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ormer Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon passed away Saturday at the age of 85. He never recovered from the devastating stroke he suffered eight years ago, on Jan. 4, 2006.

Some of the obituaries will vilify him, others praise him, and on both counts they are wrong.

Ariel Sharon was JEFF DUNETZ an enigma wrapped in a paradox. He didn’t fit into the traditional vision of a warrior or a peacemaker; his greatest moments in politics happened years after his career was declared over. He helped to create the Likud Party, but then left it; he was seen as a champion For Jewish Star of the settlement movement but then began to dismantle them. Ariel Sharon did what he thought was right whether others agreed or not.

His strategy to conquer the Sinai in the Six Day War is studied for its innovations and brilliance. Six years later and against orders, Sharon led his troops across the Suez Canal during the Yom Kippur war, encircling Egypt’s Third Army. Many Israelis regarded this move as the turning point of the war in the Sinai front.

As defense minister in 1982 he played a key role in the Lebanon War that was designed to move the terrorist PLO. Sadly, during the action, Phalanges (Lebanese Maronite Christian militias) committed a massacre in one of the Palestinian camps.

Even after it was proven that Sharon neither planned, ordered, or even knew about the massacre before it happened, he received part of the blame for failing to anticipate the likelihood that the Christian forces would commit atrocities.

To the outside world, Sharon could do no right; some even accused him of working with President Bush to invade Iraq even though he strongly recommended against it.

In September 2000, after archeologists found that extensive building operations being done by the Islamic Waqf on the Temple Mount were destroying priceless antiquities, he visited the Temple Mount.

The next day there were riots that were followed by an unrelated wave of terrorism Continued on page 6

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Seasons sets Lawrence return

By Malka Eisenberg It’s a brand new Seasons.

The completely remodeled supermarket, for many years branded as Supersol, is the latest enhancement in a world of increasingly upscale kosher shopping experiences. And its opening, anticipated by the end of January, will likely supercharge the relatively quiet Lawrence business district.

When The Jewish Star toured the store, at 330 Central Ave., electricians with payot and tzitzit were taking care of finishing touches, and the stocking of shelves had begun.

The building’s outside is finished smoothly in purple and gold with large glass windows and bright energy efficient lighting.

The inside has been ”reconfigured and repositioned within the existing building, with prep areas moved to the basement [to] provide more shopping space,” explained Mayer Gold, who manages the entire Seasons chain.

Seasons has supermarkets in Kew Gardens Hills, the Upper West Side and Scarsdale, with new stores in the works for Lakewood, NJ, and in Pikesville near Baltimore.

Gold views Seasons as a kosher Whole Foods, except with more reasonable prices.

The new Seasons will feature concessionsbased specialty areas, a concept popularized

by Seasons in Kew Gardens Hills and by Gourmet Glatt in Cedarhurst. Shloimie’s bakery will be closing its storefront at 536 Central Ave. in Cedarhurst and opening in the Lawrence Seasons, joining Sushi Meshuga of Flatbush, Raskin’s fish of Crown Heights, and Mechy’s deli from the Kew Gardens Hills Seasons.

“It’s the new way to go,” said Gold. “It’s the best of everything in the store.”

Seasons manager Mayer Gold in the new Lawrence store.

While the building still has entrances on Central Avenue in front and from the municipal metered parking lot in the rear, that, too, has been changed.

“It was a challenge before,” explained Gold. Shoppers went “in and out the same door through the produce section; the traffic flow made it difficult to shop.”

Now there is a more spacious entryway, as well as a separate exit hallway, the walls faced with multicolored natural stone veneer and large windows.

Overall, the store feels much more expansive than before, the result of the large windows and the raising of the ceiling by two feet, as well as the availability of greater

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space resulting from the move of prep areas to the basement, Gold noted that the architect called in two years ago, before reconstruction, commented that the store hadn’t changed in 35 years In the basement, Gold pointed out the meat kitchen, the dairy kitchen, the produce prep area, and the bedika room “built to the specifications of Rabbi Eisen of the Five Towns Vaad” for checking vegetables with a place for a mashgiach and a “full team of workers, cleaning, checking.”

Clifford Richner, vice president of Richner Communications (housed on Central Avenue down the street from the Seasons site until Continued on page 10

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t was silence of such magnitude and such power, I was sure that even the angels in heaven were standing still. I remember it like it was yesterday.

On the day after Shavuot — the festival that commemorates the moment 3,000 years ago when an entire people stood in silent awe at the foot of Sinai — time stopped For Jewish Star on a road in Gush Etzion. An innocent drive home, on a beautiful road in the mountains of Judea, was cut short by gunfire and Sarah Blaustein, of blessed memory, mother, wife and beloved neighbor, would never hear the sweet sounds of her children again.

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That night in 2001, 10,000 people came to the cemetery in Gush Etzion to bid her farewell. Ten thousand people make a lot of noise, but cemeteries have a way of making people quieter, and a funeral at night, under such painful circumstances, has a way of making time stand still.

There were muffled sobs and many tears, but no one uttered a word as the coffin was carried to the freshly dug grave. My wife and I stood behind Shaul Goldstein, the mayor of Gush Etzion; he was not up front with a microphone, he was simply there as a neighbor of Sarah’s from the nearby town of Daniel, paying his last respects.

I doubt he even knew Sarah, especially as she had only immigrated to Israel a short nine months before from Lawrence, but we were all neighbors nonetheless.

And as Sarah’s husband bid his own farewell to his beloved wife,

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and we listened to the painful words of his parting eulogy, we noticed that Shaul Goldstein was crying.

There were no cameras, it was not a ‘photo-op’, and I doubt anyone else even noticed, but it is a moment that has stayed with me.

There, beneath the stars, in the shadow of the mountains of Gush Etzion, where 2,200 years earlier the Maccabees had fought the armies of the Greek empire, and where 50 years ago the Etzion bloc fell while the world was silent, 10,000 of us, heard the pain of Continued on page 4

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By Malka Eisenberg Gavi Nelson took his Five Towns Torah education and background to heart and took a step no one else in his high school class did: He made Aliyah and joined the Israeli army.

His mom, Jami of Cedarhurst, said they never had a family trip to Israel because they couldn’t afford it, but Gavi did go for the first time the year before his bar mitzvah. Last year, he spent his post high school year at Yeshivat Hakotel and within a few months knew that he had come to stay.

Gavi attended the Hebrew Academy of Long Beach (HALB) for elementary school, and local day camps in the summers. He marched in the Salute to Israel parades since fourth grade. After his four years at DRS High School for boys, he spent a year learning at Hakotel and worked last summer at Bnei Akiva’s Camp Stone in Pennsylvania. He noted that HALB discussed love of Israel but, said Jami, “it was always a place that Americans visited several times a year, staying at the Inbal Hotel, etc., then coming home.”

The family davens at Chabad of the Five Towns.

Gavi is very serious about art and studied at the Art Studio of Rockville Centre. His choices for college after his year in Israel were Yeshiva University, where he received a very generous scholarship, or the State University of New York at Purchase, where he

Oleh, IDF recruit and former Five Towner Gavi Nelson poses across from the Temple Mount.

was accepted into the art conservatory. But he chose a different path.

He is anticipating being drafted in March, serving in totchanim (artillery) for 16 months as a part of the army’s Hesder program and following that service with a year in yeshiva.

He said he might be interested in studying art at the famous Betzalel art school in Israel, or possibly working in art therapy.

He would like to live and raise a family in Yehuda or the Shomron for its quality of life and religious ideals, he said. He views art

therapy as a good way to combine his love of art and to “put it to good use and help children who are suffering from various trauma, most notably and unfortunately, terror, here in Israel.”

“People even ask me and sometimes I ask myself why I did it. And honestly I answer always, ‘why not?’,” he told The Jewish Star by email from Israel. “I gained a sort of love from HALB [and] my parents instilled me with a true love for Israel, which was further strengthened by my year here. Only being

here, living here for the year, truly gave me an opportunity that there really is nowhere but here.”

He calls on his peers and family to join him in Israel, that life there is “much more complete” and “more natural, because,” quoting Rav Aharon Lichtenstein, “we are truly connected to the source (Hashem).” He notes that he is one out of a class of 88 to make Aliyah but other smaller schools have a higher percentage going.

“I am proud that I am reclaiming my place in my homeland with my people. This is where I belong and where I know I am meant to be,” he said.

He is aware of having to “deal with” the Israeli bureaucracy, but at the same time, “this annoying bureaucracy is mine. It’s my mess, my people.”

Gavi’s parents and siblings live in the U.S. and are currently not contemplating Aliyah.

His parents say they “selfishly” wanted him close to home and miss him. But, said Jami, “How could I change the course of his life?

My husband, as well, felt so proud of him but conflicted.”

Gavi, said his sister, Elisheva, feels strongly that “yeshivas here do not put any emphasis or education at all about Aliyah and army service.” She said the schools should point out that army service is an option “even if you are not planning on making Aliyah.”

IDF females shatter contemporary infantry lines

By Maayan Jaffe/JNS.org From the inception of the Jewish state to the present, Israel’s military has been anything but a male-dominated institution.

On May 26, 1948, Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion established the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). Less than three months later, the Knesset instituted mandatory conscription for all women without children. Today 57 percent of all officers in the Israeli army are women, according to the IDF. The IDF recently highlighted the stories of a select group of those women on its blog, in a list titled “8 Female Soldiers Who Shattered Barriers in 2013.” The article, which featured women in a variety of military roles and from diverse backgrounds, said that in recent years women have “taken increasingly high-level positions in the IDF.” The female soldiers included in the list “challenge stereotypes,” wrote the IDF. Among those listed are two soldiers originally from the U.S.: Cpl. Dylan Ostrin, from Houston, who made Aliyah at the age of 7, and Sgt. Sarit Petersen, from Maryland, who is currently in the process of making Aliyah.

Petersen, who recently completed her IDF term, served as a shooting instructor in the Nahal Infantry Brigade. Her job was to teach reconnaissance brigade soldiers (Special Forces) to use their weapons. Speaking from her parents’ home in Baltimore, Peterson waxed modest about being chosen for the IDF blog entry.

“There are awesome people doing awesome things in the army all the time,” she said with a giggle.

A 2010 graduate of the Yeshiva of Greater Washington, Petersen told JNS.org that she was “surprised” at her selection, though she was one of the first to hold her position in the IDF. Petersen trained soldiers slated for elite army units. They had already completed at least eight months of basic training, and often had several additional months of more intense training. She said that she and her colleagues would “sit for hours and hours” planning and analyzing how they were going to take these men from “regular soldiers to

Pictured is Sarit Petersen, of Maryland, who is on the IDF’s recent list of “8 Female Soldiers Who Shattered Barriers in 2013.”

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Special Forces—to even better.”

“We would spend hours and hours on an exercise list. We would look at their old ones, see what they had done and figure out how to make it harder and faster, how they could run more. Then we would go to the shooting range and make them do all of these [exercises] we had set up for them and they would do it,” she said. “We would do it first, to test it out, and then they would do it.”

Is Petersen good with a gun?

“Yeah,” she said. “I am a pretty good shot.”

Petersen said she shot her first gun as a 14-year-old on a vacation with a friend in Nevada; they shot cans in the desert.

“I thought, ‘Wow! I am really good at this and it is really fun,’” she reminisced, noting that she could never have dreamed then of her time in the IDF. Other female soldiers on the list have vastly different roles. Take Pvt. Or Meidan.

She moved to a southern kibbutz in Israel

from Uganda. In November 2012, her town was a regular target of Hamas rockets. Today, she is an Iron Dome missile defense system operator. Also listed is First Sgt. Monaliza Abdo, an Arab-Israeli combat soldier. While most Arab-Israelis don’t even take part in army service, Abdo rose through the ranks to become a commander, teaching soldiers how to combat terrorism and other threats.

In December, she completed three years of service—one more than the required number for Israeli women.

Lt. Amit Danon, a former Israeli national champion in rhythmic gymnastics, became a combat officer in the mixed-gender Caracal Battalion. She is also on the IDF’s list.

“She was one of the first women to become an officer in a combat unit,” Risa Kelemer, a commander who also serves in Carcal, told JNS.org. Kelemer, who is from Baltimore, said Caracal is the only co-ed combat unit in the world.

“Boys and girls play the same roles,” she said, noting that despite this she has felt little tension from the men she works with.

“I encounter more difficulty when I am in civilian life. I meet someone who says, ‘You are a combat soldier? Girls aren’t combat soldiers!’”

Kelemer does not pretend to be as strong as her male counterparts, though she said she is able to hold her own. When it comes to an operation, however, she said each person has a role. Kelemer, for example, is a trained grenade launcher. Another female comrade is a sharp shooter. Another is a medic.

“Combat is not just running with 50 pounds on your back,” said Kelemer, “though we also do that.”

Katja Edelman, originally from Kansas and now a student at Columbia University, recently completed her service as a combat infantry soldier in the IDF’s canine unit. In that role, she worked with dogs in the field and trained them back at the base. She told JNS.org that the IDF “has a lot to be proud of regarding integration of women. I felt like I had amazing opportunities in my service and was able to do many of the same things men do.… It was always important to me to demonstrate professionalism and capability to set the right precedent for a continued and hopefully expanded role for women in the IDF.” Edelman said she did feel pressure to prove herself in the IDF, and she went to extra lengths not to show signs of fatigue “even if the boys were openly exhausted.”

“I feel that most women in male-dominated workplaces can relate,” she said.

Kelemer’s mother, Amian Frost-Kelemer, said she is “incredibly impressed” with and proud of her daughter. But she is also “petrified.”

“She believes she can do whatever the guys can do. She is really fast. But the weight they have to carry is not great for a woman’s body,” Frost-Kelemer told JNS.org. “Mentally, there is no issue. Physically, the reality is that as strong as she is, it is about heart—she is there for the heart.”

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civil society in which life is sacrosanct frowns upon the act of murder. It is a heinous crime to rob another person of life itself. In America, states have different punishments in place for murderers, ranging from prison PARSHA OF sentences to a ticket to THE WEEK death row.

And yet, not all acts that bring about death are considered “murder.” Certainly a distinction is made between a car crash or another tragic accident, and a deliberate murder.

Even in “crimes” of this nature, the law distinguishes between murRabbi Avi Billet der in the first degree, murder in the second degree, manslaughter, involuntary manslaughter, wrongful death, etc. There are other categories as well.

The legal terminology is learned by those who are in the predicament of being charged with the death of another, and the distinctions between the different circumstances has its own basis in the halachic and Biblical terminology. Many commentaries distinguish between r’tzichah (murder) and harigah

(killing) or misah/mitah (causing death).

In the Decalogue it is deliberate murder which is forbidden by Lo Tirzach, a commandment which is noted as a principle for humanity in Bereshit 9:6, and is also broken down into specifics in Shmot 21:12-14. In the Shmot example, the first two of the three verses noted refer to a case in which the death happened as the result of a fight (in which injury was the intent) or an accident (perhaps careless), while 21:14 refers to a plot to kill. When there was no plot to kill, Devarim 4:42 and 19:4 speak of the death as a rtzicha, at the same time that the Torah declares the person is to run to an ir miklat (city of refuge). [Rashbam on Shmot 20:13 explains why this term is used here.]

On the other hand, there is killing which is completely justified in the Torah, such as in a Commanded War (Milchemet Mitzvah) (see Bamidbar 31), or in the case of a bamachteret, a self-defense situation in which an intruder enters one’s home and the homeowner kills him, perhaps without even asking any questions. (Shmot 22:1) In this latter case, the Torah describes the

alleged “victim” (the criminal, as it were) as a person who “has no blood.” (Alternatively, the phrase “ein lo damim” could refer to the homeowner who “bears no blood guilt.”) Once he made the choice to invade the home, the Torah considers him already dead because he had no right to be there.

Killing him is akin to shooting a corpse, which might not be very polite, but it does not make you a murderer.

And of course, while the Talmud claims it was not common, certainly the way the Torah describes death as a punishment meted out by the court is justified as well.

The commandment of lo tirzach is therefore not an injunction against taking someone else’s life. In any self-defense situation, the Torah would not hold the one claiming self-defense to any culpability — it’s my life or yours (the one intent on killing me), and in the Talmud’s equation of this, my life is more important. No questions asked.

Both the Ibn Ezra and Chizkuni write that lo tirzach is a law against killing with your hand or your tongue. In other words, don’t give false testimony that might kill someone, or give bad advice that will cause

Lashon hora is a stain on our people, a form of inexcusable murder.

a person’s death. Additionally, if you have a secret that can save the person from death if only you reveal it, and you refrain from doing so, you are a murderer.

Most of us will not have the opportunity (or utilize the chance) to murder someone with our hands or with a weapon. Thank G-d. And yet, according to this interpretation, many of us are in a sense guilty of lo tirzach on a regular basis. We are either guilty of character assassination through our lashon hora violations, or we do not utilize information we have of someone’s positive qualities in gossip situations, to shed a very positive light about a victim of lashon hora.

The Ten Commandments are revered by people of many faiths. For the Jewish people, who introduced them to the world, we have the responsibility to model all the possibilities of avoidance of lo tirzach in our daily lives.

It is easy to say, “I have never murdered someone.” It is not as easy to say the same about the additional meanings of lo tirzach.

Our responsibility to lo tirzach is to protect others by only sharing information about them that serves a purpose, with people who need that information, and who understand what the purpose is.

Beyond that, lashon hora is a stain on our people; in its own way, it is a form of inexcusable murder.

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The importance of ‘listening’ and not just ‘hearing’…

Continued from page 1 our fellow Jews, and just listened.

What does it really mean to listen? his week we will read the portion of Yitro, and relive the experience of the giving of the Ten Commandments at Mount Sinai.

In possibly its most important portion (if any one portion can be Rabbi Binny more important than Freedman another), as the Bible recounts the giving of the Torah, we would have expected to begin with an account of the Jewish people hearing the word of G-d.

But that is not how Yitro begins. Yitro begins with Yitro, Moses’ father-in-law, who is not even a Jew, arriving at Sinai.

“And Yitro, [High] Priest of Midian, fatherin-law of Moses, heard all that G-d had done for Moses and Israel His Nation: that Hashem took Israel out of Egypt.” (Shemot 18:1) The story of the giving of the Torah at Sinai begins with the idea that Yitro, a non-Jew described as a Midianite priest (and according to Rabbinic tradition even the High Priest of Midianite pagan idolatry), actually heard.

The Talmud asks a fascinating question: “Ve’Chi Mah’ Shamah Yitro U’Vah’?” (“What did Yitro, who came (to Sinai) hear?”) (Zevachim 116a) And the Talmud suggests a number of possibilities: He heard of the battle of the Jewish people with Amalek, who attacked from the rear, or of the imminent giving of the Torah at Sinai or of the splitting of the sea.

The Talmud’s question, however, does not seem to make a lot of sense, because the Torah makes abundantly clear exactly what Yitro heard: “Yitro … heard all that G-d had done for FROM THE HEART OF JERUSALEM

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… Israel … that Hashem took Israel out of Egypt.”

So if the Torah is so specific about what Yitro heard, what is Talmud’s question?

Perhaps the Talmud is not really asking what Yitro heard; perhaps it is asking what Yitro heard that actually made him come (“Ve’Chi Mah’ Shamah Yitro U’Vah’?”). After all, the entire known world, and certainly the nations of Canaan, heard of the splitting of the sea and the events surrounding the Exodus from Egypt. After the splitting of the sea, the Torah is very clear: “Then were all the generals of Edom gripped by fear, and all the inhabitants of Canaan trembled.”

(Exodus 15:15) So the Talmud’s question is: Since everyone heard of all that Hashem had done for the Jewish people in bringing them out of Egypt, what was it that actually caused Yitro to get up and come to Sinai, when everyone else did not? ruth be told, it is no accident that this portion begins by mentioning what Yitro heard, because this portion is all about learning to listen. What does it mean to truly listen? So often, we think we are listening, but we are not really hearing.

There is a well-known story about Rav Yisrael Salanter, the nineteenth century founder of the Mussar movement, whose goal was to bring Jews back to a deeper sense of Jewish ethics. One year, on the day before Passover, a woman came to Rav Yisroel’s house with a

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halachic (Jewish law) question; she wanted to know if it was permitted to make a Seder on four cups of milk.

Rav Yisroel explained to the woman that the mitzvah of the Seder night is to have four cups of wine, as a symbol of freedom, and promptly gave her 50 rubles to go out and buy wine for the Seder. His students were astounded by his actions, as 50 rubles was quite a considerable amount of money, and certainly far beyond what any bottle of wine would cost.

Upon asking Rav Yisroel why he had been so generous, he responded: “You may have heard the woman’s question, but you were obviously not listening to what she said. If a woman could ask whether it was permissible to have four cups of milk, she obviously has no money for meat (as milk and meat cannot be eaten together), so I understood that she really needed enough money for an entire Seder.”

You see, everyone heard what Hashem had done for the Jewish people in freeing them from Egypt, but that does not mean they were really listening, because if they had really been listening, they would have joined the Jewish people at Sinai.

Perhaps the Torah is sharing a very important message here: Before we are ready to receive the Torah, we have to learn how to listen.

Indeed, any rabbi, teacher, counselor or therapist worth their salt will tell you that

Everyone heard what Hashem had done for the Jewish people in freeing them from Egypt, but that does not mean they were really listening. Because if they had really been listening, they would have joined the Jewish people at Sinai.

when people ask you questions, it isn’t always because they want answers; often it is because they want you to hear their questions, and often, their pain; they want you to listen.

Before we are ready to hear the voice of G-d, we have to learn how to listen to each other.

And of course, this is the essence of our relationship with G-d. Am I listening to what Hashem really wants? Do I hear that still, small voice within, which is the part of G-d inside each of us, and am I ready to listen to that voice?

Over 3,000 years ago, a world heard of the greatest miracles in the history of the world, but it didn’t make a difference, because they weren’t really listening.

Our generation has lived through some of the most incredible events in history.

We have seen the return of our people to their ancient homeland, and the re-birth of an independent commonwealth of the Nation of Israel, risen like a phoenix from the ashes of the Holocaust, against all odds.

We have seen the return to Jerusalem, our holy city, in six days, and we have witnessed the seemingly impossible salvation of the State of Israel, from its virtually assured destruction on Yom Kippur, in 1973.

We hear of all these miracles, but we do not listen, because like the ancient Canaanites we do not come, and we are, most of us, still here in America and in England, in Switzerland, and in France, and even in Germany.

Perhaps some of us have finally heard enough and are ready to go home. Ultimately that is where all our children will be.

And if for whatever the reason, some of us are not yet ready to do that, before we delve into reaffirming our relationship with the same Torah we received so long ago, let us first reaffirm our relationship with each other, as one people, without walls or boxes or boundaries, and find, all of us, new ways to learn to listen.

Shabbat Shalom.

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innovative procedure that effects change to established means and methods, in this case, the mass printing of our holy works.

The author details this aspect of our history, and following are several examples of his narrative on this, cast in a series of three questions.

This is but a brief summary intended to whet your appetite to prompt you to read more from the original work.

Consider first: “Is it permitted to print words of the Torah?”

“Certain documents have a particular requirement to be handwritten: a sefer Torah, the scrolls inside tefillin, a mezuzah, and a get. In each of these cases, the Torah itself states this. The Sages also decreed that a Megillas Esther should be handwritten. The question therefore arose whether, since they are required to be handwritten, they could be printed instead.”

The author presents both sides of the argument. Here’s a sample forbidding printing: “A sofer writing a sefer Torah, etc. … has to say or see all of each word before he writes it, which cannot be achieved in printing where all the words are printed in one action as the press comes down. Writing means that each letter is produced individually with its kavanah [intention to write that letter] and shape, one letter at a time.”

Here is the case to permit printing:

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“The early authorities saw that the quality of printed work was indeed good and that the shaped letters were shaped correctly.

Consequently, they considered the possibility of allowing printing where writing was required. They reasoned as follows: “What difference is there whether one presses on paper with a pen in order to form the letters, or whether one performs the process in reverse, pressing paper onto metal type below it, in the manner of the printing press?”

And the final consensus: “In regard to all other sefarim, such as siddurim, Chumashim, Mishnah, and Talmud, which have no requirement of handwriting, they could be printed without question.”

This was how this issue was debated, and how it was finally decided. This resolution became the norm, but there is more to come.

Another important question presented is: “Do printed sefarim have kedushah?”

Rabbi Aaronson presents the following: “The Mishnah in tractate Megillah [3:1] states the levels of kedushah of handwritten sifrei Torah, Nevi’im [Prophets], and kesuvim [Holy Writings].…The poskim ruled that printed sefarim do indeed have kedushah and must be treated with respect as set down in halachah, and placed in genizah when worn out.”

The author concluded this subject with the following fascinating observation:

“The kedushah of printed sefarim also had ramifications in the way Hebrew books were made. Among gentiles, it was the practice to make book covers from damaged pages or proof sheets, cut to size and glued together.

Due to the kedushah of printed sefarim, however, such practice would be completely forbidden with works of Torah.”

This last teaching should come to teach us all something very important in our appreciation for the holy work that printers and publishers of our holy books give to their craft.

Another unique and valued feature in this work of interest are six appendices that: 1. List landmarks in Hebrew printing, 1455-1948, together with 44 footnotes; 2. Prolific printers, 1475-1863, including such famous printers as Soncino, Romm, Heidenheim, Bomberg, and Shapira among many others; 3. Principal locations of Hebrew printing 1469-1869, and the number of titles; 4. Sefarim printed during the period of Incunabula, from 1469-1499. This includes location, names of the 208 works, and the publisher; 5. A description of sefarim referred to; 6. The listing of all the authors mentioned in this book, in chronological order. This listing includes the known name, name in Hebrew, full name, and years born and died.

And, lastly consider this: “Ultimately, the printing press would also put the Hebrew sefer out of reach of persecution and censorship, wars, and other forms of destruction, such as fires, which were not uncommon in previous times.”

Such was the legacy of the printing press upon our faith for all time.

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o say that this Kosher Bookworm loves books would be an understatement, and to read and evaluate a book on the history of Jewish book publishing is indeed a labor of love. So it is with this week’s selection, “People of the Book: Five Hundred Years of the Hebrew Book from The BeginKOSHER ning Of Printing UnBOOKWORM til The 20th Century” [Feldheim, 2014].

This 231 page coffee table-size book was authored by Rabbi Akiva Aaronson, whom I first heard of when praised

by Rabbi Berel Wein.

The book goes into great narrative and graphic detail in charting a history of the impact of the printing Alan Jay Gerber press, an invention that made the longevity of the Jewish religious creed so effective over these many centuries of exile and persecution.

Given all that we have faced over these many years, it can truly be said that the printing press came along at just the right time to save our holy writings from what likely would have been utter oblivion. However, sadly, this evaluation was not always representative of the many who viewed the printing of our literature as a threat to our faith.

One of the most engaging chapters in this work is titled, “Questions in Halachah.” As with most issues dealing with Jewish law, by its very nature, close scrutiny is given to the pros and cons and the legitimacy of any

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Sharon: Enigma in paradox…

Continued from page 1 called the Second Intifada.

The Sharon haters decided that trip to the Temple Mount caused the intifada, which was a false charge. In the two months between the end of the Camp David peace POLITICS TO GO talks and the beginning of the intifada, Israel began to warn that Arafat was preparing mass violence. Even Arafat’s widow admitted to that fact years later: “Yasser Arafat had made a decision to launch the Intifada.

Immediately after the failure of the Camp David [negotiations], I Jeff Dunetz met him in Paris upon his return, in July 2001 [sic]. Camp David has failed, and he said to me: ‘You should remain in Paris.’ I asked him why, and he said: ‘Because I am going to start an Intifada’.”

A wave of suicide bombings rocked Israel, horrible mass-murders targeted at killing civilians. Arafat’s terrorists blew up children in buses, families at Passover Seders, innocents having lunch at Jerusalem pizza places and so many others. While the appeasing world called for restraint, Sharon was determined to end the bloodshed. He unleashed the Israeli military, sending tanks into the Palestinian territories, ordering assassinations of terrorist leaders. “And believe me,” Sharon said, “we show restraint. I am under heavy pressure to act differently.”

Sharon ordered the IDF to confine Yasser Arafat to his compound in Ramallah and worked toward delegitimizing Arafat as nothing more than the murderer he was. Sharon only refrained from killing Arafat because of a promise he made to the American government that he wouldn’t kill him.

Near the end of his tenure as premier, Sharon made his most controversial move, disengagement.

“These steps will increase security for the residents of Israel and relieve the pressure on

the IDF and security forces in fulfilling the difficult tasks they are faced with” he said.

“The disengagement plan is meant to grant maximum security and minimize friction between Israelis and Palestinians.”

Sharon felt that as a man who spent most of his life as a warrior, he was going to impose peace whether the Palestinians liked it or not.

“As one who fought in all of Israel’s wars, and learned from personal experience that without proper force, we do not have a chance of surviving in this region … I have also learned from experience that the sword alone cannot decide this bitter dispute in this land,” Sharon said in 2004, explaining his action.

While this may have been done with the most noble of intentions, disengagement did not have the result that Sharon predicted.

In fact, it lowered the security of Israel and increased friction between Israelis and Palestinians.

The ascendancy of Hamas, the years of rockets bombarding the Negev and the Gaza War can all be traced to the disengagement plan developed by Ariel Sharon. But to be fair, Sharon had said if the disengagement encouraged new terrorism out of Gaza he would reoccupy that strip of land, a move his successor would not consider.

As part of his disengagement policy, he proceeded to build a security fence between pre1967 Israel and the West Bank, a move that is vilified by many in the west but which succeeded in vastly reducing the terrorist attacks in Israel.

Ariel Sharon’s actual passing, after eight years in a coma, is kind of anticlimactic — after all, he had been out of sight, and except for a report once or twice a year he had been out of mind. Yet even with its inevitability, his death was the only thing that could finally erase a feeling that this great leader, who had fought back from defeat so many times in his life, would beat the stroke which incapacitated him. Sadly that never happened.

In the end, perhaps he wasn’t that much of an enigma. Ariel Sharon was simply a man who dedicated his life to his family and his people.

May his memory always be for a blessing.

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A lifelong warrior, Sharon was determined to impose peace.

After the Post: Stark Truth S

hiva has just ended for the Stark family and the media frenzy has moved on to new targets. We have not. The horrific abduction and murder of Menachem Stark continues to shock our entire community to its core, and rightfully so.

As most know by now, the New York Post, headline and subsequent articles creEzra Friedlander ated uproar the likes of which we haven’t seen in a very long time.

What is still most troubling to me is the defamation of an entire community. When the Post references an entire group “Hassidic,” while reporting about an individual, that is sensationalist journalism at its worst.

Aside from its despicable headline, “Who didn’t want him dead?,” the Post article was filled with stereotypes and inflammatory innuendo about the Chassidic community. As examples, “the millionaire Hassidic slumlord” “he is a Hassidic Jew from Williamsburg and we think he is a scammer” etc.

The use of the term “Hassidic Slumlord” is clearly inappropriate and intentionally provocative. Fair-minded observers recognize the ramifications of negatively stereotyping individuals and communities. The Post, to no ones surprise, shrugged its shoulder and moved on to its next meal.

Let’s be honest. There is no justification for identifying the alleged misdeeds of one individual with an entire ethnic or social group. Portraying a landlord of Chasidic lifestyle as a “hasidic slumlord” is insensitive at best and disgusting at worst. In the aftermath of such a terrible tragedy I believe it was unconscionable. Lost in the blaring headline was an innocent family and closeknit community reeling from the shock of Mr. Stark’s untimely demise.

The coverage also symbolized the negative perception of Chasidic Jews in the secular media.

As someone who is engaged in the profession of representing clients in the public relations arena, I am fully cognizant of the fact that perception is the first step towards reality. I’ve been trying to understand why it is that the Chasidic community seems to be held to a different standard.

Years ago, I was having a conversation with a non-Jewish friend of mine, a fellow who traces his heritage all the way back to the Mayflower. I asked him why Orthodox Jews are often perceived in a negative light.

His answer was simple. “Because you are different.”

I asked him to elaborate. And this is what he told me: “Anytime anyone separates themselves from the general population, be it by dress, tradition, or customs, they create a distinction that is inherently resented by others. That’s just the way it is.”

I didn’t really understand him then, but as time goes on I am beginning to realize how accurate his words are.

As I try to make sense out of the media’s coverage of this evil murder, I see no justification for any newspaper to have recognized Mr. Stark by his Chassidic identity. He was a Brooklyn born businessman who happened to be of Chassidic persuasion. I understand that reporting that would have been boring. Sadly, the media has allowed their insensitivity and dare I say, bias, GUEST VIEW

to fester over time, and may no longer even realize that identifying a subject matter by his or her religiosity is simply wrong and unprofessional.

It should be obvious by now to even the most callous and indifferent reporter that Orthodox Jews are deeply sensitive to allegations of institutional impropriety. Other minorities and groups rightfully and vociferously protest being tarred and stereotyped as well. I would offer that people and groups that have bared the brunt of racism and intolerance over decades are especially attuned and sensitive to being paint brushed or labeled. I believe the NY Post’s front cover was greeted with outrage and condemnation by my community for this very reason. Clearly not understanding the origin and authenticity of that outrage, the Posts felt no need to apologize and that simply proves my point.

And so I ask myself how can we change the conversation and really get the media off our backs? Perhaps our community needs to reassess how we are viewed by the secular world and how we must present ourselves outwardly to change that perception.

Entering the Business World We must educate our young and talented entrepreneurs who are entering the business world of their responsibilities. They are bright and capable, but most come from insular backgrounds with no formal training on entering the workplace, without benefit of a minimal education in secular and accepted business practices. As we’ve seen time and again, when certain violations do occur, they often become the subject of intense media scrutiny which shocks and dismays us.

The fact is when identifiable members of our community are alleged as being involved in criminality, it makes all of us the subject of sensationalist reporting. It is as if the media is lecturing us — “Look, you dress and act a certain way, you are holding yourselves to a higher standard, yet you don’t seem to be living up to those same high standards.”

Certainly, the vast majority of our community is proper and law abiding citizens.

But let there be no doubt, the media enjoys honing in on the few bad stories. That will never change. Yes, it’s unfortunate and unfair, but reality nonetheless. Maybe we might consider expending as much energy preventing misdeeds with proper education and preparation so we need not have to expend

By Deborah Fineblum, JNS.org Israelis know that each and every tree is precious. When the pioneers of the Jewish state first cast their eyes on the Promised Land, it was barren. There were no natural forests to be had.

And now, just consider: Israel is the only country in the world that ended the 20th century with more trees than it started with. In just six decades, Israelis have literally sunk down roots.

Of course, Israel did not accomplish this alone. Diaspora Jews have grown up dropping coins into little blue-and-white pushkes (tin cans), coins earmarked for planting trees in Israel. Many lucky enough to travel to Israel in their youth recall sticking slippery little saplings into the ground, knowing that each one made the fledgling Jewish state that much stronger.

Each sapling and coin has done its part to “green” the Jewish state. Since 1903, the Jewish National Fund (JNF) has planted 250 million trees indigenous to the Middle East, such as native oaks, carob, redbud, almond, pear, hawthorn, cypress, and the exotic Atlantic cedar. JNF has also developed more than 250,000 acres of land and 1,000 parks.

Tu B’Shevat — the Jewish New Year for trees, celebrated Jan. 16 this year—grew out of the tithes (the amount Jewish law requires to be donated) that Jews take from the produce grown in Israel. The date when new fruits are officially assigned to the New Year is the 15th of the Hebrew calendar month Shevat, hence the holiday’s timing.

Today, Jews around the world mark Tu B’Shevat by eating fruit, particularly the kinds mentioned in the Torah as Israel’s natural gifts: grapes, figs, pomegranates, olives, and dates.

But in Israel, where trees are nothing less than a relatively recent miracle, Tu B’Shevat isn’t just a passing nod to our leafyboughed friends. It’s a real live holiday marked by countless tree-planting ceremonies, ecological consciousness-raising programs in schools and communities, and seders for young and old alike — minus the matzah. It is in many ways a holiday ahead of its time, says one Israeli rabbi.

“Tu B’Shevat is really the celebration of spring time, yet it is in the middle of the winter, because it’s really the festival of faith, and particularly faith in the land of Israel,” said The Jewish Star

(WKLRSLDQV FHOHEUDWH 7X %¶6KHYDW More than 400 Ethiopian immigrants living in absorption centers in Israel planted trees in honor of Tu B’Shevat. Israeli Minister of Environmental Protection Amir Peretz is at center. The event was organized by Keren Kayemet LeIsrael.

columnist Rabbi Binny Freedman, Rosh Yeshiva of Orayta Yeshiva in Jerusalem’s Old City.

After all, it was in Israel that 17th-century Kabbalistic master Rabbi Yitzchak Luria of Safed and his disciples instituted the Tu B’Shevat seder, modeled after the Passover seder. Here, each of the fruits and trees of the Land of Israel were given symbolic meaning, including fruits with hard shells, inedible pits, and those that are completely edible.

In addition, four cups of wine (or grape juice) are drunk in a specific order and in varying shades of red, pink, and white, representing the cycle of life and seasons.

For many years, the Tu B’Shevat seder was an important event for the children in the elementary school in Kfar Saba, where Israel Lenchner was principal. They were among Israel’s

poorest kids, the majority of them from Ethiopian families. “Five hundred years ago, the rabbis of [Safed] would eat 34 fruits and vegetables that night, telling their stories and speaking of their love for Eretz Yisrael (the land of Israel),” Lenchner, who is now retired, tells JNS.org. “That’s why, for all the years I was the principal, we always had the seder of Tu B’Shevat.”

But Lenchner didn’t do it for the children alone. “As important as it is for them to know the stories, the wisdom and the traditions that have been handed down to us about the land, it’s just as important for us that they know it, that they truly love this land and this people,” he says. “That’s why every year we made sure they heard it, so they could grow up appreciating what they—and we— have been given here.”

The tree planting was an Israeli tradition even before JNF got in on the act. On Tu B’Shevat in 1890, Rabbi Ze’ev Yavetz led his students on a first planting outing to Zichron Yaakov. The tradition was embraced in 1903 by the JNF and taken up in 1908 by the Jewish Teachers Union. A few years later, JNF devoted the holiday to planting eucalyptus trees in an effort to drain the swamps and halt the malaria that had attacked the communities in the Hula Valley. In honor of the tradition of this holiday of new beginnings, the laying of the cornerstone at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem took place on Tu B’Shevat in 1918, as did those of the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology in 1925 and the Knesset in 1949.

These days, more than a million people each year attend JNF’s Tu B’Shevat planting ceremonies in Israel’s largest forests.

But trees have proven not to be immune to violence. In 2006, after the destruction of 10,000 acres of forest by Katyusha rockets, JNF launched Operation Northern Renewal to begin replacing much of the topsoil that had been burned away and replant the forest.

“Through 2,000 years of exile we never stopped believing that one day, we would come home,” says Rabbi Freedman.

“Which is why this Jewish festival is being rediscovered in Israel, because anywhere else in the world it is by necessity missing something. A celebration of coming home makes the most sense … when you are home.”

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Tasty ways to make your Tu B’Shevat seder sparkle

By Mollie Katzen, JNS.org Winter fruit might seem less spectacular than the much more time-valued offerings of summer, but oranges and pears in particular, while quiet and “common,” can be the unexpected stars of simple savory dishes.

This is perfect for Tu B’Shevat, the Jewish New Year for trees, which is a relatively unsung holiday. Sparkle up your Tu B’Shevat seder with an easy but surprising sweet potato-pear soup, which goes perfectly with a winter salad featuring crunchy, colorful leaves refreshingly coated with orange sections and a yogurty-orange vinaigrette, and exuberantly dotted with pistachios (also from trees). Finish the meal with an old-fashioned cake brimming with apples and walnuts, and studded with cranberries.

Cranapple Walnut Cake Servings: about 8 Back by popular demand from the original “Moosewood Cookbook,” this recipe now appears, adapted slightly, in “The Heart of the Plate.” You will likely want to serve this a la mode with some excellent vanilla ice cream. If you anticipate this need, be sure to have the ice cream on hand before you begin.

The cake is quite sweet as is. If you are going to serve it with the ice cream, you might want to reduce the sugar a notch or two— maybe to 1½ cups. If you buy extra-fresh whole cranberries in season and freeze some, you can enjoy them year-round. No defrosting necessary. Use nonstick spray.

Ingredients: 1-¾ cups (packed) light brown sugar ½ cup grapeseed or canola oil 2 large eggs 1 teaspoon vanilla extract 2 cups whole wheat pastry flour (also called “white whole wheat”) (could also be unbleached all-purpose) 1 teaspoon baking powder 1 teaspoon cinnamon ½ teaspoon nutmeg ½ teaspoon salt 2 medium apples (about ½ pound)— peeled and thinly sliced ½ cup chopped walnuts (chopped to the size of peanuts) ½ pound fresh (or frozen) whole cranberries Directions: 1) Lightly spray a 9 X 13-inch pan with nonstick spray. Heat the oven to 375°F. 2) In a medium-large bowl, beat together the sugar, oil, and vanilla. Add the eggs, one at a time, beating well after each.

3) In a second bowl, combine the flour with the other dry ingredients until thoroughly blended. Add the dry mixture to the wet, stirring until combined, folding in the

fruit and nuts as you go. The batter will be very thick.

4) Patiently spread the batter into the prepared pan (take your time spreading it in place) and bake in the center of the oven for 40-45 minutes, or until the cake pulls away from the sides of the pan, and the top surface is springy to the touch.

Winter Salad

with Radicchio, Oranges, Pistachios, and Yogurty-Orange Vinaigrette Servings: 4 Romaine and arugula join forces with radicchio and fresh orange sections, and an orange-laced yogurt dressing coats the leaves, allowing a scattering of pistachios to adhere at random. If you choose to form a bed of couscous or extra yogurt underneath each serving, you will be rewarded with an extra layer that both absorbs the delicious trickledown juices and also boosts the volume of the dish, herding it into light main-dish terrain.

You can wash and spin the salad leaves (keeping them cold and very dry), prepare the vinaigrette, and section the oranges well ahead of time. Dress and finish the salad immediately before serving.

The tangy vinaigrette, free-standing, will keep very well—for weeks—in a tightly covered container in the refrigerator. Shake well, or stir from the bottom, before using.

Vinaigrette ingredients: 1 heaping tablespoon finely minced shallot 1 teaspoon agave nectar or honey 3 tablespoons orange juice

1 tablespoon cider vinegar ¼ teaspoon salt (rounded measure) ¼ cup extra-virgin olive oil ¼ cup plain yogurt (regular or Greek) Salad ingredients ½ pound very fresh radicchio (any type) A handful of small arugula leaves About 6 perfect, crisp romaine leaves 2 oranges, sectioned 1/2 cup lightly toasted pistachios Optional Enhancement : Spread a bed of yogurt and/or couscous on the plate underneath the salad, as a bed to catch the dressing (and to make this more of a light main course).

Vinaigrette Directions: 1. Combine the shallot, agave or honey, orange juice, vinegar, and salt in a small bowl, and whisk to thoroughly blend.

2. Keep whisking as you drizzle in the olive oil, keeping up the action until it is completely incorporated.

3. Stir/whisk in the yogurt and mix until uniform. Cover and refrigerate until use.

Salad Directions: 4. Have the cleaned, dried salad leaves in a large-enough bowl. Break them into bitesized pieces as desired.

5. Add about 6 tablespoons of the vinaigrette, tossing as you go, to thoroughly coat all the leaves. Add the orange sections toward the end, mixing them in gently so they don’t break.

6. Sprinkle in the pistachios with the final toss, and serve pronto.

Sweet Potato-Pear Soup Servings: 5-6

Fresh pears and sweet potatoes are puréed together and finished off with touches of cinnamon and white wine. This unusual combination is slightly sweet, slightly tart, and deeply soothing. My original version (published in “Still Life with Menu”) included milk or cream. This version is veganfriendly, using oil instead of butter.

Use any wine that you enjoy drinking.

And perhaps serve the rest of the bottle with the soup. Be sure to use the moist, orange variety of sweet potato (not the drier, starchier white type).

Ingredients: 2 medium-sized sweet potatoes (1 pound) 4 cups water 1 3-inch stick cinnamon 1 ½ teaspoons salt 3 large ripe pears (any kind but Bosc, which are too grainy) 1 tablespoon unsalted butter—or grapeseed or canola oil ¼ cup crisp white wine 1 to 2 tablespoons fresh lemon or lime juice (to taste) Cayenne or white pepper (optional) Directions: 1) Peel sweet potatoes, and cut into small (about ¾-inch) pieces. Place in a large saucepan with water, cinnamon stick, and salt.

Bring to a boil, cover, and simmer until tender (about 10 minutes). Remove the cover and let it simmer an additional five minutes over medium heat. Remove and discard the cinnamon stick, and let the sweet potatoes rest in their cooking water while you fix the pears.

2) Peel and core the pears, and cut them into thin slices (about ¼-inch).

3) Melt the butter (or heat the oil) in a heavy skillet over medium heat, and swirl to coat the pan. Add the pears, and cook, stirring often, for about 5 minutes, or until quite soft. Add the wine, cover, and simmer about 10 minutes longer over lowest possible heat.

4) Transfer the pear mixture to the sweet potatoes-au-jus, then purée everything together until smooth with an immersion blender (You can also use a stand blender in batches, and then return it to the pot.

5) Add lemon or lime juice to taste, plus a touch of cayenne or white pepper, if desired, and serve the soup hot. (It reheats well, if necessary.)

With more than 6 million books in print, Mollie Katzen is listed by the New York Times as one of the best-selling cookbook authors of all time and has been named by Health Magazine as one of “The Five Women Who Changed the Way We Eat.” Her new book, “The Heart of the Plate: Vegetarian Recipes for a New Generation,” was published in September 2013 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.

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Apples compute anyway you slice it The Jewish Star sends our deepest condolences to Jerry and Judy Joszef on the passing of Jerry’s mother Sari, an exemplary Aishet Chayil b’Yisrael. Hamakom yenachem etchem b’toch evaillay Tzion V’Yerushalayim.

This week, we’re reprinting one of our favorite columns from the Who’s In The Kitchen archives.

I’ve always wanted to compare apples to WHO’S IN THE apples, and figured, KITCHEN since the recipe I’m sharing with you this week is an apple cake, what better time than now?

China is the largest producer of apples, producing almost half of the world’s apples.

In 2009, 71,000,000 tons of apples were grown, and 138,000,000 Judy Joszef tons of apples were produced.

The average apple orchard is 50 acres, while the average Apple store is .1 acre.

The first apples were cultivated in Mesopotamia around 8,000 BCE. Before this, apples were sour, seedy, and inedible.

The first Apple was built in 1976 by Steve Wosniak. Before this, computers were ugly, clunky and undesirable.

There are over 7,500 varieties of apples and 400 varieties of Apples.

Of the 7,500 varieties of apples, a few are standouts for those of us who like to bake and cook with them.

McIntosh apples are sweet, slightly tart, juicy and have tender flesh. They are good eaten raw, made into applesauce, or baked in a pie. Like the Apple Mac, they are versatile, can be found in a student’s knapsack, and are the most popular apple in New York.

Honey Crisp was introduced fairly recently. They are sweet, slightly tart, and very juicy. They make a wonderful eating apple and are perfect for baking and sauces.

Granny Smith is one of the most popular tart apples. They’re crisp, quite tart, and perfect for baking and cooking.

Golden Delicious are sweet with rich, mellow flavor. They are best for all around cooking as they maintain their shape after baking.

Mutsu (Crispin) are juicy and super crisp with a sweet refreshing flavor. They’re great for baking, eating, salads, freezing, and sauces.

Empire are firm textured and slightly tart.

They are good for eating, pies, salads, sauces, freezing, and baking.

Cortland are juicy, and slightly tart, but terrific for baking and are a welcome addition to fruit and cheese plates, as the flesh doesn’t brown quickly.

When people hear the word apple, so many images come to mind.

Adam and Eve and eating the forbidden apple.

Sir Isaac Newton, sitting under an apple tree and observing the law of gravity, as he watched an apple fall (or so the story goes).

Q Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.

Q An apple a day keeps the doctor away.

Q Apple Records Q Adam’s apple Q The Big Apple Q Bad apple Q William Tell Q Don’t upset the apple cart Q Applesauce Q Apple cider Q Apple vinegar And let’s not forget Johnny Appleseed, whose real name was John Chapman. He spent 49 years of his life in the American wilderness, planting apple trees.

It was his dream to have blossoming apple trees, everywhere, so that no one would go hungry.

Of course, when I hear the word apple, I conjure up images of my apple cookie crumble pie or my moist apple cake that melts in your mouth. This week I’d like to share that apple cake recipe with you.

Ingredients: Q 8 Granny Smith apples, peeled,sliced thin Q 8 teaspoons sugar Q 3 teaspoons cinnamon Q 2 cups sugar

Q 1 cup oil Q 4 eggs Q 3 cups flour Q 1 teaspoon salt Q 3 teaspoons baking powder Q ¼ cup orange juice Q 1 ½ teaspoons vanilla Directions: Mix together first three ingredients, and set aside Beat together the sugar, oil and eggs until smooth Mix together the dry ingredients in another bowl, and add to the egg mixture, alternating with the orange juice and vanilla.

Beat until smooth In a 10 inch 2 piece greased tube pan, pour a little less than half the batter. Top with half the apples, cover with the rest of the batter, and add the rest of the apples Bake in a 350 degree preheated oven for 75 minutes Remove from oven and let cool completely. Run a sharp knife around the sides of the cake and around the center tube, lift up the center portion of the pan with the cake Slide the knife under the cake and lift the cake off the tube section of the pan. Place on a serving platter and enjoy!

Oh, and a special thanks to Johnny Appleseed.

Columnist@TheJewishStar.com

1HZ %HOOPRUH EXWFKHU )RU *RRGQHVV 6WHDNV‘ Opening a neighborhood glatt kosher butcher is no longer an everyday occurrence, but it’s something David Blum (pictured) and his partner Scott Wohlstetten dreamed of — and last week that dream was realized.

They opened For Goodness Steaks, certified by the Vaad of Queens, at 2514 Merrick Rd., Bellmore. Fresh cut meat, flavorful challahs, and ready-to-eat takeout (including Shabbat specials) are available six days a week, with free parking and free delivery.

A bright new Seasons in Lawrence…

Continued from page 1 2004), grew up in the Five Towns and remembers the Seasons location as a Double E supermarket. He also noted that Amazing Savings was a Waldbaums supermarket and then a Newmark and Lewis appliance store.

He pointed out that Supersol, before Seasons, predated both Gourmet Glatt and Brachs kosher supermarkets in the Five Towns.

The store changed ownership in April 2011 when it was sold by Laurie Garber to a group of owners, including Gold, in the Five Towns-Far Rockaway area. It took until April 2013 to complete the planning and begin construction on revamping the store.

The new store has seven registers with one outfitted for the disabled and double strollers.

As at its other locations, the Lawrence Seasons will have two shopping carts de-

signed for disabled children, noting that they are the first kosher store to have them. Called Caroline’s carts, they are sponsored by Cross River Bank in New Jersey by “frum guys,” said Gold.

“They do it because they care.”

He noted the positive and friendly relationship between the owners and managers of Seasons, Gourmet Glatt, and Brachs, how Gourmet Glatt helped Seasons after a fire ravaged Seasons’ Kew Garden Hills store on the eve of its opening in 2011, and the unfortunate circumstances that allowed them to return the favor when Gourmet Glatt had a fire in November the same year.

“We always have a good working relationship,” he said, with all of them helping Achiezer and the local bikur cholim and after Hurricane Sandy. “It’s very unusual.”

Gold’s food experience began in Camp

Agudah where he ran the canteen when he was 15 years old. He said he worked for Garber at Supersol for 12 years, for Pomegranate for three years, and now as overall general manager for Seasons.

He’s been living in Far Rockaway for more than 20 years and his eight children attend four different yeshivot in the area.

Benji Schrier of Woodmere will continue as manager of the Lawrence store.

“People are waiting for the store to open,” said Gold. “It’s been an institution in town for 30 years. They are excited for us to come back. We hope to be open by the end of January. It’s up to the Ribbono Shel Olam.”

“We are eagerly awaiting their reopening,” said Hashi Gluck of Five Towns Judaica.

“We sorely missed them. They are nice people and we are very happy to have them back. It’s the anchor of the block.”

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Continued from page 1 as much defending them.

That’s why I propose that any member of our community who intends to enter the business world be offered the opportunity to get formally trained in a fully accredited program in their chosen profession, be it real estate, finance, retail, or others. Very often, our children go straight from Yeshiva into the ‘real world’ without any practical training or knowledge of applicable laws and rules of business. I don’t pretend that this will solve all of our problems or end the double standard towards us in the media, but I believe knowing and understanding individual responsibility is a good first step towards a better future for our people.

I cannot stress enough how much negative damage is generated for all of us through media coverage like this truly tragic story. It reverberates way beyond the scope of the individuals in this story. It is not just about

Menachem Stark and his alleged business dealings. It impacts every single Orthodox Jew who engages in any commercial activity with members of the non Orthodox world.

Yes, we need to confront and condemn newspapers like the New York Post who have defamed all of us and have behaved in a heartless manner towards a grieving family. But we are also required to address the rising stories of white collar crime and shady business dealings when we see them, even if they are few and far between.

As someone who is engaged in public relations in both the Orthodox and non- Orthodox Jewish world, I can only recommend that we address this issue both on an educational level and on a societal level. It is incumbent upon us to stop glorifying those individuals whose wealth is amassed through unscrupulous sources and not in accordance with our code of ethics.

Let me be clear: I am not writing these

words to address Menachem Stark. I am shaken by his murder and heartbroken for his family, not only for the obvious loss of a cherished husband and father but also for the fact that his reputation and that of our community were also assassinated along with him. I am writing this here and now because the conversation is unavoidable. We need to place value on the public’s perception of our community. This requires introspection.

It is my fervent hope that my words will be understood in its proper context. Believe me when I say that, as a proud Orthodox Jew, I am deeply hurt on a personal level when members of my community are unjustly and unnecessarily maligned. It need not be.

If my words will change even my own personal behavior then it would have been worthwhile to state my position public on this matter.

Ezra Friedlander is the CEO of The Friedlander Group.

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Sharon recalled as military hero, political Caesar

By Alex Traiman, JNS.org The funeral for Ariel Sharon, 11th prime minster of the State of Israel, took place on Monday, with dignitaries from 19 countries coming to pay their last respects. Sharon served as prime minster from 2001 until 2006, when a massive stroke left him in a comatose state until his death on Jan. 11.

Sharon is remembered as an enigmatic figure, both as one of Israel’s greatest generals and field commanders, and later as a government minister and prime minister.

Often considered hawkish in his policies and known as a builder of settlements, particularly in Judea and Samaria, Sharon paradoxically presided over the dismantling of Jewish communities in Sinai in the early 1980s following the peace treaty between Prime Minister Menachem Begin and Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, and then again during the unilateral disengagement from the Gaza Strip in 2005.

“He was a great general, and he really loved the state of Israel. He loved each and every square centimeter of the land. He loved our nation,” Yaakov Katz, a former Member of Knesset and chairman of Israel’s National Union Party, told JNS.org.

Katz—affectionately known by the nickname “Ketzaleh”—had a special affinity for Sharon, his former commander and then boss.

“During the war in 1973, under his command...we fought against the Egyptians,” Katz recalled. “On the eighth day of the war, we defeated a large group of Egyptian soldiers, and captured a bridge leading from the eastern side to the western side of the Suez Canal. In that fight, we succeeded in killing all of the enemy soldiers, but I was wounded by a direct RPG missile hit that killed my driver and another man in my vehicle. I was practically cut into two pieces, and the truth

U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld (left) escorts Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon into the Pentagon on March 19, 2001.

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is, nobody believed I would survive. But my commander called to Sharon, and Sharon sent a helicopter, which saved my life.”

“I appreciate what he did for me,” Katz said. “Since then...he assisted me on national and private operations that I have been involved with for the next thirty years.”

Sharon “had a central role” in building the Israel Defense Forces’ “heritage of valor” and “laid the foundations of the battle doctrine of the IDF, the doctrine of reprisal and initiative in the war against terrorism,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said.

According to Katz, Sharon was a major force in rapidly building up Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria, as well as in Jerusalem and the Golan Heights, areas captured

by Israel during the 1967 Six Day War. “All his political life, I was a main consultant to Sharon regarding the building of communities over the Green Line,” said Katz.

“When he was Minister of Housing for two

years, I served as his head of operations in Judea and Samaria. In those two years, we succeeded in building 60,000 units including caravans. During that period, the government allocated over $3 billion to bring in the Jewish refugees from the Former Soviet Union. We directed fifty percent of them to Judea and Samaria, Jerusalem, and the Golan Heights.”

“As one of the leaders of the Gush Emunim movement, I can say that today we have three quarters of a million people in Judea and Samaria, Jerusalem and the Golan Heights — and Sharon was a big part of that,” said Katz. “It will be impossible to evacuate this many people today because it is simply too much. Not that we don’t have Jews that are ready to do it, but three quarters of a million Jews are a large number of people and it is growing everyday.”

Yet despite this role, it may be that Sharon will be most remembered for his actions

in dismantling settlements. In public statements, dignitaries from around the world chose to acknowledge Sharon for his highly controversial political compromises, including the 2005 disengagement from Gaza—a move that displaced upwards of 10,000 Jewish residents and proved largely ineffective in creating peace between Israel and the Palestinians.

“As a general and politician, he was like a Caesar,” Katz told JNS.org.

“He saw himself as the main center of action. As long as he was in the center, anything could be done. The moment it looked like he might lose his influence, he was ready to push off a little bit on the principles and values he previously maintained, in order to keep himself in power,” Katz said.

When Begin offered Sharon the post of defense minister, Sharon “suddenly became ready and willing to destroy Yamit and all the settlements in Sinai, when just a few days before he was the one who stood behind the principle not to give up a single settlement.”

According to Katz, the quality of doing what it takes to remain in power carried over to Sharon’s term as prime minister.

“For me, Arik (Sharon’s nickname) saved my life and did so much for me and for my institutions, and through the years he helped us so much with what we were trying to do ideologically, that even though in the end of his life when he was prime minister, everybody understands that he behaved cruelly and destroyed things which we believed in,” added Katz.

“He was a man with a lot of power and strength, but not always used properly,” Katz said.

“He may be remembered in Jewish history — not the way he was supposed to be remembered, yet he was a very special man, and I have a lot of love for him.”

Sharon’s forgotten legacy: Jews’ White House march

By Rafael Medoff, JNS.org Although Ariel Sharon will be remembered primarily for his achievements on the battlefield and his decisions as an Israeli political leader, an often-overlooked aspect of his legacy was his impact on the American Jewish community.

In March 1980, Sharon arrived in the United States in the midst of an uproar over the Carter administration’s support of a United Nations resolution branding Jerusalem “occupied Arab territory.” Sharon, as a member of Prime Minister Menachem Begin’s cabinet, was invited to address an urgent meeting of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, in New York City.

In his remarks, Sharon criticized U.S. Jewish leaders for not responding more vigorously to the Carter administration’s action.

He recalled the hesitant response of some Jewish leaders during the Holocaust, and added, “Jewish silence will bring disaster upon the Jewish people and upon Israel.”

Sharon charged that recent friendly meetings between Jewish leaders and White House officials had served to “cover up” the administration’s tilt away from Israel. He urged American Jews to speak out strongly against Carter’s pressure on Israel, and said he was “shocked” that 100,000 Jews did not march to the White House to protest the U.S. vote on the U.N. resolution.

No transcript of the meeting was released, but one press report at the time claimed that some of the Jewish leaders in the room “took umbrage at the interference of the Israeli in such strident tones in American Jewish affairs.” An editorial in the New York Jewish

In October 1943, more than 400 rabbis marched on Washington.

Week said Sharon’s advice was “counter-productive” because it might give the American public the impression “that all of America’s foreign policy and domestic problems are based on Israel.”

But Jewish Week emphasized that “American Jews, as voters, have a means of expressing themselves.” With the 1980 New York presidential primaries just weeks away, the Week seemed to be encouraging Jewish voters to oppose President Carter’s re-election.

Sharon was also strongly attacked in the pages of the Jewish magazine Midstream, by historian Bernard Wasserstein. “If 1,000 rabbis had marched up and down in front of the White House and had refused to disperse until something concrete was done for the Jews, then, he believes, the administration’s conscience might have been stirred,” Wasserstein wrote. “It is a picturesque scenario — and one which would no doubt earn the

David S. Wyman Inst. for Holocaust Studies

warm approval of Ariel Sharon—but, alas, is unaccompanied by any supporting evidence that might raise it to the level of a serious political proposition.”

Wasserstein was evidently unaware that in 1943, just before Yom Kippur, 400 rabbis did march to the White House. That protest garnered important publicity for the cause of rescuing Jewish refugees, and helped galvanize congressional pressure on the Roosevelt administration on the rescue issue.

As it turned out, Sharon was ahead of the curve: American Jewry did follow his advice — 22 years later.

In the spring of 2002, Israel was rocked by a series of major Arab terrorist attacks, including a suicide bombing at a Passover seder in Netanya, that killed 30 civilians, most of them elderly, many Holocaust survivors.

Sharon, who by then was prime minister, ordered Operation Defensive Shield, a

major counter-terror offensive throughout the West Bank territories. More than 20,000 Israeli soldiers were mobilized to carry out hundreds of raids, which went on for several weeks and included capturing or killing numerous terrorists, seizing weapons depots, and sealing up safe houses.

Within days, the George W. Bush administration was pressing Sharon to halt the operation and withdraw the troops. American Jews responded precisely as Sharon had been hoping back in 1980: on April 15, 2002, more than 100,000 protesters gathered near the White House to support Israel’s actions.

Evangelical Christians also joined the rally.

The New York Times reported that the rally illustrated the strong support for Israel, and uneasiness over President Bush’s position, among an emerging coalition of Jews and conservative Christians. According to the Times, the president “attempted to mollify the conservatives” by sending “one of the most hawkish members of his administration, Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul D. Wolfowitz,” to speak at the rally. But Wolfowitz was greeted with boos and chants of “No More Arafat!”

In 2002, unlike in 1980, there were no Jewish leaders “taking umbrage” at the idea of such a rally, and no expressions of fear that supporting Israel would cause a backlash among the American public. Sharon had been vindicated, and a new standard for pro-Israel activism in the United States was beginning to take shape.

Dr. Rafael Medoff, director of Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies, is author of “FDR and the Holocaust: A Breach of Faith.”

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