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Brach’s quits, making way for KRM ment of Labor under the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act. It said the store at 11 Lawrence Lane would close on May 1 and that 127 employees would be terminated.

The notice cited “economic” as the reason for the “dislocation.”

For months, shoppers have noticed empty

shelves and encountered employees who declined comment when asked if the store was going out of business.

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SHABBOS COMES FIRST Estee Ackerman, of West Hempstead, may only be 14, but this thoughtful, well-spoken young lady is a serious table tennis player who was one of 16 women who competed last week at the U.S. Olympic Team Trials for Table Tennis in Greensboro, N.C. The team trials consisted of three one-day tournaments, Thursday through Saturday, but Estee played in only the first two, to honor the Shabbos.

In 2012, she was disqualified from the U.S. National Tournament after declining to play her final match on Shabbos. Channel 2 News asked her if she regretted that decision.

“No,” she said, “becuase I know that’s always in my life. Judaism will be number one.” She told Newsday that “I will always keep Judaism as my No. 1 priority.”

“She had a Shabbos-over-sports moment,” said her father, Glenn Ackerman.

Last Thursday and Friday, she was randomly selected to play fifthseeded Prachi Jha, an 18-year-old from California. She lost both matches, but was thrilled by the experience.

“Here I was, and all around me are the best players in America, Continued on page 2

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Just don’t call new Cedarhurst venue a ‘sports bar’ Reported by Jeffrey Bessen Two lifelong Five Towners, both coaches of the boys varsity Hawks basketball team at the Hebrew Academy of the Five Towns and Rockaway, plan to open a sports-themed kosher restaurant in Cedarhurst.

Joey Hoenig and Steve Kuritzky hope their Courtside Grill, which will cater to families who want to watch sports as they eat and drink, will be ready to open in time for the NBA playoffs this spring.

Kosher supervision of the restaurant, at 600 Central Ave., in space formerly

occupied by the Basserie Halevi steakhouse, will be provided by the Vaad Hakashrush of the Five Towns and Far Rockaway.

“We closed on the property two weeks ago and are now into the construction phase,” Hoenig said. “We will change the décor and there will be a lot of renovations.”

Plans are underway to replace the marble floor with a wood surface, and redesign the site with sports memorabilia and 30 television screens. The TVs will be tuned to sports and there could

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To be clear, Lieberman wasn’t dishing out an endorsement — he emphasized that all of the Republican candidates have sold proIsrael credentials — but his remarks on Clinton were in contrast to widespread skepticism about the sincerity of her support for the Jewish state. Continued on page 4

be live streaming of yeshiva high school games, Hoenig said.

A lunch and dinner menu will be served, and 15 beers will be available on tap and many more in bottles and cans, Kuritzky said.

The partners stressed that this is not a “sports bar.”

“It is a family restaurant with a bar,” Kuritzky said. “We we are targeting families.”

The space will be appropriate even for teenagers to stop by for lunch and watch ESPN for awhile before reContinued on page 4

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Estee said.

The tournament’s six winners advanced to the North American Olympic Qualification Tournament in Ontario in April, where the competitors in the 2016 Summer Olympics, in Rio de Janeiro, will be determined. “I’ll be cheering for them the loudest,�

Estee said.

Ackerman, a freshman at the Yeshiva University High School for Girls in Holliswood, Queens, began playing table tennis six years ago, in the basement of her home, practicing with her brother Akiva, who is also a nationally ranked player. As she improved, she began competing in tournaments across the country. “Last December was her seventh time back in Las Vegas,� said her father, referring to the U.S. Nationals. “She won the fifth-highest rating last year, and there were 170 players in the event.�

Over the years, Estee has honed her skills by working with several table tennis coaches and practicing at clubs in Brooklyn and Queens. But when it isn’t convenient for her to venture out due to homework and other responsibilities, she practices in her basement.

Though she did not advance at the U.S. trials, she was scheduled to be honored by the Town of Hempstead at a town hall meeting on Tuesday.

Estee attended elementary school at the Hebrew Academy of Nassau County.

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Continued from page 1 The only presidential hopeful whose position on Israel worries Lieberman is Clinton’s Democratic rival, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders. Lieberman said Sanders would not necessarily be bad, “but I don’t have confidence because he doesn’t have a track record.”

As for Clinton, “You can point to times when she’s done things about Israel that you’ll wonder about, but overall, certainly when I worked with her most closely when she was a senator from New York, she had pretty strong positive feelings about Israel,” he said.

“She’s certainly an internationalist,” he added.

While support for Israel used to be largely non-partisan, there is now an overall differ-

ence in emphasis between the parties, Lieberman said.

“I say this painfully as a Democrat: The Republicans know, mostly because of the Christian evangelicals who constitute such a large part of the Republican Party, that they can go to a Republican rally pretty much anywhere in the country and make a strong statement of support for Israel and there will be loud applause.”

“There’s a lot of empathy among the average American toward Israel and its plight, [but] we’re beginning to see a difference of favorable feeling toward Israel between the two parties,” although not yet in Congress, he said.

Lieberman regretted the bad feeling gen-

erated during debate over the Iran nuclear deal, and said it should not have been decided on partisan lines.

It’s not rational that party loyalty would be “more important than the substance of the argument,” he said.

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He was at the Fleetwood Synagogue in Mount Vernon for a discussion of “American Support for Israel — Fading, Firm or Floundering?” with Orthodox Union Executive Vice-President Allen Fagin.

Support for Israel in the United States remains strong among leaders in Washington and people throughout the country, but “it is fraying a little bit,” with a challenging drop in support among Jewish millennials, 28¶V $OOHQ )DJLQ Lieberman said.

“The American Jewish community hasn’t ever been of like-mind in support of the state of Israel,” he said, and for a growing number of young Jewish Americans, “Israel and Israeli security is of lesser concern or frankly of no concern.”

“There is this wonderful tradition that we have, which I think comes from Torah values and which stays alive even among people who are not Torah observant — we believe in social justice,” and for many Jews, that takes precedence over concern for Israel, he said.

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Gathering in a restaurant to watch sports and eat and have a drink is somewhat uncommon in Orthodox Jewish communities, such as the Five Towns. When Courtside Grill opens it would reportedly be only the third such kosher venue in the metropolitan area, the others being Prime Sushi @ The Promenade in Manhattan and the Teaneck Doghouse in New Jersey.

Both Hoenig and Kuritzky emphasized that the restaurant will be under the supervision of the vaad, ensuring its kosher standards.

“We received a lot of information in our dealings with the vaad,” Kuritzky said. “They were extremely cooperative and we could not be able to do this without them.”

Hoenig, who lives in Lawrence, is HAFTR’s athletic director. In the summer, he and his wife, Jenny, run Camp Lavi in the Pocono Mountains. Kuritzky, a Woodmere resident, is a lawyer who also runs the Five Towns Basketball League with Hoenig.

“We first came up with this idea two years ago, looked at a couple locations, then had this opportunity to open a sports-themed restaurant in the neighborhood,” Kuritzky said.

Sid Langweil, co-owner of Ezra Pharmacy and the yogurt and ice cream store next door to where the restaurant will be, said the concept “sounds good.”

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By Eitan Arom About two-dozen people filed into Dodd 175 at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) campus last Thursday night, scouting out seats and picking at the kosher pizza in the back of the lecture hall.

Miyelani Pinini knows the drill. A former student president of the University of Cape Town in South Africa, she’s attended and even organized her share of free-pizza events. But now she and a fellow South African student leader — both non-Jewish black people — were the stars of this one, brought to campus by StandWithUs, a pro-Israel education and advocacy organization, and Students Supporting Israel, a national network of pro-Israel campus groups.

“Our apartheid narrative is literally being stolen right under our feet just as our resources have,” Pinini said.

Having ridden the tides of campus politics—she was removed as her university’s student president, in part because she visited Israel—she’s well versed in a political landscape where pro-Palestinian students build solidarity with South Africa’s black majority, winning by default on a playing field where opposing Israel is the norm. She views the connection as illicit.

The Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement is well-traversed territory at American colleges, with pro-Palestinian students seeking to cut ties with companies doing business in Israel and pro-Israel students loudly objecting. But despite increased anti-Israel and anti-Semitic incidents on American campuses, the chips often stack in favor of pro-Israel students, in part because many universities—including the 10-campus University of California system—defer questions about whether and when to divest to the State Department, which stands by Israel despite periodic policy disagreements.

In South Africa, the tables are turned. The ruling African National Congress (ANC) accepts BDS as a plank in its platform. There, BDS is government policy.

Natan Pollack, formerly the leader of the South African Union of Jewish Students and director of program development for SAIF, has felt the brunt of that policy. Accom-panying Mithi and Pinini at UCLA, he recalled an official from the ANC youth organization spitting on the ground in front of him and telling him, “effing Jew, bloody kyke, your people are taking over the Middle East, your people are taking over South Africa.”

Many student leaders in South Africa are both anti-Zionist and anti-Semitic, Pollack said. The two non-Jewish students who spoke at UCLA set themselves apart from the pack.

The speakers stood in front of a blackboard scrawled with the words, “Let’s talk about APARTHEID!!!”

Pinini spoke of her mother who, after earning a medical degree outside of South Africa, returned to find that “she wasn’t allowed to operate on white people’s bodies even though she could save their lives.”

Pinini didn’t know much about the IsraeliPalestinian conflict, but discussions of divestment and boycott resolutions on her campus led her to take the free trip to Israel.

Watching people of different races mixing in the streets in Israel, she saw a picture she couldn’t reconcile with what she knew about her country’s history.

“Something clicked in the back of my mind and I said, ‘You know, prior to 1994 this was not allowed in South Africa’,” she said.

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For BDS, life after the boycott BEN COHEN VIEWPOINT

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DS, the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement targeting Israel, may clinically die in 2016.

State legislatures are passing bills that outlaw state authorities from investing public funds in, and entering into contracts with, companies and other entities that engage in a boycott of Israel. This doesn’t mean that engaging in a boycott of Israel is illegal, but for anyone who cares about their bottom line, the legislation should provide a powerful incentive against its adoption.

These anti-boycott bills are properly be seen as anti-discrimination measures, and should be welcomed on those grounds. As we’ve learned over several years, however, in the inverted world of the boycotters, this same discrimination is regarded as justified resistance. Hence the BDS movement’s depiction of the anti-boycott bills as a conspiracy of “special interests” aimed at crushing free speech for Palestinian advocates.

The truth is that, unlike France, which in October 2015 determined that BDS, as a form of discrimination, is outlawed in speech and in action, in America the advocacy of a boycott of Israel remains protected speech. Yet at a certain point, the smarter inhabitants of the BDS movement will figure out that they are campaigning for a set of demands that, in effect, cannot be implemented, because the sanctions that potentially come with implementation are too great. So where, then, will this movement go?

It will not, sadly, disappear. Instead, BDS

will adapt. To start with, the movement can now portray itself as a victim, so expect to read lines like “Zionist oppression in Palestine has been extended to those of us in America who wage solidarity with the Palestinians under occupation. What this means is that, rather than campaigning for the actual implementation of a boycott, the BDS movement will now campaign for the right to implement a boycott—in our understanding, an act of discrimination.

Simultaneously, those academics who have embraced the boycott of their Israeli colleagues will introduce the BDS movement to their students as a case study of a non-violent, socially progressive grassroots campaign that has been battered, mercilessly, by a conspiracy of unprincipled legislators, conservative media agitators, and intimidation on the part of the “Israel Lobby” (in the pejorative use of that term).

Again, it will be presented as emblematic of Zionism’s international reach, from the refugee camps of Gaza to the state legislatures of middle America.

As a community, we would be sensible to try and understand how a movement like this can evolve, particularly when legal obstacles are placed in its path. For while the practicality of BDS will have been definitively checked, the ideological venom underlying the movement may well grow more intense.

Unable to attack Israel directly, the BDSers will turn increasingly turn their sights on the majority of Jews around them. (To a great extent, this is what they have always

done, as the primary harm that comes with their efforts has typically been felt by local Jews, and not the State of Israel.) On college campuses, for example, events showcasing Israel or involving Israeli participants will find themselves more vulnerable. Numerous incidents during the last decade, in South Africa and Europe as well as in the U.S., have demonstrated that there is a corps of BDS supporters with few qualms about violence.

It might even be the case that the BDSers will conveniently park their First Amendment commitments, by trying to ban Jewish associations and societies unless these explicitly reject Zionism.

For those who think that’s an improbable notion, well, it happened, in the British student movement during the 1970s.

As Dave Rich argues in a superlative doctoral thesis on this under-analyzed episode of contemporary Jewish history, a general anti-fascist policy that “was intended to provide a practical tool for excluding racists and fascists from British campuses … came to be used to exclude Zionism.”

If this is, indeed, how the BDS movement twists and turns over the coming years, we shouldn’t simply assume that its appeal will fade as it becomes more transparently antiSemitic.

As to the really interesting question — whether those progressives who have made voguish anti-Zionism a part of their worldview will follow the BDS movement along this particular path — I guess we’ll find out soon enough.

Ben Cohen, senior editor of TheTower.org.

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Peace confab would endanger Israel STEPHEN M. FLATOW

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rance’s announcement that it will try to convene an international conference to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has been strongly criticized by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. But before anyone concludes that only “right-wingers” oppose such a conference, it’s worth recalling that one of the most outspoken critics of the conference idea was prominent peace process player Yitzhak Rabin.

The year was 1985, and Rabin—later the co-signer of the Oslo Accords with Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat—was Israel’s defense minister. Arab leaders had been pushing for the convening of an international peace conference. Rabin and other Israeli leaders were insisting on direct Arab-Israeli negotiations.

In the United States, the Ronald Reagan administration had always supported Israel’s position. But in the spring of 1985, reports appeared in the press suggesting that Secretary of State George Shultz was starting to warm up to the idea of an international conference. A worried Rabin flew to the U.S. for top-level discussions.

Upon his arrival in the U.S., Rabin “made it clear he was concerned about Washington’s apparent weakening on the question of an international conference on the Middle East,” according to Near East Report, the weekly newsletter of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC).

“If they are ready to make peace, let’s negotiate [directly],” Rabin was quoted as saying. “If someone wants to undermine any hope of peace, an international conference and bringing in the Soviets is the best way.”

Rabin said that in his meetings with U.S. officials, “I heard about the ‘international umbrella’.” This was a phrase that some administration officials had begun using to try to sugarcoat the bitter pill. “Whenever anyone mention umbrella, it reminds me of Chamberlain and Munich,” Rabin declared.

Rabin’s statements were pretty remarkable, when you think about it. He had formerly served as Israel’s ambassador in Washington, so he was keenly sensitive to the need not to anger U.S. officials. Yet he publicly leaked the fact that they were using that deceptive “international umbrella” term. Not only did he leak it, but he openly criticized it, right there in Washington.

And not only did he criticize it, but he used the analogy of Chamberlain selling out to Hitler at Munich. For Rabin, of all people, to stand there in Washington and blast the U.S. administration and even invoke a Nazi analogy, was nothing less than astonishing.

It really showed what a terrible threat an international conference (or “umbrella”) poses to Israel.

Such a conference, if held today, would consist of a dozen or more Arab and European countries ganging up on Israel and demanding that the Israelis make unilateral concessions to the Palestinians. And given the Obama administration’s pro-Palestinian slant, one must assume that the U.S. would side with the Arabs and Europeans.

The purpose of the conference would not

be to achieve a genuine peace. How do we know? Because the sponsor, France, has already declared that if the conference fails to produce a Palestinian state, then the French will unilaterally recognize a Palestinian state.

That’s the goal—not peace, but a Palestinian state, as quickly as possible, no matter the risks to Israel. Which is why the Palestinian Authority’s Inciter-in-Chief, Mahmoud Abbas, is energetically supporting the conference idea.

During the past year, France has suffered the worst terrorist attacks in the world since 9/11. One would think that the French would understand the folly of appeasing Islamic terrorists and oppose creating what would be an overwhelmingly-Muslim Palestinian terrorist state. Yet just the opposite has happened.

Why? Because the French are afraid. They are afraid of angering the Muslim world, afraid of more Muslim terrorism.

The French believe that since they are defending themselves against Islamic State— which includes French planes bombing Muslim terrorists in Syria and the French police shutting down pro-terror mosques—they need to prove that they support Muslim causes. Supporting Palestinian statehood is France’s way of trying to appease the Muslim world.

The international conference proposal is just another way of throwing Israel under the bus. No wonder the Israelis—Likud or Labor, Netanyahu or Rabin, right or left—aren’t too excited about that prospect.

Stephen M. Flatow, an attorney in New Jersey, is the father of Alisa Flatow, who was murdered in an Iranian-sponsored Palestinian terrorist attack in 1995.

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he radio squawked with commands. I took out my pen and pad out to write down a list of code words for map locations that I would need to translate into coordinates for our impromptu mission. This was a procedure that was part of being a combat officer in the field and was really not a big deal.

If anything, relative to some of the pressures we would likely face later that evening, it was a moment most soldiers, especially in Lebanon in 1985, would not think twice about.

But for me it was a watershed moment. Because I was being asked to write down a list of coordinates on Shabbat, and I had never, in my entire life, ever lifted up a pen to write on the Sabbath. It’s usually not the big events that stop you in your tracks, because you’ve had time to think about them; life gives you pause in the little details.

As a religious solider I knew what I had signed up for, and had given much thought to the fact that I would be protecting Jewish lives and would need to drive and use the radio on Shabbat, and it was for me not the violation of a religious principle, but the upholding of one.

But I was still caught unprepared when I realized I would need to write in a pad, with the pen in my pocket, on Shabbat.

A list of questions and doubts unexpectedly assailed me. I had no doubt that, halachically speaking, it was permissible to transgress the Shabbat while on active duty and with even the possibility that what I was doing was protecting lives. Rabbi Shimon, in the tractate of Shabbat, suggests clearly that it is best to transgress one Shabbat in order to preserve a life and with it the ability to fulfill many more Shabbatot in the future.

What I was more worried about was how it might affect my desire to continue celebrating Shabbat in the future. If Shabbat was suddenly the same as any other day, and if on Shabbat I was driving, using the radio, writing down coordinates, and so, what would be left of Shabbat for me after a year or more on active combat duty? It suddenly hit me that in Lebanon, Shabbat was like any other day; the terrorists and the Syrians don’t allow you to stop on Shabbat. What would become of my Shabbat, and with it my Jewish journey, in the process? his week’s portion of Terumah introduces a new concept: the idea of a sanctuary, a tabernacle, the fore-runner of the Temple designed to create a space for G-d in the world. The Zohar suggests this is meant to be a “dirah ba’tachtonim,” a dwelling place for G-d down below.

But how and why would we be commanded to create a physical space for G-d? As no less than Shlomo Hamelech suggested at the dedication of the first Temple: “But will G-d really dwell on earth? The heavens, even the highest heaven, cannot contain you. How much less this temple I have built!” (I Kings 8: 27)

Shabbat is not about where you are but who you are, and it is with you wherever you go. All you have to do is let it in.

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As Rabbi Jonathan sacks suggests in his Covenant and Conversation: “Making a home in finite space for an infinite presence seems a contradiction in terms.”

While the Tabernacle is clearly the predecessor to what will eventually give way to the building of the Beit ha’Mikdash in Jerusalem, there is a fundamental difference between the two. The Temple would stand in a fixed place at the center of the Jewish universe, whereas the Mishkan (Tabernacle) would travel with the Jewish people without a pre-determined location. Even today, Jews pray facing the site of the Holy Temple, while there is no such custom regarding the place of the Tabernacle.

In fact, Rav Avraham Yitzchak haKohein Kook was once asked why a Jew would be allowed to travel through the Sinai desert when he might accidentally walk on the site where the holy of holies once stood.

His response (in his Mishpat Kohein) is that the sanctity of the Mishkan was temporary; once the Jewish people moved on there was no lasting sanctity to the places where it once stood. Which is in direct contrast to the Temple on whose direct site all the authorities agree no Jew can traverse today.

Rashi suggests that the commandment to build a Mishkan was a result of the debacle of the sin of the Golden Calf. And while that topic is too lengthy for this article, one might suggest that at the foot of Sinai the Jewish people, feeling distant from Moshe, felt the need to create a physical tangible manifestation of Gd’s presence in order to create a reminder that G-d is with them, always.

Indeed the Hebrew word for calf, egel, is also the word for a circle (igul), the closest physical manifestation of perfection in this world. The Jewish people, so soon after the revelation at Sinai had not forgotten G-d, they simply had no idea how to manifest G-d in a physical tangible reality. o, according to Rashi, G-d gave us a Mishkan, a place that would travel with us, which was really less about where it stood than about where we stood. It was a call to the Jewish people to create holy space wherever we were. And for a people destined to wander the globe for millennia it was the beginning of the secret to our survival, perhaps even the predecessor to the synagogue.

The synagogue is called a Beit Knesset, which really means a house not of worship but of gathering. The Hebrew word kanes means to collect or gather, as Esther suggests to Mordechai in the Purim story: “Lech Kanos et Kal ha’yehudim…” (“Go and gather all the Jews…”).

Judaism teaches us that we can create an environment of sanctity which can deeply impact us, by gathering together, and we create this space not by where we are, but by who we are.

Which is perhaps why the space of the Mishkan was only holy when it was with the Jewish people; once we moved on the desert, which is not really a place, did not remain sanctified.

And for thousands of years of exile we created our synagogue spaces wherever we were, and more than we maintained the synagogue, the synagogue space maintained us. And we learned that what we can create alone will never match what we can create together.

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The Brewish State: Israel’s craft beer bazaar

By Maayan Jaffe-Hoffman It’s widely known that Israel has penetrated the wine market, with some of its sophisticated Israeli blends surpassing historically excellent wines from areas such as the Napa Valley or Bordeaux. But what about beer?

For decades, Israel has offered solely the Maccabi and Nesher brands. Not anymore. “There is a huge push of people making beer at home. The country is approaching over 30 craft breweries in the last year or two, making nearly 200 beers,� says Avi Moskowitz, owner and founder of Beer Bazaar, Israel’s latest brewery and bar, which is located in Jerusalem’s Shuk Mahane Yehuda.

An immigrant entrepreneur and startup aďŹ cionado, Moskowitz says making craft beer is like working in a laboratory, something Israelis are accustomed to. But brewing beer is also quick — one can brew a keg in a couple of days — and that’s ideal for the stereotypically impatient Israeli. “You can tinker with it and come up with so many avors. There is no limit to what you can do with beer,â€? Moskowitz says..

Indeed, Israeli beer makers are tapping into this market.

The ďŹ rst microbrewery in the area was actually opened by a Palestinian in 1995 in the village of Tayibe. But a low marketing budget and restrictions on alcohol in Islamic culture prevented the beer of the Taybeh Brewing Company (taybeh meaning “deliciousâ€?) from successfully penetrating the marketplace until around 2000.

In 2006, New York native David Cohen opened Israel’s ďŹ rst microbrewery, Dancing Camel. Cohen says he started brewing beer in the 1980s in his home. He kept up the passion through his aliyah in 2003, and today

JEWISH STAR TRAVEL owns one of the most successful breweries in Tel Aviv. “From the beginning, the focus was to whenever possible use local ingredients,

spices and fruits that would give the beers an Israeli accent, that they could be identiďŹ ed as Israeli beer,â€? Cohen says.

Dancing Camel brews about 20 beers a year, including the Talmud-inspired Old Papa beer, brewed with silan (honey made from dates), which sweetens the bitter IPA. The Carobbean Stout is brewed with carob.

Around the time of Sukkot the Trog Wit beer is developed from etrogim (the traditional citron fruits). â&#x20AC;&#x153;I did not set up a brewery in Israel to brew another English ale or American IPA or German lager,â&#x20AC;? says Cohen. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The mission of the brewery was to make a connection between Israel and the beer. I came here like a kid in a candy shop with all the fruits and herbs and spices to play with. â&#x20AC;&#x153;No one has experimented with them for 7KH WDS ZKHHO JLYLQJ FXVWRPHUV D VKRW HDFK RI EHHUV DW WKH %HHU at least 1,700 years. It is %D]DDU LQ -HUXVDOHPÂśV 6KXN 0DKDQH <HKXGD Maayan Jaffe very much a passion to go

after these ďŹ&#x201A;avors and make them beers.â&#x20AC;?

Cohen says that less than 15 years ago, there was no knowledge of boutique beer in Israel. Over the last decade, as more microbreweries have opened up â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and have been successful despite a crippling NIS 4.19 (more than $1) per liter tax on beer â&#x20AC;&#x201D; it has become easier for Dancing Camel to explain itself. And he says the competition is healthy, save for all the beer bellies.

Earlier this year, Israeli beer made international headlines when Jerusalemâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Herzl Beer was selected to collaborate with a German brewery to create an international beer blend that will celebrate Jewish contributions to beer, especially in Germany, as part of a 2016 exhibition commemorating the 500th anniversary of the Reinheitsgebot, Germanyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s and perhaps the worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ďŹ rst beer purity law.

Herzl is the only beer that is actually crafted in the holy city.

What else is making bubbles in the Israeli craft beer scene?

Jemâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Beer Factory, also started by an American immigrant, Jeremy Welfeld, has become a Petah Tikvah favorite. At 8.8 percent alcohol by volume, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a red Belgianstyle triple ale thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s rich, sweet, and fruity, with a mild bitterness.

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wine because it goes through the same fermentation process). An 11th option is nitro coffee, which Beer Bazaar brought to Israel, though that doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t come with the wheel.

The Bazelet wheat beer is refreshing, slightly tangy with light fruity notes. Alexander Black is an award-winning stout, full of ďŹ&#x201A;avor.

Beer Bazaarâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Six Mix allows visitors to mix and match a six pack of their choice for NIS 79 (about $20). â&#x20AC;&#x153;We encourage visitors to dry different things. People go away with the six and every week make it through a few more bottles of Israeli beer and become more familiar,â&#x20AC;? says Moskowitz. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We ask, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;What have you been drinking?â&#x20AC;&#x2122; Chances are there is a great or even better Israeli beer for whatever you are used to.â&#x20AC;?

Moskowitz doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t purport that the growing beer and bar scene will bring Israeli-Palestinian peace, or even necessarily reduced tensions between the Israeli left and right, religious and non-religious. But he does think it has the potential to bring a little more harmony. â&#x20AC;&#x153;There is a real community component,â&#x20AC;?

Moskowitz says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;When I am able to sit there and experience the people congregating around the beer, I see everyone from religious people dancing to secular girls jumping up on boxesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;they are socializing.â&#x20AC;?

He adds, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Beer bonds people, brings people together, washes away their differences.

Sure, you could come in and sit down to have a beer on your ownâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;but you wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be alone very long. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s just beautiful.â&#x20AC;?

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All of these beers and more can be tasted at Moskowitzâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Beer Bazaar, which was opened only a few months ago. On a recent Thursday night when this reporter stopped by, there is nowhere to sit or even stand. Nestled in the covered section of the shuk and sandwiched between a dried fruit stand and vegetable market just off Jaffa Street, Beer Bazaar is about as trendy as you getâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;for the young and young-at-heart alike.

Moskowitz says the shuk beer scene started a few years ago when Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat began bringing local talent, such as musicians and artists, to the market for evening performances. He harnessed an inherent authenticity and spiritual energy that Jerusalem residents were craving. â&#x20AC;&#x153;In so many ways, the shuk deďŹ nes the pulse of this country. Here you can see the full spectrum of Israeli society: Jews, Arabs, haredim, and secular people. They are not necessarily socializing, but they are all interacting and I feel the energy, the pulse,â&#x20AC;? says Moskowitz, who sells more than 100 Israeli beers, including two of the companyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s own crafts.

A NIS 25 (about $6) tap wheel gives consumers a shot of each of 10 beers on tap (counting Busterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Dry Cider, which has become all the rage in Israel and is served from the tap, though cider is essentially a weak

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s the Torah depicts the instructions for the vessels of the Mishkan, each item has very detailed instruction pertaining to its particular structure. The Ark, for example, is relatively easy to understand.

The Menorah, being more artistic, is more complicated in its design and therefore in the details of its instruction.

And yet, some elements of instruction seem nonetheless out of place. The Menorah, being a symmetrical ediďŹ ce, has a middle branch and two sides of three branches each, which mirror one another exactly. Armed with this knowledge, we might expect that the manner in which 25:33 depicts the design on each branch would be the standard for all of the Menorah. â&#x20AC;&#x153;There shall be three embossed cups, as well as a sphere and a ďŹ&#x201A;ower on each and every one of the branches. All six branches extending from the Menorahâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s [stem] must be the same in this respect.â&#x20AC;?

Note how the verse does not give the exact same description for each branch â&#x20AC;&#x201D; it just says that all six should be identical in the manner of the cups, sphere and ďŹ&#x201A;ower. But then it says in 25:35, â&#x20AC;&#x153;A sphere shall serve as a base below two branches, a sphere shall serve as a base below two branches, and a sphere shall serve as a base below two branches for the six branches of the Menorah.â&#x20AC;?

Even Rabbi Aryeh Kaplan noted the oddity and chose to translate the verse in summary fashion, â&#x20AC;&#x153;A sphere shall serve as a base for each pair of branches extending from [the shaft]â&#x20AC;Śâ&#x20AC;? covering the repetition through the phrase â&#x20AC;&#x153;for each pair of branches!â&#x20AC;?

Rashbam focuses on the word kein â&#x20AC;&#x201D; meaning â&#x20AC;&#x153;so it wasâ&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x201D; for all branches, which appears in 25:33, but does not appear in 25:35. He notes that the word kein doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t appear in the verse which repeats where the sphere was at each connection of branches because the verse covers all the spheres in this part of the menorah!

In the earlier verse, when it says kein was for all the branches, the Torah only gives us two examples of the six branches, before essentially saying â&#x20AC;&#x153;etcetera.â&#x20AC;?

Fair enough. But is there a deeper lesson to be learned from the repetition of the word kaftor (sphere) and its placement between the two branches at every connection of the branches to the center stem, which is the Menorah?

Most commentaries on the Mishkan parshas take to the world of symbolism in explaining the Mishkan to Torah-readers. The Alshikh does exactly this in explaining the repetition of the need for each kaftor.

He says there are parts of the body, similar in design to a kaftor, which, in each case

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The ďŹ rst branches are the ears. Everything a person hears from teachers is then transmitted to others through the kaftor that is the tongue. The tongue is covered by the mouth. The ears hear, and the tongue impacts othersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; ears.

The second set of branches are the eyes, and the kaftor beneath them is the heart, which is drawn by the things the eyes see.

The heart is covered by the body. What the heart wants it desires The third set of branches are the hands, and the kaftor beneath them, is only on

men, and is covered by garments. Both the branches and the kaftor, explain the Alshikh, are governed by the sense of touch. He notes the practice of Rebbe (Shabbos 118b) to not lower his hands below his navel.

The branches each have the opportunity to serve G-d: The ears hear, leading the tongue to share words of Torah. If the eyes donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t see bad, they wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be enticed to draw the heart to bad.

If hands are trained to do good things, they can be associated with mitzvah fulďŹ llment and deeds which beneďŹ t others â&#x20AC;&#x201D; carrying things, driving, ďŹ xing, etc. And certainly this is the case for a manâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s kaftor.

Perhaps itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not too farfetched to suggest that the ears have lobes, the eyes have lids,

and the hands have the ability to clench, so these â&#x20AC;&#x153;branchesâ&#x20AC;? can prevent themselves from being utilized improperly.

Using the kaftorim for mitzvos, and training the branches â&#x20AC;&#x201D; the ears, eyes and arms â&#x20AC;&#x201D; in the service of G-d, is good for everyone, whereas misappropriating any of these parts of the body for sin makes for a wasteful existence.

Just as the Menorah was â&#x20AC;&#x153;Kulah Mikshah Achas Zahav Tahor,â&#x20AC;? entirely made out of a solid piece of gold, concludes the Alshikh, so should each person merit that his (or her) entire body, not just parts of it, be models of good and proper behavior, ideally in the service of G-d and as a person who does chesed towards other people.

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lthough the Super Bowl is over, and you’re likely sick of hearing about my sports teams and complaints, just one more article, and then it’s safe to say, my sports life will fade to black for the rest of the year.

I’m a Braves baseball fan, as in, the team that traded away the best closer in baseball, some of the best outfielders, and the list goes on.

This year I won’t be talking about the Braves.

They’re rebuilding with young players and may be ready to compete in two years when they enter their new stadium. My friend Elyssa Queen, a diehard Mets fan, asked me if I’m ready for pitchers and catchers. I responded, “I’ll be ready in two years; you, my friend will be ready in two weeks.”

I was in two football pools. One, a suicide pool, which I won mid-season after knocking out 52 other players, and a regular pool, in which I hovered in the top 3 for most of the season, occupying first place for weeks, until I was knocked down to second place right before the Super Bowl. That’s a whole other story.

Seriously, the player who tied with me for first (I would win the tiebreaker though) picked the Broncos over the Patriots! And then in the Super Bowl, in order for me to win, I had to take the underdog and pray. It was my only chance.

He would definitely pick the overwhelmingly strong favorite, the Panthers, you would think — but noooooooo (spoken as Darth Vader in Return of the Jedi voice), he picks the Broncos.

Really? So the best I could hope for was second, which I got.

After watching Cam Newton’s graceless postgame response to losing, and being pounded by the Bronco’s ferocious defence during Sunday night’s Super Bowl, Jerry reflected on the most painful defeat he had ever experienced, during his years of playing competitive basketball.

Jerry had participated in a myriad of basketball games starting in elementary school and ending in his late 30’s, beset both by many injuries and seriously declining skills.

He learned to play basketball in Camp Raleigh in 1967 and developed into a tough and talented athlete and competitive ballplayer in high school. He looked forward to going to camp each summer to see his great “camp friends” as well as to further hone his basketball skills for the coming season in BTA. He remembers meeting his best elementary school friend, Mike Halpern a”h, the day he got home from camp each summer, so they could play one-on-one and Jerry could assess whether and how much he had improved over the summer. Mike was a great ballplayer, and they really went at it with gusto, ultimately finishing bruised and exhausted but satisfied that they were getting better and that they would really make BTA into a very tough team to beat. erry lost many tough games over the years. However, his most painful defeat made an unexpected indelible impression on him. This precipitated the discovery of a dimension of beauty and grace inherent in competitive sports, forever changing his “love of the game.” It was the color war basketball game in the summer of 1972. Jerry’s team was highlighted by Bruce Wenig, an excellent player, Mike Blumenthal and Jerry. The other team was very balanced. They had less top tier talent (except for his close friend, Neil Stein) but were tough up and down the lineup. The game was fiercely competitive with leads constantly

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Jerry remembers the deep pain of defeat as he really wanted to win this game. He turned and watched the other team celebrate for a few moments and then something unexpected occurred. He was fully happy for them; they deserved and earned their victory.

Jerry is a rabid Giants, Knicks, Yankees and Rangers fan and has been so since elementary school. When he can, he watches each game, carefully feeling the joys of his team’s victories and suffering the pain of his heroes defeats.

However, after the crescendo of his screaming cheering, wailing, etc. recedes and quiet is restored after each game, Jerry, inevitably tips his cap to the other team and is quietly joyful that the team which deserved to win prevailed — simultaneously suffering the bitterness of his team’s defeat.

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ur parasha contains the mitzvah to build the Aron Kodesh: They [the Jewish people] shall make an ark of acacia wood, two and a half cubits its length, a cubit and a half its width, and a cubit and a half its height. (Shemot 25:10) The Hebrew original of the words in this commandment, “v’asu aron atzai shittim” (“they shall make an ark of acacia wood”), is stated in the plural. Subsequently, however, each of the pasukim pertaining to the Holy Ark’s construction are written in the singular (25:11-17). Why? The Ramban quoted the mechilta, the halachic midrash to sefer Shemot, in his answer to our question: “[The details of the Holy Ark’s construction are written in the singular,] since Moshe [as an individual] had the status of the entire Jewish people.”

The Ramban continued his response with a fascinating insight based upon Midrash Shemot Rabbah 34:2: And it is possible that the text deployed the singular grammatical construct in order to suggest that the entire people were joined together, as if one, in the building of the Aron Kodesh, since it was “the holy place of the dwellings of the Most High” (Tehillim 46:5), and everyone strongly desired to have [a portion in] the Torah [which was represented by their involvement in the Aron Kodesh’s construction].

The statement, “the entire people were joined together, as if one,” is reminiscent of the famous pasuk that preceded kabbalat haTorah (receiving of the Torah): “They journeyed from Rephidim, and they arrived in the desert of Sinai, and they encamped in the desert, and Israel encamped there opposite the mountain [Mt. Sinai].”

Rashi noted that the expression, “and Israel encamped,” is found in the singular construct rather than the plural, which we would have expected. He offered a midrash mechilta-based explanation that the singular form, denoting that they encamped there — “as one man with one heart — [for the pur-

individual’s donation of a golden vessel for the Aron Kodesh. Alternately, someone may have chosen to directly help Betzalel in his task [of designing and fabricating the Holy Ark]. Then, too, someone may have had special intention [to connect himself/herself to the process of creating the Aron Kodesh — even though they did not actually do anything financially or physically].

This volitional and individual mode of participation in building the Aron Kodesh parallels the highly personal nature of the tefillah that took place within the Mishkan, and later on in the Beit Hamikdash.

My rebbe and mentor, Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik zatzal, beautifully explicated this point in one of his public drashot: The

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pose of receiving the Torah.]”

In light of this interpretation, it appears that the universal participation of our forebears in the construction of the Aron Kodesh was nothing less than a reenactment of kabbalat ha-Torah, and a rededication to the Torah and its mitzvot. This, I believe, was clearly demonstrated by their singular and united dedication to providing the Torah and the Luchot ha-Brit (Tablets of the Covenant) with their divinely prescribed holy vessel, the Aron Kodesh.

The Ramban also noted that personal choice was the driving force behind our nascent nation’s involvement in the construction of the Holy Ark. One manner of participation in this process may have been the

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Tefillah: Soon in Beit Hamikdash!

Beit hamikdash as a locus for prayer is one of Judaism’s central themes. Even though the Talmud tells us that tefillah corresponds to korbanot (offerings), there is a fundamental distinction between the two. Korbanot may be offered through a proxy, while tefillah may not. The difference lies in the fact that the efficacy of a sacrifice is a function of compliance with its halachic norms — if halachah is followed, G-d will accept the sacrifice. On the other hand, tefillah must include a personal experience of closeness to G-d.

This experience cannot be fulfilled by proxy.

Since Judaism defines tefillah as standing in the presence of the King, prayer presupposes closeness to G-d.

With Hashem’s help and our fervent desire, may each of us be zocheh to stand before Him in heartfelt prayer in His soon to be rebuilt Beit Hamikdash. V’chane yihi ratzon.

Shabbat Shalom.

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ased on what he said during Sunday’s Meet The Press, if Sen. Bernie Sanders becomes our next president, supporters of Israel may feel the burn instead of the “bern.” When Chuck Todd asked Sanders what is his source for foreign policy advice, Sanders responded that he met “recently with people like Larry Korb, who actually worked in the Reagan administration, we talked to people like Jim Zogby, talked to the people on J Street, to get a broad perspective of the Middle East.”

Neither Zogby nor J Street provide a broad perspective on the Middle East, since each has one perspective: that of the anti-Israel activist.

Zogby, president of the Arab American Institute, has referred to Israelis as “Nazis,” and has called Israel’s actions in protecting herself from terrorism “a Holocaust.”

In 2014, he tried to sell the falsehood that Arafat never turned down an offer from Israel.

Zogby’s proof was a column by Robert Malley, who has a history of anti-Israel advocacy. Dennis Ross, one of President Clinton’s negotiators on the deal that Arafat rejected, disputed Zogby’s account and said the basic principles of an agreement were laid out at Camp David in 2000, but “Arafat could not accept any of that.”

“On borders, there would be about a 5 percent annexation in the West Bank for the Israelis and a 2 percent swap,” Ross said. “So there would be a net 97 percent of the territory that would go to the Palestinians. On Jerusalem, the Arab neighborhoods of East Jerusalem would become the capitol of the Palestinian state. On

the issue of refugees, there would be a right of return for the refugees to their own state, not to Israel, but there would also be a fund of $30 billion internationally that would be put together for either compensation or to cover repatriation, resettlement, rehabilitation costs.”

Bill Clinton rued the fact that Israel accepted the deal but Arafat turned it down: “Arafat’s rejection of my proposal after [Israeli Prime Minster Ehud] Barak accepted it was an error of historic proportions. However, many Palestinians and Israelis are still committed to peace.

Someday peace will come, and when it does, the final agreement will look a lot like the proposals that came out of Camp David and the six long months that followed.”

J Street, founded in 2008 with money from progressive sugar daddy George Soros, markets itself as kind of left-wing AIPAC. Along with Soros, many donations to the J Street political action committee came from Arab sources. From the very beginning, the group went out of its way to emphasize its motto of “pro-Israel, pro-peace.”

But, as fellow progressive Alan Dershowitz said about the group, “J Street is neither proIsrael or pro peace.”

The group has little legitimacy in the Jewish Community, but was promoted by Barack Obama as an important Jewish organization.

In posts that have

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since been removed from its website — but preserved by NGO Monitor — J Street launched a thinly-veiled attack on Israel for responding to the barrage of Hamas missiles in 2008: Eric Yoffi, a liberal rabbi, former head of Reform Judaism in America and a frequent critic of Israel, called J Street’s response to the Israeli invasion of Gaza “morally deficient, profoundly out of touch with Jewish sentiment and also appallingly naive.”

Lenny Ben-David, who used to run the Israeli branch of AIPAC, said the J Street claim of being pro Israel was a ruse: “In the Zionist world, there is plenty of room for organizations from the left and the right, secular and religious organizations, Jewish and Christian organizations. But I have never seen an organization like J Street that hides behind the

cover of a pro-Israel organization and works with such furtiveness in the United States in general and in Washington in particular to undermine and hurt the State of Israel.”

J-Street has lobbied against sanctions on Iran and claims that Israel has all of the Palestinian territories under a blockade (false, since Israel’s embargo covered only weapons and building supplies and only in Hamas-controlled Gaza). They also claim that the Netanyahu government opposed the two-state solution, even though the prime minister publicly announced his support more than once.

J Street even tried to convince Congress to accept the Goldstone Report, a one-sided UN Report with trumped-up charges of Israeli war crimes during the Gaza war. The Goldstone Report took its name from the South African judge who lead the UN’s inquiry into the the 2008 Gaza War. The Goldstone Commission systematically favored witnesses and evidence put forward by anti-Israel advocates including Hamas, and dismissed evidence and testimony that would undermine its case. For example, it ruled that Hamas did not use its own citizens as human shields despite a wealth of video evidence.

Eventually, even Judge Goldstone disavowed his own report. Sanders’ consultation with the likes of James Zogby and J Street demonstrates that, at least in the area of Middle East policy, that if elected he will not be a friend to Israel.

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s a column devoted to the review of the finest in Jewish books, it came as a pleasant surprise to read a series of teachings by Rabbi Avi Zakutinsky dealing with how one should show respect for our sacred Jewish literature, the sefer.

Rabbi Zakutinsky was born and raised in Queens where his parents, Rabbi Yehuda and Adina Zakutinsky, were among the pioneers of the kiruv movement called Hashevaynu. Rabbi Avi studied for eight years in Yeshiva Shaar HaTorah Grodno and received his semicha from the Rosh Yeshiva Rav Kalman Epstein, shlita. It was at this yeshiva that he learned to appreciate the importance learning of hasmada and intellectual honesty which eventually allowed him to focus on halacha.

“Seven years ago I wrote the first volume of Umekareiv Binyamin, an in-depth analysis of the most commonly asked questions posed to kiruv rabbis,” said Rabbi Zakutinsky. “Some of the issues discussed include inviting Shabbos guests, driving to the meal, counting non-observant Jews for a minyan, and Reform marriage in halacha.

“Proudly, this sefer has the approbations

by Rabbi Yisrael Belsky, zt”l, and ybc”l Rabbi Reuven Feinstein, shlita, Rabbi Kalman Epstein, shlita, and Rabbi Noach Oelbaum, shlita.”

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able to you with additional questions answered dealing with the following: whether to perform a pidyon habein when one does not know if the child is a Kohen, Levi, or Yisrael; attending a wedding in a Conservative synagogue; using secular tunes for davening, naming children after non-observant Jews, and many other questions related to baalei teshuva and their extended nonobservant families.”

The balance of this essay will deal with a series of questions on how to treat respectfully the holy books, seforim, that we use for worship and study. I found this listing to be absolutely fascinating as well as a great way to introduce you to the scholarship of this up-andcoming young posek.

“Proper Respect For Sefarim: Assorted Halachos: “1. A sefer should be handed from one person to the other; it may not be thrown or tossed around.

“2. When taking a sefer and any item of kedusha one is to take it with his right hand.

A lefty should use his left hand.

“3. A sefer should not be placed face down. If it is found in this position it must be turned face up.

“4. Similarly, a sefer should not be stood upside down [so that the letters on the spine are upside down]. If found in this position, it must be stood right side up.

“5. It is prohibited to place anything, except chidushei Torah, inside a sefer or on top

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of a sefer.

“6. Rav Moshe Feinstein, zt”l, permits placing blank paper intended for chiddushei Torah in a sefer.

“7. It is proper to kiss one’s sefer before and after using it and it is also a segulah for a good memory.

“8. It is prohibited to use a sefer as a bookmark by placing it inside another sefer.

“9. The poskim discuss whether one may fold a page-corner of a sefer so that it serves as a bookmark. Harav Shlomo Zalman Auerbach, zt”l, permits it.

This is also the view of Rav Shach, zt”l, and Rav Elyashiv, zt”l. Rav Binyamin Zilber, zt”l, questions this. He does recommend that the page should be folded on the margin, not on the spot where there are words printed.

“10. The Talmud rules that one may place chumashim on top of nevi’im or kesuvim, but that nevi’im or kesuvim should not be placed on top of chumashim. Also a Talmud may not be placed on top of a Tanach.

“11. The Aruch Hashulchan maintains that this halacha pertains only to chumashim and nevi’im which are on a scroll, not to printed and bound chumashim and nevi’im.

All printed seforim may be placed on each other without specific order.”

Always remember this: For all practical halacha, a rav must be consulted.

I hope that you found the above to be of interest and hopefully to be of very practical use in the many years to come. Now, go read and enjoy.

For more information, read Rabbi Zakutinsky’s articles at HalachaBlog.com/author/ AviZakutinsky. He can be reached at avizakutinsky@gmail.com

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February 12, 2016 • 3 Adar I 5776 THE JEWISH STAR

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LEGAL NOTICE PUBLIC NOTICE OF COUNTY TREASURER’S SALE OF TAX LIENS ON REAL ESTATE Notice is hereby given that I shall on February 16, 2016, and the succeeding days, beginning at 10:00 o’ clock in the morning in the Legislative Chamber, First Floor, Theodore Roosevelt Executive and Legislative Building, 1550 Franklin Avenue, Mineola, Nassau County, New York, sell at public auction the tax liens on real estate herein-after described, unless the owner, mortgagee, occupant of or any other party-ininterest in such real estate shall pay to the County Treasurer

by February 11, 2016 the total amount of such unpaid taxes or assessments with the interest, penalties and other expenses and charges, against the property. Such tax liens will be sold at the lowest rate of interest, not exceeding 10 per cent per six month’s period, for which any person or persons shall offer to take the total amount of such unpaid taxes as defined in section 5-37.0 of the Nassau County Administrative Code. Effective with the February, 2016 lien sale Ordinance No. 175-2015 requires a $125.00 per day registration fee for each person who intends to bid at the tax lien sale.

Ordinance No. 175-2015 also requires that upon the issuance of the Lien Certificate there is due from the lien buyer a Tax Certificate Issue Fee of $20.00 per lien purchased.

The liens are for arrears of School District taxes for the year 2014 - 2015 and/or County, Town, and Special District taxes for the year 2015. The following is a partial listing of the real estate located in school district number(s) 7, 15 in the Town of North Hempstead, Town of Hempstead only, upon which tax liens are to be sold, with a brief description of the same by reference to the County Land and Tax Map, the name of the owner or occupant as the same appears on the 2016/2017 tentative assessment roll, and the total amount of such unpaid taxes.

IMPORTANT THE NAMES OF OWNERS SHOWN ON THIS LIST MAY NOT NECESSARILY BE THE NAMES OF THE PERSONS OWNING THE PROPERTY AT THE TIME OF THIS ADVERTISEMENT. SUCH NAMES HAVE BEEN TAKEN FROM THE 2016/2017 TENTATIVE ASSESSMENT ROLLS AND MAY DIFFER FROM THE NAMES OF THE OWNERS AT THE TIME OF PUBLICATION OF THIS NOTICE. IT MAY ALSO BE THAT SUCH OWNERS ARE NOMINAL ONLY AND ANOTHER PERSON IS ACTUALLY THE BENEFICIAL OWNER. TOWN OF HEMPSTEAD School:15 Lawrence UFSD Name Amount Parcel Group Lot STATE OF NEW YORK 697.67 39 A 05540 MICHELINA REALTY INC 31,495.52 39 A 10030 LANZILOTTA RONALD & JESSICA 10,466.07 39120 00330 WOODHAVEN MANOR DEVELOPMENT LLC 3,268.66 39136 02040 STULBERGER GLORIA 2,613.29 39148 00820 ZEILER SURVIVORS TR&ZEILER FAMI 2,341.54 39149 00630 63-65,79 CHESNER ROBIN G 14,036.13 39153 00590 59-61 Adelsberg & Assoc 17,577.87 39153 00770 77-80 LAITMAN ELLIOT J & GINA 10,354.09 39154 00190 19-21 ZIPKIN JEANNETTE 2,339.20 39154 00850 MILLER EUGENE 10,098.93 39163 00250 25-27 SATTAR ABDUL & SHAZIA 11,698.32 39171 00170 17-20 GOLDSTEIN MIRIAM 12,868.77 39174 00650 BIEBER HERMAN & SELMA LIFE ESTA 8,149.32 39176 00800 80,86 BRODY STEVEN & SURI 17,052.03 39179 0139A 139A-139B GRALLA PINCHAS A 1,649.28 39179 02690 OTTENSOSER BRENDA A 6,409.70 39182 00590 59-61 KLEIN DAVID & DEBRA 10,036.09 39183 00660 66,73-74 KLEIN DAVID & DEBRA 14,854.35 39183 00720 LEVIN YORMAN D & ZIPPORAH F 7,110.41 39184 00500 50-53 KOLATCH DAVID H & ESTHER 3,008.88 39185 00460 46, 87, 100 HARRIS STEVEN & RUTH 1,638.80 39188 00740 74-76 MACKEY ANDREW 13,941.09 39189 00060 6-10 GELBTUCH ADEENA & DANIEL 11,072.66 39232 01960 MEHL LEON 4,746.25 39241 00010 PRASHAD NARAYAN 30,108.47 39242 00430 MEDALLION GROUP QUEENS HOLDINGS 5,113.66 39249 01090 VIOLA LINO C & PAULETTE & RITA 5,632.67 39252 00520 BELL RENAH 1,581.42 39253 02080 GUTTMAN EVELYN & JACK 230.26 39260 03030 WEINER RACHEL 10,496.20 39260 03150 315 EISENBERGER JOSEPH & DEENA 20,453.67 39260 03170 317 GUTTMAN EVELYN & JACK 3,165.01 39260 03210 321 PIFKO MARC & AVIVA 12,431.70

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197.59 3,555.82 8,995.33 29,292.96 41,198.61 12,047.43 188.72 85,365.94 52,937.48 8,148.01 22,098.15 3,036.75 7,720.40 7,135.85 8,198.01 5,059.97 13,423.18 8,107.50 2,412.24 73,448.68 4,572.46 15,227.76 14,997.30 3,724.81 2,331.87 8,148.71 1,669.87 382.58 2,006.52 447.02 2,011.26 1,201.26 40,455.96 9,781.74 5,523.19 12,032.14 11,970.37 500.98 1,997.47 7,975.63 5,214.86 36,062.47 45,465.59 6,180.83 3,300.44 15,522.18 12,869.31 15,339.27

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02215 01600 TAO HUI & WEN LONG 13,015.32 02249 00090 MATHEVOSIAN VARTANOOSH 7,571.62 02250 0026UCA00190 26 CA 19 UNIT 102 MOLLON DAVID & RACHEL 5,764.94 02257 03560 356-359 NORTH SHORE SEPHARDIC SYNAGOGUE 11,418.28 02257 15210 1521-1523 & 1525 LIPMAN HEATHER & ABISH JAMIE 2,523.28 02271 00230 82 PINEWOOD LLC 10,832.59 022800201120 COLLIN THELMA 23,319.67 022820100740 MAHFAR ANGELE 9,922.90 022820400430 LUM FRANK & IRENE 4,407.50 022820701770 PARK HYN OK & HYUN CHUN 5,932.48 02286 00120 772 HUMBOLDT REALTY CORP 27,955.56 02286 00210 KOPP RALPH 13,799.02 02286 01920 192-193 DICKER DANIEL & BARBARA 3,290.36 02287 01100 NABAVIAN BIJAN & VIDA 26,481.24 02297 00220 ADES RICHARD & ELANA 1,010.97 02302 00470 ADES RICHARD & ELANA 904.10 02302 00480 ZWICKER THEDORE & CELIA 3,391.44 02309 00020 GANJIAN NAYSAN & POURAN 4,775.64 02309 00150 AKHAVAN EMILLIA 9,911.84 02311 00170 SAIDIAN NAVA 30,295.82 02315 00150 OMARI SAM & DONNA 29,572.19 02318 00040 4,24 TALASAZAN RONDA 16,240.64 02318 00220 ZHANG BAO 2,290.44 02323 00210 PINEWOOD FIELD ASSOC LLC 4,578.74 02326 00140 JI HUALONG 12,888.14 02343 00060 WYUN GWANG W 6,382.12 02348 00150 15 SANANDAJI KAMRAN 7,742.75 02351 00320 32 YANG AILING 12,602.63 02351 00560 56 ZERUVABELI A ABAI & MUSSA 3,323.85 02351 00570 57 ROTH RICHARD G & AMY R 27,936.83 02352 00420 42 DARVISHZADEH YAGHOUB & POURAN 18,284.85 02354 00010 1 SILVA DEVELOPMENT GROUP LLC 4,861.07 02358 00210 21 MERABI ARASH 2,908.96 02366 00200 20 ADES RICHARD & ELANA 15,757.66 02367 00220 22 WIESNER LILLIAN 52,839.60 02376 00080 8 NOORI SAKINEH 11,231.54 02376 0053UCA01600 53 CA 160 UNIT 308 RAHMANI SHIRIN & RODNEY 2,109.02 02376 0053UCA01600 53 CA 160 UNIT 416 HUMBOLDT ASSOCIATES L P 257.98 02376 0055UCA01870 55 CA 187 UNIT 8 ZELOUF SONS LLC 257.98 02376 0055UCA01870 55 CA 187 UNIT 23 ZELOUF SONS LLC 257.98 02376 0055UCA01870 55 CA 187 UNIT 69 DONNELLY STEPHEN & THERESA & GU 4,130.79 08 B020170A 170A,170B ROACH DONALD & BARBARA 7,242.78 08 B0701870 BRAMA HELEN F 6,440.71 08 B1300760 BATTERIA VINCENT F 5,166.00 08 B1501090 NERO GEORGE & KRISTINA 1,842.24 08 K0500040 DENG GUITANG 10,731.22 08124 00180 18-19 CHRISTIAN ROBERT 7,507.62 08125 01180 PICA GENE V & SADIE 16,203.38 08228 00020 BROLLY JAMES & LISA 10,225.00 08229 00100 ATAHUALPA ETAL ROY 2,153.85 08233 00080 EVANS MARGARET 5,965.05 08246 00230 YU DESHENG & ZHAO ZIRU 1,747.01 08252 00170 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)

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sold pursuant to these Terms of Sale 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 property under Federal 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 representation 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.

This list includes only tax liens on real estate located in the Town of North Hempstead, Town of Hempstead. Such other tax liens on real estate are advertised as follows: TOWN OF HEMPSTEAD Dist 1001 HEMPSTEAD/UNIONDALE TIMES, NASSAU COUNTY WEB PAGE, NEW YORK TREND, NEWSDAY INC., UNIONDALE BEACON, Dist 1002 HEMPSTEAD/UNIONDALE TIMES, NASSAU COUNTY WEB PAGE, NEWSDAY INC., UNIONDALE BEACON, Dist 1003 EAST MEADOW BEACON, EAST MEADOW HERALD, NASSAU COUNTY WEB PAGE, NEIGHBOR NEWSPAPERS NEWSDAY INC., Dist 1004 BELLMORE HERALD/LIFE MERRICK/BELLMORE TRIBUNE, NASSAU COUNTY WEB PAGE, NEIGHBOR NEWSPAPERS NEWSDAY INC., Dist 1005 HICKSVILLE ILLUSTRATED NEWS, LEVITTOWN TRIBUNE, NASSAU COUNTY WEB PAGE, NEIGHBOR NEWSPAPERS NEWSDAY INC., Dist 1006 NASSAU COUNTY WEB PAGE, NEWSDAY INC., SEAFORD HERALD CITIZEN, WANTAGH HERALD CITIZEN Dist 1007 BELLMORE HERALD/LIFE MERRICK/BELLMORE TRIBUNE, NASSAU COUNTY WEB PAGE, NEWSDAY INC., Dist 1008 BALDWIN/FREEPORT TRIBUNE, NASSAU COUNTY WEB PAGE, NEWSDAY INC., POINT OF VIEW, Dist 1009 BALDWIN/FREEPORT TRIBUNE, FREEPORT BALDWIN LEADER, THE, NASSAU COUNTY WEB PAGE, NEWSDAY INC., POINT OF VIEW, Dist 1010 BALDWIN HERALD BALDWIN/FREEPORT TRIBUNE, NASSAU COUNTY WEB PAGE, NEWSDAY INC., Dist 1011 NASSAU COUNTY WEB PAGE, NEWSDAY INC., OCEANSIDE TRIBUNE OCEANSIDE/ISLAND PARK HERALD, Dist 1012 MALVERNE/WEST HEMPSTEAD HERALD, NASSAU COUNTY WEB PAGE,

NEWSDAY INC., VALLEY STREAM/MALVERN TRIBUNE, Dist 1013 NASSAU COUNTY WEB PAGE, NEWSDAY INC., VALLEY STREAM HERALD, VALLEY STREAM/MALVERN TRIBUNE, Dist 1014 FIVE TOWNS TRIBUNE, NASSAU COUNTY WEB PAGE, NASSAU HERALD (FIVE TOWNS), NEWSDAY INC., Dist 1015 FIVE TOWNS JEWISH TIMES FIVE TOWNS TRIBUNE, JEWISH STAR, NASSAU COUNTY WEB PAGE, NEWSDAY INC., Dist 1016 FRANKLIN SQ/ELMONT HERALD, FRANKLIN SQUARE BULLETIN, NASSAU COUNTY WEB PAGE, NEWSDAY INC., Dist 1017 FRANKLIN SQ/ELMONT HERALD, FRANKLIN SQUARE BULLETIN, NASSAU COUNTY WEB PAGE, NEW HYDE PARK ILLUSTRATED NEWS, NEWSDAY INC., Dist 1018 GARDEN CITY LIFE, GARDEN CITY NEWS, GARDEN CITY TRIBUNE, NASSAU COUNTY WEB PAGE, NEWSDAY INC., Dist 1019 EAST ROCKAWAY TRIBUNE LYNBROOK/EAST ROCKAWAY HERALD, NASSAU COUNTY WEB PAGE, NEWSDAY INC., ROCKAWAY JOURNAL, Dist 1020 LYNBROOK/EAST ROCKAWAY HERALD, NASSAU COUNTY WEB PAGE, NEWSDAY INC., ROCKVILLE CENTRE HERALD, Dist 1021 NASSAU COUNTY WEB PAGE, NEWSDAY INC., ROCKVILLE CENTRE HERALD, ROCKVILLE CENTRE TRIBUNE Dist 1022 FLORAL PARK BULLETIN, NASSAU COUNTY WEB PAGE, NEWSDAY INC., THE GATEWAY, Dist 1023 NASSAU COUNTY WEB PAGE, NEWSDAY INC., SEAFORD HERALD CITIZEN, WANTAGH HERALD CITIZEN Dist 1024 NASSAU COUNTY WEB PAGE, NEWSDAY INC., VALLEY STREAM HERALD, VALLEY STREAM/MALVERN TRIBUNE, Dist 1025 MERRICK HERALD/LIFE MERRICK/BELLMORE TRIBUNE, NASSAU COUNTY WEB PAGE, NEWSDAY INC., Dist 1026 HICKSVILLE ILLUSTRATED NEWS, LEVITTOWN TRIBUNE, NASSAU COUNTY WEB PAGE, NEWSDAY INC., Dist 1027 MALVERNE/WEST HEMPSTEAD HERALD, NASSAU COUNTY WEB PAGE, NEWSDAY INC., WEST HEMPSTEAD BEACON, Dist 1028 LONG BEACH HERALD LONG BEACH TRIBUNE, NASSAU COUNTY WEB PAGE, NEWSDAY INC., Dist 1029 MERRICK HERALD/LIFE MERRICK/BELLMORE TRIBUNE, NASSAU COUNTY WEB PAGE, NEWSDAY INC., Dist 1030 NASSAU COUNTY WEB PAGE, NEWSDAY INC., VALLEY STREAM HERALD, VALLEY STREAM/MALVERN TRIBUNE, Dist 1031 ISLAND PARK TRIBUNE, NASSAU COUNTY WEB PAGE, NEWSDAY INC., OCEANSIDE/ISLAND PARK HERALD, Dist 1201 EAST MEADOW BEACON, EAST MEADOW HERALD, NASSAU COUNTY WEB PAGE, NEWSDAY INC., WESTBURY TIMES, Dist 1205 NASSAU COUNTY WEB PAGE, NEW HYDE PARK ILLUSTRATED NEWS, NEWSDAY INC., WEST HEMPSTEAD BEACON, TOWN OF NORTH HEMPSTEAD Dist 2001 MINEOLA AMERICAN, NASSAU COUNTY WEB PAGE,

NEWSDAY INC., WESTBURY TIMES, Dist 2002 MINEOLA AMERICAN, NASSAU COUNTY WEB PAGE, NEWSDAY INC., WILLISTON TIMES, WILLISTON PARK EDITION Dist 2003 MANHASSET PRESS NASSAU COUNTY WEB PAGE, NEWSDAY INC., ROSLYN NEWS, ROSLYN TIMES Dist 2004 MANHASSET TIMES NASSAU COUNTY WEB PAGE, NEWSDAY INC., PORT WASHINGTON NEWS, Dist 2005 NASSAU COUNTY WEB PAGE, NEW HYDE PARK HERALD COURIER, NEW HYDE PARK ILLUSTRATED NEWS, NEWSDAY INC., Dist 2006 MANHASSET PRESS MANHASSET TIMES NASSAU COUNTY WEB PAGE, NEWSDAY INC., PORT WASHINGTON NEWS, Dist 2007 GREAT NECK NEWS, GREAT NECK RECORD, JEWISH STAR, NASSAU COUNTY WEB PAGE, NEWSDAY INC., Dist 2009 MINEOLA AMERICAN, NASSAU COUNTY WEB PAGE, NEWSDAY INC., WILLISTON TIMES, WILLISTON PARK EDITION Dist 2010 MINEOLA AMERICAN, NASSAU COUNTY WEB PAGE, NEW HYDE PARK ILLUSTRATED NEWS, NEWSDAY INC., Dist 2011 MINEOLA AMERICAN, NASSAU COUNTY WEB PAGE, NEWSDAY INC., WESTBURY TIMES, Dist 2122 FLORAL PARK BULLETIN, NASSAU COUNTY WEB PAGE, NEWSDAY INC., THE GATEWAY, Dist 2301 GLEN COVE RECORD PILOT, LOCUST VALLEY LEADER, NASSAU COUNTY WEB PAGE, NEWSDAY INC., Dist 2315 JERICHO NEWS JOURNAL, NASSAU COUNTY WEB PAGE, NEWSDAY INC., SYOSSET JERICHO TRIBUNE, TOWN OF OYSTER BAY Dist 3001 GLEN COVE RECORD PILOT, LOCUST VALLEY LEADER, NASSAU COUNTY WEB PAGE, NEWSDAY INC., Dist 3002 GLEN COVE RECORD PILOT, LOCUST VALLEY LEADER, NASSAU COUNTY WEB PAGE, NEWSDAY INC., Dist 3003 JERICHO NEWS JOURNAL, NASSAU COUNTY WEB PAGE, NEWSDAY INC., SYOSSET JERICHO TRIBUNE, Dist 3004 LOCUST VALLEY LEADER, LONG ISLAND PRESS, NASSAU COUNTY WEB PAGE, NEWSDAY INC., Dist 3006 LOCUST VALLEY LEADER, LONG ISLAND PRESS, NASSAU COUNTY WEB PAGE, NEWSDAY INC., Dist 3008 NASSAU COUNTY WEB PAGE, NEWSDAY INC., OYSTER BAY ENTERPRISE PILOT, OYSTER BAY GUARDIAN, Dist 3009 NASSAU COUNTY WEB PAGE, NEWSDAY INC., OYSTER BAY ENTERPRISE PILOT, OYSTER BAY GUARDIAN, Dist 3011 NASSAU COUNTY WEB PAGE, NEWSDAY INC.,

OYSTER BAY ENTERPRISE PILOT, SYOSSET ADVANCE, Dist 3012 NASSAU COUNTY WEB PAGE, NEWSDAY INC., SYOSSET ADVANCE, SYOSSET JERICHO TRIBUNE, Dist 3013 NASSAU COUNTY WEB PAGE, NEWSDAY INC., SYOSSET ADVANCE, SYOSSET JERICHO TRIBUNE, Dist 3014 JERICHO NEWS JOURNAL, NASSAU COUNTY WEB PAGE, NEWSDAY INC., SYOSSET JERICHO TRIBUNE, Dist 3015 JERICHO NEWS JOURNAL, NASSAU COUNTY WEB PAGE, NEWSDAY INC., SYOSSET JERICHO TRIBUNE, Dist 3017 HICKSVILLE ILLUSTRATED NEWS, HICKSVILLE/LEVITTOWN TRIBUNE, NASSAU COUNTY WEB PAGE, NEWSDAY INC., Dist 3018 BETHPAGE TRIBUNE NASSAU COUNTY WEB PAGE, NEWSDAY INC., PLAINVIEW/OLD BETHPAGE HERALD, Dist 3019 BETHPAGE NEWSGRAM, NASSAU COUNTY WEB PAGE, NEWSDAY INC., PLAINVIEW/OLD BETHPAGE HERALD, Dist 3020 BETHPAGE NEWSGRAM, BETHPAGE TRIBUNE NASSAU COUNTY WEB PAGE, NEWSDAY INC., Dist 3021 BETHPAGE NEWSGRAM, BETHPAGE TRIBUNE NASSAU COUNTY WEB PAGE, NEWSDAY INC., Dist 3022 FARMINGDALE OBSERVER, MASSAPEQUA POST NASSAU COUNTY WEB PAGE, NEWSDAY INC., Dist 3023 MASSAPEQUA POST MASSAPEQUAN OBSERVER MID-ISLAND TIMES, NASSAU COUNTY WEB PAGE, NEWSDAY INC., Dist 3024 GLEN COVE RECORD PILOT, GOLD COAST GAZETTE, NASSAU COUNTY WEB PAGE, NEWSDAY INC., Dist 3203 LONG ISLAND PRESS, NASSAU COUNTY WEB PAGE, NEWSDAY INC., ROSLYN NEWS, ROSLYN TIMES Dist 3306 FARMINGDALE OBSERVER, MASSAPEQUA POST MASSAPEQUAN OBSERVER NASSAU COUNTY WEB PAGE, NEWSDAY INC., CITY OF GLEN COVE Dist 4005 GLEN COVE RECORD PILOT, GOLD COAST GAZETTE, LOCUST VALLEY LEADER, NASSAU COUNTY WEB PAGE, NEWSDAY INC., CITY OF LONG BEACH Dist 5028 LONG BEACH HERALD LONG BEACH TRIBUNE, NASSAU COUNTY WEB PAGE, NEWSDAY INC., 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 571-2090 Ext. 13715.

Dated: January 29, 2016 THE NASSAU COUNTY TREASURER MINEOLA, NEW YORK 822759

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Unpresidential â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;jokeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;Ś Continued from page 3 (2003) and S.M. Plokhyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;Yalta: The Price of Peaceâ&#x20AC;? (2010).

FDR was far from the only president who enjoyed privately sharing humorous stories laced with ethnic stereotypes. A number of his predecessors and successors did, too.

Woodrow Wilson, for example, was notorious for telling jokes about â&#x20AC;&#x153;darkeysâ&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;coons,â&#x20AC;? sometimes with a faux accent and occasionally in less-than-private setting such as Princeton University alumni dinners.

Those remarks have been cited in recent testimony by scholars to the Woodrow Wilson Legacy Review Committee, which is considering demands by student activists to remove Wilsonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s name from Princetonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s School of Public and International Affairs.

Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon were reportedâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;after they left ofďŹ ceâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;to have told jokes involving harsh ethnic stereotypes.

Ronald Reagan was once caught in an â&#x20AC;&#x153;open micâ&#x20AC;? moment, joking about Italians and Irishmen.

As public disapproval of racism intensiďŹ ed over the years, the consequences of telling racist jokes became more severe. Agriculture secretary Earl Butz was forced out in 1976 after word leaked of a crude joke he told about African-Americans. In 1983, interior secretary James Watt resigned after telling a harsh ethnic joke about â&#x20AC;&#x153;a black, a woman, two Jews and a cripple.â&#x20AC;?

Yet others have managed to weather the brief storms that their racist jokes caused.

Nothing happened to President Barack Obamaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s national security adviser, James Jones, after he told an unďŹ&#x201A;attering joke about Jewish merchants in 2010. Vice President Joe Biden used a faux Indian accent to mimic telemarketers during a 2012 campaign speech. It was quickly forgotten; Bidenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s propensity for gaffes has resulted in a general lowering of the bar when it comes to public reactions to his loose lips.

Presidential candidate Donald Trump, speaking to a Jewish audience in December, joked about Jews being canny negotiators and good at handling money. Even more than Biden, Trump is so well-known for outrageous statements about ethnic groups (and many other subjects) that his Jewish remarks caused barely a ripple.

There may not be a clear public consensus today as to what should happen to a public ďŹ gure who engages in racist humor. But surely the public is entitled to know if a president, or another elected ofďŹ cial, has used such language. Presidents Day is a time to celebrate the accomplishments of our presidents, but it can also be a time for reďŹ&#x201A;ecting on some of the less than ďŹ&#x201A;attering aspects of our presidentsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; recordsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;if historians would candidly share that information with the public.

Dr. Rafael Medoff is founding director of The David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies.

Shabbat stays Shabbatâ&#x20AC;Ś Continued from page 7 The Beit Hamkidash (Temple in Jerusalem) was designed to create an environment the way it was meant to be, and the Mishkan was designed to teach us that we could start working on creating such environments wherever we were.

Which is why the verse commanding us to build such a sanctuary alludes to this: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Veâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;asu lim mikdash veâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;shachanti beâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;tochamâ&#x20AC;? (â&#x20AC;&#x153;They shall make a sanctuary for Me, and I will dwell in them [betocham]â&#x20AC;?).

The verse should have said â&#x20AC;&#x153;I will dwell in itâ&#x20AC;? not â&#x20AC;&#x153;I will dwell in them â&#x20AC;?

The Torah is teaching us that Hashem does not dwell in a building; Hashem lies deep inside each one of us and the Mishkan and the synagogue is just a taste of that experience as it is meant to be.

And in Lebanon, back in 1985, I discovered that whether making Kiddush in the mud before an ambush or singing the Shabbat services to myself while patrolling what we called death valley in the Beka, Shabbat is not about where you are, it is really about who you are, and it is with you wherever you go. All you have to do is let it in.

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By Vanessa Parker For the first time in 27 years, the Village of Cedarhurst will have a contested election, as incumbent Trustees Myrna Zisman and Ronald Lanzilotta are being challenged by Yoel Goldfeder and Daniel Burg.

Tuesday was the deadline for candidate petitions. The vote will take place March 15 at Village Hall, at 200 Cedarhurst Ave., from 9 am to 9 pm.

It is an at-large election, meaning that the two candidates with the most votes will win four-year trustee terms.

Zisman has worked as a state committeewoman for the 41st Assembly District in Brooklyn, co-founded the Womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Pro Israel National Political Action Committee and in 1980, she was appointed to the Citizens Committee for the Democratic National Convention by then-New York City Mayor Ed Koch.

Burg and Goldfeder are running together under the Village United Party banner. Goldfeder is an attorney in corporate and securities law; Burg is vice-president of operations for Ameriderm, a skin treatment company.

They said they want to bring a fresh point of view to the village board. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The leadership in Cedarhurst has a strong

base, but hasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t changed much,â&#x20AC;? Goldfeder said, speaking for Burg as well. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We think that the village needs a new perspective in how it operates. Over the past 10 years, more residents are moving in, which means that more voices are needed to show representation of the whole community.â&#x20AC;?

During her first year as trustee, 2006, Zisman served on the villageâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s zoning board. In addition to her work as trustee, she is a board member for the Town Village Aircraft Safety Noise Abatement Committee, which seeks to mitigate noise from aircraft arriving at and departing from John F. Kennedy Airport.

Lanzilotta, a trustee since 2001, began his village government career as a zoning board member in 1998. As a trustee, he has been the chairman of the villageâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Architectural Review Board since 2004, and the village boardâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s representative to the Nassau County Sanitary Sewer Consolidation Program since 2006.

Trustees receive a $15,000 annual stipend.

Their responsibilities include budgeting, creating village ordinances and policies, determining land use, and serving as liaisons to organizations such as the Lawrence-Cedarhurst Fire Department and the Nassau County Police Department.

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Apartheid libelâ&#x20AC;Ś Continued from page 5 He approached students from both sides of the divide to learn more and propose a debate on the issue. He found pro-Israel students ready to participate while pro-Palestinian students told him, â&#x20AC;&#x153;We wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have that debate.â&#x20AC;?

A few years later, he was taken aback when students aligned with the BDS movement disrupted a piano recital on his campus, the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, because it was hosted by a Jewish organization.

He decided to take a stand against the impingement of free speech and breakdown of decorum. â&#x20AC;&#x153;What people immediately assumed is that Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m pro-Israel and anti-Palestine, but I wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t even talking about that issue,â&#x20AC;? he said.

Pithi is a steadfast student of, â&#x20AC;&#x153; â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;I want to hear the other sideâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; type thinking,â&#x20AC;? insisting that his most common response when asked for an opinion is, â&#x20AC;&#x153;I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know enough.â&#x20AC;?

He believes it difďŹ cult to question Israelâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s right to exist More generally he views the

Israeli position as defensible, even when he doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t go out of his way to defend it.

One thing of which he is certain: â&#x20AC;&#x153;An ad hominem attack does not lead to goodwill.â&#x20AC;?

Pithiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s main critique of the BDS movement is not the substance of the argument, but its form, believing that pro-Palestinian students are poisoning the well for productive and educational dialogue by attacking their opponents personally.

But beyond the rhetoric, he sees a practical difďŹ culty in breaking ties with Israel.

Traveling in the Negev, he saw ďŹ rsthand how Israeli farmers have made the desert bloom. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Africa has a lot of issues around food security, around water provision, and I was like, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;We need to hook up with Israel, whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the hold up?â&#x20AC;&#x2122; â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I was like, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;These are some skills that my people need,â&#x20AC;&#x2122; and I personally, just from an economic perspective, I wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t boycott Israel, because I need some stuff thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s there.

From a selďŹ sh motivation angle, I would refuse to boycott.â&#x20AC;?

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ous space that was formerly a bowling alley.

The store was viewed by some as a reducedprice option to other kosher markets in the area. A large lot offers free parking next to the store.

KRM began around 1990 as a small market on 14th Avenue that sold kosher groceries â&#x20AC;&#x153;at cost price to Kollel yungeleit, rebbeim, and large mishpachos, hence the name KRM, known colloquially as â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;The Kollel Storeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;,â&#x20AC;? the Jewish Press reported in a 2014 article by Aliza Devinger that described Moisha Binik was a â&#x20AC;&#x153;baâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;al chesed extraordinaireâ&#x20AC;? who worked extensively on behalf of at-risk youth in the Orthodox community.

Binik â&#x20AC;&#x153;absorbed the overhead costs himself and recruited family members to man cash

registers and help with the overall running of the store,â&#x20AC;? intending â&#x20AC;&#x153;this tzedakah venture as a zâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;chus lâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ilui nishmas for his father, Mordechai Binik,â&#x20AC;? the Jewish Press said, adding that â&#x20AC;&#x153;while the products are no longer sold at cost, the markup is extraordinarily low. And whatever proďŹ t there is goes right back to the community.â&#x20AC;?

A proďŹ le of Moisha Binik in Mishpacha magazine portrayed the supermarket proprietor as a modest man devoted to providing consumers with good prices and to giving tzedahah.

Describing her visit to Binikâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Midwood home for Mishpacha, Barbara Bensoussan wrote: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d always assumed that behind the plain

façade of his brick two-family house I would ďŹ nd sculpted European furniture and plush carpets. Well, gentle reader, what a surprise I had to enter and ďŹ nd myself in a living space more typical of a yeshiva rebbi than a prosperous balabos. Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a well-used dining room table and crammed breakfront. â&#x20AC;&#x153; â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;You see that couch?â&#x20AC;&#x2122; says Rebbetzin Brachie Spira, one of the Binikâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s four daughters, pointing to a yellow couch covered in plastic near the window. â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;My parents have had that couch ever since they got married.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; â&#x20AC;&#x153;Living rooms speak louder than words.

Moisha Binik is the kind of shrewd businessman who is able to bring in money, yes. And then he turns around and joyfully gives it away, conďŹ dent in the belief that it only came in for redistribution.â&#x20AC;?

Brachâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, in its Thursday announcement of the sale of its Lawrence store, said that â&#x20AC;&#x153;when the right buyer at the right price comes along, it becomes clear that itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s time to move on and write a new chapter â&#x20AC;Ś [although] there is some sadness as we close this chapter.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;In so many ways, time and again, we have had the opportunity to see up close the 5 Towns / Far Rockaway community earn its reputation as one of our peopleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ďŹ nest,â&#x20AC;? the Brach family said.

The new owners, like Brach family patriarch Samuel Brach, â&#x20AC;&#x153;are innovators in crafting new and creative ways to offer you top-shelf goods at truly affordable prices,â&#x20AC;? the family said.

Brachâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s owner Yanky (Jack) Brach, son of the founder, has provided tzedakah, often quietly, to numerous institutions and individuals throughout the community.

In just two of countless examples of his generosity, he delivered food to stranded travelers at JFK Airport and provided assistance to many after Hurricane Sandy.

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Continued from page 1 â&#x20AC;&#x153;In due time they will inform us all what they have in store. Literally,â&#x20AC;? the Brach family said.

KRM Kollel Supermarket is a massive discount-ďŹ&#x201A;avored enterprise at 1325 39th St. in Boro Park. Moishaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Discount Supermarket, at 315 Ave. M in Midwood, which recently underwent a major expansion and renovation, is a smaller version of KRM. Last year, Brachâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sold its original store, on Main Street in Kew Gardens Hills, to its acrossthe-street competitor, Wassermanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Kosher Supermarket. The Main Street store was opened

by Jack Brach, a Holocaust survivor, who transformed his small kosher butcher shop into a path-breaking kosher supermarket before opening the huge Lawrence store in 1997.

The closing comes as Brachâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s competitors in the Five Towns and Far Rockaway were mounting major expansions in and beyond the area. â&#x20AC;˘Gourmet Glatt of Cedarhurst recently opened a satellite location in a former Key Food in Woodmere and, in Lakewood, New Jersey, it occupied space that previously housed a ShopRite. A Gourmet Glatt in Boro Park is located diagonally across the street from KRM. â&#x20AC;˘Seasons, which last year opened a 24/6 â&#x20AC;&#x153;expressâ&#x20AC;? location near the Inwood LIRR station, is expanding its small Scarsdale store into a large space abandoned by Gristedes and is opening major outposts in Baltimore and Cleveland. â&#x20AC;˘Kosher World Supermarket, at 1913 Cornaga Ave. in Far Rockaway, was acquired last month by Frankels Kosher Market of Williamsburg. Renamed as Frankels, the Far Rockaway location was being spruced up and restocked and began promoting discount prices.

Brachâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Supermarket is housed in a cavern-

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Four engineering students from the Stella K. Abraham High School for Girls participated in CIJE’s second annual tech trip to Israel for high school students.

The Center for Initiatives in Jewish Education’s “Journey to the Start-Up Nation” was part of CIJE’s continuing effort to get students interested in careers in STEM — science, technology, engineering and mathematics.

The trip, under CIJE Director Judy Lebovits,

included 22 other students and mentors from yeshiva high schools throughout the United States. It emphasized life sciences and biotechnology and took the students to such places as the Technion, the Weitzman Institute, biotech firm Given Imaging, and to start-ups, venture capital businesses and entrepreneurial firms.

The SKA engineering students, Chaya Biderman, Kayla Evans, Zohar Reyhanian and Aliyah Tanami, returned both excited and inspired.

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Shema al Hamitah at YOSS Every class from first through eighth grade at Yeshiva of South Shore took part in a special assembly at which they heard an impassioned address on Krias Shema Al Hamita, by Rav Dov Keilson, mashgiach ruchani of Mesivta Darchei Torah. Rabbi Mordechai Kamenetzky, rosh yeshiva, introduced the topic by relating the power of learning by example from great people, just as the YOSS recently took inspiration from his mother, Rebbetzin Tzirel Kamenetzky, a”h.

Rav Keilson spoke to the boys, each on their grade level, about the importance of the sometimes neglected mitzvah of reciting Shema and related tefilos each night before bed.

He explained that his mother, a”h, lived with her grandmother. At the age of eight she noticed her saintly grandmother “talking” in bed prior to falling asleep. “With whom are you talking?” asked the young girl. Her grandmother replied that she is talking to Hashem!

Since that day and for the next 65 years, his

mother said Krias Shema Al Hamitah every night with kavanah and passion. It is for this reason that Rabbi Keilson, along with his father Reb Lloyd Keilson, decided to memorialize her by producing 10,000 laminated placards to personally give out to tinokos shel beis rabban, children studying Torah.

“This is an especially appropriate focus for our older talmidim,” said Rabbi Draiman, menahel of the mechina division. “Many of our boys have taken upon themselves to increase their focus on reciting Krias Shema daily at Shacharis and Maariv by reciting the words out loud together in unison with concentration, using the Torah reading trop as discussed in Shulchan Aruch. This practice is a beautiful enhancement to the yeshiva’s daily kol tefillah, and it is therefore a natural next step to emphasize the important mitzvah of nightly Shema before bed with the tefilos and bracha of hamapil to reinforce our emunah and bitachon.

Tu B’Shvat at Shulamith

In the tradition of the Ari and the Kabbalists of 16th century Tzfat, Shulamith Middle Division students of enjoyed a Tu B’Shvat seder complete with the shivat haminim. A PowerPoint presentation, created by Morah Chana

Schwartz, explained the nuances of the holiday and the aspects of each of the minim. The seder provided students with the opportunity to make brachot aloud and to appreciate the bounty of the Land of Israel.

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