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Palestinians run after them with knives and cleavers and use buses as ammunition. Those who perpetrate these heinous acts are hailed as heroes by their fellow Palestinians.

Last week, Senator Marco Rubio highlighted Israel’s predicament when he spoke about the many impediments the Israelis have towards achieving peace. One of them, he noted, was the “wholesale systematic indoctrination of young Palestinians to hatred... The justification of the murdering of Jews begins sadly, tragically, outrageously, at a very young age. I think that’s a pretty big impediment.”

He added, “And another one is the incitement to violence by PA leaders; this is not widely-reported, because it doesn’t make it into their English-language press releases. But when they go around justifying these [terrorist] attacks, when they dedicate monuments to so-called martyrs who are actually nothing but terrorists, when they spread ridiculous rumors about what the Israeli government is going to do on the Temple Mount or the Dome of the Rock – these things incite violence; I view these things as bigger impediments than all the others.”

So where does that leave the State of Israel? In a way, Trump’s comment last week that he would leave the issue of a one-state or two-state solution to the Israelis and Palestinians was refreshing. The last few American presidents tried to force the parties to sit down and negotiate, and each time the talks failed. Perhaps the U.S. had best leave Israel and the Palestinians on their own in this respect.

The Palestinians want a state? Fine, but Israel won’t give it to them if they butcher children who are sleeping in their beds. Once the Palestinians realize that they will have to deal with the Israelis alone, perhaps they’ll realize that it’s time to resort to diplomacy instead of violence.

Wishing you a wonderful week, Shoshana

he history of the State of Israel is pretty short in terms of years but what has taken place in less than a century can fill volumes of history books.

Reading this week’s feature story gave me insight into Israel’s predicament. There has been so much back and forth between Israel and the Palestinians. The Israelis have made myriad concessions and over the years have offered so much to the other side. Reading through, I breathed a sigh of relief when the Palestinians refused to accept their offers of land. Some leaders practically gave away the country, only to be told by the Palestinians that they wanted more.

But what do they really want? Yasser Arafat was the most vocal about Palestinian goals. “We plan to eliminate the state of Israel and establish a purely Palestinian state. We will make life unbearable for Jews by psychological warfare and population explosion. We Palestinians will take over everything, including all of Jerusalem” he vowed. In 1970, he said, “We shall never stop until we can go back home and Israel is destroyed… The goal of our struggle is the end of Israel, and there can be no compromises or mediations… The goal of this violence is the elimination of Zionism from Palestine in all its political, economic and military aspects…

We don’t want peace, we want victory. Peace for us means Israel’s destruction and nothing else. ” Arafat was not the only one to profess his intention to incinerate the Jewish State. PLO founder Ahmed Shuqayri, in June 1967, forecasted two days before the Six Day War, “Whoever survives will stay in Palestine, but in my opinion, no one will remain alive,” he said, referring to the Jewish people.

Years later, Hamas is just as vocal about their intentions. Abbas plays the political role, professing that he wants peace and wants to negotiate for peace. But Israel is still struggling to survive as

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Contents LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

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COMMUNITY Readers’ Poll

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Community Happenings

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OpEd: I am Dyslexic, a Child’s Story

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NEWS

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National

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Odd-but-True Stories

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One State, Two State, Whatever by Susan Schwamm 97 ISRAEL

Israel News

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My Israel Home PEOPLE The Almost Forgotten Heroes of Israel by Avi Heiligman

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PARSHA Producing Polished People by Rav Moshe Weinberger

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Rabbi Wein

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JEWISH THOUGHT Minority Rules by Eytan Kobre

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JEWISH HISTORY Memoirs of a Forgotten Rabbi: The Troubled Life of Rabbi Tzvi Hirsch Ferber by Rav Pini Dunner 88 The Russian Revolution and the Jews: Marking the Centennial by Larry Domnitch 92 HEALTH & FITNESS Why Do Hypnosis? by Dr. Deb Hirschhorn

Dear Editor, The Op-Ed this week in The Jewish Home cut me to the core. I cannot imagine this gentleman’s anguish as he struggles to provide for his family. Indeed, I am sure there are others like him who are not employed and are desperately trying to support their family. I cannot imagine their pain, their frustrations, their hurt, their pain, their shame, their anxiety and their sleepless nights. I am sure that their children and wife are quietly suffering as well as they see the man of the house crumbling under the weight of the bills.

I wanted to help but I didn’t know how. And then, that night, I opened the mail and there was an appeal by a local Tomchei Shabbos.

This was my chance to lend a hand to this family and others like them. My heart ached as I wrote out a check – larger than usual – and I hope that it will somehow help alleviate a bit of their burden.

Sincerely, A TJH Reader Dear Editor, In your note to readers this week you wrote that there are some immigrants who are grateful to be in this country and there are others

who use their newfound freedom to bash the nation that opened up their arms and borders to them. I thought about that on Friday when it was supposed to be a “day without immigrants.” Some people – very few – didn’t go to their jobs and didn’t send their children to school on that day, and I thought, how un-American. In America, if you work hard, you will succeed. For those who prefer to sit on their couches all day, the government will provide for you.

But that won’t help you succeed or excel. That will help you remain someone with an open hand for the rest of your life. A successful American is one who gets up early in the morning, works hard all day, and rests peacefully at night. We’re a nation that rewards good workers. But if you’re going to be cutting out of work or school and protesting at every chance you get, you won’t break out of your enclave and you will have wasted the opportunity that America provides.

Don’t be like that. Take advantage of the American dream. Work hard, work honestly, and you will succeed.

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Is Stress Causing Your Weight Gain? by Aliza Beer, MS RD 112 FOOD & LEISURE

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The Case of the Cover-up in Search of a Crime

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Dear Editor, Your humorist, Jon Kranz, is able to take Jewish concepts that we all take for granted and make them funny with a twist. I appreciate his comical yet droll way of looking at things. Looking forward to hearing what he has to say on Purim!

Aaron Taub Dear Editor, This is an open letter to all the women in the neighborhood. Purim and Pesach are both yomim tovim that involve a lot of preparation.

Today, a friend of mine mentioned to me that she just cleaned out her storage room for Pesach. It was mentioned in passing and was only 30 seconds in a conversation that took over a half hour. She probably didn’t think about the comment after she made it, but I couldn’t stop thinking about it for the whole evening. Pesach cleaning! Should I already be doing that? I haven’t even thought about what I’m going to be sending for mishloach manos.

Yes, there are some of us who are more prepared than others. Each

person has their own way of bringing in the chagim and each one of us has their own list and items that need to be accomplished. My message is twofold: One, when speaking or hearing about someone who is more “accomplished” than you are in preparing for yom tov, try not to focus on that. We all enjoy our yomim tovim and everything ends up getting done. It’s not a matter of how you got there; it’s a matter of the fact that we will all enjoy yom tov anyway.

Secondly, if you feel that you have to start cleaning for Pesach in February or have already prepared the flowers that will adorn your home on Shavuos, try to keep that information to yourself. Yes, you are amazing, accomplished, and efficient, but only your husband needs to know that. The rest of us are happy discussing other things like whether or not we’ll get another snowstorm and how many people will be dressed up like Donald Trump this year on Purim.

Wishing everyone a great Purim, Pesach, Shavuos, etc.

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The Week In News

No Jail Time for Spanish Princess

After months of speculation, Princess Cristina of Spain has been found not guilty of being an accessory to fraud in a wide-ranging tax fraud case that captivated the country. Her husband, Inaki Urdangarin, was found guilty of evading taxes, fraud and various other charges which came with a sentence of six years behind bars and a fine of 512,000 euros ($545,000).

Although she was found to not be directly involved, the court did order Princess Cristina to pay nearly 265,000 euros (over $280,000) because she benefited from the fraud indirectly.

Urdangarin can still appeal the court’s verdict to the Supreme Court, but the prosecutor has announced that they would be requesting that a judge force Urdangarin to await developments in jail.

The main thrust of the trial was that Urdangarin used his former title, the Duke of Palma, to embezzle $6.6 million of public funds for the Nos Institute, a non-profit. Urdangarin’s partner in crime was Nos co-founder Diego Torres, who received 8-anda-half years in jail for his role in the scheme.

A lawyer for Princess Cristina said that she was “satisfied for the acknowledgement of her innocence” but she was still convinced that her husband wasn’t guilty.

Famine Could be Fatal for Millions Four separate famines have put the lives of over 20,000,000 people

at risk, according to the U.N. World Food Program. “In my not quite 15 years with the World Food Program, this is the first time that we are literally talking about famine in four different parts of the world at the same time,” chief economist Arif Husain said. He is referring to wars in Yemen, northeastern Nigeria, and South Sudan, and a drought in east Africa that has ruined the agricultural economy of the region.

The impending hunger issues are coming even though help has been donated generously in recent months. Aid is at an all-time high but the demand grows faster than the money can support. “In northeast Nigeria we’re feeding more than 1 million people and just a few months ago we didn’t even have an office there,” Husain pointed out.

This would hardly be the first time in recent history that many in regions around the world were feared to be in mortal danger due to hunger. In 2011, Somalia suffered a famine that killed 260,000 people.

“When we declare famine, it means many lives have already been lost,” Husain said. “If we wait to find that out for sure, people are already dead.” Making matters worse, the 2011 famine hit right after a good agricultural season. This year, the famine is looming after two poor seasons that have already drained local reserves.

Russian Spy Ship Spotted Near Virginia Viktor Leonov, a Russian spy ship, is currently loitering off of the coast of Norfolk, Va., home to the largest naval base in the world. U.S. territorial waters extend only 12 miles offshore. The Russian ship has been observed patrolling waters only 17 miles from the coast.

The ship is equipped with the latest technology in intelligence gather-

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ing equipment. It left its homeport in the Barents Sea near Norway about six weeks ago. U.S. officials estimate that its deployment was likely planned for months before it set sail.

The ship was also seen off the coast of Havana in January 2015 as the Obama administration repaired U.S. relations with Cuba.

Sergey Lavrov, while on his first overseas trip as secretary of state to attend the G20 ministerial meeting in Bonn, Germany. “The United States will consider working with Russia when we can find areas of practical cooperation that will benefit the American people. Where we do not see eye to eye the United States will stand up for the interests and values of America and her allies,” Tillerson said after his meeting with Lavrov.

680 Cubans Sent Back Home President Trump was asked about the ship during a White House press conference. “The greatest thing I could do is shoot that ship that’s 30 miles offshore right out of the water. Everyone is going to say that’s so great. That’s not great. I would love to get along with Russia,” Trump said.

During the same time that the ship was spotted, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson was meeting his Russian counterpart, Foreign Minister

On January 12, President Barack Obama ended the longstanding American “wet foot, dry foot” policy in connection with Cuban refugees. In contrast to other countries, at the time, as long as Cubans found dry land in the United States, they would be allowed to pursue residency in the United States after a year of being in the country. For a while, Cuba sought the repeal of the policy, claiming that it forced Cubans to risk dangerous voyages in search of freedom in the U.S. Now, since

the repeal of the policy, Cubans are treated like all refugees who endeavor to come to the United States.

Since January 12, about 680 Cubans have been returned to their country after pursuing a better life.

Cuban state television said last week that the returnees came from countries including the United States, Mexico and the Bahamas, and were sent back to the island between Jan. 12 and Feb. 17. It did not break down which countries the 680 were sent back from.

Two women were sent back to Cuba from the United States last week on a charter flight – the first of its kind. They had arrived at Miami International Airport with European passports and had requested asylum but were detained and were

deemed “inadmissible” for entry into the United States.

The repeal of the “wet foot, dry foot” policy was Obama’s final move before leaving office in the rapprochement with the communist-run country that he and Cuban President Castro began in December 2014. The surprise decision left hundreds of Cubans stranded in transit in South and Central America.

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The phone was found in Hitler’s Berlin bunker in 1945 following the regime’s defeat.

Alexander House dubbed the phone as “arguably the most destructive ‘weapon’ of all time, which sent millions to their deaths.” Hitler used it to give most of his orders during the last two years of World

War II. Ralph Rayner, a British officer, was the one who pulled the phone from the bunker’s ruins. He passed the deadly instrument on to his son, Ranulf, when he died in 1977.

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Will the UN Finally be Leaving Haiti?

For the last 13 years, the United Nations’ multinational military force has been protecting and assisting the people of Haiti. They

have calmed violence in the slums, targeted armed gangs, and provided backup for Haiti’s national police force. Now they are packing up their bags and heading out, leaving Haiti to fend for themselves.

“Definitely, the military component is not necessary anymore,” Herve Ladsous, the U.N. secretary-general for peacekeeping, told the Miami Herald. “Stability is essentially there. Look at the elections at the end of last year. There were incidents, yes, a few, but nothing really serious, and I think nothing that justifies the prolonged stay of regular troops.”

Ladsous will suggest the cessation of the military component of the $346 million-a-year stabilization mission in a report to Secretary-General Antonio Guterres that will be sent to the Security Council.

The decision is based on an in-depth assessment based on meetings with political party leaders, parliamentarians, and newly elected President Jovenel Moise.

“I think he is all for strengthening our work together,” Ladsous said of the newly sworn in leader.

He will be the first Haitian president to govern without the U.N.’s heavy militarized presence. They have been present since 2004 when a bloody coup toppled then-President Jean-Bertrand Aristide. In the last two decades the international community has contributed billions of dollars to strengthen the Haiti National Police force.

In the meantime, Haiti must figure out how it will replace the U.N. Stabilization Mission’s 2,370-strong military force should it be withdrawn. Lower Chamber of Deputies President Cholzer Chancy, who attended the meeting and is under consideration for prime minister, said he believes now is the time for Haiti to take control of its own fate.

“Whenever there is a disaster, who comes? It’s always the Dominican army, the American army, the armies of our neighbors,” Chancy said. “We have to organize ourselves, respect the Constitution ... and have

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an army that is apolitical and more professional than it was.”

While Ladsous is a proponent of forming a stronger army he doesn’t feel that that is Haitians’ primary issue at the moment.

“The country is under no external threat. There is threat from transnational criminals, from narco-traffickers, but that is not something that necessarily needs an army to be handled. The police can be called into play in all this,” Ladsous said. “I also don’t think the international community ... will look with very much excitement on the idea of recreating a military institution. We know the past.”

Ladsous also thinks that Haiti needs to focus on forming a foundation for enforcing its 200-year-old laws. He reasoned that if the country offers a stable environment it will be attractive to investors and will generate jobs.

Ladsous’ recommendations are due in March. It will be up to the Security Council when it meets in April on Haiti to decide the future of the U.N.’s presence.

“The priority now is to re-profile the mission, so it will be a different mission but that doesn’t mean six months further down the road we will be leaving,” he said. “We have invested a lot over the years in Haiti. There is still work to do ... My recommendation is definitely not to shut the door six months down the road.”

Apathy and Jocularity at Concentration Camps

There is no protocol for how to act when visiting the site of evil and terror, and every person reacts differently when faced with past horrors. A few weeks ago, Israeli-German writer Shahak Shapira reignited the public debate about “Holocaust tourism.” On his website, Yolocaust, he posted images “shaming” tourists who appear in

superficial selfies taken at a Holocaust memorial in Berlin. He superimposed smiling tourists with gruesome images from the Holocaust, such as piles of corpses. He deleted the images shortly after, saying they had served their purpose and made a point.

“I find it dangerous that this is becoming normal,” Shapira told a German news program. “It kind of suggests that people are not dealing with the real purpose of this memorial.”

When the Pokeman Go game was all the rage last summer, it led users into the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum and into the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. Many took issue with this, claiming – rightly – it was highly inappropriate. A few years ago this topic was highly debated after an American tourist took a smiling selfie at Auschwitz, drawing outrage on social media.

The lack of empathy or even awareness of what took place seventy years ago is the subject of a soon-to-be released documentary film, “Austerlitz,” by Ukrainian director Sergei Loznitsa. The 90-minute black-and-white film is a series of shots of tourists in Dachau and Sachsenhausen concentration camps; there is no commentary.

Loznitsa placed stationary cameras around the camps, capturing thousands of visitors, unaware that they were being filmed. According to those who viewed the film, the majority of the visitors acted as if they were strolling in a shopping mall or an art museum. For the most part, they appeared adrift, fidgety, tired and bored. There were some that laughed or smiled and others who posed for carefree group photos in front of Sachsenhausen’s “Arbeit Macht Frei” gate. The film highlights the disconnect between setting and character “The people who came to these places 40 years ago came with a different purpose than people now,” Loznitsa told The New York Times last year. “Now people don’t remember, and sometimes I think they don’t even understand where they are and what the places are about.”

Last year, 1.5 million tourists visited Auschwitz concentration camp. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., was visited by more than 16.5 million people in 2015.

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The five-shek-for-everything policy that Cofix coffee shops have upheld for the past four years since they have opened is going away. The popular supermarket and bar chain released a statement last week that there will be a one shekel hike in price on every item they sell. That’s a lot of coins considering the chain has 132 stores across Israel.

“Due to rising prices (including the rise in wages and certain basic products) over the last three and a half years,” the statement reads, “the price of the products sold at the cafés and coffee carts positioned at supermarkets of the company’s daughter company will be set to six shekels.”

Cofix founder Avi Katz is not worried about public backlash to the price hikes. “I’m sure the public will respond with understanding,” said Katz. “Over one more shekel?

I don’t think so. We sell 200,000 items a day. Every day. That means that even if I save 6 - 7 shekels, I’ve been putting between a million and a million and a half shekels in the public’s pockets every day for three years. Beyond the giant change that that people have been calling ‘the Cofix effect,’ which everyone can see in the streets, how long can you carry the revolution on your back, alone?

Over the course of these years, rent and wages have gone up by 15%. Minimum wage has been updated twice during this time. In addition, the prices of basic materials have gone up. So this is understandable. We’ve done this huge revolution, and we haven’t raised by much,” he argued in the hike’s defense.

The price increase comes after the company’s main rival and copycat, Cofizz, announced their own

On Tuesday, military judges sentenced an Israeli soldier convicted of manslaughter to 18 months in prison for the killing of a disarmed, incapacitated Palestinian assailant last year, in a case that has revealed deep divisions in Israeli society.

Elor Azaria, 21, was also given two suspended sentences, one for 12 months and the other for six, by the military court at the IDF headquarters in the Kirya base, Tel Aviv, as well as a demotion in rank to private.

Judges ruled that Azaria would begin his 18-month sentence on March 5 after defense attorneys asked for a delay while they file an appeal. For the past 10 months, the soldier has been confined to base after being released from military house-arrest shortly after the March 24, 2016 incident. He remained confined to base after Tuesday’s sentencing.

Azaria was convicted in January in the shooting death of Abdel Fattah al-Sharif, who was lying on the ground wounded and disarmed after stabbing a soldier in the West Bank city of Hebron. Azaria, a combat medic, was filmed shooting Sharif in the head.

The case has enflamed tensions around the country. When Azaria entered the courtroom, his family and supporters sang Israel’s national anthem and called him a hero.

“We know this was not an easy day for the accused and his family, but justice needed to be done and justice was done,” Chief prosecutor Lt. Col. Nadav Weisman said.

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repeated calls for Azaria to be pardoned immediately after the sentence was announced, while others praised the prison term. Some predominantly left-wing politicians also said the 18-month sentence was insufficient.

Outside the court, dozens of Azaria’s supporters gathered to protest against any jailtime. In Hebron, Sharif’s family watched the sentence being read out on television. “A year and a half is a farce,” Sharif’s father Yusri told journalists at the family home near Hebron in the southern West Bank.

The 18-month sentence was less than the 3 to 5 years the military prosecution had asked for.

Politicians across the board, including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the center-left former Labor party leader MK Shelly Yachimovich, have come out in favor of a pardon for the Kfir Brigade soldier. By law, there are three ways Azaria may obtain a pardon. All convicts, including soldiers, can appeal to the president, Reuven Rivlin.

Soldiers can also turn to the head of their command, in this case the Central Command, or to the IDF chief of staff, Lt. Gen. Gadi Eisenkot, who also has the legal power to commute

sentences for active-duty personnel.

Rivlin has said he would only consider a pardon after Azaria’s legal appeals are exhausted.

Nearly three-quarters of Israelis — 73 percent — feel the army’s top brass convicted Azaria in the press before the trial began, according to survey statistics released by the Institute for National Security Studies last month.

From Ukrainian Christian to IDF Soldier

Eva Zifkina, a soldier in the IDF, has had quite a life story already – and she’s only 21-years-old. Zifkina

was born to a Christian family in Ukraine and five years ago discovered that she is the granddaughter of Jewish Holocaust survivors. She has since set out on a journey of self-discovery that culminated in her enlisting in the Israeli Defense Forces last week.

Eva has lone soldier status as her family did not make the journey with her; they prefer to remain living as Christians in Ukraine. She is in a conversion course that is sponsored by Netiv. “I definitely want to become familiar with Judaism because it’s a part of me, and it’s important to me,” Zifkina has said.

Zifkina was born in the city of Kharkiv in Eastern Ukraine. Her grandfather, Fyodor Zidkin, had pretended to be a Muslim during WWII, when he was 12-years-old.

He was the only survivor in his family and decided to live the rest of his life as a Christian after the war.

When he was at an advanced age, he told his son and daughter-in-law of his Jewish heritage and died shortly thereafter.

“I finished high school at 16, and I starting studying pharmacy at an academy,” Zifkina explained. “In my free time, I tried to find information about my Jewish roots. I contacted

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my grandfather’s friends and people who worked with him, but I didn’t manage to get any information. After a year, I stopped my studies because I wanted to focus on my search and immigrate to Israel.” However, Zifkina could not prove that she was Jewish and was not eligible for immigration.

Luckily, Zifkina later found her grandfather’s marriage certificate, which proved her grandparents were married in a shul. Zifkina knows that she is not halachically Jewish – because her mother isn’t – and has decided to take a conversion course.

“Even though I managed to immigrate to Israel, according to halacha, I’m not Jewish, and it’s very important to me to go through the conversion process after discovering that there’s a Nativ course that facilitates conversion during military service,” she said.

Asked if she knows that passing the conversion course requires a religious lifestyle, Zifkina replied, “It really isn’t easy because I didn’t grow up in those conditions. But I live in a Jewish state, and it’s important to me to connect to Judaism.

It interests me, and it may be that during the course it will influence me, and I’ll decide to be religious.”

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Gaza Strip Next Singapore?

The co-founder of Hamas responded with quite a demand in response to Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman’s statement that the Gaza Strip could become the next Singapore if Israelis held captive in Gaza were returned.

Mahmoud Zahar told a Palestinian newspaper that if Israel wants the bodies of their captured soldiers returned, they must “release the Palestinian hero Mujahideen, of all factions, held in your prisons and then we will release the Israeli soldiers.”

Zahar also said that if “we wanted to turn Gaza into a Singapore, we would do so with our own hands and not as a favor to anyone else.”

Lieberman’s comments came in a plea for Hamas and other Palestinian factions to lay down their arms in order to allow for some negotiation that may lead towards a twostate solution. He was clear that “once Hamas gives up the terror tunnels and the rockets, we will be the first to invest and build them a naval port, an airport and an industrial area.”

The defense minister said that Israel could begin “immediately creating some 40,000 jobs for the residents of Gaza, assuming that Hamas will give up the clause of ‘exterminating Israel,’ will give up its terror tunnels, and of course, first and foremost – if [they] return the bodies of our soldiers and civilians who are being held captive by them.”

Lieberman also laid out that he believes the “main problem between us is an utter lack of trust.”

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Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu concluded their first summit since Trump took office with an agreement to keep trying to reach a mutual understanding concerning Israeli settlement activity. A White House readout of the discussion said the president “reiterated his desire for peace throughout the Middle East” and “a comprehensive agreement that would end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.”

The two leaders have not yet finalized the approach they plan to take when it comes to West Bank settlements. They “agreed to continue those discussions and to work out an approach that is consistent with the goal of advancing peace and security,” the White House said. The Trump administration is the first in two decades to not express a firm commitment to

the two-state solution. “I’m looking at two-state and one-state, and I like the one that both parties like,” Trump said in a press conference.

Netanyahu indicated in last week’s press conference that he would at least consider President Trump’s request to rein in settlement activity for the time being. Bibi recently announced plans to build 6,000 housing units in the West Bank and East Jerusalem.

“If there’s a request to examine this issue from so friendly a president, I think it’s appropriate to make the effort,” Netanyahu said in the briefing.

He added that Israel and the U.S. see “eye to eye on the rest of the issues; we must examine any request on this issue because it is in our interest.”

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2 Heat a large skillet over medium-high heat. Crumble ground beef into the hot skillet. Cook and stir until the beef is completely browned, approx. 7 to 10 minutes. Drain and discard any excess grease.

3 Return ground beef to heat. Pour seasoning mixture and water over the beef, stir to combine. Add the tomato cubes. Bring to a simmer and cook until the moisture absorbs into the meat, about 5 minutes.

Sprinkle lime juice minu over the ready meat.

4 Pre-heat the taco shells for 5 minutes on 300oF to achieve full flavor and crispiness.

5 Fill the taco shells with the meat, and top with your favorite toppings.

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Trump Condemns Anti-Semitism

already had their hanging sentence “finalized” for their crime of providing information to the “hostile third party.”

The court also handed out eight other sentences ranging from two years to life in prison for collaborating with Israel. The sentences are in line with Palestinian law, which re-

wards collaboration with Israel with capital punishment. All death sentences need the approval of PA chairman Mahmoud Abbas. While Abbas put a moratorium on death sentences in 2005, Hamas ignores the order and carries out executions pretty regularly.

Gaza courts have already sen-

tenced four Gazans to death this year. The Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) condemned the number of harsh sentences in what it called “excessive application of this punishment in Gaza in light of absence of fair trial guarantees.”

On Tuesday, President Donald Trump condemned anti-Semitic threats to the American Jewish community, calling them “horrible,” “painful,” and a “sad reminder” of evil. The pronouncement came a day after bomb threats were called into Jewish community centers around the nation – for the fourth time in just over a month – and after 170 gravestones were vandalized in a Jewish cemetery in St. Louis.

“We have to fight bigotry, intolerance and hatred in all of its very ugly forms,” Trump said during a visit to the National Museum of African American History in Washington, D.C. “The anti-Semitic threats targeting our Jewish community centers are horrible and are painful, and a very sad reminder of the work that still must be done to root out hate and prejudice and evil.”

Trump later spoke generally of the problem of racial divides. “It’s just age-old. There is something going on that doesn’t allow it to fully heal. Sometimes it gets better and then it busts apart. But we want to have it get very much better, get unified, and stay together,” he said.

The president did not give specifics on how he planned to combat hatred, saying only that “we’ll have various things coming out over a period of time, and you’ll see them as they come out and we’ll let you know exactly what they are.”

Trump complimented the museum for its work to bring people closer together, praising the “tremendous numbers” of visitors and saying “this building is about love…I think that really helps to get that divide and bring it much closer togeth-

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For days, people were wondering when – and if – President Trump would come out strongly against anti-Semitism.

Anti-Defamation League head Jonathan Greenblatt referred to Trump’s remarks as “long overdue for our leaders to lead.”

“Hatred and hate-motivated violence of any kind have no place in a country founded on the promise of individual freedom,” White House press secretary Sean Spicer said in a statement issued to NBC on Monday. “The President has made it abundantly clear that these actions are unacceptable.”

Last week, Trump called himself “the least anti-Semitic person that you have ever seen in your entire life.”

Americans Feel Warmest Towards Jews ‫להצלחת נתנאל דוד‬ ‫בן רות‬ '‫וכל משפ‬

The Pew research center has produced a new survey that finds that Jews are the most warmly regarded religious group in America.

All religious groups are being seen in a more positive light across the country, however, Jews ranked the highest.

The survey asked respondents to rank various groups on a “feeling thermometer.” The scale used was 1 to 100, with 100 being the warmest level on the feeling thermometer. Jews ranked 67, up from 63 in 2014. Catholics came in second with 66, Mainline Protestants at 65 and Evangelical Christians at 61. Buddhists came in at 60, Hindus at 58, and Mormons scored 48.

The lowest temperature on the scale was awarded to atheists and Muslims. Atheists were at 50 and Muslims at 48. They had ranked 41 and 40 respectively three years ago.

“The increase in mean ratings is broad-based,” according to the authors. “Warmer feelings are ex-

pressed by people in all the major religious groups analyzed, as well as by both Democrats and Republicans, men and women, and younger and older adults.”

A difference was noted between older and younger respondents. People over the age of 65 gave Jews a 74 on the scale, while respondents aged 18-29 ranked Jews at 62 and gave their highest ranking to Buddhists at 66.

UPS is in the Right

Go right, UPS. Ever get stuck behind a UPS truck? Well, you don’t have to worry that you’re going to be late to your meeting while it tries to make the next left turn. The delivery company has created a system that has its trucks primarily making right-hand turns. It seems that it saves itself millions of gallons of fuel a year and 6-8 fewer miles driven per route by being in the right.

According to statisticians, left turns can also be dangerous – they are three times more likely to kill pedestrians than right turns – and can also cause traffic build up while cars are waiting to turn. (Think the nightmare that takes place on Central Avenue and Rockaway Turnpike daily.)

To make driving more efficient, years ago, UPS created its own system which favors right-hand turns.

Left-hand turns are used less often, although there is no ban on using them.

“We will make left hand turns, but not ones that are unnecessary,” Jack Levis, UPS Senior Director of Process Management, said, “We don’t need to go in circles all day long by making only right hand turns. We have tools analyze the number of left hand turns for each route, and we can work out which ones are avoidable.”

The system knows which lefthand turns are more “important” than others. It also knows about private driveways, parking lots and

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roads that are not accessible to trucks.

UPS started favoring right-hand turns in the ‘70s, when it came up with a method called “loop dispatch,” plotting deliveries in a right-turning loop and starting with one side of the street first.

In 2008, it launched a routing software to calculate the best possible route for each truck while favoring right-hand turns, called Orion.

“It took 10 years to get it right. The hardest part was making it think more like a driver and less like a computer,” said Levis.

UPS, which makes 18 million deliveries a day in the U.S., says that Orion analyzes 250 million address points a day and performs 30,000 route optimizations per minute. This saves the company $300 to $400 million annually in fuel, wages and vehicle running costs: “Our basic routines were already good, and allowed us to save about 85 million miles a year. When we put Orion on top of those, it shaved off an extra 100 million miles, and the savings got up to 185 million miles a year.”

Bridgegate Carries On, Unfortunately for Christie

Chris Christie’s nightmare isn’t over. A New Jersey judge ruled for the second time on Thursday that a criminal complaint against Gov. Chris Christie can go forward, although Christie seems to evade any direct criminal association with the Bridgegate scandal.

Municipal Court Judge Roy McGeady said there’s a reasonable cause to believe the governor was well-aware that the lane closings at the George Washington Bridge in 2013 was not simply a routine traffic study. His associates were found guilty of planning the closure to upset the Democratic mayor of Fort

Lee who refused to endorse Christie.

The judge set a court date for March 10 demanding Christie to answer the criminal summons. It is unlikely that the Republican mayor will appear in person or even respond. Christie’s office called McGeady’s ruling “a complete non-event” and said that he ignored a previous ruling that finding probable cause was flawed. Neither Christie nor his attorney attended the second probable cause hearing two weeks ago.

William Brennan, a retired firefighter, filed the complaint last year and has been on a mission to take the governor down for the scandal. Last fall, the same judge issued a finding of probable cause, but a higher court sent the case back to him after ruling Christie should have been represented at the initial hearing and Brennan should have been subject to cross-examination. The only way Christie will be forced to go on trial will be if the case is presented to a grand jury, which would have to involve an indictment.

In January, the Bergen County prosecutor’s office, which would prosecute the case, penned a letter stating that it won’t pursue charges since it didn’t feel the evidence could prove official misconduct beyond a reasonable doubt. Brennan has contended that this is a clear demonstration of corruption and an obvious bias inherent in the relationship between Christie and the prosecutor’s office. On Thursday he called for a special prosecutor to be named.

Christie’s camp responded by saying, “This judge has once again violated the Governor’s constitutional rights and intentionally ignored the earlier ruling by Assignment Judge Mizdol.” Christie spokesman Brian Murray continued, “The judge is violating the law, pure and simple. This concocted claim was investigated for three months by the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office, which summarily dismissed it, after concluding that the very same evidence relied upon again by this judge was utter nonsense.”

Christie is not well-liked in New Jersey; his approval ratings are less than 20% and there are many who are determined to nail him for corruption. His efforts at securing a seat in the White House were also never realized, making him perhaps a bit concerned about the next position he’s going to be filling.

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Thailand is the country that suffers the most congestion but the United States had the worst traffic among wealthier, developed economies. Five of the world’s 10 most congested cities are in the United States. During his campaign, Trump had pushed for extensive infrastructure investment programs, a promise that has yet to be addressed since he took his seat in the Oval Office.

The absolute worst stretch of road to get caught on is New York City’s Cross Bronx Expressway, where drivers on the 4.7 mile road spent an average of 86 hours a year gripping their steering wheel and trying to reroute via their Waze app. New York ranked number two for cities with the worst traffic, followed by San Francisco, Atlanta, and Miami.

This may sound extremely “New Yorky” but who minds being stuck in traffic when the highway is lined with palm trees?

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Hate Traffic?

Don’t Move to LA Even with Waze, traffic jams happen. There is nothing more stressful than being stuck in traffic while

on the way to an important meeting or heading to the airport to catch a flight. Those scenarios have consequences that are aggravating and costly. According to a study by INRIX Inc., the average driver spends $1,200 a year just on wasted fuel and time stuck in traffic. That number is way more for residents of Los Ange-

les – the world’s worst city for rush hour traffic delays – and other big cities. In 2016, Los Angeles drivers spent an average of 104 peak drivetime hours in slow traffic, more than any other city in the world. INRIX, based in Kirkland, Washington, collects and analyzes traffic data from vehicles and highway infrastructure.

Craig Deare is the latest casualty of the Trump administration. Last week, Deare was escorted out of the Executive Office Building where he worked for just a short month as the head of the National Security Council’s Western Hemisphere division.

He was axed for criticizing Trump’s policies in a private speech.

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that Deare “was sent back to his original position.” He had worked at the National Defense University since 2001. Asked if government employees should be concerned that they could be fired for criticizing the president, she said: “I don’t think any person that is there in order to carry out the president’s agenda should be against the president’s agenda.”

Officials say Deare’s termination is related to remarks he made on Thursday at a private talk at the Wilson Center, a Washington think tank. According to an account from a person in attendance, Deare slammed the Trump administration for its policies on Latin America.

He mentioned Trump’s tense relations with Mexico in the last several weeks.

Deare is the second member of the senior NSC cabinet to leave his post. Last Monday, national security adviser retired Gen. Michael Flynn resigned after revelations that he discussed U.S. sanctions with the Russian ambassador before Trump was sworn in and then misled Vice President Mike Pence about the nature of those conversations.

Facebook Hopes to Create Utopia

Mark Zuckerberg, 32, built a billion dollar business – a dream that many young Americans have yet to actualize – but he still hasn’t achieved his ultimate goal. Last week Zuckerberg penned a 5,800 word essay expressing his hopes and dreams for the future of his company. He hopes that his network of 2 billion members, way larger than any nation in the world, will encourage more civic engagement and informed public and community support.

Currently the social network is mostly used for friends and family to connect, although it is a venue for charitable work. People use Facebook to spread awareness about

diseases or to connect and create support groups. Recently a young father from California received a bone marrow donor through a worldwide drive fueled by Facebook and other social media platforms. Facebook also chooses to promote causes that they feel strongly about like encouraging targeted users to register to vote or to donate to causes.

In his lengthy essay, Zuckerberg seems to allude to his disapproval of Trump’s immigration crackdown by sharing his discontentment of the rising tide of isolationism and the fear of outsiders.

“Across the world there are people left behind by globalization and movements for withdrawing from global connection,” Zuckerberg wrote. “In times like these, the most important thing we at Facebook can do is develop the social infrastructure to give people the power to build a global community that works for all of us.”

Zuckerberg is a strong supporter of connectedness and unity across the world, although he adds, it’s “not enough if it’s good for some people but it’s doesn’t work for other people. We really have to bring everyone along.”

Of course, if Facebook becomes

the vehicle for connectedness, it would be extremely beneficial for Zuckerberg financially. Last year, the company generated $27 billion in ads. The company has an estimated worth of $56 billion.

Critics responded to Zuckerberg’s vision, claiming that Facebook actually promotes the opposite of connectedness in reality. Many people report feeling lonelier and more isolated when they spend extended periods of time on the social network. Facebook’s infamous “like” button enables minimal communication instead of meaningful conversation. Furthermore, because of the way the network is designed, posts with certain viewpoints tend to circulate among like-minded people creating an “echo chamber” that can harden opinions and widen political and cultural chasms – accomplishing the very opposite of Zuckerberg’s “dream.”

The majority of Facebook users – 85% – live outside the U.S. and Canada, although the U.S. has the most users of any other country with 214 million users. While Facebook is banned in China, it is extremely popular in India, with 142 million users. India is the country with the second most Facebook users.

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The Challenges of Spirituality

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Reflections on Zayin Adar: The Legacy of Moshe Rabbeinu

KNESETH ISRAEL (WHITE SHUL) Rabbi Eli Baruch Shulman

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Af Hen Hayu B’Oto HaNes - Viva Le Difference

Rabbi Etan Schnall

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When Enough is Never Enough

SHAARAY TEFILA Rabbi Etan Schnall

BAIS TEFILAH Rabbi Moshe Watson

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Mishkan: Double Entendres, Double Standards

Rabbi Zev Goldberg

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Ayelet HaShachar - The Dawn’s Early Light

Rabbi Eli Baruch Shulman

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The Mystery of Esther’s Identity

BETH SHOLOM Rabbi Dr. Kenneth Brander Drasha (Shacharit 9 a.m.)

Rabbi Josh Joseph

Seudah Shlishit (Mincha 5:15) The Gift of Change: Our National Undoing Project

BEIS HAKNESSES OF NORTH WOODMERE Rabbi Daniel Stein

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YOUNG ISRAEL OF HEWLETT Rabbi Scott Hoberman

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Rabbi Joshua Elsant

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Rabbi Simcha Lauer

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The Poles of the Aron and the Timelessness of Jewish History

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Too Much Texting?

Ping! “What’s for dinner?”

Ping! “#chicken” Texting has become the preferred mode of communication, even for families living in the same household. According to a recent study by Lindsey Rix of Aviva, 32% of families admit to texting people living under the same roof. This is either reflective of a highly lazy lifestyle – why get off the couch and yell up the steps? – or a complete breakdown of social relationships, or perhaps both. For households with children, the number increases to 45% of people saying they text within their homes.

Sadly, phones stay a focal point throughout dinner; one-third of households say mobile phones are

present and in-use during mealtime. More than four in ten parents are complaining that their children ignore them or avoid conversation at mealtime because they are preoccupied with their phones. However, sometimes it isn’t just the children who are jabbing away at their screens.

The parents are guilty as well.

Dipti Shah, family therapist at London Child and Therapy center, said, “Technology makes keeping in touch easier. But sometimes children complain it is their parents who are on the phone too much.”

Clearly mobile phones are affecting familial relationships but even more so they are affecting our quality of life. According to the study, phones also deprive us of rest. A quarter of the 2,800 adults surveyed believe that at least one person in their household is losing sleep because they are staying up late on their phones. One in five said that there was someone at home who just couldn’t “switch off.”

Rix said there was evidence that the “always on” culture is making it difficult for people to switch off, and in some cases is causing people to become “stressed.”

All these findings sound extreme-

ly detrimental, and yet eight out of ten of those surveyed still say that technology has had a positive impact on their lives.

According to Pew Research Center, 73% of teens have access to a smartphone.

Historians Heart Obama

It seems that the American people really appreciate people once they’re gone.

Now that Barack Obama has retired his position as president of the U.S., his presidency is being viewed in a positive light. Although Obama’s likability ratings weren’t that high in his earlier days in the White House, a new study shows that he recovered strongly. According to a C-SPAN survey of 91 presidential historians, Obama’s administration ranks 12th best U.S. president ever – the highest ranking since President Ronald Reagan, who ranks ninth in the new survey.

Obama received approval for his pursuit of equality, managing the economy, public persuasion and “moral authority.” However, he was criticized for his below-average handling of international relations.

Historians regard Abraham Lincoln as the best president of all time.

Lincoln is followed by George Washington, Franklin Roosevelt, and then Theodore Roosevelt. The worst presidents in history are James Buchanan and Andrew Johnson, for now at least.

The list is updated every several years and rankings are reevaluated. This is Obama’s first time being included on the list, since the previous list was released in 2009 and before that in 2000. Although he was ranked 12th, it is hard to judge a presidency just a few months shy of when that president left office.

Trump, just one month into his presidency, has some time to earn his shiny stars.

Blind Terrorist Leader Dead

Sheikh Omar Abdel-Rahman, better known as “The Blind Sheikh,” the sightless Egyptian Muslim leader who was serving a life sentence at the Federal Medical Center in Butner, North Carolina, has died at the age of 78. He was linked to the murder of Rabbi Meir Kahane in 1990 in NYC, the 1992 killing of an anti-fundamentalist writer in Egypt, and attacks on foreign tourists in Egypt.

Abdel-Rahman was accused of plotting terrorist activities involving assassinations and synchronized bombings of the U.N. headquarters in Manhattan and tunnels and a bridge linking New York City and New Jersey. The charge accused him of plans to “levy a war of urban terrorism against the United States” as part of a jihad. Abdel-Rahman’s convictions also included plotting to assassinate Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak during a visit to the United States in 1993, a Jewish New York state legislator, and a Jewish New York State Supreme Court justice. He was nailed primarily based on video and audio recordings obtained with the help of a bodyguard for the sheikh who became an FBI informant. In October 1995 he was found guilty of 48 of 50 charges.

During his trial he did not testify, but at his sentence hearing, the sheikh delivered his last “sermon” through a translator proclaiming his innocence and condemning the United States to be an enemy of his faith.

“I have not committed any crime except telling people about Islam,” he declared.

Abdel-Rahman remained an inactive but symbolic figure in radical Islam while serving his life sentence in prison. Prior to the September 11th attacks, Osama bin Laden had vowed to free Abdel-Rahman from prison.

Osama bin Laden was not regarded as religious leader in the Muslim world.

But Abdel-Rahman was. In a video released during the final stages of the 9/11 attack, under the heading of “reasons” for jihad Abdel-Rahman is cited.

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On a laminated card distributed to followers, Abdel-Rahman wrote in Arabic: “A fatwa [religious ruling] of the captive Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman ... To all Muslims everywhere: Destroy their countries. [The Americans, Jews and Christians].

Tear them to pieces. Destroy their economies, burn their corporations, destroy their businesses, sink their ships and bring down their airplanes.

Kill them in the sea, on land and in the air.”

It was signed, “Your brother Abdel Rahman, from inside American prisons.” Explaining that his instructions were his final will and testament, he ordered his followers to: “Take my revenge on [the Americans] and do not let my blood be wasted in vain.”

The fatwa was first publicly distributed by the leadership of al-Qaeda at an extraordinary press conference in Afghanistan in May 1998.

Fast forward two years to when a suicide attack blew a huge hole through the USS Cole in Yemen on October 12, 2000. Thousands lost their lives when airplanes were turned into weapons on 9/11, terror committed by his followers. His admirers used his words and influence to terrorize and murder.

Refugees from “Banned” Countries Pouring In

Three weeks ago, these people were barred from entering the country for 90 days. But then a judge halted the order and those from the red flagged countries are rushing to enter the United States before a new order is instituted.

As of last Thursday, 60 percent of refugees admitted into the United States since February 3, when the order was halted, came from five of the seven countries on the “banned” list. 2,576 refugees entered the United States in total during that time.

1,549 (60.1 percent) are from Syria (532), Iraq (472), Somalia (363), Iran (117), and Sudan (65). No refugees arrived from the other two applicable countries, Yemen and Libya.

Some have said that Trump’s order targets Muslims. For those who came in from Syria, 99.6% were Muslim; 73.5 percent of those from Iraq were Muslim; 99.7 percent of those from Somalia were Muslim; and 93.8 percent of those from Sudan were Muslim. Of the Iranian refugees admitted, by contrast, only 9.4 percent were Muslims, while just under 60 percent were Christians of various denominations.

Trump’s January 27 order barred entry to the U.S. of all refugees for 120 days; prohibited entry to refugees from Syria indefinitely; and blocked all entry – immigrant and non-immigrant – by nationals of Syria, Iraq, Iran, Somalia, Sudan, Libya and Yemen for 90 days. The order does not itself name the seven countries, referring instead to “countries referred to in section 217(a)(12) of the INA, 8 U.S.C. 1187(a) (12).” That law, signed by President Obama in December 2015, required additional security for arrivals from Syria, Iraq, Iran, and Sudan and any other country designated by the Department of Homeland Security as a source of legitimate terrorism concerns. Two months later Obama’s DHS added Somalia, Yemen and Libya to the list of “countries of [terrorist] concern.”

In the week between Trump’s inauguration and his January 27 executive order, a total of 2,090 refugees were admitted to the U.S., of whom 918 (43.9 percent) were from the identified countries: 296 from Syria, 218 from Iraq, 211 from Somalia, 155 from Iran, 37 from Sudan, one from Yemen and none from Libya.

The other refugees – not included in the 60.1% listed above – who entered the United States from February 3 until February 16 came from another 22 countries and account for the remaining 39.9 percent.

Those 22 countries are Afghanistan (25), Bangladesh (2), Bhutan (96), Burma (147), Burundi (2), Central African Republic (12), China (1), Cuba (17), Democratic Republic of Congo (347), El Salvador (23), Eritrea (48), Ethiopia (15), Honduras (3), Moldova (10), Pakistan (24), “Palestine”(2), South Sudan (6), Russia (22), Tanzania (1), Uganda (4), Ukraine (213) and Vietnam (8).

McMaster to Replace Flynn

On Monday, President Trump chose Army Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster to fill the national security advisor position left vacant by Michael Flynn’s departure last week. McMaster is a soldier-scholar who fought in both Iraq wars and wrote a book about U.S. government “lies” that led to the Vietnam War. McMaster is not retired and will remain on active military duty while leading the National Security Council. He joins two retired generals – Defense Secretary Jim Mattis and Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly – already in Trump’s inner circle, adding to the impression that the president prefers military men in top roles.

Trump called McMaster “a man of tremendous talent and tremendous experience” when he introduced his new national security advisor. McMaster, in turn, said he looked forward to “doing everything that I can to advance and protect the interests of the American people.”

McMaster replaced retired Gen. Michael Flynn, who was fired last week after Trump determined that Flynn had misled Vice President Mike Pence about the nature of his discussion with Russia’s ambassador to the U.S. during the presidential transition.

McMaster has been heavily involved in the Army’s efforts to shape its future force and its way of preparing for war. He is the director of the Army Capabilities Integration Center, a sort of military think tank, at Fort Eustis, Virginia. He is credited with using innovative approaches to countering the insurgency in the northern Iraqi city of Tal Afar when he commanded the 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment. He later served as a special adviser to the top U.S. commander in Iraq.

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earned a doctoral degree in history from the University of North Carolina. Outside the Army, he may be best known for his 1997 book, Dereliction of Duty: Lyndon Johnson, Robert McNamara, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the Lies that Led to Vietnam, a searing indictment of the U.S. government’s mishandling of the Vietnam War. The book earned him a reputation for being willing to speak truth to power.

Retired Army Lt. Gen. Keith Kellogg, who had been the national security advisor temporarily until a replacement was found, will serve as the National Security Council chief of staff. Trump said he will be asking John Bolton, a former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, to work with both McMaster and Kellogg in a “somewhat different capacity.”

TerrorismRelated Arrests from 7 “Banned” Countries

President Trump has taken a lot of heat for his executive order to bar entry of immigrants from seven predominantly Muslim countries for 90 days. Opponents of the order cited religious persecution, which is unconstitutional, as their primary concern. Trump fired back that national security is at risk.

Recently released congressional and law enforcement reports highlight that nationals from each of the seven countries listed on the travel ban have participated in ongoing terrorist plots against the U.S. According to a Senate Judiciary Committee report from last year, there were 390 foreign nationals arrested on terrorist-related charges since the Sept. 11 attacks. Of those, 67 were natives of the seven countries included in the ban.

The seven countries targeted in the order – Iran, Iraq, Libya, Sudan,

Somalia, Yemen and Syria – are either totally or partially controlled by terrorist groups. According to the report, Somalis were the biggest group of foreigners arrested on terrorism-related charges. Somali-Americans have attempted to join the Islamic State and the al-Qaedalinked al-Shabab group. Al-Shabab militants from Somalia were caught trying to the enter the U.S. through Mexico, said Rep. Ron DeSantis, a Florida Republican who chairs the House Oversight and Government Reform subcommittee on national security.

In 2012, the Obama administration Justice Department led an investigation into a human trafficking operation through Latin America involving 268 Somalis. The probe discovered that the suspects were traveling with Cuban visas, allowing them to transit through Mexico and several other Latin American countries intending to eventually enter the U.S. As a result, the Cuban government said it fired two of its consular officers in Kenya who issued the visas. Many security experts are suggesting that the Trump administration also focus on entries from Latin America. Some are pointing out that in Obama’s enthusiasm to smooth things over with Cuba, these red flags may have been ignored.

Obama also strongly supported the Colombian peace talks with leftist FARC rebels. The number of Colombians arrested on terrorist-related charges in the U.S. over the past 15 years equals that of Somalis, according to the 2016 Senate committee report, which found that most of them were members of FARC. A recently released CNN Spanish documentary noted that Venezuelan embassies operated a black market for passports that are sold for $15,000. These visas allow for unrestricted travel throughout Latin America, Asia and Europe. Tareck El Aissami, the new Venezuelan vice president who was the target of unprecedented Treasury Department sanctions because of drug trafficking charges last week, reportedly issued 173 Venezuelan passports to Syrians, Iraqis and others listed in the ban when he was interior minister.

Trump’s executive order was overturned by a federal judge and is being revised. The Trump administration is expected to submit a new draft this week. Opponents of Trump and his orders are saying that even a revised order will not be adequate since no national from any

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The Senate Intelligence Committee has already been investigating Russia’s interference with the presidential elections last year. Senate leaders have now said they will expand their investigation to include the communications made between Russia and Flynn during the presidential campaign and the period of transition of power.

The House Intelligence Committee is currently running its own investigation into the same matters as its Senate counterpart. Jack Langer, spokesman for Chairman Devin Nunes, R-Calif., said the panel “will continue to investigate any intelligence or counterintelligence issues involving Russia and follow the facts wherever they lead.”

The Senate Judiciary Committee, led by Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, and senior Democrat Dianne Feinstein of California, has asked the FBI and the Justice Department to prepare a briefing summarizing the events that led to Flynn’s resignation.

They are looking for Flynn’s communications with Russian officials and analyzing any potential leak of classified information. The House Judiciary Committee will be conducting the

Have a coffee habit that you can’t break? Well, perhaps the price of this brew will help you cut back on your habit.

Recently Alpha Dominche, a manufacturer of high-end coffee and tea brewing machines, opened up an Extraction Lab in Sunset Park in Brooklyn. The machines cost almost $14,000 for two, so expect the coffee dripping from them to be laced in gold. Customers can sample coffees during their visit or purchase a cup of java for their pleasure. One cup, made from Ethiopian Arabica coffee grown in Panama and brewed in a $7,000 Steampunk machine, costs a whopping $18 per cup. Yes, Brooklyn is now home to the nation’s most expensive cup of brew. Make sure to go early in the day for that special coffee that costs the same as two manicures. It sells out quickly as people have been hankering for coffee that empties their wallet.

For those who can’t stomach shelling out two Hamiltons for a cup of joe, know that there are less expensive coffees available.

“It’s like a wine shop,” Thomas Perez, CEO of Alpha Dominche, told the Gothamist. “You have your $5,000 dollar bottle of wine, but it doesn’t mean everything is $5,000.”

Yup, I think I’ll pass on this one.

It just doesn’t sound like my cup of tea.

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Paw-ternity Leave

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What more can you ask for?

196 Countries in 18 Months It took 18 months and 26 days but Cassie De Pecol now has a record of accomplishment under her belt that not one woman in the world has: the 27-year-old from Connecticut is the first woman to have visited every sovereign nation in the world in just that amount of time. The previous record for visiting all 196 countries was three years and three months – and Cassie smashed that record in record time.

Cassie left for her adventure in July 2015 and returned from Yemen on February 2. She hopes to be officially recognized by Guinness World Records.

Cassie was an ambassador for the International Institute of Peace Through Tourism during her whirlwind trip. She met with mayors and ministers of tourism, presenting them with the organization’s “Declaration of Peace.” She also boarded 255 flights – we don’t envy her there – planted trees in over 50 countries and filled five passport books. Depending on where she was, she spent two to five days in each country.

For access to some countries, Cassie needed some help in securing visas. “There have been cases when I post on my Facebook, ‘Hi I need help getting into Libya’ or ‘I need help getting into Syria,’ and at that point it’s kind of trusting in the unknown, trusting in people,” she told CNN. Syria and Yemen were the hardest places for which to procure visas.

Cassie first visited Palau, located in the Pacific Ocean. It was one of the most expensive places to visit, so she wanted to complete that part of the journey first. Yemen was the last country on her journey.

How much does a trip to every country in the world cost? Start saving. Cassie used $10,000 of her own babysitting money to start. She then raised $198,000 from sponsors and bartered some promotional coverage for stays at certain hotels around the world. At one point last year she actually had to come home because she ran out of money.

During her trip, Cassie missed a lot of things, although she says that cooking is what she missed most. “I missed my parents and my cat but cooking is what I missed the most and training for triathlons,” she told CtPost.

Which countries did she love the most? “Most recently, Pakistan. I’m putting them in the spotlight because they get such a bad rep., and I experi-

enced kindness and hospitality. You have the mountains and the beaches, and you get a mix of Asian culture and Middle Eastern culture. That’s what I love about it.

“New Zealand is beautiful for the mountains. And Mongolia; I spent my 27th birthday being sponsored at a yurt camp in Mongolia with no WiFi or anything. I rode wild horses and went on hikes alone,” she said.

Now that Cassie is back home, she’s not resting on her laurels. She’s going to race in an Olympic Triathlon in San Diego next month, teach a course in how to secure funding to travel the world and head to Antarctica.

According to Cassie, we’re all different, yet we all have the same needs. “It’s like there’s one common denominator. Everyone has the same basic needs. Everyone wants to be happy, help other people, have a good meal, a roof over their head. I’ve been in situations where I’ve made mistakes and had to trust people, and they showed me their kindness.

“The world is smaller than we think and also safer than we think.”

We’ll take your word for it.

Package of Garbage

If you’re living in the Cox house, you better take out the trash Connor Cox learned the hard – and smelly – way when he received a care package at college from his mom. Looking forward to some yummy treats, Connor ripped open one of the packages only to discover used tissues, soda cans and candy wrappers. Turns out, Connor forgot to take out the garbage and so his mother sent it to him.

“Thought my mom was sending me a care package... but instead she sent me a box of trash i was supposed to take out,” he tweeted.

Connor called his mother, Terri.

“Did you send me the wrong package? Why did you send me this?” Cox recalled saying to her. “[She said,]

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‘No, that’s the trash you were supposed to take out.’”

It seems that the Cox family has a sense of humor. Connor wasn’t surprised that his mother pranked him.

“She has a good sense of humor,” he said. “She’s always really caring and she knows what to say at the exact time she should say it. She’s a good mom.”

Don’t be getting any funny ideas for mishloach manos.

Spoiled Rotten

They say that having too much money can be a problem. In Jane Park’s case, it seems that she’s the problem.

In 2013, Jane won 1 million British pounds in the EuroMillions lot-

tery. The first thing she bought was a Louis Vuitton handbag. Needing to put something the bag, she then bought a Chihuahua named Princess. And then some shoes, a purple Range Rover, plastic surgery and more handbags.

“I just went shopping all the time,” she told the Channel Four Television Corporation.

But people can get tired of shipping and Jane finally realized that MasterCard was right. There are some things that money can’t buy.

Happiness, fulfillment and contentment can’t be gained from whipping out the plastic.

Now, Park says she blames the lotto for “ruining her life.”

“I thought it would make it 10 times better but it’s made it 10 times worse,” Park told the Sunday People.

“I wish I had no money most days.

I say to myself, ‘My life would be so much easier if I hadn’t won.’”

“People look at me and think, ‘I wish I had her lifestyle, I wish I had her money,’” she added. “But they don’t realize the extent of my stress. I have material things, but apart from that my life is empty. What is my purpose in life?”

Jane is now 21. Before she won

the lotto she worked as a temporary admin. In the UK, the minimum age for playing lotto is 16. Jane won the lotto at 17 – she was the company’s youngest winner – and now says the lotto should be limited to those above 18-years-old.

According to the Daily Record, Jane is debating whether to sue Camelot — the company that owns EuroMillions — for negligence and wants donate any potential winnings from that legal action to charity.

When Jane won, the lotto connected her with a representative to help her manage her funds. She owns two properties and says her family has helped her spend her money more wisely.

“I’ve read about other lottery winners who’ve just blown it all, and I can totally see how it can be done,” she said. “I was stuck in front of a financial adviser who was using words like ‘investment bonds.’ I had no clue what they meant.”

Jane, you know what they say: you can’t live the dream if you don’t play the game.

Kung Fu Grandma Beware, criminals. It’s Kung Fu Grandma!

Zhang Hexian is 93-years-old but she still has the moves. She has been practicing martial arts for 89 years – and doesn’t plan on stopping anytime soon.

Zhang said she learned kung fu from her father when she was just a few years old.

“I started when I was four years old,” Zhang told CNN. “It’s my family tradition that has lasted more than 300 years.” She added, “I was born in 1924, at a time when China was at war with other countries. So [kung fu] was also a good way to learn self-defense.”

Zhang continued, “My dad took me to sleep at that time. When we woke up in the morning, we started practicing kung fu in bed. I learned basic martial arts skills such as pushing palm and throwing a punch at an early age,” Zhang told Chinese news agency CCTV. Zhang, whose hometown is known as “the village of martial arts” due to the popularity of kung fu, followed in her father’s footsteps by instructing her family. She said many of her family members have now moved away, so she teaches her neighbors.

Zhang is not only known to her neighbors; her karate chops have garnered her a following online.

“I never thought about being famous,” she said. “If people love kung fu, my family can teach them. We have been teaching people around here – but I never imagined we’d get the attention of others around the world.”

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ast Thursday, Mesivta Ateres Yaakov held their annual mid-winter retreat for the entire yeshiva. Organized by Student Activities Coordinators Rabbi Shlo-

mo Drebin and Rabbi Tsvi Greenfield, the close to 200 talmidim, together with their rebbeim, spent the day at Mountain Creek Ski Resort culminating in a catered dinner and a

special siyum on Seder Mo’ed.

Following Shacharis, the day began with divrei Torah from 12th grade rebbe, Rabbi Yonasan Sprung, who highlighted the importance of hakaras hatov and inspired talmidim to utilize their downtimes for learning throughout the trip.

After breakfast, including a complimentary breakfast for the entire 10th grade who won the schoolwide Yediyos Chanukah competition at the Yeshiva’s Chanukah Mesibah, the four coach buses departed from the yeshiva.

Talmidim were joined by rebbeim on the slopes, skiing and snowboarding throughout the afternoon. With only a break for lunch, Mincha and learning, the bulk of the afternoon was action-packed!

“The trip is really threefold,” commented Assistant Menahel, Rabbi Yossi Bennett. “It serves as a battery-recharge during a long winter z’man, an opportunity to concretize

Senior Dovie Dreyfuss learning with his rebbe, Rabbi Yonason Sprung, in the ski lodge

relationships with friends and rebbeim outside of the yeshiva’s walls, and to apply the growth and learning in which our talmidim engage on a daily basis in real world situations.”

Multiple kiddush Hashems were made throughout the day, not least of which was the unique Mishnayos learning program established a number of years ago. Organized by ninth grade rebbe Rabbi Shmuel Oratz, the entire Seder Mo’ed was divided up among the talmidim of the yeshiva to learn at some point over the trip with the goal of making a siyum that evening on the limud. Many boys opted to spend the time on the bus learning together with a chavrusa, while others spent some time in the lodge when they weren’t on the slopes.

The day’s events closed with a delicious dinner catered by Gotham Burger at the Moriah School in Englewood, NJ, the Siyum on Seder Mo’ed, and a digital slideshow of pictures from the day’s events.

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Around the Community Rabbi and Mrs. Tzvi Zylberberg and Mr. and Mrs. Yehuda Kaufman were the honorees at the KMT 4th Annual Dinner and Siym Hashas that took place on Motzei Shabbos, February 18, at the MBR Seminary in Lawrence, NY. Rabbi Nosson Greenberg is pictured with the honorees. The guest speaker was Rabbi Yechiel Spero.

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On Motzei Shabbos, February 18, Young Israel of LawrenceCedarhurst held their Dinner at the Congregation Beth Sholom.

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At Learn & Live this past week, R’ Avrohom Yakov Klein presented the melacha of tofeir. The boys got a chance to change a “baby’s” diaper, plus more.

This week at L&L, the program will be “What’s in your Wallet?” For more information regarding L&L, email us at learnandlivefr@gmail.com.

Israeli Shuk at Yeshiva of Central Queens PHOTO CREDIT: ASHLEY I. LANDSBERG

HANC ECC West Hempstead Director Trudy Rubinstein welcomed Sue Topek, author of many children’s Judaic books, to HANC. She helped us begin our unit on the upcoming chag of Purim.

DRS Senior Recognized as National Merit Scholarship Finalist

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n celebration of Tu B’Shvat, the new year of the trees, the grade six girls of Yeshiva of Central Queens put together a “live” shuk (market) and performance for the elementary school students. The girls sang about all the different types of foods and drinks that are eaten in Israel.

The elementary students each received play dollars that they traded in for shekalim to “buy” the various foods that they wanted to try. Some of the foods were pickles, olives, figs and

fresh fruit. The elementary students had a fun time buying their foods and enjoying their drinks. Participating in the YCQ shuk taught the younger students important lessons about money, how to buy things wisely or they would run out before they tried all of the treats, a chance to try some new foods, and to have fun.

The girls were put into groups that worked together researching Tu B’Shvat and the different foods eaten in Israel. They prepared poster boards with pictures, giving the MPR a real feel of an Israeli shuk. The annual program was enjoyed by all.

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RS is immensely proud of senior Evan Goldstein who has 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 Scholarship

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 a school officials, and earn extremely high PSAT scores.

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Standing Room Only Rabbi Zechariah Wallerstein Speaks at CAHAL Evening of Inspiration

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n Sunday evening, February 19, Drs. Suri and Ari Weinreb hosted an evening of inspiration to benefit CAHAL. Dr. Suri Weinreb has been CAHAL’s invaluable staff psychologist for many years, working closely with CAHAL’s teachers and students. While the Weinrebs arranged seating for over a hundred, by the time the presentation began, the audience was standing room only. The crowd overflowed in the family room and dining room and spilled over into the kitchen and hallway, as the community gathered to support CAHAL. Rabbi Avraham Fridman, general studies principal of Yeshiva of South Shore, opened the program. He spoke of how CAHAL classes are an integral part of the yeshiva’s student body and how CAHAL’s proven model of remediation and building foundation skills paves the way for academic and social success. He spoke of the passion of the CAHAL staff in the yeshiva and their unparalleled level of professionalism and dedication. He spoke of how fortunate our community is to have a program that addresses learning issues and keeps children on the derech.

Rabbi Nachum Dinowitz,

a longtime rebbe at Yeshiva Darchei Torah, spoke with awe of Rabbi Binyamin Jacobs, one of CAHAL’s most senior rebbeim, and his consistent ability to impart the highest level of skills in CAHAL’s talmidim. Rabbi Dinowitz said that these essential skills are building blocks for any child who aspires to be a talmid chacham. “We all wish that CAHAL’s rebbeim could teach our mainstream classes and impart some of their magic,” he said. When the time came to putting his daughter in a CAHAL class, he did not hesitate for a moment. He expressed a special hakaras hatov to Mr. Justin Lepolstat, an outstanding CAHAL teacher. More than a dozen CAHAL rebbeim, teachers and therapists were among the large crowd of supporters and parents.

Rabbi Zechariah Wallerstein speaks all over the world and has accomplished miraculous success with his yeshivas, special programs, and the mechanchim he has inspired.

Rabbi Moshe Rudich, a CAHAL rebbe and mentor in his tenth year, encouraged his rebbe, Rabbi Wallerstein, to speak for this event. Rabbi Wallerstein shared with the crowd that he told his talmid muvhak, Rabbi Rudich,that

CAHAL rebbeim with Rabbi Wallerstein

he must stay in chinuch despite his demanding schedule as a life coach and businessman.

Rabbi Wallerstein spoke passionately, both mesmerizing and entertaining the audience with stories of his career in chinuch and kiruv, but his message was very direct. “The street accepts everyone; it doesn’t ask how much money you have or what grades you get.” He said he was compelled to speak to our community when he heard of CAHAL’s much-needed funds to continue the success of the program this year. “Over money?” he asked incredulously. “Keep CAHAL open! It’s even more important than the yeshivas.”

He spoke of Yosef Hatzadik, the outcast, Moshe Rabbeinu, the stutterer, and Dovid Hamelech, the “runt” of the family – none of them superstars – who became immortal leaders in Klal Yisrael. His ultimate message was that there are potential gedolim growing up in CAHAL classes, and it is the achrayus of our community to ensure its own future by making sure that all children – whether or not they learn typically or require the

Drs. Ari and Suri Weinreb with Mr. Ehrenreich, Rabbi Rudich and Rabbi Wallerstein

love and special attention that only CAHAL can give – get the same chance.

CAHAL thanks the Woodmere community for their outpouring of support and for joining in this event for CAHAL. A special thank you goes to Dina Rogoff, who coordinated every aspect of the décor and food presentation.

CAHAL expresses special appreciation to the rabbinic and event committee members, who helped make this event a huge success. Of course, the gracious way in which the Weinrebs opened their home to CAHAL made all this possible.

CAHAL, the local yeshiva-based and sponsored community program for children with learning chal-

lenges, now in its 24th year, provides smaller, more individualized classes in the local yeshivas catering to children’s learning styles, where all the students attend mainstream activities daily, including lunch, recess, specials, assemblies, trips and more. When ready, children attend academic classes as well, with support from CAHAL to ensure success. The experienced and caring CAHAL teachers make it all happen.

CAHAL is currently accepting students.

For more information about the CAHAL program and to donate to this great community organization, contact CAHAL at cahal@ cahal.org or call (516) 2953666.

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“Every day, I have the z’chus to transmit the ‘Darchei Mesorah’ I received from my rabbeim to a new generation.”

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Yeshiva of South Shore to Celebrate 60 Years of Torah Education

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hen Rav Binyamin Kamenetzky, shlit”a, came to Woodmere 60 years ago, he planted seeds. The seeds, in the form of Yeshiva of South Shore; a small shul, now Young Israel of Woodmere; and a girls’ school, now known as TAG; have flourished into magnificent institutions of Torah and tefillah. Through his efforts, and those of his Rebbetzin, a”h, the Five Towns community has blossomed into one of the foremost centers of Torah and chessed.

Yeshiva of South Shore, the institution closest to his heart and the one that has remained in its very formative hashakafic essence, is celebrating 60 years of uninterrupted Torah education.

In celebration of 60 years of those Torah education, the Yeshiva of South Shore will be having its Annual Scholarship Banquet Dinner on Sunday evening, March 5, 2017, at The Sands Atlantic Beach. According to the Dinner Chairman and Journal Chairman, Moshe Hirsch and Moshe Reich, the dinner will be a celebration of the yeshiva’s rich history, and the honorees truly show a commitment to those values and the friendships created during those six decades of Torah education.

Our Guests of Honor, Berel & Sherry Daskal, have lived in Woodmere for fourteen years and have made an indelible impact on our community in leadership positions at Congregation Bais Ephraim Yitzchok, and in their efforts on behalf of important Torah causes and in their ongoing commitment to our Yeshiva. Berel, a former talmid of Yeshivas Ner Yisroel of Baltimore, is a founding partner of Lynch Daskal Emery LLP, a boutique litigation law firm in New York City. Sherry is a CPA with a

private bookkeeping and accounting practice. They are the devoted parents to Ari (YOSS, 1st grade), Dovid Tzvi (YOSS, 6th grade), Yaakov Noam (YOSS, 2016), a freshman at Mesivta Toras Chaim of Miami, and Yitzi, a junior at Yeshiva Far Rockaway.

Berel’s warm smile and love for a heimish vort and davening is cherished by all those he lifts by his super-friendly demeanor.

Our Parents of the Year, Binyamin & Sori Laufer, are the parents of our dear third grade talmid, Jacob. Binyamin works as a senior executive for Promenade Senior Living and is involved in property

Guests of Honor, Berel and Sherry Daskal

management, capital improvements and acquisitions.

He is an active member of our Board of Directors who lends a wonderful balance to every important decision.

Sori is a physical therapist at TAG and a volunteer Safety Kid educator for Magen Long Island. They are active members of Young Israel of Lawrence-Cedarhurst, where Sori serves on the Youth Committee. Their daughters Shani and Aliza attend Shulamith, and their youngest son, Ari, attends Chabad preschool.

We are proud to present Abba & Fraydie Kloc with the Young Leadership Award. Abba, who hails from Skverer Chasidim, infuses our Yeshiva with a heimish flair, a vibrant spirit and a

warm vision for its future. A former talmid of the famed Adelphia Yeshiva, Abba is Vice President of Sales at Airseal Insulation Systems, a provider of insulation products and services. Fraydie, a native Bostonian who was educated in our community, is an accountant by profession. She spends much of her time as a devoted mom to her sons Benjy (5th grade) and Chaim (2nd grade) who are wonderful talmidim at YOSS, and she is the driving force behind the PTA pizza program.

Rabbi Morris Friedman, a”h, was one of the earliest supporters of the Yeshiva of

The Ohev Shalom Award in memory and gratitue to Rabbi Morris Friedman, a’h

recognition of his friendship, especially during the Yeshiva’s formative years – a time when it was most needed, by presenting the Ohev Yisrael

Parents of The Year, Binyamin and Sori Laufer

South Shore. This friendship dates back to the early 1960s, when Rabbi Friedman sent students to the Yeshiva and encouraged donors to help Rav Binyamin Kamenetzky.

There are many talmidim of the Yeshiva and current talmidei chachomim who Rabbi Friedman sent to Rav Binyamin to grow in theirYyiddishkeit in their youth. His children and grandchildren are bnei Torah and serve as a symbol of his true values and a pride to his memory as committed, observant Jewish leaders. We are proud to have two great-grandchildren, Moshe and Shalom Farkas, sons of Yael and Pinny, as star talmidim in our yeshiva. Our Yeshiva is proud to express its gratitude and the

Man of the Year, Bill Bonesso

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Young Leadership Awardees, Abba and Fraydie Kloc

Award in hakaras hatov to his memory to be accepted by his illustrious children: U.S. Ambassador Designate to Israel David Friedman, Dr. Mark Friedman, and Naomi Wolinsky, who proudly follow in his footsteps in their love for Torah and Israel.

The soul of a yeshiva needs a body as well. The large Manfred and Jamie Lehmann Campus that houses three buildings, a shul, playgrounds and parking lots needs an advocate as well!

Indeed, Yeshiva of South Shore is not the only yeshiva or Torah institution in our community that has built a building, expanded a structure or modified a facility that has not been guided with the aid and legal acumen of our

nesso has a wide-ranging experience in the areas of land use, zoning, real estate and municipal law. We are truly grateful for his recent successful representation of our Yeshiva in obtaining the ability to expand our campus and we are proud to present him as the Man of the Year.

By attending our 60th Annual Banquet, on Sunday March 5, 2017, you will assure the continuity of our pioneering Yeshiva as a vibrant Torah center for our community, our families and our children. For more information, please contact the Yeshiva at 516-374-7363 x 212 or banquet@yoss.org, or simply click on the Yeshiva’s website www.yoss.org.

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Ezra Academy Hosts its 49th Annual Dinner

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his past Motzei Shabbos, February 18, Ezra Academy held its 49th Annual Dinner. The dinner, which took place in Temple Emanuel in Great Neck, surpassed all expectations. The theme of “One Heart – One People” perfectly described both the school and the dinner. Hundreds of alumni and former faculty, spanning tens of generations and multiple demo-

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graphics, came together to celebrate the accomplishments and successes of Ezra Academy.

The evening began with a beautiful buffet dinner, enabling students and teachers to reconnect and strengthen their relationship and former classmates to reminisce classic stories of their times spent in high school together. The honorees were able to greet and spend

Mr. Simcha Frishman educator of the year

time with the overflow of guests who came to share in their evening.

In the Ezra tradition of keeping the dinner as short and sweet as possible, the program then began.

A short video explaining the theme, with stories of our alumni and the meaningful experiences that brought them to raising observant Jewish families, was shown. The video also included each of our honorees expressing what Ezra Academy means to them on a personal level.

Following the video, the honorees were presented with their awards. Avi and Yarden Shakarov (nee: Pinhasov) were awarded with the Young Leadership Award.

They were given their award by Mrs. Hirschman, Dean of Students, who told stories of Avi’s academic success as well as his attempt at good hearted mischief. Avi, the oldest of three brothers to graduate Ezra, continued his education in Ohr Sameach as well as Baruch and Queens College. While Avi and Yarden are busy they always make time for Ezra Academy, following in his parents’ footsteps, as they were awarded Parents of the Year in 2009.

The Educator of the Year Award was presented by the English principal, Ms. Fish. She expressed how much Mr. Simcha Frishman has contributed to the school in the past ten years. Teaching nearly every science and health class, English, countless electives and P3, Mr. Frishman has built a strong connection with a multitude of students.

He makes sure the school is a part of his family and his family a part

Avi and Yarden Shakarov

of the school. He truly exemplifies what a dedicated teacher is.

The evening of the dinner coincided with the twelfth yahrtzeit of Chavie Freilich, the wife of the founder and dean, as well a longtime member of the staff. It was very apropos that the Chavie Freilich Memorial Award be given to Moishe and Gaby Weber (nee: Goltsman).

Gaby, having graduated in 2002, had a strong relationship with Mrs. Freilich a”h. Having spent Shabbos by the Freilichs and countless other opportunities, Gaby found Chavie Freilich to be a role model for the Webers.

The final honor of the evening was the Alumni Award presented to Adam and Eva Liviem (nee: Kashimallak). Rabbi Freilich, the Dean of Ezra Academy, said that he was insistent on presenting this specific award. Having spent Shabbos with the Liviems and seeing firsthand what their home developed into was a major highlight for him. Both Adam and Eva graduated in the Class of 1999. Having come from completely different backgrounds they were able to channel all the warmth, love and Torah they received in Ezra Academy and give it over to their children, community and anyone they meet. Rabbi Freilich closed with words of hakaras hatov to Hashem, the honorees, the guests and those directly involved in making the dinner a success: Mrs. Helen Hoffman; Dinner Chairman, Mrs. Sherry Iskowitz and Mrs. Rayle Devor. This was followed by a lavish Viennese table and memories to last, at least until next year’s dinner.

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Assemblywoman Melissa Miller Visits Gesher

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he Gesher Early Childhood Center recently had the opportunity to host new Assemblywoman Melissa Miller of the 20th District. Mrs. Miller was recently elected to the position vacated by Todd Kaminsky.

The visit was arranged by Mr. Michael Fragin, Deputy Mayor of the Village of Lawrence. Mr. Fragin had expressed to the Gesher administration an interest in observing the Gesher program more closely. Mr. Fragin’s reputation and record of achievement is well-known in our community. His efforts have directly benefited our local area and the greater Jewish population. Recognizing that Gesher provides and advocates for individualized learning, Mr. Fragin coordinated with Assemblywoman Miller, who has risen to her position based on her record of advocacy.

Mrs. Miller is a champion of individual rights, especially in the arena of developmental disabilities. Al-

Assemblywoman Miller, Mr. Michael Fragin, and Mr. Carmi Gruenbaum with the Gesher administration

though her position in the Assembly is her first formal public service role, she has been involved in advocacy for many years.

She briefly described to the group how her career as a mother of a developmentally disabled child propelled her to work herself into the view of many elected officials, at many levels of government. This background was the backbone of her recent upset vic-

tory in the election.

There was an immediate affinity between the Gesher administration and their esteemed guests. Joined by boardmember Mr. Carmi Gruenbaum, Gesher had the opportunity to display and describe its remarkable program.

The assemblage was clearly impressed by what they saw in the classrooms. Smiling children, expe-

Assemblywoman Miller and Mrs. Bodner touring a classroom

The excitement at the Ashreinu “Outings & More” continued as the boys went to Spring Gymnastics for part 2. Thank you to Mrs. Fordsham and staff (Chanan Gordon, Yechezkel Feivelson, Yehuda Adler & Yitzy Hoffman) for a great time. For more information regarding Ashreinu programs, please email us at ashreinufr@gmail.com.

riencing the sweetness of success, under the trained eye of teachers clearly focused on each child’s individual needs. As Mrs. Chava Bodner, Director of Gesher, described the curriculum and program enhancements that Gesher has adopted, it seemed that everyone was speechless. Any detail that can be improved upon is on Gesher’s radar: purchasing specialized curriculums, adding brain breaks, incorporating a social thinking program, teaming, providing teacher and parent training, adjusting transitions, and more.

The feeling of mutual admiration was palpable, as all the assembled pride themselves on proactively searching for solutions and enrichments in their respective arenas.

Mr. Fragin summed it up simply: “an amazing place.” Gesher thanks Mr. Fragin for his participation and for all of the work that he does for the community. Gesher appreciates the time allotted to them by Assemblywoman Miller, and wishes her much success in her efforts on behalf of her district.

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CBS News Highlights Rambam’s Activism

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n Wednesday of last week, Akiva Schuck and Doniel Fodiman, students in Rabbi Zev Meir Friedman’s shiur, accompanied him and activist Larry Gordon to meet with the Counsel General of Lithuania, Julius Pranevicius. The purpose of the meeting was to express the outrage of the Jewish community to the planned construction of a convention center in the middle of the oldest Jewish cemetery in Vilna. Although the Lithuanian government has pledged that no graves will be disturbed being that the convention center would be built on the footprint of an existing building,

the Rambam delegation confronted the Lithuanian representative with documents obtained from a Lithuanian website which clearly states that an additional 35,000 square-foot annex would also be built, which would disturb close to 2000 Jewish graves.

Counsel General Pranevicius, who was caught off-guard by this document, pledged to consult with his government and seek clarification.

The very next day, on Thursday, a news team from CBS arrived at Rambam to interview students regarding the Senate hearings on the nomination of David Friedman, the nominee

to serve as American ambassador to Israel.

The reporter, Carolyn Gussof, stated that CBS specifically came to Rambam because of its longstanding and well-known history of activism and pro-Israel advocacy.

Of the many students who were filmed, segments of the reporter’s interview with senior students, Avi Orlow, Joseph Silverstein and Noah Schwartz “made the news.”

According to Dean, Rabbi Zev Meir Friedman, “Approximately 25 students took time from lunch to watch the hearings. All of them were

extremely knowledgeable of the nominee’s positions and were well prepared to answer any of the questions that were thrown at them. They really did a great job and we are proud of their passion and commitment to the Jewish people.”

West Hempstead Gives Back – Again!

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or the second year in a row, the West Hempstead community has come out in force for their newest annual event: #Giveback Sunday.

Over 150 members participated last year, and this year exceeded that number by dozens of moms, dads, kids, and grandparents converging on the Young Israel of West Hempstead on Sunday, February 21 to give their time to chessed, and in merit of a refuah sheleima for their beloved rabbi, Rabbi Yehudah Kelemer.

Of course, part of the appeal was that it was fun, too!

As each family arrived they were greeted by lively music playing in the background, along with the scents of fresh

coffee, bagels and pastries.

They were then directed to stations teeming with craft items, such as of markers, duct tape, washi tape, glittery stickers, and gems. Helpful, how-to instruction sheets were included as well.

The kids and families enthusiastically got to work, and an hour later, they had produced nearly 100 beautiful custom crafted kits for the residents of Winthrop University Hospital in Mineola, Gurwin Jewish Nursing Home and Rehabilitation Center in Commack, and Cohens Children’s Hospital on Manhasset.

In addition, many families left with care packages in hand to deliver to an elderly relative or neighbor.

Coming up with the contents of that kit was the most challenging piece of the event

to plan. “We wanted to create something useful for the residents,” explained Kari Levine, committee member for #Giveback Sunday, “so we made sure to closely consult with Joan Kaplan, head of recreational therapy at Gurwin Nursing Home. She was so helpful, and really got us to understand what the residents’ needs are.” The committee members – Shulamit Hurwitz, Kari Levine, Malkie Merrill, Ayelet Mottahedeh, Deborah Plotsker, Rachel Sacknovitz and Jen Toplan – met many times, carefully considering what was both logistically possible for young children to create and what would be something that residents would appreciate.

The result was kits that contain: a bag of moisturizing creams and lip balm, a note-

book, a box of tissues, a planner and two decorative pens.

“These are ordinary items— but Joan explained to us that you would be surprised how often residents are just looking for a something to write with!”

Levine continued. With the children’s added decorations, each item now has charm and personality sure to make the residents smile.

“Of course, the piece de resistance were the tablecloths,” added Levine.

For the past ten years, the residents at Gurwin Nursing Home had come together each Shabbat and chag, and enjoyed their oneg atop two beautifully decorated tablecloths that had been contributed to them by a different organization. Of course, even the most resilient fabrics show their wear after a decade of service, and it was time for a refresh, which #Giveback Sunday was happy to supply.

“We got some simple white tablecloths, and asked resident artist Ann Koffsky to create a design that the kids could color in,” Shulamit Hurwitz described. “She created a one of a kind design in Sharpies that was both beautiful, and user-friendly. The kids had a great time coloring it in with fabric markers—and the results were just gorgeous.”

“They did a great job with

it!” agreed Koffsky. “And it was so fun to watch as the cloth evolved through the event, starting with the simple black and white lines, to a vibrant, colorful work of art. It is always amazing to see kids’ creativity at work!”

Many of the participants of this year’s event were repeat customers from last year.

“This event is so perfect for me to bring my kids to,” said Ariella Goldshmeidt, one of the repeat chessed doe-ers. “I want to teach my kids to think of others, and this is a perfect opportunity to convey that message.”

Rabbi Joshua Goller, assistant rabbi of the YIWH who brought his own children to the event, agreed, “It’s a chance to teach our kids what it means to give back to the community and how doing so makes us feel good as well,” he said.

The kids seem to agree, “It’s fun and I like doing chessed,” explained Eliana Sacknowitz, age 12. “ I look forward to it; I hope to do it again next year!”

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Rabbi Yonason Sacks Returns to Rambam

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he Rosh Yeshiva of Lander College for Men, Rabbi Yonason Sacks, paid a visit to Rambam to speak to the entire Mesivta and “fahrered” the boys in Rabbi Yossi Ziskind’s Double Bais Medrash Shiur.

Morning began with multiple presentations of the Bais Medrash chavrusas presenting various topics in Meseches Chulin that they are currently learning in the afternoon.

In each and every case the boys presented a sugya with Rishonim, Achronim and the chiddushim that were discussed and learned in shiur.

During the course of every presentation, Rabbi Sacks questioned the boys and prompted them to apply their chiddush to another halachic scenario as a “test case.” Additionally, Rabbi Sacks added many insights to build upon the sugya that the boys presented.

After approximately an hour and a half, the entire Mesivta gathered together to hear divrei Torah from the visiting Rosh Yeshiva. Rabbi Sacks began by asking about the significance of the response of Klal Yisrael when they said “Naaseh v’nishma.”

“What type of a response is that?” he asked. “Who can you think of that

pledges unbridled commitments and jumps to fulfill the calling of another party?”

Those assembled quickly came up with two possibilities. The first response was “a husband!”

The second response was “a slave.” Rabbi Sacks said that both in fact were correct being that the Seforno interprets the phrase suggesting that Klal Yisrael accepted the commitment “as slaves” and others understand it to be an acceptance that demonstrates “love.”

Rabbi Sacks asked, “Can one do something both out of slave-like commitment, which implies obligation, and yet do something out of love too? Is such a thing possible?” He then explained that our relationship to Hashem is truly unique and that our commitment and love of Hashem eventuates and results in things that we necessarily do. It is an obligation that stems from love.

Perhaps it is for this reason, suggested Rabbi Sacks, that a slave that wishes to remain a slave under the

control of his master because he “loves his master” has his ears pierced. Such an individual is mistakenly attempting to transpose the unique relationship we have with Hashem onto his fellow man. Such an attempt is foolhardy and obviously wrong.

Before leaving the Mesivta, Rabbi Sacks gave every talmid from the Double Bias Medrash Shiur a copy of one his seforim and inscribed each one so that the talmidim would have a special memento to remind them of this special day.

Shevach Alumnae Enjoy Ten Year Reunion

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n Motzei Shabbos Shira, the students from the Shevach graduating class 2007 had an opportunity to reconnect with friends and teachers at a beautiful melava malka. The women were excited to reconvene in the MPR (multi-purpose room) of Shevach High School.

Arranged by Esther (Rosenwasser) Terebelo and Chana Bracha (Mittel) Alcabes, and coordinated by Mrs. Malkie Roberts, the melava malka was attended by girls now living in Lakewood, Connecticut, West Hempstead, and, of course, Queens. The former Shevach students enjoyed the warm Shevach camaraderie and the unique opportunity to catch up with classmates. The girls were thrilled to be joined by Shevach staff members including Rebbitzen Chani Grunblatt, Mrs. Reva Kitanik, Mrs. Gitty Lipsius, Mrs. Nechama Mirsky, Mrs. Debby Meltzer, and Mrs. Chani Rubin.

The evening proved to be not only enjoyable, but inspiring as well, with Mrs. Mirsky sharing a beautiful thought on the parsha. She quoted the sefer Ohr Gedalyahu which describes the parshas hashavuah as indicating to us a certain koach in that week’s Shabbos. Since the Class of 2007 reunion was Motzei Shabbos Shira, Mrs. Mirsky related insights of the Ohr Gedalyahu on the topic of Shiras HaYam. Included in the dvar Torah was the concept of speech itself being in galus, as Bnei Yisrael could not properly testify to the greatness of Hashem in their state of intense suffering. The spectacular Shiras HaYam that Bnei Yisrael sang upon their freedom from galus also released the power of speech from its own bondage. In their singing the praises of Hakadosh Baruch Hu, Bnei Yisrael were able to also acknowledge, in addition to the miracles at the sea,

the ever-present hand of Hashem throughout their years in Mitzrayim.

The complete liberation from Mitzrayim indicated that Hashem had been with them throughout the galus, and this realization was transformed into their inspired singing.

While we hope and daven that no one experience pain or loss, difficult challenges do confront us and bring about feelings of darkness and constraint. In those moments, articulating our worries can be difficult; it is as if our speech is in galus. Supportive and sensitive communication with friends in challenging circumstances can provide a much needed feeling of release, of redemption. In addition, while we may not be able to understand Hashem’s ways particularly during difficult times, there will come a day, b’meheirah b’yameinu, when we will also realize that Hashem’s plans have guided all of history and

that He has been with us throughout.

We look forward to being able to sing that future shira together.

After the spiritual sustenance, Shevach treated the young ladies to a delicious buffet which included a special sushi platter created by Sushi Meshuga designed with their graduation year of ’07. Shimon’s Pizza provided hot dishes which were enjoyed alongside an elaborate salad bar. While eating and catching up with friends, the game White Powder was enjoyed, as each attendee tried to guess what type of white powder substances were contained in the numerous different bags.

All of this brought back fond memories of their four years of growth spent in Shevach, and in the words of one alumna, “ This was definitely a night to remember. Thank you Shevach for always being there for us!”

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In addition to his Holocaust experience, Dr. Avital served as a member of the Haganah. He has also held various educational positions in the Israeli government, including his current position as the Director of Education and Culture at the Jewish Agency for Israel, American Section.

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n Tuesday, February 14, the Hebrew Academy of Nassau County (HANC) seventh grade students participated in a workshop on the topic of peer pressure run by the Madraigos organization. The seventh grade class was divided into two groups separated by gender. Dr. Levey, the Director of Counseling at HANC, introduced Rabbi Eli Perlman, the Educational Director for Madraigos, to the seventh grade boys. In a separate room, Mrs. Miriam Steiner, Middle School Social Worker and HS director of admissions for HANC, introduced Mrs. Mindi Werblowsky, Director of Adolescent Programming for Madraigos. Both groups learned about the various ways in which people communicate, i.e., verbal (words) and non-verbal (physical actions, hand signals, facial expressions, etc.). The groups actively participated in the program by providing examples of each mode of communication and how they might “play out” with their

friends. The presenters gave real life examples of how peer pressure can be both positive (participating in activities that are beneficial to everyone) versus peer pressure that can be negative (using a group to get someone to do and/or participate in an unhealthy activity). The presenters spoke about how to enhance positive peer pressure as well as being able to

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DRS Mock Trial Team Seeing Great Success

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he DRS Mock Trial team has prevailed! In the first exhibition match of the Mock Trial season, DRS beautifully exhibited the skills and experience they worked so hard to obtain. Lawyers Dovi Schlossberg, Sruli Fruchter, and Jonathan Crane, along with witnesses Shlomo Schwartz, Mishah Aryeh, and Josh Samet, represented the plaintiff. DRS played against East Rockaway High School in a heated trial. Ultimately, it was the weekly practices and undeniable devotion to the Mock Trial team that allowed DRS to emerge victorious.

The DRS Mock Trial Team guar-

anteed themselves a spot in the Nassau County Mock Trial elimination rounds, with another astounding victory This time it was lawyers Nathan Peyman, Yosef Kaminetsky, and Benyamin Bortz, along with

witnesses Joseph Greenberg, Jonah Loskove, and Alex Herman who triumphed. Representing the defense, they displayed the poise and competence of the courtroom like real lawyers. From countless hours a week

preparing to go to court, the defense defeated Freeport High School. The Mock Trial Team is looking forward to advancing all the way to the Nassau County finals and having their hard work pay off.

Orlando a Major Destination for Passover Vacationers in 2017 Rosen Plaza to Host its Second Major Passover Program

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rlando… Thousands of Passover vacationers are planning to once again spend the holiday in this city of many of the nation’s leading attractions. One of the major settings will be the magnificent Rosen Plaza Hotel which features Zayde’s Kosher Catering, the leading glatt kosher catering facility in Central Florida. The Passover 2017 program is being organized for the second year by Avi and Shneur Faskowitz of Majestic Retreats who have hosted Passover programs for the past 14 years, including their highly successful program at the Westin Fort Lauderdale Beach & Spa.

In 2016, the Rosen Hotel emerged as one of the leading venues for people looking for a Passover program that features world-class speakers and entertainment as well as haute cuisine by leading chefs, under the strict rabbinical supervision of both the Rabbinical Council of Florida (RCF) and the Orthodox Rabbinical Board (ORB) of Broward and Palm Beach Counties.

One of the keynote speakers will be Menachem Lubinsky, the recognized authority on the kosher food industry. He created and developed Kosherfest, the world’s largest and most successful kosher food trade show for the past 27 years. He is

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the president & CEO of LUBICOM Marketing Consulting and a leading marketing expert. Amongst his many activities is his role in preserving and developing Har Hazeisim (Mt. of Olives) in Jerusalem. Other notable scholars on the program will include Rabbi Ari Lamm, the Resident Scholar at the Jewish Center on the Upper West Side, and Elisheva Wollner, who maintains private practices in Brooklyn and Cedarhurst treating children, adolescents and adults with eating disorders and other mental health issues. She received her Master Degree in Clinical Social Work from NYU. The host will be Elie Y. Katz, who has served the Teaneck, NJ, community for many years as mayor, deputy mayor, and council member, and now brings his leadership and service-oriented experience to our Passover program as our host.

Zayde’s Kosher Catering at the Rosen Plaza Hotel is under the yearround strict rabbinical supervision of both the Orthodox Union (OU) and the Rabbinical Council of Florida (RCF). This newest kosher enterprise is the brainchild of Harris Rosen, the founding President & CEO of the Rosen properties with its seven modern and beautiful facilities, two

of which are adjacent to the Orange County Convention Center. Zayde’s is under the direction of Executive Chef Michael McMullen who has been with Rosen since 2006 and has a long-distinguished career in managing large-scale kitchens, including positions with the Westin and Hyatt Hotels, most notably the 5 Diamond-rated Hyatt Regency Grand Cypress.

According to the Orlando Tourist Bureau, “Our destination takes an extremely proactive role in education, prevention and monitoring for mosquito-borne illnesses. There have been no local, mosquito-borne transmissions of the Zika virus in Orlando.” They note that Orlando’s tourism corridors are some of the most frequently managed areas for mosquito control, “and we have had robust efforts in place for decades as part of enhancing our visitor experience.”

With no threat of Zika and three days of chol hamoed to visit some of the major attractions, Orlando and the Rosen Hotel are filling up rapidly. For reservations, please call (718) 969-9100 or visit www.greatpassover.com.

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Fun and Friendship at Shulamith Middle Division

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t’s not a secret that at Shulamith students and faculty members feel as if they’re part of one big happy family! In addition to the stellar education they receive, girls who attend Shulamith have myriad opportunities that are sometimes unavailable in other schools. One example is the achdut trips that are scheduled a couple of times a year for the entire Middle Division.

Last week, the over-200 Middle Division students, along with their principals and many faculty members, traveled to Active Kidz in Jericho. The girls played lazer tag and enjoyed the rock climbing wall, inflatable fun zone and indoor adventure maze. They played, laughed, and had a simply wonderful time together. The outing provided an opportunity for the girls to strength-

en their friendships and spend time with each other and with their teachers in a relaxed atmosphere.

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n Monday, the HANC Scrabble Team went to South Side Middle School for the second scrabble tournament of the year. Four teams of two went to compete and to play five games against three other schools. Everyone enjoyed playing and competing

in their games. Congratulations to the HANC team of Moshe Wieder and Netanel Stern who won second place and Rena Max and Shayna Greenstein who won three of their games. All four teams did a great job and everyone is excited for the next scrabble tournament.

Traveling Like a Pro: How the PEYD Team Traveled This Winter Vacation Using Airline Miles & Credit Card Points PART 1: Married Couple with Young Child - West Coast Trip

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inter break is always a challenging time of year to get hold of affordable airfare and travel packages. Nevertheless, this stood as no deterrent for the PEYD Team in planning their family vacations with members and staff traveling this winter season to California, Israel, Florida, Las Vegas and even Thailand. And we are happy to share our insider tricks, methods and best practices which can help minimize any out-of-pocket expenses the next time you wish to take a family vacation.

For the purposes of this article we will focus on the steps one of the PEYD partners took when he went on vacation with his wife and young child using airline miles and credit card points and in the next series we will focus on additional scenarios in which other members of the PEYD Team planned their vacations by taking advantage of available credit card rewards and travel partnership programs.

This past Chanukah coincided with another major holiday and the

most desirable travel dates of the season, making tickets and hotels very expensive. Today, we’ll fill you in on how our PEYD Partner Dudi brought his family to sunny L.A. without paying any money out-of-pocket!

Dudi had been earning Starwood Preferred Guest (SPG) credit card points from his credit card usage of the American Express SPG Credit Card and was hoping to take his accumulated points and transfer them into an airline and book a “mileage” ticket. Upon realizing that airline tickets to California were requiring more miles than off peak times, he kicked into travel agent mode and pursued other options.

Instead of transferring his SPG points directly into an airline like Delta or American Airline and having to put in enough points to cover the cost of the more expensive tickets, he instead took 90,000 SPG points and transferred them into 270,000 Marriott points. (SPG points transfer into Marriott at a rate of 3 Marriott points for every SPG point.)

He then took advantage of a spe-

cial Marriott Hotel & Air Vacation Package where Marriott offers bonus airline miles with the airline of your choice when you book a hotel vacation package. He chose Southwest as his airline and transferred this Marriott points to Southwest equaling 120,000 SW miles – more than the 110,000 magic number required to earning a Southwest “Companion Pass.” For those not familiar, a Companion Pass is a special promotion that kicks in when you transfer or earn over 110,000 SW miles. With this pass, Southwest Airlines lets you bring an additional passenger on your itinerary for no added cost, every time you fly, for a year, and even with tickets that are booked using your SW miles.

By the time all these transfers had occurred Southwest was offering tickets to California for an affordable 50,000 points, and due to the fact that Dudi’s wife was now able to fly with him for free using the SW Companion Pass, the 110,000 SW miles Dudi earned covered himself and his son with his wife flying for free.

Side note: Dudi kept checking the Southwest rates to California knowing that they would reduce the ticket prices in accordance with that day’s particular rate. When he saw prices to LA had dropped, he cancelled his initial reservation and then immediately re-booked his tickets and the final price for his tickets only cost 38,000 Southwest points per ticket (about $450) to make it to beautiful L.A. during the busiest week of the season. And the best part: Dudi’s wife can now fly with him for free every time he chooses to fly with SW for the remaining calendar year.

Stay tuned for our next series as we continue to educate the public how you can take your next vacation and minimize your out-of-pocket expense and travel in style the PEYD way.

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Mesivta Football League Season 5 Championship: YDT Lightning Win!

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YDT Lightning (2) would take on the DRS Wildcats (5). This one turned out to be a real nail biter. Both teams definitely came to play. But, when the dust settled, the Lightning took home the victory with a 12-0 win.

The League congratulates YDT on the win and senior Moshe Feintuch

on winning the Championship Game MVP trophy. Congratulations also goes to Chizkiyahu Burstyn of DRS on winning the League MVP trophy.

The League would like to thank Eliezer “Zezy” Fuld, Commissioner of the League, and all participating yeshivos – players, coaches, admin-

istrators and fans – for helping make this season so incredible.

For more information about the Mesivta Football League please visit their website at mesivtafootball. com or email mesivtafootball@ gmail.com.

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Every Sunday afternoon throughout the long, cold winter, teams arrived for their games at Lawrence High School excited to represent their schools in competitive flag football. Games were intense, but menschlech, with tremendous sportsmanship displayed week in, week out by all teams. The League would like to congratulate Coach Nachum Feintuch and his YDT Lightning on winning this season’s championship.

After two rounds of playoffs, Sunday brought with a gorgeous day for a championship football game. The

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veryone is looking for inspiration. Each Jewish person is thirsting for a way to become inspired and connect to Hashem and to the Torah. While that desire is very real, the practicalities, routines, and rigorous schedules that dictate each individual’s daily life take over. Simply put, there is very little time left to devote to life’s ultimate goal of becoming a better Jew. Recognizing the need for daily inspiration, but also the caveat that time is a luxury that many people simply do not have, is the reason 8 Minute Message was created. The concept is simple: once a person signs up for their daily dose of inspiration, the person’s phone will ring at the time they select to receive their daily call. They will hear a message of inspiration from Rabbi Yussie Zakutinsky. The message is never longer than eight minutes and is always guaranteed to be uplifting, thoughtful, and inspiring. The program is also designed so that if someone cannot listen when the phone rings, the individual can always call back at their leisure or go to the website to hear any previous message recording.

There are no advertisements on the recording, so the listener can be guaranteed that the precious little time that they have is being used for learning Torah.

The 8 Minute Message has become a lifeline for Jews of all ages who are looking for inspiration. From college students, to professionals, to stay at home moms…anyone who is trying to balance a busy schedule and their own internal desire to learn and grow have been connecting to, and benefiting from, these 8 minutes of daily inspiration.

This daily boost of inspiration reconnects you and realigns you in the middle of the hectic workday. The 8 Minute Message has already become an oasis and a sanctuary for hundreds of Jewish people daily. They look forward to the message and know that no matter how mundane, stressful, and busy the rest of their day is, they have 8 minutes that will always be there to strengthen their emunah, remind them of the true purpose of life. The message gives them the chizuk they need to continue on with the rest of their busy day.

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Brachot Week at Yeshiva Har Torah

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eshiva Har Torah celebrated Tu B’Shvat with a very special brachot week. Each class had a brachot seudah. Every student was given a plate of assorted foods from cookies to raisins and each rebbe and morah taught their class the proper order to say the brachot and the mnemonic HaMHaGA AiSh (Hamotzi, Mezonot, Gefen, Ha’Eitz, Ha’Adma, Shehakol). The rest of the week was dedicated to studying up for the much anticipated annual brachot bees. Each class ran their own brachot bee and the winner represented their class in the grand bee.

Congratulations to all the class repre-

sentatives and to all those who study hard to learn their brachot. Thank you to Rabbi Yisrael Silverman for organizing these wonderful events that enhanced each child’s love for saying brachot.

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11:30am at our Bais Medrash (1109 Doughty Blvd) COMMITTEE: Mr. Hillel Axelrod Mr. Alex Bruckstein Mr. Mendy Elefant Dr. Tzvi Nachum Friedman Mr. Louis Greenspan Mr. Lloyd Keilson Dr. Chazkel S. Rubin Dr. Shaul Schwalb Mr. Eli Tendler Mr. Aaron Wolfson

Dr. Yitzchak M. Brickman Mr. Sam Davies Mr. Mark Friedman Rabbi Dovid Greenblatt Mr. Richard Jedwab Dr. Sam Moskowitz Mr. Mark Rubin Mr. Eli Singer Mr. Shlomo Wilamowsky

Shulamith Stars Shine in Annual Production

By Sara Stein, 8th Grade

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n Monday, February 13, the Shulamith auditorium was filled for this year’s Middle Division production entitled, “Erev Shabbat.” Directed by Sari Kahn, Rebecca Gruenfeld, and Kristin Alfather, and brought to life by a select group of middle school students, this extraordinary performance was about what Shabbat might be like if a guest who seems to hold the key to unity made an appearance. The production was, to some extent, an adaptation of Mary Poppins, and many of the song and dance numbers were based on the popular musical.

The show began with a heartwarming tribute to mothers, in which the choir sang a gorgeous version of Eishet Chayil, composed by the musical director Rebecca Gruenfeld herself. All of the girls also brought roses to their mothers, as an expression of their appreciation for everything that their mothers do for them.

Then the curtains opened, revealing all of the acting, and more.

Throughout it all, the audience was entertained by many jokes, hilarious and heartfelt songs, stellar acting, and energetic dances.

When all of the girls took their final bow, the auditorium erupted in thunderous applause. The audience was awed by the talent of the cast and amazed that a production of this caliber was performed by fifth through eighth graders. “Erev Shabbat” was most definitely a hit!

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ast Wednesday, Shulamith High School for Girls ran a “Chessed Pop-Up Shop.” The “shop” combined a clothing swap with a clothing drive and was based on an idea of 2+2=1. This meant that for every two items of clothing and two dollars that the students brought in, they received a voucher to “purchase” one item from their friends. The students and teachers had a great time shopping with their friends and helping everyone to find something that would be perfect for them! The remaining clothing was donated to Life Style Thrift, a thrift boutique in Brooklyn that donates proceeds from their clothing to Chai Lifeline, and the money raised was donated to the Shulamith Friendship Fund, enabling students in need to participate in programming.

The shop fostered the idea that “chessed starts at home,” and taught the girls that sometimes a huge chessed is just making your friend feel

great. Most importantly, it taught them that one act of giving continues to give long past the original act of kindness.

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n education at Yeshiva University High School for Girls is an education that students will take with them in their daily lives, long after they graduate.

Some elective classes recently ventured out of the building to engage with curricular content in real-world settings. Mr. David Horstman’s engineering classes traveled to Google headquarters in Chelsea for a program focused on encouraging women to enter the STEM fields. Students heard from a panel of Orthodox women who spoke about their experiences working for Google. Other topics of discussion were machine learning and voice/image recognition. Also visiting Manhattan were the juniors in Ms. Karine Shauli’s Studio I class. At the Metropolitan Museum of Art, students saw first-

hand some of the work of artists they have been recently studying. Students used guided questions to direct them through each room. Beginning with paintings by Renaissance artists such as Rembrandt and Titian, they moved onto more modern European artists, including Monet, Seurat, Degas, Cezanne, and Picasso. The tour stopped in the Modern and Contemporary section with pieces from Mondrian, Klee, Chagall, Dali, O’Keeffe, and Calder. Says Ms. Shauli, “Students were able to see how art changed stylistically through time and gain a greater appreciation for the great artists they studied as they saw the size and techniques used. Now students in Studio I will be able to apply what they learned and what they saw to create their next art projects.”

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ongratulations to Stella K. Abraham High School for Girls’ senior Sarah Haskell whose beautiful artwork is now showcased at the Peninsula Public Library in Lawrence. Sarah, who is in SKA’s Art Academy and taking AP Art, used value to contrast shapes and detail work. Some of the paintings focus on

small sections of larger pieces, such a hand and a musical instrument.

Sarah is also the art editor of the school newspaper and designed last year’s backdrop for production.

Sarah’s paintings can be viewed at the library for the next two weeks. We are so proud of this talented young artist!

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I Am Dyslexic A Child’s Story

By Goldie Young

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y 10-year-old son and I are scouring the internet for dyslexic people who became famous. We come across George Bush, Walt Disney, and Babe Ruth. My son particularly becomes excited about Babe Ruth.

The greatest ballplayer ever. Dyslexic! Just like my son!

“Ma. Soon you can add me to the list. I will be famous one day,” he tells me with hope in his eyes.

“Of course, Eliezer. Of course you will be!” I smile back at him trying to believe every word that I say.

Our journey to this hopeful moment began many years ago when Eliezer was five. The rebbe started calling me and telling me that Eliezer’s kriyah wasn’t coming along as fast as the other boys in the class. Maybe I should check his vision, he said. When I took Eliezer to the eye doctor the doctor gave us a clean bill of eye health: 20/20 vision. So Eliezer began to get pulled out every day by the resource room morah. Of course he hated it because it was always at the fun moments during the class.

The year progressed, all the boys progressed, Eliezer did not. At the beginning of the next year we hired a multi-sensory kriyah tutor for him. She came three times a week and sat and worked with Eliezer with patience and care. I would thank her every time as I handed her a wad of cash I could not afford to pay. But pay I did. I would do anything to help my child be like everyone else in his classroom.

Eliezer learned his ABC letters, but would constantly confuse the b, d, p, and q. He began to slowly read

the English words, but again, not as fast as the other boys. My husband and I were worried throughout the entire year. We spoke to the rebbe and the teacher on a weekly basis.

I grilled the tutor at the end of each session. Slowly, slowly, Eliezer began to read in Hebrew and English.

He made lots of mistakes as he tried to sound out the words. Each time I would correct him, he would erupt in a rage.

Due to the high cost of hiring a reading tutor, I decided that I would be his teacher. I spoke to a specialist and got some pointers and began to comb through various methods on the internet. I told Eliezer that

specialist recommended.

And yet still, even with the kriyah tutor and all the extra help that I was providing him with, Eliezer was still behind. By the start of second grade, the resource room teacher was starting to use the words like dyslexia, neuro-psychologist, and vision therapy. My mind was spinning. I was so overwhelmed. But I had to put my feelings aside and help my son.

First, we went for vision therapy. It didn’t help.

Then, we went to Morah Z, who was a neuro-psychologist. Morah Z began to evaluate Eliezer. She tested for everything: math, reading,

“Poor Eliezer ... All the reading he was required to do…he couldn’t do it. And it is not his fault.”

he had to do extra work at home in order to keep up with the class. This brought on more tears and many broken pencils.

“I can’t do it, Ma,” he would cry.

It turned out that being my son’s teacher instead of his mother was a mistake. But how could I afford a tutor? The P-3 that the board of education sent over was no help at all. We went through two until I resumed the position. I wrote relatable stories using the phonics rules that we were learning. I had him trace and copy the sight words that he was supposed to know. We read the leveled phonics books that the

and comprehension, IQ, memory, recall, and even emotional intelligence. She tested him for ten hours, doing one hour at a time so as not to tire him out.

Finally, my husband and I were sitting in front of her, ready to hear her diagnosis.

“Your son is very bright,” she began. “He scored close to superior on the IQ test.” I smiled hearing the good news. I knew Eliezer was smart and now I had a test to prove it.

“But he showed severe delays in his reading ability. I’m sorry; Eliezer is dyslexic.”

I began to cry when I heard this. Morah Z explained that children with high IQs should be able to read. Those who can’t are considered dyslexic. Morah Z gave us recommendations for tutors and special schools. I listened through a haze.

“Poor Eliezer,” said my husband afterwards. “We were so hard on him. Fighting with him that he should do all his homework. All the reading he was required to do… he couldn’t do it. And it is not his fault.” That made me even sadder.

All the fighting and the crying was because he really could not do it.

And I had thought that maybe if he reviewed and worked harder, he would be able to catch up. But that’s not what it was at all. It was that my son had to be taught in a different way.

“Ma!” Eliezer exclaimed yesterday. “When a person is dyslexic, it means that there is a block to his path of learning and he has to find a different way.”

And back then— “Ma, I sit in the back of the classroom, looking at the clock, waiting till it’s recess. Then I wait some more until it’s lunchtime. Those are the only things that I can be a part of in school,” he told me.

If my child had no place in a regular classroom, then where was he going to go?

Right from the start, The Winward School and The Shefa School were Morah Z’s recommendations.

In the end we chose The Shefa School. When my husband and I came to observe the school, the first thing we saw was the children baking pancakes. Then we saw the

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small classrooms of 12 with three teachers per room. We observed how the school split up into even smaller reading groups based according to the child’s reading level.

We saw the neatly written reports hanging on the walls, accompanied by child-drawn pictures. We saw a teacher teach social studies. She showed the students pictures and asked them lots of questions. The students were able to learn on their grade level without having to struggle with all the reading that that required. Reading for an hour and half in the morning was the main attraction for us. The day was split up into various subjects, some of which included PE (physical education) with real coaches and chug time which included Krav Maga, robotics, and cooking. They also had a strong art and music program. All this was designed for the children to explore their shefa, their bounty. These children were all smart like my son, and they were so much

more than their reading score.

We overcame many obstacles to send our son to Shefa. But today he is in fifth grade and he is growing and learning. He is not sitting in the back of the classroom, staring at the clock. He is an active participant in discussions and in engaged the entire day.

The first year was hard, as are all beginnings. He was sad about losing his yeshiva friends and going to a school so far from home.

He was lonely. He also had to adjust to being academically challenged all day. He was working very hard every day, through tears and frustration, through the challenges that Hashem bestowed upon him. He came out of that year reading and the proud owner of a dog.

Peanut came at a time when Eliezer felt disconnected and was waking up at 6am every morning only to come back at 6pm and to have to start on his homework and go back to sleep. The dog provided

our son with a sense of belonging and the responsibility of caring for another being. The puppy put the smile back on my son’s face.

Eliezer is in his second year at Shefa now and he will be going for a third. He knows that this place is important for him so that he doesn’t remain illiterate. He knows the meaning of dyslexia – he is proud to be overcoming his challenges. He is learning important skills in perseverance and endurance. He actually became quite a cook. Those cheese bourekas were amazing. Even I had to break my diet for them!

He is happier now and has a new band of friends who can relate to him and know his struggles. They are a bunch of brilliant kids sharing their lives together, singing and cooking together. They are in the know of all current events. It was Eliezer who woke us up on November 9th informing us that Trump won. These children are so lucky to have each other and to have a

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My son doesn’t think that he will be lost when he goes out into the world. He has dreams and hopes just like his peers at yeshiva. I am starting to see those dreams become a reality. As he walks through life with his head up high, I see my son as someone accomplished and, yes, very smart. I always tell him that he can do it. With hard work anything is possible. And that I believe in him. Not only does he have my love, but he also has the belief that he is truly a star and he can get anywhere he sets his mind to.

Goldie Young is a mother of a dyslexic child. For information about dyslexia and any questions about her experience, she can be reached at stacyand goldie@yahoo.com. For information about The Shefa School you can go online at www.shefaschool.org or call 212-873-1300.

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Parshas Mishpatim Producing Polished People

By Rav Moshe Weinberger Adapted for publication by Binyomin Wolf

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ll of the commentaries ask why, immediately following the Jewish people’s exalted experience of receiving the Torah at Sinai, Hashem suddenly descends into the detailed civil laws of parshas Mishpatim. We drop, without warning, from lightning, thunder, and Divine revelation to slaves and compensation for thievery. It seems like quite a letdown.

The Midrash explains that Hashem created the world and gave the Torah because “The Holy One desired to have a dwelling place in the lower world” (Tanchuma, Nasso, 16).

Next week’s parsha, Terumah, is all about the building of the Mishkan, the sanctuary in which Hashem dwells. The Midrash (Shmos Rabah 33) expands that the purpose is the Mishkan is, “Do me this favor: wherever you go, make Me a small dwelling-place so that I may live [rodA – which is related to the word Adar] with you.” That is the ultimate goal of the giving of the Torah. So why did parshas Terumah not follow immediately after the giving of the Torah?

Why is parshas Mishpatim first?

The Gemara (Makkos 23b-24a) teaches us that there are certain principles which form the gateway through which we can access the entirety of Yiddishkeit. The most well-known is “Chavakuk [HaNavi]

placed them [the fundamentals of Yiddishkeit] on one idea: ‘A tzaddik lives with his emunah’” (Chavakuk 2:4). But the Gemara also says that “Michah came and placed them on three ideas: ‘He has told you, O man, what is good and what does G-d seek from you? Only to do justice, love kindness, and walk humbly with your G-d’” (Michah 6:8).

This is a puzzling statement. It seems so pareve, so noncommittal, so generic. In fact, when I went to yeshiva as a child, there was a Reform Temple around the corner and this was the pasuk they inscribed on the building. It is perfect for them.

They would never post the pasuk, “And you shall observe Shabbos to keep it holy.” They love the pasuk in Michah because it makes no specific demands. Yet how can we, who understand that Michah meant to teach that the three things he listed were the key to successfully actualizing all aspects of Yiddishkeit in our lives, understand why Michah listed “doing justice,” observing the laws in parshas Mishpatim, as more than mere details? In what way are they the key to all of Yiddishkeit?

Rav Shmuel Berezovsky, shlita, the present Slonimer Rebbe, teaches an idea in the sefer Darchei Noam (5775) which gives us the key to answer this question. He quotes a

Midrash (Yalkut Shimoni 942) explaining the pasuk (Devarim 32:2), “My teaching will drip like rain, my words will fall like dew, like storm winds on vegetation, and like delicate raindrops on grass.” The Midrash explains the nature of these delicate raindrops, revivim, as follows: “Just as these delicate raindrops descend, refine, and polish the grasses, so too the words of Torah refine and polish.” The Torah has the power to change a person. How? The purpose of the fine raindrops, according to this Midrash, is to put the last finishing touch on the grass – to give it a certain sparkle. That perfect finish adds a level of grace and charm that makes the vegetation in Hashem’s world so beautiful to look at.

The Darchei Noam explains that the Torah is meant to do the same thing to us. It is meant to refine and polish those who study it. That is why the detailed laws of parshas Mishpatim precede the building of the Mishkan in parshas Terumah.

While the purpose of the Torah is indeed to facilitate the creation of a dwelling-place for Hashem in this physical world through the Mishkan, the fact is that even the Mishkan is only a means to an end.

The pasuk says at the beginning of parshas Terumah that “they

shall make a Mishkan for Me and I will dwell among them” (Shmos 25:8). As the Alshich and the Shlah HaKadosh explain, “It does not say ‘in it.’ But instead, ‘in them’ – within each and every person.” The final goal in the building of the Mishkan is not only that the Divine Presence rest in it, but rather, it is a means to allow Hashem’s Presence to dwell within each and every Jew. Accordingly, we must first refine and polish ourselves so that we will be fitting vessel’s for Hashem’s light.

We must make ourselves the kind of refined people with whom Hashem wants to spend more time. That is why the fine, detailed raindrops of the halachos of parshas Mishpatim must precede parshas Terumah.

The essential theme of all of the laws in Mishpatim is: do not harm, damage, or hurt others. This sensitivity comes from incorporating the Torah into our lives. It must polish and refine us to the point that our exalted nature expresses itself even in how we treat our own and others’ property. One cannot keep someone up late at night by leaving his light on while he studies the Alter Rebbe’s teaching in Torah Ohr regarding Hashem’s desire to have a dwelling-place in the lower world Continued on page 82

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chassidus and kabbalah and think that he has even touched what Hashem is looking for a Jew. Awareness of and sensitivity to others is how one knows when he has become a refined vessel for G-dliness through his Torah learning.

Hashem set things up such that we must live with and around people who are very different from ourselves. Why else would He create a world in which men and women, who are as different as night and day, must live together for a lifetime? Torah’s purpose is to refine us so that we learn to respect others’ sensibilities and property.

Unfortunately, one need go no further than his shul to find people who have studied Torah without internalizing its polish and refinement.

Listening to a message such as the Darchei Noam’s regarding sensitivity and refinement, such people respond, “But that’s not who I am! Why should I change how I act just because someone else is uptight? That’s

their problem!” This approach is not the way of the tzaddikim and is not the way of the Torah. It is not the way of the gentle raindrops of the Torah.

Let us consider those who talk

severity of his sin when he murdered his brother (Bereishis 4:13). Let us consider only the issue of consideration for other people. There are people who are incredibly offended if,

Accordingly, we must first refine and polish ourselves so that we will be fitting vessel’s for Hashem’s light.

during davening, putting aside how wrong it is spiritually and how the Zohar (Terumah, 131b) says that one who talks in shul has no portion with the G-d of Israel. Let us also put aside the fact that the Shulchan Aruch (Orach Chaim 124:7) says that the sin of one who talks during the repetition of the Shemonah Esreh is “too great to bear,” using the same language Kayin uses to describe the

while they are talking in shul, another person dares to “shush” or glare at them. “How dare he try to quiet me down? Does he think he’s so much better than me?!”

Let us face facts. Even without all of the spiritual weight behind those who elect not to talk in shul, it is a synagogue – a place for prayer. So if there is a dispute between two people regarding whether to talk or not, the

non-talkers should win. They are the home team. How oblivious of one’s environment and other people’s feelings and sensibilities must one be to talk when people are trying to daven or listen to the Torah reading? How has none of a person’s Torah learning made him an even minimally sensitive and considerate person?

May we merit to study Torah for Hashem’s sake such that it polishes and refines us, bringing out the latent nobility we carry with us as children of Avraham, Yitzchak, and Yaakov. May we thereby become sensitive, respectful people with whom Hashem wants to spend time!

Rav Moshe Weinberger, shlita, is the founding Morah d’Asrah of Congregation Aish Kodesh in Woodmere, NY, and has served as Mashpia in Yeshiva University since 2013.

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Torah Thought

Parshas Mishpatim

By Rabbi Berel Wein

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he Talmud develops for us the complex laws that are laid out here in this week’s Torah reading. In fact, a great proportion of the tractates of the Talmud are involved in explaining the words, ideas and practical implications of the verses that appear in this week’s Torah reading.

Judaism is a religion of behavior and practicality and not only of soaring spirituality and otherworldly utopian ideas. It presupposes that

there will be physical altercations between people, that property will be damaged, that human beings will behave in a less than sanguine fashion, and that monetary and physical consequences for such behavior are necessary in order to allow for society to function.

Above all else, the Torah is clear-eyed about human nature and behavior. It does not believe that human beings left to their own resources and ideas will behave in a

good, honest and noble fashion. The Torah stated at the beginning of its message to humanity that the nature of human beings is unhealthy and evil from the onset of life. Unless it is managed, controlled and channeled into positive deeds and thought processes steered towards higher and nobler goals, human beings will be little different than the beasts of prey, which inhabit the animal world.

This is the reason why the Torah and Talmud go to such lengths and detail to explain to us the laws and consequences of human behavior and of the interactions between

The laws of the Torah, as expressed in this week’s parsha, are really those of damage control. They do not envision a world of voluntary altruism on the part of all. There will be people who negligently cause damage to others. There will be people who will do so willfully. The Torah says very little about preventing such occurrences. It speaks only to legal and monetary consequences that these occurrences bring about.

This is not a pessimistic view of life and humans. Rather, it is a realistic assessment of human nature and of the inevitable consequences that are always present in the inter-

It is a realistic assessment of human nature and of the inevitable consequences that are always present in the interaction of human beings.

one human being and another. This is what traditional Judaism meant when it said that Baba Kama – the laws of torts and damages – is the best book of Jewish ethics available.

The problem that has gnawed at human society over the ages is how to create and maintain a fair, just and productive society. Humankind has yet to come up with the perfect solution to this basic problem. This is not for lack of trying and experimentation. Nevertheless the search continues. The Torah reading of this week leaves me with the impression that the perfect society will not appear on this earth in this human cycle.

action of human beings. By viewing the consequences of human behavior, only then can one hope to influence this failure and to prevent strife and damage to others.

The nineteenth century posited that humanity had turned the corner and the societies in the world would only become better and better. The twentieth century shattered that illusion. Therefore, we should remain realistic, drive defensively and work on ourselves to become better people who will not allow lawlessness and anarchy to rule our world.

Shabbat shalom.

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Between the Lines

Minority Rules

By Eytan Kobre

Never be afraid to stand with the minority when the minority is right, for the minority which is right will one day be the majority. - William Jennings Bryan

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n 1951, psychologist Solomon Asch set out to research just how readily we conform to majority viewpoints. Study participants were given a visual discrimination task: sitting in groups of between 7-9 others, the subjects were to identify which of three “comparison” lines matched a “standard” line shown to them. In reality, there was only one study subject in each group; the 7-9 others were Asch’s associates. The genuine subject, unaware that the other participants were really plants, was always placed so as to answer next-to-last.

Over repeated trials, Asch found that 75% of the subjects conformed to the majority’s patently-incorrect answer at least once, and nearly one-third did so consistently – all of which proved just how persuasive a majority can be.

Majority rule governs much of Jewish law (see e.g. Shabbos 13a; Eruvin 64b; Yevamos 36a; Chullin 11a; Sefer HaChinuch 78; Rambam, Sefer HaMitzvos, No. 175). In one

case, R’ Eliezer disagreed with the majority of sages. “If I’m right,” he declared, “let this tree prove it, let this fountain prove it, let these walls prove it, let the Heavens prove it!”

The tree uprooted itself, the water flowed backwards, the walls bent inwards, and a Heavenly voice buttressed his opinion. Still the sages resisted because “the Torah is not decided by trees, fountains, walls, or Heavenly voices, but by majority rule” (Bava Metzia 59b). In another matter, the students of Bais Shammai jettisoned their own opinion in favor of the opinion of the more numerous students of Bais Hillel (Yevamos 14a). As a matter of jurisprudence, the majority is like the whole (Horayos 3b); generally, we are not concerned with a minority (Bechoros 20b).

But sometimes the majority gets it wrong. So, as much as the Torah mandates majority rule, it is equally quick to abandon the majority when that majority goes amiss (Rabbeinu Bachaye, Shemos 23:2).

The Jewish people always have been a tiny minority, surviving through tradition by resisting and rejecting the prevailing, majority view and way of life. But that hasn’t always been easy. A non-Jew once challenged R’ Yehoshua ben Karcha: “We non-Jews comprise the majority of the world, whereas you Jews are but a tiny minority. Does your Torah not obligate you to fol-

low the majority? Why do you persist in your beliefs?”

When R’ Yehoshua asked the non-Jew whether he had any children, the man answered that he had several. “But whenever we sit down to eat, each one blesses his own god. Inevitably, we end up fighting.”

“If so,” R’ Yehoshua retorted, “you’re no majority. You’re just several minorities” (Vayikra Rabba 4:6).

That same question has been put to us countless times throughout the ages. Why not conform to the majority? Why not assimilate?

Why not reform?

When a gentile cleric posed the question to a young R’ Yehonason Eybeshutz, he received this answer. “The obligation to follow the majority applies only when one is in doubt. So if one finds a piece of meat on the street and is unsure of its kashrus, if there are nine kosher butchers in the vicinity and only one non-kosher butcher, the finder may follow the majority and eat the meat (see e.g. Pesachim 9b). But we have no doubt as to the Torah’s absolute truth. We need not follow the majority.”

Answering the same question, R’ Elchonon Wasserman explained that majority rule primarily is a matter of judicial process (Kovetz Ma’amarim, Vol. I, pg. 7). Because impartiality is the cornerstone of that process, the opinion of self-in-

terested judges is disregarded – even if doing so leaves only a minority of disinterested judges. So it is with the Jewish people. We may be a minority – but we not self-interested in leading ungodly lives.

The Ben Ish Chai told of a king who lived secluded in his castle so that his subjects perpetually were in awe of him. To conduct the country’s affairs, the king permitted the presence of only seven advisors, who, naturally, wielded great power and influence.

When the king died, his son assumed the throne. To curry favor with the young monarch, the seven advisors spoke at length of his magnificence and how he shone with an aura that bespoke his great majesty.

Several months later, the young king received the gift of a large mirror. Much to his horror, the king looked into the mirror and realized immediately that he shone with no aura…he was hideous. And now he was furious at the advisors, who had deceived him.

The advisors tried to calm him.

“Now, who are you going to believe, us or the mirror? There’s only one mirror but seven of us. Surely, the mirror must be mistaken.” The young king agreed and shattered the mirror to a hundred pieces.

Then the king looked down at the shards of mirror. He looked up at his advisors. “You told me to ignore the mirror in favor of your

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opinion because it is but one and you are seven. But now you are seven and the mirror is dozens – and each shard shows me to be a monstrous beast!”

A self-interested majority, concluded the Ben Ish Chai, is not to be followed.

A wayward Jew once posed the age-old question, with a slight variation, to the Chofetz Chaim. “Rabbi,” he argued, “doesn’t the Torah instruct us to follow the majority?

Well, the overwhelming majority of Jews today are not religious. So you are duty-bound to adopt our ‘progressive’ attitudes.”

The Chofetz Chaim explained that he recently had occasion to travel by coach, in which the coachman shared liberal shots of vodka with the other passengers. “When we came to a crossroads, there was confusion about which path to take.

Most on board shouted to turn left, but I – the only sober passenger –

knew we needed to turn right. So I ask you, my friend, should I have followed the majority, comprised of drunkards?”

Perhaps we need not conform to the majority because we have set

rule only when the two factions are equal; where there is a qualitative difference between the factions, a superior minority is to be followed (Piskei Rashdam, Orach Chaim 37).

As Mahatma Gandhi put it, “Even if

“So I ask you, my friend, should I have followed the majority, comprised of drunkards?”

ourselves apart from – and above – the prevailing majority. R’ Shmuel of Modina held that communal matters should be decided by a minority of wealthy and distinguished community members rather than by the less affluent majority because the Torah requires majority

you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.” So long as we conduct our affairs in a manner that sets us apart from – and above – the rest of society, we are entitled to resist its majority and adhere to the truth. * * * Let’s face it, our beliefs and val-

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ues put us in the minority. Fine and upstanding people always seem to be outnumbered (Yoma 38b; Sukka 45b; Menachos 29b). But that’s precisely what makes us different and special. We are called “Ivrim” (Jews) because while the rest of the world believes one thing, we’ve never been afraid to stand apart and believe quite another (Bereishis Rabba 42:8). We are the smallest of nations with the biggest of hearts.

We’ve never been daunted by the odds.

The trick is knowing when the majority rules – and when it doesn’t.

Eytan Kobre is a writer, speaker, mediator, and attorney living in Kew Gardens Hills. Questions? Comments?

Suggestions? E-mail eakobre@outlook. com.

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Jewish History

Memoirs of a Forgotten Rabbi The Troubled Life of Rabbi Tzvi Hirsch Ferber

By Rabbi Pini Dunner

Part II

sense he had his daughter Anne, who looked after his every need from that time up until his death.

But I am not referring to this. What n 1934, after a period of difficult I am referring to is the fact that he never mentions how he coped with illness, Rabbi Ferber’s beloved the emotional emptiness. His wife’s wife Freida passed away at the death came soon after the death of young age of 50. Details of how she two of his closest colleagues, Rabbi died, and the devastation her death caused for her husband and chil- Avigdor Schonfeld and Rabbi Meir Zimmerman. Only a few years earlidren, are described in detail in the memoirs. What Rabbi Ferber does er his mentor and friend Rabbi Meir Tzvi Jung had died very suddenly. not describe is how he managed to The members of his West End Synaget on with his life after losing his gogue, as is clear from the memoirs, precious soul mate. In a practical were not only incapable of providing him with emotional support, but in his view were to blame for the death of his dear wife, as he openly suggests.

In particular, the death of his wife frightened Rabbi Ferber with a terMrs. Freida Ferber, whose The headstone over rifying thought.

Mrs. Ferber’s grave in untimely passing at the She died so sudStreatham, South London, age of 50 in 1934 promptdenly and unin which her great-uncle ed her grieving husband expectedly that Rabbi Yisroel Salanter’s to begin writing his it seemed that name gets equal billing memoirs

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The handwritten title page of Rabbi Ferber’s first of two volumes of memoirs, which he began writing in 1934

the impact of her life on this world was lost and that she, a niece of the founder of the mussar movement, Rabbi Yisrael Salanter, who had given her life over to public service and supported her husband in all his endeavors, was destined to disappear without trace. And the same thing, he suddenly realized, could happen to him! He could also die without warning – as had so many of his colleagues – and all his work for the community and the efforts of his colleagues to improve the observance of Jewish law and custom, to enhance the honor of Torah, to make life easier for those who wished to observe Jewish law and custom in England – properly, without compromise, and as it should be observed – would be forgotten forever by those who would later benefit from the bitter battles that had been fought for this cause.

Furthermore, he had lived the life of a rabbi and leader in a community that had rejected the values he stood for and who had treated the requirements of Jewish law, and him as their champion, with contempt. Who would recall the terrible treatment he was forced to endure, a Torah scholar and deeply religious man, at the hands of those for whom his values and the values of Torah

had no meaning? His treatment at their hands, and their immoral behavior in general, would – unless something was done – be entirely forgotten, making his tough, Torah-inspired inflexibility – which in practical terms had brought few, if any, positive results – a waste of his effort and of unenduring value.

So Rabbi Ferber, as the author of numerous published and unpublished works, did what he knew best – he turned to his pen. His pen became his trusted friend, offering him a way through the difficult questions and depressing conclusions thrown up by the death of so many of those close to him and, in particular, his dear wife. With his pen he could record who he was, who his wife had been, who his friends and colleagues were and had been, the battles he had won, and the battles he had lost. He could open up about his dreadful existence in the West End, at the mercy of people who did not appreciate him and what he represented, who had persecuted him mercilessly, throughout his years as their rabbi. He could recall the long forgotten events of his youth, many of which would be of profound interest to numerous people far and wide. He could record the opinions Continued on page 90

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and also in relation to the general history of strictly Orthodox Jews in England. He also described, as events unfolded, from the point of view of a devout Orthodox rabbi, the devastation of the Holocaust, the struggle to help those who survived

and perspectives of the senior rabbinic leaders of his youth and apply them to the unfolding events of the present.

So it seems clear that the memoirs project began in the mid-1930s as a way for Rabbi Ferber to cope with the trauma of the loss of his wife and as a calculated response to his realization that life was fragile and that his own sudden death might mean that much that was important for people to know – that which had happened to him and also that which had happened to others – might be entirely forgotten.

Evidently the earlier part of the memoirs was written in the years immediately following his wife’s death in 1934. The title page of the manuscript is dated 1938, which means that those early sections written straight after her death were later copied out by Rabbi Ferber, probably to correct them into a final form. But the project did not end there. Once Rabbi Ferber had begun writing his memoirs he did not stop. As the years went by, he added in new sections recording all types of incidents, both in relation to his personal life and struggles,

His pen became his trusted friend, offering him a way through the difficult questions and depressing conclusions thrown up by the death of so many of those close to him and, in particular, his dear wife.

after the war, the conflicts relating to the establishment of the State of Israel, his disgust at the behavior of the secular Zionist leadership towards Torah observant Jews in the Land of Israel, and his disappoint-

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many of the things Rabbi Ferber describes were well-known by those that they had affected. They were the matters of day-to-day life. But in many instances they have long been forgotten. These stories and the facts that surrounded them were not headlines. Rather they were the small print of the life of Orthodox Jews. Especially in relation to the struggles of the strictly Orthodox Jewish community in England, no one recalls the pioneers who lived in poverty and difficulty and who faced the contempt and active opposition of the leadership – both rabbis and communal leaders – of Britain’s Jews and the ridicule of many of their fellow immigrant Jews who were only too glad to lower their standards in their new country. In some instances Rabbi Ferber’s colleagues, from the same background as him, who should have joined forces with him in his battles for important matters like ensuring the supply of kosher meat, chose instead to join forces with the enemies of Jewish law, for the sake of honor or money.

In one instance he describes how one of these rabbis, well respected and an author of numerous books of insights into the Talmud, who later moved to Jerusalem, tried to bribe him to stay silent on matters relating to the inadequacy of kosher meat arrangements in England. In other cases Rabbi Ferber describes how rabbis whose names are no longer remembered were at the forefront

of making sure that Orthodox Jews could be assured of the standards they required in order to live life as fully committed Orthodox Jews in England.

In addition to these general facts Rabbi Ferber recorded his own life as rabbi of the West End district of London, Soho. He describes how the committee members at his synagogue mistreated him, how despite the fact that the synagogue owed its financial success to him they refused to pay him enough money to live on, how the other employees of the synagogue constantly conspired to steal money in a variety of different ways from the unsuspecting synagogue members – with great success. He describes how the elections for the executive of the synagogue were rigged so that the winners would not disturb the ongoing theft. He describes his loneliness and sadness, a sadness that was only lessened by the publication of his books.

Rabbi Ferber was a prolific writer, and a first class composer of homiletic interpretations of the Torah, and over the years he regularly published books on homiletic themes, focusing on the weekly portions of the Torah, on prayer, on festivals, on the Psalms, on the megillot, and much more. His books were very precious to him. But even their publication was not without its own problems. He describes how printers misled him and swindled him, and how after the Holocaust he felt as if the number of people remaining who appreciated his type of books was so drastically reduced that he genuinely worried for the future of the Torah world.

So what had started out as a cathartic project following the death of his wife became a mission to record every fact that Rabbi Ferber believed was important for those who shared his ideals to know and appreciate for posterity. Such was Rabbi Ferber’s determination to fulfill this mission that even as it became difficult for him to write in the years immediately before his death, he nevertheless continued to write, with the last entries dated only a couple of years before he died.

To be continued...

Rav Pini Dunner is the rav of Young Israel North Beverly Hills.

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A meeting in the Ministry of War chaired by Alexander Kerensky, second right

Vladimir Lenin during the Russian Revolution, 1917

The Russian Army greets Alexander Kerensky

The Russian Revolution and the Jews Marking the Centennial

By Larry Domnitch

1917

marks the centennial of the Russian Revolution. The first stage led to the Bolshevik Revolution later that year. Rioters and strikers in the capital city of St. Petersburg and other locations refused to desist in their efforts to cause chaos. At the time, regiments of the Czar’s army defected. Czar Nicholas II, who was losing control of his empire, abdicated the throne.

Most of the world, which follows the Gregorian calendar, refers to the Russian Revolution as the March Revolution since it took place on March 8. To the Russians, who once followed the Julian calendar, which places the day on February 23, it was

referred to as the February Revolution.

War, hunger, and poverty had fueled the rage. The immense damage and destruction to Russia caused by its involvement in the First World War contributed significantly to the fall of the Czar. Two million soldiers were reported dead, one million were missing in action, and many more were seriously wounded; the economy was in shambles, and unemployment was running rampant.

A new provisional government was established. At the helm was the socialist democrat Alexander Kerensky who became the Minister of Justice. At the same time, Kerensky

also became the vice-chairman of the Petrograd (St. Petersburg) Soviet revolutionary council. These posts made him the most important leader in the revolution. The expectation was the government would be more tolerant.

Within the Jewish community, many saw hope in the change of leadership from the despotism and anti-Semitism of the Czar.

Kerensky, whose father was Jewish, had sympathized with the Jews who were severely persecuted by Czarist regime. He was one of the sponsors of a resolution by the Saint Petersburg bar condemning the 1913 trial of Mendel Beilis, falsely accused

of ritual murderer, as a “slanderous attack upon the Jewish People.”

During the First World War, he himself had personally investigated and refuted highly publicized bogus charges of treason leveled against the Jews in a village named Kuzhi in April 1915.

Just ten days after the abdication of the Czar, the new provisional government had officially granted freedom to the long beleaguered Jewish community of Russia. These freedoms included residing where they pleased, participating in all educational advantages, voting, and owning property.

Would this pronouncement sig-

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Czar Nicholas II in detention after his abdication in March 1917

nal the end of decades of persecution for the world’s largest Jewish community?

Many in the Jewish community responded enthusiastically.

On April 29, 1917, Jewish author and activist Shmarya Levin asked, “Will the Jews for the first time in our history, become free, not as dismembered individuals, but as a national minority?”

In the journal, the American Hebrew, one editorial opined, “The first French Revolution declared the Jews to be human beings, the last Russian Revolution proclaimed the Jews to be free citizens, a nation of freemen.”

One letter to the editor of the American Hebrew on March 23, 1917 proposed that “March 15, the day of the abdication of the Czar be turned into a Jewish holiday.” Adding, “That day will be forever the greatest day of joy in the Jewish calendar.”

An editorial in the London Jewish Chronicle stated, “There are firm hopes that the dark days oppression never return. With our great friend Mr. Kerensky as the moving spirit of the new government and Mr. Zarudni [the defender of Mendel Beilis who faced a blood libel accusation in 1913] as his assistant at the Ministry of Justice, the Russian Jews cannot only breathe freely, but they can also, with a clear mind, attend to their national problems of the hour.”

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results would turn out to be far different than the optimistic predictions. The provisional government was very young and vulnerable. Revolution-

ary Marxist leader of the Bolshevik Party Vladimir Lenin, who returned from exile in Switzerland with the assistance of Germany, helped foment revolution to topple the Kerensky government. In order to maintain Western alliances, Kerensky, who had become Minister of War in May 1917, had kept Russia in the war and launched another attack against Austria/Hungary into the region of Galicia – known as the Brusilov Offensive –which turned out to be a very costly failure. Lenin, who opposed the war, had promised the suffering Russian people “Land, Bread, and Peace,” earning him sufficient support from local Soviet revolutionary councils to mount a takeover and realize his plans in November 1917.

The Bolshevik Revolution caused the people immeasurable suffering.

While the Russian Revolution of 1917 did not incur substantial losses, decades of horrors under Soviet dictatorships followed. Millions perished from persecution, terror, and in gulags.

The Jews of Russia suffered the harshness of life in Russia, and their dreams for freedom instead became nightmares of oppressive rule.

The Russian Revolution produced dangerous and destructive forms of anti-Semitism. The Soviet regime – which promised equality – sought to forcibly assimilate Russian Jewry by outlawing Jewish practices. The goal was to eliminate Judaism and Jewish nationalism in Russia. Aiding the Soviets were Jewish communist groups such as the Yevsekztia who spied on and betrayed other Jews

who maintained Jewish observances despite the religious bans. Zionists as well were persecuted. Although such groups represented a very small minority of the Jews, the damage they caused was considerable.

The March Revolution was a conduit to the Bolshevik Revolution in November of that year. Without the

first revolution, the second would not have taken place. A century later, the Soviet Union, which lasted for seventy four years, leaves behind a massive trail of misery and destruction.

For Jews of Soviet descent, there are many tragic memories. There is also the saga of a struggle for Jewish survival in the face of adversity.

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One State, Two State, Whatever

A Brief History of the State of Israel and Why One-State, Two-State is Such a Big Issue

BY SUSAN SCHWAMM

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ne fish, two fish, red fish, blue fish.” When Dr. Seuss talks about fish, does it really matter if they’re red or blue or green or gray? As long as it rhymes, Theodore Geisel doesn’t care about how many fish there are in the sea. But when talking about solving the Israeli-Palestinian “dilemma,” numbers do matter.

Last week, in a joint press conference with Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, President Trump declared, “I’m looking at two-state and one-state, and I like the one that both parties like; I can live with either one.” Considering that the last three U.S. presidents – Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack Obama – championed the two-state solution for Mideast peace, Trump has, once again, set his own tone.

A Bit of History Some will say that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is an age-old conundrum. But truthfully, it only dates back to less than a century ago. In 1937, Lord Robert Peel was tasked to investigate the cause of the Arab-Jewish conflict in what was then called Palestine. In July, the commission he was heading issued its recommendations: to abolish the League of Nations Mandate and to partition the country between the Jews and the Palestin-

Map of the UN Partition Plan, 1947

ians. The Jewish state would be comprised of the coastal strip stretching from Mount Carmel to south of Be’er Tuvia, as well Jezreel Valley and the Galilee. The Arabs would inherit the Negev, Judea and Samaria. The zone between Jaffa and Jerusalem would remain in British hands. The Peel Commission’s proposal was endorsed by England’s Parliament.

But despite the fact that England thought that two states would be a workable solution, the Palestinians trampled on the findings and condemned it unanimously. The Arab High Committee opposed the idea of a Jewish state and called for an independent state of Palestine, demanding a cessation of Jewish immigration and land purchase. They argued that by giving the Jews a state the British were betraying their promise to the Palestinians.

The Jews were divided on the Peel Commission, but reluctantly agreed to it. Without Arab agreement – and they were willing to fall on their sword rather than give the Jews a quarter of the land – the two-state proposal was not adopted.

Fast forward ten years. The Jewish nation, reeling from the Holocaust, was trying to heal.

On November 29, 1947, the UN General Assembly adopted the Partition Plan for Palestine. Again, it was a “two-state” solution. The resolution rec-

ommended the creation of independent Arab and Jewish States and a Special International Regime for the city of Jerusalem. History repeats itself, as the Arabs unilaterally rejected it and refused to accept any forms of territorial division, arguing that it violated the principles of the UN Charter which grants people the right to decide their own destiny. The Jewish Agency for Palestine accepted the Plan, despite its limitations.

But a peaceful solution was far from coming.

The day after the British left Palestine, on May 15, 1948, when the Jewish People’s Council declared the establishment of the State of Israel, the surrounding Arab states – Egypt, Jordan, Syria and forces from Iraq – invaded.

They had made their intentions clear months earlier. A few weeks after the UN released its report, in October 1947, Azzam Pasha, the General Secretary of the Arab League, was quoted by an Egyptian newspaper as saying, “Personally I hope the Jews do not force us into this war because it will be a war of elimination and it will be a dangerous massacre which history will record similarly to the Mongol massacre or the wars of the Crusades.” Syrian President Shukri al-Quwait echoed his sentiment, “We shall eradicate Zionism,” he declared. In an interview in March 1948 Haj Amin

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al-Husseini said that the Arabs didn’t just reject the Partition Plan; they “would continue fighting until the Zionists were annihilated.”

March 10, 1949 saw victory for the ragtag army of the State of Israel. It took almost ten months of fighting and 6,373 Jews – soldiers and civilians – lost their lives in fighting for independence. As a result of its victory, the Jewish State retained the area alluded to in the Partition Plan as well as 60% of the Arab state proposed. Transjordan took control of parts of the West Bank and Egypt inherited the Gaza Strip.

Flip the calendar less than two decades, and again, 1967 saw more fighting over the tiny bit of land Jews can call home. After just six days of fighting, Israel was able to sign ceasefire agreements with Egypt, Jordan and Syria. Fewer than a thousand Israelis were killed in the conflict. The Jewish victors took control of the Gaza Strip and the Sinai Peninsula from Egypt, the West Bank and East Jerusalem from Jordan, and the Golan Heights from Syria. The Kotel was back in Jewish hands.

But the decisive victory did not spell an end to the Palestinians stirring the pot. In September 1967, just months after the Six Day War, eight Arab heads of state attended the Khartoum Arab Summit: Egypt, Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, Iraq, Algeria, Kuwait and Sudan. The resolution proposed there included continued belligerency with Israel and famously declared the “three no’s”: no peace with Israel, no recognition of Israel, no negotiations with the State.

Clinton Giving it All Away In campaigning for his wife last year, former U.S. President Bill Clinton professed, “I killed myself to give the Palestinians a state. I had a deal they turned down that would have given them all of Gaza.”

Every recent U.S. president has fancied himself the deliverer of peace in the Mideast. Bill Clinton was no different. On September 13, 1993, he stood smiling, with his arms extended, as Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin reluctantly shook hands with PLO leader Yasser Arafat on the White House lawn. It was right after Rabin and PLO negotiator Mahmoud Abbas signed the Oslo Accords. In the agreement, Israel accepted the PLO as the representative of the Palestinians, and the PLO said it would renounce terrorism and recognize Israel’s right to exist in peace. Both sides agreed that a Palestinian Authority (PA) would be established and assume governing responsibilities in the West Bank and Gaza Strip over a five-year period. Af-

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President Clinton, Yitzhak Rabin, and Yasser Arafat at the signing ceremony for the Oslo Accords, September 13, 1993

ter those five years, permanent status talks on the issues of borders, refugees, and Jerusalem would be held.

In May of 1994, the Cairo Agreement – also known as the Agreement on the Gaza Strip and the Jericho Area – was signed in Egypt by Rabin and Arafat. The agreement transferred control over the bulk of the Gaza Strip and the areas surrounding Jericho to Palestinian Authority control, with Israel maintaining control over the borders between the areas and over Jews living in the Strip. The Palestinians were able to maintain a police force and were able to operate helicopters and aircraft between Gaza and Jericho.

In September 1995, the Taba Agreement, also called Oslo II, divided the West Bank into three separate areas: areas A, B, and C. A was exclusively administered by the PA; B was controlled by both the PA and Israel; and C, which contained the Israeli settlements, was controlled by Israel.

During his tenure in the Oval Office, Clinton spent considerable time and effort in helping to implement the Oslo Accord. But by the time he left office, the State of Israel was once again mired in violence.

Just a few months after the Taba Agreement was signed, Rabin was assassinated by Yigal Amir, an Israeli who opposed the Oslo Accords. Following on the upheaval in the country, Hamas pound-

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ed the nation with a string of terror attacks. That year’s elections reflected the nation’s weariness with land for peace. New Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hailed from the Likud Party, a party historically opposed to Palestinian statehood and withdrawal from occupied territories.

But then, two years later, due to infighting stemming from the Wye Memorandum – in which the Israelis withdrew further from the West Bank – Netanyahu’s government was brought down, and Ehud Barak of the Labor Party was swept into office.

2000 saw Ehud Barak in a button-down shirt at Camp David with Bill Clinton and Yasser Arafat, clothed in an olive-green military uniform and a keffiyah. The talks between the two parties took place over two weeks in July, but no agreement was ever reached. Included in the talks were disputes over territory. Israel was willing to offer the Palestinians the opportunity to form a Palestinian state initially on 73% of the West Bank and 100% of the Gaza Strip. In a decade or two, the Palestinian state would eventually expand to 92% of the West Bank. Israel would have had to withdraw from many of its settlements and agreed to retain around 9% of the West Bank territory in exchange for 1% of land within the Green Line.

East Jerusalem was also a major tipping point during the talks. Mahmoud Abbas said that “all of East Jerusalem should be returned to Palestinian sovereignty. The Jewish Quarter and Western Wall should be placed under Israeli authority, not Israeli sovereignty.” Barak said that East Jerusalem will be the topic to decide the destiny of the negotiations.

The right of return was also negotiated at Camp David and many say that Arafat would not agree to any terms if the Palestinians were compelled to give up their right of return – regardless of monetary compensation.

After two weeks of concessions on behalf of the Israelis, both sides walked away, with Clinton throwing his hands up in frustration. He blamed Arafat for the failure of the talks, at one point saying, “I regret that in 2000 Arafat missed the opportunity to bring that nation into being and pray for the day when the dreams of the Palestinian

The resolution proposed there included continued belligerency with Israel and famously declared the “three no’s”: no peace with Israel, no recognition of Israel, no negotiations with the State.

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people for a state and a better life will be realized in a just and lasting peace.”

Dennis Ross, one of the negotiators at the summit, wrote about his thoughts on the summit in his book, The Missing Peace. He claimed that Arafat wanted a “one state solution. Not independent, adjacent Israeli and Palestinian states, but a single Arab state encompassing all of Historic Palestine.”

As Clinton left office, Israel was steeped in a wave of terrorism, declared by the Palestinians to be the al-Aqsa Intifada, after Ariel Sharon visited Temple Mount. Eight years of negotiating between the two sides seemed to have gone nowhere, with Israel conceding and withdrawing and the Palestinians refusing to budge a meter or two while they blew up buses and threw rocks.

President George W. Bush talks with Prime Minister Ariel Sharon of Israel and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in Aqaba, Jordan, in June 2003

Bush: Hands Off When George W. Bush reached the White House, he was determined to shy away from the Israeli-Palestinian tensions, burned by what he saw happen during Clinton’s tenure. The attacks on September 11, 2001 did not help the Palestinian cause. Secretary of State Powell repeatedly emphasized the primary responsibility of the parties involved to solve the conflict on their own. “We will facilitate, but at the end of the day, it will have to be the parties in the region who will have to find the solution.”

Talks in Taba in January of 2001 saw the Israelis continuing to push for peace. They presented a new map, removing “temporarily Israeli controlled” areas from the West Bank. The Palestinians accepted this new accord but Prime Minister Ehud Barak did not come to a full agreement with the other side. Subsequently, Barak lost the elections that took place in February, and Ariel Sharon of the Likud Party, took over his position. He did not continue with the negotiations and the Taba talks were tabled.

In March 2001, Powell spoke at a conference of the pro-Israeli AIPAC lobby, noting that the starting point for talks had to be the end of violence. Directed at Arafat, Powell stated, “Leaders have the responsibility to denounce violence, strip it of legitimacy [and] stop it.” He further said: “The U.S.

stands ready to assist, not insist. Peace arrived at voluntarily by the partners themselves is likely to prove more robust...than a peace widely viewed as developed by others, or worse yet, imposed.”

The Zinni Mission perhaps proved to the United States how Israel cannot negotiate with those who perpetuate terror. Assistant Secretary of State William Burns and former Marine General Anthony Zinni were dispatched to Israel to negotiate with the two sides. But almost from the start Zinni was confronted with terror. A few days into his trip, on November 27, two terrorists killed 3 Israelis and wounded 30 others. While he was meeting with Arafat a Palestinian terrorist fired at a Jewish neighborhood. Then, three more Israelis were killed by a suicide bomber aboard a bus. Another double suicide bombing attack killed 11 people and injured 180 in Ben Yehuda Street.

Zinni demanded a cease to the terrorism. But the terror continued. 15 Israelis were then killed by a suicide bomber on a bus. Israel retaliated by destroying Arafat’s helicopters and runway, which the United States condoned. Presidential spokesman Ari Fleisher noted, “Obviously Israel has the right to defend herself, and the president understands that clearly.” He added, “The president thinks it is very important that Palestinian jails not only have bars on the front, but no longer have

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revolving doors at the back.”

More attacks continued. Israel eventually surrounded Arafat’s compound in Ramallah and blew out the main transmission of the Palestine Broadcasting Company.

On December 15, 2001, Zinni returned to the United States, his mission – literally – up in flames.

In November 2001, at the United Nations, President Bush told the body, “We are working for the day when two states – Israel and Palestine – live peacefully together within secure and recognized boundaries.” He warned, “Peace will come when all have sworn off forever incitement, violence and terror. There is no such thing as a good terrorist.”

Based on a speech given by President Bush in June 2002, the U.S. State Department presented a “road map” for peace in 2003. Here, both sides agreed to the premise of the plan that was endorsed by members of the European Union, the United States, Russia and the UN: a series of benchmarks to be reached in order to provide a permanent two-state solution within three years’ time. It endeavored to create “an independent, democratic Palestinian state living side-by-side in peace and security with Israel and its other neighbors.” Both sides were required to take steps to end violence and Israel was called on to dismantle “outposts.”

Interestingly, the plan did not give specific directives as to what land would be given to which side. In contrast to the Oslo Accords, the Road Map gave the Quartet – the four powers involved with drawing up the plan – the power to monitor the provisions of the plan. Arafat was not involved in the talks. Both the United States and Israel refused to deal with him; instead, Mahmoud Abbas was promoted to the prime minister position.

In response to the Road Map’s proposals, 88 U.S. Senators came out in attack, saying that it did not take a strong enough position against Palestinian terrorism when compared with Bush’s speech back in June.

The Road Map to Peace obviously did not come to fruition. But it did highlight that United States’ policy was looking at peace with the telescope of a two-state solution. How to get there, it did not say.

In 2005, after much pain from the Israeli people, the “disengagement” that was proposed in 2003 by Ariel Sharon came to fruition. On August 15, 2005, amid anguish and heartache, Jews living in Gaza and in four settlements in the northern West Bank were ripped from their homes. Sadly, land for peace was not the answer. Gaza eventually turned into a launching pad for more terror against Israel.

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Fast forward to 2006. At the time, Ehud Olmert was the Israeli prime minister. He and Abbas met 36 times from December 2006 to September 2008 in efforts to come to peace. In 2007, Olmert proposed a plan in which the Israelis would withdraw from most of the West Bank. He proposed annexing at least 6.3% of Palestinian territory in exchange for 5.8% of Israeli land, with Palestinians receiving alternative land in the Negev, adjacent to the Gaza Strip, as well as a territorial link, under Israeli sovereignty, for free passage between Gaza and the West Bank. More than 60 percent of Israeli “settlers” would be able to stay in place, although the more sparsely populated areas would have to be evacuated.

In Jerusalem, Jewish neighborhoods would remain under Israeli sovereignty, while Arab neighborhoods would revert to Palestinian sovereignty.

Ultimately, nothing came of these talks, with both sides pointing fingers at the other for dropping the ball.

In June of that year, Hamas took control of the Gaza Strip. The Palestinians now had two parties at their helm: Fatah in the West Bank and Hamas in Gaza. Hamas in the lead did not bode well for Israel, as hostilities increased. Egypt eventually brokered peace in 2008 between Hamas and Israel. The collapse of that short-lived peace led to the Gaza War in December of 2008.

Obama: Inept yet Ruthless Barack Obama swept into the White House in January of 2009. Just a few months later, in June, he addressed the Muslim world in his Cairo Address, delivered in Egypt. He titled it “A New Beginning,” endeavoring to repair relations with the Muslim world that he said were damaged during the Bush 43 years. Upon Obama’s insistence, at least 10 members of the Muslim Brotherhood were able to attend his speech. During his campaign, Obama had promised to address the Muslim world in a Muslim country within a few months of ascending the presidency.

In May of that year, Obama met separately with Netanyahu and with Abbas. His meeting with Netanyahu was not smooth: Obama insisting on a two-state solution, Netanyahu not endorsing a Palestinian state; Obama demanding a settlement freeze, Netanyahu declaring Israel’s right to settlements. Perhaps the friction between the two of them was a sign of what was yet to come.

Obama’s Cairo Address focused on a few topics, although his words on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict garnered the most headlines. He called the United States and Israel’s bond “unbreakable,”

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President Obama arrives with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in Washington, September 1, 2010

although he described the Palestinian situation to be “intolerable.” He said he recognized their determination for a state to be just as legitimate as Israel’s desire for a homeland.

Reacting to the speech, Netanyahu declared for the first time conditional support for a future Palestinian state. The support was conditional, meaning the Palestinians would have to take some steps towards peace as well, including recognizing Israel as the nation-state of the Jewish people, demilitarizing a future Palestinian state, accepting that Jerusalem will remain the united capital of Israel, and renouncing their claim to a right of return.

Palestinians immediately rejected Netanyahu’s proposal for peace.

In 2010, the Obama administration, in the form of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, attempted to get the Israelis and Palestinians to sit down for talks once again. The talks aimed to put forth a framework for a two-state solution and to put a halt to further claims for land between the two parties. But Hamas and Hezbollah threatened violence, and Israel became skeptical at reaching an agreement. Additionally, the Palestinians continued to reiterate their refusal to recognize Israel as a Jewish State.

In March 2012, Abbas penned a letter to Netanyahu, declaring that in order for peace to come

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to fruition, Israel needs to stop building the settlements and must accept the 1967 borders as a basis for a two-state solution. Netanyahu, in turn, responded and officially recognized the right for Palestinians to have their own state – although he added that it would have to be demilitarized.

Talks with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton went nowhere and so when John Kerry inherited her title he decided to try his hand at Middle East peace. Direct negotiations between the two sides subsequently restarted on July 29, 2013. Things started out a little rocky when Hamas declared that Abbas had no legitimacy to negotiate with the Israelis in the name of all Palestinian people.

The talks were scheduled to take up to nine months. Unsurprisingly, negotiations ultimately collapsed, with the U.S. State Department commenting that “both sides did things that were incredibly unhelpful.”

But then, just a few months after the talks were shelved, in September 2014, Abbas submitted a proposal to Kerry for a new peace process. It called for nine months of direct talks followed by a threeyear plan for Israel to withdraw to the 1967 lines, leaving East Jerusalem as Palestine’s capital. Israel was to freeze all settlement activity and release certain Palestinian prisoners from Israeli jails.

Despite the lopsided conditions, Abbas said that if Israel wouldn’t accept his proposal for peace, he would push for charges against Israeli in the ICC over the 2014 Israel-Gaza conflict and would turn to the UN Security Council for a decision on a Palestinian state.

Abbas was true to his word. In December 2014, Jordan submitted the proposal to the Security Council, which failed when voted on later that month. Abbas also signed on to join the ICC. In response, Israel froze NIS 500 million ($127 million) in Palestinian tax revenues.

President Obama swept out of office showing his true colors. On December 23, 2016, just a few weeks shy of his departure from the White House, the United States did not veto a resolution that came before the UN Security Council that declared that Israeli settlements in “Palestinian territories occupied since 1967, including East Jerusalem”

“The U.S. stands ready to assist, not insist. Peace arrived at voluntarily by the partners themselves is likely to prove more robust...than a peace widely viewed as developed by others, or worse yet, imposed.”

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constitute a “flagrant violation” of international law and have “no legal validity.” This was the first Security Council resolution to pass concerning Israel since 2009 and the first one to address the settlements since 1980. Whispers in Washington told of how the Obama administration didn’t just hold back their veto power; they were behind the orchestration and formation of the resolution.

One-State, Two-State For three decades the U.S. has been pushing for a two-state answer to solve the Israeli-Palestinian struggle. Now, though, President Trump has said that he is open to other avenues for peace. What would a one-state or two-state solution look like?

Perhaps, some propose, a one-state solution is the answer. Two states require dividing land. One state requires dividing identity and sovereignty.

Both Israel and Palestine would be two unique political entities over the same strip of land. All citizens would be able to move across the country – Jews in Gaza and Palestinians within Israel.

Jerusalem would be shared and undivided. Both entities would be responsible for structures like bridges and road and for defense.

One could see many holes in this solution – primarily the issue of violence showed by some Palestinians towards Jews. Additionally, Fatah and Hamas do not have a good track record of providing the proper infrastructure or defense organization for their citizens.

But it has some supporters. “It would mean creating an entirely new system of government— something we’ve never seen before,” Dani Dayan, who is now the Israel consul general to New York, said a few years ago. “But it’s more realistic than the two-state solution.” President Reuven Rivlin has also said he supports this type of concept.

Naftali Bennett, head of Jewish Home party, has another vision for Israel’s future. He has expressed his support for a full annexation of the West Bank. Back in 1967, Israel annexed East Jerusalem and the Golan Heights. Israeli law is applied to those territories, and the citizens became eligible to apply for Israeli citizenship. The West

President Trump and Netanyahu at their joint press conference last week

Bank was not formally annexed.

“Israel has annexed areas in the past. The world does not recognize it to this very day, but we do,” he has said. “Even if we can’t do it tomorrow, it’s a vision that I’m working towards.”

Under Bennett’s “sovereignty plan,” those who live in Area C (referring to the Oslo plan) would be offered full Israeli citizenship. The other 2.5 million Palestinians in the rest of the West Bank would remain stateless. They would have a limited self-government, something like the Palestinian Authority. “It’s less than a state, in the sense that it’s not open gates for millions of descendants of refugees, and [without] an army, but barring that, it’s full self-governance,” Bennett describes. “It’s autonomy on steroids, for lack of a better term.”

Palestinians have pointed out the flaw in Bennett’s plan, calling it not viable. The pockets of land for Palestinians would be separated by Israeli territory and they would be receiving land not considered valuable, like that of the Jordan Valley and the Dead Sea, which would go to Israel.

About 40 percent of Israelis agree with the idea of Bennett’s plan. Netanyahu, though, seems to be unsure, and is fearful of international condemnation if such a plan is implemented.

A two-state solution, says U.S. Senator Marco Rubio would not be viable for a few reasons.

“For example, I would say that one of the biggest

“Peace will come when all have sworn off forever incitement, violence and terror. There is no such thing as a good terrorist.”

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obstacles to [this solution] was the efforts by the previous administration to pressure Israel and to impose on it a settlement outside the bounds of what the Jewish people in Israel support and what is in their interests,” he said last week at a hearing for the confirmation of David Friedman as U.S. ambassador to Israel. “I would further say that a bigger impediment is the unwillingness of the PA leadership to recognize Israel’s right to exist as a Jewish state –and that is the key phrase; not just Israel’s right to exist, but to exist as the homeland for the Jewish People. That is a big impediment to a deal, because how can you negotiate a peaceful existence with a neighbor who does not recognize your right to exist? What are you negotiating – the terms of your destruction? I think that’s a much bigger impediment.”

Another option for a solution would be maintaining a slight status quo. Just recently, Israel announced plans for the building of thousands of new homes in the territories. And Netanyahu announced a plan to build a new settlement in the West Bank. The Knesset, under Bennett’s urging, passed a law to retroactively authorize dozens of “illegal outposts,” settlements that were built without the government’s approval.

Immortal Words In February 1948, President Harry S. Truman, who later recognized the State of Israel despite the admonitions of every one of his cabinet members, wrote a letter to Mr. Edward Jacobson of Kansas City, Missouri. Mr. Truman’s message was just as relevant then as it is now.

The president wrote: “The situation for me has been a headache for two and a half years. The Jews are so emotional, and the Arabs are so difficult to talk with that it is almost impossible to get anything done. The British, of course, have been exceedingly noncooperative [sic] in arriving at a conclusion...

“I hope it will work out all right, but I have about come to the conclusion that the situation is not solvable as it set up...”

Throughout Israel’s short history we’ve been pummeled, pushed and tugged in an effort to ensure peace with our neighbors. The talks begin, then stall; the quiet reigns, and then is shattered.

When President Trump took the podium last week he promised he will be a friend of the Jews. Hopefully, we will see a peaceful solution, one-state, two-state, three-state – oh, whatever.

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Jerusalem’s Streets Neighborhood Themes

By Gedaliah Borvick

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hroughout the world, many neighborhoods have groups of streets with names related to a specific theme. For example, growing up in Long Beach, New York, I lived on Walnut Street and my friends lived on Olive, Pine, Maple and Beech. Likewise, before making aliyah, we lived in Bergenfield, NJ, on Westminster Avenue, and the neighboring streets were Rector, Tudor, Highgate, Thames and Hampton.

Similarly, most of Jerusalem’s neighborhoods have street name themes. Often, the names relate to famous nearby sites. For example, Abu Tor is a neighborhood situated in the southern part of the capital.

Located next to Ir David, many of Abu Tor’s streets are named for King David’s relatives, including ancestors Obed, Naomi and Yishai, and his sister Tzruya.

Arnona is one of Jerusalem’s southernmost neighborhoods and

offers panoramic views toward Gush Etzion to the south. Accordingly, a number of streets in Arnona were named after Jewish settlements that fell in 1948, including Kfar Etzion, Massuot Yitzchak, and Ein Tzurim.

On the topic of Jewish martyrdom during the country’s nascent years, the Armon Hanatziv neighborhood is named for the Commissioner’s Palace which was built during the British Mandate period.

Numerous streets were named in memory of the Jewish underground fighters who were killed by the British leading up to the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948. The main street is Olei Hagardom – meaning those who went up on the scaffolding – alluding to the many Jewish fighters who were executed on the scaffold in the Acre prison. Some of the blocks that run into Olei Hagardom Street are named in memory of people who were executed in Acre, including Yechiel Drezner and Dov

Gruner, among others.

Baka’s streets are named after the tribes of Israel, such as Yehudah, Naftali, Levi, etc. and the Judges, such as Barak and Yiftach.

Numerous neighborhoods in Jerusalem have clusters of streets named after Jewish heroes throughout history, starting from the Bible, through the great Talmudic and Post-Talmudic sages, to the leading sages over the past millennium plus Zionist leaders and Lovers of Zion.

Predictably, some streets are named for indigenous flora and fauna, the seven species, trees and spices. Somewhat surprisingly, and charmingly, over a half dozen streets located adjacent to the Jerusalem Biblical Zoo are named for animals, such as HaShu’al (fox) and HaDov (bear).

I was particularly impressed with the theme in Kiryat Menachem and Kiryat Hayovel. Many streets are named after the Latin American

countries that voted in favor of the United Nations Partition Plan on November 29, 1947 (and yes, there is also a street named in honor of that date), which paved the way for the establishment of the State of Israel. These street names include Colombia, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, and Venezuela. A number of these countries have subsequently changed allegiances; nonetheless, when we needed to achieve the twothirds majority to gain our independence, these nations were on our side. The street names serve as an eternal demonstration of our appreciation for their friendship on that miraculous day.

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

Dear Navidaters,

In light of some of the questions I read each week in your column, this might sound silly and even frivolous but I’m going to ask it anyway because it is driving me and my husband crazy and maybe we need to just relax and hope for the best.

Our daughter has always been a very earthy, natural type of young lady. She’s always hated any kind of makeup, fussing with her hair, and she’s total not interested in clothing. As a probably too-honest mother, I have to say that she’s not a natural beauty. I would say that she’s “average” looking. I think we all need some help here and there and there’s nothing wrong with putting on a little lipstick or blush. I speak to some of the mothers of my daughters’ friends, who are also starting to date, and they talk about going shopping with their daughters to buy them special clothing so that they look their best on a date. I know they fuss over their hair and makeup too.

My daughter refuses to go shopping with me for appropriate clothing or makeup. She wears her hair pulled back. Her attitude is that this is who she is and whoever falls in love with her will accept her that way. I agree that we want to be loved for who we are on the inside, but I also think first impressions count and that when you put so little effort into getting ready for a date, it’s possible for any young man to feel that you don’t really care that much about how you look or how he will react.

She’s only gone out with two men so far. Both did not go further than one date. It could be because it just wasn’t a good match, but my bigger fear is that it’s because they don’t find her attractive enough or even feminine enough. I know that with a little help, like most of us, she could look so much better and be really attractive.

How can I get her to understand that the competition is fierce and that she will have an easier time meeting Mr. Right if she could only get with the program?

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

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our question is neither frivolous nor silly. Your daughter does not seem to be in touch with her feminine side, and now that it’s time to date it’s worrisome to the two of you.

As you must have noticed, I am a big believer in young adult children having mentors besides their parents. Young adult children, although they may be communicating with their parents and contemplating marriage, are still forming their identities and developing their sense of self. They are often not open to direct guidance from parents with whom they may have had conflict just recently during their teenage years. Someone who has gained their respect – a teacher, a rebbe, or a person just a few years older whom they admire – will have influence on them in ways that their parents cannot have. That’s because they see them as they are, without their baggage of growth and development that the parents see. It is a good idea to encourage such relationships. Having solid, mature, wise adults in your child’s life is a positive thing and will foster growth on many levels.

From time to time, a parent can communicate with the child’s mentor in a discreet fashion to share his or her perspective and concerns. You want the mentor to hear from you and if s/he wants to share his/her perspective, that’s fine. Do what you can to build your child’s trust in someone whom you see deserves it.

It’s a healthy thing.

You can share your concern about her lack of effort to improve her appearance with your child’s mentor but don’t be disappointed if your daughter does not respond. Perhaps there are deeper reasons why she does not want to be feminine. Maybe she does not feel good about herself for serious reasons. Give it time and see what happens. At some point in

the future, you can bring up the matter of self-image with the mentor and inquire whether s/he thinks your daughter needs professional help.

Meanwhile, don’t worry. The influence of friends may clue your daughter in. If she doesn’t have friends and doesn’t invest in herself, then I would say take her for help directly. Something is wrong.

The Mother Sarah Schwartz Schreiber, P.A.

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old your lipstick, Too-Honest-Mother. No matter how much you harass her, your daughter will not start primping and painting if that’s not her style. Stop biting your manicured nails and advocate for your wonderful child – your young lady with a million friends and great personality. The girl who is smart, funny, caring and confident.

The child you think is adorable – even when she’s wearing her scruffiest pajamas and smells of toothpaste, shampoo and Dove soap.

Bear in mind that dating, though a harrowing rite of passage, is not a beauty contest of “fierce competition.” Many guys prefer the more natural, down-to-earth type. The man your daughter marries will be attracted to her charm, intelligence and other wonderful attributes.

Besides, if Beauty was the ticket to the chuppah, how is it that so many Plain Janes get married and so many “Tens” remain single?

To illustrate my point: my cousin, Shaindel, despite her mother’s cajoling, refused to wear makeup, jewelry or heels while she was in shidduchim. Still, she was a radiant kallah in glasses, sneakers and scrubbed face (she wiped off all her makeup!) at the ripe “old” age of 23. And now, fifteen years later, her husband still thinks she’s beautiful!

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udging from your daughter’s nonchalant attitude regarding looking presentable for a shidduch, it’s possible that she just might not be interested yet in dating altogether. For a girl to go out with absolutely no makeup, mismatched or non-put together attire, and her hair pulled back gives off a statement of itself.

In life, diversion from standard regular protocol is often to purposefully make an overt statement. In this case, the statement might be: “I’m not interested in this right now so I’m not going to try.” If she might be too young and is really uninter-

Besides, if Beauty was the ticket to the chuppah, how is it that so many Plain Janes get married and so many “Tens” remain single?

ested in dating, I would recommend that you relax and not work on any suggestions for her until she takes a step herself and tells you, “Mom, I’m ready to start shidduchim.” At that point you can tell her that you’ll work on finding shidduch prospects for her as soon as she exerts the effort in

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looking presentable and put together for a date.

It is important to emphasize that you should never hint to her that you feel she is not particularly pretty, as this would do much damage to her self-esteem. Instead, explain that when a girl is looking to get married she should look her best and, more importantly, give off the impression that she is taking care of herself.

Explain that not caring about being presentable is in itself making a loud and negative statement. In addition, try speaking to one of her mentors or friends and ask them to broach the topic on their own. The unusual truth is that often a child will be more receptive to a point raised by anyone other than a parent!

If she currently really does want to get

married and nevertheless harbors that attitude, you might have to come to grips with the fact that she is an independent individual whom you cannot force to dress or present differently any certain way. Just daven that her bashert won’t notice these things and grin and bear it. With the lack of success in shidduchim will come the frustration leading to a likely self-driven change in outlook and action. Much hatzlacha!

The Single Tova Wein

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t sounds to me as though there would be several possible explana-

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

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wish I could provide you with the magical answer to your question. I am not of the belief that we can force another person to share our values. We can offer our values, we can lead by example, we can even take our daughters to the Chanel makeup counter … at the end of the day it is your daughter’s hand that will be applying the makeup to your daughter’s face. If she doesn’t go for that look, then that is her preference and there is not much you can do about it.

I have two daughters. One loves everything feminine. Makeup, bows, clothes, shoes, jewelry. If I allowed it, she would wear a sash that read Ms. Five Towns. My other daughter is different. She is incredibly natural and finds makeup and primping of any kind to be silly and frivolous. I

have decided to let it go. I don’t imagine her enjoying makeup and clothing when she is a bit older and starts to date, and I don’t plan on arguing with her over something that is near and dear to her heart. My husband often has to help me bite my tongue. I will say to him, “Do you see what she is wearing?” And he says, “Jen, let it go. She feels good about herself like this.”

The most important thing is that your daughter feels good about herself. If you force her to wear makeup and she hates it, how will she feel about herself on her dates? And furthermore, if she shows up on her dates with makeup and fabulous outfits only to reveal her true self once she is married (no makeup and casu-

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tions for your frustrating situation.

First of all, I wonder whether you are overly invested in fussing with yourself and your daughter is rebelling against your style. That is often the case when girls feel they can’t compete with their mothers and so they go in the direct opposite direction.

In that way they can’t possibly lose the competition and they are making their own mark and statement about how a woman should present.

A second possibility is that your daughter is just not ready to date.

Maybe she really doesn’t care much about getting into this whole chapter of her life right now and so by sabotaging the success of dating she can push it off in her own way for a while.

Of course, sometimes the obvious explanation is the correct one. Some women (and men) are not into any form of dress-up. They

al), what will her husband think? Would that be fair to him? I have met handfuls of men who find makeup fake and unattractive.

As Tova Wein suggested, there are the men who will appreciate your daughter. Find the beauty in your daughter’s appearance and I think you will soon realize that there are men who will find her beautiful, just as she is.

I understand the importance of first impressions. And I understand how competitive shidduchim are today. If your daughter is even slightly open to wearing makeup for the good reasons you mentioned, you can hire a makeup artist who specializes in the “natural look” to come to your home.

A little mascara and a natural-hued stain or gloss would give your daughter a polished, feminine look without compromising her essence. However, if this is very personal and does compromise who she is, then my advice is to leave this alone.

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As they say, “There’s a cover for every pot!” believe in keeping things natural and real. They actually dislike how makeup looks and are attracted to a simple look. I admit that these individuals are few and far between, which means it will probably take a lot longer for your daughter to meet someone who is on her page in this regard, but trust me, there are men out there who like a woman who is low-key. If this is the explanation, make sure that the people who are working on a shidduch for your daughter look for men who are appropriately matched to her style. Try not to waste anyone’s time setting her up with men who go for the “put-together” types. As they say, “There’s a cover for every pot!”

into this world to help us parents work on certain parts of ourselves. One common lesson children teach us is We don’t have as much control as we think we do. Some come to teach us acceptance, others teach us patience, while others teach us how to stand up for ourselves. Should your daughter reject the path most commonly traveled, what lesson would she be offering you? Whatever the lesson, that is where your energy will be welcome.

Wishing you 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.

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Dr. Deb

Why Do Hypnosis?

By Deb Hirschhorn, Ph.D.

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ast week, I shared with you one of the biggest myths about hypnosis – that somehow, mysteriously, the hypnotherapist manages to take over your brain and you completely lose your bechira. I also shared with you the logic of how this is impossible; in fact various versions of hypnosis take place routinely as we go about our business in everyday life.

As one more example that just occurred to me of ordinary trance, did

you ever walk into a room and totally not remember why you were on the way there in the first place? Well, that has happened to me dozens of times.

That’s also hypnosis: Your mind simply wandered off to something else.

The next good question, then, is what is the point of hypnosis anyway?

If all the therapist is doing is taking advantage of your imagination, what does it accomplish that sitting and talking doesn’t do?

It’s really simple: It makes you focus.

This Shabbos, Rabbi Feiner gave a whole drash on the damage to our psyches of cellphones. And why the damage? Because we seem unable to focus anymore. We are so used to this convenient distraction that we no longer can zero in on very much. Grades are sinking, relationships are wilting, and even funerals are invaded by this distractor. It’s a problem.

Apparently, distractions were always a problem. Hypnosis, after all, is many centuries old. Ancient Eastern locales such as India had “sleep temples” where hypnosis was practiced in an attempt to cure illness.

Hypnosis is used therapeutically to present an alternative relationship

Sam about what it could be. Sam talks about the problem in his own way and the therapist may comment in ways to open him up more to himself.

Alternatively, Sam may be told to think of where this feeling came from or when it started and intense questioning may lead him to some ideas.

Hypnosis, on the other hand, is a more hands-on approach. Sam will be asked to relax so that his focus will be on the topic at hand. He may be asked to imagine going back in time to when this started. If Sam can pinpoint an exact situation, then the therapist may suggest imagining something that will alter Sam’s reaction.

Let’s make up a scenario. (By the way, it came to my attention that someone, I don’t know who, thought

A meaningful imaginative experience can leave a strong impression on a person which can create permanent change.

to a memory, a person, a situation, or a habit. For example, let us say that Sam was stuck in an emotion he did not want. Perhaps Sam feels absolutely nothing; he’s emotionally numb. He doesn’t know why that is and how it started but he definitely wants to get rid of that heavy feeling of a weight over his heart.

Therapists have many approaches to this sort of problem. One is psychoanalysis. It is the most hands-off of the methods because the therapist does not make any suggestions to

I had written about them in one of my articles. I would not and I do not, but it is not surprising that people may feel as though I wrote about them; most problems are shared by many.

I make up all my stories except the ones about me!)

Let’s say Sam recalls his father punishing him for some misdeed that Sam is quite sure he didn’t even do.

His father decides to hit Sam and out of a sense of pride, Sam tells himself that he doesn’t feel anything at all.

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Bingo! We’ve gotten to the origin of the problem. But that is not enough.

How do we overcome it?

Here’s where the beauty of hypnosis comes through. You cannot logically argue a person out of or into feelings. And contrary to pop-psych, the problems don’t go away just because you discovered their origin. If it were that easy, everyone using drugs would realize they were unloved as kids (or felt that way) and bingo! They’d stop

using. But it doesn’t work like that.

But what you can do that is very powerful is present an alternative understanding of the situation. So the therapist asks Sam to sit back and watch a “movie” in his mind’s eye of this entire encounter with his father.

In the movie, the therapist takes Sam on a journey into his father’s mind while he is hitting Sam. His father remembers his own childhood and we hear his father as a little boy himself,

crying to his father. The therapist describes Sam’s father in great detail, bringing the picture to life.

Suddenly, instead of being this threatening person that Sam always experienced, his father “becomes” another little boy like him, sad, frightened, and without any other tools for coping with an abusive father. The therapist fast-forwards the “movie” to the future and Sam goes to “visit” his father in an old age home. His fa-

ther is as one would expect a resident there to be.

Slowly, the therapist asks Sam to rejoin her in the present, orienting Sam carefully away from his imaginative travels but bringing what he learned with him. Sam starts to cry.

Because his father is not really his enemy but either a scared little boy like he was or a bent old man, Sam permits himself to let out his pent up emotions.

He will be numb no more.

Could this be achieved without hypnosis?

Yes, for some people it can. For people willing to honestly question themselves and search for answers, it can. But there is always a danger of backsliding when new understandings come through the process of intellectually realizing something.

There needs to be a connection from realization to behavior change. Often, the fuel for behavior change is emotion. After all, it’s called emotion because it creates motion. A meaningful imaginative experience can leave a strong impression on a person which can create permanent change.

Now, let’s take this a step further.

Imagine Sam being married to Linda.

For obvious reasons, Linda was not happy with Sam’s perceived coldness.

She thought he’s cold and he hadn’t even realized that he was numb because of the intense pain he’d been put in as a child. What started out as a smart adaptive mechanism for Sam ended up almost destroying his marriage.

When she finally told him he’d better get therapy help or they had a good chance of being finished, he reluctantly sought out the help he needed. But after that day in the therapist’s office, he was so glad he did.

He walked out, thrilled with his new joie d’ vivre and he rushed home to tell Linda.

When a couple can share scary things with each other, that’s intimacy. Whatever else happens between them that the world likes to call intimacy is only possible from this opening of hearts and souls to one another.

That’s the real intimacy. What took place in that therapy office is true healing, a refuas hanefesh. Hypnosis is a powerful tool to accomplish that, although anyone in hypnosis is in the driver’s seat in the process.

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

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Health & F tness

Is Stress Causing Your Weight Gain?

By Aliza Beer MS, RD

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e all experience stress at some point or another in our lives. While we can agree that feeling stressed is never pleasant, we might not realize that it may actually poorly affect our health as well. Headaches, tension, anxiety, and depression are just some of the hallmark consequences of stress but research has confirmed that weight gain is yet another powerful result of stress. Though some may find that stress may reduce their appetite initially, long term or chronic stress actually boosts your hunger, causes overeating, and predisposes you to excess weight gain.

Why does this happen? We have physiology to thank for this reaction to stress, specifically our “fight or flight” response. When we are in a stressful situation or are feeling chronic stress, a hormone known as cortisol – also called the “stress hormone” – is released and hangs around in our body.

This hormone interprets your feelings of stress to mean that your body is going through a hardship and prepares for starvation mode. Therefore, your body slowly begins to store fat more efficiently in order to protect your body. In addition to storing excess fat (particularly belly fat), cortisol boosts your appetite and drives cravings for less healthy “junk food.” This is also linked to another famous hormone, known as insulin. High cortisol levels in the blood lead to higher than normal insulin levels, the hormone that regulates blood sugar levels. When insulin levels are higher than normal,

our blood sugar drops. This generally causes us to crave sugary, fatty foods and is why during stressful times the cravings we have for “junk food” often rises. This explains why it is way more common to find yourself reaching for a box of cookies when you are in a stressful situation as opposed to a healthier alternative!

Lastly, stress tends to slow down your metabolism. This makes it more difficult to burn calories and therefore you are more likely to gain weight.

The combination of all of these effects of stress on our bodies makes it very likely, if not unavoidable, to gain weight during stressful times.

So how do we combat this? Of course, dealing with stress in a healthy way and alleviating the anxiety is key. Unfortunately, that is not always so simple. However, there are other ways to control weight gain during stressful times. Here are three key tips to help keep your weight under control during stressful times: 1) Make sure to exercise.

Maintaining a healthy exercise regimen during stressful times may be hard for some, but the benefits are well worth it. Exercise is always a great way to burn additional calories and prevent excess weight gain, thus making it even more ideal during a stressful time when your body is encouraged to put on extra pounds.

Additionally, exercise releases hormones that make you feel good. These hormones can help combat the stress hormones, thus reducing anxiety.

Furthermore, exercise boosts your

metabolism, which combats the sluggish effect that cortisol has on your metabolism.

2) Get enough sleep. Often when we feel stressed we tend to notice the effects in our sleeping habits.

It is all too common for people to face restless nights during stressful times.

However, this just raises our stress levels, as the body interprets a lack of sleep to mean that the body is in a more stressful situation! While our cortisol levels continue to skyrocket, another hormone known as ghrelin is also increased in our blood from lack of sleep. Ghrelin is the hormone responsible for making you feel hungry. This combination is likely to lead to overeating. Making sure to get enough sleep is key to keeping these hormones balanced. This may be easier said than done during a stressful time where a good night’s sleep seems to be impossible, but reducing caffeine, such as in chocolate, tea, ice cream, and coffee, are some ways to help relax your body and hopefully ease you into restful nights. Reading a book and avoiding electronics such as your smartphone or laptop in the bedroom are other ways to promote peaceful nights. Taking a hot bath or shower before bed is yet another good tool that will bring on relaxation and sleep.

3) Keep your plate colorful. A varied plate, filled with fruits, vegetables, proteins, and whole grains, is another way to help avoid weight gain when under stress. Whole grains, plenty of protein, and a large plate of

vegetables keep you full longer, which will likely keep the binge-eating on less healthy options at bay. Not only do these options keep you full longer, they are also full of nutrients, such as essential vitamins and minerals.

Studies have found that adequate amounts of certain vitamins and minerals, specifically the B-vitamins, vitamin C, calcium, and magnesium, are linked to lowering cortisol levels in the blood. Eggs, fish, meat, whole grains and dairy are great ways to take in enough B-vitamins. Citrus fruit, such as strawberries and grapefruit, are full of vitamin C. Green leafy vegetables and nuts and beans are great sources of magnesium, while salmon and dairy foods are filled with calcium.

Stress is an inevitable part of our lives. However, we do not want stress to interfere with our lives and our health more than it needs to. Few people associate stress with weight gain but, in fact, weight gain is physiologically linked to stress! Understanding that stress and anxiety can lead to weight gain and the different ways in which it causes the number on the scale to rise are essential to developing the right tools to combat this problem.

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

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And that is in no small part the doing of Royal Wine Corp, the sponsor of KFWE, which takes place once a year in New York.

KFWE is not merely an evening of indulgence. Yes, the event featured over 300 wines from all over the world and food creations from some of kosher cooking’s superstars, but for many, the evening was a coming together of sorts for the like-minded and culinary-curious.

But not in a snooty, pretentious, wine-swilling kind of way. Apprehensive first timers who came with a wingman in tow quickly became comfortable traveling the vast ballroom solo, as their partners ended up exploring other world regions or sampling lamb bacon peanut brittle without them. Indeed, one patron commented a week later that although his Uber buddy

– whom he shared a ride in with – left him at the gate and had not been sighted since, he had such a great time he plans on returning next year (perhaps with a different friend).

Kosher wine lovers got to mingle with industry veterans and upstarts alike, including French and Spanish winemakers (Chateau Forcras Dupre; Capcanes). Menachem Israelievitch, the pioneering Frenchman who makes such venerable varieties as Lafite and Pontet Canet available to the kosher consumer, was onsite to showcase new Rothschild champagne and barrel samples of newly kosher Bordeaux.

Bloggers such as Yossi Horowitz and David Raccah mingled with the crowd, all the while taking notes between swirls (lychee and slate, anyone?).

For the non-sniff and spit crowd, the event offered up the best kosher food has to offer, from overnight potato kugel to a smorgasbord of gribben which was most definitely not available in the shtetl (maple flavored, anyone?). Ari White of the Wandering Que served a taste of Texas to an otherwise French-inspired evening and there copious amounts of lamb bacon had otherwise proper guests licking their goblet-holding fingers.

The New York event barely finished and the KFWE and Royal people were off to Los Angeles for another round of food, wine and overly-happy Yidden. Next year in Jerusalem!

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I am always looking for a way to use chicken that is left over from my chicken soup. A good cook wastes nothing! I try to re-purpose the

Chicken Salad in Lettuce Cups

chicken from the soup in an entirely different dish so it takes on a new look and taste. Last week, I had made a huge batch of chicken soup and had lots of chicken left over after all the broth was consumed. I shredded the meat off the bones and made this delicious chicken salad, which I served in lettuce cups.

Ingredients ¾ lb. boneless, skinless chicken breast, cooked and coarsely shredded 1 can water chestnuts, sliced ½ small head Napa or Chinese cabbage, shredded (about 3 cups) 1 medium carrot, shredded (about 1 cup) 6 scallions, thinly sliced ¼ cup white vinegar 3 tablespoons canola oil 2 tablespoons light soy sauce 1 tablespoon sesame oil 2 garlic cloves, minced 2 teaspoons ground ginger ½ teaspoon black pepper 1 to 2 heads Bibb lettuce, separated to obtain 20 leaves

Preparation In a large bowl, combine the chicken, water chestnuts, cabbage, carrot, and scallions; mix well.

In a small bowl, combine the vinegar, canola oil, soy sauce, sesame oil, garlic, ginger, and black pepper; mix well and pour over the cabbage mixture.

Mix until evenly coated.

Spoon an equal amount of the chicken mixture onto the center of each lettuce leaf and place on an appetizer plate.

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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Thieves in London made off with $3 million worth of rare books from the Middle Ages.

Authorities describe the suspect as “boring.”

– Conan O’Brien

Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said today that there is no greater supporter of the Jewish state than President Trump. Said Trump, “Absolutely, I love Florida. Fantastic Jewish state.”

– Seth Myers

The big story is that last night, The New York Times published a bombshell report that President Trump’s campaign was in contact with Russian intelligence since 2015. When asked if it was true, Trump said, “Nyet! I mean, no!”

– Jimmy Fallon

The three main problems we must handle are Iran, Iran and Iran.

– Israel’s foreign minister Avigdor Lieberman after meeting with Secretary of Defense James Mattis

Ladies and gentlemen, we were attacked on Dec. 7, 1941, we were attacked on Sept. 11, 2001, and we were attacked on Nov. 8, 2016.

I’ve known President Trump for many years, and to allude to him, or to his people – his team – some of whom I’ve known for many years, too. Can I reveal, Jared, how long we’ve known you? Well, he was never small. He was always big. He was always tall.

But I’ve known the president and I’ve known his family and his team for a long time, and there is no greater supporter of the Jewish people and the Jewish state than President Donald Trump. I think we should put that to rest.

- From a New York Times article by Thomas Friedman, who suffers from Trump Derangement Syndrome

- Prime Minister Netanyahu responding to a reporter’s question about Trump and anti-Semitism, at a joint press conference in the White House last week

Envy and jealousy are incurable diseases. The haters still hate. And I understand it, and we’ll do our best to keep them in that position.

Thank you very much. Very nice. I appreciate that very much.

– Patriots owner Robert Kraft on HBO’s Real Sports

– President Trump, in response to Netanyahu’s comments

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Although, if you’re trying to modernize Monopoly, maybe start with Oriental Avenue. We call it Asian-American Avenue now.

- Seth Myers

This is what it’s like to be with Trump.

He says, “There’s the menu, you guys order whatever you want.” And then he says, “Chris, you and I are going to have the meatloaf; I’m telling you, the meatloaf is fabulous.”

- Chris Christie recounting a recent lunch meeting with President Trump at the White House

At a recent dinner while President Trump invited other attendees to order whatever they wanted, Trump demanded Chris Christie have the White House meatloaf. Coincidentally, “White House Meatloaf” is also the position Trump is considering him for.

– Seth Myers

If you want to preserve – I’m very serious now – if you want to preserve democracy as we know it, you have to have a free and many times adversarial press. And without it, I am afraid that we would lose so much of our individual liberties over time. That’s how dictators get started.

– Sen. John McCain on “Meet the Press” criticizing Trump’s criticism of the press

Everything that he says about the president is colored by his own personal dispute he’s got running with President Trump, and it should be taken with a grain of salt, because John McCain’s the guy who’s advocated for war everywhere. He would bankrupt the nation. We’re very lucky John McCain’s not in charge, because I think we’d be in perpetual war.

– Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), responding to Sen. McCain’s comments on ABC’s “This Week”

Trump also discussed the recent bombshell about his staff communicating with Russia, and he said that he hasn’t made a phone call to Russia in years.

You could tell Trump was lying because his tie grew another three inches.

– Jimmy Fallon

This was in response to his secretary of labor withdrawing his nomination and Trump having to pick a replacement. Trump’s original pick, Andrew Puzder, is the CEO of Hardee’s and Carl’s Jr. But Puzder withdrew his nomination after it became clear he would not get confirmed. When asked what he was going to do next, Puzder said, “Please drive around to the second window and we can talk there.”

- Conan O’Brien

Right now, the human worker who does, say, $50,000 worth of work in a factory, that income is taxed and you get income tax, Social Security tax, all those things. If a robot comes in to do the same thing, you’d think that we’d tax the robot at a similar level.

- Bill Gates, in an interview with Quartz

The anti-Semitism threat targeting our Jewish community and community centers are horrible and painful and a very sad reminder of the work that must be done to root out hate, prejudice and evil.

– President Trump after touring the National Museum of African American History in Washington, D.C.

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What, like it was tacked to a bulletin board next to guitar lessons and a picture of a lost cat?

- Conan O’Brien

There were demonstrations across the country today to protest the president’s immigration policy.

Immigrants were encouraged to skip work today for what they called “a day without immigrants,” or as Steve Bannon calls it, “a good start.”

The media did not make Donald Trump and they can’t destroy him… They have a formula, they have a blueprint, for destroying Republican political officials they don’t like.

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Political Crossfire

The Case of the Cover-up in Search of a Crime

By Charles Krauthammer

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t’s a Watergate-era cliché that the cover-up is always worse than the crime. In the Mike Flynn affair, we have the first recorded instance of a cover-up in the absence of a crime.

Being covered up were the Dec. 29 phone calls between Flynn and the Russian ambassador to Washington. The presumed violation was Flynn negotiating with a foreign adversary while the Obama administration was still in office and, even worse, discussing with Sergey Kislyak the sanctions then being imposed upon Russia (for meddling in the 2016 elections).

What’s wrong with that? It is risible to invoke the Logan Act, passed during the John Adams administration, under which not a single American has been prosecuted in the intervening 218 years. It prohibits private citizens from negotiating with foreign powers. Flynn was hardly a private citizen. As Donald Trump’s publicly designated incoming national security adviser, it was perfectly reasonable for him to be talking to foreign actors in preparation for assuming office within the month.

Worst case: He was telling Kislyak that the Trump administration might lift sanctions and therefore, comrade, no need for a spiral of retaliations. How different is this from Barack Obama telling Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, on an inadvertently open mic, during his 2012 re-election campaign, “This is my

last election. After my election, I have more flexibility.”

Flynn would have been giving the Russians useful information that might well have contributed to Russia’s decision not to retaliate. I’m no Russophile. But again: What’s wrong with that? Turns out, the Trump administration has not lifted those sanctions. It’s all a tempest in an empty teapot.

Flynn had never discussed sanctions.

You can’t leave your vice president undercut and exposed. Flynn had to go.

Up to this point, the story makes sense. Except for one thing: Why the cover-up if there is no crime? Why lie about talking about sanctions?

It’s inexplicable. Did Flynn want to head off lines of inquiry about other contacts with Russians that might

You can’t leave your vice president undercut and exposed. Flynn had to go.

The accusations of misbehavior

by Flynn carry a subliminal echo of a long-standing charge against Richard Nixon that he interfered in the Paris peace talks in October 1968 to prevent his Democratic opponent from claiming a major foreign policy success on the eve of the presidential election. But that kind of alleged diplomatic freelancing would have prolonged a war in which Americans were dying daily. The Flynn conversation was nothing remotely of the sort. Where’s the harm?

The harm was not the calls but Flynn’s lying about them. And most especially lying to the vice president who then went out and told the world

not have been so innocent? Massive new leaks suggest numerous contacts during the campaign between Trump associates and Russian officials, some of whom were intelligence agents. Up till now, however, reports The New York Times, there is “no evidence” of any Trump campaign collusion or cooperation with Russian hacking and other interference in the U.S. election.

Thus far. Which is why there will be investigations. Speculation ranges from the wildly malevolent to the rather loopily innocent.

At one end of the spectrum is the scenario wherein these campaign officials – including perhaps Flynn,

perhaps even Trump – are compromised because of tainted business or political activities known to the Russians, to whom they are now captive.

A fevered conspiracy in my view, but there are non-certifiable people who consider it possible.

At the benign end of the spectrum is that the easily flattered Trump imagines himself the great dealmaker who overnight becomes a great statesman by charming Vladimir Putin into a Nixon-to-China grand bargain – we jointly call off the new Cold War, join forces to destroy the Islamic State and reach a new accommodation for Europe that relieves us of some of the burden of parasitic allies.

To me, the idea is nuts, a narcissistic fantasy grounded in neither strategy nor history. But that doesn’t mean Trump might not imagine it – after all, he maintains that if we had only stayed in Iraq to steal its oil, we wouldn’t have the Islamic State. And if this has indeed been his thinking about Russia, it would make sense to surround himself with advisers who had extensive dealings there.

I believe neither of these scenarios but I’m hard put to come up with alternatives. The puzzle remains. Why did Flynn lie? Until we answer that, the case of the cover-up in search of a crime remains unsolved. (c) 2017, The Washington Post Writers Group

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The only source of knowledge is experience.

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story is told about a reporter who was interviewing a successful bank president.

He wanted to know the secret of the man’s success. “Two words,” he was told, “right decisions.” “And how do you make right decisions?” asked the reporter. The reply: “One word: experience.” The reporter pressed on.

“And how do you get experience?” he asked. To which the banker replied, “Two words: wrong decisions.”

We all recognize the importance of job and life experience, especially for leaders. Experience gives leaders context for important decisions that they must make and insight into how best to lead, motivate and respond to their people. Experienced leaders have been through the wringer before and can use their past learning and decisions to guide them moving forward.

Yet, for many new leaders, experience can be hard to come by. And in today’s fast-changing, competitive environment in which more and more young people are assuming leadership roles, it can be critical for them to find ways to gain experience quickly in order to ensure that they make as few “wrong decisions” as possible – for their own sake as well

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3. Find a mentor/peer group – Mentors can cut down the learning curve significantly by offering of their experiences and sharing their views on how they would handle certain situations. Peer groups for young leaders can fill a similar role and offer the benefit of helping

Experienced leaders have been through the wringer before and can use their past learning and decisions to guide them moving forward.

and hands-on learning that translates well into real-life situations.

2. Volunteer – See if volunteer opportunities exist for such things as such as managing a project for an overworked leader. (If they presently don’t, go ahead and pitch an idea.

Someone is bound to take you up on it if they think that you can help.)

Use the opportunity to engage in meaningful work as well as reflective conversations about the leadership task. In this way you can learn much about leadership and how to plan for it in a low stakes environ-

people learn and grow together. It also helps new leaders build social networks that can be immensely valuable over time.

4. Read/watch leadership experts – There is much to be gained by reading and/or watching leaders discuss their craft and their experiences. It is so simple to access nowadays and can really help you accelerate your leadership learning curve. Many leadership and selfhelp experts recommend reading for at least 30 minutes a day in order to stay current and deepen your skill-

set and understanding of important issues.

5. Reflect and take notes – As you engage in your leadership tasks take the time to think and reflect. What worked well today and what didn’t? What might have happened had I responded differently to that situation or taken more time to learn about the issue before acting?

Sometimes we are inclined to try to put failures out of our memory and focus on moving forward. While that may be useful at times, we must be willing to learn from our experiences if we are to avoid making the same mistakes again.

6. Ask for feedback – Feedback is critical for the reflective process. We may have one perspective on things but we can be almost assured that at least some others see things differently.

Confucius once said, “By three methods we may learn wisdom: first, by reflection, which is noblest; second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.” Every new leader would be wise to take the necessary steps to gain as much wisdom as possible without having to endure the bitterness of wrong decisions.

Rabbi Naphtali Hoff, PsyD, is President of Impactful Coaching & Consulting. He can be reached at (212) 470-6139 or at nhoff@impactfulcoaching.com.

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The Almost Forgotten Heroes of Israel

By Avi Heiligman

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he intense fighting during the Israeli War of Independence in 1948 brought out many heroes that the public would hear about only in the next few decades. Men like Yigal Allon, Yitzchak Rabin and Moshe Dayan were all commanders during the initial struggle for Israeli independence. After two years of bitter fighting, including some engagements before the establishment of the State, Israel emerged victorious and the Arab League – Egypt in particular – were embarrassed in the process. It took the courage and heroism of men that are rarely heard about to

bring out this accomplishment. Israel established the Hero of Israel Award to decorate twelve soldiers for their heroism. Years later it was replaced by the Medal of Valor which these recipients received as well. Here are some of their stories.

Ben-Zion Leitner was from Odessa, Ukraine, and had fought against the Nazis as a partisan during WWII. On October 19, 1948, he led an assault on an Iraqi police bunker. His unit was under heavy fire and responded with grenades that resulted in the destruction of the position. During the assault Leitner received stab wounds that left

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one side of his face paralyzed.

Avraham Avigdorov was a member of the Palmach in the years leading up to the War of Independence. He was born near Tiveria to a family dedicated to the protection of the Yishuv. His father had been a member of Hashomer but was tragically killed in 1936 by the Arab Revolt. When he was only 18 Avraham joined the Palmach and was assigned to the Yiftach Brigade.

The brigade was quite active during the War of Independence and many of its members had seen action before the war officially started. Abraham and other Palmach soldiers were to ambush a convoy of Arab vehicles in the Kiryat Motzkin area.

On March 17, 1948, the unit sighted the convoy. Avigdorov fired first, aiming his submachine gun at the first truck. The two machine-gunners on the truck were killed immediately. However, Avigdorov was seriously wounded in the attack and had to be evacuated. Meanwhile, another Palmach soldier ran towards a truck that was driverless with the intent to transfer the contents to the Palmach. The truck was full of weapons and exploded when some Arabs shot at it, killing the soldier. The destruction of this convoy became even more important once the war started. Haifa fell to the IDF just one day after the British left.

The Arabs were very short of supplies and if the convoy had reached the garrison the battle could have dragged on for weeks. Avigdorov had been wounded so badly that he was pronounced dead. After showing signs of life he was taken out of the morgue and spent the next two years recovering from burns and a broken jaw. He passed away in 2012 at the age of 83.

Yair Racheli was the first soldier to be awarded the honor for destroying an enemy gun position near Shefa Amr. It took place on January 19, 1948 when his Palamch unit attacked

a house that had been identified as a base for Arab thugs. Heavy fire poured out from the house when the Palmach soldiers were discovered. Racheli tossed a grenade into the house, allowing his unit to leave the area without casualties. Four months later he was seriously wounded against Lebanese troops and was shot for a second time in a friendly fire incident. After recovering from his near-fatal wounds, he joined the Shin-Bet. Anti-tank weapons have been around for as long as tanks have seen action – since WWI. The PIAT (Projector, Infantry, Anti-Tank) was a British weapon that had seen action across the globe. Countries like Russia during WWII, the French Resistance, and the Polish Underground all used it to fight the Nazis. However, the weapon system had many defects and therefore was easily obtained by the Haganah in 1948 (the Israelis had a tough time getting top-of-the-line weapons and equipment and had to settle for surplus and second rate weapons).

Without getting into specific problems with the PIAT, it took a skilled soldier to have a fighting chance of knocking out an enemy tank.

One of the best Israeli operators of the PIAT was Ron Feller. Hailing from Tel Aviv, Sgt. Feller was part of the Givati Brigade’s 53rd Battalion. On July 19, 1948 fifty lightly armed Israeli soldiers were tasked to defend the recently captured village of Karatiyya.

An Egyptian counterattack threatened the Israeli position. Feller crept forward and aimed his PIAT at a tank.

His first shot missed at 50 meters.

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terattack. After the war Feller worked in inventing agriculture machines to best harvest Israeli products. Feller had twelve registered patents for his inventions.

One of the first actions of the Israeli Air Force garnered the notable award for the pilot. Zvi Zibel was flying an Auster Autocrat three seat transport monoplane to the town of

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Bet Shemen. The Autocrat was British built and had a top speed of just 120 MPH. As he touched down to bring the town a new transmitter radio, Arabs from a nearby village began to shoot at the plane with everything they had in their arsenal. Finally, a tractor filled with sandbags shielded the plane so that they could take off to fight another day. Later Zibel was wounded by

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For the heroism of these men the new country gave these men the title of Hero of Israel. While many men would

look for safer positions, these soldiers continued fighting to save Israel. In a future article we will go into some of the other recipients of the award.

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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What Time is it Anyway?!

By Rivki D. Rosenwald Esq., CLC, SDS

I

’m sure you’ve traveled. Day is night, night is day. Getting on their schedule and off yours is no easy feat. You’ve got every type of pill – over-the-counter or prescription – to try and help you out.

First, you board the plane and figure that sleep is all-essential.

And that’s where the trouble begins. Because when you arrive, wherever you are going, it’s usually time to go to bed. Uh oh, been there, done that!

So now you figure, I’m here exactly five minutes, and I’ve already got to start with the cheshbonos (tallies). Do I stay up now and get up early and go through the first day exhausted, or do I go to sleep late and sleep late but then I’m off schedule again? Or do I just take another pill? The challenge of rearranging your body clock!

Then the other challenge kicks in: calling home. Is it night or day there? Are they in school, at work?

Up or sleeping? For that matter, am I up or sleeping?

Sure, email helps a little be-

cause you can communicate when it’s good for you and hear from them when it’s good for them. But it’s pretty hard to have a conversation that flows that way.

“Good luck on your test!”

it. Basically, to have a real-time conversation you need to do the work. If it’s 5 o’clock here, then it must be __o’clock there. The world’s a big place and the sun can’t shine everywhere at the exact same

It would be great if we could find that one repository where all time gets dropped as you travel so that whenever we need extra time we could go there and borrow it.

“Thanks, but too late!”

“Hope your date goes well!”

“Went – that was yesterday. I’m onto the next.”

“Give Aunt Lilly a kiss from me when you see her.”

“Sorry. Spent last night with her.”

There’s no way getting around

time. Everything is rotating around on its axis, and night is day and day is night, and you are feeling the effects of all this lopsidedness.

Still, no one’s telling you not to travel. It’s just that whenever you get to where you are going, you’ve either lost time or gained time. Actually, it’s a really funny concept.

Like where in the world did you lose it? And only if you return can you retrieve it. It would be great if we could find that one repository where all time gets dropped as you travel so that whenever we need extra time we could go there and borrow it. It would really help the few days before Pesach.

Anyway, the bottom line is this if you travel: Usually just when you’ve finally gotten on their time is when you need to go back home and get back on your time. And if you travel a lot, you’re probably on no time or lost in time. So have a good time, whenever and wherever you go ‘cause there’s no time like the present.

Oh my gosh! Gotta go – just look at the time!

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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