Issue 15

SPINNING OFF THE STANDARD

FREE ISSUE 15 DECEMBER 25, 2019

‫פרשת מקץ‬ ‫כ”ז כסלו תש”פ‬

Eight new dreidelthemed games to play with family and friends

CHANUKAH SURVEY R ES U LT S A R E IN !

FYI: DREIDELS REKINDLING THE CANDLES IN KYIV Rabbi Hilel Cohen helps smoldering Yiddishe embers burst to life

JOIN THE BORO PARK VIEW CHANUKAH SCAVENGER HUNT!

TWO LITTLE BOYS, ONE BIG WONDER Chanukah was a time of personal nissim for our family

MIRACLE ON TWO FEET Flashbacks at lighting fill me with gratitude

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‫"מיין טאלאנט" ‪ -‬דער צענטער אין בארא פארק וואו היימישע חסידישע קינדער‬ ‫קענען פראטאקצירן "טאלאנט" אין אן ערליכער אטמאספער‪.‬‬ ‫אנגעפירט דורך חשוב‘ע מחנכים אין א באקוועמע לופטיגע לאקאל‪.‬‬

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3. Strain cocktail Into Glass.

4. Thread Mini Marshmallows Onto a Skewer or Toothpick. Use Flame Of a Stove or Torch To Toast Them. Drape Skewer Over Top Of Glass Just Before Serving.

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‫הנה זה בא‬

‫נאך איין וואך פארבליבן‬

‫פארזיכערט‬ ‫שוין אייער‬ ‫פלאץ‬

‫א באזונדערע רייכע פראגראם וועט זיין‬ ‫צוגעגרייט פאר די באטייליגטע פון‬

‫בארקלעיס‬ ‫צענטער‬ ‫בהתאסף ראשי עם‬

‫לשמוע את דברי ה'‬

‫בתוף וכנור יזמרו לו‬

‫אהודנו בסוד עם קרובו‬

‫ויתנו לך כתר מלוכה‬

‫יחד שבטי ישראל‬

‫א פלאטפארמע‬ ‫פון הונדערטער‬ ‫גדולי ישראל וועלן‬ ‫באשיינען דעם זאל‬

‫דרשות חיזוק‬ ‫והתעררות לכבוד היום‬ ‫ספעציעל פאר די‬ ‫'בארקלעיס' משתתפים‬

‫ריקודים של שמחה‬ ‫דורך א באזונדערע‬ ‫מוזיקאלישע‬ ‫ארקעסטרא אין זאל‬

‫פאפולערע זינגערס‬ ‫און א פילהארמאנישע‬ ‫קאפעליע‬ ‫פון מטיבי נגן‬

‫שעות פון כבוד‬ ‫התורה אינאיינעם‬ ‫מיט א תענוג רוחני‬ ‫וגשמי‬

‫מען וועט אויך‬ ‫קענען מיטהאלטן די‬ ‫הויכפונקטן פונעם‬ ‫מעמד אין 'מעטלייף'‬

‫טיקעטס צו די בארקלעיס צענטער קען מען קויפן ביי די פלעצער‬ ‫‪Attention‬‬ ‫‪Barclays‬‬ ‫‪Siyum Ticket‬‬ ‫‪Holders:‬‬ ‫‪Barclays Siyum‬‬ ‫‪tickets are sold‬‬ ‫‪as General‬‬ ‫)‪Admission (GA‬‬ ‫‪by Section and‬‬ ‫‪not by row or seat‬‬ ‫‪number. You may‬‬ ‫‪sit in any seat‬‬ ‫‪within the Section‬‬ ‫‪number on your‬‬ ‫‪ticket; Disregard‬‬ ‫‪Row and Seat #.‬‬

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‫‪5309 13th Ave.‬‬

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‫‪Keter Judaica‬‬ ‫‪Z. Berman‬‬

‫‪4602 17th Ave.‬‬

‫‪1664 Coney Island Ave.‬‬

‫‪Z. Berman‬‬

‫‪1586 Coney Island Ave.‬‬

‫‪Eichlers‬‬

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‫‪Lakewood‬‬ ‫‪Keter Judaica‬‬ ‫‪12 America Ave.‬‬

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‫ד' טבת תש"פ‬ ‫מעטלייף סטאדיום‬

‫השלשה‪-‬עשר‬ ‫של דף היומי העולמי‬

‫וויכטיגע אנווייזונגען‬ ‫צו פארגרינגערן אייער סיום הש"ס‬

‫ברוך שהחיינו וקיימנו והגיענו לזמן הזה‪ ,‬מען שטייט שוין אט אט ביים גרויסארטיגן מעמד סיום הש"ס‪ ,‬וואו אלפים ורבבות אידן‬ ‫וועלן זיך צוזאמען און אינאיינעם מסיים זיין ש"ס‪ ,‬שאפנדיג דער גרעסטער מעמד קידוש השם און א היסטארישער מאמענט‬ ‫אין כלל ישראל'ס היסטאריע‪ .‬כדי אלעס זאל בעזהשי"ת אריבערגיין על צד היותר טוב‪ ,‬איז זייער וויכטיג אין אכט צו נעמען און‬ ‫אויסצופאלגן די וויכטיגע אנווייזונגען‪ ,‬ויה"ר שיתרבה כבוד התורה ולומדיה‪.‬‬

‫סדר הזמנים‬ ‫אזוי ווי עס וועט זיך צוזאמען קומען גאר א גרויסער ציבור אידן‪ ,‬און טירחא דציבורא איז עפעס אויף וואס חז"ל האבן שוין חושש געווען‪ ,‬וועט מען זיך דערפאר האלטן גאר‬ ‫צייטליך מיט די לוח הזמנים‪ .‬עס איז ראטזאם צו קומען וואס פריער כדי מען זאל קענען אריבערגיין די זיכערהייט אונטערזיכונגען און נישט פארפאסן קיין שום מינוט פון‬ ‫דעם ריזיגן היסטארישן מעמד‪ .‬די טירן וועלן זיך עפענען אום ‪ 11:00‬אזייגער פארמיטאג‪ ,‬און דער מעמד זעלבסט וועט בעז"ה זיין תיכף נאך תפלת מנחה ברוב עם‪ ,‬אום ‪1:00‬‬ ‫אזייגער‪ .‬עס איז ערווארטעט צו ענדיגן צווישן ‪ 4:00‬און ‪ 5:00‬אזייגער נאכמיטאג‪.‬‬

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‫די פארקינג לאט פון די סטאדיום וועט זיין אפן פון ‪ 9:00‬צופרי‪ .‬ווען איר קומט אן וועט איר ווערן צוגעפירט צו א פארקינג דורך א פארקינג באאמטער‪ .‬די פרייז איז ‪ $40‬פאר‬ ‫א קאר אן ‪ $160‬פאר א באס‪ ,‬מען קען צאלן מיט קעש אדער קרעדיט קארד‪ .‬געדענקט אראפצושרייבן די פארקינג לאט נומער און אות איר זאלט גרינג טרעפן אייער קאר‬ ‫נאכן סיום‪.‬‬

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‫ווי ביי יעדע גרויסע צוזאמענקום‪ ,‬וועט זיין אנוועזנד א פארגרעסערטע זיכערהייט וואך דורך די פאליציי‪ ,‬און יעדער וועט דארפן אריבערגיין א שטרענגע זיכערהייט‬ ‫אינטערזוכונגען מיט א מעטאל דעטעקטאר‪ .‬עס איז וויכטיג צו וויסן אז אייער קאר וועט מעגליך ווערן אונטערגעזיכט דורך די פאליציי און זייערע שמעק‪-‬הינט‪ .‬עס איז‬ ‫ראטזאם מיטצוברענגען וואס ווייניגער זעקלעך‪ ,‬און וואס מען דארף יא ברענגען זאל קומען אין קליינע דורכזיכטיגע באגאזשן‪ .‬אלעס וועט ווערן איבערגעקוקט‪ .‬גרויסע‪/‬נישט‬ ‫דורכזיכטיגע בעגס‪ ,‬קעמערע קעיסעס‪ ,‬שירעמעס‪ ,‬קערידזעס‪ ,‬גלאזערנע באטלעך‪ ,‬קענס‪ ,‬און טערמוסעס א‪.‬ד‪.‬ג‪ .‬וועלן נישט ווערן אריינגעלאזט בשום אופן‪ .‬דינא דמלכותא‬ ‫דינא‪ .‬דורכאויס די סיום וועט זיין א "נאו פליי זאון" איבערן סטעדיום‪ .‬זיך באנוצן מיט דראונס קען זיך ענדיגן מיט א קרימינאלע אנקלאגע און ארעסט‪.‬‬

‫טיקעטס‬ ‫איר דארפט האבן מיט זיך אייער פיזישע טיקעט כדי צו קענען אריינגיין צום סיום‪ .‬אן די טיקעט וואס איר האט באקומען וועט איר נישט קענען אריין‪ .‬דאס רעכנט אריין‬ ‫יעדעם איינעם‪ ,‬אויך די רבנים און די וואס פארמאגן א ‪ VIP‬טיקעט דארפן האבן פיזישע טיקעטס אריינצוגיין‪ .‬עס איז גאר וויכטיג צו וויסן פון פאראויס‪ ,‬אז איינמאל אייער‬ ‫טיקעט ווערט געסקענט קען מען עס מער נישט ניצן אריינצוגיין‪ ,‬דעריבער זעט צו בלייבן אינעווייניג‪ ,‬ווייל אויב איר גייט ארויס וועט איר נישט האבן קיין וועג צוריק אריין‬

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‫ווען איר קומט צום סיום וואס וועט זיין אויפן גאס תחת כיפת השמים‪ ,‬זעט צו זיין אנגעטון גענוג ווארעם‪ ,‬מיט א מאנטל‪ ,‬א שאל‪ ,‬הענטשיך און אויער‪-‬שיצערס‪ .‬ווען איר קומט‬ ‫אן אין סטאדיום וועט איר באקומען הענט‪ ,‬פיס און קערפער ווארעמערס‪ .‬עס וועט זיין קאווע און ווארעמע טרינקען‪ ,‬אבער פארלאזט אייך נישט דערויף‪ ,‬נאר קומט אנגעטוען‬ ‫די ווארימסטע וואס איז נאר מעגליך‪ ,‬וחמירא סכנתא מאיסורא‪.‬‬

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IN SEARCH OF BUTCHER PAPER (Re: Easy Does It, Issue 13) I love the fun Chanukah tablescape idea you featured, and I’d like to incorporate it into my Chanukah party decor. I can’t seem to find any butcher paper, though. Can you recommend a local store that sells it?

Thank you so much!

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(Re: Give Them Your Heart, Issue 13) Kudos to Tziri Herskovitz for a fantastic article! The concept she covered was fascinating, beautifully written and well-researched.

Though the topic of this article is one I was familiar with before, she drove it home in a new way and helped me view my kids differently!

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Thank you so much!

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FAMILY PAINT PROJECT (Re: A DIY Paint Party, Issue 13) Thank you for the step-by-step painting guide! It was a really nice family project.

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(Re: Chanukah Food, Issues 13 and 14) I’d like to prepare something really delicious (and different) for dessert on the first night of Chanukah to add some Chanukah flavor to the leftovers I serve on Sunday night. My family members do not touch any fillings or glazes, so I’d like to know which you think would be more flavorful unadorned: the churros featured in Issue 13 or the doughnut holes featured in Issue 14?

D.F. MIRIAM PESSY WERCBERGER RESPONDS: Both can be delicious without any dipping sauces. The churros are dipped in cinnamon sugar and the doughnut holes covered in confectioners’ sugar, so they can be eaten as is. I will say, though, that the jelly dipping sauce makes the holes taste like traditional jelly doughnuts and are super divine that way!

MORE TO MAOZ TZUR (Re: Warmed by Their Light

and Song, Issue 14) Your halacha tidbits are very enlightening! Keep it up.

In your recent Chanukah issue you discuss the many piyutim we say, among them Maoz Tzur, with additional stanzas added on.

In the Sefer Mekor Chaim (by the author of Chavas Yair) on Shulchan Aruch (676:3), the author brings several extra stanzas, including some of his own. It is noteworthy that he also brings one stanza from the Rema with his name Moshe hinted to at the beginning of each line.

Hatzlacha on your superb work.

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A SUPER-SUSPENSEFUL SERIAL (Re: The Cuckoo Clock; A Doughnut Station, Issue 14) I am so surprised that there are hardly any comments about your fantastic serial The Cuckoo Clock. I wait for it every week and relish every word. I can’t wait to find out how all the details wrap up into one story! I also want to thank you for the adorable doughnut station ideas. It is the perfect guide with perfect ideas for that perfect doughnut! Thanks a lot.

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SAFETY IS PRICELESS (Re: Tricks of the Trade, Issue 14) I would like to start by thanking all of the parents who send tips to bus drivers.

And to the bus driver requesting tips for an additional 30 seconds of wait time, I’d like to share how I see it.

About a month ago, I was driving down a block where I have three pickups. I was 300 feet from a stop when a child running to the bus tripped in the middle of the street. B’chasdei Hashem, I was the only vehicle on the block at the time and immediately stopped my van. Since I was only going around 10 miles per hour, it took only a

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Safety should always be a bus driver’s top priority, and the safest scenario is if every child is waiting where they are supposed to at the scheduled time.

A great idea to implement in this icy cold weather is that parents should form a chain call system in which one parent notifies the next one on the route when the bus gets to their home.

Waiting for a child to come running to the bus is not worth any amount of money in the world. If a child gets hurt because they are running to catch the bus, who do you think will be blamed? Not the parents.

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DON’T TEST MY PATIENCE (Re: Tricks of the Trade, Issue 14) On my daily short drive to work each morning, I find myself behind many school buses picking up our dear tinokos shel beis rabbon for a day of learning. I patiently wait for each child to get on and then for the bus to resume its ride, grateful that the safety of our children is a top priority.

However, I was disturbed by the “extra 30 seconds” a bus driver offered in a letter last week. Can you imagine how my commute will look if each wait behind a bus will take another half a minute?

I only hope I can keep up my patience if that were to occur.

A Driver

YOUR VOICE NO LABELS, PLEASE When people ask you for information regarding a shidduch, please refrain from describing others with “labels.” People are subjective, and each person interprets a certain tag differently.

I recently heard someone describe a Bais Yaakov girl by saying, “She looks like a chassidishe girl.” If the family she was redt to is very Litvish, something like this can throw them off! In such a case, just say something like, “She dresses very tznius’dig.”

Although these “tags” are not negative on their own, certain parties may view them negatively.

Another important thing not to do: Don’t draw comparisons! I once heard someone saying, “She’s very intelligent, like Leah [someone both parties know].” You never know what attitude the other party has toward Leah, and even though you only wanted to compare a positive trait, you may have thrown the potential mechutanim off by an innocent remark.

While on the topic, I’d also like to mention that it is halachically not okay to describe a person’s looks or size as this is something that can be seen from the outside.

So please watch your words. Make sure to do no harm, because you surely mean only good!

May we try to help the shidduch crisis, and not add to it, and may we hear besuros tovos.

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America is a very comfortable galus. It makes it very easy for us to forget why and what we need to do here. These incidents are here to remind us that we have a mission and goal in this world.

Klal Yisroel is so good. We constantly strive to do more.

There is no other nation like ours. But perhaps our lives are too comfortable and materialistic for us to remember at all times what we owe our Master and to elevate our actions so they should be pure avodos Hashem.

Maybe this fear is here to shake us out of our comfort zone and not let us forget our true purpose.

The Chovos Halvovos has an entire shaar named Cheshbon Hanefesh, where Rabbeinu Bachya ben Yosef lists thirty thought processes that need to become a part of our being. This includes remembering what our purpose is and never letting our gashmius’dige actions override our ruchnius. As it says: “Cheshbon ha’adam im nafsho al mah she’avar m’yamav, im hisosek bahem b’avodas Elokav.”

Let us not forget to put aside a few moments a day — even as little as two quiet minutes — to think about this concept. Hopefully, it will enable us all to have control over our weaknesses that disconnect us from our true calling.

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A man traveled to a distant island where diamonds were scattered everywhere, just as we would find rocks and pebbles outside. Upon his arrival, the man picked up a diamond, went to a shop, and tried to buy food, offering the diamond as payment. The shopkeeper refused to accept the diamond as payment. Diamonds were so plentiful on the island that they had no value to the inhabitants.

The shopkeeper informed the man that the local currency was schmaltz.

Seeing that he needed schmaltz to pay for food and lodging on the island, the man took a job that would pay him schmaltz. As the man acclimated to the local culture, and as he came to rely on schmaltz for all of his needs, his mindset began to shift. Schmaltz became precious to him, and he forgot the value of diamonds.

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ing of his pocket, so he was able to support his family in some comfort, but he had squandered his opportunity to amass great wealth.

In Parshas Mikeitz, Paroh dreams of seven robust cows that are consumed by seven emaciated cows. Paroh then dreams of seven ripe sheaves of grain that are devoured by seven lean, parched sheaves of grain. Paroh summons Yosef Hatzaddik to interpret the dreams, and Yosef predicts seven years of abundance followed by seven years of famine. Yosef advises Paroh to “seek out an understanding and wise man and appoint him over the land of Mitzrayim� (Bereishis 41:33).

R’ Elyah Lopian, zt�l, asks why Yosef advises Paroh to appoint someone who is “understanding and wise.� Why would a person overseeing the collection and storage of food need these specific traits? R’ Elyah Lopian answers that it is difficult for a person in times of plenty to realize the importance of stockpiling every single grain possible for the upcoming famine. The desperation of starvation drove people during World War II to trade gold for bread, and people hoarded every morsel of food they encountered; Paroh’s appointee would have to have that

We are meant to learn to treasure every drop of kedushah from the time of Chanukah and store it away for the rest of the year.

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same sense of urgency over storing every grain possible even during a time of great abundance. Only a man of wisdom and understanding would maintain that sense of urgency for seven years straight.

R’ Elyah Lopian points out that Parshas Mikeitz falls on Chanukah most years, so almost every Chanukah we read about how the people in Mitzrayim carefully stored as much produce from the years of plenty as they could. What is the connection between this story and Chanukah? R’ Elyah Lopian concludes

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that we are meant to learn to treasure every drop of kedushah from the time of Chanukah and store it away for the rest of the year. Chanukah is a time that is filled with an abundance of kedushah, and we should fill our storehouses with kedushah so that the light of Chanukah will remain with us for the rest of the year.

We see a parallel of this in the Chanukah story itself.

The Makabim search high and low until they find a single bottle of oil that had been sealed and stamped by the Kohen Gadol. That bottle contained only enough oil to light the menorah one time, but it lasted for eight days. A person who is not “understanding and wise” might not appreciate the full magnitude of the miracle of even a single day’s oil, let alone eight days of oil; but in reality, it was so significant that we continue to rejoice over the nes until today.

We must learn from these stories and not be like the man in the Chofetz Chaim’s mashul. We were sent to this world, where mitzvos — the true treasures we are meant to gather and bring to the Next World — are in abundant supply. But we can be influenced by the culture of this world, which values material gain and pleasure, and does not value mitzvos. Whatever material possessions we may accumulate will “spoil” on our journey to the next world. When we arrive in the next world, will we have to search our pockets for a few pebbles?

We are only in this world for a limited amount of time. May we all be “understanding and wise” and stockpile mitzvos with great alacrity. *Name has been changed in this true story.

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Cuomo and de Blasio Expanding Funding to Protect Yeshivah Students and Religious Institutions Just one week after terror struck Jersey City’s Jewish community, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo rushed to pledge over $10 million to provide security enhancements over and above existing allocations that would offer greater protection against hate crimes.

Cuomo had previously dedicated almost $15 million to protect faith-based schools, institutions and cultural centers through the state’s Security Communities Against Hate Crimes Grant Program in 2018, with an additional $25 million put in place in New York’s 2019 budget plan.

The grant will be administered by the NYS Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Services and will provide up to $50,000 in funding for security training, cameras, improved lighting, door modifications, technology and other upgrades at eligible facilities. Organizations that have multiple facilities can submit up to three applications for a total request of up to $150,000 in funding.

“The cancer of hate and division spreading across this country is repugnant to the values of diversity and inclusion we hold dear in New York,” said Cuomo. “We are continuing to do everything we can to stamp out threats and acts of violence targeting religious and cultural institutions, and this new grant funding will allow many of these organizations to enhance their security measures and help keep people safe.”

The state’s Division of Human Rights and the New York State Police will be operating a hotline established by the governor where callers can report any hate crimes or acts of bias or discrimination. Anyone who has been the target of any incidents of this nature can report it at 888-392-3644 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Monday through Friday, or by texting “HATE” to 81336. The state will also be offering $5,000 in reward money for anyone providing information leading to an arrest and conviction in connection with a hate crime.

An extra layer of protection will be available in New York City, reported Hamodia, with Mayor Bill de Blasio reopening applications for the Nonpublic School Security Reimbursement Program to reimburse schools with a state BEDS code and a minimum of 300 students for the cost of hiring unarmed security guards. Lisette Camilo, Commissioner of the Department of Citywide Administrative Services, said that while the application process had been closed in March, the rise of attacks on the Jewish community — including last week’s events in Jersey City — and requests from Jewish organizations had officials appreciating the need for greater funding.

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dents are safe in their schools — including [those in] private and religious-based schools,” said Camilo. “There is no place in this city for hate or anti-Semitism, and this move will allow more schools to hire the security guards needed to protect against acts of violence and hate.”

Assemblyman Simcha Eichenstein, a former City Hall aide, publicly thanked the mayor for once again demonstrating that the safety of nonpublic school students is a priority in New York City by setting aside more funding for their protection.

“As a parent, it breaks my heart that we now live in such troubling times where our children’s safety is at great risk,” said Eichenstein.

Those thoughts were echoed by Rabbi David Niederman, president of the United Jewish Organizations of Williamsburg, who quoted the words of Dovid Hamelech in Sefer Tehillim.

“Ultimately, ‘the Guardian of Israel neither slumbers nor sleeps,’” said Rabbi Niederman. “That is our true protection, but we are obligated to make our best efforts, and this program makes great strides in that regard.”

Also moving to promote yeshivah safety was City Councilman Chaim Deutsch, who announced last Thursday that he was working on a bill to expand security enhancements in smaller schools. Deutsch joined with State Senator Simcha Felder and Councilman Kalman Yeger in sponsoring an active shooter training session in conjunction with the NYPD’s counterterrorism division for yeshivah heads representing thousands of students.

“Every single school administrator should learn this training, and with G-d’s help, none will ever have to use it,” said Deutsch.

Yeger noted that active-shooter training has become a sad, but necessary, reality in our times.

“While the likelihood of an attack is statistically slim, we must plan for every possibility and take every opportunity to protect our children,” said Yeger.

Taking a historical perspective, Felder observed that fire drills, now a part of every academic institution, became part of school safety protocols after a devastating 1958 blaze that took the lives of over ninty students and three teachers at the Our Lady of Angels school in Chicago. No escape plan was in place at the school, and victims were trapped inside the burning building. After that fire, fire drills were instituted all across the United States.

Felder called for active-shooter training, too, to become part of the agenda at every yeshivah in order to ensure the security of every student.

“Then, like now, we mobilized to educate people with lifesaving information and mandated drills, practicing how to stay safe,” said Felder. “Together we will continue to do everything humanly possible to protect our children from any threat.”

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CHAPTER FIFTEEN Recap: Emil helps Edo and Gustav escape the orphanage. They arrive at the home of Janek and Ulush Cohen. Janek questions Gustav, who doesn’t remember anything about his background.

In Yerushalayim, Elisheva is plagued by a nightmare in which the whole deal with Korman turns out to be false.

“My daytime fears have invaded my dreams at night,” Elisheva told Eliyahu, who had gotten up to prepare her a cup of tea.

“I can call the bank line again, if that will calm you down, so that you can hear the recording that says there is 180,000 shekels in the account.”

“I know it was deposited.” She shook her head. “I know it for a fact. But...”

“But what?”

In the dark, she stared at her palms, but couldn’t find the words with which to express her fears.

“We’ve checked into this story from every angle.” Eliyahu sat down onto a chair that someone had left near the door of their room. “The millionaire exists, Rosenblit is a lawyer with a paper trail, receipts and everything, and the first installment of the money is already in our bank — or rather, it’s flowing freely out of the bank, baruch Hashem.”

“And we’re flowing along with it.” Her smile was a bit crooked. “Yes, with all the running around and shopping, I’m getting very used to this new reality. But apparently, somewhere inside me, there is anxiety lurking. I guess it’s only natural.”

“Very natural,” Eliyahu said, looking at the untouched cup of tea he had prepared.

“I feel that way too. When someone tells me

that there are two million shekels waiting to buy an apartment for my daughter, and all I have to do is find the apartment, I feel a bit uneasy about it. But I don’t know if it’s disbelief or the discomfort of using money from other people.”

“It’s not a donation, Eliyahu!” She was indignant. For him. For herself. For Tzippy. “It’s like a grant of sorts, like what you get from your kollel.”

“Right,” he said slowly, “but...” Now it was his turn to be at a loss for words.

“You’re even clarifying if we have to give ma’aser from it...”

He smiled. “Actually, a poor man also has to give ma’aser from the tzedakah money that he gets.”

She didn’t react.

“But I didn’t mean that it was a donation; I also realize that this is something very different,” he hastened to explain. “I agree with you on this point. It’s just that the whole thing is a little hard for me, personally.”

“So you could have said you didn’t want to accept the money.”

“Me?” Eliyahu enunciated the word slowly. “The money wasn’t given to me, even though I am probably the primary beneficiary of it... It was given to Peretz and Tzippy.”

“I almost forgot that.” She smiled wryly.

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“What about invitations?

Shouldn’t we be sending them out already?”

“First we need to know what’s going on with the hall,” Elisheva said.

“The mechuteniste hasn’t yet found a normal hall that’s available on this date.”

“We need to look into the smaller halls. What about Be’er Miriam, Mishkenos Yaakov, or the Reb Chaim Ozer one?”

“She’s never going to agree.” Elisheva finally picked up her tea, made a bracha, and took a sip. “She wants a fancy hall.”

He spread out his hands. “Just tell her that if that’s the case, she should also take care of the invitations and sending them out,” he advised. “I don’t think that you should be worrying about invitations two weeks before the wedding, especially on this type of schedule. What if they get lost in the mail or something?”

“We can always print an invitation in the newspaper.

There are people who do that in the first place. Then we just have to make sure that all of our relatives are updated. We can also send the invitations with express mail, which takes only two days.”

“And it’s all paid for, of course.” He smiled. “Well, if Hashem has gotten us this far, He’s not going to let us down when it comes to a hall and invitations...”

The next day they signed contract for an apartment for Tzippy, without an agent. It was a charming place on Nechemia Street, newly renovated, with three large bedrooms and a small sunroom. It had windows on three sides and a spacious sukkah porch. And they even had a bit of change from the two million shekels.

they saw Rabbi Walken, the director, join him, they went back to their regular morning routines, ignoring the visitors.

The director and his companion entered the bedroom and began surveying the children. Every so often, the man stopped and fixed his gaze on one of the boys. He didn’t say a word, not even to Rabbi Walken.

From the first bedroom, they moved on to the next one, and then on to the third.

“That’s it,” Rabbi Walken said courteously. “You’ve seen all of our charges.”

“Yes,” Theodore Heinke said darkly. “You showed me whoever was in the rooms.”

“You can open any door you want,” the director replied.

The guest stared at him for a long

send the children here already?”

One of the counselors appeared next to him.

“No, absolutely not. This man might be back. We can’t take the risk.” He shook his head. “This is the first time we’ve gotten involved with children who were smuggled from within the city, and it’s not so simple.

There’s no choice; we need to get them away from here, together with Emil himself.”

“Emil left early this morning on a train to Vienna.”

“I know. I mean that the boys should get to him there, and he’ll take care of them until we get visas for them.”

“One who starts with the mitzvah...” the counselor murmured, and peeked into the noisy corridor.

“Indeed,” Rabbi Walken agreed.

“I want you to speak to Janek at lunchtime, and tell him to think of a way to get the kids out. But don’t go to his house.

It’s possible that the police are keeping an eye on anyone who leaves this building so they can follow them.”

“So I came here instead,” Janek’s voice interjected.

The director turned to find Janek standing right behind him. “We had visitors this morning,” he said to Janek, getting right to the point.

“Visitors?” The man put his bag down on a nearby desk. “Who?” “The assistant director of the orphanage where Gustav and Edo were.”

“They knew where to go, didn’t they?”

“Yes. Actually, the man did not seem anti-Semitic, but he gave me the impression of someone who doesn’t give up so fast. He was here bright and early, with a policeman, and asked if we know someone by the name of Emil. Then he looked over all of the children here, one by one.”

The director sat down. “We need to get Gustav and Edo out of the city.”

“I don’t think it’s safe for them to go out onto the street yet; their orphanage may even have someone posted at the train station.”

“When someone tells me that there are two million shekels waiting to buy an apartment for my daughter, and all I have to do is find the apartment, I feel a bit uneasy about it.”

Bratislava 1948/5708

The orphanage in Pressburg (Bratislava) woke up to a new, bright, clear morning. A figure stood in the doorway of one of the rooms, casting a long shadow on the floor.

The children were cowed by the man’s somber expression, but when

moment, and then opened a closed door and peeked inside before closing it. “Well, that’s enough,” he said.

“Thank you for your help.”

“If I’d come to your institution, would you let me in to see the children?”

“If you would be looking for certain children, then yes, absolutely.”

Theodore turned to the Russian policeman waiting for him in the office.

“Let’s go,” he said. “It doesn’t look like they’re here.”

The policeman stood up and escorted him out to the street.

Rabbi Walken watched the two for a moment and then went back to his office. It was only then that he realized that he had been holding his breath.

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“So we’ll wait a few days.” The director remained alone with Janek in the room; the counselor went back to the children. “Meanwhile, you shouldn’t be coming here. I don’t want them to see you. I think you should also minimize your visits to the Agudah.”

“I’m just on my way there.” Janek leaned on the wall. “I promised Gustav that I’d try to find out some L TO about his family.”

CALinformation D “How?” The lone word bounced around the room.

“I don’t know. I don’t even have where to start, but maybe if I meet who’s looking for a child 10 someone n age, we can try to see if it o minabout this c e ut fits.”

“Don’t go,” Walken urged. “I’ll ask someone to look into it for you.

boys.” Janek passed a hand over his forehead. “It’s true, we have to find a way to get the real information about Edo out of there.”

“And any information about Gustav that we can get.”

“He said that the assistant director of the place found him, and that no one knows anything about him.”

“That’s what they told him.”

“Yes... So we need to try and get information about both of them.

But I can’t take the risk of doing it.”

Janek was worried. “You realize, I’m not the only one who helped kidnap them; my wife was also actively involved...”

“I’ll try to contact them,” Rabbi Walken said. “I’ll tell this Theodore that the fact that the first thing he did, after discovering two of his

“Yes,” Theodore Heinke said darkly. “You showed me whoever was in the rooms.”

Go home. Spend some time with the two boys, and think of how we can safely send them on. In the meantime, try to awaken their memories.

Do they remember Shabbos? Kiddush? Something?”

“We haven’t had much time to speak. Only Gustav was awake when I left, and it’s safe to assume that the younger one doesn’t remember anything anyway. How old was he when he arrived at the orphanage?

Two?” “What does the form that Emil took say?”

“That in 1944, at the age of two, he was placed in the orphanage due to ‘the death of his parents in the bombardments’ that either did or did not happen.”

“Hmm. The year 1944… that was very close to the end of the war. The question is what they know about him, besides for what they wrote on the official documents… Wait a minute, how was Emil so sure that the boy was Jewish?”

“The older one insisted he is, and besides, there was a little J on the bottom of the page, and that only appeared on the forms of these two

boys missing, was come and look for them here, makes me assume that the boys are Jewish, so perhaps they have relatives here. And maybe the relatives would be able to provide them with some helpful information…”

“And you think he’ll give you some details then?”

“Maybe.”

“But it’s also likely that he’ll realize that if you’re inquiring about their identity, then you must have an idea about where they could be now.”

“I’ll explain to him that as Jews, we care about every Jewish child, especially since they are such a rare commodity today... And I’ll tell him that we are ready to send volunteers to help with the search.”

“And who will these boys belong to, after they are ‘found’? Them or us?”

“We’ll reach an agreement ahead of time. Maybe we’ll pay him and we’ll get them like that... In any case, I’m not planning to ‘find’ them.”

“That’s an idea,” Janek said cautiously.

To be continued...

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C L I N I C A L , R E S I D E N T I A L & S U P P O RT S E R V I C E S

House Votes to Impeach the President but Delays Sending Articles of Impeachment to the Senate THE PULSE: The House of Representatives voted to impeach President Trump mostly along party lines.

Article I on Abuse of Power passed by a vote of 230 to

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197, while Article II on Obstruction of Justice passed by a vote of 229 to 198. No Republicans voted in favor of either article. The lone non-Democrat who voted in favor of impeachment was Justin Amash (I-MI).

Amash was elected as a Republican and helped found the Conservative Freedom Caucus but is currently an independent. A handful of Democratic members of Congress abstained or opposed impeachment.

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) hailed the vote to impeach as “an act of moral courage� but has so far failed to send the articles of impeachment to the Senate for trial. Her failure to immediately send the articles to the Senate has subjected her to withering criticism from Republicans, who accuse her of putting political concerns ahead of constitutional duty.

WHY THE DELAY? The delay in sending the articles to the Senate is an attempt by Nancy Pelosi to leverage her power over her Republican Senate colleagues. She is trying to get the Senate to agree to hold a full trial with witnesses called and evidence presented. She would like the Senate to call administration officials with knowledge of the Ukraine dealings, such as Mick Mulvaney, John Bolton and Rudy Giuliani, to testify. Pelosi is concerned that the Republican majority in the Senate will seek to dismiss the charges without proper investigation and deliberation. The comments of Senator Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) buttress her concerns, as both have publicly stated that they would not be impartial jurors in a Senate trial. This is troubling, because the constitution requires that Senators take an oath of impartiality before serving as jurors at an impeachment trial. Pelosi is gambling that Republicans are eager to put impeachment behind them and that they will ultimately agree to concede to some of her demands.

WHY NOT? The constitution delegates responsibility

for an impeachment trial to the Senate. The nature of the trial proceedings is subject to Senate agreement and does not fall under the purview or domain of the House of Representatives. There is a strong argument that Pelosi is overstepping constitutional bounds by attempting to force a Senate trial on more amenable terms.

THE IMPACT: The Senate requires a simple majority vote to decide on the procedures of an impeachment trial. The Republicans currently have a three-seat majority. If only a handful of Senators defy the majority leader, the result can be a proper trial. It is possible that some Republican Senators, such as Susan Collins of Maine, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, and Mitt Romney of Utah, who have previously expressed their concerns and misgivings over the president’s actions, may acquiesce to Democratic demands. Additionally, President Trump has voiced his support for a full trial, as he believes that it will ultimately vindicate him and enable him to inflict damage on the Democrats in the process. In truth, the position of McConnell is somewhat untenable, because if nothing improper occurred, why not call witnesses to clarify what happened? The concerns expressed by Republicans during the hearings in the House of an overtly partisan and unfair process are mitigated by the fact that Republicans control the Senate.

E5 AG P ON AD E E S

Buttigieg and the Wine Cave Fundraiser THE PULSE: At the most recent Democratic Presidential debate in Los Angeles, Mayor Pete Buttigieg was attacked by Senator Elizabeth Warren for holding a fundraiser at the Napa Valley wine cave of a billionaire donor. Businessman Andrew Yang and Senator Bernie Sanders echoed the criticism. The fundraiser was held at the Hall Rutherford Wine Cave. The cave features handmade Austrian brick recovered from sites in and around Vienna. It is lined with high-priced barrels of wine. At the center of the cave is a chandelier made of 1,500 Swarovski crystals. Sanders and Warren sought to portray Buttigieg as beholden to deep-pocketed donors.

THE IMPACT: This flare-up highlights the newest di-

vide among the Democratic candidates. Warren and Sanders are attempting to portray themselves as populist representatives of the ordinary people. They are seeking to contrast themselves with billionaire candidates such as Tom Steyer and Michael Bloomberg, whom they accuse of using their wealth to purchase outsized political influence. They are attempting to paint Buttigegg in a similar light, thereby presenting themselves as the truly authentic candidates. However, Warren exposed herself to charges of hypocrisy when it was revealed that she had previously held an exclusive fundraiser at The City Winery Boston. At her fundraiser event, each donor who contributed $1,000 or more received a souvenir bottle of wine.

INTERESTING FACTS: Wine Caves are underground

structures used for storing barrels of wine. They help keep the barrels of wine at ideal temperatures and levels of humidity. It is best to store wine barrels at cooler temperatures, and the wine caves in California’s Napa Valley protect the barrels from the summer heat. Additionally, the high levels of humidity that are present in the caves prevent evaporation of the wine.

In Northern California, wines kept in a surface warehouse evaporate four times faster than those stored in an underground cave. Many wine caves are quite elaborate structures, and many wineries in Sonoma and the Napa Valley provide guided tours of their wine caves.

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Not every Chanukah night is party night, but I still like to serve something fried at every evening meal. Each of these boldly colored and flavorful starters include a Chanukahthemed topper. To elevate even a simple meal, plate the salads individually at each place setting.

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Latke-Topped Salad If your family can’t get enough of potato latkes, this is the salad you want to try. Don’t have the time to prep all those minis? Prepare half a 9x13 kugel recipe. Bake at 375° in a lined and generously oiled cookie sheet for approximately a half hour. Cut into small squares.

The kugel version serves six. Latke recipe yields approximately 60 minis.

LATKES 2 potatoes

1 tsp. salt

2 eggs

Dash of black pepper

SALAD ½ cup black olives

1 (8 oz.) bag romaine lettuce

Mozzarella cheese or string cheese (optional)

1 box medley grape tomatoes

Fish Nugget Salad Unexpected company prompted me to think fast one Chanukah evening. I had prepared batter-fried flounder, which I knew wouldn’t stretch to serve the larger-than-expected crowd. I pulled out some gefilte fish, cubed it, and deep fried it. Much to my surprise, the improvised substitute — the gefilte fish nuggets — won hands down over the batter-fried flounder.

Serves ten.

SALAD 1 good-quality roll salmon gefilte fish

12–15 mini peppers, sliced

1 bag purple cabbage 2 cups bean sprouts 1 box alfalfa sprouts

DRESSING

6 purple pearl onions

DRESSING ¼ cup oil

1–1½ tsp. mustard

¼ cup ketchup

¼ tsp. salt

1 T. sugar

Pinch of black pepper

2 tsp. vinegar

2 cloves garlic

DIRECTIONS 1. Finely shred potatoes and mix with remaining latke ingredients. Fry in a large heated frying pan, using approximately ¾ teaspoon per latke.

½ cup mayonnaise

2–3 cloves garlic

1¾ T. mustard

½ tsp. salt

1¾ T. honey

DIRECTIONS 1. To make the fish nuggets, heat oil in a deep fryer or pot. Allow fish to thaw for 10 minutes. Cut roll into ten slices, and each slice into cubes. Fry in hot oil for 3 to 5 minutes until golden. Remove with slotted spoon.

2. Blend all dressing ingredients.

2. Blend all dressing ingredients. Divide vegetables evenly among ten plates. Plate fried nuggets over vegetables. Serve with dressing.

3. Divide salad ingredients among plates. Slice tomatoes, onions and cheese (if using). Top with latkes. Serve with dressing.

Note: For better-quality rolls, buy gefilte fish directly from your fish store. I like the Kosher Atlantic brand.

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Fruits and Shoots Salad

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Fruits and Shoots Salad Refreshingly different, this combination is the perfect beginning to a Chanukah meal.

Layered Blintz Pie Delicate leaves layered with a light and airy filling make for a perfect accompaniment to this salad.

CREPES 4 eggs

½ cup oil

1 cup flour

¼ cup sour cream

1 box pea shoots

½ cup milk

¼ cup sugar

1–2 mangos

½ cup seltzer

1 tsp. vanilla sugar

SALAD

1 Granny Smith apple ½ cup sugar-coated peanuts

DRESSING

DIRECTIONS 1. Using hand blender, blend all ingredients.

2. Heat oil in a small frying pan.

¼ cup oil

3. Pour small amount of batter into pan and tilt pan to spread evenly over surface.

1 T. vinegar

4. Fry until dry.

4 tsp. sugar

5. Flip over and fry only until dry. Crepes should not brown.

1½ tsp. salt

FILLING

Dash of black pepper

DIRECTIONS 1. Mix all dressing ingredients. Arrange pea shoots on a plate. Slice mango thinly and fan three slices over pea shoots. Dice apples finely and sprinkle over pea shoots.

2. Distribute peanuts over salad right before serving as red coloring will bleed over salad. Drizzle a ½ tablespoon of dressing over each plate.

Serve alongside a cheese blintz or a slice of blintz pie.

½ lb. farmer cheese

3 T. sugar

½ container whipped cream cheese

3 T. confectioners’ sugar

3 T. sour cream

2 tsp. vanilla sugar

DIRECTIONS 1. Mix all ingredients.

2. To assemble, layer crepes, spreading filling between layers.

3. Decorate top with whip cream.

Short on time? Serve salad with store-bought cheese blintzes.

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Throughout the ages, through fire and ice, the umos ha’olam have persecuted and devastated our nation.

They’ve attempted to extinguish our flame, our essence — and at times it appeared as if they’d succeeded. Just a few decades ago, the Jewish landscape in Ukraine looked barren and desolate.

But the Yiddishe spirit survives and thrives in the harshest of climates — our light growing stronger and brighter. Because we’ve been promised eternity.

We will never disappear.

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A LONE CANDLE It was the first night of Chanukah, and Rabbi Hilel Cohen had just left his home on Shchekavytska Street and was heading to the Podil Shul, just two blocks away. On those frigid Ukrainian nights, he typically made the trip as briskly as possible, but the twinkling of a small light caught his eye.

Right above his own apartment, in a dark window, Reb Hilel noticed a small candle burning. There was something familiar about the glow, the way it resembled the single candle in his own window right below it.

Reb Hilel chalked it up to coincidence and hurried along. Having lived in this apartment for over two years, it was rather unlikely that unbeknownst to him, there would be a Jew living right above him.

The following night, Reb Hilel stepped outdoors and peeked again

at the window above. And there it was. Only this time there were two candles. Excitedly, he ran up the stairs and knocked on the door. He received no answer.

On the third day there were three candles, but the door remained closed. Whoever this Yid was, he clearly was not eager to engage with the very obviously Jewish rabbi.

“We eventually made contact,” Rabbi Cohen shares. “He wasn’t very forthcoming at first, but he did say that he heard our Shabbos zemiros every week, and that it never failed to move him. It took some time, but he started joining us for Shabbos meals and is becoming more familiar with Yiddishkeit.

Progress is slow, as the best form of progress often is,” Reb Hilel says, “but the important thing is: Another door has been opened.”

With time and effort, hundreds of doors are opening. At first just

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a crack, but with persistence and much siyata d’Shmaya, many a door has opened wide.

HOLY SOIL DESECRATED It was only a century ago that Yiddishkeit in Ukraine was lost.

Before that, for over one thousand years, the Jews were a vibrant presence. Some of the biggest gedolim and rebbes of yesteryear lived there, including the Baal Shem Tov, Reb Nachman of Breslov and Reb Levi Yitzchok of Berditchev, zt”l. Nonetheless, though Yiddishe life flourished, there were incessant blood libels, pogroms, expulsions and even a mass execution. By 1917, the USSR was in power and all religious practices were categorically forbidden.

About 25 years later, the already decimated Jewish community was visited by the Holocaust.

Prior to the war, Yidden may

KYIV, UKRAINE Present-day Kyiv is the capital of Ukraine, a country that gained their independence from Russia in 1991, and this year they even went so far as to change the spelling of their name from the Russian transliteration Kiev to Kyiv, as it is transliterated from Ukrainian.

In the city of close to 3 million citizens, it is impossible to accurately calculate the number of Yidden therein. There have been many censuses over the years, but aside from the rapid decline in numbers, which may well be due to emigration, there is also the tragic reality of assimilation and lack of any affiliation.

After nearly a century of fearing for their lives and lacking the ability to inculcate Jewish values into the new generation, the robust Yiddishe life that had flourished for hundreds of years has been eradicated. By the time the Iron Wall fell, few remembered any Yiddishkeit. Still fewer practiced it.

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have accounted for as much as a third of the population in some of the cities in Ukraine. After the war, Stalin appeared to have succeeded where the Nazis, ym”sh, had failed. It seemed as if the country had, in fact, become judenrein, r”l.

In 1991, the Iron Curtain fell. Blinking against the unfamiliar sunlight, it was time to assess what had survived the almost-80-year storm. Tragically, none of the frum Yidden who had prayed for this day were around to see it.

Sadder still, after having had their identity suppressed for so many years, few still recognized its value — that there was, in fact, a priceless heritage to be reclaimed.

DESOLATE DEVASTATION Under Stalin’s rule, Russia managed to successfully recreate the Greek scourge, which “merely” asked of us to renounce our religion. The government’s directive wasn’t to annihilate the Jews — just Judaism. Anyone caught practicing or teaching Yiddishkeit was promptly arrested and shipped off to the Gulag, the Russian forced-labor camps.

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tide to change, when they’d have the opportunity to once again raise their children with Yiddishe values.

Lamentably, that day never came for them.

For a clearer understanding of the mindset at the time, Rabbi Cohen speaks of two elderly spinsters whom he had gotten to know upon his arrival in Ukraine. They were the daughters of a chashuve Yid by the name of Rav Yitzchok Gedalya Libason, z”l, a grandson of the Chernoble rebbes and Reb Lieber Hagadol.

“De Tatte told us not to marry,” the women explained, “so we never got married.”

Rav Libason recognized that heartbreaking truth: Though he wanted the best for his daughters, there wasn’t anything positive in store. With no possibility of raising children in a world with Yiddishkeit, of what purpose was a future generation? They had stared into the abyss and surrendered.

DO NOT ENTER “Starting in 1917, tens of thousands of shuls around the country were shuttered,” Reb Hilel says.

A wedding in Kyiv

“Our shul in the center of the town of Kyiv was one of the two synagogues in all of Russia that remained open throughout communist rule.” (The other one was the Arkhipova Choral Synagogue located near the Kremlin.)

Though ostensibly open, the shuls weren’t intended for public use.

They merely served as a prop for the communist regime, an answer to the foreign countries who de-

nounced the religious persecution.

Pointing to the two beautiful shuls, Russia claimed religious tolerance — though the tolerance didn’t extend past the beautiful buildings.

Still, for millions of Ukrainian Yidden, the monument in Kyiv was their sole link to Yiddishkeit.

Though they never set foot inside, the edifice was a connection to a past they had only heard about in hushed voices.

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Legend has it that for many years, on Yom Kippur, up to 30,000 Yidden milled around the building throughout the day, though barely any dared step inside. Participating in services risked imprisonment; the annual trek around the shul had to suffice in quelching their soul’s yearning.

The Nazi’s arrival further devastated any remnants of Yiddishe life. It was with blatant hashgacha pratis that the shul survived the occupation.

Likely intended as an insult, the Germans turned the grand shul into a stable for their horses — but it was because of that that it survived, practically unscathed.

Tragically, the same can’t be said for the Kyiv Yidden. During the course of the Holocaust, the city had its own mass execution. At a ravine near the northern edge of the city, for two days in September of 1941, in the massacre known as Babi Yar, the Jewish community was systematically annihilated.

After the Holocaust, Stalin remained in power until his death in 1953. The Yidden who returned, broken in both body and spirit, found that their lives were still conscripted under the communist regime. But though these hapless souls sorely lacked knowledge of Yiddishkeit, they built a magnificent aron kodesh for the shul.

“Every time I look at the aron kodesh, my heart swells and I’m once again humbled by the resilience of Yiddishe kinder,” Rabbi Cohen remarks. Beyond the masterful craftsmanship, there is heart evident in every wood carving.

One of the builders was a Yid who had lost his entire family — twenty-nine kedoshim in all. “Look at what a Yid is,” Reb Hilel marvels. “After the Holocaust, after all they’d experienced, they could have lost their entire emunah, but they went and built an aron kodesh!”

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Rabbi Hilel Cohen explaining the esrog to a Kyiv Yid

THE LONE CRUSE Upon the fall of the Iron Curtain, some pioneering Yidden traveled to the bleak wasteland in the hopes of finding something to salvage.

In the late 1980s, Rav Yaakov Dov Bleich, a Brooklyn native and Telshe Yeshiva graduate, arrived on the scene. He was soon appointed Chief Rabbi of Kyiv and Ukraine by the local Yiddishe communities, and though there have, baruch Hashem, been others who’ve devoted themselves to the community, it is Rabbi Bleich who has always been recognized by the government as Chief Rabbi.

Reb Hilel is proud of the fact that it is their shul’s rabbi who has worked so tirelessly on behalf of the community. In the past twenty years, Rabbi Bleich has been instrumental in founding the first Jewish day school in Ukraine, three yeshi-

vos, three kollelim, two cheders and a Bais Yaakov for girls, in addition to many other Yiddishe institutions and community organizations.

“Our pride and joy is the first and only Jewish summer camp in Ukraine, Camp Shuva,” Reb Hilel says. (See photo below.)

LIGHTS IN THE DARK NIGHT Rabbi Hilel Cohen’s arrival in Kyiv twenty years ago was rather unintentional — and another demonstration of Hashem’s guiding hand. Having arrived in Ukraine

Rav Yaakov Dov Bleich

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right before Shavuos, he was intent on heading to Medzhybizh for the Baal Shem Tov’s yahrtzeit.

It was then that he first met Reb Leibel Surkis, a Skvere chassid. Reb Leibel asked Reb Hilel to come to Vinnytsia for yom tov, and Reb Hilel was quite reluctant. The plan had been to be in Medzhybizh “beim rebben,” with the Baal Shem, and the detour wasn’t very welcome.

“But then,” Reb Hilel says, “Reb Leibel opened my eyes and asked, ‘What would the Baal Shem Tov do in this situation?’ “‘There are Yidden who are waiting for you,’ he told me. ‘They want to see and feel Yiddishkeit. Instead of spending your Shabbos with the tzaddik, you can bring the Baal Shem Tov to these Yidden.’

“Reb Leibel’s words resonated with me, and I haven’t looked back.”

Starting in Vinnytsia, a small town between Berditchev and Medzhybizh, Rabbi Cohen was soon leading the small community and local school. This was mere years after communism, and there were still locals speaking Yiddish and curious about their lost heritage.

THE SEARCH IS ON A cruse of pure oil isn’t hard to come by. Yid after Yid that Reb Hilel encounters, though unaffiliated

Camp Shuva on an Erev Shabbos. Reb Hilel Cohen is in the shtreimel, holding his son.

A WORLD THAT WAS The streets in Kyiv are once again bustling with Jewish life, but they’re still a far cry from Yiddishkeit of yesteryear, when Ukraine had been home to innumerable chassidish rebbes whose avodas Hashem were legendary.

Though they are gone, they have not been forgotten. Over the past decades, the kevarim of countless tzaddikim all around Ukraine have been restored, and with each passing year, throngs of Yidden show up to pour their hearts out at the gravesites of these giants.

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In Kyiv alone, there’s the Malbim, near Babi Yar (although the chelka was identified, the specific spot is still uncertain); the kever of Reb Dovid’l Skverer, who passed away 100 years ago (5680); Reb Itzikel Skverer, who perished during an epidemic in town; and right outside of Kyiv is the tzion of Reb Mottele of Chernobl.

The ohel of the Baal Hatanya, too, draws tens of thousands annually to Haditch, Ukraine.

and unaware, possesses a pure spark.

“They are all ‘shomrei Torah u’mitzvah,’” Reb Hilel explains. Not “mitzvos,” because they hadn’t learned about them, “but every Yid here has that one mitzvah that they hold on to with all their heart and soul.

The one element of Yiddishkeit that has been passed down for generations, their one dear connection to who they are.”

Some come only for the Pesach matzos, some show up for Yizkor; some on Purim, and some on Chanukah, but every one of them holds on to their observance of their mitzvah as if it encompasses all of Yiddishkeit — because to them it does.

On his first Yom Kippur in Ukraine, Rabbi Bleich wondered why everyone said Kaddish. He soon learned that these were the remnants of the survivors of Babi Yar, the mass execution that occurred three days before Yom Kippur, in the Aseres Yemei Teshuvah.

One of the community members related that he had grown up on the local Shchekavytska Street and was a baby during the war. His father had already been sent to the front, and when all of the towns-

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people were directed to congregate outside of town, his bubba told her daughter that she didn’t have a good feeling about it.

Heeding the warning, his mother hid, along with her baby, and they were some of the only ones spared.

Though he survived, barely any Yiddishkeit did. In recent years, thanks to the efforts of those who worked tirelessly to rekindle the flames, his son has returned to Yiddishkeit and settled in Eretz Yisroel with his beautiful, frum family that makes his grandfather proud.

THE MENORAH IS KINDLED Education has always been at the core of who we are as a people. Today, Yidden of all ages are expressing an interest in learning more about Shabbos, kashrus, of the basics of Yiddishkeit, and some people even well past their prime are requesting assistance in arranging for a kosher bris milah.

“When I arrived, there were only two Yiddishe communities here,” Reb Hilel shares. “One was Chabad and one was Skver.”

At present there are seven kehillos in Kyiv alone, with the third mikvah currently being built.

But though the number of re-

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ligious people is, baruch Hashem, growing by leaps and bounds, the majority of frum adults leave to start their families in established communities. The mass exodus to places like Lakewood, Philadelphia, Monsey, Flatbush and Eretz Yisroel do the heart proud, but also accounts for the relatively slower growth locally.

IN THE WAYS OF THE BAAL SHEM As many mekomos are recovered and restored, there are ever larger

crowds coming to daven at kivrei tzaddikim. Reb Hilel has a request of all of these Yidden, much like Reb Leibel Surkis had asked of him: “For just one Shabbos, won’t you consider the Baal Shem Tov’s derech and follow in his footsteps?”

Rabbi Hillel implores, “Spend time with your Jewish brethren!

Come into town for a Shabbos. Show them what a frum Yid looks like.

Come light a spark.

“You can realistically emulate the derech haBaal Shem, and you can bring them the Chanukah light.”

MORE ABOUT RABBI HILEL COHEN The Makabim were not the strong warriors that our coloring books tend to depict; they were simple ehrliche Yidden who recognized that if they wouldn’t step up and do something, then all would be lost.

Reb Hilel Cohen likes to consider himself a regular person, and perhaps he once was. But what this humble Breslover chassid has accomplished on the frozen Eastern European tundra is nothing short of remarkable.

Visiting a foreign country typically means forgoing the services of Hatzolah, Chaverim, Shomrim and the like. In Ukraine, when any need arises, Reb Hilel is the “one-stop shop” for emergencies. After 20 years in Ukraine, he has become fluent in Russian and has formed relationships with the right contacts in all fields.

Even though his priority is his community — and his dedication to them is legendary — somehow he still finds time to offer assistance, at all hours of the day, to the hundreds of Yidden who visit Ukraine in any given week. Be it medical emergencies, robberies or simply lost luggage, Reb Hilel stands at the ready round the clock and reminds us that wherever a Yid finds himself in the world, he is never truly alone.

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Yocheved never cries.

Well, she never did before, anyway, until that day, the fourth night of Chanukah, while we were both preparing our identical recipes of potato kugel for Shabbos and trying to catch up on each other’s lives over the phone.

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SUNDAY TASTY GREEN “What’s the matter?” I asked, hoping I was sounding as alarmed as I felt, even as I frantically continued to scoop a quarter of the mixture to be used as latkes that I would serve after that night’s lighting. It was getting late. Meir would be home with the kids soon, and I still had an endless to-do list to check off before I could enjoy my half hour off after lighting.

It was a baby who had made her cry.

A sick baby, that is, left alone in the hospital because his parents could not raise him. He had Down syndrome, and a host of other issues that had already put him under a surgeon’s knife twice in the six weeks he’d known the world. When Yocheved came to volunteer at his side in the hospital, he was “away, in surgery, coming back soon.” It sounded just as awful as the tone of the nurse throwing these words behind her back.

“Oh no! I’ll take him!” I said spontaneously. Or stupidly. Tamar was nearly eighteen months old. Theoretically, she could have had a baby brother. And anyway, bassinets and stretchies and sterilized baby bottles were so dreamy.

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“You’re crazy,” Yocheved said. But she stopped crying.

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to a better spot for the fourth time. Meir was giving me worried looks, which we all ignored. We were getting a new baby… just like that!

At ten o’clock, the baby’s grandmother called. Yes, they had been discharged from the hospital, but there were still some supplies she was waiting for.

“Supplies?” I echoed. What kind of supplies would he need that we didn’t have? I had been setting up for four days! Well, minus Shabbos — and Motzei Shabbos, which we had spent at the rav’s getting hadrachah.

“Oh, yes…” She sounded hesitant. “You do know about his colostomy, yes?”

Er, no. What was that?

“And… his vesicostomy? Yes?” What was she talking about?

“I have no clue,” I admitted. “What are they?” Whatever they were, they didn’t sound fun.

“I’m not really sure,” the grandmother said, her voice slowing down further. I could hear the fear through the wires, but no, I was not about to regret taking him in.

But what were those stuff?

“It’s like a hole in his stomach — well, two, actually.

He has these bags attached to them. Instead of diapers.”

Oh. I took a deep breath. Okay. We’ll figure it out.

I hoped.

And finally, he came. Shimmy was everything I

imagined him to be and more. Utterly delicious, a puff of blonde hair crowning a pale face, tiny eyes screwed shut and the reddest mouth I’ve ever seen. And two bags taped tightly to his stomach. And an insane fear of human touch. Poor baby.

But it was okay. It took some time — and some, er, unpleasant plastic explosions — but I learned to change those bags, tape them tightly so that they wouldn’t leak, find the right adhesives and creams that would soothe his incredibly sensitive skin, and even find a babysitter who agreed to babysit him, as long as I came twice a day to change his bags.

The real learning curve was in a different realm altogether. I had to figure out — with no outward signs to guide me — when Shimmy was sick and needed urgent medical intervention. He wouldn’t look sick. He wouldn’t act sick. But something would start feeling funny to me, and I learned to trust my instincts and rush to the doctor with him immediately. Those instincts never failed, even if I wasn’t really Shimmy’s mother, and Shimmy landed in the hospital again and again and again, each time brushing so close to the unthinkable that my speed getting to the emergency room was growing faster and faster each time.

Our bedroom began to look like a mini ICU, but strangely, it made me feel better. Maybe seeing Shimmy hooked up to all those tubes and trying to sleep through the noise of the oxygen concentrator and endless warning beeps of his pulse-ox were not quite normal, but at least it was no longer only up to my instincts to figure out when something was wrong.

An oxygen level of fifty-five can be enlightening that way.

And then, just when we thought life was settling down to some kind of new normal, something else happened.

Naftali’s cardiologist deviated from his usual mantra.

Naftali is my oldest child, then five years old. A vivacious, adorable kid with Williams syndrome.

So yeah, somewhere in the backs of our minds we knew he was born with a heart murmur — but then, so is a large chunk of the population. We never gave it another thought, other than trying to be responsible and actually remembering to take him for his annual checkup.

It was during one such routine visit that we learned that Naftali’s heart murmur was no longer just murmuring. In fact, it was screaming, loudly, that he needed surgery. Immediately.

No mother told that her child will need to undergo open-heart surgery remains unshaken by the news. But in Naftali’s case, the news was especially devastating.

“You know you can’t keep Shimmy anymore,” she said, and the world stopped breathing for the second time that day.

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See, kids with Williams syndrome have a unique problem with anesthesia. No one quite knows why, but there have been many instances in which people with Williams suddenly and inexplicably died after receiving anesthesia, so we mothers of these adorable little people are very, very careful about their dentist appointments so that we never reach such a situation. When Naftali was three, he was actually stitched up in the hospital without any form of anesthesia — not even local. I nearly needed resuscitation afterward.

And now… open heart surgery? How? That was even supposing we found a surgeon who actually was familiar enough with Williams syndrome and its unique implications to perform the delicate surgery…

The one thing I didn’t think of as I wheeled an exhausted Naftali out of the doctor’s office was Shimmy. But not for long. Niva the social worker did all of the thinking for me, in about three split seconds.

“You know you can’t keep Shimmy anymore,” she said, and the world stopped breathing for the second time that day.

“What do you mean?!” I asked, incredulous. “Shimmy is our baby!”

“So that’s the thing,” she said. “He’s not. And you can’t legally keep fostering him if you have a sick child.”

She was right. Even I knew that. But that didn’t make the world any more bearable at that moment.

Nor was the world much more bearable over the following few months, as we searched for the best surgeon for the job (thank you, Dr. Del-Nido and Dr. Smoot!), decided where to perform the surgery, battled with insurance, took care of travel arrangements, and all the other minor details that saving a child’s life entails.

And said goodbye to Shimmy. You will allow me not to relive that, right?

In a way, it was a bracha that we were so busy and overwhelmed. It gave us so little time to think, and to mourn, that it wasn’t until Naftali was past the surgery and recovering in Boston Children’s Hospital that we could finally breathe. And even though the baby swing still swaying emptily in the living room was an excruciating first sight upon our return home, we could nevertheless look back with awed gratitude that at the very least, we were all alive

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The surgery failed. And now there was nothing left to do.

and well, and that the frightening surgery was behind us.

Not that it was easy.

The recuperation was harrowing, and Naftali’s Williams syndrome meant that he had to undergo some painful procedures — such as pulling the chest tube out — without any form of anesthesia. But we did it, and it was all over. Finally.

Or so we thought.

Then Naftali became sick again. This time, the doctors looked grim. There was very little they could do to help him now. The area around his heart had become infected, and another emergency surgery, the doctors said, would give him a slight chance of recovery.

Except it didn’t. The surgery failed. And now there was nothing left to do. Naftali’s heart would not be able to handle another surgery, and the cavity around his heart was stuffed with fluids that were about to harden at any moment. And all we could do was watch, helpless, and wait.

The ward was a busy, noisy place, but around our room, the doctors walked silently, somberly. Naftali looked okay,

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but we all knew it was a matter of time.

When the time came, perhaps we would try another last-ditch surgery. But for now, we waited.

And then it happened.

Naftali was lying on his back, eyes glued to Uncle Moishy dancing over our heads as the technician performed the daily echocardiogram. I felt my eyes begin to close with exhaustion when a sudden flurry of activity alerted me that something was wrong.

Without a word, the technician flew out of the room, returning moments later with the two main cardiologists treating Naftali.

Bending gravely over the screen, each, in turn, grabbed the probe and pushed it into Naftali’s chest.

“What’s going on?” I stammered, my fingers already groping for the numbers to call Meir. Was this it?

Finally, one of the cardiologists turned to me. I had never before thought eyes could actually glow. “The fluids are gone,” he said. “Gone! Do you understand what this means?!”

“Gone?” I stammered, just as Meir burst into the room. “Where did they go?”

The doctor grew serious. “We don’t know.

It makes no sense. This is a closed cavity — there isn’t any place for the fluids to go. But —” he stabbed at the screen “ — you can’t argue with facts. There are no longer any fluids around Naftali’s heart.”

He looked at us again, his eyes still bright. “It’s a medical miracle, that’s what it is. We’ll check again tomorrow, just because, but… then you can go home.”

Above our heads, Uncle Moishy continued to proclaim that Hashem is here, Hashem is there, Hashem is truly everywhere. Meir and I looked at each other, and then at Naftali. We had no words.

And words escaped us yet again a day later, as we prepared to take Naftali home, and a crazy thought propelled me to check the calendar.

It was the fourth night of Chanukah. The very same day that we had taken Shimmy in one year before.

Ve’al nisecha shebechol yom imanu.

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Chanukah is perfectly timeless. Everything about Chanukah is so new — and so old. Everything is so familiar — yet so excitingly fresh all at once.

The walls are plastered in Chanukah crafts. The tantalizing aroma of fresh latkes fills the room. The table is set in bright Chanukah hues, scattered with dreidels, gifts, gelt — and of course, in the center of it all: Zeida’s menorah.

It’s Chanukah, when old and new complement each other in a seamlessly timeless blend. The ageold tunes, the fresh excitement, the familiarity and the newness seem to merge with each other amid a whiff of burning oil. Chanukah has arrived.

Finally, it’s time. My little girls stand close, their exuberant giggles resonating through the room.

My husband winks at his young audience as he tweaks the wick one last time. That single, lone, strikingly beautiful first wick. “Are we all ready?”

“Yes, yes, yes!” the girls cry.

With a nod, my husband begins the all-familiar melody: “Baruch atah…”

He’s hardly even started, and the very tune has me caught up in a whirlwind of emotions. He hasn’t even reached those words, and already I’m caught up in a whirlwind of emotions.

She’asah nissim... He Who has performed miracles.

Countless, countless miracles. Miracles that we can point to, and miracles that we are oblivious to.

Sometimes we know we were spared, but often we are simply unaware… And with each miracle, we are reminded yet again that our Father, in His infinite love, is personally running our lives.

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Suddenly another memory comes to mind — a memory of lying in the hospital, hours turning into days. It hadn’t quite been in the plan to be hospitalized for almost a week when a common cold went bad, and then worse.

With just 48 hours until Chanukah — my first Chanukah as a mother, our first Chanukah as a family — would this be my fate?

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Choose from these dreidel game variations geared to diverse age groups, grab a dreidel, and get ready to roll!

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Spin Your Stakes Here’s a dreidel twist with an element of surprise; your fortune can change in an instant! Not recommended for very young children.

Set up a typical dreidel game. Each player should begin with four playing chips (coins, candies, papers, etc.). Now here’s the twist: Instead of setting up a pile in the center, players will draw wins from each other’s piles.

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A Colorful Spin Grab some crayons and dreidels, and get ready for a calm and artsy dreidel game that’s great for even very young players!

Cut out the dreidel game board. Make some copies, if you can, and distribute a board and a crayon to each player. Take turns spinning the dreidel, and referring to the key below, color in the corresponding number of spaces. Race to see who will reach the end first!

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Dreidel Dress-Up Prepare piles of clothing and accessories that start with the letters of the dreidel. (See ideas below, and add your own!) Each player spins the dreidel and selects an article of clothing to wear from the pile corresponding with the letter they land.

Soon, you’ll have some laughing kids, especially if there’s a mirror in the room!

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Paint Party Prepare small bowls of washable paints. Dip the tip of a dreidel in the paint, and spin it on a blank sheet of paper. Swish! Look at the swirly designs it creates!

Complete Your Menorah Each player receives a blank white paper and draws a basic menorah shape, without any candles or flames. (This can be prepared in advance, especially if there will be young players.)

Sit in a circle or around a table. In the center, place bowls filled with sour sticks, licorice or other goodies in the shape of a candle or flame.

Take turns spinning the dreidel. If you get a gimmel, you can put two “candles” on your paper menorah. For a hei, take one; for a nun, take none; and for a shin, you must put one back in the center.

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Bake or buy dreidel-shaped cookies. Mix together the icing ingredients in a bowl and place it in the center of the table. (For a large crowd, you may want to put out a few small bowls of icing.) Prepare four plates of toppings, such as chocolate chips, chocolate lentils, sprinkles and nuts. Decide which letter of the dreidel each topping plate corresponds to. (You may want to stick in a toothpick into each bowl with a little sign with that letter.)

Each participant spins the dreidel and gets to put some of the corresponding topping on their cookie. Dab a bit of icing on the cookie to help the toppings stick. After a few rounds, the dreidels will be deliciously decorated!

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All Set! Here’s a two-part game that gives creative kids a chance to draw pictures and then play with their creations. Choose one of the two versions of the game to suit your age group.

Part 1: Design Choose four Chanukah-themed pictures. (Think: dreidel, candle, menorah, frying pan, etc.) Hand out small squares of paper and pencils or crayons. Players should draw one picture on each square.

You will need quite a number of each picture.

Part 2: Play Sort the picture cards, and place them in four piles in the center, face up. Designate each pile for a different letter on the dreidel. For example, the dreidels for gimmel, the candles for nun, and so on.

With each spin, the player picks a card that corresponds to the letter they land.

The game is over once one pile is finished. Each player counts how many full sets of four pictures they have, and the player with the most sets wins!

Tip: To get started with this game faster, you can choose to prepare the picture cards in advance. Or use other playing chips in sets of four, such as jellies in four colors, papers in four colors, four types of candy, etc.

Advanced Version: Up the ante in this timed version, in which the dreidel acts as the timer! Instead of dividing the pictures into separate piles, scatter them randomly on the table, face down. Take turns spinning the dreidel. Each player has a chance to pick one picture they need as long as the dreidel spun by the next player is still rotating. Pick and pick, replacing each picture you don’t need face down on the table. If the dreidel falls before you find your picture, your turn is lost. The player with the most sets wins!

Actively Involved Twist and spin into motion like a little dreidel as you enjoy this action-packed game!

Prepare cards that list various actions like: jump, hop, clap, do jumping jacks, etc. You can throw in some more complex actions such as: Tap each player on the shoulder; run to the window and back; spin like a dreidel, etc. Each card should have just one action written on it, and the action should be possible to be performed repetitively.

Place the cards in a pile, face down.

Players take turns spinning the dreidel. When a player lands a gimmel, they pick a card, follow the instructions on it, and then repeat the action until the next player lands a gimmel. (Only one person should be doing the action in the center at a time.)

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A Gimmel Dreidel?

What’s Your Dreidel Made Of? Today, you can find dreidels made of a myriad of materials, including wood, metal, crystal, paper, plastic and silver, to name but a few. The Bnei Yissaschar, however, attributed deep reasons for selecting specifically a dreidel made of wood.

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Lead dreidel from Eastern Europe, late 19th century. Valued at $750.

The Judaica scene is full of dreidels with artistic designs, motifs and carvings in a limitless array of styles. And for children, there are crayon dreidels, dreidels with markers at the tips, singing and flashing dreidels, chocolate dreidels, and plastic versions filled with candy that keep them entertained throughout Chanukah and beyond.

--------•-------In the days before plastic, lead was probably the most common material used to create dreidels.

Molten lead was poured into a mold, and when removed about fifteen seconds later, it maintained a beautiful dreidel shape.

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A dreidel with an elephant design by Eran Grebler.

Many antique collectors have iron dreidels from the nineteenth century and the pre– World War II era.

Spin this carousel dreidel by the handle!

A ceramic work of art

by Eran Grebler.

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It might not be your imagination that your dreidel keeps falling on the same letter! Most dreidels have a part line going through the tip of the dreidel. A part line occurs where the two sides of the casting molds come together, and a bit of the material oozes out.

In cheap production, it simply isn’t worth removing the part lines, which is why you’ll find the line on most plastic dreidels. When creating dreidels from higher-quality materials — such as silver — on the other hand, the part line will be buffed away, making for a more balanced top.

One-Stop Dreidel Shop!

The Dreidel House in Tel Aviv boasts more than 800 different spinning tops.

Every piece is a work of art and as unconventional as they come. Inspired by various themes and shapes such as helicopters and animals, each one is unique.

The ceramicist who designs them, Eran Grebler, never bores of coming up with new styles, and visitors don’t get bored from checking out his distinct collection.

Oh, Dreidel, Dreidel, Dreidel…

In 1927, the English version of I Have a Little Dreidel was written by Samuel S. Grossman and composed by Samuel E. Goldfarb. It became popular in the 1950s.

It was a takeoff of the Yiddish version of the song, Ich Bin ah Kleiner Dreidel…, that predated it.

By: T. Gestetner

Most Valuable A Spin on Words

Created for Chabad of South Palm Beach by Pedro Maldonado, the world’s most valuable dreidel has an estimated worth of $14,000. It was designed using precious metals and stones donated by the community, and the tip it spins on is a genuine diamond.

The Yiddish word “dreidel” originates from the German/Yiddish verb “dreyen.”

No less than 1,369 dreidels were spinning at once in an attempt to smash world records; achieved by students in a yeshivah in New Jersey.

Reb Dovid Moshe of Chortkov, the oldest son of Reb Yisroel of Ruzhin, once handed his son a dreidel and instructed, “Drei, drei, un vest zich arois dreyen fun alle tzaros – Spin, spin, and you’ll spin your way out of all problems!”

Most at Once

Longest Spin

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In 2006, a Brooklyn girl kept a wooden top spinning for 7 hours, 1 minute and 14 seconds before it landed its spot after the longest spin in history.

Largest Dreidel At 22 feet tall, this dreidel, built by West Island Hillel, actually spins!

Largest Collection Numbering at 3,500 and counting, the dreidel collection of Avraham Burg of Eretz Yisroel is said to be the largest personal collection of its kind.

A Deeper Twist The four sides of the dreidel represent the four kingdoms who ruled over Klal Yisroel. As each empire took its turn at attacking us, we continued spinning from Above, triumphing time and again.

--------•-------It is impossible for a dreidel to remain standing on its single foot, and the only way we Yidden have prevailed throughout these years of galus is by spinning in perpetual motion, constantly evading and outliving the enemy despite not having our own solid soil to stand on.

--------•-------The single central point that the dreidel spins on represents the achdus of Klal Yisroel, in spite of the enemies surrounding us on all four sides.

--------•-------The numerical value of nun, gimmel, hei and shin is the same as Moshiach — 358. Ultimately, the game will end with the coming of Moshiach, speedily in our days.

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1. What type of menorah do you light?

Branched menorah, rounded Branched menorah, straight Walled menorah Other

73.74%

2.02%

21.21%

3.03%

2. Where do you light your menorah?

In a doorway across from the mezuzah 64.29%

At the window, so the light can shine out into the darkness 35.71%

Outside, to share the light with the whole neighborhood 0.00%

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Minhagim We Have We always get together on the fifth night of Chanukah for a mesibah and to play dreidel.

My husband wears a shtreimel and beketche when tzinding licht.

We save all the olive oil left over in the menorah to use on ailments.

We play kvitlach.

We don’t give presents, only money.

3. What is your opinion about Chanukah parties?

I wish I had more of them!

27.27%

They are a wonderful opportunity for family time.

61.62%

Our family rolls out our own wicks from cotton.

We play dreidel with nuts every year.

On Zos Chanukah, all the men play dreidel at the tisch. It can end at 1 or 2 a.m.!

They should be limited to the immediate family.

7.07%

They are overdone — a new meshugas.

4.04%

Every night after licht-tzinding, my father gives each child a sugar cube.

We light the shamash, too, with oil.

Each person who tzinds rolls the wicks for their menorah on their own, even the children under bar mitzvah.

Every night after we light the menorah, we say some of the Shir Hamaalos.

In addition to regular potato latkes, we also make chremslach on Chanukah.

4. How do you feel about Chanukah gift-giving?

I am happy to have this opportunity to gift my loved ones.

21.21%

A small token is appreciated and adds festitivity to yom tov.

51.52%

The sefer Ner l’mei’ah gives 100 reasons for celebrating eight days of Chanukah (and not seven) if the oil was enough for one day. Each day our Zeidy shares twelve or thirteen reasons, so we finish all over Chanukah.

It’s a modern shtus for a spoiled generation.

6.06%

Isn’t it a non-Jewish tradition?

21.21%

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Meaningful Things We Do Nothing like sitting at the licht on these heilige nights!

We give Chanukah gelt according to each child’s age: $8 for an 8-year-old and so on. The kids love it and feel so big!

We started this when we had one little boy, and we’ve ka”h added many siblings over the years, changing poses according to the number of people.

It’s fascinating to look at the pictures and see how they all grow up from year to year.

We play dreidel several times on Chanukah. We play the first game with pennies, the second round with nickels, and the value goes up at each round, until we win quarters.

It is so exciting for everyone!

My kids love to play dreidel with Elter-Zeidy. He makes sure to stuff a large bill (secretly) into the pocket of each gimmel recipient.

We go to different rabbanim for licht tzinden.

The only time our grandparents come to our house is on Chanukah, when they join our party!

My husband is named after an uncle who did not have kids.

He therefore was given his uncle’s menorah, and every year he lights the licht in that menorah on at least one night in honor of his uncle.

We take a walk down Boro Park streets to see all the beautiful menorahs!

We take a family picture of our children near the menorah in matching outfits on one of the last nights of Chanukah.

On Motzei Shabbos Chanukah, my grandfather lights R’ Mendel m’Riminov’s menorah, and we all come to his house to watch him do so!

A memorable part of our Chanukah is to watch all of the kids dance in a circle in front of the menorah.

After we finish the customary Chanukah zemiros, each child gets a chance to choose a niggun that the family then sings.

The children look forward to

and plan for this with excitement!

My father takes a walk with us to see all the menorahs. It is so beautiful to see all the different interesting menorahs people light.

Nothing compares to the warmth, closeness and togetherness we all share for eight nights while we sing together at the menorah. Then Tatty dances with the children and makes a l’chaim on a good Chanukah treat.

Every Chanukah, at our extended family party, my grandparents give everyone a chance to spin the dreidel five times. Whoever gets three gimmels gets $100 from my grandparents! Usually one or two cousins are lucky enough to win!

I enjoyed playing kvitlach with my great-grandmother.

We present our grandmother with a gift each year at her Chanukah party.

5. What do you do with your Chanukah gelt?

Put it into my savings account for future use

81.63%

Run out to shop!

12.24%

Pool my money with a few other people and buy something expensive that we can all enjoy

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6.12%

6. What does the head of household light the menorah with?

Olive oil

94.00%

Pre-filled oil/gel

4.00%

Candles

2.00%

Food and Fun We Enjoy Without much close family nearby, we don’t often have extended family gatherings.

Therefore, in our own home, each child gets a night to choose a theme with a related supper, and they decorate the table accordingly. It is so exciting!

We fill plastic dreidlach with nuts and goodies to distribute to the children every night.

Such excitement!

We have a Chanukah treasure hunt that leads us to find a gift for the entire family.

Our most recent find was a smoothie machine.

Every child in our family prepares a game and chooses the menu for a different night.

On the first night, we give our children one treat, on the second night, two, and so on, until the eighth night, when they get eight treats!

Instead of individual presents, my mother-in-law prepares a game with various questions gauged for each age level.

For each correct answer, players get tickets, which they then use to win prizes at an auction-style game.

We like to bake challah for Shabbos Chanukah shaped as menorahs and dreidels.

We put dreidel- and menorahshaped noodles into the soups that get served on Chanukah.

We do a small-scale trip or at-home fun on Sunday Chanukah, the only day all of my kids are home.

We play dreidel every night during supper, and the winner gets to unwrap a treat for the entire family.

Our extended family loads onto a yellow school bus, and that’s how we travel to our grandmother’s party.

Each child gets a small treat after we tzind the Chanukah licht.

As an overworked girl, Cha-

nukah is especially exciting because it means… vacation!

We often walk the Brooklyn Bridge or Manhattan Bridge as a Chanukah trip.

We once had a treasure hunt, and at every spot we found a different ingredient. At the last part of the hunt we found a doughnut maker, and then we made doughnuts!

All of our cousins make a performance at my grandmother’s Chanukah party!

I was born on Zos Chanukah, and each year my family makes a big Chanukah birthday party on that day.

From all of the exciting Chanukah parties, the one with only our family is the most special one. We have gifts, doughnuts and lots of yummy food.

We play a memory game with prizes.

We play dreidel with a different nosh each night.

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Memories and Moments Worth Sharing Growing up in Monsey, we traveled in to our Zeidy and Bubby’s Chanukah party in Boro Park and counted all the lit menorahs along the way!

A favorite memory is getting together with the entire extended family at Kids ‘n Action for a Chanukah party!

The warm memories of our entire family sitting at the licht and singing Chanukah songs together last from Chanukah to Chanukah.

We have great memories of our kids playing a game of dreidel with Zeidy and Bubby, and Zeidy sending the kids home with all the pennies they won.

We used to prepare a Chanukah party together with all of our cousins to be celebrated in the nursing home with my grandmother.

As kids, we used to play a fun game in which everyone ran around the house to collect items starting with either nun, gimmel, hei or shin, which we wrapped. We then played dreidel and unwrapped a package bearing the alef-beis that the dreidel landed on. It was so much fun for us kids when our items were discovered.

My favorite Chanukah memory is of watching the Skulener Rebbe, zt”l, light the

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heilige Chanukah licht.

There’s nothing like sitting at the menorah and listening to the men sing.

Chanukah was the first yom tov we celebrated after we were married. In Bobov, there is a beautiful, long and slow Chanukah niggun, which my husband sang after tzinding. Every time I hear it, it brings me back to that time.

Last year we invited our grandparents for supper on Chanukah. It was really special that my children got to enjoy their individual attention.

I have great memories of Chanukah licht at that the Skulener Rebbe, zt”l. As a kid, I used to go every year, and those memories are very special to me.

One year, I prepared shaped Chanukah cookies, and at the Chanukah party, the kids decorated them. It was fabulous entertainment!

My favorite memory is when the extended family spent Shabbos Chanukah at a hotel in honor of my grandmother’s 90th birthday.

Playing dreidel with the entire family is seriously the best Chanukah memory!

My best memory is of being

in Eretz Yisroel on the first night of Chanukah!

Every Chanukah I melt colorful candles and create new ones in exciting shapes.

Once I shaped a dreidel out of disposable candle holders, dripped wax into it and created a wax dreidel!

One year, we visited the doughnut factory in Boro Park and bought our parents a huge menorah doughnut.

One night, as our family was sitting in the kitchen, I went to answer the knock at the door and gave the meshulach standing there some tzedakah. On my way back to the kitchen, I passed the dining room and saw that the window shades had caught fire! I called for help, and we quickly put out the fire. Had I not gone to the door, we would not have caught the fire before it did any damage.

We saw so clearly that “Tzedakah tatzil mimaves.”

My favorite Chanukah memory is of the time we had a parrot show at a Chanukah party and we were able to feed and hold the parrots!

We visited the Jewish Children’s Museum one Chanukah, and they had amazing Chanukah activities and arts and crafts. We also have a huge stuffed gray elephant that we love that we got one Chanukah.

7. What’s your idea of a Chanukah party?

8. What do at-home Chanukah meals look like in your home?

We try to prepare an elaborate, festive meal every night.

An elegant sit-down meal

21.00%

9.28%

We only patchke if we are hosting a party.

A self-serve buffet and relaxed family get-together

4.00%

59.79%

We prepare regular meals and serve a special Chanukah dish or two.

Fun, games and entertainment

52.00%

27.48%

Only nosh and informal enjoyment 3.09%

We buy doughnuts and make latkes at least once on Chanukah.

23.00%

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‫"שמעקסט נישט קיין פייער? רויך? ס'דוכט זיך מיר אז איך שמעק‬ ‫עפעס‪".‬‬ ‫ער איז ארויס פון בעט און גענומען ציען די לופט מיט די נאז‪.‬‬ ‫"דו האסט מסתמא עפעס גע'חלומ'ט‪ .‬איך שמעק גארנישט‪ ",‬האט ער‬ ‫אפגע'פסק'נט‪ .‬ער לייגט זיך צוריק שלאפן‪ ,‬און איך גיי ארויס פון בעט‪,‬‬ ‫דורכשפאצירט דאס הויז ווי א נאכט‪-‬שומר‪ ,‬אריינשטעקנדיג איר קאפ אין‬ ‫יעדן צימער צו פארזיכערן אז אלעס איז בסדר‪ .‬הערשט דאן האב איך זיך‬ ‫צוריקגעלייגט מיט אן אומרואיגן געפיל‪.‬‬

‫די ערשטע מיטמאכעניש‬ ‫אויב וואלט איך געזוכט צוצושרייבן מיין פחד צו עפעס א קינדישע‬ ‫טראומע‪ ,‬וואלט איך געקענט אנווייזן אויף צוויי מיטמאכענישן וואס האבן‬ ‫מעגליך איבערגעלאזט די טיף‪-‬איינגעבאקענע פחד אין מיר‪.‬‬ ‫די ערשטע מיטמאכעניש איז געווען ווען איך בין געווען א קליין קינד‬ ‫פון בלויז פיר יאר אלט‪ .‬איך בין דאן איינגעשטאנען ביי מיין מומע – מסתמא‬ ‫צוליב דאס געבורט פון מיין יונגערע ברודערל‪ .‬איך בין געווען אונטערוועגנס‬ ‫מיט זייער משפחה‪ ,‬ווען די קאר האט פלוצלינג גענומען שמעקן פון רויך‪.‬‬ ‫ס'איז געווארן א בהלה‪ ,‬און אלע קינדער זענען ארויסגעלאפן פון קאר‪.‬‬ ‫איך האב זיך פארשטעקט אונטערן זיץ פון גרויס שרעק‪ ,‬און וויבאלד איך‬ ‫בין נישט געווען איינער פון די קינדער האט מען די ערשטע רגע נישט‬ ‫געכאפט מיין אפוועזנהייט‪ .‬מיין מומע האט זיך אביסל שפעטער געכאפט‬ ‫אז איך פעל‪ ,‬און זי איז מיט איין אטעם צוריקגעלאפן צום רייכנדיגע קאר‪.‬‬ ‫זי האט מיר באצייטנס ארויסגעשלעפט פון דארט‪ ,‬ווען דאס קאר איז‬ ‫אויפגעגאנגען אין פלאמען אפאר מינוט שפעטער‪ .‬בחסדי ה' איז קיינער‬ ‫נישט געשעדיגט געווארן‪.‬‬ ‫דאך‪ ,‬די שרעק און די בהלה איז געבליבן איינגעקריצט אין מיין מח‪.‬‬ ‫אפשר ווען איך וואלט געווען ארומגענומען מיט מיין אייגענע משפחה‬ ‫וואלט עס נישט געווירקט אויף מיר אזוי שווער? אפשר ווען איך וואלט‬ ‫געהאט מיין מאמע אין וועמען'ס ארעמס צו וויינען פון שרעק‪ ,‬וואלט‬ ‫עס אויסגעוואשן מיין מח? איך בין דאן געשטאנען אויפ'ן זייט פון ראוד‪,‬‬ ‫אינאיינעם מיט מיינע קוזינעס‪ ,‬בייסנדיג די ליפן‪ .‬שפעטער האט מיין‬ ‫פעטער מיר אויסגע'מוסר'ט ווי סכנה'דיג ס'איז זיך צו באהאלטן ווען עפעס‬ ‫ברענט‪" .‬מ'מוז אוועקלויפן – נישט זיך באהאלטן!"‬ ‫יענער אינצידענט איז געבליבן טיף איינגעקריצט אין מיר און האט נאך‬ ‫יארן שפעטער אויפגעברענגט קאשמארן‪ .‬פארוואס דאס האט איינגעבאקן‬ ‫אין מיר א פחד פון פייער און נישט א פחד פון קארס‪ ,‬דאס האב איך נישט‬ ‫פארשטאנען‪ ,‬אבער אזוי איז געווען דער פאקט‪.‬‬

‫דער צווייטער מיטמאכעניש‬ ‫דער צווייטער אינצידענט איז פארגעקומען אפאר יאר שפעטער‪.‬‬ ‫איך איז געזעצן אויפ'ן סקול באס אויפ'ן וועג צו שולע‪ ,‬ווען מיר זענען‬ ‫פארבייגעפארן א ברענעדיגע הויז‪ .‬די משפחה איז באצייטנס ארויסגעלאפן‬ ‫– טייל קינדער נאך אין פידזשאמעס‪ .‬ווען איך האב געזען די פייער צינגען‬ ‫זיך הייבן צום הימל‪ ,‬איז דער פריערדיגער אינצידענט מיט'ן ברענעדיגן‬ ‫קאר צוריקגעקומען מיט'ן גאנצן שארפקייט‪ .‬מיין קערפער האט זיך‬ ‫געטרייסלט פון פחד‪ .‬דער באס האט נישט געקענט ארויספארן פון גאס‬ ‫צוליב די פייערלעשער וואס זענען דאן פלוצלינג אנגעקומען‪ ,‬אזוי אז איך‬ ‫בין געבליבן צוגענאגלט צום פענסטער מיטצוהאלטן די גאנצע טראמא‪.‬‬ ‫איך האב געזען די דערשראקענע מאמע איבערציילן די קינדער‬

‫איינמאל און נאכאמאל‪ .‬אין מיין יונגע קעפעלע האב איך געטראכט‪ :‬אפשר‬ ‫באהאלט זיך איין קינד אונטער א בעט? ‪ -‬פעטער בנימין'ס שטרענגע‬ ‫לעקציע אז מ'טאר זיך נישט באהאלטן ביי א פייער האט ווידער גענומען‬ ‫קלינגען אין מיינע אויערן‪ ,‬פארשטארקנדיג מיין פחד‪.‬‬ ‫צום סוף איז דער באס אוועקגעפארן‪ ,‬אבער די העלישע פלאמען זענען‬ ‫נאך געשפרינגען אין מיינע אויגן לאנגע וואכן שפעטער‪.‬‬ ‫זינט דאן בין איך געווארן עקסטרעם וואכזאם איבער שריפות‪ .‬מוצאי‬ ‫שבת ביי הבדלה פלעג איך שטיין וואס ווייטער פונ'ם הבדלה ליכט‪.‬‬ ‫פרייטאג צונאכטס האב איך מורא געהאט צו גיין שלאפן ווילאנג די ליכט‬ ‫האבן נאך געברענט‪ .‬ווער רעדט נאך פון ל"ג בעומר אדער שריפת חמץ –‬ ‫דאס איז פאר מיר געווען אמת'דיג נישט צום אויסהאלטן‪.‬‬ ‫ווען איך פלעג פארן אין קעמפ האב איך געמוזט שלאפן אינ'ם‬ ‫ערשטן בעט ביים טיר‪ ,‬אז אין פאל פון א שריפה ח"ו זאל איך גלייך קענען‬ ‫ארויסלויפן‪ .‬ווען איך פלעג זיך טרעפן אין אן אנגעפאקטן עסז‪-‬אל אדער‬ ‫שמחה זאל‪ ,‬פלעג איך אלס זיין אנגעצויגן‪ .‬מיט מיינע אויגן פלעג איך זוכן‬ ‫דעם ארויסגאנג אז אין פאל פון א שריפה ח"ו זאל איך גלייך וויסן וואו צו‬ ‫לויפן‪ .‬איך פלעג אויסוועלן צו זיצן נישט ווייט פונ'ם טיר‪ ,‬כדי זיך נישט צו‬ ‫דארפן שטופן ביים ארויסלויפן‪...‬‬ ‫ווען איך בין געווען אין צענטע קלאס‪ ,‬האט א קלוגע לערערין‬ ‫אויפגעכאפט מיין איבערגעטריבענעם פחד‪ ,‬וואס האט אויסגעקלאפט‬ ‫אין פארשידענע שווערע אופנים‪ ,‬און זי האט רעקאמענדירט פאר‬ ‫מיינע עלטערן אז איך זאל זען א טעראפיסט‪ .‬איך האב זיך דאן טאקע‬ ‫געטראפן מיט א היימישע פרוי טעראפיסט‪ ,‬און איך האב צום ערשטן מאל‬ ‫איבערדערציילט מיט אלע דעטאלן די געשעעניש פון אזויפיל יארן פריער‪.‬‬ ‫ס'איז מיר טאקע אסאך לייכטער געווארן נאך די פאר סעסיעס‪ ,‬און איך בין‬ ‫מער נישט געווען אזוי אבנארמאל אנגעצויגן‪.‬‬ ‫דורכאויס די קומענדיגע פאר יאר איז מיין לעבן געווען פיל רואיגער און‬ ‫גלאטער‪ .‬איך האב חתונה געהאט און געהאט מיין ערשטע קינד‪ ,‬און דאן‬ ‫זענען מיינע פחדים צוריקגעקומען‪.‬‬

‫די טראמא קומט צוריק‬ ‫ווען איך האב זיך פלוצלינג געזען פאראנטווארטליך אויף א קליינע‬ ‫נשמה'לע‪ ,‬א פיצל בעיבי וואס איז גענצליך אנגעוויזן אין מיר‪ ,‬איז דער‬ ‫אלטער פחד אים צו באשיצן פון פייער צוריקגעקומען מיט כמעט דער‬ ‫גאנצער שארפקייט‪.‬‬ ‫אזוי ארום האט איך זיך געטראפן אכטונג געבן דורך די נעכט‪ ,‬צו עס‬ ‫פאסירט נישט חלילה קיין פייער‪ .‬יעדע נאכט‪ ,‬נאכ'ן ליינען קריאת שמע‪,‬‬ ‫האט איך איבערגעקוקט דאס גאנצע הויז צו אלעס איז מסודר‪ .‬פיל מאל‬ ‫פלעגט זיך מיר דוכטן אז עפעס ברענט אדער אז ס'שמעקט פון רויך‪ .‬מען‬ ‫האט מיר אפט געקענט זען אינמיטן א צימער‪ ,‬שמעקנדיג די לופט‪ ,‬צו‬ ‫זיכער מאכן אז גארנישט ברענט נישט‪...‬‬ ‫איך האב זיך נישט געוואלט לאזן קאנטראלירן פון מיין פחד‪ .‬דורכאויס‬ ‫דעם טאג האב איך באוויזן דאס גענצליך צו באהערשן‪ ,‬נאר אין די נאכט‬ ‫טונקלייט פלעגט עס איבערוועלטיגן‪ .‬איך פלעג גיין שלאפן מיט'ן ספר‬ ‫מצות הבטחון ביי מיין בעט‪ ,‬און דאס האט מיר געגעבן פיל חיזוק‪ .‬ווען‬ ‫די פחדים פלעגן מיר באפאלן‪ ,‬פלעג איך פרובירן זיך צו בארואיגן מיט‬ ‫דברי אמונה ובטחון‪ .‬דאך‪ ,‬איז עס געווען א כסדר'דיגע קאמף זיך נישט צו‬ ‫לאזן פארשוועמען פון פחד‪ .‬און ווען ס'האט זיך מיר פארט געדוכט אז איך‬ ‫שמעק רויך – האט איך דען נישט געדארפט פעסטשטעלן צו ס'ברענט‬ ‫נישט עפעס?‪...‬‬

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‫דער נאכט‬ ‫וועכטער‬ ‫פייגי ג‪.‬‬

‫ס'ברענט!‬

‫פערזענליכע‬ ‫געשיכטעס און‬ ‫מיטמאכענישן‬ ‫פון ליינער‬ ‫‪THE BORO PARK VIEW / 125‬‬

‫די נאכט‪-‬שטילקייט האט באהערשט די גאנצע‬ ‫דירה‪ .‬בלויז דאס ריטמישע אטעם פון די איינוואוינער‬ ‫האט זיך געהערט צווישן די טונקעלע ווענט‪.‬‬ ‫פלוצלינג האט דאס געוויין פון א פיצל קינד‬ ‫דורכגעשניטן די לופט‪ .‬איך בין גלייך אויפגעשטאנען‪,‬‬ ‫זיך געוואשן די הענט און ארויס פון בעט‪ .‬אבער‬ ‫איידער איך האב גענומען דאס קינד אויף די הענט‪,‬‬ ‫האבן מיינע פיס מיר געטראגן צום אנדערן עק דירה‪,‬‬ ‫אין קאך אריין‪ .‬ווי א שלאף‪-‬גייער האב איך מידערהייט‬ ‫געשמעקט די לופט‪ ,‬זיכער מאכנדיג אז עס ברענט‬ ‫נישט קיין גאז אדער רויך חלילה‪ .‬מיינע הענט האבן‬ ‫געדרייט די גאז קנעפלעך‪ ,‬צו פארזיכערן אז אלעס‬ ‫איז גוט פארשלאסן‪ .‬דאן האב איך צושפאצירט צום‬ ‫ווינקל וואו דער בוילער האט געארבעט און זיך‬ ‫איינגעהערט פאר א מינוט אויב אלעס איז פולקאם‬ ‫רואיג‪ .‬הערשט דאן בין איך צוריק אין מיין צימער און‬ ‫גענומען דאס קינד‪.‬‬ ‫יא‪ ,‬אזוי בין איך! א מאמע פון פיר קליינע קינדער‬ ‫וואס האט נאך נישט גובר געווען די פחדים פון‬ ‫מיין יוגנט‪ .‬איך האב א געוואלדיגער שרעק פון‬ ‫פייער רח"ל‪ ,‬און נאכט נאך נאכט גיי איך דורך דעם‬ ‫פראצעדור פון שמעקן דאס גאנצע הויז איין מאל און‬ ‫נאכאמאל‪ ,‬פון פארזיכערן ווידער אז די גאז קנעפלעך‬ ‫זענען פארמאכט און אז דער נאכט‪-‬לאמפ אין קינדער‬ ‫צימער האט נישט אונטערגעצונדן א קינד'ס דאכענע‬ ‫ח"ו‪.‬‬ ‫איך ווייס אז מיינע פחדים זענען איבערגעטריבן‬ ‫און נישט באזירט אויף קיין ממשות‪ .‬פונדעסטוועגן‬ ‫קען איך זיך נישט באפרייען דערפון‪ .‬איך שעם זיך פון‬ ‫מיין פחד‪ ,‬און איך פראביר אפילו דאס צו באהאלטן‬ ‫פון מיין מאן‪ .‬דאך קריכט עס פיל מאל ארויס‪ ,‬ווען‬ ‫איך וועק אים אויף אינמיטן שלאף‪ ,‬שמעקנדיג די‬ ‫לופט‪.‬‬ ‫"דו שמעקסט עפעס‪ ,‬חיים?"‬ ‫מיין מאן זעצט זיך אויף אין בעט דערשראקן‪.‬‬ ‫"וואס איז געשען?"‬

‫*****‬ ‫די ליכטיגע זונשטראלן האבן‬ ‫אריינגעשיינט דורכ'ן פענסטער‪ .‬איך האב‬ ‫זיך אויפגעכאפט פון א טיפן שלאף‪ ,‬גרייט‬ ‫אנצופאנגען דעם נייעם טאג‪ .‬די קליינווארג‬ ‫זענען נאך געשלאפן‪ ,‬און איך האב אכטונג‬ ‫געגעבן זיי נישט אויפצואוועקן‪ .‬אפשר וועט‬ ‫יעצט געלונגען אריינצוכאפן א תפילה – א‬ ‫זאך וואס פאסירט לעצטנס נישט יעדן טאג‪.‬‬ ‫איך בין אריין אין קיך זיך צוצוגרייטן א‬ ‫קאווע‪ .‬דאס בילד וואס האט זיך אנטפלעקט‬ ‫פאר מיינע אויגן האט מיר אויפגעשוידערט!‬ ‫איין קיך שאפע איז געווען גענצליך‬ ‫אפגעשווארצט פון פייער‪ .‬דער גאנצער‬ ‫אונטערשטער האלץ פונ'ם שאפע איז געווען‬ ‫אפגעברענט‪ ,‬און א ריזיגער לאך האט זיך‬ ‫דארט אנגעזען‪.‬‬ ‫וואס האט דא פאסירט? האב איך זיך‬ ‫געכאפט ביים קאפ‪ .‬איך בין צוגעגאנגען‬ ‫נענטער מיט וואקלדיגע טריט‪ .‬ווען איך האט‬ ‫באטראכט די ברוכווארג פונ'ם פייער‪ ,‬האב‬ ‫איך זיך געכאפט וואס דא האט פאסירט‪.‬‬ ‫מיין מאן האט נעכטן נאכט אנגעצינדן‬ ‫א יארצייט ליכט נאך זיין זיידן‪ .‬ער האט‬ ‫געשטעלט די ליכט אויף א גלאזערנעם‬ ‫טעלער אויפ'ן פארלאשענעם גאז‪ .‬ביים‬ ‫וואשן דעם גאז אויוון‪ ,‬האב איך אויף‬ ‫צייטווייליג אוועקגערוקט דאס ליכטל אין א‬ ‫זייט‪ ,‬מיט'ן חשבון עס גלייך צוריקצושטעלן‪.‬‬ ‫איך האב עס געשטעלט אויפ'ן קאונטער‪ ,‬און‬ ‫שפעטער האב איך נישט געכאפט אז איך‬ ‫האט אהינגעלייגט אויך די פאלשע בלומען‬ ‫פון טיש‪ ,‬ווען איך האב אפגעוואשן דעם טיש‪.‬‬ ‫ס'איז שוין געווען שפעט ביינאכט ווען‬ ‫איך האט פארלאזט דעם אויפגערוימטן קאך‪.‬‬ ‫איך האב נישט צוריקגעשטעלט די בלומען‬ ‫אינמיטן טיש‪ ,‬און דערפאר האב איך נישט‬ ‫באמערקט דאס יארצייט ליכטל וואס שטייט‬ ‫שטילערהייט הינטער די בלומען‪...‬‬ ‫ווי עס שיינט האט דאס ליכטל געברענט‬ ‫עטליכע שעה‪ ,‬ביז עס האט זיך אנגעכאפט‬ ‫אין די טרוקענע פאפירענע בלומען דערנעבן‪.‬‬ ‫עס האט גענומען ברענען‪ ,‬און וויבאלד ס'איז‬ ‫געשטאנען אונטער די האלצערנע קיך‬ ‫שאפע‪ ,‬האט די קיך שאפע גענומען ברענען‬ ‫פון אונטן‪.‬‬ ‫די גאנצע צייט איז די משפחה טיף‬ ‫געשלאפן‪ .‬קיינער האט גארנישט געשמעקט‬ ‫– אפילו נישט די רויך‪-‬דעטעקטארס וואס‬ ‫ווערן בכוונה נישט געשטעלט נעבן די קיך‪.‬‬ ‫און פונקט איך‪ ,‬די פארזיכטיגע פרוי וואס איז‬

‫עקסטרעם וואכזאם איבער יעדע סכנה פון א‬ ‫פייער‪ ,‬האט גענצליך פארגעסן פונ'ם ליכטל‬ ‫אונטער'ן שאפע‪...‬‬ ‫די קאך וואלט געקענט אפברענען אין‬ ‫א קורצע צייט‪ .‬איך האב א טרייסל געטון‪.‬‬ ‫די איינציגע ארויסגאנג פון הויז איז דורכ'ן‬ ‫טיר – נישט ווייט פון די שאפע וואס האט‬ ‫געברענט‪ .‬ווען זיי דערוועקן זיך אינמיטן‬ ‫נאכט צוליב'ן שריפה‪ ,‬וואלט איך געמוזט‬ ‫ארויסשטופן די קינדער דורכ'ן פענסטער – א‬ ‫שרעקעדיגע איבערלעבעניש‪.‬‬ ‫אלזא‪ ,‬וויאזוי האט זיך דאס פייער‬ ‫פארלאשן – גענצליך אליין?‬ ‫דאס פייער האט אויפגעגעסן דעם‬ ‫אונטערשטן ברעט פון די שאפע‪ ,‬פארמירנדיג‬ ‫א ריזיגער לאך‪ .‬אין יענע שאפע‪ ,‬האלט איך‬ ‫מיינע בלעכענע קנעט שיסלעך‪ .‬די שיסלעך‬ ‫זענען ארויסגעפאלן פון שאפע איינע אויפ'ן‬ ‫אנדערן‪ ,‬איבערגעדרייטערהייט‪ ,‬באדעקנדיג‬ ‫דעם פייער! דער פייער איז דערשטיקט‬ ‫געווארן אויפ'ן פלאץ!‬ ‫מיט א ציטערדיגע האנט האב איך‬ ‫אוועקגעריקט די שיסלעך‪ ,‬און א שווארצער‬ ‫פלעק האט זיך אנטפלעקט אויפ'ן קאונטער‬ ‫אונטער דעם‪ .‬בשעת איך‪ ,‬די "פייער וועכטער"‬ ‫איז געשמאק און טיף געשלאפן‪ ,‬האט דער‬ ‫באשעפער אזוי וואונדערליך געפירט אז דאס‬ ‫פייער זאל זיך נישט פארשפרייטן!‬ ‫זעענדיג דעם נס פאר די אויגן‪ ,‬האב איך‬ ‫געשפירט ווי דער פחד פון פייער פליסט‬ ‫ארויס פון מיינע אדערן‪ .‬ס'איז דא איינער‬ ‫וואס היט אונז‪ ,‬כאטש וואס איך האב עס‬ ‫אלעמאל געוואוסט‪ ,‬האב איך עס יעצט געזען‬ ‫בחוש‪ ,‬מיט'ן גאנצן קלארקייט‪.‬‬ ‫דער באשעפער אליין האט אונז געהיטן‪.‬‬ ‫פייער קען גארנישט טון אן דעם באשעפער'ס‬ ‫באפעל‪ .‬פייער האט נישט קיין שום אייגענע‬ ‫כח – ס'איז בלויז א שליח פון השי"ת‪ .‬ווען ער‬ ‫וויל ס'זאל ברענען‪ ,‬צינדט זיך עס אן אונטער‬ ‫די נאז פון די וואכזאמסטע בעל הבית'טע‬ ‫וואס ציטערט אזוי דערפון און גיבט אזויפיל‬ ‫אכטונג דערויף‪ .‬און ווען ער ערלויבט עס‬ ‫נישט צו ברענען‪ ,‬ברענט עס נישט!‬ ‫לאנג נאך דער אפגעברענטער שאפע‬ ‫און שטיקל קאונטער זענען איבערגעמאכט‬ ‫געווארן‪ ,‬האב איך נאך געשעפט חיזוק פון די‬ ‫סצענע‪ .‬איך האב מער נישט דורכגעמאסטן‬ ‫דאס הויז אין דער פינסטערניש עטליכע‬ ‫מאל א נאכט‪.‬‬ ‫ס'איז דא א בעסערע שומר‪ ,‬א שומר וואס‬ ‫שלאפט נישט און כאפט נישט קיין דרימל‪.‬‬

‫‪126 / THE BORO PARK VIEW / December 25, 2019‬‬ ‫‪www.thebpview.com / 718.408.8770‬‬

Sponsored by:

HOW TO PLAY:

The following are not allowed in Boggle: Adding “s” to a word • Proper nouns • Abbreviations • Contractions • Acronyms

D R A W K

Find words on the board containing four letters or more.

Letters of a word must be connected in a chain (each letter should be adjacent to the next either vertically, horizontally or diagonally), and each letter can only be used once in a given word.

C

PLAYING RULES:

N

4. Two winners will be drawn each week, each of whom will receive a free razzle at the Ice Cream House!

I S B O Q L C I F V U

U P

3. Email the form to comments@thebpview.com or fax to 718-408-8771 by Sunday at 9:00 p.m.

G M H

2. Once you have a winner, fill out the form below in its entirety.

T A

1. Gather round the table to play a family game of Boggle, using this Boggle board.

Family name: _________________________________ Phone: __________________ Full mailing address: ____________________________________________________ Name of winner: __________________ Amount of points: ______________ Names of competing players:

List some words only the winner found:

__________________________________

___________________________________

__________________________________

___________________________________

4-letter words: 2 points

__________________________________

___________________________________

5-letter words: 3 points

__________________________________

___________________________________

6-letter words: 5 points

__________________________________

___________________________________

POINTS

7-letter words: 7 points 8-letter words: 9 points 9+ letters: 12 points

The longest word found on the board: _____________________________ A new word you learned from the board: __________________________ Only complete forms will be entered into the drawing.

128 / THE BORO PARK VIEW / December 25, 2019 www.thebpview.com / 718.408.8770

GAME WINNERS

Contact The Boro Park View to claim your prize.

ADVANCED

BOGGLE WINNER Family name: Ringel, 347-xxx-9166 Name of winner: Mr. Amount of points: 71 Names of competing players: Mr., Mrs.

1 6 2 7

Some words only the winner found: alarm, chain, charm, moral, pearl

Family name: Steinberg, 718-xxx-5973

5 7

5

A new word we learned from the board: pleat

BOGGLE WINNER

3

3 7

5 6

2 6

2 3

9

Name of winner: Toby

7

1

Amount of points: 56

3 9

5 7 8 1 5

Names of competing players: Mommy, Toby Some words only the winner found: alarm, bleat, charm, sable, sabra A new word we learned from the board: bate

INTERMEDIATE

FIND ME! WINNERS Oberlander 917-xxx-5402

3

2

1 7

5 4

Last week’s picture was taken outside Bais Yaakov of Boro Park, at 46th Street and 14th Avenue.

Sponsored by:

8 4 2 6 7 5 4 2 3 1 1 6 9 4 4 6 5 9 8 7 3 9

Email: comments@thebpview.com Fax: 718.408.8771 NAME: ____________________________________________________ PHONE: ___________________________ PICTURE LOCATION: _________________________________________________________________________

PLEASE NOTE: Submissions for Can You Find Me? will be entered into a raffle for a $10 gift card at Judaica Corner.

December 25, 2019 / THE BORO PARK VIEW / 129 www.thebpview.com / 718.408.8770

To have your child’s creation featured, send a picture to comments@thebpview.com or 1274 49th Street, Suite 421, Brooklyn, NY 11219.

See what Brooklyn kids can do!

Rosenblum Family

Shulem Lerner, 6

Menachem Salczer

Family Langsam

Family Reifer

Moishy Schimmel, 7

Reizy Welz, 7

Zlaty Jakubowicz, 6

Shlome Zalmen Eizikovits, 9, Satmar

Landau Family

130 / THE BORO PARK VIEW / December 25, 2019 www.thebpview.com / 718.408.8770

Mayer Silberman

Liebowitz Family

Yanky Fekete, 6

Moshe Lipschutz, 5

Moishe Leib Mertz

Shloime Gross

Mordecha Jankovits, 5

Yakov Naftula Silberman, 6

Usher Halpert

Shimon Jacobowitz

Meir and Mendy Lerner

Yiddi Lieser, 3

‫אליי‪.‬‬ ‫יק ַ‬ ‫ערוֶ ועגְ ן ַפאר נִ ָ‬ ‫עטל ֶד ְ‬ ‫ייּבט ַא ֶצ ְ‬ ‫ערל‪ ,‬אּון ְׁש ַר ְ‬ ‫ייפ ְ‬ ‫ער ְקט ֶדעם ִסידּור ִאין ֵלייּב'ס ַפ ֶ‬ ‫אמ ְ‬ ‫אדעק ַּב ֶ‬ ‫יער‪ :‬וְ ַול ֶ‬ ‫קּור ְצן פּון ְפ ִר ֶ‬ ‫ִאין ְ‬ ‫עמען‬ ‫ואר ְטן ַא ְד ַרייוֶ וער אּון נֶ ֶ‬ ‫ָאּפוַ ְ‬ ‫עקּומען‪ָ ...‬דא וֶ ועט אּונְ ז ְ‬ ‫ֶ‬ ‫ִמיר זֶ ענֶ ען ָאנְ גֶ‬ ‫ועלט‪.‬‬ ‫ׁשּובע ֶמענְ ְט ְׁשן פּון ִא ֶיּבער ִדי וֶ ְ‬ ‫ייען ַאיין ָח ֶ‬ ‫אטעל‪ ,‬וואּו ֶעס ְׁש ֵט ֶ‬ ‫צּום ָה ֶ‬

‫ַאזֹוי??? ֵקיין ְפ ַראנְ ְק ַרייְך‪.‬‬

‫ִאין ְפ ַראנְ ְק ַרייְך!‬ ‫ַאזֹוי ֵׁשיין!‬

‫עקּומען?‬ ‫ֶ‬ ‫ָאּבער וואּו זֶ ענֶ ען ִמיר ָאנְ גֶ‬ ‫ֶ‬ ‫יׁשט‬ ‫ֵקיינֶ ער ָהאט ִמיר ֲא ִפילּו נִ ְ‬ ‫ארט‪...‬‬ ‫גֶ עזָ אגְ ט צּו וואּו ֶמען ָפ ְ‬

‫אקע ֵׁשיין‪.‬‬ ‫ַט ֶ‬

‫אליי וֶ ועט ֵליינֶ ען ֶדעם ְּב ִריוו וָ ואס‬ ‫יק ַ‬ ‫וֶ וען נִ ָ‬ ‫עלייגְ ט ִאין זַ יין‬ ‫ַאריינְ גֶ ֵ‬ ‫ִאיְך ָהאּב ִאים ַ‬ ‫אקע זַ יין ֵׁשיין‪.‬‬ ‫אׁש ֶקע‪ ,‬וֶ ועט ׁשֹוין ַט ֶ‬ ‫ַט ְ‬

‫יֶ ענֶ ע ָאוֶ וענְ ט‪:‬‬

‫עמ ִלין פּון ִאינֶ עוֵ ויינִ יג‪.‬‬ ‫ַאזֹוי ֵׁשיין! ֶא ְפ ֶׁשר ַאזֹוי זֶ עט אֹויס ִדי ְק ֶר ְ‬

‫עמ ִלין ִאיז גֶ עוִ ויס ֶׁשענֶ ער פּון ֶדעם‪ֶ ,‬עס‬ ‫ֶדער ְק ֶר ְ‬ ‫רּוס ַלאנְ ד‪...‬‬ ‫ערס פּון ְ‬ ‫יׁש ָטא ֶׁשענֶ ְ‬ ‫ִאיז ָדאְך נִ ְ‬

‫וֶ וער‪ִ ,‬איְך?‬

‫ייער גּוט! ַאזֹוי‬ ‫זֵ ֶ‬ ‫אט ִריָ אט‪,‬‬ ‫עדט ַא ַּפ ְ‬ ‫ֶר ְ‬ ‫אמיר‬ ‫עצט‪ָ ,‬ל ִ‬ ‫אּון יֶ ְ‬ ‫ערל!‬ ‫ייפ ְ‬ ‫זֶ ען ַדיין ַפ ֶ‬

‫יָ א‪ ,‬דּו!‬

‫קאפיטל‬

‫ל'‬

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‫דדדדא ִאיז ֶעס‪.‬‬ ‫ָ‬ ‫אסטּו ָדאס?‬ ‫פּון וואּו ָה ְ‬ ‫ארוָ ואס‬ ‫אקּומען? ַפ ְ‬ ‫ֶ‬ ‫אסטּו ָדאס ַּב‬ ‫פּון וואּו ָה ְ‬ ‫ַאלעס וָ ואס‬ ‫רּוס ַלאנְ ד גִ ְיּבט ִדיר ֶ‬ ‫עלט? ְ‬ ‫אר ְפ ְסטּו גֶ ְ‬ ‫ַד ְ‬ ‫טֹויׁשט פּון ִדיר!‬ ‫ְ‬ ‫אר ְפט נָ אר‪ֵ .‬לייּב‪ִ ,‬איְך ִּבין ַאנְ‬ ‫דּו ַד ְ‬

‫יׁשט ֵלייּב!‬ ‫ִאיְך ִּבין נִ ְ‬

‫עטל וָ ואס ִאיְך ָהאּב‬ ‫ָאּבער ִאין ִדי ֶצ ְ‬ ‫יׁשט ֵלייּב? ֶ‬ ‫דּו ִּביזְ ט נִ ְ‬ ‫ערל!‬ ‫ייפ ְ‬ ‫אלט ֶע ֶּפעס ִאין זַ יין ַפ ֶ‬ ‫אה ְ‬ ‫אקּומען ְׁש ֵטייט ַאז ֵלייּב ַּב ַ‬ ‫ֶ‬ ‫ַּב‬

‫עטל‬ ‫ַאְךְךְך‪ָ ,‬דאס ִאיז ֶדער ֶצ ְ‬ ‫עׁש ִר ְיּבן‪.‬‬ ‫וָ ואס ִאיְך ָהאּב גֶ ְ‬

‫ערל‪ָ ,‬אה ָדא!‬ ‫ייפ ְ‬ ‫ֵלייּב‪ ,‬וואּו ִאיז ַדיין ַפ ֶ‬

‫ויׁשן ֶענְ ק ְצוֵ ויי‪.‬‬ ‫ַאלץ ְצוִ ְ‬ ‫עמיׁש זִ יְך נָ אְך ְ‬ ‫ִאיְך ֶצ ִ‬

‫קאפיטל‬

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Classifieds FOR SALE NEOCATE INFANT FORMULA $35 a can. 347-742-6072 CHOSSON/KALLAH GUIDE Guidance for wedding preparations- ruchniyus & gashmius. Free for Chassanim/kallos / mechutanim. Avail. at major seforim stores,and more places. 732-364-7191/0649 YOYA / BABY PRIDE Strollers for Sale. ASTM standards, company backed warranty, available in several colors. Free delivery. Please call 845-263-2737 or 845587-7941 UPPA BABY CRUZ piggy back board 347 835 7535 STROLLERS FOR SALE! Brand New Baby Strollers For Less! Doona, Bugaboo, Yoyo and more. Pls call: 347-5279874 PETIT CLAIR BLAZER Boys black blazer with ribbed sleeves size 10 BNWT $35.

Call/text 917-836-9631 BETTY CROCKER Brand new Betty crocker in box for sale 35$ 3478068678 YOYO STROLLER Brand new Yoyo Stroller white frame with newborn set. (Without box)$499.00.

9174741805 APPLE IPOD NANO (7th Generation) Open Box- 16 GB - Silver with case. $149.99. Call or text: 347495-3881 SWIVEL CHAIR White swivel office chair, excellent condition. $50.

Round white mirror $25. please call/text 347 228 2042

SILKSATION PLUS 139$ credit at silksation plus, selling for $120 3478068678 NEW BALANCE SNEAKER style 990 woman’s black suede size 7 1/2 BRAND NEW IN BOX best offer. Call 347581-8056 UPPA BABY CRUZ carriage excellent condition,brand new frame hood and wheels.bassinet and all accessories included 3478357535 LADIES COAT Black ladies wool coat from S&W size 6-8. Selling for $350. 347-271-2760 BETTY CROCKER Brand new Betty crocker in box for sale 35$ 3478068678 SILKSATION PLUS 139$ credit at silksation plus, selling for $125 3478068678 MIMA XARI Brand New black and white Carriage still in original packaging. Bought for $1,200 selling for $800. 347-2247346 / 718-853-6426 POMEGRANATE JUICE Pom pomegranate juice 60 oz bottle for only 13.99 please call 347 754 4669 CHANDELIER BULBS Top quality Led chandelier bulbs for only $3.00 a bulb please call 347- 754 - 4669 SD CARDS Lowest prices in town!

16gb-$7. 32gb-$9. 64gb-$17.

Micro sd128-$30. Canon Lens 18x55-$69. Call: 929.420.0298 or 718.722.7664 CANON CAMERAS second hand, in excellent condition @affordable prices!! Most models in stock!

No warranty! Bed-Penn area.

917.789.3380

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IRENE DOLCE WIG Brand new Irene Dolce wig 24” color #4/14 Cut by famous Tranee Salon for great price.

Call/Txt (347) 762-2112‬ TODDLER BED White toddler bed with mattress in good condition (almost new) for best offer call 718 435-3797.

MASTER BEDROOM SET Beautiful Italian Master bedroom furniture headboards, armoire, dresser, and night table all for $4500. For more information please contact 718-930-5413

REAL ESTATE BRAND NEW APARTMENTS 1133 46th Street.beautiful ready to move in chussen kallah apartments. broker: 347-481-8528 E. 4515nu@ gmail.com FURNISHED APT 15/42 beautiful high ceiling 1 bdr bsmt. large kitchen w/ couch, w/d, a/c,, long/short term. linen & amenities avail.

347-668-3445 FURNISHED APT FOR RENT 39th & 16th Ave -2 bedroom furnished beautiful basement apartment, full large kitchen, private entrance, W/D, heat included 347-423-2253 FOR RENT FLATBUSH/BP Ave J E. 4- 2 lge BR apt LR/DR beaut views 718 316 7506 APT FOR RENT 10th Ave & 45th St. 1 BR, Full Kitch, Dinette. Freshly painted, 1 flight up. Heimishe bldg. Day 718-686-0909/ 347524-7686 Eve FURNISHED APT 57/16 btfl furnished apt, private entrance W/D, G/E included call 718-259-9244

OFFICE FOR RENT 45th St & 10th Ave Near hospital. Modern 2 rooms, 500 sf, private entrance. $1190. Day 718-686-0909/ 347-524-7686 Eve FURNISHED APT 1 bedroom basment front furnished apt being avail for rent 15 and 52 mid jan plz call 7182161353 SUMMER HOMES New Summer home Development. Brand new summer homes for sale.

Chassidish heimesh crowd.

Call 347-786-1117 for more details.

HOUSE FOR SALE WILLIAMSBURG: Hewes/ marcy 2 fam house for sale 3 floors will be vacant needs full renovation $2.3 call 917 831-7576 no text CONDO FOR SALE 1400 sq ft condo. Brand new.

11th Ave ,High 40’s. Call 917-515-8717, 347-927-4601 or email ymlrealty@gmail.com LOT FOR LEASE New Williamsburg VACANT LAND FOR LEASE paved +power + big roll down gate 3750SF. -7500SF. $1 a sf. 718 593-7171 MONTICELLO STORE Rent space in high traffic Monticello storefront for summer, offer your services, products or brand. Email your info to rentalupstate@ gmail.com NEW WILLIAMSBURG SHOWROOM/OFFICE marble floor beautiful moldings .

READY TO MOVE IN 15004300 sf. ground floor PARK AVE. 718-593-7171 STOREFRONT FOR RENT 10 & 51 Around 200-500 sf $1100-$2200. 15 & 44 Around 500 sf $2800 text 718-6005933

Looking for a new exciting and fun experience to do with your friends and family.

Then, come join us at

Futuristic Virtual Reality Arcade right here in the neighborhood.

You can enjoy hundred of Virtual Reality Experiences from traveling with google earth, looking inside ocean, rock climbing, rollercoasters etc.

We also offer private party events.

6604 18 Avenue • Brooklyn NY 11204 • 347-673-6880 • Futuristicvrworld.com

OFFICE SPACE FOR RENT Office- New 2 room small basement office for rent.

61st-16th ave. $675. Call 929.277.0089

VACATION RENTAL Miami Beach, Carriage Club North Btfl 2 BR, 2 Bths, ground floor, Call & leave message: 347.499.0031

PROFESSIONAL SPACE AVAIL 46 & 12th Ave. Professional space available- 3 individual rooms. High ceilings, windows, everything in perfect condition. 718-4385847

SHABBOS CHANUKAH

SHORT TERM RENTAL Beautifully renovated short term rental on 12 and 43.

Linen, towels, percolator, and hot plate etc included. Call845-327-6116 VACATION RENTALS YERUSHALAYIM luxurious 4 bedroom apartment. Ezras Torah Gush 80 Area . New, spacious, clean. Fully equipped.

Stunning View. 011-972-58323-8765.

SHABBOS CHANUKAH RENTAL 4 Bdrm 12 bed , linen/towels all shabbos extras! Also weekday rental. 1-347-5648480 VACATION RENTAL Miami Beach, Apt. for rent at King Richard`s Collins & 41st, 1 bedroom, 2 baths, dining room-living room.

347.546.5063

Beautiful 4 bedroom house available for extended Shabbos Chanukah weekend in Chestnut Ridge.

Close to shul/mikvah.

Pictures available.

Call 845.356.2101 Text 917.474.6826 SHABBOS RENTAL 2 bedroom apt available to rent for a shabbos or short term 3 flights up. Bedford/ Taylor Please call 347-6287732.

BABYSITTER WANTED Seeking heimishe babysitter in my home twice a week.

11 and 50’s area. References a must. 718.635.3789. Lv detailed msg JOB OPPORTUNITY Store in BP looking to hire saleslady for kallah showroom. P: 718-853-6061 Mr. Klein / E: pluginson13@ gmail.com JOB OPPORTUNITY looking for girl to pickup baby at 3:00 from 14 & 48 and bring home to 12 & 41 7188710432 JOB OPPORTUNITY Established business in Boro Park looking to hire an inside salesperson. Hours 7:30-5:30. Will train. Please send resume to: bpjob11219@ gmail.com JOB OPPORTUNITY Store in BP looking to hire F/T salesman. P: 718-853-6061 Mr. Klein / E: pluginson13@ gmail.com JOB OPPORTUNITY Salesperson for raw fish & fresh pre-packaged sandwiches to secure accounts in schools, org., camps, supermarkets, Call: Eli 516.270.6755

HELP WANTED

BABYSITTING

HELP WANTED Heimishe E-commerce Company seeking a resp girl for F/T online sales, detail oriented, great potential 718-851-3510 ext. 114 hr@ photo4less.com

EXPERIENCED BABYSITTER Babysitter avail. Responsible, reliable. Avail nights, overnight, weekends. Refs. avail upon request. More info pls caltxt (347) 816-6406.

SEEKING WRITER A copy-writing agency is looking to hire writers with experience in Amazon listings. Excellent opportunity for the right individual. Email resume to amazinglisting@gmail.com

HEIMISHE BABYSITTER will watch your baby while you are in Ateres Menachem (former Torah Veyira) Hall.

Please call 718-435-6290.

HEIMISHE BABYSITTER Have a simcha? Warm and loving babysitter available

near Tiferes Rivka and the Legacy. Please call 347 988 0053 BABYSITTER Experience hiemish babysitter available for all ur simcha needs over nights and weekends also available 7186330739

SERVICES CHILDBIRTH CLASSES Hemishe weekly/monthly classes available. Providing info, exercise, halacha and emotional support. Call/text Lamaze with Henny 347-8712955 CHILDBIRTH CEUS Doula? Nurse? Midwife?

Childbirth educator? Sign up to be notified of classes at 4childbirthbp@gmail.com or text 347-871-2955 YIDDISH COURSE You can now learn the Yiddish Language from the comfort of your home. Sign up now for our tele-course.

718-435-4616 MATH TUTOR All math regents levels.

CLEP. SAT, GRE. Expd. Good rapport with students. Call/ text Chani Reichman 917 538-4357 ALGEBRA TUTOR Experienced CC Algebra I tutor can help you ace through the course with ease!

Mrs. E. Sigal 633 - 3450 TUTOR Experienced teacher available to tutor your child after school. Lots of experience in Math/ Accounting. Call/txt 917-6354614 SONG LYRICS Professional song lyrics for school performances, wedding songs, etc,

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Classifieds CUSTOMIZED FRENCH MACARONS

ADDING FLAVOR AND TREND TO YOUR PARTY CHANUKAH | UPSHERINS PARTIES | EVENTS DAIRY / PAREVE GLUTEN FREE

FOR ORDERS CALL: 917-763-5335

COACH4CLARITY Limited offer! Free coaching sessions for young ladies.

Seeking clarity? Feeling stuck? Get to know your real self. Email coach4clarity1@ gmail.com NATURAL MAKEUP The makeup you’ve been waiting for! Natural, nontoxic, and great for sensitive skin. Call: 917-7893042 KEY TOV Piano lessons for girls Grades 3-8 Sunday afternoons. 17-44 area. Sign up today! 347-7860820 VIOLIN LESSONS A chanukah gift that will last a lifetime. Private violin lessons for girls, all ages. 929 289 1222 ENGLISH AND YIDDISH. Poems, web copy, and other writing services. breindythebest@gmail.com Text 929-214-8827 BREAST PUMPS Free hand and electric pumps through insurance, ships free. One call does it all 718-831-7634 or text/email compactpumps@gmail.com.

SHOPPING LIST Itemitzed kalkah shopping list to make the shopping easier and calmer minimal fee call 1347-534-6184

PAYOS PERMS Strong hold payos perms for boys . Experienced . Center of Boro Park . 954-501-1639 REFLEXOLOGIST For women & children 347786-0810 PROMO SPOT For the most unique gifts, promotional items, plaques and stamp pens call 718732-0546 or email sales@ promospot.nyc ONE MAN BAND Making a simcha? Looking for a musician? For all your simchas, Bar Mitzvah, Vort, Sheva beroches, Call Mordechai Friedman @9293638130 PERSONALIZED CANDLES We have all colors and shaped candles with option of imprinting your personal message or logo call 845263-0171 PERSONAL SHOPPER Professional personal shopper available for all your needs. Specializing in kallahs. Call/txt Rivky: 347564-7204 WINDOW SHADES Shades/drapes & blinds =best prices, +free estimate & installation & tempoready shades only at forsyth decorators 316 roebling st.

718-599-8976

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GARTLECH we fix knitted & crochet Gartlech & make beautiful professional fringes. We also teach how to knit & crochet. call: 917-414-3281 PROFESSIONAL POEMS Poems and lyrics with the touch of the pro! Call for any occasion: 929 359 3211

BEDTIME STORIES Get a list of hotlines for children. Just email bedtimestories770@gmail. com PAINT CLASSES Sundays girls 4-5 grade.

1:05-2:05. Mrs. Rivky Lieser 347-452-6342

SERENITY SOLUTIONS Proffessional Organizing Coach to help you become organized & stay organized! call Chana Malky @ 718-8095963 for a FREE consultation.

QT BEBE Pacifier Clips -Baby Shoes -Carriage Gloves -Baby Blankets -Small Baby Bags -Baby Bands -Hair Accessories -Teething Toys...

718.851.5156

PROFESSIONAL ALBUMS for any occasion. Great Prices!

Quick Turnaround! To order please call 1.929.441.2322 or email us at startheredesign@ gmail.com

DRIVER AVAILABLE Driver with many years exp. available to do long distance trips with brand new minivan. Reasonable rates.

917.405.8469

JUMPING BALLOON Big moonwalk to rent!

Great for Chanuka parties, shabbatons, or Melava Malkas! Call 914-487-3373 DECORATED COOKIES Beautifully decorated cookies available for every occasion.

Great Pricing. For more information or to see pictures please email cookies2the9s@ gmail.com; EAR PIERCING Professional ear piercing.

House calls available. Big selection. Great prices pls call 3475462339 or 7183876361

ODDS & ENDS SARNO METHOD If you were healed through the sarno method I would like to hear your story. Please call 3473514299 RARE OPPORTUNITY For just $200 you can sponsor benchers for a local hall in the memory of a loved one.

646-874-4342 SUBSTITUTE AVAILABLE for the morning. Please call 718-309-8100

The Boro Park View ATTENTION WORKERS Join thousands by getting the daily email-halochos applying the to workplace/business world. Text 7323914497 your email address, +language preferred Yiddish/ English

GEMACHIM PIDYON HABEN Coin Gemach. Call Yakov Friedman. 646-419-0782 LIGHTING GEMACH Lighting bars to enhance your event!929-276-2404

SIMCHA GEMACH Bechers, Challah cover, Benchers and challah knife for your simcha. pls leave message 1718 854 1760 CHOCOLATE MOLD GEMACH BP: 718-972-4768. Williamsburg: 718-522-3445.

KALLAH ACCESSORIES Large selection of: Crowns, Veils, Dektich, Trains, Shoes & Petticoats for minimal fee. By appointment only. Boro Park. Call 718-551-8714

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Include a two-word title for your ad.

DRESSES/GOWNS

KOSHER WAZE DEVICES available for short term. Minimum charge. 929-324-7021.

FOR SALE Sis of bride gowns size 0 petite black velvet /maroon and 2 size 2 worn once pics avail.3477317741

DOONA GEMACH For a short short period of time(or medical need). 260-DOONAZ3 (260-366-6293)

MAGNIFICENT GOWN Stunning one of a kind sister of bride Size 2-4. Green velvet & black.

917-995-5574

SIMCHA GEMACH White cubbies for miniatures,white ceramic square and round cake stands and more.‫לע”נ ברוך בן משה‬ -536-1742 917 ‫דוד‬.

FOR SALE Raquel semi-custom gown for sale worn once. Size 6-8. Please text/call 917-202-0257

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Only two classifieds per person per week!

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PACK N PLAY gemach (BP) Please call in the evening 718-851-1017

FOR SALE magnificent kleinfeld gown size 4-6 tall torso veil & dek tich included 347446-6114

The Boro Park View reserves the right to edit and abbreviate classified ads.

TWIN CARRIAGE GEMACH To lend yours or to rent a twin carriage for the week, season or year, please call (718) 522-3891.

Mint condition only.

FOR SALE Beautiful Rumpler women’s black and off white vintage style gown size 0 to sell for great price! Call/ txt 3476223665

Confirmation of classified ads is not a service offered at this time.

CLOTHING & SHOE GEMACH Donate free. Clothes, shoes, linens. grt cond only! more info pls call\ txt (347)816-6406.

GOWN Stunning, one of a kind gown, Married sister of the bride, Size 8-10, Peach-gold 347-263-0902

KALLAH CAPE GEMACH Brand new luxurious white fur capes for Chuppah. 718 - 633 - 8261

FOR SALE gorgeous mauve/black sis of bride gown size 10-12 very slenderizing 347 446-6114

BOYS SUIT GEMACH Gemach Yismach Yisroel Boys Simcha Wear sizes 9m-7 1943 50th Street 347.462.4596 Sundays 2:30-5 ‫לע’’נ ישראל בן אליעזר‬

FOR SALE Elegant black shimmer knit dress hand made by tiffany knits with real fur around neck (removable) size 12. Text 347-625-7253

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FOR SALE two gorgeous pink gowns, custom-made. Size 0-2. $600.

Call 718-853-6426 FOR RENT Exquisite black & white maternity gown, size S. 718438-4734 RENT/SALE Magnificent young ladies gown for sale or rent. Size 0-2. Call / text 347-786-2464

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FOR RENT Beautiful chasuna gown for rent used once. Please call: 845-213-8664 FOR SALE Black and white designer gown size 4-6/ pre maternity.

Call/text: 718-757-9505 FOR SALE Gown, Black and White Sister of Bride size 2-4 $350.00 call/ txt 917-684-5810 RENT/SALE Purple - eggplant gown, size 2-4, sister of the bride. Worn once. Call/text 917-499-3056.

FOR SALE Beautiful black gown for sis of bride size 2-4. can be let out to 6. Call or text 718.685.6232 RENT/SALE 3 beautiful Blue gowns for teens Brand new,worn once.

718-338-3945 RIVKY FORSTER GOWN Pink teen gown size 2-4 for sale. Call 718-782-4708

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FOR SALE Stunning 2 piece black and silver grey gown for married sis of bride size 12-14. Great price 347-645-6857 BRIDAL GOWN Magnificent Kleinfeld Bridal Gown to sell!! Size 2-4.Text your email to 3479091358 for pictures! Includes shoes, long+short veil, dek-tich.

FOR SALE Two beautiful Harfenes childrens gowns, black, gold, and white. Sizes approx 5/6 and 7 Call: 347-760-4649 FOR SALE a few beautiful ladies hats, new condition, well priced.

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FOR SALE Adorable size 2-3, kids gowns white w color. For sale call or text: 718 972 4949 / 347 668 0427 FOR SALE Two magnificent off white children’s gowns for sale sizes 6-8 and 10-12 $150 each 718436-1480 GOWN RENTAL Small sizes Wedding kids gowns available for rent $20 a night for more information call 3479326524 HARFENES GOWNS Adorable Harfenes pale pink & white childrens gowns for sale. Size 5 and 8-10. 718-7824708 FOR SALE 5 Magnificent children’s gowns. Velvet top with tulle bottom. Sizes 3-9. Call 3477653245

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‫בס״ד‬

GREAT JOB OPPORTUNITIES DIRECT SUPPORT PROFESSIONALS HCS is seeking energetic young men as Shabbos staff to work as counselors with men with disabilities in our Flatbush residences.

The ability to read and write English is a must.

Also seeking energetic young men to work as a DSP with men with disabilities on Mon/ Tues/Wed/Thur. afternoons/ evening, and Sunday mornings and afternoons/evenings.

The ability to read and write English is a must.

Driving a plus.

DRIVER WANTED Part Time Driver 7:30 AM-9:30 AM, possibility for afternoons as well.

Responsibilities include, driving individuals from their homes Boro Park, Williamsburg, Crown Heights and Flatbush to their day program. Knowledge of individuals with special needs.

Good English communication skills a must.

Clean driving record and willingness to drive 12-passenger van required.

EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT POSITION HCS is seeking a full time Executive Assistant and employee relations specialist for its Boro Park office.

Must have excellent written and verbal communication skills, ability to multitask and meeting tight deadlines.

Excellent pay and benefits.

Please send resume to: jobs@hcsny.org and reference the job title

‫גאב"ד קארלסבורג בסעודת הודאה לרגל כ"א כסלו‬

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‫מסיבת לחיים נאכן סוקסעספולע קאמפיין לטובת תושבי דזשערסי סיטי‬

‫ניחום אבלים אצל גאב"ד ירושלים ע"פ אשתו הרבנית ע"ה‬

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‫שמחת השבע ברכות בבית וויזניץ ‪ -‬וויען – סערדאהעלי לילדי תלמוד תורה וויען‬

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‫‪PHOTO CREDIT: JDN‬‬

‫אטוירני דזשענערעל פון ניו דזשערזי אין וויליאמסבורג ביים באזוכן די באטראפענע פאמיליע פון דזשערזי סיטי אטאקע‬

‫פועל'ט‬ ‫ישועות‬ ‫ביים מקום המסוגל לישועות‬

‫ימי‬ ‫חנוכה‬

‫נים‬ ‫מ‬

‫אי‬ ‫ןד‬

‫עצטיגע‪ ,‬געהו‬ ‫יבענ‬ ‫יי‬ ‫ע‬ ‫ז‬

‫זאת‬ ‫חנוכה‬

‫ובשירי דוד עבדך נהללך‪!‎‬‬ ‫וזה‪"‎‬עשאום‪‎‬יום‪‎‬טוב‪‎‬וקבעו‪‎‬בהלל‪‎‬ובהודאה"‪‎,‬כלומר‪‎,‬שבצדקת‪‎‬‬ ‫מתתיהו‪ ‎‬בן‪ ‎‬יוחנן‪ ‎‬כהן‪ ‎‬גדול‪ ‎‬ובניו‪ ‎,‬גרמו‪ ‎‬שלמעלה נפתחו שערי‬ ‫החסדים ושערי נסים ונפלאות‪‎‬ואהבה‪‎‬לעמו‪‎‬בני‪‎‬ישראל‪‎‬בח' ימי‬ ‫חנוכה‪‎,‬מה‪‎‬שלא‪‎‬היה‪‎‬עד‪‎‬ימי‪‎‬מתתיהו‪‎‬כהן‪‎‬גדול‪‎.‬וזהו‪‎‬עשאום‪‎‬‬ ‫יום‪ ‎‬טוב‪ ‎,‬שנפתחו‪ ‎‬למעלה‪ ‎‬ההארות‪ ‎‬והאהבה‪ ‎‬והנסים‪ ‎‬והחסדים‪‎‬‬ ‫לישראל‪‎‬בח'‪‎‬ימי‪‎‬חנוכה‪‎.‬וקבעום‪‎‬בהלל‪‎‬ובהודאה‪‎,‬כלומר‪‎‬שעל ידי‬ ‫ההלל והודאה ימשיכו אותן‪‎‬ההארות‪‎‬והחסדים‪‎‬והנסים‪‎‬למטה‪‎‎‎‎.‬‬ ‫( ק ד ו ש ת ‪ ‎‬ל ו י ‪ ‎ ,‬ק ד ו ש ה ‪ ‎‬ר א ש ו נ ה )‪‎‬‬

‫‪845.250.1818‬‬

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‫האדמו"ר מתולדות אהרן בביקור אצל האדמו"ר מסקולען‬

‫שמחת השבע ברכות בבית וויזניץ ‪ -‬וויען – סערדאהעלי ע"י קהילת וויען‬

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‫ו א לחירות‬ ‫ואלונטיר'ס‬ ‫קלאפט שטענהדיארץ‬

‫לחירות‬ ‫קאןלאפט היינט‬ ‫ה ביי אייער‬ ‫אוארץ העלפט‬ ‫א נז און האט‬ ‫ג חלק אין די‬ ‫עוואלדיגע‬ ‫פעולות‬

‫מיט חסד און ג בלויז‬ ‫אידישהילף פאר‬ ‫ע קינדער‬ ‫די געוואלדיגע פעולות פון לחירות‬

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‫•‪•950‬‬

‫•‪•1,600‬‬

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‫•‪•3,650‬‬

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‫שעות פון חסד‬

‫משפחות שוין סערווירט‬

‫באזוכן אין תפיסה‬ ‫רופן צו לחירות‬

‫‪,‬‬ ‫‪$250‬‬ ‫‪000‬‬ ‫אין ‪ 36‬הארציגע שעה‬ ‫פאר א‬

‫ארץ‬ ‫רץ‬ ‫נויט מיט הארץ און געפיל‬ ‫‪ 36‬שעה צו העלפן אידן אין‬

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‫שמחת השבע ברכות בבית וויזניץ ‪ -‬וויען – סערדאהעלי לנגידים תומכי מוסדות וויען‬

Safety Tips Place your menorah on a sturdy surface made of non-flammable material or cover the surface with aluminum foil.

Do not place the menorah near curtains or any other objects that can catch fire.

Do not place your menorah in a location where it can be knocked over by a passing person or where it can be reached by young children.

While the “arts and crafts� menorahs your children bring home might look cute, many of them are flammable and aren’t suitable for lighting.

Make sure you have working smoke detectors on every floor of your home.

Turn all pot and frying pan handles away from the edge of the stove so that young children shouldn’t be able to reach them.

In the event of a burn, promptly place the burn under cold running water and call Hatzolah 718-387-1750 immediately.

As we are all too familiar, there have been many fires including some fatal ones over the past few years caused by menorahs left unattended.

Make sure All the flames are completely out BEFORE leaving your home or going to bed.

SHOMRIM WISHES YOU A HAPPY CHANUKAH!

In case of an emergency, call 911 and the Boro Park Shomrim 24/7 hotline

718.871.6666

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‫שמחת השבע ברכות בבית וויזניץ ‪ -‬וויען – סערדאהעלי בכולל וויען בבארא פארק‬

‫שמחת השבע ברכות בבית וויזניץ ‪ -‬וויען – סערדאהעלי בישיבה קטנה סקווירא בוויליאמסבורג‬

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‫מעמד סיום הש"ס ע"י האדמו"ר מוויזניץ שנלמד במסגרת 'חברי הסיום'‬

‫האדמו"ר מוויזניץ בביקור בניו יארק‬

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‫כ"א כסלו אין די ניו יארק סטעיט ארמארי וויליאמסבורג‬‬

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‫עלנד‬ ‫אליין‬ ‫ניין מאמע ניין‪ ,‬לאז מיר נישט אליין‪,‬‬ ‫איך בין דאך אזוי קליין‪ ,‬וואו וועל איך גיין‪...‬‬ ‫א‬

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‫א יאר ‪$18,000‬‬

‫בארא פארק נעמט אריין עלנדע קינדער | ווינטער תש"פ‬

‫דערפרייט א קינד ‪ 24‬שעה האטליין ‪718.682.2008‬‬ ‫‪December 25, 2019 / THE BORO PARK VIEW / 157‬‬ ‫‪www.thebpview.com / 718.408.8770‬‬

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‫חנוכה אצל אדמו"רי ורבני בארא פארק‬

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‫חנוכה אצל אדמו"רים ורבנים שליט"א‬

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‫מסיבה השנתית לטובת עזר נישואין ד'סקאליע‬

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‫חנוכה אצל אדמו"רי ורבני בארא פארק‬

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‫גאב"ד ירושלים‬

‫הגר"ח קנייבסקי‬

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‫בעלזא‬

‫הגר"י שיינער‬

‫הגרי"ם מארגענשטערן‬

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