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back on the wonderful time she had practicing for the play with her friends. She could reminisce about the funny jokes they shared, the cool moves that they performed, and the inevitable “bloopers” that made their way into the performance. Remembering the great times they had could keep her enthused for the next few weeks until school begins.

ast night, my daughter’s camp put on their camp play. The play is a highlight of the girls’ summer, and they look forward to it practically all year.

My daughter worked hard preparing for the play. She had the role of Achashveirosh, and she spent a lot of time memorizing her lines and acting out the role. She spent time before she went to bed, on evenings after camp and on Shabbos afternoons repeating the lines she had to say. At one point, she recorded her lines so she could listen to them while she walked on the boardwalk.

And even though it was work memorizing so many lines, she enjoyed it. I could see the playful sparkle in her eyes as she “chastised” her advisors or ordered Haman to be hanged on the gallows.

Last night, I was so proud watching her on stage. It was clear that her hard work had paid off.

But then, after the show was over and her special treat of creamy ice cream was consumed, she sat on the couch with us going over the event. “It was so amazing,” she said, “I even want to do it again right now! But I also feel sad because it’s all over. There’s nothing else to look forward to.”

I could understand her sentiment. Many times, in life, you build up and work towards something, and then, after attaining your goal, you feel lost without something to move towards.

I suggested to my daughter that she look

Today, when I sat outside waiting for my other daughter’s carpool, I relished the cool breeze in the air. It was the perfect weather to enjoy the day. There was no humidity, no scorching temperatures, no bugs in the air.

But then I realized that perhaps this balmy weather was a prelude to fall; perhaps it was a hint that the summer was over. And I felt sad. Could it be that the summer flew by so fast? Was that it? It is over already?

But then I remembered my conversation with my daughter last night. Yes, the summer is coming to a close, but that doesn’t mean we can’t take it with us.

Over the next few days and weeks, as summer winds down, remember the carefree days the kids had in camp, the wonderful time you spent outdoors, the meals you dined al fresco. Remember the relaxed vibe that is synonymous with summer days – and relive it over and over again.

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Contents LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

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COMMUNITY 8

Readers’ Poll Community Happenings

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We’re Talking to…Camp Shira

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National

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That’s Odd

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ISRAEL

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Israel News

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World Builders

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A New Era in the Middle East?

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JEWISH THOUGHT Rabbi Wein on the Parsha

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The Best Kiruv Tool by Rav Moshe Weinberger

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Follow the Leader Home by Shmuel Reichman

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PEOPLE The USS Missouri and World War II by Avi Heiligman

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HEALTH & FITNESS What We Need by Dr. Deb Hirschhorn

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Healthy Tips for Your Summer Trip by Aliza Beer, MS RD CDN

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COVID Quarantine Exemptions by Yael Raymon, MD

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FOOD & LEISURE TJH Speaks with Danielle Renov

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A Taste of Peas Love & Carrots

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The Aussie Gourmet: Whole Wheat Challah 90 LIFESTYLES

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and give it to your kids. The extra $50,000 + you give your children will go a long way to establishing their initial home. The value they gain by having an extra $50,000 towards a deposit on their first home will be much more valuable to them than having a lavish and extravagant wedding event that only lasts 5-6 hours.

Thanks, Yaacov Lewis To the Editor, I continue to be grateful that your paper provides fact-based coverage of health topics, including of COVID-19.

I especially appreciate Dr. Hylton Lightman’s column, being a pediatrician myself. He covered a very important topic this week, which is quarantining children after possible COVID-19 exposure from overnight camps.

I did notice one inaccurate piece in the same issue, on masks. You quoted Dr. Russell Blaylock who said that masks could be very dangerous.

This is simply untrue. There is no risk of carbon dioxide retention, for example. Masks can be uncomfortable, and can cause some skin irritation and may contribute to headaches in vulnerable people, but these are minor concerns compared to a disease that can be very serious and even fatal. Masks are not recommended for children under 2 years old, and there are some people who have conditions that may make it not possible or safe to wear a mask, but they are the exContinued on page 10

Dating Dialogue, Moderated by Jennifer 70 Mann, LCSW Your Money

The Gift of Time by Rivki D. Rosenwald Esq., CLC, SDS

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HUMOR Centerfold 54 POLITICAL CROSSFIRE Notable Quotes

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Kamala Harris a Moderate? by Marc A. Thiessen

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Democrats’ Postal Conspiracy is the Biggest Made-Up Controversy Since Russiagate by Marc A. Thiessen

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Dear Editor, The old joke a father used to say to his kids was that if they made a wedding in the backyard he would give them all the extra money he saved.

Now is the opportunity for many families in our community to bring the joke to practice.

We have attended many beautiful weddings recently – all on Zoom! Although we have not attended a wedding in person in many months, we have participated online and enjoyed the abbreviated time in attendance immensely. No need to dress up, travel long distances, or hang around in a wedding hall for many hours waiting for the pictures to be finished.

The current paradigm dictates small weddings, beautiful settings, and very intimate experiences. Backyard weddings, smaller venues, and limited attendance are a fantastic opportunity for our entire community to reset the wedding standard and paradigm. Perhaps we can continue this new standard. Maybe we do not need to have 500-800 people attend a wedding to have an enjoyable simcha.

Maybe we do not need to spend over $100,000, take on debt, and stress over all the details and arrangements.

Too many people feel a need to make larger weddings, more extravagant weddings, and spend much more than they can afford all to maintain a “standard.”

Let us adopt a new post-Covid standard: Reduce the size and scope of the weddings. Take all the money you save and can afford to pass along

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ceptions to the rule that masks are very safe and play an important role in preventing the spread of COVID-19.

Sincerely, Alisa Minkin, MD Dear Editor, Susan Schwamm’s interview with Rabbi Pesach Lerner about the aftermath of the Gush Katif expulsions was enlightening and frightening. It paints of picture of the poverty and challenges that faced these brave families – and the challenges that they still face today.

One point I have to mention about Rabbi Pesach Lerner. While reading the interview, at first I thought that perhaps Rabbi Lerner has a bigger heart than most of us and that’s why he felt galvanized to help the Gush Katif community and to continue to help them 15 years later. Perhaps he is much more attuned to people’s plights and sensitive to their problems. But then I said to myself, “Hey, we are all rachmanim; we are all people who feel people’s pain.” Rabbi Lerner, though, doesn’t just stop there. He doesn’t read an article and feel bad for people and turn the page. He is a doer; he is someone who acts on the

pain that he feels – and that’s the difference between him and many others in the community.

We can all learn from him to be doers in our own way. We may not be able to organize food and clothing drives for others but we can contribute monetarily or help pack those boxes and contribute clothing. We are able to connect with others on a smaller scale and see the sad person in the back of shul who can use a meal on Shabbos or a kind greeting after davening. These are small things but we shouldn’t just empathize with others – we should reach out and push ourselves to help.

Sincerely, Roman H. Dear Editor, Where I grew up it was not uncommon for movie theaters to be used as overflows for the masses that came to pray on the Yamim Noraim. I was reminded of this when I saw that movie theaters are reopening in the coming week(s) here in New York and got to thinking about how they would manage the long lines that some anticipate upon reopening. Then again, we are getting used to lines everywhere we go: the supermarket, the bank, the

restaurant, etc.

With just one month till Rosh Hashana, many shuls are already experiencing long (virtual) lines as waitlists to attend shul on the Yamim Noraim grows. Many Jews may not get an opportunity to pray with their synagogue of choice – or any synagogue for that matter – unless they signed/paid up well in advance. Even then, there will simply not be enough room to safely accommodate the crowds that want to attend for the holidays.

So here’s a thought in line with an ancient tradition of matchmaking: Could individuals or families that can’t easily be accommodated in their home shul/town be matched with another that has a paucity of worshippers – perhaps because of demographics skewing aged 60+ that will mostly be continuing to isolate over the holidays?

A clearing house (an app?) could match communities seeking a satellite to house their abundance of worshippers with shuls that have plenty of space for them – even including suggested Airbnbs or nearby hotels for “out of towners” to stay. In addition to benefiting the shuls, so many families and individuals are itching to get away for a few days and start their year making a difference.

There’s a Talmudic adage: shluchei mitzvah ainon nizakin – those engaged in a mitzvah will not come to harm. This shouldn’t be construed as an invitation to be taking outlandish risks during a pandemic, however, for those on the fence about traveling somewhere for Rosh Hashana or Sukkot, this extra measure of Divine assurance may provide the needed impetus to move beyond our comfort zones. And isn’t challenging the status quo and moving beyond our narrow confines what so many of our holidays are all about?

What would it take to make something like this happen?

Daniel Coleman

Jewish star had the word Jew written in Dutch (Jood). I actually currently have my grandfather’s star that he was forced to wear during the war in Holland and I am including a picture for your reference.

Thanks for all your great work.

I love reading the newspaper every week.

All the best, Shifra Raskin

Dear Editor, Why Kamala Harris is a threat to Donald Trump: Kamala Harris is being targeted as Left of Bernie Sanders by the Right including commentators on Fox News and the President. This is as erroneous as it gets. As a matter of fact, as Attorney General in the State of California, she was responsible for the incarceration of all types of criminals and even prosecuted petty crimes such as marijuana smoking.

Outright lies in the political arena are not held to high regard in today’s easily identifiable comments.

In order for Trump to easily defeat his inept opponent Biden, he needs to concentrate on him and try to keep Harris out of the picture as much as he can. If he concentrated on who supports Biden, such as the anarchist and far-left lunatics, he would be better off than going after Kamala Harris. Her supporters are dangerous and will control her and Biden and that’s where the danger lies.

The Biden team has not said a peep about our cities such as NYC Dear Editor, I appreciated the article last week and Chicago being destroyed by titled “Dutch Jewish Partisan Dies.” criminals, looters and anarchists, as As a Dutch Jew (currently living in well as the tearing down of historic Woodmere), I always appreciate read- statues.

This is how you damage the repuing or hearing about the heroism of my people. I wanted to point out one tation of the Democratic Party by goerror in the coverage – the article ing after them for not saying a word discusses the production of Jewish regarding our cities being destroyed. stars that the Jews of the Netherlands This alone can give Trump another were forced to wear. However, the pic- four more years. ture accompanying the article is of a Reuven Guttman French star, with the word Jew writ- Lawrence, NY ten in French (Juif). In Holland the

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China: World’s Most Surveilled Country

With the highest number of video cameras per capita in the world, China is the most surveilled country on Earth.

A report put together by Comparitech, a leading cyber security firm, compared surveillance in different countries around the globe. Company researchers used data from government reports, news stories, and

police records to map out which cities are most saturated with surveillance cameras.

The study only looked at CCTV cameras used by government agencies, such as law enforcement. According to the findings, China has the highest amount of cameras worldwide, with Chinese cities taking up 19 of the top 20 spots.

Topping the list was the Chinese city of Taiyuan, with 120 cameras for every 1,000 residents. The only non-Chinese city in the top 20 list of most-surveilled cities was London in third place. The British capital is known for its intensive public surveillance program, with Comparitech finding that it has 67 cameras for every 1,000 people.

In the U.S., the most surveilled city is Los Angeles with six cameras for 1,000 residents, followed by New York City, with five.

CCTV technology has exploded over the past decade, driven by threats such as terrorism and advances in artificial intelligence. However, privacy advocates have decried the growing use of invasive cameras in public spaces as a way for governments to constantly monitor their citizens.

Massive Protests Rock Belarus

Hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets throughout Belarus to protest against irregularities in last week’s election.

President Alexander Lukashenko, who has been in power since 1994, declared victory following last Monday’s presidential election with 80% of the vote. His dubious win, which came amid significant rumors of voter fraud, caused challenger Svetlana Tikhanovskaya to flee to Lithuania.

The now-exiled Tikhanovskaya has said that the results “did not correspond to reality” and spoke of “numerous falsifications.” Her allies accuse Lukashenko of falsifying the vote in order to hide the fact that he

had lost his mandate to rule the former Soviet republic.

Since then, massive protests have rocked Belarus as hundreds of thousands of citizens have called on Lukashenko to resign. In what the local media is calling the “the largest in the history of independent Belarus,” 222,000 people flooded the capital of Minsk on Sunday evening, where they heard a televised speech by Tikhanovskaya.

In her video message, the opposition challenger declared herself the rightful victor and vowed to become the “national leader that Belarus needs.”

Police responded to protesters with tear gas, rubber bullets, and stun grenades and arrested more than 6,000 people. Videos on social media showed officers using extreme brutality against demonstrators, with those detained being badly beaten and thrown into overcrowded cells.

In a rival rally on Monday, Lukashenko vowed never to resign and alleged that Belarus would “die as a state” should another election be held. “You came here so that for the first time in a quarter-century you

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could defend your country, your independence, your wives, sisters and children,” he said.

As the protests grow, Russian President Vladimir Putin told Lukashenko that Moscow is ready to help Belarus in accordance with their military alliance if necessary. In a statement, the Kremlin alleged that “external pressure” was being exerted on its western neighbor, which many took as a hint to NATO.

Amsterdam is Crumbling

Take a walk along a street in Amsterdam, and you may notice cracks

and sinkholes. The country is in danger of crumbling into the water that it’s built upon.

Back between the 12th and 16th centuries, when Amsterdam began to grow, buildings were constructed on wooden piles (concrete ones came later) that provided stability in the swampy and unstable land around the Amstel river. Canals were dug, and canal walls were built. Many of these structures are now more than 500 years old.

Over the years, though, things have been neglected. A significant number of its 1,600 bridges and 200 kilometers of canals need to be inspected and possibly replaced. For now, it’s like plugging up a dam – repairs are carried out when urgently needed, but safety isn’t 100 percent guaranteed.

Amsterdam is now facing what could be some of the biggest infrastructural challenges it’s ever encountered.

Alderman Sharon Dijksma, an elected official with oversight of traffic and transport, is managing it all.

After several incidents involving collapsed canal walls, she asked for an independent report which concluded that at least 5% of the city’s

200 kilometers of brick canal walls are in a poor state of repair. It noted that trees should be cut down, certain parking spaces removed, and roads closed to vehicles in the efforts to save the city. 22.5 million euros ($26.5 million) a year will be made available for maintenance work.

Six bridges have already been partially or totally closed for repairs.

Canal walls are on close watch, as they are in the worst condition.

In the period up to and including 2023, some 27 bridges will be renovated, approximately 800 meters of quay walls will be renewed, and the replacement of about 3,800 meters of quay walls prepared.

The total costs are estimated at 450 million euros, or about $530 million.

1 Hezbollah Member Guilty in Hariri Murder

Judges at a United Nations-backed court in The Hague found a single Hezbollah suspect guilty in the assassination of former Lebanese Premier Rafiq Hariri 15 years ago. The group failed to convict three others and said they had no evidence that the terror organization’s leadership or Syria were directly involved.

The ruling is a blow to those in Lebanon who had hoped the findings would force a national reckoning on the role of the Hezbollah group. This month’s devastating explosion had already turned the spotlight on its influence over Lebanon’s fractured politics.

Salim Ayyash was convicted of being a co-perpetrator in a conspiracy to commit a terrorist act that killed Hariri and 21 others using explosive material. The court said it had insufficient evidence to find other guilty verdicts and couldn’t come to a conclusion on who ordered the attack.

“The trial chamber is of the view that Syria and Hezbollah may have

had motives to eliminate Mr. Hariri and some of his political allies,” David Re, the court’s presiding judge, said at a hearing broadcast online.

“However, there was no evidence that Hezbollah’s leadership had any involvement in Mr. Hariri’s murder and there is no direct evidence of Syrian involvement in it.”

The four suspects were members of Hezbollah, the powerful Shiite group backed by Iran that’s denied involvement in the case and vowed never to hand over the accused. The fifth suspect, a commander, was killed in Syria fighting alongside Bashar al-Assad’s troops.

Hariri, a four-time prime minister and billionaire, was the face of Beirut’s multi-billion-dollar reconstruction following the end of the 15-year civil war in 1990, becoming the most prominent Sunni figure in the country.

But under Syria’s tutelage that began following the bloody sectarian war, Hariri grew vocal against Assad’s policies in Lebanon.

“The sacrifice should today come from Hezbollah after it’s clear now that the network of killers are from its ranks,” Hariri’s son Saad, who also served as prime minister, said on Tuesday outside the court. “I won’t rest until they’re handed over.”

On February 14, 2005, Hariri was killed by a bomb in Beirut composed of about 1,000 kilograms of TNT. It sent shockwaves across the world since he had close ties with the likes of Jacques Chirac, former French president, and the Saudi royal family.

Critics of Syria’s presence in Lebanon blamed Assad for Hariri’s killing. Massive protests that began a few days after the assassination ultimately led to the withdrawal of Syrian troops.

The February 2005 explosion was followed by a series of killings and attempted assassinations of journalists and lawmakers as well as military figures.

Iran’s Bounty on U.S. Troops A former Taliban commander revealed details of an Iranian program offering bounties for the killing of U.S. troops, which he said he was offered but ultimately rejected.

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province until 2014, confirmed that Iran explicitly offered him payment for killing Americans in two separate meetings.

According to Insider’s David Choi, with whom the Taliban commander spoke, such arrangements were common knowledge, and Iranian proxy forces boasted of them in a leaflet campaign across the country.

The former commander said of the Iranian: “He offered me money and training to do attacks against the Americans. They said they would give me some money and weapons to recruit some more men and would give us training on explosives and how to make the best IEDs [improvised explosive devices] to burn American tanks and Humvees.

“Then I was told they would offer us money for operations and bonuses for each American we killed.”

The commander considered the

offer but says he eventually rejected it because he did not trust the parties involved.

“Iran and Haqqani are supposed to be enemies. The Taliban and Iran have fought many times and are enemies,” he said.

“It’s normal in Afghanistan for such people to work together but I know Iran very well because I lived there, same with Pakistan, and I knew that both consider Afghans to be dogs they can use for their plans and let die. Haqqani and al-Qaeda tell everyone that the Iranians are [infidels] but they also arrange meetings for them with the Taliban.

You cannot trust any of these people.”

The offer was later repeated, the source said, at which point he decided to leave the Taliban, fearing that he could be killed and replaced with a more cooperative commander.

New Zealand Delays Elections New Zealand has postponed its elections by almost a month follow-

ing a fresh coronavirus outbreak in the country.

Elections will now be held on October 17 instead of on September 19 as originally planned.

“Ultimately I want to ensure we have a well-run election that gives all voters the best chance to receive all the information about parties and candidates and delivers certainty for the future,” said Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern.

While Ardern possesses the authority to delay elections, she consulted with all the opposition parties prior to her announcement on Sunday to avoid claims of impropriety.

“In the end, what matters most is what is in the best interests of voters and our democracy,” she asserted.

“Any decision to review the election date must be as free from partisan political interests as possible.”

The prime minister also promised that there would be no further delays, saying that New Zealand’s elections commission promised that it would have a plan for safe voting ready by early October.

New Zealand had marked 102 days without a single case of infection, leading many to crown it “the world’s safest country.” And yet, last week, a new spate of cases was recorded in Auckland, New Zealand’s largest city.

The new cluster of infection has been linked to a family residing in the city, who likely got it from an illegal immigrant who breached border security. Monday saw New Zealand record nine new cases, raising the number of active cases to 58.

Over the past five months, New Zealand has seen 1,280 confirmed cases overall and another 351 probable coronavirus cases with 22 deaths.

Cargo Ship Split in Two A ship that has leaked tons of oil off the coast of Mauritius has split

apart, authorities said on Saturday.

“At around 4.30 pm, a major detachment of the vessel’s forward section was observed,” the National Crisis Committee of Mauritius said in statement.

The Japanese-owned ship, MV Wakashio, ran aground at Pointe d’Esny in late July and began leaking tons of oil into an Indian Ocean lagoon last week.

A massive clean-up operation involving thousands of local volunteers had been underway. But a crack inside the hull of the ship expanded earlier this week, according to the ship’s operator Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, a Japanese company.

Authorities have “decreed the area a forbidden zone,” and volunteers have been asked to cease activities.

Earlier this week, Sunil Dowarkasing, a former strategist for Greenpeace International and former member of parliament in Mauritius, said that one of the ship’s three oil tanks had already leaked into the ocean and that crews were attempting to remove the oil from the other tanks before the ship broke up.

Earlier this week, the operator, Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, said about 1,180 metric tons of oil had leaked from the vessel’s fuel tank – with about 460 tons manually recovered from the sea and coast. The ship was carrying about 3,800 tons of Very Low Sulphur Fuel Oil and 200 tons of diesel oil, according to the operator.

Mauritius Prime Minister Pravind Jugnauth had declared a state of environmental emergency.

“We are in a situation of environmental crisis,” Kavy Ramano, the country’s environment minister, said.

The spill is close to two environmentally protected marine ecosystems and the Blue Bay Marine Park reserve. Nearby are a number of popular tourist beaches and mangrove plantations.

The MV Wakashio was on its way from China to Brazil when it ran aground on the reef on July 25.

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At least seven people were killed after violence broke out in the Ivory Coast over President Alassane Ouattara’s announcement that he will run for a third term.

Four of the deaths came in the city of Daoukro and the town of Bonoua in the country’s south. Further rioting occurred in the northern town of Gagnoa.

Protesters are angry at Ouattara’s intention to seek a third term in the upcoming elections in October.

Claiming that a third term violates the constitution, they accuse Ouattara of breaking the fragile truce that has reigned in the Ivory Coast since unrest in 2011 killed 3,000 people.

While the constitution limits a ruler to only two terms, Ouattara claims that his first two terms didn’t count due to an amendment adopted in 2016. In power since 2011, Ouattara had intended to step down but decided to run for a third time after his handpicked successor passed away last month.

Last Group of Taliban Prisoners Being Released

Afghanistan’s government began releasing the final 400 Taliban prisoners this week as a precondition to begin peace talks with the Islamic

insurgency.

The first 80 prisoners were set free on Sunday after Afghanistan’s Council of Elders approved the release of the final 400 inmates. Included in the group are senior Taliban leaders whom the U.S. calls “highly dangerous.”

“The government…yesterday released 80 Taliban convicts out of the 400 that the Consultative Loya Jirga sanctioned for release to speed up efforts for direct talks and a lasting, nationwide ceasefire,” tweeted a National Security Council spokesperson.

Releasing Taliban inmates was the group’s condition for entering peace talks with the Afghani government. With the final batch now being set free, negotiations to end two decades of bloody conflict are expected to begin later this month in Qatar.

The U.S. had signed a peace deal with the Taliban earlier this year. The accord was designed to enable the Taliban and the Afghani government to hold face-to-face negotiations, with the former refusing to speak with the regime in Kabul as long as the U.S. remained in Afghanistan.

As part of the deal, the Afghani government was supposed to release

5,000 Taliban prisoners while the Taliban would set free 1,000 Afghan soldiers and officials. However, President Ghani, who was not consulted before Washington agreed to the terms, had balked in releasing the most dangerous prisoners.

In order to solve the impasse, Ghani convened a special Council of Elders composed of tribal leaders that were entrusted with making the final decision. After holding consultations that lasted for three days, the elders decided in favor of the prisoner release, paving the way for peace talks to move forward.

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The new regulations prohibit smoking in all public spaces where it is impossible to maintain a threefoot distance from other people. It also bans smoking on balconies and at entrances to public places such as bars and restaurants, even when social distancing measures could be adhered to.

The move came after Spain’s Health Ministry found that the coronavirus infection could be spread by water droplets in smoke. The research pointed to other ways in which smokers could spread the virus, including touching the cigarette before putting it in their mouths and removing their masks before lighting up.

In addition, the harmful effects caused by tobacco use makes it substantially more difficult for the body to fight the coronavirus.

“It has been proven that tobacco use, in any of its forms, worsens the course of respiratory diseases,” said the Health Ministry. “Current evidence indicates that smoking is associated with...a higher risk of developing a severe form of symptoms.”

Spain has seen a surge of new coronavirus cases ever since it lifted its nationwide lockdown on June 21.

The country was seeing an average of 150 new cases per day in late June. It recorded more than 5,500 this past Sunday.

The spiraling number of cases has led authorities to implement a slew of new social distancing measures, including shuttering bars, banning public drinking, and increasing the amount of testing.

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estimated 1.116 million barrels of fuel. It was the largest-ever seizure of fuel shipments from Iran in history.

It is unclear where the cargo was impounded, as the ships had turned off their tracking system to avoid detection. Military force was not used to intercept the cargo, with the U.S. repossessing the shipments by threatening to sanction the ship’s owners and insurers if they didn’t hand over the tankers on their own accord.

The seizure was in line with U.S. sanctions on the Islamic Republic, which bans Iran from selling oil until it gives up its nuclear program. The State Department said that the cargo will likely be sold to “support the U.S. Victims of State Sponsored Terrorism Fund instead of those engaging in terrorism, like the [Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps].”

Since May, Iran has been shipping oil to Venezuela in order to alleviate Venezuela’s chronic fuel shortage. Despite being blessed with the world’s largest oil reserves, years of underdevelopment, corruption, and crippling U.S. sanctions have left Caracas unable to produce its own oil due to high financial costs.

In late May, the first five Iranian tankers arrived in Venezuela despite threats by the Trump administration to seize the shipments on the high seas. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo had threatened to dispatch a flotilla of U.S. Navy ships to intercept the fuel tankers but eventually backed down after Venezuela vowed to defend its interest with military force.

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The U.S. Justice Department said in a statement that the shipment was confiscated “with the assistance of foreign partners” and contained an

The Knesset approved a bill on Monday postponing the deadline the government has to pass a budget.

The bill passed its first reading with a majority of 62 to 30. It still

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MK Zvi Hauser (Derech Eretz), who sponsored the bill, pleaded with both parties to back down and avoid another election after the bill passed on Monday.

“The dissolution of the Knesset and the dissolution of the unity government will fatally damage the overall public interest,” he said. “Everyone agrees that an election during this time is a bad idea.”

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The passage of a budget was expected to be a routine affair, as the Likud and Kahol Lavan parties agreed on approving a two-year budget during coalition negotiations in April.

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promise, contending that it would be irresponsible to pass such a funding bill for such an extensive period of time during an era of economic uncertainty.

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IDF tanks attacked Hamas observation posts in the northern Gaza Strip on Monday evening.

“Tanks targeted a number of military observation posts belonging to the Hamas terror organization in the Gaza Strip,” the IDF said in a statement.

The assault came in retaliation for a wave of incendiary balloons launched from the Strip over the past few days that have torched large swaths of Israel’s south. Since last Tuesday, 150 fires have been caused by the booby-trapped balloons that burned over 1,000 dunams of land.

In addition, a rocket launched by Hamas exploded on Saturday inside the backyard of a home in Sderot, injuring a 58-year-old man. According to the IDF, Hamas has also been “instigating riots along the Gaza Strip security fence” featuring “rioters burning tires, hurling explosive devices and grenades towards the security fence and attempting to approach it.”

In response, the IDF has been carrying out nightly bombing raids targeting Hamas’ tunnel infrastructure and military sites. There have been no reported casualties in any of the attacks. Israel has also closed the Kerem Shalom crossing with the Gaza Strip and closed the zone permitted for fishing off the coast.

Following months of quiet, the Gaza border has been flaring up after Qatar’s monthly welfare payments to the poverty-wracked Strip ceased.

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Turkey has granted citizenship to a series of senior Hamas terrorists currently residing in Istanbul.

According to a report by The Telegraph, Ankara granted Turkish passports to at least seven of the group’s 12 most senior operatives, while another five are in the process of receiving their official documents.

Journalists from the newspaper managed to take a picture of one of the passports, showing that the Hamas commanders were given a full 11-digit I.D. number.

Some of the passports were issued under false names the terrorists used for operations, while others were registered under their true identities. The development is concerning as Turkish citizens are allowed to enter countries such as Japan, South Korea, Singapore, and Serbia without a visa.

In addition, Turkey is currently conducting negotiations with the EU to allow its citizens to enter the 26-member bloc without a visa, meaning that Hamas operatives would be able to travel throughout Europe unhindered.

Both Turkey’s Foreign Ministry and Hamas denied the report.

An intelligence source noted, “These are not foot soldiers but the most senior Hamas operatives outside of Gaza. [They] are actively raising funds and directing operatives to carry out attacks in the present day.

“The Turkish Government gave in to pressure by Hamas to grant citizenship to its operatives, thereby allowing them to travel more freely, endangering other countries

that have listed Hamas as a terror group.”

Hamas’ political bureau has been in Istanbul ever since it was forced to flee Syria in 2012 due to a falling out the movement had with President Bashar Assad. Since then, the terror group’s headquarters in Ankara plans attacks, raises money, and conducts meetings.

In December, The Telegraph revealed that Turkey allows Hamas members to plan terrorist attacks in Israel from its territory. Interrogations of terror suspects arrested upon their return to Israel by the Shin Bet uncovered a plot to assassinate former police commissioner Roni Al Sheikh, former Knesset member Yehuda Glick, and MK Nir Barkat while he served as Jerusalem mayor.

Protecting Judea and Samaria

Zvi Hauser, a senior lawmaker in the center-left Kahol Lavan party, wants any future concessions in Judea and Samaria to be subject to a nationwide referendum.

If passed, the bill would mandate that a public referendum be held before any attempt to transfer the territory to a foreign entity. Hauser, who heads the Knesset’s powerful Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, proposed the legislation after the annexation was delayed and possibly canceled altogether following last week’s diplomatic breakthrough with the United Arab Emirates.

“I welcome the historic peace agreement between Israel and the United Arab Emirates that heralds the establishment of trade, tourism and cultural relations between the two countries,” said Hauser. “Given that the prime minister has decided to freeze preparations for Israeli law in Judea and Samaria, The Basic Law: Referendum must be urgently amended so that it also applies fully and immediately to the localities of

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Judea and Samaria.”

Calling the bill “a matter of the highest urgency,” Hauser intends for a vote to be held on the amendment as early as next week.

“As part of the lessons of the past, and in light of the values of human dignity and property and the unity of Israel, any historic decision that could harm the status of Israeli communities in Judea and Samaria requires a similar national consensus,” said the lawmaker.

First passed in 2010, the current Referendum Law mandates that a national referendum must be held prior to any political arrangement that would transfer land to a foreign power. Sponsored by current Knesset speaker Yariv Levin, the law came after then-Prime Minister Ariel Sharon rammed the Gaza Disengagement through the government in 2005 despite not having a majority.

In 2018, the law was amended to raise the number of MKs needed to give up Israeli sovereignty over any part of Jerusalem to 80. However, the law only applied to sovereign Israeli territory, excluding Judea and Samaria that was conquered by the IDF in 1967.

Nasrallah Vows Revenge

Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah vowed that his terror group would retaliate for the death of one of its operatives killed

by Israel, notwithstanding the recent explosion at the Beirut port.

The Hezbollah terrorist had been killed in an Israeli airstrike in Damascus in July. While Nasrallah had publicly promised to avenge his death, the devastating blast in Beirut last week led many to assume that he would avoid a new round of hostilities.

And yet, in a speech last Friday evening, Nasrallah maintained that “the revenge would come” despite Lebanon’s current catastrophic

state.

“There are rules of the game and we are keeping them,” Nasrallah said. “We will work according to the same rules.”

The terror leader added that last month’s border incident on the Golan Heights, in which the IDF foiled an infiltration attempt by Hezbollah commandos, did not constitute retaliation. “What happened at the border is only part of the punishment,” said Nasrallah.

“Everything that has happened since July until today, the high alert of the Israeli military and more, is our punishment to Israel,” Nasrallah continued. “If you kill us, you need to wait across the border for the reaction. This is a decision that is still in force – nothing has changed, it is just a question of time.”

Hezbollah’s revenge, said Nasrallah, would “redefine the rules of the game along the border,” and would be a “serious reaction, not some public relations stunt.”

He also blasted the United Arab Emirates for establishing full diplomatic relations with Israel and dismissed it as nothing more than “an elections stunt” designed to help

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Nasrallah admitted, however, that “more Arab countries will make agreements with Israel as soon as Trump signals to them.”

Israel had been on high alert following the killing of the Hezbollah operative near Damascus in July, with the IDF deploying reinforcements and special forces on the Lebanese border. After the blast at the Beirut port earlier this month, the likelihood of a Hezbollah attack was seen to have dropped.

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu insisted on Sunday that he still intends on annexing Judea and Samaria despite last week’s diplomatic breakthrough with the United Arab Emirates.

Last Thursday, Israel, the United Arab Emirates, and the United States revealed in a joint statement that Abu Dhabi and Jerusalem would establish full diplomatic relations, including opening embassies and exchanging ambassadors. In exchange for the historic agreement, Israel suspended its plans to annex parts of Judea and Samaria, which Netanyahu had planned to do this past July.

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Now, Netanyahu will put off annexing Judea and Samaria in light of the diplomatic agreement with the United Arab Emirates. While Netanyahu contends that the suspension is only “for the time being,” Trump administration officials and Gargash himself maintain that the move was off the table for good.

“I don’t understand Israeli politics,” Gargash said. “It is very complicated. But this is a three-way commitment. We are sure that as we will keep our commitment, and the U.S. is involved, so will Israel keep its commitment. I think we have bought a lot of time…I don’t think it is a short suspension,” said Gargash.

“We keep urging Palestinians and Israelis to come back to the negotiations table. You can’t stop the time bomb but at the same time not do anything in terms of the interaction that is needed.”

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“We are not talking about a very slow and gradual process … There are sectors that we would like to develop with Israel, and there are sectors that Israel would like to develop [with us],” said Gargash.

The Arab foreign minister confirmed that a high-ranking Israeli delegation would soon depart to the Gulf State in order to begin negotiations regarding how to proceed.

“I see teams meeting in order to address many of the areas of interest in Israel and in the UAE,” Gargash said, adding that the meeting would occur “as soon as possible.”

The interview came after the UAE announced on Thursday that it would become the third Arab nation to establish diplomatic ties with Israel. The only other countries in the Middle East to recognize the Jewish State are Egypt and Jordan, which signed peace treaties in 1979 and 1995, respectively.

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Some reports said that annexation was only delayed for the time being while others spoke of an Israeli commitment to permanently jettison plans for sovereignty over the disputed territory. While overjoyed at the diplomatic achievement, large swaths of Israel’s right wing were enraged at Netanyahu for passing up what they said was a once-in-alifetime opportunity to annex Judea and Samaria.

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annexation is “only off the table for the time being,” adding in a radio interview on Sunday that he planned to advance the move in the future. He said that rather than give up annexation in exchange for new ties with the UAE, the Trump administration had prohibited any annexation at all.

“It’s not as if someone gave me a choice and told me to pick either sovereignty or normalization,” Netanyahu told Army Radio.

Netanyahu also attacked his

right-wing critics for alleging that he had never intended to annex Judea and Samaria in the first place.

“This is a historic breakthrough,” Netanyahu asserted. “Just as they said that I would never bring a peace agreement and I brought it, I will also bring sovereignty. I said we would bring an agreement with an Arab state and this happened.

“It is different from those that preceded it in that it is based on two principles: ‘peace for peace,’ and

Israeli Delegation to UAE Delayed

Infighting between the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the National Security Council, and the Mossad have delayed the scheduled departure of Israel’s delegation to the United Arab Emirates.

Last Thursday, the two countries announced that they would establish full diplomatic relations, including constructing respective embassies and trading ambassadors. A delegation of senior Israeli officials was slated to take off for Abu Dhabi the following Sunday in order to coordinate the various arrangements prior to the official signing ceremony at the White House.

However, the delegation never took off due to infighting between a slew of different governmental organizations that make foreign policy. While the Mossad had been in charge of the covert talks until they went public, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu tapped the National Security Council with conducting the official negotiations.

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of Israel’s international relations.

Netanyahu later claimed that he refrained from informing Foreign Minister Gabi Ashkenazi of the secret talks “out of fear that he and others would leak it,” infuriating the Kahol Lavan party.

“Because of these disputes over its makeup and authority, along with waiting for the wording of the details Israel wants to present, the delegation sendoff has been delayed,” reported Haaretz. “When it does set out, senior officials in both countries say the issue of direct flights will be first on the agenda.”

Nevertheless, the Foreign Ministry began scouting out different buildings in Abu Dhabi on Monday to be used as Israel’s official embassy. The task is expected to be extremely difficult due to the travel limitations caused by the coronavirus and the enhanced security measures the new embassy would need.

Not-So-Secret Names

Kamala Harris’s Secret Service code name has been revealed, and the name she chose for herself is “Pioneer.”

Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden named Harris as his running mate last week. She is the

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Susan B. Anthony’s middle name is Brownell.

first black and South Asian American woman to run as vice president for one of the major parties.

Harris selected the name from a preapproved list issued by the White House Communications Agency.

Former Vice President Biden will reportedly retain his former code name of “Celtic” and Jill Biden, the former second lady, will still be known as “Capri.”

The Secret Service calls President Donald Trump “Mogul.” His wife, first lady Melania Trump, is called “Muse.” Donald Trump Jr. is reportedly called “Mountaineer,” Ivanka Trump is “Marvel,” and Eric Trump is “Marksman.”

Vice President Mike Pence’s code name is “Hoosier,” in reference to his Indiana roots, while second lady Karen Pence is known by agents as “Hummingbird.”

Former President Barack Obama was called “Renegade” by the Secret Service. Michelle Obama was called “Renaissance.” Their two children, Malia and Sasha, were called “Radiance” and “Rosebud” respectively.

in her hometown of Rochester, New York, and was convicted by an allmale jury in a widely publicized trial. Although she refused to pay the fine, the authorities declined to take further action.

While President Ulysses S. Grant had pardoned election inspectors, he never pardoned Anthony and had told her before she cast her ballot that he had “already done more for women than any other president.”

Visiting Anthony’s grave site in Rochester on Election Day has become a popular ritual in recent years. Thousands turned out in 2016 for the presidential match-up between Trump and Hillary Clinton. In 2018, voters showed up by the dozens to put their “I Voted” stickers on her headstone.

Robert Trump Passes Away

Trump Pardons Susan B. Anthony

August 18, 2020 marked 100 years since the 19th Amendment was ratified in the United States. Amendment XIX prohibited the states and federal government from denying the right to vote to citizens of the United States on the basis of gender, essentially granting the right to vote to women. This week, on Wednesday, August 18, President Donald Trump pardoned Susan B. Anthony, who is best known for her role in securing voting rights for women. Anthony had been arrested for voting in 1872 in violation of laws permitting only males to vote.

“She was never pardoned. Did you know that?” the president said during remarks at the event. “What took so long?”

Anthony was arrested for voting

Robert Trump, the younger brother of President Donald Trump, died last Saturday at a New York hospital. He was 71.

“It is with heavy heart that I share that my wonderful brother, Robert, peacefully passed away tonight,” announced the president in a statement. “He was not just my brother; he was my best friend.

“He will be greatly missed, but we will meet again,” added Trump.

“His memory will live on in my heart forever. Robert, I love you. Rest in peace.”

Trump had made an emergency visit to New York after his brother took a turn for the worst on Friday. The cause of death is unknown.

Robert Trump had been hospitalized for over a week and had been put on blood thinners. He recently suffered a serious brain bleed after falling down a flight of stairs.

The younger Trump was born in 1948 and was the youngest son of Fred and Mary Anne. Growing up, Robert and Donald were good friends, and they remained close

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U.S. to earn that $2 trillion distinction. It earned that celebrity status just over two years after passing the $1 trillion level.

The company’s stock will split four-for-one at the end of the month, which will cut the price of a single share to about $117. The value of Apple will remain the same since the company will simply have more shares trading at a lower price.

Apple is not the first company in the world to be valued at $2 trillion. Saudi Aramco topped that mark in December when it went public, but plunging oil prices have hurt the company’s stock. Apple passed Saudi Aramco earlier this month after reporting strong earnings.

Two other U.S. tech giants – Amazon and Microsoft – are moving closer to the $2 trillion mark too.

Both are valued at about $1.6 trillion.

Google owner Alphabet is also worth more than $1 trillion.

Apple’s success has also vaulted CEO Tim Cook into the ranks of billionaires – one of the few CEOs to reach that level without having started the company he leads.

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throughout their life.

“I have a wonderful brother,” said the president after visiting him on Friday. “We’ve had a great relationship for a long time, from Day 1,” he said.

Robert worked as a business developer and managed his older brother’s extensive real estate holdings, including overseeing his string of casinos in Atlantic City.

Recently, Robert filed a lawsuit

on behalf of his older brother to stop the publication of a damaging book by his niece Mary.

President Trump’s son, Eric, tweeted that Robert was an “incredible man – strong, kind and loyal to the core.”

“He will be deeply missed by our entire family,” he said.

Apple Now Worth $2T Yup, you read that right. Apple hit the $2 trillion mark on Wednesday.

Shares of the company have surged more than 50% this year and are at an all-time high. They’re currently trading at nearly $470 a share.

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An alarming report by the Center for Disease Control (CDC) warns that American kids are eating too much fast food.

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While kids ages 2 to 11 got 11.5 percent of the daily calorie intake from fast food, the number ballooned to 18% for children between the ages of 12 and 19. Overall, around a third (36.3%) of children and teens ate fast food daily.

The bad habits are particularly pronounced among black and Hispanic children, which researchers attribute to the lack of affordable healthy alternatives. Another factor is advertising, which disproportionately hawks unhealthy food.

“While some families are privileged to work and cook from home,” said the report, “too many families are poorer than they were before, have more food insecurity, and have more work to do with less support.”

The data was gathered until 2018, meaning that it did not factor in changes caused by the coronavirus. According to Dr. Eliana Perrin, a researcher at Duke University

School of Medicine, the coronavirus likely caused children’s eating habits to deteriorate even more due to the stress caused by the pandemic.

“These are not surprising findings when you think about how strapped families are these days for both time and money and how fast food can be an easy option for stressed families,” she noted.

Beware the Spotted Lanternfly

States have been sounding the alarm over a new invasive species that is highly destructive to agriculture.

Known as the spotted lanternfly,

the bug feasts on more than 70 plant species and recently caused an estimated $50 million worth of damage to Pennsylvania wildlife. It is particularly lethal to forests, as it sucks the sap from trees, weakening them to the point of collapse.

The insects can be identified by their reddish, polka-dotted wings. Adult spotted lanternflies will begin laying eggs in September. To prevent its spread until now, states have banned moving certain types of agricultural equipment from place to place and call on residents to report any sightings.

“Its ability to travel easily on any mode of transportation has allowed it to spread,” warned New Jersey Department of Agriculture Plant Industry Division Director Joe Zoltowski. “We are asking residents to do their part by eliminating this bug whenever possible.”

So far, it has turned up in a slew of states on the eastern seaboard such as New York, New Jersey, Delaware, and Maryland. Last Friday, the bug was spotted in Staten Island for the first time despite efforts by state officials to prevent its migration.

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ment of Environmental Conservation (DEC) commissioner, called the news “alarming” and warned that authorities needed to “prevent it from further entering New York State and limiting any serious threats to our natural resources.”

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“Given the recent customer concerns, the Postal Service will postpone removing boxes for a period of 90 days while we evaluate our customers concerns,” said a USPS spokeswoman. In response to those who claim that removing the boxes are attempts at voter suppression in the lead-up to Election Day, the USPS said that “it annually reviews how much various boxes are used to identify redundant/seldom used collection boxes as first-class mail volume continues to decline.”

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“We’re making it so it is going to be good, and we’re going to take care of our postal workers above all,” Trump told Fox News on Monday.

“We’re not firing people, but the way they ran that thing for many years, this isn’t a Trump thing… This has been one of the disasters of the world the way it’s been run.”

tion, while the National Postal Mail Handlers Union to the Postal Service sent a public letter to management asking, “Why are these machines being removed?”

The controversy comes as the USPS is facing a major budget crisis that raises questions whether it will be able to process the ballots on time by Election Day. Under what Postmaster General Louis DeJoy calls “restructuring,” the Service has thrown out thousands of mail servers, reduced operating hours, and cut

Thank your lucky stars you weren’t in Death Valley on Sunday.

The temperatures in the Californian desert skyrocketed to a blistering 130 degrees at 3:41 p.m., according to the National Weather Service.

It’s possible that it was the highest mercury reading on Earth in almost 90 years.

Sunday’s scorcher is among the top three highest temperatures ever measured in Death Valley, as well as the highest temperature seen there during the month of August, according to park and weather service data.

Death Valley holds the record for the highest temperature ever recorded on the planet: 134 degrees in 1913, according to Guinness World Records. In 1931, the mercury hit 131 degrees in Kebili, Tunisia, according to the World Meteorological Organization. Since then, a 129-degree reading was recorded in Death Valley in 2013.

The ground in Death Valley is even hotter than the air, with readings up to 201 degrees. The reason for the extreme temperature is because Death Valley is 150 feet below the sea level and the air gets warmer with increasing depth. In addition, the valley receives less than 3 inches of rainfall annually.

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Y E S H I VA O F FA R R O C K AWAY YAAKOV AND ILANA MELOHN CAMPUS IN MEMORY OF REB YOSEF MELOHN Z”L

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Y E S H I VA O F FA R R O C K AWAY YAAKOV AND ILANA MELOHN CAMPUS IN MEMORY OF REB YOSEF MELOHN Z”L

The Yeshiva, its talmidim and alumni extend our warmest wishes and congratulations to our beloved and distinguished and inspiring rebbe of forty-five years

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May the very same passion and skill with which he imbued generations of talmidim continue in this new capacity moving forward ‫!מחיל אל חיל‬

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The cozy home is complete with a circular entryway and roof that is completely covered in leaves and green flora.

“After I saw ‘Fellowship of the Ring,’ I thought Bilbo Baggins’ house was the coolest house I’d ever seen,” Jim said. “I went on the web and said, ‘Someone must have built one already,’ and I couldn’t find one.

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Transparent Toilets

In Japan, it’s easy to see if a bathroom is occupied.

Restrooms installed in two parks in Tokyo feature see-through walls.

Lest you think that it’s an invasion of one’s privacy, the walls turn opaque once a user enters and locks the doors.

Supposedly the transparent walls help consumers to determine the re-

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stroom’s cleanliness and whether they are occupied.

“There are two things we worry about when entering a public restroom, especially those located at a park,” the Tokyo Toilet Project’s website states. “The first is cleanliness, and the second is whether anyone is inside.”

The walls change from transparent to frosted opaque when the door lock is activated.

According to the website, “At night, the facility lights up the park like a beautiful lantern.”

Users need to remember to lock the door to enable the opaque feature. Once inside, though, there’s no way to tell if the walls are transparent or frosted from the outside.

And that could be disastrous.

Chocolate Rain

“If all the raindrops were lemon drops and gumdrops, oh, what a world it would be!”

How about chocolate raindrops?

Sound good?

Recently, residents in the town of Olten in Switzerland were treated to a cocoa powder shower.

The brown flakes that fell from the sky were actually grains of cocoa powder that rained down from the Lindt & Spruengli candy factory in the area. A malfunction in the ventilation of the factory during the production of roasted cocoa nibs blanketed the town in cocoa flurries.

Unfortunately, no marshmallows fell from the sky that day.

Restaurant “Weight-ers”

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The last thing you should bring to a restaurant is a scale. But that’s what Chuiyan Fried Beef eatery in Changsha, Hunan province, has been offering customers.

In response to President Xi Jin-

ping’s call to reduce food waste in China, the restaurant placed scales at its entrance and suggested that customers weigh themselves upon entering to determine what they should order.

After weighing themselves, a guide by the scales offered suggestions for food selections and portion sizes for men and women of various weight ranges.

Unsurprisingly, people felt slightly shamed by having to weigh themselves at the restaurant.

The eatery apologized for offending people.

“Our intention was to advocate not wasting food and for people to order in a healthy way,” it said.

Even so, the scales are not being removed. The restaurant is just going to make it clear to consumers that weighing themselves is strictly voluntary.

You know what? There’s no “weigh” I am going to be eating at that restaurant.

A Real-Life Mystery

Where is Nancy Drew when you need her?

While completing renovations at Walla Walla Public Library in Washington State, employees encountered a real-life mystery.

Workers removing a corner panel in the mystery section uncovered a paper bag with five unopened cans of Hamm’s beer and an opened back of Godzilla Heads gum. The stash is at least 30 years old.

“It looked like somebody had just stashed it there and maybe thought they could get it later…but there was no way to get it out,” library director Erin Wells said. “There were probably six beers that they bought and there was only five that we found so they might not have been thinking straight when they did it.”

The City of Walla Walla said the “artifacts” were transferred “to another city facility.”

“The abandoned relics now reside in the Sudbury Landfill,” the city said.

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Community Bike4Chai 2020 Shifts Gears to Support Chai Lifeline Families

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early 500 Bike4Chai cyclists rode more than more than 50,000 combined miles to benefit children with serious illness on August 13. Now in its 11th year, Bike4Chai raises funds for Chai Lifeline, the international children’s health support network which provides emotional, social, and financial assistance to children with life-threatening and lifelong illnesses and their families.

This year’s one-day ride featured three scenic route options of 80, 100 and 120 miles. Cyclists departed from Mountain Creek Resort in Vernon, NJ, at staggered intervals to maintain proper distancing until they reached the gates of Camp Simcha Special, Chai Lifeline’s summer camp for children with chronic illnesses and disabilities in Glen Spey, NY. There, the riders enjoyed an outdoor lunch just outside of camp before returning to the finish line back in Vernon.

“In addition to the day-to-day challenges of pediatric illness, this year, our families are confronted with a global pandemic and its devastating health and economic effects,” said Rabbi Sruli Fried, MSW, director of Chai Lifeline NJ/PA and executive director of Bike4Chai. “We have a

tremendous amount of appreciation and gratitude to our dedicated cyclists and community of supporters who have stepped up during these trying times. Their unwavering commitment to Chai Lifeline’s mission enables us to continue provide critical services when our families need

us most.”

Chai Lifeline’s more than two dozen year-round programs and services, including professional case management and counseling, meal delivery to hospitals and homes, transportation to medical appointments, emergency financial assis-

tance, Project Chai crisis intervention, insurance advocacy, i-Shine afterschool national programs for children living with illness or loss in their homes, Camp Simcha and Camp Simcha Special, and more.

Learn more at www.chailifeline.org.

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Baal Tefillah Boot Camp

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s a result of COVID-19 precautions, many shuls are creating multiple smaller minyanim for the High Holidays to accommodate their members, creating a shortage of qualified baalei tefillot to lead davening. To address this need, the Orthodox Union (OU) Pepa and Rabbi Joseph Karasick Department of Synagogue Services has created a “Baal Tefillah Boot Camp” to help train more than 100 to lead these minyanim. To date, more than 36 synagogues from 12 states as well as Canada and South Africa are participating in this historic initiative.

The Baal Tefillah Boot Camp includes a series of seminars to train shluchei tzibbur at minyanim organized by a synagogue. All of the participants were nominated by their synagogue and will receive a schedule of seminars, recorded tefillot, and will conclude with one-onone meetings to address individual needs and concerns. The seminars are being led by Chazzan Yitzy Spinner of Great Neck Synagogue and Rabbi Gedalyah Berger, project coordinator.

Participating shuls in our area include: BACH Jewish Center (Long Beach, NY), Congregation Anshei Shalom (West Hempstead, NY), Congregation Beth Sholom (Lawrence, NY), Congregation Ohav Sholom (Merrick, NY), NY), Young Is-

rael of Lawrence/Cedarhurst (New York), and Young Israel of North Woodmere (New York).

“The Baal Tefillah Boot Camp was designed to train those new to taking the amud and those who would like some additional coaching to enhance the davening environment of our community during the most holy days of the year. We are very happy that the program has been well received by such a large group of synagogues across the nation and world,” said Orthodox Union Executive Vice President Rabbi Moshe Hauer. “Through this program, the OU is looking to help fill that gap by responding to this important communal need.”

“We have been working with our member synagogues over the last few months to address needs and concerns related to the upcoming High Holidays and one thing that became clear was the need to run more minyanim simultaneously and we needed more Baalei Tefillah in order to do that,” said OU Synagogue & Community Services Director Rabbi Adir Posy.

The Baal Tefillah Boot Camp is funded in part through a grant by the UJA-Federation of New York and in partnership with the Rabbinical Council of America. For more information or to submit a nomination, visit: https://www.ou.org/chazzan/.

HALB is Gearing Up to be Back Home@HALB

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he entire HALB system is looking forward to starting school on our campuses, for all students, full time! HALB’s Task Force consisting of administrators, lay leaders and doctors has been working non-stop over the summer to ensure a start of school that meets the highest standards of both safety and educational quality.

Some of the changes and enhancements include new safety protocols,

barriers for desks, smaller class sizes, touch-free bathrooms, and an investment in special tech equipment that will allow for students to learn from home if the need arises. We have also bolstered our ability to focus more than ever before on the social and emotional needs of our children at this unusual time.

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ulty professional development, have given teachers practical tools to use in physically distant classrooms.

As for students, a volunteer representative group was established that met with Principal Sara Munk, Dean of Students Mrs. Ricky Gaerman, Assistant Principal Ms. Danyel Goldberg, Social Worker Mrs. Channi Packer, and Director of Student Activities Ms. Esty Munk. The student representatives had an opportunity to ask questions and share ideas. “It’s important that everyone has a voice,” Mrs. Munk stated. Communicating the plans and giving everyone an opportunity to ask questions encourages the sense of partnership Shulamith is known for.

Behind the scenes, special attention is being paid to the social emotional health of students. Plans for transitioning freshmen and helping all students to acclimate are on the forefront of the administration. In addition, training teachers on practical strategies of fostering relationships in the COVID era – with masks, poly-carbonate barriers, and social distancing – as well as continuing to facilitate student-centered learning has all been planned. With a never-ending checklist of preparation, the SHS team is excited to return to school and is positive about the year. With awesome, but safe, surprises in store, SHS is excited to warmly welcome everyone home!

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What about ensuring that everyone – faculty, students, parents – feel confident and safe? Known for focusing on the individual, SHS made sure that every voice was heard. Earlier in the summer, SHS administrators met with faculty representatives to review reopening plans and discuss concerns as it related directly to faculty. Then, a town hall meeting for faculty was set up with a follow-up later that week. In addition, departmental meetings in June allowed for faculty to plan, academically, for September, adjusting the pacing and learning goals to meet the needs of students who have not experienced in-school learning since early March. Finally, weekly PD newsletters, as well as our upcoming fac-

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Last week, Senator Todd Kaminsky toured potential sites for a Long Beach Community Garden to be created by OU Project Community (PC20)NCSY Relief Missions. He was accompanied by Rabbi Ethan Katz, director of NCSY Relief Missions, and Oran Bendelstein, associate director of relief missions programming.

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Madraigos Never Takes a Break

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n these unprecedented times, Madraigos continues to service the community and answer the strong and desperate calls for help.

Under the caring watchful eye of Rabbi Dov Silver, founder and executive V.P., the clinical team actively undertakes a broad array of challenges on a daily basis. “We are the nerve center,” says Mrs. Mindi Werblowsky, LMSW, Clinical Director, who oversees the interventional aspect of the organization and manages the critical intake and referral process.

Madraigos believes that issues such as depression, anxiety, trauma, and abuse can worsen unless they are immediately tackled. Often, there are behavioral issues that may initially present themselves as being the immediate concern, but after a thorough assessment that includes family background, mental health history, and any therapeutic experiences, the root of the issue is uncovered and appropriate, targeted referrals are then made.

But, Madraigos does not stop there. While the client is under the care of the referred outside therapist,

mentor, rehab program, hospital, residential treatment, therapeutic school, wilderness program, eating disorder program, outpatient program, mainstream school placements, etc., the clinical case management team stays fully involved on an ongoing basis until services are no longer needed, “so that everything works cohesively,” adds Mrs. Werblowsky.

While Madraigos runs effective intervention services, prevention services are at the core of their mission since nipping an issue in the bud at the early stages is the best way to ensure a healthy outcome. Even now, despite social distancing restrictions,

One Street for Two Villages

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n a spirit of cooperation, Lawrence Village Mayor Alex H. Edelman joined with Cedarhurst Mayor Benjamin Weinstock to repave Washington Avenue curb to curb, between Central Avenue and the LIRR tracks.

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scheduled to be completed on Saturday, August 22 and will allow traffic to flow easily and safely on this busy cross street shared by both Villages.

Mayor Alex H. Edelman and Mayor Benjamin Weinstock are seen in this photo.

the prevention services of Madraigos continue in a robust way, particularly the School-Based Services led by Rabbi Dr. Dovid Felt, Director of SchoolBased Services.

The School-Based programs brings awareness to schools about the social-emotional and mental health challenges facing students. For example, programs offer support for educators on how to work with children who present signs of anxiety, addiction, or bullying and cyber-bullying. Asked how this can this be done now in the middle of a pandemic, Rabbi Dr. Felt responds, “Now, with Covid, we still run our Mental Health Awareness

program, and we do so online for educators.” In addition, Madraigos offers The Lounge for boys and girls on separate nights as well as their very popular parenting support groups and community parenting lectures.

Madraigos is there to help those in need at no charge to any client.

All services are free. At this time, the community is asked to help support their mission at our upcoming Benefit Reception on August 31, 2020, so that they can continue to strengthen our youth. To place an ad in our virtual journal, please contact Sharon Gross, executive director, at 516-371-3250 ext. 103 or sgross@madraigos.org.

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Anti-Israel is Disguised Anti-Semitism

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o you pledge not to travel to Israel if elected to City Council in solidarity with Palestinians living under occupation?” reads a questionnaire sent out by the DSA and first reported by NY1’s Zack Fink.

The Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) is an organization designed to push the progressives into political power. This past week, New York City Council candidates seeking the support of the DSA were asked to agree not to visit Israel if elected. The questionnaire continues, “Even though foreign policy falls outside the purview of municipal government, gestures like travel to a country by elected officials from a city the size and prominence of New York still send a powerful message, as would the refusal to participate in them.”

The other question in the foreign policy section asks candidates about their support for the Boycott, Sanctions and Divestment (BDS) movement against Israel.

This blatant anti-Israel agenda generated an outcry on Twitter over the past few days to denounce the DSA’s hateful rhetoric. Proudly, elected officials in the Rockaways and Five Towns spoke out vehemently against the DSA’s disguised anti-Semitism.

Rabbi Michael Miller, the executive Vice President of the JCRC, declared in a statement, “Since 1982, JCRC-NY mission participants have consistently learned from a diverse array of journalists, activists, faith leaders, diplomats, security personnel, Jews, Christians, Muslims, Druze – Israelis and Palestinians.

They are encouraged to ask hard questions in order to gain a broader understanding of the complex issues and use this knowledge to become better public officials. We look forward to accompanying the next mission of the New York City Council to Israel.”

Moshe Brandsdorfer, executive director of the JCCRP, commented and urged community members of the Rockaways and Five Towns to thank the local politicians, “Please send thank you emails to your elected officials to thank them for stand-

ing up to DSA’s poorly disguised anti-Semitism. If your elected did not stand up to them, then ask for their support. The politicians listen very closely to their constituents; use that to help our brothers and sisters in Israel.”

Pesach Osina, community leader and candidate for NYC Council’s 31st District, commented, “We should never allow anyone to single out our beliefs and use religion for their political gain. We must use our voice in a constructive and united way to make changes that will stop such things from happening.”

Call or email your elected officials to thank them for their strong support of Israel and taking a stand against the DSA’s threats. Here is a sample email or phone script. My name is ___, I am your constituent. I am so grateful toward you for your strong position against the DSA and their anti-Israel agenda.

Thank you so much for standing up for Israel and the Jewish People. We are so fortunate to have you represent us.

We look forward to continuing our support to you for many years to come.

Local officials can be contacted: • Rep Grace Meng (NY’s 6th Congressional District) 718-358-MENG (6364) • Rep Gregory Meeks (NY’s 5th Congressional District) (347) 230-4032 • Rep Kathleen Rice (NY’s 4th Congressional District) (516) 739-3008 • Senator Joseph Addabbo Jr. (15th Senate District) addabbo@nysenate.gov • Senator Todd Kaminsky (9th Senate District) kaminsky@nysenate.gov • Assemblymember Stacey Pheffer-Amato (Assembly District 23) amatos@nyassembly.gov • Councilman Donovan Richards (NYC Council District 31) drichards@council.nyc.gov • Councilman Eric Ulrich (NYC Council District-32) eulrich@council.nyc.gov • Nassau County Exec. Laura Curran ncexecutive@nassaucountyny.gov

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riends of the Israel Defense Forces (FIDF) announced this week the appointment of Steven Weil as its new National Director and CEO to head the charitable organization beginning September 16, 2020. He will succeed Maj. Gen. (Res.) Meir Klifi-Amir, who has led FIDF for six years of unprecedented organizational expansion.

Under Maj. Gen. (Res.) Klifi-Amir’s leadership, FIDF has experienced exponential growth. It expanded its fundraising capabilities, opened new chapters around the U.S. and raised more than $570 million between 2015-2019. True to its mission, FIDF was able to increase its wellbeing support for the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) soldiers, helping 114% more soldiers than in years prior.

In light of this, FIDF’s lay leaders identified the need to modify the structure of the organization’s executive office and extend the scope of both management and fundraising operations. To further deepen FIDF’s philanthropic roots within the local community and allow for a prolonged tenure of the CEO, FIDF’s Board has decided to appoint an American-based CEO, along with an IDF general to strengthen fundraising efforts.

The incoming National Director and CEO, Steven Weil, will develop FIDF in the long term and build upon its vital position within the American philanthropic community.

He will oversee the 501(C)(3) notfor-profit as it continues to grow its infrastructure, both nationally and locally around the US and Panama, solidifying the strong foundation it has developed over the past 39 years, with the mission of supporting education and wellbeing programs for the soldiers of the IDF. Weil, particularly suited for this position, comes to FIDF following an 11-year tenure at the Orthodox Union (OU). He attended Yeshiva Universi-

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ty, concurrently completing his ordination at the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary (REITS) and receiving a master’s degree in Business Administration from NYU’s Stern School of Business. He began his career in education before moving on to pulpit work, first in Oak Park, MI, and then in Beverly Hills, CA. In both locations, he significantly built and expanded his congregations and instituted programs to unify and impact the broader community. He subsequently assumed the position of senior managing director of the OU, where he spearheaded their institutional advancement and community engagement efforts.

Weil is a sought-after speaker and educator and has given invocations for presidents, governors, and other senior elected officials. He is deeply passionate about the State of Israel, Jewish continuity, and the vital role Israel’s soldiers play in guaranteeing its future. Weil resides in New Jersey with his wife and is a proud father and grandfather.

“It is the greatest honor to join the FIDF family of lay leaders and professionals who have committed their lives to looking after the IDF soldiers,” said Weil. “FIDF, through educational and wellbeing initiatives, enables these courageous young men and women, who invest years of their lives to protect Israel, to serve proudly and guarantee the future of Israel and the Jewish people.”

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THIS WEEK, WE’RE TALKING TO…

Camp Shira

BY SUSAN SCHWAMM

1, 2, 3…8 weeks of amazing summer fun! For the last few weeks, our children have been basking in the sun, swimming, singing, and soaking up the fun every day. How are they spending their time away from their Zoom tablets and desks? In this series, we are speaking with camp directors and head counselors to learn more about our community’s amazing, spectacular, incredible, marvelous, unbelievable (you get the point!) camps.

ALTHOUGH CAMP SHIRA OPENED ITS DOORS JUST A FEW SUMMERS AGO, CAMP SHIRA HAS BECOME ONE OF THE HOTTEST CAMPS IN TOWN. AT CAMP SHIRA, CAMPERS HAVE SOMETHING TO SING ABOUT. WITH A BEAUTIFUL CAMPUS, ENERGETIC STAFF, OUTSTANDING ACTIVITIES, AND NONSTOP FUN, A SUMMER IN CAMP SHIRA BUILDS MEMORIES FOR A LIFETIME. WE SPOKE WITH CAMP DIRECTOR MRS. YAFFA SCHREIER IN MIDDLE OF HER BUSY SCHEDULE TO LEARN A BIT MORE ABOUT THE NON-STOP FUN.

Mrs. Schreier, this is Camp Shira’s third summer! Tell us about Camp Shira.

We are a premier girls camp in the Five Towns! We have girls from all over, and we try to give them a really enjoyable summer – especially this year! We have a great location and an amazing campus. We offer everything from Go-Karts to a Water Park to a Shimi Adar concert –every summer seems to top the previous one!

That sounds like a blast! Tell us about your different divisions.

We have three awesome divisions. Shira Juniors, led by Mrs. Rochel Lapidus and her assistant Mrs. Chanie Pearlman, is for entering nursery - 1st grade. Shira Seniors, led by Mrs. Tehilla Ben-Ari and her assistant Mrs. Yocheved Rozwaski

together with our head counselor Elisheva Homnick, is for girls entering 2nd - 5th grade. Shira Extreme, led by Mrs. Chavsie Friedman and her head counselor Zoe Poznanski, is for entering 6th - 7 th grade.

Each division has its own directors and head staff so that each division and its program is uniquely suited to that age group. Juniors enjoy adorable specialties and shows; Seniors have main activities, shows and specialties geared for their age; and Extreme does some crazy awesome stuff! Our goal is for every camper to feel like the camp was specially designed for them!

Sounds awesome! How many campers enjoy Camp Shira?

We have 450-500 girls a summer at Camp Shira.

We have so much music and ruach and achdus pouring out every day that every camper feels like they are in a small camp! Every bunk gets a schedule daily that is jam-packed with fun activities, specialties and shows.

Shira Extreme sounds like so much fun! Tell us a bit about it.

Our Extreme Division is for girls entering 6th and 7 th grade. With their own incredible director and head counselor, the program is dedicated to create a dynamic and enjoyable summer for our campers. Their days are busy with special activities geared towards their age. The daily schedules are created around teamwork and responsibility, all done in a unique and special way. One of the main goals

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the director has, aside from each girl having a great summer, is for each camper to grow and mature in their self-confidence. This summer’s theme is “Shira’s Got Talent” and the Extreme division is putting on a talent show which will showcase each camper’s special talents and abilities.

You have a great campus.

We are located on the Shulamith campus. We have a huge auditorium for shows, a spacious backyard, and a lot of summer-only exclusives! Each summer we add a gymnasium room, a water park, a water play and sprinkler area, and a go-kart track!

Wow – like Disneyland in Cedarhurst! How is the day structured?

Every day starts with davening and breakfast. Then we have a schedule of the day for each bunk. Each day is filled with different games, activities, and fun!

What are the campers’ favorite activities?

Every camper has a different favorite activity. We have a great assortment of specialties led by fantastic

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morahs. Water park is definitely a favorite of many campers. Campers really enjoy the variety of art activities and food art activities. Some campers report that sports or water sports are a favorite and some choose ballet or another dance as their favorite. Baruch Hashem, there are so many activities to choose from!

Did you do anything different for the Three Weeks/Nine Days?

We have beautiful chessed campaigns for the Nine Days every year.

This year, each division did something different. Each division raised a lot of money for Chai Lifeline. The Juniors had a trike-a-thon and also created mitzvah bricks and built a Kotel on the camp walls. They made refuah shelaima cards for Chai Lifeline patients. The Seniors held a swim-a-thon and had a brachos campaign which culminated in a brachos party. They also made cards for nursing home residents and the staff who care for them. The Extreme Division made special individual packages for our dedicated police officers in the neighborhood. They had a Chai-Lifeline Swim-a-Thon as well as focusing on their brachos and middos.

Those are some very thoughtful activities. As you walk around camp, what are three things that you hear the most throughout the day?

The Camp Shira song from this year and the Camp Shira songs from previous years are definitely heard the most! The “Hug-a- Turtle” song and laughter come in as a close second place.

Girls are really having an amazing summer and that is a credit to our fantastic staff, campers and families!

It has taken real teamwork to pull off a fun, safe summer in this unprecedented time!

I agree. Tell us about some of their other “favorites,” like their favorite lunches or sports.

The girls love the macaroni and cheese and the baked ziti! One bunk named the baked ziti “pizza mac and cheese”! They also really enjoy the pancakes! We try to have kid-friendly main dishes with a healthy serving of fruit and veggies on the side.

As for sports, we have really great specialty sports morahs that include water sports. The girls play additional sports with their counselors. There

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are a lot of unique and creative sports at Camp Shira, and the girls love it.

One day they might be playing water limbo, and the next day they might be having fun relay races. They are also having a blast at the regular sports games especially machanayim and BBK. Your slogan is “Camp Shira: Something to Sing About.” Are you doing anything special in relation to that? Concerts?

Choirs?

We have featured music significantly since we launched three years ago. Every summer we have a professionally recorded camp song, and the girls LOVE singing it and dancing with the motions. We also have a lot of concerts each summer including our annual highlight: a Shimi Adar concert!

Tell us more about this summer’s theme.

This summer, the theme is “Shira’s Got Talent.” Aside from fun talent shows and awesome entertainers, each week also worked off of that theme in creative ways. We had a week called The Greatest Show, and

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we had activities and shows that all related to the circus. We ended the week with Circus Dress Up Day where we had campers and counselors

dressed up as a variety of circus-related costumes. There were popcorn vendors, cotton candy vendors, some adorable animals and, of course, clowns!

Ar e th e r e special act ivit ies or p e r f o r mances that you’ve been showcasing since t r ips are more complicated this summer?

We have had a TON of shows to make up for the fact that many trip options are closed or not private enough to go to. We have had everything from magic shows to concerts to game shows – and the girls have loved it. We have a huge auditorium so we have the entertainer up on a stage and, instead of doing one show for the entire camp, they do several shows so we can seat each group separately for the show. The campers have really had a blast with all of the cool shows that have come in this summer. And, of course, the girls absolutely cannot wait for the grand finale: Shimi Adar is coming on the last day of camp to help us conclude another “Summer to Sing About!”

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30 Go Karts 6 Water Park Inflatables 21 Junior bunks 23 Senior bunks 125 Thank you letters written to first responders

60 Packages made for police officers

1 Amazing Summer to Sing About!

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Boys Dedicated Staff: Meir Fogel - HEAD COUNSELOR • Shimon Koepolowitz Avi Broome • Mordechai Kahn • Gavriel Schuster

Tzvi Hass • Abraham Meltzer • Shlomy Berger • Avi Ferziger Shua Klein • Yitzchok Klein • Shlomo Blinder • Chani Meyer Dovid Gordon • Michael Aizenfratz • Nathan Samuels Avi Steinberg • Nachum Prager • Tuli Rosenberg

Esteemed Administration: Joel Kaplan • Rabbi Avi Taub • Rabbi Naftuli Sudwitz • Rabbi Polter • Rabbi Shlomo Krasnow • Rabbi Aron Rosenberg • Shaima Goldberg • Yidel Weiner • Morah Eti cook Mrs. Levy and aSSiStant cook Koby Levy • Security guarDS Everet Fortune Yossi Weissman • Moe Sheekow

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A woman in a hot air balloon realizes she is lost. She lowers her altitude and spots a man fishing from a boat below. She shouts to him, “Excuse me, can you help me? I promised a friend I would meet him an hour ago, but I don’t know where I am.”

The man consults his portable GPS and replies, “You’re in a hot air balloon, approximately 30 feet above a ground elevation of 2,346 feet above sea level. You are at 31 degrees, 14.97 minutes north latitude and 100 degrees, 49.09 minutes west longitude.”

She rolls her eyes and says, “You must be a Republican!”

“I am,” replies the man. “How did you know?”

“Well,” answers the balloonist, “everything you tell me is technically correct, but I have no idea what to do with your information, and I’m still lost. Frankly, you’re not much help to me.”

The man smiles and responds, “You must be a Democrat.”

“I am,” replies the balloonist. “How did you know?”

“Well,” says the man, “You don’t know where you are or where you’re going. You’ve risen to where you are due to a large quantity of hot air. You made a promise that you have no idea how to keep, and now you expect me to solve your problem. You’re in exactly the same position you were in before we met, but, somehow, now it’s my fault.”

Centerfold Political Speak who Said It? 1.

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The future will be better tomorrow.

I may not have been the greatest president, but I’ve had the most fun eight years.

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I am only an average man but,

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If Lincoln were alive today, he’d be turning over in his grave.

Let’s not talk so much about vice.

I’m against vice in any form.

I am not one who — who flamboyantly believes in throwing a lot of words around.

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If you don’t mind smelling like peanut butter for two or three days, peanut butter is darn good shaving cream.

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You don’t know how to lie. If you can’t lie, you’ll never go anywhere.

I have left orders to be awakened at any time in case of national emergency – even if I’m in a Cabinet meeting.

A. George W. Bush B. Ronald Reagan C. Teddy Roosevelt D. Richard Nixon E. Gerald Ford F. Barry Goldwater G. George Bush, Sr. H. Bill Clinton I. John Kennedy J. Dan Quale K. Joe Biden L. Abraham Lincoln

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So long as I’m the president, my measure of success is victory – and success.

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Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.

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Look, John’s last-minute economic plan does nothing to tackle the number-one job facing the middle class, and it happens to be…a three-letter word: jobs. J-O-B-S, jobs.

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Political Convention Trivia 1. In which year were political conventions first covered on TV? a. 1936 b. 1948 c. 1952 d. 1968 2. The Democratic Convention in New York in 1924 was the longest in history. How long was it? a. 6 days b. 8 days c. 9 days d. 17 days 3. Only two men have been nominated for their party’s presidential ticket on five occasions. Who were they? a. Richard Nixon/ Franklin D Roosevelt b. Franklin D. Roosevelt/ George Washington c. Herbert Hoover/ Calvin Coolidge d. Theodore Roosevelt/ John Adams 4. At the 1972 Democratic Convention, nominee George McGovern delivered his acceptance speech, titled “Come

Home America” at what time? a. 10 a.m. b. 2 p.m. c. 4 p.m. d. 3 a.m.

5. Which city has hosted the most political conventions? a. New York b. Chicago c. Philadelphia d. Baltimore 6. During an appearance at the 2012 Republican National Convention, actor Clint Eastwood chose to have an imaginary conversation with President Barack Obama – represented onstage by what? a. A cardboard cutout b. A mannequin c. An empty chair d. A large photo 7. Which third-party held the first presidential nominating convention in American history? a. Free-Soil b. Libertarians c. Anti-Mason d. Liberal

Answers 1. B 2. D - It took the Democrats 103 ballots and 16 sweaty days to select a nominee. (Now that’s a decisive bunch) 3. A- Franklin Roosevelt (VP 1920; President 1932, 1936, 1940, 1944) and Richard Nixon (VP 1952 and 1956; President 1960, 1968, and 1972) 4. D- Due to a lack of organization and a vice presidential roll call that lasted into the night, McGovern did not begin his acceptance speech until 3 a.m. (Hey, McGovern, how can you McGovern if you can’t McRun your convention properly?)

5. B- To date, Chicago has hosted 25 political conventions 6. C 7. C Wisdom key 6-7 correct: You are a complete wonk. So, how many pairs of beige Dockers do you own?

3-5 correct: You are right in the middle. You are probably one of those wish-washy independents…. “Be careful, the Independents don’t like this… They don’t like that… Uh oh, the Independents are going to be upset about the color of your tie…” You know what, Mr. Independent? If you didn’t make up your mind at this point, you are not “open minded” – you are “empty minded!”

0-2 correct: C’mon, Joe! Seriously man! Give me a break! And you Donald, you know nothing about political conventions. Okay, Donald, please tell me what you have planned for next week?!

Riddle me this?

What was the president of the United States’ name in 1980?

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Torah Thought

Parshas Shoftim

By Rabbi Berel Wein

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t can be said that the Torah is in favor of law and order. In this week’s reading, the Torah prescribes a system of judges, courts, and police. The Torah apparently takes it for granted that no society can really function without these institutions of law and protection. The Torah warns us that these institutions must be ones of righteousness, fairness, and even altruism, but they

must exist for society to function.

Amongst the ideological foes of Jewish life and values, the idea of anarchy – no government, no police, no courts – ranks as one of the most pernicious and evil of enemies.

The nature of people is to be contentious, protective, and zealous of one’s own property, personal rights, and privileges. Since, by nature, human beings always encounter other

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human beings, which is the basis for all commerce and social interaction, disputes will certainly arise when one’s rights butt up against the perceived rights of others. How are these matters to be settled?

In a lawless society, brute strength and violent behavior would always prevail. But the Torah constantly reminds us that we are to protect and enhance the rights of the poor and defenseless, the widow and the stranger, those that are somehow disadvantaged by the process of general society. And it becomes the task of the legal system that is established in Jewish society to protect these individuals. Judges and police, courts and bailiffs are not

erations.

It is hard, if not well-nigh impossible, to find people who are completely incorruptible. All of us have human weaknesses that can be exploited by others and manipulated by any form of legal system that we will devise. Our great teacher and leader, Moshe, could not find, even in his generation, judges and tribal leaders that would meet all the requirements that were set for them by Yisro and confirmed by Heaven itself. He, so to speak, had to settle for what was available to him in Jewish society at that time.

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Judges and police, courts and bailiffs are not only necessary for society, but are also the agents of G-dly intent.

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only necessary for society, but are also the agents of G-dly intent.

All human history has shown us that all legal systems established by human beings are inherently flawed and subject to manipulation.

We read in the book of Psalms of the complaint that evil can be easily constructed by legal means. Even a cursory study of the prophets of Israel will reveal the extent of their condemnation of the perverse practices and corruption of the court systems and the judges of their gen-

ple who otherwise could serve as competent and efficient judges and administrators of Torah law. That is what the Talmud meant when it said that Yiftach in his generation was the equal of Samuel in his generation. We can only deal with what exists before us. The Torah cautions us that the only judge that you have is the judge that exists in your generation. Thus, the basis of all legal systems is practicality, and the Torah is the most practical of all disciplines.

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From the Fire

Parshas Shoftim The Best Kiruv Tool

By Rav Moshe Weinberger Adapted for publication by Binyomin Wolf

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very Jew carries the weight of responsibility not only for his own actions, but for those of all other Jews as well. As the Gemara (Sanhedrin 27b) says, “All Jews are responsible for one another.” This teaching means that each person is considered a “guarantor” for every

other. This concept of interpersonal responsibility is the basis of, for example, one person’s ability to make kiddush for another even if he has already fulfilled his own obligation to make kiddush. While we have heard this teaching before and know its implications on a halachic level, how

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does it actually work? Why should one Jew be held responsible for the actions of others even if they have never met and they live on opposite sides of the world?

At the very end of Parshas Shoftim (Devarim 21:1-9), the Torah teaches us the mitzva of Egla Arufa which applies where a dead body is found between two cities. The sages of each city come with a calf to the place where the body was found and perform the ritual of the Egla Arufa and say, (Devarim 21:8) “Atone for your people Israel.” And then the parsha concludes, (Id. at 9) “And you shall remove the innocent blood from among you when you do that which is upright in the eyes of Hashem.”

The Ibn Ezra on this pasuk makes the following brief, but difficult, comment: “I believe the correct explanation is that which I have mentioned, that innocent blood will not be spilled in your land if you do that which is upright in Hashem’s eyes.” The Avi Ezer, explaining the Ibn Ezra’s words, says that if a person does that which is right in Hashem’s eyes in his personal life, the result is that he prevents innocent blood from being spilled and saves the would-be murderer spiritually from the desire to murder.

This teaching of the Ibn Ezra has wondrous implications. Hashem created the world in such a way that if I, in my own personal life, live a life of “that which is upright in the eyes of Hashem,” I can prevent the world from descending to a lower level and lift up the Jewish people to a higher plane of existence. The Gemara

(Moed Katan 25b) illustrates this reality by recounting how, after the Amora Rabbi Elyashiv passed onto the next world, there were seventy burglaries in his town of Neharda.

Rashi explains that, until that time, Rabbi Elyashiv’s merit prevented people from committing acts of theft. As long as Rabbi Elyashiv was alive, the power of his holiness prevented at least seventy criminals from carrying out the types of crimes they normally committed. We see that when even one Jew lives according to Hashem’s will, it “remove[es] the innocent blood from among” the Jewish people. The Jewish people become better and there is less murder, bullying, and hatred.

How does this take place? How can one Jew’s actions affect people he has never met?

Rav Chaim Vital, in his sefer Pri Eitz Chaim (Shaar Haslichos Ch. 8) explains that “The entire Jewish people are one body and every individual Jew is one limb [of that body]. This is the [the underlying reason for] the fact of responsibility, that one person is responsible for his friend if he sins.”

Because we are all literally connected, every good thing that each of us do in our private lives uplifts the whole Jewish nation.

The Gemara (Avoda Zara 5a) explains a pasuk in Shmuel (2:23:1), which says, “The saying of Dovid ben Yishai, the saying of the man who was placed on high” based on the similarity of the word for “placed” which can also mean “established” and the word for “on high” which can also mean

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“yoke.” The Gemara then taught that Dovid Hamelech established the yoke of teshuva in the world. People had done teshuva before Dovid Hamelech, but the difference was that he was so in tune with the interconnection between all Jews that whenever he did a mitzvah, it was not only for himself, but was done in order to awake and uplift other Jews. His own personal teshuva unleashed a torrent of teshuva within the hearts of countless Jews.

The Divrei Chaim of Sanz once said that, in the beginning, he attempted to rectify the entire world.

But after working for some time, he realized that he would not be able to do it, so he resolved to at least rectify his city. Later on, he saw that even this was not realistic, so he decided to just try and fix his family. Near the end of his life, he realized that he could not fix his family so he finally decided to simply try and perfect himself. After working on this for some time, he finally realized that

by focusing on perfecting himself, he accomplished more in improving the world than he was ever able to when he was trying to repair the world.

Our goal in life is to do that which is upright in Hashem’s eyes. This does

way. By doing any of these things, we rectify ourselves and everyone else as well because we are an inseparable part of the singular entity called “the Jewish people.” Because of the inner nature of our responsibility for

Because of the inner nature of our responsibility for others, we have an unlimited sphere of influence.

not mean we should do it specifically in order to elevate others. But we must know that every good thought, every good word, every good act, every pasuk we learn, every Mishna we understand, every page of Gemara, Tosafos, or pshat in Torah we understand on any level, every time we overlook it when someone slights us in some way counts in the deepest

others, we have an unlimited sphere of influence.

Rav Kook explains this concept beautifully in the third volume of Oros Hakodesh where he writes: When a person feels Divine inspiration in his soul, he is conscious of the fact that whenever he elevates himself by doing good things and through a supernal awakening of

longing for the Divine, righteous wisdom, true beauty and uprightness, he purifies the spiritual character of all of existence. All people become better in the innermost parts of their hearts when even one of them strives for a loftier good. He lightens the load of those with a sad spirit, [u’mahul b’nitfei nacham] by powerful awakening of G-d’s mercy in just one soul. Even wild animals and other dangerous creatures become more tame. Even the venom of poisonous snakes is tempered by the cosmic effect of a soul which delights in G-d.

May each of us merit to internalize the great importance of every thought, word, and action and never minimize our importance is the great scheme of Hashem’s plan.

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Think, Feel, Grow

Follow the Leader

By Shmuel Reichman

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fter years of research and preparation, James had finally secured a slot to speak at the prestigious international physics conference. He would be presenting his studies in the field of quantum mechanics and was looking forward to the largest event of his life. He had never before presented at an official conference, let alone one of such prestige. It had taken every ounce of courage within him to even submit work to such an event, and he knew that a successful lecture could change the trajectory of his career.

When the day of the presentation arrived, James woke up feeling nervous but excited. He was about to present his life’s work before a crowd of the foremost researchers in his field. After preparing his lecture notes carefully, he strode into the conference room. The room was completely empty. “Strange,” he thought. “Maybe the previous sessions went overtime....” He briefly reviewed his notes and then looked down at his watch again. It was now five minutes past the start time, and not a single person had shown up. A bead of sweat rolled down his neck as he weighed his options. “Maybe this was all for nothing!” he thought angrily. “Maybe I should just pack up and leave!”

“No, just give it another minute or so,” a calmer voice in the back of his head insisted.

Just then, an elegant looking gentleman, probably in his mid-sixties, walked into the room. He slowly strolled to the front row and took a seat, focusing his piercing blue eyes

on James.

Slightly taken aback, James forced a smile and began his lecture, surprised by how engaged his single audience member was. Upon concluding his speech, the man came over and generously thanked James for sharing such an enlightening presentation. “Wow! I’ve been to countless conferences, but this was the greatest presentation I have ever been privileged to hear. You have a bright future ahead of you, son. I wish you all the success in the world and can’t wait to see all the incredible things you accomplish with your life.”

James floated out of the conference, inspired and confident to begin his next big project. While unpacking from his trip, he found a crumpled-up copy of the conference brochure. He proudly looked at it again, when he suddenly noticed something, someone, staring back at him from the cover of the glossy pamphlet. It was his blue-eyed friend.

As he looked closer, he remembered feeling that the blue-eyed audience member looked familiar. “Of course, he looked familiar!” he gasped, as he realized that this man was the keynote speaker, the featured scientist who had been flown in from London to lead the conference. This was one of the most respected and revered figures in the scientific world, and he had come to James’ speech!

James spent the next several hours tracking down this man’s phone number. When he finally got him on the phone, James couldn’t contain himself: “I don’t understand!

You are the greatest quantum physicist in the world. You knew everything I said and infinitely more. Why did you even bother coming to my presentation?”

There was a small pause, and then a gentle reply: “I will tell you the truth. Thirty years ago, I was a young, ambitious thinker and wanted to make a big impact on the world.

I got an opportunity to present at a conference very similar to the one we just came from. This was the most exciting opportunity I had ever been given, and I prepared night and day for months in advance. When I showed up to deliver my presentation, not a single person showed up.

I was crushed, defeated, and dejected. I seriously doubted my self-worth and almost gave up on my aspirations altogether. It took me years to overcome the emotional hurt. Yesterday, when I finished my keynote address, I was on my way back to the airport to present at another conference. However, when I passed by your room, I saw you standing there in an empty room, and it was like looking at a mirror. A reflection of my past emerged, and I saw myself standing in front of an empty lecture hall. I knew that the best way to encourage you, to teach you, and to ensure that you would continue striving forward was to sit in on your presentation and show you respect, make you feel heard.

“The greatest form of leadership is empowering others to be leaders.”

James never forgot that conversation.

The topic of leadership is both fas-

cinating and fundamental to human society. In Parshas Shoftim, the Torah discusses the three categories of Jewish leadership: The melech (king), the Sanhedrin (courts), and the Kohanim (priests). What is the Jewish approach to leadership, and how does it compare to other perspectives on leadership?The most primitive form of leadership is selfish leadership, driven by the desire for power and self-gratification. In such a system, the leader represents only himself and his own selfish desires. He demands power, craving it for himself and generally maintains leadership over his people through fear. In such a system, he demands the allegiance of his people and makes promises of food, shelter, and perhaps power and honor, in return for respect and obedience.

This was the system of old, where kings, tyrants, and oligarchies ruled large provinces. Wealth, birthright, or rebellion served as the right for leadership, and the purpose of leadership was focused solely on the leader – the goal was to give the leader increased power, respect, and control.

This system is inherently corrupt, and resulted in endless bloodshed, as the king killed anyone who stood in his way. There were pointless wars, as the king would send the young men of his kingdom to die for no reason other than his own territorial expansion and glory. In essence, the king answered to no one other than himself.

In response to such corruption, there became an increased desire to shift the focus of power. As history unfolded, leadership moved towards

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democracy, towards a balance of power. In such a system, the power belongs to the people, not the leader. The leader is appointed to serve the people. If he fails to do so, he is removed and replaced with someone who better fills the people’s needs.

This is a far better system than the previous one, as it stabilizes power and creates a society focused on the needs of the people, rather than an individual king or elite few.

Nevertheless, there is still a fundamental problem with democracy: a leader becomes nothing more than a puppet of the people. The flaw in this is apparent. Imagine if parents lost their parental license as soon as their child got upset with their decisions. As soon as the parents put their child to bed, they’d be out of a job. When a leader is fully subject to the will of the people, it is impossible to lead. Democratic leaders may appear to be leading, but in essence, they are following. (It is important to note that this speaks only of ideals. In today’s day and age, the ideal political system is democracy. Additionally, not all democratic leaders share this pitfall. It is only a likely possibility, not a guaranteed outcome.)

The Gemara (Sanhedrin 97a) states that Moshiach will come at a time when the face of the generation is like the face of a dog. Rav Elchanan Wasserman, zt”l, explains the depth behind this statement: when you see someone walking a dog on a leash, it appears as though the dog is leading.

He is the one walking ahead of his ownerl he appears to be calling the shots. However, this is an illusion.

The dog is completely subject to the will of its owner. One small tug, and he changes direction. The dog is the follower, in an illusory position of leadership.

Many democratic systems suffer from this flaw. Leaders are appointed by the people and are therefore completely subject to the will of the people. They walk ahead, pretending to lead, while in fact, they are merely puppets. Whatever the people want, they’ll do. They create their policies and campaigns around the people and polls, not based on their internal values. They would change their policy in an instant if it meant more votes.

A true leader stands for the truth, for their inner values, regardless of opposition. He or she walks ahead and doesn’t look back. Even if no one follows, they push onward. They never sacrifice their ideals for public approval. A true leader creates a di-

The Kohanim are charged with guiding the Jewish People in their spiritual and religious journey, helping them build and perfect their relationship with Hashem. The Kohanim serve to both help the Jewish people connect to Hashem and help properly

A true leader is one who strives towards perfection.

rection for a greater future, a pathway to individual and collective greatness, and inspires the people to strive for that ideal. This is the nature of Jewish leadership. Let us briefly explore this topic.

True Leadership A Torah leader does not represent himself or the will of the people; he represents Hashem. A Torah leader is an emissary of Hashem in this world and will lead the people towards the truth, towards their true destination. Of course, he will care for and empathize with each individual, and deeply so, but the foundational goal of leadership involves driving people towards a transcendent goal.

Traditional kings represented themselves and were therefore no greater than themselves. Democratic leaders are chosen by the will of the people and are therefore usually no better than the people themselves. A true leader is one who strives towards perfection, and leads others on their own individual and collective journeys towards perfection as well.

There are three categories of Jewish leadership mentioned in the Torah, and each works towards this goal. While they all serve both a practical and religious role, each category maintains its own unique purpose in enabling the Jewish people to fulfill their mission and connect to Hashem: The melech serves as an embodiment and manifestation of Hashem in this world, negating his ego and serving to reveal Hashem in this world.

The Sanhedrin maintain the Jewish ideals in society, ensuring that the Jewish people live up to their purpose.

manifest Hashem into this world.

Some leaders are the face of a nation, the ones who stand in front of large crowds and deliver extraordinary and inspiring speeches. But that is not the only type of leader. A leader is anyone who is on a mission, who empowers others, and who always looks for ways to contribute to the greater good. Leaders are great

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parents, great teachers, great friends.

We are all potential leaders; we are all potential revolutionaries. We can all create change in the world.

But to create any external change, we must first learn to develop ourselves and live with higher ideals.

Let us all be inspired to become the greatest version of ourselves, with the hopes that our own journey of growth will inspire others to become the greatest version of themselves as well.

Shmuel Reichman is an inspirational speaker, writer, and coach who has lectured internationally at shuls, conferences, and Jewish communities on topics of Jewish thought and Jewish medical ethics. He is the founder and CEO of Self-Mastery Academy (ShmuelReichman.com), the transformative online course that is revolutionizing how we engage in self-development.

You can find more inspirational lectures, videos, and articles from Shmuel on his website, ShmuelReichman.com.

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Builders

I Saved My Friend’s Life

By Sivan Mashiach

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ast Friday, I realized a dream, a dream that G-d would allow me to save someone’s life, but actually save the person’s life from start to finish. Not just be a part of the medical process that saved them but to actually save them with my own two hands.

I have been a paramedic for the past 20 years, and I have participated in countless CPR cases, some of them have been successful, others were not.

I have been a participant in saving someone’s life many times, part of a team that did its job and passed on a live patient who survived their ordeal with the help of doctors in hospitals as well as the first responders who arrived before or after me. But over my many years, I have never yet been the person who arrived first at a scene where a person was dead. I had yet to be the person who connected my defibrillator to them and become the messenger of G-d who was primarily responsible for bringing that person back from the dead.

For years, I have dreamed of doing this, and every time an EMT or paramedic wrote a story in a WhatsApp group that they responded to an emergency, brought a patient’s pulse back, and that a few days later the person was released from the hospital without any neurological damage, I felt happy for them. But in my heart, I desired that one day the decree would fall that I would be able to be that person who wrote this story. Last Friday, that day came.

I was in the middle of cooking for Shabbos. It was 5:21 p.m., and I received a phone call from my friend’s husband who lives in the building opposite me. I was on the other line, so his call went to my call waiting. He called me again. It went to call wait-

ing again. I switched calls and answered him but the line went dead. A second later, there was a knock at my door. At the door was their eldest son, a 12-year-old boy. In an incredibly calm and collected voice, he said: “My mother hit her head. She is bleeding and unconscious.”

When I heard this, my husband and I ran to our car, grabbed my medical supplies, and rushed over to their house. When we got to the house, we heard screams, “Over here.

Over here.” We ran into the room and found my friend, a 38-year-old woman, unconscious. She was not breath-

gan to calm him and helped him calm the children. I kept telling my friend that she had to come back to us. She had to come back to her husband, her children, her community, and her friends. After 17 minutes of CPR and four shocks from my defibrillator, she finally listened to me and came back.

Her vital signs began to look good again, and the ambulance crew took her to the hospital.

Social service representatives from the city arrived and asked how they could help the family.

That Shabbat was not an easy one on a personal level. My husband and

When her husband told me the news, we both began to cry tears of joy and happiness.

ing and had no pulse. Her quick-witted husband was performing chest compressions. He had taken one of my first aid courses many years ago.

I alerted dispatch to the situation and began a full-on CPR and attached a defibrillator. It recognized a heartbeat and applied one shock. I began ventilating my friend as her husband continued compressions. Then we switched.

In minutes, the room filled with United Hatzalah volunteer first responders and ambulance teams. Together, we conducted a synchronized CPR that was for the ages. As we took over CPR from my friend, my husband, who is not a trained first responder, took the man aside and be-

I were worried about our friend’s condition, and we helped the family cope in any way that we could. As we are not able to use our phones on Shabbat except for emergencies, we had no way of knowing what was transpiring in the hospital and how our friend was doing. Together with other neighbors, we watched the children while the father accompanied the mother at the hospital.

Finally, on Saturday night, I spoke with the husband and heard that my friend’s situation was not looking good. We were asked to pray for her that she may have a full recovery.

He said: “The doctors don’t know what caused her to collapse, and they don’t know how long her brain went

without oxygen. They can’t tell me if or when she will wake up. We need a miracle.”

I spread the word around our community that the family was in need of our continued help and prayers.

On Tuesday, we got word from the hospital that my friend woke up and was breathing on her own. She was able to recognize her husband and even spoke to her children. There are no words to describe the joyous feeling I had. When her husband told me the news, we both began to cry tears of joy and happiness, each of us on our respective sides of the phone call.

There is no doubt that the compressions that I had taught her husband had helped and that our intervention and beginning CPR so quickly were what saved my friend’s life.

I pray and thank the L-rd who gave me the chance to be one of his messengers and save the life of my friend. I want to thank United Hatzalah, the organization in which I volunteer, for giving me the training, equipment, and ability to save a life. I also want to thank my husband, who is also a volunteer with the organization and helped me realize this dream and every other dream that I have, as weird and wild as they are.

To you, the readers, I say: go learn first aid because the day will come when it will be your turn to save a life. It may even be the life of someone whom you hold very dear to your hearts and you will need to know what to do.

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A New Era in the Middle East?

The UAE and Israel Normalize Relations

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ast Thursday, the world was astounded by the shocking news that Israel and the United Arab Emirates would sign an official peace agreement. As part of what The New York Times calls “a geopolitical earthquake,” Israel and the Gulf state will establish full diplomatic relations, including exchanging ambassadors and constructing embassies.

The diplomatic breakthrough is significant because of how it changes existing paradigms. If, in the past, progress vis-a-vis the Arab world depended on agreeing to a Palestinian state, the UAE merely demanded that Israel “suspend” its plans to annex Judea and Samaria. In what Prime Minister Netanyahu has labeled “Peace for Peace” rather than the longtime

“Land for Peace” doctrine, other nations such as Sudan, Bahrain, Oman, and Morocco are said to be readying to announce their own relations with the Jewish State.

This has the opportunity to completely revamp Israel’s strategic position in the Middle East. Since its founding in 1948, the Arab world has refused to recognize its existence. Israel is widely reviled across the Islamic world, with 26 Muslim nations refusing to recognize the country’s right to exist. In the Middle East, only Egypt and Jordan have formal peace treaties with the Jewish State, although the ties between Jerusalem and its aforementioned former adversaries are commonly seen as a “cold peace” at best.”

Yet now, Israelis have awakened to a new world where they are direct

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flights from Ben Gurion Airport to Abu Dhabi and other Arab capitals. With the Palestinians’ veto now a thing of the past, business ties with the oil-rich Gulf states will flourish; Israelis may soon find themselves getting on the short three-hour flight in order to vacation among the towering skyscrapers of Dubai.

“This historic change will also advance peace with the Arab world and, in the end, peace, true peace, monitored, secure, with the Palestinians as well,” Netanyahu exulted. “It is different from those that preceded it in that it is based on two principles: ‘peace for peace,’ and ‘peace through strength,’” Netanyahu added.

“Under this doctrine, Israel is not required to withdraw from any territory and together the two countries openly reap the fruits of a full peace: investments, trade, tourism, health, agriculture, environmental protection, and in many other fields, including defense, of course,” he said.

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n a foreshadowing of things to come, on June 12, 2020, UAE Minister of State Yousef Al-Otaiba issued an unprecedented op-ed in the Hebrew Yedioth Ahronoth daily paper. In it, the UAE’s ambassador to the U.S. acknowledged that Israel and much of the Arab world have grown closer in recent years. He warned, though, that Israeli plans for annexation are a hinderance to talks of normalizing ties with other nations.

Al-Otaiba was one of the three Arab ambassadors to attend the White House ceremony in January during which U.S. President Donald Trump unveiled his peace plan for the Middle East.

The UAE has long “promoted engagement and conflict reduction, helped to create incentives-carrots rather than sticks – and focused attention on the collective benefits for all parties,” he wrote. For instance, Abu Dhabi has listed Hezbollah a terrorist organization and has condemned Hamas.

“It is based on two principles: ‘peace for peace,’ and ‘peace through strength.’”

“We have conducted quiet diplomacy and sent very public signals to help shift the dynamics and promote the possible,” he went on.

“With the region’s two most capable militaries, common concerns about terrorism and aggression, and a deep and long relationship with the United States, the UAE and Israel could form closer and more effective security cooperation,” he wrote two months ago. “As the two most advanced and diversified economies in the region, expanded business and financial ties could accelerate growth and stability across the Middle East.”

He noted the existence and religious freedom of a Jewish community in Dubai and the fact that Israel was invited to participate in the 2020 World Expo, planned to take place in the city this summer, but was postponed to 2021 due to the coronavirus pandemic.

“These are the carrots – the incentives, the upsides – for Israel. Greater security. Direct links. Expanded markets. Growing acceptance. This is what normal could be,” he wrote.

In conclusion, al-Otaiba noted that much of the Arab world “would like to believe Israel is an opportunity, not an enemy. We face too many common dangers and see the great potential of warmer ties.”

President Trump after announcing the agreement between the United Arab Emirates and Israel

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ast week’s historic breakthrough gives the UAE Jewish community a chance to finally emerge from the shadows. For over two decades, more than 1,500 Jews from around the world have lived comfortably in the Arab country. While the sheikdom refrained from recognizing the Jewish state until last week, it enabled the flourishing community to practice its religion undisturbed.

As opposed to countries in the Middle East such as Yemen and Egypt, the UAE’s Jewish community congregation does not have an illustrious history dating back thousands of years. Members of the community are mostly foreign businessmen, with the majority of them hailing from Israel or the United States.

Currently, there are three different Jewish houses of worship in the United Arab Emirates: a Chabad synagogue, a Modern Orthodox-oriented congregation, and an “egalitarian” one. Thousands of Jews pass through the country every year for business. The first kosher catering service in the Persian Gulf recently opened for business. A Jewish school was also recently founded and already has 40 students.

The Jewish community puts extreme importance on discretion. Public opinion in the country is mostly pro-Palestinian, and there are many locals who view the warming relations with Israel as a betrayal. As such, Jewish congregants make sure to keep a low profile, usually refraining from announcing their presence and do not openly sport Jewish articles of clothing in public.

“The Jewish community of the Emirates, as it’s known, meets in an unmarked home in a residential location in Dubai so as to attract little attention in this predominantly Muslim country,” wrote Religion News Service in 2018 in an article about one of the three synagogues. “It draws about 200 Jews, many of them business people from all over the world who have flocked to the UAE to take part in its growing economic power as it shifts from a reliance on oil and trade to technology and artificial intelligence.”

The oldest Jewish community in the Emirates is led by Ross Kriel, a business development executive residing in the Emirates. Founded 12 years ago, the congregation holds prayers in a nondescript home near the famous Burj Al-Arab hotel in Dubai. Kriel has repeatedly reiterated that, althoughy needing to keep a low profile, his flock has never experienced any cases of anti-Semitism.

“There are no guards at the entrance to the house. We have community members from Antwerp, Paris, and Geneva who feel safer here than in Europe,” Kriel said. “The only anti-Semitism I’ve experienced was from Europeans. There is a social contract of mutual respect here between all parts of the real society.”

Kriel added that he never thought that he would witness the Jewish State and his adopted country establishing full diplomatic ties.

“Only a week ago, the things happening today were still a dream, like seeing the Israelis and Emirati flags flying side by side on the front pages of local newspapers,” Kriel said. In November, his oldest son will turn 13, granting

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him a chance to host the first bar mitzvah in UAE history.

Meanwhile, the Chabad house is overseen by Rabbi Levi Duchman. Originally from the U.S., Duchman moved to Dubai a few years ago and set up a hub of Judaism that offers courses in religious observance, kosher food, and prayer services. Recently, Duchman’s Jewish Community of the UAE Facebook page sparked interest throughout the Gulf by releasing a video showing his prayer quorum reciting a blessing for the welfare of UAE King Zayed Bin Khalifa.

The clip featured a professional cantor and musical accompaniment. In the video, the exquisite synagogue is showcased and a slew of UAE royals are seen in the sanctuary along with a large portrait of the late Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, zt”l. The video racked up more than half a million hits in under a month after UAE Ambassador to London Mansoor Abulhoul posted it on his personal Twitter page.

“The blessing, sung in Hebrew, is set to footage of the UAE’s major landmarks, artwork of UAE leaders, and men in the traditional black and white Jewish prayer shawl known as the tallit,” reported Saudi Arabia’s Al Arabiya television station.

After the news of the breakthrough agreement between Israel and the UAE became public, Rabbi Duchman told the Israeli media that the Jews have nothing to fear from the Arab State.

“We built a Jewish community – we have Torah study, kashrut, a community and strong support from the government. I’m not surprised that our leaders are so special. I believed this would happen,” said the rabbi.

“The United Arab Emirates is a leader in all that is good for humanity.

I believe that, as a result of the peace agreement, more Jews will join our community. We are prepared; the infrastructure is ready.”

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Jews. In January 2019, Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Zayed declared that the calendar year would be named the “Year of Tolerance.” In May, New York University chaplain Rabbi Yehuda Sarna was named the community’s first chief rabbi. “What we see is the first emergence of the first new Jewish community emerging in the Arab world for centuries,” Rabbi Sarna said upon taking the position.

This past September, the UAE announced that it would build the country’s first-ever official synagogue. The house of worship will be constructed as part of a multifaith center known as the Abrahamic Family House that is slated to be finished in 2022.

The UAE’s embrace of the Jewish community picked up pace recently as the surreptitious talks to establish diplomatic relations between Dubai and Jerusalem heated up. Earlier this month, the UAE arranged for a family of Yemenite Jews to be reunited after not seeing each other for 15 years. Pictures of the reunion in Abu Dhabi showed a large charedi family surrounded by a collection of children and an elderly woman in a wheelchair.

A few days later, Rabbi Yehuda Sarna led a virtual Kabalat Shabbat over Zoom with Jewish communities from around the world. The event was attended by a slew of Jewish dignitaries from all over the world, including American Jewish Committee head David Harris and Rabbi Pinchas Goldschmidt, president of President of the Conference of European Rabbis (CER).

“I believe that what we are observing is the unfolding of His Highness’ vision of tolerance, synergy, and the fusion of past and future,” said Rabbi Sarna. “What excites me most about the agreement is the potential to collaborate on education and culture.”

Solly Wolf, a prominent member of Dubai’s Jewish community, told Ynet that the change in attitude from the ruling family has been especially apparent of late.

“A few months ago, some might have had an issue if you were seen walking inside a mall with a yarmulke on your head,” Wolf said. “Today, there is no issue with that whatsoever. You see ultra-Orthodox Jews walking around the street with a tzizit, and no one says a thing.

“We were surprised by the timing, but we knew it was coming,” added Wolf. “We have been feeling more free for a while now, but even more so now.

We kept a low profile in the past, but over the past year, the authorities have given us permission to open synagogues.”

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normalization of ties with the United Arab Emirates is hopefully just the beginning of a change of Israel’s official status in the Arab world. On Tuesday of this week, it was announced that Sudan will be working on a formal agreement with the other state. Other Muslim countries have expressed interest in teaming up with Israel.

Perhaps, someday soon, Israel will see a warming of relations with all of its antagonistic neighbors and enjoy true peace in the Middle East.

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Dating Dialogue

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

Dear Navidaters,

This question may sound weird, but I don’t know who else to ask.

I am 21 years old. My friend is the same age as me. Recently, she has been complaining to me that she never gets any second dates from guys. My friend is a great person – she is kind, fun, and smart. She will make a great wife. I believe I know why she is not getting a second date: she has very bad teeth and the first time someone sees her and she smiles, they generally are taken aback. After a while, though, you don’t notice her terrible orthodontia.

Here’s my question: I feel bad that she’s not getting second dates, and I know that it’s probably from that. How do I get the message to her to get her to do something about it? I really don’t want to tell her myself. It would really hurt her feelings.

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

The Rebbetzin Rebbetzin Faigie Horowitz, M.S. ou are right not to tell your friend yourself to fix her teeth since you think she will feel hurt. People

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If you and your friend are close, you may get to it indirectly. At some point, when you talk about dating in general and rehash what advisors such as seminary teachers have told you about the topic of dating, you can

bring up something I have mentioned in this space several times.

Instead of focusing on one’s “list” and what the other person brings to a potential relationship, focusing on what one can offer someone else is a very healthy way of approaching the search for a spouse.

This is a process that involves looking at oneself and asking, who am I? What are my strengths? What qualities can I offer someone else?

And then one proceeds to the next series of questions. What type of person can use my strengths? What kind of person will value what I have to of-

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

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The Panel fer? This, obviously, involves looking in the mirror both figuratively and literally. Serious self-assessment involves maturity and self-knowledge, which come with time. Hopefully, daters reach that point and can be objective about all their qualities.

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would like to turn the question around for a moment for our readership to think about. Do women ever turn guys down due to aesthetics and/ or bad teeth? Have you ever heard of a woman nixing her date due to poor dental hygiene? As a shadchan, I get this type of feedback; it happens all the time. Recently, a woman gave a “no” to a guy because the topic of their morning routines came up. The guy confided that he only brushes his teeth at night, because “I don’t eat anything in the meantime. Why brush in the morning? It’s a waste of time.” This was enough to make the woman run the other way. It happens to be this man has nice white, straight teeth but the thought of going out on another date with a man who does not brush in the morning was enough to end it. Many times, bad dental hygiene comes with side effects such as bad breath, which might be exacerbating the problem.

As you have articulated, it is possible that bad dental hygiene can hinder the progress of relationships.

This applies to both men and women. If your friend is perfectly happy despite her negative shidduch experience, I would say, do not mention it. If she is not bothered by it, why are you? However, if your friend confides in you, and is depressed about shidduchim, that is a different story.

If it is negatively impacting her life, your case for saying something gets stronger. When she is asking you for advice, you can honestly tell her how incredible she is. Elaborate on your

opinion: there is nothing about her character which would hinder someone from giving her a second date.

What can possibly be the problem?

You can then, however, ease into the dental topic. You can gently suggest that she may want to see a dentist for poor orthodontics. Frame it in a way that conveys the message: “Who knows? Could it be just a physical thing that could easily be fixed?”

This is a delicate topic that must be handled sensitively largely based on the closeness of your relationship.

Use your intuition to guide you to the route you wish to take.

Hatzlacha to both of you on your dating journeys!

The Zaidy Dr. Jeffrey Galler have a multi-level reaction to your letter.

Simple: Sometimes, a direct approach is best. If she’s a good friend, she’ll appreciate your cosmetic feedback.

Next time your friend mentions the “second date” problem, you can tell her that: In studies that analyze what a person notices when meeting someone for the very first time, a person’s smile always ranks high on the list.

(Others are eyes, hair, attire, and body language.)

Today, highly esthetic, Clear Aligner Orthodontics is relatively easy, virtually unnoticeable, affordable, and involves very little discomfort.

Crooked, unattractive teeth often make oral hygiene difficult and can cause bad breath.

Deep: If you nevertheless worry that it might impair your friendship if you tell your friend that she should fix her unattractive smile, you can try an indirect approach: You can try the old, “My cous-

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in in Wisconsin just had her teeth straightened with Invisalign, and wow, she looks terrific!”

Or, put the shadchan to work.

Call her shadchan and suggest that she, without mentioning your own name, recommends esthetic dentistry to your friend. Let her discuss how some young men might be turned off by an unattractive smile.

Or, you can ask a computer savvy co-conspirator to send an anonymous text to your friend, with a link to the very informative website, www.

Invisalign.com. Also, include a link to the American Academy of Clear Aligners (www.aacaligners.com), where the “Locate Our Members” tab will help her find local dentists who are experts in the field.

(Note to readers: Among the dif-

Serious selfassessment involves maturity and self-knowledge, which come with time.

ferent companies offering Clear Aligner Orthodontics, Invisalign is the most scientific, predictable, and popular, with over 1.5 million cases in 2019. And, in my strong opinion, avoid “Smile Direct Club.”)

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Deeper: Are you sure that the problem is orthodontic? It might be something else.

Urge your friend to call the shadchanim that have set her up and request honest feedback about what is making the boys say “no” after a first date. A good shadchan will understand and give her the proper feedback.

Deepest: Let’s think about this a bit more deeply. How is it possible that your friend is unaware of her dental problem? It just doesn’t make sense.

Doesn’t she look in the mirror?

Don’t you think her parents told her?

Don’t you think her dentist recommended esthetic improvements, over the past decade of checkups?

What I am most concerned about is a psychological defense mechanism called “avoidance” that could be playing a role in your friend’s behavior. Sometimes, folks purposely avoid fixing a smile, or eliminating a bad habit, or correcting similar problems that could clearly impact a person’s ability to attract a marriage partner or perform up to their potential at work.

This “avoidance” enables a person to have a handy excuse, or rationale, for effectively avoiding the stress of experiencing failure, or the stress of facing anxiety-provoking, daunting new stages in life. Psychological counseling might be helpful here.

Good luck, and here’s hoping that you and your friend will have much to smile about at each other’s weddings.

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hank you for asking this question. As we know, the topic of “looks’’ in shidduchim can be a very sensitive one. I want to answer by first explaining the basis of Creation and the world we currently live in by going back to the beginning with Adam and Eve. Before Adam and Eve sinned and ate from the Tree of Knowledge they were completely spiritual beings with little awareness of the physical aspects of life.

However, once they sinned,

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hank you for your email. Your question speaks to a true inner conflict many friends face.

Do I tell my friend a well-intentioned truth that may hurt her in the short term or damage our friendship?

I think the answer to your question depends on the nature of your friendship. I have friends who tell me like it is, and I appreciate it. Other friendships have a different nature.

I can tell how much you care about

your friend and want her to find her bashert.

I am concerned that your friend is well aware of her orthodontia and perhaps cannot afford to fix it. As a matter of fact, if it is as bad as you say it is, I’m fairly confident that she has to be aware of the situation. What would the point then be of telling her?

they suddenly became aware of their physicality and covered themselves with fig leaves (Bereishis 3:7). What this is essentially saying is that they were no longer completely spiritual and the awareness of physicality and more materialistic matters became a part of their world and consequently, ours as well.

Before their sin, Adam and Eve only saw each other as souls. They didn’t even notice their bodies. Once they sinned, the two of them suddenly became more aware of their surroundings and the physical world.

They were no longer able to view life on a purely spiritual plane.

While we would all love to be completely spiritual beings that simply is not our reality. Your friend is probably a wonderful girl but if her teeth are as noticeably damaged as you describe, people, by nature, will notice it. The question becomes: if and how do you tell her? Perhaps if you approach her kindly in a loving and non-judgmental way she will hear you. In life, it is not as much what we say as it is how we say it.

You can tell her that you were thinking about her conundrum in not getting past a first date and

Only you know the nature of your friendship and how your friend might feel if you tell her her teeth are the reason she doesn’t get a second date. I would tread very lightly as sometimes friendships do not recover from comments like this. I don’t feel comfortable encouraging you one way or another because I don’t know if your friend will be able to hear this and if she even has the means to take care of this issue.

Should you decide to say something, be prepared for the possibility of losing her as a friend. Perhaps there is a relative of hers that you can

Doesn’t she look in the mirror?

you have an idea that may help. You can reassure her how beautiful she is.

Make sure to give personal examples of how you enhance your appearance before dates as well. Sympathize with her about how difficult and at times how superficial the dating world can seem.

I know it is not easy to have to tell someone a piece of constructive advice, however, I am sure many of us can think back to a time when someone had to tell us something painful for our benefit. At the moment, it does not feel good but ultimately that advice can be very helpful.

I wish you and your friend much hatzlacha and may you find your matches very soon!

Shidduchim is not an easy parsha but may this be a stepping-stone to lead you to your soulmate and a fulfilling and happy life.

speak to...a mentor, her rebbetzin, etc. Good luck with your decision!

Jennifer

Jennifer Mann, LCSW is a licensed psychotherapist and dating and relationship coach working with individuals, couples, and families in private practice at 123 Maple Avenue in Cedarhurst, NY. She also teaches a psychology course at Touro College. To set up a consultation or to ask questions, please call 516-224-7779, ext. 2. Visit www.thenavidaters.com for more information. If you would like to submit a dating or relationship question to the panel anonymously, please email thenavidaters@gmail.com. You can follow The Navidaters on FB and Instagram for dating and relationship advice.

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Dr. Deb

What We Need

By Deb Hirschhorn, Ph.D.

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hings are “opening up” - just a crack. How has this Covid experience been for us?

Nothing is ever the same today as it was yesterday. We only think so.

It’s an illusion. Things change in our lives, and things change in the world.

This is normal. This is more normal than otherwise.

What happened during the holocaust? Suddenly the world turned upside down. We can say the same thing for a person who suddenly faces a breaking marriage, a child that is sick, or some sort of betrayal.

The reality is that it’s not good for us to be lulled into a false sense of comfort with things seeming like they will always be the same.

Why not?

Because we are here to grow.

We’re here to get to a higher madreiga, and the only way we can do it is if Hashem gently and lovingly nudges us. But we are a stubborn people, right? So when He does all that gently and lovingly, what do we do? Generally, we ignore Him. So He ups the ante.

It is still loving, but not necessarily so gentle. Everything He does is with love. I heard Vivienne Frank speak at the White Shul a few Shabbosim ago and she talked about one of the tefillos that we say every morning.

“She-asa li kol tzorchi” And it doesn’t make much sense, really, to think that He gives us everything we need when people are sick, starving, unmarried, or miserable.

But maybe that is what we need, Mrs. Frank implied.

How could that be? How could it be possible that we need misery?

That does not make sense.

But wait – Who said we need misery? Or that G-d has given us misery?

Maybe the situation has caused unneeded misery and our whole object lesson is to learn to not be miserable in it. Could that be possible?

So this Corona thing is a great opportunity to learn how to not be miserable in the face of a misery-producing situation!

So what did I do?

point who had a clue what was wrong with me. And the rabbi would surely need a medical opinion. Second of all, I didn’t know that it would hurt or how much.

And the third reason is the most important. Emotionally, I had no husband and no family sitting there at my table so the least I could have for the comfort and presence of the familiarity of an ancient custom was to do it the way I’d always done it.

So this Corona thing is a great opportunity to learn how to not be miserable in the face of a misery-producing situation

I started out with a seder alone.

Now, as it so happens, I developed a weird sickness (only to be diagnosed over 4 months later) that made my mouth miserable. Talking of misery – on a pain scale, it could go up very high.

Well, for that seder, I was going to do it right. That’s me. I do it right.

If there is an opportunity to shirk, I don’t. I go the whole way. So, my father, of blessed memory always had a grated stump of fresh horseradish for the maror, so by golly, I had that too.

Except I couldn’t find the grater so I simply chopped it into small pieces.

Now, that hurt. 9/10 on a pain scale.

Was I halachically required to have it? It didn’t occur to me to ask a question for three reasons. First of all, I hadn’t found a doctor at that

Sometimes, we have to sacrifice our physical comfort for the emotional comfort an action brings, or could bring.

After almost 5 months of this disease (which now does have a name since I did, baruch Hashem, find a doctor who knew what he was doing), I’ve learned something interesting: As the disease is fought and the pain subsides, my ability to enjoy the taste of my food has also diminished. So would I rather have most things taste like some relative of cardboard but not suffer at all? Or would I rather taste the food as G-d intended it and suffer?

Well, for now, I’m choosing not to suffer. It is easier on my stress response! But I have a sharp memory of Pesach and slapping the table with pain because of the maror, and I do

not regret it. It is something I went through that maybe I needed to go through.

Not sure why.

Maybe I will learn why at some time in the future. But I do not regret that I opted for the maror.

So maybe that is the point of “Sheasa li kol tzorchi.”

Take the case of a spoiled child who grows up and suddenly has to be responsible at a job and in a marriage.

That child needed a punishment back then. It would have made things easier in the present.

So I did not see my family members for the five months of this thing until my primary care doctor said I could go visit and not worry since the adults had antibodies and the children wouldn’t, statistically, be a threat.

As I sat at my daughter’s table this past Shabbos for the first time and the children were laughing and annoying each other and the adults had the same trouble being heard over the din, it felt like I hadn’t missed a beat; I settled right back into the regular routine and felt – as I always had – that this was mei-ain olam haba.

So, did I need all those months without them? I can’t answer that either. All I know is that if HaKadosh Baruch Hu gave this to me as part of this world, then I am delighted and glad and appreciative to be still alive no matter the cost. That’s really all I do know.

Dr. Deb Hirschhorn is a Marriage and Family Therapist. If you want help with your marriage, begin by signing up to watch her Masterclass at https://drdeb. com/myw-masterclass.

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Healthy Tips for Your Summer Road Trip

By Aliza Beer MS, RD, CDN

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ummertime is usually vacation time. Given the current situation, however, many of us are choosing cars over planes, and those cars are full of kids that never made it to sleepaway camp! It’s easy to fall off the wagon when you are stuck in a car for hours on end. Even the best intentions of eating right can often fall by the wayside when we are tired, hungry, and can’t find any options besides gas station snacks, fast food restaurants, or vending machines.

Here are some easy ways to eat healthy, arrive at your destination feeling great, and return home the same weight!

• Plan Ahead: A successful week of healthy eating typically begins with menu planning. This is the best and first step in gearing up for a road trip. Plan the menu in advance – what you will be eating at every meal, and snacks, for each day. Consider how many meals and snacks will be needed for the car ride as well and bring a cooler, if necessary. Once your menu is set, now you can go shopping! If you are going away for an extended period of time, then consider bringing some travel appliances like a sandwich maker, egg poacher, George Forman grill, burner, and frying pan.

• Snack Attack: You will need snacks for the car and the vacation itself. Keep in mind planned activities such as hiking, biking, white water rafting, etc. Try to keep the car a sugar-free zone as much as possible. Look for snacks that contain both protein and fiber; this will help you feel full for longer. Some good ideas include: sliced apples with a low-fat peanut butter like PB2; oil-free hummus with cucumbers, celery or jicama sticks; pre-portioned baggies of freeze-dried fruit and nuts; high fiber crackers (like GG Bran Crispbread) with lowfat cheese; turkey-lettuce rollups; and high-fiber, high-protein, sugar-free

Utilize your vacation as a time to reset, recharge, and disconnect from life’s stresses.

protein bars like No Cow bars. Just in case, bring along some snack bags of low-fat popcorn and baked chips for any cranky kids.

• BYOF: Bring your own food!

This is mandatory for non-kosher destinations, but what if you are heading to a town/city where there are kosher food establishments? Bring food for breakfasts and lunches. This will help you stick to a healthy eating plan.

Great breakfast options include high-fiber cereal, sugar-free oatmeal packets, non-fat Greek yogurt, and cottage cheese. The best lunches for a family vacation that involves lots of activities would be sandwiches and cut up veggies. Bring along high-fiber bread such as 647 bread, or wraps such as Ole or Trader Joe’s. Fill your wraps with lean proteins like tuna, turkey, grilled chicken, low-fat cheese, or eggs. Cut up veggies like cucumbers and peppers, or bring along sugar snap peas or canned baby corn.

For dinner, either pre-cook some chicken and fish before the trip, or grill daily on your vacation. Fresh salads or frozen microwavable bags of veggies will be the easiest and healthiest sides.

If you will be going out to restaurants, then choose lean proteins like fish, chicken or a leaner cut of meat, and salads/roasted vegetables; always request salad dressing on the side so you have control over how much to put into the salad. Select foods that are baked or grilled instead of fried. Restaurant portions are typically too large, so consider either having an appetizer for dinner, or sharing an entrée with someone. Avoid the bread on the table, mashed potatoes, and your kids’ French fries!

• Hydrate: Drinking enough water is vital for staying healthy and feeling good. Water helps with digestion (usually an issue on vacation), fights fatigue, and can prevent headaches caused by dehydration. Bring a supply

of water bottles or fill re-usable water containers and keep them easily accessible throughout your trip. Aim to drink a minimum of 64 ounces a day.

• Limit the Caffeine: Road trips usually mean more coffee to make sure we’re awake, especially if one is driving. Try to limit them to no more than two coffees a day. Extra caffeine will dehydrate you, and those vats are full of added sweeteners, calories, and junk.

• Exercise: If your vacation is not full of physical activity, then it is imperative that you incorporate some into every day. Go for walks; do mini workouts in your hotel room like lunges, squats, planks, crunches, and jumping jacks. If you will be going on lengthy car rides, schedule pit stops/ bathroom breaks and take a few minutes to exercise then.

Utilize your vacation as a time to reset, recharge, and disconnect from life’s stresses, just don’t abandon your goals to achieve or maintain good health in the process. It is possible to eat healthy and still have a great vacation. Planning and preparation is crucial to the success of any event. And if you come across a treat that is just too tempting to pass up? Then mindfully indulge and enjoy it, and move on with your day! Don’t let these little indulgences undermine your past, present, and future accomplishments. Remember: you are in control of the food you eat, not the other way around!

Wishing all of my readers and clients a wonderful rest of the summer!

Aliza Beer is a registered dietitian 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, and you can follow her on Instagram at @alizabeer.

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Health & F tness

COVID Quarantine Exemptions

By Yael Raymon, MD

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his is the season for yeshiva and seminary students arriving in Israel for a year of exciting living and learning. It is also peak season for aliyah. Unfortunately, due to the coronavirus pandemic, this year is different from other years.

The start of this year will be memorable for a tedious two weeks of isolation for many students. For new Israelis, quarantine on arrival can add another challenge to what is already a major adjustment period.

For those required to quarantine, limited early terminations of quarantine are available from the Israel Ministry of Health (Misrad HaBriut), however.

As of early August 2020, the following is the procedure for obtaining an early quarantine termination.

The procedure is a little different for non-citizens and those who are not a member of one of the health maintenance organizations (Kupat Holim) versus members of a Kupat Holim. I will discuss both tracks below. Keep in mind that this procedure could change on a shekel. Everything related to coronavirus is fluid everywhere in the world, and Israeli bureaucracy is unpredictable as a matter of course.

The early termination protocol starts with bad news: you must already have had and recovered from COVID-19. Assuming that happened, you need laboratory test results to prove you had the coronavi-

rus and that your body eliminated it.

You will also need another negative test in Israel.

Misrad HaBriut specifies that the testing use PCR technology. Other test types may not be acceptable.

Antibody tests are not acceptable.

Based on research I did recently, LabCorp’s NAA test is a PCR test.

BioReference and Quest’s COVID testing does not always use PCR. Check with your physician about what type of testing you had and whether it was PCR. If the testing

possible there is no such testing available but there is supposed to be and it will save time if you can obtain it.

On leaving the airport, enter quarantine. Assuming you could not get tested at the airport, you need to take care of it now. At this point, the protocol for a member of a Kupat Holim diverges from that of a non-member. (Remember that if you are making aliyah, you will likely select a Kupat Holim on arrival in Israel.)

The start of this year will be memorable.

was not PCR, check with an Israel licensed physician as far in advance as possible of boarding your flight, since a discussion of your test type with Misrad HaBriut after arrival may delay your exit from quarantine.

If you have a documented positive PCR test and a subsequent documented negative PCR test, make sure they are available in electronic format accessible in Israel.

Upon arriving in Israel, look for a representative from Misrad HaBriut, explain your status as recovered from COVID and ask – like an Israeli – where in the airport you can get your Israel PCR test done. It’s very

Call Misrad HaBriut at *5400.

For non-citizens and other non-members of a Kupat Holim, Misrad HaBriut will either contact Magen David Adom (MDA) for you or tell you to do it yourself. MDA will visit you in quarantine and administer a test.

For members of a Kupat Holim, you will need to arrange for a test by the Kupat Holim. The details of how this can be accomplished vary by organization and location in the country. If you know in which Kupat Holim you will participate, then it is a good idea to be in contact with the organization in advance to determine how to expedite testing in your circumstance.

Assuming you meet all of the above requirements and receive a negative test result in Israel, you are entitled to early termination of quarantine. You will need to provide your history and test results to an Israel licensed physician for review and issuance of a letter certifying your recovery from COVID-19. If you are a member of a Kupat Holim, the visit for this will likely be covered like a regular doctor visit. If you are not a member of a Kupat Holim and have a different type of health insurance in place in Israel, the visit may also be covered, so check with your broker or insurance company.

Submit the signed and stamped physician letter and your positive/ negative/negative test results to Misrad HaBriut. You should then be released from quarantine by a written notice from Misrad HaBriut.

May all be inscribed and sealed for a good year – I hope to see you in Jerusalem soon!

Yael Raymon, MD is a graduate Albert Einstein College of Medicine and licensed to practice medicine in New York State and Israel. She is certified as an internal medicine specialist by Misrad Habriut and by the American Board of Internal Medicine. She made aliyah in 2017 and practices in Jerusalem. Prior to that she was an Assistant Attending at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and an Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine at Weill Cornell Medical College.

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Miso, Moufleta, and Being a Mom TJH Speaks with Danielle Renov

BY SUSAN SCHWAMM

Danielle, it’s a pleasure to speak with you. I know that your book, Peas Love & Carrots, just came out and sold 30,000 copies.

Yes. Thank G-d. We actually sold 30,000 copies before the book came out. We sold 30,000 in pre-order, which is amazing.

I looked at my husband, and I told him, “Oh my gosh. This was made for me. I love this. I get to connect with people and talk to people and actually show them what I’m cooking when I’m cooking in real time. This is amazing.” I just loved it from the beginning.

Let’s talk numbers. You have 59,000 followers on Instagram. You started your account four years ago. Would you have imagined this explosive growth in such a short time?

Not at all. Not at all. And it was never even my goal. My goal was just to come on and show people what I made for dinner and have them make it, too. When I started Instagram, there was no Instagram Stories. So it was literally just about posting a picture of food and the recipe so that other people can make it. There was no option, really, of connecting in a way other than that.

Then Instagram Stories came out about six months after I started my Instagram. And I remember everybody was so hesitant at first. But

Have you learned anything from your followers?

So much. They’re just so support-

ly do. They take the time from their day for positive feedback, for positive interaction. I just think it’s so nice because they’re busy also, and it’s really special.

A lot about your persona is including the family in your cooking.

I don’t lead a separate life from my kids. They’re very meshed in my work. There’s no “Instagram Danielle” and “Mom Danielle.” There’s

“We can travel the world with a simple piece of chicken through these spices.” ive and so kind. I really think what you put out is what you get back. They put out so much love and so much positivity and so much goodness that all I want to give back to them is goodness and love and positivity.

I just really appreciate them. I real-

one Danielle, and my kids are just a part of my life and a part of everything. Sometimes they cook with me.

Sometimes they don’t. Sometimes I work while they’re sitting on my lap.

It’s just a constant fluid motion in and out of work.

What tips would you give for somebody who’s a working mom, how to balance their family life and work life?

You know what? It’s so hard because I’m really blessed with a job that allows me flexibility. So, if I don’t put the recipe up today, well, I really always feel bad if I said I was going to, but my kids come first.

Normally, when it’s not corona, my husband travels every week to the United States. He leaves Sunday and comes back Friday. So I’m also on my own a lot with the kids.

For the most part, I don’t really have a choice, because I’m the only one around. I really have to put them first. So if I can’t put the recipe up today, I’ll wait a day. Obviously, deadlines are harder. But, usually, deadlines happen a month in advance. So I’m very, very scheduled.

I think that’s really the key for any mom that works from home or from

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that my job allows me that flexibility.

anywhere. Being scheduled and being organized is really, really, really key, right? You know Shabbos is coming every Friday. So do your grocery shopping on Monday, Tuesday, or Wednesday when you have that little pocket of time. I spread out my cooking amongst Wednesday, Thursday, or Friday so that it doesn’t all just land on my lap on Friday. I really try to plan ahead. I know Wednesdays are my crazy days – they were this year with after-school activities and carpools and things like that. So I make sure, on Wednesday mornings, to have dinner made by like 10 a.m. so that it’s something I could just pop in the oven and not be busy in the kitchen cooking between carpools and work and kids at home.

Were you always this organized or did it evolve because of necessity?

I’m a pretty organized person.

Hold on. I’m a very, very organized person by nature. So that kind of came second nature to me. What was difficult for me, though, because I’m such an organized person, is that no matter how organized you are, children bring chaos.

Absolutely.

And they bring unpredictability in the best way possible. But that unpredictability could be everything planned and everything going right, and then, thank G-d, if you have a boy or two, you know that at the worst possible moment, that boy needs to go get stitches. And it’s not a big deal because he’s already gotten used to it. But stitches happen, broken bones happen, all the little last-minute things that kids bring with them that, no matter how scheduled and how organized you are…. You really have to be able to go with the flow. And I feel very lucky

Let’s talk about the book. When did you decide that you wanted to create a cookbook?

I, originally, 10 years ago, started to write a cookbook. I even tried to approach several publishers on the phone, and I had a manuscript typed and printed and everything was really ready to go to the next step. I literally had the stack of recipes on the floor of my bedroom in this binder for years and years. And, finally, I was just like, “You know what? This is so crazy. I’m never going to take the months needed off my life to edit and do photography and do all those things needed to create a cookbook. Let me just start an Instagram account and just put the recipes up for free. Why do they have to just sit here?” So I started slowly doing that. Over time, I said to myself, “Why would I write a cookbook?

This is so much better. It’s like instant gratification.” I post a recipe and people see it and make it, and I get to hear from them right away.

I thought, Why do I need to charge them for a book for? Really, cookbooks are so expensive to produce. If I make back my money, I’m lucky. Like this, on Instagram, I don’t have any risk, and I have the benefit of knowing that I’m bringing people around the dinner table to eat good food, and I love that. I did that for three and a half years. And then, last year, my parents and my husband really pushed me. They were like, “It’s time. It’s time. It’s time.” I signed a contract with ArtScroll like a week or two after Pesach and now, a year later, here we are and the book is out.

Wow. Does it have so many more recipes than in that original manuscript?

I don’t even think it has one recipe that was in that original manuscript.

The book I wanted to write when I was 25 or 26 is not the book I wanted to write when I was 34 – I now have a little bit more insight into life and motherhood. When I was 25, I wanted something trendier and something different.

This time, I wanted to create something that really could help women, mothers, men, people who were single, people who were married, people who were just starting out, people who have been cooking for years. And I really grew into my Moroccan heritage. Who knew that you could make a

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Moroccan recipe an actual recipe? It’s impossible. If there’s anything that I should be applauded for, it’s figuring out how to quantify Moroccan ingredients, which is literally a job because no Moroccan grandmother or Moroccan mother can ever teach you how to cook with any sort of measurement.

You have to watch them, and you have to do it 100 times until you get the motions down. So, quantifying those measurements is really a job, and I really wanted to include that in this book. I love that there’s something for everyone in here.

What are some of the recipes that you’re the most “proud of” in this book?

I really am proud of all of them because every recipe in there represents something. And they’re in there for a reason.

The ones that I’m most proud to have included – not necessarily most proud of in terms of the integrity of the recipe, just very proud that it was included in the book – are the ones that really hold a lot of meaning to me and really resonate with me – the ones that my grandmother made me growing up, the dishes that we ate for a typical dinner, the moufleta that I requested all the time. It’s the recipes that hold memories that I’m the most proud of.

Which recipe took the longest to perfect?

It’s so funny. The recipe that literally took the longest to perfect was the inner child cookies, a silly cookie recipe. It’s like a kitchen sink cookie but for kids. It took me a month and at least 20 batches of cookies to make.

Once I got the recipe, I had to make the recipe multiple times to make sure it was consistent. And I tried it with all the add-ins, every variable of add-ins. I really wanted people to be able to use the cookie dough as a blank slate. After all that, I don’t think my kids are ready to eat an inner child cookie just yet because they tasted so many.

Interestingly, I’m not a baker. I mean, I love a good cookie. And I was very specific about the kind of ripple effect that I wanted the cookie to have and the mouthfeel. I wanted the edges to be crisp but the inside to be chewy.

I wanted it to be soft but not too soft and not crumbly. I had all of these expectations, and it took me a long time to get them right.

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Looking through the cookbook, it seemed like there were more chicken-type dishes than desserts. What are your taste preferences? Are more of a “sweet” person or a “savory” person?

I definitely have a more savory palate. And even within savory dishes, I prefer lemon, acid, spicy, definitely less on the sweet side.

As for the dessert section, well, there are more recipes in that chapter than in most other cookbooks because there are more than 250 recipes in the book in general. Compared to the chicken and meat sections, there may be more of them than desserts, but the way I see it, we cook dinner seven nights a week and we eat dessert maybe one or two nights a week, so the proportion of chicken and meat recipes to dessert in a cookbook should be higher.

So true! I barely serve dessert during the week but supper has to get onto the table no matter what.

Speaking of supper, when you have to get supper served quickly, what dishes do you turn to?

The stir-fry is something that I go to a lot because I always have leftover rice. And I always have one piece of leftover chicken or two slices of meat or even just tofu that’s packaged in the fridge, something that I can use in a stir-fry, and I always have a few vegetables, one carrot, two peppers, whatever it is. So fried rice is something that I turn to a lot if I need a quick dinner. When all of those elements are prepared already, it’s just about bringing them together, so it’s super easy.

The tomato soup is also a really quick one. And then the crispy baked chicken fingers are something that I do quite often also, which is why I chose to give three recipes for it, because I probably make it once a week or once every other week. In the cookbook, you have three different flavorings, three different sauces, so you can change it every week. It feels less repetitive.

I see that you like to use different spices in your dishes.

I do. I’m pretty particular about spices. I’m definitely not a food snob.

I feel like everything has its place. I love a good hamburger. I love takeout food. I love bad Chinese food. I love good, good Chinese food. I love all the food. But when it comes to spic-

es, I am particular because, really, spices hold a really beautiful power.

We can take a piece of chicken and with the power of spices, we can go to Mexico. We can go to China. We can go to Israel. We can go to Morocco. We can go to Greece. We can travel the world with a simple piece of chicken through these spices.

The quality of your spices really affect the outcome of your dish. So the better quality spices you can buy, the better tasting your food will be in the end.

Even within the shuk in Israel, where I buy my spices, there are a lot of spice vendors. So you have to do your research and walk around.

I have one specific spice vendor that I like, and their spices are very, very high quality and they’re not cut with anything. It’s very common, especially in America, for spices to be cut with other things like citric acid or stabilizers. You should read the back of the label on your spices and see what the ingredients in your spice are – something like black pepper should be only

when it comes to food because we eat a lot with our eyes. But I think what people don’t realize is that presentation is so much easier than it seems. You don’t need to be finicky with the food. Investing in a few beautiful clean white dishes, where you can just take the food and put it on there and plate it nicely and then pour the juice over so it’s not dry – that’s something that’s really easy to do. Also, eating on real dishes. Obviously, not everybody has the time to wash dishes, but those kinds of little things really do, I think, make the overall experience of eating the food more enjoyable.

We’re coming up on yom tov soon. What are some dishes you recommend for Rosh Hashana or Sukkos?

I love yom tov. I feel like most families have so many traditions around the food they eat on holidays.

I really don’t serve those foods all year long, so I really look forward to the holidays, when I have the chance

“I have the benefit of knowing that I’m bringing people around the dinner table to eat good food, and I love that.” black pepper. But you’d be surprised at what you find. So it’s good to just check it out and try to get the best quality spices you can.

What spices – besides for salt, pepper, onion powder, and garlic powder – are the must-have spices for someone just starting to cook?

In my cabinet, I always have paprika in oil but you can use regular paprika. Paprika in oil doesn’t have as long of a shelf life but it does have a better flavor. I love mustard powder. Sumac, turmeric, cumin, cinnamon, cardamom, coriander – I would say those are the most basic spices you should have.

What are some tips you can give for presenting food when you’re serving it?

I think presentation matters

to prepare and serve and eat those foods.

For Rosh Hashana, I always make a lamb shoulder. It’s actually in the book. I always make the couscous with the seven vegetables that’s very traditional in a Moroccan home on Rosh Hashana. I always make the apples and honey mustard chicken because, you know, apples and honey.

On Sukkos, I serve, what I would say, is a little bit “funner” food. I’ll make the tiny schnitzel and serve it with a non-dairy ranch dip, and that’s really fun. I make tons of salatim. I stack my freezer. I make the chocolate peanut butter pretzel bites and I make healthy cookies.

I put those in the freezer so that at every Sukkos meal, I can put out a platter of cookies to serve. You end up spending so much time in the sukkah anyway, you need something to munch on.

I really love the holidays because I feel like it’s just such a fun time to highlight food that we don’t necessarily eat all year long. It creates memories.

What are different trends in kosher cooking that you see are coming up on the horizon or that you’re seeing right now?

I’m just so happy because I think kosher cooking is progressing in such a wonderful way. We’re not up-to-date within our kosher world, but we’re getting there really, really quickly. Ingredients like spices like sumac and saffron are becoming more well-known to the average kosher consumer. Look at miso – kosher consumers even know to ask, “Well, should I buy red miso or white miso?” These are great questions, and they’re things that I don’t think kosher consumers would have asked even five years ago.

I think it’s not about trends as much as it’s just opening our horizons.

You’re very busy being a mom and working. What do you do to relax?

I’m not really a relaxer. Well, I went to the beach today – everyone’s on vacation here in Israel. There are no camps, so we have three weeks of intense “kid” time. And because of corona, there’s not as many activities as normal. You really need to make appointments. You can’t just go on a hike. You have to make an appointment for the hike. Things are a bit more complicated than normal, but we’re making the best of it, like everyone else.

What’s on the horizon for you?

You’re an entrepreneur. You have your spice business. You have your Instagram. You have your cookbook. What else could we be seeing in the future for you?

Right now, nothing. The book just came out, and I really am enjoying riding the wave of the book. It’s just been amazing, and so much hard work went to it. I didn’t think I’d be comfortable promoting it or doing things like that because it’s really not my style to push things. But I’m so proud of it. It’s really is a representation of everything my community does on Instagram. I’m loving just really living in this moment right now.

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a taste of

peas love & carrots RECIPES BY DANIELLE RENOV

Smoked Whitefish Toast with Radish Butter I am almost as excited to write this blurb as I was to eat the dish. Basically, this dish was on my cookbook recipe list for months. Then, after whittling and whittling the list down, it was sadly removed. Everyone agreed that no one would ever make it, and I was just including it for myself. Which I was. But also, the space in the book became a thing and I finally gave in. Then something crazy happened. On the first day of our cookbook photo shoot, Eric, my cute, younger brother, brought brunch over for everyone. Being extra nice, he of course bought an entire smoked whitefish. Literally the one staring at you in this photo. All day long everyone picked at it, because it was delicious, and at the end of the day it got wrapped up and put in the fridge. The next day, someone opened the fridge and said, “Danielle do you have any recipes we can use this in? It would be so sad to waste it.” I couldn’t believe my ears and screamed very loudly (which, if you know me, you know what my excited scream sounds like, so picture that), that, in fact, I had the perfect recipe for this leftover smoked whitefish! And that, my friends, is why you are lucky enough to have my favorite brunch recipe ever. Hashem always sends us exactly what we need at exactly the right time!

INGREDIENTS 1 long, crusty baguette, sliced in half lengthwise 1 cup butter 6-8 small red radishes, grated ¼ cup grated fresh horseradish ½ tsp salt ¼ tsp coarsely ground black pepper 1 good quality smoked whitefish, flaked ¾ cup micro greens, to garnish

PREPARATION

In a small bowl, combine butter, radish, salt and pepper.

Place baguette on a serving tray.

Spread inside of baguette with radish butter.

Add flaked whitefish to the baguette.

Top with micro greens; serve on a large platter with a serrated knife so everyone can help themselves to a piece and enjoy!

TIPS + TRICKS: If you don’t have a good crusty-on-the-outside, chewy-on-the-inside baguette to work with, you can lightly toast what you have to add that texture.

NOTE: Radish butter is also delicious as a dip for crudité. I know, dip vegetables in butter? That doesn’t sound right. Oh, but it is.

VARIATION: Replace smoked whitefish with any variety of smoked fish or lox you like!

You can even be wild and use herring!

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Haloumi + Sweet Potato Salad with Blueberry Vinaigrette If you’ve ever walked into any dairy cafe in Israel, like literally any, you know exactly what this salad is. Crunchy greens, crispy baked sweet potato, grilled or sautéed to crunchy and gooey cheesy perfection, drizzled with a yummy dressing! It’s the cheesy salad of your dreams and this is my version!

INGREDIENTS

PREPARATION

½ cup dried blueberries ¼ cup balsamic vinegar ¼ cup apple cider vinegar 1 shallot, finely diced 1 tsp Dijon mustard 1 tsp pure maple syrup 1 tsp kosher salt 1 tsp coarse black pepper ¾ cup extra virgin olive oil

Combine blueberries and vinegars in a bowl or jar. Using a spoon, smush blueberries a bit to help them open up and release their flavor into the vinegars.

For the Dressing

For the Salad 2 large sweet potatoes (about 2.2 lb/1 kilo total), peeled and cut into ¼-inch-thick sticks 1 tsp kosher salt ½ tsp coarse black pepper 1 Tbsp + 1 tsp extra virgin olive oil, divided 3 cups baby spinach 3 cups arugula 1 red onion, halved and thinly sliced 1 (1lb/400g) block haloumi cheese, cut into ½ inch cubes

For the dressing

Add remaining salad ingredients to the bowl or jar; whisk well or shake to combine.

Refrigerate until 15 minutes before you want to dress your salad!

For the salad Preheat oven to 350°F/180°C. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper. Add sweet potato sticks, salt, pepper and olive oil to prepared baking sheet; toss to combine. Spread sweet potatoes so they do not overlap. Bake for 45 minutes until sweet potato sticks are crispy.

While sweet potatoes are baking, arrange baby spinach, arugula, and onion on a large, rimmed serving platter; set aside.

Heat a dairy nonstick frying pan over medium high heat. Add 1 teaspoon olive oil and the cubed haloumi. (You don’t want to overcrowd the pan, so if your pan is on the smaller side, you may want to do this in batches.)

Cook haloumi for about 8 minutes, tossing cubes around every minute or so, so that all the sides can crisp up. Once cubes are crispy and hot, remove from pan and place on prepared salad.

Add crispy sweet potatoes to the salad; drizzle blueberry vinaigrette all over!

Serve right away and enjoy!

NOTE: Not all haloumis are created equal. In the Middle East, it’s pretty easy to find good haloumi cheese. If you’re not in the Middle East, however, I recommend you try a few different brands until you find one that you like.

TIPS + TRICKS: This dressing is delicious and completely irresistible. Try swapping out the haloumi cheese for a simple grilled chicken for a fun meat twist!

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Burnt Cauliflower and Herb Salad You’ve seen enough Shabbos roundups by now (or maybe fastforward 50 years, Instagram is a thing of the past, you have no idea what Shabbos round-ups are and you’re using this book on a different planet that you flew to via the new intergalactic highway?), which is where I show you what I’ve prepared for Shabbos each week, to know that burnt, lemony cauliflower is a staple in my house. What you don’t know is what I do with it the next day!

INGREDIENTS

PREPARATION

2 (24 oz) bags frozen cauliflower florets 3 Tbsp olive oil, divided 4 cloves garlic, minced (about1 ½ Tbsp) 1½ tsp kosher salt ½ tsp freshly ground black pepper 2 tsp turmeric 1½ tsp sumac ½ tsp paprika 1 lemon, halved

Preheat oven to 350°F/180°C. Line a baking sheet with heavy duty foil; coat with 1 tablespoon olive oil.

Cauliflower

Herb Salad ½ cup chopped parsley ½ cup chopped cilantro ½ cup chopped scallions (from about 4 scallions) 2 Tbsp chopped mint, optional 1 small purple onion, finely diced (about 1 cup) 1-1½ Tbsp white vinegar Kosher salt, to taste Freshly ground black pepper, to taste

To make the cauliflower

Toss frozen cauliflower with 2 tablespoons oil, garlic, salt, pepper, turmeric, sumac, and paprika. Spread out on baking sheet in a single layer. Roast undisturbed for about 45 minutes.

(DO NOT OPEN OVEN DOOR DURING THAT TIME!) After 45 minutes, cauliflower should begin to get crispy and charred.

Open oven door, remove baking sheet, and squeeze both halves of the lemon over the cauliflower. DO NOT MIX OR STIR. Just squeeze over the top, return to oven and cook for 5-6 minutes.

Serve and enjoy.

To make the herb salad: While cauliflower is roasting, combine parsley, cilantro, scallions, mint, and onion in a large bowl.

When cauliflower is done, add to the herb mixture, tossing to combine. Add vinegar; toss to combine.

Season to taste with salt and pepper.

Serve warm or cold.

NOTE: If not serving the same day, combine herbs with cauliflower before serving time.

Recipes excerpted from Peas Love and Carrots by Danielle Renov. Copyright 2020 by ArtScroll Mesorah Publications, photos by Moshe Wulliger. Reproduced with permission of the copyright holder. All rights reserved.

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In The K

tchen

Whole Wheat Challah

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By Naomi Nachman

Last year, I got this amazing whole-wheat

challah recipe from Chumi Borenstein (a.k.a @

theicedlife on Instagram).

She is a specialist of

freezer-friendly food. I

always appreciate it when

a recipe can be prepared in

advance and then frozen.

Ingredients

Preparation

b 3 pounds Shibolim Extra Fine Whole Wheat Flour b ½ cup honey b½ cup sugar (you can sub for honey if you want to be super-healthy!) b1½ tablespoons Gefen Himalayan Pink Salt (or kosher salt) b2 TBS instant yeast b4 eggs b20 fluid ounces warm water b½ cup oil

1. Put all the dough ingredients in a bowl. Knead well. You may need to add up to one cup of additional flour to get a smooth, non-sticky dough. Cover and rise for three to five hours (in a warm area, or overnight in the fridge).

2. Shape and cover to rise for another 30-60 minutes.

3. Preheat oven to 375°F. 4. In a cup, beat the egg and water. Brush over the challah and sprinkle with your choice of toppings. (I use everything spice from Trader Joe’s.) Bake for 40 minutes.

5. Cool on a wire rack.

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?!”

If I don’t win the election, China will own the United States. You’re going to have to learn to speak Chinese - Presient Trump during an interview with conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt

I can’t understand why major American corporations are giving money to Black Lives Matter, which is run by three Communists who are avowed terrorists. The president should consider, very carefully, declaring Black Lives Matter a domestic terrorist organization. Today they had four or five beatings they took part in; they’ve been recorded saying that police officers should be murdered and killed. And one of their members this weekend defended looting as [something] people are entitled to do ... because they have no bread. They were taking televisions, they were taking liquor, they were basically engaged in stealing. So this is an illegal organization and their intent is to overthrow our government.

- Rudy Giuliani, Fox News

So when America goes and steals diamonds and oils, who’s calling us terrorists? When the American government goes and pillages different countries, who’s calling us terrorists?

- Black Lives Matter (BLM) of Greater New York Chair Hawk Newsome responding to Rudy Giuliani

Big news in the political world. Just hours ago, Joe Biden’s handlers announced they have selected Senator Kamala Harris of California to run as Biden’s vice president.

We will admit, we did not see this coming…

Harris may be the single most transactional human being in America. There are timeshare salesmen you would trust more than Kamala Harris. You could find payday lenders who are more sincere. So it seemed inconceivable that given his current state, Joe Biden would choose someone so transparently one-dimensional as Kamala Harris. Someone as empty as he is. It would be the first entirely hollow presidential ticket in American history, and we thought it could never happen. But it is; they’re doing it anyway. Biden-Harris, that’s what they are going with.

– Tucker Carlson, Fox News

He loved…his trucks, his motorcycle, his dog… his guns, huntin’ and fishin’ with his friends and family. Not necessarily in that order. He loved steak, chew and beer. Again, not in that order! … Cody played hard and lived life like he wanted. His favorite saying was, “You don’t tell me what to do, I do what I want!”… Cody James left us on August 8, 2020, as a result of injuries sustained from being a dumb [person]. He drank, drove, and didn’t wear his seat belt! Please, don’t be a dumb [person]!

- From a now viral obituary for Cody James, who died while driving drunk

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The coming together of Israel and Arab states builds on the efforts of multiple administrations to foster a broader ArabIsraeli opening, including the efforts of the Obama-Biden administration to build on the Arab Peace Initiative. I personally spent time with leaders of both Israel and UAE during our administration building the case for cooperation and broader engagement and the benefits it could deliver to both nations, and I am gratified by today’s announcement.

- Joe Biden’s statement after President Trump announced the peace deal between Israel and the United Arab Emirates (UAE)

I think the credit that he [Biden] deserves is he was — they were so bad and so hostile to both Israel and the Emirates that it caused both of them to commiserate a little bit, which was something that we were able to take advantage of when the president [Trump] took office. So, to that extent, I think the Obama policy was so terrible that it probably created more of a commonality of interest between Israel and the Emirates.

When you see entire media companies essentially exist to tear down Joe Biden, is there an equivalent of that on the left, tearing down Trump?

- U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman, responding to Biden’s statement in an interview with Breitbart News Daily

- Brian Stelter of CNN (who according to a Harvard study covers President Trump negatively 97% of the time) to guest Errin Haines

I think the only people that were against the deal were the Ayatollah and maybe Ben Rhodes.

There really isn’t.

- Haines in response

- National Security Advisor Robert O’Brien, appearing on NBC’s “Meet The Press,” responding to Obama’s Deputy National Security Advisor Ben Rhodes’ criticism of the Israel-UAE peace agreement

They brought out Andrew Cuomo, the worst governor in the United States, to talk about handling COVID. That is like trotting out the captain of the Titanic to talk about avoiding icebergs.

-Ben Shapiro, talking about the Democratic National Convention and Cuomo’s criticism of Trump’s handling of corona

I have thirty-six years on this job, twentyone as the president of this fine organization.

I cannot remember when we’ve ever endorsed for Office of the President of the United States, until now. That’s how important this is.

- New York City Police Benevolent Association (PBA) President Pat Lynch, whose union represents 24,000 NYPD officers, endorsing President Trump

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When you commit arson with an accelerant in an attempt to burn down a building that is occupied by people that you have intentionally trapped inside, you are not demonstrating; you are attempting to commit murder. This is not the first time that people have tried to set fire to a city building with people intentionally trapped inside. Unfortunately, it’s not even the second time. And by the way, this building is in a residential neighborhood attached directly to neighborhood homes. This can’t be okay. Based on the briefing I received this morning…I believe the city staff could have died last night.

- Portland mayor Ted Wheeler, who recently pretended to protest along with the anarchists, finally acknowledging that the protestors are dangerous anarchists

Now I’m on my third bike. There’s plenty of life left in that one. The only problem is there’s not much life left in the guy who rides it.

- Bob Mettauer, age 95, of California, who is known as “Bicycle Bob,” talking to a local TV station after meeting a goal he set in 1991 of riding 100,000 miles on his bike

Sent from the U.K. March 3, 2009 -The message written on a note in a bottle found on Falmouth Heights Beach in Massachusetts this week

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Political Crossfire

Kamala Harris a Moderate?

By Marc A. Thiessen

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n case you haven’t noticed, there is a not-so-subtle campaign afoot to paint Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., as a centrist – an effort that exposes the left’s strategy to fool the American people into giving them political power in November.

After presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden announced Harris as his running mate, the New York Times immediately declared her a “pragmatic moderate,” the Los Angeles Times called her a “centrist” and ABC News anchor George Stephanopoulos told his viewers, “Kamala Harris comes from the middle of the road, moderate wing of the Democratic Party.”

No, she doesn’t. Harris was the “most liberal compared to all senators” in 2019 according to GovTrack, the nonpartisan government transparency watchdog – to the left of even her democratic-socialist colleague, Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt. Harris wasn’t “pragmatic” either. GovTrack found she “joined bipartisan bills the least often compared to Senate Democrats.” According to Manhattan Institute budget expert Brian Riedl, Harris has proposed a mind-numbing $46 trillion in new spending over the next decade. She supports the economically ruinous Green New Deal, Medicare-for-all and free taxpayer funded health care for undocumented immigrants. She is also an abortion zealot who has suggested that a faithful Catholic who belongs to the Knights of Columbus is unfit to serve as a federal judge. She opposes depor-

tation of those who illegally enter the United States and once compared Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents to the Ku Klux Klan.

If Harris really were a moderate, progressives would be up in arms over her choice. But they are not.

Leftists understand that, to win in November, they must be able to peel away reluctant Trump voters in key swing states who are uncomfortable with the leftward lurch of today’s

House, and even before with these task forces that we had, we were able to significantly push Joe Biden to do things that he hadn’t signed on to before.”

The left sees Biden as their Trojan horse. They want voters to look at his inoffensive, moderate, bipartisan exterior and decide it is safe to let him inside the White House gates. But as soon as they do, an army of socialists will rush out – led by Sanders, Sen.

The left sees Biden as their Trojan horse.

Democratic Party. These voters need to believe that a Biden-Harris administration will be centrist and reasonable, so they can give themselves permission to defect and vote Democrats into power. So progressives and their allies in the mainstream media have tried to portray Biden’s choice of Harris as another example of how he has kept the left at arm’s length.

Progressives know it is a lie. Congressional Progressive Caucus cochair Rep. Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash., recently said the left need not worry about Biden’s moderate veneer because “he is movable.” As she told “The Daily Show” host Trevor Noah, “As soon as we get him in the White

Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y. – to impose a radical progressive agenda on America.

They have every reason to believe that will happen, because Biden has already given in to their demands. For more than 40 years, Biden supported the Hyde Amendment, which bars federal funding for abortions, even writing a constituent to say, “Those of us who are opposed to abortion should not be compelled to pay for them.” When he reiterated his support for the Hyde Amendment last year during the presidential primaries, he was chastised by none other than Harris, who declared, “No wom-

an’s access to reproductive health care should be based on how much money she has. We must repeal the Hyde Amendment.” Biden quickly surrendered to Harris and the party’s pro-abortion radicals.

If Biden will capitulate to his party’s left wing on a fundamental moral question like abortion, what makes anyone think he won’t do the same when it comes to Medicare-for-all or the Green New Deal? Most candidates tack to the center after securing their party’s nomination, but Biden has already gone to the left, forging a “unity platform” with Sanders. The platform was a wink and a nod to democratic socialists – embracing a number of their demands and promising to “study” others once Biden is in the White House.

The left got the message: Once the election is over, Biden will move even further in their direction. Besides, progressives in Congress believe that they will be setting the agenda anyway, and Biden’s job will be to autopen whatever they pass and put on his desk. What is he going to do, stand with Republicans and veto their legislation? Progressives are more than comfortable spreading the myth of moderation, while they hide inside the belly of the Democratic ticket waiting for voters to open the White House gates.

Follow Marc A. Thiessen on Twitter @marcthiessen (c) 2020, Washington Post Writers Group

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Democrats’ Postal Conspiracy is the Biggest Made-Up Controversy Since Russiagate

By Marc A. Thiessen

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nthony Fauci said on Friday that there is “no reason” most Americans can’t vote in person this November and that voting is as safe as going to a grocery store. “If you go and wear a mask, if you observe the physical distancing and don’t have a crowded situation, there’s no reason why you shouldn’t be able to do that,” he told National Geographic.

No matter: Democrats are pressing ahead with their universal mailin voting scheme and setting the stage to blame President Trump when it results in an unmitigated disaster. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., is already accusing Trump of a “campaign to sabotage the election by manipulating the Postal Service to disenfranchise voters.”

Please. This is the biggest madeup controversy since Democrats accused Trump of conspiring with Vladimir Putin to steal the 2016 election.

A massive increase in mail-in ballots will throw the election into chaos not because Trump is manipulating the postal system but because mail-in ballots are the most inherently unreliable way to vote. Voteby-mail has a much higher failure rate than in-person voting – a fact that was underscored by the catastrophic failure of mail-in voting during Democratic primaries this year.

Those failures had nothing to do with Trump or the U.S. Postal Service. The problem is state election laws that allow voters to request mail-in ballots just a few days before Election Day. If tens of millions of voters all drop ballots in the mail at the last minute, it is inevitable that the postal system will be overwhelmed, and millions of ballots will be delayed, misdirected or arrive without postmarks. This is why the Postal Service General Counsel Thomas Marshall recently warned state election officials, urging them to require voters to request ballots at least 15 days before Election Day. But instead of pushing states to fix their election laws, Democrats are trying to pin the blame on Trump – arguing that he is pushing to “defund” the Postal Service. That is a lie. Just last month, the Trump administration gave the USPS a $10 billion loan, funding authorized in the Cares Act, which Trump signed into law in March. Trump has since signed off on legislation that would turn it into a grant – even though the Wall Street Journal reported that “the Postal Service doesn’t currently need the money.” The Postal Service was a mess long before Trump arrived, losing $78 billion since 2007, but it has plenty of shortterm cash. Despite this, Pelosi is demanding that Trump agree to a $25 billion USPS bailout bill that would

undoubtedly be loaded up with partisan provisions regarding mail-in voting – and threatening to blame Trump for the coming mail-in voting fiasco if he refuses.

Democrats are also charging that cost-savings reforms instituted by new Postmaster General Louis DeJoy (before they were suspended Tuesday until after the election) were politically motivated. That is also untrue. While DeJoy is a Trump donor, he was appointed not by Trump but by the unanimous vote of the bipartisan Postal Service Board of Governors. And the reforms he is trying to implement were designed to address issues raised in a recent report by USPS Inspector General Tammy Whitcomb – a career civil servant who joined the inspector general’s office during the Obama administration – and are necessary to put the USPS on the path to solvency. The Obama administration got rid of thousands of collection boxes in the years before the 2016 election, yet no one accused it of election manipulation. Yet some House Democrats have even urged the FBI to open a criminal investigation into DeJoy. So, what should Trump do?

Simple. Take away the Democrats’ excuses and make them own the coming mail-in voting fiasco. The president should ask Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky.,

to pass bipartisan legislation introduced in July by Sens. Susan Collins, R-Maine, and Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., to give the Postal Service $25 billion to cover pandemic revenue losses – and attach a continuing resolution funding the government until after the election, heading off a fiscal crisis when government funding runs out on Oct. 1.

This would put Democrats in a bind. If they refuse to approve a bipartisan bill – one co-sponsored

by Sen. Kamala D. Harris, D-Calif., their vice-presidential nominee – at the funding level they have requested, then they can’t blame Trump for defunding the post office right before the election or any government shutdown. If they approve the bill, they help Republicans keep control of the Senate by giving the vulnerable Collins a pre-election boost – and lose their ability to blame Trump for the impending mail-in voting catastrophe. Either way, Trump wins.

The narrative that Trump is manipulating the post office to steal the election is the new Russiagate – a conspiracy theory designed to delegitimize Trump’s victory if he wins.

Trump should act now to take that narrative away.

Follow Marc A. Thiessen on Twitter @marcthiessen (c) 2020, Washington Post Writers Group

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Forgotten Her es

The USS Missouri in World War II

By Avi Heiligman

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fter the surrender of Germany in May 1945, the attention of the Allied armies turned towards defeating Japan. American forces had pushed them back to the Japanese home islands with the capture of Iwo Jima and Okinawa. In August, B-29 Superfortress bombers dropped atomic bombs on the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. On August 14, President Truman announced to the American public that he had received a message from Japan in which they accepted the terms of unconditional surrender put forth by the Potsdam Declaration. A battleship was chosen for the official signing of the surrender agreement. For the most part, battleships were a thing of the past by the end of World War II but the USS Missouri (BB-63) served with distinction for many years after the war and was even present during the 1991 Persian Gulf War. Battleships are large armored warships outfitted with large caliber guns and were built during the

18th and 19th centuries. Other ships, like aircraft carriers and smaller fast ships like destroyers and submarines, eventually made the battleship obsolete by the end of World War II but they did play a significant role in the war effort. The Japanese realized that they would need to neutralize Allied battleships in order to conquer territory, and in December 1941, they sank or damaged all of the American battleships at Pearl Harbor.

When it came to building battleships, the British, Americans and Japanese commissioned more than any other country. The Iowa-class battleships were intended to track down large, fast Japanese warships such as the Kongo-class battle-cruisers that were very active during the war. Four Iowa-class battleships were ordered between 1939 and 1940. The Missouri was the last to be launched in January 1944 after the Iowa, New Jersey and Wisconsin were completed. She had nine 16” guns in her main battery, twenty 5” guns, and over a

General MacArthur signing documents during the surrender ceremony aboard the USS Missouri

hundred anti-aircraft guns on board.

Two-thousand-seven-hundred sailors and marines served on the Missouri during World War II. Her first assignment was to serve as a screening vessel for aircraft carriers that were launching strikes against Japan. She provided fire support during the invasion of Iwo Jima in February 1945. During March, she went with aircraft carriers as they went to the Japanese mainland for another raid. It was during these raids that the Missouri shot down four enemy planes headed for the American group. Then, with other battleships, she bombarded Okinawa in preparation for the upcoming landings.

On April 11, she was hit by a low-flying kamikaze suicide plane but suffered very little damage and no casualties. She then shot down a second suicide bomber headed for the task force. Six days later, the Missouri detected a Japanese submarine and relayed the coordinates to a hunter-killer light carrier group which in turn sank the I-56 submarine.

In other action off of Okinawa, she shot down five enemy planes, fought off sixteen air raids on her task group, and destroyed many shore installations in assisting the troops on shore.

For the rest of the war, she assisted in bombarding the Japanese home islands and was off the coast of Japan when the atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki.

After the announcement that the Japanese were going to surrender, the Missouri steamed into Tokyo Bay on August 29. British Admiral Bruce Fraser was already on board

to bestow an honor on Admiral “Bull” Halsey and more high-ranking officers boarded for the surrender ceremony on September 2.

Eleven Japanese officials were present for the surrender that was signed by the foreign minister Mamoru Shigemitsu and the Chief of the Army General Staff Yoshijiro Umezu.

General Douglas MacArthur presided over the ceremony and began by stating, “It is my earnest hope –indeed the hope of all mankind – that from this solemn occasion a better world shall emerge out of the blood and carnage of the past, a world founded upon faith and understanding, a world dedicated to the dignity of man and the fulfillment of his most cherished wish for freedom, tolerance, and justice.”

He then accepted the surrender document and signed, as he was the Supreme Commander of the Allied Powers.

Representatives from nine Allied countries signed the document.

These included: American Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, Chinese General Hsu Yung-chang for China, AdmiY ral Fraser for the United Kingdom, Russian Lieutenant General Kuzma Derevyanko for the Soviet Union, Australian General Sir Thomas Blamey for Australia, Canadian Colonel Lawrence Moore Cosgrave for Canada, French General Philippe Leclerc, Lieutenant Admiral C. E. L. Helfrich for the Netherlands, and Air Vice-Marshal Leonard M. Isitt for New Zealand. The surrender docurments were then taken to Washington, D.C., and presented to President Harry Truman before being put on

display at the National Archives.

The entire proceedings took just 23 minutes, and the Missouri left Tokyo Bay the next day. She picked up passengers on Guam and was back at Pearl Harbor on September 20.

A month later, she was in New York for Navy Day celebrations, and President Truman boarded the now-famous battleship after she fired a 21gun salute. By December, she was in dry-dock for an overhaul. Over the next few years, she took part in many training exercises, goodwill tours, and celebrations. President Truman really liked the ship and kept it in the active fleet against the advice of his advisors.

In January 1950, the Missouri was the only battleship left in the U.S. Navy’s active fleet when she ran aground off the coast of Virginia. Soon she was refloated, repaired, and was ready for action when the Korean War broke out later that year. Throughout the war, she provided support for the U.N. troops on shore and a few times

fired on Communist positions.

She left Korea in March 1951 and went back to the United States. A year later, she set out again for Korea for a second tour of duty during the war.

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placed in mothballs at Puget Sound Naval Yard.

Almost thirty years passed when, in 1984, the Missouri was taken out of the mothballs and reoutfitted, modernized, and recommissioned

“It is my earnest hope –indeed the hope of all mankind – that from this solemn occasion a better world shall emerge”

sitions in support of ground troops.

After the deployment, she went on more training exercises and in 1954 sailed to Western Europe with the three other battleships of her class.

The other three ships had been recommissioned, and this was the only timed they sailed together. In 1955, the Missouri was deactivated and was

into the navy. All of her anti-aircraft weapons were removed and replaced with modern weapons like Tomahawk cruise missiles. New radar was installed as well as improved electronic controls. These upgrades took two years; the battleship was recommissioned in May 1986. She took an around-the-globe tour and in 1987

was in the Persian Gulf escorting oil tankers from Kuwait as part of Operation Earnest Will. In November 1990, she set off for the Persian Gulf again and took part in Operation Desert Storm. Over a five-day period, she fired a total of 28 Tomahawk cruise missiles. She then went north and fired her main guns at an Iraqi command bunker. She fired her guns several more times and was shot at twice – both missed. One sailor on the Missouri was wounded during a friendly fire incident with a frigate.

In 1992, the Missouri was decommissioned for the final time and is now a museum ship in Hawaii. She was the site where World War II formally ended. Her long and storied career is one that is to be remembered.

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

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Bloody Complicated

By Allan Rolnick, CPA

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n 2004, Stephanie Meyer sparked a bona fide cultural phenomenon with her debut novel, Twilight, recounting the romance between the story of 17-year-old schoolgirl Bella Swan and 109-year-old “vegetarian” vampire Edward Cullen. (He only drinks animal blood, not human.)

The story spawned four books, five movies (because you’ve gotta double up that final book to sell more tickets and popcorn), and billions in revenue.

If you were a teenage girl at any time during those years, or know someone who was, you went through a Twilight phase.

Last week, Meyer released a long-awaited fifth volume, Midnight Sun, retelling the original story from Cullen’s point of view. While it’s too soon to know if the book launches a new generation of twi-hards, we can be sure that millions across the country will eagerly return to Forks, Washington, for the Twilight renaissance. If movie studios can churn out a new Batman every year, surely there’s room when theaters re-open for more of Twilight’s vampire clans and werewolf packs.

We realize that when you hear the

word “vampire,” you probably don’t think “taxes.” But we do. (It’s either a sickness, or a gift – really, who the heck knows in 2020 anyway?) But the books raise enough tax questions to fill an entire law school exam. So pace yourself, and stay hydrated: Carlisle Cullen, patriarch of Ed-

of a decedent” and better reported on Form 1041 for estates and trusts?

Bella and Edward get married in the fourth book, Breaking Dawn, on August 13. That means on December 31 they become eligible to file jointly. But can they, really, if Edward is undead?

The only thing more potent than vampire venom is compound interest.

ward’s clan, turns him into a vampire in 1918 during the Spanish Flu. (Edward may not have been paying much – the 4% bracket didn’t kick in until the equivalent of about $85,000 in today’s dollars.) But turning him into a vampire by definition means raising him back from the dead. So should Edward even be filing a return in the first place? Or is anything a vampire earns “income in respect

Should Bella file an estate tax return when Edward turns her into a vampire after she dies in childbirth?

Vampires live a long, long time.

That makes getting rich easy: the only thing more potent than vampire venom is compound interest. In fact, Forbes placed Edward’s mentor Carlisle first on its list of the 15 richest fictional characters, beating Jed Clampett, Tony Stark, Richie Rich,

and even Scrooge McDuck. Carlisle’s $34.5 billion fortune is built on 370 years of mostly tax-advantaged growth. (His adopted daughter Alice can see the future, which we imagine helped avoid buying Theranos, the blood-testing startup that turned out to be a scam.)

In the books, Edward Cullen has his own supernatural ability: mind-reading. Would he please tell us whether Washington is going to raise taxes next year so we know whether to contribute to traditional or Roth retirement accounts?

If you’re a Twilight fan, enjoy the new book – and don’t worry about taxes. We’re pretty sure we’ve never worked with a real vampire before, but in the unlikely event that you get bitten, by all means tell us so we can help you work through these complicated questions!

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

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Finding the Time

By Rivki D. Rosenwald Esq., MFT, CLC

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ttending a minyan…

You’ve got it easy.

Times are set up for you.

Friends are there waiting for you.

Your siddur is in a bag, with some bulk, so it’s easier to locate then the standalone mini that non-tefillin users utilize.

And you also get to leave the house, no matter what is going on there.

We home daveners need to find a “time.” And that’s easier said than done. Somehow, when it’s your own to set up, it just seems to get shoved around a bit. Whether it’s kids, coffee, or clothes, something distracts you. Yes, it should take priority, and it does – in your mind! But, in getting the morning prayers done, well, that’s a whole different story.

We wake up perfectly set to grab that prayer book and start our day, right? But then life calls. Whether it does from the other room or on the phone, we are lost. We now begin the game of catch up.

We spend the next few hours trying to catch up to that moment when we can find time to talk to our Maker – not that we don’t do it informally in a million ways till then.

It’s just that getting around to reciting that formal outline that the rabbis constructed on how best to

start a day seems to present an endless challenge.

OK, finally, either the kids are out, or we arrived at work, or got our morning routine done, or whatever held us up a good part of the day, we are ready to get it done.

So, first, where did we leave our siddur? Why do they make those

ma? Or did we get to that this morning just to be on time but feeling we cheated and now feel somehow out of order?!

And finally, where will we be when it’s time for the silent standing prayer? Will someone need us right then or, worse, need to pass by the spot we planted ourselves?! Will our

Celebrate that you are getting to put in place the calm before the storm.

things so small anyway? Sure, they make bigger ones but who can lug one more large item around with them?! Between what’s in our purse, our cellphone with the hefty extender battery, and the large size latte we’ve become addicted to needing, we would fall over with one more oversized item.

Second, we must consider how much time we have. Can we say it all? Or do we skip around to the important stuff. And there’s the stress of what is the really important stuff.

Third, are we already late for She-

boss be calling us? Will our baby need feeding? Will our session be starting?

It seems the praying should help start our day with a sense of calm and perspective. The problem is that often we need to calm down and find perspective to commit to the praying.

This daily struggle often becomes the storm before the calm.

If only we could just leave everything first thing in the morning and just focus on saying the prayers.

For instance: having a built-in babysitter who is there for the kids

so we can just walk out and go somewhere where praying is all that’s going on so we can concentrate. Maybe, we should have friends to support us in doing it daily. Perhaps even nine of them. We should even have a designated bag used only for prayer paraphernalia so we don’t lose it.

So, if we can get this going, there won’t be any heroics about needing to get up and out – rain, snow, or heat.

First, look at all the supports you have in place to make it happen easily. Don’t think your day is defined or constrained by having to do this first before anything else. Take note, our day is defined by trying to get to it all day and on our own.

Recognize the ease within which you get to prayer. And celebrate that you are getting to put the calm before the storm in place first thing in the morning!

Attending a minyan…

You’ve got it easy.

So, do me a favor and put in an extra prayer for us, too!

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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