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ELIE WIESEL

A Man of Memory and Mission

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Community

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BOBKER ON

Elie Wiesel and the Challenge of Faith pg

LEAVE OR REMAIN?

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Charles Krauthammer and Rabbi YY Rubinstein on Britain Voting to Leave the EU

Camp Summer Fun Begins

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International Chocolate Day: A DECADENT CHOCOLATE DESSERT

41 Rabbi Feiner and Rabbi Orlian Head to Camp Simcha

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A P E RS O NA L P E RS P E C T I V E

By Rabbi Aryeh Zev Ginzberg

directly to you. And while there are very well meaning wonderful organizations that come to visit daily and offer you all the wonderful services that they have to provide, at times they may inadvertently impose themselves on the family who crave their privacy and solitude.

Not so with Chesed 24/7. Whether it’s in the ICU or in the family room outside of the operating room, their full packages of food and drink are quietly placed outside the door, to be retrieved by the family when they feel the need. In their package as well is a well-placed note with a phone number where you can just call in and request specific dietary needs or whatever your personal or individual needs are. Something akin to the “MON” that fell in the Midbar.

When one finds themselves in the hospital without having had the opportunity to pack a pair of Tefillin, a Siddur or a Tehillim, one has to just enter the hospitality room and find available anything that an Orthodox Jew, male or female, may need to continue their daily commitment to Mitzvos. It could be an extra set of a Lulav and Esrog, a Succah to eat in or even just the items an Orthodox woman may need to maintain her family purity.

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ver the past few months, each and every morning whenever I recite the Mishna of “ELU DEVARIM” and mention “HACHNOSAS ORCHIM” at the top of the list, I invariably think of the organization “CHESED 24/7”.

Permit me to explain.

First and foremost, what does this under-the-radar organization do?

They provide hospitality rooms in 18 hospitals throughout the NY Tristate area that offer a simple cup of coffee to fresh hot meals prepared daily and everything in between. When one is found in a hospital attending to a loved one who is ill, the last thing on one’s mind is – is there food to eat or is there something to drink. The concern and complete focus is upon the welfare of the patient, with no room for self-concern about one’s need to eat or sleep.

That’s where Chesed 24/7 steps in. Their goal is to allow you to continue to focus completely on the needs of the choleh, while they focus completely on your needs. You don’t have to leave the patient’s bedside to go down to the hospitality room to help yourself to the beautifully packed and freshly made meals, because they will bring it

In addition to food and religious services, every possible need to assist the family members and make a difficult situation just a little easier to bear is made available. From making hospital liaisons available for advocacy support, transportation to and from the hospital and even sleeping accommodations (at certain locations) is provided.

The deep connection that my wife and I feel to Chessed 24/7 will remain for a lifetime. Despite the passage of time and the fading of memories, there is one memory that for me personally will never ever go away. When our beloved daughter Sarala Z”L was fighting for her life, her treatment at the time required her to abstain from drinking any fluids for a long period of time. She would wake up and be in great discomfort due to her being unable to quench her thirst. The only thing that brought her much comfort and relief was sucking on ices – freeze pops. Not once did I go down to the Chesed 24/7 hospitality room during those very difficult days, whether it was 2:00 AM, 5:00 AM or the middle of the day, and not find the freezer fully stocked with the freeze pops that I was looking for.

We will never forget the relief and the enjoyment that she had from those ices to quench her thirst. And we will never forget Chesed 24/7 for helping us bring her that comfort in her last days.

Yehi Zichra Boruch.

This event is dedicated in loving memory of our daughter, Sarah Chaya Ginzberg A”H. ‫ לז“נ שרה חיה בת רב אריה זאב‬.

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Dear Readers,

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t feels like it’s been a while since I have written to you; a week can seem like a long time when the kids are off between camp and school. But now that camp has started, we can finally enjoy our summer. Living here lends itself to a more summer feel. We have the ocean nearby, wonderful boardwalks, pools, and great backyards to host family barbecue get-togethers. Our poll this week asked respondents if they’ve ever made s’mores at a barbecue. A measly 8% said that they did. Perhaps that’s a good summer pledge to accomplish over the next few weeks: spending more time outdoors, drinking more water, and serving s’mores as dessert at your next barbecue. Small things, but that’s what can give you that summer feeling.

This week’s cover story features Elie Wiesel.

Many survivors or families of survivors will tell you that it’s hard for those who went through the Holocaust to speak of the horrors they witnessed. The events that they experienced and the trauma that they endured were so pervasive that even talking about it would be too upsetting, cracking walls that they so painstakingly built to stem thoughts of the atrocities. It took so much strength just for many survivors to lead normal lives, to have normal relationships, to understand that life after their living hell could be pleasant and hopeful.

So Elie Wiesel became their voice. At first, he too was scared to talk of his experiences; he too remained silent. But then, ten years later, when he finally found the right words, he wrote his most renowned piece, Night.

I first read Night in a college course that seemed to focus on literature recounting people’s sufferings. Lumped together with a narrative on the Hi-

roshima bombings and Toni Morrison’s anguish over her people’s slavery was Elie Wiesel’s memoir.

And Brooklyn College being that it is, there were many classes focused on a symbolic raised tree on a slave’s back; I don’t even remember a discussion on Night, and I was probably one of two Jews in the class.

But I remember reading it. At first, just looking at the paperback, it’s easy to think that there’s not much there. It’s a thin book – surely it can’t contain all the horrors perpetrated by Hitler’s terrorists. But open it up and read it and there’s so much there. In many of his words – and it is his thoughts and his experiences that he shares with you – you know that there are thousands out there who can say the same thing; Wiesel is just more eloquent than them. You know that many of them can never fall asleep without thinking of the rising smoke, the burning flesh, the starvation, the cold, the beatings, the exhaustion. You know that they’re still thinking of those who were murdered; of their sisters, their parents, their friends. And when Wiesel vowed never to forget those horrors, they made a similar vow, although there really was no need to make that vow when the terror was seared into their minds.

Wiesel took it upon himself to become their spokesman. He spoke but they were really all speaking, urging the world to remember what evil could do.

May our nation, especially as we enter the months of Tammuz and Av, know no more tzaar and continue to be strong for one another.

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Contents LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

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COMMUNITY Readers’ Poll

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Community Happenings NEWS

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Global

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National

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Odd-but-True Stories

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ISRAEL Israel News

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Gobble, Gobble by Rafi Sackville

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PEOPLE Elie Wiesel: A Man of Memory and Mission

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Bobker on Elie Wiesel and the Challenge of Faith

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World War II Deceptions, Part II by Avi Heiligman

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PARSHA Rabbi Wein

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JEWISH THOUGHT Turning Points Too by Rabbi Jonathan Gewirtz

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Ascent over Descent by Eytan Kobre

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HEALTH & FITNESS Swimming against the Current by Dr. Hylton Lightman

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What Do 500 Calories Really Look Like? by Aliza Beer MS, RD

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FOOD & LEISURE Louie’s Mousse by Chef Claude Ben-Simon

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The Aussie Gourmet: Avocado Kale Caesar Salad

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LIFESTYLES Why Leaders Feel Lonely and What They Can Do about It by Rabbi Naphtali Hoff Dating Dialogue, Moderated by Jennifer Mann, LCSW

You Nailed It by Rivki D. Rosenwald Esq., CLC, SDS

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HUMOR 58 102

POLITICAL CROSSFIRE

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Dear Editor, Your article on 180 women biking for Tour de Simcha was wonderful. I was inspired and spent my time on their website, looking at the women’s profiles and bios and how much they were able to raise for this worthy cause.

Throughout our history, women have been on the forefront of chessed.

They usually work behind the scenes, but they are the ones who have the creativity to help others in a respectful and caring manner.

Kudos to these heroic women who are literally giving of themselves for a great cause.

Chazak V’amatz!

Risa Danziger Dear Editor, We truly missed your magazine this week! It is the first thing my children rush to when they come home after school and it is the perfect publication for me to peruse on Shabbos Continued on page 12

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Uncle Moishy Fun Page

Dear Editor, I appreciate that you are giving the public a forum for inspiration.

Recently, I was on the way home from Williamsburg when my car started giving me trouble. I was a little tense since I had my two-year-old in the car and I was racing the clock to get home in time for my other children’s bus. The neighborhood, also, wasn’t too pleasant.

When I stopped on the side of the road, I called my husband. He told me he would make some calls and try to get someone to help me. But before he could call me back, two frum boys from our community drove by, stopped a few feet away from me, got out of their car, and then came over to ask if they could help me. It was amazing because, chasdei Hashem,

one of them knew cars pretty well and was able to fix my problem so I could get home.

I was so appreciative for their help. It was a true chessed and a true example of how we all look out for each other.

Sincerely, Chaya Leah D.

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Dear Editor, I know that you guys generally shy away from writing anything that puts Trump in a bad light so I bet you will not write about his latest vitriolic anti-Semitic innuendo. He tweeted a picture of Hillary with dollar bills in the background and the caption “most corrupt ever” written over a magen david. How do you answer for that? Is that cute? Oh, let me guess, he didn’t mean it. It was an innocent mistake. Please, save your breath.

Sincerely, Lenny K.

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America’s Indispensable Paradox by Michael Gerson

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Brexit: Sovereign Kingdom or Little England?

by Charles Krauthammer

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Ordinary People by Rabbi YY Rubinstein

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Can’t wait to see what you have in store for next week.

A Reader Dear Editor, I have to admit that I am scared for America’s future. Our country was founded on Judeo-Christian values. That means that the Bible and its ways were taken for granted. For example: we all know it’s wrong to steal and murder; we set up courts for justice; we appreciate the sancti-

ty of marriage; we have strong family values. But recently, all that has been going to pot (yes, pun intended).

First, the government has been sanctioning, condoning, and approving marriages that are not between husband and wife. It has been condoning a way of life that is contrary to our religious values.

Now, though, the country has gone one step further. In their “liberalizing” our nation, they have decided to do away with justice. Not even our courts can be considered honest.

To think that the head of the FBI, the highest law enforcement in the land,

can stand up with a straight face, list all the reasons that a presidential nominee should be indicted and then recommend that she shouldn’t be indicted, completely, as Paul Ryan says, “defies explanation.” Some have pointed out that there are different rules for the Clintons. I say, if there are different rules for anybody, then there is no justice at all.

But it seems that Americans are taking this in stride. Could it be that they expect this miscarriage of justice? For months, Americans have paraded the streets with banners emblazoned with the words: “Jus-

tice for…” Well, where are the banners that say “Justice for our Justice System”? It shouldn’t just be some Republican talking heads appalled at this iniquity. We should be crying from the rooftops; we should be demanding an end to the corruption.

And we should for certain not elect those who have been involved in this injustice and have orchestrated their clearance to the highest offices in the land.

For it that happens, yes, our country will have gone to pot.

Sincerely, Reuven Berger

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The Week In News

An Icy Rescue

It may be the summer in this part of the world, but in the frigid recesses of the Antarctica, the winter has just begun. The skies are pitch black – as the sun will wait to rise until September – and the temperature is negative 75 degrees, or below 100 under zero after factoring the wind chill. That makes conditions there so extreme for the few hardy explorers – 48 in total – who brave the elements and occupy the Amundsen-Scott science exploration station throughout the South Pole’s winter.

But this week, an even more daring mission took place when a plane navigated the total darkness and freezing weather surrounding the Pole in order to bring back a sick member of the British team for whom it was determined that it was necessary to be flown back to receive proper care.

The plane, which was occupied by a pilot, co-pilot, flight engineer and medical worker, had to travel fifteen hundred miles and nine hours, much of which was in pitch black conditions. The Twin Otter aircraft is able to fly in temperatures up to below 103, and this flight pushed its limits. On flights such as this, the oil onboard must be amply warmed preflight in order to mitigate the chance of it freezing midair.

Tim Stockings, director of the British Antarctic Survey in London, related, “The air and Antarctica are unforgiving environments and punishes any slackness very hard. If you are complacent it will bite you; things can change very quickly down there.”

After touching down in the coldest part of the world, the plane and crew took a ten hour rest and returned to a British outpost in a more favorable part of Antarctica, as the rest of us munched on watermelon and swatted at fireflies.

Is Rio Really Not Ready?

It’s a month to the Olympics in Rio but it seems that it’s not all fun and games in the Brazilian city. On Monday, Brazilian police, upset about officers’ deaths and unpaid salaries, unfurled huge banners welcoming travelers to Rio de Janeiro’s main airport proclaiming, “Welcome to Hell.”

The protest was held by more than 100 emergency services workers, including firefighters, and declared, “Police and firefighters don’t get paid, whoever comes to Rio de Janeiro will not be safe.” More than 50 officers have been killed in Rio so far this year.

It’s not just disenfranchised officers that are making Rio a city more notorious than famous for hosting the Games. It’s the first South American city in history to host the Olympics but crime is rampant. Murders in the first quarter of 2016 are up 15 percent on the same period last year.

Robberies are also on the rise. Last week, body parts washed up on a beach where volleyball events are to be played.

In addition to violence and the effects of a bruising recession, preparations for the Rio Olympics have been plagued by Brazil’s political instability and a series of corruption scandals.

Huge construction companies building stadiums and other Olympic infrastructure have been implicated in a multi-billion dollar embezzlement scheme. Police are also investigating the suspected embezzlement of subsidies for Brazilian athletes.

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Don’t mind crime or corruption?

Well, this week, scientists announced that a drug-resistant bacteria, fueled by sewage from local hospitals, is growing offshore of some of Rio’s most beautiful beaches near where Olympic sailors are set to compete.

“It’s a nice sailing area but every time you get some water in your face, it feels like there’s some alien enemy entering your face,” German Paralympic sailor Heiko Kroger said during a recent visit to Rio. “I keep my nose and my lips closed.”

Perhaps we’ll enjoy the Olympics better in the comfort of our own home.

House of Cards Plays Out in Britian In a real life political drama, former London Mayor Boris Johnson, who was presumed to be the next Prime Minister once David Cameron steps down in October, was stabbed in the back in sensational fashion by his closest political ally, Michael Gove.

When it was first announced that there would be a referendum to determine if Britian should exit the European Union, Johnson supported staying in the EU. But his friend and fellow Tory Michael Gove had Johnson over for dinner one evening in February and convinced the popular former London mayor to support the Brexit. Speculation is that Gove helped Johnson realize that supporting the Leave position would be in his best political interests. It is no secret that Johnson always had his eye on 10 Downing Street, and if Brexit were to pass, there would be a clear path to the premiership as Prime Minister David Cameron who was vehemently opposed to Brexit would likely resign, paving the way for him to run for leadership of the Conservative party, thus becoming prime minister. He would not have to worry about Gove running for the position; after all, Gove had said on numerous occasions that he had no interest in being prime minister.

With Johnson’s support, the pro-Brexit campaign gained steam and ultimately prevailed. Right after the surprising outcome, England’s w Cameron anPrime Minister David nounced that he would resign as

prime minister in October.

Johnson immediately began lining up support from Tory parliament members to vote him in as their leader. Gove was set to be Johnson’s main backer and would likely be his deputy prime minister or maintain another high level cabinet position.

But the day before Johnson was set to announce his candidacy, a “private” email sent to Gove by his own wife, who is a media journalist, was “accidentally” sent by her to the media as well. The email expressed reservations about Johnson being the right person to lead England through Brexit. That email stirred a debate whether in fact Johnson was committed to Brexit.

The following morning, several hours before Johnson was set to formally announce his candidacy, his campaign manager, Lynton Crosby, received a call from Michael Gove.

“Hi Lynton, it’s Michael Gove here.

I’m running,” he said. “Running for what?” replied a bewildered Crosby.

“I’m running for the leadership,” declared Gove.

Within minutes, many of the Tory parliament members that had promised to support Johnson had reversed course and announced that they would be backing Gove. Johnson proceeded with his speech, as scheduled, but instead announced that he is backing out of his quest to become prime minister.

In his speech declaring his candidacy, Gove stated that he never thought that he would be in this position and admitted, “Whatever charisma is I don’t have it,” but said he is running out of love for his country.

He noted that he had hoped that Boris Johnson would be the right person to lead the courtyard but “I came to realize this week that for all Boris’ formidable talents, he was not the right person for the task.”

With that, Frank Underwood – I mean, Michael Gove – threw his hat into the ring to be England’s next prime minister, leaving the carcass of Boris Johnson’s political ambitions in the gutters of Downing Street.

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“It is a very important discovery, because this is another proof of resistance of those who were about to die,” said Markas Zingeris, director of the Vilna Gaon Jewish State Museum in Vilnius. Even at the darkest moments, a Jew refuses to give in.

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some metal spoons, leading many Jews to freedom during the Holocaust. The tunnel, which is located in the Paneriai – or Ponar – Forest, is just outside of Vilnius, where 70,000 Jews were murdered by Nazi captors.

The tunnel was spoken of for many years following the Holocaust. Its gruesome origins go back to the end of World War II, when Jews, shack-

led at their feet, were forced into the forest with the task of gathering the many bodies already murdered by the Nazis and burying them in mass graves they were to dig there. It was one prisoner, Isaac Dogim, who, after recognizing his wife as one of the decomposing corpses he was tasked to dispose of, rallied his fellow Jews together to hatch an escape plan. Af-

It looks like the Wild West has returned in the year 2016. Filipinos are struggling with a new president who has vowed to put the country on edge after being fed up with the way certain parts of the country are overrun by drug dealers. Philippine President-elect Rodrigo Duterte has told rallying supporters that suspected lawbreakers should be subject to vigilante justice, saying things such as, “Kill them all. When I become president I’ll order the police and the military to find these people and kill them,” and “They have the right to remain silent – forever!” By his accounts, he estimates that some

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100,000 Filipinos will die under this new regime of vigilante justice.

Already within six weeks of Duterte being elected, 54 suspected drug dealers have been shot dead by police in the Philippines. Communities are already enforcing strict curfews in anticipation of a nationally imposed one, and mayors of some towns have offered police officers rewards of as much as $1,500 for handing in the bodies of dead drug dealers.

UN Secretary General President Ban Ki-Moon has said that he is disturbed by reports of the president’s “apparent endorsement of extrajudicial killing.” But Duterte’s camp insists that he “has not endorsed, cannot, and never will endorse extrajudicial killings.” I guess that depends on one’s definition of “extrajudicial.”

Iran Spews Venom at Israel and the U.S.

This past Friday in Iran was its annual “Al Quds Day,” the day designated against Israel – if there ever is a day there that is not about annihilating the Jewish State. Senior Iranian officials had some hopeful messages for the Iranian citizens.

President Hassan Rouhani, the socalled “moderate” president who President Obama brokered the nuclear agreement with, announced that “the Zionist regime [Israel] is a regional base for America and the global arrogance [the U.S. and its allies]. Disunity and discord among Muslim and terrorist groups in the region … have diverted us from the important issue of Palestine. Unity is the only way to restore stability in the region. We stand with the dispossessed Palestinian nation.”

The Shiite Rouhani couched his rhetoric by laying some blame on

Sunni extremists in the region, saying, “Today, due to the divisions in the Islamic world, the presence of takfiris [Sunni extremists] and terrorists in the region … we are far away from the ideal of liberating Palestine.”

Meanwhile a senior aide to the Ayatollah Khamenei predicted the “disintegration of the United States within twenty five years.” Back in September Khamenei had a similar claim about Israel, tweeting, “You will not see the next 25 years.”

Now General Nasser Arasteh told a national TV station, “The U.S. has reached a point today that it will witness fragmentation and disintegration 25 years later.”

Senior Iranians’ rhetoric have been under scrutiny after the U.S. deal with Iran was brokered last year. With friends like these, who needs enemies?

ISIS behind Istanbul Attacks

Just days after the deadly bombings at Istanbul’s Ataturk Airport, which killed 45 people, officials there have identified two of the three bombers, as well as the organizer behind the attacks. The identified terrorists have ties to ISIS, including the organizer, a man by the name of Akhmed Chatayev, nicknamed “Akhmed One-arm,” who is a top lieutenant to a chief member of the Islamist group.

Rakim Bulgarov and Vadim Osmanov were named as the two bombers. There is a third bomber who has not yet been identified. All three, along with Chatayev, hail from Russia, Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan, and gained passage into Turkey from the ISIS-controlled city of Raqqa.

Chatayev is well-known to U.S. intelligence. Congressman Mike McCaul, who heads the Committee of Homeland Security, said, “He’s ... probably the No. 1 enemy in the Northern Caucasus region of Russia. He’s traveled to Syria on many

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occasions and became one of the top lieutenants for the minister of war for ISIS operations.”

On Sunday, a Turkish court remanded 13 alleged Islamic State militants in custody pending trial in connection with the suicide bombings at the airport.

Saudi Arabia Rocked by 3 Attacks in 1 Day

On Monday, Saudi Arabia was hit with three bombings, including one outside of the sprawling mosque grounds where Islam’s Prophet Muhammad is buried in the western city of Medina that killed four Saudi security troops and wounded five.

Millions of Muslims from around the world visit the mosque every year as part of their pilgrimage to Mecca.

Another attack that day targeted the U.S. Consulate in Jiddah. The terrorist was identified as a Pakistani resident of the kingdom who arrived 12 years ago to work as a driver. No group, though, has claimed responsibility for the attacks. The third one that took place that day occurred at a Shiite mosque in the east of the country.

Pakistani Foreign Ministry spokesman Nafees Zakaria said authorities in Islamabad were working to get more details about the Pakistani terrorist. He condemned the attacks and expressed solidarity with Saudi Arabia, saying the kingdom valued the contributions of Pakistani guest workers.

“Terrorism is a global phenomenon and is not country – or people – specific,” Zakaria asserted.

There are around 9 million foreigners living in Saudi Arabia, which has a total population of 30 million.

Among all foreigners living in the kingdom, Pakistanis represent one of the largest groups.

The attacker in the Medina assault set off the bomb in a parking lot after security officers became suspi-

cious about him. Several cars caught fire and thick plumes of black smoke were seen rising from the site of the explosion as thousands of worshippers crowded the streets around the mosque.

Worshippers expressed shock that such a prominent holy site could be targeted.

“That’s not an act that represents Islam,” said Altayeb Osama, a 25-year-old Sudanese visitor to Medina and resident of Abu Dhabi who heard two large booms about a minute apart as he was heading toward the mosque for sunset prayers Monday. “People never imagined that this could happen here.”

The mosque in Medina was packed on Monday evening with worshippers during the final days of Ramadan, which ended in the kingdom on Tuesday. Local media say the attacker was intending to strike the mosque when it was crowded with thousands of worshippers gathered for the sunset prayer.

The ruling Al Saud family derives enormous prestige and legitimacy from being the caretakers of the hajj pilgrimage and Islam’s holiest sites in Mecca and Medina. Monday’s attacks may have been an attempt to undermine the Saudi monarchy’s claim of guardianship.

Rabbi Miki Mark Hy”d

Last Friday was an especially sad day for the people of Chevron, the nearby yeshiva of Otniel, and Jews worldwide, as terrorists murdered Rabbi Miki Mark Hy”d, a father of ten and the director of Yehivat Ot-

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niel. Rabbi Mark was killed when Arab terrorists shot into his car while he was traveling on Route 60 in Har Chevron. Mrs. Chava Mark and two of their children, Tehila (14) and Pedayah (15), were also wounded.

Otniel’s secretary, Eran Dgani, said, “Miki was a pillar of the settlement and of Har Hevron. He was one of the pioneers of the settlement. He was a very modest and honest man, a man of action in every inch of his body. Miki ran the yeshiva in Otniel for years, and he ran the company for the development of Har Hevron and led to extraordinary accomplishments. He was a man of faith and spirit, and he spent every moment of his free time studying Torah. He was a gentle man and a devoted father to his family. His absence in the settlement will be great.”

MK Yehuda Glick (Likud) was one of Rabbi Mark’s best friends. “He was like a brother to me,” lamented Glick after the attack. “Tonight, at the entry of Sabbat, I’ll make Kiddush with the cup that he gave to me as a gift for my 40th birthday.”

Tehila mourned her father at the levaya on Sunday morning. “Until your last breath you tried to save us,” she said. “I never imagined these would be my last moments with you, but I am proud of you. You are a hero,” she cried.

Netanel, Rabbi Mark’s son, spoke at the funeral as well. Addressing his father, he said, “Everything you touched turned to gold. You were a man of grace, giving to others without anyone knowing. You did everything with modesty. You dedicated your life to the study of Torah. How can I talk about you in past tense?

Every Shabbat I’d come to you for guidance, who will I turn to now?”

Rabbi Mark was buried on Har HaMenuchos.

Hashem yikom damo.

A Light Dimmed Too Soon The Jewish world is still recovering from the gruesome murder of Hallel Yaffa Ariel Hy”d, the thirteen-year-old eighth grader who was stabbed to death in her bed in Kiryat Arba by a seventeen-year-old Palestinian terrorist from the nearby village of Bani Na’im. Hallel was a dancer and dreamed of becoming a zoologist when she grew up. She was the only one of her siblings still

in bed after a dance recital from the night before when the terrorist climbed through a window and stabbed her repeatedly.

The terrorist was shot and killed by local security forces.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the terror attack demonstrated the “bloodlust and inhumanity of incitement-driven terrorists against whom we stand.”

“The whole world must condemn this terror attack like the terror attacks in Orlando and Brussels were condemned,” he said.

“It’s impossible to imagine the amount of hatred needed to stab a 13-year-old girl in her bed, but it’s clear that too many children have died in this conflict,” Meretz head, Zehava Galon, wrote on Facebook.

After the attack, Rina Ariel, Hallel’s mother, implored the nation to attend her daughter’s funeral last Thursday evening. “I ask that everyone look at the pain, come to comfort [us], come to strengthen [us], come tell us that our Kiryat Arba is still a place to live in and not die. Hallel, may her memory be a blessing,” she said.

At the levaya Rina sobbed, “How can you say farewell to a child of 13?

What are the words that let you eulogize a flower, a pure soul, a girl with power, a beautiful girl?” She called Hallel the “light of her life” and davened that in Heaven Miriam should “make room next to G-d’s holy seat so that Hallel can dance.”

The yishuv’s rabbi, Rabbi Dovid Lior, said, “Of course G-d will avenge [Hallel’s] death and the deaths of others killed by these evildoers. But that does not forgive the government that doesn’t use the force it possesses. We have an army. We have security forces.”

In response to the murder, Prime Minister Netanyahu and Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman announced a lockdown of the terrorist’s village and the revocation of his relatives’ work permits in Israel.

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Transportation Minister Yisrael Katz said the terrorist’s family should be deported to Syria or Gaza immediately. “Only the deportation of the families of terrorists can be a deterrent against [Palestinian] youths raised to hate and kill Jews,” he said.

Minister of Culture and Sport Miri Regev said the home of the terrorist’s family should be demolished right away. “Destroy the home of this satan’s family,” she said, adding that “the heart breaks over this girl killed in her sleep. May G-d avenge her blood.”

Since October, 34 innocent Israelis have been murdered by Palestinian violence. May we know of no more sorrow.

Placebos Proven to Work Placebos really do work.

According to a recent study, artificially stimulating the brain’s feelgood center boosts immunity in mice in a way that could help explain the power of placebos.

“Our findings indicate that activation of areas of the brain associ-

ated with positive expectations can affect how the body copes with diseases,” said senior author Asya Rolls, an assistant professor at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology’s Faculty of Medicine. The findings, reported in Nature Medicine, “might one day lead to the development of new drugs that utilize the brain’s potential to cure,” she said.

It has long been known that the human brain’s reward system, which mediates pleasure, can be activated with a dummy pill devoid of any active ingredients — known as a placebo — if the person taking it thinks it’s real medicine. “But it was not clear whether this could impact physical well-being,” Rolls said.

Nor did scientists know — if, indeed, an immune response was strengthened — exactly how the signal travelled through the body.

Rolls and colleagues incubated immune cells from mice exposed to

deadly E. coli bacteria after specific cells in the animals’ reward center had been stimulated. These immune cells were at least twice as effective in killing bacteria than ordinary ones, they reported.

In a second test, the scientists vaccinated different mice with the same immune cells. Thirty days later, the new set of rodents was likewise twice as likely to be able to fight off infection.

The next step in helping humans will be to find molecules — potential drugs — that could reproduce this cause and effect.

Funds for Hamas Smuggled into Israel There’s a reason we’re told to take off our shoes at security.

Two terrorists from the Gaza Strip have been arrested for smuggling cash earmarked for Hamas activities in Judea and Samaria. The funds, though, were not found in their wallets. They were carrying the cash in their shoes.

Faiz Attar, 65, and Itallah Sarhan were both arrested recently. Attar was caught last week after it was discovered that he was using his transit permit – issued for work purposes – to act as a courier for cash to fund the terrorism activities of Hamas in Judea and Samaria. The money was hidden in specially designed shoes.

He was able to complete the transfer several times, with the total sum of money smuggled amounting to tens of thousands of euros. Attar’s son hosts Hamas meetings in his home.

His family has assisted in digging terror tunnels.

The investigation also turned up information regarding tunnel entrances – some of which are located under residential buildings housing

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Sarhan had already completed a transfer the day before he was arrested. It became clear during the investigation that he knew that the money was intended for funding Hamas activities. The Shin Bet also discovered that Sarhan has been working as a truck driver for a company that clears away dirt from terror tunnel digging sites run by Hamas and Islamic Jihad. The Israeli authorities were able to extract information from the terrorist about Hamas tunnels.

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The second terrorist, Sarhan, was arrested last month at the Erez crossing while trying to smuggle 10,000 euro in his shoes for Hamas

in Judea and Samaria.

Sarhan, who received his transit permit only two weeks before his arrest, recounted under questioning that he was approached by a Hamas policeman working the Gazan side of the crossing on Sarhan’s first day of leaving the Gaza Strip. The Hamas man tried to interest him in smug-

gling cash into Judea and Samaria After Sarhan expressed his willingness to cooperate, the Hamas policeman introduced him to other Hamas terrorism operatives who paid him in advance for his services, supplied him with specially fitted shoes in which the money was hidden, and pledged to provide him with

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experiments were successful, and in my opinion this is the first time that a correlation has been identified between the shape and color, and the taste. I believe that this is probably going to succeed for other fruits too.”

How did such a life-changing app come to fruition (no pun intended)?

“One year ago, my mum sent me to the supermarket to buy a watermelon for the guests who were supposed to come to our house,” said one of the developers, Salah Abed Alehlim.

“I got to the shop, chose a watermelon and hit it as they taught us to do.

If it sounds hollow, it isn’t ready; if it sounds full then it means that it is sweet and tasty.”

But after the sound test Salah returned home. “My mum opened the watermelon and it was embarrassing. The watermelon was hollow and not sweet. My mum shouted at me. I was so frustrated and disappointed that I decided to search for a scientific solution to this problem.

The watermelon is one of the most important fruits, and one of the most special to us. Near the village we have one of the largest watermelon farms in the state.”

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If your government steals whatever little money should be making its way to you, you might as well get resourceful. A Palestinian family is suing a French company which makes the sensors used in certain Israeli missiles for the killing of three family members during Operation Protective Edge in Gaza in 2014. Exxelia Technologies’ sensor was found in the missile debris by the home of the Shuheibar family, where Afnan, Wassim and Jihad, all children, were killed by an IDF drone strike.

The Shuheibars are being represented by a Christian organization ACAT, which has had sharp words about the IDF. “Instead of congratulating itself for selling arms to countries that commit grave violations of human rights and humanitarian law, France should ensure that in the future, one will not be able to find a single French-made piece at a warcrime site,” said Hélène Legeay, head of North African/Middle Eastern pro-

grams at ACAT. This, as opposed to Hamas’ rockets, which only use homemade components.

Part I: The Fix is In: Bill Clinton Meets with Loretta Lynch

On Monday, June 27, a clandestine meeting took place between Attorney General Loretta Lynch and Bill Clinton on the private tarmac at Phoenix’s Sky Harbor International Airport. The meeting took place as Lynch’s Justice Department was nearing a decision on whether to indict Hillary Clinton over her use of a personal email server while Secretary of State. The meeting lasted for thirty minutes. The meeting, which was held on Lynch’s private plane, was made public by the morning anchor for a local TV station who received a tip from a confidential source that the meeting was going to take place. Upon arriving at the location and observing Clinton’s and Lynch’s planes, officials on the ground warned the reporter that he was not to take any photos of the meeting.

Upon being asked about the meeting, both Clinton and Lynch claimed that the meeting was simply a “chance encounter” and a “coincidence.”

An aide to Bill Clinton told CBS News that the meeting was not planned in advance and it was coincidence that Clinton saw Lynch’s plane, and then went to say hello to her.

Clinton, who is seventy-years-old and has a heart condition, was supposedly in Phoenix to play golf. The Phoenix temperature on the day of the meeting was 110 degrees.

Lynch quickly came under attack for the apparent impropriety of the meeting and was even criticized by fellow Democrats. “I do agree with you

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that it doesn’t send the right signal,” admitted Sen. Chris Coons (D-Del.) when asked about the meeting by CNN. David Axelrod, former senior advisor to President Obama, tweeted that he doesn’t believe anything wrong took place but it was “foolish to create such optics.”

Lynch at first downplayed the meeting. “Our conversation was a great deal about grandchildren; it was primarily social about our travels and he mentioned golf that he played in Phoenix,” she related. But that did not quell suspicions about what took place. As one pundit quipped, sure they spoke about Clinton’s grandchildren – Bill probably said, “Please don’t indict Hillary’s grandchildren’s grandmother.”

After the questions about the meeting did not die down, Lynch admitted last Friday that the meeting “cast a shadow” over her department’s investigation into Hillary’s emails and announced that rather than use her own discretion whether to press charges or not, she will “accept whatever recommendation” is given to her by the career prosecutors at the Justice Department and the FBI. In a totally, absolutely, bifurcated and unrelated story: The New York

Times is now reporting that Hillary Clinton is considering keeping Loretta Lynch as attorney general if she wins the White House.

Part II: Hillary Grilled Over the 4th of July Weekend

As Americans across the land of Stars and Stripes fired up their barbeque grills over the 4th of July weekend, Hillary Clinton was grilled by the FBI about her unlawful use of a private server while she was Secretary of State. Clinton has always maintained that she never received nor sent a classified email from her

private server, which was located in her basement bathroom. Hillary has turned over thousands of emails to authorities but has erased 33,000 emails, which she deemed to be “personal.”

The meeting, which took place last Saturday at FBI headquarters in Washington, D.C., lasted approximately three-and-a-half hours.

Ms. Clinton’s campaign sought to downplay the interrogation. “Secretary Clinton gave a voluntary interview this morning about her email arrangements while she was Secretary,” Clinton campaign spokesman Nick Merrill said in an email on Saturday afternoon. “She is pleased to have had the opportunity to assist the Department of Justice in bringing this review to a conclusion. Out of respect for the investigative process, she will not comment further on her interview.”

Clinton was accompanied to her “voluntary interview” by her lawyer David E. Kendall; longtime aides and lawyers Cheryl D. Mills and Heather Samuelson; and lawyers Katherine Turner and Amy Saharia.

With a dream team like that, they probably told the FBI: “If it don’t fit, you must acquit.”

Part III: Surprise, Surprise – No Indictment

After over a year-long investigation, FBI Director James Comey announced on Tuesday – during an unexpected press conference – that he will not recommend prosecution of Hillary Clinton for her use of a private email server while Secretary of State, in violation of federal law.

Comey acknowledged that the FBI found 110 emails which were sent or received on Clinton’s server containing classified information. He noted that Clinton and her aides were “extremely careless” and that it was possible that people hostile to the U.S. had gained access to her personal

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Comey did not take questions at the press conference.

Trump immediately tweeted, “The system is rigged. General Pet-

raeus got in trouble for far less. Very very unfair! As usual, bad judgment.”

Trump was referencing U.S. top general and former CIA chief David Petraeus’ fall from grace after he was prosecuted and pled guilty to showing a friend one classified document in violation of the same federal statute that Hillary violated by sending

classified emails over a private server at least 110 times.

House Speaker Paul Ryan – hardly a staunch Trump supporter – echoed the presumptive Republican nominee’s sentiment and tweeted, “While I respect the professionals at the FBI, this announcement defies explanation. No one should be above

So, how exactly do Americans spend their time? According to the American Time Use Survey, released last week by the U.S. Department of Labor, the average person works 7.6 hours per workday, with 24% of people working from home.

Speaking of home, how are men contributing to the household? Well, they still have some ground to make up: in 2015, on an average day, 22 percent of men did housework – such as cleaning or laundry – compared with 50 percent of women. But, there was improvement in the kitchen: from 2003 to 2015, the share of men doing food preparation and cleanup on an average day increased from 35 percent to 43 percent. Men now spend an average of 21 minutes per day on food preparation and cleanup. (No, guys, the time food spends heating up in the microwave should not count towards your 21 minutes.)

When it comes to leisurely activities, book reading seems to be going the way of the dinosaur: elderly people average 1.1 hours of reading per weekend day and 20 minutes playing games or using a computer; teenagers spend an average of 8 minutes per weekend day reading and 1.3 hours playing games or using a computer for leisure.

Watching TV is the leisure activity that occupied the most time for all age groups, with Americans spending a whopping 2.8 hours per day watching the tube. Socializing, such as visiting with friends or attending or hosting social events, is the next most common leisure activity, accounting for 41 minutes per day.

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There was more...but I have to go do my 8 minutes of reading for the weekend.

classroom among students and their teachers,” Eva Oberle, an assistant professor of population and public health at the University of British Columbia and the lead author of the study, said.

It seems like it’s not just colds which are contagious in the classroom anymore.

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It is already well known that the burn out which affects many school teachers can lead them to leave the profession completely. Burnt out instructors have a hard time managing their classrooms well and teaching their charges properly. But a recent study makes the case that fed up proctors may have an even more adverse influence on their students. Researchers in the Journal of Science and Medicine reported that stressed out teachers had students who were stressed out as well. So it may not be the case that an unruly classroom leads to an unhappy teacher; in fact, the opposite may be true. An underperforming teacher leads to a rowdy bunch of students.

The Canadian study took saliva samples from about 400 students between the ages of 8 and 12 and measured their cortisol levels throughout the day. They also inquired about the kids’ wake up times, which is indicative of one’s emotional well-being. Then the researchers surveyed the students’ seventeen teachers and asked about their feelings toward their students and their levels of exhaustion and depersonalization. After comparing the results of the lab tests and surveys, a clear link between teachers’ and students’ stress emerged.

The researchers have a name for this: Stress Contagion. The link between teacher burnout and student stress “suggests that stress contagion might be taking place in the

Welcome to Jupiter!

It’s been five years but on Monday Juno finally reached its destination. In the weeks leading up to the encounter, the spacecraft snapped pictures of the giant planet and its four inner moons dancing around it.

Scientists were surprised to see Jupiter’s second-largest moon, Callisto, appearing dimmer than expected.

The fifth rock from the sun and the heftiest planet in the solar system, Jupiter is what’s known as a gas giant – a ball of hydrogen and helium – unlike rocky Earth and Mars.

With its billowy clouds and colorful stripes, Jupiter is an extreme world.

Juno is only the second mission designed to spend time at Jupiter.

Galileo, launched in 1989, circled Jupiter for nearly a decade, beaming back splendid views of the planet and its numerous moons. It uncovered signs of an ocean beneath the icy surface of the moon Europa, considered a top target in the search for life outside Earth.

Juno has a different mission: To peer through Jupiter’s cloud-socked atmosphere and map the interior from a unique vantage point above the poles. Among the lingering questions: How much water exists? Is there a solid core? Why are Jupiter’s southern and northern lights the brightest in the solar system?

“What Juno’s about is looking beneath that surface,” said Scott Bolton of the Southwest Research Institute in Texas. “We’ve got to go down and look at what’s inside, see how it’s built, how deep these features go, learn about its real secrets.”

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The trek to Jupiter, spanning nearly five years and 1.8 billion miles, took Juno on a tour of the inner solar system followed by a swing past Earth that catapulted it beyond the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. Along the way, Juno became the first spacecraft to cruise that far out powered by the sun, beating Europe’s comet-chasing Rosetta spacecraft. A trio of massive solar wings sticks out from Juno like blades from a windmill, generating 500 watts of power to run its nine instruments.

Juno’s mission will end in 2018, when it will deliberately dive into Jupiter’s atmosphere and disintegrate – a necessary sacrifice to prevent any chance of accidentally crashing into the planet’s potentially habitable moons.

Drive Safely – Especially in Boston

According to the newly released Allstate America’s Best Drivers Report, the safest place to drive in the United States is Brownsville, Texas, where on average drivers are involved in a collision once in 14.6 years. The annual report, which was released ahead of the highly traveled July Fourth weekend, is a ranking that identifies which of the 200 largest U.S. cities have the safest drivers.

Hate driving the Jackie Robinson? New York City comes in as the 143rd safest city to drive in, with the average driver being involved in a collision once every 8.3 years. Boston, Massachusetts, came in at last place – in the 200th slot – with the average Bostonian being involved in a collision once every 3.7 years.

The National Safety Council recently reported that more than 38,000 roadway fatalities occurred last year, the highest amount since 2008. Preventable human factors, including fatigue, distracted driving and speeding, contribute to 94% of car crashes.

Navy Personnel Face Discipline over Capture by Iran

Nine Navy personnel are facing possibly career-ending disciplinary action after a scathing military report was released last week regarding the brief capture of two Navy vessels by Iran last January. The report concluded that shoddy navigation, maintenance shortfalls and a baffling lack of oversight led to the U.S. Navy boats being captured at gunpoint in Iranian territorial waters. “This incident was the result of failed leadership at multiple levels from the tactical to the operational,” notes the report.

The report found that the sailors did not brief or plan their route from Kuwait to Bahrain, as protocol required. Despite veering off course and seeing land, the crew was “not concerned or not aware that it was Iranian or that they were in Iranian waters.”

According to the report, once they were captured, the crew made numerous additional mistakes. The sailors provided their Iranian captors with highly sensitive information, including passwords to their laptops and sensitive data about their ships. Some sailors also ate while being filmed, which is against Navy protocol as such videos are oftentimes used for propaganda purposes, as they were ultimately used in this instance.

Upon the release of the report, Adm. John Richardson, chief of naval operations, said that the “actions in this incident did not live up to our expectations of our Navy.”

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the words, “We now call Bud the parrot to the witness stand” – prosecutors are weighing whether the bird’s words are admissible in court. The theory would likely be that the parrot’s words are essentially a recording, thus they are not hearsay.

This would not be the first attempt to have an African Grey parrot used as evidence. In 1993, a defense attorney in a California murder case sought to use an African Grey to show that his client, Gary, did not commit a murder. After that case the murder victim’s parrot kept repeating, “No, Richard, no, no, no.” The attorney argued that this proved that his client was not the murderer. In that trial an expert on African Grey parrots testified that the bird would likely repeat words exchanged in a stressful situation even after hearing them only a few times. The judge in that case, though, did not admit the parrot’s words into evidence.

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Parrot May Testify in Murder Trial Glenna Duram of Michigan is set to stand trial for the 2015 murder of her husband, Martin, and prosecu-

tors may have a smoking gun witness: the couple’s African Grey parrot named “Bud.” African Grey parrots are believed to be on the cognitive level of young children when it comes to some tasks.

They can mimic speech and can associate human voices with faces.

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couple’s Michigan home in 2015, their pet parrot has been parroting: “Don’t [expletive] shoot!” According to the victim’s first wife, who now cares for the parrot, “He’s using Marty’s voice.”

Although the bird would not technically be a witness – it wouldn’t be subject to direct and cross-examination and wouldn’t be introduced with

It’s the “money moment” on your vacation. You just packed it in at your favorite Miami restaurant and you’re strolling leisurely towards your beachfront hotel, enjoying the balmy February evening, when you turn to your wife and say, “You know, we are crazy for not living here.”

Well, it turns out that Miami is not such a hot place to live after all.

In fact, according to a report by 24/7 Wall Street, Miami actually tops the list of the 50 worst cities to live in America. The report, which considers crime rates, employment opportunities, housing affordability and

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income levels, found that although the wealthy live excessively well in Miami, most of the population does not and more than 25% live under the poverty level.

Rounding out the list of ten worst cities to live in are the following: 1. Miami, Florida 2. Detroit, Michigan 3. Paterson, NJ 4. Hawthorne, California 5. Fall River, Massachusetts 6. Birmingham, Alabama 7. Memphis, Tennessee 8. Flint, Michigan 9. Cleveland, Ohio 10. Gary, Indiana Despite any grievances that you may have, the Five Towns did not make the list at all.

New Trial for “Serial” Subject For 16 years Adnan Syed spent time in prison under a life sentence for a crime who swears he did not commit. The 35-year-old was sentenced in 2000 for the murder of his former friend, Hae Min Lee, in 1999

and burying her in a shallow grave he dug in a Baltimore park. Syed became famous for his 2014 podcast called “Serial,” in which he tries to prove his innocence and the miscarriage of justice involved with his life conviction.

“Serial” has been the most downloaded podcast ever and has created an army of lay people who are convinced that they can prove Syed’s innocence.

team did not cross-examine an expert witness who claimed that cell tower data linked the convict to the scene of the crime.

Judge Martin Welch agreed that the prosecution’s cell tower data was not presented to the jury with a cover sheet containing a disclaimer that incoming cell tower data is not fully reliable.

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Last week, a judge ruled that Syed deserves another trial on the grounds that Syed’s original defense team did not adequately represent him. Syed’s current legal team has long argued that prosecutors failed to interview a key witness who was able to verify his alibi and that the original defense

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The race towards automated self-driving vehicles hit a bump in the road when it was disclosed by Tesla last week that one of their self-driving vehicles was involved in a fatal crash in May. The crash took place in Florida

when a Tesla Model S which was on autopilot failed to brake when a truck made a left turn in front of it. The passenger in the Tesla was killed upon impact with the side of the truck.

Ironically, the deceased, Joshua Brown, 40, had been a Tesla enthusiast. He had previously posted a YouTube video of his vehicle on autopilot avoiding an accident in 2015. Tesla CEO Elon Musk tweeted that video in April 2016 – one month before Brown was killed – and 1 million people viewed that video. In another video by Brown, who was a former Navy Seal, he is seen in his Tesla praising the autopilot function, saying, “You get to your destination slightly slower but at least you don’t have to worry about anything. Just let it go.”

Tesla posted in a blog that the accident took place because the white truck in the crash was camouflaged by a brightly lit sky. The company noted, “Autopilot is getting better all the time, but it is not perfect and still requires the driver to remain alert.” Tesla also pointed out that the death was the first known fatality in over 130 million miles where autopilot was activated, whereas a fatality in a non-automated vehicle happens once every 60 million miles traveled.

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Immigrant Criminals Back on the Streets

According to the Washington Times, immigration agents are releasing criminal immigrants onto the streets of the U.S. because of a recalcitrant State Department. China, Guinea, Liberia and other countries are reluctant to take back their own citizens who have immigrated to the United States once they’ve been convicted of crimes. So where do these criminals end up? Most probably in a neighborhood near you.

There are ways that the State Department can compel these countries to change their minds. Refusing visas for other citizens from those countries is one way. But the department has failed to follow federal law, saying it doesn’t want to anger foreign gov-

ernments by withholding visas.

In the meantime, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is forced to release the immigrants, many of whom commit further serious crimes. The recidivism rate is 30 percent or higher for criminal aliens released from detention.

And the backlog is growing: Some 35,000 immigrants with criminal records are awaiting deportation back to Cuba, while the number of migrants awaiting deportation to China stands at 1,900, ICE said in documents provided to the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, after questioning by Chairman Jason Chaffetz, Utah Republican, and ranking Democrat Elijah E. Cummings of Maryland.

The two lawmakers are demanding that the State Department explain why it has refused to deny visas or block funding to recalcitrant countries, as the law requires.

Just last year this issue came to light when a Haitian man who served time for attempted murder was refused entry to his home country. He eventually was released back into the U.S. population, and then killed a young woman in Connecticut.

“We have points of leverage that

we can use. It doesn’t have to rely simply on our persuasive power. We can deny visas, we can suspend aid,” Sen. Richard Blumenthal, Connecticut Democrat, told Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson at a hearing last week.

Johnson admitted, “Very clearly, this is a work in progress and at some point, I’m going to advocate that we use the ultimate sanction available to us, which is to deny visas to these countries if we don’t see more progress.”

Analysts disagree with Mr. Johnson. Federal law says Homeland Security “shall” deny visas once Mr. Johnson invokes Section 243(d) of the Immigration and Nationality Act and that he should use that power and force the State Department to comply.

It will not be the first time visas were denied from citizens of a certain country. It was used by the George W. Bush administration back in 2001.

Guyana was refusing to take back its citizens, and a backlog of some 113 Guyanese were awaiting deportation. The State Department stopped issuing visas to Guyanese government officials and their families, and Guyana quickly yielded. Within two

months, 112 of the backlogged aliens had been cleared to be shipped back — a 99 percent success rate.

ICE tried to get things moving with a 2011 memorandum of understanding to promote better cooperation with the State Department. It established a series of steps, including joint meetings with foreign countries’ ambassadors and issuing demarches, which are essentially diplomatic warnings. Two demarches have been issued in the past 18 months: one to Algeria and one to Iraq, both sent in March 2015.

Cuba is the worst offender, according to ICE, with some 35,000 convicted criminals ICE would like to deport, but which Havana refuses to take back. Cuban authorities even rejected an offer to deport just 10 percent of those criminals a year. The Obama administration has not made this a priority in their determination to thaw relations between the two nations.

So what is the U.S. to do? Last year, the Homeland Security Department threatened to block an increase in Cuban student and exchange program visas but relented, hoping it would earn better cooperation from Cuba. So far, it hasn’t.

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In the case of China, ICE thought it had a breakthrough last year after Mr. Johnson raised the issue of cooperation with Gao Shengkun, the Chinese minister of public security, and the two sides agreed to regular charter flights to ship Chinese criminals home.

After two flights were scheduled, the Chinese balked, saying the U.S. misunderstood the agreement and that it was the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, not Public Safety, that must be involved in deportations. As of May, some 1,900 convicts were awaiting deportation, with some of the requests dating as far back as 2008.

from on top of your fridge, they’ll be offering home delivery too.

The idea of packaged food makers opening stores featuring their products isn’t new. Chobani also has a cafe with a menu featuring its Greek yogurts in New York. And Mars Inc. has M&M retail stores in cities including New York.

I’m waiting for someone to open up a store just featuring toast. Oh, wait, I think that’s called a bakery.

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Looking for a midnight snack?

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Enjoy some Crispix on the way home.

And, of course, sitting at the kitchen table, eager to start your day? Some Honey Bunches of Oats, Rice Krispies or Raisin Bran will surely hit the spot.

But how about impressing your date? Think a bowl of cereal will be able to woo your new friend? Don’t be so quick to say no.

This week, Kellogg opened a café in New York featuring its cereals.

New York being New York, you’ll be paying top dollar for your breakfast fare, but you’ll also enjoy an upscale enhancement to your soggy cereal.

Bowls will cost $6.50 to $7.50 and combine cereals like Special K and Frosted Flakes with ingredients like pistachios and lemon zest. The café is located on Broadway between 48th and 49th Streets. Besides for cereals – because who can survive on that alone – you can sip juices, coffees and enjoy ice cream dishes. And, later this year, if you’re sitting at home and are too tired to take the cereal down

Think your mother is embarrassing as she harasses every neighbor, friend, doctor, and fellow shul-goer about her daughter who is just perfect: pretty, sweet, wonderful middos, really smart…she’s going to be a therapist?!

That’s nothing compared to Baron Brooks’ dad. Arthur Brooks, 78, placed an ad in an Idaho newspaper seeking women interested in marrying his 48-year-old son. The $900 advert lists criteria for applicants, including age (34-38), height (proportional with weight), and political views.

“If you voted for Obama or plan to vote for Hillary you are not for me,” the ad reads.

Baron explains that he is Jewish and a political conservative. “And most Jewish girls are quite liberal, and that doesn’t work for me. You probably are going to get more like a Midwest-type values in Idaho – somebody’s who more right of center than you would, say, in Los Angeles.”

The younger Brooks is embarrassed by his dad’s shenanigans and describes him as slightly “neurotic” and “passive aggressive.” Although he’d never buy an ad like this for himself, “it’s worth a shot,” he admitted.

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“Can’t hurt.”

As of now, around 12 women from around the nation have expressed interest in meeting Baron. Arthur will be interviewing them in the coming weeks. He is anxious to have grandchildren in the near future.

Perhaps he’d like to meet with R’ Shloime Lewenstein in Lakewood.

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nese vase.

The 18th century vase is believed to have been made during Emperor Qianlong’s reign. The family that owned the vase said they received it from their aunt Florence in 1928.

She presumably bought it while living in Cornwall during the 1920s. It was used by them as a doorstop for years.

Last week, the vase was sold at auction. It was estimated that it would be sold for £300,000 to £500,000 (around $400,000 to $660,000).

Ultimately, though, it topped expectations and sold for a whopping £650,000 (around $860,000).

The buyer’s identity is not known but we are pretty sure he won’t be using this vase as a doorstop in his home.

Have no fear – there’s a solution for you and the many others shying away from the camera hounds.

Introducing a new “paparazzi-proof” scarf, the ISHU scarf, designed by Dutch-born fashion entrepreneur Saif Siddiqui. Its purpose is to “give people their right to privacy back.”

Many celebrities have been spotted wearing the new look. The scarf reflects light back into a camera, effectively becoming an “invisibility cloak” for those who don’t want their photo taken. No-flash photos, though, aren’t hampered by the scarf.

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Have the paparazzi been hounding you as you run into Crawfords for your daily coffee? Are you having trouble deflecting their flashes as you turn into your driveway?

The 28-year-old Siddiqui was inspired while visiting family in Amsterdam in 2009 when his friends attempted to take a photo of him using an iPhone in front of some bikes.

“He noticed that the bike’s reflector manipulated the flash of his mobile camera in a way that obscured the faces of his friends in the picture,” the ISHU website explains.

“He immediately realized that if developed into the right product, this feature would be an ideal solution for his friends and [is] now available to the public who want to keep their private moments in public private.”

The ISHU is currently sold out but you can pre-order it online for $375. Hey, stop taking pictures of me! You’re worse than my mother.

Burgers from Mr. Burger to Mr. Burger

Is your last name Burger? Too bad, you’re not eligible for this contest. But everyone else is.

Last week, Mr. Burger, an Australian fast food chain based in Melbourne, offered customers the chance to win free burgers for life. What do you have to do to earn this privilege? Simple: change your last name to Burger. The confirmation of the name change has to be submitted by 11:59pm on July 31, Australia time.

Mr. Burger marketing manager Maleik Edwards explained the contest, “Last week was a pretty heavy week in news, between Brexit, the election and the crazy weather.

We thought this was a great way of brightening people’s day,” “It’s a bit interesting and fun, and it’s about celebrating the ridiculous things in life.”

Once the name change is complete, the restaurant will refund the name-change fee, although other fees (such as changing your passport) won’t be refunded. It’s worth it, though. Think of all those wonderful hamburgers you’ll be downing every week. You’ll become best friends with your cardiologist.

“We’re these big orange trucks driving around Melbourne and we wanted to do something bright and funny to catch the attention of people,” Edwards explained.

Thankfully they sell burgers and not falafel.

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Community Camp Avnet Woodmere Campus has gotten off to a great start. We are proud to introduce our new sports clinics, Basketball with Coach Elliot Steinmetz, Hockey with Coach Rabbi Steven Genakowski, and Baseball with Coach Zach Kessler. We are also proud of our new Avnet Ninja Warrior Obstacle Course and the new Adventures program with Rabbi Mordechai Picker.

The magic of summer is here again at Ruach Day Camp. Â The day started like so many before it...blue skies, an excited staff and the smiling faces of our energetic campers ready to have a summer of FUN! Â As the buses rolled in, campers were greeted by enthusiastic counselors and Summer Celebration 2016 was off to a very smooth start!

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Five Towns Rabbis Have Camp Simcha Covered

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hen Rabbi Eytan and Aviva Feiner spent their first summer at Camp Simcha fifteen years ago, they had no idea that they would be returning year after year, eventually assuming the position of the camp’s rabbinic couple. This week they packed themselves and their family for the 2016 season, delighted that they will be sharing the responsibilities and satisfaction of guiding the 29-yearold camp for children with medical challenges with Rabbi Uri and Nava Orlian, the Five Towns’ newest rabbinic addition.

The Feiners began their tenure in Camp Simcha as a young couple.

Aviva was the arts and crafts counselor and Rabbi Eytan Feiner was the Rosh Beis Medrash, teaching and learning. Six years ago, Rabbi Feiner was asked to become the camp’s on-campus Rav. In that position he gives a nightly shiur to the counselors and older teen campers, and serves as a resource for everyone from the youngest campers to the camp’s administration.

“My husband and I consider Camp Simcha a ‘derech ha Torah,’” Mrs. Feiner said recently. “The camp — and all of us – need someone to guide them in the life of Torah.”

Rivkah Reichmann, associate director of Camp Simcha Special, agreed.

“Rabbi Feiner sets the tone for the entire camp. On a macro level, he is a spiritual advisor to whom we all we look up and respect. On a personal level, he is a tremendous resource for our staff.

“Our counselors are asked to care for children who are medically challenged and often dependent on complex machinery to stay alive and function. When questions about the interplay of technology and Shabbos arise, Rabbi Feiner helps staff members fulfill the mitzvos of pikuach nefesh without sacrificing the kedusha of Shabbos. He and Rebbetzin Feiner are also tremendous hashkafic resources as we struggle to understand the suffering of children and families.”

Rebbetzin Feiner emphasized that they are there for every camper, not just those who are frum.

“All these children are dealing

Rabbi Eytan Feiner

with illness. They are all looking for inspiration and answers. So many want to know what Judaism says about their illness. Even though Camp Simcha is not a ‘kiruv camp,’ they are still looking for that rabbinic or rebbetzin figure.”

The Feiners understand Camp Simcha and Camp Simcha Special on a very personal level. When they first came to Camp Simcha, they hadn’t yet had children. After five years, their son was born with significant medical challenges. He has a trach tube, is fed through a gastric tube, and is confined to a wheelchair.

“I brought him to camp when he was an infant. I learned to care for him in the most safe, secure environment possible. The first summer we were in camp with my son, I wrote a letter to the medical staff that I couldn’t be in a better place,” Rebbetzin Feiner recalled.

Rabbi Feiner spends the rest of the year as morah d’asrah of Congregation Knesseth Israel, known internationally as the White Shul.

The Feiners love Camp Simcha as much as they love their home in the Knesseth Israel community. They are grateful for the six weeks they have to spend in camp. For the final session, Rabbi Uri Orlian, the new rabbi of Congregation Shaaray Tefila, and his wife Nava will take their places.

“We heard about the energy, excitement, personal care and attention that the staff feels toward the campers, and we’re excited by the opportunity to be part of that,” Rabbi Orlian said earlier this week. He anticipates that his role will be as a listening ear and an emotional and spiritual support for both staff and

Rabbi Uri Orlian

campers. He noted that many of the staff are just returning from learning in Israel.

“For the past year they [the staff] were immersed in the teva of Torah.

Now they have the opportunity to immerse themselves in the teva of chessed. Through learning and shiurim, they can still nourish themselves with the Torah they spent the

year learning.”

Rabbi Simcha Scholar, executive vice president of Chai Lifeline, and Rabbi Elimelech Bluth, morah d’asrah of the organization, set the overall tone for the camp, and Rabbi and Rebbetzin Orlian are looking forward to their guidance as well as learning from the experiences of their neighbors, the Feiners. For Rabbi Scholar, the appreciation is mutual.

“Camp Simcha is very fortunate to have Rabbi and Rebbetzin Feiner and Rabbi and Rebbetzin Orlian on our staff. They are role models, teachers, and spiritual guides. Their presence enhances every aspect of camp life.”

For more information about Chai Lifeline and Camp Simcha, visit www.chailifeline.org and www.campsimcha.org, or email info@chailifeline.org.

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The graduating class of Mesivta Shaarei Chaim with Rabbi Y. Feigenbaum, Rabbi N. Zupnick, Rabbi Y. Scheiner, and Rabbi Y. Posnick

Assemblyman Goldfeder to Join Yeshiva University as Head of Government Relations

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eshiva University has announced that New York State Assemblyman Phil Goldfeder will lead its government relations efforts beginning this fall. Goldfeder will work to strengthen and develop relationships between the University and federal, state and local governments, and monitor legislation and policies that could have an impact on YU and its programs. Goldfeder represents the 23rd District in the New York State Assembly, which includes Ozone Park, Howard Beach, Broad Channel and Rockaway, and has announced that he is not seeking reelection.

“YU has developed several public-private partnerships over the past few years, which are resulting in academic and facility improvements,” said President Richard M. Joel.

“When we began exploring how we could take our successes with government relations to the next level, it was clear that Phil was uniquely qualified for this role.”

Andrew (Avi) Lauer, Vice President for Legal Affairs and General

Counsel at YU, added: “I have had the privilege of knowing and working with Phil for many years from the time he worked in the Mayor’s Office, through his work with Senator Schumer and most recently as a New York State legislator. I look forward to working closely with him and have every confidence that he will represent YU with the same passion, professionalism and vigor as he has his constituents for so many years.”

Goldfeder expressed that he is excited his public service will continue but in a new way. He said, “I have dedicated my life in public service to ensuring a better future for all our families. This begins by providing our children with a world-class education that will enable them to be successful and contribute to the community. I’m excited to utilize my diverse experience to advance the mission and goals of the University.”

Goldfeder’s career in public service began as a community liaison for the New York City Council. His passion for community service, along with his unique ability to understand

Assemblyman Phil Goldfeder speaks with Yeshiva University President Richard Joel during a recent event in support of Israel

the needs in the neighborhoods of Queens, earned him a position as the Queens Director for the Mayor’s Community Affairs Unit under Michael Bloomberg. His capacity to bring people together caught the attention of New York Senator Charles E. Schumer, who hired him as the Director of Intergovernmental Affairs. In September of 2011, Goldfeder was elected in a special election to serve in the New York

State Assembly where he focused on education, transportation and Sandy recovery.

Senator Schumer praised Goldfeder for being “a hard worker and a fighter, and with a deep passion for public service and people. In the Assembly he knew how to work with residents, leaders and businesses to get real results that improve peoples’ lives.”

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A Tee-rific Day Golfing with OHEL

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n a picturesque day at Fresh Meadow Country Club, over 140 friends and supporters of OHEL Children’s Home and Family Services teed off at the 12th Annual OHEL Rosemil Healthcare Golf Classic. Eve & Stephen Milstein & Rosemil Healthcare were once again the generous benefactors of this year’s event. Omni Managed Health, Infinity Land Services, AirMark, and Hawke & Co. Outfitters were also major sponsors.

OHEL’s Golf Classic chairpersons Ben Englander, Israel Kaufman, Jonathan Marks, Jeffrey Schwartz, and Michelle Sulzberger worked tirelessly recruiting friends and sponsors, creating this momentous event for an extraordinary charity.

Assemblymen Walter T. Mosley and Phil Goldfeder, advocates for mental health initiatives in the Greater New York City areas, joined OHEL in their even greater causes at this golf event. OHEL provides men-

L- R: Robert Katz, Chief Development Officer at OHEL (far left), and Israel Kaufman, OHEL Golf Chairperson (far right), pictured with the Foursome winners

tal health services to thousands of individuals and families and works closely with elected officials to ensure access to their constituents.

It was a day of lively camaraderie and friendly competition, all for a great cause. Golfers enjoyed a lavish breakfast, a barbecue lunch on the greens later in the afternoon, and a delicious buffet dinner catered by

Receiving OHEL Awards, L-R: Michelle Sulzberger, Kyra Englander (representing Ben Englander), Israel Kaufman, Jonathan Marks, and Jeffrey Schwartz

Main Event-Mauzone Caterers.

There was an awards ceremony dinner in the country club’s ballroom where the winning golfers received trophies and raffle winners were announced and prizes were awarded.

During the dinner, Michelle Sulzberger introduced OHEL’s feature video, “Journey to New Beginnings,” an emotionally moving short film that follows up on various foster children whose lives were transformed by the assistance of OHEL’s legendary Milton & Molly Schulman Foster Care Program and its accomplishments. Everyone in the room was clearly touched by the film and OHEL’s efforts to provide peace for those who may experience traumatic events.

After the film, great raffle prizes were awarded. These included autographed sports memorabilia from Alex Rodrigez, Eli Manning, Shaquille O’Neil, and Joe Namath, to name just a few. Special Yankees

and Mets game tickets and tech gear, such as the latest Apple iPad, were also among the raffle prizes.

Proceeds from the OHEL Rosemil Healthcare Golf Classic benefit the thousands of children and families impacted by the various programs and services provided by OHEL Children’s Home and Family Services.

Since 1969, OHEL has served as a dependable haven of individual and family support, helping people of all ages surmount disability, everyday challenges, heal from trauma, and manage with strength and dignity during times of crises. OHEL serves thousands in need every day in communities in New York, New Jersey, California and worldwide.

Individuals interested in the many programs that OHEL offers should contact OHEL at (800)-603OHEL (6435). Like us on Facebook at OHEL Children’s Home and Family Services and follow us on Instagram @ohelfamily

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At the Learn & Live carnival, children were able to enjoy fun booths – all with the theme of the lamed tes melachos.

Nursing Home Seniors Participate in 28th Annual Adult Education Graduation Ceremony

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hirty-five seniors at the Gurwin Jewish Nursing & Rehabilitation Center in Commack graduated from the Center’s Adult Education program, capping an eightmonth journey on a quest to continue learning, regardless of age or physical limitations.

Residents graduating from the program successfully completed month-long classes in such topics as Inventions that Changed the World, Zoology, The Roosevelts: From Theodore to FDR, The Evolution of Animation, and one of the class favorites, The Evolution of Desserts. Residents vote on classes at the end of each summer for the upcoming course year, and the Therapeutic Recreation staff works tirelessly to become experts on the topics at hand, presenting information to their students in an interactive and interesting way. In addition to the staff lecturers, classes are also presented by faculty of the Suffolk County Community College through the “Professors on Wheels” program. Culminating in a traditional cap and gown ceremony complete with a processional to Pomp & Circumstance, diplomas, and Valedictory and Salutatory addresses, the Adult Education Program at the Gurwin Center is a resident and

family favorite.

Adele Danon, 90, was selected as Valedictorian of the Class of 2016. Adele’s remarks centered on her revelation since becoming a resident at Gurwin that her life was, in fact, not over. “G-d steered me to Gurwin, and I found that my life has really just begun,” she said. She thanked the Therapeutic Recreation staff in her remarks, noting that they always provide something for everyone, and commended all the effort they put in to executing the Adult Education Program. “The Adult Education Program has enabled me to keep my mind active...I certainly did not think at 90 years old that I would be graduating again!”

Salutatorian Mike Segelken spoke of his enjoyment of the various classes, noting they were always fun and informative. “Adult Education has broadened my knowledge, even to the point where my Jeopardy game has improved! That aside, I see Adult Education as an opportunity to keep learning, which to me holds much importance,” he said.

Local and state elected officials were happy to be part of the graduation, some by addressing the graduates, and

Valedictorian Adele Danon and Salutatorian Michael Segelken are congratulated by NY State Assemblyman Andrew Raia, Suffolk County Legislator Steve Stern, Gurwin Executive Vice President/CEO Herbert H. Friedman, Huntington Town Councilwoman Tracey Edwards, Gurwin Chairman of the Board Larry Simon, NY State Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan, and Gurwin Director of Therapeutic Recreation Dawn Lettau. others by handing out diplomas and congratulations during the ceremony. A welcome was provided by NYS Senate Majority Leader John J. Flanagan, and the keynote address was presented by Huntington Town Councilwoman Tracey A. Edwards. Ms. Edwards congratulated the graduates, explaining that she had difficulty looking for inspiring words for them, until she realized she was approaching her remarks all wrong. “I should not be inspiring you; you are the inspiration to all of us!” Others

attending included New York State Assemblyman Andrew Raia and Suffolk County Legislator Steve Stern. New York State Senator Chad Lupinacci and Nassau County Executive Ed Mangano sent certificates of achievement for each of the graduates.

Dawn Lettau, Director of Therapeutic Recreation at the Gurwin Center, agreed with Councilwoman Edwards, saying, “Each year, I am motivated by the perseverance of our graduates. Each of them faces their own challenges, yet daily

they continue to realize the value of a moment and live each day to the fullest.”

“It’s programs like our Adult Education Program that are at the heart of what makes Gurwin such a special place for those who call us home,” said Herbert H. Friedman, Executive Vice President. ”An evening like this reminds us of our true purpose, making sure our residents are cared for and cared about. That’s why tonight is such a special celebration.”

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A Lifetime of Inspiration in Just 30 Hours written commentaries to R’ Yisroel Salanter’s Ohr Yisroel and R’ Chaim Volozhiner’s Nefesh HaChaim, he has also applied the ideas and ideals of these seforim to the realities of 2016 both in his vaadim and in his writings.In those 30 hours, Rav Leuchter spoke at Yeshiva Gedolah of the Five Towns where he offered bochurim and avreichim new meaning to the opening words of Mesilas Yesharim and refreshed their approach to avodas Hashem. At Mesivta Shaarei Chaim of Far Rockaway, he expounded on the words of the Ramban in Parshas Beha’alosacha to fortify bochurim as they face unique challenges throughout the year and especially in the coming months.

Besides speaking to the local yeshiva bochurim, Rabbi Leuchter also delivered a community-wide shiur on chinuch graciously hosted

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Because of his unique ability to understand our challenges and how they relate to the wisdom of Chazal, Rabbi Leuchter has become one of the foremost mashgichim and mechanchim in Eretz Yisroel today. Rabbi Leuchter’s various weekly vaadim in Eretz Yisroel attract hundreds of participants who are motivated by Rabbi Leuchter’s unique approach to Chazal and how it applies to their lives. Rabbi Leuchter was fortunate to spend over 25 years learning b’chavrusa with the renowned mashgiach and chinuch expert Rabbi Shlomo Wolbe z”l, and his approach to being mechanech our generation is a direct consequence of what he learnt from his Rebbe. Rabbi Leuchter has not only

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In addition to these public shiurim, Rabbi Leuchter also met with local rabbanim to hear and discuss challenging communal issues. Small vaadim in private homes brought community members together to hear nuanced lessons on personal growth and mussar. All in all, the 30 hours that Rabbi Leuchter spent in the community urged and inspired many in the community to devote more time and energy to their avodas Hashem, and they await the next opportunity for Rabbi Leuchter to return and inspire them further.

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Yehuda Green serenaded the crowd at the Annual Concert at Long Beach on Sunday night. Fireworks completed the thrilling show

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JCCRP Hosts Invaluable First Time Homebuyers Workshop

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uying a home for the first time can be a daunting challenge, and it can be a very stressful and worrisome time. To help the community and to assist those looking to buy a home, the Jewish Community Council of the Rockaway Peninsula (JCCRP) held a first-time homebuyer workshop in collaboration with the White Shul as a service to the community. The workshop is intended to provide honest and open information about buying a house in order to alleviate the immense pressure and uncertainty homebuyers face.

Participants were greeted with refreshments and an overall relaxed environment. They were walked through the preparatory steps of purchasing a home which include budgeting, qualifying for financing, grant program availability, tax ramifications, homeowners/flood insurance, legal aspects, what to look for in a home, and much more.

Presenting at the event were members of the community who are accomplished in their relative fields related to home buying. Shalva Schottenfeld, a credit restoration specialist at The Hudson Group, explained all about credit and the different ways to raise your credit and keep it from falling. She was extremely helpful and interactive. Naftali Solomon, from 718 Insurance, explained the complex ins and outs of homeowner’s and flood insurance. Paul Mernick, Esq. described the necessity of having a real estate

attorney on your side, to help navigate the complicated legal aspects of buying a house. Irene Steiner, real estate agent at Pugatch Realty Corp., was very helpful in her talk about buying a house. She mentioned the importance of knowing exactly what you need, as well as what you want, when looking for a house, and how to compromise to remain happy with your choice. A mortgage specialist provided a clear and understandable path to getting a mortgage for a first home, and he discussed some of the potential hurdles a homeowner might face in the process. The panel of experts provided a tremendous amount of useful information, and answered questions throughout the evening.

This workshop is one of the valuable services the JCCRP provides to

the Rockaway/Five Towns community. The following information and assistance is available at the JCCRP: • Medicaid/ Family Health Plus enrollment, recertification, and advocacy • Medicare advocacy, enrollment, and recertification • Food stamp advocacy and enrollment • Information and assistance with government benefits, including Social Security, HEAP, SSI, UIB, and SCRIE • Housing issues including eviction prevention and housing court assistance • Crisis Intervention • Kosher food pantry • Counseling services • Referral to New York Legal Assistance Group for legal assistance

To support the JCCRP and ensure future programs like this, please mail your tax deductible donation to: JCCRP, 1525 Central Avenue, Far Rockaway, NY 11691. 100% of your donations go to those in need.

For information on upcoming events or to make a donation online, visit the JCCRP website: www.jccrp.

org.

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

Young Israel of Long Beach Hosts Special Day for Chai Lifeline Families

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he Young Israel of Long Beach hosted a day in Long Beach for families affiliated with Chai Lifeline on July 3. The children and their families spent a day in Long Beach where they swam, used the boardwalk, played Boccie ball, and took part in other great rides and fun.

After the day’s activities, the families spent some private time with their children at the YILB for a funfilled BBQ, games and prizes! Following the BBQ all the families went to the boardwalk where everyone enjoyed the annual “Concert by the Sea” which this year features Yehuda

Green and his orchestra.

The YILB has been sponsoring this “Day at the Beach” for the past many years and it really is a fun and exciting time for the children and their families.

This year, the Chai Lifeline BBQ was a huge success because of the following volunteers. David Goldstein, the main coordinator, got the ball rolling, obtained food, goodies and agreements with vendors. The actual project was coordinated and directed by Yechezkel & Michelle Brucker who picked up the mantel from David & Esti Goldstein who were actively engaged in the Bar

Mitzvah of their grandson twins Kalev & Yehoshua and could not be present at the actual event.

Naomi Schwartz was first on the scene to pitch in, and never stopped “doing” and “going,” our problem solver. Louie Rothschild was our main grill man who toiled over burning coals all day. Scott Steinberg was our griller, server, facilitator and did whatever needed to be done.

David and Dasi Fohrman provided grills and pots, and were our grill man, salad maker, resident joker (kept the mood light), and problem solvers. Fran, Josh and Gaby Koegel were amazing with set up, dec-

orating, keeping the food and people flowing, and helped clean up.

Rabbi Steve and Aliza Siegel, Chumie Diamond, and Yocheved Brucker were instrumental as well. And, of course, we appreciate all the individuals who donated money to help cover the cost of the food and entertainment for the families.

Rabbi Chaim Wakslak observed that the community of Long Beach is fortunate to have such dedicated and talented people who can take a few balloons and toys and some burgers and hotdogs and make them into a fabulous event!

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Yeshiva Gedolah Ateres Yaakov Siyum

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ecently, Yeshiva Gedolah Ateres Yaakov’s talmidim and rabbeim gathered together at the home of Mr. & Mrs. Seth Farbman in Woodmere for a lavish BBQ to celebrate its annual siyum. 13 of the Yeshiva Gedolah talmidim made a siyum on Maseches Brachos.

Rabbi Meir Braunstein, Rosh Yeshiva of the Yeshiva Gedolah, opened the siyum by thanking the gracious hosts for their hospitality and for demonstrating what a home filled with Torah and chessed looks like. Rabbi Braunstein went on to give divrei chizuk to the talmidim, “When returning from Eretz Yisroel, bochurim are warned of the challenges that lie ahead. Very often bochurim have a hard time maintaining their level of seriousness in America, despite their desire to stay on the derech. Baruch Hashem in our Bais Medrash, bochurim are not just maintaining their prior levels, but growing to new heights in

Bnei Yeshiva enjoying the siyum

their learning and avodas Hashem … truly an amazing accomplish-

The Shaarei B sixth grade champions celebrate their win

ment!”

Rabbi Braunstein introduced Rabbi Mordechai Yaffe, the Menahel of Ateres Yaakov, to address the talmidim, noting Rabbi Yaffe’s leadership in all aspects of Ateres Yaakov’s success. He commented, “Just like the menorah has a stem in the middle that is crucial to holding up all of its branches and the lights, so to our Yeshiva has Rabbi Yaffe’s dedicated leadership at its core, responsible for its tremendous success.”

Following the introduction, Rabbi Yaffe spoke about the constant dedication, commitment and diligence of the rabbeim and the Rosh Yeshiva of the Yeshiva Gedolah for their talmidim. Rabbi Yaffe’s parting message to the talmidim was that during bein hazmanim, talmidim must recognize that it is during their time away from yeshiva, when their true colors and identity as bnei Torah must shine. Rabbi Yaffe concluded, “What you do during bein hazmanim defines you as an individual, and I am confident that you will all bring a nachas ruach to the yeshiva, your parents, and to Hakadosh Baruch Hu.” Following Rabbi Yaffe’s divrei chizuk, the 13 misaymim led by Tzvi Miller recited their collective hadran.

Mr. Seth Farbman & Rabbi Meir Braunstein

The Yeshiva thanks Maggid Shiur, Rabbi Yechezkel Rodkin, and talmid Adir Farbman for organizing the BBQ siyum. Rabbi Rodkin commented, “We are so impressed and inspired by the amount of learning accomplished this z’man. All of our talmidim worked very hard, and tasted the sweetness of limud haTorah.”

The BBQ closed with leibidik dancing in joyous celebration of Torah.

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Fanning the Flames

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n Monday, June 20, over 120 people filled the Plaza Room of the Crest Hollow Country Club in Woodbury for the First Annual Dinner of the Long Island

Dr. Nick Sakellarios, guest of honor

The Dinner paid tribute to two families who have been deeply impacted by L.I.T.N., and in turn have given of themselves to help the organization grow.

The Guests of Honor were Dr. Nicholas and Debbie Sakellarios of Huntington, whose passion for limud haTorah is matched by a commitment to the growth of the Long Island Torah Network. In his speech, Dr. Sakellarios observed that L.I.T.N. provides a unique opportunity for adults to acquire Torah knowledge they might otherwise never discover – and how important it is to make these opportunities available to others.

The Shem Tov Award went to David and Valerie Korngold of East Northport, who have opened their home and their hearts to bring Torah into the lives of their family, friends and community. David Korngold, himself an avid participant in chavrusa learning, expressed his conviction that limud haTorah can

Rabbi Elazar Grossman, Director LITN, speaking

bonim whose ongoing encouragement and support enable L.I.T.N.’s many activities: Rabbi Yoel Adelman

in sharing the beauty of the Torah.

There’s enormous potential; people are interested in Torah. It just needs to be presented properly, and they respond with incredible enthusiasm.”

The First Annual Dinner of the Long Island Torah Network celebrates the growth of a mossad haTorah bearing hopeful signs for the Jewish future east of the New York Metropolitan area.

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Torah Network. L.I.T.N. was founded in 2012 on the principle that the future of Jewish Long Island hinges on limud haTorah. Inspired by his Rebbeim at Yeshiva Chofetz Chaim of Queens, Rabbi Menachem Becker founded the organization with the mission of offering the highest level of Torah learning to men, women and children of all backgrounds.

fan the spark within the Jewish heart into a roaring flame.

A video presentation showcased the many faces of Long Island Torah Network, from enthusiastic Hebrew School children to retirees experiencing Gemara for the first time in their lives.

The Dinner was graced by the presence of several community Rab-

of Huntington, Rabbi Chaim Bausk of East Northport, and Rabbi Ira Ebbin of Merrick. Also in attendance was Rebbetzin Daniellel Leibowitz, wife of Rav Henach Leibowitz zt”l of Yeshiva Chofetz Chaim of Queens.

“Our goal,” notes Director Rabbi Elazar Grossman, “is to live in the community, become part of its fabric, and make everyone our partners

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PEYD, a Long Island-based company, was founded almost five years ago by a team of four friends to help customers maximize their credit card rewards and airline miles. While originally PEYD was primarily involved in redeeming awards as well as buying and selling unused rewards points and miles, over time the group found themselves inundated with

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“As our company has grown, we renewed our focus on business travel and rewards management,” said Eli Schreiber, PEYD’s director of marketing. “We are the only company that offers credit card rewards, airline miles and travel services merged into one cohesive product based on your business type and where you are traveling.”

PEYD’s dedicated and friendly staff has more than 20 years of experience, giving them the ability to leverage their vast base of contacts, affiliates and knowledge to provide customers with unparalleled service and incredible value. Because of their extensive familiarity with loyalty points and airline miles, PEYD 360 has the ability to pinpoint the best itinerary using the fewest possible points and can also locate additional rewards that may be unique to particular destinations, providing customers with even greater benefits.

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Meir Shuvalsky, director of mileage travel, uses his extensive knowledge of the intricate mileage network employed by various airlines and alliances to find the best deals for clients. A coach ticket to China may cost $1,000 or 70,000 miles, while a business class ticket to the same destination can run $7,000 or 200,000 miles.

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B’gan: Transforming Kosher by Fusing Innovation & Taste

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B’gan, the company that has revolutionized the kosher market, is always on the cutting edge and is always launching new, delicious products to enhance the lives of balabustes and their families across the kosher world. Every time you visit the freezer section of your favorite kosher grocery or supermarket, you look for their

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TJH !

You gotta be

Centerfold kidding

An old man and a young man worked in offices next to each other. The young man noticed that the older man always had a jar of peanuts on his desk. The young man loved peanuts.

One day while the older man was away from his desk, the young man couldn’t resist and went to the old man’s jar and ate over half the peanuts. When the old man returned, the young man felt guilty and confessed to taking the peanuts.

The old man responded, “That’s OK. Since I lost my teeth, all I can do is lick the chocolate off the Peanut M&Ms.”

Chocolate Intrigue S July 7th is International Chocolate Day. (My mom always told me that “every day is chocolate day.”)

S In order to be classified as real chocolate, a product has to contain cocoa solids or cocoa liquor. White “chocolate” contains cocoa butter instead.

S Hershey’s Kisses got their name from the kissing sound the machine that deposits the chocolate on the conveyor belt makes.

S The chocolate industry is worth approximately $110 billion per year.

S The largest chocolate bar ever weighed 12,770 pounds and was created in England in 2011.

S You can die if you eat too much chocolate – chocolate contains high levels of a powerful stimulant called “theobromine.” Theobromine poisoning can cause heart failure, seizures, acute kidney damage and dehydration. (I should probably bench gomel every day.)

S It takes approximately 400 cacao beans to make one pound of chocolate.

S M&Ms were created in 1941 as a means for soldiers to enjoy chocolate without it melting.

S Every second Americans eat collectively 100 pounds of chocolate (I certainly contribute heavily to that statistic. Seriously…this is not a joke…I have my sad face on.)

S Americans eat almost half of the world’s yearly supply of chocolate. (Surprised?)

S Eating chocolate may reduce your risk of heart disease and stroke by about one-third. (I’m feeling healthy now!)

S A 2004 British study found that more than 70% of people would reveal their computer password in exchange for a bar of chocolate. (Just talking about chocolate makes me reveal my password: chocolatelover1.)

S Brussels Airport in Belgium is the world’s largest sales outlet for chocolate, selling over 800 tons annually.

S During the Revolutionary War, soldiers were sometimes paid with chocolate in lieu of wages. (The British are coming! The British are coming!!)

S According to research, eating chocolate actually stimulates chemicals in your brain which make you happy. (I KNOW THAT! )

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Chocolate Quiz

1. Which continent produces the most chocolate? a. North America b. Europe c. Africa d. Asia 2. Which country consumes the most chocolate per person per year? a. Belgium b. United States c. Switzerland d. France 3. Before the Hershey Bar, Milton S. Hershey was already famous for which type of candy that he later discontinued because the chocolates were so popular: a. Mints b. Jelly Beans c. Caramels d. Taffies 4. What does Milton Hershey’s middle initial, S, stand for? a. Steward b. Stanley c. Snavely

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Riddle me

d. Samuel 5. How many chocolate bars would you have to eat to get the same amount of caffeine as a cup of coffee? a. 2 b. 6 c. 14 d. 22 6. How much chocolate does the average American eat each year? a. 5 pounds b. 10 pounds c. 12 pounds d. 74 pounds (Yep!…sorry couldn’t control myself) Answers 1. C - More than three-fourths of all the world’s cocoa comes from West Africa – but the entire continent of Africa only accounts for about 3 percent of its consumption.

2. C- According to a survey by the Chocolate Manufacturers Association, Switzerland leads the world in yearly chocolate consumption with 22.36 pounds per person.

3.

C- In 1900, after seeing chocolate-making machines for the first time at the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Hershey sold his caramel company for $1,000,000 (equal to $28,444,000 today).

4. C- With a name like Snavely you better make sure to contribute something good to the world.

5. C- Chocolate does have caffeine, but very little. Sorry but the “I need it for the caffeine” excuse just doesn’t fly.

6. C-That’s right, 12 pounds. It would take a 130-pound person about 4 days and nights (a total of 95 hours) of brisk walking to burn off those calories. The Atlantic Beach Boardwalk is calling your name!

Answer Key: 5-6 correct: Let me guess, the letter C is also YOUR favorite letter.

Right? Takes one to know one!

3-4 correct: You are not the real deal…like white chocolate.

0-2 correct: Snavely, your mother had high hopes for you when you were born but…

this?

You are sitting at a table with three boxes on it. One of the boxes has a chocolate bar inside of it, and your goal is to figure out which one it is. There is a man on the other side of the table who knows which box the chocolate is in, and you can ask him one yes or no question. You must ask him one and only one question, and it must be relevant to which box contains the chocolate. How do you figure out for sure which box the chocolate is in?

See answer below

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Answer to riddle: Indicate one box and ask, “Is the chocolate in this box?” If he says yes, you’ve achieved your goal. If he says no, open the other two boxes and look inside. (Nobody ever said that you can open ONLY one box).

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Torah Thought

Parshat Korach

By Rabbi Berel Wein

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pparently there were influential sections of the Jewish people that found it difficult to have a proper relationship with their leader Moshe. The minimalist Jews – the eiruv rav – could not get enough of Moshe. They constantly needed him and his presence and when they felt that he was absent, and perhaps would not return, they substituted a golden calf in his stead.

This week we read of great and learned Jews, led by Korach, that felt that they had too much of Moshe in their lives. They wanted the bonds of

his leadership over them to be loosened, if not even completely dismantled. We saw in last week’s parsha that even his beloved and holy sister and brother found it difficult to come to terms with the unique greatness and prophetic stature of Moshe.

Moshe was not to be judged by ordinary human standards, even by the standards of the greatest and most holy of the congregation. The rabbis titled Moshe as being the father of all prophets, both those that preceded him and those who were to come after him.

It is one of the principles of Jewish faith that Moshe, though human and mortal, was the most unique and singular person in Jewish and general human history. We find it difficult to deal with people who are our peers and who we feel we can understand and even judge. How much more therefore is it difficult to try and assess the greatness and character of the most unique person in civilized history. The error of Korach and his followers lay in somehow seeing themselves as equal to Moshe and ignoring the fact of his uniqueness.

This distinction of Moshe is emphasized throughout Jewish history and tradition. The Torah itself is called on his name – the Torah of Moshe. A millennia after his passing, the prophet Malachi will still state: “Remember the Torah of my servant Moshe.” It is as though Moshe and Torah are synonymous one with the other. Even in general non-Jewish society, Moshe is remembered and renowned as the world’s greatest

lawgiver.

A fundamental error in understanding Jewish life and tradition is to deal with Moshe as an ordinary mortal, as just another great man among many in history. It is no wonder that Maimonides listed the belief in Moshe, the conduit that brings the Torah to the people of Israel, as being one of his thirteen principles of Jewish faith.

This idea is so central to Jewish continuity that we see in this week’s Torah reading that a special miracle was created – something that did not happen at the punishment of the worshipers of the Golden Calf – in order to reinforce the idea that Moshe was special and that his status and uniqueness was not to be tampered with. Millennia later, we could all state with pride and certainty that Moshe is true and that his Torah is true as well.

Shabbat shalom.

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The Observant Jew

Turning Points Too

By Rabbi Jonathan Gewirtz

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ot long ago I shared the unbelievable story about a woman whose treatment by another, more religiously and ritualistically Observant woman, had a big impact on her life. In the story, the woman was treated rudely by someone who should have been setting a better example of emulating Hashem by being forgiving, caring, and compassionate.

Had the interaction been different, perhaps the end of the story could have been different as well, in a much more satisfying way than it turned out. Many people were touched by the piece and I was asked to write a follow-up one.

As it turns out, Hashem was in favor of that. How do I know? Because of something that happened the day I submitted the other story.

I received a phone call from someone about a Facebook group called, “I Love You Hashem.” This group was formed to help foster the message of a man who, despite losing his son to illness several years ago, constantly finds reason to praise and express his love of Hashem.

It is dedicated to stories of personal salvation, in which people share things that happened to them which increase their love of Hashem.

I added something to the group – a video I had made of a parsha concept in which the great love Hashem has for us was highlighted.

The phone call I received was from a fellow involved with the group who was concerned that my presence was an official one and they didn’t want “rabbis” preaching but rather everyday people sharing their experiences. We had a very nice conversation and I found out more about this fellow.

He had started an organization that is dedicated to helping our fellow Jews and doing chessed for them.

A number of years ago, he’d decided to become religious.

He began looking for acts of kindness to do. He put ads in local papers offering chessed.

People began calling.

He drove a cancer patient to the hospital for a treatment, then waited and drove her home again. He read to a blind man on a Friday morning for about an hour.

When people needed money, he reached out to people he knew and arranged it.

Less than a decade later, as people heard what he was doing and wanted to share in it, his personal chessed project turned into a non-profit organization with thousands of volunteers. They help peo-

ple who are sick or needy; they visit Holocaust survivors and bring them flowers for Shabbos. They help with food packages, loans, job assistance, and much more.

These people don’t merely give money; they give of themselves.

I had to know. I asked, “What was it? What made you start down this road of being Mitzvah Man?” He started his story from the beginning. He wasn’t Observant. Shabbos was a relaxed day for a basketball game. However, when he hit a milestone birthday, he told himself, “There must be more.” So one Saturday, instead of the basketball court, he went to shul.

“It was one of those black hat places,” he said. “But when I walked in, everyone was friendly. Someone gave me a siddur; they helped me find a seat.”

“Afterwards,” he continued, “there was Kiddush.

‘Here, have a drink,’ or ‘have a glass of seltzer,’ it was so nice.”

“The next week I told my wife that I wanted to go back.

And from then on I started becoming more Observant and, figuring that Jews do chessed, I started to look for chessed opportunities.”

I was stunned at what I heard. I had just written a

piece about a lost opportunity, and Hashem was rewarding me with a story about an opportunity people didn’t even realize they were taking advantage of!

I told him what I’d written and said, “It’s amazing to think that these thousands of volunteers, the tens

of a kind word, and of recognizing the tzelem Elokim, the G-dliness inside each of us.

Let’s all try to make this moment a turning point in our lives, when we put even more focus on seeing the majesty in our fellow Jew, and perhaps, someday soon,

“What was it? What made you start down this road of being Mitzvah Man?”

of thousands of kindnesses that have been done and people who have been helped, all came about because some folks seeing a stranger in shul, who wasn’t ‘like’ them, were simply welcoming and nice to him!”

This was a turning point for not only this man, but for the many, many people who’ve been involved or received chessed from him or his group. I imagine that the people who were friendly, unless they followed the new guest’s life, may not even know how big a ripple effect their actions had.

But all of you reading this do. You are now aware of the amazing potential of a smile,

your words will blossom into a “revolution” greater than you can even imagine.

Jonathan Gewirtz is an inspirational writer and speaker whose work has appeared in publications around the world.

You can find him at www.facebook.com/RabbiGewirtz, and follow him on Instagram @ RabbiGewirtz or Twitter @ RabbiJGewirtz. He also operates JewishSpeechWriter. com, where you can order a custom-made speech for your next special occasion. Sign up for the Migdal Ohr, his weekly PDF Dvar Torah in English.

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Between the Lines

Ascent Over Descent

By Eytan Kobre

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dog once roamed the forest, fearful of the other animals, until it conceived of an idea. Collecting the horns of a dead deer, the mane of a dead horse, and the skin of a dead bear, the dog sought to pass itself off as a hideous beast so that no animal would attack it.

When word of the bizarre new creature reached the lion, the proverbial king of the forest summoned the creature to appear before it. “Who are you?” the lion roared.

“Don’t you see, I have deer horns,” replied the dog.

“Okay,” probed the lion, “but who are you?”

“Why, I have a horse’s mane.”

“I can see that,” replied the lion. “But who are you?”

“Can’t you see my bearskin?”

“Yeah, but who are YOU?” “Oh, me?” said the dog sheepishly. “I’m just a dog...”

So it is, says the Dubner Maggid, with yichus (lineage). If we can define ourselves only by reference to the attributes and accomplishments of our forebears, who are we really?

As a first cousin to Moshe and Aharon – and sharing

the same illustrious lineage – Korach felt that he had equal claim to the leadership of the Jewish people.

The scion of greats – Yitzhar, Kehas, Levi – Korach never should have allowed himself to foment rebellion against Moshe and Aharon, leaders chosen by G-d Himself. But, ironically, it was precisely the fact that he hailed from a distinguished parentage that caused Korach to rebel (Bamidbar 15:1 and Rashi ad loc.; Rashi Bamidbar 16:7).

We pride ourselves on our lineage, and rightfully so.

To be sure, a distinguished pedigree of “wisdom” and “fear of heaven” is to be valued (Tosfos Yom Tov, Ta’anis 4:8). “One cannot compare the prayer of a righteous person who is the child of a righteous person with the prayers of a righteous person who is the child of a wicked person” (Yevamos 64a; Rashi, Bereishis 25:21). “One who is a scholar, and his son is a scholar, and his son’s son is a scholar, the Torah will never cease from his descendants” (Bava Metzia 85a). “It is more fitting that a scholar, the son of an ordinary man, should go to one who is a scholar and is the son of a scholar, than vice versa”

(Ta’anis 21b; see Yershulami, Kelayim 9:3). And “if you see a righteous person with distinguished ancestry, [know] that he is not quick to sin” (Yalkut, Mishlei 544). These are undeniable truths.

But family pedigree should be understood and valued for what it is – not more. When R’ Ezra came to study under R’ Preida, the latter’s students introduced R’ Ezra as a direct descendant of R’ Elazar ben Azaria and Ezra the Scribe (Menachos 53a). R’ Preida pulled no punches. “Why describe the pedigree?” he queried.

“If he is learned, fine; if he is learned and also a scion of noble ancestors, even better; but if he is a scion of noble ancestors and not learned, may fire consume him.”

Indeed, even as early as the splitting of the Red Sea, some of the Jewish people declared, “This is my G-d and I will glorify Him”; others announced, “[This is] the G-d of my father, and I will exalt Him” (Shemos 15:2 and R’ Samson Raphael Hirsch ad loc.). Those who regarded G-d as their own G-d were on a higher spiritual plane than those to whom G-d was merely the G-d of their ancestors.

And while a distinguished lineage certainly can be a source of strength and inspiration and maybe even justifiable pride, it carries with it significant obligations. Indeed, “every person is obligated to ask himself, ‘When will my deeds reach the level of the deeds of my forefathers?’” (Tana d’bei Eliyahu 25). Or, as R’ Naftali Tzvi of Ropshitz put it, “Everyone is obligated to compare their deeds to those of their forebears. One who comes from simple stock should feel accomplished, while one who stems from righteous people should feel inadequate.” The greater the lineage, the greater the responsibility and challenge.

Indeed, in the introduction to his commentary on the Gemara (Ne’um Yehuda), R’ Yehuda Yiddel Brodie explained that, as a businessman hailing from a distinguished line of Torah scholars, he felt compelled to write Torah novellae to live up to the standards of his ancestors.

That was Korach’s failing.

His pedigree was unmistakably illustrious, but rather than make him jealous or resentful, it should have encouraged him to meet the

lofty standards set by his forebears.

Because a distinguished lineage is defined less by the annals of the past than by the promise of the future.

When the Maggid of Mezritch was a young boy, his house was destroyed by fire.

His mother sat crying in the rubble, not over the loss of her house but over the loss of her cherished family tree heirloom, which dated back a good many generations.

The then-five-year-old Maggid told his mother, “Don’t be sad. A new chain in our lineage will begin with me.”

And so it did. When the daughter of R’ Yisrael of Rizhin and the son of R’ Yaakov Yosef Halperin were proposed to one another as a suitable match, R’ Yaakov Yosef spoke unendingly about his lofty yichus. The Rizhiner, a descendant of the Maggid of Mezritch, explained that his family defined their pedigree in terms of their children. Indeed, as his forefather believed, the Rizhiner was wont to remark, “From my sons you will know who I am.”

Yaakov understood this only too well, so he prayed that his name and lineage

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not be mentioned in connection with Korach, one who abused the privileges and failed the challenges of a dis-

explains not as their ancestors but as the prospective lineage of their children (Rashi, Bamidbar 1:18; see

The then-five-year-old Maggid told his mother, “Don’t be sad.

A new chain in our lineage will begin with me.”

tinguished pedigree (Bereishis 49:6; Tanchuma, Korach 4; Rashi, Bamidbar 15:1).

This is no novel concept.

When the Jewish people were first counted in the desert, “each one brought documents of ‘yichus’ and witnesses to the status of their birth,” which Onkelus

also Rus Rabba 8; Pesachim 62b).

The same point is borne out metaphorically by the commandment to write a Sefer Torah (Sefer HaChinuch 613). Even one who inherits a Sefer Torah must nevertheless write their own (Sanhedrin 21b). Perhaps,

among other reasons, this is to remind us that no generation can rest on the laurels of prior generations; every person and every generation must write their own Torah.

Torah is not an inheritance (Avos 2:17).

A man once entered the court of R’ Yechezkel of Kozmir boastfully. R’ Yechezkel asked his followers whether the man was a great scholar or a successful merchant or some other dignitary that would explain his arrogance. The disciples explained that the man was neither, but he was of a family pedigree of the highest order.

R’ Yechezkel then likened a distinguished lineage to a wagon mired in a bog. The wagon driver uses a jack to pump up the wheels and raise them above the mud,

and then he pushes the wagon back on course and continues driving. Does anyone think the jack is responsible for moving the wagon forward? Of course not. Only a fool would place four jacks under a wagon and wait for the wagon to advance.

So it is with yichus. A distinguished pedigree is meaningful, but only if you advance it. Indeed, “one who does not do good deeds should not trust in the deeds of his forebears” (Medrash, Tehillim 146). Like a bunch of zeroes, illustrious lineage is meaningless unless you put something in front of it; if you do, each zero adds exponential value.

The sorry episode of Korach also reflects this encouraging aspect of lineage. Because despite their lineal limitations, Korach’s

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children not only “did not die” with him (Bamidbar 26:11), they later blossomed into a family of prophets – including Shmuel (Rashi, Bamidbar 16:7) – and were appointed by King David to lead the song in the Bais HaMikdash and act as its gatekeepers (I Divrei HaYamim 6:16-23 and 9:17-32).

Bottom line? You can come from a somebody and be a nobody. You can come from a nobody and be a somebody.

But only you determine whether you will be a nobody or a somebody.

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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Israel Today

Gobble Gobble

By Rafi Sackville

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here was a period in my youth when I wanted to believe kibbutz life was for me. I had yet to reach the age of maturity (my wife says I’m not there yet) and the allure of farm life appealed to me more than studying in university.

The feeling didn’t last too long. Yet the period of time I spent on a kibbutz formulated patterns of behavior I still carry with me today.

For one, I dislike animals. This is not a predilection I developed as a child. It was the culmination of being overexposed to creatures for concentrated periods of time.

Despite the protestations of my children when they were small, our home has, for the most part, been bereft of pets. There were a couple of birds that soon died, two rabbits that drew the wild dogs in the hills around us to our front door like seagulls to a piece of hot fat. The racket outside was frightening. On the first night I thought we were being robbed by drunkards.

This continued night after night until we returned the rabbits to their original owners. Then there was a dog I called Marlowe, after Joseph Conrad’s protagonist in The Heart of Darkness. He was appropriately named for all I got was “horror, horror, oh the horror.”

I chose to work with turkeys. You might ask yourself just how bad that could be.

How does artificial insemi-

nation sound? Paint the following picture in your mind’s eye: humans can’t rely on turkeys to leave things to Mother Nature. The process is at times random and slow.

We have taken the mother out of nature and for years have been extracting from male turkeys what they then transfer to the females. It’s intrusive, quick, and it so disgusting it makes a garbage truck look like a sterile operating theater.

Today the appearance of turkey feet on a dining room table finds me breaking into a cold sweat. This is because I spent one morning on my knees in a corner of a coop catching them by their two feet as they were pushed in my direction. Once caught I lifted them onto a bench where my co-worker drew blood while I wrote a number on their legs for later identification. Three days later we would re-enter the coop and look for the turkeys who had been identified as sick. I lay on the floor of the coop as they were shepherded past me. It took all morning, but the culprits were eventually found and disposed. The kibbutz offered turkey legs for lunch on one of these days and I haven’t looked at a pulka since.

I was once getting dressed after a shower when I was stung by a scorpion that had patiently waited in my shorts. I spent most of the night in the old Sharei Tzedek Hospital in Jerusalem waiting for two doc-

tors to determine whether the scorpion was yellow or black: the latter would lead to a period of intense pain and delusional behavior; the former to a short period of pain and a possible funeral.

Black it was.

My colleagues were an interesting group of men.

We divided our time maintaining the coops, collecting eggs, building stuff, and generally having fun. I once threw eggs into the fog of a wintry day only to hear a splat and my name screamed in anger. I had hit a co-worker squarely in the chest from 50 paces. He asked me to remove my hat, which he proceeded to fill with eggs before returning it to my head with pressure.

On one occasion I was given the job of stacking bales of hay into an empty coop. I designed them in such a way that pulling out one bale led to a secret passage way which ended in a perfect place to take a nap.

My plans were foiled when, on the first day I wanted a nap, I found a co-worker there asleep.

At the end of work I helped tend to the few horses in a flimsy stable. One wintry night I decided to sleep there in the hope of watching the mare give birth. At two in the morning, the skies opened. The weight of collecting water on the corrugated roof gave way a few minutes later and the rainwater raced into the top of my sleeping bag like a flow-

ing river. I ran to my room to change. By the time I returned a few minutes later the mare had already given birth.

The horses were only a sideshow to artificial insemination. It was a job so dirty and disgusting I could have featured in The Discovery

privacy never truly belonged to me. At times I felt like a glass box through which others could see me; and the glass wasn’t always clean.

Some forty years later I’m still bemused by what possessed me to choose working in such filth: it must have been the folly of youth.

He asked me to remove my hat, which he proceeded to fill with eggs before returning it to my head with pressure.

Channel’s “Dirty Jobs” and felt right at home.

A few weeks ago we returned to spend a Shabbat in Kfar Etzion. Keren and I are often guests there because it is such a wonderful place and we have such good friends there. Today no one on the kibbutz works with turkeys. It is all done by foreign workers.

Kibbutz as I knew it has changed. Privatization is the norm. Back then I came to realize that | couldn’t ultimately come to discover myself without sharing the highs and lows with every member of the kibbutz. My

One thing I can say with certainty is that, those occasional naps aside, I didn’t shirk away from the physically difficult and disgusting nature of the work. Whenever I return to kibbutz I am reminded of the sights, but particularly of the smells, that were work-related. I’m glad that the work I do today doesn’t involve taking showers, evading scorpions, and especially not having to inseminate turkeys.

Rafi Sackville, formerly of Cedarhurst, teaches in Ort Maalot in Western Galil.

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Elie Wiesel A Man of Memory and Mission

By Susan Schwamm

“To forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time.”

He was a witness; he was a writer. He was a survivor, a beacon advocating for morality.

Last week, Elie Wiesel, professor, poet, writer, recipient of the Congressional Gold Medal of Achievement and Nobel Laureate, died in his home at 87. For six decades, Wiesel’s drive was to highlight the atrocities he witnessed during the Holocaust. He became the voice of the survivors, urging the remembrance of the dead. The events that took place before his eyes, the horror that he witnessed, compelled him to tell the world about the evil that took form in the abyss of the concentration camps.

“If I survived, it must be for some reason,” he told Michiko Kakutani of The New York Times in an interview in 1981. “I must do something with my life. It is too serious to play games with anymore, because in my place, someone else could have been saved. And so I speak for that person. On the other hand, I know I cannot.”

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eptember 30, 1928: Eliezer Wiesel is born to Shlomo and Sarah in the small city of Sighet in Romania. His father spoke Yiddish and encouraged his son to learn modern Hebrew and introduced him to

the works of Freud. His mother and grandmother regaled him with tales of Hassidic masters. He grew up with his three sisters, Hilda, Batya and Tzipora, in a town submerged in shtetl life. “You went out on the street on

Saturday and felt Shabbat in the air,” he wrote of his community of 15,000 Jews.

But innocence was shattered in the spring of 1944 when the Nazis goose stepped into Hungary with their swasti-

kas, vitriol and bloodlust.

Those in Sighet hoped the Allies would reach them in time. But they were quickly rounded up into two ghettos and then assembled for deportation. “One by one, they passed in front of

me,” he wrote in Night, “teachers, friends, others, all those I had been afraid of, all those I could have laughed at, all those I had lived with over the years. They went by, fallen, dragging their packs, dragging their lives, de-

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serting their homes, the years of their childhood, cringing like beaten dogs.”

In Night, his most famous of books, his memoir, he recounted his journey in the cattle cars which ended at the depths of hell: Auschwitz.

The family had never heard of Auschwitz but they saw the smokestacks that filled the air with the stench of burning flesh, how babies were burned in a pit, and how a sadistic Dr. Josef Mengele decided, with a wave of a baton, who would live and who would die.

Elie’s mother and sister Tzipora were sent to the right, his mother gently smoothing her daughter’s hair. “I did not know that in that place, at that moment, I was parting from my mother and Tzipora forever,” he wrote.

“Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, which has turned my life into one long night, seven times cursed and seven times sealed,” Elie wrote.

“Never shall I forget that smoke. Never shall I forget the little faces of the children, whose bodies I saw turned into wreaths of smoke beneath a silent blue sky. Never shall I forget those flames which consumed my faith forever. Never shall I forget that nocturnal silence which deprived me, for all eternity, of the desire to live. Never shall I forget those moments which murdered my G-d and my soul and turned my dreams to dust. Never shall I forget these things, even if I am condemned to live as long as G-d himself. Never.”

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Receiving honey cake from the Lubavitch Rebbe

Survival in Auschwitz turned humans into creatures subhuman.

Their primary thought was survival, their next piece of bread, their next bowl of soup, ducking the constant beatings. He recalled in his memoir how he was turned into an unfeeling being – watching his father being beaten with an iron bar and not running to help.

Eventually, Elie was forced to run through the snow from Buna to

Elie Wiesel at the Sighet ‘soap monument,’ where Nazi soap was buried according to halacha

On April 11, 1945, after eating nothing for six days, Wiesel was among those liberated by the United States Third Army. He was 16.

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lie eventually was taken to France, branded with A7713 on his arm, where he learned French and became a journalist. But the person who is now known for his written work was surprisingly si-

were smothered by evil?

In 1955, at the age of 27, Elie finally put his memories to paper. Night was published in Yiddish and was later rewritten for a world audience. The book itself took a journey. Initially written as an 800 page story, it was trimmed to 300 pages for an edition released in Argentina, cut again to 200 pages in French and then published in the 1960s in the United States, at just over 100 pages. At first,

“Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, which has turned my life into one long night, seven times cursed and seven times sealed” Buchenwald, where he watched his father die from illness and starvation. He guiltily recalled that he had wished to have been relieved of the burden of sustaining him. “I had no more tears,” he said after his father’s body was taken away. He could no longer cry.

lent during the ten years after the Holocaust.

He was afraid that he wouldn’t be able to find the right words to describe the evil that was rampant, an evil so pervasive and so profound, during those few years.

For how can ink drying on paper be witness to the six million souls that

the book barely sold; only 1,046 copies were bought in the first 18 months.

“The Holocaust was not something people wanted to know about in those days,” Wiesel told Time magazine in 1985.

But with the trial of Adolf Eichmann the world was once again witness to Hitler’s evil min-

ions and Night became a bestseller. In 2008, The New York Times estimated that 10 million copies of Night had been sold.

Once Night was published, it seemed as if a fountain of memories, suffering and poetry was released. A few years later, Dawn was published, a novel about a young survivor living in Jerusalem who joined the Irgun and is faced with the task of executing a British soldier at daybreak. He struggles and faces his inner turmoil as the sun begins to rise. Day completed the trilogy of Wiesel’s thoughts and experiences during and after the Holocaust.

Over the years, Elie penned over 60 works in his poetic, crisp prose.

His books centered on the theme of survival. He asked questions, begging the reader to ponder the queries, but often did not give answers. He highlighted the struggle of a Soviet Jew faced with oppression, of one facing open-heart surgery, those facing horror. Each work brought a character to life, a character facing a daunting, harrowing struggle. He showed the reader that we too can be survivors.

Jerusalem was in his heart and mind. He was an ardent defender of the State of Israel, but the holy city captured his soul. Menachem Z. Rosensaft, whose parents were friends with Wiesel, wrote that Elie loved “both the actual city and the ethereal, incorporeal concept of the place to which Jews yearned to return for almost two thousand years; the orig-

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With President Obama, Chancellor Merkel, and survivor Bertrand Herz at Buchenwald in 2009

inal city on a hill that provided a psychological, spiritual refuge that even the Nazis could not take away from the child he had been in a Birkenau barrack surrounded by death and desolation.”

“I see myself back in my town,” Wiesel wrote in A Beggar in Jerusalem, “back in my childhood. Yom Kippur. Day of fasting, of atonement.

That evening one cry bursts with the same force from every heart: ‘Next year in Jerusalem.’

On my right, among the men draped in their prayer shawls, there was one who did not pray.

The next morning I saw him again at the entrance of the Beit Hamidrash, among the beggars and simple-minded. I offered him some change; he refused. ‘I do not need it, my child,’ he said. I asked him how he subsisted. ‘On dreams,’ he answered.”

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lie wasn’t just a writer; he was a speaker, outspoken, advocating for the downtrodden. He took up causes around the world, urging leaders and nations to thwart evil, prevent atrocities, and

At a ceremony with President Carter commemorating the victims of the Holocaust

assist the victims. He condemned the burnings of black churches in the United States, and spoke out against apartheid in South Africa and on behalf of the tortured political prisoners of Latin America. He condemned the slaughters in Cambodia, Rwanda, and the Darfur region of Sudan.

He denounced the mas-

Israel and the plight of Jews were foremost on Wiesel’s mind. In 2013, when the United States was in talks with Iran about limiting that country’s nuclear weapons capability, Wiesel took out a full page advertisement in The Times urging President Obama to insist on a “total dismantling of Iran’s nucle-

Wiesel with his wife, Marion; their son, Shlomo Elisha; and Egil Aarvik, the chairman of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, after receiving the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986

helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.”

The Prize was awarded to Wiesel for being a “messenger to mankind.”

In his speech, he said that what he had done with his life was to try “to keep memory alive” and “to fight those who would forget … Because if we

“I swore never to be silent whenever, wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation.” sacres in Bosnia in the mid-1990s, and implored Bill Clinton to intervene.

“And, Mr. President, I cannot not tell you something. I have been in the former Yugoslavia last fall. I cannot sleep since for what I have seen. As a Jew I am saying that we must do something to stop the bloodshed in that country! People fight each other and children die. Why? Something, anything must be done,” he urged the president at the opening of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., on April 22, 1993.

ar infrastructure” and its “repudiation of genocidal intent against Israel.”

This was done at a time when many Jews in the limelight were shunning the Jewish State. But Wiesel was never known to support only the popular causes – his compass was good versus evil; his drive was insatiable.

In 1986, while accepting the Nobel Peace Prize, Wiesel asserted, “I swore never to be silent whenever, wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation.

We must take sides,” he charged. “Neutrality

forget, we are guilty, we are accomplices,” he said.

“Do I have the right to represent the multitudes who have perished? Do I have the right to accept this great honor on their behalf? I do not. No one may speak for the dead, no one may interpret their mutilated dreams and visions,” he said at the ceremony.

50 years since the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, in January 1995, Wiesel spoke at the death camp, bringing those around him back to his years of hell.

“In this place of dark-

ness and malediction we can but stand in awe and remember its stateless, faceless, and nameless victims. Close your eyes and look: Endless nocturnal processions are converging here, and here it is always night.

Here heaven and earth are on fire.

“Close your eyes and listen. Listen to the silent screams of terrified mothers, the prayers of anguished old men and women. Listen to the tears of children, Jewish children, a beautiful little girl among them, with golden hair, whose vulnerable tenderness has never left me. Look and listen as they quietly walk towards dark flames so gigantic that the planet itself seemed in danger.”

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lie Wiesel will be remembered for his memories, for his voice, and for his morality. He empowered a generation reeling from horror, bereft of hope, with his words and revealed to the world the strength of a nation forced to endure pain and suffering, surviving, strong in our growth towards our future.

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Elie Wiesel and the Challenge of Faith

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ome Jews emerged from the ruins of the Third Reich as atheists, others turned to religion; some were left numbed, others remained with questions. To many survivors, G-d had inexplicably gone missing.

Some switched their religious affiliations instead of totally opting out of their Orthodox beliefs. These include R’ Saul Lieberman from Motel, near Minsk, Belarus, who studied at the famous Slabodka yeshiva, married Judith, the granddaughter of Rabbi Naftali Zvi Yehuda Berlin (Netziv), the legendary rosh yeshiva

of Volozhin, and was spared the Hitler horrors by leaving for Jerusalem in 1928. In 1940 he joined the Conservative movement and became the long-serving Professor of Talmud at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America even though he personally led a life of Torah and wouldn’t pray in a synagogue unless it had separate seating (mechitza) for men and women.

Similarly, Rabbi Avraham Yehoshua Heschel, a direct descendent of the founder of the Apt-Mezhbizh-Zinkover Chassidic dynasty and grandson of Rabbi Jacob Perlow of Novominsk, escaped from

Warsaw to America via London in 1940, age 33; his sister and mother were trapped and murdered. Heschel left his illustrious Chassidic lineage behind, became Professor of Jewish Ethics and Mysticism at the same Conservative Seminary as Lieberman, joined the Civil Rights movement, and, on March 7, 1965, marched with a large black yarmulke on his head by the side of Martin Luther King at Selma, Alabama.

Consider also David Weiss from Chust, a small village near Kobyletska Poliana, Carpathian Ruthenia, a dazzling young prodigy (ilui) who knew 400 pages of Talmud

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Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson (above left), the Lubavitcher Rebbe, urges the tormented Elie Weisel (above, right) to marry and raise a Jewish family to ensure Jewish continuity as a means of “revenge” against Hitler

with Rashi and Tosfos by-heart by the age of nine. And then came Hitler. Weiss’s father, R’ Zallel, died after being attacked by dogs at a train station on his way to Dachau from Warsaw; his mother, Feige, was gassed at Auschwitz; one sister, Chana Yitte, died at Bergen-Belsen from typhus; his two aunts, Ethel and Chana Yitte Katina, an almuna (widow) with two young children, were murdered at Auschwitz. His grandfather, R’ Shaya Weiss, had 64 children, grandchildren, and great grandchildren; only five survived.

Weiss suffered through Gross-Rosen, Wolfsberg, Mauthausen, Ebensee and was liberated on May 6, 1945. He was the sole surviving member of his family. With a new surname, Weiss-Halivni studied at Rabbi Yitzchok Hutner’s yeshiva (Chaim Berlin) in Brooklyn before switching his allegiance to Conservative Judaism. He joined the Jewish Theological Seminary (which he eventually left after the Conservative Seminary began ordaining women as rabbis in the 1980s) yet never wavered in his belief of Torah min Shamayim and maintained a high level of tefillah mit kavana but struggled with, and never reconciled with, the post-Holocaust ideology that suggested the death of 6,000,000 people, a third of the Jewish nation, was a form of

punishment for Israel’s sins.

Many survivors of the Holocaust raised in Orthodox homes tried to stay Orthodox and desperately searched for a reason to believe.

One was Elie Wiesel.

Deported to the Buchenwald concentration camp in Germany from the close-knit community of Sighet, Romania, Wiesel was a teenager when he saw his mother,

he participated in the confessional Yom Kippur prayer (viddui) in the camps, rationalizing, “Far better to believe our punishments had meaning, that we had deserved them. To believe in a cruel but just G-d was better than not to believe at all” … or as that anecdote goes: Jews in a concentration camp decided to put G-d on trial because he had failed to protect His people. They argued

“We entered the Warsaw Ghetto hell and we lost our belief in humanity” -Gutta Eisenzweig, 22, from a Chassidic household in Warsaw Sarah Feig, and younger sister, Tzipora, taken to the crematory. He later watched his father die slowly and painfully in his bunker bed, a victim of dysentery, starvation, exhaustion. Wiesel witnessed atrocity after atrocity, including a son beating his own father to death over some bread crumbs. What he saw transformed him from a young religious teenager of fifteen to a near atheist who would later cry that the smoke and flames have “consumed my faith forever” – and yet

back and forth, and finally reached a decision: Guilty as charged! Then they decided to daven Ma’ariv [say the evening prayers].”

In 1965, Wiesel received a lengthy letter from Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson in which the Lubavitcher Rebbe discusses the “Where was G-d during the Holocaust dilemma” and urges the tormented Weisel to marry and raise a Jewish family to ensure Jewish continuity as a means of “revenge” against Hitler.

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uring a visit to a Displaced Persons (DP) camp after the war, Rabbi Eliezer Silver from Cincinnati, OH, the legendary Torah activist and head of the Vaad Hatzala, met a Jew who had become disillusioned with his religion. When asked Why? he described the disgust he felt when he saw a religious Jew in the concentration camp not willing to share his siddur unless he received a piece of bread. “Why focus on the one who acts improperly?” Rav Silver softy suggested, “Why not focus [instead] upon the many people who gave up their daily bread to daven?”

Many years later Rabbi Shlomo Riskin, chief rabbi of Efrat, Israel, recalled a visit he once made to a Munich synagogue in Germany that he described as “the strangest congregation I have ever encountered.”

There were about 150 Polish Jews in shul who had remained in Germany after the war to begin new families and businesses. But only the cantor and I were praying. Everyone else was talking – not in the hushed tones in which neighbors generally speak during a prayer service but loudly, even walking from place to place as they spoke, seemingly unaware of the prayer and To-

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rah reading going on. They even called out to friends from the windows! I could not understand why they came to shul! My host explained: “These Jews are all Holocaust survivors. They’re angry at G-d, so they can’t, or won’t, speak to Him. They can’t live with G-d after the Holocaust, but neither can they live without Him. They do, however, speak to each other” Faith in the shadows of fire and ashes proved a very fragile instrument. Moshe Flinkler from the Netherlands was murdered at Auschwitz on the eve of Pesach 1944; he was only eighteen, an Observant Jew to the very end. But like many war diaries discovered after the ovens were turned off, his revealed echoes of doubts. “Our sufferings have by far exceeded our wrongdoings. What other purpose could G-d have in allowing such things to befall us? I feel certain that further troubles will not bring any Jew back to the path of righteousness; on the contrary, I think that upon experiencing such great anguish they will think there is no G-d at all in the universe. I have heard this said many times already.”

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ome secular Jews emerged with their spirit and faith strengthened. G-d had revealed Himself in the camps and ghettos. Survived and (partly) revived, they returned to classical Torah sources in search of solace and support, akin to the Exodus where some Jews found G-d in their liberation from Egypt, not in their enslavement. A staggering onein-three Jews said their faith had been deepened; among them were some who displayed an extraordinary rush to “catch up.” An example: R’ Yisroel Dovid Neivoner, a 15-yearold teenager from Chust, Hungary, was liberated from Auschwitz and entered Rabbi Gershon Leibman’s Novardok yeshiva in France. So determined was he to compensate for all the talmud Torah he had missed because of the Hitler years that he

refused to lie down to sleep, catching small naps while standing and studying.

Zusman (“Reb Zusha”) Rivkin was another who, despite all he went through, stumbled out of the war with spirits still high. When the Germans arrived in his town of Gommel, the district capital in Belarus, a large community of over 40,000 Jews, on August 19, 1941, Rivlin was just shy of his bar mitzva. He fled with his family to Tashkent, Uzbekistan, one of several Central Asian-Sovi-

Rav Weinberger survived a raid on January 5, 1942, in which the Nazis murdered several rabbis including Rabbi Yishaya Shalom Rokeach, the Waniovicer Rebbe. He then decided to cut his beard, disguise himself in non-rabbinic clothing, and hide in the nearby Tatra Mountains from where he was later liberated. His wife, Taube, and children, Nosson Notte, Asher Yonah, and Avraham, and five-year-old twins, Elazar and Raizel, were murdered, as were most of the students in his yeshiva. By De-

“G-d will mend our broken tablets and our broken nation. We will discover how the tablets were really never broken and the Jewish people were always complete!” et Republics to which more than 1,000,000 Jews, including my parents from Poland, were deported by the Russians or fled there on their own. About a third died from disease, weather, starvation – but not one died from Hitler. Rivkin survived the war, was reunited with his father in France, settled into the new Jewish state in 1949, enrolled in the Lubavitch yeshiva (Tomchei Temimim) at Lod, married, opened a dairy farm in Kfar Chabad, and had five children (the youngest, Tzviya, an infant, was killed in a tragic car accident). Rivkin never complained, never asked, “Why me?” Instead R’ Rivkin described his suffering as being akin to “a credit card which deposits a credit balance in Heaven.”

Meanwhile Rabbi Yitzchak Weinberger, a rosh yeshiva from Turka, Eastern Galicia, was caught in Klausenberg while trying to cross the border into Romania. Packed into a cattle train headed towards Slovakia he managed to saw his way through a door, leap, and get to Liptovsky Svaty Mikulas, a community in northern Slovakia, where he was sheltered by the local Rav, R’ Meir Greenberg.

cember 1942 there were no Jews left in his hometown of Turka.

“The dead who had died were more fortunate than the living,” he writes, quoting Koheles, before confessing that his punishment was to be left alive, “We reached a point where we considered death a blessing and life a curse.”

Rav Weinberger arrived in the United States in 1946 and became a Rav in Kew Gardens, NY. In his memoirs he writes that those Jews who survived the “Amalekite Nazis” with their faith intact had to have more than just traditional faith, “We could not allow ourselves to fall into despair because anyone who lost faith was lost for good… [he admits that he tried] several times to speak words of encouragement but the darkness became overwhelming, darkness so thick you could feel it; the sun did not shine, neither did the moon.”

Rav Weinberger discloses how surprised he was to be able to navigate his way spiritually through “the days of death and darkness.” In his introduction to Beis Yitzchak (1972), he credits it to a level of “extraordinary faith.”

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ne Orthodox Polish Jew, a Gerrer disciple, “survived,” but as a broken man. His wife and children had been gassed to death, his network of relatives decimated, his entire community wiped out. He emerged from the ashes a lonely man in a vast, indifferent, silent world. And he had also lost his faith. He was unable to believe in a G-d who made allowance for an Auschwitz. After he arrived in Palestine he completely abandoned Torah observance. One day he decided to pay a visit to Rabbi Avraham Mordechai Alter in Tel Aviv.

The third Gerrer Rebbe, also a survivor from Poland, had led the Ger Court, the largest Chassidic community in Jewish history, through a thirty-five year tumultuous period of suffering (World War I), rebuilding (between the two World Wars), more suffering (the Holocaust), and more rebuilding (in Palestine). In 1940, Rav Alter managed to escape the Germans. By the time he reached Palestine he was a broken man, elderly and frail, with staggering family losses.

Upon hearing the survivor’s story, the Rebbe of Ger broke down, cried for several minutes, and finally spoke, In his farewell address, Moses recalls, “When I descended from Sinai and saw that you had sinned against G-d, making a cast calf, I grasped the two Divine tablets, threw them down, and I smashed them before your eyes.” Aren’t the words, “I smashed them before your eyes” superfluous? Why did Moses find it important to emphasize that the breaking occurred “before your eyes.”

The shattering of the tablets occurred only before your eyes and from your own vantage point.

In reality, there exists a world in which the tablets have never been broken. As hard as it is for you and I to believe, I want you to know that the decimation of our families, our communities and our people occurred only “before our eyes.” There remains a world in which the Jewish people are

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Rabbi Joseph Ber Soloveitchik of Yeshiva University (above) displayed patience with all post-Holocaust doubters, explaining that mourners were not obligated to do mitzvas between the death and funeral of a parent, sibling, child, or spouse in order to give them a chance to be angry at G-d. And many survivors were in this category

Rabbi Avraham Mordechai Alter, the third Gerrer Rebbe (above), survived with staggering family losses and would patiently listen to survivors who struggled with faith, often crying with them for long periods of time

wholesome and complete. Beneath the surface of our perception there exists a reality in which every single Jew from Abraham till today is perfectly alive. The day will come when that world will be exposed. G-d will mend our broken tablets and our broken nation. We will discover how the tablets were really never broken and the Jewish people were always complete!”

Rabbi Joseph Ber Soloveitchik of Yeshiva University displayed patience with all post-Holocaust doubters, explaining that mourners were not obligated to do mitzvos between the death and funeral of a parent, sibling, child, or spouse in order to give them a chance to be angry at G-d. And many were in this category. Consider Leon Wieseltier, child of observant survivors and the brilliant literary editor of The New Republic, an intellectual weekly. Wieseltier admits that he “stopped living according to Jewish law” and although he never openly links his “defection” to the sufferings of his parents it is obvious from his writings. (Wieseltier recalls how his mother survived the war by hiding in a hole under a pigsty in a barn in Schodnica, Ukraine.) During the year (1996-7) that Wieseltier was saying kaddish for his father, a survivor, he delved into Jewish law and lore and wrote a stunning diary on the customs of mourning. The 585page book (Kaddish) is an extraordinary literary feat; poignant and profound, “Up at dawn, with no faith, to the house of faith.” Although Kad-

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dish is not “technically” a book on the Holocaust it is difficult not to come to that conclusion by reading “between the lines.”

Consider also Mordechai Strigler, one of eight children of a Chassidishe Jewish farmer in the town of Zamosc, in the Lublin district, Poland. Mordechai was considered such a budding Torah genius, an ilui, that he entered Rabbi Aharon Kotler’s distinguished yeshiva at Kletzk at the young age of eleven, received semicha at sixteen, and became the right-hand man for Rabbi Zvi Yehezkel Michelson, the famous Rav of Plonsk. But when he came face-to-face with the red-andblack swastika he was never the same again.

Strigler suffered through five years in several concentration camps including Majdanek, Skarhisko, and Buchenwald where he secretly taught Jewish children, joined the underground resistance, and participated in a rescue operation that saved 904 orphans from Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, and Lithuania, including Elie Wiesel, 16, and Yisrael Meir Lau, 8, the future chief rabbi of Israel. For entertainment the Nazis carved swastikas into his cheeks and forehead with a razor.

His parents and three of seven sisters were murdered. By the time he was liberated in 1945, now an orphan, he had lost his faith in Judaism.

A brilliant scholar with trademark thick glasses, Strigler arrived in America in 1953 and became the editor of the supra-secular New York Yiddish Forward in 1987 in which he

penned a lively She’elos ve T’shuvos (“Questions and Answers”) column, wrote Oysgebrente Licht (Extinguished Candles), a six-volume autobiography on his Holocaust experiences, one of the first of the handful of memoirs written after the war, and spent the next 53 years writing furiously about the Holocaust in a lifetime quarrel with G-d. In his later years he began occasionally putting on tefillin. When asked if he had become a “believer,” he replied, “No. I’m just doing a mitzvah.”

A similar internal conflict confronted Hannah Haberfeld-Zemer, an Observant Jewish girl from Bratislava, Slovakia, who descended from a long line of rabbis; her father was R’ Shlomo, her grandfather was Rabbi Jakob Haberfeld, the chief rabbi of Tura Luka, Slovakia. Zemer, 20, was liberated from the Malchow and Ravensbruck concentration camps disillusioned with Judaism. Most of her family, including her grandfather, had been brutally murdered. She made her way to Palestine in 1950, gave up on her religion, and became the editor-in-chief of Davar, a secular Hebrew paper. But the scarred survivor could not completely let go of Sinai. She taught at a Bais Yaakov school in Yazur, a suburb in southeast Tel Aviv, and although she did not consider herself Observant she continued to light Shabbos candles, attend synagogue on Jewish festivals, and keep kosher.

One day Zemer decided to write a book about the destroyed Jewish communities of Europe and the de-

serted camps and ghettos which she visited. In her work she shows an unrestrained anger at G-d – and yet is still unable to make a total split.

On my travels abroad, and especially my trips to Germany, I am very careful not to eat treif [non-kosher].

It’s a sort of demonstration of solidarity. But here at the doorway, at Ravensbruck [camp, where she was imprisoned as a teenager], I would have eaten pork if I could have eaten at all.

I would have eaten steak with cheese to take revenge on G-d for the deaths of my aunts and cousins, who counted the days of their nidda time according to the law [halacha], separated challah from the dough, ran to the dayan [Jewish judge] with questions about a spot on a slaughtered goose, and read from the Ze’enah U’Re’ena [Yiddish paper for women] every free moment – and their reward was to be humiliated to the dust and tortured until they perished. Five minutes from Ravensbruck, I would have eaten a baby goat cooked in its mother’s milk. Instead, I took a Valium.

Joe Bobker, alumnus of Yeshivas HaRav Kook in Jerusalem, is the former publisher and editor-in-chief of the Los Angeles Jewish Times, author of the popular Torah With a Twist of Humor and the 18-volume “Historiography of Orthodox Jews and the Holocaust,” the first of which, “War Against the Rabbis: Hitler’s Assault Against Judaism,” will be published this year around Shavuos. Mr. Bobker can be reached at jbobker@ gmail.com.

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Swimming Against the Current

By Hylton I. Lightman, MD, DCH (SA), FAAP

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njoying the recent July 4th weekend, my wife and I talked with our children about Operation Thunderbolt, or as it was subsequently renamed, Operation Yonatan.

We shared with our kids the incredible pride and special joy of waking up forty years earlier on the morning of July 4, 1976 to the news that commandoes of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) had attained what no country had ever done – a successful counter-terrorist hostage-rescue mission. The world’s attention was riveted on this little known country run by a cannibalistic dictator in the middle of the vast African continent. The news became grimmer as the week wore on. And yet, there was a miracle, baruch Hashem. Crying, my wife reminded us that some people, including the mission Commander Yonatan Netanyahu, lost their lives.

Looking back, I’m sure we did not appreciate the world then. It was a simpler world. For one, social media didn’t exist. Then, there was not the abundance of news outlets available offering the tsunami of information with graphic details and photos that have become commonplace today.

This barrage has worn us down and may, G-d forbid, lessen our shock

and sensitivities at hearing and seeing atrocities. In 1976, we were on heightened alert.

Further, the world was more black-and-white without any moral relativism. Simply, the terrorists were the bad guys. They hijacked a plane filled with civilian passengers.

They perpetrated Holocaust-like

soldiers, he ordered the execution of Mrs. Dora Bloch, a passenger on the hijacked flight who had been hospitalized. This was unadulterated revenge on an elderly woman.

In the world of 1976, the terrorists made it clear that being Israeli and Jewish were one and the same.

Today, BDS and other detractors of

There was no talk about the terrorists allegedly being victims of oppression and therefore having to act out on others.

They were evil personified.

machinations during the week-long siege, whereby Jews and Israelis were separated from others and the non-Jew and Israelis were released.

There was no talk about the terrorists allegedly being victims of oppression and therefore having to act out on others. They were evil personified. Simple.

The same can be said for Uganda’s then dictator, Idi Amin. After learning that the IDF staged this rescue mission that tricked his own

Israel and the Jewish people propagandize that BDS is about Israel and not about the Jews. My grandmother Nadja, whom I’ve cited here previously, was clear that a pogrom is a pogrom, no matter what you want to call it. In other words, anti-Semitism, anti-Israel – it’s all the same thing. The terrorists of Entebbe made that point clear.

What message did my wife and I try to convey to our children this past weekend? The Torah portion of

Beha’alosicha provides a beautiful answer.

Contained within this Torah portion are the famous verses of “Va’yehi b’insoa haAron…” The verses are separated from the rest of the parsha by the inverted “nun” at the beginning and conclusion of these verses.

“Nun” is Aramaic for fish. Stand by a stream and watch a school of fish swim past. The glimmers of silver streaking past do not tell us if the fish is alive or dead. A live fish will swim against the current, despite the odds.

We Jews are the people who swim against the current. Today, there’s a blurring of all boundaries – religion, gender, you name it, to the point that society will soon not know who is who and what is what.

The Torah grounds us, tethering us to eternity. It supersedes the changes imposed by a fast-changing world in which people don’t know they are lost. Please G-d, we should never have to experience an Entebbe siege again.

Dr. Hylton Lightman is a pediatrician and Medical Director of Total Family Care of the 5 Towns and Rockaway PC. He can be reached at www.totalfamilycaremd.com, on Instagram at #lightmanpeds or visit him on Facebook.

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What Do 500 Calories Really Look Like?

By Aliza Beer MS, RD

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ometimes deciding what to eat can be quite tricky when trying to maintain a healthy diet and keeping one’s calorie intake in check. While most people know that eating too many calories causes them to gain some unwelcome pounds, they do not know how many calories are actually in the foods that they eat on a daily basis. While something may seem like a small quantity of food, it can easily be hiding an excessive amount of calories.

The average person needs around 2,000 calories a day.

This may sound like a lot, but unknowingly exceeding this number can be fairly easy.

A quarter of this amount is 500 calories, which is a very prevalent number of calories to find in a single food item.

Let’s take a look at some familiar choices. A bagel with 3 tablespoons of cream cheese can easily cost upwards of 455 calories. Add in a cup of chocolate milk or orange juice, the scale just tipped to the 600 calorie mark. By setting the bagel aside and opting for an omelet with two eggs, a little bit of mozzarella cheese, a slice

of whole wheat bread, and an apple, all of which add up to around 440 calories, you’ve come away from breakfast feeling full and it’s all still under the 500 calories mark.

What about a hotdog in a

However, on the healthy side, for 500 calories, a person can have three cups of popcorn, a cup of berries with a fatfree yogurt, two handfuls of carrots and cucumber sticks with some hummus, and an

of your choice can be added to water or seltzer.

A helpful tip is making sure to consume meals that are nutritious and also keep you full longer. By eating meals with high contents

By drinking a regular peach Snapple or Coke at each meal, one can be adding 460 calories to his daily intake.

bun with some ketchup? Together with a small serving of French fries that meal weighs in at 500 calories. Compare this to a meal of a regular serving of salmon and a baked sweet potato, which only consists of around 400 calories.

The calories in snacks can also quickly add up. Now that it’s summer, ice cream is usually a go-to choice for a snack. But just by having a cup of Haagen Dazs chocolate chip cookie dough, one is actually consuming 620 calories! And how often do people limit themselves to only one cup of ice cream?

orange and would still be consuming less calories than the cup of ice cream.

Another important area to probe is the beverage choices one makes throughout the day. A large salted caramel Frappuccino from the local Starbucks is a shocking 570 calories. By drinking a regular peach Snapple or Coke at each meal, one can be adding 460 calories to his daily intake. By choosing water or seltzer a person can save himself from these unnecessary calories. For those who have a hard time giving up the sweet taste, slices of apple, lemon, lime, or the fruit

of protein, fiber, and some healthy fats, you can keep your body full for longer and avoid mindless snacking, which just raises your calorie intake. Also, by trying to fill your plate at meals with sides such as veggies as opposed to simple carbs (white rice or potatoes), which add up in calories, you’ll be lowering the calorie count of the entire meal. Lastly, when snacking on foods that contain a nutrition label, focus on the serving size! Often we trick ourselves into thinking that we are having way less calories than we actually are by reading the serving size,

which is generally suggesting much fewer than we actually consume.

When trying to maintain a healthy lifestyle it is important to understand the food selections that you make. Consuming the right amount of calories that your body needs through healthful, nutritious choices is the key to success. Unfortunately, it can be very difficult to navigate all the different food choices out there. While it may come as a surprise, it can take very little to reach 500 calories. Though the number seems quite big, it can be packed into a shockingly small amount. The good news is that by being aware of calorie-dense foods you can ensure that you make healthier decisions throughout your day and can keep your calorie intake in check!

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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Dating Dialogue

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

Dear Navidaters,

O.K., from the start, let me be clear that I am a Modern Orthodox 24-year-old woman. I think that information is relevant as you consider your answers. I’ve been dating Michael for the past six months. He is the first man that I’ve gone out with who I really feel a tremendous connection with. We get along wonderfully, having so much in common, and we also have met and like each other’s families.

Michael and I do talk about a future together, but Michael is very clear that he doesn’t want to get married until he is completely finished with school. We’re talking another three years. He is very focused on his professional future and tells me that from the time he was young, he made a commitment to himself that until he is able to successfully support a wife and children, he would not marry. I think because he grew up in a home where his father was never particularly successful and they always struggled, he was determined to never let such a thing happen to him. Also, neither his parents nor mine are in a position to help us out financially.

I happen to have a career and earn what I consider a nice salary. I’ve told Michael that I don’t mind living on a shoestring if necessary. I just don’t want to wait. Michael, on the other hand, seems so anxious about all the maybes. What if we have children right away and I won’t be able to work anymore? Then what? Though I tell him that plenty of married women with children work, he says he doesn’t feel comfortable with that.

Though I really think I love Michael, I don’t want to wait until I’m 27 to get married. He’s so special, but three years is a very long time. I’m wondering whether you think I should give him an ultimatum or is there some other strategy I can use to get Michael to change his mind? I’m afraid that if I break up with him, I won’t find anyone nearly as wonderful. On the other hand, as I watch the last of my single friends getting married, I’m feeling more and more miserable. Any thoughts on the subject?

The feedback from our readers has been remarkable. In order to facilitate further discussion, you can now continue the conversation anonymously on our website. Every Sunday, we will upload the weekend’s most recent edition of What Would You Do If to the dating forum at thenavidaters.com. Join The Navidaters and your fellow TJH readers in a comprehensive dialogue with regard to dating, relationships and marriage. The forum will be moderated daily for everyone’s comfort and safety. See you there!

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

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The Panel

The Rebbetzin Rebbetzin Faigie Horowitz, MS

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understand Michael’s concern about security and being able to provide before he takes on the responsibility of a family. And I understand your interest in wanting to tie the knot. This is something that needs to be discussed and negotiated. Using strategies and ultimatums is not the way to get a proposal.

The fact that you are even considering such a thing tells me that you don’t understand what a relationship is and that you are not ready for marriage. In your query, you talk about your friends getting married, being last, and being miserable. A decision to marry is not about your needs.

Therefore, I would suggest that you go for counseling and that you learn to communicate and negotiate.

Whether you include Michael or not early on is not as important as learning to understand someone else’s needs and communication skills.

You friends may be getting married but you are not ready yet, even if you are 24.

In a counseling framework, you will learn about budgeting, negotiating differences, and money. It’s not all fun and games while you live on macaroni. Taking on responsibility without understanding reality and its effect on a relationship is unwise.

Get yourself some help and ease off of Michael. Me thinks you just want to settle down already like everyone else and deep down you feel Michael is not worth waiting for.

Hopefully, you will grow through this process and make a mature partner to whomever you eventually marry.

The Mother Sarah Schwartz Schreiber

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n the classic film, “When Chaim Met Suri,” (true confession: never saw it) Chaim famously proclaims,

“When you meet someone with whom you want to spend the rest of your life…you want the rest of your life to start right now.”

Can’t blame you for wanting Michael to commit right now. You’re a lucky girl to have found someone so “special,” with whom you have formed a “tremendous connection.”

Still, three years (even one year) – thirty-six months – is an outrageously long courtship period – even in the Modern Orthodox community.

There is never a perfect time to get engaged – today he blames his hesitation on school; in three years (if you’re both still around), he may procrastinate due to student loans or inadequate income. Now is the time to figure out where you relationship is headed; if Michael values you, let him put a ring on it. If he demurs, move on.

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aybe you should ask Michael what will happen when you two are finished with school, get married and then he loses his job, or you both are finished with school, have great jobs, get married and then you get pregnant and have to stay in bed. What will happen if you finish school, and he can’t get a job or gets a job, gets married and then he gets fired or he becomes disabled, G-d forbid?

Hey, I know you are Modern Orthodox, but I have a question for you.

Does Hashem come into this picture at all? Yes, you need to do your hishtadlus and whatever you can, but remember: you do not control your destiny. Someone Else does.

You know the saying, “We plan and plan and Hashem laughs”? You need to address that with Michael, since it will be a big issue in the type of life the two of you lead.

On the other hand, when I read the letter again and I tried to read between the lines, I sensed a very,

very anxious young man. This kind of anxiety may be indicative of how all his decisions in life will be made.

I understand that he wants to wait a little but three years is a very long time.

You also wrote, “I really think I love Michael…” You think you love him? That’s something you need to explore as well. I don’t know what you mean by that and that was a bit worrisome to me.

You ask what the strategy should be. First, you have to decide whether or not you really love him and why. Then you guys need to talk a little about Hashem and how you view Him in this life you have and will have. Then you have to discuss his anxiety and watch to see if it is obvious in other areas of his life as well. Then, after all of that, you have to see if you can come up with some

While he dips his toe in the pool, you jump right in.

sort of compromise. Three years is a long time. There has to be some kind of compromise that is somewhere in the middle.

This will be the litmus test to see how committed he is to you. And at the same time, you have to encourage him and tell him that you are both in this together and you are willing to make sacrifices, etc. At that point, you will already have a sense of how serious he is about you and you for him. Only then will you take it further with the help of Hashem. Remember – it’s all Hashem.

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understand your dilemma. “Wonderful” men don’t seem to come along all that often. On the other hand, it sounds like you’re ready to get married and the thought of waiting three more years must seem unbearable to you.

I don’t like the word “ultimatum,” and I don’t think a

conversation that involves that word ever ends very well. I do, however, think you have to have an honest conversation with Michael, where you’re not threatening him, but simply telling him that you’re not willing to wait three years, as much as you feel so deeply for him. Because let’s face it. Besides the idea of waiting until you are 27-years-old to get married is just not something you want to accept, a lot can happen in three years.

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r. Right doesn’t come around too often. But what happens when Mr. Right is Mr. Not Right Now? As the other panelists suggested, presenting Michael with an ultimatum or providing you with some sort of “strategy” to help you seal the deal may lead you down a negative path. He may feel threatened or eventually buckle from the pressure of an engagement and marriage he did not feel ready for, and you may become the woman who “forced” him into it.

Ultimatums are used when a person is absolutely prepared for the end of a relationship, and I don’t get a sense that you are there. My concern is that if you present him with an ultimatum, he may walk.

Right off the bat, I will state two things. The first is that I am of the belief that we cannot force another person to do something they do not want to do. Let me take that back…

You can force someone into doing something, but there will always be a consequence. If Michael feels that he was coerced into a marriage, some consequences may be eventual or immediate resentment, regret or anxiety about having made the wrong decision. The second statement is that your desire to marry Michael has you wearing blinders to some areas of great importance that you two may be

ignoring altogether, specifically, whether you will work outside the home once you have children. This is a big conversation that happens before you decide when to get married.

If you asked your question to Dr. Laura on The Dr. Laura Show on XM Radio (ch. 109, 2PM – 6PM weekdays), she would tell you that your friend Michael is the smart one in the relationship. (She is incredibly gruff and snippy.) She would tell you not to consider getting married until you are twenty-eight for all of the very sound reasons and concerns Michael provides. She would tell you that you don’t know who you are until you are at least twenty-eight-years-old and that marriage is absurd before then.

So, there are those would look at Michael’s view and think, “This guy’s got his head on straight.” In the Orthodox and Modern Orthodox world, we do things a bit differently … hence, all your friends getting married in their twenties.

But whether it is good to marry young, as you and some panelists would like, or wait until we are older, as Michael and Dr. Laura would like, is beside the point. I am sensing some much larger differences between you

You might change in some important ways, Michael may change in some important ways. Michael may wind up meeting someone quite unexpectedly who he begins to have feelings for. The tension of waiting could put a serious stress on your relationship and you both could start bickering a lot. So many possibilities.

If it were me, I’d just be honest and tell him that despite my strong feelings, a three year waiting period is not on the table, but I’m willing to sit down, try to figure out a compromise or a way to make him feel less pressure if he decides to move forward

and Michael. You are comfortable going with the flow.

You strike me as more of a risk-taker, someone who lives in the now comfortably. Michael, from the snippet I know of him, is more pragmatic, matter-of-fact and sensible. While he dips his toe in the pool, you jump right in.

There is nothing inherently wrong with either quality. The question is, can two such different people coexist in a marital relationship? The answer: Yes, if both are amenable to compromise. My next question for you is: How do you feel about being married to a practical guy who isn’t going to get swept away with you and his romantic feelings for you? Can you be comfortable in this kind of relationship? I also wonder when you found out about Michael’s intentions about when he would feel comfortable getting married. Orthodox, Modern Orthodox, or completely secular … these important conversations usually come up in the early stages of a relationship.

“My plan is to finish school before I get married.” That’s a fairly easy statement to make. If you knew, how come you stayed in the relationship for six months if you are marriage-minded?

And if you didn’t know, how come it never came up? Also, you mentioned that Michael wants you to be a stayat-home mother. It wasn’t clear if you want to work outside the home once you have a child, or if you brought it up to him to play devil’s advocate. You and Michael should be on the same page when it comes to childrearing.

You friends may be getting married but you are not ready yet, even if you are 24. with an engagement. As an example, would it help if I moved back into my parents’ home and saved my entire salary for a year, so that we had some sort of cushion behind us while you finished up school for the following two years?

Try to think creatively and see if the two of you can figure it out!

I am concerned that your focus is on trying to marry Michael sooner, and not on discussing your differences to see if you are compatible. You guys need some work on your communication.

As I understand it, currently you and Michael are having unsuccessful or unfruitful conversations about when to get married. You are at a standstill and you can’t stay here forever. Something’s got to give. I would like to see the two of you check into couples counseling so you can both lay your cards out on the table and start communicating about your desires, dreams, goals, and plans for the future. Do we want the same things?

What are our priorities? What are our negotiables and non-negotiables?

Once all of that is discussed and both you and Michael agree that you are compatible, you can then get into the “when.” Clearly, you are in a serious, committed relationship and have strong feelings. Do this work now to give yourself the best chance for a good marriage whenever that time may be.

Sincerely, Jennifer Esther Mann, LCSW and Jennifer Mann, LCSW are licensed, clinical psychotherapists and dating and relationship coaches working with individuals, couples and families in private practice in Hewlett, NY. To set up an appointment, please call 516.224.7779. Press 1 for Esther, 2 for Jennifer. If you would like to submit a dating or relationship question to the panel anonymously, please email thenavidaters@ gmail.com.

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Louie’s Mousse

by Chef Claude Ben-Simon

In honor of International Chocolate Day, held on July 7, head pastry chef of the Waldorf Astoria Jerusalem Claude BenSimon prepared a new decadent dessert Yields up to 5 medium cups

v Part I: Milk Chocolate Chantilly Cream Ingredients 1 ¼ cup (10 fl oz) heavy cream 1 ¼ cup (1/2 lb) milk chocolate

Preparation Bring the cream to a boil and then add, in 3 parts, the boiling cream into the chocolate while stirring during every addition.

Allow the cream to cool down for at least 4 hours in the refrigerator.

After it has cooled, place the cream in a pastry bag with a st. honore nozzle.

v Part II: Vanilla Crumble Ingredients 11 Tbsp cold butter cut into cubes 6 ½ Tbsp sugar 1 ¼ Tbsp salt 1 ¼ cups flour 2 ½ cups crumbled almonds 3 oz. light brown sugar

Preparation Mix the dry ingredients in a mixing bowl. Add the butter and mix gently until you get the dough becomes a pea-size crumble.

Move the mixture into a baking pan with parchment paper and bake at 320°F for about 15 minutes, or until the crumble is golden brown and crispy.

Remove from oven and cool.

v Part III: Exotic Coulis Ingredients 3 ½ oz. (7 Tbsp) banana puree 2 ¾ oz. mango puree 1 ½ oz. apricot puree 2 ¼ oz. passion fruit puree 1 stick of vanilla bean, scraped ¼ cup sugar

Preparation In a medium sized pan, add the fruit purees. Scrape the vanilla pod into the pan, and mix with the sugar over a low flame.

While the pan is on a medium flame, bring the mixture to a boil for about 7 minutes until the mixture becomes thick to nappe consistency (thick enough to coat the back of your spoon).

Remove from the flame and set aside in the refrigerator before using.

v Assembly In a medium sized cup, first place a spoonful of exotic coulis. Over this, place 2 spoonfuls of vanilla crumble. Pipe out the cream to the rim of the cup. Decorate with crushed nuts and serve.

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Far Rockaway Would like to publicly express our sincerest appreciation to

STATE SENATOR JOSEPH P. ADDABO, JR. A true leader and a mentch.

For his staunch advocacy on behalf of the over 1,000 student of Bnos Bais Yaakov, and for his unwavering commitment to the success and vitality of our school.

We are eternally grateful for your benevolence, commitment and kindness and wish you much success in your personal and communal endeavors.

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Avocado Kale Caesar Salad

By Naomi Nachman

I recently joined a local CSA, which is a CommunitySupported Agriculture crop-buying arrangement.

A CSA allows city residents to have direct access to high-quality, fresh produce grown locally by regional farmers without having them sit in supermarkets or other retailers for any length of time. When you become a member of a CSA, you’re purchasing a “share” of vegetables from a regional farmer. On a weekly or bi-weekly basis, from June until October or November, your CSA farmer will deliver a share of produce to a convenient drop-off location in your neighborhood.

Each week I plan my weekly dinner and Shabbat menus based on what vegetables I receive in my box.

The difference between the quality of the fresh farmto-table vegetables versus buying them at a regular retail store is very noticeable and is well-worth the slightly higher price.

Last week, in my CSA box was a bunch of assorted kale. This is a Caesar salad recipe I developed using kale rather than traditional romaine lettuce.

Ingredients

¼ cup mayonnaise ¼ cup finely grated Parmesan (1 ounce) 2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice 2 tablespoons olive oil 1 teaspoon Dijon mustard 1 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce Kosher salt and black pepper ½ medium bunch kale, thick stems removed and leaves thinly sliced (about 5 cups) 1 cup croutons (homemade or store bought) 2 ripe avocados, cubed

Directions In a large bowl, whisk together the mayonnaise, Parmesan, lemon juice, oil, mustard, Worcestershire, ¾ teaspoon salt, and ¼ teaspoon pepper. Add the kale and massage in the dressing into the kale.

Right before serving, add the croutons and avocado.

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

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Notable Quotes “Say What?!”

Elie Wiesel is dead. He spent his last years inciting hatred, defending apartheid & palling around with fascists.

- Tweet by self-hating Jew Max Blumenthal, son of Hillary Clinton’s close advisor, Sid Blumenthal

There’s a thing called the Euro Cup soccer tournament. It’s happening right now in France. And yesterday, Iceland, the tiniest nation in the tournament, beat powerhouse England 2-1. This is the worst thing to happen to England in four days.

– Stephen Colbert

Saddam Hussein was a bad guy, right? He was a bad guy, really bad guy. But you know what he did well? He killed terrorists. He did that so good. They didn’t read them the rights, they didn’t talk. They were a terrorist – it was over.

Today, Iraq is Harvard for terrorism. You want to be a terrorist, you go to Iraq. It’s like Harvard, OK? So sad.

Some private companies are now taking over the reporting of local news. I read all about it in this week’s issue of US News & Zesty Cool Ranch Doritos.

- Conan O’Brien

- Donald Trump at a rally, talking about President Obama’s failure to tackle terrorism

Following the vote, British Prime Minister David Cameron actually resigned, saying that the country needs new leadership. An American was like, “Can you start here next January?”

– Jimmy Fallon

I trained my daughter to love; you trained your son to kill.

– Hallel Ariel’s mother addressing the mother of the terrorist who murdered Hallel, 13, Hy”d, while she was sleeping

Last week, over 30 participants in a Tony Robbins seminar burned their feet walking on hot coals. The victims just signed up for a second seminar: “How To Get Rich Suing Tony Robbins.”

– Conan O’Brien

Our Jewish friends are no more responsible for the actions of Israel or the Netanyahu government than our Muslim friends are for those of various self-styled Islamic states or organizations.

- United Kingdom Labour Leader Jeremy Corbyn making a highly anti-Semitic statement at a press conference about his party’s report about anti-Semitism

Just as all Muslims are not to blame for ISIS, not all Brits are to blame for Corbyn.

- Tweet by former Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni

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Well, I’m still alive.

- Queen Elizabeth when asked how she was doing by an official during a trip to Northern Ireland

Barnes & Noble, the bookstore, has not been doing great. They have a new plan to attract customers. They’re planning to open four bookstores next year that serve beer and wine. They hope that offering alcohol will encourage more people to come in. To me this is clearly a Barnes idea; Noble would never be involved in this.

– Jimmy Kimmel

Last year, two NFL players lost fingers setting off fireworks. That’s not a joke.

A player for the Buccaneers and a player for the Giants blew their fingers off, which is awful. But it’s a good reminder, if you go play with fireworks, play soccer.

– Jimmy Kimmel

Not only is July Fourth a dangerous weekend for athletes, it’s the scariest time of year for mannequins.

Every news channel, they get the mannequins out of Macy’s and Sears, and blow their limbs off, all in the name of fireworks safety. It’s a somber holiday for them.

– Ibid

Make sure he loses. Grit their teeth for four years and win the White House.

– Columnist and Trump hater George Will while announcing that he is leaving the Republican Party

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HE SAID, SHE SAID...

Hillary Clinton I did not email any classified material to anyone on my email.

There is no classified material. So I’m certainly well-aware of the classification requirements and did not send classified material.

- Hillary Clinton, at a press conference in March 2015

I have directed that all my emails on Clintonemail.com in my custody that were or potentially were federal records be provided to the Department of State, and on information and belief, this has been done.

–Clinton in a sworn statement, dated 8/15/15

James Comey 110 emails in 52 email chains have been determined by the owning [government] agency to contain classified information at the time they were sent or received.

– FBI Director James Comey on 7/5/16, announcing that Hillary won’t face charges despite engaging in wrongful activities by having a personal email server while she was Secretary of State

The FBI also discovered several thousand work-related emails that were not among the group of 30,000 emails returned by Secretary Clinton to State in 2014.

– Ibid.

We do assess that hostile actors gained access to the private commercial e-mail accounts of people with whom Secretary Clinton was in regular contact from her personal account…

– Ibid.

It had numerous safeguards. It was on property guarded by the Secret Service and there were no security breaches.

– Clinton, at press conference in March 2015

She also used her personal e-mail extensively while outside of the United States, including sending and receiving workrelated e-mails in the territory of sophisticated adversaries. Given that combination of factors, we assess it is possible that hostile actors gained access to Secretary Clinton’s personal e-mail account.

– Ibid.

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I think it’s pretty clear it’s time to move on.

- Hillary Clinton, after a Congressional Committee released their final report on Benghazi

She has no right, nor does anyone in government have the right, to tell me it’s time to move on. They’re not in my shoes.

- Dorothy Woods, widow of Tyrone Woods, one of the four Americans killed in Benghazi

The UK officially voted to leave the European Union. It caused the British pound to hit a 31-year low. You could tell Brits were struggling today. Queen Elizabeth was wearing one of those cardboard crowns from Burger King.

– Jimmy Fallon

Bernie Sanders still hasn’t officially dropped out of the race for president, but earlier today, he gave a speech with the theme “Where do we go from here?” I think he was basically asking the crowd for directions back to Vermont.

– Jimmy Fallon

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Far Rockaway Would like to express a heartfelt thank you to

ASSEMBLYMAN PHIL GOLDFEDER For his many years of leadership, commitment and guidance, and putting the needs of the over 1,000 Bnos Bais Yaakov girls first.

A true friend indeed!

We wish him much continued hatzlacha in his personal and communal endeavors.

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Democrats held a big sit-in on the House floor to protest Congress’ refusal to vote on gun control. Or in other words, Democrats were tired of Congress not getting anything done, so they refused to get anything done until someone got something done.

– Jimmy Fallon

To protest the lack of gun control reform, Congressional Democrats are sitting on the floor of the House. The sit-in consists of more than 30 Democrats and two Republicans who thought it was a hot yoga class.

– Conan O’Brien

Fourth of July, of course, is when we celebrate our breaking away from England. And after this week, it’s starting to seem like England can’t keep a relationship going.

– Conan O’Brien

The sit-in looks like really good fun. You sit on the floor, you sing songs, eat pizza.

If I was in Congress, I would have a sit-in on every other issue. I would be like, “All right, we need to introduce this zoning bill.

Everyone on the floor. Dave, pull up the Domino’s app. Garlic knots?”

- James Corden

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Political Crossfire

America’s Indispensable Paradox

By Michael Gerson

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n this odd political season – so shallow in rhetoric, so fundamental in consequence – Americans are not only celebrating their nation’s independence, they are considering its meaning. All of a sudden, the most basic questions in our democracy are on the table: What is a real or good American? How do we define what is unique and great about our country?

At least a portion of the current populist wave is a nationalist backlash against cosmopolitan elites.

In this view, Americans do not merely love a set of philosophic abstractions; they love a concrete nation, with an identity that is under siege. An Anglo-Protestant heritage of law, religion and culture is threatened by a variety of forces, within and without: multiculturalism, illegal immigration and politically correct leaders who refuse to even name our enemies.

It is a paradox that those who want to emphasize the uniqueness and particularity of American culture – rooted in a specific ethnic and religious background – are actually adopting the most typical form of

nationalism.

Historically speaking, nations defined by ethnicity, motivated by grievances and looking backward to a golden age are commonplace. What has been different about America is its remarkable ability to make a nation out of nations. This is a tribute to national ideals that emerged from within one culture, but now appeal and inspire far beyond it.

No nation, of course, is disembodied. It is legitimate to love the rocks and roots of a definite plot of ground, and our plot is particularly grand and lovely. It is not a coincidence that one of America’s first symbols was a rattlesnake in a defensive coil. But another symbol was the rising sun on George Washington’s chair at the Constitutional Convention, as hopeful as the break of day. America’s founders thought their work was somehow the culmination of age-old longings and a new order for the ages.

This is the reason that the term “American creed” is rich in meaning, and “American race” sounds like a profanity.

The hypocrisies of our history are startling. A

nation dedicated to freedom was a prison for millions of slaves. In the founding era, many towns celebrated Pope Day, in which effigies of the Bishop of Rome were cheerfully burned. While Chinese laborers worked on the massive foundation of the Statue of Liberty, Congress tightened The Chinese Exclusion Act, which set immigration rules by race. Even now, some would have those rules set by religion.

But how do we even know these are hypocrisies? It is because they are revealed by the light of the Declaration of Independence. America’s founders set a principle in place that has judged and changed cultural practices for over two centuries. It is primary to our national identity.

Keeping the balance between a real community – with the right, like any other people, to define its boundaries and traditions – and the liberal principles of justice and equality has not been easy. It has led to a troubled and bloody history, which is also a shining achievement in the conscience of humankind.

The American who

understood both of those aspects best was Abraham Lincoln. In July 1858, he spoke of the strength that Americans draw from pride in their forefathers who founded the nation. Then he said words worth recalling in full as we celebrate our independence: ”We have besides these men – descended by blood

days by blood, they find they have none, they cannot carry themselves back into that glorious epoch and make themselves feel that they are part of us. But when they look through that old Declaration of Independence they find that those old men say that ‘We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal,’ and

America’s founders set a principle in place that has judged and changed cultural practices for over two centuries.

from our ancestors – among us perhaps half our people who are not descendants at all of these men, they are men who have come from Europe – German, Irish, French and Scandinavian – men that have come from Europe themselves, or whose ancestors have come hither and settled here, finding themselves our equals in all things. If they look back through this history to trace their connection with those

then they feel that that moral sentiment taught in that day evidences their relation to those men, that it is the father of all moral principle in them, and that they have a right to claim it as though they were blood of the blood, and flesh of the flesh, of the men who wrote that Declaration. And so they are.”

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Political Crossfire

Brexit Sovereign Kingdom or Little England?

By Charles Krauthammer

G

iven their arrogance, pomposity and habitual absurdities, it is hard not to feel a certain satisfaction with the comeuppance that Brexit has delivered to the unaccountable European Union bureaucrats in Brussels.

Nonetheless, we would do well to refrain from smug condescension.

Unity is not easy. What began in 1951 as a six-member European Coal and Steel Community was grounded in a larger conception of a united Europe born from the ashes of World War II. Seven decades into the postwar era, Britain wants out and the EU is facing an existential crisis.

Yet where were we Americans seven decades into our great experiment in continental confederation, our “more perfect union” contracted under the Constitution of 1787? At Fort Sumter.

The failure of our federal idea gave us civil war and 600,000 dead. And we had the advantage of a common language, common heritage and common memory of heroic revolutionary struggle against a common (British) foe. Europe had none of this. The European project tries to forge the union of dozens of disparate peoples, ethnicities, languages and cultures, amid the searing memories of the two most destructive wars in history fought among and against each other.

The result is the EU, a great idea badly executed. The founding motive was obvious and noble: to reconcile the combatants of World War II, most especially France and Germany, and create conditions that would ensure there could be no repetition. Onto that was appended the more utopian

vision of a continental superstate that would once and for all transcend parochial nationalism.

That vision blew up with Brexit on June 23. But we mustn’t underestimate the significance, and improbability, of the project’s more narrow, but still singular, achievement – peace. It has given Europe the most extended period of internal tranquility since the Roman Empire. (In conjunction, of course, with NATO, which provided Europe with its American umbrella against external threat.)

Not only is there no armed conflict among European states. The very idea is inconceivable. (Fighting between the various nations has been subcontracted to soccer hooligans.)

This on a continent where war had been the norm for a millennium.

Give the EU its due. Despite its comical faux-national paraphernalia of flag, anthem and useless parliament, it has championed and advanced a transnational idea that has helped curb the nationalist excesses that culminated in two world wars.

Advanced not quite enough, however. Certainly not enough to support its disdainful, often dismissive, treatment of residual nationalisms and their democratic expressions.

Despite numerous objections by referendum and parliament, which it routinely either ignored or circumvented, the EU continued its relentless drive for more centralization, more regulation and thus more power for its unelected self.

Such high-handed overriding of popular sentiment could go on only

so long. Until June 2016 ,23, to be precise.

To be sure, popular sentiment was rather narrowly divided. The most prominent disparity in the British vote was generational. The young, having grown up in the new Europe, are more comfortable with its cosmopolitanism and have come to expect open borders, open commerce

Leave side over the top was less policy than primacy. Who runs Britain?

Amazingly, about half of the laws and regulations that govern British life today come not from Westminster but from Brussels.

Brexit was an assertion of national sovereignty and an attempt, in one fell swoop, to recover it.

There is much to admire in

Here is Britain, inventor of the liberal idea and home to the mother of parliaments, being instructed by a bunch of pastry-eating Brussels bureaucrats on everything from the proper size of pomegranates to the human rights of terrorists.

and open movement of people. They voted overwhelmingly – by 3 to 1 – to Remain. Leave was mainly the position of an older generation no longer willing to tolerate European assaults on British autonomy and sovereignty.

Understandably so. Here is Britain, inventor of the liberal idea and home to the mother of parliaments, being instructed by a bunch of pastry-eating Brussels bureaucrats on everything from the proper size of pomegranates to the human rights of terrorists.

Widely mentioned, and resented, was the immigration directive to admit other EU citizens near automatically. But what pushed the

that impulse. But at what cost?

Among its casualties may be not just the European project (other exit referendums are already being proposed) but possibly the United Kingdom itself. The Scots are already talking about another vote for independence. And Northern Ireland, which voted to remain in the EU, might well seek to unite with the Republic.

Talk about a great idea executed badly. In seeking a newly sovereign United Kingdom, the Brits might well find themselves having produced a little England. (c) 2016, The Washington Post Writers Group

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Ordinary People!

By Rabbi YY Rubinstein

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he shock generated by the unexpected vote of the British public to leave the EU has left stock markets reeling and plummeting. George Soros warned them not to. Barak Obama told them not to. Brussels threatened them not to. They did anyway.

The reasons why they chose this path are extremely complex. They are not made less so by the fact that the four nationalities that combined historically to create the UK – some willingly like Scotland, some by conquest like Northern Ireland and Wales – voted in part because of that history.

England voted overwhelmingly to Leave. Scotland voted to Remain. So now the Scots are once again considering a referendum of their own: to leave the UK and stay in the European Union.

The majority of the people of Northern Ireland liked the idea of staying in Europe, particularly its Catholic population. Southern Ireland, the “Republic of Ireland” and the spiritual homeland of Irish Catholics, is after all still in the EU. So ex-IRA terrorist and now Northern Ireland Minister Martin McGuiness

unsurprisingly cites the same reasons as Scotland’s First Minister for calling for a referendum there to judge whether or not to take the North into the Republic of Ireland and ergo back into the EU. That, of course, sounds perfectly reasonable, until you recall that Scots traditionally expressed their dissatisfaction with membership in the UK by shouting abuse at England’s soccer team and fans, while Northern Irish Catholics expressed it with bombs and AK-47 assault rifles.

The Welsh voted to stay along with the English so they at least seem to have buried the hatchet over being conquered by England’s King Edward I in 1277.

Then there is the UK’s political divide, Right and Left.

It’s a bit like the USA’s Democrats and Republicans ... except that it isn’t. There were politicians from both parties allied and standing shoulder to shoulder with their normal opponents to either advocate or oppose the UK Staying part of Europe.

And, of course, there were the issues.

The Leave Campaign pointed to lack of sovereignty

as Brussels (the EU capital) imposed more and more rules and laws on Britain which trumped UK law.

Immigration was a huge issue, too. The most cherished thing in UK life defended by both the Right and Left is Britain’s National Health Service. It delivers free healthcare for everyone at the point of delivery. Of course it’s funded through taxation, so it’s not really free at all.

EU citizens can simply move from one country to another under EU rules and demand and receive the rights and benefits of citizens of that State. The NHS struggles with demand as it is, argued the Leavers. Germany’s inexplicable decision to offer citizenship to one million Syrian refugees may allow them as new Europeans to pop across to the UK and check out the NHS and see how good this free medical stuff really is.

“Racism!” screamed the Remain in Europe campaign; “Reality” retorted the Leavers.

With the EU’s latest move to allow Turks easier access to Europe, this was probably the straw that broke the camel’s back. Retired British generals backed Brexit, claiming that

Britain could protect Britain better out of Europe than in.

Then there was the economy. The Remain campaign issued dire warnings of financial collapse and Armageddon should the Brits even contemplate leaving. Phooey said the Leavers, a golden future awaits!

The UK’s Jews, judging from the four thousand or so who are my friends on Facebook, were as split as anyone. Left-leaning Jews generally favored Remaining.

Right-leaning Jews mostly backed Brexit.

And then the unexpected happened. The British people, or rather a majority of them, told Europe, “We’re outta here.”

The next morning the shock and pain of those on my Facebook page who voted Remain was real and profound.

There was, though, a disturbing and repeating theme that I noticed. A large number declared that those who dared to vote for “Leave” were in fact political imbeciles who simply did not understand the complexities of the issues they had voted on. The tone was often vicious and at best patronizing and contemptuous.

This was one of those from a Facebook acquaintance...

I know I’ll be criticized for arrogance, but I have to be honest.

If these early results are borne out, and Leave wins, it will be held up as a prime example of two things: 1) “Ordinary people” are xxxxxx idiots and should never be trusted with important decisions.

2) Britain is so preoccupied with blaming “the other” it can’t see what is in its clear self-interest. Scapegoating is alive and well and lives here in the UK. I hardly know this Facebook “friend” but I felt the necessity of replying.

I am the author of ten books. I voted Leave. My son is about to start his PhD at Oxford University. He voted Leave. Another of my sons is an architect. He voted Leave.

Yet another founded a company, which designs software for making market “Futures” predictions. He voted Leave. I have friends who are professors and bankers who want Britain to Leave the EU. This unacceptable word, Democracy, (unless ordinary folk vote your way) is predicated on one person one vote.

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The Person is by definition usually “ordinary” including of course most of the people on the other side who voted Remain. Personally I have found ordinary people quite reliable from juries to elections.

But there has been more than financial shockwaves hitting the U.S. stock market from this event. There is a distinct worry and concern by those on the political left here that this might be a boost to “The Donald.” He immediately tweeted his joy at the news from Britain.

Myth has it that the French Queen, Marie Antoinette, is supposed to have asked one of her servants why crowds of people were shouting outside her palace. The servant explained that they were hungry and could find no bread to

eat. “Well, let them eat cake!” she is supposed to have replied, thus demonstrating how galactically out of touch she and France’s rulers were with other “ordinary people.”

Political elites of every

sia, Kaiser of Germany, and Shah of Iran, and you will see I am right.

The current ruler of this land and his court have demonstrated themselves to be badly affected by cake-ism

talking point. It’s not a strategy.”

Really? I don’t think “ordinary” American people agree.

The Iran deal is another prime example. Quietly and stealthily Obama is handing

Political elites of every age and continent have fallen prey to “cake-ism” throughout history.

age and continent have fallen prey to “cake-ism” throughout history. They learned the hard way that there is a limit to what “ordinary people” will put up with. Ignore their concerns and worries and you will soon find yourself without a throne or, as in Marie Antoinette’s case, a head. Ask the family of the Czar of Rus-

and disconnection from “ordinary people” for a long time now.

Obama’s tantrum at the mere suggestion that he name the victims of the Orlando massacre as victims of Islamist Terror is a good example.

“There is no magic to the phrase ‘radical Islam’” he snapped. “It’s a political

the keys to the Middle East to the mullahs.

Then there are his threats of withholding funding from schools that will not allow boys who declare themselves to feel they are girls to use female locker rooms. I don’t think “ordinary” American people, particularly the parents of girls, agree.

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When politicians don’t realize, as Otto Von Bismarck said, that politics is “the art of the possible,” surprises are on the horizon. There comes a point when their own galactic out-of-touchness matters so much that others who realize the extent of the disconnect between leader and people step in.

The results are often as unexpected and surprising as Brexit. Recall for a moment what came next after the people of France, Russia, Germany and Iran got rid of their Marie Antoinettes. Those revolutions surely made the previous regimes wish that they had paid a little more attention to Ordinary People.

Rabbi Y Y Rubinstein is a writer and au- thor who speaks all over the world. He lives in Inwood.

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World War II Deceptions

By Avi Heiligman

General Montgomery and his lookalike.

Can you tell them apart?

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esides sending forces to the frontlines, countries have used a wide variety of tactics and plans to fight enemies. Guarding your secrets and figuring out theirs is a major part in planning operations but getting in their heads is a whole different ballgame. Planting false information can make the difference between success and failure. During WWII, the Allies spent a considerable amount of time and resources to fool the German and Japanese (Italian forces were considered laughable in this field) intelligence agencies, military brass and civilians.

Operation Cornflakes was an American effort to distribute anti-Nazi propaganda right under the Nazi noses to German civilians. The OSS was the American spy service during WWII, the forerunners to the CIA which came into existence in 1947, and they hatched an early version of PSYOPs (psychological operations). Mailbags with correct addresses but with anti-Nazi messages and postage stamps were dropped

near bombed-out mail trains. The mail in these bags were not be inspected and were delivered to the proper addresses. Skull pictures of Hitler and other top Nazis gave the German civilians the impression that the Nazi machine was dead and to give up hope for a German victory.

The operation had mixed results because many Germans threw out mail without a valid return address.

Before American forces landed to support British troops in North Africa in late 1942, the British 8th Army was having a difficult time containing the German Afrika Korps.

Like with the deception to fool the Germans in Normandy, the British intelligence bolstered their forces just on paper to keep the Germans guessing. Called Operation Cascade, double agents, false radio traffic and made-up units kept the Germans from knowing that the British were well undermanned in the theater.

Battle formations and other signs that these units actually existed were created by the British intelligence unit “A” Force. To complete the deception, the enemy picked up on the radio traffic and bought into the deception. The mission was considered

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a success when it was discovered that several German units were stationed out of the way of actual battles.

In the weeks prior to the landings at Normandy on June 6, 1944, British General Bernard Montgomery was very busy in England preparing for the cross-Channel invasion.

Double agents had told the German command that Montgomery would be commanding the ground forces that would land in France. Then, without any prior announcement, he was flown to Gibraltar, Cairo, and Algiers to review troops. There was a public parade in Algiers, and he met with generals to discuss strategy. A Spanish official who was known to be spying for the Germans quickly sent a message to the German spy agency that Montgomery was not in England but in North Africa. What was he doing in Africa when he should have been in England just two weeks prior to the invasion? In reality, Montgomery never left England and the man who had flown into North Africa wasn’t even British. It was an Australian actor, Clifton James, who pulled off the look-alike ruse to confuse the Germans as to when the actual invasion was to take place. Arranged by

the “A” Force, the operation, dubbed Copperhead, had little impact on the actual invasion but still was a stroke of deception brilliance.

When a seaborne operation was about to take place, the Beach Jumpers were called in to stage fake landings. Inspired by British commando raids, Lt. Douglas Fairbanks Jr., the famous actor, started the unit in 1943 to harass the enemy and direct their attention away from the main landings. These men went through rigorous training in navigation, boat handling and basic engineering. A few Beach Jumpers with the right equipment would be able to make the enemy believe that 2 divisions (over 60,000 men) were about to land. Their first action was during the landings in Sicily in 1943. Three small boats came into an area 100 miles away from the main landing beaches with gun blazing and laying a smokescreen. Two nights later they did it again and the Germans were convinced the Allies were about to make another landing. The Beach Jumpers sustained no casualties in the successful operation. They were also active in other landings in the Mediterranean and the Pacific but

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with less success.

Keeping military secrets is paramount even after an operation so if the military wants to do something similar the enemy will have no clue when or how it will happen. In April 1942 the U.S. military was losing battle after battle against the The USS Hornet, a partner in deceiving the Japanese Japanese and needed a morale booster. Colonel Jimmy Doolittle let a raid of sixteen land-based he said in a speech that they came from a secret base in Shangri-la.

B-25 bombers on an attack of Tokyo.

While little damage was done to the Shangri-la was actually a fictional place from a book by James Hilton; city, the Japanese people no longer the bombers really flew off of the felt invincible (their leaders said that Tokyo will remain untouched). Jap- carrier USS Hornet. However, the anese military intelligence scram- Japanese couldn’t think out of the box to realize that land-based bombbled to find out where these bombers ers were capable of such a feat and came from since there was no known took the Shangri-la reference as fact. base in range. President Franklin Roosevelt got in on the action when In honor of the deception, the navy

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information. Burning cities in Britain were simulated during the blitz to confuse enemy bombers of their targets. Camoufleurs were expert artists who designed the paint schemes on military equipment.

Ships, planes, tanks, and uniforms were all designed A letter sent in Operation Cornflakes to blend in with their natural background and fool the enemy. named a carrier the USS Shangri-La After the war ended, many of these (CV-38). techniques were put into use for fuThere are many other instances ture conflicts. of deception during WWII. Dummy tanks and paratroopers played a huge role in convincing the Germans that the Allies had powerful armies Avi Heiligman is a weekly contributor when in reality they had weak forcto The Jewish Home. He welcomes your es in the field. Spies were masters of comments and suggestions for future deceptions as they snooped around columns and can be reached at aviheilbehind enemy lines looking for vital igman@gmail.com.

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A Fulfilled L fe

Why Leaders Feel Lonely and What They Can Do about It

By Rabbi Naphtali Hoff

The price of leadership is loneliness… I think it is inescapable. - Gordon B. Hinckley

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Some argue that the loneliest professionals in the world are those who toil in isolation, with limited opportunity for interpersonal communication.

These include writers, poets, and scientific researchers working in remote outposts.

Yet there are others who weigh loneliness not by the frequency or infrequency of their interactions with others but rather with the quality of such exchanges. Therapists, for example, often feel lonely, despite the many deep conversations that they have on an average day. Because they tend to spend so much of their time listening and giving to others, they do not benefit from the balanced conversation and idea exchange that meets their own social needs.

The same could be said for teachers. I once read a book that posited that classroom teaching was the

world’s loneliest position. The author argued that teachers were required to go into independent classrooms each day and spend many hours alone with students, hardly a satisfying set of social partners. They often had little time to chat with peers and even less time engaging in meaningful learning and problem solving activities with colleagues.

As a former classroom teacher I know that it can feel lonely at times to occupy your day communicating with others who are not your peers and cannot relate to your experiences and passions. Still, I suggest that the loneliest job may very well be that of a leader, whether it’s the leader of the free world, a school principal, or a CEO. Most employees have others in the workplace that they can turn to for advice, feedback and/or companionship.

They can ask questions on how to get things done and work through tough times with their peers, without unreasonable concern that they will be unnecessarily or unfavorably judged (or worse). They can share a joke in the office, fill their March Madness brackets, and comfortably discuss what’s going on in their personal lives. They can also “hang” with their associates after work, as a natural extension of their time together in the office.

Leaders, on the other hand, have fewer people to turn to when things get tough. Who in the organization,

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after all, has had to sign off on the types of decisions that they must make each day? It can certainly be difficult to confide in and bare their souls to direct reports. And those who sit above them in the corporate or organizational food chain (such as the

all parties the chance to see each other in a different light. But at the end of the day, the boss is the boss, and that still spells social isolation for the guy calling the shots.

For these reasons I strongly advocate leader participation in peer

But at the end of the day, the boss is the boss, and that still spells social isolation for the guy calling the shots.

chairman of the board) are also not the ones to whom they want to display weakness or vulnerability.

Furthermore, it can be awkward and inappropriate for bosses to try to chum up with their coworkers. Sure, there’s nothing wrong with occasional out-of-work interaction. Many times it can be both fun and healthy and offer

learning/advisory groups. Not only do such settings provide leaders with meaningful learning opportunities to strengthen their skills and augment their toolkits, but they also offer safe havens for leaders to open up about problems to others who can relate to their struggles and provide concrete suggestions, if not solutions. Often-

times, these business convenings also develop into social relationships that add balance to the lives of these high powered execs.

Leaders should also make time to attend classes and trainings with members of their executive team and board of directors. Learning together and sharing ideas in a “neutral” setting can open up pathways towards deeper bonding that may not otherwise occur.

Of course, there are other ways to reduce feelings of loneliness, such as by having a strong network of family and friends to turn to outside the office. Hiring a coach or therapist can also help fill a social void (besides for the other benefits that they offer), as can networking events, dinner parties, social clubs, religious congregations, and volunteering in the community. In the words of Dorothy Day, “We have all known the long loneliness, and we have found that the answer is community.”

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for when you need them. Read thought-provoking books about leadership as well as personal accounts of triumph and success. Many authors possess the gift of connecting with their words and building community through the printed or digital page.

Lastly, learn to distinguish between loneliness and solitude. Paul Tillich once said, “Loneliness expresses the pain of being alone and solitude expresses the glory of being alone.” Being alone is only a problem when we need others to fill the void of silence. Leaders who can dig deep within themselves for insight and self-encouragement will find the isolated time of solitude to be the most clarifying, purifying, and rewarding time that they have in their busy, hectic schedules.

Rabbi Naphtali Hoff is an executive coach and consultant and President of Impactful Coaching & Consulting (www.ImpactfulCoaching.com). He can be reached at nhoff@impactfulcoaching.com.

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Money

This Too Shall Pass

By Allan Rolnick, CPA

F

iling your tax return usually isn’t much of a chore. If you’re like most people, you e-file it and call it a day. (Maybe you cross your fingers in hope that teenage Russian hackers don’t steal your identity.) If you’re old-school, you trudge down to the post office to snail mail a paper return. But if Representative Gwen Moore’s new bill passes, filing might get a little harder.

Moore represents Wisconsin’s Fourth District, which includes Milwaukee and several working-class suburbs. She has a special sympathy for constituents on public assistance because she’s been there herself. “I am a former welfare recipient,” she says. “I’ve used food stamps, I’ve received Aid for Families with Dependent Children, Medicaid, Head Start for my kids, Title XX daycare [subsidies]. I’m truly grateful for the social safety net.” And she’s offended by measures requiring welfare recipients to pass drug tests to qualify for aid, especially since evidence suggests they’re no likelier to use drugs than anyone else.

Apparently Moore believes the notion that what’s good for the public-assistance goose is good for the silk-stocking gander. And many of her Congressional colleagues ar-

gue that massive tax deductions are grants of public money just like welfare benefits. So, on June 16 she introduced H.R. 5507, The Top 1% Accountability Act of 2016. And what would her bill do to ensure “ac-

tive for any controlled substance.”

The bill generously gives taxpayers three ways to pass. They could submit a test conducted by their employer. They could submit a test from a program certified by a state. Or

Simple! It would require the highestincome taxpayers to pass a drug test before claiming $150,000 or more in itemized deductions.

countability”? Simple! It would require the highest-income taxpayers to pass a drug test before claiming $150,000 or more in itemized deductions. Can’t pass the test? Settle for the standard deduction!

Fortunately, Moore’s bill wouldn’t require lucky Top 1%-ers to line up at IRS offices with designer specimen cups in hand. It merely requires “a test completed within 3 months before the date on which the return of tax is filed which shows that the taxpayer (or the taxpayer’s spouse in the case of joint return) did not test posi-

they could provide a certified letter from a “medical review officer” qualified under federal workplace drug testing regulations. “Controlled substances” include pretty much everything you’d expect, with no exception for medical marijuana.

Moore understands there’s a certain element of “sticking it to the man” in her bill. “I would love to see some hedge fund manager on Wall Street who might be sniffing a little cocaine here and there to stay awake realize that he can’t get his $150,000 worth of deductions unless he sub-

mits to a drug test,” she says.

But she also wants to raise serious questions about how the government treats Americans occupying different places on the financial food chain. Take housing subsidies, for example. A low-income family renting a 2-bedroom apartment might qualify for a Section Eight voucher of $1,000 per month, depending on where they live. But if that Wall Street hedge funder snorting coke writes off $50,000 in mortgage interest on his swanky Manhattan condo, he’ll save $20,000 in taxes.

So why shouldn’t he pass the same drug test, she asks?

Moore’s bill obviously has no hope of passing in today’s Congress.

But it illustrates how tax threats can come out of left field. That’s why it’s not enough to settle for tax professionals who just record history. You need a proactive planner with foresight to anticipate challenges before they hit your wallet.

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

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You Nailed It

By Rivki D. Rosenwald Esq., CLC, SDS

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passed by this store the other day, Jeannine’s Dream. Such a wonderful name. Had such a lilt to it. Such promise. Such fantasy. The thing is, only the name was still there. So what was coming to fill this now empty space? Close your eyes, wiggle your fingers and toes, and I bet you can guess it. Another nail salon!

Have I missed something? Do people now have a hidden extra hand or foot? Is this a front for something else?! These places are popping up faster than Starbucks. You can’t walk a half a block without feeling you should probably replace Spanish with Mandarin as your second language.

Isn’t it true that these places keep introducing methods to keep your polish on longer and longer? So how is it that people are going more?

Years ago someone said it’s amazing that Haagen-Dazs can charge so much for their ice cream. And a psychologically, business-savvy person explained: everything is getting to be expensive. Yet people want to be able to feel they can afford luxury, be able to buy the best of something. This Haagen-Dazs was a solution. Though it was way more expensive than a standard ice cream at the time, it was still a cheap expenditure to get the top of the line of something. Okay, so what does that have to do with nail salons?

I’m thinking, well you can’t always run and get a massage to feel relaxed, a soothing facial, or a new makeover.

But maybe a little pampering for your hands or feet, maybe that’s a luxury you have time for. And for a few days, afterwards, as you glimpse at your

ing the exact same polish, on the exact same genetically constructed human being, the polish they put on your toes lasts like a month or two and on your fingers for like a minute?!

And why do they need to use that file? Isn’t there some gentler way of

Isn’t there some gentler way of shaping nails? I feel like they stuck me in a classroom and are scratching the blackboard over and over again.

embellished fingertips you can feel that tiny bit of “time for me” coming back to you!

Still there are a few aspects of this experience I seriously commend people for having the patience to go through. In these days of loving immediacy, I admire those who can sit patiently under that little fan or heater, blowing their nail polish dry. The problem is there’s no exact formula as to how long to sit there and if you’re off by one second, so is your nail polish.

The other question I have is this: why is it that, even though they are us-

shaping nails? I feel like they stuck me in a classroom and are scratching the blackboard over and over again.

I do recognize that in these places it is not all about fingers and toes.

They usually have these secret little rooms in the rear. Because another service they offer is waxing. What’s interesting to note about this is that totally separate salons exist to style, color, straighten, curl, shape, and blow your hair to perfection. These even provide a service to add more of it, by supplying extensions. But when you need it removed you go to a nail

salon. Why is it that hair on your head is an enhancement to be continually embellished, and yet anywhere else it’s important to rip off?! And how’d that become a nail association and not a hair one?

What’s really nice, though, is that sometimes when you go there, if they are not busy, someone will give you a manicure while someone else does your pedicure and a very talented person will give you a great shoulder massage. That’s another talent they all seem to have in their pocket. And who can resist that? Other times it’s just a great way to spend a few quality minutes with a friend between running here or there.

I’ve got to say, at least it fills the empty storefronts with something other than another place to eat – because we seem to need to try any new eatery. So perhaps it’s good to have a place we keep our fingers away from feeding ourselves.

All and all maybe it is a dreamy thing to do – just to get a little respite in a busy life and even a little extra pampering!

Rivki Rosenwald is a certified relationship counselor, and career and life coach.

She can be contacted at 917-705-2004 or rivki@rosenwalds.com

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