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By Malka Eisenberg A Fourth Precinct police officer discovered a three foot by three foot swastika drawn in white chalk in the roadway in Point Lookout this Saturday while on routine patrol. At 5:05 A.M. the officer noticed five large orange traffic cones blocking off traffic at Lido Boulevard and Glenwood Avenue. He left his vehicle and saw the swastika and obscenities and offensive slogans chalked on the road there. “It’s being investigated,” said Lieutenant Gary Shapiro, Hate Crimes Coordinator for the Nassau County Police Department and Commanding Officer of Community Affairs. He noted that if someone draws a swastika “in a public place or private property without permission of the owner” it is considered “aggravated harassment in the first degree and in New York State it is an E felony.” According to the New York State Criminal Courts site, a felony is “an offense for which a sentence to a term of imprisonment in excess of one year may be imposed.” Felonies are divided into five categories, “Class A felonies carry the longest jail sentences and class E felonies carry the shortest jail sentences for felony cases.” “I keep hate crime statistics and over ten years I do not see any similar occurrence in the Point Lookout area,” said Shapiro. “It’s an isolated end of the island, the beginning of the barrier beach of Long Beach. Someone in that area knows who did it. It’s a small community. We have to identify the young people who did it and identify the reasons, what the motivations were. That’s the trick here. It’s an objectionable occurrence and we are taking it seriously.” He recalled incidents of graffiti and swastikas in Lido in 2007 and 2008. “It’s troubling,” he said. “It’s a symbol of hate.” They are investigating it as a possible hate crime, he said, noting that they have to find the perpetrators and find out “why they do it” and that it’s a “variety of reasons. One side, it’s for attention, the other side, it’s real extreme hate.” “We are encouraging the public to call the tip line,” he stressed. “It’s an anonymous way Continued on page 3

By Karen C. Green “In the art world people always say ‘start with and conquer what you know first before heading into different topics’. My family was the best thing I knew,” says filmmaker Paula Finkelstein Eiselt, referring to her maternal uncle Boruch, the inspiration for the upcoming documentary “Followng Boruch.” Eiselt, a native of Merrick and Woodmere, is a HAFTR alum and a 2008 graduate of the prestigious NYU Tisch School of the Arts filmmaking program. “Following Boruch” is a feature length verite documentary that intertwines observational and interview footage to tell the story of Boruch, a forty-seven-yearold Hasidic man from Brooklyn, who after battling alcoholism, and drug addiction, as well as mental illness, for over thirty years, is sober and eager to live the life he never had. Eiselt and crew accumulated over 170 hours of film during the course of the 15 months that they followed him in his day-to-day life. While the film focuses on the Chasidish community, it’s through Boruch’s journey that people learn about topics of addiction and mental illness. “It’s through the specific that we learn about the universal,” noted Eiselt. In a candid discussion about her film, Eiselt explains the timing of film’s inception. “I made this film when Boruch decided to pursue a job and family for the first time in his life. Despite having an 18 month old at home and becoming pregnant with my second, I picked up my camera to capture this crucial turning point.“ In the midst of filming, Boruch suffers the loss of his father, a potential trigger for a relapse. At the formative age of 11, Boruch, living in Elmont with his parents and two siblings, started hanging out with the wrong crowd. His drug use started and he attempted suicide. He became observant at 13 through NCSY and in a series of changes transferred from public school to HANC to Rabbi Riskin’s school and then finally to

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Paula Finklestein Eiselt welcomes support from the community for this very powerful and personal project and looks forward to the film’s upcoming release. Ner Yisroel in Baltimore. His faith was becoming rock solid but from 18 to 25 alcohol, and drugs took the forefront and he couldn’t reconcile the two worlds. Despite his trials and tribulations his faith was unwavering. He was dually diagnosed with addiction and mental illness. His treatment took especially long, noted Eiselt, as “the world wasn’t accepting of bipolar disorder. “ Suffering through a series of very poor

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mental health counseling, (being told once that his addictions were character defects) ,“it wasn’t until he came to Ohel, that everything clicked for him,” said Eiselt. “He was able to maintain his religious observance, and focus on his recovery.” Prior to that, he often used his religious observance as an obstacle for why he was unable to enter into a rehabilitation program. Eiselt points out how compelling Boruch’s story Continued on page 2

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Continued from page 1 is. “My grandparents became observant because of him. He’s affected an entire family and a second generation through his observance. In an ironic way, everyone has benefitted from his onus.� Eiselt, who entered Tisch wanting to make movies, had no leaning towards any particular genre. The industry motto “reality is stranger than fiction,� was cause for her to gravitate toward documentaries as it married her love of art, journalism, and news. As an orthodox Jew with a perpetual eye on tikun olam, documentaries were a natural avenue for her pursuit of social justice issues. Prior to production of “Following Boruch,� Eiselt’s credits include Assistant Producer of award winning “Bronx Princess,� a coming of age story about an inner city teen traveling to West Africa to meet her father and, soon to be released, “The Undocumented,.� The latter is a powerful film which sheds light on the issue of Mexican migrant workers who succumb to fatality crossing the Sonoma desert in Arizona. She collaborated with Marco Williams, an Emmy and Peabody award winning documentarian, who serves as Executive Producer on the “Following Boruch� project. Eiselt is in the process of fund raising for the costly post production stage of the film. She projects the cost of completion to total $215,000 and is pursuing many avenues to reach that goal, including art and music events. She will be presenting the film-inprogress, along with Boruch, at Social Justice Beit Midrash at Drisha, 37 West 65 St., fifth floor in Manhattan on July 31st at 7 pm. There, she will discuss mental health issues in the Orthodox community and explore sources that point to mental health in the Torah. In addition, she will be screening the trailer and sneak peak at a selected scene from the film. In September, Eiselt will launch “Following Boruch� on the Kickstarter website, which is an online tool dedicated to crowd funding. On the site, friends and supporters, in addition to visitors, can contribute to the film. Eiselt looks forward to raising the needed funds for its release, and ultimately to the inclusion of the film in all major national and international film festivals. Additionally she is in talks with several national television broadcast distribution outlets. She welcomes support from the community for this very powerful and personal project. She has additional fundraising materials and selected scenes for viewing that are available by request for interested donors. The trailer for Following Boruch can be accessed on the website http://www.followingboruch.com or on its facebook page, “Following Boruch Movie.� Paula Finkelstein Eiselt can be reached at paula.eiselt@gmail.com.

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By Joseph Sungolowsky Bastille Day (July 14), which marks the anniversary of the French Revolution of 1789, carried much significance for the Jews of France since it meant the end of their status as near pariahs from when they had been expelled from France in the thirteenth century. By virtue of the “Declaration of Human Rights,” the founding document of the Revolution, the Jewish question was raised immediately and, despite some initial obstacles, citizenship was eventually granted to the forty thousand Jews who lived in the various parts of the country. Jews had been living in France since the early Middle Ages. One need only mention the famous Talmudic schools which existed in the North and the South of France and the towering figure of Rashi (1040-1105), the great expounder of the Bible and the Talmud. His concern to elucidate difficult Hebrew terms by translating them into French (they are called laazim) gave rise to an overall trove of 2475 words in medieval French that antedate The Song of Roland (1100), considered the earliest French literary text. Despite the expulsion, one finds a presence of various Jewish communities in France. Jewish refugees of the Spanish Inquisition were able to resettle in the Southwest of France. Jews found some degree of protection by the popes who had moved to the Comtat Venaissin, an area in central France in the fourteenth century, and Jews continued to live there for several hundred years. Colbert, the resourceful finance minister of Louis the fourteenth known as “The Sun King,” knew how to appreciate the financial skill of Jews and granted them permits to conduct business in Paris. It was Napoleon who set for himself the task of structuring the Jewish community of France. To this end, he convened “The Great Sanhedrin” in 1806 that was to respond to specific questions he asked of Jews in order to keep them under his strict control. Nevertheless, the framework he created for the Jews of France remains in existence to this very day. During the following years of the nineteenth century, Jews gained social and economic prominence, which contributed greatly to their assimilation into French society. A darker side of this Jewish acceptance was the outbreak of the Dreyfus Affair (1894-

Champ D’Elysees , one of Paris’ landmarks in a country that has been home to Jews since the early Middle Ages. 97) that unleashed a virulent anti-Semitic campaign. Many Jews became fearful of their recently acquired emancipation. At the beginning of the twentieth century, France welcomed Jews of Eastern Europe who were fleeing persecution. They joined the French Jews. A dual Jewish community thus appeared in France with fewer opportunities for the Jews who came from Eastern Europe because of their status as “new arriv-

als.” During World War II, 75,000 Jews out of a population of 300,000 perished in the Shoah. The remaining Jews succeeded in saving their lives due to the efforts of both Jewish and non-Jewish French Resistance organizations. When the North African countries Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia, which were subject to various forms of French administration, gained their independence in the early 1960s, the majority of their Jewish

populations moved to France. That influx considerably revitalized French Jewry on the religious, cultural, and intellectual levels and the Jewish population grew to 500,000, the largest Jewish community in Western Europe to date. Joseph Sungolowsky is a Professor of French & Jewish Studies at Queens College, City University of New York.

Swastika at Point Lookout under investigation Continued from page 1 to report information, and you don’t have to give names. Or they can call the precinct and identify themselves, all the better.” The detectives of the Fourth Precinct are investigating, he said. “I don’t show pictures (of it). There are a ton of kids on Long Island and I don’t want to give them ideas. They are young and don’t understand the ramifications. We try to go with a common sense, level-headed approach. Send a message to the community that we take this stuff very seriously. The swastika is a symbol of hate and we want to send a message that there is zero tolerance for this type of hateful message in the community.” Harvey Weisenberg, New York State Assemblyman in the 20th A.D. that includes Point Lookout, said that he lived here his whole life and calls Point Lookout a “model community, religious, family oriented, a di-

verse microcosm of our society.” The swastika, he said, “came from someone who is very ignorant. I feel sorry for that person who did this; he is a very troubled person. You are only defaming yourself when you do this. People are ignorant, not aware of the pain and history the swastika represents and the pain and suffering of the six million who died for their beliefs. I am sure this was most upsetting to those living in Point Lookout.” He said that he is sure that it did not “come out of that community. I feel sorry for them, for the hatred they have in their hearts. We have to send a message that we have to teach tolerance and respect for one another. I hate hearing about these things.” Dov Hikind, New York State Assemblyman for the 48th assembly district, and the son of Holocaust survivors, has seen many anti-Semitic incidents in his district. He noted “four or five near my house,” in Kens-

We are encouraging the public to call the tip line. It’s an anonymous way to report information, and you don’t have to give names. ington, on Ocean Parkway and he recently received a call regarding a swastika sighted in the Catskills. “Over the past few months especially it seems like it’s almost constant,” he said. “I don’t know what it means. We should be alert to this. For every one discov-

ered there are many that are not reported. It should be reported. “Someone goes out and writes a slogan, paints a swastika; it’s the ultimate symbol of hate,” he continued. “It’s very disconcerting, especially to Holocaust survivors. It represents to them something so horrible, it brings back memories of what they went through— hell on earth. “Very few are arrested for these things,” he added. “Where do they learn this? You don’t just draw a swastika, they have to know what that is. It’s going on all the time. We need to get the perpetrators and throw the book at them. We need to find them.” “We normally have 70 to 100 cases in the course of a year over Nassau County,” said Shapiro. “It sounds objectionable, so much going on. Any is too much.” If you have any information contact the tip line at: 1-800-244-TIPS.

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Opinion If They Exhume Arafat Will They Also Test For AIDS? On November 11, 2004 the world became a better place. That’s when Yasser Arafat, the man responsible for so many Jewish and Palestinian deaths, died after a long illness. Since that day, the despotic killer’s Arab compatriots have been claiming that his death was a result of Israeli poisoning. The big news this week is the Palestinians may dig up the murderer to see if he was radioactive when he died. This was a result of radioisotope tests performed on his belongings by a Swiss lab, which found “very small” quantities POLITICO of polonium, an isotope TO GO that is naturally present in the environment. But there were higher quantities of polonium in Arafat’s underwear and hospital clothing. Suha Arafat (the despot’s widow), called for an autopsy in the wake of the lab’s findings (she did not explain why she waited nearly eight years to have the Jeff Dunetz belongings, including a toothbrush and a fur hat, tested). The fact is the polonium on Arafat’s “tighty whiteys” is an elaborate hoax. Polonium has a half-life of 138 days, which means roughly every four-and-a-half months only half of the radioactive substance remains. The amount found on Arafat’s gown and boxers, eight years after his death translates to levels that would have infected his doctors and wife during his last days. In other words the polonium was added more recently than eight years ago. If they dig up this vampire, let’s hope they also test his remains for AIDS because there is much evidence that the former dictator died of the horrible disease. For years, Dr. Ashraf al-Kurdi has tried selling his theory about the murderer Arafat’s death and is still working at it. Al-Kurdi was Arafat’s personal physician (who had nothing to do with treating the killer at the end of his life). He claims that the terrorist murderer was purposely infected with the AIDS virus shortly before his death to hide

the fact that he was poisoned. One of the theories was that he was poisoned via his ear canal just like Hamlet’s father. “It was easy to poison him in the ear, because he was under siege and he used to receive a lot of people and he used to hug them to kiss them and my assumption is that the perpetrator carried a small balloon of gas and he could blow it in Arafat’s ear,” said Ahmed Abdel Rahman, who worked closely with Arafat. The truth is that Arafat was gay. Obviously just because he had AIDS did not mean Arafat was gay, but the truth that Arafat was gay was a well known/well kept secret in the Arab world. Ion Mihai Pacepa who, as the former head of Romanian intelligence was the highest-ranking intelligence officer ever to have defected from the Soviet Union, wrote in his memoirs that Arafat potentially died of AIDS, is but more evidence for what many have long suspected about the late Palestinian nationalist leader’s sexuality. Pacepa recounted a conversation with a Romanian general, Constantin Munteaunu, tasked with training Arafat. “I just called the microphone monitoring center to ask about the ‘Fedayee’,’’ explained Munteaunu. (Fedayee was Arafat’s code name.) “After the meeting with the Comrade, he went directly to the guesthouse and had dinner. Munteaunu also compiled an intelligence report stating that Arafat’s first homosexual relationship occurred with a teacher, when he was a teenager. In 2000, Yasser Arafat repeatedly rubbed Terry McAuliffe’s leg under the table at a Washington dinner party, before kissing him on the lips. McAuliffe, the former Democratic National Committee chairman, reports this in his book, “What A Party! My Life Among Democrats: Presidents, Candidates, Donors, Activists, Alligators and Other Wild Animals.” James Kirchick, who writes for the New Republic and Foreign Policy magazines, wrote an article for Out Magazine in 2007 in which he reported: Arafat died in France on November 11, 2004, at the age of 75. There was considerable secrecy about the cause of his demise, but his symptoms included the blotchy skin of Kaposi’s sarcoma, severe weight loss, dementia, and a collapse of the immune sys-

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tem - all telltale signs of the AIDS virus. PLO senior advisor Bassam Abu Sharif claimed his ex-boss was poisoned by Mossad with a lethal dose of thallium, but Nabil Shaath, Palestinian Foreign Minister, admitted to Arab News that Arafat’s blood was meticulously analyzed by German and French laboratories and no trace of poison was found. U.S.A. intelligence analyst John Loftus told ABC news that the CIA was aware, for years, that Arafat had AIDS. Palestinian leader Ahmad Jibril confirmed that former Palestinian President Yasser Arafat died of AIDS. Jibril, like many Palestinians, readily accepted the notion that Israel had assassinated Arafat, and wanted the Palestinian Authority to conduct an official investigation concluding as much. The response from Abbas’ aides changed in an instant Jibril’s view of his deceased mentor. They were silent, and then one of them said to me: ‘To be honest, the French gave us the medical report, that stated that the cause of [Arafat’s] death was AIDS.” During the year before he died, news reports show Arafat looking frail and sickly. The rumors at the time ranged from colitis to cancer. His immediate cause of death was a massive brain hemorrhage according to the French doctors. Suha Arafat and the Palestinian Government have suppressed the actual medical reports. If they are going to dig up this horrid creature to test for radioactivity, shouldn’t they also put to rest all of the claims he died of AIDS? Maybe it doesn’t matter. After all, no matter what the results of any exhumation/testing of Arafat’s rotting carcass, no amount of evidence will convince the Palestinians or the liberal media that Arafat’s death was caused by anything other than a secret Israeli operation. Jeff Dunetz is the Editor/Publisher of the political blog “The Lid” (www.jeffdunetz.com). Jeff contributes to some of the largest political sites on the internet including American Thinker, Big Government, Big Journalism, NewsReal and Pajama’s Media, and has been a guest on national radio shows including G. Gordon Liddy, Tammy Bruce and Glenn Beck. Jeff lives in Long Island.

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5Ts ties to Israeli leaders re: July 6th, Shamir To the Editor: Former PM Yitzhak Shamir had ties to the Five Towns. His cousins, the Schleifers, were former residents of White Drive North in Cedarhurst. Our neighbors, Eli & Renee Singer recall a secret service detail arriving on Tzom Gedaliah in the Cul-de-sac as Eli was busy erecting his succah. The agents came to question him and after invited his family in to meet the PM. No they did not offer to help build the succah. Interestingly Mrs. Schleifer, who was 92, passed away the week before her cousin. Our daughter also purchased a Cedarhurst home tied to the family of another leader of Israel, President Yitzchok Navon. Eliezer Cohen Cedarhurst

Accident reports now online Nassau County Executive Edward P. Mangano and Nassau County Police Commissioner Tom Dale today announced an initiative that makes life a little easier for people who are involved in traffic accidents. Rather than having to travel to police headquarters or to a local police precinct to pick up a traffic accident report, people can now access a copy of their report on the Internet at www.pdcn. org. “This simple but smart initiative makes life a little bit easier for residents involved in an automobile accident,” said Mangano. “With a 10-day window in which to notify your insurance company after an accident, it can sometimes be difficult to travel to a police precinct for a copy of the report. With this online system, your accident report is at your fingertips.” Research indicates that the most common instance for residents visiting a police precinct is to obtain an accident report, said Mangano, and accordingly has directed the Nassau County Police Department to make accident reports available on the Internet to assist residents. These reports can still be obtained in person at police headquarters in Mineola, as well as police precincts and policing centers.

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y friend Jerry wants to slow down July… and August, too. Summer is going by way too fast for him. I agree 100%, not just about summer, but about time in general. When I was a kid I used to thoughtlessly wish time away. I couldn’t wait for an upcoming party, to be done with the MIRIAM’S MUSINGS school year, to go away on a vacation. During a difficult period I just want to fast forward to a better place. In fact the idea of time travel has appealed to me since childhood, when I read one of my favorite books ,“A Wrinkle in Time.” As I get older, I’m learning that wishing away bad times isn’t a clever strategy. Miriam Bradman Instead, I want to make Abrahams each day count. We describe time in so many ways: time is of the essence, killing time, wasting time, making time, once upon a time, time to go, lunchtime, dinnertime, nap time, quiet time, quality time, down time, timely, a stitch in time saves nine, just in time, it’s about time, in the nick of time, time flies by, time and again, time waits for

no man, a matter of time, wintertime, summertime. The list is as endless as time. I remember looking at the clock during a certain boring ninth grade Chumash class. Time was crawling or even moving backwards; no matter how often I checked, the minute hand was stuck in place. Going to a doctor’s appointment is like that, too. Waiting for my turn, fearfully anticipating being checked, wishing it was over. Not much to do about that, or is there? As a mom I was able to fix that for my kids, reading or playing with them at the doctor’s office, chatting about nonsense to keep their minds off the blood test or shot (even though I was turning white and trying not to pass out). When I go for my own appointments, I try to focus on my reading; a magazine, book or some Tehilim chapters help remove my negative thoughts and fill my mind with better material. When something is a struggle, time crawls by. When you’re enjoying a moment, it slips away so quickly into the past. I can hear the Steve Miller Band singing, “time keeps on slipping, slipping, slipping into the future.” We have all experienced how quickly a great celebration happily speeds up time while (le’havdil) a hospital visit or worse slows it down painfully. One doesn’t have to be Einstein to philosophize about the relativity of time.

In yoga training and practice we learn breathing techniques. Focusing on increasing the length of an inhale and exhale gives you the feeling that you are slowing down time. At the end of a yoga class, a five minute shavasana may feel like an eternity if you’re not in the moment, feeling antsy and looking ahead to the next thing. Or it can feel like a long deep relaxation if you are able to entirely rest your body and enjoy each breath. We are supposed to be fully in the present, savoring the moment. Understanding the elasticity of time goes a long way in helping to deal with this property that we really cannot control. We can only manipulate how we react to it, what we do with our time. As Jews we live by the calendar and the clock. We joke that Rosh Hashanah or Pesach is early or late; somehow it’s never on time! Our weeks revolve around Shabbat and our year around the Yom Tovs. Prayers are recited at very specific times. We are now in the midst of the Three Weeks, and soon will be into the Nine Days, an extremely tragic time in Jewish history. It falls right in the midst of summer, reminding kids enjoying camp and adults on leisurely vacations about some of the darkest times in our history. We conclude this period with Shabbat Nachamu, which brings us consolation and begins the countdown to the High Holidays. Beginning a new stage of life has made

me more acutely aware of the preciousness of time. I’ve always despised the term “killing time” and cringed when people claim they’re bored. Being productive or enjoying leisure activities (relaxing is also a valid and necessary use of time!) is what we do as creatures in this world. I’m always planning ahead, inviting guests, marking the calendar. I like to know what’s coming up. At the same time, I’m trying to concentrate better, combat my “adult ADD” and be in the moment while I cook, write, read, and socialize. I remind myself to savor the good while it is happening. Bad stuff naturally causes a big impact; I want the positive, happy events in life to fill, protect and sustain me from the inevitable sad and negative. On that note, here’s a mazal tov shout out to my yoga-girl friend Alyssa for her son’s bar mitzvah. May we enjoy many smachot and support each other during the fat times and the thin times. Let’s all make the most of the light filled days of summer and “let the good times roll!” Miriam Bradman Abrahams is Cuban born, Brooklyn bred and lives in Woodmere. She organizes author events for Hadassah, reviews books for Jewish Book World and is very slowly writing her father’s immigration story. She is teaching yoga at a local studio. She can be contacted at mabraha1@optonline.net

YU connects with Negev youth By Malka Eisenberg The raw wild beauty of the Negev desert where our Forefathers walked is currently home to about fifteen Israeli towns, often with marginally affiliated populations living on a low socio-economic level. The youth in these areas struggle with identity, education and social issues. In a continuing successful effort to educate and empower students in these areas, 70 enthusiastic and motivated college students began Yeshiva University’s seventh Counterpoint Israel Program on July 3rd, the summer camp beginning for the students on July 10th. As part of YU’s Center for the Jewish Future, the month long program staffed by YU students from the U.S., Canada and South Africa will be running English enrichment and skills building programs as in years before in Dimona and Arad. New programs in Beer Sheva, Kiryat Gat and Kiryat Malachi will stress structure and education opportunities for local at risk youth to improve their academic levels and stay out of trouble during the summer. “We are proud of the Counterpoint initiative, which has proven to be one of the most effective and powerful tools in educating and empowering Jewish youth, impacting entire communities and preparing YU students for their roles as future Jewish leaders,” said Rabbi Kenneth Brander, the David Mitzner Dean of the CJF. “Counterpoint continues to grow and succeed due to the truly unique atmosphere it creates. It fosters an environment in which young, underprivileged Israeli students feel loved, accomplished, and comfortable enough to open up to new people and experiences, and gives our counselors a chance for selfdiscovery and the opportunity to hone their skills while taking on the roles of Jewish change agents.” The YU CJF program began seven years ago with 12 YU students as camp counselors and one camp site, and has now grown to 70 counselors and six summer camps. Close to 1,000 local students have benefitted from the

efforts of the counselors over the years. “Our goal is to help build the self-esteem of the campers,” explained Rabbi Brander. “Often the formal classroom setting does not bring out their talents. Experiential and informal experiences that the Israeli campers have awaken sides of their personalities and helped them explore talents and interests they never knew existed. For many, this is the only reason they stay off the streets in the summer and are safe. In many of the cities the students we accept are at the precipice of failing out of high school. “They receive a healthy breakfast and hot lunch (and can take food home for dinner). There are different types of programs including: art, martial arts, sports, drumming, music, and English immersion classes.” The classes hold a maximum of 12 students, boys and girls, ages 12 to 17. The teachers are Yeshiva University/Stern College men and women ages 19 to 23. Some professional art teachers from New York also volunteer. The camp runs from July 10th through August 1st from 9 A.M. to 3 P.M. The day covers English sessions on varied topics including Shabbat, community, individuality and Internet safety, with two activities, and a group activity. Some of the trips include a trip to Jerusalem and the Old City, some seeing it for the first time, a movie festival, a trip to the airport to welcome Nefesh bNefesh olim, and chesed/charity work. “The local social workers have told us that these weeks in the summer have transformed many of their students to realize that they can get more out of life,” Brander pointed out. “They look at our students who are in college, are religious but are part of the world – our YU students know their music and know Torah. They become role models and continue to communicate via FaceBook throughout the year. Our student counselors are all Orthodox, everything we do is consistent with those ideals – but our goal is not to indoctrinate the Israeli students with becoming Orthodox – rather they should see our wonderful YU young men and women and realize that a Torah observant Jew can be part of two worlds:

Yehuda Holzer, of Woodmere and YUCJF, in center in black shirt with writing. the world of Jewish experience and the larger society. “Our students learn that they can lead, our summer campers learn that they have beautiful talents that they should explore,” he continued. “Our students realize that through giving, you receive so much in return and our summer campers realize that they do not need to continue the cycle of poverty for the next generation. They have the charisma and capacity to live dreams that they only thought were possible for others. “At the end of the summer the campers put on a talent show. All the families come. The parents learn so much about their children that they simply did not know, that they had these talents and abilities.” “Every city helps pay for the camp experience through services or funds and every city makes a request for the YU Counterpoint experience,” Brander pointed out. “There are several cities that have made the request (Beit Shan, Kiryat Shmona) that we simply don’t have the financial ability to service - currently.” Rabbi Brander noted that the communities love the program, requesting that they return. To ensure that their program is correctly and effectively targeted, they are commissioning a study in Israel evaluating their work with the local social and community center workers, past campers and their families, and the schools. “We want to learn where we are successful and where we can

improve,” he emphasized. One of the volunteer teachers, Aliza Goldsmith, from Cedarhurst, is a junior at Stern and a premed-biology major. She responded via email before the start of the camp. Goldsmith is an experienced camp counselor. “My goal for the next few weeks is to empower my campers with a true feeling of self accomplishment, and hopefully give my campers the best summer camp experience they will ever receive,” she wrote. “In Dimona, I am going to be a counselor for girls ages 8th through 11th grade and I cannot wait to start camp. I hope that my experience here in Dimona will be a tremendous learning experience and I hope to gain from my campers. I also hope that the experience here in Dimona will be life-changing for my campers as well as myself.” Another participant, Yehuda Holzer, of Woodmere, responded to questions via email after the first day of camp there. Holzer is currently a junior studying pre-engineering at YU. “The camp is aimed at teaching the kids English, while also fostering connections between counselors and campers,” he explained. “It is a self-described service learning mission, on which participants [we] spend time volunteering our time to help out, while also learning a source intensive Torah curriculum centered on the idea of tikkun olam and what it really means to do chessed from a Jewish perspective. We have spent countless hours both Continued on page 13

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BQ’s, picnics, going to the beach, swimming in your backyard or attending baseball games, there are so many things to love about summer. Everything, that is, except for shopping for a new bathing suit. I can hear the collective groan as all you women read this article. There’s an actual study from Flinder’s University in Australia, that found “that trying on swimsuits makes women feel anxious and depressed.� You think?????? I love those articles in the magazines that tell us how to find the perfect suit. My fave is when they suggest you accessorize, with a chunky necklace or dangling earJudy Joszef rings. I think a deepsea mask and flippers would do the trick a lot better. Who’d be concentrating on your flaws then? I do believe there is no such thing as a perfect swimsuit unless you happen to be a bathing suit model. Wonder what they wear on casual Fridays..... Come on, you all know what I’m talking about....the fear in your heart, lump in your throat, dreaded swimsuit shopping expedition. First we weed through the tiny two piece bikini’s (which I wouldn’t even have fit into in first grade) then pass the section that has the skirt added to the bottom of the suit

along with some ruffles that our grandmothers would vote down as too frumpy. Finally we find the trusty one-piece version. Staying away from the shiny metallic, neon or cut out versions, I always try on the size or two larger than I think I need. This way if it fits, I’m done and I can save on future therapy sessions. I’d like to know who designs those fitting rooms? Or shall I call it “the torture chamber�? You’d think at this point someone would have thought to have dim lighting and those circus mirrors that make everyone appear tall and thin. They do want to sell the bathing suits, don’t they? Hey, a fitting room is bad on a good day, so imagine when you’re trying on a bathing suit; you’re still pale and missed the last month on the stair master. They should offer mixed drinks, you know, just to take the edge off. And for heaven’s sake, get rid of the 20-year-old size 0 sales girl that thinks everything you try is “stunning.� The good news is that swimming helps reduce stress and burns about 650 calories an hour. So get into the pool, with your “perfect� suit and enjoy yourself! And for those of you who would rather not venture out in a bathing suit, dive into this cake.

Swimming pool cake ■2 ten inch round cake layers of your choice filled with any filling you desire ■2 eight ounce containers of non-dairy whipped cream, whipped ■1 ten ounce container Wilton’s piping gel Blue food coloring

■6 small “life saver� looking kosher jelly snack candies (I usually buy them Pesach time and save them) If you can’t find them, buy sugar covered gummy like candies that are higher and just cut the bottom off, and then cut a hole in the center so that the “baby� can fit into the “lifesaver tube� ■6 small plastic babies (usually found in the cake decorating section in stores like Michael’s, or on line ■4 .81 ounce Laffy Taffy sticks in different flavors (for the lounge chairs) ■2 tropical drink umbrella picks ■1/4 Lieber’s cinnamon graham cracker for the diving board (they are perforated) ■12 thin stick pretzels for the ladder (I added extra for breakage) ■6 ounces chocolate coating (or choc chips) to coat ladder ■Silver dust (can be purchased at Michael’s) to coat the chocolate on the ladder (optional) ■1 gum ball (beach ball) edible pen to draw lines on the ball (optional) ■16 ounce box of dark brown sugar ■2 flat sour belts in multi color for the towels ■1 box long, very thin, plain bread sticks for the gate around the pool

Directions: Leaving 1 inch for the border of the cake cut out the center about 1/2 inch for the water in the pool. Cover the entire cake with a thin coating of the whipped cream. Apply brown sugar to the 1 inch top portion of the cake for

the dirt/ground around the pool, and around the sides of the cake all the way down to the bottom. Next color half the container of piping gel till you get the desired blue of pool water. Fill in the “water� into the cut out area of the pool. Place a dab of melted chocolate on the back of the cracker and attach to the “dirt� as the diving board. Place three babies into the tubes, place one more near the diving board. Cut three half inch pieces from each laffy taffy, press together, alternating colors for back and bottom of each float; they should stick by just pressing together. Place a baby on each float and stick an umbrella in each one. Place three tubes on the dirt on one side of the pool and then place two sour belts as towels on another side. Color in the lines on the gumball and place it in the “pool.� Hopefully no one will notice the “beach ball� is three times the size of the babies. Lastly, put a small amount of whip cream on each bread stick and place them around the perimeter of the cake and tie a ribbon around it until you are ready to serve the cake. Make sure to give those guests, who look too good in their bathing suits extra pieces! Judy can be reached at judy.soiree@gmail.com

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The Long Island International Film Expo comes to Bellmore By Karen Bloom It’s red carpet time once again in Bellmore. Movie lovers will want to flock to the historic Bellmore Movies where the 15th installment of the Long Island International Film Expo is attracting enthusiastic audiences from around the region. Leave those 3D summer blockbusters to the kids and check out the latest output from an international group of filmmakers which runs through July 19. The festival, now a summer fixture on Long Island, has evolved into a leading showcase for independent filmmakers, representing all genres of movie making from around the world. Its international appeal has a distinctly Long Island flavor: 37 of the 142 films being screened this year were produced by filmmakers from Nassau and Suffolk Counties. And that is indicative of the health of the local film industry, according to Debra Markowitz, Director of Nassau County’s Film Office. Markowitz is also executive director of the Long Island Film/TV Foundation, which presents the Long Island International Film Expo. “There’s a lot going on here,” Markowitz said. “The industry continues to grow. We are incredibly busy, with feature films and TV being filmed here. Even commercials are making a comeback. It’s a good thing for everyone.” The output of much of this filmmaking activity finds its way to the Long Island International Film Expo. “We are very excited to be at 15,” Markowitz said. “We have a core of dedicated people who do this year after year for the love of film and who want to bring films to the public.” As always, the slate of films includes short and feature length, documentary and foreign selections. Also this year – for only the second time in the festival’s history – a block of children’s movies will be shown, on Wednesday, July 18. “We wanted to include the kids this year,” said Markowitz, “and we had a great feature submitted to us, ‘Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life,’ starring Mira Sorvino and Joe Pantoliano.” It is being shown with an animated film and some short films, and a movie trailer, for the budding film buff. “Not all independent films are kid-friendly, but “Jeremy Fink” is a really good kids film and something for everyone in the family to enjoy,” said Markowitz. The festival kicks into high gear July 13, when all the feature films shown that day will be from Long Island. Documentaries of note include “Kinderblock 66: Return to Buchenwald,” “Hard Times: Lost on Long Island,” “My Really Cool Legs,” “Knocking on the Devil’s Door,” “#whilewewatch,” and “Blood, Sweat and Gears.” “Hard Times,” which was produced in conjunction with HBO Documentaries and was a 2011 Official Selection of the Hamptons International Film Festival,

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chronicles stories of Long Islanders who have been affected by the Great Recession and its devastating impact on the American Dream. “It’s sad but optimistic and an important film to show,” said Markowitz. “Kinderblock 66” – shown in Sunday’s film block – is the powerful story of four men who, as young boys, were imprisoned by the Nazis in the notorious Buchenwald concentration camp and who, 65 years later, return to commemorate the 65th anniversary of their liberation. The film tells of the effort undertaken by the camp’s Communist-

led underground to protect and save Jewish children who were arriving there towards the end of the Holocaust. “It’s phenomenal,” said Markowitz. “This amazingly impressive film gives a really different take on a Holocaust movie.” The festival continues to be about more than just screening movies. Aspiring filmmakers – and those film buffs who are interested in the process of filmmaking – have an opportunity to interact with industry insiders. The schedule includes panels on scriptwriting, film distribution and financing, and

a filmmakers’ breakfast. And, as always, at this audience-friendly event, everyone is invited to the Closing Night Party and Awards Ceremony, on Thursday, July 19, when the winners are honored. This year’s presenters include Robbie Rosen (of American Idol fame), Melissa Archer (“One Life To Live”), Robert Clohessy, and comedian Sal Richards. The ceremony takes place inside the Bellmore Movies. It’s an opportunity to see and meet these creative filmmakers who may be stopping here on their way to an Academy Award nomination one day.

Long Island International Film Expo July 12-19 at Bellmore Movies, 222 Pettit Ave., Bellmore. Gold Pass $65, Day Pass $25, Screening Pass $10. Closing Night tickets are $55 ($45 Gold Pass Holders). For information on the Long Island International Film Expo and related events, www.longislandfilm.com or call (516) 783-3199. Kinderblock 66 at Buchenwald is the setting for the powerful story. The film by the same name is being shown on Sunday

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his week’s essay will focus primarily upon an article rather than upon a book. The convergence this year of American Independence Day and the 17th Day of Tamuz was brought together by an interesting and timely essay by attorney Michael W. Schwartz entitled, “A Great Compliment Paid the Jews” [Commentary Magazine.com/article] This essay’s theme demonstrates the uniqueness of the ideological foundations of the American republic and its regard for the integrity of the Jewish faith. The late Dr. Milton Konvitz, the distinguished scholar of constitutional law, wrote: “America, from the time of its very founding, has tended to see itself as a kind of New Israel, planted, under G-d’s providential guidance, in a New World. “In the 18th century, however, when the Declaration of InAlan Jay Gerber dependence and the Constitution came to be written, the strong influence of the enlightenment led Franklin, Washington, Jefferson, Madison, and other leaders of American thought to speak rather of ‘the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s G-d,’ and of certain ‘self-evident truths and certain unalienable rights’ including ‘Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness’.” [“Judaism and the American Idea,” Cor-

nell University Press, 1978]. When taken together, these two contrasting influences were destined to have a crucial bearing upon the behavior and ethos of both the American people and the institutions of its governance. Thus the resultant incident as detailed in Schwartz’ essay: “A recent work about the ratification of the U.S. Constitution rescues from oblivion an amazing and moving story about the Jews of post-Revolutionary New York and the solicitude their Gentile neighbors showed them. In the course of describing the ratification process in New York, Pauline Maier’s “Ratification” [Simon and Schuster] makes fleeting reference to the fact that a huge parade through New York City in 1788 by supporters of the Constitution was put off for a day ‘to avoid July 22, a Jewish holiday.’ This postponement, and its significance, have been lost to history until now.” Schwartz goes on to detail the various tensions and dynamics that came into play that brought about this great postponement. First, we must consider the political backdrop, the ratification of the Constitution and the role that the deadlocked New York delegation played in the process. Many important personalities were involved and the very future of the republic was at stake. The deadlock in the voting process, as well as the continued intense discussions involving the founding fathers of our country, all hinged upon a few crucial votes. Into this dynamic comes the plan for a massive parade to demonstrate to the holdout delegates the popular support that the new Constitution has among

the people of New York. The clock is ticking; time is a factor. However, the religious sensitivities of the small Jewish religious minority had to be considered. Schwartz goes into great detail describing the implications of a parade delay on the vote, and the burden on the populace of the city. He cites the authoritative history work, “Gotham” by Edwin Burrows and Mike Wallace who state that the parade was “an event of almost transcendent significance in New York’s post- Revolutionary history.” Further, he brings forth evidence of this delay from letters and correspondence cited by Maier in her own work. And what was this Jewish holy day that required all this effort? The 17th of Tamuz. Such was the regard that our founding fathers and their followers had for our faith which enabled them to exercise such civic judgment at so crucial a point in our history. As we consider the behavior of some today when it comes to the controversies concerning the construction of synagogues, the erection of eruvs, and the proper policing of kashrus by the civil authorities, that we should all look back in time and behold that fateful postponement and come to better appreciate those who so long ago showed such

high regard to our brethren of their time. Should we expect no better today ? I conclude with the following citation from “Americanism: The Fourth Great Western Religion” [Doubleday, 2007] by Yale Professor David Gelernter, who so eloquently brings this all together: “In 1948, Truman overruled many of his own advisors and made the United States the first nation in the world to recognize the just created, newly proclaimed State of Israel. That act brought the story of Americanism full circle. The first Puritan settlers in the New World were inspired by an ancient Jewish state that had disappeared two thousand years ago. “America and Israel are tied together by more than politics and sentiment. Each resembles the other more than any other nation on earth.” It is this sentiment that must carry over from that fateful day in 1788 unto our own times. The respect and regard as demonstrated by Americans then for the mournful observance of the destruction of The Jewish State carries over unto this day by those Americans of both good will and deep faith who view the survival of The Jewish State in our time as part of the rich spiritual legacy of the American tradition.

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July 13 and on Mangano Announces Weekday Golf Specials at Nassau County’s 9-Hole Golf Courses Nassau County Executive Edward P. Mangano announced today that all four of Nassau County’s 9-hole golf courses will be offering a special weekday discount. Conveniently spread around the county park system, Nassau offers residents four executive-level 9 hole golf courses at Cantiague Park, Christopher Morley, North Woodmere, and Bay Park. “With these lower green fee prices, golfers of all skill levels are invited to continue to enjoy our 9-hole County golf courses at an even more economical and low-cost rate” said Mangano. “Every course provides the perfect setting to enjoy a day of golf.” The new special rates, which must be purchased in packages of 5 rounds and are valid for weekday play only, are as follows: Original Price Special Price Savings Senior/Discount with Leisure Pass $8.50 $7.50 $5.00 *5 Rounds for $37.50* Resident Leisure Pass $15.00 $12.00 $15.00 *5 Rounds for $60.00* Non-Resident No Leisure Pass $26.00 $21.00 $25.00 *5 Rounds for $105.00* For more information regarding Nassau County’s four executive 9-hole golf courses, or the three 18-hole golf courses located in Eisenhower Park, please visit the Nassau County website at: www.nassaucountyny.gov/parks

July 13-15 7th Summer Marriage Enrichment Retreat The Orthodox Union invites you to this retreat where parents can learn how to resolve disagreements and fight fairly, how to work as a team, and many other important communication techniques. Skill based workshop presenters include Alex Bailey, Rachel Pill, and Rabbi Eliezer Zwickler. This retreat is $750 per couple which includes room, meals, and tips for wait staff. The event is at the Hudson Valley Resort and Spa in Kerhonkson, NY. For more information, visit www.oucommunity.org or call Hannah Farkas at 212-613-8351.

July 17 and 31 If you’re in Israel One Israel Fund Summer Day Trips July 17-”Its Hot in Binyamin” -Join us as we visit the hot spots of Binyamin, Migron, Beit El, Amona, and more. We will meet with Ari Briggs of Regavim, a Jewish organization devoted to defending Jewish land rights in Yehuda and Shomron.

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Orthodox Union, a three-term OU Past President, and himself a Long Island resident, will be Scholar-in-Residence at Congregation Ohav Sholom in Merrick for Shabbat Parshat Matot-Masei. The synagogue is located at 145 South Merrick Avenue. Mr. Savitsky’s visit is the highlight of an OU Community Weekend presented by the Orthodox Union Karasick Department of Synagogue Services. Shabbat morning, Mr. Savitsky will discuss “The OU and Ohav Sholom: A Partnership that Guarantees Jewish Continuity.” He will also speak following Kiddish, presenting“Israel Through the Eyes of One Prime Minister, One King, 15 Generals, 40 Members of the Knesset and a Few Taxi Drivers.” Finally, Mr. Savitsky will lead a Shabbat afternoon discussion on “Major Issues in Jewish Life with Possible Solutions. For further information, contact Alison Barnett of OU Synagogue Services at syngagogue@ou.org or call 212.613.8155.

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The Jewish Star’s Whos in the Kitchen columnist Judy Joszef spends every Friday morning creating tasty treats with the Kulanu Camp Discovery campers. July 31-”The Northwestern Shomron”- Emek Dotan, where our Egyptian Saga begins with Joseph and his brothers- and the modern sheep farm of Maoz Tzvi. The Tanach comes to life in this rarely visited, breathtaking region, whose Reichan forest harkens back to the complaints of the tribe of Menashe. In this tour we will meet residents, tour communities, and deepen our knowledge to this meaningful part of the Shomron. The buses for these trips will leave at 8:30 am from the parking lot at the bottom of Liberty Bell Park (next to the Sonol gas station) and return at 6:30 pm. Cost for the day including lunch is 60 dollars an adult and 45 dollars a child under 12. For reservations or more information contact www.oneisraelfund.org/daytrips or call Ruthie Kahn (516-239-9202 ext. 10)

July 18, 25 Children’s Summer Workshop Series at RockHall Museum Children ages 5 and up are invited to participate in these activities. Fee: $15 per child per session. $40 per child for all three sessions. Materials included. Space limited. Reservations required for all workshops. Reservations are only confirmed with receipt of full payment. Sponsored by the Friends of Rock Hall. (Town of Hempstead Rock Hall Museum): Wampum Workshop Wednesday, July 18

10:30-11:30 a.m. Learn about wampum, the currency used between Dutch colonists and Native Americans in the 1600s. Make your own wampum jewelry out of clay. Space limited. Reservations required. Rain or shine. Corn Husk Workshop & Children’s Garden Tour Wednesday, July 25 10:30-11:30 a.m. Corn husks were used to fashion dolls for both Native American and Colonial children. This toy was popular in both Europe and America. Learn how to make this 18th-century toy. Learn to identify summer vegetables and herbs in Rock Hall’s Children’s Garden. Space limited. Reservations required. Rain date Thursday, July 26th.

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Hosted by Congresswoman Carolyn McCarthy of Nassau Community College Multipurpose room 11 a.m-4 p.m. Vendors such as Hofstra University, North Shore-LIJ, Nassau Community College, Molloy College, Stonybrook School of Health and Technology and Management, Winthrop University Hospital, South Nassau Communities Hospital, the Soldier’s Project of Long Island, AFLAC, the Visiting Nurse Association of Long Island, Sanford Brown and more. For more information, please contact Rep. McCarthy’s office at 516-739-3008.

July 29 Tisha B’av video screening Thousands of Jews in more than 100 communities around the world will join together this Tisha B’Av to view an inspirational video presented byYeshiva University and the Orthodox Union (OU). The video, titled “Making Tisha B’Av Meaningful to Us Today,” is a project of YU’s Center for the Jewish Future (CJF) and the OU, and will be screened in some 250 synagogues across the United States, and internationally in Australia, Canada, Israel, Poland, South Africa and the United Kingdom. For more information on participating synagogues or to request a DVD, visit www.yutorah.org/tishabav/video. Tisha B’Av programming will also include live kinot webcasts featuring Rabbi Weinreb and Rabbi Weil at www.ou.org/tishabav and Rabbi Dr. Jacob J. Schacter atwww.yutorah.org/tishabav.

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Continued from page 6 in Israel and in America preparing for camp. We have had extensive training sessions in topics ranging from psychology of young adults to group bonding through sports. “For me, I believe this experience will help deepen my connection not just to the land of Israel, but (also) to the people of Israel. As American Jews, we generally see certain particular parts of our native land, on vacation, or during years of study here. However, this program affords us the unique opportunity to connect with another part of Israel and its people that we generally do not interact with. “Camp has just begun and I am already amazed by how excited the campers are to see us. It is easy to see their sense of pride when we explain that we have come from America (and NY especially) to help them learn English. The program instills them with a sense of their own significance and self-worth, truly a powerful thing for many of these young kids. I am looking forward to a fun and meaningful summer with the youth of Arad.” Every division of the camps has a “rabbinic presence,” stressed Rabbi Brander, to enable the counselors to study Torah when the camp day is over. Their day runs from 6 A.M. to about 10 P.M. and the counselors live in the communities, and interact with the campers and their families, almost seven days a week, 24 hours a day. He recounted one incident that is an example of the effect of the program. “A teenage camper attending Counterpoint had a severe stutter,” recalled Rabbi Brander. “His parents met with us, deeply concerned that he would hang out on the streets alone and perceives himself as a social misfit. As

Yosef Wallis was a successful, non-observant Israeli businessman, but he was always troubled by one question: How can he and his family eat non-kosher, if his grandfather, literally hours before liberation from a German camp, gave his life rather than eat treif? After attending a seminar run by “Arachim,” he realized that the Torah, and Judaism, is true - and changed his life. Today he is the Director of Arachim in Israel. His father, Yehuda, was willing to die in the camps, just to put on Tefillin, and survived a severe beating for that ... May we merit their self-sacrifice, and always feel that intrinsic connection to our Judaism!

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it happened, there was a YU counselor who also spoke with a stutter. We asked the counselor if he would work with the young man and show him that it is possible to overcome this challenge. At their first meeting, the young man ran away--angry about being introduced to another person who stutters. But given time, the young man slowly formed a relationship with this counselor. As the connection blossomed, they became inseparable, spending a great deal of the time together. At the end of the summer, this young man gave the YU counselor a beautiful thank you note written in Hebrew with the exception of two lines, each line comprised of three vocabulary words that he had learned this summer. The first line read: silence, past, fear. The second: future, courage, hope. “This letter sat on the counselor’s desk at YU so he would be reminded each day of his capacity to change the world around him. This year the Dimona camper joined a society in Israel that helps children overcome their social awkwardness due to stuttering and the Yeshiva University student recently got married and has decided to become a speech therapist. “I am not sure who benefits more from the experience, the camper or the YU counselor. The bottom line for me is that these YU students travel from America as volunteers but their most important journey is one of selfdiscovery. While many of our counselors will go into community work, most will be lawyers, doctors, entrepreneurs and involved in various professions. But for the rest of their lives they will remember this experience and whatever they do as professionals or as lay leaders the experiences of the Negev will impact them for life.”

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ineteen hundred and forty two years ago, this week, (on the 17th day of the Hebrew month of Tammuz) the end finally began. After two and a half years of siege, the Roman Legions broke through the ancient walls of Jerusalem, and began their savage rampage of pillage and looting through the streets of Jerusalem. Although the walk from the city walls to the Temple mount is a short ten minute stroll, it would take the Romans three weeks to actually set fire to the Temple and end the battle for Jerusalem. Amidst the fire and destruction, Rav Yochanan Ben Zakkai smuggled himself out of the city, realizing the war was lost, and preferring to begin the long and tortuous proFROM THE HEART cess of assuring the OF JERUSALEM Jewish people’s survival in the exile. Nineteen hundred years later, the Jews of Jerusalem again faced that most awful of challenges: to stay and fight, or leave and live to fight another day. In her book Forever My Jerusalem, Puah Shteiner describes the awful moment Rabbi Binny as a child, when her Freedman parents decided they could no longer risk their children’s lives for the sake of their own ideals. Perhaps they, too, saw the writing on the wall. Surrounded by tens of thousands of Arabs, the two hundred Jewish fighters, defending fourteen hundred civilians inside the Old City, were in desperate straits. Outmanned, outgunned, and completely surrounded, it no longer seemed a matter of whether; it was only a matter of when. On the 28th of May, in 1948, just two weeks after the declaration of the State of Israel, the Jewish quarter finally surrendered, and as the Jewish community was led out of the Old City, Rav Goetz, who would one day return to become the rabbi of the Kotel,

turned and saw the beautiful Tiferet Yisrael Synagogue in flames. Falling to the ground in agony he cried out the age-old adage: “If I forget thee Oh Jerusalem, let my right arm wither….” And for nineteen years, again, the Old City walls mourned her Jews, who could not come home. Today, Jewish children once again play and laugh amidst the walls of a rebuilt Jewish quarter, and one wonders how it is that we have merited this miraculous return. Perhaps it is because the Jewish people’s longing for Jerusalem and the land of Israel has never been about land and acquisition. Perhaps there is something much deeper at the heart of it all…. This week’s Torah portion, Pinchas, includes an interesting story regarding the daughters of Tzlafchad. There are two major lines of inheritance in the Jewish people: our Jewish identity, which follows the mother (Jewish tradition teaches that only if the mother is Jewish, are the children born as Jews), and the tribal lineage, which follows the father (one’s tribal identity follows the tribe of the father). The story of the daughters of Tzlafchad seems to be all about the laws and the principle of the individual inheritance of the land of Israel, which apparently follows the tribal lineage from son to son. Tzlafchad’s daughters are concerned with their rights to inherit a portion of the land of Israel, given that their father had no sons. It is interesting to note that inheritance might just as easily have followed the lineage of Jewish identity, apportioning sections of the land of Israel to every Jew based on his Jewish lineage. Yet, somehow, it is important for the Jewish people to inherit the land of Israel as tribes. This story, at first glance, seems to be all about a few people wanting the opportunity to ‘get their fair share,’ not exactly the stuff of inspiration. One wonders why the Torah takes the time, then, to include this vignette? It is interesting to note that the Torah uses the phrase: “Va’Tikravna’ Benot Tzlafchad”

Parshat Pinchas

The Covenant of Peace P

inchas is most famous for his act of zealotry in punishing Zimri for his immoral act of defiance, which he perpetrated in front of Moshe and the elders, as a clear affront to G-d. An interesting cast of characters have parshas named for them: Noach, Yisro, Korach, Balak, Pinchas (Chayei Sarah includes a name, which comes after her death). Each has his own story of intrigue, making the coincidence of their being in this club a source for much homily. What makes Pinchas unique, is that he literally emerges out of nowhere. He is a Rabbi Avi Billet protagonist for a very small amount of Torahspace, and then he disappears into obscurity again, only to reemerge in the books of the Prophets – in Yehoshua and Shoftim (Judg-

es). The gift he receives, however, is one of the more coveted in the Torah: he receives from G-d “Britee Shalom,” G-d’s “Covenant of Peace.” What is the Covenant of Peace? Were you to google the term “Brit Shalom” you would find many websites dedicated to “Bris without circumcision.” This is not the forum to discuss this, but I do find it ironic that a certain website utilizes two negative commandments, not to imprint marks on the body and not to make cuttings in the flesh, to prove that Bris Milah goes against the Torah. Invoking negative commandments out of context (the first refers to tattoos and the second refers to cutting the flesh over the loss of a loved one) while ignoring Bereshit 17 and Vayikra 12:3 is a lesson in intellectual dishonesty. Pinchas has become a symbol at the Bris Milah ceremony, as the first verses of our parsha are recited as a reminder of Pinchas’s role in defending the covenant. But was the “Covenant of Peace” meant to refer specifically to the Covenant of Circumcision? Every commentary has a different approach. Some include: That Zimri’s

“And then came forward (close) the daughters of Tzlafchad” (27:1), - but does not finish the sentence. We do not discover whom they came close to, or why they are coming forward until after an interruption of tribal lineage. Further, why the need to mention the entire lineage of these women all the way back to Joseph? Even if it were necessary to note what tribe they are from, would it not have been enough to say they were from the tribe of Menashe? Why the need to mention Joseph? Not only is the question of their inheritance of the land a function of their being of the tribe of Menashe and nothing to do with Joseph (the Torah does not mention that Joseph was the son of Yaakov), but also we hardly need to be reminded that Menashe was the son of Joseph! The tribe of Menashe was unique, in that its portion straddled land on both sides of the Jordan River. Indeed, the tribes of Gad and Re’uven chose to live on the eastern side of the Jordan (see next week’s portion Numbers 32:1-42), rather than enter the land of Israel due to its rich farm and grazing land, and the prospect of economic prosperity. And as a result of the granting of their request, Moshe ultimately splits the tribe of Menashe, with half the tribe residing on either side of the Jordan River. Generally, the rabbis view this as an assurance that the two sides of the Jordan River will remain part of one people. And the tribe of Menashe, which had no intention of living outside of the land, would also be an influence for maintaining the love of the land of Israel even on that side of the Jordan River. Ultimately then, the daughters of Tzlafchad had the opportunity to receive rich land on the other side of the Jordan, where all the technical conditions of inheritance in the land of Israel based on tribal lineage did not apply. Perhaps then, the real motivation of the daughters of Tzlafchad was a burning love for the land of Israel. Indeed, this was their true tribal inheritance. Joseph, despite spending most of his life in Egypt, dies with one wish in his heart: to be buried in the land

of his forefathers, the land of Israel. Perhaps this is why these women’s tribal lineage is listed back to Joseph. And Menashe is in fact the first Jew born in the exile. Yet, even as a child born in Egypt, he never gives up on the dream of returning home. Indeed, it is the tribe of Menashe whose members, according to the Midrash (Rabbinic legend) miscalculate the end of the exile, and in their zeal, attempt to conquer the land of Israel too soon, a story that ends in disaster. The daughters of Tzlafchad represent then, this same idea, namely a case that has value because the motivations were pure. Perhaps for this reason it was important for this case to come as a result of their desire to see their struggle through. “Va’Tikravna’”, “And they came close.” It was precisely because they decided that they wanted to live in the land of Israel and be close amongst the people that this story is so important. In order for them to eventually arrive before Moshe, they had to go up through the entire system of the courts until they finally arrived before Moshe. Only a burning love for the land of Israel motivated them to such a high degree. Today, thousands of years after Joseph’s bones were brought home and the daughters of Tzlafchad merited building homes in the land of Israel, we are still struggling for our right to live and love in the land of Israel. For two thousand years we wandered the face of the globe and today, ours is the generation that has merited the privilege to put our real motivations to the test. Each of us, in our own way, has to decide what this country and this magnificent city mean to us. Who we are as a people is a function of what we do and why we do it. And where we choose to be, and why we choose to be there, will ultimately determine whether we become who we are meant to be.

relatives will not seek revenge, he had been grandfathered out of being a kohen and now he would inherit his father’s position, that he will be the Messiah delivering the message of World Peace. And some talk about Pinchas being the defender of “the” covenant – Bris Milah. I find the Seforno’s interpretation to be quite compelling, mostly because it carries a lesson we can all live by, live for, and pray for ourselves and our loved ones. The Seforno writes “The Covenant of Peace [meaning] from the Angel of Death. Pinchas outlived all the people of his generation – by a lot – as he was still the kohen in Mishkan Shilo at the time of the Pilegesh B’Givah story (Shoftim 20:28)… By most accounts this was at least 300 years later… Certainly, according to those who say Eliyahu was Pinchas, then he still lives.” It is worth noting that Ibn Ezra thoroughly rejects the idea that Pinchas was later Eliyahu. And, of course, there are non-literal interpretations of what the Pinchas=Eliyahu equation means, as well as what “Eliyahu still lives” means. A much longer discussion. But even Ibn Ezra cannot get around the fact that Pinchas is still around at the end of the book of Shoftim, which means that Pinchas lived for a length of time that is completely uncharacteristic of his generation. I do not believe that we live in a world in which a person can literally cheat the Angel

of Death through living for centuries. But, as the 93-year old great grandmother (who could pass for a sprite and with-it 75 year old) I met at a recent Bris told me, “I get up every morning, swim my laps for 45 minutes and then I get on with my day. It’s what keeps me alive.” For some people it is a physical activity – exercise, playing tennis, golf or basketball. For some people it is daily minyan or a regular shiur they attend. Having that routine keeps you alive because there is something to look forward to on a daily basis. And while this is by no means a guarantee for longevity – genes and a healthy lifestyle probably have more to do with it than anything – perhaps the lesson from Pinchas is that if we know what we believe in and take a stand when necessary, we can hopefully merit the blessing of the Covenant of Peace. That when our time does come, whether after 50, 75, 100 years or the proverbial 120, if we’ve lived our lives wholly and fully with no regrets, we may be blessed to have a peaceful end, without suffering, in a way that we and our loved ones can feel that we got the better of the Angel of Death. I certainly hope for everyone to live a long life, and to enjoy life and family for many years. But as no one lives forever, hopefully we can merit to go into the sunset, riding at the top, where not even the Angel of Death can reach.

Rav Binny Freedman, Rosh Yeshivat Orayta in Jerusalem’s Old City is a Company Commander in the IDF reserves, and lives in Efrat with his wife Doreet and their four children. His weekly Internet ‘Parsha Bytes’ can be found at www.orayta.org

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