to the person who won’t listen, and then refrain from saying what otherwise should be said.” “So what is it that you did not say?” asked the

bank manager. “I cannot tell you.” “But how do you know that I won’t listen?” “I just know.” “But you can’t possibly know for sure. You must tell me,” pleaded the bank manager. After more back-andforth, the Rebbe explained. “Yesterday, a widow told me that she received notice that your bank intends to foreclose on her mortgage. She and her children will be put out on the street. She asked me to intercede because she knows you are Jewish. But I did not raise it with you because of the commandment to not say that which will not be heeded.” “But Rebbe,” the bank manager cried, “you don’t understand! She owes the money to the bank, not to me! I don’t own the bank, I just manage it.” “Right,” the Rebbe shot back. “I knew you wouldn’t listen. Good night.” With that, the Rebbe walked into his home together with his students. The bank manager stood outside stunned. He walked back home and could not clear his mind of what had

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just transpired. And by week’s end, he paid the widow’s entire mortgage out of his personal account. Aharon’s silence was as deliberate as it was absolute. It was the product of his ac-

about himself and his relationship with and faith in G-d. His silence was an ode to G-d’s Divine plan and a recognition that it is impervious to the challenge of mortals (Toras Shleima, Vayikra 10:3 citing Targum).

thirst in the desert after being banished by Avraham, G-d “heard the voice of the lad” and pointed his mother Hagar to a nearby well (Bereishis 21:17). But there was never any indication that Yishmael was crying in

When we remain silent in the face of crushing challenges, our silence speaks volumes about who we are and what we believe.

knowledgment of G-d’s infinite master plan, and his agreement to be subservient to it (Chofetz Chaim, Vayikra 10:3). Aharon used silence to speak volumes

It was a silence louder than words. It was a deafening silence. Others have spoken through silence too. When Yishmael was dying of

the first place such that G-d could “hear” his cry. The Vorka Rebbe deduces that even in silence, one can cry – and that cry can pierce the Heavens.

Sometimes life casts us into situations where our “voices travel from one end of the universe to the other, yet are never heard” (Pirkei d’Rabbi Eliezer, Chapter 34). For when we remain silent in the face of crushing challenges, our silence speaks volumes about who we are and what we believe. We may not hear it. But it is there. And it is loud. Now, to be sure, silence isn’t always appropriate. When circumstances demand it, we should not – and cannot – remain silent, for such silence is tantamount to tacit approval (Yevamos 87b; Seforno, Bamidbar 30:15). At those times, we need the courage to speak up and speak out against travesty and in

self-defense. But in a society where our lives are drowning in a cacophony of sound and we’ve grown all too uncomfortable at perceived “awkward” silences, silence can speak louder than words. That silence is not a weakness; it is a recognition that we just don’t have all the answers. After all, “there is a time to be quiet and there is a time to speak” (Koheles 3:7). The trick is knowing which is which.

Eytan Kobre is a writer, speaker, mediator, and attorney living in Kew Gardens Hills. Questions? Comments? Suggestions? E-mail eakobre@outlook.com.

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A Fulfilled L fe

Finding True Favor By Rabbi Naphtali Hoff

R’ Shimon ben Gamliel (said, since) in most years (we think of) Adar as (a month which) adjoins Nissan, (we therefore keep the mitzvos of Purim) in the Adar which adjoins Nissan (I.e. Adar Sheni)… What is the reason of R’ Shimon ben Gamliel? R’ Tabi said… more emphasis is attached to bringing one period of redemption close to another (i.e. Purim and Pesach).

t first glance, the connection established in the above Gemara between Purim and Pesach appears quite tenuous. The Purim story, after all, was a classic account of nes nistar, in which Hashem orchestrated the Jews’ salvation through a sequence of seemingly fortuitous political events. Never once in the process did Hashem reveal Himself openly, a fact that is underscored by the conspicuous absence of His name throughout the entire narrative. In stark contrast is our celebration of Pesach, which details the quintessential nes nigleh. The detailed account of our redemption from Mitzrayim is presented as one long, open miracle, in which Hashem revealed Himself repeatedly and. Certainly, the pronounced dissimilarities between Purim and Pesach bring the need to juxtapose the two “periods of redemption” into serious question. Rav Chaim Freidlander, zt”l, (Sifsei Chaim, Vol. II, pp. 241ff) suggests that the redemptions of Purim and Pesach are intimately linked by the lesson which they learned about achieving true chein (grace) in the eyes of their gentile neighbors. Consider first the Purim story. According to the midrash (Esther Rabbah 7:13), the Jews of Persia were threatened with extermination “because they partook of the feast of Achashveirosh.” This statement is quite puzzling. After all, it would appear that the Jews of Shushan did the right thing by attending the feast. They correctly reasoned that their conspicuous absence from the event would invoke the ire of their Persian ruler. Nevertheless, by participating,

the Jews ignored Mordechai’s warnings to stay away, based on his fear that their involvement would engender unhealthy sociability between Jews and gentiles. We see a similar clash between the people and Mordechai when their leader refused to bow before Haman (Esther 3:2, et al), thereby enraging the megalomaniacal viceroy. Mordechai understood that there was a need to undo the damaging impact of the Jews’ previous prostration before the image of Nevuchadnezzar (see Megilla 12a), and deliberately sought out opportunities to cross Haman’s path without showing the viceroy any respect. Naturally, such brazen disrespect angered the Jewish people, who feared that Mordechai was compromising their collective safety. Certainly, they could not fathom how such a provocative approach would actually result in their eventual salvation. In both instances, the Jews of Persia logically favored a compliant, non-confrontational approach in dealing with the country’s rulers. They perceived that they would achieve the greatest degree of royal favor by submitting to the heads of state and acceding to their demands. In truth, however, it was this very conformity that led directly to the enactment of Haman’s hateful, devastating decree, and almost resulted in their complete annihilation. The Jews of Persia learned the hard way that securing gentile favor has little to do with our willingness to adopt their societal and behavioral norms. On the contrary, good will is engendered circuitously, by following Hashem’s will and allowing our Mak-

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er to intervene on our behalf. “When a man’s ways please the L-rd, he makes even his enemies be at peace with him.” (Mishlei 16:7) Yet, when Hashem deems it to be unhealthy for us to en-

tian favor, to near devastating results. “And a new king arose who did not know Yosef” (Shemos 1:8) – When Yosef died, the Jews abolished the covenant of circumcision, saying:

The Jews of Persia learned the hard way that securing gentile favor has little to do with our willingness to adopt their societal and behavioral norms.

joy such favor, all of the efforts in the world to the contrary will be of little consequence. “He turned their heart to hate his people, to deal craftily with his servants.” (Tehillim 105:25) Many centuries before, the Jewish slaves in Egypt made a similar mistake in their attempt to curry Egyp-

“Let us become like the Egyptians.” You can infer this from the fact that Moshe had to circumcise them on their departure from Egypt. As soon as they had done so, Hashem converted the love with which the Egyptians loved them into hatred. (Shemos Rabbah, 1:8) According to the Bais HaLevi, this

midrash is not to understood literally. Rather, our sages are telling us that following Yosef’s death, the Jews feared for their futures in Egypt. Consequently, they attempted to undo their uniqueness and revert back to their pre-bris status. In contrast to what they had anticipated, however, this attempt at conciliation backfired, and ultimately resulted in vicious hatred and slavery. This trend has repeated itself far too often in our long history, most notably in recent centuries. Time and again Jews have viewed appeasement and social blending as the best path towards acceptance, discarding key aspects of their faith in favor of the current whims of their host country. Ever since the beginning of our present (19th) century, they had come to view our ancestral faith as old fashioned. It was no longer suited to the sons and daughters of this century, in the full dress coats and evening gowns. Old style Judaism was always in the way, so oddly out of place

at the fraternities and assemblies, at balls and dinner parties, at concerts and salons…Is it any wonder, then, that this “ancient, inhibiting” religion should have been shaken off without hesitation in the rush to join in the “progress”? (R’ Samson Raphael Hirsch, Collected Writings Vol. VI, Feldheim, New York, 1992, p. 108) And each time Hashem has had to remind us, sometimes in the harshest of terms, that true acceptance will never emerge from such falsely placed hopes. Quite the opposite. Only a true, longstanding commitment to Hashem and His Torah will result in the final “period of redemption,” in which we will fully appreciate the unique destiny which Hashem has planned for us.

Rabbi Naphtali Hoff is an executive coach and President of Impactful Coaching and Consulting. He can be reached at 212.470.6139 or at nhoff@impactful coaching.com.

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Jewish History

Amulets, Accusations and Controversy The Devastating Polemic Between Rabbi Yaakov Emdenand Rabbi Yonason Eybeschutz By Rabbi Pini Dunner

THE STORY SO FAR: Despite the conversion to Islam of false messiah Shabbetai Tzvi in 1666 and his death in 1676, secret societies of Sabbatians who still believed in his messianic mission thrived in communities across Europe and continued to be active well into the eighteenth century. One prominent rabbi who fell under suspicion was R’ Yonason Eybeschutz, whose name emerged during a campaign to root out Sabbatians in 1725. Although he successfully dismissed the allegations, when he was appointed Chief Rabbi of the illustrious triplecommunity twenty-five years later the accusations resurfaced. R’ Yaakov Emden examined amulets R’ Yonason had given pregnant women and discovered what he believed to be references to Shabbetai Tzvi. The affair quickly escalated into a full-blown controversy, and the community split into factions. R’ Yaakov was held under house arrest and told he would have to leave the city within six months. Shortly afterwards violence broke out between supporters of R’ Yonason and supporters of R’ Yaakov, and R’ Yaakov decided to flee to Amsterdam until things had calmed down.

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’ Yaakov arrived in Amsterdam both physically sick and very depressed – the result of months of confinement, his secret departure and then a difficult journey. R’ Yaakov’s sister and her husband sought to improve his spirits and his health, and in the weeks that followed his strength slowly improved, and so did his mood. Eager to recover his reputation and the right to return home he realized that the only way he could do this was if he proved that his suspicions were correct and that the way he had been treated for voicing them was a travesty. Now able to think more clearly, R’ Yaakov formed the opinion that there were only two reasons why so many people had supported R’ Yonason and continued to support him – either there was a crypto-Sabbatian conspiracy to protect their leader at all costs, or R’ Yonason was so charming and charismatic that he was able to mislead people into believing

the accusations were false, even though they were not. Both scenarios were highly dangerous, as they allowed Sabbatian heresy to creep into mainstream Jewish life completely unchecked. A third alternative – namely that R’ Yonason was innocent, and had been wrongly accused – was dismissed by R’ Yaakov as wishful thinking by naïve people who had allowed their respect for rabbis to undermine their critical faculties and who simply did not appreciate that a guilty man can often convincingly present himself as innocent. But could R’ Yaakov successfully counteract the powerful forces mounted against him? R’ Yonason’s influence was wide and deep, and particularly in the triple-community he seemed unassailable. After reflecting on his options R’ Yaakov concluded that to win this fight he would have to do exactly the opposite of what he had originally suggested so many months earlier. When first confronted with the amulet evidence he had opted for a restrained, civil approach, on the basis that it would lead to a quiet solution – perhaps R’ Yonason’s discreet termination and a mini-

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mum of negative backlash. But that strategy had failed miserably, and it was evident that forces loyal to R’ Yonason would easily crush any such gentlemanly opposition. So R’ Yaakov decided that the only way to overcome the forceful defense would be to use equal force and to publicize everything negative known about R’ Yonason as widely as possible, so that the latter’s position would become untenable, with no right-thinking person ever able to support him again. In Amsterdam R’ Yaakov had no fear of repercussions, and felt free to say and write whatever he wanted. He sent letters to all the rabbis he knew, recording in lurid detail every piece of information he had ever been told about R’ Yonason that exposed the dark side of a man widely believed to be virtuous and without blemish. The aim was simple: to discredit his rival and to utterly ruin his reputation. He called him a liar, a sinner, a heretic, a phony, in each instance offering narrative support for these accusations. The upshot was that R’ Yonason was clearly not the kind of man to lead a community or teach impressionable young men. The counter-offensive had begun. At the same time two other major developments had begun to unfold: one in Metz, R’ Yonason’s former city of residence, and the other in Frankfurt. In Metz, R’ Yonason’s replacement as Chief Rabbi, R’ Shmuel Hilman, had been one of the recipients of R’ Yaakov’s desperate plea for help in the aftermath of his fall from grace after his announcement on February 4, 1751. The letter from R’ Yaakov came as no surprise to R’ Hilman, who had long been suspicious of amulets handed out by his predecessor, even before he had replaced him in Metz. In his response to R’ Yaakov’s letter dated February 21, 1751, he wrote that he had decided soon after his arrival to confiscate all of R’ Yonason’s amulets and forbid their use by anyone in the community. He also offered to send a number of notarized cop-

The notarized copies of the Metz amulets as they appeared in R’ Yaakov Emden’s book “Sefat Emet Valashon Zehorit.” The recent discovery of the original notarized documents has vindicated his version, although at the time this book appeared in 1752 the rendering was maligned and dismissed

The original notary document from Metz recording the exact wording of the controversial amulets, as reproduced in a recent article by Rabbi Professor Shnayer Leiman and Dr. Simon Schwarzfuchs. R’ Yonason later claimed that the two notaries were forced to sign the notary document against their will

ies of the amulets in Metz to the leadership of the triple-community, with the suggestion that they call in R’ Yonason without warning him in advance, so that they could ask for an explanation of the obvious Sabbatian references in the amulets

Metz the two community notaries were Isaac Koblentz and Mordechai Gumprecht, and on March 17, 1751, they carefully copied the contents of five separate amulets that had been written by R’ Yonason and given to five different individuals on

He called him a liar, a sinner, a heretic, a phony, in each instance offering narrative support for these accusations.

without giving him enough time to come up with a contrived meaning that explained them away. Notaries were a fixture of Jewish communal life in those days and could more accurately be described as court recorders who faithfully recorded all the proceedings at meetings of lay-leadership and the rabbinate in an official record book that could later be used for reference when needed. In the city of

five separate occasions. Koblentz and Gumprecht then affixed their signatures to a declaration which stated: “These five amulets were copied word for word, letter for letter, line by line, exactly as they appeared in the original amulets that were received by five separate people from R’ Yonason Eybeschutz who was our Chief Rabbi and is now Chief Rabbi of Hamburg.” Much later in the year, on November 17,

1751, the two notaries once again affirmed their original notarized document, this time in front of a local Christian judge, an act that gave their notarization official legitimacy in a gentile court of law. Both notaries were known to be deeply devoted to R’ Yonason, and no one could accuse them of being biased against him, nor of having deliberately misconstrued the notarized copies to show R’ Yonason up in a bad light. Much later R’ Yonason would accuse his enemies of having “forced” the notaries to sign the declaration against their will, essentially implying that the amulets had been deliberately reconfigured and the notaries threatened that they would lose their jobs if they didn’t notarize the altered versions. The notaries themselves dismissed this claim, and it is clear from R’ Yonason’s later attempts to explain the notarized versions that even he considered the Metz copies to be largely accurate. Meanwhile the amulets, all of which seemed to indicate a definitive Sabbatian obsession by their author, were widely disseminated by R’ Hilman, and within a few weeks, as rabbis and leaders across the Jewish world came face-to-face with the evidence, the accusations against R’ Yonason could no longer be dismissed as representing the bitter resentment of a cranky competitor for the position of triple-community Chief Rabbi. On the contrary, the evidence now seemed to indicate that R’ Yaakov had been right all along.

NEXT TIME: Rabbi Yehoshua Falk gets involved in the controversy but the flames of dispute still rage. Finally, the matter is brought to the attention of the gentiles, who get entangled in the situation.

Rabbi Pini Dunner is the Rav of Young Israel North Beverly Hills in California.

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Israel Today

Off the Rack By Rafi Sackville

t almost 2,000 feet above sea level, Ma’alot, in western Galil, is particularly prone to rainfall during the winter months. Misty drizzles aside, there are occasions when the rain is so intense that, without proper protection, one can be assured of a soaking. Two years before making Aliyah in 2013 I purchased what looks like a cowboy slicker. It is a long, adjustable jacket which can snap to knee length, is warm, and, most importantly, it keeps out the rain. Wearing it I wouldn’t look out of place on the back of a horse. Assuming it was packed away in one of the many boxes in our container, I gave it no thought during the summer months through November. When the first rains arrived I got drenched. I turned the room inside out but could not find the jacket. I’d photographed, numbered and even color coordinated the boxes, but the jacket remained hidden from my prying eyes. The room was small and contained over 40 boxes. Each time I opened one they became less sturdy. It got to a point when most of them were collapsing on themselves. By the end of winter Keren insisted I buy another jacket. To make matters more frustrating for me she couldn’t recall my wearing the slicker in the first place. In fact, she was certain I had never bought it. She told me I had mistaken it for another, similar jacket I

had purchased soon after we were married. Then spring arrived. By the time the weather had warmed I had forgotten about the jacket. Come October, however, Keren was constantly reminded of a purchase I needed to make. I saw out the winter of 2014-15 with the mindset of a fool in denial. More than once I was soaked to the skin. Last summer I visited my parents in wintry Melbourne, Australia. I was given a shopping list with only one item on it. Yes, Keren had made it abundantly clear that the time of my stupidity was over. My days of imagining raincoats bought and misplaced were at an end. I was commanded not to return home without a jacket. “It exists!” I told her before the middle of our second winter. Yet with each passing shower my conviction to the veracity of my claim had weakened to the point where, despite having worn it a dozen times, despite having snapped it to knee length in milder weather, despite having fallen in love with it, I reluctantly came to the sad conclusion that I was suffering a prolonged senior moment. Drawn into collusion with me my father drove me out to a store on Glenhuntly Road (a geographical fact lost to anyone reading this in America). I wandered around for twenty minutes testing my father’s patience. I tried on several jackets, but could not bring

myself to buy anything. After much consideration I made a compromise and bought a cheap, plastic raincoat that would protect me against the rain and Keren’s wrath. This past Chanukah Keren and I traveled to New York to visit our children and grandchildren. The nachas I got making acquaintance with my new granddaughter was an unparalleled exercise in joy. I caught up with friends, rabbis, and even old eateries. I played with my grandchildren and bonded with my wonderful son-in-law. On my first night in New York I walked into my old shul. We had spent 10 happy years as members of Tiferet Zvi in Cedarhurst. It was wonderful seeing the rav again. It was as if I had never left. After davening one of the members wished to renew acquaintance with me but insisted on giving me a hug not inside the shul, but in the anteroom of the shul’s entrance. A strong man, he gave me a bear hug worthy of a wrestler. His strength caught me off guard and my head was thrown back. I looked up and there hanging on the coat rack just inside the door was what appeared to be my rain jacket. Excusing myself I broke our embrace and pulled it off the rack. “Ha! I’ve been looking for this for three and a half years,” I said enthusiastically. “Are you certain it’s yours?” he asked me. “Oh, it’s mine alright. I

can even prove it. I recall leaving a dime in the right hand pocket,” I told him. I checked the pocket and produced the offending coin. “You remembered the coin?” He wore the bemused look of a man who couldn’t quite believe what he was seeing. “Maybe you should ask the rav. After three years you might have given up on ever finding it.” “My wife and a dozen soakings will testify to the fact that I never once gave up hope on finding this.”

front of her and say, “I told you so! You never believed me, but I told you so!” There was no victory parade. Keren was happy, but nonplussed. She reminded me that misplacing things was one of my more dominant character traits. Deflated? Yes, but at least I had my jacket back. The six days in New York had flown by too quickly. Keren would be extending her trip in the States to see family in San Diego. Within the blink

I was ecstatic. It was like being reunited with a long, lost family member.

I was ecstatic. It was like being reunited with a long, lost family member. My anguish of its absence had given me more than one unhappy day. The jacket still fit like a glove. (What a ridiculous thing to say...it still fit like a jacket.) With a touch of sarcasm my friend told me the only thing missing was a horse. I dismissed his comment with a polite nod and a neigh and ran to the car eager to deliver the wonderful news to Keren. More importantly I wanted to flail it around in

of an eye I was back on the train heading north to Nahariya. It didn’t rain while we were in New York, but I wore it all the way home. It rained on the first Shabbat after I arrived. I wish I could say it kept me dry, but I forgot it in the car and suffered another soaking. And I never told Keren. Rafi Sackville, formerly of Cedarhurst, teaches in Ort Maalot in Western Galil.

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Dating Dialogue

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

Dear Navidaters,

Hi, my name is Breindie. I come from an ultra Chasiddish family that is well respected in our community. We are always expected to set an example for everyone else and my parents are careful to uphold our sterling reputation. As I am now 18 years old, my parents found what they feel is the perfect boy for me and arranged a “beshow.” After we had one short meeting, my parents and the young man’s parents decided to finalize the shidduch. Although I like the boy and I don’t see anything specifically wrong with him, I am definitely not ready to commit myself to him for the rest of my life. I feel that I need more time to get to know him and feel more comfortable with him. Even though my parents are sensitive to my needs, and would not even consider going through with it if they knew my hesitation, I feel badly asking them to arrange another meeting which is simply not done in our circles. It would cause them to be looked down upon by the community and I feel terrible doing that to them. Any advice would be appreciated.

The feedback from our readers has been remarkable. In order to facilitate further discussion, you can now continue the conversation anonymously on our website. Every Sunday, we will upload the weekend’s most recent edition of What Would You Do If to the dating forum at thenavidaters.com. Join The Navidaters and your fellow TJH readers in a comprehensive dialogue with regard to dating, relationships and marriage. The forum will be moderated daily for everyone’s comfort and safety. See you there! Disclaimer: This column is not intended to diagnose or otherwise offer resolutions to any questions. Our intention is not to offer any definitive conclusions to any particular question, but to offer areas of exploration for the author and reader. Due to the nature of the column receiving only a short snapshot of an issue, without the benefit of an actual discussion, the panel’s role is to offer a range of possibilities. We hope to open up meaningful dialogue and individual exploration.

The Panel The Rebbetzin Rebbetzin Faigie Horowitz, M.S.

pproaching your parents about taking the time to get to know

the young man better is a legitimate step to take. Your parents understand not only your needs as you say but the reality of marriage and relationships. They know that a young person has to feel positive going into a lifetime commitment and a rela-

tionship has to be grown. Go ahead. They will also support you from another place as well. Today everyone is aware of dysfunctionalities and mental health issues that manifest themselves even during “beshows.” Red flags can be picked up

even during brief meetings with two people on either side of the table. They will hear you if you feel uncomfortable about certain things. Take as much time as you need. Do not feel pressured by your perception of community norms.

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In the “Chassidishe velt” these days, mainstream people are meeting for shidduch purposes and communicating a lot more times than you think. They just don’t talk about it in the community at large. Privacy and dignity are maintained as young people get to know each other. I am part of the world that you come from; my husband and I come from Chassidishe families and have raised an enlightened Chassidishe family. You can always consult your community’s rav or dayan if you feel you need rabbinic validation. I am sure that you will get a lot of support to meet as many times as you want and/or need to.

The Mother Sarah Schwartz Schreiber, P.A.

azel Tov, Breindie! I’m sure by the time you read this, you are happily engaged! My sources in Boro Park, Williamsburg and Monroe tell me that “second looks” – although unconventional, happen all the time. They are carried out dis-

Having a healthy understanding of your own needs and the ability to express them is the foundation of a good marriage.

creetly (sha shtil!) so your circle and the community is not scandalized and your family’s reputation remains sterling. More concerning to me is why you are afraid to approach your parents with a legitimate request. If you’re old enough to get married, you should be able to communicate your needs in an honest, respectful manner. Stating, “Tatty and Mommy, this is important to me,” does not detract from your role as a trusting, obedient daughter. As a kallah and soon-to-be wife, you will be involved in many monumental decisions (and I’m not talking flatware and furniture). Trust your instincts. Discuss your choices. Explore your feelings. State your opin-

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

Dear Breindie, Thank you for writing us and giving a voice to your concern. Because your concern is a valid one and weighs heavily on the hearts of other young Chassidish men and women, your question and hopefully the panel’s responses will potentially help you and many others. It is wonderful that you are in touch with your feelings and recognize

that you do not feel comfortable moving forward. You seem like an enlightened, intelligent and self-aware young woman. At the same time, you are a responsible family and community member who wants to avoid tainting her family’s sterling reputation. You find yourself torn between what is right for you and what is right for the family at large.

ions. Be open to other ideas. I’m talking Communication – the give and take of a successful partnership. Practicing those skills now and for the next 120 years will make for a stronger, healthier marriage. Now, as they say in the vernacular, “Zol zein mit mazel!”

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there is something in your heart that is bothering you and you need to listen to that inner voice, which is telling you something that you need to listen to. Hatzlacha.

The Single The Dating Mentor

Irit Moshe

Rochel Chafetz Educator/Mentor

o question one – if you are writing to us, then you obviously want to hear what we have to say. If you are old enough to get married – you are old enough to tell your parents that you need to meet this young man again. Hashem gave women bina yeseira and that is what helps us with understanding our relationships and situations around us. Asking for more time is not being disrespectful or insensitive to your parents’ needs. You parents have to listen and hear what you are saying. And if they don’t, then you need to go to your rebbe to ask him for his advice. I am not trying to scare you in the least, but divorce is happening in your community as well. I certainly don’t think your parents would want that. My suggestion for you is to sit down with your parents and thank them for all their hard work but explain that

reindie, I am going to sound like a typical Jew and answer your question with a question: Do you think you should marry for you or for your community? I really hope you answered “for you.” If your parents know you as well as they should, using this knowledge to enable them pick out a shidduch for you, and you say they are as sensitive to your needs as you claim them to be, then please try to stop worrying about what the community might have to say or even your family’s “sterling reputation,” as it relates to you asking for more time to get to know this young man and feel comfortable with him. We are talking about marriage here. Marriage is a serious life commitment and you need to feel very secure and comfortable about your decision to marry him. After all, we are talking about the rest of your life. Part of being an adult is being able to recognize one’s needs and to be able to communicate them to others in order to get the results you wish to achieve. This is the most appropriate time to vocalize your needs on a matter of this magnitude, thereby setting forth the proper foundation for a successful marriage.

Inherent in your dilemma is this looming component of the unknown. How will the community react? What will happen to your family? Who will say what about them and will there be any ramifications? But there is another unknown to consider. What happens to Breindie if she doesn’t follow her gut? What happens to Breindie’s marriage five or ten years down the

road if she moves forward now with unanswered questions? Who will bear the brunt of Breindie’s potential regrets or unhappiness? Regret and ignored intuition have a way of creeping up at the most inopportune times. I cannot sugarcoat this into anything other than the decision that it is. You will have to choose between what you believe is best for the fam-

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ily and what you believe is best for you. A question for you: I wonder how much of an asset you will be to your family and community if one day you find yourself riddled with doubt and regret about not speaking up for yourself. Will you fall prey to the “shoulda, woulda, couldas” or the “if only’s?” This is a wonderful and safe opportunity for you to practice expressing your needs. Start slowly with your parents. In a short while you will need to express your needs to your husband. Self-expression is needed to maintain a healthy relationship with a spouse. Your husband will want to please you and make you happy. If you don’t tell him what you need, how will he know what to do? Having a healthy understanding of your own needs and the ability to express them is the foundation of a good marriage. The good news is you have sup-

What happens to Breindie’s marriage five or ten years down the road if she moves forward now with unanswered questions?

portive parents who wouldn’t want to see you enter into a marriage feeling uncertainty and doubt. Knowing this about them leads me to believe that their sterling reputation is based more on their character, integrity and sensitivity than on a desire to fit in to a certain mold. They choose the well-being

of their daughter, Breindie, over what the neighbors will think. How blessed you are. Your parents make their child’s emotional and mental stability a priority. In this regard, they are an example to parents of all walks of life. I wonder why you have more difficulty making yourself a priority than your parents do. I am going to take a page from Rebbetzin Horowitz’s book when I suggest you speak to a trusted figure in your community about your situation. Is there a rav or female figure you can turn to for guidance and/or validation? Perhaps realizing that this is more common than you know will help ease some of your concerns. Sarah Schwartz Schreiber and Rochel Chafetz confirm that people today are taking the time they need and having more meetings. The meetings are of a private nature and no one has to know. I think it behooves you to

look into this option as a first step. Wishing you the best, Jennifer

If you would like to submit a dating or relationship question anonymously, please email thenavidaters@gmail.com. Esther Mann, LCSW and Jennifer Mann, LCSW are psychotherapists and dating and relationship coaches working with individuals, couples and families in private practice in Hewlett, NY. To set up an appointment, please call 516.224.7779. Press 1 for Esther, 2 for Jennifer. Jennifer is starting a Marriage Support Initiative for Women; an 8 week support group for married women to celebrate the positive aspects of their marriages and delve into the more private corners of marriage. Difficulties in a marriage can feel isolating. Come find support and make friends. For more information, reach her at the above phone number.

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Health & F tness

Alcohol and Weight Gain By Aliza Beer MS, RD

here is much research linking alcohol consumption to weight gain or the inability to lose weight. The key to understanding why this is so is to first understand how alcohol is metabolized by the body. Once alcohol is in your system, your body makes metabolizing it a priority. That means that it will stop metabolizing anything else in order to take care of the alcohol. This happens because unlike protein, carbohydrates, and fat, there is nowhere for alcohol to be stored in our body. This leads to a host of issues that can cause weight gain: 1. Excess calories: When you consume alcohol, you are consuming extra calories. Extra calories turn to fat. In food, one gram of protein has 4 calories, one gram of carbohydrate has 4 calories, and one gram of fat has 9 calories. With alcohol, one gram has 7 calories, so it is more caloric than protein and carbs, and these calories can add up

very quickly. Here are some calorie facts to keep in mind: 12 ounces of regular beer is 150 calories; 4 ounces of a frozen daiquiri is 216 calories; 4 ounces of a margarita is 270 calories; 1.5 ounces of vodka is 96 calories; 1.5 ounces of whiskey is 105 calories. 2. Alcohol increases food consumption: Research has shown that when alcohol is consumed before a meal, there is a 20% increase in calories consumed at that meal. Late night munchies are associated with a night of drinking. Studies have shown that in the short term, alcohol consumption stimulates food intake and can also increase feelings of hunger. Having your judgment impaired also leads to poor food choices. 3. Affects blood sugar: The sugar in our blood, also known as blood glucose, is used for growth and energy. The primary hormones involved in maintaining a healthy

blood glucose level are insulin and glucagon. Alcohol is considered a poison by your body, and all efforts are made to excrete it, including the cessation of maintaining healthy blood glucose levels. 4. Slows down metabolism: The body can’t store alcohol, so it metabolizes it right away. Since the alcohol becomes the priority in the metabolic process, your body won’t metabolize other fats and sugars as efficiently, ultimately slowing down your metabolism. After you drink alcohol, the result is whatever you recently ate gets stored as fat. So how does one have a drink or two without gaining the weight? Avoid sugary sodas, juices, frozen, or blended drinks. Try club soda, or tonic water, and fresh fruit instead. Drink light beer instead of regular or dark beer, or choose a rose or white wine instead of a heavier red wine. Eat a healthy meal before you go out for drinks or to a party to help keep

you feeling full. Also, drink water between alcoholic beverages to help you consume less alcohol. In addition, prepare healthy snacks before going out to prevent post-drinking noshing. Exercise will also help burn off those extra calories. The real key to avoiding weight gain from alcoholic beverages is moderation. Having one to two drinks a week is not unhealthy and will not add on the pounds. Imbibing an excess of 3-4 drinks a week can potentially lead to weight gain and/or health issues. Alcohol does not need to be eliminated, but controlled and limited, as any of life’s other food splurges. L’chaim!

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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Dr. Deb

Yoga is Invalidating By Deb Hirschhorn, Ph.D.

I was reading this old therapy magazine and surprisingly there was an article in it explaining the principles of yoga. I take a nice stretchingyoga class in the gym and I can vouch for the benefit of stretching after sitting all day every day at the computer. I sit at the computer when I’m seeing clients (that’s how I take my notes) and then I sit some more just to write articles for you.

hat I didn’t know before was the connection between the stretching and the breathing. I’m a huge advocate of breathing to take control of emotions that seem out of control. I have most of my clients practice breathing exercises at home and whether it takes them a year to agree to even try it or they grab hold of it right away, they agree that it works and is a powerful tool. So I like the stretching and I like the breathing. I just never saw the connection before. The author explained that the whole purpose of

the breathing – as I said – is to get the mind quiet, relax the body, and give a person the peaceful presence to deal with the stressors of life. Now, how exactly does this work? When you breathe deeply, you lower your blood pressure, heart rate, pulse, and cortisol, the stress hormone. But here is the other, little considered aspect of the breathing: You distract yourself from whatever is bothering you. Or you’re supposed to. Just like we give an alternate toy to the baby when he has grabbed his sister’s doll and she starts to complain, distraction works for us, too. So, the stretching – especially if it is difficult or even painful – acts as a distraction. You return to your focus on the breathing, breathing, breathing. Your mind is off the other problems in your life – your brother-in-law’s remarks at the wedding, your child’s teacher’s comments on the report card, your boss’s concerns about the late reports – and is working hard to overcome the discomfort by just breathing. Now, I came to a realization: Why is it so many people don’t want to do this? Why is it even people who understand the value of calming and relaxing and getting away from worries seem to be, in Freud’s words, so “resistant”? Why do we all – I include myself – seem to want to return to our worries? Why do we go over and over the same annoying conversation that bothered us yesterday? Why do we journal the insults we received? Why do we

waste therapy hours expressing the same pain over and over and over instead of moving on? There are three reasons.

WE WANT VALIDATION

Think about it. If you could just breathe and let the thoughts go by without latching onto them and repeating them and arguing with them and getting physiologically worked up over them, you would feel much better. And then all your suffering would have been for nothing. This is not as strange as it sounds. We do want recognition for our suffering. That is what military medals are all about. Don’t we enjoy reading “hero” stories? You know, the ones where a person’s arm or leg got blown off, but he saved the lives of others? Sure we do. We love them. They’re a tribute to individual courage, smarts, quick thinking, caring, loyalty, and love of humanity. They affirm what is right in a difficult, painful world. Well, we do the same things with ourselves. “Look at what I’m going through!” we tell ourselves. And we become our own heroes in our own eyes. It becomes even better when we can retell our stories to those who validate us: “Can you imagine what he said yesterday?” And we feel so good about it. Yes, we are suffering. But at least we are not suffering for nothing. Someone else is a witness. We are a witness. Especially if we put it all down in a journal.

But if we practiced the breathing, we lose all of that. The breathing practice gives us, as this author said, an expansive view of who we are. We are, she declares, like the sky – endless. Part of. And the stories we tell ourselves are like the clouds. They come; they can go. This is our Torah as well: We are just here to do our job; only Hashem runs the Universe. There is no point complaining about adversity; it’s all part of the Plan, a Plan we can’t understand and don’t have to. We just have to do our part. But as soon as we accept upon ourselves the adversity we are given – without complaint – our suffering is no more. And that is invalidating. I recall reading in my dissertation research how difficult women found emotional abuse to bear because with physical violence “at least there were scars to show what I’ve been through.” It’s normal to want that. The struggle is to come to terms with the fact that when we keep our validation, we keep the pain, too.

WE WANT THE WORLD TO MAKE SENSE

Generally, the things that keep us up at night are what we would call “injustices.” Someone mistreated us, our kid, our family. We have judged their behavior to be unfair, mean, or irrational. Since we made the judgment, their behavior falls into the “unjust” category. And we don’t like that. Justice makes sense; injustice does not.

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We want the world to make sense. We furthermore make every effort to create order in our world when it doesn’t. When we go over and over

fore going shopping.” “She should have studied harder, or she at least should have started working on it a week earlier.” All the shoulds. The

So, the stretching – especially if it is difficult or even painful – acts as a distraction.

a problem, we are trying to make sense of it. Or we are trying to find a sensible outcome. The problem is that very often, there is no way to make sense of it and there is no sensible outcome that we can control. We are only left with our “shoulds”: “They should have said it more nicely.” “He should have told me he didn’t hear me be-

shoulds that should have happened if we ran the Universe. Except, of course, that we don’t. So we mistakenly go over it ad nauseum in our minds, hoping that our rearranging of events can make it so. This, of course, is impossible, but please don’t fault the people who do this. Research shows that our brains are literally structured

to approach dilemmas this way because this is the essence of problem-solving. We are supposed to try to figure out puzzles. The problem, of course, is when do we realize we need to give up? That’s a personal call. But the moment we see the impossibility of changing reality from irrational or unjust to rational and just, we need to breathe.

IT’S SCARY TO BE OUT OF CONTROL

Not only do we want – need – to make sense of a crazy world, but it is doggone scary to accept craziness without trying to take control of it. It is not possible to control our world and we know it, but again, our brains were structured to try to do it. That accounts for every advance in science and understanding that has ever been made. It’s a good thing, a positive thing. And we should not give up trying. Except

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when we know that there is nothing we can do. Like every end-of-life scenario. We always want to believe we will beat the odds. This time. It is very normal, but doesn’t prepare us well for the inevitable. Research on trauma victims has shown that a practice of consistent, deep breathing will actually make trauma go away. But we must first decide if we want to hold onto our memories and our suffering. So, on each of these three fronts, we need to make a personal decision: Breathe or keep the pain. Breathe or keep fighting the irrational. Breathe or try to control that which is out of our control.

Dr. Deb Hirschhorn is a Marriage and Family Therapist. She can be reached at 646-54-DRDEB or by writing drdeb@drdeb.com.

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Health & F tness

Don’t Worry. Be Campy By Shragi Chafetz, LMSW

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y son really wants to go to sleepaway camp but he still needs so much help.” “I am so nervous to send my daughter away for the summer. She just seems so dependent on me.” “My son still has nightmares in the middle of the night. He won’t be able to manage in camp.” “How will I know if my child is ready for sleepaway camp?” These are just a few of the questions that I get from mothers and fathers who don’t want send their kids off into a summer of doom. Summer time. A time where the birds sing, the grass is green, and the kids run free – unless they are one of the many kids who just seem to be more dependent on their parents and less capable to manage on their own. For these children and their parents

the thought of summer approaching just brings added stress and conflict. Child: “But mom, all of my friends are going to camp this year!” Mom: “How can you go to camp when you still need me to pick out your clothing every night?” Child: “Oh c’mon. But they’re AAALLLL going.” As parents, our number one concern and worry is our children’s wellbeing. Throughout the school year we help them, guide them, study with them, care for them, and send them off to school every morning with enough food and love to get them through the day. And we know that if a mid-day rescue is needed, the school is only a short drive away. We can make sure that his bad day gets better. We’re in control. But once we send our children off to camp, they are out of our control for weeks. Who will take care of them?

During this time of year, we hear these concerns often in our clinical practice. And they seem quite valid. The reality seems to be that our children do depend on us for so much. They almost seem helpless without us. So how will you know when your child is ready? “When assessing if your child is ready for camp, you want to ask yourself two things,” says Rabbi Shlomo Dovid Pfeiffer of Camp Romimu. “Can they get through the morning routine on their own, and can they generally problem solve on their own?” Throughout his many years in Camp Romimu, Rabbi Pfeiffer has seen thousands of children enjoy the free spirited summers of childhood. When children attend camp at the right stage in their cognitive and emotional development, they may gain valuable interpersonal skills, confidence, and independence. Camp may help kids recharge for the upcoming school year.

There are two key ways to help prepare your child for camp. First, begin encouraging autonomy in your child by slowly adding responsibilities to his daily routine. Start with something specific and attainable. It can be something as simple as tying his own shoes, picking out his own clothing, or making his bed. On your change-the-linen-day, have your child shadow you and help you. Allow your child to try putting the linen back on. (Type A moms, you can redo them when the child leaves the room.) As always, let the child experiment and keep the instructions to a minimum. As the child tries to figure out how to put the linen back on, he is also gaining valuable problem solving tools. He’s being faced with a challenge and he is attempting to overcome the challenge even if it takes him a few tries. Packing drinks and snacks for day trips will be an important task in

camp so have your child pack his own knapsack. If you go away for Shabbos, allow your child to pack his own clothing, another important skill needed for an overnight trip. Keep in mind, try not to overwhelm your child. Rather slowly and gradually expose them to chores that they will need to do on their own once in camp. With this mindset they should have ample time and experiential opportunity to gain the skills needed. At the same time, maintain a character building mindset. Look for opportunities where your child can make her own decisions and utilize important problem solving skills. Remember, while she’s still under your watch, the stakes are low. Better to let her try and fail now than to find herself in an overwhelming situation at camp, where she is forced to make a decision on her own for the first time. You can’t foresee every problem

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that may come up in camp, but you can probably imagine quite a few possibilities. For example, if your child feels conflicted about having

child grocery shopping, encourage him or her to pick some snacks and an idea for tomorrow night’s dinner. If he doesn’t like camp lunch

As parents, we have the power to give our children skills to succeed by allowing them to fail.

to choose between two sets of friends on a Sunday afternoon, let her figure it out on her own. If it is somewhat complicated you can figure it out with her, but not for her. This will be an important problem solving skill which she may then take with her to camp. If you take your

one day, he’s going to have to find a way to eat a different meal instead. Maybe something from the canteen. Maybe a tub of marshmallow fluff that was supposed to last the whole summer. Either way, he’ll know that he’s figured this out in the past and he can figure it out

again. Search for opportunities wherever you go. Supportively encourage your child to utilize problem solving skills whenever possible. If you notice an improvement in independence, your child does not need to get it right every time. Through the many learning experiences your child has gained problem solving skills and more importantly the confidence knowing that even if a new problem comes up he’ll be able to cope as past experiences has proven. Lastly, a note for parents. In our well-intended eagerness to protect our children from pain and discomfort, we take away opportunities for our children to learn and grow. G-d allowed Eve to fail the test and eat from the tree even though He knew that her failure would change the

world forever. But G-d in His infinite wisdom also knew that if He didn’t allow Eve to fail she would never learn and grow. Decision making, pain, and failure are an inevitable part of growing up and an inevitable part of life. As parents, we have the power to give our children skills to succeed by allowing them to fail. Your child will quickly learn and remember that a tub of marshmallow fluff should never be finished in one sitting. The impact of a parent’s anxiety on their child can be long lasting. If the child isn’t gradually exposed to failure from a young age he will not have the tools to cope with failure when he’s older. And remember, anxiety is usually an overestimation of the danger and an underestimation of the ability to cope. Meaning,

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chances are your child’s experiences will not be as bad as you’re thinking and he’ll be able to cope better than you think. Please note, though, that if you suspect a larger or more intense problem, a therapist may be able to assess and guide you to help you and your child. Find a therapist that is competent enough to help you navigate this issue. Now go sign those camp papers. But have your child mail them.

Shragi Chafetz, LMSW is a licensed psychotherapist at the Five Towns Wellness Center in Cedarhurst, NY. He specializes in the treatment of children and adolescents. For more information, please visit www.5twc. com.

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Winner, Winner Chicken Dinner By Naomi Nachman

The clock is ticking down to Pesach and all the stores are lining their shelves with the latest Pesach products. There is excitement in the air, as well as a bit of panic for the upcoming cookand clean-a-thon that is fast approaching. I have put together three of my favorite and easy chicken recipes to share.

Coke Chicken

Preparation Place the sliced onions in the bottom of a large pan. Lay the chicken on top of the onions and season with salt and pepper. Mix the sauce ingredients together and pour over the chicken. Let it marinade for an hour, then bake it at 375°F for 1 hour and 15 minutes uncovered.

Chicken Stuffed Kishka

shred all vegetables. Mix all together. Add the rest of the ingredients and mix thoroughly. Place a small amount of kishka in middle of the chicken breast and roll up. Brush with duck sauce and roll in matzo meal or crumbs. Bake for 30 minutes at 350°F.

Saucy Chicken

I usually prepare this dish well in advance and freeze it raw, in rows, on a cookie sheet lined with parchment paper. When I am ready to cook the chicken, I defrost them the night before by placing the chicken in the fridge and cooking them up fresh the following morning.

Ingredients

Ingredients 3 large onions, sliced 16 pieces chicken (8 tops and 8 bottoms) 4 teaspoons garlic powder 2 cups Coke 2 cups ketchup 2 cups apricot jam Salt and pepper

Kishka Layer 1 carrot, grated 1 potato, grated 1 stalk celery, grated 1 small onion, grated 1/3 cup oil 5 tablespoons potato starch ½ tsp salt 1 ½ tsp paprika Chicken 6 chicken breasts, pounded thin ½ cup matzo meal crumbs or nongebrocht crumbs Duck sauce

Preparation To prepare the kishka: Peel and

Here are three easy chicken sauces that can be used for cooking pargiyot (dark meat chicken cutlets), white meat cutlets or chicken on the bone. They can be prepared ahead of time and frozen for when you are ready to make the chicken. They also can be easily doubled for added convenience.

Zesty Orange 1 cup orange jam 1 cup salsa 1 tsp orange zest

BBQ Salsa 1 cup BBQ sauce 1 cup salsa

Cranberry 1 cup ketchup 1 cup mayonnaise 2 can whole-berry cranberry sauce 2-3 tablespoons onion soup mix Note: Cutlets should be cooked for approximately 25 minutes at 400°F. Chicken on the bone should be cooked for 1 hour and 15 minutes at 375°F. The internal temperature of the chicken should reach 165°for health and safety reasons (you can use an internal probe to monitor this).

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

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Notable Quotes “Say What?!”

The president of the United States’ schedule is not set by terrorists. - Secretary of State John Kerry, on “Face the Nation,” defending the president attending a baseball game in Cuba on the day of the Brussels terrorist attack

I’m going to say something that will sound pretty harsh but I think it’s true: That wasn’t a mistake, that wasn’t weakness, that was policy, his going to the ballpark and his spending less than a minute commenting on the attack. I actually believe that in his heart of hearts, the president’s policy is that it’s not that big a deal. There are other things that are more important, and that was what he was messaging.

Here’s the latest on President Obama’s trip to Cuba. I saw that over the weekend he and his family were photographed on a walking tour of Havana in the pouring rain. Which means the president is like everyone’s dad on vacation: If he paid for the non-refundable tour, you’re going on that non-refundable tour. – Jimmy Fallon

I do think that President Castro had in mind a rather iconic photo with President Obama and his arms raised together. I think President Obama believed that would imply a whole lot more agreement on some priorities than actually exists. – White House Spokesman Josh Earnest explaining why President Obama’s arm went limp when Raul Castro tried raising it together with his after a joint news conference

At the Arizona primary yesterday, Republican voters had to wait as long as five hours. People in Arizona were furious and said, “That’s time I could have spent deporting my gardener.” – Conan O’Brien

- Former CIA director Michael Hayden, who served briefly under Obama in 2009, on MSNBC discussing the president attending a baseball game right after the Brussels attack

The big story is President Obama’s historic visit to Cuba. After landing yesterday, Obama immediately tweeted out, “What’s up, Cuba?” And Cubans opened up a window and yelled, “We don’t have the Internet! It’s like 1955 here!” – Jimmy Fallon

I thought probably the situation in the United States is not that good and there is no one to assist the Secretary of State in carrying his luggage...Probably you brought some money with you to haggle on key matters. - Vladimir Putin, poking fun at Secretary of State John Kerry at a joint press conference in Russia because Kerry came off of the plane carrying his own briefcase

The latest national poll shows Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton are in an effective tie for support from Democratic voters. Not in an effective tie? Bernie Sanders' neck. – Seth Myers

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Donald Trump tweeted that Raul Castro disrespected the president by not greeting him at the airport. Seriously? Our countries have been enemies for 60 years. I can’t even get my best friend to pick me up at the airport. – Jimmy Fallon

The New York Times published a quote calling millennials lazy, narcissistic, and obsessed with social media. Meanwhile, millennials have called The New York Times, “What’s a ‘New York Times?’” – Conan O’Brien

There is a higher bar you have to get over before you prosecute somebody who is running for president. – Ron Fournier, on MSNBC, discussing a possible Hillary indictment

Bernie can get very fired up. I watch him on these debates. But remember, if it seems like he’s yelling at you, it’s because he is yelling at you and you deserve it. - Jimmy Kimmel

My favorite part about watching Bernie in debates is how he’s always got his finger up like he’s trying to flag down a waiter to get the check. - Ibid

Today, Apple announced it’s releasing a new smaller iPhone. The iPhone is described as so small, it can fit in the palm of the hand of the child who made it. – Conan O’Brien

Obama also spoke in Cuba yesterday and said that U.S. airlines will start making commercial flights to Cuba this year. But first, Obama said he wants to see a greater respect for human rights — not in Cuba, at LaGuardia. – Jimmy Fallon

Today, the Jews are heading the world’s economy, without the Jews you Arabs would not have known how to deposit your money in the bank.

If you believe we can all rise together, if you believe we’ve finally come to the point where we can put the awful legacy of the last eight years behind us, and the seven years before that where we were practicing trickle-down economics and no regulation in Washington, which is what caused the crash, then you should vote for her. - Bill Clinton, while campaigning in Spokane for his wife

Three more states went to the polls yesterday, and a lot of places wound up having record turnout. I guess people really want to be able to tell their grandkids, “There used to be a country called America and I voted in its last election.” - Jimmy Fallon

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Donald Trump got a nice delivery on Sunday: a new grandson. His daughter Ivanka gave birth to a baby boy. She named him Theodore, which is interesting. Theodore is usually shortened to Ted, like Ted Cruz. That’s one way to get back at your father. “Dad, we’d like you to meet Theodore, Rosie, Megyn Kelly, Mexicans, Muslims, Jeb Bush.” – Jimmy Kimmel

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Political Crossfire

Anti-Muslim Rhetoric Profits the Enemy By Michael Gerson

fter the Brussels murders, and the Paris murders, and the San Bernardino murders and dozens of previous, tragic iterations of innocent blood on the sidewalk, the two leading Republican candidates for president propose to finally get tough on terrorism. In Ted Cruz’s view, America is “voluntarily surrendering to the enemy to show how progressive and enlightened we are.” He would have us “carpet bomb” the Islamic State and “patrol and secure Muslim neighborhoods before they become radicalized” here at home. ”Look,” says Donald Trump, “we’re having problems with the Muslims.” He would “knock the [heck] out of ISIS,” close the border to Muslim immigrants “until we figure out what’s going on,” “do a lot more waterboarding,” and purposely target the families of terrorists (at least until he seemed to backpedal). The argument advanced by Cruz and Trump is straightforward. Out of an excess of political correctness, America has not recognized and confronted the Islamic nature and motivation of terrorism. This, according to the candidates, has hamstrung U.S. law enforcement,

counterterrorism and bordercontrol efforts, which should include the heightened scrutiny of Muslims. The migration of Muslims presents a particular, Trojan-horse threat, illustrated by the European experience of segregation and radicalization. “This all happened,” argues Trump, “because frankly there is no assimilation.” The emotional urgency of the Republican frontrunners is understandable, particularly in light of President Obama’s underreaction – a statement about the Brussels attacks of less than a minute, followed by some Cuban baseball. The terrorists – who worship death, fashion bombs out of young men and women and exploit Islam for totalitarian political purposes – deserve our outrage. But here is the problem. Rhetoric that targets “the Muslims” and singles out Americans for suspicion based on nothing more than their faith seriously complicates the war against terrorism, for these reasons: (1) Anti-Muslim rhetoric strains relations with Sunni Muslim countries, which we are trying to convince to do more to combat the Islamic State. “The leadership of these countries,” former acting CIA

director Mike Morell told me, “understand American politics enough to know that, for now, this is just rhetoric. But their publics do not get that. And it is the perception that acts to limit what these nations can do overtly to support the U.S.” (2) It amplifies Islamic State propaganda that the West is conducting a religious war against the “caliphate,” which is a source of terrorist morale. “It certainly feeds extremist recruitment,” says Morell, “but it also makes even moderate Muslims wonder if the extremists may be right.” (3) Anti-Muslim rhetoric needlessly disrupts relationships with American Muslim communities that are often the first to recognize and report radicalization in their midst. “From the perspective of American Muslims,” according to former national security adviser Stephen Hadley, “the rhetoric creates a sense of alienation from their fellow citizens and makes them more susceptible to the [Islamic State] argument that they have no real place in American society – and that their true ‘home’ is in the caliphate.” In a sense, Trump is right. Assimilation is the key. But by what possible theory of assimilation should

America declare Islam to be inconsistent with its ideals? If our objective were to replicate Europe’s dangerous social segregation, what would we do? Maybe conduct the war against terrorism through war crimes; screen

strengthen the U.S. immigration system in light of terrorist threats – to tighten the visa and passenger-list systems, and ensure FBI access to information on the smartphones of terrorists. “But let’s not forget [that] what

The terrorists – who worship death, fashion bombs out of young men and women and exploit Islam for totalitarian political purposes – deserve our outrage.

for Muslims at the airport (by some mechanism that still escapes me); declare the Muslim faith a target of heightened suspicion; occupy Muslim neighborhoods with a heavy-handed police presence; encourage anti-Muslim attitudes that could easily devolve into hate crimes and violence. It is no mystery how resented people become resentful. “This ugly rhetoric risks stoking the kind of alienation here that we have seen in some European Muslim communities,” former Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff told me. There is room to

makes us vulnerable,” says Peter Feaver, a former adviser at the National Security Council, “is not the presence of immigrants in our midst. Rather what makes us vulnerable is the degree of alienation within any community, including immigrants.” Alienating Muslim allies, scapegoating Muslim citizens and resigning ourselves to a global religious conflict would grant the terrorists a victory without a battle. Which makes Trump and Cruz either quite cynical or alarmingly oblivious. (c) 2016, Washington Post Writers Group

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The Empty Promises of Trump and Sanders By Michael Gerson

n a time of brushfire populism, the problem is not the populace, it is the populists who seek to lead it. The two candidates who call themselves revolutionaries – Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump – are, in

fact, backward looking, intellectually timid and unresponsive to the real needs of the working and middle classes. This judgment emerges from some basic economics (bear with me). The

last several decades have seen both dramatic increases in productivity and the fading of the traditional, American, middle-class dream. The globalization of labor markets (creating competition with skilled workers abroad) and new technology and automation (hollowing out whole categories of labor at home) have placed downward pressure on wages and put a relentless emphasis on acquiring new skills. If the global economy were your boss, he or she would be demanding harder work for less money while making you go to school at night. Unfortunately, this creep is actually most people’s boss, ultimately. The populists are right that important institutions have been woefully unresponsive to these changes. A recent Casey Foundation report found that 82 percent of African-American and 79 percent of Latino fourth-graders are reading below proficient levels. How are they being prepared for the new economy? Nearly 10.2 million young people in America are not in school or in the workplace. How did they fall between the sidewalk cracks of American life? Colleges and universities in America graduate only about half the students who enter, leaving many in debt and without a diploma to show for it. What is Sanders’ liberal populist answer to these challenges? He wants to increase Social Security benefits for everyone, including the wealthy; he wants free college edu-

cation for everyone, without a serious emphasis on quality; he wants to break up the big banks; and he wants a single-payer health care system. “What kind of guts does it show to promise people free things?” asks Jonathan Cowan, President of Third Way, a moderate Democratic think tank. The centerpiece ideas of the Sanders campaign could have been proposed by Hubert Humphrey in the 1960s. Sanders would massively expand the commitments of 20th-century liberalism, defiantly un-updated for 21st-century challenges. His campaign is progressive nostalgia in concentrated form. Trump, the other self-described revolutionary in the race, is running a campaign entirely based on nostalgia. He proposes to return America to greatness by personally reversing globalization. “I’ll bring back our jobs from China, from Mexico, from Japan, from so many places,” he says. But how? There is no real policy beneath the pledge. It is entirely magical thinking. The parts of Trump’s economic plan that can be weighed and measured – the productivity loss from expelling millions of workers and the global recession that might result from blowing up the global trading order with tariffs – are frightening. Where Trump is not vacuous, he is dangerous. Working-class people and their challenges should transform the Republican Party. But Trump’s welcome to these voters includes

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deception, exploitation and crackpot policies that make their eventual disappointment and alienation assured. “The populists,” says Cowan, “are not the revolutionaries” – assuming (for the sake of this argument) that revolution involves an ambitious, modern vision of economic adaptation. And who might the real revolutionaries be? Proposals by Third Way to improve the quality of higher education and encourage savings and capital accumulation for lower income people are practical and promising. Reform conservative plans to increase the rewards for work and encourage social mobility fall into this same category.

If the global economy were your boss, he or she would be demanding harder work for less money while making you go to school at night.

Centrist Democrats and reform conservatives disagree on many things. But their arguments draw the outlines of an actual 21st-century politics, which puts the best instincts of the left and right to work on real contemporary problems, rather than promising empty revolutions that look mainly to the past. And what politicians in our system might carry on an adult conversation about the goal of ensuring that all Americans are prepared for the new economy? The answer, surprising myself even as I write it, would probably be President Hillary Clinton working with House Speaker Paul Ryan and an emerging Republican anti-poverty caucus (think Sens. Tim Scott of South Carolina and Mike Lee of Utah) in

the Senate. There are many other reasons to oppose Clinton for president (or, if you are a Democrat, to

want Ryan deposed and the Senate retaken). But if the goal is addressing working-class struggles, the real revolution might come

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Obama’s Ideological Holiday in Havana By Charles Krauthammer

he split-screen told the story: on one side, images of the terror bombing in Brussels; on the other, Barack Obama doing the wave with Raul Castro at a baseball game in Havana. On one side, the real world of rising global terrorism. On the other, the Obama fantasy world in which romancing a geopolitically insignificant Cuba – without an ounce of democracy or human rights yielded in return – is considered a seminal achievement of American diplomacy. Cuba wasn’t so much a legacy trip as a vanity trip, vindicating the dorm-room enthusiasms of one’s student days when the Sandinistas were cool, revolution was king and every other friend had a dog named Che. When Brussels intervened, some argued that Obama should have cut short his trip and come back home. I disagree. You don’t let three suicide bombers control the itinerary of the American president. Moreover, Obama’s next stop, Argentina, is actually important and had just elected a friendly government that broke from its long and corrupt Peronist past. Nonetheless, Obama could have done without

the baseball. What kind of message does it send to be yukking it up with Raul even as Belgian authorities are picking body parts off the floor of the Brussels airport? Obama came into office believing that we had vastly exaggerated the threat of terrorism and allowed it to pervert both our values and our foreign policy. He declared a unilateral end to the global war on terror and downplayed the threat ever since. He frequently reminds aides, reports Jeffrey Goldberg of The Atlantic, that more Americans die annually of bathtub accidents. It’s now been seven years. The real world has stubbornly refused to accommodate Obama’s pacific dreams. The Islamic State has grown from JV team to worldwide threat, operating from Libya to Afghanistan, Sinai to Belgium. It is well into the infiltration phase of its European campaign, with 500 trained and hardened cadres in place among the estimated 5,000 jihadists returned from the Middle East. The increasing tempo and sophistication of its operations suggest that it may be poised for a continent-wide guerrilla campaign. In the face of this, Obama

remains inert, unmoved, displaying a neglect and insouciance that borders on denial. His non-reaction to the Belgian massacre – his 34-minute speech in Havana devoted 51 seconds to Brussels – left the world as stunned as it was after the Paris massacre, when Obama did nothing. Worse, at his now notorious November news conference in Turkey, his only show of passion regarding Paris was to berate Islamophobes. David Axelrod called Obama’s response “tone deaf.” But that misses the point. This is more than a mere mistake of presentation. Remember his reaction to the beheading of the American journalist James Foley? Obama made a statement expressing his sympathies – and then jumped onto his golf cart for a round of 18. He later told NBC News’ Chuck Todd that this was a mistake. “Part of this job is also the theater of it,” he explained, “it’s not something that always comes naturally to me.” As if postponing a bucolic recreation was a required piece of political playacting rather than a president’s natural reaction – a mixture of shock and sorrow – to the terrible

death of a citizen he could not save. It’s not as if Obama is so super cool that he never shows emotion. Just a few months ago, he teared up when speaking about the Sandy Hook school shooting.

the world views, correctly, with horror and increasing apprehension. He’s been in office seven years, yet seems utterly fixed on his campaign promises and pre-presidential obsessions: shutting down Gitmo, rap-

What kind of message does it send to be yukking it up with Raul even as Belgian authorities are picking body parts off the floor of the Brussels airport?

That was the work of a psychotic. But when speaking about the work of Islamist terrorists, he offers flat perfunctory words. I cannot fathom why. Perhaps having long seen himself uniquely qualified by background and history to make peace between Islam and the West, to now recognize how badly things have gone on his watch is to admit both failure and the impossible grandiosity of his original pretensions. Whatever the reason, he seems genuinely unmoved by a menace the rest of

prochement with Iran, engagement with tyrants (hence Havana), making the oceans recede (hence the Paris climate trip). Next we’ll see yet another useless Washington “summit” on yet another Obama idee fixe: eliminating nuclear materials. With the world on fire, the American president goes on ideological holiday. As was said of the Bourbons: “They have learned nothing and have forgotten nothing.” (c) 2016, The Washington Post Writers Group

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Flying Fast By Avi Heiligman

Gloster Meteor

Author’s note: This column is meant to be informative only and not all inclusive. The source to last week’s article’s statement that Hitler was the target of 42 assassination attempts is from National Geographic. In these “Flying Fast” articles it would be too time consuming and confusing to the reader if all of the records are listed as the record has been broken over 80 times.

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p until WWII the speed record was held under 500 MPH as piston (propeller) airplanes just couldn’t garner the airspeed. Two other types of planes (we’ll get into other flying projectiles like helicopters and space vehicles later) were invented during WWII that were a lot faster. Jet and rocket planes were experimented on by

SR-71 Blackbird

many of the belligerents, and it was the Germans to first use them in combat, albeit not very effectively. Prior to the invention of rocket-powered aircraft, the air speed record was set at 469 MPH. The German-built Me-163 Komet shattered that record with a 623 MPH air speed set in 1941. In 1944, a Me163 reached 700 MPH but in terms of practicality as a fighter it proved too difficult to handle. Only 300 planes were built and only a few flew combat missions. The Japanese also built rocket planes but these were manned suicide missiles that were launched to be manually steered into ships. Very few hits were recorded. The first successful rocket plane flew in 1928 but when most people think of rockets, outer space comes to mind. American Robert Goddard was the man who has been credited with ushering in the Space Age and actually launched his first liquid fuel rocket two years before the Germans experimented with

rockets on planes. However, he had little public support and people laughed at the notion that a human could travel into space via a rocket. In 1981, the Space Shuttle Columbia, using rocket power, flew at a speed of 17,500 MPH upon reentry to earth. The crew of two, astronauts Joe Engle and Richard Truly, are still considered the fastest humans to fly in a manually controlled aerial machine. Apollo 10, the mission before the moon landing, used a Saturn V rocket to orbit the moon in May 1969. The crew of three holds the record of flying in a manned spacecraft (although it wasn’t manually controlled like the space shuttles) flying at 24,790 MPH. The Me-163 Komet was soon given up by the Luftwaffe in favor of the Me-262 Sturmvogel jet airplane. As with rocket planes, many countries experimented with jet propulsion and found it much easier to work with for fighter planes. The Me-262 was the first jet built on a large scale; over 1,400

F-111 Aardvark

planes rolled off the assembly lines, and created havoc among slower Allied propeller planes. In 1944 a Nazi pilot flew the jet at 624 MPH but that was soon beaten by the Me-163. Even though the Me262 was more famous, the British-built Gloster Meteor was the first operational jet fighter. It set the first official record at 606 MPH as the German jet records were all unofficial. Several newer examples of the Meteor were given to Israel in 1953 and played a key role during the Suez Canal Crisis in 1956. Not to be outdone by their Cold War counterparts, the Russians built several top line jet fighters that revolutionized aerial combat. The Sukoi Su-27 was developed in the 1970s to compete with American fighters like the F-14 Tomcat and the F-15 Eagle. Several variants of the Su-27 made it very maneuverable and fast. It had a top speed of mach 2.35 (mach 1 is the speed of sound – 767 MPH), which is over 1,800 MPH. Even faster than the

Su-27 is the MiG-31 Foxbat with a speed of mach 2.83. While fighters may garner a lot of head-turning with their speed, agility and headline-making exploits, jet bombers and spy aircraft are just as capable. One of the fastest bombers is the F-111 Aardvark built by General Dynamics in the 1960s. It had a top speed of mach 2.5 (1900 MPH) but it was the capacity that it used it in that made it special. It was a cheap ($10 million), low-level fast bomber capable of carrying air-to-air missiles and nuclear weapons. The wings on the Aardvark were variable-sweep wings which mean they could be adjusted in mid-air to allow for maximum performance depending on the mission. The third fastest recorded speed of a manned plane is the Lockheed YF-12 with a top speed of 2,070 MPH. It set the speed record in 1965 for jet planes and would hold it for eleven years. The YF-12 also held the altitude record which was also surpassed by the Blackbird. Only three

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YF-12 jets were built for testing and it never reached production. Reconnaissance and spy planes need to be fast as they venture deep into territory taking pictures and other intelligence data. 32 SR-71 Blackbirds were built by Lockheed in the 1960s and were used by the Air Force and NASA until 1999. In 1976 it flew at a speed of 2,193 MPH – a record that still stands today for “air breathing” planes. Many in-

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novations were built into the Blackbird including stealth technology that made it almost invisible to radar. Two of the planes were lost during the Vietnam War but both were due to mechanical failures. Out of the 800 surface-to-air missiles shot at Blackbirds, not one scored a hit. Declassified files recently revealed that the Blackbird flew over Egypt during the Yom Kippur War and the information gathered was handed over to Israel. Flying

at mach 3.2, the Blackbirds zoomed across the Suez and made the 12,000 mile round trip while refueling five times mid-air. One piloted by Colonel Jim Wilson had a close shave when a red warning light almost forced him to make an emergency landing in Tel Aviv (it seems that the Israelis were unaware of the top secret flights to help them gather intelligence) but it just turned out to be a malfunctioning light. The North American

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X-15 was a hyper-sonic plane that used rocket power (it is not air breathing) that flew at a speed of 4,500 MPH in 1967. Two of the test pilots for the X-15 were Joe Engle who flew the Space Shuttle Columbia in the record mentioned earlier and Neil Armstrong who needs no introduction. Only three were built and one crashed in an accident that broke the airframe apart midair. There are many other fast aircraft built in the past

century that deserve a spot in our “Flying Fast” articles. We will get to more of them including fast helicopters, gliders and unmanned aircraft along with more manned planes in Flying Fast, Part III.

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

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A Little Tax Magic By Allan Rolnick, CPA

ou already know that our Congress is as gridlocked as at any time in recent history. Budget and spending bills get rolled up into year-end monstrosities. Urgent priorities like immigration reform get hijacked by partisan posturing and “appeals to the base.” The wizard Merlin himself would have a hard time pulling a sword from the solid block of stone that is today’s U.S. Senate. So here’s a welcome breath of legislative fresh air that everyone can support. Representative Pete Sessions (R-TX) and six colleagues have introduced House Resolution 642 “recognizing magic as a rare and valuable art form and national treasure.” Magic “is timeless in appeal and requires only the capacity to dream,” they say. It “transcends any barrier of race, religion, language, or culture.” It even helps children with disabilities improve their physical and mental dexterity and build confidence. You know who else seems to like

magic? The candidates offering tax plans as part of their effort to succeed Barack Obama as President of the United States! Take Republican Donald Trump, for example. He’s drawn attention for his proposal to eliminate the “carried interest” loophole that lets private equity fund managers pay tax at preferential long-term capital gain rates on much of their income. But he also proposes to cut taxes to 15% on business income and 25% on individual income. He would also eliminate tax for singles earning less than $25,000 and joint filers earning less than $50,000, eliminate the marriage penalty and the alternative minimum tax, and make the estate tax vanish into thin air. Sounds great, right? But what does that tax plan do to the country’s financial health? According to the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, those proposals would pull $12 to $15 trillion more debt from a hat. To balance the budget, spending

would need to be cut by 40-80%, or the economy would have to grow by over 10%. Trump isn’t the only Republican with a little magic up his sleeve. Texas Senator Ted Cruz promises that on his first day in office, he’ll saw the IRS in half. (Conveniently for the rest of us, he won’t be putting it back together.) He also promises we’ll be able to do our taxes on a postcard. (That’s sort of a “card trick,” right?) And former candidate Marco Rubio promised to make capital gains taxes disappear in a puff of smoke. “There’s just a lot of magical thinking going on on the Republican side,” says Len Burman, director of the Washington-based Tax Policy Center. Republicans aren’t the only ones counting on some fiscal sleight-ofhand to make ends meet. Everyone’s favorite Democratic Socialist, Bernie Sanders, promises to nationalize health care, make public colleges tuition-free, and raise taxes on the rich. But New York magazine

has accused him of “thinking like a Republican,” citing four former chairs of the Council of Economic Advisors who hit Sanders for “magic math” claims that his plan would lead to 5.3% economic growth and 300,000 new jobs per month. And while nobody has accused Hillary Clinton of magical thinking, she’ll need a fair amount of sorcery to get her plan through Congress. Look, we all wish we could wave a magic wand and make our tax bills vanish. But unless Penn & Teller run for the White House, that’s not going to happen. What’s the next best thing? A proactive plan that can save you far more than a rabbit hidden in a hat. Plan today and see if you can make some taxes vanish!

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

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That Secret Fraternity By Rivki D. Rosenwald Esq., CLC, SDS

never understand all that traffic in and out. They show up, responsibly, at 9 or earlier, very on time. It’s impressive. But then it can’t be that they all need to use the men’s room at the same time, could it? That’s more of a women’s myth: “we need to go powder our noses.” And honestly what does that even mean?! Where are they off to? They find some random hidden room somewhere in the bowels of the cellar or hidden beyond the rabbi’s study. They suddenly leave their spot looking distracted and drained. And then they return satiated and invigorated. They seem to have solved the world’s problems, decided who will win the Super Bowl – even predicted the next U.S. president. What happens in that room that turns them into a bunch of savants on everything – happy ones at that? Some people think it’s the sponge cake. Some think it’s the herring. Others are sure it is the schnapps. But here’s what it really is: it’s the male bonding! They have those few moments of being together: Being the authority on everything!

No women correcting them either. Then telling those jokes. No women stopping them either. And eating or drinking whatever they want. And

you were single and needed a place to eat. Obviously, it’s an in with our Maker. And of course He has no qualms with the men going out mid-

Some people think it’s the sponge cake. Some think it’s the herring. Others are sure it is the schnapps. But here’s what it really is: it’s the male bonding!

– you guessed it – no women telling them not to eat or drink, either! Once they have this little respite, they return to their seats re-energized. They can now shukel with the best of them!! And trust me, that’s important. Because the further one can lean forward, the closer one can get to…their rabbi! And that’s important ‘cause he has a special in with – you know who?! And I’m not talking about the Rebbetzin. That only mattered when

prayer for a break because He made them and knows who has too much ADD to sit straight through till the end. The rabbi, on the other hand, may take it a little more personally if someone leaves. Though it really has nothing to do with him. Because this happens in almost every shul no matter who the rabbi is! It may seem somewhat like a private fraternity. But they don’t have one single rush week. Because

they’re in a rush every week! And there is no pledging to get in. Because these guys usually only pledge at a ballgame. Basically, it’s just a bunch of guys taking a break so they can get back to the business at hand. This thing they call the Kiddish Club has nothing to do with kiddush or club. It’s actually just a continuation of that old school intermission called recess. And we’re lucky this group doesn’t suddenly look for a spot to start throwing a football around! Could you just see it? A bunch of grown men in suits tackling one another. It’s bad enough when they’re all diving for the last piece of kugel. A little talk, a little snack, and they’re back to the business at hand. Refreshed and able to work for that A+ — of course not in a classroom with their teacher but back in their row at shul and trying to earn it with Hashem!

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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