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For 40 Five Towners it’s semicha Sunday

By Malka Eisenberg Forty Five Towns residents are among 230 musmachim (rabbinic graduates) slated to receive semicha (rabbinical ordination) on Sunday at the largest such conferral of semicha in Yeshiva University’s history.

Two-hundred-twenty-four are first time rabbis (yoreh yoreh) — some of whom already have rabbinic positions — and six are receiving an advanced degree of yadin yadin that makes them eligible to be judges in a Torah court.

They will gather on the YU campus in Morningside Heights from 70 cities around the world.

One of the musmachim who currently teaches in YU’s Yeshiva College, former Far Rockaway resident Rabbi Yosef Bronstein, will speak on behalf of the group.

Conferring ordination is “the most exciting thing we do,” said Rabbi Menachem (Marc) Penner, acting dean of YU’s Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary (RIETS). The celebration takes a year to plan and is held once every four years (there may have been more musmachim when a celebration was skipped due to war and was held after eight years, Penner noted). The March 23 assembly will take place in the Nathan Lamport Auditorium, Zysman Hall, 2540 Amsterdam Ave., “where the Rav [Rabbi Joseph Ber Soloveitchik, zt”l, head of RIETS from 1941] used to give his big shiur,” said Penner. “The Continued on page 12

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Three Queen Esthers (from left, Ella Oscirkinty, Sydney Scheurer and Carley Heumann) joined the Oceanside Friedberg JCC Community Purim Carnival. At right, from top, Madison Spar, 6, in Wantagh; Srully Williger’s celebratory moment at YI Woodmere, and a standout face at North Woodmere YI. The Jewish Star photos: Oceanside by Penny Frondelli, Wantagh by Donovan Berthoud, Woodmere by Christina Daly. More photos, pages 7, 8, 9, and 15.

By The Jewish Star staff The Hebrew Academy of Long Beach (HALB), stepping up its campaign to win voter endorsement of its bid to buy the long-shuttered No. 6 School in Woodmere, rallied HALB supporters Tuesday night to “get out the vote” on Monday, March 31.

Everyone at the lightly-attended event appeared to be on message: HALB’s purchase of No. 6 — for $8.5 million plus $2.75 million in notes that would be waived as the Lawrence School District realizes anticipated transportation cost savings — was a winwin proposition for HALB, its students and faculty, the Lawrence district, and the city of Long Beach.

HALB President Lawrence Hurt said that No. 6 requires an eight-to-nine million dollar renovation.

“It is a significant project” but one that is in line with “what we expect to earn when we sell the Long Beach property,” he said.

“It seems like every week we have a new potential bidder,” for the Long Beach site, he said. “There’s a lot of interest, which is a little surprising to some of us. We thought that after Sandy nobody would be interested in owning beachfront property in Long Beach, but thankfully the reality is there are a lot of people interested in building rental apartments.”

Hurt said the city of Long Beach is happy with HALB’s planned move, since “it would create a revenue stream they don’t really have” with HALB. Continued on page 4

Vayikra: Being in the middle of the Torah T

his year’s annual Torah cycle witnesses the publication of three new variant commentaries on the Vayikra (the Book of Leviticus), each timed to the anKOSHER nual reading of this BOOKWORM centerpiece of the Chumash.

According to the “Overview of Vayikra,” the introduction to the Kehot Publishing Society’s series on the Chumash based upon the teachings of the late Rabbi Menachem Schneerson, zt”l, “although there is very litAlan Jay Gerber tle dramatic ‘action’ in the Book of Leviticus, it is here that the real ‘action’ takes place: the inner life of the individual soul and the soul of the community in their communion with G-d. The Talmud compares studying the laws of Leviticus to slaying of a lion, since it is the most difficult book of the Torah, filled with complex laws and intricate rules.

But this, after all, is the essence of the Torah: its instructions for life.”

This opening observation is followed with the following teaching: “Leviticus, then, is the quintessential book of the Torah. It is, therefore, significant that it is not only the middle book of the Torah,

but the third book, for the number three expresses the essence of the Torah. The Torah is composed of three parts — the Five Books of Moses, the Prophets, and the Writings; it was given on the third month of the Jewish calendar — Sivan; it was given to a nation of three classes — Priests, Levites, and Israelites; it was given after three days of preparation; and it was taught to the people by three siblings — Moses, Aaron, and Miriam.

“The number three signifies the synergy that results from the paradoxical but harmonious combination of the two elements of a duality, and this is the very essence of the Torah: it takes two opposing entities, the physical and the spiritual, and creates from them a third — the peaceful fusion of the mundane and the body.”

This book is accompanied by another English version of the writings of Rabbi Schneerson based upon Rashi’s commentary on Leviticus.

This work, also from Kehot, is entitled, “Studies in Rashi: Vayikra,” translated by Rabbi Y. Eliezer Danzinger.

According to the publisher’s preface, “In his many scholarly works on the Torah, Rabbi Menachem Schneerson, of righteous memory, developed a unique approach to the study of Rashi. … An invaluable contribution to the repertoire of Jewish scholarship, this

Leviticus is the quintessential book of the Torah.

work has heretofore been accessible only to those studying the Rebbe’s original Hebrew and Yiddish texts.

“In the present work, these essays appear in English, along with a vocalized Hebrew text. Of the ten essays, six were originally edited and published in Likkutei Sichot in Hebrew. One was published in Hebrew translation soon after publication of the original Yiddish. The final three were translated into

Hebrew for the present work by Rabbi David Olidort.”

This volume is surely not an easy read.

However, if you appreciate Rashi and his methodology, this work will serve to be of great benefit in your studies of Chumash.

The third work is entitled, “Derashot Ledorot: A commentary for the Ages, Leviticus,” by Rabbi Norman Lamm [Maggid Books, OU Press, 2013].

This work is based upon numerous pulpit derashot given by Rabbi Lamm between the years 1952 and 1976. According to its editor, Stuart Halpern, “the Book of Leviticus, dominated by the laws of the Tabernacle sacrifices, is an especially challenging book for a pulpit rabbi to draw from for a weekly sermon, and yet, in his addresses on Leviticus, Rabbi Lamm nonetheless captivated his congregants with his enlightening eloquence, drawing upon the book’s eternal and relevant messages and values.”

I conclude this week’s brief survey with the observation that while Leviticus challenges us to read, learn, study and heed its teachings, we must take notice of the numerous hidden meanings behind the Biblical narratives.

This admonition is made easier in the study of the teachings of the three varied works reviewed this week. Each, in their own ideologically diverse way, serves to present the divine wisdom for us to assimilate into practical daily practice as is the Divine Will that was handed down to us from Sinai.

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By Malka Eisenberg “To assist the State, the army and to give back to the community.”

These are the goals of every Israeli soldier, including that of Lt. Tova Abebe, one of the representatives from the Israel Defense Forces greeted and lauded by the 1,400 leaders who attended the Friends of the Israel Defense Forces (FIDF) national Gala Dinner at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel last week. The dinner raised $20 million.

Abebe was born in Afula, Israel, but her parents fled Ethiopia during Operation Moses, Israel’s airlifts that rescued more than 7,000 Jews in seven weeks.

The airlift continued under a news blackout; after the cover was blown and the Arabs forced its halt, many Jews were left behind.

Six years later, more than 14,000 were subsequently rescued in Operation Solomon in a 36-hour airlift in planes with the seats removed for maximum accommodation.

Growing up in Afula with three brothers and one sister, Tova learned and maintained programs unique to her culture while also learning overall Israeli, Jewish and Ethiopian identification and culture. She learned about all the holidays, including those unique to the Ethiopian Jews such as Sigd, held 50 days after Yom Kippur.

After high school, she completed a year of, shnat sherut (community service), working at a boarding school in Petach Tiva for “difficult children” of new immigrants from Ethiopia. The parents of these students had trouble helping their children since they didn’t know Hebrew.

This school, she said, would give the children “a chance to succeed.”

Tova enlisted in the International Coop-

Lt. Tova Abebe, front row, third from right, with IDF representatives at the FIDF national Gala.

eration Unit of the army in December 2008, working with translation, and in charge of all cooperation with other forces and to help coordinate joint exercises with NATO, the U.S. army and the French army. She received the Chief of Staff Award of Excellence and is now the Assistant to the Head of Strategic Planning Directorate in the IDF. Her job, she said, is to predict “what the army will look like in ten years, planning the future of the army.”

The goal is to be able to make the army smaller to save expenses and yet be more productive and “smarter to be able to win the next war if they have one.”

She plans to enter Herzliya Interdisciplinary Center, an Israeli college near Tel Aviv, to

earn a degree in government and law.

Tova offered praise for the FIDF, relating that she has an Ethiopian friend from Afula who was very smart and had excellent grades but couldn’t afford to pay for his education at the Technion when he was accepted there; FIDF helped him get a scholarship. “We went to class together growing up. He’s brilliant.

Everything they (the FIDF) do is amazing,” she said. “They built a base near Gaza with exercise rooms and rooms to study.”

This is Tova’s second visit to the U.S. She came the first time when she was 16 with a delegation of scouts to perform in the U.S. and to volunteer for two months in the summer as a counselor in a Jewish camp in In-

diana.

FIDF was founded in 1981 by Holocaust survivors to help the men and women serving in the IDF with education and general assistance, and to help the families of fallen soldiers. It supports educational, social, cultural, and recreational programs and facilities for the young men and women soldiers of Israel who defend the Jewish homeland.

The Israeli government trains the soldiers and the FIDF aims to provide soldiers with love, support and assistance to help them for what they do for the world wide Jewish community.

A special delegation from the FIDF Long Island Chapter participated in last week’s gala in Manhattan. Among the delegation members were Director of FIDF Long Island Chapter, Liron Kreitman, Long Island Executive Committee Member, Edeed Ben Josef, National Board Member and Long Island Executive Committee Member, Ronny Ben Josef, and FIDF Supporters Elias and Lili Kalimian, Shahram and Yvette Yagoubzadeh, and Lee and Fariba Harounian.

Israel Defense Forces Chief of the General Staff, Lt. Gen. Benjamin (Benny) Gantz, spoke at the dinner of the two faces of Israel’s enemies who foster terror while presenting a false front to the West to conceal their true intent and Israel’s need to combat and defend themselves from this ongoing threat.

Gantz also spoke of the strong and friendly ties between the U.S. and Israel.

Said Tova, “It’s fun to meet Jews from all over the world who come to see Tzahal (the IDF) to connect with us. Am Yisrael Areivin zeh lazeh (the Jewish nation is responsible for one another). There is a connection between Jews all over the world.”

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Know your limits, use strengths wisely HALB vote…

“The job is not yours. It belongs to Aharon your brother.” Thus, “And it was on the eighth day that Moshe called to Aharon and his sons, and told them…” are the instructions that begin our parsha.

The combination of Rabbis Yudan, Shmuel, Levi and Chelbo leaves us wondering: What kind of game is being played in these midrashim? Did G-d really punish Moshe for his hesitation to go before Pharaoh at the Burning Bush? And even if G-d did punish him (see Rashi Shmot 4:14), is this kind of measure for measure really necessary? You, Moshe, played on G-d’s hopes for six days, and then let Him down on day seven, so He is going to play on your hopes for six days and let you down on day seven! Ha! Gotcha! Really?

One piece of this midrash – which stands almost as an aside to the midrash’s narrative – could provide the answer to our question (also in Yerushalmi Yoma 1:1). “Rabbi Tanchum said that Moshe served all seven days as Kohen Gadol, and G-d’s presence was not apparent through his hand.”

There is an opinion (Shemot Rabba 37:1, Rashi Zevachim 19b sv “Moshe V’Aharon”), which Rabbi Zev Volf of Horadna (commentary on the midrash) attributes to Rabbi Eliezer b’rabi Yehuda, that Moshe only served during that seven-day period. Perhaps this approach, rather than the one that he was an equal Kohen Gadol for 39 years, can help us resolve our quandary. t is only after Moshe lets go, when Moshe resigns himself to the reality that he and Aharon have separate roles and that Moshe does not need to do everything, that he can once again serve in the role he was meant to serve, to bring the presence of G-d down to the people.

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So why the weeklong game? For six days at the Burning Bush, Moshe raised every objection, and each one was answered. No one will believe you? Here are signs. You can’t speak? Your brother Aharon will be with you.

You don’t know my name? Here it is. Pharaoh won’t believe you? I have a plan.

Moshe holds out for six days, and on the last day he throws in the zinger, “Eh, I never wanted the job to begin with.” Moshe, how could you say such a thing to G-d?

Therefore, Moshe is given the message twice – once at the beginning of his career, and once at the end of his career. You never wanted the job – and it took you six days to actually say the truth? Now that you want the job of Kohen Gadol, or the right to go into the Land, it will take six days until G-d reveals the truth to you.

You also need to understand that it’s not your destiny. There are other factors at play.

Aharon is Kohen Gadol because you can’t double up. And you can’t lead the people into the Land, because that role requires a different kind of leader – a person who lives in the trenches, who identifies with the people in a way you could not when your leadership was called into question.

Rashi on Devarim 2:16 says that G-d did not communicate with Moshe in a significant way for 38 years. He only got his last hurrah and final communication with G-d when he was about to die.

Be a straight shooter, know your role, don’t seek more than necessary, understand where your strengths fit into your destiny, and carve out a life that puts together all of these ingredients. These are the important lessons we can learn from Moshe’s occupational revelation at the beginning of Parshat Shemini.

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Continued from page 1 Lance recounted that several years ago, HALB was significantly outbid for the No. 1 school in Lawrence, which he said was much smaller than the No. 6.

Referring to the No. 6 acquisition as “an amazing opportunity, to get hold of 6-1/2 acres in the middle of Woodmere,” he said of the No. 1 loss: “Sometimes interesting opportunites are delivered from situations that seem like they might go elsewhere.”

At Tuesday’s meeting — which took place at SKA High School for Girls in Hewlett Bay Park — Principal Rabbi Dovid Plotkin described the extreme space shortages and outdated facilities on HALB’s Long Beach campus, promising that the Woodmere building would “be appropriate for our children to have the proper education that they deserve.”

Parents Council Chairperson Dana Frankel also spoke, conveying the enthusiasm of HALB parents for the move.

Lance said that between proceeds from the Long Beach sale and a capital fundraising campaign, it was unlikely that tuition increases would be required as a result of the No. 6 purchase and renovation.

A public hearing on the proposed No. 6 sale will be held next Tuesday, March 25, 8 pm, at SKA, 291 Meadowview Ave., Hewlett Bay Park.

Voters in the Lawrence School District will vote on the purchase on Monday, March 31, from 7 am to 10, at Lawrence HS, 2 Reilly Rd., Cedarhurst (for Cedarhurst, Woodmere and North Woodmere voters) and Lawrence Middle School, 195 Broadway, Lawrence (for Lawrence voters).

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he Midrash (Vayikra Rabba 11:6) records a strange narrative surrounding the appointment of Aharon and his sons as the Kohanim.

Rabbi Yudan in the name of Rabbi Yosi bar Yehuda, and Rabbi Berachia in the name of Rabbi Yehoshua ben Korkha, said that in all the years in the desert, Moshe served as coPARSHA OF Kohen Gadol (based on THE WEEK Tehillim 99:6 or Divrei Hayamim I 23:13-14).

Rabbi Yudan notes that Moshe served for the seven days of the Miluim (Dedication of the Mishkan). Rabbi Sh-muel bar Nachman compares this to the midrashic approach that Moshe conversed with G-d for seven days at the Burning Bush. At Rabbi Avi Billet that time, G-d spent six days trying to convince Moshe he was the right man for the job. On the seventh day, Moshe said, “Send someone else.”

The midrash claims G-d’s unstated response was, “I swear I will clip your wings [when you want it most].” Rabbi Levi explains that for the first six days of the last Adar of his life, Moshe prayed before G-d that he should be allowed to enter the Land of Israel. On the seventh day of Adar G-d said to him, “You will not cross this river.”

Rabbi Chelbo said the same thing was going on in our parsha. For seven days Moshe served as Kohen Gadol and thought the position was his. On the seventh day, however, he was told,

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vious that none of the candies and treats had any seal of kashrut (thank G-d!), and I promptly told my children that the candies weren’t kosher, at which point they put all the candy back on the racks. I didn’t really think much of this little scene until I looked up and saw the shocked look on the face of the cashier. “What did you just tell them?� she asked.

She was looking with particular disbelief at our then four-year-old Adi, who had immediately deposited her “horde� of sweets back into the rack. “What do you mean?�

I asked.

To which she responded: “Every day, I watch hundreds of parents either give in or do battle with their children over whether or not to buy the candies that they want. You wouldn’t believe some of the shouting and crying matches that take place here at the end of the day. In fact, we sometimes get letters asking us to move these racks for that very reason. But in the entire year I have been working this shift I have never seen children so calmly place the candy back on the racks, so I was wondering what you told them that made them all change their minds?�

At which point I explained: “We are Jewish, and I told them this candy isn’t kosher.�

Adding: “And please don’t tell the park to put kosher candy here!�

For me, the entire Disney experience was worth it for that one moment. I had never really considered what an extraordinary ve-

hicle kashrut is in teaching children the value of self-restraint.

Yet, this does not really resolve some of the many challenging questions that arise regarding the concept of kashrut in general, and kosher food in particular. his week’s portion, Shemini, contains one of the most central mitzvoth in Jewish life, the mitzvah of kashrut (keeping kosher)— “Speak to the children of Israel saying: These are the creatures that you may eat from among all the animals that are on the earth: Every animal that has a split hoof and chews and brings up its cud, that (is the animal) you may eat.â€? (Leviticus 11:2-3) SpeciďŹ cally, the Torah shares with us what we can and cannot eat — which ďŹ sh, birds and animals are parts of a Jewish lifestyle, and which are anathemas to it.

All of which begs the question: why are we so concerned with what we eat? Would we not be better served focusing on what comes out of our mouths, and worrying less about what goes into them? Why is kashrut so important?

Why are some animals, such as lions and tigers and bears rendered unkosher, whereas others, such as cows and sheep and deer, are considered kosher for eating? And why, for an animal to be considered a kosher animal, must it chew its cud; how does eating animals that literally eat their own regurgitation make us, somehow, a “holier people� (Vayikra 11:45)?

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Dayan Grunfeld, in his introduction to his â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Dietary Laws,â&#x20AC;? suggests that one of the challenges we face as human beings is the constant tension between the physical and spiritual aspects of who we are.

There is one reminder that in the end we are still physical, limited beings. As the specter of death approaches, there is the danger of considering that if, in the end, we are here today and gone tomorrow, then what is the point? Why not just â&#x20AC;&#x153;eat, live, and be merry, for tomorrow we dieâ&#x20AC;?? very time we come into contact with death, the Torah has us pause and consider the implications.

Meat, in the end, represents death, not only because an animal has to die for us to eat it, but also because the ďŹ&#x201A;esh is such a strong physical symbol of our own mortality. If we are going to eat meat, at least, suggests the Torah, we should consider carefully what sort of meat we do eat.

Jews do not eat carnivorous animals, either because on a mystical level we are better off not taking into ourselves the energy of animals that kill other animals (a much more intense contact with death) or because by choosing to eat only herbivorous animals we have the opportunity to struggle with the moral messages that are the basis for this decision.

Rabbi Shimshon Raphael Hirsch suggests that this may be the reason one of the signs of a kosher animal is that it chews its cud, which is the mark of a much more complex digestive system, itself necessary to allow an animal to eat and digest an herbal diet. (It is much easier, and indeed more â&#x20AC;&#x153;baseâ&#x20AC;? for animals, including ourselves, to digest meat.)

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any years ago, I had the opportunity to take a long-overdue vacation with my family in Walt Disney World.For our children, who had just spent the better part of a year dealing with the day-to-day challenges of living in Israel post-Oslo, and especially watching their father constantly in and out of the army reserves, Disney must have seemed like a fantasy world, and I was curious to see how they would respond to the educational chalFROM THE HEART lenges it would present.

OF JERUSALEM At the end of our ďŹ rst fun-ďŹ lled day, as we were making our way out of the park, and we passed through the shops and gift stores strategically situated at the exit. I am sure many a parent, anxious to get back to their hotel rooms after a long day on their feet, succumbs to their childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s deRabbi Binny sires for one last treat.

Freedman My children were no different, and as we neared the park (and candy store) exit, they grabbed candy bars and lollipops off the easyaccess racks, with eyes full of pleading for one last treat at the end of the day.

I noticed a girl behind the cash register smiling as she eyed the familiar sight of a parent debating whether to allow one last indulgence in order to avoid the battle of wills that would ensue if I had other ideas about my childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s desire to fund our local dentist.

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ecretary of State territorial concessions to the Arabs, and John Kerry’s re- threatened Sharett that the Eisenhower admark last week ministration would present “our own peace that it is a “mistake” to plan,” which Israel might not like. insist that the PalestinOn the same day Byroade met with ian Authority recognize Sharett, two leaders of the anti-Zionist AmerIsrael as a Jewish state ican Council for Judaism (ACJ) met with brings to mind a little- President Eisenhower. The Council had proknown episode in the voked tremendous controversy with its lobearly 1950s, when the bying in the 1940s against creation of a JewEisenhower administra- ish state. What is not widely realized is that tion briefly embraced even after Israel was established, the Council the notion that Israel continued its activities and, in fact, had even should stop identifying more impact on U.S. policy than previously.

Rafael Medoff itself as a Jewish state.

ACJ officials Lessing Rosenwald and The key figure in George Levison urged the president to conthis unusual chapter in U.S.-Israel relations sider American Jews a purely religious group was a young U.S. Army officer named Henry with no obligations to Israel. They also deA. Byroade, who in 1952 was picked by Presi- nounced the idea of American Jewish immident Harry Truman to be Assistant Secretary gration to Israel and said the Israelis should of State for Near Eastern Affairs, although become “Middle Eastern” like their neighhe had no Middle East-related experience or bors. Levison came away from the meeting convinced that Eisenhower was “in general education.

According to a previously unpublished agreement with our views.”

Afterwards, they visited the State Departinterview with Byroade in the files of the Truman Presidential Library, the president ment and delivered a memorandum making summoned Byroade for a discussion in late the same points. Assistant Secretary Byroade 1952, shortly before he left office. “I was took the memo with him when he accompavery critical of both the policies of Israel and nied Secretary of State John Foster Dulles to our policy towards Israel,” Byroade recalled. Israel in May. Parts of the ACJ memo found “And he outlined his view[s] for me, which their way into a landmark Mideast policy really were very surprisingly similar my own.

Continued on page 12 I left there extremely encouraged that we would get White House backing for what I called an even-handed, balanced policy position between both Arabs and Israel.”

Bryoade reasoned that if Truman, who had received considerable Jewish support, was ready to back away from Israel, then his successor Dwight Eisenhower, who had much weaker ties to American Jewry, would be even less supportive of Israel. And he was right.

In April 1953, Israeli Foreign Minister Moshe Sharett visited Washington Secretary of State John Foster Dulles delivers a June 1953 Midand got a first-hand taste of east policy speech in which he said the U.S. would not become “a how Byroade was reshap- backer of expansionist Zionism” and proposed that Jerusalem ing U.S. policy. Byroade be ruled by “the world religious community,” and not be Israel’s Courtesy of the David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies demanded that Israel make capital.

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Why Does Netanyahu bring up the Jewish State issue now?

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ecognizing Israel as the Jewish state has become a hot issue this past week, raising the question: Why did Netanyahu bring it up now, and why does Israel need recognition as a Jewish state anyway?

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry last week said that Israel’s insistence that the Palestinians officially recJeff Dunetz ognize Israel as a Jewish state is a mistake and should not be a critical factor in whether the current round of Israel-Palestinian peace negotiations succeed or fail.

Kerry points out that UN Resolution 181, the original partition resolution passed in Nov. 1947, called for dividing Palestine into Independent Arab and Jewish states. He also points out that Yasser Arafat confirmed that he agreed “it [Israel] would be a Jewish state” in 1988 and in 2004.

So why does Abbas refuse to recognize what Arafat agreed to when Yitzhak Shamir and Ariel Sharon were Prime Ministers.

In 2003, when President Bush developed his roadmap to peace and Ariel Sharon was Prime Minister, one of Israel’s objections to Bush’s document was that “In connection to both the introductory statements and the final settlement, declared references must be made to Israel’s right to exist as a Jewish state and to the waiver of any right of return for Palestinian refugees to the State of Israel.”

When Ehud Olmert was Prime Minister, he directed Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni to make the demand in 2007 during negotiations. According to a transcript of the negotiations: TZIPI LIVNI: “Our idea is to refer to two states for two peoples. Or two nation states, Palestine and Israel living side by side in peace and security with each state constituting the homeland for its people and the fulfillment of their national aspirations and self-determination…”

AKRAM HANIYEH (Palestinian Negotiator): “This refers to the Israeli people?”

LIVNI: [Visibly angered.] “I think that we can use another session — about what it means to be a Jew and that it is more than just a religion. But if you want to take us back to 1947, it won’t help. Each state constituting the homeland for its people and the fulfillment of their national aspirations and self-determination in their own territory. Israel, the state of the Jewish people — and I would like to emphasize the meaning of “its people” is the Jewish people — with Jerusalem the united and undivided capital of Israel and of the Jewish people for 3007 years. [The Palestinian team protests.] You asked for it… [AHMED QUEREI: We said East Jerusalem!] …and Palestine for the Palestinian people. We did not want to say that there is a ‘Palestinian people’ but we’ve accepted your right to self-determination.”

In June 2009, Netanyahu made the “Jewish state” demand in his first public speech as Prime Minister about the peace process: “I want to make it clear that we don’t want to govern the Palestinians. We want to live in peace with them. We want them to govern themselves. … We’re ready to do our share.

We hope the Palestinians will do their share, as well. If we resume negotiations, as we plan to do, then I think that the Palestinians will have POLITICS TO GO

to recognize Israel as a Jewish state; will have to also enable Israel to have the means to defend itself.”

In October 2010, Netanyahu made recognition of Israel as Jewish State a pre-condition for an extension of the “settlement” freeze. As reported by Al Jazeera, the answer was a resounding no: “Binyamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, has offered to renew a partial settlement construction freeze in exchange for Palestinian recognition of Israel as a Jewish state. … Netanyahu’s proposal met with swift rejection from senior Palestinian officials.”

Netanyahu reiterated his demand in a speech to the U.S. Congress in May 2011.

“If the benefits of peace with the Palestinians are so clear, why has peace eluded us? Because all six Israeli Prime Ministers since the signing of Oslo accords agreed to establish a Palestinian state. Myself included. So why has peace not been achieved? Because so far, the Palestinians have been unwilling to accept a Palestinian state, if it meant accepting a Jewish state alongside it. … You see, our conflict has never been about the establishment of a Palestinian state. It has always been about the existence of the Jewish state. This is what this conflict is about.”

Abbas’ hardline refusal to recognize Israel is part of the stated strategy to destroy Israel. The “right of return” is a plan to flood the Jewish State with the original refugees, their kids, their second cousins on their mother’s side, etc.

Being a democracy, if Israel allows herself to be flooded with those 1948 “refugees” along with descendants of those 1948 refugees, she will cease to be the Jewish State. Instead Israel will be just another Muslim country in the Middle East The recognition of the Jewishness of Israel is recognition of the attachment to the land. Any Palestinian recognition needs to include recognition that Israel is the continuation of thousands of years of Jewish history and, therefore, Israel has a right to exist. And for a long time peace, that recognition must be immediately integrated into children’s education and public discourse. Without this recognition of Israel as a Jewish State, the cessation of the conflict and recognition of “Israel” is only temporary.

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It’s never been about a Palestinian state, but about the existence of the Jewish state.

The Cooking for Hope teen class at Chabad of Merrick-Bellmore-Wantagh prepared hamentashen for its Circle of Hope chesed program. The Jewish Star photo by Donovan Berthoud.

Ally Heyman and Lauren Grauer, both 11, dressed in unison Adults and children from the Young Israel of North Woodmere celebrated Purim with residents of the Bristal Assisted Living of for Chabad of Hewlett’s “Purim in the Jungle” themed party.

North Woodmere, with Rabbi Yehuda Septimus relating the story of Purim to the seniors.

The Jewish Star photo by Monica Rzewski.

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Jewish Star captures the joy as LI celebrates Purim

From left: Youthful smiles at Young Israel of North Woodmere and Eden Dahan, 2-1/2, concentrates at Merrick Chabad (Jewish Star photo by Donovan Berthoud). At East Meadow Jewish Center, there was an explosion of color (Jewish Star photo by Penny Frondelli).

At the Oceanside JCC Purim celebration, it’s a delightful slide ride for 4-year-old Max Lobaska. The Jewish Star photo by Penny Frondelli.

From left: At SKA High School for Girls in Hewlett Bay Park, Rosye Geisinsky, 10, is clowning around with her little brother Yaisef, 8 months, as Michael Cafaro shows off his teeth; at YI North Woodmere it’s costume time, while at YI Woodmere, Rivkala Rosner delights in some ice cream; at Chabad of Merrick-Bellmore-Wantagh’s “Purim in the Palace” celebration, Samantha Scoma and Mirel Kramer make jewelry. The Jewish Star photos: YI Woodmere by Christina Daly, Chabad Merrick-Bellmore-Wantagh by Donovan Berthoud, SKA by Monica Rzewski.

Students at HANC’s Samuel & Elizabeth Bass Golding Early Childhood Center and the Samuel & Elizabeth Bass Golding Elementary School, in West Hempstead, celebrated Shushan Purim with Purim carnivals. Students at both campuses dressed in costumes, played carnival games, ate delicious treats, and won prizes.

Woodmere takes Purim very seriously. At the Young Israel of Woodmere, a snack machine (Sarah Feder) and shark (David Schwartzstein) flank a ladybug (Kayla Giller), and Shira Bock floats a plate. Meanwhile, Woodmere’s Gross family dresses royally for the holiday.

The Jewish Star photos by Christina Daly (YI Woodmere) and Malka Eisenberg (Gross family).

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French pastry or Bonaparte cookies?

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apoleon — that delicious flakey pastry oozing with rich pastry cream. How did the pastry get it’s name? In attempting to define “Napoleon,” I found many different explanations as to where and how it was discovered and why the name was chosen.

It’s clear the pastry gets its name from the French emperor Napoleon, but try as I might I couldn’t find out how and why. Let me rephrase that, I did find a few possibilities but WHO’S IN THE none with any concrete KITCHEN proof to back them up.

The most popular explanation is that the emperor overindulged himself with the mouth-watering pastries the day before the battle of Waterloo in 1815, and unfortunately developed a bad case of indigestion on the battlefield.

For a time, the Judy Joszef English, who were victorious in the battle, dubbed the pastry “napoleon.” The French, on the other hand, had a bad taste (pun intended) toward the traitorous pastry.

Although the results of the Battle of Waterloo are well documented in history, napoleons aren’t mentioned before the 1890s, making this explanation not a feasible one.

Some other explanations I found include one that states the zigzag chocolate design that appears on the top layer of some of the pastries, resemble a bunch of N’s. Another theory is that a Danish chef created the pas-

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try and it was first served on the occasion of a state visit by Napoleon. Lastly, there’s the version of an Italian chef in Naples who named it Napolitano, after his city, and that name was changed to napoleon in English.

The first time I made napoleons was when I was starting out in my business. A client asked if I could make her 200 mini napoleons. She said she was going to incorporate it into a theme for Purim. I figured she was doing a French theme. I stayed up around the clock making the napoleons from scratch.

I also had to wrap each one individually in crisp clear cellophane and tied it with gold rope ribbon, as per her instructions. I wanted to make an impression that would last. Let’s just say it was something my client and I will never forget.

I opened the door and led her into the dining room where I had 20 boxes each filled with 20 napoleons. Only problem was her theme was Napoleon Bonaparte. She actually wanted mini Napoleon Bonaparte cookies with Napoleon in uniform and his hand in his jacket breast pocket.

“You actually wanted me to make Napoleon Bonaparte cookies in full uniform? I asked. “ You ordered 200 napoleons wrapped in cellophane. You failed to mention the word Bonaparte, how was I supposed to figure that out??” She responded, “Everyone has themes these days for shaloach mano,. My husband is dressing as Napoleon, I’m going as Josephine and my kids as their kids.” To which I deadpanned “ You still have a few hours before megillah reading, I suggest you find yourself some flakey dough filled with pastry cream costumes.” She didn’t laugh and I never heard from her again.

Whatever the origin to the name, napoleons are a sinfully delicious dessert that looks elegant, especially when plated individually. Being creative, I wanted my napoleons to look original so I came up with a different way to design the top layer. Below, find an easy to prepare a recipe that tastes and looks as if you spent hours in the kitchen. For those more daring and with time on your hands, email me for a recipe including making the pastry layers from scratch.

Napoleons Ingredients: 24 Mazors frozen mini puff pastry squares for the napoleon layers (they come in a package of 36 in the freezer section) 5 frozen pastry squares for the deco pastry sticks on the top layer

24 ounces non dairy Rich’s whip topping.

Whip right before filling napoleons.

2 packets Osem instant vanilla pudding Sugar and cinnamon to sprinkle on the pastry sticks Non stick spray 2 half sheet pans Confectioners sugar for dusting Directions: Preheat oven to 350 degrees Spray the sheet pans with non-stick spray.

Place 12 squares on each pan leaving a small space between each one. Place in oven and bake till pastry puffs up and is golden brown.

Remove from oven and let cool.

Spray another baking pan with non-stick spray. Place 5 frozen dough squares on the pan, spreading them out, leaving plenty of room between each one.

While frozen, with a small sharp knife, cut 9 strips out of each square and separate so you will have 45 sticks.

Spray all the tops again with spray and dust with sugar and cinnamon. Bake till they are crispy, flip over with a spatula and sprinkle other side with sugar and cinnamon and bake till lightly brown but not burn. Let cool.

Whip the Rich’s whip till stiff and then turn it onto the lowest setting and add the instant pudding powder, making sure it’s all incorporated before turning the setting to high speed for a few seconds. Fit a pastry bag with a tip of your choice or no tip at all. Fill 3/4 of the bag and pipe a layer of cream on 12 of the squares. Place an empty square on each layer of cream.Pipe a generous dollop of cream in the center of the top layer and place three pastry sticks in the center (see photo). judy.soiree@gmail.com

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Largest ordination…

Continued from page 5 And, some zoologists have suggested, the hoof least likely to be used as a weapon (the mark of a carnivore) is the cloven hoof.

As for the mixing of milk and meat, (a topic that could be its own class), it is worth noting that while meat in the Torah represents death and cruelty (as with Eisav, who is the man of the hunt and is the epitome of cruelty and destruction in the Torah), milk represents mercy and life. Indeed the image of the babe suckling at the mother’s breast is the literary and biblical example of mercy.

We live in a world where man is everything, and we have the power to create and destroy on levels previously not even imaginable. It behooves us to remember that while we may have clear ideas of what is right and what is wrong, sometimes what we perceive to be kind may really be cruel, and what we deem to be

working on other college campuses, including Yale and Princeton. About 80 percent will work in the professional rabbinate and 20 percent are in other professions, such as medicine and law, he said.

Neshoma Orchestra and Eitan Katz will perform at the event and four blocks of Amsterdam Avenue will be closed off for dancing in the street. It is anticipated that 2,500 people will attend.

Philanthropist Jay Schottenstein will receive the Eitz Chaim Award, and Rabbi Gedalia Dov Schwartz ’46YC, ’49R, Av Beit Din of the Beth Din of America and of the Chicago Rabbinical Council Beit Din, will receive the Harav Yosef Dov Soloveitchik zt”l Aluf Torah Award.

Rabbi Dovid Bashevkin, originally from Lawrence and a graduate of HALB’s DRS High School, is one of the 230 musmachim.

Currently director of education at NCSY, an editor of OU Press and on the editorial board of Jewish Action magazine, he entered the semicha program to learn halacha l’maaseh (practical Jewish law), “for my own learning” and to be “well rounded.”

He studied at Shaalvim for two years and received a bachelor of Talmudic Law from Ner Yisrael, before RIETS. Bashevkin praised Rabbi Chaim Bronstein who “made sure that he completed what he had to,” and the “unsung heroes” Rebbitzins Willig, Schachter and Sabolovsky.

Rabbi Dr. Tzvi Wilbur, another musmach, is originally from Woodmere and a graduate of Yeshiva of South Shore and Mesivta Ateres Yaakov. He studied in Bais Yisroel and Mir in Israel, completed an undergraduate degree in Queens College and earned his M.D. at the Sackler School of Medicine in Israel. He is currently working in general pediatrics at out patient clinics in Williamsburg and Monroe.

He commends the YU philosophy of appreciating the attainment of a professional career while learning Torah, the concept of Torah and madah (science).

“The semicha program enabled me to still learn Torah at the highest level and strive to be a talmid chacham and they were aware of the limitations because of my professional career.” He plans to pursue yadin yadin in the future.

“This is not the end,” he stressed. “YU tapped into the needs of the frum modern Orthodox Jewish community, to tackle contemporary issues of today, to demonstrate the fundamentals of Torah extrapolated and applied to every aspect of society.” He said he appreciated the “academic style of learning Gemara … goal oriented, learn this, perform well on the tests and go on to the next level.”

His ultimate goal is to be involved in medical ethics.

Truman, Ike on ‘Jewish state’…

Continued from page 6 speech, ghostwritten by Byroade, that Dulles delivered in June.

Dulles vowed to improve relations with the Arabs, said the U.S. would not become “a backer of expansionist Zionism,” and proposed that Jerusalem be ruled by “the world religious community,” and not be Israel’s capital. Challenging Israel’s identity, Dulles declared that Israel “should become a part of the Near East community and cease to look upon itself … as alien to this community.”

Jewish leaders hoped the speech did not represent a shift in U.S. policy, but those hopes were soon dashed.

When the Israeli Ambassador to the U.S. Abba Eban met with Dulles in October, the secretary ticked off a list of demands that Byroade had prepared for him: Israel must “reexamine its policy of encouraging large-scale immigration,” refrain from counter-terror raids, and “bear her share of the Arab refugee burden.”

By the spring of 1954, Byroade was ready to go public. Sixty years ago next month (on April 19, 1954), in an address to the World Affairs Council, in Dayton, he called on Israelis to “look upon yourselves as a Middle Eastern state, rather than as a headquarters … of a world-wide grouping of people of a particular religious faith.” He also demanded that Israel “drop the attitude of the conqueror” and halt what he called “retaliatory killings.”

Then, with the approval of Secretary Dulles, Byroade delivered the keynote address at the ACJ’s annual convention, in Philadelphia on May 1. His public association with the anti-Zionist group appalled Jewish leaders.

And what he said at the conference was even worse. yroade repeated his demand that Israel become “a Middle Eastern state.” He targeted Jewish immigration to Israel as a central obstacle to peace, asserting that Israel’s calls for “greatly expanded immigration” convinced the Arabs that it was planning “a future attempt at territorial expansion.”

The Israeli government filed an official protest against the “unjustified interference in matters which are purely Israel’s own concern.” American Zionist leader Emanuel Neumann blasted “Byroadeism” for “negating the hopes and dreams and the religious emotions of countless generations.” In a dramatic demonstration of Israel’s commitment to aliyah, keynote speakers at 19 different governmentsponsored Israel Independence Day events throughout Israel the following week focused their remarks on the need for increased immigration.

The Eisenhower administration stood by Byroade and his comments. But the controversial policy he was shaping soon withered in the face of Arab intransigence.

As Byroade discovered during his subsequent stint as U.S. ambassador in Cairo, Arab leaders such as Egypt’s Gamal Abdel Nasser could not be appeased by Israeli concessions on immigration, territory, or refugees. Their unflinching refusal to accept Israel’s existence made it impossible for the Byroade line to be maintained as America’s Mideast policy in the years to follow.

Dr. Rafael Medoff is coauthor, with Chaim I. Waxman, of the “Historical Dictionary of Zionism.”

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cruel may really be kind.

Each time we sit down to a meal, or choose to wait a few hours before eating dairy products, we have the enormous opportunity to consider these questions and ideas.

And each time we succeed in making this a part of our everyday experience we allow ourselves, on some small level, the gift of becoming better and more sensitive human beings, which of course is the goal of the entire process.

May we all be blessed to be partners in transforming the world we live in, which has seen so much cruelty, into a place of love and kindness, joy and peace, one day at a time until we can all partake of that magnificent barbecue in Jerusalem, one day soon. (A guy can dream, right?)

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Continued from page 1 symbolism is too great to move it.” “No one knows” how many of these celebrations have been held since the founding of YU in 1896.

The original semicha was the transference of authority as commanded by G-d, from Moshe to Yehoshua and to the 70 elders; it’s been handed down from them through the generations although the true continuum is considered to have been interrupted at some point.

Actual semicha can only be conferred in Eretz Yisrael in a public way since it requires the approval of the Jewish people in Eretz Yisrael.

“Even though we no longer confer the original semicha, we may still fulfill Rebbe’s institution (Sanhedrin 5b) that one cannot issue rulings without asking permission from his rebbe first,” explained Rabbi Hershel Schachter, as compiled by Rabbi Nosson Rich. “When a rebbe feels that his student is qualified to give halachic advice, he will give the student permission to do so. Semicha today authorizes new musmachim to respond to halachic questions.”

The semicha course work completed by the students includes a “heavy grounding in Gemara (Talmud)” and covers a “wide area of halacha (Jewish law)” including Shabbat, kashrut, niddah as well as specialized questions — covering such things as electricity, fertility, brain death and medical ethics — that confront rabbis in today’s world.

The rabbinic program is divided into “various professional tracks such as shul rabbinate, education, outreach, non-profit, and chaplaincy,” Rabbi Penner said. He pointed out that the “level of training is nothing like it was in the earlier years; it is far beyond what rabbis of previous generations were able to get.”

The training includes pastoral counseling, public speaking and “practical rabbinics such as preparing a budget, and the ability to officiate at every life cycle event.” He explained that they have “professional actors who play various people going through crisis to simulate as close as possible what they go through.”

“They come out very prepared,” he said.

Students come from varied backgrounds, from baalei teshuva to graduates of Ivy League schools to students from more right-leaning yeshivos; from students from eastern Europe with a weak Jewish educational background needing the two year pre-semicha program to talmidei chachamim (Torah scholars).

Rabbi Penner said that Rabbi Lord Sacks will be there for the musmachim from the UK ;17 musmachim of Sephardic origin will be returning to work in their Sephardic communities in the U.S.; 11 of the rabbis are already

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By Sean Savage, JNS.org While the crisis in Ukraine continues to unfold, Jews in Crimea have been caught in the middle.

“The main action in Crimea was taking place right across the street from our synagogue,” said Rabbi Yitzchok Meyer Lipszyc, who has been a Chabad-Lubavitch emissary in Simferopol, the capital of Crimea, for more than two decades.

“There were demonstrations with over 30,000 people. The protestors were pro-Ukrainian. But eventually the ones who took over were in the unidentified uniforms—they were obviously Russian military. There were Cossacks there, too; for Jews that was a bit scary because of their history in the pogroms.”

Lipszyc, who was recently forced to leave Crimea with his wife Leah, spoke with JNS.org about his experience during the protests, the Russian military occupation of the area, and the state of the Jewish community there.

JNS: What has life been like in Crimea?

Rabbi Yitzchok Meyer Lipszyc: “For the last 22 years under the Ukrainian government, everything has been going very well. When this situation began, it turned things upside down. We were told by Chabad headquarters to get out and we barely made it out. My wife, in fact, got the last two tickets on a train out of Simferopol on the night before everything got sealed off by the Russians (Feb. 27).”

Can you describe the political situation in Crimea?

“When this whole thing started, a number of people were afraid. I would say that, and I’m not a political analyst, probably most of the people wanted to stay with Ukraine, because that was what they were familiar with.

“But then when the Russians took over the media and propaganda switched the other way, within days we saw it swing towards being overwhelmingly pro-Russian. However, there were many still against Russia because they were afraid.

From what I heard, when the referendum came, many people didn’t vote because it wasn’t legal and they were standing against it.

“The situation is not good, especially for Americans like us. Americans were persona-non-grata for both Ukrainians and Russians at this time. For Russians it is because of the stance the American government has taken against Russia.

While on the Ukraine side, they are deeply disappointed that America is not doing enough to help them.

“Oddly enough, we had to leave there more because we were Americans and not because we were Jewish. The situation is still difficult. We are personally apolitical and there simply to help the Jewish community in any way we can.”

Did you experience anything particularly noteworthy before you left Crimea?

“One interesting story that occurred for us, that we consider a miracle, was when the area around our synagogue was taken over and cordoned off by the Russian military. You couldn’t get in or out by car or even by walking. We, therefore, moved the synagogue to our house, which was outside the cordoned off area, but we still needed to retrieve the Torah from the synagogue.

“We didn’t think we could get in at all. So my wife suggested that we approach the area and try to get as far as possible. We also wrote a note to the [Lubavitcher] Rebbe, to ask for his help to get us through.

“Believe it or not, when our friend reached the military checkpoint, he explained to them that we needed to retrieve the Torah out of the synagogue, [the Russian soldier] suddenly moved out of the way and removed the barriers to let him in. On his way out, the solider actually even apologized to him for the inconvenience, which was unheard of there! It was a miracle!”

Do you plan to return to Crimea?

“I hope to as soon as possible, but it is a little difficult for us because we are Americans. Our basic stance was that as soon as it stabilizes, we will go back there. For us, it doesn’t matter who is in charge, Russian or Ukrainian, we are apolitical. We are there for the Jewish community.”

With Crimea now under Russian control, do you think the Jewish community is safe there?

“As far as the record goes in Russia, the Jewish people have been able to practice and be Jewish without any major problems. Of course there is anti-Semitism, but it isn’t state sanctioned.

“In Crimea, I hope that Putin will want to prove that it will remain safe for Jews.

“The Jewish community in Crimea needs help. We have to prepare for Passover and need to raise a lot of money to help with the extra costs. We not only need extra security, but we have taken loses during the process.

“For example, we were getting our kosher meat from

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Rabbi Yitzchok Meyer Lipszyc, a Chabad-Lubavitch emissary in Crimea for more than two decades.

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Ukraine, we had ordered and paid for it, but they [Russian forces] didn’t let it through. We also paid for the Matzos, but that didn’t get through either. We need to figure out how to get all our supplies through now. We are appealing to everyone to help out the Jewish community there.”

Hall of Fame blocks Jewish exec

By Robert Gluck, JNS.org With another season of “America’s pastime” beginning March 22, Jewish executive Marvin Miller remains out of the National Baseball Hall of Fame. Why is that the case?

Bob Locker—a major league pitcher from 1965-75 and creator of Marvin Miller tribute site, ThanksMarvin.com—blames ownership for excluding Miller, the pioneering executive director of the Major League Baseball Players Association (MLBPA) from 1966-82.

“It’s a good old boys’ fraternity and has been for years,” Locker told JNS.org regarding Major League Baseball team owners.

“Until Marvin, they were used to having whatever they wanted, however they wanted it, in Major League Baseball. When they had to look at the game and the players, they resented it. It hurt. After all, the Hall of Fame is about the people who had the greatest impact on the game of baseball. To me, Marvin Miller is number one.”

Born in 1917 to Jewish parents in the Bronx, he grew up in Brooklyn rooting for the Dodgers. His father, Alexander, was a salesman for a clothing company on the Lower East Side. As a youngster, Marvin walked a picket line in a union-organizing drive. His mother Gertrude taught elementary school and was a member of the New York City teachers union, now the United Federation of Teachers. He died in November 2012.

Perhaps his early exposure on the picket line led him to his life’s work—transforming the baseball players’ union into one of the strongest in the United States.

A member of the National Jewish Sports Hall of Fame, Miller wrote in his memoir, “A

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Whole Different Ball Game,” that in his estimation “ballplayers were among the most exploited workers in America.”

Locker, who pitched for five different teams and was a member of the 1972 World Series champion Oakland Athletics, said his tribute site collects memorabilia about Miller to raise awareness of his importance to American labor unions, and to get Miller elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame. In 2013, Miller’s candidacy failed to garner enough votes for 2014 induction as one of 12 names on the “Expansion Era” ballot.

Miller is considered the labor negotiator who changed the character of American professional sports. As executive director of the MLBPA, he presided over the suspension of the “reserve clause” that bound players to the team that held their contract, the introduction of salary arbitration in playermanagement disputes, and the birth of free agency, which allowed a player movement to seek the best offer for his services.

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HANC visits Living Torah Museum Sixth graders from HANC’s Samuel & Elizabeth Bass Golding Elementary School, in West Hempstead, had a fantastic trip to the Living Torah Museum.

The museum is famous for its Biblical Archaeological finds and the students were fascinated by the artifacts that they saw, including a coin from the time of Chanukah with King Antiochus’ name and picture on it (appraised at $15,000) a coin with the picture of Queen Esther’s son Darius II on it (appraised at $30,000) and a $250,000 gladiator’s trident from the Roman games. The children also learned that the Amora, Reish Lakish, used to be a gladiator in the Roman Coliseum before he became a Torah scholar.

The museum trip also included a presentation about all the animals mentioned in the Torah, both Kosher and non-Kosher. The students learned that the giraffe is actually a Kosher animal but that we don’t eat it because it’s so expensive – just one giraffe costs approximately $35,000! The students also learned that according to an opinion in the Talmud Yerushalmi, the “Tachash” covering used for the Mishkan was actually made from giraffe.

DRS boys celebrate joys of Purim

Adar fun at HANC

By Yitzchak Carroll Student, DRS The cheerful spirit of Purim was palpable at Davis Renov Stahler (DRS) Yeshiva High School’s annual party on March 15, as students and families celebrated the holiday.

“Purim is the most joyous day in the Jewish calendar,” said DRS Principal Rabbi Yisroel Kaminetsky. “One of the primary goals of DRS is to show teenagers the beauty, excitement and the joy of being a Jew. The excitement of Purim, where we celebrate the delivery of the Jewish people out of the hands of the wicked Haman, with singing, dancing, good food and good cheer, serves to remind us of all that we need to be thankful for and enjoy in our lives.”

Haman, an advisor to King Ahash-

varosh of Persia, planned to kill all the Jews in the empire. His plot was foiled by Mordechai and his niece, Esther, who had become the queen. Purim’s story is recounted in the Book of Esther known as Megillat Esther.

The eventful evening began as Rabbi Kaminetsky recited the blessings and read the Megillah, which tells the story of Purim.

There was a festive meal, that was highlighted by a siyum (completion) of Tractate Megillah by 31 students who took it upon themselves to voluntarily study the portion of Talmud for 60 days leading up to the holiday.

It continued with singing and dancing to celebrate the spirit of the holiday. “The Purim joy was contagious — everyone could feel the Purim spirit,” freshman Adam Zahler

said, regarding the festive dancing.

Student-created comedy videos in the joyous spirit of Purim were shown and the students laughed uproariously.

Students sported an array of costumes from elves to wizards to Lego bricks, as they displayed a sense of togetherness and spirit. “It’s great to see everybody come together dressed in all different types of costumes celebrating the spirit of Purim together,” said sophomore Ruvie Sturm.

Photo right: Before reading the Megillah, Rabbi Yisroel Kaminetsky read the blessings, at left Heshy Schertz.

Photo left: Illustrating the costume theme of the Olympics were from left standing Yehuda Benhamu, Ruvie Sturm and Yair Sterman and kneeling Jacob Goldsmith, left and Eitan Kaszovitz, all DRS sophomores.

By Rachel Canter Freshman, HANC HANC High School is known as a yeshiva that emphasizes achdut and community. Chodesh Adar has been full of celebration. The high school held several events that highlighted the spirited month. Students prepared a Purim carnival for our friends from YACHAD, held the annual Purim auction and matanot l’evyonim drive to raise over $5000 for Od Yosef Chai, and had its first ever Chulent Cook-Off. Students were hosted at the homes of their Rabbeim and Morot for the Purim seudah and celebrated in school with a fantastic chagigat Shushan Purim.

HANC’s partnership with Yachad is stronger than ever. After raising more than $24,000 for Yachad in their annual Miami marathon, students continued their friendships by hosting Yachad at their campus for a Purim carnival extravaganza. Friends enjoyed cupcake decorating, face painting, Purim card making, lively dancing

and a pizza lunch.

The school’s first ever Great Chulent Cook-Off featured a spirited battle between the principal of the high school, Rabbi Shlomo Adelman and a group of students led by Junior, Ezra Kushner who claimed he can make a superior chulent.

The entire school had the opportunity to taste each chulent and cast a vote for their favorite. Team Kushner was declared the victor at the school’s chagiga. The event was documented in a video by HANC’s film crew.

The video included shopping, toveling, cooking, and taste testing which was transformed into a hilarious Purim video shown at the chagiga. However, it didn’t matter who won the challenge, since the event united the entire school.

At the school’s Purim Chagiga on Shushan Purim, students enjoyed a gala breakfast, a musical performance by the high school band, a Purim video and ruach-filled dancing led by HANC’s own DJ, junior, Daniel Dilamani.

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