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50 years after mop tops landed, Yids whose marketing unleashed a revolution are remembered By Lonnie Ostrow ifty years ago this week, on Feb. 7, 1964 four charismatic, long-haired young men from Liverpool landed at the newly renamed JFK airport. They were met at the Pan Am arrival terminal by 5,000 screaming fans (mostly young women). Two nights later, they made their American television debut on The Ed Sullivan Show. More than 73 million people tuned in to experience what would be the start of a cultural revolution …and a musical love affair that has now lasted half a century. John, Paul, George and Ringo. The Beatles. Perhaps the most hyped entertainers in the history of popular culture. And remarkably, a group of four extraordinarily talented musicians who managed to exceed overwhelming expectations from the publicity buildup. The numbers are truly staggering. Twenty Beatles songs have topped the U.S. singles chart. Nineteen of their albums have hit the #1 position. They are the bestselling recording artists of all time by a wide margin, with more than 600 million albums sold worldwide. No, the Beatles were not Jewish. We can lay claim to Steven Spielberg, Barbra Streisand, Albert Einstein, Bob Dylan and Sandy Koufax. But the Fab Four? Ringo Starr had a Jewish step-father (Harry Graves). His mother, Elsie Gleave Starkey was once rumored to be of Jewish ancestry, though Continued on page 15

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Legendary WABC radio DJ Cousin Brucie (Bruce Morrow/Meyerowitz) interviewing the Beatles in 1965. At left, their first manager impresario, Sid Bernstein, and the cover of Brian Epstein’s book. Kruter Photography, Kruter.com

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2 art winners at HAFTR The artwork of two students in HAFTR High School’s Art Institute program will be displayed in the 24th Annual Legislative Student Art Exhibition in Albany later this month. Tamara Heller’s marker drawing titled “My Cousins” and Alexandra Feder’s ink drawing titled “Isolation” were selected for the event, which is sponsored by the

Woodmere sisterhood meeting last Sunday night. “There are no two sides to every story in abuse,” he said. “Get refusal is never justified. It’s never justified to not give a wife a get when the marriage is over.” ORA assists agunot in obtaining a get by helping them navigate the Jewish and civil court systems, providing emotional comfort, rallying public support, and mustering social, communal, financial and legal pressure to resolve each case with the issuance of a get. Stern said the group, founded in 2002 by college students working out of a dorm room, gets as many as 200 calls and deals with about 50 cases a

New York State Art Teachers Association. The exhibit can be viewed from Feb. 24 until March 6 in the Legislative Office Building in Albany. Both students and their families have been invited to an opening reception and to meet with their state legislators. The HAFTR program is directed by Mrs. Dale Malekoff.

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By Malka Eisenberg Tears coursed down her face as she detailed a history of deception and physical and emotional abuse and her fears of her ex-husband. With determination and the help of ORA (the Organization for the Resolution of Agunot), she was able to break the chain that bound her and escape with her two children with a get, a Jewish divorce. A husband’s withholding of a get is “a form of domestic abuse,” ORA Executive Director Rabbi Jeremy Stern told more than 40 women who attended a Young Israel of

year. He said it has assisted in the resolution of 212 cases to date. ORA’s first step is to attempt to “resolve the conflict amicably,” he said. In one type of case, the woman turns to a beit din (Jewish court), the husband refuses to appear before the court, and the beit din issues a seruv (finding) that he has “refused to comply with halacha. That is all the beit din can do.” A second type of case is more complicated, when the beit din process fails or stalls. Stern said any Jewish man can call himself rabbi and a recalcitrant husband can assemble a “beit din” of three friends. Further, no one can be forced to go to any beit din. Another option in setting up a Jewish court is a zeblah, an acContinued on page 15

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By Jeffrey Bessen and Malka Eisenberg The Lawrence School District Board of Education voted Monday night to sell the vacant Number Six School in Woodmere to the Hebrew Academy of Long Beach (HALB), pending ongoing negotiations for what trustees said would add millions in value to the potential transaction. HALB plans to relocate its elementary school from Long Beach and is expected to pay $8.5 million in cash, and another $2.7 million that would be held by the district as a guarantee that Lawrence will realize more than $565,000 in annual savings on what the district now spends on transportation and special education for HALB students. A large majority of students who attend HALB in Long Beach are from the Five Towns, and as a result, according to Trustee Murray Forman, at least six fewer buses would be used to transport students to the Number Six site on Church Avenue. If the sale is finalized, the district expects to save more than $300,000 in what it pays the Long Beach School District to provide special education services to students who would now be in-district. HALB is currently divided into three sections on three campuses — the elementary school (grades 1 through 8), in Long Beach;

the SKA girls high school and the Lev Chana pre-school, in Hewlett Bay Park; and the DRS boys high school in Woodmere on Ibsen Street, walking distance to the Number Six School. HALB President Lance Hirt said the school would like to sell its property on West Broadway in Long Beach, probably for conversion to residential use, but “only if we realize what we believe is fair market value.” He stressed that they do not need the funds from the sale to purchase the Number Six School. Hirt said HALB plans to upgrade the 80,170-square-foot Number Six structure, installing a new roof, new electrical systems, plumbing and windows, and upgrading the recreational facilities. It will be a “significant upgrade from our current facilities in Long Beach” and will “directly impact the quality of the educational product we can offer our children,” he said. How quickly HALB might occupy the building depends on Town of Hempstead approvals and the time needed to do the work, he said. Hirt said HALB is extremely sensitive to the interests of the Woodmere community, from where he said the elementary school community is drawing 90 percent of its new Continued on page 14 enrollees.

Woodmere’s Number Six School will likely be the new home of HALB’s elementary school.

Shas-a-bration! Learning it all in 1 place, on 1 day By Malka Eisenberg Buckle your seatbelts! Jewish men from as near as Woodmere and as distant as Israel and England are coming together to complete the entire Shas — all 2,711 dafim (pages) — in one day, in one place. The goal of the Shas-a-thon is to accrue zechut (merit) through intensive learning, raise money for A TIME, an organization that assists Jewish couples struggling with reproductive health issues and infertility, and recall the 1930s birthday gift of a one-day Shas siyum (completion) by the students of Daf Yomi study regime founder, Rabbi Meir Shapiro, zt”l. At this Shas-a-thon, each of 274 individual lomdim (Torah learners) or chevrutot (pair of learners) will complete a designated section of the Gemara, up to 10 blatt (both sides of a page). Participants have committed to learn their pages, including Rashi and other meforshim (commentators) so they are prepared to review it at the Shas-a-thon. They were also asked to try to raise a minimum of $1,800. The Shas-a-thon, a Torah spin on the fundraising of Bike- Walk- and other marathons, will convene on Sunday, Feb. 16 (16 of Adar I), at the Ocean Place Resort in Long Branch, NJ. The siyum will be livestreamed. Mordechai Stern and Gary Greenberg, members of Congregation Aish Kodesh of Woodmere, are participating as lomdim chevrutot. “It’s an opportunity to participate in something so beautiful, how can I say no?” said Stern. “To raise money for a good cause while learning, how much better can it get?” Greenberg said he was enlisted as a chavruta by Stern, with whom he studied Daf Yomi for a number of years. “I hope I have the stamina to do all eight dafim that we signed up for on marathon day!” The founders of A TIME, director of member services Brany Rosen, and her husband Rabbi Shaul Rosen, CEO, struggled with infertility as a young couple.

Receiving haskamos (endorsements): From left, a gabai (sexton), HaRav Nissan Karelitz Shlit”a, Harav Dunner Shlit”a and A TIME founder and CEO Rabbi Shaul Rosen.

“There was nothing out there,” said Brany. “When we needed a new doctor there was no one to call. We made a promise that if we would have a baby we would create some kind of number to call or resource for anything related to fertility.” The Rosens’ oldest son is now 21. When she held her son for the first time in the hospital, her husband reminded her that they had made a promise. She recalled that when she got home, the first time she lit candles for Shabbat, she “cried for everyone out there who still doesn’t have this joy.” “I had to start from the darkness,” Brany recalled. “It was so not accepted to speak about this; it was scary.” Although the Shas-a-thon is a first time ever fund raising effort, it recalls a unique birthday present for the Daf Yomi founder probably in 1930. Rabbi Shapiro didn’t have any children; when students wanted to do something for his birthday, he suggested fin-

ishing the Shas in one day. “Learning is always a zechus for anything,” said Rabbi Stern. He pointed out that the last commandment in the Torah is to write a complete Torah and the first commandment is to have children. All slots of lomdim at the Shas-a-thon are filled, but additional sponsors are needed. The goal is to provide merit (zechut) and strength (chizuk) to the “thousands of couples yearning for a child of their own.” Brany said that 20 years ago, she and two other women determined to launch an organization and put their names to it to “destroy the shame” of infertility. She and the other women were determined to obtain the imprimatur of a major respected Torah authority and waited outside Yeshiva Torah Vodaas for Rav Avraham Pam, zt”l, when he was scheduled to deliver his weekly lecture. Men flowed in to the study hall in anticipation. When the venerable rabbi approached,

two students assisting him said that he would speak to the women right after the shiur. Rav Pam noted their earnestness and said, “No, now,” even as they stood by the open door seeing the men filling the bais midrash standing in respect for the rav. “We told our stories, that there was nobody for us,” recounted Brany. They outlined their needs for medical referrals, a social support system, and a helpline. Later needs pinpointed by the organizers focused on more practical insurance coverage, legislation, fertility treatments, and that they wanted rabbanim to be familiar with the Jewish legal aspects of fertility and doctors to be familiar with halacha as well. Those goals remain the focus of A TIME’s efforts now. “You are looking at a desk where so many tears have been shed by men and women” on issues of fertility, she quoted Rav Pam. “Anything you need, I am behind you.” And he gave his bracha (blessing). He also called Rabbi Chaim Kraus, who was then providing his rabbinic supervision in Brooklyn’s Genesis lab. Since then, the organization has grown and helps men and women with many aspects of fertility, with advocacy, education, guidance, research and support, including medical referrals, a 24 hour helpline, online forums, and insurance information. They also have programs for girls who can’t have children and Brany has personally made shidduchim between singles who couldn’t have children. She is currently trying to arrange an adoption for a pair of twins soon to be born. She helped fight to change the law for insurance coverage for infertility treatments 15 years ago, when women marched down Fifth Avenue with empty baby carriages to bring attention to their plight. “We do what we can to make the journey quicker and easier if possible,” she said. “As hard as it is, every time a baby is born it makes it easier, every neshama in the world…” For more information visit shasathon.org

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ometimes, the experiences that impact us the most are the ones we almost miss. After finishing my regular army service, I was back in yeshiva, having recently begun my studies for the Israeli Rabbinate, on my way to the beit midrash (study hall) when I encounted a student whose face I Rabbi Binny did not recognize; he Freedman appeared to be upset, and looked as though he had been crying. I asked him if he was OK, and he nodded in the affirmative. He was a new student who had just arrived from England, probably a bit homesick, and I resolved to find him later during dinner to make sure he was OK After minchah, Rav Amital, zt”l, the head of the yeshiva, was due to give a lecture that we had been preparing for all morning. I didn’t want to miss it, but I couldn’t get that student off my mind. I had seen Rav Amital during minchah, but now he was nowhere to be seen, but everyone remained in their seats waiting for him to return to begin his lecture. But I still couldn’t get this student off my mind, and after a few more minutes of waiting, I realized I probably wouldn’t be able to concentrate on the lecture, so I decided to take a risk and see if the boy was downstairs or outside in the large courtyard. When I stepped out into the courtyard I indeed found the student, but he wasn’t alone, and his face was no longer sad. Rav Amital was FROM THE HEART OF JERUSALEM

talking to him, and the two of them were laughing. Much later, when I finally got to know the boy, and was able to ask him what they had been talking about without the risk of embarrassing him, it transpired that he had indeed been incredibly homesick, and was considering leaving the yeshiva. The thought of sitting through yet another lecture was too much for him, and he decided to go for a walk and do some thinking. Rav Amital, who had apparently gone to the yeshiva office for a moment, was returning to deliver his lecture and noticed the student with the same long face. And with an entire yeshiva of hundreds of students waiting upstairs, he stopped to chat with the boy and cheer him up. Imagine: one of the greatest Torah scholars of this generation, who later became a Knesset member and a minister in the government of Israel, was willing to keep 400 students waiting, just to put a smile on the face of a new student he didn’t even know. Up until that day, Rav Amital had been my Rosh Yeshiva, but in that moment, he became my Rebbe. aving just concluded a rather lengthy delineation of the specifics of building the Mishkan (Tabernacle) including a listing of all the vessels and their specifications, we now begin the process of understanding exactly what we are meant to do with all the vessels we are building for the Mishkan. We begin this week with the mitzvah of the daily lighting of the menorah, along

with the method for producing the oil for that menorah. Hashem tells Moshe: “And you shall command the children of Israel, and they shall take to you pure olive oil which was crushed for the light, to raise up a continuous [daily] flame.” (Exodus 27:20) Although the mitzvah discussed herein is the lighting of the menorah, the Torah is really discussing the preparation of the wicks — this mitzvah is not a commandment to light the menorah, but rather an obligation to bring oil, in order that the wicks might one day be lit in the Tabernacle. Why is this commandment related in such a roundabout fashion? Indeed, Maimonides in his Sefer HaMitzvoth, actually defines this mitzvah as “la’aroch nerot ba’Mikdash.” (“to set up wicks — candles — in the Temple).” And there is another detail, that the flames lit were meant to be a ner tamid, an ever-present flame. (27:20) Tamid implies always, that the flame should never be extinguished. Yet, in the next verse (27:21) we are told that Aaron and his sons (the Kohanim) should kindle these lights “me’erev ad boker,” “from evening until morning”). Another puzzle: G-d tells Moshe: “Ve’atah te’tzaveh” (“and you shall command”). Since when does Moshe command? his is the only portion (since his birth in the portion of Exodus) where Moshe’s name does not appear. The midrash suggests that in the sin of the golden calf (32:33), Moshe says to

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G-d: “Me’cheini na’ mi’sifrechaah” (“Erase me from your book”) — if I cannot achieve forgiveness for the Jewish people, then I don’t want to be in the Torah. And, despite the fact that Hashem does indeed forgive us, nonetheless part of Moshe’s declaration came to pass, and thus, in this week’s portion, Moshe’s name is, indeed, not mentioned. But why this week? Moshe averts the tragedy of the destruction of the Jewish people by literally putting his own name on the line rather than “allow” G-d to destroy His people. What does all this have to do with our portion and the mitzvah of the menorah? The Torah describes Moshe as the greatest anav, the most humble person that ever lived; his greatest attribute was his ability to recognize that he was only a vessel for something much greater than himself. How often do we get so wrapped up in ourselves, so caught up in making sure we get what we want, that we forget that it isn’t and never was supposed to be about us — we are merely the vessel for something much greater, for the entire world. There is a beautiful prayer we say three times a day at the end of the Shemoneh Esrei: “Ve’nafshi ke’afar lakol te’hiyeh” (“And let my soul [life] be as earth to everyone”). (Berachot 17a) Can I be the earth through which life grows, and a vehicle for light but not the light itself? In a time when rulers and monarchs were acting as gods, and assuming that the people existed to serve them, Moshe was teaching the world that it is not the people who serve the leader, but the leader who is meant to be a vessel to serve the people, and Continued on page 12

Doing precisely what you are commanded to do Today we will devote our attention to two of the many midrashic passages on our parsha. After describing the clothes of the kohanim, the Torah tells us, “V’zeh Hadavar – and this is what you should do for them, to sanctify them to be kohanim for Me” — bring certain requisite animals as sacrifices. (29:1) Rabbi Avi Billet The Midrash Rabba (38:2) quotes a verse in Habbakuk (1:12), “Are you not from everlasting (mikedem), O L-rd, my G-d, my Holy One? We shall not die…” In other words, You, G-d, are immortal, why aren’t humans? The midrash suggests that until Adam ate from the forbidden tree he was supposed to be immortal; seath was brought to the world, however, once he did what he was commanded to not do. The argument the midrash advances is, “G-d, if you want us to be holy and sanctified and separate, then remove death from among us, as You said in Habakkuk.” The answer is given in the same verse: “Lamishpat samto — they have been ordained for judgment”; in other words, they will nonetheless die. (Interestingly, the word samto can be read she’metoo — that they die.) Do your best with your limited time and learn Adam — you have mitzvot you are given and mitzPARSHA OF THE WEEK

vot you are not given (or ones you are told not to do). Embrace your role. On the same verse from the parsha (29:1), the midrash (38:8) asks, “With what merit was Aharon able to enter the Holy of Holies? … the merit of circumcision.” Most women I know are quite pleased that bris milah (circumcision) is relegated to males only (except for a female Reform rabbi I once conversed with). With this in mind, however, the notion of the merit of circumcision protecting Aharon could stand as one of the reasons a woman may never serve as Kohen Gadol. Although most Jewish males are circumcised, there are many other barriers preventing us (I include myself) from ever being a High Priest — such as not being a kohen. We are fine with this (as was the convert in Shabbat 31a who learned he could not be the Kohen Gadol).

Ado About Something.” I respectfully disagree with the message conveyed by the title, simply because I don’t see Orthodox girls banging down doors to wear tefillin. Rabbi Marc Angel wrote about this issue in his weekly blog (jewishideas.org), stating, “If for whatever reasons halakha has exempted women from the commandment of tefillin, should women feel that their spirituality is thereby diminished? … Prayer is an inner spiritual experience, dependent on one’s spiritual frame of mind. Wearing tefillin does not make one pray better; not wearing tefillin does not prevent one from meaningful prayer.” Of course the argument can be made that women are exempt from most mitzvot she’hazman gerama (time-bound commandments) other than Shabbos, eating matzah on Pesach, and hakhel (gathering once every seven years in Jerusalem), but they nonetheless participate in shofar, sukkah, lulav, counting omer, and saying Shema twice daily. Maimonides claims (Laws of Tzitzis 3:9) that for all of these mitzvot, women should not say the blessing (when there is one), which would indicate that while the mitzvah performances are at best optional, they are not commanded (Hagahot Maimaniyot takes Rabbenu Tam to task for suggesting women could say the blessings when participating in these mitz-

Aharon was silent, He knew his sons brought ‘fire they had not been commanded to bring.’

Women and tefillin is a nonstarter A lot of time and energy has been expended in the wake of the “tefillin scandal” involving a couple of Orthodox Jewish high schools in New York City. One of the rabbis involved with the issue delivered a sermon that was disseminated on the internet entitled, “Much

vot). And this is really the crux of the issue. Is tefillin a mitzvah that women accepted upon themselves through the millennia? No. It is very different from shofar and sukkah and lulav that are basically “one-time” events on holidays that boil down to “you either show up or you miss it.” They blow shofar in shul anyway. The family is eating a meal in a sukkah anyway. So why not? Sefirat Ha’Omer is hit or miss; I would bet that most women who do not go to shul have a smaller chance of counting the full 49 days, without missing one, each year. Tefillin, the way the mitzvah is fulfilled today (in shul, daily) is a kind of commitment that women never accepted. Not to bring the following argument to its full obvious conclusion (which kind of relates to the midrash quoted at the outset — I am not suggesting a death punishment for anyone!), but Nadav and Avihu tried to fulfill a mitzvah they weren’t supposed to fulfill. When the dust settled, their father didn’t cry out, “What, G-d? Are you denying my children the chance to fulfill a mitzvah?” Aharon was silent. Because he knew that they had brought “a strange fire, that they had not been commanded to bring.” (Vayikra 10:1) We should all be blessed to become experts at the mitzvot relegated to us before we expand our horizons into the uncommanded realm. Most people never become experts at their own responsibilities. We all have the responsibility to put our own houses in order before we venture into houses that were not assigned to us. Columnist@TheJewishStar.com

ers that Rabbi Bomzer was enabled to lead his fellow Jews through many tough times. Through it all Rabbi Bomzer was able to faithfully adhere to that famous saying found in the Talmud, Mesechet Shabbat 30b, wherein we learn the value of humor as a teaching tool in our faith: “Before beginning a lecture to his students, Rabba would begin by saying something humorous.â€? Rabbi Bimzer did this to near perfection throughout his life. In his foreword to this work, Rabbi Aharon Ziegler, a longtime friend of both Rabbi Bomzer and of this writer, observes: “Rabbi Herbert Bomzer was very fond of this statement [from Mesechet Shabbat], for he often articulated it, and virtually lived it. He was highly skilled in defusing a tense situation by injecting a humorous story. He did this when he saw a student in his class who, being called upon, would feel tense or nervous. Rabbi Bomzer broke that momentary tension with an anecdote. At a Rabbinic conference, when tempers were ridding high, Rabbi Bomzer entered the debate with his charming humor to calm things down. One of his favorite lecture topics at various hotels was called ‘Humor in The Torah’.â€? Rabbi Ziegler compared Rabbi Bomzer to “the Tanna R’ Elazar ben Arach who was portrayed in Pirkei Avot as a ‘mayan hamitgaber’ (a spring of water) that continuously gathers force [i.e., a creative mind]. In addition to the above, Dr. Bomzer was a highly skilled orator.‌ His talks were light, entertaining, informal and of course, enjoyable. But, they also offered halachic insights that were compelling, interesting and occasionally contro-

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versial, though not divisive.� Most memorable to this writer was a guest sermon that he gave shortly before his last illness. He was discussing the problems of deciding halachic rulings between being lekulah (lenient) and lechumrah (severe). This was delicate territory given the speech’s venue that Shabbat morning. Nevertheless, the rabbi plowed ahead to make his point. Citing Rabbi Soloveitchik, Rabbi Bomzer asked the question, “What is the shoresh (source) to the word chumrah?� Citing his rav, he answered, stating forcefully, “Chamor (donkey)!� This tour de force served for Rabbi Bomzer as his epithet of his life’s work. Never to

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suffer fools easily, he did not shy away from a machloket l’shaym shamayim (argument for the sake of Heaven). He made his point with nary a hint of disagreement from the capacity congregation, such was the respect extended to him from even his sternest of opponents. iscussing the role of sharing in our faith’s belief and ritual — in the case of this week’s Torah portion, Tetzaveh, the sharing of the light of the menorah in the mishkan — Rabbi Bomzer connects the holy work of kiruv rechokim (Torah outreach) and ba’alei teshuvah (returnees to Judaism). Advocating an open door policy as the basis to an approach of tolerance and understanding for all Jews, the rabbi concluded his remarks with the following anecdote: “During gold rush days in California, when family life was scarce in those places, a lady took her infant to the theater one evening and it started crying just as the orchestra began to play. ‘Stop the kid from crying or get him out,’ yelled one patron. ‘No,’ shouted another. ‘We haven’t heard such a sound in this town in ten years.’ The audience applauded the second statement wildly, the orchestra was stopped, and the baby continued crying amid unbounded enthusiasm. “We have been waiting for the cry of our young people whom we lost to ignorance and assimilation. Let us applaud their call and receive it lovingly and gratefully.� Such was the legacy of the life’s work and teachings of Rabbi Dr. Chaim Zev [Herbert] Bomzer, zt�l. May his memory serve as a blessing to all who read and learn his teachings. Columnist@TheJewishStar.com

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e was born 86 years ago on New York’s Lower East Side, the son of Jewish Polish immigrants who arrived on these blessed shores right after World War I. His name was Rabbi Dr. Herbert Bomzer, ztâ€?l, and his ďŹ rst yahtzeit was recently commemorated with the publication of a collection of Divrei Torah, entitled “Keter Harachzav,â€? KOSHER compiled and edited BOOKWORM with an eloquent and informed introduction by his grandson, Aryeh Sklar of Cedarhurst. This volume is a meaningful tribute to the life’s work of a dear friend and valued companion of many years with whom we shared many efforts on behalf of our Jewish youth in the Young Israel moveAlan Jay Gerber ment; the sacred cause of Israel through the Religious Zionists of America; Soviet Jewry, and numerous local causes. Throughout those many years, Rabbi Bomzer never lost his stride. Whether it was his low proďŹ le visits to the evil empire of Communist Russia, or his or his valiant efforts on behalf of the many converts to our faith he nurtured with dignity and respect, Rabbi Bomzer never lost his poise. He was a musmach of two of the greatest rabbinical giants of the 20th century, Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik, and Rabbi Moshe Feinstein, both of blessed memory. It was from the spiritual legacy that he inherited from these two lead-

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ne of the oft-repeated criticisms of the movement to boycott Israel is that it portrays the Middle East’s only healthy democracy as the ultimate rogue state, ignoring at the same time those authoritarian regimes that violate the most basic human rights on a daily basis. Frankly, that’s why I’m pleased that the boycott I’m writing about Ben Cohen, JNS here has nothing to do with Israel, the Palestinians, or the Middle East in general. This time, the target is Russia. Under President Vladimir Putin, Russia has reverted to the habits of the old Soviet Union, cracking down on internal dissent, backing the world’s worst regimes, and adopting a confrontational stance toward the United States. Putin has also declared war on homosexuality. Visitors to Russia who are suspected of being gay, or of supporting the cause of LGBT equality, can be detained by the police for up to two weeks. Even the mere act of educating children about homosexuality could result in a heavy fine or prison sentence for engaging in what the Russian state calls “homosexual propaganda.” These ugly measures have rightly sparked outrage in the free world. and some believe the time is now right for a boycott of Russia. How should Jews assess these boycott calls? The question important, because we have been on the receiving end of many boycott campaigns over the last century. The Nazis famously coined the term “Kauft Nicht bei Juden” (“Don’t Buy From Jews”) in their campaign to ruin Germany’s Jews on the eve of the Holocaust; in 1945, the Arab League initiated a boycott of the Jewish community in the British Mandate of Palestine, which later mushroomed into a boycott of the State of Israel; and in our own time, the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement has attempted to demonize Israel as the reincarnation of apartheid-era South Africa. Because of these experiences, many Jews understandably feel that we should have no VIEWPOINT

truck with boycott campaigns anywhere. But I don’t share that view. Boycotts were not invented to target Jews (the word originates from nineteenth century Ireland, where Charles Boycott, a British landowner, was ostracized by the surrounding community for unfairly treating his tenants), nor have they been restricted to Jews (think of the boycott of racially segregated buses in Montgomery, Alabama, which brought the civil rights movement unprecedented attention). Instead, we should judge boycotts through two considerations: Is the boycott justified? Can it be effective? When it comes to Israel, most boycott advocates believe that the Jewish State has no right to exist; insofar as their actions are directed toward the elimination of Israel as a sovereign state, we can safely deem their motives to be horrendously unjust, not to mention anti-Semitic. In the Russian case, however, no one is challenging Russia’s right to exist. Indeed, doing so would be patently absurd. Instead, the boycott is directed at changing an unjust, discriminatory policy. Changing policy was also the goal of the Montgomery bus boycott, and of the American boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, in protest against the Soviet Union’s invasion of Afghanistan. Boycotts are fast developing a reputation for achieving only a sense of worth among those engaged in the boycotting, with little practical impact on the target. Again, look at Israel: while it might be emotionally satisfying for, say, anti-Zionist Jews to declare “Not in My Name,” the material consequences for Israel of their boycott activities are, thankfully, pathetically invisible. That explains why some Russian LGBT rights activists are — wisely, in my view— playing down the significance of the current boycott. “To be honest, I don’t see the point in boycotting the Russian vodka,” rights advocate Nikolai Alekseev told Gay Star News. “It will not impact anyone except the companies involved a little bit. The effect will die out very fast.” In similar vein, Hudson Taylor, director of a non-profit organization promoting tolerance in sport, told ESPN, “[T]he intent of an Olympic boycott is understood, but the outcome doesn’t create the necessary change. … We are advocating that people speak out, not sit out.” Ben Cohen is the Shillman Analyst for JNS.org.

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he American Jewish Congress’ plan to honor Hillary Clinton at Cipriani, a treif restaurant in Manhattan, is a de facto endorsement of Clinton’s presidential candidacy and a clear example of AJC head Jack Rosen’s determination to exploit the AJC to further progressive political causes. Ms. Clinton, who Jeff Dunetz designed many of President Obama’s antiIsrael policies, has displayed a loathing for the Jewish State her entire public life (except for the eight years she was Senator from New York when she needed the Jewish vote). As Secretary of State, she first demanded the “settlement” freeze in 2009 and was quickly backed up by Obama. What she perceived as a minor concession was for Israel a grave sacrifice. compounded by the administration’s inclusion of Jerusalem in the mix and by its constant public berating of the Jewish State. The Palestinians seized upon the Clinton-created settlement issue, making a freeze a precondition to further talks even though negotiations and construction had been going on simultaneously before Obama became president. In August 2009, Prime Minister Netanyahu announced a ten-month “settlement” freeze. It was approved and implemented on Nov. 25, 2009 and ran until Sept. 25, 2010. Despite pressure from the United States, the Palestinians wasted the first nine-pus months of the freeze and would not come to the negotiation table till September 2010, three weeks before the freeze ended. As the end of the construction halt approached, the U.S. asked Israel to extend the freeze. As Israel waited for a letter clarifying America’s guarantees in exchange for a proposed building ban for Jewish residents of Judea and Samaria, a diplomatic source came forward saying that no such letter was forthcoming. The source, a senior diplomat with inside knowledge of Prime Minister Netanyahu’s meetings in Washington, said Clinton made commitments during talks with Netanyahu, but later slipped out of them by claiming that she had not been speaking on behalf of President Obama — who, she said in the end, did not give his approval. In 2011, speaking at the Saban Center for Middle East Policy at the liberal Brookings Institute, Clinton referred to the decision of some IDF soldiers to leave an event where female soldiers were singing, saying it reminded her of the situation in Iran. Really?! In Iran the women would have been lashed or executed. In Israel they sang, but the people who felt it was against their religious beliefs left. Most senior officers in the IDF supported the women’s right to sing. She also expressed shock that some Jerusalem buses had assigned separate seating areas for women. “It’s reminiscent of Rosa Parks,” she said, taking the typical progressive position that faith should not matter outside a place of worship. Clinton’s statement was part of an ongoing attempt by the Obama administraPOLITICS TO GO

tion to delegitimize the Israeli democracy and thereby destroy one of the reasons for American support of Israel, the fact it is the only democracy in the Middle East. In May 1998, prior to entering the Senate from New York, Clinton became the first member of any administration to call for establishment of a Palestinian State. In Switzerland, she told a youth conference on Middle East peace that she supports the eventual creation of an independent Palestinian state. Her spokesperson, Marsha Berry told reporters: “These remarks are her own personal view.” In November 1999, while on a state visit to the Middle East, she appeared with Yasser Arafat’s wife Suha, who made a slanderous allegation: “Our [Palestinian] people have been submitted to the daily and intensive use of poisonous gas by the Israeli forces, which has led to an increase in cancer cases among women and children.” Suha also accused Israel of contaminating much of the water sources used by Palestinians with “chemical materials” and poisoning Palestinian women and children with toxic gases.” Clinton sat by silently listening to a real-time translation, and gave the terrorist’s wife a hug and a kiss when she finished speaking. Many hours after the event, after a media furor put her on the spot, Clinton called on ALL SIDES to refrain from “inflammatory rhetoric and baseless accusations,” including Israel, whose leaders made no such accusations. Glossing over this remarkably repugnant affair, Clinton has yet to specifically contradict and denounce the monstrous lies uttered by Yasser Arafat’s wife in her presence. Only years later did she make feeble a attempt at an excuse, that the translator screwed up. By honoring Hilary Clinton, the AJC is ignoring the “Jewish” part of its name and promoting the candidacy of someone proven to be a non-supporter of the Jewish State. That it is holding the event at a non-kosher restaurant is another example of the group’s lack of commitment to the “Jewish” part of its name. Columnist@TheJewishStar.com

Clinton sat silently as Yasser Arafat’s wife libeled the Jewish State.

No nod, no deal Anti-Semitic messages such as this one at the Cedarhurst LIRR station have prompted the MTA and Nassau County police to team up to catch the perpetrators. Photo courtesy Nassau County

it’s not going to do anything,� he said. “The number one idea is cameras. I think it’s the only way to catch them. Since this is usually happening at night, putting cameras at the stations is a great idea. They’re also not expensive.� Dreyfuss said he thinks increased awareness of what is occurring at the train stations is needed, along with police staking out the stations in the early-morning hours. “Since this is only on LIRR trains, I think only a certain amount of people know about it,� he said. “I think that to catch the perpetrators, it’s best to do it through a sting operation. Have patrols early in the morning, around 3 to 4 a.m. It’s a great idea, this initiative, if there are enough resources to do so.� From the Nassau Herald

said. “Demographics in a neighborhood change, and the minority left get upset. They’re just frustrated, not terrible people.â€? Michael Lorch is a Woodmere resident who saw the grafďŹ ti photos Leb took posted on Facebook, then heard people talking about the incidents. An MTA tweet addressing the incidents followed. “I never saw it at my train station, just on Facebook,â€? Lorch said. “I know it happened at Cedarhurst, one train stop over from mine. I’ve been living for two and a half years in Woodmere, and always had nice relations in my neighborhood, especially with my neighbors.â€? Installing the surveillance cameras could be the best way to catch the person or people who are leaving the messages, Wexler said. “Unless they have a person 24 hours,

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Prime Minister Netanyahu criticized Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas on Monday for his refusal to recognize Israel as a Jewish state. Netanyahu’s statements came after Abbas told the New York Times that Palestinian recognition of Israel as a Jewish state was “out of the question.� At a Likud-Beiteinu faction meeting on Sunday, Netanyahu said, “[Abbas] knows that there will not be an agreement without recognition of the nation state of the Jewish people,� Israel Hayom reported. Netanyahu said it would be “absurd� to expect Israel to recognize a nation state for the Palestinian people without reciprocal recognition of Israel as the nation state for the Jewish people. “Let’s see if the same international actors who until now have put pressure on Israel will make clear to the Palestinian Authority what exactly will be the consequences for the Palestinians if there is no agreement,� Netanyahu said.

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By Vanessa Parker The Nassau County Police Department and the Metropolitan Transportation Authority have joined forces on an initiative to ďŹ ght the recurring anti-Semitic grafďŹ ti found at two Long Island Rail Road train stations in the Five Towns. “The initiative was prompted because the Nassau County Police Department always attacks crime trends,â€? said Melissa Marciano, a spokeswoman for County Executive Ed Mangano. “They offered this assistance to the MTA, who ultimately has jurisdiction.â€? The NCPD will install remotely monitored video surveillance cameras on the station platforms. There have been 11 incidents of antiSemitic grafďŹ ti at various LIRR stations in 2013 and last month, according to MTA ofďŹ cials. “Seven incidents happened at Cedarhurst, three at Lawrence and one at Hewlett,â€? said Meredith Daniels, an MTA spokeswoman. “We are offering our own additional uniformed and plainclothes patrols to the investigation.â€? Cedarhurst resident Jeffrey Leb, who commutes to Manhattan on the LIRR, began posting photos of the anti-Semitic writing and images, which alerted other concerned community members to the incidents. “I’ve been following it through social media,â€? said Abe Wexler, who also lives in Cedarhurst. “Jeff Leb was posting it on Facebook and Twitter. It’s just outrageous.â€? Avi Dreyfuss, an accountant from Cedarhurst who also commutes to the city, did not see Leb’s postings online but, like Leb, has seen the grafďŹ ti ďŹ rsthand on the platforms at the Cedarhurst station. “I’ve been a Cedarhurst resident since 2002,â€? Dreyfuss

Israel has established a new inter-ministerial team to ďŹ ght efforts to boycott the Jewish state and products manufactured beyond the Green Line, Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman announced Monday. The creation of the inter-ministerial team, which includes Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and International, Intelligence, and Strategic Affairs Minister Yuval Steinitz, was declared in the wake of U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry’s controversial comments over the weekend warning of boycotts and isolation if Israel does not reach a peace deal with the Palestinians. “We are not disregarding the boycott, but we are also not going into the history,â€? Lieberman said, according to Israel Hayom.

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Kulanu Academy in Cedarhurst showcased its school spirit with crafts, writing workshops and cooking during National School Choice Week, last week. Participates were given scarfs beaming the school’s color — a bright and happy yellow! Jewish Star photo by Susan Grieco

EMUNAH draws laughter, funds Comedians Alex Edelman (center) and Avi Liberman entertained 125 people with jokes and humorous stories at an EMUNAH event on motzei Shabbat at the Backstage Nite Club in Woodmere. EMUNAH provides services in Israel, including ďŹ ve children’s residential homes, 135 day care centers and afterschool programs. Board members Cindy Parnes, Leslie Wanderer, Tamar Sicklick, Ava Cushner, Bini Dachs, and the committee of Lauren Weinrib, Batsheva Donner, Andrea Lovett, Sandy Mostel, Shari Shapiro, Elana Over and Shvy Schollberg, along with national president Fran Hirmes and organizer Linda Koegel, helped make the event a success. Jewish Star photo by Donovan Berthoud

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Towns Congregathe scheduled across the Five an inof study in Israel, and the troop moved to Two of in Rabbis from participated, came Scoutmaster where Kahn is president. and Far Rockaway unity. The Torah was tion Anshei Shalom, of in the troop. spiring display and joy “very programs, “exKahn’s sons are great respect typical Boy Scout mitzvot, espedown carried with Troop 613 follows focus on laibydick (lively)â€? off by are kosher and said. kavodik and that was closed cept that they camping overnight,â€? Kahn a Doughty BoulevardMayer, board member would include cially if they are camping trip learnpolice, said Adam TeďŹ la. A Shabbat overnight (Torah reading), and Bais leining Shabbat. and gabbai at from a shul memSefer Torah withand building an eruv before In the procession, Avenue to the yeEEL <DD of with Boston-based ing the laws Morris camp is run yeshiber’s home on R ULJKW <HKXGD =DFKWHU 0HO =DFKWHU 5D brought out the and A two-week summer JewTorah 54. shiva, congregants with Brooklyn’s Jewish troop existing Sifrei &HOHEUDWLQJ D QHZ 7RUDK LQ ,QZRRG OHIW W HU 5DY RI %DLV 7HÂżOD RI ,QZRRG That was a them. troop 613 joined Staten Island for a va’s and shul’s Over Sukkot, jubilantly with on NRY %HQGHU DQG 5DEEL 3LQFKRV :HLQEHUJ growing community. at Camp Pouch built a sukkah out of the crowd danced had a “full sit down ex- a young the simcha, the symbolism.â€? to ish troop 611 utilize it,â€? he part of moved trip. They everyday, Participants then the Yeshiva Ketana din- community that could by the big few “pioneersâ€? two-night camping rope, ate in the sukkah in Mayer said a room Torah was donated and seuda (meal)â€? — located within plained. The packed, standing bamboo poles said Kahn. and the shul eruv — slept in tents, ing room. It “was and generally shape,â€? Inwood Towns-Far Rockaway Zachter family. davened, and has 21 members in pretty good the Five page 16 to 8 pm, only,â€? Mayer said. was “still usableâ€? but “The Torah was Continued on Troop 613 currentlyon Sundays from 6:30 symbolic, takrequireThe old Torah said Yehuda Zachter, Mayer pointed out. “It is month advancement of Europe into meets twice a the different anonyskills and from the ashes had to be repaired, shul’s board. The vibrant ing a Torah working through ranks and titles, learning in a member of the badges to advance to put it “in a ments, accruing to earn merit mous donor wanted tenderfoot, second completing projects run through scout, Eagle Scout. rank. The titles star, life and the highest is the scouts learn class, ďŹ rst class, some of the skills making, hiking, ďŹ re Kahn noted that aid, CPR, cooking, States Constitution include ďŹ rst of the United knowltroop, Jewish camping, knowledge for this Jewish the Five Towns includes Torah, and, speciďŹ cally gregation of in Cedarand the the Jewish knowledge and customs, edge. Some of on Oakland Avenue All By Malka Eisenberg Jewish laws Yosef, one of hurst. “We saw the unity. history of Israel, Rabbi Ovadia rabbis) the Ner Tahalachic, Torah the gedolim (leading Jewish calendar. earn two Jewish badges: sent the greatest to the minds of our closed the yeshivot, they The scouts can to 9th graders, a prerequisite and Talmudic to away on 6th to the levaya.â€? a Award for 10th mid Award for generation, passed the Etz Chaim have been com93 in the kollelim reected of badge, age the mourners Jewish The second sociMonday at When the requirements proďŹ ciency in section of Israeli 12th graders. Jerusalem. to secular, have to “demonstrate that as cross commitof the scouting pleted the scouts Police reported attended ety, from charedi and teachings three members those areas to since his rulings many as 800,000 under He is survived evening, ten tee.â€? on scouting operates his funeral that population of touched many. one the curThe Jewish committee said Kahn. by ten children, percent of the a wellof America, Chief Rabbi of procession the Boy Scouts Kahn, “is to develop Israel. The funeralstreets of Je- rent Sephardic buried next to prethe world and is “The goal,â€? explained Israel. 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He had been training a Chabad-Lubavitch down in a ruling on her daughter, ding more than body and to be closer to of his class. accommodation. Cadet was handed district Judge in Manhis after her 2004 who lives in Hewlett. was at the top be a New of shrapnel in about States in 1923, his brain for months and Friday by a federal constitutional amazing thing ambition to sister the Teicher, to the United upheld the severely damaging his motor Heller said the her age, but how her and her AmendunconstiBy Jeffrey Bessen 10 It was his life-long hattan who Spychalsky that his First uncle offered OfďŹ cer. It was and face, affecting her husband, Phillip Steinberg isn’t just By Alexandra In the ďŹ rst York City Police him out — of course claim of the cadetdenied. still tells stories a longtime resident opportunity. She and in Benyear is. He said she skills and speech. Goldie Steinberg, a top $KDURQ .DURY ÂżQLVKHV UDFH & Nursing her life. died in 1967, lived months of this three tutional to throw him back.â€? ment rights were was “thrown outâ€? of in active she Rehabilitation Steinberg, who many details of Dr. Steven Jackson, world and she remained of the Grandell Beach, turned 113 last Fishel Litzman for refusing to trim and remembers Heller said. there have been bias they have to take for Lewin, who has arRabin Hospital sonhurst, Brooklyn, for 72 years. strong-willed, neurologist at and Jewish communities Center in Long a 12 hour held a party Supreme The next step And she is very crochet, read the newstimes as many the Police Academymillimeter in length, The country at Grandell staff the same apartmenta seamstress, and the for Karov. After before the U.S. one was called in. loves to week, and the her friends attorney. grafďŹ ti incidents Isupon to pray gued 27 cases saying that he his beard to was Steinberg root for the Yankees. She worked as known as a champion celebrate with Lewin, Litzman’shis beard, wide were called comforted Aharon’s wife, weeks later, birthday party and others her and is widely so she could Nathan is to ďŹ le to paper puts Five Towns Longtrain Court said wore she always dress she earlier, said and Jewish causes, Litzman never trimmed Chasidim, operation, Jackson at their son’s brit. Three on page 12 Heller said that and family. told him land Railroad were the 14th-oldest one she had sewed years of civil rights Litzman has mohel at Continued requesting that Steinberg once with Chabad in would be the Steinberg is officially corporate administrator before herself. stations as there a proposed order as is customary grows about the only thing )LVKHO /LW]PDQ FDQ NHHS KLV EHDUG world and ninth-oldest Moishe Heller, naturally only a son, a daughter, that when a person dies, faperson in the Harold 30, 1900 in page 15 in 2012, according be reinstated. but even so, it Steinberg has of Monsey and Continued on born on Oct. his skin. Judge against ofďŹ cers and seven greatas Chi- Grandell. the country, Litzman, a residentsince 2002 for Maito the Metropolitan a half inch from there are many excep- ure to enforce that rule known today Aufour grandchildrenmoved to Grandell in worked Kishinev, Romania, She Transportation Baer noted that York City Police Depart- other than Fishel Litzman.â€? as a paramedic free- ther of ďŹ ve, grandchildren. day for religious the monides Medical CenterYork Presbyterian facial sinau, Moldova. thority. she immigrated tions to the New of “This is a great rule limiting New there as One of eight children, Litzman, 39, said Last year from 2006 for and the ment’s unpublished of Kiryas Joel indom in America,â€? enable me to carry out and from practicmillimeter length and the village OfďŹ cer were banned were four such the “will hair to a one uniformly. the people Hospital men had to decision that at he took the Police page 12 munity: doctors cidents, all rule was not applied“Judge Baer’s opinion my life-long dream of servinga uniformed well. 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Go It was a chink glint of light in the sufsynagogues were Germany don’t or teacher. of one of the On Oct. 30, “Teachers in to more than 1,000 businesses destroyed on a line page 12 onto a panel machine, a narrow her saying. when she spoke Continued on swastika scratched and 7,000 Jewishglass fronts and windows speak to their students. So wrong. I smelled Kristallto mark ica retailer ModernTribe.com focating darkness. ďŹ ve days after greeting cards passenger shelters. to JNS.org vandalized, their this pogrom the name “the me I knew something was of t-shirts and On Nov. 15, 1938, and Quaker leaders I saw a Jewish that, according By Jacob Kamaras, Thanksgiving Day, Jewish was burning. to occasion—one shattered, givingglass.â€? smashed.â€? nacht, British smoke; our shul Jewish and GregoNov. 28 marks day of Chanukah. the the British government for chilanalysis of the night of broken parents came from Poland woman being dragged, windows ďŹ rst to her famobilized to enlist occur again for an one entry of Jewish until Dr. as well as the her mother went textiles Silverstein’s calendars, won’t a natural reaction months, Silverstein and permit the temporary brother, anthropologist menswear years. that over- rian It would be Nazis. For nine 1, but she and her grew up in the “vibrant Jew- ther’s business, wholesale called when noticing the cal- more than 75,000 “Thanksdren eeing the of World War II on Sept. building. They and had known American Jew, of years, Simon Messing, of Frankfurt. She attended on the second oor of a Gitell, who casual reading But Dana children from the declaration but stand coming for ďŹ ve it, the lap during a there. “It mostly Jewish United Kingwho did nothing ish communityâ€? or even laugh. givukkahâ€? was page 12 Hirsch School 1939, 10,000 the a the police endar, to smile much further. Continued on she thought aboutsigniďŹ transported to the Samson Raphael in the world that had said the more the Europe were children arriving school Gitell took things professional living in boys and last group of came to appreciateof two holiwas the ďŹ rst dom, with the educationâ€? for and more she A marketing the overlap a Gitell coined secular and Hebrew cance behind May 14, 1940. 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Currently, Lieutenant but they are over 1000 peopleparticipate. to ďŹ reďŹ ghter, By Malka Eisenberg in their jurisdiction “because there is a greatto Ladder, CapLENNY CHERSON our ďŹ re house in front of a of Hook and some He said the sat on stools cruitment meetings and Ladder, in response to foster parents.â€? Three speakers men and women in the tain of Hook and need for more This was implemented and gasoline to Chief, and of 25 acuteâ€? for adolescents Saturday er 2nd Assistant Woodmere na- individuals using chemicals rapt audience noted CherChief. The home in Woodmere ins and need is “especially special needs. 1st Assistant an emergency start ďŹ res to burn chometz,â€? Ganz family many foschildren with the ups and downs, alum is also ďŹ re safety informanumber of how with the tive and HILI night, explaining through “There isn’t a Saker. “We and has roots son. Other important parenting. needed,â€? said to recruit of Emergency tion is conveyed to the communitythere is a medical technician outs of foster of a long process for foster ter parents are many foster children will Mayor’s OfďŹ ce In the winter how In the ďŹ rst step We New York City seasonal mailings. on maintaining boilers through OHEL can’t predict a given time. Management. fourth recruit- come into foster care at potential parents backspoke of the Department’s pamphlet focused the spring the presented the from diverse Cherson, who 700 calls per and hot water heaters; in children, OHEL two years, noted Derek Sa- need many foster parents family composiand propane as averaging in due to Super Department stresses BBQ grill annual activity ment meeting Communications for OHEL grounds and with various to meet the indiexact in 2012 of “We match year, 967 to be to implement- use safety. ker, Director boasts to ďŹ nd the best and Family Services. looks forward Fire Department mempool of tions of the Depage 11 Storm Sandy, Children’s Home The Woodmere items as Chief to increase the Continued on of Jewish ing his two agenda to increase training due one of the largest rosters approximately are always lookingsaid. “There is a shrinking he want with State of partment. “I foster parents,â€? Outrequired by the Health bers in Nassau County, Jewish members. memand to new regulations the OfďŹ ce of Safety as updat- 30 active Orthodox the community, New York and side of serving social gatherings such as (OSHA), as well Administration procedures.â€? often have and often they has ap- bers ing standard operating which currently 40 of watching the Superbowl,at Delicious DishThe Department schwarma members, over who is convene volunteer proximately 70 do not work in shifts. “We es, a glatt kosher Israeli restaurant, “Best Chief which are active, have enough local cover- a neighbor of the Department.we wish him to we work number one, are fortunate expressed Boycott of Israel day. In addition,Lawrence/ in town, he’s and Cultural ,we love him,â€? age during the in Tel Aviv the Academic the Hewlett, the best of luck his family Dorit, currently studyinga professor at very closely withInwood Fire Departments. owner Benny Roth, and (and who is Judith Butler, By Malka Eisenberg aid with all Cedarhurst and back and Leo . Berkeley. Both University), and detailed mutual which dates “Sixty Oren mobilizing to the University of California, We have very anti-IsraThe Department, noted Cherson. politicians are three assistant and and outspoken Students and the departments,â€? are ďŹ re responses, and to 1889, is also installing line ofďŹ cers on College’s president are BDS supporters calls and Fellow supporting denounce Brooklyn percent of our Safe Israel, el, anti-Zionists. department for Chiefs, and department are EMS related.â€? Friends for a political science an anti-Israel presentation forty percent Lieutenant Marc Deutsch Saturday night. 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Fruit leather‌ a guy in heavy eyeglasses that in no way tempted kids to want to eat the cookies. Especially since each cookie had only one chocolate chip in it, perhaps, two at best. We didn’t have much of a variety in the way of candies either. We had those hard fruit candies that seemed like a regular sucking candy till half way through, when all of a sudden you got a burst of gooey fruity ďŹ lling. If you were unlucky to get pineapple, one could only hope there was a tissue or napkin close by. We had those candy dots, which for some reason actually excited me, though I’m not sure why. If you closed your eyes when you ate them you would have no idea what you were eating because they really had no taste; it was novel to peal it off the paper, though. Let’s not forget the coke bottle candies. Those were wax bottles ďŹ lled with a colatasting sort of liquid. You had to bite the top off and then sip the warm at cola liquid. Amazing that whoever came up with that idea made millions. Sigh. And who can forget those candy cigarettes. How cool were they? They had confectionary sugar at the tip so it gave off a puff of smoke, or so we thought. There was a cheap-

or fruit roll ups as they are called today, is still one of my favorites. I actually did some searching and found a pretty easy recipe for it. Kids or grandkids will probably enjoying making a batch of these with you. Ingredients: Four cups ripe or slightly over-ripe diced fruit, I used apricots (you can use any fruit or combination). You can sweeten it with honey, sugar or agave (I prefer it as is). Two 1/4 tsps fresh lemon juice (adds a touch of tartness and helps keep the light colored fruit from turning brown). Instructions: Preheat oven to lowest temperature (I prefer 170). Puree all ingredients in a food processor until smooth. Pour onto a baking sheet lined with plastic wrap, or a silicone baking mat (don’t use foil, parchment, or waxed paper), and spread to 1/8 thick. Place in oven and bake for 6 to 8 hours, until center is not tacky. Remove from oven and peel off of baking sheet. Cut into strips and serve. Since you will have plenty left over, cut even strips and roll in parchment or plastic. Store in airtight container or freeze. (If you don’t have 6-8 hours in a row, you can turn off the oven leave the pans inside and turn the oven back on when you get home. You are basically drying out the fruit, not baking it.) Judy.Soiree@gmail.com

tary school ordering coffee — or shall I say frappachinos — lattes or frozen coffee drinks that cost more than I received in allowance for a month. Do I sound jealous that we didn’t have those choices back then? Well, maybe a little, but you kids didn’t have Al the ice cream man who came to the block of Shulamith School for Girls in Boro Park every day. He knew us all by name and what we liked to buy. You might have mocha chocolate almond fudge coffee, but I had the cherry Italian ices. And when I was halfway through, I would turn the ices over so the bottom was the top; it was dark red and gooey and sweet because all the sugary avor sunk to the bottom. You know you all did that as well. We didn’t have frozen yogurt stores with hundreds of avors, dozens of restaurants to choose from, and we certainly didn’t have coffee shops every two blocks. We’d actually make coffee at home. Can you imagine that? We also didn’t have avored coffee creamers. It was either powdered plain creamers or milk. We didn’t have hundreds of choices of ice cream; it was usually vanilla, chocolate or strawberry. Sometimes there was coffee, cherry vanilla and chocolate chip. It was regular or ice milk. Let’s just say I’d rather eat ice than ice milk. Ugh. Don’t get me started on cookies and candies. There really weren’t many choices of cookies that were kosher when I was a kid. Most brands that are kosher now were not back then. We could only look longingly at the numerous boxes of scrumptious looking chocolate chip ďŹ lled cookies in packaging pleasing to the eye. We, on the other hand, had Educator cookies; the package depicted

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emember when coffee was either regular or decaf, water came from the tap, dried fruit strips were called shoe leather and eggs were just eggs? Today we have coffee in every avor, strength and blended concoction (for as much as $6 a cup), water comes from all over the world (and costs as much as if you had Judy Joszef to pay its travel fares), eggs in a variety of sizes can be free-range, brown or organic. Cheese used to be American, Muenster, Swiss and smoked; you get dizzy just surveying the choices. Pizza was plain or a veggie slice; now it can be stuffed, cheese-less, sauce-less, extra thin or extra thick crust with as many toppings as can ďŹ t on a slice. When I was a kid we had pretzels, pop corn, potato chips and Cracker Jacks (how I loved those dumb prizes! Come on, so did you). Remember how exciting it was to just ďŹ gure out what it even was, and that was after we opened the paper package that held the prize. When we were old enough to drink coffee, back then I would say about 16 or 17, we had it with milk and sugar; big decision was whole fat or skim milk. Coffee was instant, Sanka, Nescafe and good old Maxwell House. Almost every Jewish household had Hagadas provided by Maxwell House. Today kids drink coffee when they’re old enough to use a sippy cup. I see kids still in elemenWHO’S IN THE KITCHEN

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er knockoff that had the tip colored ame red so it resembled the tip of a lit cigarette, but not as cool as the one that had the smoke. In those days, no one thought it probably wasn’t a good idea to promote smoking to children. Lastly were those fancy boxes of Barton’s chocolate. Back then, there was no hint as to what was inside each chocolate. You had to pick one and hope it didn’t have the dreaded avor that you hated. Today, they actually have a photo guide depicting what is inside each chocolate so you don’t have to try four before you get one that you like.

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Jewish Sochi row: Rights, corruption, security By Alina Dain Sharon, JNS.org With the Winter Olympics beginning this Friday in Sochi, Russia, the Jewish debate on the games mirrors the discourse taking place in the broader international and athletic communities. While some Jews say they view the games purely as sport—with social or political issues not factoring into their evaluation—not all can ignore Russia’s controversial “gay propaganda” legislation, political detentions, allegations of Olympic corruption, and the recent terrorist threats against the games. “I personally don’t plan to attend or follow the games and actively encourage boycotting/not attending the games,” Anya Levitov, managing partner at Evans Property Services in Moscow, told JNS.org. Levitov, who is Jewish, said the various sensitive issues in Russia “make these games anything but an event to follow.” International Olympic Committee member Gian-Franco Kasper claimed that as much as a third of the record-high $50 billion price tag for the Olympics has been siphoned off, while Boris Nemtsov, a critic of Putin’s government, told ABC News he has evidence that Russian officials and business executives stole at least $30 billion of the funds meant for Olympics-related projects. Levitov told JNS.org that the Olympic sports venues were hastily built and may be hazardous to spectators and players. “The [Olympic] construction was done by migrant workers, many of whom were sent back home without pay,” Levitov said, adding that nationalist and anti-immigrant sentiment has been growing in the country in recent years. Putin has denied allegations of Olympicsrelated corruption. Putin’s presidency has not been associated

with the kind of state-sanctioned anti-Semitism prevalent during the Soviet era. But Levitov believes that “the rise of state-sanctioned xenophobia and anti-gay hatred… as any intolerance, is ultimately a threat to the Jews.”

Postage stamps commemorating the three mascots of the 2014 Sochi Olympics.

International Paralympic Committee (IPC) Editorial Manager Stuart Lieberman— who will be reporting on the March 7-16 Paralympic Games are also taking place in Sochi—disagrees with boycotting the Olympics. Part of the value of the games is “to inspire and excite the world, and to instill change in society,” he said. Sochi’s Chabad-Lubavitch center is preparing to welcome an influx of Jewish athletes and visitors to its 3,000-member local Jewish community. Chabad has acquired two temporary centers that will be staffed by 12 rabbinic interns, and its staff has equipped itself to prepare about 7,000 kosher meals over the course of the games.

Rabbi Ari Edelkopf, the Chabad emissary to Sochi, does not take a political stand on any of the human rights or corruption issues in Russia. “I view my role in this community as a spiritual one; I’m here to cater to the needs of the Jewish community, as well as to visiting tourists,” Edelkopf told JNS.org. “It is our goal as an organization that the spiritual and religious needs of those living and visiting Sochi are met, and hopefully expanded,” he said. Edelkopf did, however, note that the Sochi Jewish community is “in touch with local officials and security experts” regarding safety precautions, in light of concerns that the Sochi Olympics may be a target for terrorist attacks, particularly from Islamist groups in the Northern Caucausus region. In December, two suicide attacks killed 34 people in Volgograd, about 700 kilometers north of Sochi. An Islamist group from the Caucausus claimed responsibility for the attacks. Police have started to impose longplanned restrictions of access into and movement within Sochi. Up to 70,000 personnel will be patrolling the games, according to some estimates. Sam Kliger, the American Jewish Committee’s (AJC) director of Russian Jewish community affairs, told JNS.org that he hopes Russia “will do its best to prevent any attempt of terrorist acts during the Olympics.” A positive sign is that Russia reportedly cooperates with the U.S. on security issues, said Kliger, who also cited rumors that Russian security cooperation with Israel is also on the way. Levitov, however, questions the publicity surrounding security risks to the games. “I personally view the widely publicized

threats of terrorist attacks simply as a PR effort of Russian authorities,” she said. “It both creates pre-text for further attacks on civil rights, more restrictions on freedom of travel around the Olympic area, and allows for excuses if something does go wrong. Any mismanagement, infrastructural failures or collapsed buildings can be explained by terrorism.” Mark B. Levin, executive director of the National Conference Supporting Jews in Russia, Ukraine, the Baltic States & Eurasia (NCSJ), said that the organization isn’t certain about any specific threats to Jewish people attending the games. But the group has been contacted by some concerned individuals and is directing those people to the U.S. State Department, said Levin. Like the IPC’s Lieberman, some Jewish groups see the Olympics as a way to promote tolerance and freedom. AJC’s Kliger pointed to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s recent political gestures, such as the releases of oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky and the members of the Pussy Riot band from prison, as a positive sign for the country ahead of the games. But Masha Gessen—who recently released her latest book, “Words Will Break Cement: The Passion of Pussy Riot”—told ABC News that “people who have not had the kind of international attention that those people had are remaining in prison… So it’s not a sign of an end to the crackdown.” “It’s a very transparent and actually a very cynical PR gesture,” she said. NCSJ’s Levin believes that, naturally, “there will be athletes and spectators who will voice disapproval” about controversial issues in Russia, given the “serious differences politically between the Russian federation and the United States or the West.” But at end of the day, said Levin, the Olympics “always go to the country that’s willing to pay for it.”

Next up after Super Bowl: Key football event in Israel By Maxine Dovere, JNS.org Days before Super Bowl XLVIII in northern New Jersey’s MetLife Stadium, a New York City room filled with players, coaches, and supporters of the Israel Football League (IFL)—a group spanning several generations of Israeli sportsmen—looked forward to an upcoming signature event for American-style football in the Jewish state. The Jan. 29 event marked the announcement that Jerusalem will host the 2014 International Federation of American Football Flag Football World Championships from Aug. 13-15. Thirty teams, comprised of 500 athletes from some 20 countries, are slated to participate in the largest world-championship sports competition ever to be held in Israel. The Olympic-style event will face political challenges—already, Saudi Arabia has withdrawn from the competition. A Turkish team is scheduled to participate. American football in Israel began in 1989 with flag football games started by American olim (immigrants) looking for a taste of their homeland on the sports field. Within ten years, 35 IFL teams were in place. Israeli flag football league teams have had reasonable success in competition against international teams. At the moment, the Israeli men’s team is ranked fifth in the world, and the women’s team is ranked sixth. “The partnership between the United States and Israel is unbreakable, and is intensified through sports,” said Rabbi Michel Miller, executive director of the Jewish Community Relations Council of New York.

An Israel Football League matchup between the Mike’s Place Tel Aviv Sabres and the Big Blue Jerusalem Lions in Modi’in in 2008. Jorge Novominsky/Flash90

In 2005, pioneers who wanted to play American tackle football founded the IFL introduced the game to Israel. In 2007, when players began using regulated protectivetackle equipment, only four teams—the Big Blue Jerusalem Lions, Real Housing Haifa Underdogs, Dancing Camel Hasharon Pioneers, and Mike’s Place Tel Aviv Sabres— competed.

Eli Groner, now Israel’s Minister for Economics in North America, was the quarterback of the Big Blue Jerusalem Lions. Recalling the feelings of making aliyah at 15, he said football was “a place to call home, a place where people can get integrated into Israeli society. The league is a great absorption center, a real story of integration.” The IFL counts the family of Robert Kraft,

owner of the National Football League’s New England Patriots, among its major sponsors. The Krafts endowed the Kraft Family Stadium in Jerusalem, the league’s first permanent home. Football and Israel are “two of [Robert Kraft’s] major loves,” and the IFL gives him an opportunity to have both, said AFI President Steve Leibowitz. Betzalel Friedman, commissioner of the IFL, grew up in Indianapolis and became involved with football after he completed his service in the Israel Defense Forces. During the last six years, he has witnessed a 300-percent growth in participation in American football in Israel. “Jews, Muslims, Christians—everyone is a team player,” Friedman said. Leibowitz anticipates that $400,000 in funding is needed to ready an Israeli team for competition in the European Federation of American Football in 2016. While Israeli teams play a 60-yard, nine-on-one football game (as opposed to the 100-yeard, 11-on-11 American version), the IFL “must expand to a 100-yard field in order to be competitive in international play,” he said. Leibowitz looks forward to establishing football centers in every Israeli city, similar in concept to the successful tennis throughout the country. He anticipates that within a decade, 10,000 players will be involved in American football in Israel. “What started as a part of bringing a piece of the U.S. to Israel has become much more than that,” Eli Groner said.

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Ladies and gentlemen, the Yids who brought you the Beatles… Continued from page 1 nothing definitive has ever been proven. That’s about as close as we get to a “Jewish Beatle.” But as for their supporting cast… well, let’s just say that if it weren’t for an assortment of businessmen, promoters, lawyers, visionaries, and a trio of spouses, the Beatles almost certainly would not be remembered as the lasting phenomenon they remain today. rian Epstein was born in Liverpool, UK, on Yom Kippur day in 1934, the son of Malka and Harry Epstein. He was raised in an Orthodox, Yiddish-speaking household. In November 1961, Epstein “discovered” the Beatles at the famed Cavern Club in Liverpool. They were raw and unpolished, but Epstein recognized their immense potential. Two months later, he became the band’s manager. He encouraged them to amend their stage attire from leather jackets and blue jeans to suits and ties. In short order, he secured the band’s first recording contract, then managed their careers into unparalleled superstardom, until his untimely death at age 32 in August 1967. Epstein’s music management company, NEMS was comprised almost entirely of Jewish businessmen. David Jacobs was Epstein’s top lawyer, and the man who negotiated the deals that put the Beatles’ likeness on merchandise ranging from T-shirts and dolls to chewing gum and bubble bath. It was this unprecedented merchandising that enabled the Beatles to transcend mere music and traditional fandom. The exposure alone from these countless licensed products far outweighed the millions of dollars in revenue earned from worldwide sales. Pivotal in the launch of the Beatles’ popularity were a pair of New York radio personalities: Murray The K (Kaufman), and Cousin Brucie (Bruce Morrow). Both were front and center during the band’s New York arrival in 1964. Kaufman began his career in the Catskills, organizing comedy shows along the Borscht Belt. By the time the Beatles arrived in New York, Murray The K was New York’s most beloved AM radio personality (on WINS). He found a way to sneak into the Plaza hotel after the Beatles’ arrival and get the first in-person interview with the band in America. This would be the start of a mutually beneficial relationship in which Kaufman proclaimed himself “The Fifth Beatle.” ousin Brucie (born Bruce Meyerowitz) is perhaps New York’s most legendary radio personality

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Beatles tribute band The Liverpool Shuffle (pictured) performed last week in West Hempstead. Another tribute band, All Together Now A Beatles Tribute, is booked for motzei Shabbat at Congregaton Sons of Israel in Woodmere. Jewish Star photo by Susan Grieco

of all. Back in 1964, Bruce was the star DJ on WABC radio, which he playfully dubbed “WABeatlesC” at the height of Beatlemania. “The Cuz” got to interview the fab four at the Warwick hotel in New York in 1965, and later introduced them on stage at Shea Stadium before their historic concert that summer. Through the years, he became the Beatles “go-to” radio personality. Prior to 1965, no musical performer had attempted to play a concert at an outdoor sports stadium. But New York impresario, Sid Bernstein harnessed the Beatles immense popularity by organizing the band’s landmark concert at Shea Stadium. Bernstein, who was born to Yiddish-speaking Orthodox parents in Harlem, first learned of the Beatles from reading imported British newspapers, long before they were known in America. He initially booked them to play at Carnegie Hall in 1964. The spectacular success led him to fill 55,000 seats with screaming Beatles fans at the home of the New York Mets. Bernstein passed away in August of 2013 at the age of 95. Many of the Beatles most iconic publicity photographs were snapped by Slovakian Jewish photographer Dezo Hoffman. Hoffman, who first met the group in Liverpool in 1962, was also the man to capture the first color film footage of the legendary mop-tops. He would remain their “official photographer” through 1967. ichard Lester was the visionary director, charged with the task of bringing the Beatles first motion picture, A Hard Day’s Night, to the big screen. Born to traditional Jewish parents in Philadelphia, Lester would later go on to direct the band in their second movie, Help. The producers of these iconic films were Walter Shenson and Bud Orenstein, both Jewish. The pair of films were huge box-office successes. Critic Roger Ebert called A Hard Day’s Night: “one of the great life-affirming landmarks of the movies.” In 1967, Paul McCartney met American photographer, Linda Eastman, at a party in London. The Beatles bassist fell head over heels for the blonde-haired beauty. They were married in 1969 and remained a famously devoted couple until Linda’s premature death from breast cancer in 1998. Eastman was raised in Scarsdale, New York, by her parents Lee Eastman (a prominent entertainment attorney) and Louise Lindner Eastman, who was the daughter of Max Lindner, a major Jewish philanthropist in Cleveland, Ohio. Although non-observant, Linda McCart-

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ney’s three children with Paul (Mary, Stella and James) are all considered Jewish, as is her daughter, Heather from her first marriage. Linda’s father, Lee Eastman represented Paul McCartney in business following the death of Brian Epstein in 1967. He would later be pitted against accountant, Allen Klein in a contentious dispute over who would be the Beatles new manager. John Lennon hated the idea of McCartney’s father-in-law making business decisions for the group. He, George Harrison and Ringo Starr chose Klein (the son of a Kosher butcher from Newark, NJ) to run their affairs. It was a decision they would all live to regret, as Klein’s tenure ultimately resulted in a series of lawsuits that led to the dissolution of the band in 1970. n October 2011, Paul McCartney married his third wife, Nancy Shevell. The wedding took place in London one day after the couple had observed Yom Kippur services at the Liberal Jewish Synagogue in St. John’s Woods. Shevell was raised in Edison, NJ by her Jewish parents, Myron and Arlene Shevell, who own a trucking freight company. Shevell’s first marriage was to attorney and political candidate, Bruce Blakeman, also Jewish. As for the remotely, potentially Jewish Beatle, Ringo Starr, he met his second wife, Barbara Bach (born Barbara Goldbach in Jackson Heights) on the set of their movie, Caveman in 1980. The onetime James Bond girl has been married to the Beatles drummer since 1981. Oh, and in one of the more humorous Jewish Beatle connections, there is the business relationship between Starr and his longtime concert promoter, David Fishoff. From 1989 until 2003, Fishoff organized the concert tours for Ringo Starr and his All-Starr Band. In an article from the Jewish Telegraph in 2010, the observant Fishoff recalled how every Friday afternoon, Ringo would call him before sundown to wish him a “Good Shabbat.” Even if he isn’t one of ours, clearly Ringo has learned the lingo and has grown up to be quite the mensch. Blessed with G-d-given talent, the Beatles have managed to remain relevant a half century after touching down in New York. It’s been a remarkable run. Even with the untimely passing of two of its members, the Beatles music continues to inspire new generations. However, had it not been for a remarkable cast of supporting Jewish talent one wonders if they would have ever reached America back in 1964, let alone conquered it.

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Agunot… Continued from page 1 ronym of Zeh Borer Lo Echad, in which each party chooses one judge and jointly choose a third. “It’s very messy, and they can be dealing with a corrupt beit din.” Husbands have a variety of reasons for withholding their wives’ gets, including money, blackmail or extortion (“how much is it worth to you for child custody”). It could be out of spite, they hate the wife so much they don’t want her to move on with her life; or they “love her so much they don’t want to let go.” Behavior that in the past was condoned as “boys will be boys” is today recognized as harassment and that shift has Rabbi Jeremy Stern to apply to divorce, said Stern. It should “not be tolerated in our community not even if it’s a brother or son.” Stern and ORA are advocating halachic prenuptial agreements, saying that they are “found to be 100 percent effective.” They endorse the saying that “friends don’t let friends get married without a halachic prenup.” They suggest that every rabbi should officiate at weddings only if a halachic prenup is signed. Stern said friends should refuse to accept a kibud (honor) at a wedding if the couple does not sign a prenup. A prenup is a form of insurance, he said, pointing out that people have car insurance in case of an accident, not because they want an accident. It should be seen as a reinforcement to mutual love where a husband should say to his new wife, “I love you so much and care so much that I never want to hurt you,” that even in the worst of times we should not let our worst inclinations take hold of us. “It’s a stigma we have to break.” For more information visit getORA.org

Jerusalem… Continued from page 1 indeed the world. Moshe understood his purpose: he was meant to be the instrument for bringing the Torah down to earth and giving it to the Jewish people. Without the Jewish people, Moshe had no purpose. And that is what this week’s portion, and particu larly this mitzvah, is all about. Just like Moshe, the menorah was only the vehicle for bringing light into the world. So often we are so dazzled by the menorahs in this world, we forget they only have value if they are vehicles for light. Perhaps that’s why the menorah itself is not mentioned this week, so we can focus on the light. Our mission as a people in the end is simply to bring light into the world And this mitzvah is tamid, because long after the Temple was destroyed and we lost the menorah, we still have the light it was meant to give us. Bringing true light into the world, and being a ve hicle for disseminating such light, is hard work. And, as with all things in this world, it has its ups and downs. This everlasting tamid has its moments of morning and light, but it also has its points of night and dark ness, when things seem so challenging, and the ligh seems so far away. Hence “me’erev ad boker,” even when it seems dark, one has to remember that morn ing always comes; even in the midst of life’s struggles we must strive to be vehicles for spreading light in the world. Maybe that’s why that moment with Rav Amital was so powerful, because a real Rosh Yeshiva is meant to be a living Torah scroll, not just when he is lecturing the entire yeshiva, but just as much when he is walking through the courtyard. Shabbat Shalom. Columnist@TheJewishStar.com

This is an open letter by JNS.org contributor Stephen M. Flatow, a New Jersey attorney whose daughter, Alisa, was killed in a Palestinian suicide bombing in 1995. Dear Ms. Thompson, The Jan. 27 passing of Pete Seeger got me thinking about you. That may seem a little surprising; there’s no obvious connection between a banjo-strumming American folk singer and a British Oscar-winning actress. So let me explain. The obituaries for Mr. Seeger noted that in the 1930s and 1940s, he had been a supporter of Soviet dictator Josef Stalin. But in 1993, Seeger publicly apologized for, as he put it, “following the party line so slavishly, for not seeing that Stalin was a supremely cruel misleader.” It’s a shame that it wasn’t until 40 years after Stalin’s death that Seeger finally acknowledged the truth about his former idol. I am hoping it won’t take you 40 years to acknowledge the terrible mistake you have made in publicly urging a boycott of Israelis. You publicly called on London’s Globe Theater to cancel its invitation to the Israeli theatre company Habima to take part in a Shakespeare Festival. You and your colleagues asserted that “by inviting Habima, the Globe is associating itself with the policies of exclusion practiced by the Israeli state.” Allowing Israelis to perform would make the festival “complicit with human rights violations,” you claimed.

Actress Emma Thompson with the award she was given during the World Economic Forum in Davos, in 2008. World Economic Forum

I know a little something about human rights violations—such as the violation of my daughter Alisa’s right to live. In 1995, Palestinian Arab terrorists associated with the Islamic Jihad movement decided to practice their brand of “exclusion” by bombing the bus on which Alisa was riding. Eight innocent people were murdered, more than 50 were injured. The U.S. State Department publicly identified five of the killers. To this day, they live freely in the territories controlled by the Palestinian Authority. Ms. Thompson, please understand me. I am not saying that actors should refrain from taking stands on political issues. But I am directing your attention to the fact that on so many occasions, actors and other entertainers who have injected themselves into public controversies have ultimately proven to be badly mistaken, as the case of Pete Seeger demonstrates. Many prominent Hollywood figures took part in the 1950s McCarthyite witch-hunts. They said they were defending American culture against radicals. But they didn’t mind slandering innocent people in the process. Harry Belafonte is a wonderful entertainer. But his support for Cuban dictator Fidel Castro and Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez was reprehensible. And his racially charged attacks on African-American Secretaries of State Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice were vile. Sean Penn is a talented actor. But his em-

brace of Saddam Hussein was disgraceful. Whatever one thinks of the Iraq war in retrospect, who can deny that the world is better off without Saddam? When we look at the brutal dictatorship that rules Vietnam today, when we think about the countless innocents slaughtered by that regime, it is impossible not to resent Jane Fonda’s support for the Vietcong. At least the folksinger Joan Baez, who once vocally supported the North Vietnamese, eventually had the decency to repudiate them—but, once again, only after it was much too late. That, Ms. Thompson, is what I fear will happen to you if you throw in your lot with the haters and boycotters of Israel. The radical chic that is so appealing to you today will be revealed as a horrible mistake soon enough. You will, eventually, recognize the true nature of the tyrants and terrorists of Hamas and the Palestinian Authority. But how much must Israel suffer until you, like Pete Seeger and Joan Baez, finally stop romanticizing dictators? Yes, there are evil regimes that deserve to be boycotted. The apartheid regime of South Africa deserved it. So do the terrorists who rule Gaza. But democratic, peaceful, egalitarian Israel does not. Sincerely, Stephen M. Flatow Stephen M. Flatow is a frequent commentator on Middle East politics, terrorism, and victims’ rights, whose daughter, Alisa, was killed in a Palestinian suicide bombing in 1995.

Close encounters of being kind: Canadians over terror By Stockwell Day, JNS.org Day is a former Canadian minister sraeli security units are legendary for their formidable defense capabilities. As a former Minister of Public Safety (including anti-terrorism) for Canada, I encouraged joint training and intelligence sharing between our nations’ intelligence and protection services. As such, I am well acquainted with the Israeli expertise in this area. It was with that acute level of respectful awareness that I considered the following question: Would I be able to breach the security perimeter around Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper at a state dinner in Jerusalem in order to introduce him to two uninvited guests? Who were these two erstwhile individuals? For security reasons, I can’t divulge their names. But I can tell you that they were preteen Israeli boys who had each lost their fathers in a ruthless terrorist attack in an Israeli civilian neighborhood. My wife and I met these young men just three days earlier at a Shabbat meal hosted by our friends, Marc and Chantal Belzberg. As Christians, we were honored to be invited by the Belzbergs to join their family and friends for a few wonderful hours. It was an evening that we shall always cherish. I will resist the urge to go into great detail describing the sumptuous meal; the warmth of hospitality that makes the phrase “please feel at home” more than a mantra; and the moving readings, prayers, and singing that embraced us. Instead, I will focus on the boys. They were at the meal with more than a dozen of their friends and counselors. You see, Marc and Chantal run an organization known as OneFamily. Its mandate, briefly put, is to provide love, encouragement, and extensive supportive programming to victims of terror and their families, with a focus on children who have lost parents or other family members at the hands of terrorists. On the surface, this rambunctious “band

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vide. Children like these will move into an adulthood that will be far more comforting, stable, and fulfilling than it would have been without OneFamily. So, when the boys asked me breathlessly if there was any chance they could shake hands with this Prime Minister, a man whom they had heard proclaim on the news that he would always stand “shoulder to shoulder” with Israel, I had to at least try. Not wanting to raise issues of national security, an amateurish plan began to unfold. n the night of the state dinner, Marc showed up with the two hopeful boys in tow. As all guests have to be cleared many days in advance, it was no small feat for Marc to convince security on the ground at the hotel that these two wide-eyed interlopers posed no existential threat. Next, we were met by the amazing coincidence that a high-ranking minister standing in the reception line had served in the military with one of the deceased dads. The boys were ushered to the final perimeter and then handed off to me. Suddenly, the phalanx of iron-armed, square-jawed secret service agents surrounded Prime Minister Harper and began quickly steering him towards the exit. But two of the lead officers recognized me, saw the boys, and gave me a quick nod and a gap that allowed me to lean to the prime minister’s ear and give him a 10-second briefing. He stopped the entourage, reached past the guards, grasped the boys’ hands, and thanked them heartily for being there with him. And then he was gone. The encounter left the boys breathless and ecstatic. It left Marc beaming like a solar flare. And it left me with an unspeakable sense of gratitude that there are people like Marc, Chantal, and their family, who are dedicated to shining precious light into otherwise darkened situations. Stockwell Day is former leader of Canada’s Official Opposition and a former cabinet minister in the government of Stephen Harper.

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Former Canadian cabinet minister Stockwell Day and wife Valorie, with Israeli boys who each lost fathers in a terrorist attack, at a state dinner during Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s recent trip to Israel.

of brothers” at our meal looked and sounding like any other group of pre-teens and adolescents. Laughing, cajoling, arm-twisting, and teasing were constants throughout the meal. But as they respectfully gathered around the table to pray and sing under Marc’s leadership, the playful surface melted away. Reflecting on the two boys specifically, as sad stories unfolded, I was deeply moved as I remembered countless special moments with my own father which these boys would never savor with theirs. I remember wrestling matches on the floor of our home, trying hilariously to pin down my father’s giant arms. Or slapping my sister’s arm when she had pulled my hair and feeling my father’s strong hand pull me away and his

serious tone when he warned me to “never hit a girl.” Or racing around the final turn of the 1,500-meter event at the school track meet, my legs and lungs fading and on fire, with my rival in close pursuit and suddenly my father’s shout of “You can do it!” amidst the crowd pushing me towards the finish line. They would never experience the feeling of phoning “Dad” from the maternity ward and proudly informing him that he was now a grandfather. Or seeking sage advice about the risks of a possible career move. These boys will never know such moments with their natural fathers. But the dedication exhibited by the Belzbergs and their many volunteers will help to bridge the emotional and spiritual di-

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A list of local properties upon which tax liens are to be sold will be advertised in this publication on or before February 14th, 2014. Nassau County does not discriminate on the basis of disability in admission to or access to, or treatment or employment in, its services, programs, or activities. Upon request, accommodations such as those required by the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) will be provided to enable individuals with disabilities to participate in all services, programs, activities and public hearings and events conducted by the Treasurer’s Office. Upon request, information can be made available in Braille, large print, audio-tape or other alternative formats. For additional information, please call (516) 571-2090 Ext. 13715. Dated: January 17th, 2014 THE NASSAU COUNTY TREASURER Mineola, New York TERMS OF SALE Such tax liens shall be sold subject to any and all superior tax liens of sovereignties and other municipalities and to all claims of record which the County may have thereon and subject to the provisions of the Federal and State Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Civil Relief Acts. However, such tax liens shall have priority over the County’s Differential Interest Lien, representing the excess, if any, of the interest and penalty borne at the maximum rate over the interest and penalty borne at the rate at which the lien is purchased. The Purchaser acknowledges that the tax lien(s) sold pursuant to these Terms of Sale

HALB statement In a statement emailed to the HALB community on Tuesday, Hirt wrote: “Over the last several years, both the educational and lay leadership of HALB have been weighing the costs and beneďŹ ts of relocating our elementary school to a campus more suited for our 800 students. The vision of a campus with adequate classroom and lab space, an auditorium, a larger gymnasium, a functional Beit Midrash, dedicated areas for special educational needs and outdoor ďŹ elds for athletic activities was more of a dream than a reality. Today, while not yet a reality, HALB is actively pursuing an acquisition of the Number Six School campus in Woodmere from School District 15. “The Number Six School process has been open, competitive and professionally managed. As you have certainly witnessed, the process has taken many twists and turns and is still ongoing.‌â€?

may be subject to pending bankruptcy proceedings and/ or may become subject to such proceedings which may be commenced during the period in which a tax lien is held by a successful bidder or the assignee of same, which may modify a Purchaser’s rights with respect to the lien(s) and the property securing same. Such bankruptcy proceedings shall not affect the validity of the tax lien. In addition to being subject to pending bankruptcy proceedings and/or the Federal and State Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Civil Relief Acts, said purchaser’s right of foreclosure may be affected by the Financial Institutions Reform, Recovery and Enforcement Act(FIRREA),12 U.S.C. ss 1811 et.seq., with regard to real p r o p e r t y u n d e r Fe d e r a l Deposit Insurance Corporation(FDIC) receivership. The County Treasurer reserves the right, without further notice and at any time, to withdraw from sale any of the parcels of land or premises herein listed. The Nassau County Treasurer reserves the right to intervene in any bankruptcy case/litigation where the property affected by the tax liens sold by the Treasurer is part of the bankruptcy estate. However, it is the sole responsibility of all tax lien purchasers to protect their legal interests in any bankruptcy case affecting their purchased tax lien, including but not limited to the filing of a proof of claim on their behalf, covering their investment in said tax lien. The Nassau County Treasurer and Nassau County and its agencies, assumes no responsibility for any legal represen-

tation of any tax lien purchaser in any legal proceeding including but not limited to a bankruptcy case where the purchased tax lien is at risk. The rate of interest and penalty at which any person purchases the tax lien shall be established by his bid. Each purchaser, immediately after the sale thereof, shall pay to the County Treasurer ten per cent of the amount for which the tax liens have been sold and the remaining ninety per cent within thirty days after such sale. If the purchaser at the tax sale shall fail to pay the remaining ninety per cent within ten days after he has been notified by the County Treasurer that the certificates of sale are ready for delivery, then all amounts deposited with the County Treasurer including but not limited to the ten per cent theretofore paid by him shall, without further notice or demand, be irrevocably forfeited by the purchaser and shall be retained by the County Treasurer as liquidated damages and the agreement to purchase shall be of no further effect. Time is of the essence in this sale. This sale is held pursuant to the Nassau County Administrative Code and interested parties are referred to such Code for additional information as to terms of the sale, rights of purchasers, maximum rates of interest and other legal incidents of the sale. Dated: January 17th, 2014 THE NASSAU COUNTY TREASURER Mineola, New York #680363E

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endum would be held 45 days later, Forman said. After the date for the referendum is set, the district plans to hold informational meetings — as was done last year — where community members can ask questions and air their concerns. School board President David Sussman said he understands residents’ concerns, but said the possible sale to HALB would retain the neighborhood’s character. “The money is a huge beneďŹ t, but the beneďŹ t to the community would be keeping the character of the area,â€? he said. The Number Six School has been closed since March 2009.

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Continued from page 3 “Our desire is to maintain all of the ďŹ elds, outdoor courts and playgrounds,â€? Hirt said. “Our intent is to make the outdoor playgrounds and ďŹ elds available to our community when they are not being used by the school. We hope that the Town of Hempstead will allow us to preserve all of the open spaces on the Number Six School campus.â€? Last year, a public-referendum defeated a proposed $12.5 million sale of the Number Six School to the Bronx-based Simone Development Companies. They had intended to erect a medical facility on the site and replace most of the open ďŹ elds with a 450-space parking lot. Neighbors were incensed about the loss of the open space and the potential increase in trafďŹ c in an already congested area. They formed the Community Coalition of the Five Towns, headed by Woodmere resident Joshua Schein. Schein said that his group intends to speak with the board and HALB representatives about maintaining the Number Six School’s recreational space. “A purchase by HALB could be good for the community if it includes preservation of the ďŹ elds and the other play areas,â€? Schein said. “The community should have access to the ďŹ elds and other play areas when school is not in session.â€? Last year’s referendum defeat had a “chilling effectâ€? on commercial entities that were interested in the site. “There was little or no interest from commercial playersâ€? in this round, he said. The only other bidder in the past year was a Queens-based yeshiva whose bid fell through because of insufďŹ cient funds, according to school board sources. Should the contract be agreed to by the district and HALB, a required public refer-

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Rambam blood drive The Long Island Blood Services committee has awarded the “Hero-Globin Award� to Rambam Mesivta every year since 2008 in recognition of their valiant commitment to the people of Long Island. The Rambam Mesivta Blood Drive Committee held their 2nd Blood Drive of the year on Jan. 29. With an eye toward giving back and under the leadership of senior Eli Lava, junior Netanel Muskat and sophomore Jonathan Wiesel, the students, parents, and alumni of

Rambam came out in full force to help those in need. Rambam Mesivta has long been known for its commitment to Torah, academic excellence and activism. Making Blood Drives a priority and, in the words of senior Eli Lava recognize that, “We are saving lives,� make it clear that Rambam’s mission to the world is to bring light to the darkness, go where they are most needed, and to show that chesed is in their blood.

Jewish Star Calendar •Send events to Calendar@TheJewishStar.com •Events MUST include a contact number or email •Deadline is Thursday 5 pm .7+856'$< )(% /81&+ /($51 with Rabbi Shalom Axelrod of YI Woodmere. Traditions Restaurant, 302 Central Ave., Lawrence. 12:30-1:30 pm. Buy a great $12 lunch, eat and learn. Alan Stern 516-398-3094. 28 -2% )$,5 Rescheduled from January. 4 to 7 pm. Museum of Jewish Heritage, 36 Battery Pl., Manhattan.

6$785'$< )(% %($7/(6 75,%87( &21&(57 “All Together Nowâ€? band presents a music journey through time to the Beatles’ ďŹ rst live television appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show, the ingenious Sgt. Pepper’s Lovely Hearts Club Band, and much more. $36 (students, $18). 8:30 pm. Congregation Sons of Israel. 111 Irving Pl., Woodmere. 516-374-0655.

visit, understanding your body’s signals, and pursuing positive relationships. Sponsored by the Committee for the Yoetzet of the Five Towns. 10:30 am to 1:45 pm. $10 in advance, $15 at the door. Young Israel of Woodmere, 859 Penninsula Blvd., Woodmere. +,6725< 2) %522./<1 -(:6 New series begins at Temple Beth Emeth v’Ohr, Church Ave. at Marlborough Street in Ditmas Park, Brooklyn. OfďŹ cial Borough Historian Ron Schweiger will examine when and why Jews came to Brooklyn and explain population shifts over the years. $5. 4 pm.

“We met a little penguin; we thought he was so cute! We made a patterned scarf to go with his black suit!� Morah Wasser’s kindergarten students completed an exciting unit on penguins. First the children learned about penguins through books and photographs. They used paint and

construction paper to create their own little winter friends. The children created colorful patterns to make the penguins scarves and learned how to measure how tall the animals were. To complete this unit, the children made “penguin treats� out of Oreos and candy — a delicious and fun way to learn!

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:20(1¡6 +($/7+ $1' +$/$&+$ '$< Local physicians, mental health professionals and yoatzot will work together to help educate the community on a variety of important topics related to women’s health, including fertility, sexuality, breast cancer awareness, contraception, post-partum depression, menopause, and more. Special young adult track will discuss your ďŹ rst gynecological

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78(6'$< 0$5&+ :20(1 $1' -(:,6+ +2/,'$<6 with Michal Horowitz. Special insights through fascinating facts and beautiful stories. First of a series covering Purim. $15 ($50 for all four classes). 11:30 am to 12:30 pm. JCC of the Greater Five Towns, 207 Grove Ave., Cedarhurst. 516-569-6733.

78(6'$< 0$5&+ ),') *$/$ Friends of the IDF event at the Waldorf-Astoria in Manhattan. For information call 646-274-9655.

Israeli girls at Central Four Israeli exchange students arrived at JFK with cheers of excitement and lots of hugs from their peers at Yeshiva University High School for Girls (Central) on Sunday. As participants in Central’s Ulpana Exchange Program, these young women will attend classes with Central students, tour New York, and experience life in American Jewish neighborhoods. This visit follows a six-week program in

Ma’aleh Adumin, Israel, attended by nine of Central’s sophomores. The American students dormed with Israeli students and were totally integrated in the Judaic Studies classes and activities. General Studies teachers were employed to keep them up to date in their studies. This remarkable program is unique to Central and is a truly life-changing experience.

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