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The magnitude of suffering in India is difficult to comprehend. More than 4,000 people are dying every day because their overstretched healthcare system does not have enough oxygen to save them. We cannot look the other way as the critically ill plead for just another breath! Without outside help, an estimated 800,000 more people could die by August. Every minute we delay is another life we could have saved.

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Dear Readers, In case you missed it, an invisible sculpture by Italian artist Salvatore Garau recently sold for $18,000. In the words of the artist, “the sculpture is intended to be displayed in a 5x5 foot square… even if you can’t see it, it does exist, just not in material form.” The name of the nonexistent art piece? “I am.” The buyer feels it’s a good investment as there will be future buyers of beautiful invisible masterpieces. The question is, what the was the seller thinking. Seems a bit risky introducing artwork that no one can appreciate and, other than his certificate of authenticity, everyone can replicate. It’s art because he says it’s art, and he’s hoping people buy into that, thus establishing it as art. A modern-day example of the emperor without clothes. The past few decades and specifically the past few years has seen an ever-growing movement of rephrasing words, terms and descriptions so that they can be used to obtain power and at times for the exact opposite. Words like peace, gender, activism, diversity, public safety and parenthood are freely used to promote war, lust, vandalism, cancel culture, control and ending the life an unborn child. It’s starting to seem that falsehood isn’t a means to an end, it’s the end itself. Once there’s no longer an objective starting point for language and ideas, then all that’s needed is a great PR team to repackage it for the masses to follow. Consider - almost all current discussion on these topics were at the extreme fringe a mere 5 years ago. Indeed, this isn’t something new - Communist Russia had a monster propaganda machine that literally controlled the information its citizens were able to consume. They also had a newspaper promulgating their approved information. Its name? “Pravda”, truth. This isn’t to say that as Yidden we need to call out every falsehood we see being promoted. We do however need to have utmost conviction when pushing back against these frauds in areas affecting our ability to learn Torah and fulfill Hashem’s Mitzvos. The above also connects to man’s original falsehood; the world doesn’t have a creator. This was worded with layers of sophisticated philosophical ideas which nevertheless don’t address the basic question -where did the first cause come from. This lie had the same benefits as today; it removed objective responsibility from the individual so that they may pursue cannibalism, selfishness, power and control over others. As descendants of Avraham Avinu, the first light unto the nations, who went against the false G-ds of his time, we need to continue carrying the torch of truth showing the world the beauty of the eternal nation of Israel whose glory will rise one final time with the coming of our righteous redeemer. This Sunday, Gimmel Taamuz, marks the Yahrtzeit of the light of Israel, the Lubavitcher Rebbe. It is an auspicious time to add in Torah, Tefilla & Tzedakah specifically having in mind that this should hasten the final redemption, when the world will be filled with the light of the Creator, for all to see. Wishing you a wonderful and meaningful Shabbos,

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The Shivas Haminim Exhibit at YAYOE Educates and Inspires Students Yehudis Litvak Creative expression applied to Torah learning resulted in a stunning and educational exhibit for all ages at Yeshiva Aharon Yaakov Ohr Eliyahu (YAYOE). With guidance from YAYOE’s art director, Mrs. Sharon Saks, and director of student activities, Mrs. Rochel Weichbrod, each grade designed a beautiful display about one of the shivas haminim, full of facts about each of the species as well as the lessons to be learned from the species. The exhibit was part of an annual initiative to increase the students’ connection to and appreciation for Eretz Yisrael and its kedusha. Mrs. Weichbrod chose the theme of shivas haminim for this year. She collaborated with Mrs. Sacks, who “took my vision and brought it to life,” says Mrs. Weichbrod. The exhibit was a school-wide project. Even the preschoolers participated – they recorded a song about the shivas haminim that was played at the exhibit. Mrs. Weichbrod continues, “The most special part for me was to watch the process and to

see the results – the learning, the collaboration, and how rewarding it was for the kids to see their work.” She explains that the students worked with a lot of enthusiasm, bringing what they learned in class into their projects. Each station at the exhibit invited the visitors to use all five senses to learn about the particular species. They could even sample each species, including cholent with barley. Each grade contributed a part of the exhibit according to their abilities. Once the exhibit was assembled, each grade was invited to see it in turn. 7th grade girls served as ushers for the girls and 8th grade boys served as ushers for the boys. Mrs. Weichbrod explains that they did an amazing job, developing confidence and leadership skills. The parents also had an opportunity to see the exhibit after school hours. Unfortunately, YAYOE could not invite students from other schools due to COVID regulations, but they are hoping to do so next year.

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A Message From Rabbi Moshe Hauer, Executive Vice President, As The Orthodox Union Launches Emergency Campaign To Provide Oxygen Concentrators For India As It Fights Pandemic Surge The people of this country are blessed. The unprecedented speed of development and deployment of the vaccine for COVID-19 has brought us to a place where with G-d’s continued help and blessing we can hope that the worst of the pandemic is behind us. But the worst seems to lie squarely ahead of India, and we must do something about it. We have all seen the images and figures depicting the havoc the pandemic is currently wreaking in India. As Jews, we cannot just watch this disaster unfold. Abraham, the biological father of the Jewish people and the spiritual father of much of the world, established the absolute connection between religious devotion and social responsibility. He demonstrated care for his family, for the individual weary travelers that he welcomed into his tent, and for the city of Sodom whose wholesale destruction he could not just passively observe. This legacy of charity and responsibility is fundamental to the character of Jewish life. Families, communities, and societies thrive on the prioritization of care and responsibility between members of the group. There is a valued intimacy and a critical bond of trust that results from our support systems, how we take

care of those closest to us and put family first, loving our neighbor as ourselves. But we must not stop there. History has given us many examples of situations where a complete family, community, or society experienced devastating events that shook the entire traditional support system. It is specifically at those times that the broader world must step forward to act with care and concern to save those who have been rendered helpless, but the world does not always come thru. Others have stood silent in the face of evil and passive in the presence of tragedy far too many times. The Jewish people are keenly and painfully aware of this. And we have been reminded of it again during the past weeks of missile strikes in Israel and antisemitic attacks in America and around the world. Silence is simply not an option. We do not accept that this must be the reality of the world we live in. We continue to dream and to strive for a world where the rich amongst nations care for the poor and the healthy tend to the sick, where boundaries create a framework for mutual kindness rather than a barri-

Family Fun Day Raises Awareness of The Clubhouse’s Work with Children with Special Needs Yehudis Litvak On Sunday, May 23rd, The Clubhouse, a local Jewish organization that provides respite and other services to families with children with special needs, hosted a Family Fun Day at the Brandeis Bardin Institute campus. Packed with activities for all ages, the event drew over 1,200 people from across the spectrum of the Los Angeles Jewish community. Once the venue

reached full capacity, the event committee had to close admission, to their regret. The families who attended represented a wide range of Jewish schools and synagogues throughout the Greater Los Angeles. The attendees enjoyed several concerts with the famous Uncle Moishy, face painting, art projects, a petting zoo and a puppy party, horse rides, moon bounces,

er to extending our care to others beyond that framework, where charity begins at home but does not end there. That is what we seek within our world and the goal towards which each of us must work. Rambam – following on the words of the Mishna – wrote of the obligation of a Jew to support the needy of other nations so as to pursue the path of peace, darkei Shalom. He clearly viewed this as more than a diplomatic stroke but rather as an extension of the generosity that G-d Himself extends to all His creatures. Moshe, the ultimate faithful shepherd and lawgiver of the Jewish people, began his journey of leadership by standing up to evil wherever he encountered it, no less when the victims were the children of the idolatrous priest of Midyan than when was it was a fellow Jew being victimized by an oppressive Egyptian. This is a critical part of our legacy. Yes, our plates are filled with our efforts to sustain a Jewish community grappling with epic stresses. We are still assessing the harm inflicted in the latest round of missiles that rained down on millions of our brothers and sisters in Israel. Our

local Jewish communities need major investment in their material well-being as well as in their Torah-education systems and infrastructure. These are issues that require time, energy, and commitment, and they must never be neglected if we are to be serious about the well-being of the State of Israel, our own community, Jewish continuity, and the central value of Torah education. But we must retain the perspective that all those systems of caring and teaching are there for one purpose, and that is to develop students and community members blessed not only with knowledge of text but with strength and refinement of character, the kind of people who – like our father Avraham – exemplify and serve as a conduit for God’s goodness to all. India is in a terrible crisis, facing a vicious double mutation of the virus. Our community – breathing somewhat easier – is positioned to help. We must not stand by. A modest gift from each of us will not change our lives but it will save the lives of others. And it will be a gift that will make our world more of a community that cares for each other in a way that benefits and uplifts us all. Please contribute at https://www. ou.org/crisis-in-india/

archery, rock climbing, a grill and a falafel truck, and concession stands. The event concluded with a concert by Simcha Leiner. “It was a beautiful whole family event with something for everyone,” says Estee Cohen, who attended Family Fun Day with her children. “I actually never heard of The Clubhouse until the event, so it definitely brought awareness of their program and frankly, that they exist. Looks like a wonderful program.” Raising awareness of The Clubhouse’s vital work was the goal of the event. While some of the attendees were current beneficiaries and supporters of The Clubhouse, many had learned about The Clubhouse for the first time at the event. In fact, several families with children with special needs signed up for The Clubhouse’s services right at the event, while others inquired about volunteering at The Clubhouse. “The Family Fun Day brought the community together in a relaxing, enjoyable way,” says Rachel Haberman, a volunteer at The Clubhouse. Chaya Ullmann, one of The Clubhouse’s founders, adds, “The event exceeded our expectations. There were so many people there who were learning about The Clubhouse for the first time. It brought a tremendous awareness and a cool factor to our kids. Instead of making them marginalized, it really brought them into the center in a

very positive way.” Tali Merewitz, event planner for the Family Fun Day, agrees. “We had unbelievable success in showing so many people what The Clubhouse is all about.” Herself a mother of a child with special needs, she says, “The Clubhouse totally changed our lives. There are many wonderful organizations in Los Angeles, but before The Clubhouse, no one provided us with respite. I couldn’t possibly imagine that I could drop my son off where he’d be happy, safe, well taken care of, and enjoying every minute of it.” Some of the children who currently benefit from The Clubhouse’s programming played an active role at the event. Shmuly Greenfield, together with the volunteer Eli Dror, came on stage and sang together with Simcha Leiner. Before the concert, Rabbi Dovi Block, The Clubhouse’s older boys’ program coordinator, spoke about the kiddush Hashem that takes place at the Clubhouse and the attention and care extended to each child and family. The Clubhouse team was touched by the large turnout and the support extended by the local Jewish community. “The community is saying to us, ‘We’ve got your back. We’re here to support you. Our community needs such a place,’” says Rabbi Block.

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Growing Like Stocks Sarah Pachter

I once heard the following story from Rabbi Leib Kelemen: He met a Jewish woman who did not dress modestly, and had never kept Shabbos or kosher. After establishing this, he shared, “I can only hope and pray that I will be close to where this woman will be in Shamayim.” After many in the audience expressed surprise, Rabbi Kelemen went on. “This woman was born to a heroin addict. She turned to crime by the time she was 13 to support her drug habits, but one day she saw a man in a wheelchair, almost comatose and shooting heroin and something clicked. She decided to immediately check herself into a drug rehabilitation center. She went through the grueling process to become sober. “She didn’t stop there! She ended up becoming a therapist and saving thousands of people from their addictions.” This woman’s greatness is measured not in her skirt length but the distance between where she came from and where she ended up. And that’s how our greatness will be measured, too. Personal Growth Is Personal Growth can’t be determined merely by where we are standing today. It’s about conquering our own unique challenges over time, and thus our starting place is just as important. We can’t see this externally. If you saw Rabbi Kelemen in a suit and beard on the street beside a women mentioned above, who might you assume is more spiritual and achieved more? However, it’s not which rung on the ladder a person is on which determines their greatness, but how many they have climbed. We each have our own ladder. It runs up between humanity to Hashem with 100 rungs. We may look at someone who’s on Rung 83 and think, Wow that’s amazing! But maybe not. Perhaps they were born into a home and circumstances which set them at 80 at birth. Someone else could be on Rung 23 and we may think, Pshhh they aren’t spiritual...but what if they came from negative ten? This process--of growth or stagnation--begins the moment we have desires and temptations that no one else sees. Our days are filled with choices. Am I going to yell at my kids when they want my attention but I’d rather look at Instagram? Will I give them the attention they need,

calmly? On Shabbat, we could stretch out on our bed and sleep all day, or we could elevate Shabbat by praying and going over the parashah. Which will I choose? Growth Is Like the Stock Market Zoom in on one day of the stock market: The Dow is up! It’s down! The S & P 500 is mixed! But that doesn’t really give you the full picture. If you pull out to see a greater segment of time, you may see fluctuation, but that each peak is ideally higher than the one before, and none of the troughs are as low as earlier ones. The trend over time is up, even on a “bad” day. Perfection is a lie. Real life is messy and failure is part of growth. We might have a short-term failure, having made the wrong choice today. But that doesn’t mean we are a failure or that over time, we’re not improving ourselves. Another way personal growth is analogous to the stock market involves something called “Stop-Loss.” In this kind of trade, you and your broker set upper and lower limits for each stock you own. Say, you buy Coca Cola at $36 a share, and you tell the broker to sell it at $38, before the price goes back down. You can also say, “Don’t let it drop past $32! Sell immediately at that point.” You want to make a profit while simultaneously limiting potential loss. If you sell, you are out a few bucks, but if it crashes, you will have protected yourself from worse damage. Over time, you adjust the limits in order. Grow in the Moment In the writings of Rabbi Eliyahu Dessler, we have a concept called “nekudah habechira”--the “choice point.”1 When we are growing, all we have to worry about is the area between the stop loss and upper limit. It is between these boundaries where we must make a moral decision in this moment. Suppose you have a young woman who is being exposed to Shabbat for the first time in her life. She likes it, but following all the laws seems waaay out of reach. The next week, she’s not going to stay out of a car and keep her phone off and walk to synagogue. Imagine a man: he’s walking by a luxury jeweler and sees a watch worth $135,000. He admires it, he pictures it on his wrist, but despite his longing, he doesn’t steal the watch. Instead he continues on his way along the sidewalk. 1 Michtav Me’eliyahu I, pp. 113-116; Strive for Truth, Vol. 2, pp. 52-54

Hashem will neither reward nor punish either of those people. The choice to keep all the laws of Shabbat, all at once, isn’t a real choice for our young woman. It’s not where she is on her spiritual ladder. Nor will Hashem reward or punish our gentleman. He’s at a point far above stealing on his spiritual ladder. Really, all the growth of a person takes place in a small area called a “choice box.” Inside that box resides only decisions which they would really struggle with. Growth is a Process Here’s a personal example: What if I have overheard a shocking piece of news about a neighbor, and I’m tempted to speak lashon hara at our family Shabbat table? Inside I’m asking myself, Is this how I want my children to hear me speak? Is this

type of person I want to be? However, I’m also picturing the gasps and laughter of my family members upon hearing such juicy gossip. It’s a hard decision! That means it’s precisely in my choice box. It’s the moment where I have the opportunity to grow...or otherwise.. The goal is for whatever we are working on now to eventually become so easy it’s like not stealing jewellery. The immoral choice no longer occurs to us as a possibility. Then we’re on a new run on the ladder, higher up, and it becomes the new baseline until we successfully meet the next challenge. Slowly, slowly we climb. We all have a point of choice. If we remember to compare our progress only to our past selves, if we focus only on our current rung as we climb the ladder, if we track the general trend instead of looking at the moment, and if we raise the stoploss, we’ll be successful.

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In these times of heightened security, we are all making the necessary hishtadlus to protect our shuls, Yeshivas and communities. There is a way that every Yid can help the situation. No training, funding or planning is necessary to Stop the Talking In Shul! Let’s earn the protection promised by our Gedolim. Let’s not forget the most important hishtadlus of all, as stated by the Sar HaTorah, Rav Chaim Kanievsky shlita:

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The Chovos Halevavos, in discussing the ongoing battle with the yeitzer hora, writes that his objective is “le’ameis hasheker,” to make what is false appear to be the truth. In pursuit of that goal, he uses everything we encounter to convince us that what is untrue is fact. Once we buy in to what is not real as reality, it is smooth sailing for him and he can easily convince us to sin and go down the wrong path. The novi Yeshayahu (59:15) foretold that in the period leading up to the revelation of Moshiach, “vatehi ha’emes ne’ederes,” the truth will be missing. We are living in that time. The yeitzer hora seems to have perfected his game. We are living at a time when the fiction is so pervasive that it is very difficult to discern truth from lies. Wherever you look, whether in our communities, in this country, or in Eretz Yisroel, many disagreements and machlokes are brought about by people who simply lie to advance their agenda and career. Look at this country and all the lies that were implemented in an effort to bring down Donald Trump. He coined a name for the fiction that was peddled as fact by the mainstream media. He termed it “Fake News,” and because the name had much truth to it, it stuck and defined the era. This article is not about Trump. It’s about the phenomenon. For years, Trump was accused of all types of things, from colluding with Russia to get elected to falsely blaming China for the virus which upended the world, disrespecting the arch-expert Dr. Fauci, and a host of other sins. By now, they have all been proven to be lies, untruths concocted by his political enemies to rid themselves of the greatest threat they had ever faced. When the Russian communists began publishing a newspaper and wanted the

people to believe what it said, they called the publication Pravda, which is Russian for truth. Of course, there was no truth there. It was all lies. They were ahead of the times, as today much of what appears in the mainstream media is false. Until a little while ago, opining that Covid originated in a Wuhan lab was enough to get you cancelled and derided as a conspiracy freak. No more. Evidence is mounting that the virus escaped from a Chinese lab, and even Dr. Fauci does not discount it anymore. The personification

nity swore prior to the recent election that he would never join a coalition with the anti-religious Leftist Yair Lapid and Islamist Mansour Abbas. That man, Naftoli Bennett, went on national television the day before the election and pledged that he would never join with them. He also signed a document affirming the pledge. And then, the election came. On election night, as the numbers were coming in, he said again that his heart was with the Right. When Netanyahu encountered difficul-

We have to make friends with the truth. of trust himself is no longer perceived by people of truth as the paragon of virtue, he has been felled by the facts and his personal emails. He and his ilk claimed it was all about science and now we are finding out that very little of it was. Trump’s term in office was cut short by a man very few people gave a chance of winning the election. He rarely left his home to campaign, did few interviews, and hardly ever addressed serious issues publicly. The campaign sold him as the moderate versus Bernie Sanders, the socialist. People voted for him, thinking that by doing so they were staving off the Democrat socialists. But it was a ruse. Once he got into the White House, there was little difference between him and the Left. In Israel, a man who fashioned himself as the savior of the Right, the settlements, and the Religious-Zionist commu-

ty in forming a right-wing coalition, Bennett promised that he would not and was not negotiating with Lapid. He would and he was. He lied. His lieutenants lied. His voters were deceived. They had empowered him because they believed he was on their side. Then he clinched the deal with a group of left-wing parties, and for the first time, an Arab party would be part of the coalition. And he is slated to become prime minister. The coalition came about through lies and is built on lies. And there is nothing anyone can do about it. Because we live in a world of lies. There ought to be a law against lying to people throughout a campaign in order to con them into voting for you, but there isn’t, because lying is part of the system. Everyone lies, they say, so when one politician lies a little more and a little better

than others, it is not that big an aveirah. Korach acted as a politician, using cunning to spin the people against Moshe Rabbeinu and Aharon Hakohein. Using demagoguery, he portrayed Moshe as heartless and cruel to the poor, forcing people to do silly things, such as putting tzitzis and techeiles on a tallis shekulo techeiles. With deceit and sleight of mouth, he was able to gather around him serious leaders of the Jewish people and present a serious challenge to Moshe’s leadership. The power of the lie is so potent that not only the known troublemakers Doson and Avirom rallied to Korach’s side and joined his attempt to supplant Moshe and Aharon, but also people who should have known better, the 250 nesi’ei ha’eidah, were convinced to go against everything they had stood for until then and join the revolution to topple Moshe. How can people be so foolish? How can people who saw how Hakadosh Boruch Hu redeemed the Jewish people from Mitzrayim through Moshe forget what they had seen and experienced? How could people who stood at the foot of Mount Sinai as Moshe alighted to Heaven and returned with the Luchos then go and turn their back on him? That is the power of a lie. That is why the yeitzer hora works “le’ameis hasheker,” because when that is accomplished, people lose themselves and fall for anything. This is why Korach and his clan were heard shouting from their group burial site in the desert, “Moshe emes veSoraso emes. Our insurrection was based on lies. Moshe pursued and is all about the truth. We were all about lies.” There is room for legitimate debate and discussion, but that is when the dispute is, as Chazal refer to it, a machlokes Hillel v’Shamai, when each side arrived at its point lesheim Shomayim. Both sides arrived at their position via an honest search for the truth and the quarrel centers on arriving at the truth. Chazal say that sometimes, talmidei chachomim become so engaged in Talmudic discussion that, as they debate, they appear to be enemies, but when the conversation ends and they exit the bais medrash, it becomes obvious that, in fact, they love each other.

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Virtual Summer Beit Midrash This is because they were never enemies. They were arguing with each other because they wanted to gain a true understanding of a sugya. Each one cares so deeply about the truth that they are unable to tolerate the other’s misconception and misunderstanding of the issue. Each one throws his energy into his attempt to convince the other of the way to understand the Gemara. Both combatants are united in their love of Torah. They continue going back and forth until they are satisfied that they have arrived at the proper conclusion and interpretation of the Gemara. They embrace and a smile breaks out across their faces. “Boruch Hashem, yogata umotzasa,” that smile exclaims. “We now understand the p’shat.” The new insight that each one has given the other in understanding Torah is what engenders love between them. If truth is our goal and we remain loyal to it, even when that means swimming upstream and against the tide, we will reach safe, calm waters. The storm will blow over, and the sun of victory and righteousness will shine upon those who remain loyal to the causes of truth and Torah. If the truth is what inspires us to act, we will never meet the fate of Korach and his followers. If ever we have the need to enter into a machlokes lesheim Shomayim, we will be seeking to advance the cause of truth and not be consumed with bitterness and dissension. People who get involved in petty fights and are quick to judge others without giving the matter much depth of thought become enmeshed in battles with no positive objective. What is plainly obvious to everyone else escapes them. They become entwined in their pursuit of victory and fail to appreciate the virtue of their opponent, losing their objectivity. They stumble, they fall, and they go down to bitter defeat. In a world of falsehood, in the almah d’shikrah, we must endeavor to always find the truth and not be taken in by sweet talk, convincing arguments, appealing demagoguery, and clever marketing. The truth is not always comfortable or popular, but we must always pursue it if we wish to feel fulfilled and successful. Quick gains and phantom popularity are fleeting and have no staying power. Ultimately the truth wins out and sustains those who cling to it. Before going after someone, before jumping to conclusions, before thinking

that you understand everything, hear out the other side, and because there are always two sides to a story, the one you heard first is not necessarily the correct one. Everything has to make sense. If it doesn’t, despite how many proponents it has and in how high a position they may be, don’t give up until you understand it. Before taking a course of action or getting into an argument with somebody, think it through to the end and make sure that you are right and your understanding is correct. We have to make friends with the truth. We have to side with the truth and always champion those in its camp. If we are able to ignore the barbs of people blinded by hate, conceit, corruption and falsehood, we will prevail and eventually our cause will triumph. Korach had great yichus and a fine reputation, but his judgment was clouded. He was overcome by jealousy and used his intelligence to swing others to his side. They went down with him and earned eternal shame and a tragic death. Torah represents the ultimate truth, so if you find fault with it, you are lacking understanding. Don’t fight the truth. Embrace it. Pursue it, fight to understand it, and fight to be part of it. The yeitzer hora is quite clever. He’s older than you and me and has been at this for a very long time. Don’t fall for his tricks. Don’t let him paint you false impressions. Don’t let him present you with false narratives. Don’t let him lead you to take part in a machlokes shelo lesheim Shomayim. Don’t let him lead you to impugn the character of fine people. Don’t let him convince you to accept false p’shat in a Gemara - or anything else. Before making a call, undertaking an action, sending a message, or mouthing a retort, consider whether it will bring about a kiddush Hashem, and if it won’t, don’t pursue it. Remember that we are students of Moshe and Aharon, children of Avrohom, Yitzchok and Yaakov. Go in their ways and the ways of your rabbeim and zaides and bubbes who lived through much more difficult times than we do. When in a situation, think of what they would have done. When an issue arises, think of what the proper course is for a ben and bas Torah with an individualist mission to make the world a better, holier, more loving place.

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Congress Delegation Decries Anti-Semitism and Hails Dirshu’s Strengthening of the Moral Fabric of America Kiddush Hashem in Aftermath of Visit of Rav Dovid Hofstedter to Capitol Hill Chaim Gold

“We need to stand in solidarity with our Jewish brothers. Thank you, Rabbi Hofstedter and Dirshu for taking the mission to Washington!” This sentence was tweeted by former Governor of Arkansas and Presidential candidate Mike Huckabee last week. What was the story behind this tweet? Just after Shavuos, Rav Dovid Hofstedter, Nasi of the Dirshu Torah Organization, was invited to Washington by a group of Congressmen to express their solidarity with the Orthodox Jewish community and their commitment to preserving freedom of religion and its sacrosanct nature. What was the impetus behind this unusual invitation and how did it play out, especially taking place when anti-Semitism in America was reaching a fevered pitch due to the fighting in Gaza? From a Day of Jewish Unity to a Congressional Invitation The impetus behind the meeting was the aftermath of an earlier effort by Governor Huckabee. Every year, right before Rosh Hashana on the Chofetz Chaim’s yahrtzeit, Dirshu holds a Yom Torah and Tefillah, a day of davening and chizuk. The Yom Torah and Tefillah is meant to encourage Jews to walk in the path of the Chofetz Chaim who taught about the terrible scourge of lashon hara and slander and the importance of promoting unity and brotherhood among Jews. In the Orthodox community, the day is marked by extra tefillah and recitation of Tehillim along with learning choice excerpts from the teachings of the Chofetz Chaim. In addition, Dirshu has seen fit mark the Chofetz Chaim’s yahrzeit to promote what has been labeled “An Annual Day of Jewish Unity” in the secular world. Having heard about the day of Jewish Unity, Governor Huckabee was so impressed by the concept that he wrote an important op-ed article in Fox News, praising and commending this effort. In the article, he opined that not only Jews, but non-Jews as well could benefit from learning from the teachings of the Chofetz Chaim and engaging in promoting unity as the country is being torn apart by internal strife and slander in an unprecedented manner. Furthermore, he hailed Dirshu as the largest organization in the world promoting the study of Torah. This article caught

Congressman Don Bacon (R-Nebraska), Rav Dovid Hofstedter

Rav Dovid Hofstedter in discussion with l-r, Rep. Ronny Jackson (R-TX) and Rep. Bob Good (R-VA)

the attention several Congressional leaders, including some from New York and New Jersey, where many of those who learn in Dirshu’s programs, live Amazingly, it also caught the eye of many members from states that do not necessarily have a large frum population but are deeply troubled at the moral direction in which America is heading and respect the values and ideals that Dirshu espouses. Indeed, perhaps more than anything, the visit of Rav Hofstedter to Washington, his meetings with lawmakers and his important speech before an impressive congressional delegation was a colossal kiddush Hashem. The members of Congress expressed their tremendous appreciation for the value of Torah learning and also their concern for the double standard to which the Orthodox community was held during the pandemic. The Son of Holocaust Survivors Addresses Hate Crimes and Double Standards During his seminal speech, Rav Hofstedter first addressed recent events in Eretz

Yisrael and the concern about the intellectual dishonesty and moral equivalence from much of the media and sadly, from fringe elements in Congress who engaged in anti-Semitic tropes when talking about those events. He then addressed the rising anti-Semitism throughout America. “Sadly, in my years of leading the single largest Torah organization in the world, I have come to realize that much of the negative sentiment directed toward Jews who desire defend themselves stems from raw anti-Semitism. And what we have seen domestically in recent months is a manifestation of that same form of anti-Semitism, in the form of hate crimes against the Jewish People - which continue to rise in volume across the United States. For this reason, it’s as important as ever that the Jewish People be aware that our public servants in the halls of Congress are committed to ensuring that those perpetrating these crimes are held accountable; and that there is no room in any one of your many districts for these types of vicious and vile acts. As the son of Holocaust survivors, this troubling trend has made me acutely concerned about the direction of our nation’s public discourse.” Rav Dovid continued, “There is yet another incredibly troubling trend experienced and witnessed by many of us in the faith-based community during the Coronavirus pandemic. That is the blatant double standard that the faith-based community had to endure in terms of the restrictions imposed upon us and our respective institutions and houses of worship during the Coronavirus pandemic. It is wholly unacceptable that the leadership of the governments of NYC and NYS, which have the largest population of Orthodox Jews in the nation - and an immensely sizable population of members of our organization - had to be subject to an inexplicable double standard. When a government passes rules and regulations, those rules must be evenhanded. For in elected officials in New York and elsewhere to have shown such blatant heavy-handedness toward the Orthodox Jewish community when our families were already enduring the pandemic and all the natural difficulties associated with it, is nothing short of a disgrace… I

am encouraged by the sentiments I have heard since arriving in Washington today, where many members of Congress clearly share this outrage. “To lend some context as to why this sort of double standard strikes such a personal chord with me; I’d like to take a moment to share my own personal life story. As the son of Holocaust survivors, I have always viewed the greatest revenge against Hitler and the Nazis as revitalizing Jewish scholarship and education to the high levels predating the Holocaust. I have made this objective my life’s mission.” The Impact of the Visit on Influential Members of Congress Rav Hofstedter’s words had a profound impact on the lawmakers and a number of them followed up by sharing their impressions of the visit with Dirshu. Congresswoman Nicole Malliotakis of New York issued a statement: “It was a pleasure to meet with Rabbi Dovid Hofstedter, leader of the world’s largest Torah Organization. We engaged in thorough dialogue about the importance of preserving freedom of religion. I commend Rabbi Hofstedter for the work he has done to restore Jewish scholarship levels with Dirshu and will continue to advocate for individuals’ sacred right to freely exercise their faith without fear of persecution.” Randy Feenstra, a congressman from Iowa said, “I enjoyed meeting with Rabbi Hofstedter, and I am excited to work together moving forward. We both deeply appreciate the importance of preserving the freedom of religion -- one of the most important and fundamental rights we are blessed to enjoy in this country...” Jeff Van Drew, who represents the Second District of New Jersey, put it succinctly when he said, “The spike in hate crimes against Jewish people across America and elsewhere across the globe is an issue that must be expeditiously dealt with. There is no room whatsoever for this sort of vitriolic hate and violence. We in the United States Congress will continue to stand up for the Jewish People. As you rightfully pointed out, perhaps at no time since the 1930’s have we found ourselves in as precarious a situation when it comes to Jewish lives being threatened both domestically and on a global scale. “Under your leadership, Dirshu is continuing to fight the darkness and moral confusion emanating in the world with light.”

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tract, sameness is what makes couples a positive energy to the relationship. Our compatible. As a wise woman once said, culture is one that values material and “The fact that one is male and one is fe- emotional comfort which is the antithmale is already enough difference.” Some esis of growth. Growth is by definition important examples of sameness are shar- uncomfortable. Those who seek comfort ing a common culture, educational lev- may be active, busy, and look like they’re el, family background, socio-economic having fun but are dying inwardly which Rabbi Dov Heller, LMFT background, political views, religion and breeds negativity. spirituality, closeness in age, intellectual 10. You share a common life vision compatibility, and having similar personHaving a common life vision means The common approach to deciding her commitment to the community, etc. ality styles. Viva la difference, but too your values, priorities, and goals are whether to marry someone is to make a 4. You are building a friendship much difference can cause unwanted con- aligned. In marriage two people can grow list of what you’re looking for and then You want to marry someone who flict. You should share some recreational together or grow a part. Seeing the world find someone who meets your require- treats you like your good friends do. preferences, and be able to laugh and have through similar lenses greatly insures ments. This is a good approach for buy- Be friends and lovers, but be friends fun together. you’ll grow together. Soul mates are goal ing a car but not so good for deciding to first. Friends care about each other’s hap9. You are growth oriented mates. Sharing common values and primake a life commitment to another human piness. Friends enjoy giving to each other When two people are constantly up- orities also reduces conflict and fighting being and meeting each other’s needs. Friends grading themselves, they are at the same simply because there’s less to fight about. Deciding to get married is not about are guardians of each other’s self-esteem. time upgrading the relationship by offer- It ensures that when it comes to the big having found the right person but having They build each other up and never tear ing a better version of themselves to each issues of life, such as money, parenting, found the right relationship. You need each other down. Friends are loyal and other. I believe that character refinement family, life balance, religion, or politics to be able to evaluate the overall quality never betray the other. is the essence of self-improvement. Hu- that you will be on the same page. of the relationship not just the quality of 5. You are good problems solvers man beings are either going up or down. I am quite confident that if you have the other person. You are not choosing Successful couples consistently re- There is no standing still. If a living thing been unsure about getting married and a mate, you are choosing a relationship. solve their conflicts and problems and is not growing it’s dying, a relationship you can sign off on most of these issues, The question is not is he right for me, reach win-win solutions. They rarely es- that is not growing is dying. Growing then you should feel confident moving but are we right for each other. Here are calate and get into ugly and destructive people feel happy and alive which adds forward. Mazel tov! ten ways to help you evaluate the overall fights that result in both people feeling quality of your relationship. beaten up and disconnected. If they dis1. There is healthy physical attrac- agree, they are back on track within 24 tion hours. When they do disagree, they fight Being in love does not measure any- fairly and respectfully. They are good lis5 BEDROOMS + STUDY thing useful about the quality of a ro- teners making sure they give each other mantic relationship. 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A Humble Hero Captain Harold Musikoff Speaks About His Experience Bombing Nazi Germany BY SUSAN SCHWAMM

Captain Musikoﬀ, thank you for sharing your experience with us. Can you give us a little background on your life before the war? I was born in Akron, Ohio, in 1924. I will be 97 in July. I was probably around three years old when my parents moved to Brooklyn, NY. I think my father’s brother had a job for him, and that’s why we moved. I still had relatives in Ohio, though, and I went back a number of times. I lived in a kosher home when I was growing up. My mother was kosher. Unfortunately, she passed away when I was about 14. I was just about ready to start high school when she died. My mother’s sister lived across the street from us in Brooklyn. I spent most of my time at my aunt to begin with because she had children and it was a more lively house. With my father working long hours, I went to live there after my mother died. I graduated high school when I was 18. When a young man was 18 at the time – in 1942 – he had to regis-

ter for the draft. I didn’t register for the draft because I enlisted in a program that was part of the Army Air Corps. The Air Force wasn’t in existence until after World War II, and so the Air Corps was a branch of the army. In that Air Corps, there was a program called The Aviation Cadet Program. I enlisted in that. What made you decide to enlist in the Air Corps? My cousin had gone through that program before. He was four years older than me. When he went through, you had to have two years of college before you went. But of course, when the war was on, they needed people, and so they accepted high school graduates. The Aviation Cadet Program was, I’d say, about 16 months. The first eight months was just classes. Initially, you went into what they call basic training. Everybody that goes into the military has to go through basic training. That was about four weeks. That’s to introduce somebody to the military, and everybody gets a uniform so everybody looks

the same. You get a lot of vaccines, too. You get what you are supposed to have in the United States. And of course, at that time, they didn’t know if you were going to go to Europe or the Pacific, so you got shots for both. You got all those shots in one day. Some boys fainted, but they expected that. I guess there are people who can’t stand needles. You also have to have on your record that you shoot guns. There were two kinds of rifles. There was a handheld machine gun on a tripod and a pistol. And you have to throw a hand grenade. And so we did all that. What were your feelings when you were trying out that gun that ﬁrst time? Yeah, well, I had never [held one before]. One of the things that was interesting is, I couldn’t hit anything with a gun. Luckily, I was not in a part of the army where I had to use a gun. You’re not a sharpshooter. Yes. After that, I went to Syracuse University for about four months tak-

ing classes, many that pertained to flying, like topography, map reading, celestial navigation, meteorology, communications, and other things. In addition, we learned about why we were in the war to begin with, the history of Germany going back and Japan going back and the history of many other countries. And of course, you had to exercise every morning, and every Sunday was a parade. You had to learn to march in unison, and you learned military protocol, like saluting officers. After that, I went to a base in Nashville, Tennessee, that was a classification center. You went through a battery of written tests, physical tests, and dexterity tests to determine if you were going to be on the program for a pilot or a bombardier or a navigator. One of the most stringent part of the physical tests is for your eyes. For a pilot, they’re not only concerned with 20/20 vision, but also about your peripheral vision and depth perception. They’re very strict. And all through training, they would al-

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ways test my eyes again, wherever I was. How many people were in the program with you? I was in a class called 44G. There were probably over 100 cadets in the class. The testing that they did didn’t take very long. I could have done everything in a couple of days, but it was very crowded with cadets going through. I once was assigned for KP, Kitchen Police. It was unusual because we generally didn’t get it. And of course, as an officer, you don’t ever get that kind of stuff. So I went to the sergeant – I was a cadet then – and he put me on a machine that peeled potatoes. You put the potato in, and it had a disk that was wavy and it had sandpaper on it, and it actually ripped the skin off the potatoes, as water was flushing on it at the same time. So I put in maybe half a bag of potatoes. They were a 100-pound bag of potatoes. After I put the potatoes in, my friend, another cadet, came over. He was assigned pots and pans. That was the worst. We got to talking and I forgot about the potatoes. And all of a sudden, I shut the machine off, and I looked at the inside. The potatoes were like mothballs, they were so small. I immediately got rid of them and put other potatoes back in because I was afraid the sergeant wouldn’t be too happy with me. After Nashville, I went to a place,

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Montgomery, Alabama. More classes, aircraft identification, codes, the Morse code. Then there was a place called Maxwell Field. They patterned that after West Point. When you came in, you were a lowerclassman, and after a month, you became an upperclassman. And again, there was a lot of marching and a lot of classes. And then, finally, after that, I went to a base in Americus, Georgia, and that was where I had the first plane, a primary trainer, a simple plane, that I had to fly. It was a double-wing like the World War II planes

to Greenwood, Mississippi, for a basic trainer. The plane was a little more complex, with more instruments, a bigger engine, and again, we had the same type of routine. You start out with an instructor. He teaches you how to do things with this plane. And again, after I don’t recall how many hours – it wasn’t that much – I soloed again. And then you continue. And every so often, there’s a different instructor that gives you a test while he’s up there, and you go through the whole routine of all the things that they want you to do.

“You don’t consider that anything’s going to happen. Nothing happens to 20-year-olds.” and an open cockpit, one for the cadet and one for the instructor. The instructor taught you things. One of the first things, you learn is how to land the plane because once you’re up in the air and something happens, you can’t pull over and call AAA. And then you do acrobatics because, again, they don’t know if you’re going to be a fighter pilot or a bomber pilot, and that also takes about six or seven weeks. After eight hours of flying with an instructor, one day, we landed. And he got out of the plane and he said, “OK, give me three takeoffs and landings, and see if you can bring the plane back in one piece.” You were on your own – sink or swim. I thought I should have soloed earlier because I was doing everything right. How hard is it to ﬂy a plane? I never ﬂew one. Well, it’s like everything else – repetition. You do the same thing over and over again until you get it good. And the sooner you get it good, the better you are. I thought I should have soloed maybe after six hours. I was landing the plane the way it was supposed to be. After that, I went

And then, the next place that I went to was in San Antonio, Texas, a place called Kelly Field, where I had the advanced trainer. I was assigned to a twin-engine plane, which meant I was going to be a bomber pilot of some sort. They didn’t know what at the time. It took about two months. You partner up with another cadet because, in a bomber, there’s always a pilot and a co-pilot. And so, you start out with two cadets and a plane and an instructor. Eventually, the instructor leaves, and you solo. By this time, you’re acquainted with what you’re supposed to do on a plane. And again, there’s more instruments, more complex things. Actually, that was the first plane for me that had headlights so you can fly at night. Also, the wheels came up. On the previous training planes, the wheels didn’t come up. That took two months and then you graduate from the program. When you graduate, two things happen. You get your pilot’s wings. And by an act of Congress, you become an officer and a gentleman. It’s interesting how they say that. Then I was assigned to a B-17 base in Sioux City, Iowa. I was there for two months. Again, we assembled a crew. How many people are on a crew? There are ten members of a crew on a B-17. We have a pilot, a co-pilot,

a bombardier, a navigator, a flight engineer, a radio operator, and four gunners. They are all on the plane. There’s also a lot of ground crew that take care of the plane. After Sioux City, we went to a base outside of Denver, Colorado, practicing formation flying and flying at night. After that, we went to Las Vegas. They took over the airport in Las Vegas because back then – we’re talking about 1944 – outside of the city of Las Vegas it was all desert. It was a great place where the gunners could practice shooting their guns and the bombardier could drop dummy bombs. After that, we came back to a base in New Jersey, and we stayed overnight. And then we flew to Nova Scotia, and we stayed overnight, refueled, and then we flew over to England. I was assigned to a bomb group based in England. When they told you that you’re going to England and going to be putting your training into action, what were your thoughts? Well, you’re ready to go. Remember, I was 20 years old at the time. You don’t consider that anything’s going to happen. Nothing happens to 20-year-olds. The training was interesting and fun. I had never been in a plane, and all of a sudden, I’m flying a big, four-engine bomber. What was the feeling between the members of your crew? We had a good crew. They became like a family. I had organized the crew. As I said, we were like a team. Every member has to do his utmost because we have to be prepared. In combat, things happen, unexpected things you should expect. And so, they all were very good. Is the pilot sort of like the leader of the crew? Yes, they become the aircraft commander. As a matter of fact, when you graduate, you’re promoted to second lieutenant. And when I was finished with all the training, before I went to Europe, I was promoted to first lieutenant. That’s the next level. There were only four officers on the plane: the pilot, the co-pilot, the bombardier, and the navigator. All

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the others are enlisted men. When we got to England, nothing happened for, I guess, almost a week because it was raining. The rain was not the problem. It’s the target area in Germany. If it’s overcast, the bombardier can’t see the target. The bombardier has a bomb site, and so that’s how he drops the bombs on the target. How many bombs could the plane hold? It depended on the type of bomb. Well, most of the time, it was 100-pound bombs, and the bomb bay could hold 20 bombs. On a couple of occasions, we had 500-pound bombs, and so the bomb bay could accommodate four. There were a couple of occasions when we had incendiary bombs. The incendiary was a much smaller bomb; it weighed about 10 pounds. They wrapped eight of them together, so they were about the same size as a 100-pound bomb. And when they were released, the wrapping came off, and all the bombs separated. When an incendiary bomb hits, it starts a fire, and it’s very hard to put out. You can’t put it out with water. The targets of those bombs were primarily factories that were making war materials for the Germans. Were you bombing Germany itself? Yes. On a mission, there were probably a couple of hundred planes at the time. My base put up 25 planes, usually, sometimes 24, depending on if

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they were all ready to fly. We did a mission almost every day when the weather was permissible to go. One of the things that you encounter on a mission are German fighter planes that are trying to shoot you down. They don’t want you to be dropping bombs. And that’s the purpose of having gunners. When I got there, the German fighter planes were not a big problem. Their air force had been decimated from previous bombings. In addition, we had a fighter plane, a P-51, that escorted us. Previously, they didn’t have a fighter plane that had the capacity to go to the target and back. But this newer one – it was probably the most superior fighter plane at the time. In addition to fighter planes trying to shoot you down, there was anti-aircraft fire when you got close to the target and when you left the target. That was a big problem – the anti-aircraft fire. They shoot a missile up, and it’s designed to explode at the level that the planes are at. We were 20,000 feet, usually. You were assigned an altitude, could have been 19,000 or 21,000, but it was around 20,000. Because there were so many planes, they didn’t want all the planes at the same level. If the anti-aircraft bomb exploded, flak, which was shrapnel, flew out at the planes. These were pieces of metal, sharp pieces of metal, that flew out at a high velocity like a bullet. On our 24th mission, the flak actually blew a hole on the right side of our plane. Unfortunately, it killed my co-pilot instantly. He was hit in the head. The bombardier, navigator, and one of the gunners were seriously wounded. What was going through your mind at that time? I was wounded. I was hit in the back of my right arm. My wound, I guess, was serious, but I could still fly the plane, luckily. I also lost one of the engines, but the plane could fly on three engines. I knew I had to get the plane back as soon as

possible to get these wounded men into a hospital at the base. How far was the ﬂight back to England? The target that time, I think, was Dresden. So it was probably three and a half hours. I was in pain. In the first aid kit, they had vials of morphine for the pain, and my flight engineer Captain Musikoff ’s medals wanted to give me a shot, but I refused. I didn’t know what kind of my back. When I leaned against it, effect it would have. I might have there was a slight pain. I didn’t think much about it. It wasn’t a big deal. passed out if I didn’t have pain to My wife and I went to visit an uncle keep me awake. And so I refused. down in Philadelphia. He was a surI was able to bring the plane back geon. He looked at it. And he said, to the base. “Let me take an X-ray and see what it When you fly back, there’s something there’s a type of pistol that fires is,” and he did. He said, “I see something there. There’s something, a tiny a missile that leaves a yellow line of smoke that tells the ground crew you something.” And he took out a little piece of the shrapnel that was left in need medical help. We did that. And then, the ambulances came up to the from the flak after all these years. In Europe, I think the surgeon was plane, took the wounded out, took me younger than I was. He probably was out, and we were taken to the hosdrafted also. pital. I was on furlough for about six Unfortunately, the three who were weeks. And then got a notice to come wounded in my crew died that week. to a veterans’ facility on 6th Avenue Along with your co-pilot, that’s in the 20s. It wasn’t a hospital; it was a lot of losses. a building. One of the floors was a Yes. medical floor. I had to go there a few times, and they finally decided that I You were wounded as well. was fit for duty. I was in the hospital for three weeks, not because the wound was Did you feel ready to go back? so serious, but because the bandage It isn’t whether I felt ready. They had to be changed every day. tell you. I was told that I was fit for After about, I guess, four days duty. And they were looking for exmaybe, I could take a shower. And perienced pilots because the war in then after the shower, the nurses Europe was just about ended. would change the bandage. The doctor would look at it. I remember they What year was this? put some kind of powder on it; they We’re now talking about 1945. called it sulfa powder. When I was wounded, it was the end Because I was in bed for about a of ’44. And so this was early in 1945. week, they had to get me up walking. I’m not sure what the month was. Your legs don’t work like they should You know, we’re talking about over if you’re in bed for that long. They at- 75 ago. rophy somewhat. And so, a couple of nurses used to walk holding onto me. I’m amazed how you know evBut after a few days, I was OK. And ery base where you trained. then I was sent home to Brooklyn. It’s unbelievable. Years ago, I had a little lump on I was sent to New Mexico to fly

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on a new bomber, a B-29, which was bigger and much more sophisticated. It was also a four-engine bomber and also made by Boeing. The B-17 was made by Boeing. One of the nice things about the B-29 was that it was pressurized. The B-17 wasn’t pressurized. The gunners had guns sticking out of the windows. Up at 20,000 feet over Germany, it was minus 30 degrees. Of course, everybody was 20 years old. We had heavy leather, fleece-lined jackets, pants, and boots. I spent, oh, I guess it must’ve been three, four weeks training. We, again, assembled a crew. I was promoted to captain at that time. Eventually, my plane and three other planes flew to Guam. We were going to bomb Japan. I was on Guam for, I think, two weeks, getting the crew ready. Everybody was new. Actually, only me, the flight engineer, and the bombardier, and the navigator had previous combat experience. Everybody else was just trained on the B-29. While we were in Guam, the war ended. They had dropped the atomic bombs, and the war ended. We didn’t even know what happened, but I never got into combat in the Pacific. I was in Guam for quite a while. I guess they didn’t know what to do with us. What was your feeling when you heard that the war ended? Well, I was glad. It’s not a happy thing when you find out what happens in combat. Did you feel like your service helped to end the war? You don’t think too much about it. People say, “You are a hero.” I never felt I was a hero. I was the same hero as everybody that put on a uniform and put their life on the line. The real heroes are the people who gave their lives and those that their lives changed forever because of serious wounds, the loss of a limb, people were blinded… Even while I was in Europe, there was one mission that we went on, and two of the planes from my bomb group didn’t come back. We didn’t know what happened to them. Either they were shot down or the plane exploded. That’s 20 people that we don’t know what happened to them. And there are many others that I know that didn’t make it.

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It was all very traumatic. Yes. It was. There’s a funny story that happened when got back from Guam. When I finally came back, we stopped in a base in California, some place above San Francisco, to refuel. We came back from Japan over the Pacific, and we landed in California. We were there for a couple of days. And then we flew to a place called Great Bend, Kansas. That’s where they were going to store the planes. When we got there, they were hundreds of planes already, all kinds of planes. We were there for a while. One day, I was called into the office and one of the officers there, he was a major, told me, “Tomorrow morning, you’re going to be the officer of the day.” Every day they pick an officer for the officer of the day. The officer of the day rides around the base to make sure everything’s OK. On the base, there’s a headquarters. There’s a hospital. There’s a building where they do laundry. There’s a prison. People have fights in bars – nothing serious. And so, you ride around. And he said to me, “Report at 0600.” That’s 6:00 in the morning. And so I did; I reported. They gave me an armband that said, “OD,” and they gave me a gun with a belt. I don’t

Captain Musikoff’s daughter, Lisa, with her family in a B-17

You were awarded The Purple Heart. Is that for what happened in Dresden? Yes. When you’re wounded in combat, you’re eligible for a Purple Heart. Was there a ceremony? Yes. I never really wanted to wear it when I was still in the service because my four crew were awarded a Purple Heart posthumously, and I was awarded and I’m living. It was very traumatic for me, that we were a close crew, and all of a sudden, they’re not around anymore.

“I just flew in a four-engine bomber but I never drove a car.” think there were any bullets in the gun. Then he told me, “Go down to the motor pool and get a car.” I looked at him, and I didn’t say anything. I went down; the motor pool was just walking distance. There was a sergeant there, and he knew, every day, that there’s an officer coming, so he had a jeep ready for me. But I looked at him, and I said, “I don’t know how to drive a car.” He almost fell down laughing. I never had a car. My father never had a car. In the ‘40s, not a lot of people had cars. And back then, everything was a stick shift, nothing automatic. I just flew in a four-engine bomber but I never drove a car. He showed me how to shift and use the clutch, and I was hopping along until I got the hang of it.

That is certainly very traumatic. Were there other Jews in the military with you? Back then, when I mentioned that I went to live with my aunt, she wasn’t kosher. So I guess that was good training for me because, when I went into the military, there was no such thing as kosher. There weren’t that many Jews in the units we were in. There were some. I encountered a few Jews. There was always a chaplain at the base. Some bases had a rabbi. They always had a service on Friday night. As a matter of fact, when I was at the base outside of Denver, at a base called Lowry Field, the chaplain was a Catholic priest. He did the Friday night service, all in Hebrew. One of the things that these chaplains always did, they tried to get you

a dinner invitation to a Jewish family for a Shabbat dinner. That was really nice. Did your crew know that you were Jewish? Yes. Of course. I didn’t really encounter any anti-Semitism. We were all young people. It wasn’t like it is now. Everybody was very busy. They keep you on your toes constantly. I can remember, the basic training was in Atlantic City. And a couple of times during the month, we had fire drills. We were in a hotel on the boardwalk – the Air Corps took over hotels. If you were asleep, the fire drill was like at 3:00 o’clock in the morning, you put on a coat and shoes – you didn’t even tie them – and you had to go out. And you assembled on the boardwalk. I was there in February. It was cold, but again, I was 18 years old.

What did you do after you left the service? Well, I took advantage of what they called the GI Bill. They paid for education. I wanted to go to college. When I was still in high school, I never knew that I would go to college right away. My plan was, when I graduated, I would get a job, and then maybe go to college at night. But here, the government paid for the tuition. Plus they gave me $75 a month for subsistence. So I went to a small college in Brooklyn, Brooklyn Polytech in Downtown Brooklyn. There are a few reasons why I went. I had been away for over three years, and I decided I just wanted to be home. In addition, one of my boyhood friends wasn’t accepted into

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the army. He had a medical problem, something with his leg, so he was marked what they call 4F. That meant wasn’t physically ready. He became an assistant professor in this school. It was a technical school. I got a BSEE, an electrical engineer school in college. I started college in ’46, and I actually graduated in ’49 because I got a lot of credits. I got credits for being a veteran. And also, they gave me a lot of credits for the time I spent at Syracuse University. My last term in college, I sent letters out to General Electric, IBM, Westinghouse, also to Con Edison, and the New York Telephone Company for jobs. And I got a response from all of them telling me, “Come down for an interview.” All the other companies except Con Edison and New York Telephone were out of town. IBM was upstate New York. I think there was another place upstate. Westinghouse, I think was in Virginia or something. General Electric was upstate New York. I got a call from Con Edison. I went down there, and I was accept-

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ed, and I worked there one day. That afternoon, when I came home, I had a message to call New York Telephone to come down to them because they wanted to interview me there. And so I did. I worked in Con Edison for one day and – I’m trying to think of what my first pay was – I think it was $22 a

“I never felt I was a hero. I was the same hero as everybody that put on a uniform and put their life on the line.” week. But then I went down the next day to New York Telephone, and I was accepted. And my pay was $31 a week. I got a raise overnight. When did you decide to share your story about your experience in the army? Well, I really never talked about it. I didn’t talk about it for probably 50 years. My wife didn’t know about

rising costs are affected both by disruptions to production, labor, and transport, leading to concerns regarding inflation and how higher grocery bills may impact consumers, many of whom are still smarting from the pandemic. BBC noted that all five components of the UN index rose, following the increased costs of grain, sugar, and vegetable oils due to renewed demand and a production backlog. At the same time, according to the FAO, a record global increase in cereal production is expected this year, and this may somewhat ease the upwards trend.

Operation Trojan Shield Food prices around the world have risen at their fastest rate in over a decade, the United Nations (UN) reported. The UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) follows prices around the globe on a wide range of food, including oilseeds, dairy products, meat, sugar, and cereals, and found that prices jumped 39.7% in May – the largest month-onmonth rise since October 2010. The rates are based on a broad index of local food costs, which have risen for 12 months consecutively, BBC reported. The

it. My medals were in a cigar box – I used to smoke cigars. My wife found them one day when we were in Florida, so that’s probably 50 years or more that I never spoke about it. One of the clubs that we belonged to in Florida was a veterans’ club. One day, they were talking about medals.

A massive international sting involving 16 countries, including the U.S., has netted more than 800 suspects, the seizure of 8 tons of cocaine and more than $48 million, officials announced on Tuesday. The FBI and Australian law enforcement developed and operated an encrypted device company, called ANOM, that was then used to gain access to organized crime networks in more than 100 countries, according to Europol, the law enforcement agency of the European Union.

And my wife said, “Why don’t you bring your medals down?” So I did. Another woman there said, “Why don’t you mount the medals?” And she said, “Give them to me. I’ll get them mounted.” And so she did. Of course, she gave me the bill for it. And that’s how the medals got mounted. When did you decide to share your story with your children

“Operation Trojan Shield is a shining example of what can be accomplished when law enforcement partners from around the world work together and develop state of the art investigative tools to detect, disrupt and dismantle transnational criminal organizations,” said Calvin Shivers, the assistant director of the FBI’s Criminal Investigative Division, in a press conference in The Hague, Netherlands. ANOM’s users believed the devices to be secure. Access to the communications of those involved in criminal networks meant that law enforcement agencies were able to read encrypted messages over the course of 18 months. The criminals communicated in 45 languages about trafficking and drugs, arms and explosives, armed robberies, contract killings and more. The Australian Federal Police began developing the technology nearly three years ago. In addition to the arrests and seizures of drugs, weapons and money, that the

or with other people? What was the impetus? Well, it was time. And I guess the feeling had worn off a little bit, as it does when a loved one passes. You never forget. Almost every day I think about my daughter, who passed away in 1989. A few years ago, we were invited to Rabbi Trump’s house for Shabbos lunch one day. During the lunch, they talk about the parsha for the week. Rabbi Trump asked me, “What did you ever do for that took courage?” I thought that was a peculiar question for me. But apparently, it was something in the parsha that people needed courage to do something. I didn’t know that. I wondered to myself, “Why is he asking me?” What was your answer? I said, “Well, I guess it took courage for me to fly my plane into enemy territory, knowing they were going to shoot me down.” There were other people invited to the meal. Everybody started asking me questions. I guess they didn’t expect that answer.

operation was able to mitigate over 100 threats to life. The access to their networks also enabled law enforcement agencies to see photographs of hundreds of tons of cocaine concealed in shipments of fruit and canned goods. Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison said this week that the operation “struck a heavy blow against organized crime – not just in this country, but one that will echo around organized crime around the world.”

Car Ramming in Canada

According to Canadian authorities, the driver behind a truck attack in which four members of a Muslim family were killed planned the attack beforehand. Nathaniel Veltman, 20, ran into five members of a Muslim family on Sunday in London, Ontario, after he drove over the curb. Veltman has been charged with four counts of first-degree murder and one count of attempted murder.

The Week In News The four people who died were Syed Afzaal, 46; his wife, Madiha Salman, 44; the couple’s 15-year-old daughter, Yumnah Afzaal; and Afzaal’s grandmother. Syed Afzaal and Salman’s 9-year-old son, Faez Afzaal, is currently hospitalized with serious, but non-life-threatening, injuries. As The Associated Press reports, members of the victims’ extended family released a statement soon after the attack. “Everyone who knew Salman and the rest of the Afzal family know the model family they were as Muslims, Canadians and Pakistanis,” a statement from the victims’ extended family read. “They worked extremely hard in their fields and excelled. Their children were top students in their school and connected strongly with spiritual their identity. “This young man who committed this act of terror was influenced by a group that he associated with, and the rest of the community must take a strong stand against this, from the highest levels in our government to every member of the community,” they added. Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan called the attack an “act of terrorism” and an indication of “growing Islamophobia in the West.” “I am deeply saddened by the murder of a Pakistani-Canadian Muslim family in the London area of Ontario,” he tweeted. “This reprehensible act of terrorism is a sign of the growing Islamophobia in the West, which needs to be addressed by the international community as a whole,” Khan wrote.

Graft Accusations in S. Africa

This week, South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa placed the country’s health minister on “special leave” over alleged links to a corruption scandal involving coronavirus communications funding. Zweli Mkhize, widely acclaimed for his handling of the pandemic, took a hit last month after graft investigators opened a probe into two of his close aides. The pair – Mkhize’s former spokeswoman and his ex-personal assistant – are accused of pocketing public funds set aside to fund South Africa’s coronavirus response plan. Around 90 million rand ($6.6 million) were allegedly siphoned off using a front company, Digital Vibes, which was awarded a 150 million rand tender in March 2020 to handle the health ministry’s communications campaign. Revelations about alleged mishandling

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of coronavirus funds surfaced last year and have since led investigators to believe that billions of rands have fallen into the hands of politically connected companies, sparking public outrage. The SIU last week said that 63 government officials had so far been handed over for prosecution, while 87 companies will be blacklisted. Mkhize has previously denied any involvement with Digital Vibes, claiming he had no knowledge of the company or the tender process. He wrote to the ruling African National Congress party last week to request a meeting of its integrity committee to state his case. Mkhize has been health minister since 2018 and spearheaded South Africa’s campaign against Covid-19. He gained popularity through his handling of the pandemic and is touted as one of the potential successors to Ramaphosa.

Since the coronavirus first emerged in central China, Beijing has mostly managed to bring the country’s outbreak under control, and has administered over 777 million vaccine doses. A spokesperson for Sinovac told AFP its vaccine had been approved for use on children. “In recent days, the Sinovac vaccine was approved for emergency use in threeto 17-year-olds,” the spokesperson said. Despite the approval, the spokesperson did not confirm when the young children would be able to start receiving the shots. The schedule for the rollout will be decided by the National Health Commission “according to China’s current epidemic prevention and control needs and vaccine supply.”

Russia: Opposition Leader Leaves

Russian opposition politician Dmitry Gudkov said on Sunday he had left Russia following warnings of arrest if he stayed. According to a report by Reuters, the warnings came from people close to the Kremlin. Gudkov, 41, is a former member of Russia’s Parliament. He was detained by law officials last Tuesday over allegations that he failed to pay a debt on a rented property. Gudkov, who has denied the allegations, was released on Thursday but remains a suspect in a criminal case. According to him, the purpose of the investigation was to bar him from September’s election. On his Telegram account, Gudkov wrote, “I’m approaching Kyiv where I have long-planned meetings and TV appearances. Several sources close to the presidential administration circle said that if I do not leave the country, my fake criminal case would be taken further to the point of my arrest.” The Kremlin has stated that arrests such as Gudkov’s are not connected to politics.

The company has completed early phase trials of the vaccine in children and adolescents, with results to be published shortly in the Lancet scientific journal, the spokesperson added. Chinese officials have said they are aiming to inoculate 70 percent of the population of 1.41 billion by the end of this year. The World Health Organization (WHO) has approved both the Sinopharm and Sinovac vaccines for emergency use in adults aged 18 and older. Both vaccines are being administered in several countries around the world. While the WHO does not currently recommend vaccinating children against coronavirus, the United States, Britain, Singapore and the European Union have approved the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine for those as young as 12. China reported 33 new Covid-19 cases Tuesday, including 19 in southern Guangdong province where authorities have been battling a local outbreak.

Turkey Deals with Sea Snot

China to Vaccinate 3-Year-Olds China has approved the emergency use of a Covid-19 vaccine for those as young as three, making it the first country to offer jabs to young children.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has promised to save his country’s seas from their largest-ever outbreak of “sea snot,” Business Insider reported. “Sea snot,” or marine mucilage, is

slimy green or gray sludge which can endanger the fishing industry and marine life. First discovered in 2007, it forms when algae are overloaded with nutrients due to changes in temperature and water pollution. According to BBC News and Sky News, the current outbreak is believed to be the largest in history. “We will save our seas from this mucilage calamity, leading with the Marmara Sea. We must take this step without delay,” Erdogan asserted. Speaking to BBC, Professor Bayram Ozturk of the Turkish Marine Research Foundation warned, “Due to the overgrowth of the mucilage, several species are under threat [including] oysters, mussels, sea stars. “It’s a real catastrophe.” The Turkish government has reportedly sent a team to inspect the potential sources of pollution in the sea.

Boko Haram Leader Killed in Fight

Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau killed himself during a fight against rival jihadists from the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP), AFP reported, based on an audio obtained from the group on Sunday. Boko Haram has not issued an official comment on the death, but the Nigerian army said it is investigating the claim. In the audio, a voice resembling that of ISWAP leader Abu Musab Al-Barnawi can be heard speaking in Kanuri, saying, “Shekau preferred to be humiliated in the hereafter to getting humiliated on Earth. He killed himself instantly by detonating an explosive.” In the audio, ISWAP described how fighters were sent to Boko Haram’s Sambisa enclave, where they found Shekau sitting at home. “From there, he retreated and escaped, ran and roamed the bushes for five days. However, the fighters kept searching and hunting for him before they were able to locate him,” the voice said. ISWAP fighters urged Shekau to repent, but he refused and killed himself. “We are so happy,” the voice said, calling Shekau “the big troublemaker, persecutor and destructive leader of the nation. “This was someone who committed unimaginable terrorism and atrocities. For how long has he been leading people astray? How many times has he destroyed and abused people?”

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