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Long Beach yeshiva eyes No. 6

By Malka Eisenberg and Jeffrey Bessen The Hebrew Academy of Long Beach (HALB) is one of two remaining bidders for the vacant Number Six School in Woodmere. A yeshiva in Queens is HALB’s competition, Lawrence School District sources told the Nassau Herald.

HALB Executive Director Richie Hagler conďŹ rmed to The Jewish Star that HALB was one of two bidders. “So we’ve been told,â€? he said with a laugh. “It’s public information.â€?

The board may vote as soon as its next meeting on Jan. 13. “It’s too premature to discuss� how the site would be used — and what would happen to HALB’s property at 530 W. Broadway in Long Beach — if HALB is the successful bidder, Hagler told the Star.

Iran’s nukes survive bad deal While the world’s leaders are still coming to grips with the enrichment aspect of the Obama Administration’s deal to curtail Iran’s nuclear weapons program, no one has noticed that Iran’s warhead and delivery program remains untouched. Despite Tehran’s protestations that it has no intention of ever creating a nuclear weapon, Iran, in fact, has been developing a warhead for some 15 years. That

design is now near perfect.

Compare Iran’s nuclear weapons program to the use of gunpowder. One stuffs gunpowder into a bullet, loads it into a rie, and then ďŹ nds a marksman who can hit the target. Iran has nearly mastered all those steps, but in nuclear terms.

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1) accretion of enough nuclear materials, highly enriched to weapon’s grade, that is, about 90 percent; 2) machining that material into metal to create a spheroid warhead small enough to ďŹ t into a missile nosecone where it will be detonated; 3) developing a trigger mechanism to initiate the atomic exploContinued on page 15

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“We don’t know ourselves yet,� he said. “The [Number Six] building is in really bad shape. I don’t know when and what the [Lawrence] school board will decide and what the district voters will approve. Clearly there is a process.�

During an attempt last year to dispose of the Number Six property, at 523 Church Ave., HALB bid $9.2-million. But the Lawrence board instead chose the $12.5-million bid of Bronx-based Simone Healthcare Development, which planned to lease the property to Mt. Sinai Hospital for a 60-doctor, 30-specialty medical facility, a move that was overturned by voters, nearly 2-to-1, in a referendum in March.

Hagler emphasized that HALB’s “intention is to work with the community. We want this to work; we have kids in the community.�

The community near the Number Six School wants to maintain the availability of the site’s ball ďŹ elds and grounds for public use, and “our goal is to help with everything,â€? Hagler said.

Among HALB’s operations are an elementary school in Long Beach; the Stella K. Abraham High School for Girls (SKA) in Hewlett, and the Davis Renov Stahler Yeshiva High School for Boys (DRS) in Woodmere.

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Information for this article was submitted by Joey Hoenig, HAFTR varsity coach and athletic director.

Under the trying conditions of a pre-Shabbat snow storm, the Hebrew Academy of the Five Towns and Rockaway hosted the annual HAFTR Invitational Scott Satran Memorial Tournament last weekend and came out winners in more ways than one.

The event, which commemorates the life of HAFTR student athlete Scott Satran, who died in 1987, is the premier tristate yeshiva high school basketball tournament, including Riverdale’s SAR, Connecticut’s Waterbury Yeshiva, Brooklyn’s Magen David and YDE, the North Shore Hebrew Academy, and the Five Towns’ DRS, HANC and HAFTR. But basketball was only part of the story. With a blizzard heading towards Long Island, all teams needed to arrive early on Thursday and housing and food arranged through Shabbat for 150 boys.

The HAFTR Hawks opened It’s North Shore v. HAFTR in a criti- the tournament by beating the HANC Hurricanes on Thursday cal match over the weekend. night by 33, the beginning of its great run. The Hawks then faced a tough DRS Wildcats team, the eventual winners of the tournament’s Tier 2 championship, on Friday afternoon. DRS, down by 10 in the fourth quarter, refused to lose and tied the game with 30 seconds to go. But Alec Schonfeld’s buzzerbeater at the end of regulation tamed the Wildcats and propelled HAFTR to an electrifying 42-40 win.

Shabbat couldn’t come soon enough for these boys.

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By Malka Eisenberg With eating disorders on the rise in the Jewish community, Shalhevet High School for Girls in North Woodmere hosted a discussion-based program focusing on positive perceptions of body image and empowerment.

Temimah Zucker, a speaker on body image and eating disorders, spoke with each grade individually, focusing on self-evaluations and how to increase the ability to “feel good about ourselves.”

Zucker is a recovered anorexic who confronted the disorder at age 18.

In the course of her program, she asked the girls to judge themselves in every aspect including appearance, relationships, and academics. Many gave themselves low grades, prompting a discussion “on how society puts emphasis on appearance or how we look,” she said.

“They discussed how we can feel good about ourselves without relating to our appearance [and they] came up with most of the answers,” said Zucker.

Their suggestions included focusing on chesed, hobbies, other accomplishments, “sending yourself little notes about the great qualities you have, letting loose and having fun.” The stress on acts of chesed (kindness, charity) was important, she said, because it leads to “feeling good by doing good, to feel good as a person and not on how you look.

We should feel good about ourselves and who we are as people, our character. Our feeling from self-judgment shouldn’t come from our appearances but who we are as people.”

Zucker also brought halachik (Jewish legal) aspects to the talk, noting that the Torah “focuses on being healthy, to guard our bodies and stay strong” and that the Rambam stated that our bodies are meant to be strong and healthy. She also acknowledged that the Jewish community has been concerned

Temimah Zucker at Shalhevet High School.

with “looks, what size you are and shiduchin (matches for marriage),” although she did not recommend that the girls should completely disregard how they look “and walk around in a garbage bag.”

She pointed out that people often “get up in the morning and don’t feel good about their looks” and it’s important “how we counter it.”

Zucker, a graduate student at Wuzweiler School of Social Work at Yeshiva University, said that her recovery from anorexia “was the hardest challenge in my life.”

“It’s with you every day,” she said. “There’s

a lot of scarring left over. Recovery is possible and life on the other end is wonderful, [but] it’s a long, difficult road; people have it for 17 years and more and are still struggling.

“It’s a slow, hard journey but there’s hope.

It’s not something you chose. It’s very hard to battle and it can be fatal; it’s very serious. It’s not something you ever want to flirt with.”

“I had a lot of support from my friends and family and support team and was able to turn towards religion” focusing more on “davening and chesed. It helped me in my journey.”

Now, “I’ve taken it on myself especially in our community to be a voice for eating disorder awareness,” she said.

Zucker brings her two discussion presentations to diverse groups and has spoken to men and women, girls and boys, from ages 11 through adult. Her two talks are “Body Image: A Discussion of Empowerment” and “Eating Disorder Awareness: A Growing Epidemic in the Jewish Community.”

She discusses the signs and symptoms and what is an eating disorder, why it’s on the rise in the Jewish community, and tools in the community to fight against it.

She noted that in the course of some of her talks, some in the audience said that breaking away from society’s standard of being thin is risky. Zucker said that she “challenged that thinking. I showed them that if they break away from that they would be happier people [rather] than constantly be worrying about that.”

“Eating disorders are still on the rise in the Jewish community — look at the treatment centers [where] many clients are Orthodox girls. It’s all over. They range from 14 to 45 and am sure even older,” she said, but concluded, ”There is absolutely the possibility of recovery. It’s a long term process.”

Reach Zucker at informationTVC@gmail.com

Carolyn McCarthy announces she’ll leave Congress Rep. Carolyn McCarthy will not seek reelection to a 10th term later this year, she announced on Wednesday afternoon.

McCarthy, a Mineola resident, was first elected in 1996. Best known for her stance on gun control, she was in fact moved to run for office after her husband, Dennis, was killed and her son, Kevin, was wounded 20 years ago by Colin Ferguson in what came to be known as The LIRR Massacre.

“I have decided not to seek re-election to the United States Congress in 2014,” said McCarthy. “I am forever grateful to my constituents for giving me the privilege of representing them in Congress for the past 18 years.”

The Jewish Star columnist Alan Jay Gerber, a resident of the Five Towns, cheered her decision. “We’ve been waiting for a decade for this,” he said.

On Israel, “she was not helpful, she was not a voice when we needed a voice.”

Rep. Steve Israel (D-Huntington) called McCarthy “a shining example of how one can translate tragedy into meaningful public service. Carolyn leaves a legacy of standing up for Long Island families, advocating for the safety of our children and fighting for critical gun safety legislation.

She will be deeply missed.”

“I am very proud of the many accomplishments my colleagues and I have achieved,” McCarthy said. “The most important goal for any elected official is to help make residents’ lives better than they were, and as I enter my last year in office, I hope that together we continue to achieve that goal.”

Mangano pledges bright future in Nassau County

By Andrew Hackmack Nassau County’s response to Hurricane Sandy was the pinnacle of Ed Mangano’s first four years as county executive, prominent elected officials said during his inauguration ceremony on Jan. 2 at Bethpage High School.

In a nearly three-hour-long affair at Mangano’s alma mater, the county executive began his second term surrounded by hundreds of family members, friends, elected officials, county employees and other supporters. A bipartisan slate of officials, including Gov. Andrew Cuomo, State Sen. Dean Skelos, U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer, former U.S. Sen. Al D’Amato and Congressman Peter King praised Mangano for his dedication to the people of Nassau County.

Cuomo cited Mangano’s strength, tenacity and unwillingness to fail after Hurricane Sandy devastated parts of the county in October 2012. He said Mangano mobilized emergency responders, coordinated with state officials and fought for federal aid, while vowing to build Nassau County back better than before.

Skelos also noted Mangano’s response to the storm, how he was out on the streets talking with residents who were displaced from their homes. “Ed was there to offer comfort,” Skelos said, “and to offer hope and to show that there is a path to rebuilding Nassau County.”

Citing an unprecedented level of cooperation in Albany the last three years, Cuomo and Skelos challenged Nassau’s leaders to follow that example.

“You’re supposed to have debate,” Skelos said. “You’re supposed to fight for your posi-

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Nassau County Executive Ed Mangano spoke about the county’s future after he was sworn in for a second term, at Bethpage High School on Jan. 2.

tions. But, in the end, it’s the responsibility of those who are elected officials, whether you’re a Republican or a Democrat, to stop the electioneering, come together and get results.”

Four years ago, Mangano was on the same auditorium stage, having defeated the thenincumbent Suozzi by fewer than 400 votes.

D’Amato recalled that “miracle” victory, saying that few were giving Mangano a chance to win. But, D’Amato said, Mangano believed in himself and his message.

Mangano held true to that message,

D’Amato said, which is why he believes the county executive was re-elected in a landslide the second time around. “He cut the cost of government,” D’Amato said. “He refused to raise taxes. He created public-private partnerships that benefitted residents and our quality of life.”

After taking the oath of office on an electronic bible, Mangano cited his accomplishments of the last four years. He said Nassau no longer holds the distinction as the highest taxed county in the United States, but there is still more work to do.

Mangano cited efforts to “put Nassau County on a diet” by trimming the workforce by 20 percent, reducing the vehicle fleet and making county facilities more energy efficient. He thanked his department heads for their cost-saving initiatives.

Mangano, who worked his way through law school as a janitor, said he was “humbled and honored” to be sworn in as county executive for a second time, and thanked voters for giving him another term.

A version of this article appeared in the Nassau Herald.

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Remaining true to our dreams in challenging times Dedicated to the memory of Yosef Yitzchak ben Mordechai Aaron and Chana Yehudis Goodman z”l of the Israeli paratroopers. It’s because of boys like him that we are all blessed to have a State we can call our own.

Yehi Zichro’ Baruch. n 2006, the Goodman family’s son Yosef was killed in a tragic training acRabbi Binny cident when his paraFreedman chute failed to open properly. Incredibly, having become entangled with his officer’s chute, Yosef z”l bravely chose to cut himself loose rather than cost his officer’s life.

A few days later, sitting in the Goodman home, I learned just how special Yosef Goodman really was.

It is very hard to get in to this particular unit of commandoes, and recruits interested in applying have to go through a grueling week known as a “gibush.”

During this week commanders from all the elite units watch as the recruits go through a variety of very difficult physical and psychological tests to ascertain whether they have the ‘stuff’ necessary to join the family of Israel’s elite commandoes.

At one point, towards the end of that week, the soldiers were each given a shovel and told to dig a pit deep enough to get inside, with a time limit to get the job done.

Ben recalled that when he had been given this test as a raw recruit, there was a natural inclination to keep an eye on the other guys, because their failure (or slower progress) meant you had a better chance at succeeding. After all, they were competing with FROM THE HEART OF JERUSALEM

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you for the very few open spots in these elite units.

During this test Yosef (by then known as ‘Goodman’) did something so unique that officers were still talking about weeks later, as no-one could recall anything remotely similar ever having happened during a ‘gibush’.

It seems that halfway through digging his ditch, Yosef noticed one of the other fellows had broken his shovel and was working without a handle. So, without thinking, he jumped out of his ditch, ran over to this fellow, gave him his shovel, and then ran back to his own hole to finish digging his ditch by hand. Then, just before the time ran out, Yosef ran back to this other soldier and grabbed back his shovel, so no-one would know he had broken the regulations….

No-one had ever heard of a recruit doing such a selfless thing and all without even thinking about it…. Truly, the stuff heroes are made of, and the same thing a man, much later, might do when not having much time to think about choosing to save himself or the life of his officer…. ll of which leaves us wondering: what goes through the mind and heart of a person when faced with such a challenging situation? When immersed in such a raw moment full only of the need for physical action; in such pure instance of self-expression, is there still room for G-d?

Perhaps, hidden in this week’s portion, Beshalach, there is room to struggle with this question.

Hashem (G-d) finally takes the Jewish people out of Egypt; after ten long plagues,

and a year of bargaining with Pharaoh, the Jewish people are finally leaving. And yet, the story is not over yet: As the Jews arrive at the shores of the Sea of Reeds (Yam Suf), unbeknownst to them, Pharaoh has ‘changed his mind’ and is driving the entire Egyptian army, straight for the unsuspecting Jewish mass. Suddenly, yesterday’s slaves, faced by their former taskmasters, are closed in by the sea on one side, and the might of Egypt on the other, and, quite expectedly, they are terrified.

“And the Children of Israel lifted up their eyes, and behold, Egypt was traveling after them, and they were very afraid, and the Children of Israel cried out to Hashem (Gd).”

This seems to be the right thing to do, after all, how many times in the desert will we see the Jews complain to Moshe when they should be praying to G-d, right?

But G-d seems to take issue with this line of reasoning!

“And Hashem said to Moshe: why are you screaming out (praying?)to me?

Speak to the children of Israel and tell them to travel (to get moving!).” (14:15) Only after exhorting the Jewish people to go forth into the Sea, does G-d then (verse 15) tell Moshe: “And you, lift up your staff, and stretch out your hand on the Sea and split it, that the Children of Israel may come into the Sea on dry land.” (14:16) In other words, the flow of the verses seems to imply that the Sea will split only after the Jewish people are willing to go forth! Somehow, we have to be willing to

Our dreams must fuel what we do — or our vision, no matter how noble, will remain meaningless.

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move forward, before G-d will split the Sea! Why? Fascinatingly, Rashi (14:15) in his fanous commentary, shares a rather challenging tradition: “We have learned that Moshe was standing and praying. Said the Holy One Blessed be He: ‘Now is not the time to wax on (literally to lengthen) in prayer (tefillah), for Israel is in trouble…”

(Rashi, Exodus 14:15) Now is not the time to pray? If there ever was a time to pray, wouldn’t this be it?

What could be wrong with prayer at a time like this? Perhaps the clue to understanding all this is that, Rashi, quoting the Midrash, does not say it is not the time to pray. Rather, he says it is not the time to lengthen, or delay in prayer. In other words, for some reason in this situation, while there is a call for prayer, it should not be too long. But one wonders how prayer could ever be too long?

Perhaps the issue at hand is not about how long one prays, but at what point one has to act. Too often, we spend too much time contemplating, dreaming, and even hoping. But sometimes, we have to take destiny into our own hands. Hashem created a world for us, but He wants us to become His partners in making it the world it was always meant to be.

Over three thousand years ago, on the banks of the Red Sea, a rabble of slaves is about to become a Nation of free men. And what separates people who are enslaved from those who are free, is whether we are willing to act on our own behalves and especially in service to a higher purpose beyond ourselves.

So many people in this world are enslaved, and you don’t have to be bending under the whips of ancient Egypt, or trapped inside the cattle cars of a more modern and Continued on page 14

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he battle is waged against Amalek, and as it finishes, we are told (as it is most often translated) that “Yehoshua weakened Amalek and his people with the sword” (Shmot 17:13). The Torah’s word for weakened is vayachalosh, but its translation is not so clear.

Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch takes the Rabbi Avi Billet “weakening” as a reminder that the defeat of Amalek will only come at the end of days.

He argues that Israel, as a people, is not yet mature, and it is Amalek’s existence as an adversary and a contrast that is necessary for Israel’s development.

The Mechilta records three opinions as what happened to Amalek on this battlefield: they were judged with mercy, they lost based on a divine word, they fell by the sword.

The Pesikta similarly has a few suggestions: they plowed through Amalek (based on the “L” of VaychaLosh being interchangeable with an “R” – “Vayachrosh”), he struck them as how one destroys mice through squashing them, or Yehoshua had the Amalekites decapitated.

The Midrash Sechel Tov elaborates on this last suggestion, saying Yehoshua did not muPARSHA OF THE WEEK

tilate their bodies, but judged them to receive an honorable death — quick and instant death through decapitation.

How could such a judgment be considered a weakening? The Targum Yonatan says the punishment was on a limited scale — only the greatest of their warriors met their ends this way (see Rashi too). This explains how they were weakened — their best soldiers perished, but not the regular rank-n-filers (Ta”z).

There is another line of thinking recorded by a number of commentaries, based in the Midrash. The Amalekites were able, through necromancy, to see which of their soldiers were not destined to die at the sword during the coming year. These men were placed as the front-line soldiers, almost as an invincible army. Nonetheless, Yehoshua’s army weakened them with the sword through injuries, even though they could not kill them (Chizkuni, Daat Zekenim, R Chaim Paltiel, etc).

Chizkuni (and R Chaim Paltiel) records a different opinion, based on similar word in Iyov 14:10, that Vayachalosh means many Amalekites did in fact die in battle.

However, R Chaim Paltiel raises another Midrashic approach to this battle, that Ye-

hoshua ordered for the Roshei Eivarim — the tips of the organs — to be removed, thus weakening them. The Sifra (Tazria 1) notes that there are 24 Roshei Eivarim – 10 fingers, 10 toes, the ears, the nose, the male organ and the nipples.

If all the Roshei Eivarim were removed, that is not only a weakening, that is a mutilation! The Daat Zekenim claims it wasn’t “all” of the Roshei Eivarim, just the hands and the feet. We are grateful for the clarification.

Of course there are others, such as one opinion quoted in the Hadar Zekenim anthology, who say that the allusion of “Vaychalosh” is to death, plain and simple.

Rabbenu Bachaye takes the word to be understood in an out-of-worldly sense, that there was something going on in the stars and between the heavenly representatives of Amalek and Yisrael.

I raise all of these possibilities for a number of reasons.

First, as a reminder that there’s a world of interpretation out there, and while everyone has an opinion, no one can be absolutely correct when it comes to certain narratives.

Second, the rules of the battlefield are not pretty. It is very difficult to judge military leaders for decisions made in the heat of a battle

There’s a world of interpretation out there. No one can be absolutely correct when it comes to certain narratives.

when their soldiers’ lives are on the line and there is chaos and lack of clarity all around.

Third, whatever Yehoshua did to “weaken them” — whether killing the best soldiers, the entire attacking band of Amalekites (surely the entire nation of Amalek was not at hand for this attack), or just mutilating them, Amalek was weakened enough that we don’t see them attack the Israelites for decades (and not at all in the book of Yehoshua). Of course, we understand that whatever he did was by divine command.

Sometimes merely disarming enemies is not enough. Something needs to be done to set them back decades so that we can live in peace for a generation or two, if not longer.

I don’t take from this story that enemies should be killed or mutilated. But a strategy could be employed that considers how to weaken a fighting spirit, perhaps a push to educate or to employ or to give people a sense of purpose in life beyond having nothing better to do than fight the Israelis.

The power struggles that pervade in the Middle East, as well as certain U.S. politicians’ egotistical notion that they have the solution, only add to the fire that will never allow for peace in the region unless the focus changes to bettering the lives of a people through education and opportunity in place of blaming others for all of the woes that have not subsided or changed (in some cases) for generations.

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“Jacob was the first Patriarch to establish direct communication with his grandchildren. He was the first to make a historic pronouncement, thereby laying the foundation for the dialogue of the generations. He literally conquered time and space when he said to Joseph, ‘your two sons who were born to you in the land of Egypt until I came to you to the land of Egypt, they are mine.

Ephraim and Manasseh shall be mine like Reuben and Simeon.’ They received portions in the later division of the Holy Land, as did the sons of Israel. Though a second generation removed, and nurtured in an Egyptian environment, Jacob equated them with his own sons who had been reared close to him in the Holy Land.

“Abraham and Isaac transmitted their spiritual heritage to their sons, but not to their grandsons. … Jacob, however, related directly to his grandchildren; he did not need an intermediary or an interpreter, his was a direct dialogue. Jacob the zaken leaped over the gulf of generations and transmitted the great mesorah (heritage) of Abraham directly to Ephraim and Menasseh.”

The Rav makes specific note of the following factors in this special relationship: “Jacob was the first to impart special blessings to his grandchildren. … He blessed them even before he assembled his own sons for their blessings. … The halachic ruling [Yevamos 62b] that grandchildren have the same status as children is derived from Jacob’s declaration about Ephraim and Menasseh.”

The Rav concludes: “How appropriate, therefore, that our people be called Israel or Jacob, for it was he who created the community which ensures Jewish continuity. What preceded him were Patriarchal families, but Jacob laid the foundation for a people. Though the covenant was made initially with Abraham, it was not until Jacob that the secret of perpetuating the mesorah was discovered.”

This is a very powerful teaching for all of us to learn from and apply to our family relationships, both today, and in the many years to come. The bonding that the Rav teaches us from this family experience should serve as an apt example as to what family-centered activity means to all society I surely look forward to upcoming volumes in this Chumash series from the teachings of Rav Soloveitchik in the very near future from the OU and its esteemed director, Rabbi Menachem Genack.

With the start of the annual readings from the Book of Exodus this coming Shabbat, I am thrilled to note the publication of the next volume in the Living Torah Museum Chumash series on the Book of Shemos by its director, Rabbi Shaul Shimon Deutsch. This 170 page pictorial work brings to life the realities of the historical and inspiring events that took place in the historical settings of Egypt and Sinai both before, during and after the Exodus.

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Also, please consider this: this book will serve as an excellent resource at the seder table, so remember to keep it away from the challah.

FOR FURTHER STUDY “What’s Beyond The Bible Text?” is the title of a challenging series of teachings on the weekly Torah readings by Rabbi Dr. Stanley Wagner, of blessed memory, and Rabbi Israel Drazin. This work of high intellectual caliber brings to us relevant, contemporary themed issues that serve to make the Torah text germane to issues that we all face daily.

An example of its learning method can be demonstrated with this week’s reading wherein the authors present us a series of challenging questions: •Why did Pharaoh begin to mistreat the Jews ?

•Can we find historical evidence to support the Bible’s narratives ?

•Why did the Torah portray Moses as an uncharismatic man ?

•What is the significance of the three signs that G-d told Moses would prove that G-d sent him to Egypt ?What is revelation ?

•What does it mean when we speak of G-d’s “name” ?

•Why did G-d keep the Israelites in Egyptian slavery while He was punishing Pharaoh?

There are more questions to come, thus, making this work, as well as the previously mentioned volume, valuable learning tools for all family members for the Pesach holiday as well.

Read, learn and enjoy.

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he inspiring story of the special relationship of grandfather to grandchildren in this past week’s Torah reading — Yosef HaTzadik, Joseph the just one, to Yisrael Sava, Israel the elder, the zeida Ya’akov — prompted the great Yosef of our time, Rav Joseph B. Soloveitchik, zt”l, to write an eloquent and learned teaching reflecting upon the first relationship between grandfather and grandsons as recorded in the Bible, KOSHER that being between JaBOOKWORM cob and Ephraim and Menashe.

This teaching, as it appears in the Orthodox Union’s “Chumash Mesoret HaRav,” warrants your attention for its literary and religious meaning. The Rav begins his commentary pondering why Jacob is referred to on several occasions Alan Jay Gerber as an elder, as none of the other Patriarchs are referred to as such. To help explain this, I am going to quote some of the Rav’s words on this special, family-centered teaching: “In Talmudic and Midrashic literature, Jacob is often called Yisrael Sava, [“Old Israel”], and this term, too, is employed even in modern usage, to designate Jews who observe the old tradition. In what manner did Jacob distinguish himself that his name became the generic name for an entire people, and why is he in particular called the zaken (elder)?”

Now, consider further, this observation by the Rav:

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‘Anti-Zionism’ and the Nazi quenelle

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bout five years ago, I participated in a head-to-head debate about contemporary anti-Semitism that was published in the Congressional Quarterly. Facing off against a particularly tiresome Jewish antiZionist, I tried to shed some light on the issue by drawing a distinction between what I called “Bierkeller” and “Bistro” anti-Semitism.

“Bierkeller” antiSemitism — named Ben Cohen, JNS for the drinking establishments in Germany where the Nazis chugged down beer while shouting themselves hoarse about the “Jewish menace” — is, I said, pretty transparent.

You wear a uniform, you yell about Jews (not “Zionists,” mind you, but “Jews”) and you burn down a synagogue. By contrast, “Bistro” anti-Semitism — named for the trendy eateries adored by bien-pensant metropolitan leftists — is an altogether more refined affair. It does not demonize Jews as Jews, and it regards talk of anti-Semitism as a reprehensible technique to divert attention away from Israel’s “crimes.”

And it insists that there is no common ground between those who today call for the destruction of the Jewish state and with Hitler’s obsession with destroying the Jewish people; the former is grounded upon principles of justice, while the latter refers to a regrettable historical event that is, whatever the paranoid fantasies conjured up

by Jewish leaders, over and done with.

As I observed the furor around two separate but related events in recent weeks (the mushrooming of a movement in American universities in favor of an academic boycott of Israel, and the disturbing trend in France for performing the “quenelle,” an inverted Nazi salute, in public spaces) I thought once more of that distinction. What connects the worldview of Dieudonné M’bala M’bala — the anti-Semitic French comedian who invented the quenelle and who heads a party called the Anti-Zionist List and who admits that the voice of a Jewish journalist makes him nostalgic for the gas chambers — with the worldview of the Israel-haters in the American Studies Association, the Modern Language Association, and similar academic bodies?

Put another way: Is there now an inviting bistro in some corner of the loud, intimidating bierkeller?

It’s likely that many, though not all, American advocates of the academic boycott of Is-

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rael would be horrified by any association with Dieudonné. In their minds, a huge expanse separates their opposition to what they call Israel’s “apartheid” system of government from the young man who gave the quenelle while standing outside the Jewish school in Toulouse where, during a March 2012 terrorist atrocity, a rabbi and three small children were murdered. That fellow, they would say, is motivated by hatred of Jews; we, on the other hand, are motivated by justice for the Palestinians.

The truth is that it’s nowhere near that simple. Here’s why: In the post-Holocaust era, there isn’t a single example of something defined as “anti-Zionism” that hasn’t been contaminated by anti-Semitism. When the Arab League launched its “anti-Zionist” boycott in 1945, three years before Israel’s creation, its target was the besieged Jewish community in British Mandate Palestine. When the Soviet Union threw in its lot with the Arab regimes during the Cold War in the name of “anti-Zionism,” the primary victims were Soviet Jews. When Poland’s ruling communists launched an “anti-Zionist” campaign in the late 1960s, the people whom they purged were Jewish. And when left-wing German terrorists hijacked an Air France plane in 1976, they demonstrated their “antiZionism” by separating the Jewish passengers from the non-Jewish ones.

Today’s boycott activists need to be reminded of this sordid history. They need to be asked why the cause of Israel’s elimination is a magnet for individuals like Dieudonné, as well as for the myriad others who warn darkly about the power of the socalled “Israel Lobby,” or the existence of an “Israel Firster” mentality among Jews. Is it just a coincidence? Or are we dealing with a situation in which anti-Semitism is acceptable so long as it calls itself by some other name?

Are we really so dim as to be fooled by an exercise in rebranding? After all, if the antiSemitic Nazi salute were not illegal in France, there would be no need for the “anti-Zionist” quenelle.

Israel’s defenders might also want to ponder the important question of what the future holds. Will forthcoming incarnations of antiZionism belong to the earnest dogmatists of the academy, or will they be trumped by the theatrical provocations of Dieudonné and his quenellistas?

Only the latter have the possibility of becoming a mass phenomenon, because they exercise an appeal that stretches from the street corners of depressed European cities to glitzy VIP rooms filled with celebrity athletes.

That’s why the days when we look back upon the academic boycott of Israel as a comparatively innocent affair may not be too far in front of us.

There is no example of ‘anti-Zionism’ not contaminated by antiSemitism.

‘Of Thee I Sing’ a political musical whose time has come — again

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f Thee I Sing,” a musical that first appeared on Broadway over 80 years ago, is long over due for a Broadway revival.

One of the most biting political satires ever written, “Of Thee I Sing” was the first successful American musical with a consistently satiric tone. It was so satirical, the writers of the play and the cast were unsure of what Jeff Dunetz the public’s reception would be, prompting one of the writers of the book, George S. Kaufman, to quip “Satire is what closes on Saturday night.”

Written at the beginning of the great depression, “Of Thee I Sing” lampoons a political system too tied up in personalities and silly little issues to fix the country’s economy and of how a completely gullible American people can be controlled at the hands of a good media spin (sound familiar?).

Behind the musical was a Broadway AllStar team. The book was written by George S. Kaufman (“You Can’t Take it With You”) and Morrie Ryskind. Their previous collaboration was “Animal Crackers,” a Broadway musical written for the Marx Brothers (Ryskind went on to write many of the Marx Brothers movies). George and Ira Gershwin wrote music and lyrics. George Gershwin was perhaps America’s greatest composer, writing everything from musicals, to opera, to classical music and ballet. Ira Gershwin is one of the American musical’s greatest lyricists, who wrote for both stage and screen (including the original “A Star is Born”).

“Of Thee I Sing” was the first musical ever to win the Pulitzer Prize for drama. Unfortunately, although the score is an essential part of the play, the Pulitzer committee did not recognize George Gershwin.

The play tells the story of presidential candidate John P. Wintergreen, “he’s the man the people choose, loves the Irish and the Jews.”

For Vice President the choice is Alexander Throttlebottom, a man best known for gaffes who throughout the play keeps trying to get into meetings and rallies, but gets thrown out because no one knows who he is.

Thanks to political bosses Louis Lippman and Francis X. Gilhooley, newspaper magnate Matthew Arnold Fulton, and Senators Carver Jones and Robert E. Lyons, Wintergreen’s chosen platform was selected to avoid political controversy, ending up with the “love platform.” The party bosses also decide that Wintergreen should get married, so they hold a beauty pageant to select a bride for him. The winner is the sultry southern belle Diana Deveraux.

Unfortunately the candidate throws a wrench into the plans when he falls in love with the all-American Mary Turner. Her major qualification? “Some girls can make a pie made up of prunes and quinces, some make an oyster fry, others are good at blintzes, some lovely girls have done wonders with turkey stuffings, but I have found the one who could really make corn muffins,” Wintergreen explains.

Wintergreen and his Mary win the election but immediately after the inauguration/wedding, Ms. Deveraux shows up to tell her story of winning the contest and being jilted by the new President. The Supreme Court is called in to decide between corn muffins and justice. Thankfully the Court decides “corn muffins are more important.”

“Of Thee I Sing” is merciless in the way it attacks all American institutions

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— the nine members of the Supreme Court care more about politics than justice, the Senators care more about petty local politics than doing their jobs, and the political operatives don’t give a rat’s ass about what the country needs, they only care about public opinion and maintaining power.

Some things never change.

The least sympathetic character is the French ambassador, even back then (as Al Bundy once said) everyone hated the French.

The ambassador escalates the Diana Deveraux scandal, bursting into the White House demanding retribution for the affront to France. It seems that the sultry Deveraux is “the illegitimate daughter of an illegitimate son of an illegitimate nephew of Napoleon.”

To placate the French, the political operatives decide to have the President impeached.

But just as the Senate is going through its roll call, in bursts the First Lady who announces she’s expecting. Since no expecting President has ever been impeached, the impeachment is called off (and she ends up with twins — it was the politically expedient thing to do).

In the end everyone is happy, the President has his Mary (and corn muffins).

“Of Thee I Sing” is a special play because it really connected with the mood of America during the first part of the depression. A mood similar to today, a feeling that our government was run by a bunch of well-meaning fools, who get tied in their own underwear to get anything done.

That optimism is comes from the Jewish-American background of the writing team.

Two years after “Of Thee I Sing” opened, the same all-star team of producers, writers, actors, etc. wrote a sequel called “Let Them Eat Cake,” which failed because was it was much darker and more pessimistic than the original.

“Of Thee I Sing” was revived a few times, a planned movie version starring the Marx Brothers never came together, there was even a dreadful TV version starring Carroll O’Connor, but it was never brought back at the right time. This classic of American theater works best during a time when the country is in economic and political distress, a time when the country looks for entertainment poking fun at what they are going through while understanding that as bad as things get, in the end everything will be just fine. A time like now.

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DRS Yom Iyun inspires

By Yitzchak Carroll Parents and students alike were inspired

by Davis Renov Stahler (DRS) Yeshiva High School’s annual Yom Iyun on Jan. 1, as they learned together about the concept of emunah (faith), as well as its practical applications in life.

“The purpose of the Yom Iyun is to give the parents and children an opportunity to learn together in a meaningful way,” said Judaic Studies principal Rabbi Elly Storch. “For everybody to learn together about emunah is a great way to receive inspiration,” he added.

The day commenced with Shacharit, followed by a scrumptious breakfast. Rabbi Storch delivered opening remarks, and quoted a medrash in Parshat Va’eira, which says that the Jews were redeemed from Egypt due to their emunah, and will be redeemed Keynote speaker Rabbi Moshe Weinberger captivates the audience with his lecture on “Living with Emunah.”

in the future, as well, due to their emunah.

Students then chose from an array of shiurim (lectures) by DRS rebbeim on topics related to emunah, including proofs for G-d’s existence, why G-d allows good things to happen to bad people, and the balance between hishtadlus (effort) and emunah. The shiurim were interesting, inspirational, and enjoyable for both the student and parent body.

The event’s keynote speaker was Rabbi Moshe Weinberger, the Rabbi of Congregation Aish Kodesh in Woodmere, and mashpia (spiritual mentor) of Yeshiva University, who spoke on the topic of “Living With Emunah.”

Rabbi Weinberger spoke about believing in oneself and knowing who you are, as students and parents were captivated by his inspirational words.“It was nice to have a program that involves both parents and children,” said sophomore Josh Kantrowitz, who attended the program with his father. “I felt that Rabbi Weinberger’s speech was very interesting and inspiring,” he added.

Rambam week breaks routine Rambam Mesivta third annual “Tefillah Week: Rerouting the Routine,” capped off an amazing first half of the school year. The program included guest scholars-in-residence, inspiring words from Rambam’s rebbeim, exciting activities to enhance the appreciation and understanding of tefillah and concluded with an All-Night-Learn-A-Thon and vasikin minyan.

The entire mesivta davened together on Monday and then were treated to an engaging dvar Torah from guest speaker Rabbi Steven Burg, Eastern Director of the Simon Wiesenthal Center. He urged everyone to recognize that “the direct opposite of spirituality is cynicism and sarcasm” and to focus on “allowing

yourself to pray.” Rabbi Burg then met with each grade individuality for question and answer sessions.

Part of the thought-process behind Tefillah Week is to get out of the routine that can be detrimental to davening. The school heard tefillah related divrei Torah from Mr. Hillel Goldman, Rabbi Yitzie Werblowsky, Rabbi Avi Haar, and Rabbi Yosef Ziskind.

Wednesday saw an innovative method of improving kevanah in davening: Students created their own davening bookmarks that featured translations and personal connections related to prayer and Hashem’s greatness.

Thursday featured Scholar-inResidence Rabbi Aryeh Lightstone,

Regional Director of NCSY New York, who focused on praying with Zerizut, enthusiasm.

The week concluded with AllNight-Learning featuring shiurim from Rosh Mesivta Rabbi Zev Meir Friedman, Rabbi Haar, Rabbi Jonathan Muskat, Rabbi Ziskind, and Rabbi Aryeh Young — as well as basketball time in the gym, coffee, cocoa, Dunkin Donuts and midnight cholent and kugel.

The highlight of the night for was the Siyum on Masechet Ketubot, accomplished by senior Menachem Freedman, followed by singing and dancing over the appreciation of learning, davening, and the pursuit of enhancing learning and davening.

Shalhevet father-daughter learning It was bring-your-father-to-schoolday on Dec. 25 as Midreshet Shalhevet held its annual Lunch n’ Learn. The program began with Rabbi Weil, Executive Vice President of the OU, conveying the importance of our dedication to Medinat Yisroel and Am Yisroel. His discussion, “The Anatomy of the World’s First BDS Movement,” captured everyone’s attention. The girls and their fathers then broke off into chavrusa learning to review the Hagaddah sources that Rabbi Weil was referencing. Rabbi Weil then brought down more sources and further relayed the connection between the methods of slavery used in Mitzrayim, the Holocaust, and the response of the American Jews to BDS (Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions) which is a global campaign that puts economic and political pressure on Israel.

HANC gets math maps up Sixth Graders in Class 6-103 at HANC’s Samuel & Elizabeth Bass Golding Elementary School, in West Hempstead, have been working on an E2K project called Coloring Maps, by Gali Shimoni.

The project is based on a hypothesis by mathematician Francis Guthrie who states that no more than four colors are required to show the different regions on any map. It took nearly 100 years from when Guthrie first introduced his hypothesis to actually prove it and the proof

was not mathematical in the conventional sense, because most of it was calculated by a computer.

Mrs. Vera Pinn, the sixth grade math teacher, used Guthrie’s hypothesis and the math associated with it as a fun way to engage her students and a way to bring math and science to life.

“I loved doing this activity because it challenges me,” said Olivia Peller. “It’s good to have a challenge once in a while, and it’s enjoyable,” said Adam Speiser.

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With a commanding 27-17 halftime lead, the HAFTR coaches knew this lead could disappear in a heartbeat, as it did two months ago when North Shore handed them a 7 point loss in Great Neck. For the Hawks to hold onto this lead, they would have to play another half of stifling defense, which they did Led by all-tournament all-stars Mark Spivak and Matt Rosenberg, who played with one eye shut due to a first half injury, the Hawks suffocated the Stars by holding them to just 11 second half points and took home the coveted tournament vhampionship trophy.

The Hawks won all five games due to their tough, hard-nosed defense, great shooting by Ari Baratz, huge inside play by their centers Allan Stern and Barak Rosner, and great bench play. The Most Valuable Player award went to Alec Schonfeld who was HAFTR’s and the tournament’s best player, who credited his teammates for his success.

Thanks to the Satran family for their support of the tournament; to Andi Koppelman; and to our entire HAFTR community.

HAFTR amilies took 3, 4, 5 boys from different schools from Thursday through Sunday night and housed them, fed them (high school boys like to eat!), and shuttled them numerous times back and forth to HAFTR through hazardous snowy and icy conditions.

Our HAFTR family showed its true colors!

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The weather outside didn’t stop the boys from walking to an oneg Shabbat at the Scharf residence where Melodie and Marty were extremely gracious hosts. Other Shabbat highlights included talks by Rabbi Kenneth of Beth Shalom, and Ben Brafman.

Basketball resumed Saturday night with HAFTR continuing its winning ways, beating the Waterbury Stars and securing first place heading into the playoff round. In a hard fought semifinal game on Sunday morning against Magen David Warriors, the Hawks controlled the second half with its vintage defense, allowing the Warriors to score only seven second- half points, winning by 10 and earning teir spot in the Championship game.

In the other semifinal game, The North Shore Stars handily beat the SAR Sting setting the stage for a great, championship game.

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When it comes to chesed, Peri is ďŹ rst on line to lend a hand. She has run toy drives for Winthrop Child Life, donated over 300 boxes of Girl Scout cookies to be donated to the families on the pediatric ward, and delivered Purim baskets to each child in the ward over the past four years.

When asked by her friends what she would do if she won the lottery, without missing a beat, she said she would donate the money to Chai Lifeline. Her friends had to convince her to keep some for herself.

While Peri feels different and knows her life is not like other kids, she adapts to things. She gives in to what she canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t control and ďŹ ghts for herself when she can. Peri wants to be an advocate or attorney for kids with special needs and disabilities so she can voice and ďŹ ght for them, And when sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not busy with her many acts of chesed she loves fashion, shopping and makeup just like any other teenager.

Word has it that Peri has inspired everyone she meets; she has certainly inspired me.

This year as in years past, Peri and her family will be running the marathon in Miami for Chai Lifeline.

Those who want to pledge support in honor of Peri can do so by logging onto www.teamlifeline.org/my/59176.

Letâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s help her to raise money for this wonderful organization that helps her and countless others.

When I asked her to her to come up with her favorite recipe she didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t hesitate. It sounded so great I decided to share it with all of you.

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Grilled Pizza Lori and Peri grill their pizza on a gas grill (you can also grill it on a small charcoal grill if you donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have a grill that is dairy). The pizza is put on a grilling stone and then placed on the grill. Grilling stones can be purchased online or at numerous sites or at Home Depot, Target and Williams Sonoma.

The stones are used to bake perfectly crispy crusts.

They simulate the intense and even heat of a woodďŹ red oven.

Peri and Lori Like to use ready to use store bought pizza dough to cut down on the time involved. (Those who want a homemade dough please email me and I will forward my recipe to you.

Pizza Sauce This recipe will 6 cups of sauce. You can freeze any leftover sauce you have, and use it the next time you make pizza

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Ingredients â&#x20AC;˘1-1/2 tablespoon olive oil â&#x20AC;˘1-1/2 Tbs minced garlic â&#x20AC;˘1-1/2 Tbs fresh chopped oregano â&#x20AC;˘3 lbs diced fresh tomatoes (You can substitute 3 cans, 14.5 ounces each) diced tomatoes (undrained) â&#x20AC;˘1-1/2 tsp sugar â&#x20AC;˘1/4 teaspoon red pepper ďŹ&#x201A;akes (optional) â&#x20AC;˘1/3 tsp kosher salt â&#x20AC;˘black pepper to taste Directions 1. Warm the olive oil over low heat.

2. Add the garlic and cook, stirring, for about a minute.

3. Increase the heat to medium. Add the tomatoes, sugar, red pepper ďŹ&#x201A;akes, salt, and black pepper.

4. Leave over medium heat, stirring occasionally, until boiling. Reduce heat to a simmer.

5. Simmer uncovered for 75 minutes.

6. Stir in fresh oregano and simmer for an additional 2 minutes.

7. Allow the sauce to cool to a safe temperature and then, using an immersion blender, blend till almost smooth.

Toppings â&#x20AC;˘Shredded cheese of your choice â&#x20AC;˘SautĂŠed veggies in pam or olive oil (your choice, spinach, thinly sliced peppers, mushrooms and onions are a few examples of what you can choose. â&#x20AC;˘Fresh basil Never put a cold stone on a hot grill. Place the cold stone on the grill and heat at 450F for an hour.

While pizza stone is heating up, roll out dough onto a pizza pan so that dough is one-quarter inch thick. Spoon on the pizza sauce and cheese of your choice. Lastly top with all your favorite veggies.

Peri loves sautĂŠed spinach and thinly sliced peppers. You can add mushrooms, onions and just about any veggie you can think of. Just make sure to add fresh basil. If you have just one or two toppings besides the cheese pizza should be ready in 5 minutes, if loaded with veggies, peri said it could take up to tem minutes.

Carefully transfer pizza from pizza pan to the stove. Remember, the stone is very hot. Once the pizza is transferred to the stone lower the heat 200-250 depending on your grill.

Careful to keep an eye on it so it doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t burn.

When pizza is ready transfer from stone back onto to a pizza pan and leave the stone on the grill once grill is turned of so it cools down, unless you are making more pizzas. Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t remove stone while hot.

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By Miriam Baum Benkoe YIO Sisterhood Co-President Is it a spa? It sure looks like a spa.

The newly reconstructed and redesigned Mikvah of Oceanside is open and operating under the supervision of our new shomeret, Bruriah Wilbur. The waiting room, individual rooms, adornment room and mikvah itself are warm, welcoming and wonderful. The aura is serene, with piped in relaxing music, spa tubs and an elegant décor, designed by Miriam Nathan, her daughter Amanda Nathan Gluck, and Dave Welner.

Four years ago, the mikvah was given a “facelift” and was thus elevated from simply clean and convenient to a beautiful example of hidur mitzvah (beautifying a commandment). Then in October 2012, Hurricane Sandy inflicted havoc on the mikvah, the shuls, and the entire Oceanside community.

The mikvah facilities, post Sandy, were sorely missed by the 40 or more young women who have recently relocated to our growing community.

With the help of Mikvah USA, an organization dedicated to the establishment and renovation of mikvaot nationwide, as well as the Orthodox Union and other organizations and individuals, the Oceanside Mikvah has been rebuilt again. This rebuilding, however, resulted in the creation of the most luxurious spa-like atmosphere. Our young families are especially delighted to use this chic and welldesigned new facility.

A Chanukat Habayit (dedication ceremony) was held on Sunday, December 15 at the Young Israel of Oceanside. The mikvah building was rededicated in memory of

Luxurious waiting room at the recently dedicated Mikvah of Oceanside.

past member and community activist, Judy Williams, a”h. The immersion pool was dedicated in memory of Rebbetzin Peshy Brudny, a”h, whose husband, Rabbi Elya Brudny of Mikvah USA, generously donated to the reconstruction project. The pool was further rededicated to the memory of Rebbetzin Brenda Geldwerth, a”h, whose husband donated generously to the project in his wife’s z’chus. Rabbi Jonathan Muskat, Moreh D’Asrah of the YIO, reviewed the halachot

regarding the construction of a mikvah and heralded the ingenuity utilized in filling the “burrows” in accordance with halacha and — with efficiency, so that the mikvah would operational in short time.

Dave Welner, a past president of the YI Oceanside, who was the project manager of the rebuilding of the shul and the mikvah, as well as the Youth Director and Caretaker’s homes, addressed the gathering and explained in detail the various hurdles incurred

during the reconstruction and how they were successfully overcome.

In addition, Dave thanked Rav Bick and his son for their help in providing halachic guidelines for the piping system to capture the water off the roof and directing it into the burrows. Dave also shared his ultimate and personal goals of this monumental remodeling project. “The importance of enhancing the mitzvah of taharat mishpacha was never far from my mind during the entire construction phase. Every aspect of the building was directed at elevating the spiritual experience, so that our Oceanside women would continue to use and enjoy the mikvah as never before. It was also our hope that women outside our shul who have never been to a mikvah would find it enjoyable and meaningful if given the opportunity to try it even once.”

Those attending warmly received the words of Mikvah Association President,Helene Schiffmiller who, along with Sondra Gottesman, have been at the forefront of the daily functioning of the Oceanside mikvah from its onset in 1984. Rabbi Boruch Cywiak, Director of Special Projects at Mikvah USA, shared the names of approximately 60 cities in which Mikvah USA has generously funded the building and/or refurbishing of mikvaot throughout the United States.

The entire Oceanside community expresses a heartfelt Yasher Koach to all of the organizations and individuals whose input, support and mesirat nefesh so graciously contributed to the rebuilding of the Oceanside mikvah. Tizku L’mitzvot.

Mikvah of Oceanside, at 3397 Park Ave., off Waukena Ave., 516-766-3242.

First for Brooklyn’s Park Slope: A mikvah (and deluxe!)

The mikvah in Park Slope is within the William and Betty Katz Center for Jewish Life, a 3-story building that includes beds for those visiting a nearby hospital and, of course, the ritual bath itself.

By Rachel Benshimon The Jewish community in Brooklyn’s trendy Park Slope neighborhood recently celebrated the opening of the William and Betty Katz Center for Jewish Life, a 3-story center that boasts mikvaot for men and women, as well as a visitors center and guest rooms. Its opening will serve to further strengthen Jewish life in Brownstone Brooklyn.

When Rabbi Shimon and Sarah Hecht moved to Park Slope in 1986 to serve as Chabad emissaries, the neighborhood was still known for its working-class appeal and corner bodegas. As it helped herald Brooklyn’s rebirth and gentrification, Chabad ex-

panded to meet the needs of a growing community, opening multiple satellite branches and Chai Tots nursery schools, in Prospect Heights and Windsor Terrace.

The Mei Sarah Park Slope Mikvah, a gift of the Drizin family and named for Sarah Drizin, the family’s matriarch, is a first for the neighborhood. Its state-of-the-art facilities create a spa-like atmosphere, offering a warm and inviting environment for women interested in this special mitzvah. Guests visiting friends and family in the nearby Methodist Hospital will find room and board in the Rabbi Jacob J. Hecht guest suites.

The $1.8-million dollar structure, built by

YHS construction and designed by SG Interiors, occupies a prime location in Park Slope’s residential area. The parcel of land was a gift of Park Slope real estate moguls Stevie and Howie Katz.

According to Rabbi Hecht, the new center underscores the unity of Brooklyn’s diverse Jewish community. “Jews from all backgrounds and walks of life came together to make this center a reality,” he said. “Donors from all groups and denominations contributed to making this a reality. Together they have helped create an edifice that will reach beyond the borders of our neighborhood and touch the lives of generations to come.”

Guests quickly turned to social media to share their excitement about the new center.

Mrs. Ronanit Levy, a Park Slope local, posted on her Facebook page that the mikvah was “[l]ike the nicest spa you’ve ever been to, complete with Jerusalem stone hallways, pebbled stone floors, a huge terrace, and an online reservation system” letting guests choose the light settings, water temperature and music for their visit.

Use of the mikvah, at 252 15th St., is by appointment only. Call 718-788-1270 or Park SlopeMikvah.com Rabbi Hecht is spiritual leader of Congregation B’nai Jacob, 401 9th St.

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By Jacob Kamaras, JNS.org The pro-Israel campus groups Hillel International and the Israel on Campus Coalition (ICC) were denied the right to present a discussion at the Jan. 9-12 Modern Language Association (MLA) convention in Chicago, an event seen as a possible precursor to an MLA academic boycott of Israel that would mirror recent boycotts by the American Studies Association (ASA) and the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association.

MLA’s convention includes a roundtable discussion titled “Academic Boycotts: A Conversation about Israel and Palestine,” which will feature supporters but no opponents of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel.

Hillel and the ICC asked the 30,000-member MLA for the chance to present what they called an “open discussion featuring MLA members regarding academic freedom in Israel, its territories, and Gaza,” but MLA said the deadline to book a meeting at the convention had passed.

“The MLA convention has procedures for its members to organize sessions, and that deadline was 1 April [2013],” MLA Executive Director Rosemary G. Feal, the MLA’s executive director, wrote in an email to ICC Executive Director Jacob Baime. “We do not rent space at our convention for nonmembers to hold discussions.”

The existing MLA session’s speakers will include BDS movement co-founder Omar Barghouti; University of Texas professor Barbara Jane Harlow, who has stated her support for the ASA boycott of Israel; University of Southern California professor of English David Lloyd, a well-known BDS activist; and Wesleyan University professor Richard Ohm-

ann, who signed a 2009 letter that described Israeli treatment of Palestinians as “one of the most massive, ethnocidal atrocities of modern times.” University of Texas professor Samer M. Ali, who publicly defended the ASA boycott, organized the roundtable.

“We believe the members of the MLA deserve to hear a far more diverse set of perspectives on the issue of academic freedom in Israel and nearby countries. The MLA members, as academics, certainly can appreciate the value of multiple perspectives on what is a very controversial issue,” ICC’s Baime said.

As an alternative to the MLA panel, the ICC and Hillel have organized a discussion on academic freedom in Israel titled “Perspectives Against Academic Boycotts” on Jan. 9 in Chicago. The alternative panel features three MLA members—including Russell Berman, a past MLA president, and scholar Ilan Troen, chair of the Brandeis University Israel Studies program and a professor at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.

Ali, the organizer of the MLA convention’s roundtable on BDS, told The Chronicle of Higher Education that the roundtable assumes that Israel violates the rights of Palestinians, and that the debate will center on what to do about it. “If people want to come and debate occupation, I think it will be a waste of their time, because that’s not what the roundtable is about,” Ali said.

MLA’s convention will also consider a resolution that condemns Israel for “arbitrary denials of entry to Gaza and the West Bank

by U.S. academics who have been invited to teach, confer, or do research at Palestinian universities.”

Hillel spokesman Neusner said the MLA resolution overlooks the “simple fact of life”

A Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions protest in Melbourne. Photo by Mohamed Ouda via WikiCommons

that Gaza is governed by a terrorist group, Hamas. As such, Gaza’s borders are “closed for everyone and everything other than humanitarian purposes,” noted Neusner, meaning that denials of entry into Gaza are not “arbitrary,” as MLA claimed. In its online guidelines for U.S. citizens wishing to enter and exit Jerusalem, the West Bank, and Gaza, the Consulate General of the United States in Jerusalem echoes Neusner’s point by reminding that access to Gaza “is controlled by Hamas, a designated Foreign Terrorist Organization.”

“The United States Government for some time has warned American citizens to avoid travel to Gaza,” the guidelines state. “Due to the situation there, the U.S. government cannot assist Americans in entering Gaza and cannot provide assistance in exiting Gaza.”

“The [MLA] resolution addressing Gaza, just on its face, shows how ill-considered it is,” Neusner told JNS.org.

The U.S. Consulate’s guidelines also state that American citizens applying for entry into Israel and the West Bank “are subject to security and police record checks by the Government of Israel and may be denied entry or exit without explanation.” While the MLA resolution accuses Israel of “arbitrary” denials of entry into the West Bank, the Jewish state’s entry policies are “quite consistent with policies here in the United States” and other countries, explained Neusner.

“What we don’t understand is why Israel is being held to a higher standard than the U.S is, than the U.K. is, or Australia, or France,” he said. “Hillel is troubled by that double standard, and it reflects poorly on an esteemed academic organization such as MLA that it should allow this resolution to come up for a vote.”

MLA also rejected a JNS.org application for a press credential to cover its convention.

Mark Aurigemma, a communications professional representing MLA, wrote in an email to the JNS.org reporter who applied that the convention “reserves media credentials for outlets and journalists that are substantively focused on academic issues.”

“In reviewing your request we could only consider the clip that you authored, as you are the reporter applying,” Aurigemma wrote. “We did also visit your archive at JNS to see if there was other academic coverage there with your byline, but did not find anything that meets the convention’s criteria for media accreditation. In keeping with the convention policies, we cannot grant the credentials requested.”

Murder by stoning: Palestinians’ forgotten weapon

By Stephen M. Flatow, JNS.org The weapons used by Palestinian terrorists against Jews are well known: suicide bombs, like the one that killed my daughter Alisa in 1995; knives, like the ones used to slaughter the Fogel family in Itamar two years ago; rifles, like the one used in the sniper shooting of the infant Shalhevet Pass in Hebron in 2001. Sometimes we forget that there is another terrorist weapon that can be lethal: the rock. Last week, there were two reminders of that tragic fact.

One of the terrorists released by the Israeli government last week was Taktuk Ibrahim, who was serving a sentence of life imprisonment for his participation in the murder of a 24 year-old reserve soldier, Binyamin Meisner. In February 1989, Ibrahim and several fellow terrorists lured Meisner into an alley in Nablus, where they ambushed him and stoned him to death. Binyamin and his family had immigrated to Israel from Argentina.

They lived in the town of Kiryat Tivon, where Binyamin was the star of the local water polo team.

By coincidence, on the same day that Meisner’s killer went free, an Israeli military court convicted one of the participants in the 2011 murder-by-stoning of Asher Palmer and his 11-month-old son, Yonatan. Ali Sa’ada and his friend Waal al-Arjeh, a member of the Palestinian Authority security forces, carried out the attack in September 2011. Three fellow terrorists helped with the planning.

They decided to throw rocks from a moving car at an Israeli car traveling in the opposite direction, because the combined speed of the vehicles would significantly increase the damage they could do.

Their target, Asher Palmer, an American citizen, was driving on Highway 60, not far

A Palestinian boy throws a stone at Israel’s security fence.

from his home in Kiryat Arba. Yonatan was strapped in a baby seat in the back. They were on their way to meet Asher’s pregnant wife when the terrorists struck. The rocks smashed through the front windshield, hitting Asher directly in the head and causing the car to crash, killing both father and son.

A Palestinian passerby, Shehada Shatat, witnessed the attack. Instead of calling for medical assistance, he stole Asher’s wallet and gun, and fled the scene.

At least 11 other Israelis have been murdered by Palestinian rock-throwers. In 1983, Esther Ohana, 20, was on her way to her wedding rehearsal when the car in which she was riding was attacked by rocks, near Hebron.

One struck Esther in the head, killing her. In 1990, a 4-year-old Arab boy was killed when

he was hit in the head by a rock thrown by Palestinians who mistakenly thought the car in which he was riding was an Israeli auto.

Eleven year-old Chava Wechsberg was a passenger in a car traveling in the Gush Etzion region in 1993, when Arab rock-throwers attacked, causing the car to crash; Chava was killed.

Many other Israelis have suffered severe injuries from Palestinian rocks.

Most Americans have no trouble recognizing the lethal danger of rock-throwing. Recall the case of three drunken teenagers who threw rocks at cars on the Capital Beltway in Washington, D.C., in 1990. Thirty drivers or passengers were wounded, including a girl who suffered irreversible brain damage.

The attackers were convicted of “assault with

intent to murder” and each sentenced to 40 years in prison. An editorial in the Washington Post at the time correctly asked, “What’s the difference between assault with a deadly weapon—a shooting—and assault with rocks that hit cars at potentially lethal speeds?”

There is no difference, of course, to any reasonable person. But there’s a very big difference to New York Times columnist Thomas L. Friedman and some of his colleagues.

In an April 2012 column, Friedman endorsed what he called “nonviolent resistance by Palestinians”—and then listed boycotts, hunger strikes, and rock-throwing as examples of such “resistance.”

A Times magazine cover story in March 2013 glorified the Arab village of Nabi Saleh as a center of “unarmed resistance.” Amidst his cheerleading for brave young Arab “demonstrators” confronting cruel Israeli soldiers, author Ben Ehrenreich mentioned, in passing that “unarmed” activity includes throwing rocks or, as he put it, “throwing stones while dodging tear-gas canisters and rubbercoated bullets.” The Times’s bureau chief in Israel, Jodi Rudoren, followed in August with a page one story depicting a heroic Arab teenager who seemingly has no choice but to throw rocks at Israelis—it’s a “rite of passage,” according to Rudoren. Her article was headlined “‘My Hobby is Throwing Stones.’”

Rock-throwing is not non-violent. It’s not unarmed resistance. It’s not a “hobby,” a word which conjures up images of playing chess or collecting baseball cards. It’s attempted murder. Last week’s release of Binyamin Meisner’s rock-throwing killer, and the conviction of one of the Palmers’ rock-throwing killers, is a grim reminder of that.

Stephen M. Flatow’s daughter, Alisa, was killed in a Palestinian suicide bombing in 1995.

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Jerusalemâ&#x20AC;Ś Continued from page 4 more recent â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Egyptâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; to be enslaved. Whether we are addicted to unhealthy habits, or trapped in a routine we canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t seem to break, our ability to free ourselves is, suggests Judaism, dependent on our decision to take a course of action, however difďŹ cult it may appear. Whether leaving the job or even sometimes the person that makes us miserable, or choosing to listen to that still, small, voice inside of us that tells us to follow our dreams, we have the capacity to split the sea, if only we will choose to jump.

And this occurs most often, when we seem to face the most insurmountable odds: when it seems as though the entire Egyptian army is bearing down on us on one side, and the raging stormy sea lies before us. There is always the possibility of taking that leap; of being willing to jump in and part the watersâ&#x20AC;Ś.

Prayer, as we have discussed previously, is not really a Jewish word; it actually means to beg. Jewish prayer, called teďŹ llah, is not about begging. Four thousand years ago, on his death bed, Yaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;acov, in pointing out to his long lost son Yosef how he never imagined he would ever see him again alive (because although Joseph had been sold into slavery, Yaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;acov had been misled into believing he was actually dead; killed by a wild animal) says: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Raohâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; phanechaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; loâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; pilaltiâ&#x20AC;? (Bereishit (Genesis) 48:11) And Rashi explains the word pilalti (which has the same root, palel, as teďŹ llah (prayer): â&#x20AC;&#x153;My heart could not ďŹ ll with the thought that I would see your face againâ&#x20AC;Śâ&#x20AC;?

In other words, I never imagined I would ever see you again (because I thought you were dead). Palel then, means to imagine, or to dream. And leâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;hitpalel, which is the reďŹ&#x201A;exive, is actually â&#x20AC;&#x153;to cause myself to dream.â&#x20AC;?

Our lives should be all about our dreams and our wishes, and our visions for a better world. And the entire order of teďŹ llah (speciďŹ cally the shmoneh esrei, or eighteen (now nineteen) benediction prayer said three times a day, standing in silent devotion, which forms the core of our teďŹ llah experience) is all about asking ourselves what we truly wish for and what our dreams are, and whether we are satisďŹ ed with what we wish for, as individuals and as a people.

And yet, as laudable as this all seems, on the banks of the Red Sea over 3,000 years ago we are being taught that there are times when we have to move beyond our dreams and make them a reality. There comes a time when those dreams have to fuel what we do, and that no matter how noble a vision, it will remain meaningless unless someone translates it into reality.

Even though G-d could clearly do this for us, as in the splitting of the Sea, Hashem clearly wants us to be partners in our own destiny.

Whether it is seeing Egypt on one side and the Sea on the other, or, 3,200 years later, at the end of a parachute hurtling through the air, attached to another young soldier, whose life is now in your hands; every human being has the capacity to rise to such moments of greatness, and to ďŹ nd, hidden in that seemingly option-less moment, the ability to change the world.

Most people do not succeed in rising to such moments, but every now and then one does, and teaches us all how great we can truly be. Such is the legacy Yosef ben Mordechai Goodman (of blessed memory) leaves us with.

Yehi Zichro Baruch.

Shabbat Shalom, from Jerusalem.

Columnist@TheJewishStar.com

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No. 6 in HALB’s sights…

Continued from page 1 “We have gotten it down to two bidders,” school board Trustee Uri Kaufman told the Herald. “We are leaning in the direction of one of them, but we sent the [district] lawyer back to both bidders one last time for clarification of their respective bids. Once he reports back to us — at our next meeting in January — we will be in a position, we hope, to make a final decision.”

Board President David Sussman said that both proposed purchase prices are in the ballpark of the $12.5 million the district would have received from Simone.

Sussman said that the board is seeking to get the highest price it can for the Number Six property.

“Leaving a building and land vacant is never good business, and it’s not helping the public by not maximizing resources,” he said.

Approval of the bid is subject to public referendum. State law requires public approval of the sale of a school. The school was closed in March 2009, with decreasing enrollment the primary culprit.

Community members who opposed last year’s deal with Simone were concerned about adding traffic to an already congested area and the loss of open space, given Simone’s plan to pave over the existing ball fields and other recreational space, except for the playground, to create 450 parking spaces.

Residents formed an ad hoc organization called the Community Coalition of the Five Towns and campaigned against the propos-

al. Woodmere resident Joshua Schein, who headed the coalition, said that the group wants to play a constructive role in the process, but is adamant about making the district understand what the community wants.

“As we stressed in our referendum campaign, we want all the play areas preserved for the community and the district to be sensitive to the needs of the residents,” Stein said, adding that he appreciates the difficult financial situation school districts face, and he expects Lawrence to use the money from the sale to meet its operating budget.

Dov Herman, another Woodmere resident and coalition member, lost a three-way race for trustee in May, but has remained involved in school district matters by regularly attending board meetings. Herman said he has spoken often with the trustees, and thinks the defeat of the referendum changed their thinking. “I sense that they have taken the lessons learned after their experience from their failed referendum and used it to increase their efforts to account for more of the community’s interests in future bids,” he said.

The Number Six School could be the third school sold by the Lawrence district. It sold the Number Three School in Cedarhurst to the Hebrew Academy of the Five Towns in 1980, and in 2007 the district sold the Number One School in Lawrence to developer David Neuberg.

The next BOE meeting is on Jan. 13, at 8:30 p.m., at Lawrence High School, at 2 Reilly Road in Cedarhurst.

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Fourth, the warhead must be delivered.

The Shahab-3 missile nosecone is large enough to accommodate the warhead. The outer radius of the R265 shock generatorwrapped warhead is 550 millimeters, less than the estimated payload chamber diameter of about 600 millimeters. Most of all, the Iranian military has selected the Shahab-3 not only because it possesses a range of 1200 kilometers, but because on re-entry it can be detonated in an airburst some 600 meters off the ground. The height of 600 meters was used in the Nagasaki explosion. Such a bomb cannot be crashed into the ground. If the nuclear reaction is to ignite, it must be detonated while still airborne. Iran has a small fleet of Shahab-3 missiles.

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Any real deal to halt Iran’s nuclear weapon program must confront not only the easily replenishable gunpowder, but the bullets and rifles that have already been painstakingly assembled to stage the crime of the century.

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Continued from page 1 sion at the precise moment of missile reentry; and, of course, 4) obtaining a reliable rocket delivery system to carry such a weapon.

Start with the nuclear material. Experts estimate that a single bomb would require approximately 25 kilograms of Highly Enriched Uranium, or HEU, that has been boosted to concentrations of at least 90 percent. Much of Iran’s nuclear enrichment remains at 3.5 and 20 percent levels. But the numbers are deceiving. Enriching uranium to 3.5 percent is 75 percent of the distance needed to reach weapons grade. Once Iran has reached 20 percent, it has gone 90 percent of the distance. Today, Iran possesses enough nuclear material for a fast breakout that would finish the job in about six weeks, creating enough material for five or ten bombs. The current international deal leaves large stockpiles of 3.5 percent material, and the centrifugal ability to quickly enhance to the next level of 20 percent, which again, is 90 percent of the distance needed.

Second, that HEU must then be metalized and shaped into a dense spheroid compact enough to fit into a missile nosecone. Iran has mastered the nuclear metallurgy, testing the process by using other high-density metals such as tungsten. Tungsten objects have been detonated in a special underground chamber to measure its analogous explosive character.

Third, the spheroid must be detonated.

Iran’s warhead design employs a R265 shock generator hemisphere drilled with 5mm boreholes filled with the volatile explosive PETN. When triggered with precision, the PETN array can cause a massive synchro-

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