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his pieces touch the listener and inspires him to become a better, more whole person. With Eitan, his music’s message is not just conveyed in the tune that he composed; the words of his songs are significant as well. The lyrics are not just texts selected randomly – they’re words that mean a lot to the singer who hopes that they will touch the listener as well. Around Purim time, there’s a certain CD that I like to put on when we’re in the car. Sure, it’s probably meant for children below the age of seven, but when I hear it, it makes me laugh. When we put it on – it starts with a Purim gramman – I inevitably hear groans from the backseat. We probably got the CD from a charity wayback-when, and the songs are sung by someone who perhaps was trained as a chazan but doesn’t speak Hebrew. Despite the groans emanating from the back, I still like to put the CD on come Adar. Because no matter how unsophisticated the songs sound, it still brings in the Purim cheer. Listening to the CD at least once a year reminds us that Purim is about the unexpected and finding cheer in the out-of-theordinary. This Adar, turn on the music – fast or slow, refined or childish – and let the music uplift your spirits and speak to you. Wishing you a wonderful week, Shoshana

dar is synonymous with song. You know that Purim is in the air when you walk the aisles of the supermarket and “Mishe, mishe, mishe’nichnas Adar” is being blasted over the loudspeakers. Your children come home singing songs about three-sided hats, a queen with pimples and a tail, and a drunken, silly king. And it’s not just Purim-themed tunes that permeate the air when Adar is here. Any music – fun, upbeat, exciting rhythms, notes that make us kick up our heels and dance – helps to bring in the Adar spirit. Music speaks to a person’s soul. But it speaks a different language to each person to whom it’s connecting. Think about it: suppose a few people like a certain song. Does every person relate to that song in the same way? Is it possible that the melody soothes one person, inspires another, and invigorates a third person? It’s one tune, but it moves each person differently. This week, we spoke with singer and performer Eitan Katz about his craft. Eitan’s songs are hartzig. They are songs with a purpose, designed to uplift the singer and the listener. His melodies span the spectrum of music. Some of his tunes are slow pieces, urging the listener to look deep within himself and connect with his Creator. Others tunes of his make a person’s heart swell, lift his soul so that it can soar. Regardless of the emotion, each of

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Contents LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

COMMUNITY Readers’ Poll

Community Happenings

NEWS

Global

National

Odd-but-True Stories

ISRAEL Israel News

My Israel Home

Is Netanyahu’s Reign about to End? by Tzvi Lev

PARSHA Rabbi Wein

Easy Does It by Rav Moshe Weinberger

Parsha in Four by Eytan Kobre

Purim: Hidden Beneath the Surface by Avi Feiner

PEOPLE The Wandering Jew

Soulful Strings: Eitan Katz Talks about the Message in His Music

Hunting the German Wolfpacks by Avi Heiligman

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HEALTH & FITNESS Adar, Progeny, and the Pursuit of Happiness, Part II by Beth Perkel 104 What to Do When Your Spouse has Checked Out by Dr. Deb Hirschhorn

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Your Guide to Healthy Shabbos Eating by Cindy Weinberger, MS, RD, CDN

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FOOD & LEISURE

Dear Editor, The latest advice given to me in two areas of my life was to “leave it.” My backyard was filling with water and would sometimes lead to the flooding of my basement. I asked the plumber if I should fix this, and he said that the weather is the main factor and it wouldn’t pay to fix it and I was better off leaving it. The second area was related to my two right front teeth that were mobile. My periodontist and orthodontist concluded to just leave them. It wasn’t necessary to put braces on nor pull them out. I felt dumbfounded at first with these pieces of advice. I always thought in life the answer had to involve doing something, not refraining from it. I didn’t know what the lesson was. As I thought about it, I realized that there was a profound lesson to be gleaned. Looking around and seeing in life that things are continuing to operate as they are supposed to is a great blessing. Furthermore, even if things aren’t perfect, it’s a blessing that nothing needs to be changed. It certainly leads to a feeling of gratitude that there can be such great value in the status quo. Who would have thought that leaving something was the best news I could get? Steven Genack

Dear Editor, I remember it well. When I used to fly home from a vacation or a business trip, I would always have one of my children pick me up at the airport. It was a very special feeling. Knowing that the car was waiting, warm in the winter or cool in the summer, and sometimes even a coffee and danish to welcome me, was not only comforting but a true display of kibbud av v’aim. But that was then. Today there’s Uber. For the reasonable price of $30-40 what parent would trouble their children to schlep out to pick them up? Besides, there are plenty other opportunities for them to do mitzvos. And as far as the benefit of arichas yomim that the Torah promises, that won’t be lost. That blessing will be earned by the likes of Juan, Jamil, Carlos, Boris, Mohammad, and other hardworking Uber drivers. I guess that as long as the old folks get home safe and sound, that’s all that counts. Just Venting Dear Editor, The interview with Dr. Naor BarZeev was informative and contained vital information for every reader. Just this week another study came out confirming that the MMR vaccine does not cause autism. I appreciated that Dr. Bar-Zeev emphasized Continued on page 10

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Dating Dialogue, Moderated by Jennifer Mann, LCSW 100 What Kind of Cop are You? by Rabbi Dr. 126 Naphtali Hoff

Your Money

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HUMOR Centerfold 78 POLITICAL CROSSFIRE Notable Quotes

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A Bomb that Didn’t Explode by Marc A. Thiessen

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that we all have responsibility to ensure the health of our fellow Jew, as there are those who are more susceptible and vulnerable when it comes to certain diseases. This was an important article. Thank you for printing it for our community. Sharon Berman Dear Editor, Great piece on vaccines this week. Very important read. Keep up the great reporting. Hal Monk Dear Editor, In reference to the “Dating Dialogue” column, February 28, 2019: Going to therapy is not a deal-breaker when it comes to dating – you and your wife can and will decide when and if going to therapy is important once you’re married. Every couple will have differences of opinions and of cultures when they marry. This person comes from a family with a lot of Shabbos guests; the other person’s family likes to enjoy time alone on Shabbos. This person’s family is very emotional and demonstrative; the other person’s family is more reserved. People are different, families are different…and that’s OK. It’s important to understand that you’re not looking for a mirror image of yourself when you get married. You are looking for a soulmate to help you in your endeavors and with whom you’ll build a family. There will be differences, but a general understanding, love and respect for the other is what will make this union blossom. Sincerely, Avigayil K. Dear Editor, To “Just Venting”: perhaps your letter touches on a deeper point. How about we get rid of vorts in general? The family can gather together at a happy l’chaim when the couple gets engaged and then we can all wish them mazal tov at the wedding three months later. No reason to spend money or energy or time on putting together a vort in which few people are interested in schlepping out to give good wishes. That’s what phones are for! You can put out a mass text message: “Mazal tov! Shua and Shaindy are engaged! We are so excited and look forward to seeing you

at our simcha in three months’ time. We’re giving you notice so you can start dieting to fit into your suit that you always wanted to wear again. Can’t wait to dance with you!” This way, people will be able to share in your simcha via text and you will be able to save money for the new couple to set up their new home. Oh, and there’s no schlepping out to Lakewood. Sincerely, Just Practical Dear Editor, I wanted to express my disgust with Democrats voting against “The Born-Alive Abortion Protection Act.” This bill would have punished doctors that didn’t try to save an unborn child after an attempted but failed abortion. It was refreshing, however, to see the majority of the senate vote for it, but it was repulsive to see the rejection of the bill not reaching the required 60 votes. This vote demonstrated the crazy positions that the left has on abortions. Democrats have advocated and signed radical legislation like when Governor Cuomo of NY signed the bill that made abortion legal in the third trimester, and they have rejected reasonable legislation like The Born-Alive Abortion Protection Act. The progressive left used to be a fringe of the Democrat Party, but now they are the mainstream of the Democrat Party. We see people like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, and other Democrat politicians that advocate not only for third trimester abortions, but reject bills that would punish doctors for not saving a life! If you thought that position wasn’t radical enough for you, just take a look at what Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said this past week. AOC said that perhaps people should reconsider having children because of the threat of climate change. The day that Roe v. Wade was approved by the Supreme Court was a sad day for the world. Democrats are always concerned when it comes to gun violence, so if they’re so concerned about defending life, then they should stop their hypocrisy on abortion. Our representatives have a responsibility to defend us and future generations, and it’s about time that they actually start defending future generations! Sincerely, Donny Simcha Guttman

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While women’s rights are improving around the world, there is still a long way to go until men and women enjoy full equal rights globally. That was the finding of an expansive World Bank study examining how gender integration has evolved in recent years. “From a 25-yearold getting her first job or a mother balancing work with caring for her children, to a woman on the brink of retirement, the index explores how the economic decisions women make are affected by the law,” read the report. The survey looked at social norms and the status of women throughout the world, including going places, starting a job, salaries, getting married, having children, running a business, managing assets, and retirement pensions. Nations were graded on a points-based scale, with 100 points equaling full gender integration. According to the report, only six countries give women full equal rights as males. The countries are all located in Europe and include Belgium, Denmark, France, Latvia, Luxembourg and Sweden. The report singled out France as one with “the biggest improvement among the top performers,” noting new legislation aimed at helping these trends increase including those that target domestic violence and paid parental leave. Far behind Europe in gender integration is the Middle East and North Africa, with the report finding that women in the regions are afforded only three-fourths the legal rights of men.

Meanwhile, the U.S. came outside the top 50 with only 83.75 points, behind Germany (91.88), Australia (96.88), and the United Kingdom (97.5). At 58.36 points, South Asia marked the biggest increase from a decade ago, while Sub-Saharan Africa increased from 64.04 to 69.63 over the same period. Overall, the global average came in at 74.71 – a slight four-point increase from 2009, the last time the World Bank carried out the study. World Bank Group Interim President Kristalina Georgieva said that the full integration of women is key for the global economy to develop further and meet the challenges of the future. “If women have equal opportunities to reach their full potential, the world would not only be fairer, it would be more prosperous as well,” said Georgieva. “Change is happening, but not fast enough, and 2.7 billion women are still legally barred from having the same choice of jobs as men.”

Corruption Allegations in Canada

This week, yet another member of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s cabinet resigned amid allegations of pressuring the country’s top law official not to pursue a criminal investigation against a powerful engineering company accused of bribery. Treasury Board president Jane Philpott said on Monday that it is “untenable” for her to remain in the cabinet amid the scandal and said she can no longer defend the government, becoming the second minister to resign in the wake of the controversy. “It grieves me to leave a portfolio where I was at work to deliver on an important mandate. But I must abide by my core values, my ethical responsibilities and constitutional obliga-

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eral party officials close to Trudeau to interfere with her handling of the case. She also recalled an instance in which Trudeau expressed his concern to her about the potential for job layoffs if the company is found guilty of wrongdoing and asked if she could “help out.” This prompted her to ask the prime minister: “Are you politically interfering with my role as attorney general? I would strongly advise against it.” The retort prompted Trudeau to backtrack, she said. Earlier this year, Trudeau made her the veteran affairs minister in a move that many believe was a demotion. Wilson-Raybould suggested she was demoted as retaliation for not succumbing to the pressure to merely fine the company rather than going to trial. Trudeau has admitted that he raised the issue of prosecution of the company with Wilson-Raybould, but insisted that he acted appropriately. He also dodged recent calls for his resignation, saying that the Canadian people would have the opportunity to voice their opinions during the country’s federal election in October.

tions. There can be a cost to acting on one’s principles, but there is a bigger cost to abandoning them,” she said in a statement. The resignation came after former Attorney General Jody Wilson-Raybould, who resigned last month, testified last week that Trudeau and senior members of his government attempted to pressure her into not taking action against a major Canadian engineering company in a case involving allegations of corruption in Libya. She said the administration’s senior officials issued “veiled threats” against her in an effort to convince her not to file criminal charges against SNC-Lavalin, a Canadian company that employs about 9,000 people in Canada or 52,000 across the world. The company is accused of bribing officials in Libya with millions of dollars between 2001 and 2011 to secure government contracts in the African nation. If found guilty, the company would be banned from receiving any federal government business for a decade. The former attorney general claimed she experienced a “consistent and sustained effort” by the Lib-

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A brief spat between the European Union (EU) and the United States is over following a decision by Washington to restore the EU’s diplomatic status. On Monday, the State Department announced that “effective immediately” the EU’s diplomatic status in the U.S. would be “as equivalent to that of a bilateral mission in the Diplomatic Corps Order of Precedence.” While the EU had traditionally been defined by the U.S. “as a country would be,” it was downgraded in January to the status of an international organization. The EU’s newfound inferior status manifested itself at George H.W. Bush’s funeral later that month when the EU’s envoy to the U.S. was the last to greet President Trump. The crisis over diplomatic proto-

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Jailed Huawei Exec Sues Canada

Meng Wanzhou, CFO of the tech giant Huawei, has filed charges against Canada, claiming that her civil rights were violated in her high-profile arrest in December. Wanzhou was detained at a Vancouver airport last year at the request

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MMR Vaccine Does Not Cause Autism According to a new study, the measles, mumps, and rubella vaccine does not increase the risk of autism

and does not trigger autism in children who are at risk. Researchers used a population registry to evaluate whether the MMR vaccine increased the risk of autism in children born in Denmark between 1999 and 2010. A total of 657,461 children were followed through August 2013, with the researchers documenting diagnoses of autism spectrum disorder as well as known risk factors including age of the parents, diagnosis of autism in a sibling, preterm birth and low weight at birth.

Over 95% of the children received the MMR vaccine, and 6,517 were diagnosed with autism. The MMR vaccine did not increase the risk of autism in children who were not considered at risk for the disorder and did not trigger it in those who were, according to the study, published on Monday in the journal Annals of Internal Medicine. “This idea that vaccines cause autism is still around and is still getting a lot of exposure in social media,” noted Anders Hviid, lead study author and senior investigator at Statens Serum Institut in Denmark. With anti-vaccine groups becoming more vocal and even celebrities and politicians spreading fear of vaccines, Hviid and his team wanted to provide solid scientific answers. The biggest contribution of the study was the inclusion of children at risk of autism, noted Dr. Paul Offit, director of the Vaccine Education Center at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, who was not involved in the new research. He hopes the latest piece of evidence will reassure families with young children at risk of developing autism spectrum disorder that the vaccine will not increase

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ease Control and Prevention. Around the world, measles cases increased by 48.4% between 2017 and 2018, according to UNICEF calculations from World Health Organization data. Ten countries, including Brazil, the Philippines and France, accounted for nearly three-quarters of the total increase in measles cases in 2018. The World Health Organization has deemed vaccine hesitancy – the reluctance or refusal to vaccinate despite the availability of vaccines – as a top 10 threat to global health in 2019.

South Korean Town Swamped with Garbage South Korean firefighters have been desperately battling for over 90 days with a pile of garbage that is intermittently going up in flames. The 170,000-ton garbage dump is located in the South Korean village of Uiseong. While the country town was once known for being home to a pop sensation singing group and the

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South Korean curling team, it is now characterized by the world’s most flammable garbage dump.

The region’s problems date back to 2008, when local businessowner Kim Seok-dong received a license to store 2,000 tons of trash on his site. By 2016, however, the garbage pile had ballooned to the 170,000 tons it is now, leading to a court order for its removal. Yet efforts to dispose of the massive garbage pile stalled amid a new development. As the dump began decomposing, toxic gasses started bubbling under the surface. In December 2018, random fires started erupting at various spots at the dump, leading to the daily fires that have turned the lives of local villagers into a nightmare.

Park Hyun-soon, a local farmer, says that ash caused by the dump has destroyed his livelihood by ruining the eggplants that she raises. “The eggplants are growing gnarled,” she told CNN. “We almost never open our windows. When we leave the house, we don’t smell the nature but the burning (garbage). My eyes hurt, my head hurts. “All the residents are suffering.” The government says it plans to clear 21,000 tons of trash from the burning mountain this year. What will happen to the remaining 149,000 tons is unclear. There are 1.2 million tons of illegally abandoned waste across South Korea, according to the Ministry of Environment. The pile in Uiseong is the largest in the nation. In theory, all waste produced in the country is handled in one of three ways: it is either recycled, processed into fuel, or incinerated. But a series of events in recent years have disrupted this system. In 2017, smog levels in the country forced the government to tighten regulations on incineration facilities. Excess waste was then exported to China. But later that year, China banned the import of 24 types

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of solid waste, including paper and plastic, extending it in April last year to include dozens more types of recyclable materials, including steel waste, used auto parts and old ships. Exports of plastic waste from South Korea to China fell by over 90%, according to the Korea International Trade Association. Trash overflowed on the streets of Seoul as the waste management companies refused to collect it. This environment created a black market in which brokers in South Korea offer to dispose of waste at below the market rate. Brokers charge between $130 and $170 to dump a ton of waste in a sparsely populated part of the country. Since the China ban, South Korea has been using Southeast Asia as a dumping ground for much of its non-recyclable waste. The country now exports 10 times more waste to the Philippines and almost 30 times more to Thailand than it did before Beijing’s ban. But not all the waste sent abroad is disposed of legally.

A Cure for AIDS?

An HIV-positive man in Britain has become the second known adult worldwide to be cleared of the AIDS virus after he received a bone marrow transplant from an HIV resistant do-

nor, his doctors said. Almost three years after receiving bone marrow stem cells from a donor with a rare genetic mutation that resists HIV infection – and more than 18 months after coming off antiretroviral drugs – highly sensitive tests still show no trace of the man’s previous HIV infection. “There is no virus there that we can measure. We can’t detect anything,” said Ravindra Gupta, a professor and HIV biologist who co-led a team of doctors treating the man. The case is a proof of the concept that scientists will one day be able to end AIDS, the doctors said, although it does not mean a cure for HIV has been found. Gupta described his patient as “functionally cured” and “in remission,” cautioning, “It’s too early to say he’s cured.” The man is being called “the London patient,” in part because his case is similar to the first known case of a functional cure of HIV in an American man, Timothy Brown, who became known as the Berlin patient when he underwent similar treatment in Germany in 2007 which also cleared his HIV. Brown, who had been living in Berlin, has since moved to the United States and, according to HIV experts, is still HIV-free. Some 37 million people worldwide are currently infected with HIV, and the AIDS pandemic has killed around 35 million people worldwide since it began in the 1980s. Scientific research into the complex virus has in recent years led to the development of drug combinations that can keep it at bay in most patients.

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ity (PA), was closed on Monday in what was viewed as the latest blow towards a once-healthy relationship with the Palestinians.

Gupta, now at Cambridge University, treated the London patient when he was working at University College London. The man had contracted HIV in 2003, Gupta said, and in 2012 was also diagnosed with a type of blood cancer called Hodgkin’s lymphoma. In 2016, when he was very sick with cancer, doctors decided to seek a transplant match for him. “This was really his last chance of survival,” Gupta told Reuters in an interview. The donor – who was unrelated – had a genetic mutation known as

“CCR5 delta 32,” which confers resistance to HIV. Despite the success in these two patients, it’s doubtful these treatments will be a cure for all patients suffering from HIV. The procedure is expensive, complex and risky. To do this in others, exact match donors would have to be found in the tiny proportion of people — most of them of northern European descent — who have the CCR5 mutation that makes them resistant to the virus.

U.S. “Palestinian Embassy” Closes The U.S. consulate in Jerusalem, which had long been viewed as its embassy to the Palestinian Author-

As the U.S. does not officially recognize Palestine as a state, it does not have an embassy in Ramallah, which is considered a capital city of sorts for the PA. As such, the American consulate in the Arab East Jerusalem coordinated all of Washington’s ties with the Palestinians, while the other U.S. consulate in West Jerusalem dealt with more traditional consular activity. This week, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo closed the East Jerusalem consulate and put its responsibilities under the auspices of the official U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem, a change which took effect on Monday. While Pompeo said that the move was done for reasons of “efficiency,” the PA has alleged that the decision to close their semi-official outlet to the Trump administration was just another move against President Mahmoud Abbas and the Palestinian leadership. Saeb Erekat, a senior Palestinian Authority official, fumed that the change is “the final nail in the coffin of the U.S. administration’s role in the peace industry.” “The consulate has served 175 years in Jerusalem-Palestine. Its closure has everything to do with the fanatical ideology that rejects the Palestinian people’s right to self-determination,” said Erekat. Adding to the PA’s anger is the fact that their ties with Washington will now be managed by U.S. Ambassador David Friedman and not the consulate’s director-general as before. The Palestinians accuse Friedman of being overly friendly with Israel and refuse to accept him as an honest mediator in negotiations with the Jewish State. “The Trump administration is intent on leaving no room for doubt about its hostility towards the Palestinian people and their inalienable rights as well as its abject disregard for international law and its obligations under the law,” said Hanan Ashrawi, a member of the PA’s ruling executive council. Ashrawi called the

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Sheldon Adelson Battling Cancer Casino mogul Sheldon Adelson is in “dire health” after battling cancer, his attorneys announced this week.

Adelson, a mega-donor to the Republican Party as well as to a variety of Israeli causes, has not returned to work since December due to “side effects from medication he is taking for the treatment of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma,” said Adelson’s spokesperson and attorney Ron Reese. Rumors of Adelson’s declining health had abounded in recent months but burst out into the open after his lawyers said that he was too ill to show up to court in a recent high-profile lawsuit.

Adelson, 85, is known for the considerable sums of money he pours into Jewish causes, including Birthright and Friends of the IDF. The billionaire, whose wealth is estimated at $35.4 billion, is also a big donor to the Republican Party and co-owns Yisrael Hayom, Israel’s most-read newspaper. Adelson was born in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1933. The son of a cab driver, his first job was selling newspapers. By the age of 12 he was already selling toiletries, and eventually headed to City College of New York, although he dropped out before completing his degree. After a stint in the U.S. Army, Adelson worked as a court stenographer on Wall Street. He then worked as a mortgage broker and financial advisor. Adelson had his first major business success in the 1960s when he invested in The American International Travel Service, which was very profitable. He dabbled in other businesses throughout the 1970s before finally striking gold when he created the created the Computer Dealers Expo, or COMDEX in 1979. At age 55, he purchased the Sands Hotel & Casino on the Las Vegas strip for $128 million. He is currently CEO and Chairman of the Las Vegas Sands Corporation and owns around half of the $13 billion gambling firm. In 2018 he was featured at number 15 on the Forbes 400 list.

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2 IDF Soldiers Israel: 8th Most Hurt in Car Powerful Ramming Attack Country

Two IDF soldiers were injured on Monday morning after a terrorist rammed his car into them in the Arab village of Rima, north of Ramallah. The attack occurred in the early hours of the morning. The terrorist had steered his car into soldiers standing outside the village, which was the scene of a large-scale IDF arrest a few hours prior to the attack. The soldiers summarily opened fire, killing the driver and another person in the car. One soldier, who has been named Yisrael Meir Elitzur, is in serious condition, while the Border Policeman’s condition was defined as moderate. They were helicoptered to Tel Hashomer Hospital in Ramat Gan. “Terrorists rammed their vehicle into a number of soldiers who had stopped by the side of the road at the entrance to the village,” acknowledged the Israel Defense Forces in a statement. “The troops opened fire on the terrorists. Two of them were neutralized, and the third terrorist was lightly injured.” The two terrorists were identified as Amir Daraj, 20, from the village of Kharbatha al-Misbah, and Yousef Inqawi, 20, from Beit Sira. The IDF said that the pair were known Palestinian activists who had earlier hurled firebombs at Israeli cars on the nearby Route 60 highway. A new spate of rioting broke out following the ramming attack and the subsequent liquidation of the terrorists. The attack was praised by the Hamas terror group, who said in a statement that “the Palestinian nation will continue in its fight against the occupier until it earns its rights and frees its land. “The message of the young rebels in the West Bank is that they will not rest until the occupation is expelled and their holy places are liberated, and that the plans to Judaize Jerusalem will not stand,” added the terror group.

Citing Israel’s “strong economy” and “outsized role in global affairs,” U.S. News and World Report put Israel as the world’s 8th most powerful country in its annual global rankings. The index ranked countries based on a variety of criteria, including leadership, economic influence, political influence, international alliance, and a strong military. Some 80 countries were ranked in total, out of the 193 United Nations member states. The magazine put Israel in such a prominent spot due to the Jewish State’s military and growing alliances. However, the magazine noted that Israel’s “boundaries are seriously disputed and it faces ongoing conflict with Palestine.” With the 8th spot, Israel came ahead of oil-rich Saudi Arabia and South Korea, who occupied the 9th and 10th spots. The index noted Riyadh’s “vast oil reserves” but warned against the growing scrutiny the kingdom is facing for the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in October. Taking the number one spot was the United States, due to its status as “the world’s most dominant economic and military power.” The U.S. was closely followed by Russia, China and Germany.

Israel Bombs 2 Hamas Posts Israeli attack helicopters struck two Hamas guard towers along the Gaza border on Monday in retaliation for an explosive balloon that landed in an Israeli community from the Palestinian-controlled enclave.

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The balloon-borne explosive had landed in the Eshkol Regional Council, near the Gaza border. It later detonated but caused no damage.

The bombing comes amid a recent escalation between Israel and the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip. Israel had bombed Gaza three times since Saturday in retaliation for overnight riots along the border fence. During the clashes, hundreds of Palestinians had rioted and hurled firebombs at Israeli troops patrolling the area. Soldiers responded with riot dispersal means and occasional live fire. Since last April, Hamas has utilized balloons and kites to launch incendiary bombs into Israel. The rudimentary explosives have devastated the agricultural communities and have caused millions of dollars’ worth of damages. While Israel generally didn’t respond to the provocations, it has begun retaliating in recent weeks with live fire after the aforementioned balloons landed into Israeli territory. The IDF’s more aggressive response to Gazan “kite terrorism” has

been welcomed by area residents, who say that only military action will restore deterrence vis a vis Hamas. “The airborne incendiary and explosive devices tied to balloons are terrorism for all intents and purposes, and today this terrorism is stepping up,” Eshkol Regional Council Chairman Gadi Yarkoni told Ynet. “Eshkol residents have shown incredible patience, allowing the decision-makers and the Israel Defense Forces to exhaust all options to eradicate the terror striking our communities. But we won’t accept this reality and expect an immediate solution ensuring long-term calm.”

Gap and Old Navy to Split

On Thursday, Gap Inc. announced that it would be splitting into two separate public companies some time during 2020, with Old Navy separating from the remaining Gap-owned brands. “Following a comprehensive review by the Gap Inc. Board of Directors, it’s clear that Old Navy’s business model and customers have

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increasingly diverged from our specialty brands over time, and each company now requires a different strategy to thrive moving forward,” said Gap chairman Robert Fisher. The son of Gap co-founders Don and Doris Fisher, Robert determined that “pursuing a separation is the most compelling path forward for our brands — creating two separate companies with distinct financial profiles, tailored operating priorities and unique capital allocation strategies, both well positioned to achieve their strategic goals and create significant value for our customers, employees and shareholders.” The new Old Navy will be run by current brand CEO Sonia Syngal. At present, Old Navy runs more than 1,100 stores across North America and Asia, and brought in $7.8 billion in sales last year – up from $7.3 billion in 2017. The remaining businesses – Gap, Intermix, Athleta, and Banana Republic – will continue on as an entity named “NewCo.” In contrast to Old Navy, these brands all together totaled $8.7 billion in sales last year. Aside from the athletic wear brand Athleta, the NewCo brands have consistently struggled for a number of years. Gap shares, for instance, have lost 30% since October 2014, and an estimated 230 Gap stores are slated to be shuttered over the next two years.

According to Schubert, DNA from blood found at the scene confirmed that Clark had broken the windows on three vehicles before breaking a sliding glass door in a nearby backyard, then jumping a fence into his grandmother’s property. The officers had seen a flash of light near Clark’s hand and mistook his cellphone for a gun. They responded by opening fire, killing Clark. A second review of the incident by State Atty. Gen. Xavier Becerra will probably be released “soon,” his spokeswoman said. Clark’s family has filed a wrongful-death lawsuit against the city seeking up to $35 million in damages. Clark was the father of two young sons, Aiden, 4, and Cairo, 2. Currently, two bills regulating the use of deadly force by police are working their way through the Legislature. Assembly Bill 392, of which Clark’s brother Stevante is an advocate, would make it easier to prosecute police involved in shootings. Law enforcement unions have put forward their own bill, Senate Bill 230, which would address use of force through various policies and training. Sacramento Mayor Darrell Steinberg has announced that he would support AB 392. “The standard needs to change,” said Steinberg. “The question must be, ‘Was the shooting preventable?’”

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The future of the National Socialist Movement, one of the largest neo-Nazi groups in the United States, appears to be in doubt after an African-American man took over the organization. The National Socialist Movement (NSM) has become one of the most prominent hate groups in recent years. Appearing at far-right rallies decked out in full Nazi uniforms, the NSM played a prominent part in the

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education material to the NSM’s website and says that more changes are coming soon. “As a black man, I took over a neo-Nazi group and outsmarted them,” he said.

effectively bankrupt the group and prevent it from continuing with its extremist activities. However, Stern said he does want to scrap the corporation entirely because he doesn’t want the group’s former members to restart the movement. “Everything is out in the open,” Stern said. “My plans and intentions are not to let this group prosper. It’s my goal to set some hard records right.” Stern has also added Holocaust

Carolina Carrico, 5, and Leia Carrico, 8, asked their mother if they could go for a walk on Friday evening. But after their mother told them no, the two sisters left the house and went out walking anyway – and then got lost. Their mother, Misty, noticed that things were quiet at home and sounded the alarm when they didn’t show up. But then things became scary. No one could locate the girls in the woods around their Northern California home. Scores of firefighters and police officers joined in the search for the two girls. Thankfully, on Sunday morning, after 44 hours of being on their own in the wilderness, the two girls were found. They survived the ordeal by using basic survival skills they learned at their local 4-H club. The firefighters who found them saw that they were huddled together under a bush. They had been following a deer trail before they got lost. The two decided to stay put so rescuers could come to them and drank fresh water from huckleberry leaves. Thankfully, the two are well and have been united with their families.

NSA Program Shuts Down If you felt uncomfortable with Uncle Sam possibly listening into your calls, you can breathe easier now. The National Security Agency has quietly shut down a system that analyzes logs of Americans’ domestic calls and texts, according to a senior Republican congressional aide, halt-

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ing a program that has touched off disputes about privacy and the rule of law since the September 11 attacks. The agency has not used the system in months, and the Trump administration might not ask Congress to renew its legal authority, which is set to expire at the end of the year, according to the aide, Luke Murry, the House minority leader’s national security advisor. In the weeks following the September 11 attacks, President George W. Bush’s administration started the program as part of its intense pursuit for al-Qaeda conspirators, though a court later secretly blessed it. The intelligence contractor Edward J. Snowden disclosed the program’s existence in 2013, jolting the public and contributing to growing awareness of how both governments and private companies harvest and exploit personal data. The way that intelligence analysts have gained access to bulk records of Americans’ phone calls and texts has evolved over time, but the purpose has been the same: they analyze social links between people to hunt for associates of known terrorism suspects. Intelligence agencies could still

use that same technique on data they obtain through other means, like collection from networks abroad, where there are fewer legal limits. But those approaches do not offer the same systematic access to domestic phone records. Congress ended and replaced the program disclosed by Snowden under the U.S.A. Freedom Act of 2015, which will expire in December. Security and privacy advocates have been gearing up for a legislative battle this year over whether Congress should extend the current version of the program – and with what changes, if any. Information given by Murry, who is an advisor for Representative Kevin McCarthy of California, posits that there is possibly no need for more debate on the subject. Asked about prospects for upcoming national security lawmaking, Murry brought up the pending expiration of the Freedom Act, but then disclosed that the Trump administration “hasn’t actually been using it for the past six months” and that “I’m actually not certain that the administration will want to start that back up.” Murry referenced problems that the National Security Agency dis-

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closed last year. “Technical irregularities” had contaminated the agency’s database with message logs it had no authority to collect, so officials purged hundreds of millions of call and text records gathered from American telecommunications firms.

Brain Chips

Want to be super-smart? I mean, how about making money or typing something by just thinking about it? This is no longer stuff of dreams – scientists are actively working on a smart chip for human brains that can make people super-intelligent. Northwestern University neuroscientist and business professor Dr. Moran Cerf is working on a smart chip for the brain. “Make it so that it has an internet connection, and goes to Wikipe-

dia, and when I think this particular thought, it gives me the answer,” he explained. Cerf is collaborating with Silicon Valley hotshots to make his dream a reality. Facebook also has been working on building a brain-computer interface, and SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk is backing a brain-computer interface called Neuralink. “Everyone is spending a lot of time right now trying to find ways to get things into the brain without drilling a hole in your skull,” Cerf said. “Can you eat something that will actually get to your brain? Can you eat things in parts that will assemble inside your head?” It sounds mind-blowing. Relationships might be on the line. “This is no longer a science problem, this is a social problem,” Cerf admitted. Even more than relationships, a smart chip made for people with big bucks may widen the disparity between the rich and poor in our nation. “They can make money by just thinking about the right investments, and we cannot; so they’re going to get richer, they’re going to get healthier, they’re going to live longer,” he noted. The average IQ of an intelligent

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ted public records requests with the commission for a list of police officers convicted of a crime. On January 8, the journalists received a spreadsheet with 12,000 names, including current and former officers along with individuals who had applied but had subsequently been rejected from service. Convictions include domestic abuse, child molestation, and even murder.

When Skies Collide

A Southwest plane taxiing at Newark airport struck a parked Southwest airliner at a terminal gate on Saturday morning. While no injuries were reported, the experience was disconcerting to passengers aboard the plane. “Initial reports indicate an aircraft operating Southwest Flight number 6 bound for Fort Lauderdale began to taxi following de-icing when its left winglet grazed another parked aircraft being de-iced to operating Southwest Flight 3133 to Nashville,” the airline reported. “Both aircrafts were brought back to gates where our employees continue assisting customers whose travel plans were interrupted,” the airline said. Approximately five hours behind schedule the airline provided a new plane for the concerned flyers to continue their journey. The aircraft involved in the collision have been taken out of service for review. The incident comes just days after Southwest received Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) approval to expand its routes to Hawaii.

Cops Demand Reporters Give Up Info California Attorney General Xavier Becerra has stated that his office may pursue legal action against two journalists if the reporters move forward with publishing a list of police officers with criminal backgrounds. In December, reporters Robert Lewis and Jason Paladino submit-

But now, Attorney General Becerra, whose office is responsible for maintaining the information, said the data should never have been distributed in the first place and seeks to prevent the journalists from publishing it. Becerra says that the confidential information had been given inadvertently and that the reporters were in fact breaking the law by possessing this information. “I was stunned, shocked — all the range of emotions you might have imagined — and continue to be,” said Lewis, of being threatened with criminal prosecution. He referred to the “impenetrable wall of secrecy” in California that surrounds police officer records or misconduct. Becerra, meanwhile, called the rumors of threats against journalists a “false narrative” at a news conference given on Friday. “I respect the importance of a free press and the need to have transparency and the need to give the American public the right to know,” he said. “[But] if innocent people get caught up in this, that’s not right.”

Anti-BDS Laws or Freedom of Speech? The predicament facing a smalltime Arkansas newspaper has highlighted the legal complications involved in passing legislation outlawing support for the anti-Israel

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passing a package of bills battling the Israel boycott movement in January by a margin of 74-14. Known as the “Strengthening America’s Security in the Middle East Act,” it provided legal protection for states that had already passed laws battling BDS. The Arkansas Times used to be a weekly publication; it recently scaled back and is now a monthly periodical.

The law is called Act 710 and was first passed by the State Legislature in 2017. The bill bans “public entities from contracting with and investing in companies that boycott Israel” and is part of a recent wave of bills across the U.S. that fight the BDS movement. “It’s a very, very small step but it’s what we could do as the state of Arkansas,” Republican Senator Bart Hester told NBC News. “When one state does it, it’s not much, but when 35 or 40 or 50 states do it, it starts to send a message.” While Leveritt does not oppose Israel, he refused to sign the pledge under grounds that it violated his freedom of speech. The University of Arkansas-Pulaski Technical College summarily yanked its ad buys as it is required to do by law, costing the newspaper $13,000 in revenue. Leveritt has since teamed up with the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) to sue Act 710 as unconstitutional. “You can’t condition government contracts on the forfeiture of First Amendment rights and make people choose between their livelihoods and their First Amendments rights,” said the ACLU. While proponents of anti-BDS legislation say that it is cracking down on a movement many feel unfairly singles out Israel for negative treatment, its detractors say that it infringes on democratically-protected speech. The litigation may result in a legal precedent that will affect similar laws all across the United States. More than 25 states have passed anti-BDS bills in recent years with another 15 currently under consideration. Anti-BDS legislation has also gone national, with the U.S. Senate

Want to become happier and healthier? Ditch the gym. A new study found that spending as little as 20 minutes a day at a park has demonstrably positive effects on a person’s wellbeing. The study, which was conducted by researchers at the University of Alabama-Birmingham, found that spending time in a leafy space caused a person to report increased feelings of happiness, regardless of if the person was doing exercise or not. The findings were published in the International Journal of Environmental Health Research and examined 98 adults who spent varying amounts of time at three public parks. The apparent health benefits included increased alertness, stress reduction, and recovery from mental fatigue. “Overall, we found park visitors reported an improvement in emotional well-being after the park visit,” said Dr. Hon K. Yuen, who coordinated the research. “However, we did not find levels of physical activity are related to improved emotional well-being,” Yuen added. “Instead, we found time spent in the park is related to improved emotional well-being.” Researchers who worked on the study said that the findings showed the need to increase leafy and green spaces all across the world, particu-

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Are Smartphones to Blame for Deaths?

Smartphones have been blamed for a host of negative factors. Among other things, the devices are said to cause sleep issues, depression, marriage problems, and internet addiction. And now, a U.S. road safety organization says that increased smartphone use is a key factor into why pedestrian deaths in 2018 reached a high point over the past 3 decades. According to data compiled by the Governors Highway Safety Association, 6,227 pedestrians were killed in motor vehicle accidents in 2018. This is the highest number of fatalities since 1990 and continues an upward trend dating back to 2009. The association says that smartphone usage is a major reason for the upswing, as both pedestrians and drivers are constantly looking at their phones instead of concentrating on the road. Pedestrian deaths had been steadily dropping until 2009, when smartphone sales and data use began to skyrocket. While researchers cautioned that the correlation between the two needs greater examination, phone use is one of the only factors that can result in such a rapid rise in fatalities. “Cellphone use is one of the few metrics I can find that shows a consistent change, a large-scale change, year after year,” noted Richard Ret-

ting, a former safety consultant who contributed to the report. Other reasons the Governors Highway Association cited are the switch to SUVs, as the hulking vehicles commonly hit people in the sensitive upper body. “At the same impact speed, a pedestrian is much more likely to die in an SUV crash than in a car crash,” Retting explained. “Even at 20 or 25 miles per hour, being hit by an SUV, the chance of fatal injuries increases significantly.” The state with the most amount of fatalities was California with 432 in 2018. New Hampshire had only one pedestrian fatality last year. 23 states saw drops in pedestrian deaths during the first half of last year, with six states reporting double-digit drops. In addition, nighttime crashes constitute more than 90% of pedestrian deaths, while alcohol-impaired drivers or pedestrian deaths made up half of the total road deaths in 2017.

Many Killed by Tornadoes in Alabama

At least 23 people were killed and dozens more injured after over 12 tornadoes rocked Alabama’s Lee Country on Sunday, including two tornados within an hour of each other. Lee County Sheriff Jay Jones told reporters that the region bordering Georgia and Alabama had sustained “catastrophic” damage. Jones initially estimated the death toll at 14 with dozens more missing before revising the fatality toll to 23. “We have a pretty significant area of damage,” Jones said. One particularly deadly twister resulted in destruction spread out more than half a mile wide and several miles long throughout Lee Country. “Houses completely destroyed, homes – just basically slabs left where once stood a home,” Jones

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said. “In specific areas, the contents of one residence we know for a fact were located over 1,000 yards away. So we’ve got a very wide storm track that went through the area – may have even been two storms, we’re not sure. But massive damage.” With 23 dead, the tornado was the deadliest to hit Alabama since more than 200 people ended up dead after a tornado in 2011 and was the deadliest tornado in the United States since 2013. Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey extended a state emergency that has been in place since February as 12,000 people remain without electricity. A state of emergency was also issued in Georgia for Harris, Talbot, and Grandy Counties. “We lost children, mothers, fathers, neighbors and friends,” Gov. Ivey said at an afternoon news conference. In an apparent nod to the 2011 tornado that killed about 250 people across Alabama, Ms. Ivey added: “We will overcome this loss. We’ve done it before. We’ll do it again.” President Donald Trump encouraged the victims on Sunday and called on them to remain strong. “To the great people of Alabama and

surrounding areas: please be careful and safe,” Trump wrote on Twitter. “Tornadoes and storms were truly violent and more could be coming. To the families and friends of the victims, and to the injured, G-d bless you all!”

World’s Largest Snow Maze

Clint Masse, who owns A Maze in Corn in Manitoba, Canada, is a-maze-d. The snow maze that he erected this year is now confirmed

to be the world’s largest snow maze, according to the Guinness World Records. “It feels good like when people ask, we can actually say Guinness says we’re the biggest. We are, in fact, the biggest,” Clint said. The snow maze is a whopping 2,789.11 square meters – topping the previous record holder’s size of a “mere” 1,696 square meters. Using 300 truckloads of snow, with 4,265 feet of tightly packed snow walls, Clint was confident his icy puzzle would win. Even so, he kept mum on the measurements until the final word was handed down about the crown. “We thought we could do it but you’d never know because the people in the woodwork that might be making these snow mazes as well...and so, that’s why it feels really good. It’s official at one time in history; Manitoba has the biggest snow maze in the world,” Masse said. The maze attracted visitors from around the world including those from Spain and Pennsylvania. Masse recalls visitors from the American state who drove to Manitoba just to make their way through the maze. “We’ve done a corn maze for so

many years and a snow maze just looks like an awesome winter option,” Masse told Global News. Sounds a-maze-ing to me.

“I Hate Iowa” Looking to sell your home? Wendy Lange may be able to give you advice on how to attract buyers – although she doesn’t really know how savvy a seller she is.

Last week, Lange posted a photo of herself in the snow on Facebook with the words, “I hate Iowa, please buy my house.” She thought that her son would be able to see the photo and laugh at her joke. He was able to

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see it – and so was everyone else. Now, the photo has gone viral, with scores of people interested in the listing for her Vinton home. Lange built her home in 2004, but she and her husband are ready to move somewhere warmer. “It’s just too cold,” she clarified. “I don’t really hate Iowa.” She was confused when her son told her that the photo has been seen thousands of times. “As my son likes to call and tell me, ‘Mom, do you know you’ve gone viral?’” she said. “I said, ‘What’s viral?’” Viral, Wendy, would mean that your buyer could be anywhere in the world – and that’s a good thing for you if you want to head down to Florida sooner than later.

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Love chocolate? This job is for you. Mondelez International, a British company that makes chocolate, biscuits, candy and gum, is seeking someone to fill an opening on a 12-person panel charged with tasting new chocolate products. The “Chocolate Tasters” are charged with “sharing opinions and collaborating with others to reach an agreement on taste,” the company said. Nervous about your lack of official experience tasting gooey confections? Have no fear. “No experience is required as full training will be provided to develop your taste buds and the specific vocabulary required to communicate your opinions,” the job posting states. Even so, the company says that in order to succeed in this role, you need to have a “passion for confectionary” and “taste buds for detection.” You also need to be honest, eager to try new products, be able to communicate, and speak English. The part-time job pays $14 an hour and includes benefits such as life insurance, pensions and paid vacations. “Due to an expected high number of applications for this tasty role, if you have not heard from us within 14 working days, your application has not been successful and we recommend you visit our career website for more opportunities,” the company said. In other words, someone else is going to be tasting all that chocolate.

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MyPillow Mix Up

The MyPillow guy made a woman lose sleep last week. No, it wasn’t because her pillow was lumpy or flat. We know that could never happen with a MyPillow pillow. It was about a cardboard cutout of the MyPillow guy, Mike Lindell, that made her call police. Officers in Minnesota responded to a call to check on the welfare of an adult male who was standing outside for a while without a coat in the freezing temperatures. After they

arrived at the scene, they found the cardboard cutout, which they agreed looked pretty realistic from afar. “Those cardboard cutouts sure can look real from a distance and the caller certainly was not wanting to get too close thinking who is this deranged person standing outside in the cold hugging a pillow; always better to call the police,” police said. Word of the humorous call even reached the CEO and founder of MyPillow himself who tweeted out an article about it with a laughing emoji. Now the caller will sleep well tonight – guaranteed or your money back.

Zebra Stripes Don’t Fly Why do zebras have stripes? Researchers opine that the stripes on those animals help repel flies. According to scientists from the University of Bristol and the University of California at Davis, horse-

animals. But when the flies got closer, things get dicey. The flies landed less frequently on the zebras and the horses covered in striped coats. Want to repel horseflies on your next bike ride? Consider wearing a black and white jacket – oh, and pedal real fast.

flies landed on fewer horses wearing black and white striped coats than on horses that went coat-less. “This reduced ability to land on the zebra’s coat may be due to stripes disrupting the visual system of the horse flies during their final moments of approach,” said Martin How, a research fellow at the University of Bristol. “Stripes may dazzle flies in some way once they are close enough to see them with their low-resolution eyes.” From a distance, the flies were equally attracted to both horses and zebras, with the same number of insects hovering around both types of

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Community Centenarian Helps HALB Lev Chana Celebrate 100th Day

rs. Belle Littenberg majestically swept into the backroom of HALB Lev Chana, accompanied by her special friend, kindergartner Rebecca Abittan, as over 120 kindergarten students and staff members waited to greet this extraordinary woman. Rebecca and Belle, who both lived in the same building in Lawrence, first met when Rebecca was six months old and her babysitter took her to visit Belle at her apartment. It was love at first sight. It was Rebecca’s idea to share her amazing friend with her fellow students to celebrate their 100th day

of school. Thank you Rebecca! Born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1914, Belle answered all questions presented by students and staff, clearly and concisely, displaying a sharp sense of humor and incredible recall of events. She told of a childhood without electricity, no phones (if you wanted to talk to a friend you yelled across the alleyway), no cars or cell phones, planes or computers. They used blocks of ice in ice boxes to keep food fresh, traveled by trolley, wrote with quill writing implements, and had fruits and vegetables delivered by horse and wagon.

Our students hung on every word and story she told. They were excited to hear that Belle loved sports and played tennis and basketball and enjoyed ice skating when she was young. She enjoyed listening to the children as they shared with her what they liked to play. Belle was a teacher, a guidance counselor, dental assistant and hospital employee, among her many jobs. She went back to Hofstra for a master’s degree at the age of 70, and commented that her father believed in women going to college. There was a huge round of applause from staff members and

children alike at this accomplishment. Belle has two daughters and four granddaughters. She moved to Lawrence in her 90s and gave up her driver’s license at 95. She loves playing bridge and mahjong. Belle credits her longevity to good nutrition, exercise, and listening to her mom and dad. Before she left to go to her weekly bridge game with her friends, she promised, verbally and with a handshake, that if the One Above is OK with it, she would join us at our 2020 100th day celebration. We can’t wait!

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Dr. Rambod Visits BYQ

ith February being Dental Health Month, Bais Yaakov of Queens first graders concluded their science unit with a visit from a neighborhood dentist. Dr. Avraham Rambod, both a local dentist and BYQ parent, came to visit the first graders to demonstrate the proper way to brush and floss teeth. After answering the inquisitive students’ questions, Dr. Rambod distributed a “goody bag” filled with products to each eager girl. The kit was filled with all the necessities to help keep their teeth clean and healthy.

Minute to Win It with Bnei Akiva Woodmere

n Sunday, February 24, Bnei Akiva of Woodmere hosted a Minute To Win It event at the Young Israel of Woodmere for 3rd - 5th graders. It was a blast! The competition was fierce with four teams, two tables for girls and two for the boys. Chevron, Teverya, Tzfat, and Yerushalim (the four holy cities and our four fantastic teams) competed against each other in 25 Minute To Win It challenges. Many of the challenges were based on Israeli and Jewish themes and ideas; it was both educational and fun! The kids had to guess the

brachot of certain foods, order the Hebrew months of the year, and create the border of Israel with ribbon. After the competition was over, we moved to the next room to enjoy pizza and drinks from Josh’s Pizza. With a turnout of over 40+ chanichim (kids), we had a phenomenal night. Thank you to our amazing high school madrichim who helped make the event a success – in true Bnei Akiva leadership style, our teen leaders always know how to take the event to the next level! Look out for our next event, Woodmere!

A Singing Success

ast week the Central community was treated to Central’s much anticipated spring musical, “The Little Mermaid” Under the direction of Central alumnae Mrs. Rachel Sterman Rosenbaum, the cast and crew practiced for months and produced a magnificent show, featuring strong singing performances, top-notch acting, beautiful scenery, and showcased immense coordination behind the scenes. The show was unique in that it incorporated performances

from choir and stomp as well. “Everyone worked so well together,” said senior Joely Metz, who played

Ariel. “Everyone was so well-cast and ended up coming together to make the show.”

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Royalty Visits Torah Academy for Girls

o, it was not Queen Elizabeth who visited TAG recently, rather it was some authentic Mothers of Royalty as portrayed in TAG’s Bas Mitzvah Event. Becoming a bas mitzvah is certainly a cause for celebration but understanding and comprehending what that entails was the goal that the school worked on for the past few months. According to Rabbi Meyer Weitman, the dean of TAG, “We wanted to refocus the standard way of celebrating a bas mitzvah and elevate it so that the girls really knew why becoming a bas mitzvah was such a major simcha in their lives. Boruch Hashem, I feel that we succeeded.” In order to utilize the talents of our sixth graders, the school sought the services of the talented Mrs. Malkie Brown to coordinate a production that would incorporate the goals of the school through song and

dance. As one mother put it, “I know the hour is late, but I must put this in writing before the morning. Tonight my daughter was a part of the most beautiful bas mitzvah event in TAG. My daughter got to shine in her own way and she felt so good about it!” By selecting three Mothers of Royalty, Chana, Miriam and Esther, the girls portrayed these exceptional role models with moving songs and exuberant dances. “Choosing to focus on the N’shei Chayil from Tanach could not have been more befitting our girls,” wrote a mother in a beautiful thank you to Rabbi Weitman, Morah Krasnow and all those involved in this spectacular event. The girls received a gift of a beautiful linear translated siddur with their names engraved on them, in the nusach of their choice. With six classes involved, there were two evenings set aside to ac-

commodate the many mothers, grandmothers, sisters and even great-grandmothers who came to join in the simcha. The stunning TAG Simcha Hall certainly was the perfect venue for this event, and the hot buffet supplied by Upper Crust was enjoyed by both students and guests. A highlight of the performance included a slideshow featuring pictures of mothers and daughters as the girls sang a beautiful and touching song recognizing what their mothers do for them and expressing their hakaras hatov. At the conclusion of the meaningful performance, the girls were treated to dancing and singing with Mrs. Bracha Jaffe leading them. Not to be left out, mothers and grandmothers also joined in as the royal simcha came to an end. Much hard work and effort went into making this such a memorable

evening. A huge yashar koach to Rabbi Meyer Weitman, for his inspiration and support, as well as his enthusiastic encouragement in all areas of this event. Thanks to all the 6th grade moros, Morah Elisheva Benjamin, Morah Shani Ismach, Morah Chevie Langsam, Morah Hinda Perr, Morah Shana Rosenbaum, Morah Batsheva Scheiner, Morah Sarale Weiner, Morah Aviva Balsam and Morah Rachel Hirth. Special hakaras hatov to our talmidah, Esther Knobel, for the beautiful slideshow. Accolades to Morah Batya Krasnow, who supervised the project from beginning to end, and to Mrs. Chavie Rhodes who made it all happen. Special thanks to Mrs. Tova Yankelewitz, Mr. Yaakov Berger, and Mrs. Nurit Obadia for all their help. And certainly, last but not least, a huge bravo to Mrs. Malkie Brown who took an idea and made it a most moving and inspiring reality.

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State-of-the-Art Achiezer Respite Room Dedicated in LIJ Hospital by the Silber Family

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pacious; inviting; welcoming; huge modern refrigerator filled to capacity with fresh, appetizing food; built-in chargers for all kinds of devices; a comfortable couch – the brand-new respite room at Long Island Jewish Medical Center has it all, providing unparal-

leled comforts for patients and their families. Sunday, March 3 marked the historic ribbon-cutting ceremony for this brand-new, beautiful, stateof-the-art respite room, the result of a team effort between LIJ and Achiezer and generously dedicated

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date, is strategically located in the lobby between the main part of the hospital, the emergency room and the Katz Women’s Building for easy access. Sunday’s ribbon-cutting ceremony was the culmination of years of talks with hospital administration, followed by months of planning

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Around the Community and building by a dedicated team of workers. The crowd on Sunday included the LIJ/Northwell Administration; members of the LIJ construction team; Achiezer staff and board members; friends and family of Mr. and Mrs. Mark and Barbara Silber; Sruly and Chavi Lieber of Dynamic Cabinetry, talented designers of the room; along with Mr. Lieber’s aunt, Mrs. Sandra Gottesman of Oceanside Bikur Cholim. The attractive cabinetry in the room was dedicated by the Lieber’s in loving memory of Mrs. Gottesman’s husband, Rabbi Moshe Gottesman. Michael Goldberg, executive director of LIJ, gave the opening remarks, thanking the team at LIJ for crafting such a beautiful room. He also spoke about the special partnership between LIJ and Achiezer, which allowed this project to come to fruition. Rabbi Mordechai Kamenetsky, dean of Yeshiva of South Shore and a close friend of the Silbers and Achiezer, then offered warm divrei bracha. Boruch Ber Bender, president of Achiezer, thanked the many individuals who worked together on this project. He drew a parallel between the way all of Bnei Yisrael were driven to build the Mishkan, no matter their strengths or abilities, and the way everyone present was singularly devoted to give what they could to help people in their time of need. Rabbi Bender made special mention of Mrs. Gottesman and her late husband Rabbi Moshe Gottesman (who recently passed away) who serve as exceptional role models of dedication to the mitzvah of bikur cholim. Through their work in South Nassau Communities Hospital, they were

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instrumental in the establishment of Achiezer’s first respite room, which is located in that facility. Rabbi Bender also recognized Mr. Yoeli Steinberg and Mr. Moshe Ratner of Gourmet Glatt for their tireless dedication to ensuring that the respite rooms are stocked with

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delicious food, as well as Sruly Lieber and his team who put heart and soul into designing a room that is so aesthetically appealing. Rabbi Bender acknowledged the dedication of Naftuli Brach and his cadre of volunteers for their efforts in stocking another respite room which is located in the basement of Cohen’s Children’s Hospital, the pediatric division of LIJ. A huge thank you was extended to Aliza Wartelsky, program coordinator at Achiezer, for her tremendous devotion to this room in particular and to the entire respite program in general, and to Mark and Barbara Silber, who jump at every opportunity to help others in the community. Achiezer values their amazing partnership with the Silber’s and are constantly inspired by their dedication and generosity. At the conclusion of Rabbi Bender’s remarks, Mr. Goldberg invited

all participants to join him in front of the new room for the official ribbon-cutting ceremony. Mr. Silber first affixed a mezuzah to the door of the respite room, and then the ribbon was cut by the Silbers, Mr. Yoeli Steinberg, Mr. Michael Goldberg, Rabbi Mordechai Kamenetsky, and Mr. Sruly Lieber. Most exciting of all, only minutes after the ceremony was finished, noted and beloved obstetrician Dr. Jonathan Herman texted Boruch Ber Bender to let him know that several family members who had just been blessed with a new baby were already enjoying the new room! Achiezer extends its gratitude and appreciation to Dynamic Cabinetry & Design, Town Appliance, Lazer Marble, Royal Marble & Granite, and to Fabuwood Cabinetry for helping bring this beautiful project to fruition.

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RS is immensely proud of seniors Ari Braun, Yaakov Weissman and Avi Radinsky, all of whom have qualified as a Finalist for the National Merit Scholarship. This is an extremely prestigious honor, and it reflects the high level of education that DRS strives to deliver to their students, as well as the level of commitment and work they expect from them. The National Merit Schol-

arship Program is a United States academic scholarship competition for recognition and college scholarships administered by National Merit Scholarship Corporation. Students who qualify as a Finalists have an outstanding academic record, are endorsed and recommended by school officials, and earn extremely high PSAT scores.

MTA Color War Highlights Teamwork and Unity

olor War at MTA gave each and every talmid an opportunity to showcase their strengths and contribute to the fantastic energy. From Chidon HaTanach to grade-wide dodgeball, basketball, hockey, frisbee, and soccer tournaments, chess competition, Chopped, STEM challenge, extreme tic-tac-toe, Torah Bowl, yeshiva-wide Tug-of-War, banner presentations, divrei Torah, team songs, and Stomp, there was something for everyone. Regardless of the wide range of activities, each day began with shiur, illustrating the yeshiva’s philosophy of putting Torah learning first. Talmidim had many

opportunities to take on leadership roles within their teams and promote the extreme sense of unity that was felt throughout Color War. Rebbeim and faculty members enjoyed working with their assigned teams and contributing to the energetic atmosphere. “Watching each grade work together as a team and seeing the achdus among all of the talmidim, regardless of whether or not they were competing against each other, was inspiring,” said Director of Student Activities Elie Hirt. “Congratulations to the seniors on their win and yasher koach to all of our talmidim for making us so proud!”

ast week, the fourth grade students of Shulamith School for Girls traveled to the Jewish Children’s Museum in Brooklyn for an interactive, entertaining learning experience. The girls were wowed by the many exhibits, such as the map of Israel that lights up to show the 40 year path the Jewish people took from Mitzrayim to Israel, the falling of the wall of Yericho, the building of the Mishkan, the creation of the world, and the Avot and Imahot. They also found it a “treat” to experience the brand new chocolate factory exhibit that demonstrates how to make chocolate using the lamed tet melachot that we may not do on Shabbat. The girls were accompanied by their teachers Mrs. Helene Gerber, Mrs. Stephanie Shilo, and Morah

Mindy Futersak, as well as parents Mrs. Temima Miller, Mrs. Carolyn Deutsch, Mrs. Aliza Pilevsky, and Mrs. Yael Eisenberg.

NY State Assemblyman Crespo Experiences MTA

TA had the privilege of hosting New York State Assemblyman Marcos Crespo of District 85 on Wednesday, February 20. Assemblyman Crespo met with MTA students, faculty, and board members and watched learning come to life in the yeshiva’s stateof-the-art STEM Lab. Assemblyman Crespo explored hands-on STEM activities and discovered the technology behind each one with tutorials from students. He also took the time to have a thoughtful discussion

with them on education and Jewish values. Assemblyman Crespo shared his love for Israel and passion for enabling families to choose the best education for their children. “We truly enjoyed meeting with such an impressive and committed leader,” said Head of School Rabbi Joshua Kahn. “We are grateful for Assemblyman Crespo’s support and for our partnership with Yeshiva University and Teach NYS, which were both instrumental in making this visit happen.”

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A Night of Awareness Hosted by Kav L’Noar Concerning our Children’s Lives on the Internet By Josh Nass

his past Motzei Shabbos, Parshas Vayakhel, over one hundred people gathered at the Young Israel of Lawrence-Cedarhurst to hear a panel discussion hosted by Kav L’Noar. Kav L’Noar is the premiere organization in Israel procuring mentorship and therapeutic services for youth at risk. The organization’s dayto-day management is overseen by veteran clinicians. Their professionalism and impact on Israeli society at-large has manifested itself in an official report which was done by The Knesset in 2018, noting the organization’s far-reaching impact and array of accomplishments. Although based in Israel, the organization considers the object of raising awareness of the issues relating to Klal Yisroel’s youth to be a core part of its mission. As such, it sponsored the March 2nd event with its partner organizations, Shalom Task Force and MASK (Mothers and Fathers Aligned Saving Kids). The audience was shown “Screenagers,” an award-winning film about the way we raise our children in a world of smartphones and screens. After the conclusion of the film the audience heard from a panel moderated by Dr. Ronny Wachtel, founding director of Kav L’Noar. The panelists included Dr. Rona Novack, dean of the Azrieli School of Social Work, Dr. Shayna Frydman of Shalom Task Force, and Dr. Binyamin Tepfer. “We need to make clear to our

children that their online identities are both public and permanent.,” said Dr. Rona Novack, dean of Yeshiva University’s Azrieli School of Social Work, highlighting the need for parents to learn their children’s online identities. Attendees at the event were remarkably engaging with the panelists, so much so that the team at Kav L’Noar has decided to commit to replicating the program to an event broader audience in the states. Yossi Schick, who attended the event, remarked, “I have seen with my own two eyes close to a half dozen people whose lives Kav L’Noar has changed dramatically for the better. I speak of people whose lives were completely turned around by this wonderful organization. It’s integral that our community have more events like these, where therapeutic matters are discussed.” Tova Ariella Cantor, a trained social worker in who came in for the event, said, “This is exactly what the community needs. An organization like Kav L’Noar that will not hesitate in convening panels of these kinds to address challenges plaguing our community and its youth. Too many organizations tend to unfortunately buckle under the obvious communal pressures that exist in some precincts. In this regard, Kav L’Noar is an absolute breath of fresh air, and Dr. Wachtel and his team ought to be commended for the courage they exhibited in putting on this event tonight.”

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YCQ Celebrates its 78th Anniversary Dinner PHOTO CREDIT YAAKOV KATZ STUDIOS

lose to 800 parents, community leaders, faculty and friends gathered this past Motza’ei Shabbat at the Old Westbury Hebrew Congregation to celebrate the 78th Anniversary Dinner of the Yeshiva of Central Queens (YCQ) and pay tribute to a distinguished group of honorees. Upon arrival, the guests enjoyed a lavish buffet dinner by RAM Caterers and the spirited music and singing of Mr. Avi Peretz and his ensemble. Later on, the lights dimmed, and Dr. Joel Wein, president of YCQ, welcomed the attendees and congratulated the fine efforts of the dinner committee. The guests then enjoyed an uplifting video of YCQ’s children and staff speaking from their hearts about the special nature of YCQ. Following that, Rabbi Mark Landsman, principal of YCQ, offered a brief dvar Torah and introduced the recipient of the Educator of the Year Award, Rabbi Moshe Hamel, a long-time Rebbe and current assistant principal for limudei kodesh in the junior high school division. Rabbi Hamel spoke of his love for his students and the joy he gets from seeing them flourish. Numerous teachers and students in turn reflected on what a unique role model Rabbi Hamel is. Mr. Israel Glaser, Chairman of the Board, then introduced the coguests of honor, Drs. Joshua and Rachel Sisser and Rabbi Todd and Dr. Eve Sullivan, two outstanding couples who have been active in the yeshiva and community for

Rabbi Yaakov Lonner, Rabbi Avraham Kovitz, Dr. Joel Wein, Mr. Israel Glaser, Mrs. Reize Sipzner, Rabbi Mark Landsman, honorees Drs. Joshua and Rachel Sisser and Dr. Eve and Rabbi Todd Sullivan

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many years. The honorees, together with their children, enthusiastically spoke about the impact YCQ has had on them as a virtual home away from home. The Sisser and Sullivan women have been active board members for many years, and Dr. Joshua Sisser is currently organizing the 5K Race in memory

of our former board member, parent and friend, Councilman Michael Simanowitz, a”h. Dinner chairperson Mrs. Reize Sipzner presented Mrs. Randi Beeber Luxenberg ’73 with the Distinguished Alumna Award. Reize noted how Randi was one of the most dynamic honorees she had en-

countered in over twenty-five years working with YCQ. Randi brought many in the crowd to tears with her heartfelt comments on the impact YCQ had on her growth as a Jewish person and the strong feelings she has for it to this very day. Randi, co-chair of the Alumni Association with past Keter Shem Tov honoree,

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HAFTR Students Explore Israel’s Engineering Sector By Jeffrey Wolberg

en HAFTR High School students recently participated in an incredible behind-thescenes eight-day engineering trip across Israel – exploring various startups, engineering facilities, and university labs. The CIJE Journey to the Startup Nation, organized and run by the Center for Initiatives in Jewish Education and Go-Inspire, offers extraordinary access for yeshiva students to many technology companies and entrepreneurs. The HAFTR students were part of a del-

egation of 60 students from yeshiva high schools across the country who joined the mission, led by Mrs. Judy Lebovits, vice president of CIJE. Students on the CIJE trip learn the meaning and history behind the phrase “start-up nation,” not only learning about Israel’s engineering achievements and prestige but also observing and interacting with the technology. Jason Curry, president of CIJE, has championed the importance of STEM education for Jewish day schools in the United States and its connection to Israel’s Silicon

Valley. “This trip is not only fun but has some important foundations. Israel is a beacon of STEM leadership

to the rest of the world. It is important that our students bridge the gap to create an innovative work environment between both our homes. It also gives an opportunity to have our future generations renew a sense of love for Israel.” Among the places we visited were Mobileye, Technion, SodaStream, Netafim, Mazor Robotics, the Ashkelon desalination plant, and Rambam Hospital. Each company/venue offered insight into different branches of engineering, allowing students to discover the many innovative and futuristic applications of technology. Many of the lecturers offered their contact information to the group, encouraging us to reach out to them if we had any questions, ideas, or just simply wanted to keep in touch. A common theme in our interactions with them was that ideas for innovation can materialize under our initiative and effort. They emphasized that our age does not prevent us from being proactive with our ideas. Unbelievably, many of the entrepreneurs who spoke to

us founded their first company in their teenage years. It became routine to hear the words “bought out” and “billions of dollars” in the same sentence when we visited these companies. We were astounded that such a small country can engineer so many products used to augment human progress and save lives. Amazingly, most of the companies and labs we visited were introduced in order to solve a human problem – the money only came afterwards. Many students gained a newfound love for the land of Israel. While many of us had been to Israel and its religious sites before, the vast majority had never visited the engineering facilities and technology enterprises. This trip enabled us to not only appreciate the history of Israel and its religious significance but to also recognize the beauty of Israel in a completely different way – through the engineering sector. Jeffrey Wolberg is a junior at HAFTR High School.

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Re-Inauguration of the Famed “Blue Synagogue” in Mumbai By Esther Kaufman

n 1884, Sir Jacob Sassoon built and inaugurated the Keneseth Eliyahoo Synagogue in Bombay (today’s Mumbai), India. It was one of three major Sassoon Synagogues in India, built for the large Jewish community there. All three dynagogues continue till this day. However, the splendid Keneseth Eliyahoo Synagogue, a favorite with foreign as well as local Jews, was in serious need of major restoration. On February 7, 2nd Adar 1, 5779, there was a major ceremony marking the beautiful restoration of this icon in the Jewish world. In truth, this synagogue had undergone many transformations. Its facade was originally limestone. Thirty-five years ago, on the occasion of its centenary, it was painted light blue, and since that day it has become referred to locally, as well as around the world, as the blue synagogue. This created a dilemma for the architects and designers in charge of the restoration project. The goal was to restore the synagogue to the

way it was when it was built. Indeed, when they scraped off the paint inside, which had also been blue, they found the traces of the original paint which was an elegant light-bluish green, and that was the color used for the restoration inside. The outside, however, remained a problem. It would be possible to revert the exterior to the limestone beneath, but the world now knew this as the “blue synagogue.” It was agreed that

the bright blue color that had been in use for the past 35 years was not suitable. Finally, the architects had the idea of painting it white with bold wide stripes of a darker blue, giving the synagogue an air of elegance and importance. The restoration was carried out by the Chairman and Managing Trustee of the Sir Jacob Sassoon Charity Trusts, Mr. Solomon F. Sopher. Major contributors to the

project were the Jindal family, the Khala Ghoda Association, the World Monument Fund, who were all represented at the event, and others. The re-inauguration event was attended by a host of dignitaries and guests who flew in from all corners of the world. The governor of the State of Maharashtra, which includes Mumbai and Pune, was present and delivered a powerful address. Also present was the Israeli Ambassador to India, Dr. Ron Malka, who flew in specially from Delhi. The Israel Consul General, Yaakov Finkelstein, was present, as were the consul generals of many countries, including Australia, Austria, France, Germany, Spain and Iceland. Rabbi Ya’aqob Menashe, himself a direct descendant of the Sassoons, commented during his riveting speech, that he never knew the meaning of the term “anti-Semitism” as a child in India, but only discovered it when they moved to the West. He then blessed the governor and the entire congregation. Many commented that they found it particularly moving.

Rambam Triumphs in Mock Trial Competition

he Mock Trial Competition in Nassau County involves 64 competing high schools. Rambam Mesivta, as well as many other yeshivas in the area, face off against each other in this rigorous intellectual exercise.

Not only must students be wellversed in the case at hand, they must also master courtroom procedures such as articulating opening statements, examining and cross-examining witnesses, “objecting” where appropriate, and crafting convincing

closing statements. Most importantly, those involved in the competition must have the ability to think on their feet. This week the Rambam Mock Trial team won once again, first defeating the team from East Rockaway High

School and now besting the team from DRS. Rambam Mock Trial will have another opportunity to display their intellectual prowess this coming Monday night as they face Roslyn High School in the Round of 32.

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YILB Annual Robert Chiger Scholarship Concert Draws Large Audience

he Young Israel of Long Beach held their annual Scholarship Concert on Motzaei Shabbos, February 23. The concert featured the newest musical sensation Uri Davidi who entertained the audience with his vast repertoire of popular and chassidish Jewish music. Once again, this year’s concert took place at the Long Beach Hotel which offered its facilities without charge in order to support the mission of the concert. The Young Israel of Long Beach is the cornerstone of the Orthodox Jewish Long Beach community and is led by Rabbi Dr. Chaim Wakslak. There are multi-faceted programs and activities sponsored by the YILB which are designed to satisfy the diverse needs of its membership. These activities include the daily Willem Wolf Daf Yomi shiur, shiurim, scholars-in-residence, concerts, Shabbos dinners, summer barbeque and carnival, and appropriate celebrations for

Elliot Chiger, Rabbi Chaim Wakslak, Uri Davidi and David Chiger

every yom tov and religious occasion. We take note of our fledgling Oneg youth programs. More fundamentally, the YILB emphasizes a core mission of being a Mikdash Me’at for all – a place of introspection and tranquility where one can come to daven and connect to the Ribbono Shel Olam. Over the past several years the YILB has experienced significant changes which have impacted upon our treasured bastion of Torah, tefillah and chessed.

The YILB is being proactive – seeking to maintain its vitality while exposing the “best kept secret” to the world at large. The introduction of several assistant rabbis has energized our congregation with youthful exuberance and diversity of talent and Torah scholarship. But most importantly we are starting to see a new cohort of individuals who are demonstrating a serious interest in our shul and gradually displaying their leadership talents. Rabbi Wakslak and Jo-

The Chiger grandchildren with singer Uri Davidi

seph Langer, a past shul president, conceptualized this scholarship concert nineteen years ago. Since that time, the proceeds from this scholarship concert has allowed many local community youngsters to attend yeshiva and/or overnight summer camps. Thirteen years ago, following the untimely p’tirah of Robert Chiger, z”l, a young vibrant member of the congregation, it was decided that his memory would be most appropriately perpetuated by re-naming this

scholarship fund The Robert Chiger Scholarship Fund. Bob had a unique connection to the youth of the synagogue and cared for their religious and character development. He was also a strong proponent of the YILB youth and sports programs. This concert is strongly supported each year by Beth Chiger and Neil Sambrowsky and Beth’s children, Michele & Eric Ehrenhaus, Andrea & Ariel Gantz, Elliot & Chana Chiger, and David & Rachel Chiger.

Supporting Our Friends, Family and Community in Times of Need

ometimes our life journey meets with unforeseen obstacles, sudden detours and bumpy roads. The unexpected challenges can derail a family and shake up an entire community. Our community, like every other, has been witness to and has experienced a great deal of tragedy and pain of various natures over recent years. We often feel powerless when others are going through a crisis although we so much want to help and to be a part of the healing process. Last Sunday, The Marion and Aaron Gural JCC hosted a community awareness event with NechamaComfort offering insights about trauma and loss including specific, practical advice about how to respond to a neighborhood crisis and how to help yourself, your friends

and your community to navigate these most difficult times. Many local rabbis and community leaders supported this workshop which presented suggestions and guidelines to help ease a friend or neighbor’s pain and to give audience members a new perspective on what it means to work through a crisis as a community. While some losses may be considered normal in the course of a life, or expected, such as changing jobs or moving to a new neighborhood or even the death of an elderly parent, other losses come as a total shock and can be traumatic. These can include job termination and major financial setbacks, illness, injury, addiction, fire, miscarriage, stillbirth and the untimely death of a family member or friend. While each person experiences pain in his or her own way and

timeline, common effects of grieving a loss can include the physical – such as sleep problems, fatigue, loss of appetite and headaches; emotional – including depression, sadness, denial, a sense a failure, guilty, anger; and the social – withdrawal from normal activity and isolation. The goal for the person going through the crisis is not to ”get over it” but to eventually try and “move through it.” Grief is not a straight line that disappears into the horizon. It’s a curvy line that goes up and down, thins out and then widens when you’re least suspecting. We can’t “fix” things for other people going through a crisis but we can be sensitive and listen. We can reach out and acknowledge their struggle, allow them to express their feelings without judgment, follow up when we say we will and be very aware of our surroundings when speak-

ing with them. We should include them in events but understand if they choose not to attend and always be genuine and caring. NechamaComfort supplied a handout with dos and don’ts for helping our friends, family and neighbors work through a crisis (available at the JCC). The Marion and Aaron Gural partnered with NechamaComfort, over a year ago to establish its RISE program – Resources, Inspiration, Support and Education – for those dealing with the heartbreak of Infertility and coping with the pain of miscarriage and infant loss. In both areas free monthly support groups are run at our JCC, and individual counseling is also available at no charge. Periodic community awareness events, such as the one that took place here last Sunday, are scheduled.

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Digital Citizenship at HALB

Rav Elya Brudny greeting Kalman Sussman after speaking to the Yeshiva Darchei Torah middle school

Teacher Learning at Reishis Chochma

he 4th and 5th graders at HALB presented their How to Be Good Digital Citizen Projects at HALB’S Digital Citizens Fair under the guidance of Mrs. Rubel, technology coordinator. The 4th graders were excited to share their Google slides projects and the 5th graders coded games in the language called Scratch. Parents

enjoyed interacting and watching their children’s presentations. International speaker Janell Burley Hofmann, author of iRules, had an interactive dialogue with parents and their children on How to stay Tech Healthy. She shared the importance of creating tech family contracts in order to foster tech health and balance in the family.

100 Days of Gesher

n Monday, February 25, the Reishis Chochma moros of Siach Yitzchok participated in a morning of professional development. Mrs. Shani Goodman, veteran pediatric OT and Siach Yitzchok parent, presented on the topic of “Fine Motor and Pre-Writing Skills: Maximizing the Pre-school Experience.” Numerous practical tips, ideas, and activities were shared with the moros which they were able to implement immediately in their classrooms

upon their return to Cheder the following day. The moros were also trained to become “first responders” and notice when children may be exhibiting red flags that indicate a need for referral for therapy services. The moros came away from the workshop inspired by the new and very practical information they learned and with a broader understanding of this important topic. Thank you Mrs. Goodman for sharing your expertise with us!

he students at Gesher recently celebrated their 100th day of school. Led by the morahs of the Pre1A, the children recognized this milestone and the accomplishments made during that time. Months of happy learning were the basis for the “100 Things We

Love About Gesher” writing project. The students put their acquired writing skills to good use, expressing what makes Gesher special to them on a heart-shaped note. Combining the notes into a giant heart in the main hallway makes for a collective “Thank You” for all to appreciate.

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Farewell Ulpana

odaya, Moriya, Nava, and Tzofia, Central’s Ulpana girls, enjoyed a beautiful Shabbat in Woodmere with the Schwartz and Sicklick families last week. Seuda Shlishit was at the Schwartzs’ home, with about 30 Central girls joining them. There was an amazing Motzei Shabbat activity (making makeup!) with the sophomores. On Sunday, the Weintraub family took the girls touring in Manhattan. To wrap up their time in Central, the Ulpana girls led a discussion in the 10th grade Hebrew classes about their reflections on being here and what they learned from our students. These students were amazing in

bringing the spirit of the Ulpana and Israel to Central. They prepared creative presentations and were always

looking for more opportunities to be part of the Central community. What a delight it was to see their smiling

faces and boundless energy every day. We will miss them and look forward to visiting them next year in Israel!

Dr. David Pelcovitz Speaks at Shevach HS’s Parent Technology Evening

n Thursday, February 21, Shevach High School hosted over one hundred and fifty parents, mechanchim, and mechanchos who gathered to hear noted psychologist and public speaker Dr. David Pelcovitz address the issue of technology use and abuse. The evening was coordinated by Mrs. Tzivia Meth, tenth grade mechaneches at Shevach. It was apparent that Mrs. Meth had invested untold hours in organizing the event and in putting together a very practical and informative folder for parents to take home, read, and implement. After greetings from Rebbitzen Rochelle Hirtz, Shevach’s principal, Dr. Pelcovitz began his presentation with a powerful story about a man and his daughter. The daughter, his oldest, wanted to steal the afikomen at the seder. The father felt that she was too old for it and should leave it for her younger siblings. The daughter persisted and ultimately stole the afikomen. When asked what she wanted, her reply was an evening with her father, without his cellphone. Dr. Pelcovitz shared how it is wellknown that many Silicon Valley executives do not allow their children to have smartphones, iPads, etc. because they understand how the various forms of technology hijack people’s brains and values and make thought processes more shallow. To further

demonstrate the impact of technology on people’s emotions Dr. Pelcovitz cited that during WW II it was very difficult to get our soldiers to kill the enemy. However, due to the widespread exposure to violence on TV and in the movies, by the time we were fighting the Vietnam War, soldiers had no such inhibitions. This led to an explanation on what the access to technology does to our children, their brains and values. As proven, violent video games lead to a loss of compassion. Dr. Pelcovitz then went on to focus in on the impact upon girls by using powerful, true stories to impart the gravity of the issue. The anonymity of texting and social media leads to onaas devarim, cruelty and anxiety. There is an “online disinhibition effect,” because when one cannot see the hurt look on the victim’s face, nothing stops the perpetrator. Social media has led to negative self images; increased screen activity leads to increased unhappiness and even depression. The feeling of “being left out” or being “targeted” can have significant consequences on a child’s development. In general, due to online/ texting bullying, there has been a rise in anxiety and teen suicides. Dr. Pelcovitz then offered practical advice. Children want rules. In fact, when asked how they envision their own future parenting, many children

said they would be stricter than their parents. Parents should make sure their child has the three F’s: family, friends and faith. Love should be balanced with limits, and parents should recognize that in determining technological rules and limits, parents should take into account the highly individual personalities and needs of each child. The potential for serious and long-lasting harm threatens even the youngest of adolescents. It is therefore important for children to feel that that they can talk with their parents, especially about ethical dilemmas, and receive empathic and focused attention. Engaging children in a non-confrontational way about their use of technology is very essential, and turning off parental cell phones when around one’s children is a strongly recommended practice. Slowing down and being empathic are the keys to holding onto the precious moments parents have with their children. Various communities have discussed ways to address the issues of technology. Dr. Pelcovitz shared some examples of positive changes that have been made. While every community, and each school community, approaches this topic in its own way under the hadracha of its own leaders, the “bottom line” is that the home is the integral ingredient in

the development of the klal. Just as a home has walls, windows, and doors, parents must know when to open and close them. While technology can be used for incredible achievement in the worlds of chessed and Torah learning, the effects of the darker sides of technology can and should be effectively mitigated. Even though this event was held on a busy Thursday evening, the fact that so many parents and teachers came out to hear Dr. Pelcovitz is a tribute to them and to the esteemed Dr.Pelcovitz. The audience was inspired and truly appreciative of Dr. Pelcovitz’s professional and heartfelt insights and advice. It is hoped that with siyata d’shmaya these dedicated parents and teachers will continue to succeed in their endeavors to raise and educate our bnos Yisrael.

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Yeshiva of South Shore Pays Tribute to Rav Chanina Herzberg, zt”l, at their 62nd Annual Banquet PHOTO CREDIT: NAFTOLI GOLDGRAB

n overflow crowd of hundreds of people, ranging from alumni to parents and former parents, joined together in memorializing their beloved Menahel, Rabbi Chanina Herzberg, zt”l, at the Yeshiva of South Shore Annual Dinner this past Sunday evening. By the end of the carefully orchestrated program, they learned even more about Rabbi Herzberg, a great man who was at the forefront of the chinuch of the Five Towns and Rockaways for close to 40 years. Rabbi Mordechai Kamenetzky, dean and rosh yeshiva, opened the evening by quoting Rashi in the beginning of Pekudei that the celebration of the building of the Mishkan was marred by the sadness of the loss of the two Batei Mikdash. So too, explained Rav Kamenetzky, the building of the new edifice of YOSS is marred by the loss of his father, Rav Binyamin Kamenetzky, zt”l, and now the loss of Rabbi Herzberg, zt”l. Rabbi Herzberg loved every talmid and believed in every talmid. He was able to see potential in each and every student, and as Rabbi Avraham Robinson, menahel of the Elementary Division, remarked, “Sometimes Rabbi Herzberg would look at me and smile, ‘You never know. You just never know.’” The tribute culminated with the dedication of the Rabbi Chani-

Rabbi Aryeh Cohen, alumnus of the year awardee, Mr. Mendy Silber, Rabbi Mordechai Kamenetzky, rosh yeshiva, and Rabbi Dovid Kramer, executive director

na Herzberg Memorial Educational Wing in the upcoming new building of YOSS. Many parents, talmidim and alumni partnered together to participate in this dedication. The Yeshiva also took the opportunity to recognize Moshe and Malkie Hirsch as Parents of the Year, for their outstanding dedication to the yeshiva. Moshe and Malkie are parents of four YOSS students and are role models in the community. Rabbi Aryeh Cohen was awarded the inaugural Rabbi Binyamin Kamenetzky Memorial Alumnus Award. Rabbi Cohen is a popular rebbe and mashpia at DRS Yeshiva High School. Rabbi and Mrs. Cohen

Rabbi Mordechai Kamenetzky greeting Rabbi Yechiel Perr

are well-known throughout the Five Towns and beyond for their warmth and selflessness when it comes to their dedication to talmidim and friends. YOSS also honored Mr. Kevin O’Conner, president and CEO of BNB Bank and Bridge Bancorp. He is one who truly understands the needs of yeshivos and non-profits and has been instrumental in assisting YOSS to meet the needs of our students for the future. A highlight of the evening was the acclaimed tribute video, which was subsequently featured on prime Jewish news sites such as Matzav. com. In it, Rabbi Herzberg was seen speaking the words that molded his

life, “I get no greater simcha than seeing these children go from level to level. There is no better job in this world than to take these children and turn them into wonderful Jews. I get no greater simcha than being right here in this yeshiva.” The nearly 1,000 people in the room were able to testify how true his words were. The evening ended with the fourt grade choir performance, led by Rabbi Shlomo Drebin. Once again, the boys performed fabulously, and there was a standing room only crowd watching and enjoying. All the guests left with a reinforced good feeling about their children’s education as well as an appreciation for Rabbi Herzberg and his accomplishments. Once again, Yeshiva of South Shore orchestrated a perfect event and lived up to their reputation for having an enjoyable dinner year after year.

The Wandering Jew Page 90 Each one of Rabbi Herzberg’s family members received a beautiful mosaic-style portrait comprised of smaller pictures of the hundreds of students whom Rabbi Herzberg guided

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Lessons from Amazon for Rambam Entrepreneurial Academy

By Abie Hersh

his week the talmidim of Rambam’s Entrepreneurial Academy had the privilege of hearing an insightful speech from yet another fascinating perspective within the entrepreneurial world. Following Mr. Tani Sussman’s explanation from a few weeks ago about the differences between franchises

and privately-owned companies and a look at his UPS, Rambam alum Yaakov Miller (class of 2006) discussed his unique role within one of the largest corporations in the world: Amazon. Mr. Miller shared stories about how he dealt with practical issues with Amazon Fresh (grocery delivery service), how he conducts himself as an Orthodox Jew on the job, and the

foundational qualities of the leadership skills necessary in administrative roles. As always, the guest speaker stayed afterwards to answer questions from the Entrepreneurial Academy and Entrepreneur Club. After a chat about whether or not a company like Amazon is monopolizing an industry, Mr. Miller gave the club members advice regarding their

startup 3D-printed mezuzah company and used it as an example for how a successful company must separate themselves from their competitors in an innovative manner. We look forward to many more compelling speakers leading up to the Academy’s “Shark Tank”-style pitch to receive funding for entrepreneurial endeavors of their own.

MSH Delegates Represent Nigeria at YUNMUN By Golda Gordon

UNMUN was an experience like no other. My team and I developed many skills during our preparation, and even more during the conference, including public speaking, knowledge base on issues occurring worldwide, and understanding what it means to be a political delegate representing a country at the United Nations. At YUNMUN, you build many friendships with other participants from schools around the USA, Canada, Brazil, and South Africa. Although, it was quite intimidating listing to the Brazilians go up – and getting a sense that their English might be better than mine! The delegates from Midreshet Shalhevet (MSH), juniors Golda Gordon, Dassi Klein, and Goldy Fogel, sophomores Lital Davidov, Leah Cohen, and Oriya Avraham, and freshman Sarah Weiderman, represented the country of Nigeria and participated in many different committees. As a participant in the World Food Program committee (WFP) I discussed ways to empower women to end world hunger and ways to reduce food waste. Our school’s coun-

try, Nigeria, is a major victim when it comes to this issue. Dassi Klein was involved in the United Nations Humans Rights Council (UNHRC). Her committee discussed topics such as the situation in Myanmar and the human rights of prisoners. Goldy Fogel’s committee, the World Health Organization (WHO), brainstormed about water cleanliness, shortages, and antibiotic resistance. Goldy was particularly intrigued regarding the discussion of antibiotic resistance. Lital Davidov took part in the United Nations International Children›s

Emergency Fund (UNICEF). Issues were addressed on eliminating violence against children and protecting children with disabilities. Lital was intrigued to learn about many different countries’ views. Leah Cohen participated in Disarmament and International Security Committee (DISEC) and debated cyber warfare and illicit small arms sales. Leah felt she gained compromising skills and how to work with people from all walks of life, especially in a professional environment, where you must collaborate and compromise with the

people around you. Oriyah Avraham acted as a delegate on the committee of United Nations Educational, Science and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), which examined topics such as prison reform and preserving endangered languages. Oriya enjoyed the diversity of her committee and hearing different countries’ stances on these issues. Although, she will not be these countries in the foreseeable future, she enjoyed learning about the mundane lifestyles and policies about other countries. Sarah Weiderman was involved in the African Summit (AS), and she addressed issues on the food crisis and terrorism in Africa. Sarah appreciated how the committee was very studious and serious, but at the same time, everyone had a good time. The entire MSH delegation found YUNMUN to be a very educational experience, where many schools, including our own, took time and spent effort learning about their country and their stance on various world issues. We built friendships with people we will never forget. YUNMUN was an amazing experience, and I am looking forward to coming back next year!

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Sponsorship of America’s Yeshiva by the Belsky-Rechnitz Family Paves the Way to Prepare Torah Vodaath for the Second Century of Leadership By: Yitzchok Kohen

s Torah Vodaath marks its hundredth year, the Yeshiva has launched a world-wide Centennial Celebration that will culminate in a gala Dinner to be held on May 26th at the Brooklyn Marriot. The Centennial Celebration is multi-faceted, including a historic book titled America’s Yeshiva being written about the rich history of this foundational makom Torah, as well as a Siyum Hatorah Olami - an international Siyum on kol haTorah kulah featuring the participation of talmidim of the Yeshiva across the globe – and a 2 volume all new Hamesivta filled with chiddushei Torah – most of which have never been published before. The aforementioned book will chronicle the history of Torah Vodaath from before its founding to the present day, providing a historical overview the likes of which has never been compiled or published before. News of this unprecedented 500-page coffee table size volume is already creating a sensation across the Torah world. Recognizing the transformative impact of Torah Vodaath throughout its first century, one of the Torah community’s most prominent philanthropists and machzikei Torah, Reb Shlomo Yehuda Rechnitz, has stepped forward to once again pledge his magnanimous support for the Yeshiva. Thus, the Centennial Book will now be named The Belsky-Rechnitz Family Edition. Because to Reb Shlomo Yehuda and his wife, this book, and Yeshiva Torah Vodaath as a whole, is so personal. Reb Shlomo Yehuda’s wife, Tamar, is a daughter of the legendary Rosh Hayeshiva, Moreinu Horav Chaim Yisroel Halevy Belsky zt”l, and a great-granddaughter of the founder of the Yeshiva, Rav Binyomin Wilhelm zt”l. History records that as a young boy in New York, Berel Belsky’s parents intended for him to attend pub-

lic school like almost all boys his age. Then he became stricken with chicken pox and was unable to go to school at the beginning of the new school year. By the time he recovered, an alternative became available. That alternative was known as Yeshiva Torah Vodaath. The year was 5769 – Rav Binyomin Wilhelm spent the entire Yom Kippur going from shul to shul convincing parents to send their children to Torah Vodaath and successfully spearheaded the campaign to open the Yeshiva on Isru Chag Succos one hundred years ago. One of his first talmidim was young Berel, who would later marry Rav Binyomin’s daughter and raise a wonderful family, including their son, Moreinu Horav Yisroel Belsky, who would subsequently attend Torah Vodaath and become a world-renowned posek and Rosh Hayeshiva of his Zaide’s Yeshiva, bringing it all full circle. For years now, Reb Shlomo Yehuda has taken a personal interest in Yeshiva Torah Vodaath, so impressed is he by the growth of this outstanding Yeshiva, which, while maintaining its founder’s ideals and values, is an upto-date, contemporary mossad that is producing leading bnei Torah and outstanding talmidim who go on to impact Torah communities wherever they reside. This past week, Reb Shlomo Yehuda reached out to the hanhalas hayeshiva and shared with them that he would like to sponsor the upcoming historical book in memory of his father-in-law, Moreinu Horav Belsky, zt”l, and as a tribute to the greater Belsky Family. Thus, the book will be known as The Belsky-Rechnitz Family Edition, and the guests of honor at the Dinner in May will be the Belsky family, worthy heirs of their illustrious forbears and integral components of the Torah Vodaath legacy. Horav Reuven Noach Kohn, shlita, Rosh Kollel Zichron Yosef in Kiryat Sefer and son-in-law of Horav Belsky, will

HoRav Belsky, zt’l, with his family

serve as guest speaker. The glossy book will feature numerous chapters sponsored by loyal supporters of the Yeshiva and admirers of all the Roshei Hayeshiva who have stood at the helm of Torah Vodaath over the decades and the loyal baalei batim who helped carry the burden. Many alumni and good friends have already come forward to express

their commitment to the Yeshiva through sponsorship of various portions of “America’s Yeshiva” – partnering with the anchor patrons of America’s Yeshiva – Reb Shlomo Yehuda and Tamar Rechnitz. The Centennial Celebration will recognize the glorious past and will help Torah Vodaath prepare for its second century of Torah leadership in America, iy”H, with great success!

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Around the Community Rabbi Moshe Winter was installed as first Rav of Cong. Shaarei Zedek of East Meadow last week. The crowd enjoyed hearing from Rav Dovid Harris, Rav Herschel Welcher, and Yaakov Portnoy as well as MC Shaya Hecht. It was a true kiddush hashem for the growing frum community of East Meadow. For more information on the frum East Meadow community visit kehillaofeastmeadow.com.

Rav Moshe Winter talking with HaRav Dovid Harris

HaRav Welcher addressing the crowd at the installment melaveh malkah for Rav Moshe Winter

Rabbi Moshe Winter accepting his token of appreciation from the president and vice president of Congregation Shaarei Zedek of East Meadow

Rav Moshe Winter with members of his kehilla in East Meadow

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This Purim, at the Tombs of Esther and Mordechai

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ichael” kisses his son on the forehead, and closes the bedroom door behind him. “Finally, the kids are all asleep,” he thinks. A heavy silence rings through the apartment, as the young father faces another night alone. Since his wife’s passing, he has spent most evenings in silence, processing his grief. A babysitter comes to watch the sleeping children, and he heads out to work. Someone has to pay the rent. And right now, he’s the only someone his kids have. This Purim, nothing could bring this young family more simcha, than a little bit of help. And when a shaliach from Vaad HaRabbanim comes knocking at their yearly matanos l’evyonim event, that’s exactly what they’ll get. Hundreds of families in Israel currently suffer in poverty and rely on the help of organizations like Vaad HaRabbanim to pay their most basic expenses. This year, as part of a massive matanos l’evyonim campaign, Vaad HaRabbanim has begun to collect funds to be distributed to many of the poorest families in Israel. In keeping with the strictest observance of the mitzvah, the money will be distributed on the day of Purim. Messengers will operate through the cities of Bnei Brak, Jerusalem, and more, handing out cash to those who need it most. Recipients are determined before the date by a rabbinical council who reviews their details.

The event’s reputation precedes it, as each year the most esteemed rabbanim in Israel are photographed participating. In addition to the regular program, a group of emissaries will gather to pray at the tombs of Mordechai and Esther in Iran. Surrounded by kedusha in the resting place of the main players of the Purim story, the emissaries will pray for all those who donate to the campaign. The story of Purim is that of hidden miracles, of Hashem’s chessed being carried out through the guise of nature. Those who participate in Vaad HaRabbanim’s matanos l’evyonim program are choosing to become a messenger of Hashem, in bringing comfort to those who desperately need it, on one of the holiest days of the year. Please, when you are preparing for Purim this year, do not forget those who struggle through hunger and debt to find a spark of simcha. Donations can be sent to: 221 Regent Drive, Lakewood, NJ 08701 Write checks to Vaad HaRabbanim L’inyanei Tzedukah Online: www.vaadharabbanim.com Tax ID: 37-1456890 Fax: (1877-722-2646) International Toll-Free Number: 1-888-36-36-248 All donations are tax deductible. Please make donations to Vaad Harabanim.

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YCQ Girls’ Torah Bowl Meet

Replicas of the Mishkan

By Sarah Owadeyah and Miriam Siegman

orah Bowl is an extracurricular activity where a group of middle school students work hard learning extra Torah. Yeshiva of Central Queens competes against several different Yeshivot including Flatbush, Manhattan Day School, and Ramaz. We won three out of four competitions, losing the last one by only one point. On February 7 we had our third Torah Bowl meet of the year. For this meet we learned parashiot Mishpatim, Terumah, and Tetzaveh. In Parashat Mishpatim we learned a lot of Jewish laws. In Terumah we

learned about the Mishkan and the vessels of the Mishkan. In Tetzaveh we learned about the Kohen Gadol’s clothing and how they were made. The playoffs are in a few weeks, and we are tied for first place with the Yeshiva of Flatbush. We are very excited that we are in first place, and we are very proud of what we’ve accomplished this year. Our team’s goal is to work hard, win the playoffs, and get into the championship. Esther Nazarov who is on the girls’ Torah bowl team, said, “I love being on Torah Bowl. The happiness inside of me is unexplainable for how far we’ve come.” The team’s hard work and determination under our coaches has really paid off.

he sixth graders in BYAM are learning about the Mishkan and its keilim in Chumash. They learned all the intricate details and function of each keili and then had an exciting project to build replicas and help them visualize the building of the Mishkan. The girls were divided into groups and each one made a different keili and wrote a report detailing how it was built and what it was used for. The girls were excited about their masterpieces and were so proud that they brought their learning to life!

Yeshiva Har Torah Selected to Participate in First IDEAS Cohort

s the Patriots and Rams huddled in their locker rooms on Super Bowl Sunday, teams of a different kind huddled in a conference center in Dallas, Texas, strategizing about their schools’ futures and the continuation of excellent, affordable Jewish education. Representatives from Yeshiva Har Torah were privileged to be among them. These teams – each comprised of five professional and/or lay leaders – hailed from ten day schools from around the country. Together, they made up the inaugural cohort of the Institute for Day School Excellence and Sustainability program (“IDEAS”). IDEAS is an 18-month program designed to address every aspect of school sustainability, and thereby help schools move toward long-term

excellence and stability. YHT, like the other nine participating schools, was selected after an intensive application process among Jewish schools from all over the United States and across Jewish denominations. The school’s IDEAS team is comprised of Head of School, Rabbi Gary Menchel; Assistant Executive Director, Ephi Strazynski; Director of Admissions and Student Services, Sara Pollak; and two lay leaders representing the school’s Board of Directors. The YHT team spent three days together in Dallas focused on various aspects of marketing, recruitment, and enrollment. Future conferences, webinars, and other such training sessions will focus on financial resource development, board development, strategic planning, and other factors critical to building a school’s

capacity to continue to educate and inspire the next generation of Jewish leaders. At the close of the conference, during a “shout out” session designed to thank those from whom we learned, YHT was commended for its outstanding spirit (there might have been a picture of the team taken on the first night in head-to-toe YHT swag). Throughout the conference, YHT was also noted for its thriving enrollment. Reflecting on the conference, Rabbi Gary Menchel said, “We feel privileged to have been selected to join this initiative and have already benefitted from our participation. The conference addressed very practical and relevant areas, which will undoubtedly make us an even better school. Special thanks to our

dedicated team for representing our school.” The premise of IDEAS is that, in order for day schools to be successful, their leadership cannot function in a siloed environment. Rather, a school’s full entire administration and board must feel responsible for the totality of a school’s growth and development, and recognize how their particular roles and job functions relate to a greater whole. That is why the full IDEAS team, and not just the Director of Admissions, took a deep dive into recruitment and enrollment, and articulated short, medium, and long-term goals for the coming years. Conference participants will collectively do the same with others aspects of the school’s operations in the months ahead.

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t IVDU Long Island, art therapy is just one of many therapeutic approaches offered throughout the week. When Mrs. Alyssa Axelrod, our staff art therapist, comes around with her trademark warmth and enthusiasm, the students run to art therapy, their excitement evidenced by the smiles on their faces. Art therapy is a form of expressive therapy which provides children with a natural forum to express themselves through the creative process of making art. A variety of methods are used in art therapy, including drawing, painting, clay, and collage. Some benefits of art therapy include sensory awareness and integration, enhancing social skills, developing problem solv-

ing skills, and expressing feelings. Art therapy is also beneficial in reducing stress and anxiety, enhancing focus, and increasing self-esteem. In order to maximize the therapeutic benefits, students at IVDU are seen individually or in groups of two. The projects that the students create with Morah Alyssa are more than just art. They serve as a natural medium for communication and connection. This week’s project was mask-making, featuring characters from the Purim story. The students enjoyed decorating their masks with various art materials and delighted in masquerading as characters from the Purim story.

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You gotta be kidding A man goes into a bar and seats himself on a stool. The bartender looks at him and says, “What’ll it be, buddy?” The man says, “Set me up with seven whiskey shots and make them doubles.” The bartender does this and watches the man slug one down, then the next, then the next, and so on until all seven are gone almost as quickly as they were served. Staring in disbelief, the bartender asks why he’s doing all this drinking. “You’d drink them this fast too if you had what I have,” the man tells him.

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The bartender hastily asks, “What do you have, pal?” The man smirks, “I have a dollar.”

Riddle me this? After a bus driver came back with less money than he should have, his supervisor decided to figure out how many people had been on the bus from the beginning to the end of the route. Due to technology and record keeping, he knows that at the first stop six passengers got on. The bus then proceeded a few blocks and stopped. Two passengers got off and five got on. At the next stop, three people got off and seven came on. It continued for a few blocks and then stopped again. Four people got on and four people got off. It proceeded on its route and at the next stop, five people got on. At the next stop, 14 got on and no one got off. How many stops did the bus make? a. 21

c. 23

b. 6

d. 4

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“Money is the best deodorant.” – Elizabeth Taylor “If you think nobody cares if you’re alive, try missing a couple of car payments.” – Earl Wilson “Inflation is when you pay fifteen dollars for the ten-dollar haircut you used to get for five dollars when you had hair.” — Sam Ewing “Always live within your income, even if you have to borrow money to do so.” – Josh Billings “Too many people spend money they haven’t earned, to buy things they don’t want, to impress people they don’t like.” – Will Smith “Someone stole all my credit cards, but I won’t be reporting it. The thief spends less than my wife did.” — Henny Youngman “I’m so poor I can’t even pay attention.” — Ron Kittle “G-d shows his contempt for wealth by the kind of person he selects to receive it.” — Austin O’Malley “All I ask is the chance to prove that money can’t make me happy.” — Spike Milligan

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Money Ball Trivia With Bryce Harper bagging a $330 million contract with the Phillies, it’s time to brush up on the dollars and cents of baseball, if you want to become an agent.

a. $260,000 b. $550,000 c. $750,000 d. 1,200,000 2. How much money did Alex Rodriguez make from his two contracts as a Major League player?

was his annual Major League salary in 1919, his last year with Boston? a. $10,000 b. $25,000 c. $50,000 d. $79,999 5. What was the average Major League salary in 2018?

a. $120,000,000

a. $1,200,450

b. $234,000,000

b. $4,095,686,

c. $320,000,000

c. $7,502,112

d. $480,000,000

d. $11,100,889

3. Who was the first player in the MLB to make a million dollars per year from his contract?

6. Which MLB team has the highest payroll for 2019, at $202,597,500? a. Yankees

a. Ozzie Smith

b. Red Sox

b. Pete Rose

c. Phillies

c. Nolan Ryan

d. Mets (ha…ha…ha)

d. Cal Ripken Jr.

 Wisdom Key  Answers 6) B 5) B

2) D

4) A

1) B

5-6 correct: Wanna be my agent? 3-4 correct: You are not bad, but you’re no Scott Boras. 0-2 correct: Hey, maybe the Mets will hire you to be their general manager?

Answer to Riddle Me This: B- There were six stops. It may be the supervisor’s job to figure out how many people were on the bus, but your job was simply to figure out how many stops the bus made (hardly a daunting task).

4. In 1930, Babe Ruth’s salary got as high as $80,000 (that would be the equivalent of approximately $1.1 million today). What

3) C

1. What is the minimum MLB salary in 2019?

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Torah Thought

Parshas Pekudei By Rabbi Berel Wein

ne of the more popular buzzwords bandied about in current society is transparency. Loosely, this means that governments and financial institutions should have no secrets and that the public be allowed to know everything that occurs and to be able to see how money is being spent and allocated. This is a noble goal, but like many goals it runs contrary to human nature and the

goal is rarely, if ever, achieved. In this week’s Torah reading we have an example of complete transparency regarding the materials donated by the Jewish people for the construction of the Tabernacle. Additionally, it discusses the priestly vestments during the encampment of the Jewish people in the Sinai Desert after their exodus from Egyptian slavery. Moshe accounts for every piece

of material that was collected for this holy and noble project. Jewish tradition tells us that Moshe was unable to account for 1,000 measures of silver that were donated but he did not remember for what they were used. Then, almost miraculously, the silver identified itself as being used for the hooks for the tapestries of the Tabernacle, and Moshe’s accounting was proven to be accurate to the final degree and coin. Such transparency is necessary for people are by nature suspicious of others and especially of government when it comes to handling money or other precious materials. There is always the suspicion – many times

to this accounting of the funds and material used and donated in the building process of the Tabernacle. The Torah could have allowed itself to merely state that after all the donations were collected and tallied and the work of the artisans and builders of the Tabernacle was completed, then Moshe gave a full accounting of this matter to the Jewish people. But such a statement, even from Moshe, would not have sufficed to allay the suspicious nature of the public, a nature that always judges its leaders harshly and suspiciously. The rabbis point out to us that none of the garments that the priests wore while performing their holy du-

The Torah never shirks from making lofty goals.

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proven to be a correct – that somehow money is mishandled or worse, appropriated into private pockets instead of for the public good. Therefore, the accounting by Moshe to the Jewish people regarding the donations for the building of the Tabernacle is not to be viewed as an act of piety but rather one of absolute necessity. To emphasize this point and to make clear where the Torah stands on issues of financial transparency is perhaps the reason that such space and detail is devoted in the Torah

ties in the Temple had pockets. This was the case so no one could suspect them of taking any of the property of the Temple or any public donations. Transparency therefore is a proactive undertaking and should be performed willingly and thoroughly without being given grudgingly as an answer to public demand. The standard is a high one, but the Torah never shirks from making lofty goals. The Torah reading of this week reminds us of this constant challenge. Shabbat shalom.

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Parshas Pikudei Easy Does It By Rav Moshe Weinberger Adapted for publication by Binyomin Wolf

emarkably, between the parshios of Terumah-Titzaveh and Vayakhel-Pikudei, the Torah spends over 400 pesukim describing the details of how the Mishkan should be – and actually was – built. There is no other mitzvah regarding which any comparable amount of time is spent. Neither tefillin, Shabbos, yom tov, nor anything else has so many pesukim devoted to it. Why is that? Why must the Torah repeat all of the details of the Mishkan and vessels in Vayakhel-Pikudei when all of these specifications were already laid out in Terumah-Titzaveh? The Torah could simply state that the Jewish people built everything just as they were commanded. Why spend another 200 pesukim repeating everything? The Lubavitcher Rebbe, zy”a, based on a Yerushalmi, says that the specifications regarding how the Mishkan and its vessels should be built in Terumah-Titzveh describe the Mishkan in the world above – in Heaven. And Vayakhel-Pikudei describes the details of how the Mishkan below was actually built – here in this world. There are two separate sets of specifications for each because one cannot simply assume that the physical reality here in this world corresponds exactly with what it is supposed to be. The architectural plan for the Mishkan is found in Terumah-Tit-

zaveh. This is the artist’s rendering. Yet the Torah separately describes the actual construction in Vayakhel-Pikudei to teach us that the two are not necessarily the same. Why is this so? What happened in between which can explain the potential discrepancy? Perhaps it is because Parshas Ki Sisa, which describes the sin of the golden calf, is interposed between the two. Our own failures and shortcomings create the difference between what we could do and what we actually accomplish. It is like this with respect to all areas of life. The ideal one plans for does not always pan out. When a couple marries, each of them, and the bride in particular, has a specific image of what married life will look like. It sometimes involves beautiful, white Shabbos tablecloths, elegant silver candlesticks, well-behaved children listening attentively to Abba’s dvar Torah, and singing zemiros beautifully together. The groom, as well, may have images of a beautiful, spotless home in his mind. He may picture a life in which his beautiful wife and children wait adoringly for him as he comes home, thanking him for providing such a beautiful life for them. He may imagine that he davens in a shul where three months never go by without the gabbai giving him an aliyah Shabbos morning. But real life seldom looks exactly the way the

bride and groom imagine. It is the same in one’s spiritual life. At neilah, one may imagine that this year, he will be holy and pure, free from all of the filth with which he contaminated himself the previous year. And sometimes the realities of life bear a passing resemblance to one’s plans. But very often it is completely unrecognizable. We find another anomaly in the Parshas Pikudei. No less than nineteen times the Torah repeats that the Jewish people built one or another part of the Mishkan and vessels “just as Hashem commanded Moshe.” Why is this done in this context, whereas it is not done anywhere else? Rav Yitzchak Zev HaLevi Soloveichik, zt”l, of Brisk explains that there is a dispute in the Gemara whether it is possible for people to make anything the Torah commands with exact precision or not. In other words, can we make the Ark the required 2.5 amos long without making it 2.50000001 amos long? Can we say that two events, in halacha, occur at exactly the same moment, and not 0.0001 seconds apart? The Brisker Rav explains that we follow the opinion of the chachamim that it is not possible to achieve exact precision. Accordingly, even though the way we built the Mishkan may not have been exactly as the Torah commanded to the thou-

sandth of an inch, to make sure that we do not worry that we have not fulfilled Hashem’s will with respect to the building of the Mishkan and its vessels, the Torah repeatedly reassures us that we did the job “just as Hashem commanded Moshe.” In fact, the Minchas Chinuch (109) says regarding all of the requirements of the Torah involving specific measurements that Hashem only wants us to do our best to act according to those measurements, and that by doing so, we are doing the job exactly as He commanded. He knows our capabilities and chose to give the Torah to us and not the angels above. Hashem commanded us to build the Mishkan but concomitantly reassured us that our best efforts to meeting the specifications were all He wants from us. He wants us to know that “there is no righteous man in the earth who does [only] good and does not sin” (Koheles 7:20). Hashem wants us to know that He does not expect absolute perfection from us so that we will be able to move forward in our service of Him and not beat ourselves up or become discouraged because of our lack of perfection. The entire reason our souls descended from the upper world into the Mishkan below of our bodies is to give us opportunities to do our best to reveal Hashem’s Presence and holiness in the messy scrum of

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this world. While the actual city of Chelm was filled with great Torah scholars, a number of apocryphal stories are told which portray the city as if it were filled with fools. In one of those stories, there was a debate in the town beis medresh regarding whether the sun or the moon were more powerful. After a full day of arguments, the Rav finally stood up, banged on the shtender, and announced that he was settling the issue. The moon was stronger than the sun. When asked the reason for his decision, he explained, “The moon is powerful because it has the strength to light up the night. The sun, however, must not be very powerful because it only attempts to light up the daytime when it is already light outside anyway. It must therefore be weaker.” Our job, like the recounting of the building of the Mishkan in Vayakhel-Pikudei, is to do the best we can, without driving ourselves

crazy, to bring light into the darkness of this world. Even if we are not able to accomplish everything to the thousandth of an inch. Not only is Hashem not upset with us when we do our best but fall short, this is exactly what He wants – exactly what He had in mind when setting up the world the way it is.

known as being a fiery zealot for truth with absolutely no tolerance for even the slightest trace of dishonesty or self-deception. Rav Yitzchak, however, was known as the gentlest, kindest Rebbe in the world. Because both were students of Rav Simcha Bunim of Peshischa, zy”a, the underlying foundation of

He knows our capabilities and chose to give the Torah to us and not the angels above.

The Kotzker Rav, zy”a, and Rav Yitzchak Vorker, zy”a, are two tzaddikim from the world of Peshischa and were the closest of friends, though they could not have been more different. The Kotzker was

the service of G-d for both of them was truth. Because of the Kotzker’s love for truth, he was completely intolerant of even the slightest admixture of falsehood. And because of Rav Yitzchak Vorker’s love for truth,

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if he encountered even the slightest point of truth within a person, he was overcome with joy at encountering that truth. The way of the Kotzker is too difficult for most of us. We must follow the opinion of the chachaimim in our service of Hashem, recognizing that absolute precision is not asked of us. Rather, Hashem only asks that we do our very best even though we often fall short. We must continue trying and bring more light into the darkness of this world. May Hashem help us continue growing and trying to bring His light into our lives more and more and not listen to the inner voice which tries to discourage us by telling us that whatever we do is not good enough. Rav Moshe Weinberger, shlita, is the founding Morah d’Asrah of Congregation Aish Kodesh in Woodmere, NY, and serves as leader of the new mechina Emek HaMelech.

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Parshas Pikudei By Eytan Kobre

Weekly Aggada These are the accounts of the Mishkan, the Mishkan of testimony, that were rendered by the command of Moshe, through the service of the Leviim, by the hand of Isamar, the son of Aharon the priest (Shemos 38:21) What was the “testimony”? R’ Shimon son of R’ Yishmael said, “It was testimony to the entire world that there was forgiveness for the Jewish people.” This is comparable to a king who

married a woman and loved her very much. In time, however, the king became angry with the queen and abandoned her, and the queen’s friends gossiped that the king would never return to her. Sometime later, the king sent word to the queen to prepare one of his castles by a certain day. “For on that day,” went the king’s message, “I will come be with you.” When the appointed day arrived, the king met the queen at the castle, where they ate and drank together. Still, the queen’s friends did not believe that the king had returned until they saw incense wafting from the castle.

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So it was with the Jewish people. G-d loved them very much and brought them to Sinai and gave them the Torah and called them a Kingdom of Priests (Shemos 19:6). Forty days later, however, G-d “abandoned” the Jewish people when they sinned with the Golden Calf, and the nations of the world gossiped that G-d would no longer be close with the Jewish people (Eicha 4:15-16). Moshe begged for mercy for the Jewish people, and G-d immediately forgave them (Bamidbar 14:20). Moshe still was not satisfied. “Master of the World! I am appeased now that you have forgiven the Jewish people. But show the nations of the world that you harbor no ill will towards Your people.” “By your life!” G-d responded. “I will rest My Divine Presence in their midst, and the incense of their offerings will demonstrate that I have forgiven them.” That is why the Mishkan is referred to as a Mishkan of testimony – testimony that G-d had forgiven the Jewish people (Shemos Rabba 51:4; Tanchuma, Pekudei 6).

Weekly Mussar And they brought the Mishkan to Moshe, the Tent, and all its furniture, its clasps, its boards, its bars, and its pillars, and its sockets (Shemos 39:33) On the one hand, we are told that “Moshe erected the Mishkan” (Shemos 35:18); on the other, that “the Mishkan was erected” (Shemos 35:17). While the former indicates that Moshe erected the Mishkan, the latter implies that the Mishkan erected itself. When Betzalel and Oholiav were unable to erect the Mishkan, they

brought it to Moshe to erect it. “Master of the Universe!” said Moshe. “I do not know how to set it up.” “You, work with your hands,” G-d said, “and it will appear as though you’ve made it stand.” No human alone could erect the Mishkan, and perhaps Moshe was right that he could not do so either. But Moshe’s job was to do what he could. The rest was – as it always is – up to G-d. Too often, we are dissuaded from doing things because we believe the end goal is unattainable. And it might be. But as a wise man famously said, “The only real failure in life is the failure to try.” We are, by nature, limited. But that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t do anything and everything we can to work towards our goals (Sichos Mussar Nos. 24 and 67). The Chofetz Chaim made a similar point in debunking the belief that we need make no effort to avoid negative speech simply because negative speech cannot be avoided altogether. If there was a beach littered with thousands of jewels, we would grab what we could and embrace the futility in the notion that we could take them all. So it is with any worthwhile endeavor. R’ Yisrael Salanter summed it up best when he observed, “A person must try; the results are up to G-d.” How true.

Weekly Anecdote And Moshe saw all the work, and, behold, they had done it; as G-d had commanded, so had they done it; and Moshe blessed them (Shemos 39:43) There was once a man from Volozhin, R’ Yitzchok, who was wealthy, learned, pious, and generous. He traveled often for business,

and he always made sure to return with jewelry for his wife. Before embarking on one such trip, his wife asked that, rather than the usual jewelry, he bring back a complete set of Shas, a rarity and an expensive proposition in those days. So, on his next trip, R’ Yitzchok searched far and wide and managed to procure a complete set of Shas. The volumes were different sizes and colors and were published by different printers – total mismatches – but it was a complete Shas nonetheless. R’ Yitzchok returned triumphantly with the Shas, and he and his wife rejoiced in their new treasure. Not wanting to keep it to themselves, they decided to lend individual volumes of the Shas to anyone who requested, with one caveat: borrowers could take only one volume at a time. And that sufficed...for most people. One day, the famous author of the Shaagas Aryeh, R’ Aryeh Leib Gunzberg, came to Volozhin. There, he heard of R’ Yitzchok’s complete set

of Shas and how it was available to be borrowed, albeit one volume at a time. He quickly made tracks for R’ Yitzchok’s home. When R’ Yitzchok’s wife learned that the Shaagas Aryeh was asking to borrow a volume of the precious Shas, she was so excited and honored that she permitted him to borrow as many volumes as he wished, whenever he wished. This remained the case throughout his extended stay in Volozhin. Before leaving the city, the Shaagas Aryeh blessed R’ Yitzchok and his wife. “My blessing to you is that you should raise two sons who will illuminate the Torah world through the Shas. One will merit to teach Shas to many students, while the other will be so learned that he won’t need a set of Shas at all.” And so it was. R’ Yitzchok and his wife had two sons. One grew up to become the famous R’ Chaim of Volozhin, who established the preeminent yeshiva of his time; the other, R’

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Zalman, grew up to know the entire Torah by heart.

Weekly Halacha And Moshe erected the Mishkan, and laid its sockets, and set up its boards, and put in its bars, and erected its pillars (Shemos 40:18) This is a source for the principle of “maalin b’kodesh v’aino moridin” – “we (only) ascend in holiness, and we do not descend” (Menachos 99a). (Among other possible explanations, we derive this from the fact that the Torah here refers only to erecting the Mishkan but not to disassembling it [Rashi, Menachos 99a]). The principle of “maalin b’kodesh v’aino moridin” is the source of many halachos. Among others: • When a sefer Torah or tefillin become worn out, the parchment may not be reused as a mezuza (Menachos 32b; Shulchan Aruch, Yoreh Dei’ah

290:1) • A shul may be converted into a bais medrash, but not vice versa (Megilla 26b; Shulchan Aruch, Orach Chaim 153:1). Likewise, monies collected for a shul may be used for a bais medrash, but not vice versa (Shulchan Aruch, Yoreh Dei’ah 259:2) • We don a tallis before tefillin (Shulchan Aruch, Orach Chaim 25:1) • On Chanuka, according to Bais Hillel, we add a light each night of Chanukah (rather than starting with eight lights and decreasing the number of lights each night) (Shabbos 21b)

The Weekly Halacha is not meant for practical purposes and is for discussion purposes only. Please consult your own rav for guidance.

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

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Hidden Beneath the

S U R FA C E By Avi Feiner

he name of a holiday generally describes the essence of the day. However, at first glance, the name Purim has very little to do with what we would describe as the essence of this great day. The root word pur means “lot” or “lottery,” which seems to be a very tangential point within the context of the great miracle that occurred on the yom tov of Purim. How are we to understand why the Sages in the time of Mordechai and Esther chose to refer to this joyous day as “Purim?” According to one opinion in Chazal, the only holiday that will remain in existence during the days of Moshiach is Purim.1 Purim, therefore, has a very distinct connection to the future redemption of the Jewish People. This is not completely surprising; after all, the joy that fills the air on Purim is a different type of joy than we experience the rest of the year. It is an unbridled joy – an unfettered happiness, the sort of which we will experience on a constant basis during the times of Moshiach. Rabbi Yitzchak Hutner (Pachad Yitzchok, Purim 9) asks: Seeing as how the Gemara in Berachos comments that it is forbidden for one to be filled with total elation on this world – rather, we are mandated to temper our “happy” emotions with feelings of awe and cautiousness – how are we allowed to experience complete and unbridled simchah on Purim? He answers that Purim is not part of this present world; rather, it is intended as an otherworldly experience

that is meant to give us a taste of what the joy of the future Messianic times will be like. In other words, Purim is an extraordinary day; it is a day not from this world, but from the next world. It is a day when we all are given the amazing gift of being able to feel the eternal joy of the ultimate Redemption – and this is its essential quality. If this is the case, and Purim is so remarkable because it offers us a

perficial level, all we see is the pur, the seemingly arbitrary lots that we are given in life, both individually and as a nation. However, when we try to look deeper, we are able to see that which is hidden beneath the pur. We are able to see that there is a keitz, an end time that all of the events in Jewish history are leading towards; a time when it will be revealed to us that absolutely nothing is arbitrary in this world and that there is a tachlis, a positive purpose, to

On Purim, we have the ability to peer beneath the surface and see that which is hidden underneath.

glimpse of Messianic joy, even in this world, then that quality of the day should be alluded to in its very name. I believe that it is. When you look at the letters pur, there is a letter “vav” that pulls the “pey” and the “raish” together. A “vav” is often called a vav ha’chibbur because it connects and pulls two things together. But hiding between a “pey” and a “raish” in the order of the aleph bais is a “tzadi” and a “kuf”, which together comprise the word keitz, which refers to the end of days – the future Messianic period.2 The hint is remarkable: on a su-

whatever Hashem sends our way. On Purim, we have the ability to peer beneath the surface and see that which is hidden underneath. At the time of Mordechai and Esther, we were able to see that the pur of Haman was not what it first appeared to be. It seemed to be a death sentence against the Jewish People, but ultimately it was not. It was, rather, a call to teshuvah and a way to enable the Jewish People to experience complete salvation. So too, every year on Purim we have the opportunity to realize that the keitz is hiding behind the pur, the seemingly arbitrary events of life. We

have the complete faith that nothing is coincidental and that the events of this world are leading to a time of unlimited joy, a time of keitz – a time when az y’maleh sichok finu u’lshoneinu rinah.

This article has been reprinted with permission from Purim Eternal: Inspiration and Depth by Avi Feiner, published by Mosaica Press. The sefer is a collection of short essays that provide insight into the mitzvos and the nature of the day of Purim. It is intended for readers of all levels and backgrounds.

1. Yalkut Shimoni, Mishlei Chap. 9, quoted by the Rambam, Mishneh Torah, Megillah 2:18. The midrash there quotes another opinion that Yom Kippur will also remain forever. 2. The word keitz, which literally means “end,” is found in Tanach and is also used by the Sages to refer to the Messianic period when all of the Jewish exiles will come to an end. See, for example, Daniel 8:17, 8:19, 11:35, 12:4, and 12:13. See also Megillah 3a and Rashi, Bereishis 47:28, quoting from Bereishis Rabbah 96:1. Avi Feiner learned in Yeshiva Kerem B’Yavneh, Yeshivas Mir, and the Gruss Kollel in Eretz Yisrael, as well as in Yeshivas Rabbeinu Yitzchak Elchanan and Yeshivas Ner Yisroel in America. He currently lives in Lawrence, NY, with his wife, Alyssa, and their five children. He can be reached at jfeiner18@gmail.com.

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The Vilna Gaon and Religious Zionism By Gedaliah Borvick

hen one thinks about modern Zionism, the first name that comes to mind is Theodor Herzl. However, a century before Herzl and his colleagues spread their Zionist vision, another revolution took place through a very different visionary. Rabbi Eliyahu ben Shlomo Zalman (1720-1797), who was known as the Vilna Gaon (genius) and the Gra, an acronym for Hagaon Rabbeinu Eliyahu, spent his life immersed in Torah study. His influence reverberates in the yeshiva world, which he originated through his student Rav Chaim, who founded the Volozhin Yeshiva based on the ideals of the Gra’s beit midrash. Another significant area where the Gra left his mark was regarding the issue of aliyah, as his strong focus on the importance of emigrating to Israel was instrumental in his students’ – and their students’ – creation of the Religious Zionist movement. None of the classic codifiers of Jewish law – the Rambam, the Halachot

A rendering of the Vilna Gaon

Rechov HaGra in Shaarei Chesed, Jerusalem

Gedolot, the Rif, the Rosh, the Tur, the Shulchan Aruch – mention any law preventing Jews from establishing their own state. In fact, most of them considered moving to the Land of Israel a religious obligation. Moreover, many halachic giants – including the Arizal, the Bartenura, the Ramban, Rav Yehuda Halevi and Rav Yosef Karo, to name a few – put their words into action and moved to Eretz Yisrael. Based on normative halacha, the Gra developed a comprehensive worldview with the overarching objective of hastening the coming of Moshiach and encouraged his students to invest their energy in building the land and bringing about the ingathering of the exiles. Numerous students of the Gra immigrated in the early nineteenth century and paved the way for the masses who made aliyah starting in the 1880s. Several rabbis who studied in Volozhin in the second half of the nineteenth century – such as Rav Shmuel Mohilever, who helped found the Hov-

evei Zion movement (the precursor to Herzl’s political Zionism); Rav Abraham Isaac Kook, who became the first Ashkenazi chief rabbi in pre-state Israel; and Rav Yitzchak Yaacov Reines, who founded the Mizrachi Religious Zionist Movement – encouraged observant Jews to join forces with secular Jews who were leading the drive to create the Jewish state. The rabbinic giants who championed the Zionist cause were adhering to the values promulgated by the Gra and espoused by some of their teachers in the Volozhin Yeshiva. However, their association with the Zionist movement was considered somewhat radical, as most European rabbis towards the end of the nineteenth century discouraged observant Jews from moving to the Holy Land, due to (1) their concerns that secular nationalism would replace religious observance, and (2) their finding it inconceivable that the Al-mighty would fulfill the redemption through secular activism. Consequently, when

confronted with pogroms and other forms of anti-Semitism, the majority of religious leaders would urge their followers to accept the hardships of exile and pray for Moshiach’s miraculous arrival. Although the Gra was unsuccessful in his attempt to move to Eretz Yisrael, his legacy is flourishing in the country’s numerous synagogues that have adopted his unique minhagim; in the countless batei midrash where his critical study approach is being taught; in Israel’s streets, as half a dozen cities have his name emblazoned on street signs; and in the Knesset, where many values promoted by the Religious Zionist parties emanate from the Gra’s worldview. Gedaliah Borvick is the founder of My Israel Home (www.myisraelhome.com), a real estate agency focused on helping people from abroad buy and sell homes in Israel. To sign up for his monthly market updates, contact him at gborvick@gmail. com.

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The Wandering

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My Polish Winter December 1986 PART I By Hershel Lieber

ecember of 1986 was a very cold winter in Poland. I had volunteered to travel there on a joint mission funded by the Bobover Rebbe, Rav Shloma zt”l, and Agudas Yisroel. This was in response to the pleas of Reb Shmelke Griffel, z”l, who believed that there were still many Jews in Poland who needed assistance. He had compiled extensive lists of those Jews, most of which the names and addresses were unfortunately outdated. Yet, with this limited amount of information I embarked on this journey. I was doubtful of succeeding, but still had a glimmer of hope. I took Shmuel Cymerman along with me who could translate from Polish to English. My brother Yossi also joined us, albeit three days later. The final days of this journey would coincide with Chanukah. I had previously written about the Chanukah candle lightings and gatherings in Warsaw. Now let me fill you in on the rest of that trip. Reaching out and connecting to our people was a mixed bag. There were moments of joy and excitement, but more often, sadness and despair prevailed. Our trip took us to a number of large cities like Warsaw, Lodz, Lublin, and Krakow. Smaller towns that we visited included Wengrov, Myslenice, Nowy Sacz, and Dombrowa. In all those cities and towns, Jews had made up a fair amount of the population before the War. Now only the larger cities had somewhat of a Jewish presence. In most of the aforementioned towns, there was only one lone Jew that we could reach out to to offer some help and to impart feelings of optimism. In Wengrov, which is less than

lived there. We were in shock when we realized that the woman was her mother and that that little girl was her.

Yes, it was a very cold winter

an hour northeast of Warsaw, I went alone to visit a woman who had an uncle in Israel. She had gone to Israel in the hope of meeting someone to marry. Somehow that did not happen, and she returned to Poland to marry a local man from Wengrov. They had a daughter, a truly Jewish child, whom my heart broke when I realized her bleak prospects for a Jewish future. I gave them my blessings and left with feelings of hopelessness. From 1988 and onward I was involved in the Ronald Lauder Foundation, traveling to teach at their summer and winter retreats in Poland. We had older Jews and younger families with children coming to these camps, which ran for up to six weeks. We were able to convince some of the children to travel to study in Jewish schools in the States. The rate of success was not encouraging, but here and there some of those children made the leap and became observant.

There was one little girl at that retreat whom I did not know personally but after finishing high school came to Touro college and Machon Chana in Brooklyn. She became religious and would join us at our home for our Chanukah party. When she became a kallah, Pesi helped her choose her wedding gown. She married an American baal teshuva, and the wedding took place in Israel. After her marriage, she lived in a number of cities in the South of the United States, where she was a teacher of Jewish studies. During one of our summer trips to the Lauder retreat, we met her at the Krakow airport. Pesi embraced her, and we had a few moments together while riding the bus to the terminal. I happened to ask her why she was in Poland. She told me that she came to visit her mother in Wengrov. I told her of my visit there about twenty years before, where I reached out to a lone Jewish woman and her daughter who

When Shmuel arrived, we started our mission in earnest. Our list had the name of a Jewish man married to a gentile woman in the town of Myslenice, which is about an hour south of Krakow. From time to time, an organization in Israel was sending him food parcels but they were being returned to the sender. When we arrived at his apartment and rang the bell, a woman opened the door and slammed it in our faces. So as not to be intimidated I rang the bell again. This time a man answered the door and in a harsh, screaming voice told us we were not welcome. Furthermore, he said, that whoever is sending him packages from Israel should stop. I assumed that his attitude came from fear of his neighbors realizing who he was and that he has connections to Jews abroad. We left feeling dejected but gained an understanding of the anti-Semitism Jews there were being subjected to. Our next stop was in Nowy Sacz or, as it was known in Yiddish, Sanz. This small town became famous because of its Rebbe, Rav Chaim Halberstam, the Divrei Chaim – a town of thousands of chassidim which was obliterated by the Nazis, ym”sh. We knew of only one Jewish woman who remained there, and that’s where we headed. Panie Bohenek greeted us warmly but had forgotten her birth language, Yiddish. She was surrounded by her three sons and many of her grandchildren, all not Jewish. She showed us prewar photographs of her parents and forebearers all dressed in chassidishe clothing. She told us how she

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Heshy, and his brother Yossi, with Shmiel Roth and his sister-in-law in Dombrowa

was rescued by a Polish family during the war while her parents and siblings were murdered by the Nazis. After the war, left alone, she married the son of her rescuer and resumed life as a Pole. When I asked her if her grandchildren knew her background, she repeated my question to them. Instinctively they surrounded her, hugged and kissed her as they acknowledged that they knew and were proud to have her as the family’s matriarch. The contrast of this Yiddishe grandmother surrounded by her grandchildren with their dangling crosses is a sight I will never forget. Dombrowa, a village near Tarnow, was not on our original list of places to visit. Rather, I added this town because of an interesting incident we experienced when traveling by railroad to Krakow. My brother and I had an early departure from Warsaw, and we were davening Shacharis on the train in a private cabin. The window had no curtain, and we were visible to passersby in the aisle. At one point, a young man in his late thirties passed by, looked into our cabin, gave a double take, and

Winter scene at the bais olam in Bobov

A young girl, who is frum today, with her parents in Wengrov in 1986

quickly returned. He asked me if we could talk. He waited until we finished davening and introduced himself. He was Jewish and had left Poland for Sweden during a wave of anti-Semi-

Panie Bohenek, the only Jew in Nowy Sacz, and family

was then and there that I decided that we should travel to Dombrowa to meet them. It was the second night of Chanukah when we drove into to Dom-

The contrast of this Yiddishe grandmother surrounded by her grandchildren with their dangling crosses is a sight I will never forget.

tism in 1968, after the Six Day War. He used to come occasionally to visit his elderly mother who lived in Krakow. He was surprised and intrigued when he saw us, young religious Jews, praying. He did not know much about religion but knew that there was only one authentic, elderly religious couple still living in Dombrowa. He did not know their names but said that anyone there would know whom they are. It

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browa. When I asked where the local Jew lived, everyone knew and directed us to the house. We knocked on the door a number of times, but no one answered. We were about to leave in disappointment when I faintly heard the opening of a peephole latch on the door. Within a few seconds, the door opened, and we were let into the kitchen and stared at an unimaginable image.

On the table was a candlelit menorah with a tattered zmirosel. A glass of tea and a fresh babka complemented the festive celebration of nes gadol haya sham. Shmiel Roth and his sister-in-law (his wife had recently died) were the loyal guardians of our tradition. He told us that he could not leave behind the ruins of the great synagogue. He had removed the aron hakodesh and the bimah from the big shul to a room in his house where he davened every single day. Neither was he willing to abandon the deceased at the cemetery in town. He used to visit them and his late wife every single day. So sad – yet so inspiring! I visited Shmiel Roth two more times on different occasions and then found out that he had passed away. Yes, it was a very cold winter in Poland that winter, but here and there we experienced warmth. Hershel Lieber has been involved in kiruv activities for over 30 years. As a founding member of the Vaad L’Hatzolas Nidchei Yisroel he has traveled with his wife, Pesi, to the Soviet Union during the harsh years of the Communist regimes to advance Yiddishkeit. He has spearheaded a yeshiva in the city of Kishinev that had 12 successful years with many students making Torah their way of life. In Poland, he lectured in the summers at the Ronald S. Lauder Foundation camp for nearly 30 years. He still travels to Warsaw every year – since 1979 – to be the chazzan for Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur for the Jews there. Together with Pesi, he organized and led trips to Europe on behalf of Gateways and Aish Hatorah for college students finding their paths to Jewish identity. His passion for travel has taken them to many interesting places and afforded them unique experiences. Their open home gave them opportunities to meet and develop relationships with a variety of people. Hershel’s column will appear in The Jewish Home on a bi-weekly basis.

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Eitan Katz Talks about the Message in His Music By Malky Lowinger

met Eitan in Brooklyn last week to talk about his new album, AshreHe’s cha. He is everything you not your classic would imagine – soft-spoken, unassuming, humble, and Jewish music superstar. yet fiercely passionate about his Nor does he identify as a big powerful message. I asked him about himself but he prefers name whose every move is followed to speak about his songs. by dozens of adoring fans. And yet, Eitan He’s uncomfortable with interviews and especially Katz is a singer, songwriter and performer with photoshoots. “It’s whose music has touched the hearts and not about me,” he explains. “It’s about the souls of countless members of klal Yisroel. His music.” songs are classics; his music is eternal. Without Eitan was born in the U.S. and grew up in fanfare, he has developed a steady and Raanana in Israel. Today devoted following who flock to his concerts he lives in Far Rockaway with his family, and when and kumzitzes and who sing along to his he’s not developing and music like the songs are theirs. In a world sharing his unique brand of music, he can usually be of fake news, noisy simchas, and bells found doing what he loves best and whistles, Eitan stands apart – studying Torah. Eitan’s rise to stardom was slow as an artist who is genuine and steady but his music is timeless – real. and eternal. “L’maancha,” a defining song of his career, was actually re-

leased in 2005, almost fifteen years ago. And yet it is every bit as fresh and relevant as ever. When he sings it at a kumzitz today nobody thinks of it as a has-been. The soulful words and the stirring tune conjure feelings of longing and yearning – a desire to be a better Jew, more connected to the One Above – which is an emotion intrinsic in the soul of every Jew regardless of age or affiliation. “My music,” he explains, “is heavily influenced by Carlebach, Chabad, Breslov, Dveykus, and Avrohom Fried. It’s soulful music, music that is by nature filled with tochen, music that’s meaningful but not complicated.” His lyrics, he says, are not random pesukim but rather tefillos that have tremendous personal significance. I ask Eitan from where he draws his inspiration and he says that he is most inspired by his Torah learning. “When I’m learning well, I’m more driven and my music sounds great,” he notes. We are here to talk about Ashrecha, which Eitan says is probably his least typical album yet. It was released just last week, and Eitan has already been overwhelmed with positive feedback from listeners. Every song, says Eitan, has an important message. He’s hoping that people will receive it with genuine sincerity. The song “Ashrecha,” he says, is

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based on the Sefer Chovos Hatalmidim written by the Piaseczna Rebbe who was killed al kiddush Hashem in the Warsaw Ghetto. First published in 1932, the sefer has since become required reading for yeshiva students, a masterpiece

In a world of techno-music and electronic sound, Eitan Katz s t a n d s apart. On some songs in this album, all we hear are his voice and his melodic guitar. The guitar, he explains, “is my instrument. A simple and soulful tool for me to give over what I have to express.” In general, Eitan feels that the message in his songs is more important than the music. “I love music,” he explains, “but it’s just a kli that holds the message I’m trying to convey. It’s more important for the powerful niggun to

“It’s not about me. It’s about the music.” filled with tremendous insight for anyone wishing to grow spiritually. “The song,” says Eitan, “is an incredibly empowering message about how blessed we are to pick up a siddur or to learn Torah, how lucky we are.” It’s a joyous celebration of the special zechus of talmud Torah, a zechus that ought to be properly recognized.

come through.” While many of his fans associate Eitan Katz with late-night candlelit kumzitzes, he notes there’s much more to his music than that. In fact, there are a few joyful, upbeat simcha niggunim on this new album. Eitan observes that these tunes can also elevate a person’s soul in a fulfilling and meaningful way. This explains why Eitan Katz is a popular choice for simchas and chasunahs. “The clients I attract,” he explains, “are looking for somet hing so much more than just a per formance – not cheesy and cheap – but something deep and profound and meaningful. It’s mu-

sic without the hock.” Ashrecha, says Eitan, tells his personal story. The songs range from soulful and intense to joyful and uplifting but each one is an expression of his own triumphs and struggles. “Basically,” he says, “the Torah concepts behind each niggun represent my thoughts. The words speak to me and guide me in the way I live and thrive in spite of life’s challenges.” “B’fi Yeshorim” is a song that is destined for fame. It’s a rich and joyous melody celebrating klal Yisroel’s special relationship with Hashem. Eitan sings this song together with Benny Friedman, which is an unusual move for an artist who usually prefers to go solo. “The collaboration with Benny,” he explains, “was a special one. I felt that this niggun was calling for an additional vocalist, someone who could add a certain regal element to it.” Benny was the perfect choice. “I always loved Benny’s voice, and his rich, Yiddishe sound was perfect for this tune.” Working together with Benny led to a fast friendship, and the two vocalists also put out a music video together which can be viewed on YouTube. Eitan comments that he’s been asked whether “B’fi Yeshorim” is a Modzhitzer melody. “It’s not,” he tells me. “But I consider it a tremendous compliment. Modzhitz is known for their soulful, regal waltzes, and this song is also a waltz so the confusion is understandable and actually awesome.” Another song destined for popularity is “Nigun Chazak,” which has already been released as a single. And the fast-paced, fun-filled “Nigun,” which sounds as if you just walked in to the middle of a simcha or a tisch, is perfectly suited for a Purim gathering. It’s impossible not to dance to this simple but irresistible niggun.

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For Eitan, music is a spiritual experience. But he sometimes struggles to maintain that spiritual serenity when all around him it’s all about the noise. It’s a delicate balancing act to maintain the holiness within the music. As a singer, he needs to stay relevant and recognized – not trendy, shallow, or loud. While he’s writing and performing, Eitan finds that it’s a constant battle for him to maintain the spirituality amongst the surrounding noise in the industry and the world. It’s a struggle, although he manages to rise above it. He advises young aspiring artists

not to lose their voice. “Don’t give up,” he urges, “even if you feel nobody is listening to you. If you have a message, share it and don’t worry about sales. Good music will sometimes meet with resistance, but eventually it is appreciated.” He ought to know. After fifteen years and ten albums, Eitan Katz and his music have become a staple in the Jewish music scene. There’s not a kumzitz or a wedding which doesn’t feature his songs. But Eitan measures success in his own way. He received his biggest compliment just last week. A random stranger who listened to his new album left him a short message. “Mr. Katz,” he said. “I have one word for you: Ashrecha.”

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IndIctments and adversarIes on the Left Is netanYahu’s reIgn aBout to

end? BY tzvI Lev

Israel, the words “prime minister” and “Benjamin Netanyahu” have become virtually synonymous. Netanyahu has led the Jewish State since 2009, the longest consecutive term of any prime minister in Israel’s history. For many Israelis, it’s difficult to imagine or remember anyone else serving as their highest elected official. During this period, Netanyahu has led a slew of initiatives that transformed him into one of the world’s most recognizable statemen, despite leading a small country of only 8 million people. Netanyahu has continually prevented the establishment of a Palestinian State, solidified Israel’s covert relations with ostensibly hostile Arab states such as Saudi Arabia and Bahrain, and headed the opposition to President Obama’s signing of the Iran nuclear deal in 2015. Netanyahu also deftly navigated Israel through the brutal civil war in neighboring Syria. Since 2010, Netanyahu has ensured that Israel’s interests in the region are secured while avoiding any entanglement in the horrific violence raging on Israel’s border. Key to this effort was maintaining strong relations with both Russia and the U.S. Even as a known ally of the U.S., Israel was able to maintain good terms with Russia, despite the increasingly adversarial relations between the two superpowers. This was particularly noticeable this past May, when Netanyahu was brought as Putin’s honored guest to a Moscow parade just a day after Israeli warplanes had bombed Damascus. In addition, Netanyahu’s economic reforms jumpstarted Israel’s economy and played a substantial role in turning the Jewish State into the techno-

logical powerhouse that it is today. Israel is currently experiencing its lowest unemployment rate, highest GDP, and highest average salary since the country was founded 70 years ago. All these accomplishments have enabled Netanyahu to successfully fend off political challengers during his ongoing 11-year reign.

Yet

Netanyahu’s unprecedented term may soon be coming to an end, as he was indicted on Thursday by Israel’s Attorney General for bribery, breach of trust, and fraud. With elections approaching in just over a month, Netanyahu finds himself fighting for his political domain as well as his freedom, while he faces a popular new opposition party headed by three former commanders of Israel’s military. In the corruption probe nicknamed Case 1000, Netanyahu is accused of accepting lavish gifts from billionaires Arnon Milchan and James Packer. Police say that the gifts, which included expensive champagne, jewelry, and cigars, constituted bribery in exchange for Netanyahu promoting legislation favorable to their interests. Netanyahu denies the charges and insists that the expensive gifts were strictly personal gestures, pointing to the fact that he started receiving the jewelry and cigars in 2006, three years before returning to the Prime Minister’s Residence on Jerusalem’s Balfour Street. The remaining two indictments deal with Netanyahu’s attempts to influence Israel’s media coverage of himself. In Case 2000, authorities say that he

attempted to strike an illicit deal with the publisher of the major newspaper Yediot Aharonot, in which Netanyahu promised to shutter competing daily Yisrael Hayom in exchange for glowing media coverage in the former paper. The most incriminating evidence police possess are two recordings in which Netanyahu and the Yediot Aharonot publisher Arnon “Noni” Mosez can be heard openly discussing the terms of the corrupt deal. Meanwhile, Case 4000 revolves around allegations that Netanyahu promoted regulatory moves that provided a financial windfall for the owner of Israel’s Bezeq telecommunications in exchange for positive media coverage on the popular “Walla!” website also owned by the same individual. Case 4000 is seen as the most serious of all of Netanyahu’s legal troubles. The facts are undeniable; dozens of employees of the news and lifestyle website Walla, including its former editor-in-chief, testified that Bezeq owner Shaul Elovitch ordered them to scrap anti-Netanyahu stories during the 2015 elections. When the journalists pushed back, senior Walla management told them that the fawning coverage was needed to “ensure the future merger between Bezeq and [TV company] Yes is approved.” Admissions by former Netanyahu spokesperson Nir Hefetz, who turned State’s Witness, paint the premier as a petty and paranoid leader who constantly leaned on Walla to besmirch his political rivals. According to the indictment, Netanyahu saved his ugliest vitriol for President Reuven Rivlin and “New Right” party leader Naftali Bennett. Among the stories Netanyahu promoted was a

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piece highlighting the fact that Bennett’s wife Gilat, who is not religious, worked as a pastry chef in a non-kosher restaurant. As Bennett had previously headed a national-religious party, the story was meant to undermine Bennett’s credibility in the eyes of potential voters. In another particularly ugly incident, Netanyahu reportedly pushed a conspiracy-laced story alleging that Bennett’s father, Jim, had attempted to harm former Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin prior to Rabin’s death at the hands of a religious Jewish extremist in 1995. “Netanyahu’s a big picture guy, a statesman with geopolitical grasp. Reading the evidence [of] how easy it was for a businessman to get him, for cigars/ champagne to pick up the phone to John Kerry, or how much energy went in to getting minor stories into Walla is almost beyond belief,” wrote senior Haaretz journalist Anshel Phefer. “It’s also the pettiness of some of his demands to Elovitch,” added Phefer. “The silly pieces in Walla aimed at his right-wing enemies [President Reuven] Rivlin, Bennett, [Kulanu leader Mosher] Kahlon, even though they never really threatened him. All for what? This wasn’t about a fairer or more rightwing media. Just personal vendettas.” Netanyahu denied the charges during an angry press conference following his indictment. Alleging that his legal troubles are an attempt by the Left to seize power, Netanyahu decried the “witch hunt” that “dragged my family through the seven circles of hell.” “The Left knows it cannot beat us at the polling

the “partY of the generaLs” has no cLear IdeoLogY that unItes them other than the common refraIn of “anYone But BIBI.”

booth, so for the past three years they have been carrying out an unprecedented witch hunt which has one aim: to topple the right-wing government which I lead,” said Netanyahu. The prime minister also repeated his claim that his actions in Case 4000 were not illegal. “There’s no precedent in history which determines that positive

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The Kahol Lavan Party. One goal: defeating Netanyahu

coverage is a bribe,” Netanyahu said. “Walla was and remains an extreme left website that is hostile to me.” Netanyahu now becomes the first ever Israeli leader to remain in office despite being indicted. In the past, government ministers would step down upon receiving an indictment, something which ended the career of former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert in 2008. However, the law requiring ministers to resign post-indictment is unclear. The exact wording speaks only about regular ministers and does not explicitly refer to a serving prime minister.

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legal charges come at a time when Netanyahu is already battling for his political throne. With Israel headed to the polls in April, his Likud party is consistently losing ground to the new Kahol Lavan party, which is headed by three former IDF chief of staffs who banded together to overthrow the Likud’s grasp on power. Despite their competing egos and mutual dislike of each other, former Generals Benny Gantz, Moshe “Bogie” Ya’alon and Gabi Ashkenazi teamed up with Yesh Atid head Yair Lapid in an attempt to finally end the Netanyahu era. The “party of the generals” has no clear ideology that unites them other than the common refrain of “anyone but Bibi”; the Kahol Lavan list is riddled with politicians with competing ideologies. For example, it includes Ya’alon, a right-wing security hawk who opposes a Palestinian state, and Gantz, who has said that the lack of a Palestinian state threatens Israel’s future as a Jewish nation. The conflicts spill over to the social and economic realm as well. Kahol Lavan’s candidate for finance minister is Avi Nissenkoren, who heads the powerful Histadrut labor union, and yet the party paradoxically also includes Zvi Hauser, a former senior Likud member who dedicated his career to dismantling the Histadrut.

Yet despite the ideological inconsistency, Kahol Lavan finds itself beating Likud in the polls, as the mega-merger has consolidated the powerful anti-Netanyahu sentiment on the Center-Left. In poll after poll, the Lapid-Gantz-Ya’alon-Ashkenazi alliance leads the Likud with an average of 36 Knesset seats to the Likud’s 30, the first time in recent memory that the Likud is trailing by such a large margin. Yet beating out the Likud on April 9th doesn’t mean that Israelis will soon get used to hearing the words “Prime Minister Benny Gantz.” Due to the many parties that comprise Israel’s political system, what matters is not the number of Knesset seats that a party obtains but the possibility of forming a governing coalition. By law, a governing party needs the support of at least 61 lawmakers to establish a government. A party that nets the highest amount of support at the ballot box will not be able to translate those gains into political power should other parties refuse to join their coalition. Netanyahu is well aware of this fact, as this characteristic of Israeli politics is what reinstalled him into power back in 2009. Following Netanyahu’s decade-long hiatus from the Prime Minister’s Residence, his Likud party earned 27 seats in the 2009 elections, one less than the rival Kadima party. However, then-Kadima leader Tzipi Livni was unable to gain the support of the charedi factions and was forced to watch Netanyahu sweep into power. Currently, an assortment of right-wing parties are averaging between 61 and 65 seats in the polls. Even if the current polls prove accurate and Kahol Lavan outperforms the Likud on April 9th, it would be extremely difficult, if not impossible, for the generals and Lapid to form a government. Such a move would only be possible if it was supported by the anti-Israel Arab factions, as all of the charedi and right-wing parties have declared they oppose any collaboration with Kahol Lavan. Yet the

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Arnon Milchan with Netanyahu in 2005

Arab parties have historically refused to join any coalition out of their deep opposition to Zionism and the Jewish State. In fact, senior Israeli Arab lawmaker Ahmed Tibi recently ruled out any coalition with Gantz, whom he blasted for “murdering Arabs in Gaza” during Gantz’s stint commanding the IDF during 2014’s Operation Protective Edge. “I cannot be part of any government taking for example a decision to attack Gaza or to support huge budgets cuts in settlements or to confiscate land or to destroy houses in the Negev,” Tibi declared in Yisrael Hayom in February. Regardless of Tibi’s denials, the Likud has gone on an ad campaign accusing the ex-generals of “joining the Arab parties to form a blocking bloc” after election day that would prevent the Right from getting President Rivlin’s nod to form a coalition. The Likud is hoping to capitalize on the significant anti-Arab sentiment of its electoral base as a get-outthe-vote effort. Netanyahu’s accusations of a Kahol Lavan alliance with the likes of Ahmed Tibi and Hanin Zoabi have been fiercely denied by Kahol Lavan, which has gone to great lengths to avoid being painted as a leftwing party. “Despite what Netanyahu has made up, no bloc is being formed with the Arab parties, period!” Yair Lapid wrote on Twitter. “Bibi created an imaginary story, and everyone is repeating it.” As elections draw nearer, Netanyahu realizes that the key to remaining in power, and perhaps as a free man, lies in the handful of right-wing factions that are barely scraping the electoral threshold. In Israel, a party must earn the support of 3.25% of the public, or four Knesset seats, in order to make it into parliament. The 3.25% threshold, one of the highest in any democracy, was raised in 2015 by Avigdor Liberman’s Yisrael Beytenu party in the hope that it would keep

the Arab factions out of the Knesset. The move has boomeranged, and harms most of all the very same people who had voted for it four years ago. While the Arab factions united into the Joint List and made their best-ever electoral showing in 2015, Liberman’s Yisrael Beytenu now hovers around the threshold and is in real danger of not making it into Israel’s 21st Knesset. Avigdor Liberman is not alone. The charedi Shas party, Moshe Kahlon’s Kulanu, Moshe Feiglin’s Zehut, Orly Levi-Abeksis’ Gesher party, and former Shas leader Eli Yishai’s Yahad are all hovering around or find themselves below the electoral threshold, posing a real threat to the continuation of the Right’s lock on power. Should any of the aforementioned parties fail to make it over the electoral threshold, all of the votes it received would essentially be for naught. The plurality of parties, more than anything else, is what threatens the Likud, as polls show no less than 8 Knesset seats going to waste that would otherwise go to the right-wing. As such, Netanyahu controversially engineered an alliance between the Religious Zionist Jewish Home and National Union parties with the extreme right-wing Ozma Yisrael, a faction comprised of those supporting the late Rabbi Meir Kahane. Kahane’s Kach party was formally banned by the Supreme Court from running in both 1986 and 1991 due to the racist nature of its ideology. Among the laws Kach proposed were the expulsion of all Arabs from the State of Israel, criminalization of Jewish and non-Jewish relationships, and separate beaches for Jews and non-Jews. Today, Otzma is run by attorney Itamar Ben-Gvir, who represents Jews accused of attacking Arabs, and Baruch Marzel, a Hevron resident who has been arrested dozens of times for anti-Arab violence. Nor-

mally, a Kahanist party is seen as outside the pale, something anathema to any Israeli politician. Yet Netanyahu’s desperation and fear of wasted votes led him to take previously-unthinkable moves, such as promising to include the Jewish Home-National Union in any future government should it unite with Otzma and enshrining Jewish Home lawmaker Rabbi Eli Ben-Dahan onto the Likud’s slate. While the union indeed went through, boosting the said parties in the polls to eight seats, it resulted in an eruption of criticism from both the Jewish community in the United States and within Israel, including within Israel’s right-wing and the Religious Zionist sector. All across the board, the prime minister’s efforts to form a union with the radical party earned condemnation, from the powerful lobbying group AIPAC to the American Jewish Committee (AJC) and a slew of Religious Zionist rabbis. The criticism wasn’t restricted to left-wing organizations such as the Conservative and Reform movements; even the Orthodox National Council of Young Israel was forced to

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walk back its support for the move following harsh pushback from within the movement itself. Yet Netanyahu remained unrepentant, calling

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it “hypocritical” that the Left wants Otzma outside the Knesset while refraining from ousting the anti-Israel Arab factions as well. “What hypocrisy and double standards by the Left,” Netanyahu posted on Facebook. “They’re condemning [the formation of] a right-wing majority bloc with right-wing parties, while the Left acted to bring extreme Islamists into the Knesset to create a majority bloc.”

the movie The Dark Night, Batman says that one either “dies a hero or lives long enough to become a villain.” This quote aptly describes Netanyahu’s current predicament. Despite rebooting Israel’s economy and steering Israel through the changes in the region such as the Arab Spring and the Syrian Civil War, Netanyahu has a real chance of ending up as a villain behind bars. Up to his ears in legal troubles, painted as a racist by large parts of U.S. and Israeli Jewry, and opposed even within his own right-wing camp, Netanyahu is in the fight of his political life. While the odds of staying in power for a record fourth straight term seem daunting, experts say that Netanyahu should never be counted out of the fight until the final bell rings. The end of Netanyahu’s political career has been predicted so many times before that it’s hard to

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count. After he was blamed for Rabin’s death in 1995, many said that he would never realize his dream of becoming prime minister, only to see him beat veteran Shimon Peres half a year later. The pundits repeated their claim after he was defeated in 1999 by Ehud Barak, only to be left red-faced after Net-

anyahu returned as Israel’s leader in 2009. As elections approach, all eyes are on Netanyahu, waiting to see if he can engineer another one of his impossible miracles – remaining out of jail and keeping his seat as leader of the Israeli government.

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Dating Dialogue

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

Dear Navidaters,

Though I’m not yet engaged to Malka, we have been dating for several months and last Shabbos I was invited to her home for Shabbos lunch. All in all, it was a very nice experience, and I like her family very much. I got to know her two brothers and sisters, and everyone was nice and friendly.

There was, however, one glaring difference between the way her Shabbos meal played out and the way Shabbos meals play out in my home. I’ll start with my home. Basically, my father, who is a great guy, is treated like a king on Shabbos. He basically doesn’t get up once, after he’s made kiddush and washed, and my mother and sisters serve the meal and clean up after the meal. My father always thanks my mother for a wonderful meal and is always very appreciative. But the fact is, my father (and I) sit throughout the meal, singing zemiros, talking Torah and other subjects, and relax and are definitely served. At Malka’s house, I noticed that her brothers, and even her father, were very involved in serving and cleaning up. It was kind of shocking to see this. I’m not used to such a situation. Everyone seemed happy, and it worked. But honestly, I prefer the way it is done in my home. I like the idea that on Shabbos, and also on yom tov, the men are treated in a special way and are heads of the household. I wouldn’t want to be expected to help serve and clear on Shabbos. Am I nitpicking and making a big deal about this? When I told my parents what the meal was like, they were both kind of surprised and concerned that if I were to marry Malka, I would be getting myself into a situation that wouldn’t feel natural and normal to me. Is this a real problem?

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The Panel The Rebbetzin Rebbetzin Faigie Horowitz, M.S. imply put, this is not a problem. It’s a difference in family roles and practices. Yamim tovim, Jewish practices and traditions are done differently in each family and each marriage partner brings his or her experience from his or her family into the marriage. Even a simple, short ritual such as havdalah is done differently by each family, and the week after sheva brachos, the newlywed pair have different expectations. This is in addition to changing gender roles in the world at-large. Now, what you do with this difference and many others that will come up is up to you and Malka. You need to not only talk about your family backgrounds but how willing and comfortable you are going to be in creating your own home and practices as a couple. Let the way the Shabbos table played out in her house be a wakeup call that two people who like each other have different expectations and experiences. You need to start communicating about differences, preferences, the ability to be flexible and more in a mature fashion. Regular communication and openness about differences and expectations should start way before an engagement. This will indicate understanding of each other and acceptance, no matter how you work out the particular things eventually. If there is listening, respect, and understanding now, you will have begun to acquire a key marital skill. Marital skills take time and effort before and throughout a marriage. If you cannot handle different expectations and family practices at a Shabbos table now, you are in for a big struggle no matter whom you marry eventually. Talk, talk, and self-search with openness. Discover your own communication and flexibility skills and

hers too. Learn how to navigate differences; it will be key to navigating conflicts. And see where it goes.

The Mother Sarah Schwartz Schreiber, P.A. he other day, the Navidaters got an urgent letter from Malka, a young woman, living with her family in Rego Park. She had been dating a really nice guy, an only son, over several months. She described the young man as polite and attentive, complimenting her effusively, when appropriate. Things were progressing smoothly; that is, until he invited her to Shabbos lunch with his family. According to her description, the seudah seemed like a throwback to the shtetl of Middle Ages. The father, the King (!), presided at the helm, savoring his feast – pausing only to sing zemiros with his pampered son (her beau – we’ll call him M) slouching languidly at his side. At the same time, the mother and sisters bustled at a dizzying pace from kitchen to table – blithely preparing, serving and clearing – doting on their beloved menfolk, who would, from time to time, toss them an appreciative compliment. “I am disheartened, dismayed and disappointed,” she writes, “that in this day and age, when women are expected to pull their weight in the workplace, there are guys, like M, who believe that helping at home is beneath them. My father and brothers do their fair share. Is male chauvinism (an affliction that went out with bellbottoms) curable? This experience made me want to lose my lunch and M.” Ahem. My answer to you is the same as to the apocryphal Malka. Managing a home is a two-person responsibility. It often consumes two paychecks but it also takes the effort of two dedicated people – a husband and wife – to divvy up the

chores and keep the household humming and functional. Your father and mother may have agreed long ago to their uniquely lopsided division of labor; you are not entitled to this anachronistic, inequitable arrangement, no matter how “natural or normal” it feels. Not with Malka or any woman you marry. Awareness is the first step toward behavior change. Now that you have witnessed the exuberance and joy engendered by an all-handson-deck Shabbos, you may want to adjust your attitude and expectations of men’s vs. women’s roles. My guarantee: adapting a more fluid, less gender-driven approach in marriage will reap giant dividends both in shalom bayis and self-satisfaction.

The Shadchan Michelle Mond am not concerned about the dynamic in Malka’s home on Shabbos, as much as I am about your and your parent’s attitude towards it. If I was her, I would be worried – not the contrary. This may not have been the reaction you were looking for when writing in, but I must say it nonetheless. You have been dating Malka for a few months, which alludes to the fact that you are very fond of her and things are going well. You are not writing in and describing her family dynamic being stuffy or angry, you are talking about seeing basic menschlichkeit and turning it into an issue. That, to me, is the bigger red flag, and it is on your end. Any marriage between two people raised in different homes will come with a host of differences to get used to, just by virtue of the fact that the two were raised differently. This is part of the maturity one must have when deciding to be ready for marriage. For instance, I personally do not like it when there are too many

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hands in the kitchen. I like it when my husband sits, sings and gives divrei Torah while I serve. However, for chinuch, my husband always encourages our three boys to come to the kitchen and help out. (Because…menschlichkeit!) Malka’s mother clearly finds it the most helpful to have the men of the house help out, which is why they do so. Your mother seems to like it when the men stay at the table, which is also completely understandable. These are all merely family preferences, none of which are reasons to raise concern. What would be concerning is if your mother was having a hard time, however, and your father demanded that she serve without help because he must be treated kindly. So, dear writer, some pre-marital advice for you to mull over: the best way to be treated as a king is to have the mindset to treat your wife like a queen; this is a two-lane road, not a one-way street. Not everything in marriage will be done your familiar way and not everything will be done in her familiar way. This is not a one-sided decision, nor a decision that our panel must make. It is a conversation the two of you must have about how you view the dynamics of your future home. If you decide to break it off with Malka now because her family has the men help and that bothers you, I am pretty sure she will be happy to say goodbye. Or, you can discuss it together. You can both discuss personal preferences and why they are meaningful to you, and if they differ, you can come to a happy medium. For example, if she sees her home as one where her husband helps, you can compromise on

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a solution. You might sit throughout the meal but help with cleanup and dishes after Shabbos. Good luck navigating and working this muscle of compromise – it will help you greatly in all areas of marriage.

The Single Tova Wein don’t think this question is really about who serves what. Hopefully, between every happy couple, together they figure

out a system related to how Shabbos and yom tov meals should look like, as well as just about everything else! There are plenty of men and women who view Shabbos differently. For some, it’s not a matter of women’s rights but rather what looks and feels more “Shabbosdik” to them. Some women actually get an enormous amount of pleasure watching the men of their home preside over the Shabbos table and truly enjoy serving them. And on the flip side, there are many men who feel uncomfortable not getting up and helping with the

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serving. It’s all a personal choice based on what one saw growing up but also one’s own comfort level and perceptions. The real conversation is about your ability (and Malka’s) to have a meaningful and calm discussion about this and your ability to compromise, if necessary. This could be a great test site for you to try out your capacity to listen to another person’s point of view and be able to truly hear them and take into account what they are saying and feeling. If you and Malka can’t calmly discuss and figure out what a Shabbos meal might look like if the two of you eventually marry, then there are probably much bigger problems to worry about! Communication,

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respect, compromise, and the desire to please the other before pleasing oneself should all be present in a good marriage. The biggest argument over this should be you insisting that you do things Malka’s way because you want to make her happy and comfortable, and her insisting that you do things your way because your comfort and happiness is important to her! And so marriage goes.

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s important as it is to be receptive to the wisdom of our parents, in certain situations like yours, we have to gauge how much of their insight is objective and how much is perception, construed from their own personal experiences. The arrangement that your parents have surrounding the role of men and women on Shabbos and yom tov is beautiful – because it works for both of them. In the same vein, the arrangement Malka’s family has around Shabbos and yom tov is beautiful – because it works for them. I understand that you have a certain vision for your table. “I wouldn’t want to be expected to help serve and clear.” I am wondering if you are open to adjusting this expectation. Ask yourself if you are willing to be flexible. While I genuinely appreciate and can see the beauty of the Shabbos table to which you are accustomed, my concern for you is that in 2019, many (if not most) young women that you date are going to expect you to help out.

W het her they want to or they have to, a lot of women work outside the home. And t he mothers who don’t are doing the equally difficult and demanding job of raising their children and maintaining the home. They want their husbands to help. They want a partner who is willing to share responsibility at home. My intention isn’t to assign a value to today’s society but simply to reflect the reality of it. Now that you’ve shared Shabbos meals at each other’s homes, the time has come to acknowledge and talk about the differences. I would be surprised (though I’ve been wrong many times before) if Malka did not notice the discrepancy as well. She may also have some thoughts on the matter. The next time you are together, I encourage you to bring this up with sensitivity, to listen to what she has to say, and be respectful of it. This conversation will be an opportunity to see whether the two of you can

work together as a couple, forging some type of compromise that works for the both of you. If you don’t have one already, I recommend having a mentor. I also recommend getting invited to other people’s home for Shabbos meals, specifically married people in your age range, so you can see a whole host (no pun intended) of what “normal” can look like. All the best, Jennifer

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

Dear Readers, Have you ever read our column and thought, “She forgot to mention...” or “I completely disagree!?” Well, now it’s your turn to respond! Once a month we will have our “Reader’s Respond” section. You can be a panelist! Email thenavidaters@gmail.com to let us know that you would like to participate. We will forward you the entry we receive and you will be printed in the What Would You Do If? column alongside our regular panelists. Anonymous entries are welcome. Content is subject to the discretion of The Navidaters and The Jewish Home. We encourage you to be honest while maintaining sensitivity to the author of the entry. We can’t wait to hear from you! Esther and Jennifer

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Adar, Progeny, and the Pursuit of Happiness Part II By Beth Perkel

nstilling happiness in our children is a lifelong pursuit. There are two concepts we can focus on to help our children become happier people: perspective and self-confidence. I would like to introduce the concept of perspective with a story about my grandfather who saw his life as if he had been born twice: once from his mother’s womb and once from underneath a haystack. During the ravages of World War II, my grandfather found himself fleeing from a band of Nazis on foot. Out of breath, out of options, and even worse seemingly out of luck, he found himself in a farm field. The Nazis were approaching and he quickly buried himself under one of the countless haystacks in sight. Reaching the field and not seeing their desired victim, one of the Nazis picked up a pitchfork and began stabbing the stacks, suspecting that the target was hidden within one. It was at that moment that

my grandfather considered his life as if it was over. Many decades later, on his actual deathbed, he revealed this story for the first time. He implored the family, “Don’t be sad and think about the years ahead that I will never live. I made a deal with G-d from under that haystack decades ago that if he would extend my life even one day I would forever be grateful. And look how many moments, days, and years I got...” It is in this way that he saw his death as actually a tremendous success. He had lived on borrowed time for decades, had seen children and grandchildren, had been granted a new life the minute he heard the pitchfork tossed away…. Can you imagine the silence in that field as the Nazis tread away? It was in that silence that my grandfather was reborn. I was 13 years old when my beloved grandfather passed away, and the story from his deathbed has clung

to me since like remaining bits of hay. It taught me the incredible tool of perspective, namely that we actually choose what we see. Just like many people can see something different in the same piece of art, so too with life – the ultimate masterpiece. After all, a group of people can have the same experiences and all react differently. This is an invaluable lesson to actively teach our children. They can choose how they see situations, feel, and react to them. Life is not a stimulus and we the passive responders. We are all active responders, and we are doing precisely just that every single moment. The Torah shows us the same message manifold times, right from the first story of Gan Eden. In that original paradise, Adam and Chava had very little and yet they had everything they could possibly need. It was their own perspective focusing on the lack rather than the plenty which ruined everything. Other examples abound.

Yaakov and Eisav, during their fateful meeting after a long separation, update each other on decades of their lives apart. Eisav describes his worldly lot as “Yesh li rav” (I have most of what I need), and Yaakov describes his lot as “Yesh li kol” (I have everything I could possibly need). It wasn’t that one had objectively so much more than the other – they just had different perspectives on their lives. I try to talk to my children about this concept and help them challenge their negative perspectives. Examples include “I’m bored mommy, there is nothing to do!” “Is that really true? Can you name me 5 things that would be possible to do in this room?” Or “I never get to have the first turn!” “Really? Can we think of times in this past week where you actually did have the first turn?” Children are very prone to black and white thinking. Statements about always and forever are some of their

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main go-tos, and it’s important to gently guide them out of this habit. When they tell you, “You never let me stay up late” or “I will be small forever” you need to show them how this thinking is flawed. “Can you think of all the special occasions you have stayed up late for this year?” or “Did you know that I used to be small? Now look how tall I grew, but it takes time…” Allor-nothing thinking lends to people feeling hopeless and sad, and so it is imperative to steer our children away from this flawed perspective as early as possible. And don’t forget to watch and catch your own all-or-nothing statements too. Saying things like, “You never listen to me!” or “You are always hitting your sister!” only teach them to exaggerate and say things in the language of extremes. In the words of Helen Keller, “The seeing see little.” It’s all about perspective in life, and we need to both model and teach how shifting our vantage point can move us from sadness to happiness (or at least acceptance). Sometimes, when you close your eyes and actively open your mind, you are able to peak through the strands of hay from under the stack and begin to choose how to see things. And that is the moment when you truly learn to see.

Self-Confident Children “This is the time of day where I tell you something great about you.” A few years back I started this daily conversation as a routine with one of my daughters, who happened to be my middle child. Having been a middle child myself, I knew what it was like to feel passed over. My daughter was and is a fabulous kid, and I wanted her to know that I was noticing. Moreover, I realized that even more important than my noticing her utter fabulousness was her noticing it about herself. Some days I’d remind her of a character trait she excelled at, some days I’d tell her something exceptional she had done when she was younger, and some days I mentioned something that day that struck me as advanced or caring or creative or whatever other positive characteristic she exemplified. The results were palpable – I could see her confidence growing and her joy showing. Self-confidence is a key compo-

nent of happiness at any age, and yet it’s becoming a scarcer commodity in our society. This makes it harder to instill in our children. To illustrate the issue, I once saw a picture of an adorable baby in a bucket – the only problem? The bucket was filled with holes and water was pouring out. The message was clear: we as parents need to fill up our children with love and confidence so that when the rest of the world pokes holes in these notions, our children won’t get depleted. Parents play a unique role in this because from an early age our children are looking for our approval. As they grow older, they might say they “don’t care” what we think but this simply isn’t true deep down. Suniya Luthar, a famous researcher in the area of vulnerability and resilience, says that while she can’t list all the components of good parenting, she is reasonably sure about what parents should avoid. “Our research consistently found if there is one thing related to problems of all kinds, it is being highly criticized by your parents,” she said. “It is one of the most powerful risk factors.” Criticism is sometimes necessary, as we are our children’s moral compasses and shapers of reality for many years of their lives. But excessive criticism becomes toxic. A key component to developing self-confidence and security is teaching our children to discover, recognize, and embrace their toolbox of strengths, be it in the realm of academic intelligence, social intelligence, artistic talent, athleticism or raw good middot. By teaching our children to appreciate what’s in their own toolbox of kochot (strengths) and embracing the fact that everyone has a different toolbox to work out of, they are able to be more confident and hone in on what they do best. The next step is to understand that naturally, along with their personal mix of special strengths, comes weaknesses as well. Weaknesses should be looked at carefully, in a way that helps children see the areas they need to work on or accept as arenas they may never excel in, but this should ideally be done inwardly vis-à-vis themselves. The work here is for both the parents and the children. We have to minimize comparing our children to others. We can always try to improve our

children, to take their raw material and sharpen their strengths and dull their weaknesses, but it’s an exercise in futility to try to change who they are and make them into someone else. The next step after helping our children identify their strengths and weaknesses is to then teach our children to embrace the fact that each group of abilities was given to them by G-d as part of a divine custom-made toolbox to achieve the successes and confront the challenges that will come in their lives. In other words, everyone is given a variety of kelim (tools) to help them navigate this world. In the words of Rabbi Eliyahu Dessler, “It makes as little sense for me to covet (what my neighbor has) as for a watchmaker to covet the tools of a road-maker or for a shortsighted person to covet the spectacles prepared for a far-sighted one. Tools are obviously only good for their purpose.” Therefore, it is futile to be jealous. If you need a tool to fix a problem in your life, why would you look in the toolbox of others instead of your own?

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It can’t be denied that some children are just naturally more confident than others. We all know people who seem to have been born feeling comfortable in their own skins, while others seem to perennially feel as if they have on bodies in the wrong size or style. We can’t change our children’s confidence overnight, but we can certainly start with small steps, built on solid framework from our very own toolboxes, making them happier with what they have. Beth Perkel is the author of the Light at the Beginning of the Tunnel online series about teaching children happiness (https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/author/ beth-perkel/). She was published in her first national and international magazines by age 17, won her first writing award at age 18 and had her writing featured in a New York Times bestselling book by age 19. Since then, she has continued to write articles, stories, web content, blog posts and first-person essays for over a dozen online and print publications.

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What to Do When Your Spouse Has Checked Out By Deb Hirschhorn, Ph.D.

have entered a new frontier, and it’s very exciting. As you know, I created a marriage course based on all the high-quality research in the last 50 years that’s been done on marriage (as well as my own observations and creations). The course is comprehensive because it covers all the different aspects of marriage that have come up for me in my work. This means that it has in it everything a person could possibly want to fix in a marriage. Except for one teeny little item that I wasn’t prepared for. You see, I’ve been marketing this pretty item on Facebook and the majority of Americans out there with marriage troubles are not like the Orthodox community. They’re rushing to separate and divorce. I mean, it feels like a flood. Rushing. So what I discovered is that people who wanted help were already separated with a “checked out spouse.” What was I to do? Never, ever, in any graduate course for both my master’s and my doctorate, did any professor speak about this! How do you put Humpty Dumpty back together again when the eggshell is smashed? Not only smashed, but the spouse says they adamantly refuse counseling or therapy. They’re not interested. They don’t care. It’s your problem. Of course, I know, and you probably do too that that is baloney. They care, alright. There is no human being

who remains unhurt by a broken marriage. The loss of hopes and dreams, the loss of needs and wants being met, the loss of promises not kept are devastating. In fact, research shows that even the person who initiates the divorce is devastated by it. So why do they say they don’t care? Why aren’t they trying to fix the broken thing? Here are some good reasons: 1. They believe they’ve “tried.” They spoke to you; they threatened you; they pleaded with you; they cajoled you; they yelled at you. Nothing, absolutely nothing, worked. So they gave up. Oh, and they also went to therapy and that didn’t work. I just spoke to someone who had gone over 25 years to 12 therapists. None helped. 2. They do not want to appear to be “wrong.” Or “in the wrong.” So going to someone for help would mean that they share the “blame” and they do not think that is just or right or fair. 3. They have come to the final, bottom line conclusion that because of all the pain and trauma they’ve been in, they do not like you anymore. Or they still love you but are not “in love with” you. So they’ve checked out. They are not quite ready to file for divorce either because of the children or because they want to “think about it” or “get some space” or “have some alone time.” Something like that. There are a number of ways they

check out: A. Addictions are a popular choice. Gambling, shopping, work, are all really common ways to not be “there.” Then, of course, there is the worse choice of over-indulgence of alcohol and drugs, not a stranger to our community. B. Anger, rage, blame and constant criticism keep up such a frenzy of energy that the person delivering it never has down time to think, which is the goal of some check-out-ers. They are afraid to reflect and look inside for fear that they will not like what they see. In fact, they’re so afraid, that they aren’t even consciously aware that they’re afraid. Once the topic would come up, it would be too disturbing. C. Another way is to simply stop talking. Stop looking. Stop listening. Stop anything. You really feel weirded out because this other person is like a walking zombie. They really do not seem to be “there.” And sometimes, the reality is even worse than that, which goes against our Jewish values and beliefs. D. Or, worst of all, perhaps, is when the spouse rents a place somewhere and doesn’t pick up phone calls or answer texts. It’s frightening. That is what I was faced with when I tiptoed into the internet. How do you put a marriage back together when one person – 50% of the deal – isn’t there and won’t talk? To begin with, I totally believe that

all of the three “good reasons” that people have are wrong. Completely, 100% wrong. And I operate on that basis. Let’s explore them: 1. They tried everything. They did not. Whatever they tried did not work, clearly. But that is not “everything.” Now, just to show you the issue with “trying therapy,” the field called “therapy” is quite large. It includes many people who are not specifically trained in Marriage and Family Therapy. So it is quite reasonable that a person who has gone to someone who took a course or two in MFT might not be able to solve the problem. It’s a special skill to be able to understand two different people from each person’s own perspective and then understand what the obstacles are that they’re both facing. It’s certainly important to maintain one’s own ability to move from one side to the other, or as Salvadore Minuchin would say, be “multi-partial” rather than neutral or impartial. The greatest skill, of course, is giving them the tools that are precisely targeted for the problem they are experiencing. 2. They don’t want to be in the wrong. The reality is that no one is “wrong.” People are stumbling around trying to make life good and are not necessarily sure how. Ever since we ate that forbidden fruit, we get mixed up. It’s hard to know what is “right.” But

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there isn’t any “right” when it comes to a marriage that’s falling apart. Under these conditions – feeling attacked, blamed, not good enough – we are not our best. We become defensive. We can even become ugly. That is not who we are. That’s how we act when we don’t know what to do and we feel like we’re drowning. A marriage breakup is scary, confusing, depressing, anxiety-provoking, disheartening, and more. When trained lifeguards want to rescue a drowning person, they must come from behind and grab them in a way that the drowning person’s thrashing arms will not pull the lifeguard under. The attacks and games, the nasty words, the unkindness of the bad days of marriage is not who we really are. It’s who we appear to be when we do not know how to be for a situation that we were not prepared for. The other reality is that everyone, absolutely everyone, can learn how to be better: how to be more tolerant, patient, understanding and able to

be dan l’chaf zchus. So that, far from worrying about being “wrong,” the checked-out spouse can learn a whole lot that’s fun, exciting, wonderful, and positive about him- or herself without ever having to be “wrong.” 3. They do not like you anymore. They’re even wrong on this one. People who are at their worst, as I’ve described in #2 above, or who were not meeting your needs due to their lack of knowledge of what to do and what was wrong are – again – not who they really are or who they can be. If everyone can grow and learn, then what happens to them when they do so? They transform. And that means they’re not the same person they were before. I’m sure you’ve seen this again and again. On the one hand we often say that we are who we are and we can’t change. Yet, on the other hand we comment all the time on the amazing changes we see in one another and in ourselves: we comment on kids who

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go to Israel and come back more religious than when they left, a radical change. We notice people who lose a lot of weight and gain a lot of confidence; their personalities seem to have changed. We can see the radiance of new brides and as we follow them into marriages that work, we notice their increased ease of handling life. We remark over people’s leadership skills emerging when they get the longsought promotion. And so on. Of course we change. And often strikingly so. If you transform, then the “you” that you used to be is not there anymore for your spouse to not like. They can get a whole new opportunity to discover who you are. So how do I use these premises to facilitate you putting your marriage back together? Here’s an analogy. Suppose it is a cloudy, dreary winter day and a chilly wind is blowing. Most people walk with their heads down, avoiding the dampness. If there were anything to

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see, they wouldn’t see it. Now, the sun comes out, and it warms up. The sun’s brilliance makes people smile; they lift their heads up; they feel better. When you’ve discarded that which didn’t work, and you learn that which does, you become attractive. You become a magnet for your out-the-door ex. Is this process easy? No, of course not. But it’s do-able. That’s my online transformation. See, we can all learn, even from the most challenging experiences.

Dr. Deb is a Marriage & Family Therapist. Book a consultation with her to get clarity on the issues in your marriage and learn about her innovative program at: https:// drdeb.com/book. To book a call with Dr. Deb, go to her scheduler, https://drdeb. com/book, but if you want more information about her new program, please first watch the Masterclass on “Getting The Marriage You Want” at http://drdeb.com/ myw-masterclass.

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Health & F tness

Your Guide to Healthy Shabbos Eating Egg Salad By Cindy Weinberger MS, RD, CDN

n the traditional Shabbos meal, liver is generally coupled with egg salad. They are served together in one course, usually scooped up with crackers. That’s pretty much all they have common. Or so you think. The truth is, like liver, egg salad has the potential to be very healthy when prepared properly and makes a great dish at the Shabbos meal. Since chickens were domesticated, eggs have become a staple in the kitchen. Eggs are essential for cooking and baking since their chemical makeup tends to be the glue of many important baking reactions. In fact, the yolk contains fat soluble vitamins, vitamins A, D, E, K, and lecithin, which enables the emulsification in recipes. Eggs are notorious for having a bad reputation. Once a food goes on the bad list, it’s hard to get off. People hold onto their beliefs and changing their opinions can be difficult. But it’s time to rethink the tale of eggs being a contributor to high cholesterol. People fear that eggs are considered more of a health risk than a healthy choice. This is because eggs were considered a high cholesterol food, so those with high cholesterol levels were advised to avoid them. The key word here is “were” a high cholesterol food. The truth is that eggs are nutritional superstars. Researchers now know that the cholesterol found in food has much less of an effect

on our blood cholesterol than the amount of saturated fat we eat. The liver makes cholesterol in the body. If you eat more cholesterol from food, your body will generate less. Yes, for some, this process does not work so magically. For those with familial hypercholesterolemia, consult with your physician about eating eggs. The RDA allowance for cholesterol is about 300 milligrams a day. The average egg has about 185 milligrams of cholesterol. Eating two whole eggs will reach your recommended daily allowance of cholesterol. Therefore, have no more than two whole eggs daily. You can increase your portion by adding egg whites. But don’t consume more than two yolks a day. Eating the right amount of eggs daily will not harm your cholesterol levels. Don’t view the yolk as the cholesterol containing enemy and let it slip down the drown. The majority of the nutrients in eggs are found in the yolk. It simply has to be limited. Now that we know that eggs are not bad for us, let’s see how good for us they actually are. Eggs are very healthy for your heart, when consumed as part of a healthy lifestyle. Eggs contain nutrients such as betaine and choline that promote heart health. Additionally, eggs contain HDL cholesterol, also known as the good cholesterol, which lowers the risk of heart disease and stroke.

Omega-3 fatty acids are another component of eggs’ healthy profile. Omega-3 fatty acids are anti-inflammatory agents which help prevent diabetes and lower blood pressure and triglyceride levels in the blood. Again, like liver, eggs are packed with protein, and the good type of protein. Eggs are a very good source of inexpensive, high quality protein. More than half the protein of an egg is found in the egg white. The protein in eggs contains all of the essential amino acids – those that the body does not produce and must be consumed. Eating enough protein is not only essential for bodily functions, it helps with weight loss, is very filling, lowers blood pressure, and is important for overall health. Eggs are pretty much the perfect food. They contain a little bit of almost every nutrient you need: vitamin A, vitamin D, vitamin E, vitamin K, folate, vitamin B5, vitamin B6, vitamin B12, phosphorus, selenium, calcium, zinc and, of course, protein and iron. Since eggs are such a good source of iron, eggs should be a staple in everyone’s diet. As discussed in last issue, iron deficiency anemia is the number one deficiency among children in the U.S. Being that eggs are so healthy, so kid-friendly, versatile, and easy to make, it’s a no-brainer to serve your kids eggs daily, or at least a few times a week.

Many people enjoy their eggs in a classic egg salad dish. For this dish, hardboiled eggs are mashed and then mixed with mayonnaise and spices. To make egg salad healthier, use only low-fat mayonnaise, and only use 1 tablespoon for every 4-5 eggs. Better yet, skip the mayonnaise altogether, and try a delicious egg salad made with avocado. Use a half of an avocado for every four eggs. Making avocado egg salad is delicious and so much healthier since it eliminates the mayonnaise, while adding the nutrients from the avocado. Be creative with your seasoning for added flavor. You can add Dijon mustard, apple cider vinegar, garlic powder, onion powder, dill weed, and chopped parsley. Many people also add fried onions to their egg salad. If you need onions in egg salad, consider adding raw chopped onions. This will give you the added crunch and flavor you desire without the added fat from the fried foods.

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

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Hamantashen By Naomi Nachman

I am always looking to try something new, especially if it’s out of my comfort zone. For me, that includes baking. Every year, I search for a trendy and unique hamanstashen recipe to try. This year, I reached out to my super-talented friend, Paula Shoyer, for suggestions. Paula is an amazing chef who graduated with a pastry degree from the Ritz Escoffier in Paris and does cooking and baking demos around the world. Paula’s cookbook, The Holiday Kosher Baker, has an entire chapter devoted to Purim. In this 2-part series on Purim, Paula shares her hamantashen recipes, and in our next issue, we will include her recipes for candied mishloach manot. Can’t wait to try these! Recipes courtesy of The Holiday Kosher Baker, by Paula Shoyer.

Photos by Paula Shoyer

Salted Caramel Hamantashen (Dairy) Yields: 4 dozen hamantashen Ingredients Dough 3 large eggs 1 cup sugar ½ cup canola or vegetable oil 1 tsp orange juice 3 ½ tsp baking powder ½ tsp black pepper 3 cups all-purpose flour, plus extra for dusting parchment and dough

Caramel Filling 1 cup sugar 2 tablespoons water ½ cup whipping cream 2 TBS unsalted butter ½ tsp salt

Preparation To make the caramel, place the sugar and water in a small, heavy-bottomed saucepan. Cook on medium-high heat until sugar melts. After several minutes, the sugar will start to color. Stir the mixture so all the sugar browns. When it is a uniform amber color, turn heat to low, remove saucepan from heat and add the cream. The mixture will bubble up. Add the butter and salt and stir. Return to the heat and cook for one minute, or until mixture is smooth. Remove from heat, transfer to a bowl and let cool. Chill

in the fridge for at least a half hour to thicken the caramel. Store in the fridge for up to five days. Preheat the oven to 350°F. Line 2 large cookie sheets with parchment. In a large bowl, mix together the eggs, sugar, oil, and orange juice. Add the baking powder, pepper, and flour, and mix until the dough comes together. I like to use my hands for this because it kneads the dough well. Divide the dough in half. Take another two pieces of parchment and sprinkle flour on one, place one dough half on top, and then sprinkle a little more flour on top of the dough. Place the second piece of parchment on top of the dough and roll on top of the parchment until the dough is about 1/4-inch thick. Every few rolls, peel back the top parchment and sprinkle a little more flour on the dough.

Use a glass or round cookie cutter about 2to 3-inches in diameter to cut the dough into circles. Place a little less than a teaspoon of the filling in the center and then fold in 3 sides to form a triangle, leaving a small opening in the center. Pinch the 3 sides very tightly. Place on the prepared cookie sheets. Repeat with the rest of the dough and re-roll and cut any dough scraps you have. Place the cookies sheets in the freezer for ten minutes; this helps the hamentashen hold their shape and not open up while baking. Bake for 12 to 16 minutes, or until the bottoms are lightly browned. Slide the parchment onto racks to cool the cookies. If desired, drizzle any remaining caramel over the cookies. Store covered with plastic or in an airtight container at room temperature for five days or freeze for up to three months.

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Gluten-Free Hamantashen I had experimented with gluten-free flour mixes without success until I tried King Arthur brand, a combination of white rice flour, tapioca starch, potato starch, and brown rice flour. These hamantashen are whiter in appearance than typical hamantashen. In addition, you need to bake them until they are browner on the bottom than other ones in this chapter of my book. Wait until they cool before eating them because they are too crumbly when they’re still warm; they are much better after they harden up. Yields: 40 hamantashen

Vanilla Bean Hamantashen This is a variation on a recipe from my husband Andy’s grandmother, Celia Shoyer, from Romania. I like to fill this dough with raspberry jam, but feel free to use any filling you like. Yields: 3 dozen hamantashen Ingredients Dough 3 large eggs 1 cup sugar ½ cup canola or vegetable oil Seeds of one vanilla bean 2 tsp pure vanilla extract 3 cups all-purpose flour, plus extra for dusting 1 tsp baking powder Dash of salt

Filling 1 cup raspberry or other jam

Preparation Ingredients Dough 3 large eggs 1 cup sugar ½ cup canola or vegetable oil 2 tsp pure vanilla extract 1 tsp baking powder 1 tsp xanthan gum 3½ cups or 24-ounce package of gluten-free flour mix, plus extra for dusting

Filling

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In a large bowl, mix together the eggs, sugar, oil, vanilla bean seeds, and vanilla. Add the flour, baking powder, and salt, and mix until the dough comes together. Cover the bowl with plastic wrap and leave in the fridge for one hour to firm up. Preheat oven to 350°F (180°c). Line two or three large cookie sheets with parchment paper or silicone baking mats. Divide the dough in half. Take another two pieces of parchment

and sprinkle flour on one, place one dough half on top, and then sprinkle a little more flour on top of the dough. Place the second piece of parchment on top of the dough and roll on top of the parchment until the dough is about ¼ -inch thick. Every few rolls, peel back the top parchment and sprinkle a little more flour on the dough. Use a 2- to 3-inch drinking glass or round cookie cutter to cut the dough into circles. Use a metal flat-blade spatula to lift up the circle of dough and place it on another part of the flour-sprinkled parchment paper. Place up to 1 teaspoon of jam in the center of the dough circle and then fold the three sides in toward the middle to form a triangle, leaving a small opening in the center. Pinch the three sides together very tightly. Place the triangle on the prepared cookie sheet. Repeat with the remaining dough and scraps, making sure to sprinkle a little flour under and over the dough before you roll. Bake for 14 to 16 minutes, or until the bottoms are lightly browned but the tops are still light. Slide the parchment paper onto wire racks to cool the cookies. Store in an airtight container at room temperature for up to five days or freeze for up to three months.

1 cup fruit jam or preserves, canned apricot or poppy seed pie filling

Preparation In a large bowl, whisk together the eggs, sugar, oil, and vanilla and mix well. Add the baking powder, xanthan gum, and flour mix, and use a wooden spoon to mix until the dough comes together. Cover the bowl with plastic wrap and leave in the fridge for one hour to firm up. Preheat oven to 350°F. Line two large cookie sheets with parchment paper or silicone baking mats, or plan to bake in batches. Divide the dough in half. Take two pieces of parchment paper and sprinkle some gluten-free flour mix on one, place one dough half on top, and then sprinkle a little more of the mix on top of the dough. Place the second piece of parchment on top of the dough and roll on top of the parchment until the dough is ¼ -inch thick or thinner. These cookies come out best when rolled thin. Every few rolls, peel back the top parchment and sprinkle a little more flour on the dough. Use a 2- to 3-inch drinking glass or round cookie cutter to cut the dough into circles. Use a metal flat-blade spatula to lift up the circle of dough and place it on another part of the flour sprinkled parchment paper. Place up to 1 teaspoon of jam in the center of the dough circle and then fold the three sides in toward the middle to form a triangle, leaving a small opening in the center. Pinch the three sides together very tightly. Place on the prepared cookie sheets. Repeat with the Remaining dough and roll and cut any dough scraps, making sure to sprinkle a little flour under and over the dough before you roll. Bake for 18 to 22 minutes, or until the bottoms are browned. Let the cookies cool completely on the cookie sheet. Store in an airtight container at room temperature for up to five days or freeze for up to three months. Naomi Nachman, the owner of The Aussie Gourmet, caters weekly and Shabbat/ Yom Tov meals for families and individuals within The Five Towns and neighboring communities, with a specialty in Pesach catering. Naomi is a contributing editor to this paper and also produces and hosts her own weekly radio show on the Nachum Segal Network stream called “A Table for Two with Naomi Nachman.” Naomi gives cooking presentations for organizations and private groups throughout the New York/New Jersey Metropolitan area. In addition, Naomi has been a guest host on the QVC TV network and has been featured in cookbooks, magazines as well as other media covering topics related to cuisine preparation and personal chefs. To obtain additional recipes, join The Aussie Gourmet on Facebook or visit Naomi’s blog. Naomi can be reached through her website, www.theaussiegourmet.com or at (516) 295-9669.

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Notable Quotes “Say What?!”

I’m not running, but I’m going to keep working and speaking and standing up for what I believe. - Hillary Clinton in an interview with CNN

“(Crooked) Hillary Clinton confirms she will not run in 2020, rules out a third bid for White House.” Awshucks, does that mean I won’t get to run against her again? She will be sorely missed! - Tweet by President Trump in response

I suspect not. – Bernie Sanders, when asked on ABC whether he’ d seek counsel from Hillary Clinton

While thousands of volunteers braved the heat and cold to knock on doors until their fingers bled in a desperate effort to stop Donald Trump, his Royal Majesty King Bernie Sanders would only deign to leave his plush D.C. office or his brand new second home on the lake if he was flown around on a cushy private jet like a billionaire master of the universe. - Senior Hillary Clinton 2016 campaign advisor Zac Petkanas dishing to Politico about Bernie Sanders

Only half were named Vladimir. - Ex-Clinton campaign staffer Adam Parkhomenko tweeting that many of Bernie Sanders’ donors are Russians (here we go again)

How many times did you hear, for months and months, “There is no way to 270?” You know what that means, right? There is no way to 270 [electoral votes]. So I think we’re going to do even better in 2020. I think we’re going to do numbers that people haven’t seen for a long time. - President Trump speaking last week at the CPAC Convention

No planes. No energy. [Laughter] When the wind stops blowing, that’s the end of your electric. [Laughter] Let’s hurry up. “Darling, Darling, is the wind blowing today? I’d like to watch television, darling.” – Ibid., talking about “The Green New Deal”

Lying Trump came away from fake summit with terrorist & killer Kim Jong-un w/ nothing because Kim never intended to offer anything. Don the con man got conned! Hey number 45, are you still in love w/ Kim? - Tweet by Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) celebrating that the second summit with North Korea did not produce results

You know I’m totally off-script right now. And this is how I got elected, by being off-script. – Ibid.

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Exchange between Rep. Jackie Speier (D-CA) and Michael Cohen at last week’s hearing

Congresswomen Spier: How many times did Trump have you threaten people on his behalf? Cohen: Quite a few times. Spier: Fifty times? Cohen: More. Spier: A hundred times? Cohen: More Spier: Two-hundred times? Cohen: More. Spier: Five-hundred times? Cohen: Probably.

To be honest, I was not my father’s first choice to speak tonight. I don’t know who was, but reports are already beginning to surface that Chris Christie is saying that he was the president’s first choice but that Jared blocked him.

When I meet with them, what surprises me is that they’re truly unhappy… A lot of these young men are generally unhappy.

- Ivanka Trump at the Gridiron Dinner last Saturday night

- NBA commissioner Adam Silver talking about today’s NBA players during a panel discussion at the 13th annual MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference last week

In all seriousness, my father asked me to share his warm regards and best wishes to all in attendance and regrets that he himself cannot join us on this wonderful evening. The opportunity to poke fun at the media is not something that he passes up lightly.

The reality is that most don’t want to play together. There’s enormous jealousy amongst our players.

- Ibid.

If you’re around a team in this day and age, there are always headphones on. [The players] are isolated, and they have their heads down. - Ibid.

Today Michael Cohen testified in front of Congress and called Trump a conman, cheat and racist. Trump heard the testimony and was like, “Great, now I will need a new 2020 campaign slogan.” - Jimmy Fallon

I figured the funniest thing I could do was read excerpts from the Green New Deal. - Ibid.

His statement makes me sick, on a personal level – “preserving your heritage, reclaiming our heritage” – that sounds a lot like a certain leader that killed members of my family and about six million other Jews in the 1940s. - Sam Vinograd on CNN comparing President Trump to Hitler because during his CPAC speech he spoke about the importance of “reclaiming our nation’s priceless heritage”

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The winner marvels at how every decision made that day brought the winner to the store, at that very moment, to make the Quick Pick Mega Millions lottery ticket purchase. The winner even allowed a fellow customer to make a Mega Millions lottery ticket purchase in front of the winner while in line at the store. – Statement by the Mega Millions after an anonymous individual claimed the $1.5 billion Mega Millions jackpot prize – electing for a one-time $878 million payment – that was purchased in South Carolina and was set to expire in less than two months

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Political Crossfire

A Bomb that Didn’t Explode By Marc A. Thiessen

ichael Cohen was supposed to provide “bombshell” testimony against President Trump. Well, the bombshell didn’t explode.

Not long ago, many were speculating that Cohen might have recorded conversations with Trump admitting that he had made payments to Stormy Daniels for politi-

cal purposes, instructed Cohen to lie to Congress, colluded with Russia or knew in advance about the infamous Trump Tower meeting. It turns out Cohen didn’t have anything like that. His testimony was certainly embarrassing for the president, but Cohen offered no evidence to advance the cause of impeachment. To the contrary – some of his testimony was exculpatory. While Cohen testified that Trump ordered him to pay off Stormy Daniels “as part of a criminal scheme to violate

election. The campaign – for him – was always a marketing opportunity.” Well, if Trump didn’t care about winning, that undermines the case that the payments were a campaign finance violation. Indeed, Cohen offered evidence that Trump’s motivation was in fact keeping his actions from his wife. “Lying to the first lady is one of my biggest regrets. ... She did not deserve that,” Cohen said. Paying hush money because he did not want his wife

For Democrats it seems that embarrassing Trump is more important than disarming a tyrant.

campaign finance laws,” elsewhere in his testimony he declared that Trump did not care about winning the election. He said Trump saw the campaign as an “infomercial” for the Trump brand, adding that “He never expected to win the primary. He never expected to win the general

to find out what was going wrong is sleazy, but it is not a crime. Cohen also cleared Trump of the charge that he had directed Cohen to lie to Congress about the Moscow Trump Tower project. Cohen declared that “I lied to Congress” and Trump “did not directly tell me to

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lie.” Cohen said he assumed Trump wanted him to lie, so he did what he thought Trump wanted. Sorry, that’s not evidence of a crime. Nor did Cohen provide proof of collusion with Russia. Indeed, he told the committee “I wouldn’t use the word ‘colluding’” though he thought there was “something odd about the back-and-forth praise with President [Vladimir] Putin.” So did many of us. But while saying nice things about the Russian dictator may be evidence of bad judgment, it is not evidence of a criminal conspiracy to collude with Putin to steal the election. Cohen provided no evidence that Trump knew about the infamous Trump Tower meeting. Last July, CNN breathlessly reported that Cohen had told Mueller that “Trump knew in advance about the June 2016 meeting in Trump Tower in which Russians were expected to offer his campaign dirt on Hillary Clinton” and that “he was present, along with several others, when Trump was informed of the Russians’ offer by [Donald] Trump Jr.” That’s not what Cohen told Congress on Wednesday. He testified he didn’t know about the Trump Tower meeting in advance – he “read all over the media” about it – but that in retrospect he thought that Trump Jr. might have been telling Trump about the Russia meeting when he walked into Trump’s office and whispered into Trump’s ear in front of Cohen “the meeting is all set.” Big difference. Cohen testified he was in the room when Roger Stone called Trump and told him that WikiLeaks was going to release emails damaging to Hillary Clinton and that Trump “responded by stating to the effect of ‘wouldn’t that be great.’” Trump knowing in advance that WikiLeaks, acting on its own, was going to put out dirt on Clinton is not illegal. In other words, Cohen’s testimony was a dud. That does not exonerate Trump, not by a long shot. The Mueller report is still yet to come, and Cohen testified there were elements of his cooperation with federal prosecutors in the Southern District of New York that he could

not discuss. But we did learn something disturbing at Wednesday’s hearing – how shameless the new Democratic House majority will be in their efforts to undermine the Trump presidency. Democrats scheduled the

Cohen hearing on the very same day the president was in Vietnam trying to broker a deal on the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula. We all had a stake in the president’s success. They could have waited one day to avoid creating a distraction

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during a critical diplomatic moment. But they didn’t, because for Democrats it seems that embarrassing Trump is more important than disarming a tyrant. Talk about sleazy. (c) 2019, Washington Post Writers Group

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Political Crossfire

Understanding the Brexit Crackup By Robert J. Samuelson

hey promised complexity, confusion and uncertainty – and, by golly, they delivered. What we’re talking about is Brexit; that’s shorthand for Britain’s decision to leave the European Union (EU). The deadline is March 29, and as yet, there is no agreement on the new rules that would govern Britain’s relations with the EU. All this is yet another threat to Europe’s economic and political stability. “There’s no majority in Parliament for anything,” says Thomas Wright, head of the Brookings Institution’s Center on the United States and Europe. The most fearsome possibility seems to be “no deal”: The laws and regulations binding the United Kingdom to the EU would expire without a replacement. The result, say many commentators, would be a fearsome economic slump. “Supply chains would stop,” says Jacob Funk Kirkegaard, an expert on Europe at the Peterson Institute for International Economics, a think tank. The cross-border flow of parts and components – which often requires legal certifications of various sorts – would plunge, because the EU rules would no longer apply and there would be no replacement.

“The UK auto industry would have to close,” says Kirkegaard. Nor would it be an isolated example, he adds. Supermarkets have already warned that they won’t be able to import many fresh fruits and vegetables from the continent. An economic study by the Bank of England estimated that a “disorderly no deal” could result in as much as a

endum. Until recently, this seemed a longshot, because both the Labour Party and the Conservative Party opposed it. The voters have spoken through the referendum, Conservative Prime Minister Theresa May has said, and the government was bound to respect their will. But this week, Jeremy Corbyn, the Labour Party leader,

All this sounds enormously risky and confusing, because it is enormously risky and confusing.

10 percent drop in the economy (gross domestic product). The pain would be shared with EU countries, because the UK is a large market for their exports. Assuming widespread economic consequences, Kirkegaard doubts that a “no deal” decision could “last very long.” Both the EU and the UK would be drawn back to the bargaining table. But to what end? One possibility is a second refer-

reversed himself and said he would accept a new vote. On paper, this could end the controversy. Public opinion polls in Britain consistently show a 53-47 percent majority for remaining in the EU. The trouble is that this policy would leave a huge segment of the UK population deeply alienated. It also might result in a permanent split of the Conservative party, which is the stronghold of those

wanting to quit the EU. Another possibility is that Parliament would accept the agreement negotiated by May for quitting the EU. Parliament has already resoundingly rejected her plan. But this week May again rejected a second referendum, called for a second vote on her plan as well as a vote on a “no deal” exit. If both these proposals are rejected – as seems possible – May said she would support extending slightly the deadline for leaving the EU. This would create a pause for the EU and UK to negotiate an acceptable compromise. Or it may be that there is no compromise acceptable to both. Already, the leaders of France and Spain have said they would oppose an extension of the deadline unless it involved new choices. All this sounds enormously risky and confusing, because it is enormously risky and confusing. The irony is inescapable. Aside from resenting the EU’s bureaucrats, the supporters of Brexit aim to restore some of Britain’s lost glory and power. But the reality is the whole Brexit process has weakened Britain’s economy and promoted political polarization. (c) 2019, Washington Post Writers Group

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Forgotten Her es

Hunting German Wolfpacks By Avi Heiligman

German U-boats

llied navies and air forces had incorporated many tactics to take down the U-boat menace during World War II. Large convoys just proved to be larger targets for the German submarines. Long range

patrol aircraft had some success, aided by more advanced technology like better radar and detection finders. For each method that the Allies used, the German Navy had an answer. Then, in 1943, the U.S. started using a new

method revolving around escort aircraft carriers that the Germans could not stop. Hunter killer groups not only stopped attacks on merchant vessels but actively chased down U-boats. Escort carriers, sometimes known as baby flattops or jeep carriers, were employed during World War II and were half the size of a large carrier. The U.S. built 122 escort carriers and used them in both the Pacific and Atlantic theaters of operations. There were 45 ships in the Bogueclass of escort carriers and 50 in the Casablanca-class. Many were either transferred to the Royal Navy or used to ferry planes in the Pacific. The three that this article will focus on are the lead ships in are the class USS Bogue (CVE-9), USS Block Island (CVE-21) and the USS Guadalcanal (CVE-60). The trio played a significant role in hunting down U-boats in the Atlantic. U-boats worked well in groups known as wolfpacks. Hunter-killer groups were an effective American answer to the submarine menace. It revolved around an escort carrier loaded with anti submarine planes and a number of destroyers, destroyer escorts, corvettes, frigates and Coast Guard cutters. The USS Bogue was the trendsetter for escort carriers in the Atlantic and has the distinction of sinking subs from multiple countries. She sank 11 German U-boats and one Japanese sub. One of her screening ships, the destroyer Badger, sank

another U-boat. The Badger, along with three other destroyers that were part of the group, sank a thirteenth sub. The Bogue received the coveted Presidential Unit Citation for her actions during the Battle of the Atlantic. These hunter-killer groups were working against the German wolfpacks but the American high command wanted more â&#x20AC;&#x201C; to capture a U-boat intact. Capturing a U-boat as opposed to sinking it would give the Allies valuable information about German secret codes. By 1944, captured codebooks had led to the decoding of most of the codes and they even replicated the machine that the Germans used to code them in the first place. This was known as Ultra, but an actual German copy of the Enigma machine was needed to provide further intelligence. U-boats carried these precious machines into the Atlantic on patrols. Since Ultra intercepts could be read, movements of German submarines were known by the Allies. The Guadalcanal had been given a rough estimate as to the location of the subs but it took two weeks to discover that the U-505 was 150 miles off the coast of Morocco. A destroyer, guided by planes from the escort carrier, let go two depth charges. Depth charges are explosives set to detonate at a predetermined underwater depth. Valves and pipes cracked in the sub, and her captain, believing she was a goner, surfaced to let his crew escape. The carrierâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s captain ordered a board-

ing party to enter the now-empty sub. They found code books, papers, and the all-important Enigma machine. Salvage parties prepared the captured submarine for towing to a navy base at Bermuda. This was the first enemy ship captured on the high seas by the U.S. Navy since the War of 1812, and the entire task group received the Presidential Unit Citation. Although she wasn’t the only U-boat captured by the Allies, she was the most important to American researchers who gained a lot of knowledge by studying the submarine temporarily renamed the USS Nemo. After the war, she was donated to the Chicago Museum of Science and Industry where she is on permanent display. Starting in 1944, carriers of all types were prime targets in the Pacific for Japanese suicide planes called kamikazes. The dangers for Allied aircraft carriers in the Atlantic were just as hazardous as in the Pacific, as a U-boats could sneak up unseen on the escort group. This is what happened

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to the USS Block Island. She was torpedoed by the U-549 off the Canary Islands in May 1944. The carrier lost only six men as the rest of the crew were safely transferred to other ships. Immediate payback was in store for the U-boat. Depth charges by two of the destroyer escorts sank the U-549

which went down with her entire crew. The killer-hunter convoys were so successful in sinking U-boats that the German navy stopped operations in the Central Atlantic. The escort carriers would target larger supply submarines known as “milch cows,” and in a period of three months 24 subs in-

cluding eight milch cows were sunk by the groups. Some of these epic battles lasted hours and were credited with sinking at least 53 U-boats during the war. After World War II many of the escort and light carriers were used for a new type of aircraft – the helicopter. The role of the escort carrier was diminished but it still saw action until the Vietnam War. A lot were converted into other types of ships, and some were given to other countries. The last of the baby flattops was sold for scrap in 1979. There are no surviving escort carriers that became museum ships. A few larger carriers are still around, and these pay homage to vital work that their smaller “cousins” performed to fight fascism.

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 Fulfilled L fe

What Kind of Cop are You? By Rabbi Dr. Naphtali Hoff

In interrogations, the roles of interrogators are designed to play off one another. The “Bad Cop” first creates much fear and tension, through heavy handiness and threatening behavior, allowing the “Good Cop” to come in and gain compliance using a softer, friendlier approach.

ack in November, I spent a week parenting alone. My wife, who was visiting our son abroad, certainly helped through a variety of pre-trip preparations and mid-trip guidance but in essence I operated solo. Me and the kiddie crew had some “longer” days, including Thanksgiving weekend and Shabbos, in which we were all home for extended periods of time. And we held it all together, in part because everyone chipped in. There’s no question that I am stricter than my wife is, in terms of chores and the like. Which often makes me the bad cop. So, while the good cop was away, I knew I needed to compensate. I did this by making food the kids really liked. And promising to take them out for dinner. And taking my

eldest daughter driving. And… Just to keep everyone happy and to help me preserve my sanity. In the end, it worked out well. My wife returned to a happy clan (they were even happier when she shared the gifts she had bought) and a clean, organized house. Even most of the laundry had been done. My good cop/bad cop balancing act was good enough to pull us

The short answer is yes. It is possible to balance the two, to set high expectations, and yet find ways to be giving, demonstrate care, and go the extra mile. Leading others is less about choosing a persona (changing who we are at our core can be awfully difficult and can lead to all sorts of unwanted side effects) and more about finding a way for your inner self to balance

Is it possible to be pleasant and still be respected?

through. Many managers struggle in their role. They don’t know if they should play the role of good cop or bad cop. But what about when you’re the only cop? Can you be nice and still get things done? Is it possible to be pleasant and still be respected?

against what your people really need. If you’re of the stricter, more work-oriented variety (bad cop), seek out ways to lighten up and express appreciation. Set high standards but roll up your sleeves at times and help out. Offer some perks when people have really put themselves out. (Warning: you may need to remind yourself to do this, especially if you’re the kind

of person who is self-motivated and doesn’t need to be praised or recognized to get things done.) Leaders who tend to be light on their people and more empathetic (good cop) must be able to stay focused on getting things done. No one wants to work for a company that is being outperformed or a team that is failing to meet its goals. Nor do companies look favorably on such managers. The trick is to operate from a clear understanding of “how you roll” and seek ways to ensure that your team has the tools, goals, and support needed to get the job done. If you do, you’ll simply be viewed as the “cop,” not in the authoritative sense of the term but as the facilitator that makes it all happen. Rabbi Naphtali Hoff, PsyD, is an executive and business coach and president of Impactful Coaching & Consulting. For a free, no obligation consultation, please call 212-470-6139 or email info@impactfulcoaching.com. Check out his new leadership book, “Becoming the New Boss,” on Amazon. Download his free eBook for understaffed leaders at ImpactfulCoaching. com/EPIC.

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Clean out your closets before Pesach!

Please remember the thousands of aniyei Eretz Yisroel this neighborhood has helped with the gently used clothes we have sent. Over the past few years, we have sent gently used clothing to aniyei Eretz Yisrael in a biannual clothing drive. ALL COSTS are paid by anonymous sponsors, and collection and distribution is undertaken by UNPAID volunteers. This is a special opportunity to perform the tremendous mitzvah of tzedakah without incurring any expense. Last October, we shipped over 10,000 garments to distribution centers, both chareidi and chiloni, in Yerushalayim, Kiryat Sefer, Bet Shemesh, and other communities.

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The Keren is responsible when it reaches E”Y, and the Israeli government inspects the container to make sure we comply with the rules and regulations. WE ARE SENDING ONLY GENTLY USED CLOTHING (no shoes, hats, or undergarments). Please select garments that you feel are appropriate and that our needy brethren in E”Y will be proud to wear. Please ensure that all clothing is stain-free and in very good condition. Thank you for the last drive! Our community’s drive continues to be the most successful this organization has in terms of the quality and quantity of clothes we send to Eretz Yisrael. Help us do it again!

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And the Oscar Goes to...the IRS! By Allan Rolnick, CPA

scar night is the biggest night in Hollywood. The stars shine just a little bit brighter. The red carpets stretch just a little bit farther. And the bloated egos get just a little bit bloatier, if that’s possible. (Here’s looking at you, Mr. Cooper.) Ironically, fewer and fewer of us tune in to the actual ceremony. Why give up hours of your life watching celebrities congratulate each other when you could fit a couple of full-length movies in the same length of time? Nominees for the top five prizes — Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress, and Best Director — bring an extra guest to the party, in the form of the IRS. It’s not because they take home any actual cash. It’s because they leave with an “Everyone Wins” swag bag assembled by Distinctive Assets, a product-placement company that’s not affiliated with the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences but also not afraid to hitch their wagon to Oscar’s relentless publicity machine. Distinctive Assets has never been shy about promoting the value of their bag. In 2016, the collection, which included a 10-day trip to Israel, a 15-day “Walk Japan” tour, a year’s worth of Audi rentals, and a 10,000-meal donation to the animal shelter of the donor’s choice, crossed

the $230,000 line. That sounds like a lot to the average fan. But it may not mean that much to the stars who can make north of $20 million per picture. Of course, calling the bag a “gift” doesn’t actually make it a gift. That’s where the IRS comes in. The tax code defines a gift as something you get out of affection or respect.

to report it! This year’s bag includes the usual collection of glamour vacations, including a small-ship cruise to Iceland, the Galapagos, the Amazon, or Costa Rica & Panama. You’ll also find the sort of only-in-Hollywood treats you would expect: Coda Signature gift boxes with cannabis-infused hand-painted truffles and

This year’s bag includes the usual collection of glamour vacations, including a smallship cruise to Iceland, the Galapagos, the Amazon, or Costa Rica & Panama.

And while the Avaton Luxury Villas Resort in Greece may have really liked watching Christian Bale retreat to an undisclosed location in Vice, the real reason they’re comping him a week at the beach is to attract new guests. So…the swag bag is taxable income. In fact, Distinctive Assets even sends the nominee a Form 1099 reminding them

chocolate bars, private phobia-relief sessions with the world’s #1 phobia expert, a “spa kit for your mouth,” and a PETA spy pen to help blow the whistle on animal abuse. But this year, there’s no price tag. “A great gift has nothing to do with the retail value,” Distinctive Assets founder Lash Fary said in a statement. “For years we have been

breaking one of the cardinal rules of gift-giving by disclosing the price tag. Instead, we are trying to start a new tradition by simply celebrating the fun and festive nature of this legendary gift bag.” (Of course, they’ll still be declaring an amount on those 1099s they send next January.) What if Best Supporting Actor Mahershala Ali doesn’t want the tax headaches that come with his goodies? He can always give some to charity. (Does he really need the Blush & Whimsy limited-edition rose gold lipstick?) But he still has to report the value of anything he regifts in his income before deducting it as a charitable gift. Last year, the Academy proposed a new award for Outstanding Achievement in Popular Film. It would be the first new category since Best Animated Feature in 2001. And it gives us hope that, someday, they’ll add an Oscar for Best Performance in Tax Planning. Wouldn’t that be great? We’ll keep you posted and let you know when to look for us on the red carpet!

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

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“Sole” Sisters By Rivki D. Rosenwald Esq., MFT, CLC

o shoes make you crazy? Now, I’m not sure every guy will identify with this but if they know a woman they might. Do you ever see someone who looks amazing walking to synagogue on a Saturday? But one thing seems a drop, shall we say, not exactly right? Then suddenly when you see them at shul, and it all comes

together. They look put together just right. Maybe even a drop more stunning and taller. What changed? Well, it seems that they accessed their tiny, handy dandy, little Shabbos shopping bag and out popped their high, higher or highest heels. This is the Shabbos dilemma: walk to shul in comfort or in style? Not everyone wants the squished toes, the strained knees or aching

back or the rubbed-out heel. Yet, everyone wants the complete look when they arrive. Interestingly, it works a little differently when one attends a wedding or another affair. In that case, things are reversed. They arrive at the event at their absolute tallest and only begin the shrinking ceremony as they approach the dance floor. It seems guys usually have two speeds: formal or informal; shoes or sneakers. Woman have a whole different shoe world to navigate. First there’s the elevator-like experience – going up...1-inch, 2-inch, 3-inch, 4 inches.

in their assortment of sneakers too. Any day of the week you might find them on their walking mission. And in this case, they’re not playing games. The sneakers may be interesting but it’s all about the walk! The look is not the ultimate goal – the exercise is! So, they’ll usually be sure to get into town and home, whether it’s a 3-mile walk or 30. Like the saying goes: stand clear when the rubber meets the road! For women, having enough space for the variety of footwear we need to accommodate is no joke. It “floors” everyone just to try to find place for them. They say women exist on a high-

Walk to shul in comfort or in style?

Anyone for 5 or 6 inches up? Then there are other choices: closed toe, open toe, closed back, open back. Of course, there’s the different styles – sporty, casual, funky, high-styled, designer, etc. Then, on top of that, there’s all different types of flats. And just when you think you’ve covered all avenues there are boots to contend with – ankle height, calf height, knee high, or thigh high, and also tight, or loose, suede or leather, or even a combo of the two. And we’re just getting started. Now, it’s not like these same beautiful girls don’t get caught up

er spiritual plain. But who realized that when they say women’s “souls” have great abundance, they meant in their closets? So, let’s respect women who try to keep getting into those higher shoes. In other words, just try and see this side of things, all you heels out there, and welcome all those souls that are coming through! Rivki Rosenwald is a certified relationship counselor, and career and life coach. She can be contacted at 917-7052004 or rivki@rosenwalds.com.

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