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Tick tock: Iran races the clock

Analysis by Ben Cohen, JNS.org Love, as the song goes, is in the air. If the latest media reports are accurate, the United States and the Iranian regime are rapidly closing in on a deal over the mullahs’ nuclear ambitions. Admittedly, the source of this nugget of hope was Joseph Cirincione—a former Capitol Hill operative who now serves as the president of the Ploughshares Fund, a liberal foreign policy think tank, having gotten there via the Center for American Progress, another think tank that serves as a reliable echo

chamber for the Obama administration’s edicts, both foreign and domestic. So while there’s some reason to take this glowing optimism with a pinch of salt, given where it’s coming from, it’s worth paying attention to what Cirincione had to say. “If we get a deal that is close to the terms the administration has set out, and I believe we will, it is going to be a very good deal,� Cirincione said.. “One that will surprise and please even many of the critics.� That’s going to be one hell of a deal! I’m a critic, and I’m look-

ing forward to being surprised and pleased. Of course, the thing about a surprise is that you don’t want to ruin it by telling the gift recipient what is is that they’re about to unwrap. So here’s my guess at the outcome that will make us believe that Chanukah has come early. 1XPEHU RQH Iran will sign an international agreement conďŹ rming its intent not to develop nuclear weapons. Iran will submit to a permanent International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Continued on page 16

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Hundreds of local dignitaries, residents, friends and relatives participated in memorial services on Friday for Cedarhurst Mayor Andrew J. Parise, who died on Feb. 8 at 90. A funeral Mass was held inside St. Joachim’s R.C. Church, across the street from Kulanu and HAFTR High School on Central Avenue in Cedarhurst. Members of the Jewish community gathered outside while the Mass was underway, and afterwards accompanied the funeral procession two blocks to outside the Levi Yitzchak Library, where it paused. Continued on page 14

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and the U.S. Congress how strong American support is for Israel,� a YIW email urged. Scores of prominent speakers — ranging from Prime Minister Netanyahu to South Shore Rep. Kathleen Rice — are slated to discuss issues impacting on the Jewish state during the event on March 1 to 3. Registration information is at aipac.org/pc. The YIW is considering chartering a bus.

Tax time: Now or never for realty assessment appeals By Ed Weintrob While paying real estate taxes may be inevitable, no one should pay more than their fair share. “It’s all about fairness,� said attorney Shalom Maidenbaum, whose Cedarhurst-based Maidenbaum Property Tax Reduction Group LLC challenges Nassau County property tax assessments that are the basis for future tax bills. “We work as aggressively as we can to have our clients pay the fairest amount,� he said. With the March 2 deadline to appeal the current round of assessments just days away, many taxpayers are focusing on a system that is as inscrutable as it is straightforward. Each January, property owners in Nassau County receive a proposed assessment of their

property’s worth; these assessments (or revised assessments determined during a 13-month-long review process) are the basis for tax bills that won’t start arriving until more than 10 months later. (The January 2015 assessment is effective for the 2016-17 tax year, starting with the October 2016 school tax bill.) Homeowners who want to challenge their assessment through Maidenbaum should contact the ďŹ rm by Friday, Feb 27. The 15 month review period provides for what Maidenbaum described as an administrative review process that may resolve most grievances; should the administrative determination be unsatisfactory, litigation may follow, prolonging the process, he said. Continued on page 8

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The Young Israel of Woodmere continued this week to encourage Five Towners to attend the upcoming AIPAC policy conference in Washington. “With the events of recent weeks unfolding in the Middle East, Jerusalem, Israel’s northern border, and more recently on the Senate oor, it’s never been more important for our community to stand with Israel and show President Obama

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n his book on politics in the Arab world, “Cruelty and Silence,â€? the Iraqi intellectual Kanan Makiya made a telling point about the opposition to the ďŹ rst Gulf war of 1991, when a U.S.-led coalition ejected Saddam Hussein’s brutal regime from Kuwait. “A principled opposition to the Gulf war does not require,â€? Makiya wrote, “(a) denying that the Iraqi regime gassed its own citizens; (b) inventing dates to prove that the United States not only started the ďŹ ghting on the ground (which it did) but that it sent Iraq into Kuwait (which it didn’t); or (c) generally imputing a reasonableness to the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait which it never possessed.â€? Sadly, it is an ingrained feature of Middle Eastern politics that myths, distortions, errors, and downright lies disďŹ gure our attempts to hold a rational, fact-based exchange. We expect dictators—Saddam then, Bashar al-Assad now—to trade in dishonesty, and we recognize, too, that there is not much we can do about that, other than contradicting them at every turn. But we like to think we hold our own elected leaders, and more generally, political bodies and institutions working in the democratic world, to higher standards. It’s not just that we expect rectitude and transparency. We also believe that politicians understand that it’s in their interest not to lie, for the sake of their own credibility. Our acceptance of the moral norms of a democratic society and our desire for selfpreservation is, you might say, what keeps us honest. This week, however, I’ve seen two examples of behavior suggesting that we in the West are not above trafďŹ cking in the kinds of lies that have made the Middle East such a wretched location for nearly a century. Let me begin with the ďŹ rst example: no less than President Obama, who told the Vox magazine that our fear of Islamist terrorism (even at this point, I’m paraphrasing, since Obama refuses to use the word “Islamistâ€?) is stoked by an irresponsible media. “What’s the famous saying about local newscasts, right?

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If it bleeds, it leads, right?â€? Obama joked, clearly warming to his theme. As Obama sees it, there are a bunch of crazy zealots out there who just wanna kill people. That’s it, that’s all. All this stuff about a speciďŹ c assault on Western values and free speech and women’s rights emanating from the Islamic world is wide of the mark. So when you think like Obama, you inevitably get to a gem like this one: “It is entirely legitimate for the American people to be deeply concerned when you’ve got a bunch of violent, vicious zealots who behead people or randomly shoot a bunch of folks in a deli in Paris.â€? This is a view of international affairs as a slasher movie. There’s no need to explain why Islamic State beheads and enslaves its captives, no need to point out that it’s because they are the wrong religion, or the wrong gender, or they are depicted as puppets of some grandiose Jewish conspiracy. After all, they’re just crazy. And there is certainly no need to examine why a kosher supermarket was chosen, out of thousands of locations in Paris, as the location for a massacre. No need to say that the “folksâ€? killed were Jews. After all, they were “randomlyâ€? selected. It could have happened anywhere; inconvenient details, like the fact that this atrocity occurred at a Jewish store at precisely the

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time, a Friday afternoon, that “folksâ€? would be doing their Shabbat shopping, are just a distraction. Example number two concerns the J Street lobby, an organization that has established lying as its basic currency ever since it determined that its mission, as expressed by its clownishly pompous leader Jeremy Ben-Ami, was to be Obama’s “blocking back.â€? But even by their standards, J Street has now done something extraordinary, claiming, with no evidence, that 84 percent of American Jews support Obama over Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu when it comes to Iran’s nukes! What both the Obama and the J Street episodes represent is an Orwellian inversion of reality—lies become truth, truth becomes a lie. According to Obama, we are not at war with the jihadis, who are more properly understood as sociopaths. According to J Street, the U.S. administration is not creating the foundations for Iran to become the dominant power in the Middle East; instead, it is negotiating a “reasonableâ€? solution to the nuclear question. Now look at where this dangerous nonsense leads us. A signiďŹ cant number of Democrats are threatening to boycott Netanyahu’s forthcoming speech on Iran to Congress, thereby allowing themselves to be co-opted by the anti-Semites of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement. Europe is bewildered and scared; after all, the French, British, and German leaders have clearly identiďŹ ed both Islamism and anti-Semitism as civilizational threats, and now the American president is telling them otherwise. Dissidents and democracy activists ďŹ ghting Islamism in the Arab and wider Islamic worlds have been abandoned, after being told, in effect, that they don’t know what they’re talking about. And resentment towards America’s current leadership continues to grow among its allies: not just the Israelis, but the conservative Arab states like Saudi Arabia, too. I have no words of comfort at this point. When I speak to friends and colleagues, I am struck by how often the ďŹ gure of Winston Churchill, who spent much of the 1930s warning about the Nazi threat in splendid isolation, is mentioned as a reason for us steel ourselves now. And then they will remark, regretfully, that one of Obama’s ďŹ rst decisions was to remove the bust of Churchill from the Oval OfďŹ ce. Perhaps there was a deeper meaning to that single act than we realized at the time. Ben Cohen is the Shillman Analyst for JNS.org.

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Synthesizing physical and spiritual in sacred space RABBI BINNY FREEDMAN THE HEART OF JERUSALEM

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ixteen hundred Jews, mostly elderly and families with children, protected by barely two hundred fighters; the odds for the besieged Jewish quarter of the old city of Jerusalem in 1948, were beyond impossible. The Jordanian Legion, by far the best fighting force in the Middle East, committed an entire division of 3,200 men, their most elite fighting force, to winning this battle. Approximately 30,000 Arab irregulars, local Arabs with a gun and a cause, supported them; the Jews were in desperate straits. There were no reinforcements to be had, but the Israeli fighters, against all odds, refused to give up. They had only three heavy machine guns between them, and one of them was set in a sandbag position on the edge of the Churvah Synagogue, a stone’s throw away from the Muslim quarter. Sitting at the strategic juncture of the widest alleyway into the Jewish quarter, the Jordanians mounted daily and often twice-daily attacks, in full battalion strength, against this threeman Israeli machine-gun position. Because of the strategic sensitivity of the position, the three men posted there were given very specific orders: they were not allowed to leave the position under any circumstances unless someone came to relieve them. As such, a runner who would dash between the positions avoiding the Jordanian snipers, brought their meals to them. One afternoon, the men manning the position realized that their lunch had not arrived. With no radio, and no way to contact the runner, they had no option other than to wait and hope their lunch would arrive sooner rather than later. But, as the afternoon wore on and the sun sank lower on the horizon, they began to worry: what if the Jordanians had somehow circled around behind them and cut them off? Finally, as darkness approached, one of them decided to venture out into the street and see if he could get a better picture of what was going on. And that was when he

discovered Nissim Ginni, the youngest Israeli soldier ever to fall on active duty. Hit by sniper fire not far from where they were sitting, Nissim, a runner whose mischievous grin and flashing eyes had shored up the men on the most desperate occasions, was only 10 years old. The most puzzling part of his death was that he had been hit in the stomach and quite obviously bled to death. A stomach wound is an extremely painful injury, which left the men wondering why Nissim had not at the very least called out to them for help. The theory was that Nissim understood what calling out to his comrades would have meant. Sniper fire is the most surreal type of warfare; you don’t realize at first what is happening, because with all the normal noise of warfare, and the distance of a good sniper, you don’t even hear the shot. Realizing that if he cried out the men would come to his aid, Nissim Ginni chose to bleed to death alone in an alleyway, rather than risk the lives of his comrades. Was it worth the price? A ten year old boy, and countless others, gave their lives for a hilltop city smaller than the size of most university campuses, and the question so many pundits are asking is: Can a piece of land ever be worth such a price? Is there anything we can say, standing over the grave of Nissim Ginni, reburied on the Mount of Olives in 1967, that makes sense of all this? What, indeed, is the seemingly incomprehensible preoccupation we seem to have with land and can any piece of property ever be worth fighting for, much less dying for? his week’s portion, Terumah, introduces us to one of the most challenging concepts in Judaism: “Ve’Asu’ Li’ Mikdash, Ve’Shachanti’ Be’Tocham” (“And they shall make for me a sanctuary, and I will dwell in their midst” (Shemot 25:8). What exactly does Hashem want — a

home, a sanctuary? One of the first things we learn about G-d as children is that He is everywhere, so how can He be confined to a limited space? Why is the building of the Mishkan (Tabernacle), the Temple’s forerunner, a central idea in Judaism? Ramban, in discussing the goal of building this sanctuary for G-d in the desert, says that the essence of this Mishkan was to recreate the Sinai experience, wherein G-d’s presence dwelled on the mountain (19:20). Why did we, as a people, have to go to a specific mountain to receive the Torah? If G-d is everywhere, what difference did it make where we were when we received the Torah? And why does the idea of a heightened relationship with G-d almost always to occur in connection with space? Moses’ relationship with G-d begins at the burning bush on mount Chorev, which is clearly the same mountain we will later refer to as Sinai. And all of the forefathers have intense spiritual experiences associated with specific spaces — Abraham takes his beloved son Yitzchak all the way to Mount Moriah (which Jewish tradition has as the same mountain where the Temple will one day stand), and Yitzchak, just prior to his marriage with Rivkah, goes out to pray “in the field) (why does he need to be in the field; what difference does it make where you are when you pray?), and Yaakov has his famous dream of angels and ladders in Beit El, where he ultimately declares: “Indeed G-d is in this place!” (Genesis 28:16) But isn’t G-d in every place? The very dawn of Judaism carries this same challenge: the first command G-d gives Abraham is to go “to the land that I will show you” (Genesis 12:1). Why does Abraham need to go to a specific land? If his mission is to bring G-d into the world, why can’t he get started right away in Mesopotamia?

The challenge of infusing the physical world with spiritual beauty begins with that rock where tradition has it that the world was first created.

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This mitzvah forces us to confront a most basic theme in Judaism: the seeming need for creating sacred space. This central position in Judaism is one we are confronted with every time we go to pray in a Synagogue. ashi feels that the need for a temporary physical sanctuary for G-d in the desert was necessitated by the sin (or mistake) of the Golden Calf. Think about it: people often assume that the Golden Calf was such a great transgression on the part of the Jewish people because six weeks after hearing the Ten Commandments, including “Thou shalt have no other gods before me,” the Jews seemingly “forgot” all about G-d and sank back into their Egyptian habits and idolatries. But in truth, that would have be inconceivable. Could anyone, after hearing the word of G-d directly, and while still at the very foot of Sinai, forget such a basic truth as the Oneness of G-d? The Jewish people’s mistake at Sinai was not that they forgot about G-d; it was that they weren’t quite sure what to do with G-d. If the challenge we received at Sinai was to make this entire physical, temporal world a sanctuary for G-d, how are we meant to do that? How can we, as physical beings, create a relationship with something as endless and intangible as G-d? One might think that Sinai’s message was to rise above the physical world in order to develop a meaningful spiritual relationship with G-d. But the message of Sinai was that the Torah had to come back down to earth. Can we infuse the physical world with the spiritual essence of G-d? This is the ultimate question posited to us as a people at Sinai, and why the people attempt to infuse the spiritual experience of Sinai, which began with three days of separation and purification (19:10-11,15), with the physical experience of the Golden Calf. But they were mistaken, because in the end, they were not infusing the physical with the spiritual, they were merely creating a purely physical experience alongside a purely spiritual one. So often, when we speak of the value of the physical world in Judaism, we mistakenly believe that physical experiences are as important as spiritual ones. We consider eating to be a physical experience, and prayer or Torah Continued on page 16

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Tapestries’ clasps unite Mishkan and define lives RABBI AVI BILLET PARSHA OF THE WEEK

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e typically imagine that the Mishkan is defined by the beams that stood together to become its walls. After all, without walls, there is no building. While a simple view of the Torah’s depiction of the Mishkan certainly refers to the overall structure — walls, contents, etc. — as “The Mishkan” many times, there are times when the Mishkan itself is specifically described as being either the tapestries that covered the building or the result of the linking of the blue loops and the golden clasps. In 26:1, “make the Mishkan out of ten tapestries.” Several verses later, “And you’ll make 50 golden clasps, and you will combine the tapestries, one side to the other, at the clasps, and then the Mishkan will be one” (26:6). A building has walls and partitions and rooms, without which the structure’s value may be questioned. But does the roof really

hold so much sway that it can be “the” definition of the Mishkan, especially in a wilderness which is protected from the elements by the Pillars of Cloud and Fire? These instructions are incredible because they essentially tell us that it is not walls but tapestries which unite the Mishkan. For the Mishkan to be considered complete, 50 barely visible clasps need to hold together two large pieces of cloth. Why could they not just sew everything together (after all, each tapestry was made of five pieces that were sewn together)? Perhaps the clasps are symbolic. It can’t just be invisible thread which unites the two sides of the Mishkan, there needs to be something of value – even if it is small and hardly visible – which unites the two sides, creating a whole. It is amazing what the unity of 50 clasps can accomplish; their union defines a structure that is so much bigger than the sum of

its parts. Which leads us to wonder, as we read this highly symbolic parsha, what elements of our lives share this quality. For some people it is a profound respect they have for one another, as learning partners, business partners, teammates. For others it might be their marriage commitment, or their dedication to family members even through all kinds of adversity. While the people are represented by the tapestries, what parallels the clasps, and what parallels the oneness? The clasps are valuable because they are made of gold, but once the Mishkan is put together, due to the height of its walls, the clasps are not very noticeable. And they are not meant to fall apart unless they are actively taken apart by human hands. This becomes the challenge we face in using the Mishkan as a model. The relationships we build and aim to maintain in our lives are precious.

What unites us is trust, honesty, love, family, commitment, belief in an idea.

What unites us with others is far more precious than anything money can buy. Trust, honesty, love, family, commitment, belief in an idea: these are things we cannot assign value to, nor can we always see them. But we know they are there. And we know that while they sometimes seem so easily put together, human hands can just as easily pull them apart. If we are to create oneness and unity with our loved ones and cherished friends, we must always bear in mind how priceless these relationships are. Some people are blessed that a clasp can hold them together through thick and thin, because the clasp doesn’t let go; others need to always make sure that the clasp is still there keeping everything together. And the double check might come with a need to remeasure, readjust, retighten, to make sure all is in order. More maintenance may be required at constant intervals. But hopefully the goal of the Mishkan can be our goal as well: that the combination of the tapestries through the unifying force of the clasps can create an entity that defines itself as a united whole forever. Amen.

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By Adam Kredo, JNS.org A former New York City Police Department ofďŹ cer is suing the force for $150 million after facing what he claims was years of vicious antiSemitic discrimination and abuse at the hands of his fellow ofďŹ cers, according to a copy of the lawsuit obtained by JNS.org. Former NYPD ofďŹ cer David Attali said he was subjected to daily anti-Semitic harassment and ridicule by his colleagues, who constantly referred to him as “Jew,â€? “dirty Jew,â€? and “f***ing Jew,â€? according to the legal complaint. Attali, a 31-year-old New York City resident who holds dual American and Israeli citizenship, said he endured the abuse for years before ďŹ ling a complaint and resigning from the force just six years into his career. The 26-page legal complaint viewed by JNS. org paints an oftentimes disturbing portrait of Attali’s time working as an ofďŹ cer in the department’s World Trade Center (WTC) Command. Attali said he was subjected to daily antiSemitic tirades that were not only tolerated by those on the force but condoned by top leaders at WTC Command. Âł,W VWDUWHG DV Âľ-HZÂś and then its ‘you f***ing Jew’ and Hitler and the concentration camps,â€? Attali said during a telephone interview that took place in the presence of his lawyer, Rocco Avallone of Avallone & Bellistri. “They would throw change in my direction and say, ‘Can you resist it, Jew? Watch him go after it’.â€? Attali also recalled “non-stop talk about concentration camps.â€? His lawsuit targets the city of New York, as well as ďŹ ve WTC Command police ofďŹ cers, a deputy inspector, two sergeants, and a lieutenant, according to the complaint. In addition to enduring near-constant verbal abuse, Attali said his workspace was repeatedly vandalized. Eventually, he said, it became too much for him to handle and quit the NYPD in August 2014. “Three years is a long time,â€? he said. “Imagine for three years you’re not called by your name. It’s just ‘f’in Jew,’ ‘dirty Jew,’ every type of curse possible with ‘Jew’ after it. For three years. Nonstop.â€? Last May, Attali ďŹ led an internal complaint with the NYPD, though it is unclear whether it resulted in any action. A spokesman for the New York City Law Department declined to comment on the proceedings, telling JNS.org that “the matter is under review.â€? ,Q -XO\ $WWDOL ZHQW IXUWKHU ďŹ ling a discrimination charge with the United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), which handles claims of workplace bias based on race and religion. By November, the EEOC is said to have issued to Attali a “right to sueâ€? letter informing him that a case could be pursued in federal court, according to the legal documents. An EEOC spokesman declined to comment on the case, saying that it is “strictly prohibited by law from conďŹ rming or denying the existence of discrimination charge ďŹ lings.â€? In most situations, records of this nature are kept private, according to the EEOC. Attali said he ďŹ rst observed anti-Semitism among some of his colleagues soon after joining the force in 2008 and being assigned to the NYPD’s 67th Precinct old old Flatbush. “Almost immediately upon taking to the streets of New York City as a rookie patrol ofďŹ cer,â€? Attali was faced with “discriminatory animus harbored toward the Jewish faith, race, and national origin by some of his fellow ofďŹ cers and supervisors,â€? according to the legal complaint. 'XULQJ D HQFRXQWHU at the 67th Precinct, a co-worker requested that Attali’s call his cell phone. When Attali dialed the ofďŹ cer’s phone, “the ringtone was the sound of Adolf Hitler giving a speech,â€? the complaint alleges. In 2010, Attali was on patrol with a fellow ofďŹ cer in a predominately Jewish neighborhood in Brooklyn, according the complaint. As the two drove past a cluster of Jewish children walking down the sidewalk, the ofďŹ cer allegedly remarked, “I bet you those Christ-killers have

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n an interviewed by Chris Wallace on Fox News on Sunday, Speaker of the House John Boehner explained why he kept news about his invite to Prime Minister Netanyahu a secret until the last possible moment. Wallace asked Boehner why he told Israeli Ambassador Ron Dermer not to preemptively inform the White House about plans for Netanyahu’s Congressional appearance. The Speaker answered with something everyone suspected but no one in the U.S. government admitted publicly: the White House just doesn’t like the Israeli Prime Minister. “There’s so secret here in Washington about the animosity that this White House has for Prime Minister Netanyahu,â€? Boehner said, adding that “[we] didn’t want that getting in the way and quashing what I thought was a real opportunity.â€? Nevertheless, Boehner told CBS’s 60 Minutes, ‘We gave them a heads up that morning’,â€? before the public announcement. And, according a New York Times correction to an earlier article, Netanyahu did not agree to speak until the White House was informed of the invitation: “An earlier version of this article misstated when Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel accepted Speaker John A. Boehner’s invitation to address Congress,â€? the correction reported. “He accepted after the administration had been informed of the invitation, not before.â€? When asked by Wallace why he invited the Israeli Premier to talk to Congress, Boehner said it an important for the Congress to hear Netanyahu’s perspective. “The fact is that we had every right to do what we did. ‌ There’s a serious threat facing the world, and radical Islamic terrorists

are not going to go away. The President devoted but a few words to it in his State of the Union address. And then when it comes to the threat of Iran having a nuclear weapon, these are important messages that the Congress needs to hear and the American people need to hear. And I believe that Prime Minister Netanyahu is the perfect person to deliver the message of how serious this threat is.â€? Over the course of the debate about the invitation, the Speaker’s rationale has not changed. But the White House’s reason for its anger has changed. On Jan. 26, when the speaker was asked why he extended the invitation to Netanyahu, he gave an answer similar to the one he gave Wallace. “There’s nobody in the world who can talk about the threat of radical terrorism — nobody can talk about the threat the Iranians pose, not just to the Middle East and to Israel, but to the entire world – better than Bibi Netanyahu,â€? he said. hen the Netanyahu invite became public, the White House objection was that it was a breach of diplomatic protocol. It wasn’t until they sat down and developed a strategy to ďŹ ght the invitation did the White House begin to use the excuse that it was too close to an Israeli election. If this administration truly didn’t want to interfere with the upcoming Israeli Election, they wouldn’t have allowed former Obama strategist Jeremy Bird to work with the groups One Voice and V15 in their bid to replace the Netanyahu government, nor would they have allowed the State Department to donate money to One Voice. If the President didn’t want to interfere with the Israeli election, he certainly wouldn’t have allowed the Vice President and the Secretary of State to meet with Netanyahu’s main opponent on Feb. 7 in Germany. As reported by the Jerusalem Post: “Vice President Joe Biden and U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry spoke briey on Saturday in the hallway of the Munich Security Conference with Zionist Union Party head Isaac Herzog, who is Netanyahu’s chief political rival in the March 17 elections. “An aide to the vice president told the Post that Herzog and Strategic Affairs Minister Yuval Steinitz [Likud] separately greeted Biden ‘in passing’ at the conference, but that ‘no meetings, formal or informal, were held with either ofďŹ cial’.â€? The Vice President’s claim that the meeting was “in passingâ€? is belies the truth. When a senior administration ďŹ gure attends a conference such as the one at Munich, everything is planned down to the second; if the two “met in passingâ€? or if Kerry met with Herzog “in the hallwayâ€? it was planned that way to seem informal and to avoid criticism. In the end, the Speaker invited Netanyahu to address Congress because the Prime Minister’s message was one he felt the Congress should hear. The message, that negotiations with Iran are approaching dangerous territory, is supported by such bi-partisan opinion leaders as New Jersey Democratic Senator Bob Menendez, the European Union, and the usually friendly-to-Obama Washington Post editorial board. Perhaps the Speaker was correct to

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— DRS-HALB students join a NCSY work force in New Orleans, helping ďŹ x a broken city. Rabbi Dov Emerson wrote: “First, we had come here to show our commitment to ‌ support the Jewish community in New Orleans. And secondly, to show the New Orleans general community that in the spirit of Tikkun Olam, we have not forgotten about them and we were there to help in any way possible.â€? — The Star’s editorial calls Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez a “thorn to the U.S., threat to the Jews.â€? Anticipating worst times to come, “communal leaders in North America, together with ofďŹ cials in Israel, would be wise to begin planning to relocate Venezuela’s Jews in the event that it is needed. It just might be, and soon.â€? — It was a “perfect season for HAFTRâ€? on the basketball courts, with both Hawks and Lady Hawks undefeated. — Columnist Jeff Dunetz reports from the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington “what the mainstream media can’t report.â€? — Three grades from DRS traveled to Boston for a range of activities, including a visit to the kever of the Rav, Rabbi Soloveitchik. (Good thing a Boston trip wasn’t planned this year!) — A front page feature proviles Jack Ratz, “Holocaust survivor, teacher, zayda.â€? — From “Iron Cross to Jewish Star: How a Nazi’s son became a Jew,â€? The Jewish Star headlines a report on a talk by Dr. Bernd Wollschlaeger at the Young Israel of Woodmere. withhold White House notiďŹ cation of the Bibi speech until the last moment. After all, the President has done nothing to convince the Congress or the public that his feelings toward the Israeli Prime Minister were anything but hostile. The Netanyahu invite didn’t become a political football until the Administration made it one, and their claims about avoiding interference with the Israeli elections is at best hypocritical.

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KOSHER BOOKWORM 3DUW 7ZR s noted previously, we live in dangerous times and, truth be told, we have always lived in dangerous times. This week, I shall focus on the legacy of a speech by the Rav, Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik originally delivered in Yiddish before a gathering of the Religious Zionists of American in May 1956 on the occasion of the eighth anniversary of the founding of the State of Israel. It was subsequently expanded upon, translated into Hebrew, and ultimately into English where it gained traction among many elements within the intellectual community of American Jewry. The emotional heft inherent in its teachings, especially in the Rav’s perspective of the horrors of the Holocaust and the historic legacy of Jew hatred through the ages, has given this address (published as a book, “Kol Dodi Dofek: Listen, My Beloved Knocks,”

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Torah u-Maddah Journal, 16/2012-13) Rabbi Ziegler elaborates further on this heartfelt subject in a chapter titled “From Holocaust to the State of Israel,” wherein in referencing to these two events he writes the following: “The proximity of these two overwhelming events almost begged one to connect them. At the extremes, some saw the connection in terms of strict causality. For example, the Satmar Rebbe believed that the Holocaust was a divine punishment for the sin of attempting to establish Jewish sovereignty before the coming of the Messiah, and the success of the Zionists in establishing the State of Israel was to be attributed to the sitra ahra, the metaphysical forces of evil. “At the opposite end, Rabbi Zvi Yehudah Kook believed that the Holocaust was divine ‘surgery’ necessary to sever the Jews’ connection to the Diaspora and bring them to the Land of Israel as part of an inexorable process of national revival and messianic redemption. “Rav Soloveitchik does not provide casual explanations, nor does he offer metaphysical speculation as to the reasons G-d brought about these events. In his view, the human’s

finite mind cannot fathom the ways of divine providence, and the only question one can and should ask oneself is how to respond on one’s given circumstances.” Rabbi Ziegler elaborates further on the Rav’s motives and purposes in an interesting footnote wherein he teaches us the following: “To be sure, in this essay the Rav is speaking of G-d’s call to the Jewish nation, and of a commensurate national response that is demanded. Thus, he says the Jewish people should ‘open the door’ through national projects [settling the Negev], and the Orthodox community should undertake community projects [starting kibbutzim, building housing for religious immigrants, and establishing a network of schools]. “It could be argued that as long as the nation and community undertake these projects, the individual can participate through philanthropy, or can turn his attention to other worthy causes, such as Jewish education. Although this may indeed be in line with the Rav’s thinking, it does not, to my mind, do away with the question of individual aliyah.” Next year will mark the 60th anniversary Continued on page 16

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Continued from page 1 When Maidenbaum — whose parents were among the Five Towns’ frum pioneers, moving from Boro Park in 1956 — began reducing property taxes 25 years ago, “more people were dramatically over-assessed, but taxes were much lower� so they weren’t as reactive to being overcharged, he said. That’s changed as “we have helped raise homeowner awareness.� With Nassau County homeowners among the highest taxed in the country, people are sensitive when their tax bills rise. Maidenbaum’s team of attorneys and advisers is laser focused on insuring that the assessment, which is the underpinning of the property tax system, is fair to their clients.

are picking up the extra taxes had theoretically been under-assessed and were getting the beneďŹ t of paying less than their fair share.â€? For those whose assessments are lowered, the news is bright but at ďŹ rst not precise. If the county says “my homeowner’s property is worth $500,000 and I can prove it’s worth $450,000, I’ll get a 10 percent reduction in assessment so that the proposed value goes down by $50,000,â€? Maidenbaum said. “Effectively, the taxes would be 10 percent less than they would otherwise have been for the upcoming year had they not been challenged.â€? %XW ZKDW GRHV WKDW PHDQ in dollars and cents? “When we tell our homeowners, ‘great news

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“We don’t challenge taxes, we challenge assessments,â€? both the county’s assertion of a property’s fair market value and the county’s technical Level of Assessment, he said. “If we’re successful, it directly impacts taxes.â€? “Even a small discrepancy in the assessment can make a big difference in actual taxes,â€? added Maidenbaum’s business partner, attorney Ilyse Gellar Sternberg. Sternberg applies the same diligence to her work as she did as an international competitor on the U.S. Olympics karate team and as a champion at the Maccabi Games. 0DLGHQEDXPÂśV ÂżUP and others like it, scan the assessment rolls for properties it identiďŹ es (based on the recorded sale prices of comparable homes in the same area) as likely to have been overvalued by the county’s assessors, and reaches out to those owners. “There’s a lot of computer work going on,â€? he said. Other homeowners who believe that they were over-assessed contact the ďŹ rm and request an opinion on the likelihood of a successful grievance. “When people call us, we discuss and evaluate their cases,â€? he said. “Since we only get paid based on results, we’re only going to go after cases we believe are reduceable.â€? He gave this illustration: “People come to me and say my neighbor, Mr. Goldberg, has a nicer and bigger home than I do and is paying less taxes. Can’t you tell [the county] that? “And I say, you just made an argument to raise Goldberg’s taxes not to lower yours. The legal standard is that we must show why your house is worth less than they’re saying it is — that’s the system.â€? He continued: Âł,I IRU DUJXPHQWÂśV VDNH one-third of the homeowners in Nassau County are over-assessed, then two-thirds are not.â€? Those two-thirds will pick up the difference in taxes when the overassessments are reduced and “there’s a fundamental fairness about that — the two-thirds who

— we achieved you an assessment reduction and it’s 10 percent’ — we can’t put a dollar amount on that until a year and a half later when the October school tax bill comes out and the January general tax comes out. Those bills will be 10 percent lower than they may otherwise would have been. But until [the taxing authority] determines the rate, the exact amount of savings cannot be stated. “So we get a result and we tell the homeowner, we got you a reduction — and we’ll bill you in a year.â€? How much money a taxing authority — the county, the school district or a village — decides to spend is in large measure a political decision; the proportion of that money it gets from real estate taxes, however, is a straight formulation based on the assessments. Because government spending and its concurrent need for more tax revenue generally increases, even when an assessment is reduced, a property owner will sometimes pay more than before. Âł,I WKH EXGJHW JRHV XS 8 percent this year and we achieve a 5 percent reduction, cashowwise you will end up paying 3 percent more than last year but we will be billing you for half of 5 percent,â€? Maidenbaum said. “I don’t blame people for getting confused. I just ask them for savlanut (patience) and to contact us, if they desire, for a more detail breakdown.â€? “We’re in a customer service business, an education business,â€? he said. “We have many people here on staff ďŹ elding questions from homeowners, explaining, giving precise printouts on how they saved money.â€? Nassau County has a very good and improved system for contesting assessments and “the most taxpayer-friendly administration I have seen in 25 years,â€? Maidenbaum said. “But nobody likes to pay so much money in property taxes.â€? Maidenbaum Property Tax Reduction Group, 483 Chestnut St., (516) 336-8622. A simple form is available at MPTRG.com to begin consideration for a property assessment review.

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k, I’m officially done with winter. I’ve had enough. I’m cold when it’s 50 degrees, so I’m really not happy. Forecast is for temps in the single digits with a windchill of 20 below. Seriously, once it plummets below 10, how much worse can it really feel? My husband Jerry loves this weather. While cruising last month, he was actually a little upset that he was going to miss a major snowstorm. I was happy. I don’t like winter, and I don’t like winter sports. Why would I want to be on a steep slope, wearing clumsy Frankenstein boots that are connected to long flat fiberglass slats, and ski poles in my hands … which remind me of the tools the trash pickers use to pick up garbage in the park. Oh, and wait, let’s not forget those rope tow chair lifts (do they still have those?); I can’t hang on long enough to get three feet up the slope, let alone the top. Me, I prefer bowling. Granted, bowling shoes are not quite the height of fashion, but they beat skis, ice skates and snow shoes (really, who invented snowshoeing, and why?). Bowling is much more practical. You don’t have to get up at the crack of dawn to travel hours to your destination; changing into bowling shoes takes a minute or two as opposed to putting on ski gear or ice skates. You also get to see the friends you came with; whether you’re a pro bowler or beginner, you all stay on the same lane or two and bowl. There are no beginner, intermedi-

ary or black diamond lanes. You can bowl a 65 and your friend can bowl a 220 on the same lane. Thirsty, just walk over and buy a drink; it’s not a huge ordeal like having to take off your skis. Have to use the restroom, no biggie — but that would take half an hour if you’re skiing. After all, how many layers do most skiers wear? I always enjoyed bowling as a kid and when I married and moved to Woodmere, we joined the Young Israel couple’s bowling league. You may snicker about bowling, but most of you will remember, there was a waiting list to join back in the ’90s, and we had to use Falcaros bowling alley as well as Woodmere lanes. I also bowled Monday mornings with the “ladies.” Though I collected many trophies over the years, I never won high average (thanks to Gaye and Sharon Hoffman) and we never won first place, as couples. One year, we came close. It was the last game of the season and our team only needed two points to win and take over first place. It was down to my friend, whose name I won’t mention. Granted she hated bowling, didn’t want to bowl, but we made her. So here we were, after ten months of bowling on the first Saturday night of every month, we were down to the last game and last player. I told her, no pressure, really, but all we need is for her to knock down two pins, and she would have two turns. She stepped up to line and threw the ball which, I’m not kidding, took about a full min-

ute to reach the end and then ever so slowly slid into the gutter. I assured her it was ok, she had another turn, but as luck would have it she needed a third. What were the chances she would throw another gutter ball and end up with a score of 37? To this day she claims she got pregnant the following year just so she wouldn’t have to bowl with me again. It really wasn’t a great excuse as I was two weeks late when I was pregnant with my daughter and bowled till the end. Jerry might be the outdoorsman and perhaps can still beat me in basketball (since I’ve never played basketball), but when it comes to bowling, Jerry doesn’t stand a chance, and it ain’t even close. Talking about bowling… %UHDG %RZOV which can be filled with any soup you choose ,QJUHGLHQWV 4 Tbs sugar

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By Sean Savage, JNS.org Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren has become a rising star in the Democratic Party through her focus on such economic and social issues as income inequality and taking on Wall Street banks, triggering a groundswell of liberal support and calls for her to run for president. Less is known about her views on foreign policy and, by extension, Israel. Two recent moves by Warren may shed light on her outlook on issues impacting the Jewish state. She was one of four Democrats on the Senate Banking Committee to vote against the bipartisan Iran sanctions bill co-sponsored by Sens. Mark Kirk (RIll.) and Robert Menendez (D-NJ), legislation that is strongly supported by the American Israel Public Affairs Committee. The bill—which would impose sanctions on Iran if it fails to reach an agreement with world powers by the June 30 deadline—passed the committee 18-4, with six Democrats supporting it. :DUUHQ ZDV DOVR QRW DPRQJ the 75 senators to sign a Jan. 29 bipartisan letter to Secretary of State John Kerry stating that the senators would not support foreign aid to the Palestinian Authority (PA) until the Obama administration completes a review of the Palestinians’ decision to unilaterally join the International Criminal Court. “Both of these actions are worrisome signs,â€? Tevi Troy, who served as White House liaison to the Jewish community under President George W. Bush, told JNS.org regarding Warren’s recent decisions on Iran sanctions and PA funding. “The best place for the pro-Israel community to be is in a place where they have bipartisan support. ‌ I would hope that Senator Warren would return to the bipartisan consensus position in the future.â€? Additionally, last September, Warren was not one of the 88 senators to sign a letter calling for the prevention of both the rearming of Hamas following the Gaza war and unilateral PA actions at the United Nations. By comparison, the other Democratic U.S. senator from Massachusetts, Ed Markey, signed both that letter and the January letter to Kerry on PA funding. (Markey is not on the Senate Banking Committee and as such, could not vote on the Iran sanctions.) Warren now faces a decision on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s much-debated March 3 address to a joint session of Congress, which the White House has opposed on the grounds that it was not consulted about House Speaker John

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becoming a legitimate contender for leadership posts. Mary Anne Marsh, a Boston-based Democratic political analyst for the Dewey Square Group, told JNS.org that Warren’s trip to Israel, which included meetings with Netanyahu, Israeli Knesset members, and business leaders, “is instructive on how she may end up on her position regarding Israel.â€? Âł,W GLGQÂśW VXUSULVH PH that Warren went to Israel and had a schedule heavy with meetings, because that is how she approaches everything,â€? said Marsh, adding that Warren is all about “doing her homework.â€? Marsh, who said she does not believe Warren will run for president in 2016, said Massachusetts voters “expect our U.S. senators to play a role in foreign affairs, and there’s a long history with that from John Kerry to [former U.S. senators] Ted Kennedy and Paul Tsongas.â€? Warren has largely been mum on foreign policy issues since taking ofďŹ ce. Yet she represents a state with one of the largest and most inuential Jewish communities in the country, and Israel is an important issue for her constituency. Jeremy Burton, executive director of the Jewish Community Relations Council (JCRC) of Greater Boston, told JNS.org that Warren’s decision to make Israel and Jordan her ďŹ rst overseas trip as a senator was a “fairly signiďŹ cant statementâ€? about that region “being an issue that she is looking to understand and get to know herself.â€? %XUWRQ ZKR KDV EULHIHG :DUUHQ in person about Israel and Jewish issues several times, added, “She has a really strong and engaged relationship with the JCRC and the Boston Jewish community leadership. Going back to when she was running for the Senate, she met with the Jewish leadership a number of times, and just this past year she has met with us at least three times on a wide range of issues, including on Israel.â€? Many liberal Democrats have looked for their legislative icons’ stances on the economy to also translate to far-left views on foreign policy and Israel, particularly during last summer’s war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza. “I watched Twitter very carefully during the Gaza war, and the people on the left were clearly less pro-Israel in the U.S. and very anti-Israel outside of the U.S.,â€? Troy, the former Bush administration ofďŹ cial, told JNS.org. More on Sen. Warren and Israel online at TheJewishStar.com

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Holocaust Survivor Band plays music of their youth By Lois K. Solomon South Flordia Sun Sentinel FORT LAUDERDALE (AP) — They’re almost 90, survived the Holocaust and love to play music together, so why not? Saul Dreier and Reuben Sosnowicz, nostalgic for the tunes of their youth, have started a group with an unlikely name that tells just a part of their story: the Holocaust Survivor Band. Completing its ďŹ rst year, the band has proven popular along the local synagogue/ea market/retirement-home circuit, attracting hundreds of South Floridians who relish klezmer and Big Band music. Dreier, 89, said the band is booked at local venues through April. With Dreier, of Coconut Creek, on the drums, and Sosnowicz, 85, of Delray Beach, on keyboard, the musicians exude joy at the chords they learned as kids and longing for the families they lost during World War II. Other players also have Holocaust connections, such as Chanarose Sosnowicz, 53, the vocalist and Rueben’s daughter, and Jeff Black, 64, the British-born rhythm guitar player from Hollywood. He was the child of Holocaust refugees whose families perished in the Auschwitz concentration camp. Dreier said he got the idea for the band when Alice Herz-Sommer died last year at 110, the oldest-known Holocaust survivor at the time. Herz-Sommer survived Theresienstadt concentration camp by playing the piano on orders of the Nazis to fool the Red Cross. Inspired by her dedication to music, Dreier shared his plan with his wife and rabbi; both said Dreier was nuts, but he was undeterred. “I decided to go for it,â€? said Dreier, a retired owner of construction companies and grandfather of six. “I asked everyone, ‘How can I ďŹ nd musicians who are survivors? “’

A friend told him about Sosnowicz, who had been playing keyboard at CafĂŠ Europa gatherings of Holocaust survivors sponsored by local Jewish Family Service agencies. Sosnowicz was a hairdresser, photographer and professional musician who played in New York City Jewish theaters and the Catskills during its heyday in the mid-20th century. Both men are from Poland. Sosnowicz was born in Warsaw and spent much of the war hiding in a Polish farm. Dreier lived in Krakow and survived several concentration camps, including Plaszow, Auschwitz and Mauthausen. His entire family was killed by the Nazis. After the war, Dreier was sent to a displaced persons camp in Italy, where he

Mayor‌ Continued from page 1 Benjamin Weinstock, who was named Cedarhurst’s acting mayor following Parise’s death, described him as an “extraordinary member of an elite club, the greatest generation.â€? Weinstock said Parise was like family, especially to his daughter, Liat, who attends Stern College. “To my daughter, he was a surrogate grandfather,â€? he said. “When I called her at school to tell her [he died], she was devastated.â€? Parisi “was a toughtful, caring leader, not afraid of a challenge, personally or politically,â€? Weinstock said.

Former Senator Al D’Amato said Parise “epitomized the greatest generation; he knew what it was to serve his country with valor and distinction.� Two memorial funds have been established in Parise’s name: the Cedarhurst Memorial Park Fund, and the Andrew J. Parise Scholarship Fund. Checks for both funds can be made payable to the Incorporated Village of Cedarhurst, indicating in the memo line to which fund they should be applied, and mailed to the 200 Cedarhurst Ave., Cedarhurst 11516. 1R FRQWHVW Following Mayor Parise’s death, trustee candidates Daniel Burg and Yoel Goldfeder withdrew their petitions, leaving Weinstock and Ari Brown running unopposed for relection on March 18.

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of Argentine Special Prosecutor Alberto Nisman, who spent more than a decade investigating the AMIA atrocity, then that also needs to be judged in a court of law. 1XPEHU IRXU Iran will recognize the right of Israel, the Jewish state, to exist in peace and security. It will pay reparations to the families of those Israelis who’ve lost loved ones as a result of Iranian-backed terror. It will apologize for having turned Holocaust denial into a state doctrine. And it will consign that doctrine to the trash can of history, where it belongs. 1XPEHU ¿YH Iran will announce—within a year—free, internationally observed, multiparty elections. As part of its preparation for that election, it will release all political prisoners, many of whom are held in the hell on earth that is Tehran’s Evin Prison. It will permit freedom of speech in the media, it will lift any bans in place on social media platforms like Twitter and YouTube, and it will close down its repugnant English-language mouthpiece, Press TV. Finally, it will permit freedom of worship, curbing its persecution of Christians and Jews, and ending its apartheid policies towards the Bahai minority. Nothing in the above list is inconsistent with the principles of the U.N. Charter, which is based on the twin importance of individual freedom and responsible, prudent, diplomatic state behavior. Hence, if the deal we get conforms to those principles, then hallelujah. Somehow, though, I’ve got a feeling that once we excitedly unwrap that gift box, we’ll find that it’s empty. Ben Cohen is Shillman Analyst for JNS.org.

Synthesizing… Continued from page 4 study to be spiritual in nature. But Judaism suggests that the very physical act of eating needs as well to be a spiritual moment, and the act of prayer needs to be wrapped up in the physical as well. There is a beautiful Mishnah in Ethics of the Fathers, which teaches that a person who interrupts his Torah study by exclaiming “How beautiful is this tree,” literally is worthy of forfeiting his life. Rav Shimshon Raphael Hirsch points out that this does not mean a person should not interrupt his Torah study to wonder at the beauty of the trees, rather, that if the beauty of nature and the world is an interruption of one’s Torah study, then there is something wrong with that person’s relationship with Torah. Because the beauty inherent in all of creation is not an interruption of one’s relationship with G-d, it is part of it. Which is why the response, according to Rashi, is to build a Mishkan. Specifically in such a spiritual place we recognize the challenge and the value of synthesizing the physi-

cal and the spiritual into one, with the aim of bringing G-d into the world, through us. And this is the concept of sacred space. Every great idea and every worthy goal needs a focal point, and if the mission of the Jewish people in this world is to bring G-d into the world, then the challenge of infusing the physical world with spiritual beauty begins with that rock where tradition has it that the world was first created, because the entire purpose of physical creation was to allow us as human beings to be partners with G-d in creating a holy world. And the definition of holiness is seeing G-d in every physical reality, every flower and every tree, every bug and every grape. And this is the essence of peace or Shalom, which also means complete or whole. Because only when the entire world sees the spiritual beauty of G-d in all created and all living things, and especially all human beings, will we all be together in a truly whole and complete world. Shabbat Shalom, from Jerusalem.

Kol Dodi Dofek… Continued from page 7 of the Rav’s delivery of Kol Dodi Dofek. Considering all that has transpired in all those 60 years, a realistic and intense revisiting of the Rav’s works, starting with Rabbi Reuven Ziegler “Majesty and Humility,” will serve as an introduction to what will, with G-d’s help, bring us to the salvation we all pray for. )25 )857+(5 678'< In line with the above, I strongly suggest that you read another work, this one edited and adapted by Rabbi Ziegler, titled, “By His Light,” an anthology of speeches and shiurim by Ha Rav Aharon Lichtenstein [Yeshivat Har Etzion/Ktav Publishing, 2003]. Specific to this week’s essay’s themes, you may wish to read and learn from the following shiurim by Rav Lichtenstein: “Bittachon — Trust in G-d,” “I Am With Him in Distress — The Challenges of the Holocaust,” and “Cen-

trist Orthodoxy — A Spiritual Accounting.” Other works that should be referenced are those dealing with the great legacy of Rav Yehuda Amital, zt”l. Specifically, check out his biography, “A World Built, Destroyed and Rebuilt,” by Moshe Maya, which deals with how Rav Amital dealt with his experiences during the Holocaust, his survival and subsequent service in the IDF during Israel’s war of liberation, and of his founding and service as the first Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshivat Har Etzion, the first Hesder yeshiva. 385,0« is just “around the corner.” As such, it is a great time to start preparing for the chag. Therefore, I have provided a direct link to 12 audio shiurim on Purim and the Megillah from my Rav Soloveitchik archives. Please feel free to share this link with friends and family: http://tinyurl.com/nylbwj9

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Midreshet Shalhevet Star qualities shine both inside and out of the classroom at Midreshet Shalhevet. Over the past few weeks, students won numerous inter-school competitions and awards for superb performances in extracurricular activities. At the Yeshiva University National Model United Nations Competition, junior Noa Eliach won honorable mention representing Israel and Australia in her counter-terrorism unit. Noa credits her coach and history teacher, Mr. Simcha Bader for her success. Juniors Tamar Beer and Tamar Yastrab qualified for the finalist round with Tamar Yastrab winning Best Overall Performance at the inter-school Poetry Slam on Feb 10. Tamar Yastrab’s poems titled “Rainku” and “Promise” exemplified the theme of Branching Out. “Tamar has exceptional talent in many areas and I was so proud that her talents were recognized by all at the slam,” said Mrs. Jennifer Morey, Tamar’s AP English and creative writing teacher. The Mock Trial team, under the guidance

of Mrs. Melanie Marmer, an attorney, and Ms. Atara Blumenthal, won their first two cases. The team argued the defense in the first trial, and plaintiff in the second. Seniors Devora Chait and Daniella Azose, and sophomore Avigail Borah, acted as the attorneys, presenting arguments and stating their cases clearly. Witnesses played by juniors Yael Eiferman and Bella Weiss, and senior Miriam Blonder responded well under cross examinations and were not thrown off by allegations from the other team. The Mock Trial team is busy preparing for their upcoming trials in the following weeks. The entire Shalhevet family was overjoyed by the success of their students and are appreciative of their hard work.

It’s Great Play! What more can a child want? For Great Play Woodmere’s new Great Play Interactive Gym for Kids is a present that keeps on giving. There are fun-filled age-appropriate motor-skills-building activities throughout the year. Plus (and here’s the candle on the cake), it’s a unique venue for exceptional birthday parties. Custom-designed Great Play parties for children ages 1 through 10 are high-energy events at which the birthday boy or girl is the star of the show. And when it’s time for a nosh and cake, parents can select strictly kosher options. The new Great Play, recently opened by Janet and David Shapiro, is conveniently located in the Key Food Shopping Center at North Central Avenue and Irving Place (so there’s plently of easy parking). Parties are hosted in a patented Interactive Arena (where Great Play’s gym activities keep kids hopping throughout the week). This venue, coupled with the Shapiros’ exceptional commitment to the children, delivers a special party experience. The party’s activities — there’s lots of movement! — take place in a sparking clean space enlived by computers controling eight projectors, a directional sound system, and over a dozen sensing systems. There are several overall party themes, with each party customized activity-by-

‘Twisted’ at Shulamith activity within those themes based on a child’s interests (such as favorite sports or activities), personality (enjoys competition or not, likes being the center of attention or not), and the age range of attendees. Every party is unique to the birthday child’s interests and personality. Party times are limited (in the winter, to Sundays at 1, 3 and 5 pm; in the spring, adding Fridays 3:30 pm), so it’s best to call for more info and availability as early as possible. Great Play of Woodmere, 1012 Railroad Ave., Woodmere, 516-341-0050, GreatPlay.com/ woodmere

Shulamith Last Tuesday evening, in a sold out theater on Central Avenue, the curtain rose as more than 70 Shulamith middle graders performed their hearts out in “Twisted.” It’s a play “about a group of middle school girls who are in the midst of their final dress rehearsal for a Purim play when chaos ensues,” says Maor Performing Arts director Sari Kahn. Under the direction of Rebecca Gruenfeld, a professional pianist, singer and composer, the choir learned three Hebrew songs with accompanying harmonies. While Mina Black, an accomplished ballerina who worked with Miriam Handler in her latest production in Brooklyn, choreographed dances to make the words of each song come to life. One of the highlights of the evening was a fun-filled banquet dance where gymnasts “tossed” missing goblets through the air while dancers costumed as Persians and Jews floated on the stage as guests of one

of Achashverosh’s famous feasts. “I love bringing out the hidden talent in girls,” says Ms. Black, a Shulamith parent who runs a dance studio in conjunction with the Five Towns JCC. Rebecca Gruenfeld said of the choir, “I wanted them to understand that there is a wealth of beautiful Hebrew music and that they should be proud to sing it.” This production bears fruit of the empowering evergreen of achdut and collaboration within the Five Towns community. None of this could have happened without the guidance of the Shulamith Middle School administration and its partnership with the HAFTR. Mrs. Billet, Shulamith Middle School’s principal, said “the students grew from their exposure to the gifted directors and learned skills to last a lifetime. The singing, dancing, acting, creative costumes and charming set all contributed to a delightful and memorable performance. Thanks to all who made it possible.”

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When ďŹ rst arriving in Washington, the students heared from Jonathan Kessler, AIPAC’s leadership development director and one of AIPAC’s 11 professional lobbyists. Following the visit to the AIPAC ofďŹ ce, the students headed to Capitol Hill, where they participated in meetings with senators and members of the House. They discussed the importance of increasing sanctions on Iran and urged the senators and representatives to support the Nuclear Weapon Free Iran Act of 2015. To ďŹ nish off the day, the high schoolers visited the Israeli Embassy while the college students went to the White House. Thanks to Ms. Nimchinsky for advising the SKA delegation and to YUPAC for making it happen. Kudos to the girls who participated: Elianna Bluestone, Golda Daphna, Dalya Hirt, Michal Yacker, Shoshana Laufer, Adina Markowitz, Gila Lieberman and Zehava Gross.

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Mayor’s universal pre-K ďŹ x irks OU The OU released the following statement on Wednesday: For more than a year, the Orthodox Union has made the case to City Hall that New York’s Yeshivas and Jewish day schools are—by virtue of unwarranted and arbitrary rules invented by Mayor de Blasio—unable to participate in the Mayor’s signature Universal Pre-K program. “When we heard Mayor de Blasio would, this week, modify his rules and accommodate New York’s Jewish day school students, we were optimistic. Unfortunately, the information released by City Hall today contains only cosmetic changes to

the rules and New York’s Jewish day school parents still cannot expect to enroll their children in a city-funded UPK program next September, said Maury Litwack, OU Advocacy’s Director of State Political Affairs. The Mayor’s insistence upon an uninterrupted 6-hour and 20-minute secular instruction day—an hour and twenty minutes longer than that required by New York State—has made it impossible for more than 11 percent of New York’s Jewish day school children to participate in the UPK program. According to information released today by City Hall,

the Mayor is altering the rules of the program. Jewish day schools and yeshivas will be permitted to count instruction on Sundays and Federal holidays toward the secular instruction hours required by the City, which will now be counted by week instead of per day. “Utilization of Sundays is not new policy; it existed last year and failed to increase enrollment above 11 percent. The use of Federal holidays is equally unlikely to increase enrollment. Making simple changes to allow our schools to utilize the statemandated 5-hour day and to dramatically expand the half-day slots would have been new policy that would have increased enrollment signiďŹ cantly. Instead, practically, these changes would force four-year-olds into an almost unending school attendance that would include Sundays and Federal holidays.â€?

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