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Former 5Towner’s subway ad sparks controversy disclaimer with the ads to emphasize that the MTA is not endorsing the views of the ad. Aaron A Five Towns native is once Donovan, the media liaison of the again behind a stark ad campaign Metropolitan Transportation Auin the New York City subways, thority stressed that, “The MTA this time linking the bombing of does not endorse the content of the World Trade Center to a Kothis ad, or any ad that runs in the ranic verse. transit system.” The posters, showing the two Two organizations, the Ameriiconic buildings in ﬂames beside can Freedom Defense Initiative the words, “Soon shall we cast (AFDI) and Stop the Islamization terror into the hearts of the unbeof America (SIOA) are behind lievers (Quran 3:151)” on a blue Pamela Geller the ad campaign. They were also background, are hung beside all behind a previous subway post225 clocks in the NYC subway system. They were put up on January 7th ing, when ten ads were put up in September and will remain in place through February. 2012 that stated, “In any war between the Some of the stations where they can be found civilized man and the savage, support the include 42nd Street and 8th Avenue, West civilized man. Support Israel. Defeat Jihad.” 4th Street, 50th and 8th Avenue, and 86th Pamela Geller is the founder and executive Street and Broadway. The MTA is running a Continued on page 3 By Malka Eisenberg

The 2013 Israeli elections:

A new citizen’s perspective By Stuart Katz As an individual with citizenship in three different countries – Israel, the United States, and Panama, I perhaps have a unique per-

spective on the democratic process. Nowhere is a country’s democracy more exempliﬁed and challenged than in its elections. My tri-citizenship forces me to deliberate Continued on page 3

Two election workers monitor a polling station on election day,this past Tuesday, in Israel.

Rena Shkolnik

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2013 ushers in change for JCC Organization pursuing new location By Karen C. Green Rena Shkolnik, Executive Director of the JCC of the Five Towns for the past 11 years, will be retiring effective June 30th. Under Shkolnick’s tenure, the JCC grew extensively, offering programs serving the wide spectrum of the community from six month old babies to 100 year olds. Her devotion to the organization and the Five Towns made it a priority for Rena to handpick her successor, Joel Block, of Merrick. Block, a yeshiva parent, has served as Executive Director at the Suffolk JCC in Commack for the last 18 years and “wanted to ﬁnd new challenges,” according to newly installed JCC President Arnold Waldman. At press time, Block was unavailable for comment as he is traveling during Yeshiva break.

Additionally, according to Waldman, “the JCC is actively pursing a new location and is in the process of bidding.” Unable to comment more than confirming that it is a site in the Five Towns, “We are happy with the location,” expressed Waldman. The JCC recently submitted a bid to purchase the vacant #6 school on Peninsula Boulevard but wasn’t chosen, as their bid was the fourth highest. “We are healthy and our programs are flourishing. The next five months will be business as usual and we expect a smooth transition with the incoming executive director, “ added Waldman. The JCC will be honoring Rena Shkolnik for her exemplary work and commitment to the community at their upcoming annual dinner on May 1.

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Five Towner runs for Team Yachad in Miami By Malka Eisenberg J.J. Goldstein is running again. The enthusiastic 17-year old student at KULANU at HAFTR has rallied his family and other supporters to help raise, to date, $7828 for his second run with Team Yachad this Sunday in the ING Miami half marathon. In his ﬁrst run last year, he managed to raise $17,000. “I’m really happy,” said J.J. “I’m really excited. I’m happy to raise money—I like Yachad.” “He looks forward to the Shabbaton,” said J.J.’s mother Barbara, “speciﬁcally the advisors.” The family will be at a hotel in Miami for Shabbat, said J.J.’s father, Dr. Stanley Goldstein. “It’s a big ruach Shabbat, with motivational speakers,” encouraging the participants to “get out there and give all you’ve got.”

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J.J. runs in this race, said his brother-inlaw, Judah Gomberg, who will be running with J.J., because Yachad is “an organization that has done a lot for J.J. and the entire family. We appreciate the great opportunity to help raise money for the organization and, at the same time, it’s a fun activity. Overall, the experience is a good one. It means a lot to him, that’s why he puts so much effort into it.” Dr. Goldstein will be running in the half marathon as well. He noted that it’s a great atmosphere and “if kids with disabilities can go out there and run, it is our obligation and with no disabilities to go out there and support them.” Mrs. Goldstein will be cheering them on. “The whole family is behind him,” said Dr. Goldstein about J.J. “It just shows that when you put something into a child with special needs, you get a lot of nachas out of it and you are helping the community at large.”

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Continued from page 1 director of those two organizations and is the founder, editor and publisher of the blog Atlas Shrugs.com. She has been profiled on 60 Minutes, covered in the New York Times and has appeared on ABC, CNN, AP, shows on Fox News, and written about in the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post and other publications. Her articles have also been published widely. She said that AFDI and SIOA are “human rights organizations dedicated to freedom of speech, freedom of conscience and individual rights.” One of four sisters, Geller grew up in Hewlett Harbor and attended Lynbrook High School and Hofstra University. She learned to speak Spanish fluently while working in her father’s business. In the 1980s, Geller worked at the New York Daily News as a financial analyst and then in advertising and marketing. She worked at the New York Observer from 1989 through 1994 as associate publisher and as a business executive. Geller began her blog in 2005, she said, because, “I saw increasingly how the new media was our best hope for breaking through the mainstream media propaganda line and getting the truth to the American people. Our country was attacked on 9/11. The more I learned about who attacked us and why, the more I saw that freedom was not a given.

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A poster by the American Freedom Defense Initiative currently on display next to every clock in the New York City subway system. We had to ﬁght to defend it.” In this new subway ad campaign she said that she hopes to “challenge law enforcement and government ofﬁcials, as well as the Muslim community, to be more realistic and honest about the ways in which Islamic texts and teachings are used by jihadis to justify violence and supremacism, and to formulate effective ways to counter this.” Geller pointed out that the MTA charge

for “all the clocks in the system is $70,000” and that it was funded by many small donations from “patriotic Americans deeply concerned about protecting our freedoms.” She has been called an “Islamaphobe” by some pundits and has been praised by others. Her advertising campaigns have been seen in transit systems in New York City, Washington, D.C. and San Francisco. As for the reaction to the campaign, Geller

said, “There has been the predictable and manipulative charge of hate from Islamic supremacists in the U.S. and their Leftist allies. There is nothing hateful about revealing the motives and goals of the jihadis who have vowed to destroy our nation, or about calling for a more effective defense against them. The charge reveals more about those who make it than it does about me.”

N. Woodmere oleh reflects on 1st Israeli election Continued from page 1 on the election processes of three democracies, which are both allies and sovereign countries. Sometimes the best interests of one country may seem divergent from another’s. The inter-country differences in everything from campaigning to voter attitudes give me pause. But I am finding my way. In the last two and a half months, I have had the exhilarating and daunting experience of voting in two national elections. Last November, in the midst of Hurricane Sandy Recovery efforts I cast my vote in the U.S. elections and had the distinct honor of hearing stories of so many who made their way to the shores of the United States and were thrilled to be part of this process. And this week, I cast my first national vote as an Israeli citizen, for the 19th Knesset. As I walked into the kalfi - the polling station at the local elementary school in our hometown of Hashmonaim I had the chills and the thrills. I was so moved and so excited knowing that my little slip of paper was making a difference in the leadership of the Jewish State – the homeland that as Jews we have yearned for, fought for and now live for! Two and a half years ago, I moved with my family to Israel from North Woodmere after a lifetime as a U.S. citizen. As a freshly minted citizen, I had been looking forward to January 22nd. My travelling schedule along with that of so many of my friends revolved around this date in allowing us to exercise our democratic right. I hope it doesn’t sound overly simplistic to say that the act of voting has felt as important as the outcome. The act of voting has deepened my appreciation for our family’s decision to move to Israel. I feel myself literally puff with pride and am hopeful that Israel’s future will only remain brighter. I am confident that G-d will give the strength and wisdom to whomever the leadership will be to lead us appropriately on both the domestic

and international fronts. Why? It’s really simple: Israel is the only true democracy in the Middle East today, and I’m proud to be living in a country that represents the democratic process in this part of the globe. The election process has a communal feel, and I felt particularly proud to be standing amid family, friends, and fellow citizens as I cast my vote. The enthusiasm of the electorate is also contagious. While I’ve heard a lot about voter turnout declining over the years in Israel, I’ve never seen more enthusiasm and passion about an election. Election ofﬁcials said that this year’s election was the highest turnout in the 21st century. The spring-like weather of this past Tuesday certainly didn’t hurt. People ask me about the differences between the election processes in Israel and the United States. The biggest, to me, is in how the various parties manage to work together. In the U.S., pundits are busy counting the number of state dinners that the opposition party has refused to attend. In Israel, diverse coalitions learn how to work together. Take one of the largest parties in Israel, for example: Likud-Yisrael Beiteinu, formed only last year, in an alliance between right-wing and center-right factions. I ﬁnd myself frustrated at the U.S. Congress’ seeming inability to move past gridlock on any issue, while Israel manages to sustain, at last count, 32 different parties. Israel maintains a true multiparty government, as no single party has ever won a total majority in modern history. The arts of coalition and consensus building are certainly better demonstrated in my new home country than elsewhere. The meeting of religion and politics also sets Israel apart from the U.S. As an observant Jew, I feel the State of Israel is both my religious and governmental homeland. And yet, Israel manages to uphold religious freedom and diversity in a way that is quite impressive. In the U.S., we speak of separation of church and state, but Israel manages

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Another former Five Towner, Ariella, is seen exercising her right to vote on election day at a polling station in a local school in Israel this past Tuesday. to honor the religious heritage and values of its citizens while maintaining a ﬂourishing democracy. In Israel, I feel that I am voting with my mind, my heart, and my soul. The sense of community that permeates Israel’s voting process also seems lacking in the U.S. Unfortunately, I have never felt quite the same voter enthusiasm in Nassau County that I have in Hashmonaim. Political rancor also seems proportionately lower. I may be considered a “moderate” in my somewhat conservative community, but mutual respect trumps political name-calling. Do we

debate and disagree? Certainly, but we respect our neighbors’ commitment to a better, safer Israel. So while I watch the election results, I bask in the great fortune I have experienced in becoming an Israeli citizen and casting my ﬁrst ballot for the Jewish State. I am also grateful for my U.S. citizenship and what this country represents. May each country and its people remain a shining light to citizens the world over, as we demonstrate our continued commitment to democracy.

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Opinion Coming up: Three budget fights in four months. ow that Inauguration Day has passed and both the President and Congress have been sworn in, it is time for the executive and legislative branches of government to go back to swearing at each other. As we enter the President’s second term, America’s nation public debt (money owed to lenders outside the federal government) is over $16.5 trillion dollars and projected by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) to grow another five trillion by the end of Obama’s second term. The CBO also reports POLITICO that the “fiscal cliff” TO GO deal signed at the beginning of the year will actually raise the national debt by almost $4 trillion dollars during the next ten years. Coming up in the next four months will be three more budget battles. This will pit the Democrats fighting for higher taxes Jeff Dunetz and spending vs. the Republicans who will fight for spending and possibly even tax cuts. The three battles include the immediate debt ceiling increase, sequestration and a long-term debt ceiling increase. We may get lucky, as the first debt ceiling battle may already be over. The GOP has made a clear offer that can’t be refused (OK maybe its better said that it shouldn’t be refused). The GOP will agree to raise the debt ceiling to cover the country’s financial needs through mid-May but they WILL NOT consider a long term debt ceiling increase until the Senate passes a budget. (Despite the fact they are required by law to pass a budget by April 15th, the Senate hasn’t passed a budget in four years). NY Senator Chuck Schumer (fresh off abandoning Israel and throwing his support to Chuck Hagel), likes the proposal and looks forward to a Senate-created budget. Schumer was on Meet the Press this past weekend and said that the Democrats see the budget process as “a great opportunity” to pursue additional tax increases — and to create a fast-track process to push them through the Senate;

“There’s going to have to be some spending cuts, and those will be negotiated,” Schumer, the No. 3 Democrat in the Senate, said in an interview after the show. “But doing a budget is the best way for us to get revenues.” As part of the fiscal cliff deal at the beginning of the year, the second impending battle was delayed by two months. The sequestration fight will now happen sometime near the end of February. As part of the summer of 2012’s debt ceiling deal, if a “super-committee” of Democratic and Republican legislators could not come to a compromise, $1.2 trillion in automatic budget cuts to defense and social programs kick in. The GOP has been fighting sequestration due to the fear that the defense cuts will hurt the U.S. ability to defend its citizens. There is a dirty little secret, however, that no one is talking about; the Democrats hate the social program part of the cuts as much as the GOP hates the defense cuts. According to a report in Politico, programs scheduled for across-the board cuts include: “The elimination of 2,300 National Institutes of Health research grants; nearly 100,000 children losing Head Start services; and no more child care assistance for 80,000 kids. Not to mention 12,150 fewer patients with access to AIDS Drug Assistance Program benefits and 169,000 people who would not get access to substanceabuse treatment programs.” Despite their unhappiness with the defense cuts, it is very likely the GOP may decide not to fight the sequestration cuts. In the end, they may recognize that $1.2 trillion in across-the-board cuts are needed to start trimming the size of our massive debt. When one includes the $4 trillion dollar increase from the “fiscal cliff” deal, the sequestration cuts would actually mean that during the first two months of the year, projections for the national debt would have jumped by $2.8 trillion dollars. In other words, still heading in the wrong direction. The second debt ceiling debate will occur sometime around April-early May. This one is going to be a tough no-holds-barred battle on both sides of the aisle. The President outlined a very aggressive tax and spend statist agenda in his inauguration speech. Based on his election victory, Obama believes he has been given a mandate to in-

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crease government programs and spending (he calls them investments) and taxes (or, as he calls them, revenue enhancements). On the other hand, each of the Republican members of Congress has been given a mandate by their districts. These representatives have a mandate to cut taxes and spending. With the conﬂicting mandates comes the conﬂict between the executive and legislative branches that has been going on for the past two years, and the next one is going to be a doozy! On the other hand, this “gridlock” is what our founders wanted when they created three co-equal branches of government, each representing a different constituency, each with the ability to check the other. The battle has already been engaged. The President and his progressive minions don’t want any cuts to social programs and wish to tax the rich even more. The GOP wants to cut spending, reform both entitlements and tax structure. The GOP’s opening gambit is there will not be a long-term debt ceiling increase without a corresponding amount of budgetcuts. The Democrats are just as adamant that there will not be cuts to entitlements (which represent the biggest chunk of federal spending) and that additional taxes are necessary. There is a danger to the Democratic approach. Higher taxes generally lead to lower tax revenue. How does that happen? Allow me to provide an example. This past weekend Championship Golfer Phil Mickelson announced he might follow the lead of Gérard Depardieu, which is he may leave his home state of California or even the United States because of the harsh tax burden. The golf superstar was interviewed by Sports Columnist Scott Michaux and revealed he might make major changes to counter what has become oppressive taxation (he pays a little over 62% of his income in state and federal taxes). Some people vote at the ballot box, others vote with their feet. As Mickelson implies--why work if you only get to keep 38% of your money? Some people (who can afford it) will stop working, others may even leave the country. In the end what usually happens is higher tax rates lead to lower tax revenue. So what will happen between now and

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mid-May? There are some in Congress who will not vote for a debt ceiling increase no matter what. A feeling which echoes what a rookie Senator said in 2006 when he voted against the raising of the debt ceiling: “Mr. President, I rise today to talk about America’s debt problem. The fact that we are here today to debate raising America’s debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. It is a sign that the U.S. Government can’t pay its own bills. It is a sign that we now depend on ongoing financial assistance from foreign countries to finance our Government’s reckless fiscal policies. Over the past five years, our federal debt has increased by $3.5 trillion to $8.6 trillion. That is ‘trillion’ with a ‘T.’ That is money that we have borrowed from the Social Security trust fund, borrowed from China and Japan, borrowed from American taxpayers. And over the next five years, between now and 2011, the President’s budget will increase the debt by almost another $3.5 trillion.” (Sen. Barack Obama, Congressional Record, 3/16/06, p. S2237) Contacts within the beltway tell me that there is no way the GOP will pass a debtceiling bill without substantive cuts which begin shedding the oppressive weight of our national debt, but there is also no way the Democrats will agree to substantive cuts. Then there is the pressure of the added possibility of lowering America’s credit rating. Fitch Ratings, one of the three major debt-rating services, has warned that if the debt ceiling is not raised our debt will be downgraded. Fitch also warns if we do raise the debt ceiling, but don’t make significant strides toward cutting our debt, the U.S. credit rating will also be downgraded. Three budget fights in four months, the outcome/success of Obama’s second term and most importantly the future of the American economy may very well be determined before the Spring equinox. Jeff Dunetz is the Editor/Publisher of the political blog “The Lid” (www.jeffdunetz.com). Jeff contributes to some of the largest political sites on the internet including American Thinker, Big Government, Big Journalism, NewsReal and Pajama’s Media, and has been a guest on national radio shows including G. Gordon Liddy, Tammy Bruce and Glenn Beck. Jeff lives in Long Island.

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Parshat B’Shalach

Getting Yosef’s bones I

n this most dramatic of Torah portions, the opening pesukim (verses) read like storyboards of a film’s opening sequence of images around the locale where it is set. The people turn from going straight along the Mediterranean coast towards the Red Sea. Moshe is arranging the transfer of Yosef’s bones. They travel from Sukkos (first stop 12:37). We then see the people during the day being led by the Pillar of Clouds. In the dark of night, the Pillar of Fire provides the necessary light and protection. The scene then switches to the back Rabbi Avi Billet and forth scenes of Paroh in his court, back to the people at the Sea, to Paroh and his army approaching, to the people at the Sea. The one image that seems out of place is Moshe taking (and therefore arranging for transfer of) the bones of Yosef. While the promise being fulfilled was not insignifi-

cant, it did get its press time at the end of Parshat Vaychi. Why does it need an entire verse here? Couldn’t it just be in an add-on to the previous verse – “They traveled around the wilderness towards the sea, they carried weapons with them, and they also brought Yosef’s bones”? To say that there is great depth to the carrying out of this task is to state the obvious. What the message might be ranges from the obvious to the creative, with the profound lying somewhere in between. On the obvious level, a very old promise is being fulfilled. The profound could echo the words of Rabbi Akiva when he told his colleagues at the end of Mesechet Makkot, “Now that I have seen the prophesy of Uriah be fulfilled, I know the prophesy of Zechariah will be fulfilled as well.” If we see that Yosef’s promise has been fulfilled, perhaps we can be assured that Zechariah’s promise will be fulfilled as well, with the coming of the Ultimate Redemption. Which leaves us with the creative. Many Midrashim admirably depict Moshe seeking Yosef’s bones at the same time the Israelites were draining Egypt of its wealth. The verse in Mishlei (10:8), “The wise-

hearted (man) accepts commandments” – or fulfills opportune mitzvot when they come along – is utilized to give Moshe the greatest amount of credit for pursuing the opportunity to fulfill the promise on behalf of those he represented, as they were pursuing the wealth they were to take with them out of Egypt. Rabbi Moshe Shternbuch put it this way: “A person who dedicates himself to fulfill commandments, or to delve in Torah, will be rewarded (‘schar mitzvah’) according to what is either lost or missed out in profits.” This teaching is based in the Zohar on Parshat Terumah who emphasizes the greatness of a mitzvah that is fulfilled through one’s money – either through a donation or through using one’s time else-wise to do a mitzvah, that may prevent a financial gain from taking place. Moshe’s choice to find Yosef’s bones specifically at the time when all the Israelites were engaged in material pursuits gave a strong indicator of his priorities, how a mitzvah and fulfilling a promise were more important to him than gold and silver. Maybe we don’t need to go back for a second and third helping at a Kiddush or smorgasbord. Not only to give others a chance to

eat, but also to indicate that our focus is not solely on food. When we go to shul, we are engaged in mitzvah. When we talk in shul or leave shul on Shabbos to drink (in the middle of davening), we are like the Israelites pursuing gold and silver while those who are properly engaged in the services are like Moshe seeking Yosef’s bones. When we bring irreverence to an activity others respect, we are the Israelites to their Moshe. When we don’t respect and promote what Shabbos should and could be – a time of being in touch with the soul, the spirit and G-d – and instead ignore our children, engage in superficial, vacuous and sophomoric conversations, we are the Israelites pursuing what we think is gold and silver, while those who discuss the parsha, explore their commitment to halakha, and engage their children in conversation, are those who are seeking Yosef’s bones. Moshe seeking Yosef’s bones, therefore, becomes a metaphor for what a deep commitment to the past is, what a promise for the future can mean, and what it means to model dedication to a meaningful task. The commitment to bringing Yosef’s bones to their final resting place is the greatest lesson Moshe could teach the people in the hour they felt richest and greatest. Commitment to our faith and our people makes for a much richer life than all the fleeting pursuit of gold and silver we can ever undertake in our lives.

Becoming the Nation of Israel, living by the code of Israel

edicated to the speedy recovery of: Mindel Hannah bat Chaya Gittel It is hard to imagine, looking down at the windswept desert floor far below, what it must have been like 2000 years ago, to be a Jewish rebel soldier atop the isolated fortress of Masada. What kept you going, as you gazed down at the might of three Roman Legions, bent on your destruction? In the year 70 CE, with the Temple (the Beit HaMikdash) in FROM THE HEART flames, Jerusalem OF JERUSALEM breached and destroyed, hundreds of thousands of Jews dead, and hundreds of thousands more sold into slavery, the Romans announced that the great revolt had finally been put down. They even minted a coin to communicate their victory to the entire Roman Empire. The coin, known as Rabbi Binny ‘Judea capta’, shows Freedman a woman, meant to be the Jewish people, cowering at the feet of a Roman legionnaire. The Jewish people were defeated; the war was finally over. The only problem was, the Romans were wrong. Two hundred Jewish rebels and their families slipped away from the fighting and escaped to the fortress of Masada. Word of a pocket of Jewish fighters still ambushing patrols in the desert reached Rome. They could not afford for the word to get out that they had been wrong and that the revolt was not really over. And so the Senate dispatched what would eventually amount to three full Roman legions to defeat the Jewish resistance at Masada. Fifteen thousand men; the sheer size of such a force must have been terrifying. What must it have felt like, to see a cloud on the horizon to the north one day, grow-

ing larger and larger, to realize with a sinking feeling that this was no ordinary cloud, but the dust raised by the feet of thousands of legionnaires, coming to destroy you. Two thousand years ago, facing the might of the Legions of Rome, a small group of Jewish men and women took a stand. What gave them the courage to resist? In this week’s portion, Be’shalach, the Jewish people are leaving Egypt, and the Torah points out the two routes the Jews can take to get to Egypt. The shorter, way will take the Jews up the coast through the Sinai desert to Israel. Hashem chooses the long way around, through the Red Sea to the east, then up through the Sinai desert and north through Edom and Moav (today Trans-Jordan) and then back west across the Jordan River into Israel. Why does Hashem choose this much longer, and more arduous route? “G-d led them not through the way of the land of the Philistines, though that was near, for G-d said: ‘Lest the people relent when they see war and return to Egypt. And so G-d turned the people through the desert of the Sea of Suf (Red Sea).” (Shemot 13:17-18) Hashem knew that encountering the Philistines, three days north of Egypt, and confronted with a military campaign, the Jews would panic and head back to Egypt. Yet, just then,the Jewish people find themselves in exactly the scenario G-d seemed to want to avoid! They arrive at the Sea of Reeds (Yam Suf) and soon see the entire Egyptian army bearing down on them. With nowhere to go, they are, as G-d predicted, terrified. This should be no surprise, but Moshe’s (read G-d’s) response is surprising: “And Moshe said to the people: ‘Do not fear (Al Tira’u), stand and see the salvation that G-d will do for you this day, for as you have seen Egypt this day, you shall not see them again any more forever. Hashem will fight for you and you will hold your peace.” (14:13-14) How can the Jewish people be expected not to fear? Especially considering the fact that Hashem has already pointed out that the people will see war and be afraid, why does Moshe (and G-d) expect them not to fear?

Furthermore, if Moshe is telling the Jewish people not to be afraid, one wonders why? Once the Sea splits, it won’t matter whether the Jewish people were afraid or not, because the Egyptians will be wiped out. Since Hashem’s response to their encounter with war, and their desire to return to Egypt, is to split the Sea and vanquish the Egyptians Himself, why couldn’t Hashem have done this with the Philistines, just as He did the Egyptians? We are meant to become a “Mamlechet Kohanim Ve’Goy Kadosh,” a “Kingdom of Priests (teachers) and a Holy Nation.” Every nation has its mission. Ours is to be an Or La’Goyim, a Light unto the Nations. To do that, three things have to happen: 1.We have to get to Israel, because every Nation needs a land. Only in a land can we be seen as a separate entity and have an ethical impact on the world as a Nation. 2.Before we can become a nation in our land, we must first receive the Torah. To become an ethical people who can be a role model of what ethics are meant to be, we have to have an objective source for those ethics, and there is only one truly objective source in this world: the Torah. 3.But before we can do any of this, we first have to become a Nation. And that is the theme of this entire portion. In this week’s portion, after 200 years of Egyptian slavery, the Jews are not really a Nation; they are just a collection of ex-slaves, with a very pronounced slave mentality. With that, the first challenge that comes their way will send them packing back to Egypt. Which is why G-d cannot take them straight to Israel; they need a National therapy session! When Moshe tells the Jewish people: “Do not fear” (“Al Tira’u”), it is not a command, or a challenge; it is the entire point. You cannot be a slave in Egypt for so long without being affected by the Egyptian way of thinking. In Egypt, it was very simple: might makes right. This is the nature of paganism, which worships nature, because in nature the strong survive, and the weak perish. And Egypt was the theological center of

this philosophy. And this ideal of ‘might makes right,’ a natural outgrowth of paganism, is exactly what the Jewish people came into the world to undo. And it is why they have to leave Egypt to receive the Torah. Part of the problem with the Exodus from Egypt itself, was that while G-d gets the Jewish people out of Egypt, He ends up teaching them that Egypt was really right all along. Because they only get out of Egypt by virtue of ten plagues, which, if looked at the wrong way, might demonstrate to the Jewish people that in the end, Pharaoh was right. G-d proved that he was stronger, so he won. In other words, for the Torah, the Jews are about to receive, to be accepted as objective and eternal truth, Egypt and its philosophy, must be destroyed in the eyes and hearts of the Jewish people. Only then will they be the Jewish people they are meant to be. Thus, when Moshe tells the Jewish people “ Al Tira’u,” rather than ‘do not fear,’ it may mean, do not be in awe, and do not continue to see Egypt in the way that you have; Tira’u being from the root ra’ah, which means to see. And that, perhaps, is why Moshe continues there (14:13) by saying that the Jewish people will no longer see the Egyptians in the way they have until now. At the Sea of Reeds, the Jewish people learn that war isn’t about who has the stronger army. War is in the hands of heaven, and Hashem, not the chariots of Pharaoh, decides the outcome. And the Jewish people begin the journey of learning how to become the free men and women they are meant to be, unraveling the slave mentality they carry in their hearts, one day at a time, for the next forty years. Today, more than ever, as we journey along the road of becoming, after 2000 years of exile, the Jewish people we once were, let us remember that in order to be able to give all that we have to give to the world, we have ﬁrst to succeed in transforming ourselves into the Nation we are meant to be: the Nation of Israel, living by the code of Israel, ultimately, in the land of Israel.

Ship to shore, the proof is in the pudding S

o here we are, last week in January. It’s kind of odd that I’m here in New York. For as long as I can remember, during the Yeshiva winter break, I’ve always been away. Wait, I take that back, there was one time back in the 90s when we stayed home and took day trips with the kids, it almost seemed like an experiment, to see if the children (and parents, I guess), years down the line, would have any long standing psychological effects from having to actually remain at home. So far, we all seem to have no symptoms… but we all have funny memories of vacations past. One such memory was when Jerry and I, along with my daughter Jordana and her friend, were joining Judy Joszef our friends on a cruise from Miami to the Caribbean. We were through customs and handed our room keys when Jerry said to me, “Isn’t it nice that we’re able to take along a friend for Jordana.” The second the words left his mouth and I saw a look of surprise on the agent’s face I knew we were in trouble. The agent explained that since she wasn’t my daughter and a minor (15), I would have to show an original permission or consent to travel letter from a parent. Ok, easier said than done, being that her

mom was in New York. This was not going to be easy. Panic set in. We couldn’t board the ship and leave her in Miami, and the thought of Jordana stuck on a nineday cruise without a friend was a frightening thought in itself. I then began to beg, plead and, yes, cry to the agent, until she agreed to a faxed letter. In the hour it took for all the paperwork to be faxed and processed, we got to see some of the 3500 passengers board. Not sure what was scarier for the girls, having gone through the terror of almost missing the cruise or watching men in their 70s in Bermuda shorts and knee socks, women with silver blue hair and lots of kids below the age of 10. Thankfully, they found dozens of “cool” teens to hang out with. At the ﬁrst port of call, Jerry found a guide to take our group of 14 to visit the El Limon waterfalls. It included a luxury van to the site, horseback rides to the falls and a private guide. The teens weren’t interested and then one by one the adults decided we wanted to head back to the ship and lounge at the pool. Jerry decided to take the tour and we warned him that if he missed the 4:30 set sail time he would have to meet the ship at the next destination.

Waiting with baited breath, I watched for Jerry to return. At 4:27 pm, Jerry staggered onto the ship just as the doors were being prepared to close. He was barefoot, cut up on every exposed part of his body, but said he had an amazing time. “So glad I missed it,” I exclaimed. He went on to tell about an adventure that could only happen to him. Being that he was only one person (and I had all the money and he only had about $15 on him) the guide said he could give him a guide (13 year old boy), who spoke a little bit of English (none whatsoever), and he would have to hike instead of ride on a donkey or horse. Within the first five minutes, his crocks were ripped apart on the “trail” that was full of boulders, thick clay mud and sharp rocks, but he trekked on. At one point the guide pointed to his stomach and rubbed it; he was hungry. They hiked through a primordial jungle, Tarzan and his guide, to what looked like a primitive hut where the natives (witch doctors) served the boy stew. Jerry nervously hoped he wouldn’t find any shrunken heads. Long story short, Jerry made it down to the waterfalls, and then went on to hike up through dangerously steep terrain with no handrails for an

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exquisite view that only those on foot can get to….Jerry took “on foot” literally, as he was, unfortunately, barefoot while the few others that joined him to the top were clad in hiking boots. Lesson to be learned? Only those in the best shape and not faint of heart should let Jerry pick the excursions when cruising. Those of you not on a cruise this year, here is a recipe for bread pudding from the Holland America cruise line. No packing, ﬂying, expenses or safety drills.

Bread and Butter Pudding Ingredients 1 quart milk 6 eggs, beaten 3 egg yolks, beaten 6 oz sugar 1 tsp vanilla extract 1 1/2 lbs day-old bread 3 oz butter, melted 4 oz raisins 15 ovenproof ramekins, sprayed with Pam. 1. To make the custard, combine milk, eggs, egg yolks, sugar and vanilla; mix well. 2. To prepare the bread, cut in cubes, drizzle with butter and toast in the oven. 3. Combine custard, bread and raisins; ﬁll ramekins. 4. Bake in a water bath in a 325 degree oven for 45 minutes or until custard is set. It’s delicious served as is or you can add a scoop of your favorite ice cream.

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The Samaria you never hear about U

ntil you take a real up close look at Samaria, it will remain an occupied territory of a fringe group of Jewish settlers trying to displace Palestinians and stymie the peace process. That is until you actually go there and see the region up close, talk to the people who live there and understand the size, demography and conditions the people live under. Is it a perfect situation? By no means it is not, but is it the obstacle to peace and the bane of the Palestinian exisJuda Engelmayer tence? Hardly! Deciding that the issue was too important to leave to the narratives presented by Rachel Madow, Wolf Blitzer, J-street, Peace Now, or the myriad of people and advocacy groups that insist on presenting Israel as an oppressive regime, I arranged a visit to the Shomron for me, my 14 year old son and my 15 year old nephew. With the help of a friend and one of Israel’s better known elected leaders, Knesset Member Danny Danon, we took a trip that I do not believe any of us will soon forget. The day began in the cabin of a bulletproof van that I found to be a little disconcerting. There have been so few incidents in a while that would render this vehicle effective, but sadly, it is a necessary precaution taken. As it turns out, the van is used as a school bus for children of special needs, and it was being lent to us for the day. We drove deep into Samaria along road 60, the way that is allegedly the path of the original settlers of Israel in the Bible. We met the head of the Regional Council that governs the Judean and Samarian areas who explained that it was his goal to show people, one by one if necessary, that the cities, villages and people in the areas were not the obstacles to peace as they are portrayed. They bring diplomats and dignitaries to the area and show them their way of life, and they travel to foreign countries and parliaments to make their case. The case is that the people there are not all zealots seeking a perpetual ﬁght, but many who have been moving there are, in fact, secular Israelis seeking suburban life away from the cities at a price that is easier to reach than much of the densely populated cities like Jerusalem and Tel Aviv. In addition, of the entire area called Samaria, less than 30% is populated by both Arabs and Israelis, and the rest is vast, unused, uncultivated and untouched land. The point is that there is no evident sprawl that is displacing anyone; most of the area has never been used. For Israel’s part, we toured a factory that manufactures plastics such as toilet seats and the types of amenities you might ﬁnd at Bed, Bath, and Beyond. Lipsky Installation and Sanitation Products also makes waste and water pipes for large construction applications. What Lipsky also does is employ a few hundred people, half of whom are Palestinians from cities in Samaria and they are paid and promoted equally with the Israelis. Unusual for most companies, even in the United States, Lipsky pays for its staff to take vacations, and since the Palestinians cannot stay overnight in Israel, while the Israelis are sent to Eilat and other resorts, the Palestinians are sent to Egyptian resorts for their rest times. Added pressure to these employees is that Palestinian products are readily sold in Is-

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A display of some of the house hold products made by the Lipsky Installation and Sanitation Products plastics factory. A view of Shechem or Nablus, looking down from the highest vantage point in the area, Mount Gerrizin.

rael, but these items, made by the hands of Palestinians, which also provides income and beneﬁts to them as well, are not permitted to be sold within Palestinian lands. The plant has a lunchroom and provides free meals and all employees are seen dining together, conversing, laughing and sharing working camaraderie that many of us are familiar with where we work. That’s the politics speaking and not anyone who actually came there to see it for themselves. When Peter Beinart talks about boycotting the “Settlements,” he is seeking to displace and unemploy Palestinians from decent jobs as well. Our visit took us to the Tura winery where we tasted a wine that just won an international award, and I bought a few cases that they arranged to be shipped to my home. The boys enjoyed that stop, too, and it was interesting to see. The cellars are made up of the original temporary housing units that were erected by the original residents. The insides were weatherproofed and temperature controlled and it seems to store the wine just perfectly. At one point we were at the highest point we could be at, at a lookout post overlooking

the Palestinian city of Nablus. This was the site of Joseph’s Tomb, which is inaccessible to Jewish people right now. The lookout post enabled us to see something amazing – Nablus is a big city with hundreds of newly constructed apartments and houses that resemble the best of Israeli building styles. There are suburbs, malls and, yes, there are a couple of densely populated areas that the Palestinians and media like to call refugee camps. These neighborhoods are not ﬁlled with tents, however, but apartment buildings in the style of projects that we see in many urban U.S. cities. It would appear that the children who grew up in these areas are the ones moving to the nicer neighborhoods, no different from the way many societies progress elsewhere. The trip consisted of a wonderful lunch in a sweet little restaurant in a smaller town, where we were plied with home cooked chicken, beef and fresh vegetables and rice as we heard the history of the town we were dining in. We ended at the Ariel University, a college that just won its accreditation and can now be called a university. Ron Schleifer, a lecturer and teacher of communications and public relations, showed us the commu-

nications school, television studios and radio broadcast center, and walked us through the campus of six thousand students from all over Israel. It was an enlightened place that even many of the more liberal professors they have teaching there find unexpected and fascinating. The key, he kept reiterating, is to get people there to visit. After that, their opinions often change. There are indeed difficulties living in these areas, and the attention given to the areas by media and Israel’s opposition does not help. If my son, nephew and I learned anything on this visit, was that the story of Samaria is not told in truth to the public. If people saw and knew what was really happening here daily, the narrative of it being the obstacle to any forward movement on peace settlements, might change as well. The next day we toured the Temple Mount. I will have more to say in the coming weeks. Juda Engelmayer is an executive at the New York PR firm, 5W Public Relations.

Pikuach nefesh on Shabbat among American JewsA Contrast in Generational Response Immigrants, 1840 – 1920” [NYU Press, 2012] describe the horrific economic conditions experienced by newly arrived Jewish immigrants in the mid-1800s. One of the first casualties of this experience was Sabbath observance. This was to ultimately define the overall spiritual devastation in Jewish religious observance in America for all time. Consider the following shocking narrative: “In an editorial in the Jewish Messenger, an exasperated Rabbi Samuel Myers Isaacs noted that the average Jewish New Yorker desired to keep the Sabbath, but felt that America’s ‘climate’ created ‘something in the air that opposes his intention.’ This pattern held steady. Fifty years later, Rabbi Bernard Drachman, a staunch crusader for Sabbath observance, claimed that Sabbath laxity became significant in the mid 1800s. Immigrants seeking freedom and economic opportunities ‘seemed to think there was something in the American atmosphere which made the religious loyalty of their native lands, and especially the olden observance of the Sabbath, impossible’.” Further on, Polland and Soyer state: “To rationalize working on the Sabbath, some immigrant Jews applied the concept of pikuach nefesh – the understanding that one could break the Sabbath to save a life – to Sabbath work for family support. One Ortho-

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dox rabbi, Jacob Bauman, even wrote a responsum that used pikuach nefesh to excuse Sabbath desecration by immigrant Jews who worked to support their families [American Jewish History, December 1979]. While most rabbis rejected this interpretamunity in tion, the immigrant community America accepted it….So strong was the necessity to work on the Sabbath to feed one’s family, that it could be justified and excused in this way.” Fast forward a hundred and fifty years to the essay recently published by the Institute for Jewish Ideas and Ideals, entitled, “Practicing Jews Serving in the National Security Community” by Rabbi Dr. Dov Zakheim. Dr. Zakheim, a musmach of Rav Shmuel Walkin, zt”l, served our nation as Under Secretary of Defense from 2001-2004 and before that from 1985 to 1987 as Deputy Under Secretary of Defense. In these capacities, Zakheim, the first ordained rabbi ever to have served in such a senior government post, came to appreciate the full meaning and impact of pikuach nefesh as it applied to public service and responsibility. Consider the following contrasting impressions by Dr. Dov Zakheim: “Exemptions from both biblical as well as

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aving a life in Jewish law is given very special consideration. According to Rabbi Aryeh Kaplan, whose 30th yahrtzeit is this Friday, in his “Handbook of Jewish Thought” states that, “When life is endangered, all religious laws may be totally disregarded.” Regarding pikuach nefesh on Shabbat, Rabbi Kaplan teaches us that, “Although keeping the Sabbath is considered a foundation of our religion, it may be violated in any manner necessary to save a life. In such a case, it is a meritorious deed to violate the Sabbath, and one who hesitates is guilty of bloodshed.” With this as prologue, let us now consider the following. Alan Jay Gerber My interest in this concept was recently piqued when reading about how the concept of pikuach nefesh was addressed by two American rabbis, both living over a century apart from each other, with each applying Sabbath violation in deference to pikuach nefesh for two radically variant reasons. Historians Annie Polland and Daniel Soyer, in their recently published work, “Emerging Metropolis: New York Jews in the Age of

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rabbinic laws are not limited to government officials when danger to life is concerned. Pikuach nefesh docheh Shabbat – the saving of life trumps even Sabbath prohibitions – is a well-known principle in halacha. How one defines pikuach nefesh is, however, the subject of considerable discussion among halacchic decisors.” “When, therefore, in January 2001, before either of us had been confirmed b fo for our respective positions, Donald Rumsfeld told me that life was always R in danger somewhere within the realm th that is covered by the Department of Defense, I told him that I could certainly De work on my Sabbath when life was truly wo in danger. On the other hand, I added, if it i was merely a matter of attending an ordinary meeting of some kind, such as a ord staff meeting, that was an entirely differstaf ent matter. Rumsfeld accepted this explanation without hesitation.” nati In viewing this contrast of the Jewish work experience involving chillul Shabbat and pikuach nefesh over a span of 150 years, we mush step back and truly behold how our status within American society has changed over this vast number of years. Both our economic, as well as political status, has gained in both stature and regard from our fellow citizens. Our safeguarding of our religious observances is increasingly gaining the respect of our Christian neighbors, and the witness of these observances by our non-observant fellow Jews is serving as a welcome catalyst to their acceptance by many among them. Both works cited above deserve your attention. Also, may I take this opportunity to make note, once again, of the 30th yahrtzeit this Friday, the 14th of Shevat, of my dear young friend Rav Aryeh Kaplan, zt”l. A more complete tribute to him and his life’s work will, iy”H, be forthcoming.

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OU Shabbaton Young Israel of Plainview Our Way , OUs Division for the hearing impaired has brought its joyous Shabbaton programs to communities all over North America, open to members of the Jewish community from all backgrounds. Materials and prayer services will be provided in American Sign Language and deaf advisors will assist to create a meaningful, traditional Shabbat experience. The Shabbaton will include three delicious meals and snacks, interpreted services in the synagogue, a beginner’s minyan, child care, program sessions, and an opportunity to join together with others to live and learn about Judaism. Saturday night culminates with a family bowling social event at AMF Bowling, 500 Old Bethpage Road in Plainview. Rabbi David Kastor will serve as the Deaf Scholar-in-Residence. Friday night, he will present a session (verbal and in ASL) entitled, “Green Thumb.” On Shabbat afternoon, Deaf Advisor Rabbi Yehoshua Soudakoff, will lead a “Thanks to Hashem and Brochos Bee” and Rabbi Kastor will lead the family-fun game of “Jewpardy” (the Jewish parody of Jeopardy). Rabbi Kastor graduated from Gallaudet University for the Deaf with a B.A. in Computer Science and is married to an Israeli deaf woman, Tchia. Deb and Barry Spindel are the Deaf Hosts of the Shabbaton, who live in Long Island with their sons Michael and Jonathan. TShoshanah and Joe Suissa will serve as the Deaf Coordinators. To participate, please send a check for $36 payable to Our Way Shabbaton to Our Way C/O Barry Spindel, 22 Forest Drive, Plainview, NY 11803. For further information, contact them via voice/relay phone 516.342.3711 or email Debspin@ verizon.net. A separate registration for bowling is required, by contacting Faigy Zaretsky at poppy55@aol.com or via voice/relay phone at 517.342.3711. Rabbi Lederfeind can be reached at ourway@ ou.org or by voice/relay phone at 212.613.8234. The synagogue is located at 132 Southern Parkway. Registration is mandatory, and sleeping arrangements are available upon registration.

not processed, or their insurance is not giving them the money they deserve, so they are looking forward to a meeting of this kind,” said Mrs. Chani Kramer, co-director of Chabad of MerrickBellmore-Wantagh. The meeting will be held at the Chabad Center for Jewish Life, 2174 Hewlett Avenue in Merrick (entrance through parking lot on Benson Lane), from 7:30-9:30 pm. To RSVP or for more information on the meeting, please contact Chana at the Chabad Center for Jewish Life at 516-833-3057, or email programs@ChabadJewishLife.org.

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Nefesh b’Nefesh Online Webinar Go North Virtual Expo Hosted by Michele Kaplan-Green 11:00AM- 2:30PM EST Go North Virtual Expo Hear about opportunities in Israel’s north from Nefesh B’Nefesh Go North Olim and staff, in the comfort of your own home. Webinars will run throughout the day Instructions for Joining the Webinar To join the Webinar: 1. Go to https://nefeshbnefesh-event.webex. com 2. On the drop down menu on the right side of the screen, click down for Training Center (The default is meeting center) 3. Click “Join Now”. 4. Enter your name and email address.

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Merrick-BellmoreWantagh Chabad to Host Community Meeting Hurricane Sandy Victims to Receive Aid and Answers Chabad Center for Jewish Life will conduct an informational meeting for residents of Merrick-Bellmore-Wantagh in response to Hurricane Sandy. Chabad has arranged for several Federal services to be in attendance: • FEMA representatives will be available to discuss individual cases. Bring your FEMA registration number if you have one. • Resources and ﬁling deadlines for Fema will be discussed • Bill Niezgoda, Sr. Insurance Examiner, will give a brief presentation about what the Dept. of Financial Services can do to assist homeowners with their insurance issues. He will be available to answer short questions after the presentation. • You will be able to complete a needs & services application for assistance from Chabad. “Many in our community have been frustrated because their FEMA applications are still

Hundreds of friends and supporters of AMIT from throughout the tri-state area and beyond are expected to attend the dinner originally scheduled on November 4, and postponed due to Hurricane Sandy. All proceeds will beneﬁt the AMIT network of 108 schools and program throughout Israel, which in recent years has grown to encompass more than 25,000 students from kindergarten through junior college. This year’s honorees are Drs. Francine and Aaron Stein of Englewood, New Jersey, Presidential Leadership Honorees; Laurie and Eli Bryk of New York City, Guests of Honor; and Allie and Alexander Luxenberg, also of New York City, Young Visionary Honorees. The Grand Hyatt Hotel is located on 42nd Street and Lexington Avenue. For further information and reservations, please call AMIT at 212-477-4725. Or visit AMIT at www.amitchildren.org.

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Woodmere LIVE FROM EMUNAH, IT’S SATURDAY NIGHT! EMUNAH OF AMERICA- 5 Towns Chapter proudly presents its 2nd Annual Comedy Event Sold out last year! Join for a fun ﬁlled evening with good friends and great laughs. Featuring the comedy of Oﬁra Eisenberg: has appeared on Comedy Central’s premium blend Barry Weintraub: hosted talk radio, anchored sports television Jon Fisch: host of the popular podcast “In the Tank” Chosen as Comedy Central’s Fresh Faces of Comedy WHEN: Motzei Shabbos, 8:00pm: Dairy Buffet 9:00pm: Showtime WHERE: Backstage Nite Club (Woodmere Lanes) 948 Broadway, Woodmere Couvert : $60 per person SPONSORSHIPS : $100 Amusing ,$180 Funny, $250 Comical, $500 Humorous , $1,000 Hysterical For Information & Reservations contact: Elana Oved: 516-984-4799 ELANREP@aol. comS hari Shapiro:516- 413-6927 JAGEALISHUS@ aol. com Bini Dachs: 917-543-6335 SOAPFAN5@aol. com Linda Koegel: 516-286-3509 LINDA.EMUNAH@ gmail.com

By Malka Eisenberg A United States federal court is fining Russia $50,000 a day for refusing to return what is known in Chabad circles as the “Rebbe’s library,” in a long running case pitting Agudas Chasidei Chabad of the United States against Russia. Chief Judge Royce C. Lamberth of the U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., issued the civil contempt sanctions against the Russian Federation, the Russian Ministry of Culture, the Russian State Library and the Russian State Military Archive. The fine to the Russian government was for not complying with a court order of July 30, 2010 to return books and manuscripts confiscated by the Russians during the Bolshevik Revolution and World War II. Utilizing the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act, Chabad sued the Russian government in 2004 to reclaim what is also known as the Schneerson Collection, the religious books, manuscripts, documents, artifacts and other materials belonging to the fifth and sixth rebbes. Until 2009, the Russian government was involved in the case to determine if the U.S. courts could decide the matter. When the court ruled in favor of Chabad, the Russian government withdrew. About a year after the 2010 decision, Chabad requested civil contempt sanctions, motivating the Russian government to begin discussions towards a settlement with Chabad’s attorneys. The sanctions were suspended but now reinstituted when the talks did not bear fruit. Chabad’s legal team issued a press release

in response to complaints by the Russian government. They noted that U.S. federal courts have jurisdiction under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act (FSIA) in claims involving property illegally taken by a foreign government and can fine these foreign states. Also, the Russian claim that the Chabad collection is a Russian “national treasure” that it was recovered property abandoned by Chabad, is not correct, according to the lawyers’ statement. Rather, the fifth rebbe stored the library in a Moscow warehouse in 1917 when fleeing the Germans and it was taken by the Russians and, despite requests, never returned to the rebbe. The sixth rebbe was arrested in the then Soviet Union for establishing Jewish schools, beaten, sentenced to death by firing squad in 1927. His death sentence was set aside and he was instead exiled thanks to international pressure. When he fled from the German onslaught in 1939, the Nazis took the archive to Poland where it was in turn seized by the Soviets in 1945. The court ruled in 2010 that “the takings of the Library and the Archive by defendants and their predecessor regimes were not for a public purpose, were discriminatory, and occurred without just compensation to plaintiff,” and called on Russia to “surrender . . . the complete collection of religious books, manuscripts, documents and things that comprise the ‘Library’ and the ‘Archive.’” Chabad has assured the court that it will not interfere with any Russian art exhibitions and will not link this case to any other Russian art or cultural displays. The Library of Agudas Chasidei Chabad would not comment on the case.

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Will Weberman case be a catalyst for change ? By Mark Meyer Appel This week the Hasidic community in Brooklyn exploded with the news that Rabbi Nechemya Weberman, an unlicensed youth counselor, was convicted on 59 counts of sexual molestation of a young girl whom he had been counseling. He was sentenced to a staggering 103 years in the state penitentiary. Weberman had been counseling this young teen, although he had no license and no professional training and no legal right to counsel this young victim. This high profile case has brought much insight into the Hasidic community in how they deal with child abuse, and was closely watched by advocates and parents across the State of New York. The sentence is the longest a Brooklyn court has imposed on a member of the ultra-orthodox community. For many years now, prosecution of sexual abuse cases in the New York court system have been held to a bare minimum. The reason being is that community leaders have been using their political influence to protect child molesters by advocating that these horrific crimes be brought to their own religious courts first. We, as advocates, have been frustrated and aggravated by the lack of concern of the Hassidic and Orthodox communities in reporting sexual crimes to the authorities. We have been faced with many challenges, the greatest one being the path that has been the policy of the District Attorney of Kings County, Mr. Charles J. Hynes, who has repeatedly refused to publicly announce names of sexual predators who have already been arrested. His actions continue to this very day. Mr. Hynes’ policies have been criticized by Mayor Bloomberg and Mayor Koch on his poor and dismal record of prosecuting sex offenders in the Hasidic and Orthodox communities. Another great challenge for us, as advocates, is how do we deal with these communities who discourage victims of sexual abuse from coming forward and naming their abuser? Many of our major Jewish organizations, like Satmar and Agudath Israel of America, have failed in this regard by encouraging victims to report these crimes to Rabbinical Courts rather than reporting them directly to the legal authorities.

What the communities urgently need is more educational programming in our schools and in our homes, to understand and deal with the abuse in a proper fashion. In the Hassidic community, religious men are brought up in a rigid atmosphere of segregation from women. With this kind of separation and lack of education and ignorance, the Jewish community is hardly equipped to deal with crimes of sexual abuse amongst themselves, They must bring the accused forward into the light of the secular world and not continue to believe that they are above the law by handling these crimes within their own rabbinical courts. In the State of New York, the Jewish community falls short in providing educational programs to parents and children with regard to coming forward and properly reporting these crimes to the legal authorities. This challenge we face in protecting our children from sex crimes is not a religious issue and should be dealt with by reporting these crimes to the proper legal authorities only. The most important challenge we face today is to protect and keep our children safe. We must provide more educational programs for parents and children and require all private schools to properly train their staff on the correct procedures and policies. Our community should be no different from any other community when dealing with crimes such as sexual abuse. An urgent need is for a comprehensive proclamation by all Jewish community organizations with a uniﬁed voice that sexual abuse will not be tolerated, and that protection of our children from predators is essential to the preservation of our future generations. Crimes of sexual abuse should be reported only to legal authorities and not to any rabbinical courts. As a community we must continually support the education of the rabbis, teachers, parents, child psychologists and counselors. We must continue to voice our opinions to our elected ofﬁcials that the statue of limitations for reporting sexual crimes must be eliminated and victims should no longer have to hide in the dark for fear of retribution from their own religious community, We must support Assemblywoman Margaret Markey’s bill to eliminate the statute of limitations for reporting sex crimes in New York State.

Nechemya Weberman was convicted of 59 counts of sexual molestation and was sentenced to 103 years Let us hope that the lessons that we learn from the Weberman case continue to unify us and make us stronger in our quest for a healthier community in which our most prized possession, which is our children, can remain protected and safe. Mark Meyer Appel is the President of The Voice of Justice, an advocate agency and full service organization for special needs children and their families, victims of domestic violence and/ or child abuse.

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Israel has voted: Now the REAL politics begin By Jeff Dunetz The media will tell you that Israelis have voted, the election is over and Bibi Netanyahu has been reelected by a small margin to his third term as prime minister---100% true and 100% useless. In Israel, the election is just one part of the political process: as of today the politics truly begin. Allow me to explain. In Israel voters do not vote directly for a Prime Minister, nor do they vote for a representative--remember it’s a tiny country. Actually there were direct elections for Prime Minister in the 1980s but that was changed back to the original system when direct voting didn’t produce governments that were more stable. When voters went to the polls yesterday, they voted for a party list. The list was a docket of candidates in a particular ranking of importance (ﬁrst on the list was the party leader/ Prime Minister candidate). Because of this system, many small parties gain seats in the Knesset. Each party that meets a minimum threshold of 2% of the total votes gets seats in Knesset (parliament). Seats are given out to the party members in the order that they appear on the party’s list. Once the votes are counted, the President of Israel (a largely ceremonial position) will ask the leader of one party (usually the one with the most seats) to form a government. That’s when the REAL politics begin. In Israel’s short almost 65-year history, no party has ever gotten a majority of the 120 seats in the Knesset. Every government has been a coalition. For the Americans who are reading this, do you remember all the deals that were made in the Senate to pass Obamacare? Like when Nebraska Senator Ben Nelson got all the extra beneﬁts for his state to change his vote? Well, folks,

you ain’t seen nuttin’ yet! In the next few weeks, deals will be made for cabinet positions, policies, etc, all in the name of building a coalition of 61+ votes to lead Israel. As of around 2 this morning (Israel time) the results were as follows: The biggest issues in the campaign were domestic. With the possible exception of the Balad, and Hadash (who prefer one non-Jewish State) and HaBayit HaYehudi (who wants annexation of Judea and Samaria), all of the parties believe in a two-state solution. The description of Netanyahu in the American press as hawkish on Israel/Palestinian relations is nonsensical. Yet the center-right Likud-Beytenu joint ticket is the big loser. They had 42 seats in the previous Knesset. From the moment the joint ticket was announced it began to fall in the polls. The Beytenu side is more hawkish, but then again former leader Avigdor Lieberman (who left because of a scandal) does support the two-state solution. So why did Likud lose so many seats? Some say it was because Netanyahu campaign hard against HabBayit HaYehudi and possibly drove moderate undecideds to Yesh Atid. The big winner in the election has to be Yesh Atid whose second place/19 seats were a huge surprise. One thing is also clear: President Obama’s attempt to changes the results of the election through “tool” Jeffrey Goldberg of the Atlantic didn’t work. Yesterday I received an interesting tweet form Dan Senor, American author of Stand Up Nation, claiming that two U.S. ofﬁcials in Israel “quietly conceded that President Obama’s statements to Atlantic columnist Jeffrey Goldberg were an intentional effort to hurt Israeli Prime Minister Benyamin

Netanyahu in the election. The statements he was talking about were an article Goldberg wrote for Bloomberg on January 14, the headline of which was, “Obama: Israel Doesn’t Know What its Best Interests Are.” It was ﬁlled with all the back-door claims from Obama regarding the “lousy” Bibi government, including that his policies were “self-defeating,” that “Israel doesn’t know what its own interests are,” and that “Netanyahu is moving his country down the path toward near-total isolation.” Goldberg, playing the perfect Obama patsy, wrote that Obama made these comments frequently, and to several people. The next and most political step in the “election” process will be for Bibi to build a coalition. As he tried to do in 2009, he will attempt to build a centrist coalition of around 65-70 seats. Yesh Atid is a natural partner, but that only gets him to ﬁfty. Shas could join in as they are the more moderate of the “religious parties,” but that would mean both the Beytenu side of Bibi’s list and Yesh who are more “secular-oriented” will have to make concessions. UTJ is another possibility. HaBayit HaYehudi Naftali Bennett claims he is not as “extremist” as people say. They are a longer shot but could also be invited into the coalition. Kadima (which was really formed and kept together on the will of former Prime Minster Sharon) claims it will not join any Likud-led coalition (but this is politics). Neither will Tzipi Livi and her party. And as for Labor, expect them to be the leaders of the opposition. In the end, yesterday’s election was only the start. Buy the big bag of popcorn and fasten your seat belts, the REAL Israeli politics are just beginning.

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