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Community Readers’ Poll Community Happenings

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This Week We’re Talking to…Camp Areivim 54 This Week We’re Talking to…Camp Atara

Team Tamar Turns Bike4 Chai into a Personal Mission for 11 Cyclists 76 News Global

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Iran Deal Tug of War: Will President Obama Succeed at Willing his Way into a Bad Nuclear Deal? by Nachum Soroka 66 Israel Israel News

Lessons Learned at Iscar by Rafi Sackville

People Edwards Air Force Base, Part II by Avi Heiligman

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Jewish Thought Maximizing our Relationships by Rabbi Naphtali Hoff 71 The Plane Ticket that Brought Down a Jet by 72 Rabbi Jonathan Gewirtz Parenting Dealing with ADHD, Part II by Rabbi Dani Staum 74

Dear Readers, It may feel like it’s over but it’s not. The kids are home from camp, but summer is still here for a few more weeks. With the weather warm and the extra time to play, the summer is the perfect time to spend with the family. Some families plan their vacations at this time; others spend the last few free days enjoying their time together at home. I, for one, will be home, but I know that we will make this time special. In fact, as I write this, I am planning a day together with my five-year-old daughter, who will be the only one home tomorrow. We’re going to be mixing business with pleasure: she’s in desperate need of a haircut and shopping must be done for Shabbos, but I can’t wait to take her to the pool and then out to a special lunch. Rabbi Naphtali Hoff writes this week about the importance of maximizing relationships. He points

different with their parents felt like a real privilege. And I really enjoyed it. Last week, Rachel Rosenholtz wrote about another benefit of summer: how the summer season can help build confidence in a child. It’s so refreshing seeing your children engaged in different activities that they aren’t always able to do during the year. My children came home from camp making strides in swimming and sports but they also spoke about how they enjoyed art and baking and singing. These were different skills that they picked up over the summer and hopefully will help them during the year. So, truthfully, although camps may be over, the summer is still here. I plan on maximizing the time and using it to its fullest. And I hope that you will too.

out that parents must be focused on their children when they are spending time with them. That means that suppertime, bath time and bedtime can’t be shared with our phones and our work responsibilities. We need to show our children that we are truly “there” for them. I’m sure you’ve taken that very important phone call during bedtime only to have your children interrupting and vying for your attention. It’s hard—or maybe it’s just not possible—to focus on two things at once. During the summer, though, I find it easier to carve out time to spend with my children. The days are so much longer, bedtime is later, and the whole atmosphere is much more relaxed. And there’s more to do together. Last week, after the younger children were in bed, we headed to the beach with the older ones to enjoy some time in the sand. It was a surprise trip for them and they felt so special—to be out after dark and to do something

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Readers Poll August 25 is National Banana Split Day. When was the last time you enjoyed a real banana split? 12% Just recently 15% This summer 15% Not in a long time 58% Never

Dear Editor, Rabbi Jungreis a true gem. He has added kedusha to a town that used to be a place for teenagers to hang out. He has the zechus of giving so many men and boys the opportunity to daven with a minyan; he’s made it easy! How many people have come to Woodbourne for supper or a quick bite to eat and have realized that they can just walk across the street for a minyan? It’s possible that without his shul they would have missed the op-

portunity to daven. Now, they run in, enjoy some time with the Rebbe and are able to daven. Now only does he give the tzibbur a place to pray, he does it with his genuine, sincere warmth and excitement. Everyone feels welcome; he makes it exciting for boys to come and get his one-of-a-kind brachos! May he always have the strength to be able to give and do for the klal. Sincerely, Yerachmiel Stern

Dear Editor, “Connecting with the Inner Brick” made me cry; it made me think; it made me ponder. What a poignant article highlighting the deep connections we have to our history and our people. How apropos to have it published for the start of Elul, a time when we should be delving into our souls and making honest, vital changes in our lives. G. K.

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Ave is a chillul Hashem just the same as giving tzedaka to the “Tzaddik of Gourmet Glatt” is a kiddush Hashem, and yet I see many people who are so caught up on making a good impression when dealing with non-Jews that they forget where it should all begin. This incident confirmed in seeing that there are still those who have their priorities straight, and we should all learn from both of them what caring for others and kiddush Hashem is all truly about. A fellow neighbor

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the way they were dressed I would venture to guess that they couldn’t afford to go out to eat, hence their water being turned off.) Upon hearing this, Leo’s daughter offered to personally stay behind in the store past closing time and wait for them to finish, as she felt for them. The woman didn’t want to be matriach her, though, and so it went back and forth until a compromise was met. The family would eat in the ten minutes remaining until the store closed. I walked away quite impressed with what I had been zoche to see and eager to share it, as this is what kiddush Hashem is all about. The essence of kiddush Hashem is not in front of non-Jews, but rather in front of other Jews, a fact that is often easily forgotten. Double parking on Central

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Dear Editor, I witnessed an exchange last week that I feel needs to be publicized as the kiddush Hashem it was. I was at Pizza Pious picking up an order when a mother walked in with many children (I don’t recall how many, but at least 4 or 5) including one who was clearly special needs. Going up to the counter, Leo’s daughter told the mother that due to a family occasion, the store would be closing early, in fifteen minutes. She asked the woman if she wants to take her food to go, instead of eating in the store, and the woman explained that doing so was not an option as her water had been turned off and that was why she had taken her children out for pizza in the first place. (Judging from the amount of pizza they ordered and

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Global Fidel Castro Wants U.S. Compensation Former Cuban leader Fidel Castro has a multi-million dollar axe to grind with

the United States of America. Last week, on his 89th birthday, Castro insisted that the United States owes Cuba “many millions of dollars” because of the half-century-old American trade embargo. Castro spoke out in an essay published in local media a day before Secretary of State John Kerry made a historic visit to Cuba to reopen the U.S. embassy as part of the restoration of diplomatic relations.

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Major General Qassem Suleimani, the head of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps’ foreign operations, reportedly visited Russia late last month despite being subject to international sanctions, including a United Nations travel ban since 2007. A State Department spokesman confirmed that the trip had taken place and said U.S. officials would raise their concerns with Russia at an upcoming New York meeting on violent extremism. Suleimani is one of several Iranian officials subjected to a 2007 United Nations travel ban because of their links to Iran’s nuclear or ballistic missile programs. Despite the recent deal struck by

Iran and world powers over its nuclear program, the sanctions against Suleimani and many of his colleagues remain in effect. Suleimani has also been sighted visiting Iranian-backed forces in Iraq and Shiite and Kurdish units fighting the Islamic State jihadists group alongside government forces. During his trip, Suleimani met with Russian President Vladimir Putin and Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, reportedly to discuss Moscow’s planned supply of advanced air defense missiles to the Islamic Republic after it froze shipments of the S-300 missile system in 2010 due to UN sanctions on Iran. Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif was scheduled to travel to Moscow next week in the latest in a series of visits to the Russian capital by top regime officials. Russia and Iran also held a joint naval exercise in the Caspian Sea last week as part of a visit by two Russian Buyan-class corvettes to the region. Russia and the Islamic Republic have traditionally been strong trading partners, particularly in the fields of military hardware and gas and oil exports, but trade dwindled as Russia implemented international sanctions from 2010 on-

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Galloway said he would boycott mayors from Israeli cities if he took office. However, he added that only the deputy mayor had the power to enact a full boycott of the Jewish state. “I would not be able to do that, but the mayoralty could,” he admitted. “The deputy mayor could.” Galloway, who leads the far-left Respect Party, was the subject of a police investigation last year over charges of racism after it was revealed he had declared his Bradford West constituency “Israel-free.” Earlier this year he was ousted

from his seat in parliament by an overwhelming majority of voters in Bradford, many of whom had grown disgruntled over his poor record in office and his campaign team’s dirty tactics during the general elections. Galloway accepted news of his defeat with a typically verbose speech decrying the fact that “the Zionists” would celebrate the result. Elections for the position – the most powerful directly-elected political position in the UK – are due to take place in May 2016. When asked what he would say to Londoners “sickened” at the prospect of him being elected as their mayor – particularly British Jews, many of whom have accused him of fanning the flames of anti-Semitism – Galloway responded: “Anybody that’s sickened by the idea of the people of London’s choice has chosen to alienate themselves.” “So my answer to your question is ‘nothing.’ Except I have all my life opposed all racism, including anti-Semitism, which is the most deadly form of racism. I have never – will never – think a thought, say a word or do a thing which can be described as racist or anti-Semitic,” he insisted.

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British MP and current mayoral hopeful George Galloway. The notoriously anti-Israel rabble-rouser says that if elected mayor of London he will refuse to host any Israeli counterparts – but insists he will not try to make the British capital “Israel-free.”

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Two Nations Join Together at Pearl Harbor

A spectacular 20-minute fireworks display was put on at Pearl Harbor this week to mark the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II. The mayors of Honolulu and Nagoaka, Japan — two cities linked by World War II — joined hundreds of people watching the show. The event came the day after the mayors and city council members from Honolulu and Nagaoka joined the com-

mander of the U.S. Pacific Fleet in laying wreaths at Pearl Harbor. Nagaoka is the hometown of the late Japanese Adm. Isoroku Yamamoto, the architect of the attack on Pearl Harbor that launched the U.S. into the war in 1941. U.S. planes bombed the city during the last weeks of the war, killing nearly 2,000 people. Today, it is one of Honolulu’s sister cities and is famous for fireworks. The December 7, 1941 bombing of Pearl Harbor killed about 2,400 sailors, Marines and soldiers on the Hawaiian island of Oahu. Around the world, there were 15 million battle deaths and 45 million civilian deaths from the war, according to the National World War II Museum in New Orleans. The war ended when Japan surrendered on August 15, 1945, which was still August 14 in Hawaii and other parts of the U.S.

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than 13 million, burst into flames due to a powerful and destructive explosion were caught on camera. The video taken by tourists from a nearby building shows the series of fire balls lighting up the night. And the devastation that followed was heart-wrenching. The town became a mess of hollowed-out shells of buildings and piles of scorched cars.

The most pressing question is what set off the violent explosions that tore through warehouses containing hazardous chemical materials last Wednesday. The explosions initiated at a warehouse site owned by Tianjin Dongjiang Port Rui Hai International Logistics Co., a company that stores and transports dangerous chemicals. Buildings more than 2 miles away felt the impact of the explosion. The first blast was huge, and the second was even more powerful: the equivalent of 21 metric tons of TNT or a magnitude-2.9 earthquake, according to the China Earthquake Networks Center. Firefighters had reportedly been called to the area to tackle a blaze before the first blast went off. As of Monday, there were at least 104 confirmed deaths, and officials say that more than 700 people have been treated in nearby hospitals—71 are in critical condition, and dozens are still missing. Residents grabbed their belongings as they evacuated from parts of the city that were deemed unsafe. Authorities said more than 200 chemical specialists from the military had been sent in with detection devices. More than 1,000 firefighters have been trying to deal with the remaining fires. Managers of the warehouse facility where the fires initiated have provided “insufficient information” about what was stored there, a city safety official said, though it is known that sodium cyanide, a highly toxic chemical that can rapidly kill humans exposed to it, was one of the stored materials. Company executives have been taken into custody for questioning as the investigation continues. Days after the explosion, a chemical odor still hung in the air and fires still burned. Piles of chemicals were found

in the streets. When water was poured on them, they bubbled and steam erupted from the mounds. In a statement, the environmental group Greenpeace said it feared the danger was not over. “We are concerned that certain chemicals will continue to pose a risk to the residents of Tianjin.” “According to the Tianjin Tanggu Environmental Monitoring Station, hazardous chemicals stored by the company include sodium cyanide (NaCN), toluene diisocyanate (TDI) and calcium carbide (CaC2), all of which pose direct threats to human health on contact. NaCN in particular is highly toxic. Ca (C2) and TDI react violently with water and reactive chemicals, with risk of explosion. This will present a challenge for firefighting and with rain ... is a major hazard,” Greenpeace said.

Bin Laden’s Son Promotes Terror

Hamza bin Laden, the son of al-Qaeda’s founder Osama bin Laden, has issued a call to Muslims all over the world to attack the U.S. and its allies, including Israel. In a new audio recording, the 24-year-old says it is time to move the war in the Middle East across the ocean and instead of fighting in Gaza, Baghdad and Kabul – fight in London, Washington, Paris and even Tel Aviv. “This is your duty,” he commands. He urges lone wolf attacks in the U.S. and the West and calls on followers to target Jewish and American interests globally. Hamza bin Laden has been dubbed the “Crown Prince of Terror.” He was very close to his father until the al-Qaeda leader was killed in May 2011 in a U.S. Navy SEAL Team Six raid on a compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, where he was hiding. According to reports, Hamza was with his father at the time of the raid but managed to escape. The release of the recording is likely an attempt by al-Qaeda to renew its popularity that decreased with the rise of the Islamic State. ISIS is making headlines all over the world, drawing thousands of

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According to the New York Times, the U.S. administration has warned China to stop sending undercover agents to the U.S. to pressure Chinese fugitives on American soil. In a recent case detailed by the Wall Street Journal, undercover agents have been seeking the whereabouts of Ling Wancheng, the brother of Ling Jihua, who was charged with corruption and forced to leave the party last month. Ling Jihua is accused of accepting bribes; his arrest is part of a crackdown on corruption by President Xi Jinping. His brother, Ling Wancheng, moved to the United States in 2013 or 2014. This year, in April, Beijing started an initiative called Sky Net to help bring to justice corrupt officials who have fled overseas. The New York Times reports a program called Fox Hunt involves clandestine operations to pressurize high-profile Chinese nationals into returning to China. More than 930 suspects around the world have been repatriated to China since last year under the program. But the United States is not pleased with Chinese agents entering the U.S. on tourism and trade visas, endeavoring to bully fugitives to return home. The U.S. state department has now resorted to warning Chinese officials to cease their activities. A Department of Homeland Security official said the U.S. has a “nonbinding” agreement with Chinese police to cooperate on fugitive investigations. The official said China had two police investigators in the U.S. on detail, but they were directed to assist U.S. officials, not act independently. Even so, China has been pushing for talks with the U.S. on an extradition treaty. The fugitives sought under Operation Fox Hunt are believed to be prominent expatriates, sought for economic

No Survivors in Indonesia Plane Crash

After trekking through mountain forests laced with fog on Tuesday, Indonesian rescue workers reached the crash site of a passenger plane that went missing over the weekend. Sadly, none of the 54 people onboard the Trigana Air Service flight survived the disaster. The airliner lost contact with air traffic control on Sunday about half an hour into a short flight from Papua’s provincial capital to a town in the mountains. Although debris were spotted by search planes on Monday, inclement weather hampered efforts to reach the scene.

On Tuesday, search crews found the plane’s flight data recorder and the cockpit voice recorder, known as “black boxes,” and they might provide some answers. Both recorders are in good condition. There were no calls for help from the crew during the flight. Villagers reported seeing a plane crash into a mountain, according to Indonesian aviation authorities. The site is about 14 kilometers (9 miles) from the airport where the plane was supposed to land, search officials said. Papua has few roads connecting cities, towns and tribal villages. To get where they want to go, people either have to take a plane or a boat – or walk, which can sometimes take months. A big part of Trigana Air’s business is ferrying people and cargo between different parts of Papua. Before Sunday’s crash, the airline had been involved in 19 serious safety incidents since 1992. It is one of a large number of airlines banned from operating in European airspace since 2007 “because they are found to be unsafe and/or they are not sufficiently overseen by their authorities,” according to the European Commission. Sunday’s crash is Indonesia’s third

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Tens of thousands of people have taken part in protests across Brazil calling for the impeachment of President Dilma Rousseff. Support for Ms. Rousseff has fallen to single-digit figures in recent polls. Many voters have accused her of failing to stamp out corruption and blame her for the economy’s worst slump in 25 years. Marchers took over Copacabana beach in Rio and also demonstrated outside congress in the capital, Brasilia. Police said about 137,000 people took part, but tens of the thousands of others were also involved in a demonstration in Sao Paulo. The national day of action is the third major protest against Ms. Rousseff and her left-wing Workers’ Part this year. Hundreds of thousands took part in demonstrations in March and April. There have also been demonstrations in recent months showing support for the embattled leader, with many claiming calls for her impeachment amount to a coup attempt. Anti-government protesters, though, say the Brazilian president must have known about a corruption scandal in the state oil firm, Petrobras, as alleged bribery took place when she was head of the company. She was exonerated in an investigation by the attorney general and denies involvement. However, several senior members of her government have been implicated. Government austerity measures are also hugely unpopular with the electorate, correspondents say, as are rising unemployment and inflation rates. A survey by the Brazilian company Data-

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The Week In News air disaster in less than eight months. In December, AirAsia Flight QZ8501 went down in the Java Sea while headed from Surabaya, Indonesia, to Singapore. All 162 people on board were killed. And in June, an Indonesian military transport plane crashed soon after taking off from the city of Medan, killing at least 135 people.

Israel The 91 Yr Old Champion

“This is a scenario I never even dreamed of. I hope that in the future I will still have the strength to continue and to bring honor to Israel,” Simkin said. Originally from what is today Belarus, Simkin has two children, four grandchildren and six great-grandchildren, and lives in Ma’aleh Adumim — a city near Jerusalem. The day before the 10 kilometer race, Simkin won the silver medal in a five kilometer race for men of his age group, with a time of 39 minutes and 47 seconds — four minutes behind the winner, 90-year-old Jose Canelo from Portugal.

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The world championship for senior runners above the age of 90 was won this year by a 91-year-old Israeli Holocaust survivor. Semion Simkin, who is legally blind, became world champion in Lyon, France, after running 10 kilometers, or 6.2 miles, in 80 minutes. His impaired vision means he cannot identify objects that are farther away than nine feet. Only one other runner in his age category, 90-95, finished the race. Lorenzo Juvenal Perez, 93, from Argentina, arrived at the finish line 21 minutes after Simkin at the World Masters Athletics Championship.

Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter, who recently revealed he is suffering from cancer, is placing the blame for not having attained a two-step solution on Israel. Carter told a British magazine in an interview, “These are the worst prospects for peace between Israel and the Palestinians for years.” The former U.S. president then proceeded to say he didn’t think that Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu “has any intention” of making progress towards the goal. When asked whether without a deal

Israel was heading for apartheid, he said, “I am reluctant to use that word in a news article” but that there was real force to the argument because of the rising Arab population in areas of Judea and Samaria. Carter has made some controversial statements with regards to Israel in the past. In May 2014, he supported the Palestine Liberation Organization’s (PLO) unilateral push to join international organizations in breach of the ongoing peace talks with Israel and the 1993 Oslo Accords. Back in 2009, in a speech in the West Bank, the former peanut farmer revealed, “I have been in love with the Palestinian people for many years.” In 2013, he called on the European Union (EU) to label products coming from “illegal Israeli settlements” – despite the fact that Israel’s presence in Judea and Samaria is legal under international law. In April, Israeli President Reuven Rivlin refused to meet Carter during a visit to Israel, with a senior diplomatic source saying that Carter is “permanently damaging” to Israel and that Israel’s leaders should refrain from meeting with him, on principle. In May, Carter said he would not meet with Netanyahu, who had refused to meet him in any case, saying doing so would be a “waste of time.”

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edented, although certain elements of the IDF’s strategy have — unsurprisingly — still been kept top secret. It appears to serve as a response to the demands the Israeli people and government have made of the IDF over the past ten years for greater transparency. The IDF’s wastefulness, previous unpreparedness for cyber-warfare, logistical failings in the Second Lebanon War and once-antiquated tactics are all referenced obliquely in the document, not in the forms of problems to solve but as plans for future change. The need for efficiency and logistical support, a recognition of the current threats facing Israel and a newly added fourth front — land, sea and air are joined by cyber — are all mentioned in the strategy guide in response to those claims. The document begins by laying out its ambitions — securing the existence of the State of Israel, keeping its values as a Jewish and democratic home for the Jewish people, safeguarding a robust society and economy, and strengthening Israel’s status in the world. It then delves into the threats to those goals not only from countries such as Iran, Lebanon, and an imploding Syria, but also from non-state groups such as Hezbollah, Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad and the Islamic State. Until now, the document itself states, the IDF has prepared itself for full-scale wars — armies against armies and nations against nations — while the response to stateless terrorist organizations such as Hamas and Hezbollah was never adequately addressed by formal IDF policy. One of the harsher criticisms of the IDF in recent years has indeed been a slow response to shifting threats. This new strategy strives to address that concern by better understanding the difficulties of fighting an enemy that fights by “spreading out and assimilation into the civilian populated areas to impede the IDF’s fighting ability.” The three necessary components of the IDF’s power, according to the document, are a “fighting spirit,” “the quality of its commanders’ decisions,” and its “execution of missions completely, quickly and with minimal resources.” Most of the recommendations in the document had already come into effect within the army; their presence in the 33-page strategy document served to solidify them as official army doctrine and to provide Israeli citizens with a quick glimpse into the changes the IDF has made in recent years.

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month. The news of the seizure had just been released due to a media gag order on the confiscation. The fiberglass cylinders were discovered in a suspicious shipment, which, according to the statement of the Gazan importer, was supposed to contain only clothes and fabrics. An investigation unearthed the cylinders, which

are forbidden for import into Gaza. General security services estimate that the fiberglass was intended for use by terrorists in Gaza, since it is a basic raw material used in constructing long-range rockets. Illustrating the danger, fiberglass rockets were fired at Kibbutz Palmachim located to the south of Tel Aviv during last summer’s war. A similar smuggling attempt was thwarted just last week at Kerem Shalom Crossing, when fiberglass threads hidden in a shipment of equipment for Gazan schools was discovered. The school supplies were being shipped in ahead of the start of the school year. The Israel Security Agency (ISA) released in a statement that it will take legal steps against the smugglers in both cases. Terrorists in Gaza are manipulating every possible means of rearming by hiding raw materials to craft weapons in humanitarian shipments. Dozens of smuggling attempts have been thwarted since the beginning of the year, including aquatic diving suits, polyurethane rocket propellant materials, sulfur bars and special coal used as fuel in iron-working furnaces. Hamas has long been upgrading its missiles in preparation for its next attempt to attack Israel and has been forced to rely on its domestic rocket program given the IDF naval blockade cutting off weapons supplies from its foreign backers.

ISIS Document: Israel to Blame for Rise of Jihadists A secret 32-page Urdu language is being compared to Hitler’s Mein Kampf, as it blames Israel for the rise of the Islamic State and crowns U.S. President Barack Obama as the “Mule of the Jews.” Found in Pakistan’s remote tribal region by American Media Institute, the document promotes an “end of the world” battle as a final solution. It argues that the Islamic State leader should be recognized as the sole ruler of the world’s 1 billion Muslims, under a religious empire called a “caliphate.” “It reads like the caliphate’s own Mein Kampf,” said a U.S. intelligence official, who reviewed the document. “While the world is watching videos of beheadings and crucifixions in Iraq and Syria, the Islamic State is moving into North Africa, the Middle East, and now we see it has a strategy in South Asia. It’s a magician’s trick: watch this hand

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that matched other Islamic State records. Flynn said the undated document, “A Brief History of the Islamic State Caliphate, The Caliphate According to the Prophet,” is a campaign plan that “lays out their intent, their goals and objectives—a red flag to which we must pay attention.” The document serves as a Nazi-like

recruiting pitch that attempts to unite dozens of factions of the Pakistani and Afghan Taliban into a single army of terror. It includes a never-before-seen history of the Islamic State, details chilling future battle plans, and urges al-Qaeda to join Islamic State. The manuscript advocates creating a new terrorist army in Afghanistan and Pakistan to trigger a

war in India and provoke an Armageddon-like confrontation with the United States. It also details Islamic State’s plot to attack U.S. soldiers as they withdraw from Afghanistan and target America diplomats and Pakistani officials, and blames the rise of jihadi organizations on the establishment of Israel.

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There are currently 42.1 million immigrants living in the U.S., an all-time record high. According to data provided by the Census Bureau, the Center for Immigration Studies released a statement on Thursday revealing that the number of immigrants rose by 1.7 million since the same time last year. Immigrants currently comprise 13.3 percent of the nation’s total population—reaching the highest level in the nation in 105 years. “Illegal immigration came up in the presidential debates, but there has been little discussion of the level of immigration; this at a time when total immigration is surging according to the latest data,” Steven Camarota, co-author of the report and the center’s director of research, pointed out. Surprisingly, immigration from Mexico specifically declined by 17.7% from 2010 through 2013, according to data from the Department of Homeland Security. Previously, immigrants tended to settle in high-density coastal cities like New York City and Los Angeles. Recent trends, however, show immigrant population growth in heartland cities and the South. Pittsburgh ranks first for the pace

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Eleven men in Connecticut were relieved on Thursday when Connecticut’s highest court ordered the state’s death row emptied out, ruling that a 2012 law abolishing capital punishment for any future crimes must be applied to the 11 men facing execution for offenses committed before it took effect. In a dramatic divided 4-3 ruling, the court declared the death penalty violates the state’s constitution, “no longer comports with contemporary standards of decency, and no longer serves any legitimate penological purpose.” Michael Courtney, who heads the capital defense unit for the state’s Office of the Public Defender, said the decision could be “very helpful nationally. The United States Supreme Court may consider these very issues under the federal constitution in the fall.” The Connecticut court’s ruling cited factors that have come up in other states to abolish the death penalty including racial and economic disparities in its use, the costs involved with appeals, the cruelty of the wait for execution, and the risk of executing innocent people. While 31 states still impose capital punishment, opposition to the death penalty has been growing. Nebraska abolished the death penalty in May, and Maryland in 2013.

Former President Diagnosed with Cancer Former President Jimmy Carter, 90, has been diagnosed with cancer. On Wednesday the former president released a statement via the Carter Center that read: “Recent liver surgery revealed that I have cancer that now is in other parts of my body. I will be rearranging my schedule as necessary so I can undergo treatment by physicians at Emory Healthcare.”

The statement said further information will be provided when more facts are known, “possibly next week.” Previously, on August 3, Carter announced that he had surgery to remove a small mass from his liver. President Barack Obama said he and first lady Michelle Obama wish Carter a fast and full recovery. “Jimmy, you’re as resilient as they come, and along with the rest of America, we are rooting for you,” Obama said in a statement. Carter served as the nation’s 39th president, defeating Gerald Ford in 1976 with a pledge to always be honest. He lost his second term to Ronald Reagan in 1980. Since his presidency he has travelled the world in support of what he sees as human rights. Although the exact origin of the cancer was not revealed, Carter revealed in his autobiography, A Full Life, that his family has a history of pancreatic cancer. His father, brother and two sisters all died of the disease, and he said the trend “concerned” the former president’s doctors at Emory. “The National Institutes of Health began to check all members of our family regularly, and my last remaining sibling, Gloria, sixty-four, was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and died in 1990,” Carter wrote. “There was no record of another American family having lost four members to this disease, and since that time I have had regular X-rays, CAT scans, or blood analyses, with hope of early detection if I develop the same symptoms.” Carter wrote that being the only nonsmoker in his family “may have been what led to my longer life.”

NYT Blasts Amazon’s Work Culture; Bezos Blasts Back Jeff Bezos has penned a response to a highly critical report about Amazon’s working conditions that was published

In the article, it talks about a former Amazon employee, Bo Olson. He lasted less than two years at the job and says he watched numerous adults cry in the office on many occasions. “You walk out of a conference room and you’ll see a grown man covering his face,” he related. “Nearly every person I worked with, I saw cry at their desk.” Amazon, one of the world’s largest retailers, refuses to let its image be tainted by several disgruntled former employees. Bezos himself responded to the report with a company-wide memo, saying that as the CEO he doesn’t “recognize this Amazon and I very much hope you don’t, either. More broadly, I don’t think any company adopting the approach portrayed could survive, much less thrive, in today’s highly competitive tech hiring market.” He added: “I strongly believe that anyone working in a company that really is like the one described in the NYT would be crazy to stay. I know I would leave such a company.” Bezos also recommended that employees read a LinkedIn blog post by senior Amazon employee Nick Ciubotariu, who takes issue with a number of the New York Times’ points and also quotes a “very high ranking executive” as saying: Amazon used to burn a lot of people into the ground. This isn’t how we do things anymore, and it isn’t how I run my business. I want this to be a place where people solve problems that cannot be solved, anywhere in the world, but they feel good about working for a great company at the same time. And if you’re burning people into the ground with overwork, you’re not doing it right, and you need to course-correct, or you don’t need to be here. Bezos did not flatly say that the incidents listed in the New York Times’ ar-

Oldest Living Jew Dies at 114

For the last few years of her life, Goldie Steinberg called Long Beach, NY, her home. Last week, just 75 days before her 115th birthday, Mrs. Steinberg passed away. She was the oldest living Jewish person in the world and was listed as the sixth oldest person in the world by Wikipedia. Mrs. Steinberg was a resident of Grandell Rehabilitation and Nursing Center in Long Beach, NY, for over eleven years. Naturally, each year Mrs. Steinberg’s birthday attracted family members, members of the media, local elected officials, and children from nearby yeshivas who came frequently to visit Grandell. Mrs. Steinberg, who may have been the last survivor of the Kishinev pogrom of 1903, came to America when she was 23 years old and lived in Bensonhurst, NY, for over seven decades. Moishe Heller, administrator of Grandell, related that Mrs. Steinberg passed away surrounded by family members. He said she was always thinking of others. “She told me she had never gotten a bracha from anyone, but she must have

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ticle were false; he acknowledged that isolated episodes are possible but denied that being the overall environment of the company. Interestingly, in Brad Stone’s book, The Everything Store, which details the history of Amazon, he relays an account of an all-hands staff meeting in the company’s early days: “During one memorable meeting, a female employee pointedly asked Bezos when Amazon was going to establish a better work-life balance. He didn’t take that well. ‘The reason we are here is to get stuff done, that is the top priority,’ he answered bluntly. ‘That is the DNA of Amazon. If you can’t excel and put everything into it, this might not be the place for you.’”

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The Week In News done something or gotten some kind of bracha to be zoche to a double arichus yomim, having both long years and having her mind working until the very end,” he related. Just 11 days before her passing, Mrs. Steinberg was photographed and interviewed for inclusion in a large format coffee table book by photographer Paul Mobley titled American Wisdom about centenarians in all fifty states, due to be published in October 2016.

The Case for Better Maternity Leave

The United States is a first world country and women comprise 47 percent of its total workforce. But we have yet to acknowledge and implement an effective maternity leave policy, forcing many women to leave their young children at home just days after birth. According to a new analysis of data from the Department of Labor, nearly 1 in 4 new mothers surveyed in 2012 were back at work within just two weeks of having a baby. Researchers at Abt Associates looked at a survey of 2,852 workers who took leave in 2012, honing in on the 93 women who took time off to care for a new baby. Of those women, nearly 12 percent took a week or less off from work; another 11 percent took between one and two weeks off, according to the analysis. Among college graduates, longer leaves ruled the day: Eighty percent of the women who took at least six weeks leave had a degree. Only 54 percent of women without a degree were able to do so. “The highest-paid workers are most likely to have [paid leave],” writes journalist Sharon Lerner, author of the In These Times Piece and a senior fellow. “More than 1 in 5 of the top 10 percent of earners are getting paid family leave, compared to 1 in 20 in the bottom quartile.” The lack of maternity leave highlights the growing gap between parents in different levels of society. Large companies, including Adobe, Microsoft,

Nestle, Goldman Sachs and Blackstone, have increased their leave benefits for new moms. Interestingly—and sadly—the U.S. is the only major country on the globe that offers no paid time off for new mothers, placing a terrible burden on these women, their families and the nation. The consequences of returning to work so soon are devastating for new mothers and their families – economically, emotionally and physically. Mothers who return to work so early are plagued with depression and less likely to nurse their children. Their children can suffer developmentally. Some firms are realizing that new mothers need time off and support from their employers as well. Just last week, another Wall Street firm announced what Bloomberg News called a “gilded” perk for new mothers. Private equity firm KKR & Co. said it would pay for nannies to travel with new mothers and their babies. The firm, founded by billionaires Henry Kravis and George Roberts, also upped the amount of leave it gives KKR parents from 12 weeks to 16 weeks, and started a “transition support” program to reintegrate new parents returning from leave. Meanwhile, the Family Act, a bill that would offer federally mandated paid leave to new parents, has so far gone nowhere in Congress. As Lerner points out, “Families need paid time off to take care of their new babies. Men, women and children will gain from this basic human dignity.”

Two Women to Become First Army Rangers

“This course has proven that every soldier, regardless of gender, can achieve his or her full potential,” Secretary of the Army John M. McHugh said in a statement. Although the women will be graduating, they won’t be able to apply to join the 75th Ranger Regiment, an elite special operations force. The Pentagon is expected to make final decisions about what combat women will be allowed to fulfill later this year. “This is an important moment and an important week because I see it as reality and perception catching up with each other,” said Council on Foreign Relations Senior Fellow For Defense Policy Janine Davidson, a former U.S. Air Force Aircraft Commander and Senior Pilot. “Women have been on the front lines in Afghanistan and Iraq and have done a transition here. So you see policymakers in the Pentagon are ready to say, ‘We don’t see any reasons why women can’t be [in certain roles].’” The Pentagon describes Ranger School as “the Army’s premier combat leadership course, teaching Ranger students how to overcome fatigue, hunger, and stress to lead soldiers during small unit combat operations.” The current class started in April with 381 men and 19 women. The students were forced to train with minimal food and little sleep and had to learn how to operate in the woods, mountains and swamplands. Students also had to undergo a physical fitness test that included 49 pushups, 59 sit-ups, a 5-mile run in 40 minutes, six chin-ups, a swim test, a land navigation test, a 12-mile foot march in three hours, several obstacle courses, four days of military mountaineering, three parachute jumps, four air assaults on helicopters, and 27 days of mock combat patrols. By the end of the 62-day course, only 94 men and two women met all the requirements.

Is a Cold Winter in Store? 96 students will graduate from the Army’s Ranger School on Friday. Among them will be two women—who will be making history, as they will be the first female soldiers to graduate from Ranger School. This was the first time the Army opened the course to women on a trial basis.

After a week with temps this high, it may be hard to imagine a winter storm. But according to the Old Farmer’s Almanac, it will be super cold with a slew of snow for much of the country, even in places that don’t usually see too much of it, like the Pacific Northwest. The folksy, annual book of household tips, trends, recipes and articles, such as on animal jealousy and the his-

tory of shoes, anticipates the biggest Supermoon in decades in November 2016.

The 224-year-old almanac, believed to be the oldest continually published periodical in North America, is 26 years older than its closest competitor, “The Farmers’ Almanac,” published in Maine and due out later in August. According to the handbook, expect above-normal snow and below-normal temperatures for much of New England; icy conditions in parts of the South; and frigid weather in the Midwest. The snowiest periods in the Pacific Northwest will be in mid-December, early-to-mid-January and mid-to-late February, the almanac predicts. “Just about everybody who gets snow will have [snowy holidays] in one capacity or another,” editor Janice Stillman said. The almanac will hit shelves next week. As for the basis of these predictions, the weather forecasts are based on a secret formula that founder Robert B. Thomas designed using solar cycles, climatology and meteorology. Forecasts emphasize how much temperature and precipitation will deviate from 30year averages compiled by government agencies. Meteorologists consider the Almanac to be less than hypothesis and completely unscientific.

Majority of Americans against Iran Deal A survey regarding the Iran deal released last weekend confirmed that the majority of Americans would vote to reject the nuclear deal with Iran if they were in Congress. Voters, 58%, say they do not trust that Tehran will keep its end of the deal. Another 31% said they would approve of the deal inked on July 14, and 10% said they are still undecided. The poll was conducted by phone between August 11 and 13 among registered voters. Republicans were most likely to reject a deal by a margin of 83% against to 12% in favor, while 50% of Democrats said they would approve

The Week In News A Bunch of Bologna Bluff. Bluster. Bravado. Bologna. These words have been used to de-

scribe current GOP frontrunner Donald Trump. And now, the Donald has a new thing to boast about: The Trump Sandwich, which recently debuted at the American City Diner in Washington, D.C. This sandwich is not filled with hot air; it’s piled high with bologna, lettuce and tomato.

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After a century and a half at the bottom of the Savannah River, the armored shell of a Confederate warship, the CSS Georgia, is being raised by Navy divers. Divers began the project in late June and have recovered cannons, unexploded shells and other artifacts. Now they are working on retrieving an estimated 250,000 pounds of the ironclad’s armored siding. The CSS Georgia was sunk by its own crew to prevent Gen. William T. Sherman from capturing the massive gunship when his Union troops took Savannah in December 1864. Still classified as a captured enemy vessel by the Navy, the remains of the Confederate ironclad are being salvaged as part of a $703 million deepening of the Savannah harbor for cargo ships. “The historical significance is evident in everything we do,” Chief Warrant Officer 3 Jason Potts, the Navy’s on-scene commander, said on Wednesday as his crew prepared to start raising the first of three giant slabs of armor. Other artifacts removed from 40 feet or more underwater included a flywheel, a pump, and sections of the steamship’s boiler. Perhaps most impressive, the Georgia’s propeller was recovered intact and still attached to the long shaft that turned it. “We don’t just simply want to bring it all back to the surface,” Potts said. “We want to bring it back intact. So we

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go to the maximum effort to make sure we don’t rip these things apart on the way up.” All artifacts from the CSS Georgia are being sent to the Conservation Research Laboratory at Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas, for cataloging and preservation.

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the deal and 35% said they would reject it. On the question of whether Iran could be trusted to keep to the nuclear pact, 75% of respondents said they could not, while 18% said they could and 6% did not know. The poll, commissioned and published by Fox News, is hopefully an accurate breakdown of how Congress is expected to vote, rejecting the deal generally along party lines, though without the supermajority needed to override a promised presidential veto.

The Week In News Diners can take a bite out of the mogul for just $12.95. Each sandwich comes with a card emblazoned with the words: “Big enough to fit in Trump’s big mouth.”

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the other GOP presidential candidates, which hopefully means we’ve been spared the Rick Santorum – mayonnaise on white bread – or the Christie – which we know would be a triple decker something.

Three Cheers for Three Ears Restaurant owner Jeffrey Gildenhorn promises The Trump Sandwich will be on the menu “as long as we have bologna,” and is also peddling t-shirts emblazoned with Trump’s face and the word “chutzpah.” The sign on the storefront reads, “The Trump Sandwich Full of Bologna.” Gildenhorn has said he can relate to the Donald — he ran for office as the mayor of D.C. in 1988, in a move considered “comic relief” by the press. “I was an outsider just like Trump is,” he said. Gildenhorn didn’t say if he has any plans to name sandwiches after any of

Performance artist Stelarc always has something up his sleeve: an ear. For the past nine years, the artist in Perth, Australia, has been growing an ear on his left arm—all in the name of art.

“As a performance artist I am particularly interested in that idea of the post-human, that idea of the cyborg,” he said. “What it means to be human will not be determined any longer merely by your biological structure but perhaps also determined largely by all of the technology that’s plugged or inserted into you.” Stelarc, who was born Stelios Arcadiou but changed his name 45 years ago, first thought about getting an extra ear in 1996. However, he couldn’t find any surgeons willing to hear him out until 2006. His third ear is made out of material commonly used in plastic surgery. Initially he thought to place the extra ear behind one of his real ears but then decided against it. The ear is now permanently on his arm. Soon, he will embed a miniature microphone connected to the Internet into ear number three. “This ear is not for me, I’ve got two good ears to hear with. This ear is a remote listening device for people in other places,” he related. “They’ll be able to follow a conversation or hear the sounds of a concert, wherever I am, wherever you are. People will be able to track, through a GPS as well, where the ear is.” This guy’s really all ears.

The Space Elevator

and reflight.” Rockets are incredibly inefficient because they need huge amounts of power to get off the ground, using up most of their fuel fighting against inertia and atmospheric drag. This new concept, though, has been thought of before—but was never thought possible because scientists didn’t think there was a material that could support itself at such a height. Space elevators were first suggested by Russian scientist Konstantin Tsiolkovsky in 1895. Tsiolkovsky proposed a freestanding tower reaching into geostationary orbit. Arthur C Clarke also wrote about a space lift in his 1979 novel The Fountains of Paradise claiming it would bring down costs by transporting cargo directly up to satellites. The new design will only build the elevator 12.4 miles up—and not 22,000 miles high, where satellites fly. It will give the rockets the extra “push” to help it off the ground, bypassing the need for all that extra fuel. Even more intriguing, the “ThothXTower” will be inflatable, made with reinforced segments and topped with a runway from which satellite payloads could be launched. It would stay upright using a complex arrangements of fly-wheels to compensate for the tower bending. Each elevator car would be capable of carrying 10 tons of cargo. Sort of gives a whole new meaning of “taking the elevator to the top.”

They Can Do It!

“1, 2, 3, blast off!” will soon be a thing of the past. A Canadian firm has been granted a patent for a “space elevator” to blast rockets into space. Instead of sending them up into the stratosphere, elevators will shoot the cargo 12.4 miles into space, where it can be launched more easily. Besides for being cool, the new technology will cut the costs of space flight because shuttles wouldn’t need to carry enormous amounts of fuel to hurl themselves off the ground. “Astronauts would ascend to 12 miles by electrical elevator,” said Dr. Brendan Quine, the inventor. “From the top of the tower, space planes will launch in a single stage to orbit, returning to the top of the tower for refueling

It was a river of Rosies this week when hundreds of women of all ages donned blue coveralls, red socks and red bandannas with white polka dots. The sea of women gathered near San Francisco in an attempt to set a Guinness World Record for the most Rosie the Riveters in one place at one time since World War II. Guinness is still reviewing and authenticating the gathering. It also has to verify that all the Rosies wore the correct uniforms—including the bandannas with the acceptable sized polka dots. Continued on page 34

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The Week In News Event organizers said that these women did it—they broke the record with over 800 participants. The last record was set in May when 776 Rosies gathered in Ypsilanti, Michigan. Phyllis Gould, who participated in the record breaking event, worked for three years as a welder at the Kaiser shipyards in Richmond until World War II came to an end.

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nounced that it will start weighing its passengers after check-in. Passengers will be placed on a “special weighing machine”—e.g., a scale—near the departure gate zone. According to the airline, the weighing is purely for safety reasons and is necessary in order to “determine the average weight of passengers with hand luggage.”

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The Tufts family can be proud: the two Tufts brothers have been named mayor of Dorset, Minnesota. Despite the political office, the Tufts boys know that they still have a lot to achieve. Robert, who is six-years-old, was mayor for two years of the small town. This year, at the annual Taste of Dorset food festival, his brother, James, was named mayor of the town of 22 residents. His name was drawn from a bucket during a $1 raffle to become mayor for a year, taking over for his brother Robert. Elder Robert gave three-year-old James some sound advice. “I told him to be nice when you talk to people and don’t say any poopy talk,” Robert Tufts said, relaying the conversation he had with his younger brother James after he became the ceremonial mayor on August 2. During a brief phone interview with local media, James said he likes being mayor. “I’m doing pretty good,” he admitted. Truer words have never been heard from a three-year-old. And now it’s time for his nap. 

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AUGUST 20, 2015 Project Inspire held a wonderful event at North Woodmere Park on August 11, 2015. Games were played, baseball great Cecil Fielder was on-hand discussing baseball while taking pictures and signing autographs, great food and music were enjoyed, and of course the wall of magnets from the photo booth all made this an inspiring and fabulous evening enjoyed by all.

A New Boys Yeshiva Program Begins at Ohr Halimud By L. Braun Rabbi Shaul Shimon Deutsch, founder of the Living Torah Museum, a dyslexic himself, and the Menahel Ruchni of Ohr HaLimud-The Multi-Sensory Learning Center, a school specializing in authentic Orton Gillingham Dyslexia Remediation Programs, is proud to announce to the community the long-awaited Ohr HaLimud Boys Yeshiva. “We are very excited to be offering our successful Orton-Gillingham school program for boys. Our first Yeshiva classes will be for boy’s ages 7-9. This educational program is unique to Ohr HaLimud and has a proven 12-year track record of success.” Our new program is now accepting applications for the 20152016 school year. “I ask myself all the time,” said Rabbi Deutsch, “where was Ohr HaLimud when I was boy growing up? Why did I have to struggle and work so hard? No one ever explained to me that dyslexia is just a mechanical glitch in the brain and nothing to do with intelligence.” “Well, we are now ready, with the help of Hashem, to change the world of children and families for generations to come. This is just the beginning!” Rabbi Deutsch shared. “Just you wait!” Harav Ha Goan R’Yisrael Belsky, shlita, stated, “From its founding, Ohr HaLimud has been an asset to the Jewish community it serves. Mrs. David is a devoted educator and a pioneer in this field.” Mrs. Leah David, of course, is the Founder and Executive Director of Ohr HaLimud. Here, she shares here some of her thoughts: “I founded the school and program 12 years ago when my 7-year-old bright, intelligent daughter was not learning to

read. I tried everything, from resource room, tutors, vision therapy, to testing and lots of prayer. Nothing worked! At that point, Hashem guided me to see the greatness of an authentic Orton- Gillingham Approach to teaching. Six months later, my daughter was reading. Then I had a dilemma; where was I going to be placing my bright daughter in a school? I knew she didn’t need special education; what was called for was a targeted education. But I had no school choices at that time. So, I decided to fill a gap in the community and open up a girls’ school. I put together a team of teaching professionals, and we are still working together to this day to make the school better each year.” From the very beginning, parents were calling and clamoring for a boys’ school. To fill that immediate need we opened up an after-school Orton-Gillingham Tutoring program that accepted boys and girls. Over the years we have taught hundreds of children to read. About 15% of the U.S. population is dyslexic. Dyslexia is so common, most people still don’t understand the harm it can cause. Dyslexic readers and learners are some of the brightest people in the world. Dyslexics just need to learn in a multi-sensory way: The authentic Orton-Gillingham way. The goal at Ohr HaLimud is to fill in the learning gaps that bright children are having in reading, writing, spelling, comprehension and learning in Hebrew, English, and, when needed, Yiddish. When a student is ready and can perform on their regular grade level, we send them back to their community school. This typical student spends two to three years with Ohr HaLimud before returning to their community school.

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100th Yahrtzeit of an American Jew Killed Al Kiddush Hashem This coming Shabbos, the 7th of Elul, is the 100th yahrtzeit of Leo Frank, who was lynched by an anti-Semitic mob near Atlanta, GA, in 1915. Frank was accused of murdering a 13-year-old girl who worked in the factory where he was the foreman. In a sensational trial rife with anti-Semitism, he was convicted and sentenced to death. The governor, sensing a miscarriage of justice, resisted enormous pressure, including death threats, and commuted the sentence to life in prison. Not to be denied, a mob of Geor-

gia’s leading citizens, including judges, doctors, and businessmen, took the law into their own hands, kidnapping Frank from prison and hanging him. They were proud of their crime and made no effort to hide their involvement. Jews in Georgia lived in great fear for years after the hanging. Almost 7 decades later, an eyewitness finally revealed that he knew that Frank was innocent. Leo Frank knew little of the joy of Jewish life, but he certainly suffered the pain of a Jew in exile. It would

be fitting if Jews who can appreciate that would come to his grave this coming Sunday, August 23, to say Tehillim and kaddish l’ilui nishmaso. The grave is located in Mount Carmel Cemetery, section 1, 83-45 Cypress Hills St. in Jamaica, Queens. Turn right after the entrance and follow the road to the right, to block E, path 41, lot 1035, grave 2. We will try to have a minyan there at 1:30 PM. For more information, please contact Mordechai Kruger at mkru-

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Justin Lish, 2015-2016 HAFTR Senior, had a wonderful summer conducting research at the Rockefeller University. He presented his work last week titled, “At the Top.” HAFTR faculty member, Mr. Stanley Blumenstein, came to support him.

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Jew ‘Cue Near You By Rabbi Jonathan Gewirtz Jews and food – it’s a relationship that goes back to the beginning of time. “They tried to kill us, we won, let’s eat!” is a common refrain but what type of cooking truly personifies “Jewish food”? I can’t answer for sure but the hankering for rich, smoky, spit-fired meat stretches back thousands of years to such memorable cook-outs as the Pesach offering when we left Egypt. Even Joseph showed his brothers who the true “pit master” was, and of course, Schmulka Bernstein’s offered its customers smoked meats decades ago. While Kansas City and Memphis hotly debate which of them is the home of real BBQ, the aroma of this cooking sensation has wafted around the country and today kosher BBQ cook-offs sanctioned by the KCBS, Kansas City Barbecue Society, as well as the World Kosher BBQ Championship in Memphis, have been popping up around the country. The Southern New England Kosher BBQ Championship and Craft Fair will be holding its annual event Sunday, August 30th, 2015 in Fairfield, CT. Hosted by Congregation Beth El and with strict kosher supervision by Bais Ben Zion, Rabbi Zushe Blech of Monsey, the event is on track to eclipse the 3,000+ attendees it had last year. With over two dozen creatively-named competitors from around the country vying for bragging rights in the ever-important areas of chicken, beans, ribs, and brisket, the event highlights a unifying appreciation for the smoky, barbecue goodness shared by both backyard grillmasters and chefs alike. Come watch teams like Burnt Offerings, RaBBi-Q, and Uncle Morty and the Meatzva Girls try to wow the judges with their “Lo’ and Slo’” skills. One other part of the competition is the Marvin Rembo People’s Choice Award, named after founder of the Long Island Kosher BBQ Cook-off who tragically passed

away just days before the 2013 competition, and awarded for creativity in Team name and booth decoration. Elan Kornblum, publisher of Great Kosher Restaurants Magazine and one of the celebrity judges, told me he’s been looking forward to the SNE BBQ, now the largest such event in the tristate area, since last year. “And what makes it even better,” says Kornblum, “is that the founder, Warren Rockmacher, is a huge BBQ fanatic. His enthusiasm for the event and the participants is contagious.” In speaking to Rockmacher, it’s clear that the event is much more than a Sunday afternoon bungalow colony weenie roast. We’re talking serious meats, with cooking starting as soon as the mashgiach (kosher supervisor) opens the fridges on Motzei Shabbat. They’ll be working feverishly and delivering their wares to the judges beginning around 11:30. Once all their items have been presented, there will be samples available beginning about 1:30 as long as they last (probably not long!). But never fear, you can get your fill of heavenly (both kosher-wise and yummy-wise) barbecue goodness. Ari White, a return competitor and proprietor of The Wandering Que, a traveling kosher BBQ “experience,” will be setting up shop to offer delights like chicken sandwiches, chili, and ribs ranging from “half a pound to absolutely Flintstonian!” He related that last year they were seriously surprised by the overwhelming demand for the kosher vittles and ran out of food before the day was over, something he plans to avoid this year. (The Wandering Que is under the supervision of Baltimore-based Star-K and White brings his own mashgiach.) There will also be hot dogs and hamburgers sold by the shul, a roasted corn vendor, and a Rita’s Water Ice stand. The food, though, is just one part of the larger event. “We have approximately 23 barbe-

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que teams, hot dog- and pickle-eating contests, kids’ play zones and activities including giant inflatables, local TV and radio stations broadcasting on site and a unique gathering of top artists and crafters,” related Warren Rockmacher, the event’s founder and co-chair. “The craft vendors will be an eclectic bunch, displaying a wide variety of amazing and beautiful Objet D’art for you to take home and offering a fun way to spend a day with your family. “There will be great entertainment throughout the day – renowned DJ, Starlight Express NY, will be playing music all day long. For live entertainment, Silver Steel from Bridgeport, CT, will be returning along with the amazing kids band, The Rock Godz.” As Rockmacher quipped, “You haven’t heard Hava Nagila until you’ve heard it played by a steel drum band!” Add to that raffles and the chance to win a new grill to take home, and you’ve got a full-course day of fun. Town officials have jumped in to help, providing police and emergency services, and arranging free parking at the local schools and library. It’s shaping

up to be a great day which will benefit Operation Hope, a local food bank and shelter, as well as several other charities including the local Fire Company. One attendee last year said it was great watching the local Chabad visitors mingling with a biker group that came to enjoy the event. “It was just fun, relaxing, and everybody smiling.” Open to the general public (no pets please; service animals only) admission is two canned food items to help restock the shelves at Operation Hope. Close by and lots of fun, come share your love of Kosher and ‘Cue with a few thousand of your closest friends. What: The Southern New England Kosher BBQ Championship and Craft Fair Where: Congregation Beth El “Fairgrounds,” 1200 Fairfield Woods Road, Fairfield, CT 06825 When: August 30, 2015 from 11am to 5pm Why: Because this BBQ answers to a higher authority

Around The Community Orah Day Camp: The “Head”quarters of Fun

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I can’t believe my “eyes”—the end of camp is in sight! It makes my “head” spin to think that the summer is almost over. But don’t worry, the last few days are still jam-packed with fun and exciting trips. The 7th graders went searching through Gourmet Glatt, the proud sponsors of our gorgeous t-shirts, for food items that fit into our body parts scavenger hunt. There was “elbow” macaroni, chicken “legs” and Men”toes” candy, to name a few of the foods the girls came up with. It was enough to make your “mouth” water and “stomach” grumble. The Kindergarten bunks went to Great Play which is a new virtual reality indoor play space in Woodmere that is just the right size for our little campers. The 4th grades went to Fitwize and this trip fits theme”wize” into every week of camp! The girls used child-sized equipment to work their various body parts, bones and muscles. They all enjoyed the trip—Fitwize is a great fit for Orah Day Camp. It would not be going out on a “limb” to say that our 7th graders get special trips. Some were new this summer, like Archery in Staten Island, and some were a given. You can take it to “heart” or to the bank that if you’re in 7th grade you are going to get a ride in a stretch limousine. This year, because we have so many 7th graders, ka”h, we had not one but two luxury vehicles pull up to camp to take the girls for a cool, sweet, “palette” pleasing treat at Rita’s of Oceanside. The girls kept their “eyes” open for this “ride” of passage that is just for our 7th graders. While the end of camp brings a tear to my “eye,” some bunks are excited because it means the final production. Bunk 5C has been working tireless-

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ly with our drama morah, Mrs. Malka Wolf, on the play; Bunk 5A, along with Tali Waldman, our dance morah, put their best feet forward to perform an amazing dance. All the girls who are in choir, from a number of different bunks, waited with baited breath to sing their “hearts” out. A surprise last minute request from Bunk 4A was also a treat as we got to see some amazing gymnastic “feets.” The entire camp was invited to the show, to cheer on their fellow campers and then clap their “hands” in appreciation of a super job! The final Main Event of Summer 2015 was the showing of the camp video. All summer long as the girls jumped, danced, and played in our super specialties, on trips and during the previous Main Events, we have been taking pictures and videos that have been professionally compiled into an incredible video. Throughout the last day of camp, the bunks came to the see the video, relived some of the highlights and revisited some of the trips that were near and dear to their “hearts.” It is with a heavy “heart” that we say goodbye to Summer 2015. We used our “eyes” to see our camp friends, our “mouth” to sing our camp songs, and our “feet” to run to wonderful camp activities! All summer long we were busy from morning to night, from “head” to “toe” we came to camp, went on trips, laughed our “heads” off, and had a phenomenal time. None of this would have been possible without our amazing campers and dedicated staff. To our campers and their parents, thank you for entrusting your children to us. To our staff, thank you for caring for our girls, and to all the people who work tirelessly behind the scenes to make Orah Day Camp “head” and “shoulders” above the rest, thank you! It might not seem like enough but it comes from the bottom of our “hearts.” So for the last time—you can win by a “nose,” gain the upper “hand” and accept with open “arms” that Orah Day Camp is the “HEAD”quarters of fun!

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Around The Community Five Towns Marriage Initiative For the Sake of Peace The Abarbanel teaches us a lesson in maintaining peace. When the spies were sent to scout out the land of Israel, they were sent with Moshe’s backing and Hashem’s agreement. Moshe gave the spies numerous instructions for what to look for in the land of Israel and he explained what type of people they could expect to find there. When the spies first

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people, Moshe and Hashem, it was necessary to portray the matter a bit differently than it had really occurred. There is such a precedent in the Torah that for the sake of peace we may even alter the truth, under specific circumstances. The importance of peace can’t be understated. It is important enough that the truth can be altered for its sake, even though the world stands on truth and that too is a fundamental principle. In marriage we are charged with maintaining peace between ourselves and our spouse. When one realizes how strong of an emphasis the Torah places on peace, it becomes clear that we must go to incredibly great lengths to preserve peace in one’s homes. May we merit having homes of marital harmony, love and peace. Five Towns Marriage Initiative provides educational programs, workshops and referrals to top marriage therapists. FTMI will help offset counseling costs when necessary and also runs an anonymous shalom bayis hotline for the entire community Sunday, Tuesday and Thursday evenings, 9:30-11p.m. For the hotline or more information, call 516-4305280 or email dsgarry@msn.com.

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Around The Community The Woodmere Fire Department came down to Camp Funshine for a spectacular hands-on presentation of fire safety and equipment last week. The children got to try on their gear, ask questions, and got to explore all around the inside of the firetrucks. What an amazing treat for all of the bunks. The best part was watching all the firemen get geared up and speed off to a real emergency! Special thank you to Chevy Kail for arranging the day and hats off to the whole fire department. You outdid yourselves! Camp Funshine campers will never forget you!

The wedding of Devorah Nekritz, daughter of Rabbi & Mrs. Daniel Nekritz, and Aryeh Smith, son of Rabbi & Mrs. Meir Smith, took place on Thursday evening at Tiferes Mordechai. Rabbi Moshe Tuvia Lieff, Mara D’Asra of Agudath Israel Bais Binyomin, was the Maseder Kiddushin, and Rabbi Yechiel Perr, Rosh HaYeshiva of Yeshiva of Far Rockaway and an uncle of the kallah, read the kesuba. The kallah’s father is a rebbe in Yeshiva of Far Rockaway and the chosson’s father has been a melamid for thirty-five years in Minneapolis. PHOTO CREDIT: IVAN H NORMAN

Hillel Day Camp and HASC Team Up to Go High Tech On August 18th, HASC and HAFTR’s Hillel Day camp teamed up to create a special Tikkun Olam project. HAFTR donated all of its old hardware to HASC for an e-recycling program. This hardware will be used by HASC to train individuals in their programs for possible careers. It will also allow HASC to use the scrap metal to raise money and awareness for their program. Hillel asked our CIT staff (counselors in training) to participate in the program. Sean Bokor, recent HAFTR graduate, was the creator of the program. Sean explained, “I walked around school and always saw leftover hardware that was not being used. What can be better than donating to those who need it and helping the Jewish community?” Sean, along with the CITs, helped create a party for a group of HASC members when they came to visit our camp. Afterwards the CITs helped load a very large truck with all the equipment. Rabbi Aryeh Cohen, Hillel Day Camp’s head of chinuch, spearheaded the Judaic side of this unique program. “The Torah teaches us that just as important as our relationship with Hashem is our care for each other. This

program was amazing in enabling our campers to both help others and make the world a better place.” This summer at Hillel Day Camp new and innovative technology was brought to the campers. Besides the regular sports, swimming, and trips our campers also explored engineering, robotics, 3D printing and computer programming. Ari Solomon, Director of Hillel, explained, “It is important to create an extension of the curriculum that HAFTR has initiated throughout the year. We want our campers to remember community as well. While we are on a vacation from school we are never on a vacation from education and community service.” HAFTR and Hillel feel strongly that we can teach children that technology is not only for games but a tool to help one succeed in the future and do good in the world. A powerful message of v’ahavta l’reacha kamocha.

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As the industry leader in inspiring trips to Poland, Project Mesorah recently completed two individual groups within a two week period. The first trip consisted of over 120 people from across the U.S. and a second, private trip consisted of 20 members. The general trip was led by the noted Maggid Rav Paysach Krohn and Rav Shlomo Cynamon, Rav of Khal Bnei Torah Flatbush. The trips, inspiring beyond words, have become a trademark event of the noted organization Project Mesorah. Here is a letter shared by Reb Dovid Greenhouse who went along on the first trip: “As we waited for our luggage at the baggage claim knowing that we had just landed in Poland, a chill went down my spine. Despite the fact that I was completely overtired I realized that we were actually standing in Poland only 70 years from the liberation. Our heritage and the heritage of Torah Jewry came from Poland and here I am standing in Poland once again. It became quite apparent that we would be starting a full day of visiting holy and memorable places and that the little sleep I caught on the plane would have to do for the time being. The busses were now packed and we started heading towards the last remaining Shul in Warsaw, the Noizik shul. As I walked I was flabbergasted by the beauty of the shul and how it is literally the same shul that is in the picture that Project Mesorah’s Director R’ Ari Scharf passed around for all of us to see. The picture showed Jews

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standing in front of the shul before the war; my mind was blown. We then took a fifteen minute drive to the remains of the Warsaw ghetto and cemetery where there are tens of thousands of kevarim. We davened by the kevarim of Reb Chaim Brisker, the Netziv, the Chemdas Shlomo, and many more. “R’ Ari called us over to one kever in particular and said, ‘Does anyone notice what is different about this kever?’ He continued, ‘This is not a real kever; it is a bunker made to look like a kever and children hid here at night to stay safe from the Nazis ym”sh. Any child that fled through the sewers into the cemetery had a chance of survival because the Nazis refused to go in as they were afraid of diseases, so the children would hide in this bunker disguised as a grave at night because the Nazis would shoot randomly at anything that moved at night.’ “We then got back on the buses and traveled to Ger to see the Ohel of the Sefas Emes, Chidushei Harim, and visited the Ger Beis Medrash. Finally we arrived at our hotel in Lublin for the night, although we were too charged to sleep. “Bright and early the following morning we woke up for Shacharis and breakfast before setting off on our second day of our ‘mission’ to Poland. You can’t really understand unless you have been to Poland but there are really a lot of mixed emotions of being there. On the one hand there was the unspeakable horror which haunts us with every step. We also felt a feeling of gratitude to the Ribono Shel Olam for allowing us to be able to live as Jews and return to Poland. We returned to say Kaddish and sing our hearts out to Hakadosh Boruch Hu and thank Him for the brachos He has given us. “We arrived at the Yeshivas Chachmei Lublin and we leined kriyas haTorah. Shortly thereafter Rav Shlomo Cynamon started singing and before we knew it we were dancing around the bima with the Torah. After a truly inspi-

rational and moving speech from Rav Paysach Krohn, Mr. Michael Landau gave a shiur on Daf Hayomi, lighting up the beis hamedrash once again. From the Yeshiva we davened at the kevarim of the Maharshal, the Chozeh of Lublin. “There is an eerie feeling in the air as we entered the Majdanek Camp. Seeing the gas chambers where so many lost their lives brought streams of tears down our faces as we sang Ani Maamin. Our day ended in Lizensk where davened at the kever of the Noam Elimelech. We sang and danced and our voices were

heard through the streets. Later that night we arrived in Krakow for the night. “That was only one and a half days of the trip. Shabbos in Krakow, visiting the shul and kever of the Rema, the kevarim of Sarah Schenirer, the Tosfos Yom Tov, the Megaleh Amukos, the Bach, and more; it was truly inspiring. “We left Poland as one unit, as one family. We felt proud that we were part of Project Mesorah, helping the future of Klal Yisrael remain bright. Next trip, I am bringing many of my friends as well. Thank you Project Mesorah.”

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Around The Community Little Curious Explorers – Development and Enrichment Center Cup O’ Fun Café, soon to be called Little Curious Explorers – Development and Enrichment Center, is an interactive indoor activity center, party place, and enrichment center for children. Our facility boasts a 8,000+ square-foot funfilled environment providing endless of hours of entertainment, physical and cognitive development for children and imaginations of all ages. We want to bring to the community endless possibilities that cater to children’s development through fun and exploration. Our goal is to unsettle their minds, expand their limits, stimulate their intellects, and allow them to recognize of their own endless capabilities. We are passionate about the changes that are coming. The educational director has an extensive background in special education including generating evaluation reports for students’ progress to support recommendations for student development; incorporating special learning strategies for learning disabled students; following an IEP, and more. She holds a B.A. in Speech-Language Pathology and Psychology, an M.S. in both Students with Disabilities and Early Childhood Education, birth to grade 2. It’s more than just a play space and birthday party venue. There are a few things in store you must know about.

Monthly Calendar Be sure to check our monthly calendar or follow them on Facebook for special events and classes. Stop in for a lunch date with Spongebob, enjoy a Belly Dance Class (10 yrs+), make your own play-doh, and enjoy some arts and crafts. Wild & Wacky Mondays in August offer special ½ priced discounts for the 2nd child. All events include Open Play. 3-Hour Enrichment Program (9 a.m. – 12 p.m./12:30 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.) What’s most exciting is that a 3-hour, 5-day enrichment program for children ages 2 - 4 years old will launch this Sep-

tember. Many moms are scrambling and looking for a program for their children right about now. Look no further! This program will encourage children to explore their world in a safe and nurturing environment through hands-on experiences and includes some of the classes listed below. Fall Classes The class line-up is perfect for kids of all ages, including adults: Baby Ballet Long Island • Music Together • Soccer Shots • Bricks 4 Kidz • Belly dance • Yoga

• Alef Bet Program-Jewish studies • Zumba/Zumba Kids/Zumba Kids Jr./ Zumbini • T.Y.D.I. Kids Etiquette Program Modern dance Hip Hop Jazz/funk Tap More classes coming this fall! Drop Off Programs When you simply can’t find a sitter for date night, lunch with friends, or even a job interview, one option is to use their Mommy Time or Date Night Drop Off program. For 3-hours, your little one will enjoy creative play time, arts and crafts, a meal/snacks, and more. Wait! There’s more! Special group play date discount available for 8+ children. Space rental available for dance rehearsals, auditions, performances, events, workshops, etc. For rates and reservations to any of the programs listed above, please call Cup O’ Fun Café/Little Curious Explorers at (516) 872-2600/917-291-1843 or email CupOFunCafe@hotmail.com. We’re located at 6 Rockaway Avenue, Valley Stream, NY. Visit us on Facebook at Facebook/Cup o’ Fun Café.

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HaGaon HaRav Yitzchok Tuvia Weiss, shlita: “This Sefer Has Special Meaning for Me” HaGaon HaRav Yitzchok Tuvia Weiss, shlita, Gaavad of the Eidah Hachareidis, was another venerated senior gadol who was unable to contain his admiration and joy upon seeing the sefer. A delegation of senior members of Dirshu’s hanhala, led by Dirshu’s Nasi, Rav Dovid Hofstedter, visited and brought the sefer to Rav Weiss. After spending a considerable amount of time looking at the sefer and the special Biurim U’Musafim section that sheds light on each halacha, Rav Weiss told Rav Hofstedter that the publishing of such a sefer has special meaning for him as a talmid of Rav Moshe Schneider, zt”l, Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshiva Toras Emes of London. Rav Schneider was a close talmid of the Chofetz Chaim and would constantly relate to the bachurim teachings that he had heard directly from the Chofetz Chaim. Rav Weiss began to reminisce from over seventy years ago about the impact that Rav Schneider had on his talmidim and the stories he would relate from the Chofetz Chaim and how Rav Schneider insisted that the talmidim learn the sefarim written by the Chofetz

wickedness and their sin extends forever. They are: Minim, apirkorsim…and baalei lashon hara.” Rav Schenider related that the Chofetz Chaim did not quote the Rambam in his sefer because he said, “I did not want to scare people too much.” He explained that if people would feel that they would not have olam habah they would just give up. The nonagenarian, Rav Weiss, then took the rare step of accompanying Rav Hofstedter and the hanhala of Dirshu all the way from his home to the car, remarking that the zechus of harbotzas Torah of the organization is tremendous. HaGaon HaRav Chaim Kanievsky, Shlita, Warmly Receives Sefer The Dirshu’s hanhala also visited HaGaon HaRav Chaim Kanievsky, shlita, and presented him with the sefer. Rav Chaim took great pleasure in receiving the sefer and spent time going through the Biurim U’Musafim. In fact, his grandson related to the hanhala of Dirshu that Rav Chaim often looks into the Biurim U’Musafim on the Dirshu Mishnah Ber-

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“The Aroma of Geulah” It is no wonder that upon perusing the new Sefer Chofetz Chaim, the senior Rosh Yeshiva, the venerated HaGaon HaRav Aharon Leib Shteinman, shlita, remarked with profound simcha, “Es shmekt der geulah – It has the aroma of the geulah!” The Chofetz Chaim writes in his introduction that one of the reasons Moshiach has not yet arrived is because we have not yet managed to rectify the colossal sin of lashon hara. Inherent in Rav Shteinman’s words was the fact that the comprehensive learning of these halachos combined with the aids to help learn and understand the halachos in the present in this edition of the Chofetz Chaim can help bring the geulah closer.

Chaim daily. The hanhala of Dirshu and Rav Weiss conversed about one important citation in the Biurim U’Musafim section of the Dirshu Sefer Chofetz Chaim, where a fascinating quote from his Rebbe, Rav Moshe Schneider, is cited in the name of HaGaon HaRav Moshe Sternbuch, shlita, Raavad of the Eidah Hachareidis and a fellow talmid of Rav Schneider. He mentions that Rav Schneider once asked the Chofetz Chaim why, in the entire Sefer Chofetz Chaim, there are copious quotations from the Rishonim emphasizing the terrible sin of lashon hara, but the Chofetz Chaim seemingly neglects to bring the Rambam’s powerful words that state, “These people do not have a portion in olam habah, but are cut off and lost and judged for their terrible

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Gedolei Yisrael Greet the Publishing of the Groundbreaking Dirshu Edition of the Sefer Chofetz Chaim with Great Joy

urah and finds it very useful. Rav Chaim warmly blessed Rav Hofstedter and the hanhala for producing the sefer. Numerous Additions, Enhanced Learning When one sees the numerous features offered by the new edition of the Dirshu Sefer Chofetz Chaim, it is no wonder that the gedolim were so enamored. Firstly, the Dirshu Sefer Chofetz Chaim contains a clear explanation of every word of the halachos of the Chofetz Chaim in the Mekor Chaim section, written in easy to understand lashon kodesh so that those who have difficulty with the more terse, rabbinic way that the Chofetz Chaim was written can just look at the Hebrew translation/explanation adjacent to it on the same page. Biurim U’Musafim Perhaps the most groundbreaking component of the Dirshu edition of the Sefer Chofetz Chaim is the wide-ranging, detailed Biurim U’Musafim section written on the corresponding page to the words of the Chofetz Chaim. The Biurim U’Musafim contains two major components. First, it brings countless quotes and cross-references from the Chofetz Chaim’s other sefarim as well as from elsewhere in the Sefer Chofetz Chaim that shed light on the topic at hand in a more comprehensive way. Secondly, the Biurim U’Musafim brings thousands of piskei halacha from gedolei haposkim both present day and from previous generations as well as quotes from the baalei mussar about the words of the Chofetz Chaim. In addition, there are many practical scenarios that have cropped up since the publishing of Sefer Chofetz Chaim that did not exist in his time. Thus, the poskim show how we can derive practical halachos for common, modern-day scenarios and questions from the Chofetz Chaim. In addition, there are hundreds of quotes

from sefarim of the baalei mussar that add emphasis and affect to the words of the Chofetz Chaim thereby enabling the learner to derive maximum benefit from the sefer. The Biurim U’Musafim section is both on the Mekor Chaim section where the Chofetz Chaim writes the actual halachos more briefly and the Be’er Mayim Chaim section where the Chofetz Chaim shows the sources for the halachos. The Biurim U’Musafim has been compiled by a group of elite talmidei chachamim and yirei shamyaim led by HaGaon HaRav Nosson Kopschitz, shlita, Rav of the Kehillas Hachareidim of Beit Shemesh and a senior dayan on the Bedatz of the Eidah Hachareidis. “Repairing a Breach in Klal Yisrael” The hanhala of Dirshu also visited the well-known Chassidishe mashpia, HaGaon HaRav Avrohom Elimelech Biderman, shlita, who could not contain his wonderment about the remarkable work on the Sefer Chofetz Chaim. He expressed the hope that the enhanced learning of Sefer Chofetz Chaim would immeasurably help Klal Yisrael and be a source of great yeshuos. Indeed, the venerated Rosh Yeshiva of Ponevezh, HaGaon HaRav Gershon Edelstein, shlita, expressed a similar sentiment. As he held the new sefer, he said, “When the Chofetz Chaim wrote and published his Sefer Chofetz Chaim his intention was to try repairing the tremendous breach in this vital area of Yiddishkeit that had become so neglected. Although the Chofetz Chaim created a tremendous awareness with his sefer, to our great distress to this very day the sin has still not been rectified as it should. Perhaps the publishing of this sefer will lead to additional rectification of the aveirah of lashon hara and the terrible spiritual toll that it has on the collective body of Klal Yisrael!”

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Camp areivim By Brendy J. Siev

Exciting Camp Feature! Back for a Second Year!

There’s 68 days of summer vacation, and it looks like school’s coming around the corner. How did the Five Towns’ youngest generation find a good way to spend it? This week, we conclude our day camp interview series with what kids have been up to at Camp Areivim!

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6+ 40+ 650+ 2,500+ 11,000+ 60,000+ 65,000+ 5,000,000+

years of Camp Areivim bunks

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hot dogs and hamburgers consumed just on overnights!

dollars’ worth of FREE canteen given out this summer tickets distributed throughout the summer

gallons of water in our 2 brand new 50-foot swimming pools points accumulated at Dave & Buster’s

Camp Areivim, one of the premier all-boys camps in the Five Towns, started six years ago and has since grown to 650 campers. This week, we spoke with Rabbi Yanky Hersh, camp director; Rabbi Yossi Bennett, senior division head counselor; and Rabbi Yosef Friedler, junior division head counselor. TJH: You opened six years ago. Tell us your story. YH: I grew up in Flatbush and learned in Yeshiva Torah Temimah. When I was 17 years old, together with a group of friends, I started a camp in the Ukraine. That’s for another time, but it was an incredible experience that gave me tremendous insight into how to develop a successful camp program. When I got married, I became a rebbe in the Hebrew Academy of Cleveland. After my first year teaching, I was asked to head their day camp and did so for six years. Eight years ago, I moved to Far Rockaway and became a 5th grade rebbe at Yeshiva Ketana of Long Island. After my first summer, a number of parents of the Yeshiva approached me and asked me to start a camp for their older boys who

weren’t going to sleepaway camp. One thing turned into another and Camp Areivim was born at the beautiful new campus of Yeshiva Ketana of Long Island. In the first year of Camp Areivim we had under 50 sixth, seventh, and eighth graders. It was a tremendous success. Most camps start with younger ages and eventually build up; we started with older boys and built down. Four years ago, we branched out to younger age groups and added more divisions over the years. Last year was the first year that we introduced our preschool division, called Areivim Freshies, making Camp Areivim a premiere boys’ summer camp accommodating boys ages nursery through 8th grade. It’s six years later, and our enrollment has grown to over 650 boys, b’li ayin horah. Give us some details of how the camp is structured. YH: Interestingly enough, although the camp has grown tremendously, I wanted to keep my original intent in providing each age group with their own personalized program. I’m extremely proud of how the camp has become four incredibly age-appropriate divisions that run like well-oiled machines. Each division has its own

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individualized program highlighted in each one of their own weekly newsletters: The Freshies Flash, The Areivim Junior Herald and The Areivim Times for the Seniors and MITs. It could have only happened by having an extremely dedicated head staff. All of the division heads are able to perform an unbelievable balancing act! They are incredible at being responsible and organized while at the same time giving non-stop fun to the campers. Our Freshies division is for boys in Nursery, Kindergarten and Pre1A. Mrs. Bayla Barkany directs this division with her signature warmth, love, experience, and organizational skills. Together with Mrs. Adina Hoch, whose fun and bubbly personality adds so much to their division, it’s no wonder that their top-notch program is so successful. Our Junior program is for boys going into 2nd, 3rd, and 4th grades. It is headed by the very experienced and talented Rabbi Yosef Friedler, an incredible machenech who teaches alongside me during the year as a 5th grade Rebbe at YKLI. He puts lev v’nefesh into designing a program that is perfectly suited to this age group. He is assisted by Rabbi Tzvi Medetsky and, our newest addition, Reb “Zezy” Fuld who both add enormous energy and geshmak to the division. The Senior division is for boys going into 5th, 6th, and 7th grades and is headed by another exemplary mechanech, the S’gan Menahel at Mesivta Ateres Yaakov, Rabbi Yossi Bennett. He is my right-hand man in running all of the day-to-day and behind-the-scenes aspects of camp. Besides being so friendly and personable with both staff and campers alike, he is phenomenal at taking care of every last detail of every program, ensuring that everything runs smoothly. The MIT division, which stands for Madrich-InTraining, is for boys going into 8th and 9th grades.

This group is headed by Rabbi Tsvi Greenfield, a very popular rebbe at Mesivta Ateres Yaakov. The M.I.T.s participate in camp responsibilities, help out in the canteen, in younger bunks and in shul. They serve as our gabaim, ba’alei tefilah, and ba’alei kriyah. They have their own extremely intense leagues and are even color war captains. They enjoy specialized overnights all over the East Coast every other week of camp.

fights, and hot cocoa in the morning. Other trips this summer included SkyZone, Adventurers, Luna Park, Legoland, mini golf, laser tag, rock climbing, and a Keansburg Waterpark.

Overnights! That sounds fun. Tell us more. YB: The Seniors and M.I.T.s go on specialized overnights every other week. They go all over the East Coast. We’ve gone to Philadelphia, the Poconos, Boston, Maine, New Hampshire, Lake Placid, Lake George and Lakewood, to name a few. A real highlight this summer happened on our trip to Philly. We went to the Philadelphia Yeshiva where we were zocheh to visit with Rav Shmuel Kamenetsky, shlit”a. The camp was invited to the Rosh HaYeshiva’s backyard and heard divrei chizuk. Each boy had the chance to receive a bracha from the Rosh HaYeshiva. It was very inspiring. The other overnights included really amazing activities and adventures. Some of our activities included white water rafting, banana boating, trampolining, and rock climbing. We visited Six Flag’s Great Escape, Dorney Park, Six Flag’s New England, Dave & Buster’s, Sahara Sam’s and Connecticut Sports Center, amongst so many other amazing locations.

What makes your camp particularly special and unique? YH: It’s really a home away from home. We try to develop the achdus that makes the kids feel “we’re all in it together.” The atmosphere at camp is infectious. When parents or anyone else come to visit the camp the response is always, “Where was this when I was a kid?!” It’s really incredible! YB: From the head staff all the way through the campers in the Freshies division, there is this unique feeling of “all being in it together.” Our staff is hand-picked throughout the school year. Our morahs in the Freshies division are married, highly experienced, and understand the sensitivities of the children. The same goes for our other divisions in which, aside from having caring and responsible counselors, many of our rebbeim remain on throughout the day as counselors and are joined by other married kollel yungerleit as well. YH: We gear our program to what the boys want and need. We understand the need for longer camp hours the older the boys get. Whereas our Freshies division is dismissed at 3:30 daily, and our Juniors at 4:30, our Senior and MIT divisions have a full day beginning with minyan at 9:00 through dismissal at 5:30! The older the camper, the more he needs to be engaged in a kosher, Torahdik, fun environment. The kids en-

What trips do the Juniors enjoy during the summer? YF: The Juniors go on really exciting trips. They have late nights, and even an in-house overnight. They come into the building in their pajamas, have a barbeque, late night story, late night swim, pillow

What’s your motto? YH: Check out our bumper magnets: “We’re all in it together.”

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joy themselves, come home, and are wiped! YF: Our campers are engaged and occupied with activities at all times. There’s no downtime. Even during lunch, every day, we have some sort of competition. We have Sushi Day, a Chopped competition, wacky races and ich veis vos! The staff is constantly involved with the kids! Even our lunches are also age-appropriate and so they differ for each age group. The seniors, for instance, enjoy cholent and kugel every Friday. We try to accommodate every camper so that he is engaged in activities that are important to him. We make sure that we have a balance of activities. It’s really amazing! You have a great learning program. Tell us about it. YF: Our learning director, Rabbi Tzvi Medetsky, is unbelievable! He runs all of our learning programs. He is very hands-on and is involved in all the learning in every age group. He is also extremely creative! He has introduced a number of extracurricular learning programs with fantastic incentives for learning over Shabbos (Masmidei Areivim), reviewing shnayim mikrah v’echad targum, age-appropriate kriyah programs, and all sorts of other ideas. He is so encouraging and ensures that the learning in camp is both serious and geshmak! Our rebbeim are quite experienced and know how to motivate our campers. We have rebbeim who give safrus workshops, sukkah building projects, Erev Shabbos “Kiddush clubs” and so much more. Even the Pre1A bunks in the Freshies Division have a rebbe in the morning, focusing on kriyah, ensuring that the summer is a bridge to the coming school year. The goal is that our boys should feel the simcha and warmth of learning and to come into the next school year on a high. YH: I actually had a rebbe call me at the beginning of this past school year. He was very surprised that a certain boy who had entered his class who the past year was just an average boy, was now at the top of his class. The rebbe said that he asked the boy what had changed and he said that he had a great summer of learning at camp. This boy happened to have won our Masmidei Areivim learning contest having learned over 20 blatt of Gemara over the course of the summer! Wow! Tell us more about the Freshies program.

YH: This year’s Freshies theme was Around the World. Each week, they visited a different country and had different activities based on each week’s theme. The Freshies have their own sports clinics and focus on a different sport each week. They learn from a very young age the rules, fundamentals and how to play each sport. We have a Wheel of Fun Park with 30 different wheeled vehicles. They have their own swimming pools, inflatable water slides, jungle gyms, and arts and crafts room as well.

YF: It’s hard to say. We do so much and we present everything in such a fun way. Sometimes even the most ordinary of things becomes so much fun because of the way the staff gets into it. YH: If I had to pick, I’d say that for the Freshies they love their brand-new, huge commercial water inflatables! It’s like a carnival for them every day! For many Juniors, it’s our two brand new 50-foot pools. For many of the Seniors and MITs it is definitely the overnights and competitive leagues that are the most exciting parts of camp.

Every day, at the end of the day, we look at each other and say, “ This was the best day in camp.”

Tell us about leagues. YH: Each division has their own designated leagues. Our leagues are a very competitive and exciting part of camp! We play a lot of sports – baseball, hockey on our new hockey rink, flag football on our new turf football field, soccer, volleyball, and basketball – both indoor and outdoor. Baruch H-shem, YKLI has ample grounds and facilities for it all, and the boys play different sports each day. We have designated league commissioners who oversee all the league activities. The counselors get really into the games, hyping up the campers. We emphasize achdus, sportsmanship and menschlechkeit and always include honorable mentions in our weekly league highlights.

They also enjoy age-appropriate trips throughout the summer such as bowling, sprinkler parks, the fire station, Fun Fusion, and Chuck E. Cheese. Tell us about your campus and facilities. YH: We are located on the Yeshiva Ketana of Long Island campus. We’re in their state-of-the-art building and enjoy their sports facilities on the adjacent properties. We have an outdoor hockey rink, volleyball court, soccer field, and brand-new irrigated football turf (the same turf used in the Meadowlands!). We enjoy outdoor basketball courts, an indoor gym, and two massive 50-foot pools. Our baseball field can accommodate four baseball games at once! Can you narrow down the summer to a single highlight? YH: It’s hard to say “highlight.” So many things are going on at our camp. Every day, at the end of the day, we look at each other and say, “This was the best day in camp.” YB: Different kids enjoy different things. It’s important to pinpoint and try to tap into what the children enjoy most. Every camper has his own highlight.

This is our final interview of the summer. Any last words to share before everyone goes back to school? YH: I truly believe that camp is a stepping stone for the coming year. We put an enormous amount of energy creating a Torahdik environment for our campers. I also feel that a camp setting is the best place for a child to work on bein adam l’chavero. At camp, the entire day is spent interacting with other children. Our staff is consistently involved as positive role models to their campers. There is very little downtime, and the campers need to be occupied with kosher fun. I often say that the two months of the summer can sometimes have a bigger impact on a child than the ten months of the school year. It gives me tremendous chizuk when I see over 600 campers safely and happily engaged in all the camp fun. It’s a great feeling. I hope to continue, be”H, being involved in making positive impressions on our boys’ lives – next year, in Areivim Yerushalayim! 

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Exciting Camp Feature! Back for a Second Year!

Camp Atara is one of the largest all-girls’ day camps in the Five Towns/Far Rockaway area. We spoke to camp directors Leah Mond and Shonie Schwartz to hear all about the fun.

TJH: Thanks for taking the time to speak with us. Can you give us a general overview of Camp Atara? LM & SS: It’s a girls’ camp located at TAG and caters to campers nursery through 8th grade. The day runs from 8:45 am until 4:00 pm. Who are the directors? Leah: I’m Leah Mond. I grew up in Woodmere and live there with my husband and children. I am a pre-1a teacher at TAG during the year. My daughter goes to Camp Atara. Shonie: My name is Shonie Schwartz. I grew up in Westchester, teach special education during the year, and live in Woodmere with my husband and kids. My daughter also goes to Camp Atara. We both started out as division heads about eight years ago, then we were head counselors together, and now we are the directors and have been for the last few years. How do you split up the responsibilities? We are co-directors and pretty much work as a team on everything. When and how did the camp start? About 15 years ago, Rabbi Moshe

Weitman felt there was a community need for another girls’ camp in the neighborhood. He was the driving force behind it. Boruch Hashem, we have over 25 bunks and almost 200 staff members. Our staff members include dedicated returning staff, and we always love to bring in new people. We have three divisions – preschool, upper,

ing into sixth through eighth grade. CITs are eighth graders who opt to work half a day and enjoy being campers the other half. They swim, do ceramics, and participate in leagues. Where are some of the places the Atara Adventurers go? Kayaking, boating, amusement

We absolutely love to be here.. That feeling spills over onto the kids. and Atara Adventurers, totaling over 650 campers in all. Wow! You’ve really grown. How do you divide up the divisions? The preschool is from nursery through going into first grade. That division is staffed by experienced moros. The upper division includes girls going into second grade through fifth grade. Atara Adventurers is our special travel camp division. Campers are go-

parks, overnights, late nights, local indoor play centers, boat rides, archery, biking, go-carting, rock climbing, paintballing…the sky is the limit! They even get weekly tennis lessons at the Country Club. That sounds like a wonderful program! Tell me about the daily program for the preschool and upper divisions. We have a very packed day of fun activities. A normal day includes 40-minute activities, such as aerobics,

art, baking, ceramics, dance, drama, sports, and swim. We also include random surprise activities just to add to the excitement. One day we closed off the street and filled it with blow-up activities. Other days we did a carnival, we had a visit from the ice cream truck, and we always have tons of surprise activities and fun all the time. As for trips, most bunks go on a trip once a week. Our goal is to keep everybody excited, happy, and having a good time. Even our staff is having a great time. There’s really never a dull moment at our camp. The kids are having fun and engaged literally every minute of the day. Camp Atara is such a safe and enjoyable place to be – we make that our priority. We’re a very organized camp, but we’re a lot of fun, ready to do spur of the moment things. In fact, we moved away from themes. We felt that they inhibited our creativity. So we’ll take kids to Season’s Express for Slurpees at the spur of the moment. We want to be flexible and just have fun. We love what we do and that carries into everything. You mentioned that your staff is having a great time on the job. Is that something you try to do deliberately,

With over 600 kids, how do you do it? That’s what we spend our day doing! We follow up with girls, we go to the

How far ahead do you two start getting together to plan the summer camp calendar? It’s without a doubt a wholeyear project. We work on the camp all year long to ensure a successful summer. In fact, we have a full-time office manager who is available to speak to parents year-round. We even go to camp shows to keep improving things. We live and breathe camp. Sounds like the two of you work together really well. Have you always been friends? No, we met on the job, but we’ve become best friends. What’s the best part of working together? Being goofy and spending so much time working togeth-

What is the hardest thing about being camp director? Leah: Worrying about the safety of the children and making sure everything goes smoothly. Shonie: Figuring out how to make dinner and Shabbos for my family! How would the campers describe you? Fun, excited, goofy, lively, funny, and happy!

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How do you manage to juggle your role as director while also having a family? Hashem helps us! Our families pitch in, our husbands are supportive, and our kids enjoy it. Our husbands have become good friends, and our daughters are so close. They think they’re eventually going to take over Camp Atara. That’s so nice. Any last words? LM: Thanks to our staff and campers for letting us do what we love to do. SS: It’s all about having fun! Thanks for speaking with us. Keep on having fun and enjoy the rest of the summer.

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Tell us more about the trip coordinator. We’re all about trips. We have one person dedicated to organizing trips and bussing. She spends the year planning this. We even do our own bus routes so that kids are never on the bus for more than an hour; we have a bus counselor on each route.

Tell us about the campus. We’re located on TAG’s campus. We use every inch of the elementary school campus. We have sports outside on the play deck and inside in the newly renovated gym. We also have a beautiful outdoor pool. In addition, we have indoor swim in the high school building. We use that building for baking, hula hooping and special activities. All summer long we have an outdoor water park.

er. We have so much fun that it doesn’t feel like work. We’re always laughing. We absolutely love to be here. We enjoy what we do and don’t drag ourselves to work. That feeling spills over onto the kids. We try to make sure every single kid is happy.

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our staff members are enjoying themselves. We come up with creative things to do all the time. This week, we had a staff appreciation night with dinner and “paint nite.” They work hard, and we recognize it!

lunchroom, we cheer with them—we are all over the place. We’re greeting them in the morning, in the hallways, in their rooms. We’re always popping our head in and out of their activities. We’re there to see them off at the end of each day, and we run the oneg every Friday and try to get every single camper involved.

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and if so, how? Absolutely! We have almost 200 staff members and they are essential to the running of our camp. Every single thing is organized by someone specific. We even have someone just for organizing transportation and trips. It’s really important to us that

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Johnny is given the task of collecting boxes of cakes for the Summer Fair. He collected boxes from various people in his local village and each box was labelled in Roman Numerals with the number of cakes in the box. By the time Johnny had collected the last box, he was really hungry and really needed to eat at least one cake. Luckily, the last box was marked with an XI, meaning there were 11 cakes in it. He came up with a brilliant idea of turning the box around and underlining the number to give the impression there were IX—that is 9 cakes—this way he was able to eat two pieces of cake. However, after eating the 2 cakes, Johnny still wanted more. So he came up with a way to change the number shown on the box again and eat even more cakes, without anyone noticing. What did he do? See answer on next page

Kidding! A man went to visit a friend and was amazed to find him playing chess with his dog. He watched the game in astonishment for a while. “I can hardly believe my eyes!” he exclaimed. “That’s the smartest dog I’ve ever seen.” “Nah, he’s not so smart,” the friend replied. “I’ve beaten him three games out of five.”

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2. What is the average weight, fully loaded, of a baseball park hot dog vendor’s bin? a. 25 lbs. b. 100 lbs. c. 10 lbs. d. 40 lbs. 3. It is well-known that Babe Ruth loved hot dogs. In fact, he once ate how many hot dogs between two games of a double header? a. 2 b. 5 c. 8 d. 12 4. How many hot dogs do Americans eat between Memorial Day and Labor Day? a. 80 million b. 300 million c. 750 million d. 7 billion 5. In which city are the most hot dogs eaten? a. Dallas b. New York City c. Chicago

d. Los Angeles 6. How much does Thomas Makkos pay the city every year to sell hot dogs at a pushcart outside of the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art? a. $17,050 b. $24,320 c. $68,552 d. $415,670 Answers: 1. D. Out of all 30 MLB parks, Miller Park in Milwaukee is the only one in which sausages outsell hot dogs per season. Miller Park is home to the famous “Sausage Race” during each game. 2. D. A fully loaded bin weights approximately 40 pounds. And vendors typically walk 4 to 5 miles per game, up and down steps. 3. D. Legend has it the Babe once ate 12 hot dogs and eight bottles of soda between games of a doubleheader. 4. D. Americans eat 7 billion hot dogs during peak season, from Memorial Day to Labor Day. That’s 818 hot dogs per second. 5. D. Los Angeles residents consume more hot dogs than any other city, beating out New York and San Antonio/Corpus Christi, Texas. 6. D. Thomas Makkos pays $415,670 per year for the city’s top dog spot, which is right outside of the Met. That’s right— what do all of those “cultured stiff shirts” want after staring at Rembrandts for 6 hours? A hot dog with

sauerkraut and baked beans! A bunch of frauds! So how did you do? 4-6 correct: You are really good at hot dog trivia. Give yourself a pat on the back…if your hand can actually reach that far. 2-3 correct: You are just a typical American. Make sure to get your 47 hot dogs in this summer. 0-1 correct: You are a total hot dog—make sure they don’t port sauerkraut on your head and stick you in a bun.

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Torah Thought

Rabbi Berel Wein

Parshas Shoftim

nlike other faiths, Judaism does not foresee this world to be one of perfection of the entire human condition. Thus in this week’s Torah reading we are told to create a system of legal justice and means of enforcement of law and order. Society cannot simply rely on the good will and innate good nature of people; this leads to anarchy and chaos. To this end, judges and police are part of the matrix of any civilized society Since the Torah is speaking to a seemingly observant religious society, it may seem incongruous, at first glance, to understand the emphasis that the Torah places on law, order and enforcement. The realism and practicality of Torah dictates that there is bound to be disputes between people, that money is a strong temptation no matter how pious one may be, and that many times people fear police in a manner and intensity greater than their supposed fear of G-d.

One of the seven basic Noachide commandments is that all societies must create a legitimate system of legal justice and to provide for its enforcement.

tuous and moral means. Since all judges, no matter how great and pious they may be, are still essentially only human beings, as such,

Only Heaven sees and judges the collateral effects of events and of human decisions. Naturally, the Torah demands of us just laws, honest judges and fair treatment before the legal bar. We read in Psalms that it is possible, if not even likely, to create evil, bias and unfairness by legal means. The history of civilization is strewn with unfair laws that discriminate, exploit and oppress others. The Torah, upon ordering us to have a society of law and order, immediately commands us to pursue righteousness and fairness through vir-

there can never be a guaranteed correct and fair judgment of every case in dispute. The practice in rabbinic Jewish courts of law is to attempt to achieve a compromise that will somehow and somewhat satisfy both parties in the dispute. In many cases, if not in most, the Jewish judge acts as an arbitrator. Ultimate justice is a very difficult thing to achieve. There are always ramifications of a judicial decision that create unfore-

seen circumstances and potential difficulties. The same is true for judicial enforcement. We are taught that the ultimate judgment belongs to the Creator. Only Heaven sees and judges the collateral effects of events and of human decisions. The Talmud, in realizing the human condition, states that a judge can only decide on the basis of what his eyes see. He can only decide the case that is known before him and not the unintended consequences. This is not only meant to be an exoneration of judicial liability but it is even, more importantly, a clear recognition of human limitations. The perfect judge and the perfect court do not exist in our time. This undoubted lack of perfection does not free us from the obligation to create the best and fairest legal system. This is a never ending task but one that always requires our efforts and energies. Shabbat shalom.

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he Torah commands us to appoint a king to rule over the Jewish people. However, there are various warnings given to the king. He should not acquire too many horses, he should not take too many wives, and he should not amass too much gold and silver. The Daas Zakainim explains that each of these excesses is singled out to protect the king from a particular danger. The danger of amassing too much wealth is that it leads to arrogance. This Daas Zakainim is difficult to understand because, as the Rambam explains, we are obligated to treat a king with great honor; it is vital for his effectiveness as a ruler. As a result, any individual, even the greatest talmid chacham or navi, who walks into the chambers of a king must bow down full face to the ground. No person is allowed to sit down in his presence. Additionally, the king himself must guard his kavod. He isn’t allowed to stand up for any man in public. He isn’t allowed to use titles of honor for anyone else. If he commands a person to leave the room and that man refuses, the king has the right to have him killed. At the same time, a king is expected to remain humble. The Torah isn’t afraid that the great honor accorded to

him will bring him to arrogance. He is capable of maintaining his sense of balance by understanding that honor isn’t due to him, but rather his position. He is still a mortal human. As a servant of Hashem, he plays his role as everyone else does. The question then becomes obvious. If the king is capable of maintaining his humility despite the extraordinary honor accorded to him, why is the Torah so fearful that he will become arrogant if he amasses wealth? It’s as if the Torah is saying, “Honor he can handle, but wealth? Impossible!”

mighty. However, these are situations that a person can deal with. The antidote to honor is to remember where I came from and where I am going. I must understand that today I am being given great honor, but it will pass quickly. Very quickly. Today they sing my praises; tomorrow they will forget my name. That is the way of the world. Power is also something that a person can learn to deal with. As I stand here now, I control the destiny of others. But do I? Do I really have power? I can’t even control whether I will be alive tomorrow or not. When I lay my

“I don’t need anyone; I can make it on my own. I am independent.” Why would it be so difficult for him not to be conceited if he acquired wealth? The answer to this question is based on a deeper understanding of the human personality. The Antidote to Honor Honor is a difficult life test. When a person is given status and accord, it is natural for him to feel different, apart and above the rest of the human race. Power, too, is a grave test. When a person feels that he can control the destiny of other people, he runs the risk of feeling self-important, significant, and

head on the pillow this evening, it is not in my control to will myself alive tomorrow. When my time is up, it’ll be over, and there is nothing that I can do to change that. The big, powerful, mighty me can’t even control whether I exist or not. In that sense, honor and power are potentially dangerous, but a person can be humble despite them. The Danger of Wealth Great wealth is different. Wealth brings a person to a much more dangerous sense of himself — a sense of independence. “I am rich! I don’t need anyone! I don’t need my wife. I don’t need my children. I don’t even need Hashem! I can buy and sell the whole world!” This seems to be the answer to the Daas Zakainim. Because this sense of independence is almost a natural outgrowth of wealth, the Torah warns a king of Israel not amass too much of it. He may be a great man, and he might be able to keep his sense of balance despite many temptations, but wealth will almost certainly lead to arrogance, and it is something that even a man as great as a king in Israel will not be able to resist. This concept has great relevance to us. Whether we are wealthy as compared to others or not, the reality is that

we enjoy great bracha living in the 21st century. Today, we all enjoy material possessions, luxuries, and opportunities that were unheard of in previous generations. One of the great dangers of living in these times is the sense of independence. “I am young, strong, and healthy. I can forge my own way. I don’t need anyone; I can make it on my own. I am independent.” While on one level, this sense is central to being an effective human being, it is also fraught with danger. A person must remain clear-headed in his understanding of Who is really in charge here. I am not the Master of the universe, nor even the master of my destiny. I am dependent. I depend on my Creator for my daily bread, my health, my success, and my existence. With this understanding, a man can enjoy great bracha and still remain humble. When a person is humble, the rest of his character traits naturally fall into place. But when a person is arrogant, the rest of his middos are out of balance as well. An arrogant person becomes angry easily. A humble man doesn’t. An arrogant individual doesn’t feel the pain of others, but a humble man does. The pivot point of all good middos is humility. Just as humility is the center of a person’s character development, so too is it the cornerstone of his avodas Hashem. The Chovos Ha’Levovos explains that just as a master needs a servant, a servant needs a master. One cannot exist without the other. Any sense of arrogance is a denial of my dependence upon Hashem. It revokes my status of a servant of my Master. This sense of dependence upon my Creator brings a person balance and internal happiness because he is in synch with his himself. He doesn’t need to self-inflate and create illusions about his worth. Ultimately, it leads a person to success in this world and the World to Come. Rabbi Shafier is the founder of the Shmuz. com. The Shmuz is an engaging, motivating shiur that deals with real life issues. All of the Shmuzin are available free of charge at the www.theShmuz.com or on the Shmuz App for iPhone or Android.

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seems like we’ve recently been here before. Something monumental is decided upon. “Yes!” declares the president. “It will better the lives of all America, maybe even the entire world!” “There are serious problems that threaten our entire well-being that must be taken care of,” broadcasts his followers. “And this new legislation will solve our ills!” What is in the legislation, you may ask? “What a foolish question,” chides the president’s camp. “Any legislation is better than no legislation—we’ve got problems to solve.” And then, from the other side of the Washington circus comes the dissent. “We will do whatever it takes to stop this bunkum from being sold to the American people! We bet our political careers on it!” And somehow, it always seems to end the same way.

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sor of terror is given the purse strings to billions of more dollars to funnel to Hezbollah and Hamas while whistling all the way to the underground vault which houses the nuclear material it plans to use to bring about World War Three and the final caliphate. There is also the issue that the U.S. was not the only country involved in

vote down the proposed deal. It would be safe to assume that the majority Republican Congress will vote “nay” on September 17, but it is important to first understand what the key points of the opposition to the deal are in order to have a clearer picture of what the political talking points are in the upcoming weeks.

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“hoping that Iran’s nuclear ambitions might change after a 15-year sabbatical might be a bet worth making; believing that Iran’s regional behavior will change tomorrow—while giving up tools to deter or modify such behavior—is not.”

reached between the world powers, including the U.S., and Iran regarding Iran’s development of nuclear capabilities. This time, however, the drama is much different. For one, there is much more at stake here to allow for botched legislation. The worst case scenario here is that the world’s greatest spon-

reaching the accord with Iran. The P5+1 includes the UN Security Council’s five permanent members (the P5): China, France, Russia, the United Kingdom, and the United States, plus Germany. So even if the Congress does override the lifting of Iranian sanctions in September, they would have no say regarding the rest of the world’s actions regarding Iran. Already, Secretary of State John Kerry has taken to threatening Congress that vetoing his deal would be unwise in the global scheme of things. Without any sense of irony, Kerry has argued that if we were to continue sanctioning Iran even after our allies have decided not to, then are we “going to start sanctioning our allies and their businesses after we walk away from the deal? Are you kidding me?” He warned, “That is a recipe very quickly for the American dollar to cease to be the reserve currency of the world – that is already bubbling out there.” Congress and the Senate have 60 days, until September 17, to approve or

Perhaps the most critiqued aspect of the deal is its term: the deal will at most curb Iran’s ability to build a nuclear weapon for only ten years. The short term nature of the deal was already the primary target of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s opposition back when he addressed Congress over the Iranian threat earlier this year. “That’s why this deal is so bad. It doesn’t block Iran’s path to the bomb; it paves Iran’s path to the bomb,” Netanyahu said. “So why would anyone make this deal? Because they hope that Iran will change for the better in the coming years. Or they believe that the alternative to this deal is worse. Well, I disagree. I don’t believe that Iran’s radical regime will change for the better after this deal.” On Tuesday, Democrat Senator Bob Menendez of New Jersey came out in opposition of the deal. “We want the right deal and a deal that does nothing more than delay the inevitable is not a deal we are willing to make,” he announced. He is the second senior Democratic senator to come out against the deal. Second, there is the “anytime, anywhere” provision–or lack thereof–that makes many lawmakers nervous. “Anytime, anywhere” has become the “if you like your plan, you can keep your plan” catchphrase of this piece of Obama legislation. Secretary of State Kerry denies ever saying during the course of the negotiations that the deal would include the right for inspectors to arrive at all times in Iran and search wherever necessary for Iranian deal violations. But many claim that they were under the

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terests and Israel. Since the rise of the Islamic Republic in 1979, when it held 52 Americans hostage for 444 days, Iran has been of the world’s largest sup-

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Now that votes are unofficially being tallied, the question that seems to remain is not if the deal will be voted down in Congress and the Senate, but by how much it will be defeated. As long as 34 members of the Senate still support the deal, the White House can go along with it. There are 44 Democrat Senators in the Senate, and already 27 Senators have pledged to go along with the deal. Furthermore, President Obama needs 145 members of Congress in order to be able to veto any opposition; back in May, the White House was able to procure 151 signatures of Congress members supporting the deal. Even so, the president has the power to act alone in the face of Congressional opposition. Obama may use executive action to lift many of the sanctions against Iran in order to try to keep the deal afloat. “It might not be everything,” said a former administration official familiar with Iran policy. But the

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impression that such a provision was presented as one of the necessary features of any deal. The proposed deal gives Iran over three weeks of preparation in anticipation of any inspection and does not allow inspectors into certain military sites, which would seemingly render any agreement moot. Senator Chuck Schumer, who heroically risked his political career by publicly coming out against the deal last week, called the 24 day delay inspectors would have to access certain sites in Iran “troubling.” Prime Minister Netanyahu has called the inspections “porous.” “You can flush a lot of evidence down the toilet. It’s like telling a drug dealer, we’re going to check your meth lab in 24 days; we put you on warning.” Lastly, there is the problem of not only lifting sanctions and revitalizing the economy of one of the world’s largest sponsors of terror, but of providing them with actual monetary aid to boot. Republican leaders such as Ted Cruz have pointed out that by signing the deal, Iran is up to receive $50 billion in “signing bonuses.” This is on top of the estimated $120-$150 billion it will receive as a result of lifted sanctions. There is no doubt to anyone—on any side of the political spectrum—that Iran will spend its newfound wealth to fund global terror against Western in-

porters of terrorism. It supports known terrorist organizations such as Hamas, Islamic Jihad, Hezbollah and al-Qaeda. Recently, a senior Obama administration official told the Senate, “We’ve decided that we need to address the nuclear threat and then turn to the terrorism.” Many opponents of the deal cite Iran’s reputation as the Middle East’s “bad boy” as reason to hold out for harsher terms with the country. Senator Jeff Flake, a Republican member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee who has sided with the White House on many other foreign policy issues, finally came out with his opposition to the deal this week asserting, “Hoping that Iran’s nuclear ambitions might change after a 15-year sabbatical might be a bet worth making; believing that Iran’s regional behavior will change tomorrow—while giving up tools to deter or modify such behavior—is not.”

 president’s powers “can get you a lot of the way.” Such a move would probably bring the country to the courts fighting over constitutional power limits and have the political mouth breathers on television turning all shades of color for years. Desperate to ensure that this deal goes through, the president can also use the same exercise he has used in opposition to Congress this past November when they refused to support his immigration reform propositions: He issued an executive order which protected illegals from deportation. The same type of “prosecutorial discretion” can be used by Obama when it comes to enforcing sanctions on Iran, were Congress to vote to keep them in place. It is ironic: the only reason the administration finds itself waiting on Congress to approve its deal in the first place comes from its own decision; the White House decided allowing Congress in the loop was the right course of action after Congress threatened to impose even more sanctions on Iran were the president to circumvent them in any Iranian agreement.

¯ ¯ ¯ In the next few weeks, politicians— particularly Democrats—will be facing a rash of bombardment from all sides. Prime Minister Netanyahu and AIPAC have been leaning on lawmakers to reject the proposed accord. Grassroots campaigns from constituents seek to sway the Congressional vote. “As public support for the flawed Iran deal is rapidly eroding, our members, along with other Americans, are expressing their views to their senators and representatives across the country during the congressional recess,” says Marshall

Wittmann, a spokesman for AIPAC. On the other side, lobbying groups focused on world peace, such as the Ploughshares Project, a group focused on attaining a world free of nuclear weapons through peaceful, diplomatic means, are providing support for the deal, directly and indirectly. Ploughshares has spent over $11 million in recent years advocating and supporting groups in favor of a treaty with Iran. Separately, a group of three dozen retired generals released an open letter endorsing the agreement as “the most effective means currently available to prevent Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons.” Then there is J Street. While the majority of Israelis, the Israeli prime minister, and most of the Knesset opposes the Iran deal, the Jewish lobbying group has taken the stance that the deal is in the country’s best interest and has begun a $5 million campaign to let the U.S. know so. Part of its campaign is to assuage any fears of Democratic Congressmembers that a vote in favor of the deal will have political consequences from their Jewish constituents. Jeffrey Goldberg, a writer for The Atlantic and one of Israel’s most outspoken supporters, posed the issue with J Street’s campaign in the following tweet: “If Israel’s elected leader and the head of the opposition oppose the Iran deal, can J Street support it and still call itself proIsrael?” The lobbying will only continue to escalate in the coming weeks, as both sides will vie for the attention of the lawmakers who live and die by one thing only: public perception. As we head into the Days of Judgment, we should turn to lobbying the true arbiter in Heaven to guard us from harm. 

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thursday, august 6

Shepherds, Sweets & Sussya

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start the day right! Cookies to soldiers at the Pina Chama; we’ll buy them fresh in Neve daniel with a view from the highest point in yehuda. then to sussya: taste goat yogurt and puddings at Chalav haaretz dairy, visit the incredible dahlia har sinai at her sheep ranch and buy organic flours, honey and cheeses. Mincha in the new/old Judean style synagogue. Light lunch at the Visitors Center with a chance to buy local crafts. then an in depth tour of ancient sussya, a talmudic era town.

When & Where We leave from Liberty Bell

wedNesday, august 19

Gush Katifers & the Gaza Belt

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Eve Harow

Moreshet gush Katif; the moving, inspirational story of the Jews of gaza and a tour of the new community in Nitzan. then visit kibbutzim on the gaza border and the security chiefs who protect them, via One Israel Fund who are providing upgraded security equipment for the security chiefs and their communities. Lunch at alumim, the kibbutz that remained during Protective edge. hear from anita tucker at her new home in ein tzurim, and much much more.

parking lot (behind the Sonol Gas Station) at 8:15AM prompt, Return approximately 6:30PM

MONday, august 24

Gourmet Day in the Shomron

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Eve Harow

Begin our day with a ride to har Bracha. then freshly ground techina from the samaritans before we see the vineyards of the har Bracha winery and taste their wines. the shmitta year is ending but the challenges continue. gourmet dairy lunch with... wine at the famous tura winery in rachelim. dessert is in a glass at the award winning shilo winery followed by goat cheese tasting at the brand new gush shilo dairy amidst vineyards and olive groves. happy hour with the incomparable yoram Cohen at the tanya winery in Ofra. Chance to buy techina, cheeses, olive oil, honey, cider and of course wine all through the day for your holiday meals and gifts.

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Parents and Children

Studies suggest that parents today, particularly fathers, have more face time with their children compared with their counterparts from decades past. But they

also find that the same technology that allows parents to spend more time at home is simultaneously blurring the lines between work and personal life and distracting parents from the “family time” they so desperately crave. How can parents avoid becoming fragmented during their at-home hours so as to ensure more “quality” time with their children?

Children should know that barring any uncontrollable circumstances, they will receive the personal attention that they so strongly crave at the time when they expect it. One successful strategy is to set strict professional limits whenever possible. Tell associates or clients how important family is to you and that you will complete the work or respond later. Research show that parents who have the freedom to arrange to not be on call from the time that the kids come home from school until they are in bed, or at least until all of their homework is done, typically experience a calmer and more satisfying home environment. Of course, true quality time also means spending personalized time with each individual child on a regular basis. That time should also be irrevocable, unless previously discussed and rescheduled. Children should know that barring any uncontrollable circumstances, they will receive the personal attention that they so strongly crave at the time when they expect it.

It should also be time well spent. In some instances, this may involve learning b’chavrusa or engaging in some other form of mitzvah-based activity. It can also mean time spent in discussion, whether casual, philosophical or otherwise. Come prepared to discuss matters that interest them, including the difficult questions that they rarely have the opportunity to ask about. By showing your children that the Torah can and does respond to all matters of life you will help them develop a deep sense of connection to Yiddishkeit, not just on an intellectual level but on a profound, emotional level as well. And you will further deepen the bond between you and your child. Naturally, for many children “quality” time will by necessity include outings or activities that may not have any intrinsic, “deeper” value other than spending meaningful time with their parent. Such activities may include participating in a recreational activity, going out for dinner, or simply being with each other without outside distractions. Either way, research shows that good parent-child relationships result in happier and more successful children, both at home and in school. It also means payoffs in adolescence, greatly reducing children’s propensity to experiment with potentially risky behaviors, an unfortunate but all-too-well-known dilemma facing our community.

Teachers and Students

Below is a list of strategies which can go a long way in helping teachers establish healthy, meaningful relationships with their students. Get to know them – Start with a short phone call to the student’s home before the year begins. This will convey a powerful message to the student (as well as to his parents) that you are eager to really get to know the child and are excited to have him in your class. The student will be put at ease for the first day of school and likely experience more immediate success. Make lots of early deposits – If you wish to be able to demand from your students and offer criticism where appropriate, it is imperative for students to know that you are motivated by a strong desire to help them. Invest early in the relationship so that you will have something to withdraw from as needed. As the leadership expert John C. Maxwell has famously said, “People don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care.” Monitor their progress – Take time to talk privately with each student once the year begins. Find out about their successes as well as their challenges. Ask how you can be of assistance in making their year a success and let them know that you are always available to talk. Let us use this period to build deeper, more fulfilling relationships with each other and with Hashem and enter the yamim noraim with true sense of ahava. Rabbi Naphtali Hoff is an executive coach and president of Impactful Coaching and Consulting (ImpactfulCoaching. com). He can be reached at 212.470.6139 or at president@ impactfulcoaching.com.

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ollowing a period that highlights the damaging effects of relational breakdowns (Av), we begin a month that is designed to help us reinstate our relationship with our Maker and our faith in Him and His plan (Elul). It is that trust that forms the basis of our ability to properly coronate Him as our King and to submit ourselves to His service. We see this from the very name of the month. Though we know that the names of the Hebrew months were not G-d-given (they were adopted during the Jewish exile in Babylon), we oftentimes can find meaning in them. No truer is this than with the name “Elul,” which hints, in acronym form, to a deepening of our most meaningful relationships. The author of Kitzur Shulchan Aruch (128:1) lists segments of three separate verses that spell the word “E-l-u-l.” The first is Devarim 30:6, which contains the words, “Es levovcha v’es levov” (your heart and the heart of). This full passage reads as follows: “And the L-rd, your G-d, will circumcise your heart and the heart of your offspring, [so that you may] love the L-rd your G-d with all your heart and with all your soul, for the sake of your life.” The context of this pasuk is a promise of return that will follow the fulfillment of the blessings and curses that were enumerated in Chapter 28. Once the Jewish people experience a reawakening and a longing to return to Hashem, He will cut away any layers of spiritual turpitude to reestablish a deep, lasting bond. Another pasuk quoted in the Kitzur is the one that we most commonly associate with Elul. The words, “Ani l’dodi v’dodi li,” (I am for my Beloved and my Beloved is for me, Shir Hashirim 6:3) reflect a clear expression of a loving relationship between us and Hashem, though it, too, begins with us taking the initial step (“I am to my Beloved”). That period is referred to as “yemei ratzon” (days of wanting) and corresponds to the forty days that Moshe spent upon Har Sinai during his third and final ascent. He returned with the second set of luchos, an act that symbolized the complete atonement that his nation received following the sin of the eigel. For the rest of history, these days have been earmarked as a time of spiritual closeness and opportunity, when Hashem is more approachable, as it were, than normal. But such approachability is predicated, at least in large part, by our willingness to make amends with others that we have offended, hurt, and grown distant from. Teshuvah and Yom Kippur only atone for sins between man and G-d… However, sins between man and man … will never be forgiven until he gives his colleague what he owes him and appeases him. (Rambam, Hilchos Teshuva 2:9) Considering the importance of positive relationships to a successful Elul (and beyond) and in light of the fact that we find ourselves close to returning to more normative routines with the end of summer and the start of the school year, now may be the right time to discuss key relationships between parents and children, as well as

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The Plane Ticket that Brought Down a Jet

ou don’t need to be a football fan to have heard about the latest developments in the locker room of the New York Jets. Want proof? I heard about it. The Jets, a team with a strong fan following despite not winning a championship since before men landed on the moon and before bell bottoms went out of style, have had a series of lackluster years with a string of quarterbacks who seemed promising but were never able to lead the team to victory. The latest player, Geno Smith, was reported to be “looking good” in training camp. It seemed he was growing into the role when suddenly, out of the blue, it was announced that Geno would be out for six to ten weeks with a broken jaw. Now, normally other players protect the quarterback so he doesn’t get hurt. In this case, though, he wasn’t even injured on the field! What caused his broken jaw was the rapid progression to the quarterback’s face by the large fist of a teammate. Geno got sucker-punched. The player who hit him, IK Enemkpali, was immediately released by the Jets and could be subject to criminal charges should Smith decide to pursue it. But why would one teammate punch another? In this case, it was a plane ticket that brought down the Jet. It seems Mr. Enemkpali had a football camp he ran in Texas and he’d bought Mr. Smith a ticket to come make an appearance. He

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didn’t show, possibly because someone close to him was killed in a motorcycle crash three days earlier, but IK was still out the $600 he’d paid for the ticket. He demanded reimbursement. Geno said he planned to reimburse

In other words, he focused on the short-term and ended up causing himself a huge loss. Had he paused to think about the fact that the punch would not get Geno to cough up the money, he might not have taken the swing. Had

How often do we take actions to satisfy our emotions in the short run without thinking about the consequences? him but had not done so as of the day of the fight. Besides the $600, undoubtedly there was a certain amount of pride and perhaps even monetary loss because IK had advertised that Geno Smith, quarterback of the New York Jets, would attend the camp, and he didn’t. So what did he do to reclaim his pride? He showed Geno who was boss by punching him so hard he broke the QB’s jaw. Immediately thereafter, he lost his job with the Jets. So did he accomplish what he intended to? Well, let’s see. If his intention was to punish Geno, then yes, he did. But if his intention was to help himself, what he did was help himself out of a job! He didn’t get the $600 and he lost the half-amillion-plus dollars he was supposed to earn over the next four months.

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he focused on the fact that Geno’s good health and playing ability affected his own salary and that a winning season would mean more money for him and that because he hurt the entire team with his actions he would become a pariah, he might have held back. But he didn’t— because he let his anger and emotions get the better of him. How many of us are as foolish as this football player we may never have heard of had he not done something so spectacularly stupid? How often do we take actions to satisfy our emotions in the short run without thinking about the consequences? How many of us act on our passions and urges rather than our intellect simply because we feel it’s in our best interests at the time? I’d suggest the answer is all of us, at one time or another. And that’s a shame, because we end up losing out and only hurting ourselves. The momentary pleasure of revenge was short-lived for the linebacker, and the brief pleasures we get from giving in to our lack of better judgment may cause us to lose everything too. The Torah urges us to make a “cheshbon” of the world, a reckoning of the benefit of a sin against the tremendous pain it can cause and the inconvenience of a mitzvah against the multitude of reward he receives for doing it. This

accounting requires that we take a deep breath, stop, and think before we act. If we don’t, we could fall from the sky as did this ignoble Jet. But the story doesn’t end there. A day later, IK Enemkpali was picked up by another team, whose head coach worked for the Jets when IK was drafted for their team. He said that people make mistakes and he believes in Enemkpali’s ability to offer a positive contribution to his team. IK was given another chance, and most of the time, so are we. While someone who truly does something to harm another person cannot be easily forgiven, when we make mistakes by sinning against Hashem but try to do teshuva, Hashem accepts it and says, “People make mistakes. I know you can be a positive addition to the world.” Elul is like training camp. It’s our time to look around and see how we can contribute. It’s a time to acknowledge the good that others offer and not to

judge them based on a single failing (or several failings). It’s our time to think before we act – so we can reach higher into the heavens than any jet ever could. Jonathan Gewirtz is an inspirational writer and speaker whose work has appeared in publications around the world. You can find him at www.facebook.com/RabbiGewirtz and follow him on Twitter @RabbiJGewirtz. He also operates JewishSpeechWriter.com, where you can order a custom-made speech for your next special occasion. Sign up for the Migdal Ohr, his weekly PDF Dvar Torah in English. E-mail info@JewishSpeechWriter.com and put Subscribe in the subject.

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lift that rises like a tube through the floor, and elaborate classrooms filled with the latest in technology. On the second floor is a large cafeteria—one of many—where employees are fed three square meals a day. One Wednesday I arrived to find MOP’s lobby filled with visitors. They were from China. The dark, brown tables that usually sit empty in the area around the lift were covered with rich pastries and cakes. Waiters were passing out drinks. It looked like a fancy kiddush in the Five Towns. By the time class started I had devoured enough cake to make that night’s supper at home superfluous. The MOP’s bathroom is quite unique. The faucet sits over a round sink. It is a large contraption that juts out in the shape of a cross. I placed my hand under the soap dispenser. It came out in huge a blob that filled my palm. I washed my hands till the sink filled with more soapsuds than a bubble bath. I looked for the paper towels but couldn’t find any. By chance I touched the two bars jutting out from the side of the cross, and was startled by a burst of powerful air that blasted my hands and the sink below with such unexpected force that suds were sent flying everywhere. My shirt, my face, the mirrors, the ceiling and the floors were covered in white bubbles. Chananya, who is in charge of the building’s maintenance, walked in and looked me over. We generally meet ten minutes in advance of every lesson when he unlocks my classroom. He laughed aloud. “You might not be the first this has happened to, but you’re certainly the first to make this room look like a private Jacuzzi.” My students are punctual, their homework always at the ready. Their preparation is quite simple: I ask them

to send me a collection of emails they have sent during the week. I identify those with the most glaring errors and use them during the first half of the class. I have great fun being able to identify each email according to the dialect of each student. On one occasion when I couldn’t attend due to school commitments I received an email from Kumiko who jokingly wrote, “You not know how much I cry missing you and tear made me blind.” She could have sent it anonymously and I still would have been able to detect her Japanese manner of speech. The head of the marketing department studied in America, but that didn’t stop me pointing out the glaring error on his business card which sorely lacked a vowel in his job description. He looked shocked. Maybe it was my impertinence for telling him even before I had begun teaching on the first day that had me wondering just how long I’d last. After a couple of months we changed the structure of our lessons and began spending more time conversing. One Monday I opened a veritable Pandora’s box when I asked them to ask a

question of one of their colleagues they wanted to know but didn’t know the answer to. Some questions were benign. Others were quite personal. The laughter was infectious. I was struck the camaraderie and good cheer. After one particularly busy Wednesday morning I came home to find my wife had prepared a delicious meat lunch. I got to the MOP in the middle of welcoming party for a visiting Mexican delegation. I saw Sylvia, one of my students, wandering among the delegates. “Rafi, you must taste the cakes. They are very special,” she said. As I went to take a piece Sylvia nonchalantly informed me that everything was chalavi. “Just in case you need to know. I know you are religious and such information is important to you.” I was most upset. Since then I have been cautious to maintain a pareve status on Mondays and Wednesdays on the chance a foreign delegation is visiting just in case there are some dainty pastries being served. I get to the MOP early. It’s a habit I’ve had since I began teaching 30 years ago. It gives me time to mentally prepare for class. Sometimes I get there too early and I’ve got time to kill. When that happens there’s always the bubbles on the wall in the bathroom to keep me entertained. Rafi Sackville, formerly of Cedarhurst, lives in Ma’alot in Western Galil. He teaches in the local high school.

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scar, the huge, rambling industrial area founded by Step Wertheimer and bought by Warren Buffet, is a ten minute drive from where we live in Ma’alot. It reminds me of the university campus of my youth; sweeping lawns, magnificent courtyards, and employing so many people that the bus collection area at the end of the day resembles a major hub. My neighbor, David, an engineer, runs the educational program in Iscar’s subsidiary factory not far from Carmiel. Recently he offered me a job I couldn’t refuse. Every Monday and Wednesday I travel up the hill to refine the email writing and conversational skills of Iscar’s marketing division. The division sits on a large open floor divided by cubicles. When I went there to meet the boss I not only felt lost by the size of the space, but intimidated by the silence. Each worker has his/her accounts around the world and spends the day emailing. I took on the job because a colleague who usually takes on these gigs was too overloaded to add it to her schedule. I’m gregarious by nature and that silence gave me pause. How would my students take to my teaching style? How would they react when I’d (inevitably) break into a different accent or start dancing around the classroom? I shouldn’t have worried. I’m pleased to say that my students are the most delightful, albeit motley bunch I’ve taught in many years. None are Israeli by birth. There are some Sabras working in marketing, but the course is voluntary and I was later told that the Israelis in the department turned down the opportunity because they think their English is perfect. My two groups lend an international flavor to the classroom. They come from Belgium, Belarus, Ukraine, Moscow, Spain and China and Japan. Unlike my high school students, they are well behaved, conscientious, and very responsible. They want to improve their English. In fact, it is they who initiated the course. The building we learn in is called the “MOP.” It’s a circular structure whose ground floor is mostly used to entertain visitors from overseas. The lobby is filled with elaborate displays of the company’s products. There is a high-tech theater, a beautifully designed

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Dealing with ADHD Part II

t’s been said that the worst thing an ADHD child can do for himself is to have a good day in school! When such a child has a really good day, his teachers will invariably tell him, “See you can do it. You just need to try harder.” In reality, his perfect day is more analogous to the quip that “even a broken clock is right twice a day.” Every now and then, for some reason, the child is calm and collected and he is able to act like other students throughout the day. It is important to remember, however, that sitting in class and being in school is a challenge for him, and probably will always remain so. Dr. Ed Hallowell relates that he feels that the fact that he has ADHD is a tremendous gift. He claims that as he gets older it’s his ADHD that keeps him going. People with ADHD are often extremely creative and possess great imaginations. There is no doubt that parents of ADHD children should look for ways to foster and encourage their children to use their imaginations in positive and productive manners. I also once heard a principal state that the best teachers have ADHD. Their principals may find them hard to work with because they are always late and their

organization is disastrous. But their students love them as teachers. On the other hand, Dr. Russel Barkley, an ADHD guru, counters that ADHD must be presented as what it is: a disor-

Choosing your battles is even more important with an ADHD child, as is finding his strengths and capitalizing on them. What about the fact that you may be treating your ADHD child differently

I have a sign hanging in my office which reads: “To treat all children equally is to treat them unfairly.” der. There are many challenges that one with ADHD has. With education and assistance, he can learn strategies that will help him traverse those challenges and be productive. However, Dr. Barkley is emphatic that ADHD be recognized as a challenge and struggle and not presented as a wonderful asset, though there may be some benefits. One of the greatest challenges for a child with ADHD is his distractibility. When you give instructions to an ADHD child, especially if there are multiple tasks, ask him to repeat back to you the steps before he begins. He still may forget and miss a few steps but there is a better chance of him following through if he has to verbalize what he has to do.

than your other children? I have a sign hanging in my office which reads: “To treat all children equally is to treat them unfairly.” We need to have different expectations for every child, commensurate with their capabilities and challenges. Most children understand it on their own. Even when they complain that it’s not fair, they generally “get it.” At times, it may have to be explained, but for the most part it is apparent. A colleague noted that to ADHD children (and many children for that matter) there are two categories of time: now and not now. Five minutes from now and three months from now both fall into the category of “not now.” Children with ADHD need help setting goals for themselves, especially within time limits. A book report due a month away is a disaster for such a child. Setting limits is imperative, but they have to be fair limits. It is important to give children with ADHD some space, but at the same time not to give them too much space. As mentioned earlier, they need us to be their brakes. They need those limits and they need us to maintain those parameters. I would also add one more point. A colleague of mine, who was a masterful rebbe, would often tell his ADHD students that they cannot blame lack of performance on their disorder. Yes, it is indeed harder for them, but now that there was that understanding they still were expected to do the best they can. He would quote the old Home Depot motto: “You can do it, we can help.” Although it is a challenge they must always take responsibility for their actions and decisions. Dr. Robert Brooks notes that one of the great challenges of ADHD is that children with the disorder often feel hopeless and helpless. The more we are able to

help them understand the nature of their challenges and how to compensate for them with strategies and techniques, the more confident they will feel in themselves. That is one component of how a therapist can be helpful in working with an ADHD child. When dealing with ADHD, we must realize that our perspective and approach should be like a shepherd, not an engineer. In other words, our task isn’t to “fix” them. They are who they are! Rather, our task is to help them learn how to understand the nature of their challenges and their uniqueness. Many adults who suffer from ADHD struggled through their school years but today are successful and content. There’s no question that it was (and is) a constant struggle. But with patience, encouragement, and understanding, they were able to appreciate themselves and become successful. As parents (and teachers) of children with ADHD, having that patience, encouragement, and understanding is easier said than done. Parents can benefit greatly from support from other parents who can understand their challenges and empathize with the challenge of being patient. It is also so vindicating to feel that “it’s not just me.” That chizuk is vital! KEY POINTS: • We need to externalize our expectations and the timeframe • Children with ADHD must take responsibility for their behaviors • Patience, encouragement, and understanding is vital

Rabbi Dani Staum, LMSW, is the Rabbi of Kehillat New Hempstead. He is also fifth grade Rebbe and Guidance Counselor in ASHAR in Monsey, and Principal of Mesivta Ohr Naftoli of New Windsor, NY, and a division head at Camp Dora Golding. Rabbi Staum offers parenting classes based on the acclaimed Love & Logic Program. He can be reached at stamtorah@gmail.com. His website is www.stamtorah.info.

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Team Tamar turns Bike4Chai into a personal Mission for 11 Cyclists By Melanie S. KweStel Simcha Stoll had never ridden a bicycle in his life. assemblyman phil goldfeder was already an accomplished veteran cyclist. Shraga Chafetz was already planning to cycle for Bike4Chai for the second time. rachmiel Maxwell decided to cycle to honor his wife’s brave fight against cancer. when they came together to train for the 180-mile, two-day cycle rally, they were hoping to raise $50,000 for the children of Chai lifeline and Camp Simcha. little did they know that their group would turn into a community-wide movement to honor the life and memory of tamar Maxwell, whose two-year battle against cancer sadly ended only a few days before the event.

officially opens. Bike4Chai raises money for Camp Simcha and Chai Lifeline’s year-round activities. While each cyclist pledges to raise $3,600, the majority raise much more. This year, over $5.9 million has been collected, and Bike4Chai officials expect the final total to clear $6 million. The ride has become a major event in the Five Towns/Rockaway community as well. While eleven men cycled for Team Tamar, the entire community backed the group. By the time they checked into the Stamford Plaza Hotel, the starting point for the ride, Team Tamar had collected more than $136,000.

Now six years old, Bike4Chai has become a phenomenon in the Jewish community: a fully-supported, fully kosher two-day charity cycling event that

It’s not easy to commit to riding 180 miles with only two wheels and a skimpy bicycle seat for support. Simcha Stoll thought he was the only “crazy

challenges both veteran cyclists and newbies like Stoll. The ride is so popular that the 400 slots for cyclists are claimed within hours after registration

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person” to sign up who had never cycled before, but his story is more common than you may think. “One of my friends mentioned it to me. He had been on the ride and he said, ‘You have to join.’ I never rode a bike in my life. But I went online and saw the video, and I felt I had to join,” he explained. Stoll began cycling with a group of men from the community. They logged hundreds of miles every week, waking early to cycle for hours before leaving for work. “My wife works with Shragi Chafetz (another Team Tamar cyclist). We started training together. A group of us were riding one day, and Rachmiel Maxwell had to leave early. One of the guys told me his wife was very ill. So we decided to create a team and ride for her. Until then, we didn’t really know each, but we knew we wanted to ride in her honor. Unfortunately, it ended up that we rode in her memory,” said Stoll. Team Tamar began with just a few cyclists who thought they would raise $50,000. But when others heard about it, they wanted to join, and the group more than doubled in size. Stoll continued, “The entire community backed us. We bought pins that said ‘Team Tamar’ and everyone [around town] was wearing them.” Team Tamar inspired Rachmiel Maxwell as well. “I wanted to do this for Tamar and to raise awareness about cancer. People don’t want to talk about what goes on behind the scenes, how much pain Tamar endured.” “Living with cancer is torture, plain and simple,” he had written on his Bike4Chai webpage. “The more people who know her story, the more they can do something about it,” he said. Team Tamar teammates were critical in that effort. Assemblyman Goldfeder brought 200 yellow

wristbands that said “Team Tamar” to the Pomegranate Pasta Party the night before the ride, where they were snatched up by fellow cyclists. “Seeing everyone wearing them during the ride made it easier for us. We felt like everyone was part of Team Tamar,” Stoll acknowledged.

“the world’S greateSt finiSh line” Made it worth it On Wednesday, August 5, Bike4Chai began with a century (100 mile) that climbed over 7,500 feet. The next day they cycled an additional 75 miles, climbing another 5,500 feet before they entered Camp Simcha as a group. There they were cheered and feted by 400 campers, staff members, and of course, their families. “Coming into Camp Simcha is a once-in-alifetime experience,” explained Yoel Margolese, race director. “The kids are so excited to be part of the Bike4Chai experience. The energy in the air is so high that the riders forget about fatigue. Music permeates the air, and everyone dances.” “It was really amazing,” marveled Stoll. “Seeing the kids jumping up and down for us was very emotional. My mother flew in from Los

Angeles and my wife drove from the Five Towns.” For Maxwell, the entry was bittersweet. He was caught between the excitement of the moment and remembrances of the painful struggles endured by his wife. “Tamar would have loved this,” he said. “I was so happy that my parents came and they brought my son, but I was in another world.” After the emotional welcome and a special program choreographed by the camp, cyclists and their families sat down to a sumptuous barbecue, the last of Bike4Chai’s gourmet meals. “We really take care of our cyclists,” said Rabbi Sruli Fried, Bike4Chai’s executive director. “The

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ride is fully supported with SAG wagons and medical teams. The rest stops are filled with nourishing snacks and delicious lunches are served each day. The amazing breakfasts and dinners and rest stops make this one of the few cycling tours where cyclists may be ingesting more calories than they burn.” Rabbi Fried, Yoel Margolese and the Bike4Chai team are already planning for 2016. (The season includes the Tour de Simcha, a one-day ride with several mileage options for women in early July.) As they rest their weary muscles, the 417 cyclists who rode into Camp Simcha avow that the experience is really a family effort. Asked if he would do it again, Simcha Stoll admitted that he wanted to, but couldn’t commit without his wife’s go ahead. “Training is very hard. I have to give my wife a lot of credit for letting me train early in the morning,” he stated.

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More than a fundraiSer Bike4Chai has become Chai Lifeline’s single largest fundraising event. However, for the families who benefit from the organization’s year-round programs and services, just knowing that more than 400 bicyclists have taken to the road on their behalf Team Tamar was recognized for its achievements at Wednesday evening’s gala dinner is encouraging. “Their commitment to the sport and to our children reminds our families that the greater com- Rabbi Simcha Scholar, executive vice president of munity is on their side in their toughest battles,” said Chai Lifeline. 

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“Say What?” We’re not saying it’s a breakfast beer, but we’re not saying it’s not. - Ryan Petz, president of Fulton Brewery, a Minneapolis-based brewery that is making a limitededition brew in partnership with Wheaties A new poll shows that Hillary Clinton is only six points ahead of Bernie Sanders. Today a very confident Hillary said, “Oh, please. Like I’m going to lose the Democratic nomination to a left-wing senator nobody’s ever heard of?” - Conan O’Brien

Hillary Clinton has a $350 billion plan that she says will make college more affordable. Which has to be better than my parents’ plan to make college affordable: “Be good at sports.” – Jimmy Fallon

While I am very proud of my boys for everything they do and will encourage them till the day I die, these trophies will be given back until they EARN a real trophy. I’m sorry I’m not sorry for believing that everything in life should be earned and I’m not about to raise two boys to be men by making them believe that they are entitled to something just because they tried their best. - Pittsburg Steelers linebacker James Harrison, writing on social media why he made his kids return “participation trophies” that they received from a summer league

Hillary’s hair gets more scrutiny than my hair? Is that what you’re asking? ... OK, Ana, I don’t mean to be rude here. I am running for president of the United States on serious issues, OK? Do you have serious questions? – Sen. Bernie Sanders in response

Rand Paul recently told reporters that his campaign is going to focus on taking down Donald Trump. Then Trump said, “I’ve tried it myself. It doesn’t work.” – Jimmy Fallon

Hillary Clinton pushed back against Donald Trump’s claim that she went to his wedding because of his donations and said she actually attended because she thought, “It’d be fun.” Added Hillary, “Am I saying that word right — fun?” - Seth Myers

Liberal Democrat Bernie Sanders had a rally in Los Angeles last night attended by over 27,000 supporters. The rally set the world record for most Priuses in one parking lot. - Conan O’Brien

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Do you think it’s fair that Hillary’s hair gets a lot more scrutiny than yours does? - Prominent feminist blogger Ana Marie Cox, during an interview with presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders

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This morning, I feel very much at home here, and I’m grateful to those who have come to share in this ceremony who are standing around outside of our facilities. And I feel at home here because this is truly a memorable occasion, a day for pushing aside old barriers and exploring new possibilities. - Sec. of State Kerry at the U.S. embassy in Cuba flag-raising ceremony celebrating the reestablishment of diplomatic relations

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I think maybe I’ll go home and [hurt] myself. I apologize for not making him look pretty enough to the world. - Sarcasm from courtroom sketch artist Jane Rosenberg, after she was skewered for drawings of New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady at a Deflategate hearing

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Things might be slowing down a bit for Donald Trump. He recently dropped nine points in some of the latest polls. When he heard that, Trump said, “Oh no. Was it everything I said?” - Jimmy Fallon

We’re briefing you on a serious situation. That’s not a serious question. - NYC Mayor de Blasio’s response at a briefing about a standoff between NYPD and FDNY officials with a gunman in Staten Island who set his own house on fire, when asked why he continued to work out at a local gym while the situation was unfolding

In a recent interview, Jeb Bush revealed that his brother George gave him the nickname “tortoise” because he’s making slow, steady progress. Though I think the bigger story here is that compared to George, Jeb is the slow one. – Jimmy Fallon

At Amazon, workers are encouraged to tear apart one another’s ideas in meetings, toil long and late (emails arrive past midnight, followed by text messages asking why they were not answered), and held to standards that the company boasts are “unreasonably high.” The internal phone directory instructs colleagues on how to send secret feedback to one another’s bosses. Employees say it is frequently used to sabotage others. (The tool offers sample texts, including this: “I felt concerned about his inflexibility and openly complaining about minor tasks.”) – From a New York Times article about the stressful work culture at Amazon Amazon is where overachievers go to feel bad about themselves. – A former Amazon employee, quoted in the New York Times article

What, like, with a cloth or something? - Hillary Clinton’s response when asked by Ed Henry of Fox news whether she attempted to “wipe” her server

I try to push them to have confidence in themselves and not to take anything for granted. And try to be good people. You know, that’s my biggest fear – that they grow up to be entitled jerks. – Billionaire Mark Cuban discussing raising his children in a recent interview

You may have seen that I have recently launched a Snapchat account. I love it — those messages disappear all by themselves. - Hillary Clinton at a speech in Iowa

Whether or not the supporters of the agreement admit it, this deal is based on “hope.” … Hope is part of human nature, but unfortunately it is not a national security strategy. - Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ) in a recent speech at Seton Hall University, explaining why he is opposed to the Iran deal

I told him to be nice when you talk to people and don’t say any poopy talk. - Robert Tufts, 6, after he handed the reins as mayor of Dorset, Minnesota, to his 3-year-old brother (He was elected mayor of the town of 22 people when he won the $1 raffle for the job at the annual Taste of Dorset food festival)

Follow the trail here…It, in a way, reminds me of the Nixon tapes… This has to go on a long, long time, and the answers are probably not going to be pretty. - Journalist Bob Woodward, who uncovered the Nixon Watergate scandal, discussing Hillary’s email scandal on MSNBC

North Korea has declared its own time zone that they are calling “Pyongyang Time,” and set their clocks back half an hour. So if it’s, say, 11:40 here now in New York, in North Korea it’s still 1925. – Jimmy Fallon

When this perverted jihadist struck, everyone responded. - VP Joe Biden using strange terminology while talking about the Chattanooga shooter in an interview last week

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I’ve been critical and I think people have every right to be critical of decisions that were made. In 2009, Iraq was fragile but secure. It was – it’s mission was accomplished in a way that there was security there. - Ibid

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According to an online poll, Donald Trump is still the frontrunner in the Republican primary race. It’s very impressive because it’s the only race left that he hasn’t offended yet.

A PAC supporting Hillary Clinton just received an anonymous donation of $1 million. Which means that if she wins any of us can say that it was us that gave her the million bucks and hit her up for a favor. – Jimmy Fallon

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Political Crossfire

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The Racing Form, Third Edition

oth presidential nomination contests having been scrambled by recent events — the FBI taking control of Hillary Clinton’s private email server and a raucous, roiling GOP debate — the third edition of the Racing Form is herewith rushed into print. Legal disclaimer: This column is for betting purposes only. What follows is analysis — scrubbed, as thoroughly as a Clinton server, of advocacy. (Unless I simply can’t resist.)

Hillary Clinton: Ever since her disastrous booklaunch performance, I’ve thought her both (1) a weak candidate and (2) the inevitable Democratic nominee. No longer. She has fallen from her 95-percent barring-an-act-of-Ged perch. The email imbroglio has already badly damaged her credibility. But now that she’s lost control of the server, there is potential for further, conceivably fatal, damage. It hinges largely on how successful she was in erasing the 32,000 emails she unilaterally deemed private. Whatever happens, she will stay in the race. Clintons never quit. But if more top-secret information is found, if she did destroy work-related emails and if her numbers continue their steady decline, the party might decide it simply can’t afford to continue carrying her baggage. Odds: 1-3. Bernie Sanders: A less flighty, more serious Gene McCarthy. Fiery and genial, Sanders is

to-his-guns positions on Common Core and immigration — not easy given the current mood of the party. Rubio had the best debate performance of the prime-time 10 — fluid, passionate, in command. And he was already No. 1 in the “who could you support” question (at 62 percent), crucial in a 17-member field. Odds for each? Rubio 3-1. Bush and Walker 4-1.

the perfect protest candidate. But can a 73-year-old dairy-state Brooklynite socialist win? Of course not. If Hillary falls, Joe Biden fills the vacuum. Possibly even John Kerry. (Note to Dems: The beatified Jon Stewart is currently unemployed and at large.) Meanwhile, over at the GOP ... Donald Trump: Clear front-runner. Are you wait-

into a talking point, indeed, a rallying cry. Since the debate, his numbers have plateaued, and in some places declined. In New Hampshire, for example, he’s gone from the mid-20s to the high teens. And he had a rough debate, as reflected in the Suffolk University poll in Iowa taken right afterward, in which, by 55-23, respondents felt less comfortable with him as president.

What’s becoming clear, however, is that the Democrats are equally split ideologically and increasingly nervous about her chronic, shall we say, character problem. ing for him to bring himself down? He won’t. He’s impervious to the gaffe. In fact, he has a genius for turning a gaffe

Nonetheless, his core support, somewhere around 20 percent (plus or minus a couple), remains as solid as that once commanded by Ron Paul and Ross Perot. Which means Trump will likely continue to lead until the field whittles down to a handful, at which point 20 percent is no longer a plurality. Teflon Don. Solid constituency, fixed ceiling. Chances of winning his party’s nomination? About the same as Sanders winning his. Jeb Bush, Scott Walker, Marco Rubio: Still the top tier. Walker just held his own in the debate. Bush slipped slightly, appearing somewhat passive and, amazingly, still lacking a good answer to the “brother’s war” question. But he continues steady with a serious follow-up foreign policy speech and stick-

Ted Cruz, John Kasich, Carly Fiorina: The new second tier. And rising. Cruz had a strong debate, establishing himself as the most convincing carrier of the populist, anti-Washington meme. Kasich was engaging and compelling as the bleeding-heart conservative and successful tough-guy governor. Not an easy trick. Fiorina displayed raw talent that surprised everyone who didn’t know her — and 6 million watched. Articulate, knowledgeable and relentlessly combative, she took on Clinton, Trump and Barack Obama. Being in the undercard was a stroke of luck. She took the stage and made it her own. Odds for the second-tier? 9-1 but with high ceilings for each. Bonus Racing Form feature: the general election. Conventional wisdom is that the GOP is tearing itself apart and headed south. What’s becoming clear, however, is that the Democrats are equally split ideologically — Clinton desperately moving left as Sanders’ crowds grow — and increasingly nervous about her chronic, shall we say, character problem. Both parties limp into November 2016. Current odds? GOP: 55 percent. And note how thin is the Democrat’s bench. After Clinton, no one, while the GOP stage sports perhaps eight to 10 impressive, plausibly presidential figures, including (for those who count such things) two Hispanics, a female former Fortune 500 CEO, and an African-American brain surgeon. And one white guy fluent in Spanish. Try engaging Bernie or Hill en es pañol. (c) 2015, The Washington Post Writers Group

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A Clinton Campaign Drained of Idealism worthy. The rest are not paying attention. At least partially as a result, Clinton’s campaign is foundering without a serious opponent. And her unserious opponent – an actual, real-live socialist

an American secretary of state trust the defense of sensitive information against Chinese and Russian hackers to Platte River Networks? This is a choice that reveals a mindset. Having suffered through decades

More than half of Americans do not describe Clinton as honest and trustworthy. The rest are not paying attention. – is leading her in some New Hampshire polls. Bernie Sanders’ campaign is all idealism, of the Norman Thomas variety. If Clinton is offering ideological aspirin, Sanders is handing out crystal meth. The high for Democrats is incredible, and temporary. The real source of nightmares for Clinton and her supporters must be the figure of 10 percent. Of the sample of 40 emails initially reviewed by the intelligence community’s inspector general, four were found to contain classified data. In the universe of 30,000 emails sent and received over four years by a secretary of state, hundreds or thousands of emails might attract scrutiny. And it only takes negligence in one case to violate some rather serious laws concerning the possession and transfer of classified materials. The claim of a Republican political conspiracy involving the FBI and various inspectors general is not minimally credible. Everything that results from this scandal can be traced to one decision made by Clinton herself: to conduct most of her highly sensitive public business through a personal email on a private Internet server. What lawyer – and Clinton is surrounded by sharp lawyers – would recommend such an arrangement? Wouldn’t legal alarm bells immediately begin ringing on compliance with the Federal Records Act, the Freedom of Information Act and the Espionage Act? And why, just as a matter of common sense, would

of investigations, Clinton apparently wanted to take complete, personal control over her communications records, which she could release or destroy at her own discretion. But the method was so blinking obvious that it has invited scrutiny. Clinton apparently over-

learned the lesson of Whitewater; as G-d is her witness, she would never be subpoenaed again. In trying too hard to control events, Clinton has lost control of events. Her political future may lie, once again, in the hands of investigators and prosecutors. Nothing approaching criminal conduct has, at this point, been demonstrated. But Clinton stands accused of poor judgment, playing close to ethical lines and showing a streak of paranoia. Her actions raise comparisons to Richard Nixon – and not the skillful diplomacy part. The Clintons have always come as a package deal for Democrats: massive, intuitive political talent, accompanied by scandal and drama. So far, with Hillary Clinton, there is scandal and drama.  (c) 2015, Washington Post Writers Group

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profit in 9 months). … On the Lewinsky matter. Outfight them. Out-parse them. Out-brazen them. Outlast them. But it turns out to be difficult to run a presidential campaign drained of idealism. Bill Clinton was the “man from Hope.” Hillary Clinton’s team is hoping that it fully erased a server to prevent FBI scrutiny. Such a novel and useful political lesson: Those who have their data professionally wiped have nothing to hide because there is nothing left to find. More than half of Americans do not describe Clinton as honest and trust-

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hen the Clinton campaign stirs and moves, it is the sound of a thousand focus groups buzzing, a thousand memos fluttering, a thousand consultants consulting, a thousand talking points repeated in singsong unison. It advances like a big push at the Second Battle of the Somme – idealism long gone, but grim duty remaining. The whistles blow along a vast line. Boots churn in mud. Over the top, boys. Over the top. Hillary Clinton’s approach to politics has recently been on full display. After one of the worst campaign launches in recent history, many Democrats have been hoping for some type of reset from their front-runner – some hint of recognition that the current strategy might be a tad flawed. Instead, at the Iowa Democratic Wing Ding Dinner, Clinton refused readjustment and launched a spirited attack on her Republican critics for engaging in “partisan games” and playing “politics with national security.” Minions fanned out to dismiss the whole email business as “nonsense.” How can we fault Hillary Clinton for adopting a strategy that has always worked for the Clintons before? On Whitewater. On suspicious commodity windfalls (involving a 10,000 percent

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es,” the nice woman was saying, “I understand Marriage and Family Therapy is a separate field, but is it in psychology, or social work….” She didn’t get it. Nobody seems to. No. It is not part of any other field. It is its own field. And I think the reason why no one gets it in New York is because it does not have much of a presence here. For this article I Googled “MFT degree NY” and learned that there are five programs in the entire state. Three of them are in the greater metropolitan area – Hofstra, LIU, and Mercy. Not far out of the city, in New Rochelle, you find Iona College, and way out of the city you find Syracuse University. Compare these five to the offerings in social work. I stopped counting at 30. Same in psychology. And, I might add, the five schools mentioned above only offer a Master’s degree. I might be the only doctoral level MFT here; it’s a bit lonely. The reason I say that is because the way of thinking that I was taught – and embraced – is considerably different from the medical-model thinking of my peers in other disciplines. The field grew, interestingly enough, out of anthropology. You have probably heard of Margaret Mead. Her husband, Gregory Bateson, was also an anthropologist but was quite fascinated with the application of anthropology principles to families. After all, what else is a family but a small version of a community? So, imagine traipsing through the forests in some remote country. You are there to study the natives. They do strange things, but it would not make sense to call those things “strange.” After all, you have dropped yourself into the middle of another culture. An anthropologist would note the “interesting” customs, styles of communication, and ways of being but would not pass judgment on any of them for being “sick” or inappropriate. They are normal for that culture and therefore appropriate. That was Bateson’s way of understanding families. If we could understand what the behavior and attitudes of particular families means to them, then

After all, what else is a family but a small version of a community? we can help them achieve the happiness they are missing. The most interesting complication of all this is that each family we learn about comes from another family – with its own “culture.” One spouse in the new family takes certain “truths” for granted because that was how it was in the family of origin. The other spouse may come from a family where those attitudes and practices were not present. Within the field of family therapy, the many models I mentioned in last week’s article can be divided into two over-arching categories: Normative and non-normative. The normative group was uncomfortable with or didn’t understand Bateson and grew out of psychology, social work, and mental health counseling. In looking at the courses offered at the five New York schools that offer a Master’s degree in Marriage and Family Therapy, I would guess that their slant is normative. The non-normative approach follows Bateson’s idea that norms are created within cultures and those outside those cultures are not in a position to decide what is normal and what isn’t. Thus, since all of us are not in the family that may come in for therapy, it is not helpful for therapists to judge a person in it as normal or not. In fact, within the non-normative philosophy, everything makes sense in context. In other words, if you understand the context in which an individual formed his opinions, values, and behaviors, his resulting ways of being make sense. In Florida, I worked very briefly in a

day program for adults. One of the people there was what medical-model practitioners would call schizophrenic. She talked about lions and tigers roaming the streets and she was scared. Looking at her history, it turned out she was molested at a young age in her family. Research shows that young children utilize the beautiful imaginations that Hashem gave us to help themselves get through situations that they find difficult. That is why children will assist themselves with loneliness by having imaginary friends. In the same vein, it was too painful for this woman, as a very young child, to assimilate the idea that her own flesh and blood was mistreating her. It was easier for her to pretend that she was being attacked by wild animals. Since there was no one at any time in her development to give her other resources for coping with unimaginable horrors, she stuck with the only thing she knew. Looking at her choices from this perspective leads the outsider to profound respect for this unfortunate woman. She coped as best she could and lives to tell about it albeit in metaphorical ways. The same is true for present-day families; one develops amazement at how well they coped given what they were up against. This is the non-normative approach. There is no need for diagnostic labeling (although we are trained in using the little bible that the insurance companies want us to use for creating diagnoses for people), and the words “sick” or “dysfunctional” are not preferred. This non-normative type of therapy falls within a view of reality called social

construction. The idea of social construction is that we don’t have any access to “true” reality. You’ve seen, all too well, the case of two different people apparently relaying to you the same event but it sounds like two different events because of the huge gap in how each one experienced it. And which one is correct? Research shows that memories are changed by what is currently going on in our lives. Even our memories of emotional reactions to past events is changed by current emotional reactions to present events. For that reason, 15 years ago, we could have said we had a wonderful time at such and such event but now, on looking back at the event through the current tone of our lives, we can change all that and say, “Nah, I didn’t enjoy it at all.” Even our perceptions are subject to systematic human error. After Shabbos, go to http://www.dansimons.com/ videos.html and look at the video there. See for yourself. The creators of the experiments are Harvard graduates now employed elsewhere as professors. The only reality that we can rely on as true is that which HaKadosh Baruch Hu gave to us because ours struggles to line up with His. It is for that reason that a social constructionist view of reality in combination with a non-normative approach to people makes sense to me. Then again, this non-normative approach is a little strange for a therapist here in New York – Oops! There goes that human tendency to “other” those that are different. There goes that normative view intruding itself.

Dr. Deb Hirschhorn, is a Marriage & Family Therapist and best-selling author of The Healing Is Mutual: Marriage Empowerment Tools to Rebuild Trust and Respect—Together. Attend the Food For Thought lectures at Traditions Restaurant in Lawrence on Tuesdays at 12:30 PM. (There is a lovely optional lunch menu for $12 cash.) Any questions, call 646-54-DRDEB or check out her website at http://drdeb.com. All stories in Dr. Deb’s articles are fabricated. See Dr. Deb on TorahAnytime.com.

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