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Assault spurs safety talk

By Malka Eisenberg

Woodmere chametz burning on Monday Photo courtesy of Woodmere Fire Department

Chametz, bread and pasta, being turned into ash in a fire tended by the Woodmere Fire Department at last year’s pre-Pesach chametz burning.

By Malka Eisenberg As the cleaning, buying and cooking for Pesach intensifies and gradually abates on the morning before the seder, the Woodmere Fire Department comes to the rescue again, providing a safe, supervised chametz burning by the firehouse for the community.

Now in its eleventh year, the chametz (foods prohibited on Passover, such as bread, pasta, cereals) burning will be held on Monday March 25th between 7 AM and 11:50 AM at the Woodmere Fire Department, 20 Irving Place, between Central Avenue and Broadway.

“We do it as a community service and for fire safety reasons,” said Lenny Cherson, Chief of the Woodmere Fire Department. “People who are traveling need to burn their chametz. They can drop it off before hand and know that it will be burnt in the proper way. This also insures that people don’t injure themselves or do damage to their property.”

The website states “our highly trained firefighters will be on hand to assist you with burning your bread. Please do not take the chance and burn it at home.

Please make sure you remove all plastic before placing your items in the fire.” Visitors are instructed to park in the lot next to

the fire department.

Last year almost 2,000 people came to burn their chametz. The fire in a 40-foot dumpster and six trash cans consumed a few tons of food, said Lt. Marc Deutsch at the time.

If someone does decide to burn their own chametz, said Cherson, they should not use flammable liquids and should avoid getting the smoke and flames on their clothes by not standing downwind of the fire. They should stand a distance from the container and have a garden hose or fire extinguisher if the flames get out of hand, he noted. The fire should also be safely extinguished.

Sanitary District Number 1 has also offered special pre-Passover trash collection locations for the last ten years. These are also available on Monday, March 25th from 8 AM to 1 PM at the Cedarhurst and Lawrence Long Island Rail Road Stations, the Young Israel of Woodmere and Temple Hillel in Valley Stream. “Cedarhurst Mayor Andy Parise, former Lawrence Mayor Jack Levenbrown and recently deceased former Superintendent of Sanitary District #1 Phil Mistero started the service to make it possible for Sanitary District #1 to service our community,” said George Pappas, SSD #1’s current Superintendent.

In the wake of the assault of a local high school student in Cedarhurst one evening last week, adults and teens from Bais Tefillah met to hear a police officer discuss safety this past Monday night.

Over thirty Bais Tefillah members and their children listened attentively as Fourth Precinct Police Officer Robert Chimienti spoke seriously, but with humorous asides, about the importance of awareness and safety measures, noting that “90% of victims display a lack of common sense.”

With personal comments, Chimienti ran through a vivid list of steps to take to prevent becoming a victim. “It’s a different world from when I was a kid. If I was home by dinner with clean hands life was good,” he said.

“Cell phone tickets are through the roof,” marveled Chimienti. “They just keep

paying the tickets. People don’t look. It’s an electronic world, people are less sensitive to what’s out there.”

A victim of robbery shouldn’t resist, it’s the price of life versus the pocket book, he stressed. Be a good witness, don’t try to fight. If you can get away from something, get away. Trust your instincts. “I’ve been a cop for 29 years-trust your gut,” he added.

He suggested having your keys ready and not stand by the door searching in your bag.

Don’t hide keys outside the house, people might be watching; he recommended giving a key to a trusted neighbor. Keep the house well lit, no bushes near the house for burglars to hide, an up to date alarm system, a surveillance camera or motion detector lights. If the door is ajar or a window broken when you come home, don’t go in--call 911.

As for carrying a purse, “don’t bring a lot Continued on page 3

Photo courtesy of www.maccabeats.com

The new video can be seen on the Maccabeats website www.maccabeats.com

Maccabeats:

Video draws music from Les Mis for Pesach story

By Malka Eisenberg As each Jewish holiday approaches, music fans search the Internet in anticipation wondering: will the Maccabeats produce a new song for this upcoming chag?

They’ve targeted Chanukah and Rosh Hashanah and Purim, and sort of spoofed Suk-

kot, but now they’ve taken on Pesach, seeing a connection between the words and music of Les Miserables and the story of Passover.

“Les Mis had been on our minds for the past few months because of the recent Oscar-winning film adaptation, and we knew that its music was something we loved to Continued on page 3

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See you after Pesach! ties outside. What does that mean? And United States President Barak Obama’s prePesach trip to Israel (The King David Hotel is Pesachdik already and I understand he was greeted with a front page ad in the Jerusalem Post of Mike Huckabee’s Gush Katif Museum dinner speech)? We’ll try to deal with those stories after Pesach.

I hope you have been enjoying our stories; we’ve been working hard. This is the ďŹ nal issue before Pesach. We will not be publishing during Pesach, but beâ€?H, will have another issue out on the Friday after Pesach, April 5th, the 25th of Nissan.

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Live the seder, teach the children, that is primary, and have a chag kasher vsameach— a kosher and happy holiday!

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By Malka Eisenberg Children should not only be vaccinated against childhood diseases, but they should also be “vaccinated” against child abuse, according to two Jewish educators, one from New York, one from Los Angeles.

A hard-cover children’s book published by Artscroll, and available since January for a minimal fee as an audio downloadable book, and elementary school programs are among the attempts of educators to arm children in an emotional and psychological form of selfdefense against potential predators.

“I want every Jewish home to have it,” said Rabbi Yakov Horowitz, Dean of Yeshiva Darchei Noam in Monsey, NY and Director of the Center for Jewish Family Life/Project YES, regarding the book. “The only way, in my opinion, we’re going to stop this tragedy, this magayfa, is if every single child is educated about it and understands that they have the right to defend their personal space.”

“I do believe that opening this up and prevention really does help,” said Debbie Fox, a licensed clinical social worker, who developed a program eight years ago, the Aleinu Safety Kids Program, with Jewish Family Service in Los Angeles. She brought the program to many communities across the United States, including Bnos Bais Yaakov in Far Rockaway. “Over 20,000 children and families, teachers and administrators were educated in that model,” she said. She speaks all over the country regarding children’s safety.

Rabbi Horowitz pointed out that the book, “Let’s Stay Safe!” written by Bracha Goetz and edited by Drs. David Pelcovits and Benzion Twerski was published in conjunction with

Project Y.E.S., a division of Agudath Israel of one conversation with the child regarding America and is recommended by Torah Ume- child safety with a moderate amount of folsorah. “It’s available in every Judaica store low up,” said Horowitz. A child is then “six priced moderately at about $12,” he said. times more likely to exhibit defensive behav“Over 19,000 have been sold in a year and a ior in studies.” He recounted the case of a mother who read the half and there were almost book to her child and 100 downloads of the aulater, when a relative dio-visual version the first at a family gathering day” it was available. The attempted to molest book was reviewed by four the child, the child members of the Moetzes ran screaming to her Gedolei HaTorah. mother. “We got over “It’s another tool for a dozen responses of parents to use to have a children approached pleasant conversation with by a predator and their kid,” he explained. they knew what to “If parents are nervous the do.” If a parent has kids are frightened. If you an open relationship are anxious when you talk with their children, to your child, they don’t said Horowitz, they absorb the information. “ will “get in the habit And as for the audio verof discussing everysion, “anyone can downthing with you, so if load it—you can give a they have any probpenny and download it.” lem they can have Developing open comthat type of interacmunication with one’s children is vital; paying An Artscroll book on child safety. tion.”

He also stressed attention to what they say, that children should asking pointed questions directly related to events discussed earlier, be told that no one should ever tell a child to show them that you are indeed listening of any age to keep a secret from their parents and that you care what happens to them, is and that children should be taught to think all crucial in preventing incidents of abuse, “’my body belongs to me,’ nobody can touch emphasized Horowitz. Keeping the lines of them or take from them in that way. They communication open and having a conversa- feel empowered and shift their thinking to tion about personal safety is part of the self- a mind set of personal space, privacy—your defense program. “It’s the easiest thing to room, your book bag, your drawer, and you.”

Children have to be trained to know that do and the most benefit of all intervention,

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Safety talk at Bais Tefilah

New Pesach release Continued from page 1 sing,” noted Julian Horowitz, the Maccabeats’ current director and a bass singer with the group. “I had listened through the soundtrack several times, and then it hit me that the two stories shared so many elements when I heard the line ‘the music of a people who will not be slaves again.’ From there, I went through the entire play and culled selections that matched up with the Pesach story. There were actually a whole lot more thematic overlaps than I initially realized, so the project turned into a six-song medley. “ The new video lasts 5:40 minutes and melds six songs seamlessly. Though overall a more serious tone than some of their earlier work, it presents visual midrashic references and comic asides. The music, well known from the long running show and now the movie, is stirring, especially when applied to the Pesach story, itself an amazing story.

The production took several weeks, but they shot the video, in YU’s Lamport Auditorium, in one night over ten hours, he explained. Uri Westrich and his team at DriveIn Productions gathered the sets, props, costumes and lights and put together the storyboard. “We enlisted some of the best a cappella producers in the business to help us put together the track,” wrote Horowitz in an email, “for example, the arrangement was

by Deke Sharon, vocal producer for the TV show the Sing-Off.” He said that the words are almost verbatim from the musical.

Three young men who served as a running “comic relief” theme in previous videos, three times as Greeks, have now morphed into Egyptians. “They’re actually three really great, talented, guys who have been helping out from the beginning,” Horowitz explained. “This is the first time that their actual voices are on the track, they are actually pretty good singers as well. “ The Maccabeats have multiple reasons for producing these music videos, said Horowitz “but when we hear people tell us that they were inspired or educated by our music, that’s really what keeps us going. I think part of our appeal is that we don’t shove anything in anybody’s face, but in many ways our Judaism is what drives us to do what we do.”

These projects are fun and hard work, but are “very rewarding, both in terms of our impact on the world and in terms of personal creative satisfaction.”

Most of the Maccabeats are alumni of YU and are now in graduate schools for law, psychology, medicine, architecture, marketing, in biology research, or YU’s semicha program. They held tryouts this year and accepted two new members, both undergraduates at YU. “We hope to continue our strong connection with YU going forward,” he said.

Horowitz noted that their next project will be “very different from anything we’ve done so far. Not a holiday parody, but still educational and fun.” The video can be seen on their website www.maccabeats.com

Continued from page 1 of things in the wallet; if you don’t need it, don’t carry it,” he said. Don’t wear it slung over your shoulder or around your neck, he warned, tuck in under your arm. When going places, use the “buddy system. Try to travel with a friend, there’s strength in numbers. Bad guys don’t like confrontation.” If you think you are being followed, call 911.

Travel on well-lit streets and park in welllit areas. He pointed out that when parking during the day, park near a street light if you will be returning to the car after dark.

“I don’t like ATMs. Go to the bank and get the money you need. If you do use an ATM, check the mirror to see if someone is behind you. Don’t let people into the kiosk. If you feel uncomfortable, take your card and say that it’s not working and leave.”

As for car safety, have the keys ready before you get to the car and be prepared to use the panic button, he emphasized. Check for flat tires and don’t be fooled by someone who is ready to help you change a tire that wasn’t flat before you went into the ATM. It’s a big scam, he noted, one changes the tire, the other steals the purse off the car seat. Also, he stressed checking the back seat before entering the car, “it could save a life.” Always have your cell phone charged and keep a few dollars, $5 to $20, in a pocket. If wearing a diamond ring, turn it around when out shopping. Look between parked cars. He also stressed the importance of locking your car, that thieves try the handles to see if they can steal easily from the car. He suggested keeping baby wipes in the car to wipe off the suction mark from the GPS. The robbers look for that knowing that a GPS is probably in the car; they can sell it for $25.

Photo by Stephen Bach

From left Police Officer Bob Kohlmeir, and Police Officer Robert Chimienti, speaking about community safety issues He said there will be holiday patrols in unmarked cars. He pointed out that the 4th precinct has over 60 houses of worship. He said that the precinct should be called if a street light is out. Residents should file a vacant premise report at the precinct when they go on vacation, but let police know if someone might visit. He noted that a car left in the driveway serves as a good decoy.

Overall, he said, “It’s a good precinct to live in. The cops are proactive.”

“I organized the meeting” because of the incident, said Zev Odinsky, a Bais Tefilah member. “It bothered me that none of the yeshivot did much about it, even the shuls.

People should be aware of safety concerns.”

He did note that HAFTR put out a community ealert.

“This was for the safety of the kids,” said Stephen Bach, another member. “And it was an opportunity to bring the members together for an educational program. They wanted from high school age and up” to attend. “I think we should be proactive, know the dangers and not sweep it under the rug.”

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Teach your children abuse prevention

they have “a right to say no,” said Horowitz, “even to an adult, that people are not allowed to make them feel uncomfortable.” Tell children that if something makes them uncomfortable, you, as a parent, should be told, and the parent should be consistent and not say “I didn’t mean that” but sit down with the child, listen and take it seriously. Find out what happened, who did it and explain that the person should not have touched the child that way. Explain “good touch/bad touch,” that nobody should touch anything covered by a bathing suit except Mom and Dad when bathing or dressing the child or a doctor during an examination. “It’s very important to specify,” said Horowitz, since research indicates that many cases of molestation are committed by family members.

“Parents always question in their mind ‘how can I train a 40 pound kid to push away a 200 pound adult.’ They have to understand how the ‘grooming’ process works. A predator carefully, methodically (tests) if a child is ‘safe’ to molest. He typically starts with 50 kids, like a soccer coach. He factors out the moms who pick up their kid every day.

Sometimes it takes over two years. Things that frighten them off is the ‘what are you doing’ look. It lets the predator know that they (the children) were spoken to. Children have a great tool at their disposal, when they are aware. The predator knows they are aware--they are so evil and brilliant regarding this—how they slowly find their prey and know which kids were spoken to and factor them out.

“Imagine if you are out with the family in a restaurant and I take a spoon and sample everyone’s soup. A three year old will realize this and look ‘what are you doing?’—it means they understand the soup belongs to them. If they are not spoken to, they don’t know. Parents try to keep the kids naïve.

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Opinion Letters to CPAC Stories the Mainstream Media Blew and/or Missed the editor

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ast Wednesday, I headed to the nation’s capital for the annual trip to CPAC 2013, the Conservative Political Action Committee’s annual conference.

There was much controversy leading up to this year’s event based on who was coming to the event, (Jeb Bush and Mitt Romney), who wasn’t invited (Chris Christie and my friend Pamela Geller) the schedule, accommodation for bloggers, Internet---you name it-- people were upset.

Despite the pre-CPAC controversy, this year’s conference was less divisive than years past. CPAC 2013 is like a changing of the guard, as the reigns of the conservative movement were handed over to a younger group of leaders who seemed to have a betPOLITICO ter handle on explainTO GO ing their goals to the American voter.

As in previous years, CPAC coverage by the mainstream media gave many attendees the impression that stories were filed before the conference or perhaps the press went to the wrong building and covered a completely different conference.

There was little relaJeff Dunetz tionship between what happened and what was reported.

Allow me to share some of the key stories of CPAC 2013.

1.Kumbaya/Don’t Worry Be Happy: Almost every presentation in the main ballroom included some form of one or both of the following: a.The person who disagrees with you only 80% of the time isn’t 20% your enemy (be nice to the Republicans). It is only when Republicans and conservatives join together that elections are won. b.Don’t be depressed because the last election was lost, pick yourself up and work toward 2014.

Interestingly many of those same speeches bashed the GOP establishment and political consultants.

2.Ron Paul Has Left the Building: According to the media, there was a divide between traditional conservatives and libertarians--they were wrong. In prior years, former Congressman Ron Paul shipped in hundreds of college students who would shout-out speakers who dared to disagree with positions held

by Congressman Paul. Their purpose was to vote for Paul in the CPAC presidential straw poll. Like the Congressman, many of these

students (derisively called Paulistinians by the rest of the attendees) had racist and antiSemitic positions. Now retired, Paul was not invited nor was there busloads of Ronulins in attendance. While there were differences in opinion discussed, because of the absence of Ron Paul and his gang, those disagreements lacked the contentiousness of prior conferences.

3.The Young Guns: Many of the “old guard” (Newt Gingrich, Eric Cantor, Rick Santorum, Mitt Romney and others) had speaking roles at the conference; but there was an atmosphere of change. Conservative/ Republican Leadership seemed to have been turned over to a new group of leaders, people like Marco Rubio, Rand Paul, Ted Cruz and Scott Walker. Those names along with that of Sarah Palin drew the bigger crowds and the most positive reactions.

4.Don’t Chris Christie Me Bro! There was a big controversy in the media when it was announced that Chris Christie was not invited to the Conservative Conference. In the end, this hurt the New Jersey Governor among conservatives more than it helped.

Fairly or unfairly, Christie was seen as being forced upon conservatives by establishment Republicans and the Media.

5.The Blogger Breakthrough: 2013 will be seen as the year the “blogosphere” was recognized as a valuable part of the conservative movement. This year there wasn’t one press area for the MSM and another for the new media, there was simply one media area for all.

Senator Rand Paul created a video to announce the Republican National Senate Committee sponsorship of Blog Bash, Ted Cruz attended the event, Republican National Congressional Committee Chairman Rep. Greg Walden held a briefing just for bloggers and even Rick Santorum also had a bloggers only briefing, as did possible 2016 Candidate Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker.

Much of the change could be attributed to the fine work of National Bloggers Club President Ali Akbar.

6.Andrew Breitbart was there: Yes, Andrew passed away very shortly after CPAC last year, but his presence was felt. Awards were named after him, members of the progressive group Media Matters for America (which once called me an anti-Semite) was there to trash him, and a movie about him called Hating Breitbart was screened and won a movie of the year award.

7.Nobody Cares about the Straw Poll Except for the MSM: A word about the CPAC Straw Poll---nobody really cares about it except for the mainstream media. The straw poll is a fun little thing that is not representative of CPAC attendees and/or the future

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candidate field. The MSM makes it a major story---it isn’t.

8.How Many Black People are in there?

The only “racist” incident at CPAC. Sometimes it’s hard to cover a story when you become the story. Leaving the press area to explore, I found a tall African-American fellow with a camera crew berating a young woman. At first I believed she was a CPAC staffer; after meeting her two days later I now know she is a twenty year old law student (and judging by her intelligence, probably a very good one).

HOW MANY BLACK PEOPLE ARE HERE, he was shouting at her. The poor young lady was backed into an alcove as he continued.

You say you are trying to do outreach to the minority community--HOW MANY BLACK PEOPLE ARE HERE! Reacting more with anti-bully instincts than reporting ones, I screamed back at the man, “Have you gone inside? There are plenty of black people here How many, he replied.The discussion was getting louder.“I didn’t count them. They are all Americans. That’s all that matters! How many Jews inside?” was my reply, “How many Hispanics and Irishmen are here. Why didn’t you count them?”

I may have put him back on his heels because he responded, “I am a black Jew” (in an email exchange he later told me he was not Jewish after all).

That’s when security came and tried to shepherd the bully and his film crew out.

This story ended up part of the anti-CPAC meme spread by the big liberal blogs such as the Daily Kos, citing it as an example of conservative racism. The man was not at CPAC to learn about what people were doing there, he came with pre-conceived ideas. He just looked for someone to bully. As with most bullies he picked on someone weaker than he was, a young African-American Conservative Law student.

CPAC (and the conservative movement) has never been about ethnicity or race. Unlike our progressive friends, we tend not to categorize people or issues as belonging to a specific group; rather we see AMERICAN problems that need a solution. When one submits their application for media credentials no picture is required. For the conference guests all that’s needed is filling out a form and paying the money. There are no questions about Race, Religion, or favorite flavor of Ice Cream. It is a conference for ALL Americans who believe in a conservative political ideology. There were speakers of all races, creeds and religions. There was even a Shabbos Dinner, services Saturday morning, and third meal on Saturday afternoon.

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Commending the Board Dear Editor I hope you will consider printing yet another letter regarding the sale of the number 6 school. By the time this letter is printed the vote on the sale will have been taken and so this letter is not for or against the sale to the Simone Group and Mt. Sinai. Rather I am writing about the School Boards decision to recommend the sale of the building to Mt. Sinai and to put it to the community for a vote.

As everyone knows the majority of the School Board in District 15 is made up of representatives with private school (as opposed to public school) and orthodox Jewish affiliations. They have done a fantastic job of advocating for the best interests of all the students of the district (public as well as private) as well as for the homeowners in the district (who have no students in the schools but pay real estate taxes). Over the years the school budget has stopped its relentless upward climb, school buildings are being used more efficiently, services that can legally be provided to private school students are being provided and new programs are being instituted in the public schools. The members of the School Board deserve a great deal of thanks and recognition for all they’ve done and unfortunately it has not always been given to them. The changes they’ve instituted have always been examined with a magnifying glass by the members of the entire community.

Now let’s talk about the recommendation that the Board made to sell the school to the Simone Group. Clearly there was a great deal of strong feelings regarding the proposal. The community vote was the proper place for that final decision to be made, but in my view the School Board could not and should not have made any other recommendation.

Firstly it would have been irresponsible for the board not to have recommended the highest bid from a responsible company proposing a reasonable use (it may have even been illegal to not make that recommendation). It, properly, is the responsibility of the whole community to vote on this recommendation.

Secondly I shudder to think what the reaction from the greater community would have been if the Board would have endorsed a Yeshiva that was offering several million dollars less and would have kept the property off the tax rolls. There would have been an uproar that the “Orthodox Jewish” Board turned its back on the School District.

The system has worked as it should have.

The Board did a diligent job in soliciting and evaluating proposals. It recommended the reasonable proposal that offered the best package and the community voted for what was best for the majority of the District.

Reasonable people on both sides can argue about what is the best use of the School building. They should not however speak negatively about the members of the School Board. As Board members they have taken on a very difficult job and have done great things for our District and for all the students in it.

To the members of the School Board; Thank you for all your efforts.

Sincerely Mark Sperber MD

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The 70th yahrtzeit of Rabbi Menachem Ziemba’s martyrdom: A tribute to a Warsaw Ghetto legacy

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n reading former Israeli Defense and Foreign Minister Moshe Arens’ latest work, “Flags Over the Warsaw Ghetto” [Gefen Publishing, 2011] and interviewing him this past summer 2012 in Jerusalem, I was given the opportunity to become more fully acquainted with the decisive leadership role that Rabbi Menachem Ziemba played in the uprising against the Nazis 70 years ago this coming Passover.

This review will, for the most part, reflect upon Rabbi Ziemba’s role and bring to light for many of you the vital role he played in garnering support for the revolt that was to bring the Nazi war machine to a temporary halt at the hands of a small and poorly Alan Jay Gerber armed insurgency.

In a statement to this writer, the distinguished scholar, Dr. Pesach Schindler, author of “Hasidic Responses to the Holocaust in the Light of Hasidic Thought,” wrote the following in tribute to the legacy of Rabbi Ziemba: “Harav Menachem Ziemba, H”yd, represents a role model of Kiddush Hashem during the Shoah in multi-dimensions.

“Among the rabbinic leaders caught in the tragedy of the gradual destruction of the

renowned Warsaw Jewish community, Rabbi Ziemba represented a remarkable counterpoint to either despair or quietistic fatalism.

He not only was a minority rabbinic voice calling for armed resistance. He redefined such Kiddush Hashem as Kiddush Ha’Chayim – the ultimate mitzvah of sanctifying life.”

In his book, Dr. Schindler stated the following: “Rabbi Ziemba summarized the Kiddush Ha’Chayim motif during a zealous plea for resistance prior to the Warsaw Ghetto uprising in April 1943: ‘Thus, by the authority of the Torah of Israel, I insist that there is absolutely no purpose nor any value of Kiddush Hashem inherent in the death of a Jew. Kiddush Hashem in our present situation is embodied in the will of a Jew to live. This struggle for aspiration and longing for life is a mitzvah to be realized by means of nekamah, vengeance, mesiras nefesh, and the sanctification of the mind and will.’”

Dr. Schindler further states that, “Rabbi Ziemba, a key religious leader in the Warsaw Ghetto, was significantly influenced by the Hasidic school of Kotzk, of which his grandfather was an ardent follower. The Kotzker school was known for its emphasis on intellectual depth, a disdain for ceremony, intel-

lectual honesty, and a relentless search for new horizons in the realm of the holy.”

This devotion to the Kotzker hashkafah and teachings was recently reaffi firmed to me in a letter from Prof.

S Susannah Heschel concerning tthe close relationship that Rabbi Z Ziemba had with her father, the w world renown Rabbi Dr. Abraham JJoshua Heschel, of blessed memo ory.

“The connection with my fatther is strong and deep – certainly w with their shared devotion to the tteachings of the Kotzker rebbe – m my father talked about how much h he was grateful for having known p people who could convey to him o orally the teachings of the Kotzker, ssince they were not printed, and Rabbi Ziemba was one such person. I would also like to point out that my father’s knowledge of halacha was profound as testified by his having received smicha from Rabbi Ziemba. Rabbi Ziemba launched my father as a rabbi.” This legacy was but just one signpost of the influence that Rabbi Ziemba had on the Jewish youth of Poland in those inter-war years.

This leadership was to be reflected time and again during the Warsaw Ghetto years.

Moshe Arens, in his excellent narrative of those years, cites in detail below the experience of Dr. Hillel Seidman’s visit to Rabbi

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“Seidman was led into the next room where a Gemara lesson was in progress. The yeshiva students were being allowed the use of the bunker by the engineers who built it. Some of them approached Seidman and told him that they were joining the Revisionist resistance movement, but were in need of funds for the purchase of weapons. ‘We have to be prepared for war,’ they told him.

Sixty-year-old Rabbi Menachem Ziemba, one of the great rabbis of Poland and one of the leaders of Agudat Yisrael in the ghetto, had encouraged his students to prepare for resistance to the Germans. Encouraged by their rabbis, the yeshiva students, who until now had kept apart from the resistance organizations, were now joining the resistance….

A year later, Seidman was present at a discussion at which Rabbi Ziemba was also in attendance. Rabbi Ziemba said that, looking back on the period of the great deportation, it was a mistake to go willingly to the umschlagplatz—the Jews should have resisted.

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The Kosher Bookworm

March 22, 2013 • 11 NISSAN 5773 THE JEWISH STAR

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Passover insight

Hebrew only please!

Understanding our roles on Pesach

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verheard from a second grade rebbe: “If I don’t load the kids up with Pesach preparation, parents think they haven’t learned anything all year.”

I don’t know if that is a truism across the board, if many parents think that way, or if just a minority take the Pesach prep as a reflection of the entire school year. But I think such a notion is antithetical to what Pesach is all about.

We are doing it all backwards.

Any student of Torah (and even the Haggadah) knows that the Torah presents a number of circumstances in which it will either be the parent’s responsibility to tell (Shmot 10:2), or to respond to the queries (Shmot 12:26, 13:14, Devarim Rabbi Avi Billet 6:20), or to engage in a conversation (if at all possible) (Shmot 13:8) with one’s child about the great miracles that transpired at the time of the Exodus from Egypt.

It stands to reason that if children spend a month preparing for Pesach in school, it is unlikely for them to have many (if any) questions for their parents by the time the holiday rolls around. They know everything that is age-appropriate!

Parents who do not prepare for the holiday (as they should!) find themselves asking their children what they learned, and listening to the Torah teachings their children have been robotized to transmit at the Seder.

What a sad role reversal!

The Mishnah in Pesachim (10:4) says that after pouring the second cup, the child “asks,” seemingly suggesting that the inquisitive and bright child will be asking questions unrelated to the Mah Nishtanah through merely observing that the night is different.

Some sample questions (mine, not the mishnah’s): Why did everyone have their own cup for Kiddush – you didn’t even pour any of your kiddush wine in to others’ cups! Why did we just pour a second cup? Why did we just break that matzah? Saltwater? What is this seder plate? Why pillows? A kittel?

Similarly, Rambam (Laws of Chametz and Matzah 7:1-3) writes of engaging the children in a dialogue, piquing curiosity, and doing things in a way that will encourage questions.

If the children are so well trained, the Seder might still be an event, but it is not a fulfillment of what should be taking place.

With the clock having changed recently, the Seder becomes an additional challenge: How do we keep people interested through Maggid, which starts late and ends even later, when we are hungry, tired, and perhaps not in the mood for long discussions, or even

just reading all these words?

What I am about to suggest is not for the purists. If you are a stickler for reading every word of the Haggadah (though both the Mishnah and Rambam cited above make clear what the ‘minimum’ is), read no further. You will not like what you read.

But if you truly believe the seder is all about the children, fulfilling “Sippur Yetziat Mitzrayim” – literally telling over the story, in an exciting way that is engaging to the children, then only use the Haggadah as a guide or when you are stuck.

One can argue that even the Mah Nishtanah is a response to a lack of human creativity. The Mishnah says, “If the child has no knowledge then the father teaches him” the Mah Nishtanah.

But if we can be creative in our story telling, we will have fulfilled the mitzvah of telling the story in a manner that will be engaging and memorable at the same time. What is more important – telling a story about five rabbis in Bnei Brak, or telling a tale of a slave in Egypt?

Use Devarim 26:5-8 as a base. But “darshan” it yourself. Get up from the table. Act it out. Build buildings with toy blocks or Lincoln logs. Knock them down and build them again. Bring a glass pitcher filled with red liquid to the table and call it blood. Throw a ton of toy frogs at everyone. Have the little kids pinch the adults and call it lice. Have little kids jump on your lap pretending to be wild animals. Everyone drop dead after saying your last “Moo” or “Baa.” Roll up your sleeve and put some pomegranate juice on your arm to simulate a boil. Throw ice at the Lincoln log buildings you’ll have built as slaves. Have the local “locusts” remove all the food from the table. Put blindfolds around select “Egyptians” around your table, and have them walk around blindly in the “dark” while the Israelites can see!

Pretend your table is the table of the Israelites in Egypt on the last night. Have some people go around the house and scream as if the Death of the Firstborn is taking place. Be very quiet at your table. Bring pillowcases, put a towel or shirt in each one, sling it over your shoulder, announce that Pharaoh has let us free, pick up a piece of matzah and walk out of the house!

Get blue bedsheets or towels and hold them in a manner that simulates a body of water, and then have them held as walls of water as the children walk between them (and the angry adults chasing them get covered with the “water”).

And have an adult mysteriously disappear from the table, put on a costume (coat, sunglasses and hat) only to reappear at the front door when it’s time to greet Elijah the Prophet.

Make it your most memorable seder ever.

Chag Sameach.

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Ask all you want for the right reasons The seder is modeled as an educational tool par excellence, geared towards the kids. A necessary component is the questionanswer format. But this very much depends on the motive behind the questions; is the questioner really searching for answers, or is he merely cynical, having decided his opinion earlier on….Only through honest questioning and searching for truth can one truly grow and thus be free, as evidenced by Natan Sharansky`s closing speech at his trial….

By Rabbi Noam Himelstein

teach yeshiva students in underground bunkersâ&#x20AC;Ś.The ďŹ nal battle of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising began on Passover eve, April 19, 1943. That night, Rabbi Ziemba held a seder at his home, despite the fact that ďŹ ghting had been raging around him during the day.

Several days later, as the Germans were systematically setting ďŹ re to the houses of the ghetto, he emerged from his home and was shot dead in the street. â&#x20AC;&#x153;A beit din decided to bury him temporarily in the courtyard of 4 Kupiecka Street. The rest of his family was deported to Treblinka, where they perished. â&#x20AC;&#x153;In 1958, when it became known that the Polish government was going to rebuild part of the ghetto, including the section where

Rabbi Ziemba was buried, two of his nephews were given permission to search for his remains. After extensive research and work, they found the grave. Its contents were transferred to Israel, for reburial on Har Hamenuchot, in Jerusalem.â&#x20AC;?

This coming Shabbos Chol Hamoed Pesach, March 30, 2013, marks the 70th yahrtzeit of Rav Ziemba, Hâ&#x20AC;?yd. In his introduction to the new Koren Pesach Machzor, Rabbi Jonathan Sacks notes the following: â&#x20AC;&#x153;In one of the most haunting of all prophetic visions -- we read it on Shabbat Chol Hamoed -- Ezekiel sees his people as a landscape of corpses, a valley of dry bones. They are devastated. They say avda tikvatenu, our hope is gone. G-d then asks him: Son of man,

can these bones be revived? The prophet does not know what to say. Then he sees the bones slowly come together and grow ďŹ&#x201A;esh and skin and come to life again.

And G-d says: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Behold I shall open your graves and lift you out of your graves, My people; I shall bring you to the land of Israel.

And you will know that I am the Lord when I open your graves and lift you out of your graves, My people.â&#x20AC;?

As we read these words on that Shabbos this year, think of Rabbi Menachem Ziemba of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising and remember him and all those who gave their last full measure of themselvesâ&#x20AC;Ś. And remember the dry bones whose future in life is yet to come.

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Continued from page 5 Why did they not remember us, their brothers who were destined to be exterminated? We hoped and believed that, in time, help would arrive. Were it not for this illusion, we might have behaved differently. And in addition, we were greatly mistaken when we thought our enemy was stupid, while we were the smart ones. We should have understood from the beginning that this enemy is out to destroy us. And now we must resist and not give ourselves up willingly to the enemy.â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;?

Arens continues with the following: â&#x20AC;&#x153;And then Rabbi Ziemba added, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;There are different ways to sanctify the name of G-d. If they demanded that the Jews convert, like in Spain in the days of the Inquisition, and one could save oneself by conversion, our death would constitute the sanctiďŹ cation of the name of G-d. Today the only way to sanctify the name of G-d is to offer armed resistance.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; On hearing Rabbi Ziembaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s words all arguments ceased in the Orthodox community. The verdict had been given.â&#x20AC;?

As noted above, these words, in harsher declarative form, were to be reiterated that next year right before the uprising.

I conclude Arensâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; narrative with the following haunting episode: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Seidman, listening to Rabbi Ziemba, remembered meeting in Warsaw shortly before the war Wolfgang von Weisel, the Revisionist leader who had come from Palestine to speak at meetings in Poland. â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;I have but one mission here in Poland,â&#x20AC;&#x2122; von Weisel told him. â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;To repeat in every city and town, to young and old Jews. Learn to shoot!â&#x20AC;&#x2122; â&#x20AC;&#x153; Rabbi Zechariah Fendel, of blessed memory, in his classic work, â&#x20AC;&#x153;From Dusk to Dawn,â&#x20AC;? tells us of the following episode that speaks even further of Rabbi Ziembaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s greatness: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Before the ďŹ nal liquidation of the Warsaw Ghetto, a proposal suddenly came from the highest echelons of the Roman Catholic Church to save Rabbi Menachem Ziemba, Rabbi Samson Stockhammer, and Rabbi David Shapiro, the last three rabbis of the Warsaw Ghetto. The proposal was submitted to the three men, and they now had to decide whether to accept it or reject it. This was a supreme test of character for the last remnant of the once world-famous Warsaw Rabbinate.â&#x20AC;?

To their ever-lasting credit, they chose to stay with their people and not abandon them at this hour of dire need.

Rabbi Fendel continues this saga with the following: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Rav Menachem Ziemba was killed during the Warsaw Ghetto uprising [19th of Nissan, Shabbos chol hamoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ed]. His nephew, Rabbi Avraham Ziemba, who witnessed this event, also saw the bunker in which Rav Ziemba had hidden his unpublished manuscripts, go up in ďŹ&#x201A;ames. These included the one thousand page manuscript, Machazeh HaMelech, on the Rambamâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Yad HaChazakah. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Making reference to this tragic episode, his nephew, Avraham, who survived the Holocaust, subsequently wrote an article entited, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;In the Flames of the Warsaw Ghetto,â&#x20AC;&#x2122; in which he observes that when he saw Rav Ziembaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s manuscripts going up in ďŹ&#x201A;ames, after having seen him slain only the day before, he felt as though he had seen his uncle killed â&#x20AC;&#x201C; twice.â&#x20AC;?

Rabbi Ziemba was a true hero and ďŹ ghter for his people. This was further demonstrated in a January 14, 2013 essay in Haâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;aretz

by David Green, who made note of the following: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Though not personally involved in the physical ďŹ ghting that he endorsed, Rabbi Ziemba was deďŹ ant in other ways, He dared to build a sukkah on the roof of his apartment building in the ghetto, and he continued to

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Sometimes I really miss the political pro- elected ofďŹ cials into ofďŹ ce made a mistake.

Last Fridayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s papers in the religious comcess in my birth country, the United States.

On Monday, Israel swore in its 33rd gov- munity blared out the headline â&#x20AC;&#x153;An Evil Government. The new cabinet seems to me to be ernmentâ&#x20AC;? once it was announced that the a clear reďŹ&#x201A;ection of what the voters stated coalition had been formed and the religious parties would be in the opposition. loud and clear on Election Day in January: This morningâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Haâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;aretz, in reviewing the â&#x20AC;˘There is no one better in Israel than Bennew ministers, referred nastily to Rabbi Shai jamin Netanyahu for Prime Minister. â&#x20AC;˘But there is disappointment in certain as- Peron, a member of the Yesh Atid party and the new Minister of Education as pects of how he runs the country â&#x20AC;&#x153;one who used to run a yeshiva so letâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s clip his wings a bit and not IN MY VIEW and will now be in charge of the give him as strong a mandate as in entire educational system,â&#x20AC;? as the previous election. if it should be clear to all of us â&#x20AC;˘Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s time for new blood in the Sherwin Pomerantz that he will fail. This, of course, Knesset, so letâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s elect 43 delegates is the same paper that four years who never served before and have no allegiance to political kingmakers and see ago praised the appointment of Yuval Steinitz as Minister of Finance even though he had no how they make out. â&#x20AC;˘We are concerned about how best to deal experience whatsoever in that discipline.

Finally, pretty much every news outlet is with Israel having the highest percentage of any OECD country of people not in the work already predicting that the new government force who are eligible to be in the work force will be unmanageable and have a limited life.

How sad that this country which has beand address that to remain economically stacome the envy of the world (even of our eneble. â&#x20AC;˘Perhaps it is time for the government co- mies) when it comes to technological achievealition not to include the religious parties and ment cannot mature in the political sphere to at least begin to address the issue of sepa- to the point where we applaud, support and encourage the success of a new government, ration of church and state.

This is my personal interpretation al- regardless of our private disappointments.

Benjamin Franklin once said â&#x20AC;&#x153;Any fool can though the election of two new parties to the 2nd (Yesh Atid) and 3rd (Bayit HaYehudi) criticize, condemn and complain â&#x20AC;&#x201C; and most place positions as vote-getters along with the fools do.â&#x20AC;? Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a lesson that our electorate reduction in seats of the ďŹ rst place Likud- needs to internalize for the ultimate good and Beytenu faction seem to support my position. welfare of the State of Israel, the fulďŹ llment After weeks of coalition building, todayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s of Godâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s promise to those he brought out of papers detail the members of a cabinet thank- Egypt so many years ago.

Sherwin Pomerantz is a 29 year resident of fully reduced in size from the last government). In the U.S. there is a tradition, after Israel, President of Atid EDI Ltd., an economic an election, of people rallying together for development consulting ďŹ rm and a past nathe good of the community to move the pub- tional president of the Association of Americans lic sector forward. Sadly, in Israel, the losers and Canadians in Israel. work hard to prove that those who voted the

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Around the world in 8 days ping and cleaning. Not sure it gets any worse than that, unless of course you’re headed to a Five star hotel program in the Mountains, Florida, Arizona, Hawaii, the French Riviera (yes, there is a Pesach program there), Aspen, Cancun, a cruise or Israel. Now that, my friends, is considered a chore (shout out to Jay S.) as It involves lots of preparation.

Three meals a day requires three clothing changes, plus one more if you feel the need to change for a trip to the tea room, a walk to the juice bar or a scoop of a frozen delight that has been added to some hotel menus.

That’s a lot of clothing to buy and pack. And let’s not forget the bathing suits, jogging suits, tennis outfits, golf clubs, running, golf, water and women’s shoes, lots of them...and then some more.

Once you’re packed and drive, fly or cruise to your destination you have to unpack, eat, eat, eat, swim, play sports, go to shows, socialize, attend huge barbeques, lounge in the sun and then eat some more. I’ve never been away for Pesach but I do know that’s basically the routine. My daughter reminds me every year, starting right after Purim, daily, straight through till Pesach. We are, after all, the only family in the Tri State area that stays home, or so I’m told. I mentioned to her that being home during Pesach wasn’t that bad, what about Bnei Yisroel, they were in the desert for 40 years. “At least they got to tan,” she deadpanned.

Kidding aside, I would like to be serious for a minute and discuss an issue I was thinking about lately.

The Jewish people have struggled when

it comes to competing with other religions in presenting the fun aspects of our holidays to the kids.

Jon Stewart mentioned it during a routine of his. He said the children who celebrated Easter did it with baskets filled with colorfully decorated eggs and jellybeans.

“The Passover meal is a much harder sell to most kids,” Stewart argued, “because Jews commemorate the emancipation of the ancient Israelites by eating food fit for, well, a slave. Hey, five-year-olds! Basket filled with candy and jellybeans, or horseradish still in root form? Would you like the treats a magical bunny brought you, or the roasted bone from a baby lamb?”

Stewart urged his fellow Jews to “take it up a notch” when it comes to youth marketing. “After all, it’s not like the story of Passover is totally uncool. Moses parting the Red Sea? How have we not turned that into an amusement park yet?”

Give us some time Jon. Wishing all of you a kosher, zissin Pesach, whether at home, family, friends or at a “destination” Pesach.

Here is one of my favorite Pesach dessert recipes, enjoy.

Decadent Heavenly Hash Pesach Brownies Ingredients 8 eggs 4 cups white sugar 2 cups melted butter 12 Tablespoons matzo meal 2 cups cocoa powder

2 cups chopped walnuts (optional) Topping: 2 cups heavy cream 24 ounces semi sweet chocolate or chocolate chips 4 cups mini marshmallows 2 cups coarsely chopped walnuts or nuts of your choice Directions Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Grease two 8x8 inch baking pans.

On medium speed blend eggs, sugar, and butter. Mix in matzo meal, cocoa powder and walnuts (if desired).

Pour batter into the baking pans, and bake for 30 minutes.

Once cool, prepare the topping; Melt chocolate and heavy cream over a very low flame stirring constantly so that it doesn’t burn. Remove from flame and let cool till it’s almost room temperature, but still soft enough to pour.

Place Marshmallows and nuts on top of the brownie cake and pour chocolate topping over it.

Let cool and slice into squares. These can be made a few days before and kept in an airtight container in the refrigerator. Remove from fridge an hour before serving.

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runch time! You know, the time when you figured you would basically be done with 90% of your Pesach preparations, and in reality you’ve just hit the 25% mark. Really, why is it we think this year is going to be different from last year or the year before? I think we should get credit for thinking we could be finished at this point.

When put on paper it looks as if we would be able to reach our goal, but then somehow, life gets in the way.

Take my root canal, for instance, nowhere on my list did I schedule time for a root canal.

This is going to set me back. But thank you Dr. Ira Grosser for squeezing me in and putting me out of my misery.

Contrary to popular opinion, a root canal is worse than cleaning for Pesach.

Judy Joszef By the time you’re reading this article, chances are those who are staying home will be fairly close to having their homes rid of chametz and ready to turn their kitchens over. That in itself is enough to require meds to get through for some. The kashering of ovens, sinks, stoves, counters, etc. Once that’s done we can start the cooking process. Eight days, three meals a day, 24 meals, not including snacks and desserts. This, all to be prepared while in a weakened state, due to very little sleep, skipped meals and non stop shop-

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noticed the jeep in the distance almost immediately, raising a dust column you could see for miles. We were on maneuvers in the Negev desert, and there wasn’t anything else around but us, so we knew immediately the jeep had to be headed our way. Twenty minutes later the jeep pulled up and a man with colonel’s oak-leaves on his shoulders got out. Our commander jumped down for a hurried conference.

We were happy for FROM THE HEART the brief respite; I was OF JERUSALEM in the middle of tank commander’s course, and any break from the grind was always welcome.

A moment later our commander ordered the gunner off our tank and told us that this colonel was going to be joining us and that we did not need to know why or what it was about, but that for the Rabbi Binny purposes of our trainFreedman ing and maneuvers, we should “just treat him like one of the guys.” Yeah, right, a full bird colonel, one of the guys? I don’t think so.

We did our best to stay out of this colonel’s way, though when you are sharing a tank that is not very easy. He was not a big talker, and didn’t mix much with us enlisted men, which was fine with us. Needless to say, he didn’t sleep in the tank with us, which at least meant we had a little more room than normal. We ended up sharing our tank with him for the better part of three weeks,

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About a week after he had joined us, we were on a maneuver and I was acting as tank commander. There are four crewmembers in a tank, a driver, gunner, loader, and commander, and to become a tank commander, we had to become accomplished in each position, so we would switch off, in order to become familiar with all the different tasks of a tank crew. Every maneuver had to be repeated four times, so that each of us could train as commanders, and this was my turn.

One of the rules which is taken very seriously in tanks, is what is called “gevulot gizrah,” or the limited field of the firing range.

You could only fire in a certain direction, and there were always markers to denote where the field of fire actually was. Not only was it forbidden to actually fire outside the permitted field of fire, it was even prohibited to allow your tank gun to stray out of this field once there was a shell in the breach for fear of accidental misfire.

This is an issue the army takes very seriously, given the fact that a shell fired in the wrong direction could easily land in a local kibbutz or settlement, so the punishment for even allowing the tank gun to stray outside the field of fire was the loss of the entire crew’s weekend pass.

Now this becomes a challenging affair because your job as a commander is to seek out the ‘enemy’ and bring the main 105mm cannon to bear on the target, at which point the gunner takes over to line up his sights and fire. And while you can see the entire hori-

zon from your vantage point atop the commander’s turret, the gunner looking through his magnified sights from inside the tank, can only see the limited field of vision that appears in his scope. So, if you haven’t managed to place the gun exactly on target, he will begin to sweep the main gun sideways in search of the target. And if he is moving the gun in the wrong direction, he may continue searching, not realizing that the gun is turning in the completely wrong direction. When he uses his controls to turn the gun sideways, the entire turret of the gun turns with him such that he is not aware that he is turning completely around, and along with him not only the main gun, but all the machine guns.

So on this particular day I was acting as tank commander, and this colonel was practicing his gunnery. And sure enough, he began to rotate the tank gun in search of target acquisition, and I could see the gun was heading outside the field of fire. Years later, especially once you are an officer commanding many tanks, the prospect of commanding one tank crew is a relatively simple thing.

But when you are first learning to command a tank, it seems as though there is a tremendous amount to do. Remember that the tank is moving very fast, and you have to make sure the driver is headed in the right direction (the prospect of 52 tons of tank rolling off the side of a hill because you didn’t pay attention to where the driver, who can only see minimally through his scope, was going, is a frightening thought….), not to mention keeping the loader’s machine gun as well as your own facing in the right direction, ensuring the proper ammo is in the main gun, speaking on the tank radio with your platoon or company commander, making sure

you are not falling behind or going too far ahead of the other tanks, etc.... In fact, the way things work, you don’t even have a hand free to take the controls over from the gunner, because one hand is holding the radio switch, and the other is firing your machine gun. So the armored corps has developed a simple system to let the gunner know he has to release the gun controls and stop rotating: as his seat is forward of your legs, deep in the belly of the tank, you simply kick him in the helmet! And he gets the message.

But what do you do when the gunner is a full bird colonel? I screamed into the radio intercom, but to no avail; with all the noise of heavy machine gun fire and the tank engine, he just couldn’t hear me.

Finally, in desperation, I decided I wasn’t giving up my weekend pass for anyone, so I kicked him in the back of his helmet, and sure enough he immediately figured it out: I heard a grunt that sounded something like “ugh!” over the tank intercom, and he released the controls. Later, when we all got out of the tank, I discovered he had a huge welt in the middle of his forehead; seems I kicked him so hard his head slammed into the gunner’s console! I was terrified that somehow I would pay a price for this over-reaction, but never heard another word about it.

Months later I discovered who this fellow was: his name is Shaul Mofaz, and I next ran into him as the base commander when I showed up for officer’s course…! He also happened to have been Yoni Netanyahu’s second in command on the famous Entebbe mission, where Israeli commandoes flew thousands of miles into Africa to rescue Jewish Continued on page 16

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Eliayahu’s Cup:

A story from “The Legendary Maggidim: Stories of Soul and Spirit”

By Rabbi Eugene, z”l, and Dr. Annette Labovitz Rebbe Avraham Yehoshua Heschel sat at a book laden table, deeply immersed in his studies, surrounded by eager students, who absorbed every word. Suddenly, he lifted his head, leaned back in his chair, and smiled. “I don’t remember if I have told you this Pesach story before, but it is good to retell the story of Eliyahu’s cup before Pesach.”

Once there was a very wealth man, named Elkana, and his wife named Penina. They lived in a splendid mansion, according to the standard of their wealth. They owned china, crystal, silver, jewelry, furs. One possession was more precious to them than all the rest: a magnificent, jeweled cup of Eliyahu which they proudly used as their table centerpiece each seder night.

Elkana and Penina were both G-d fearing, hospitable, righteous people. They recognized that the source of all their blessings was the Almighty. In gratitude, they opened their home to the poor of their city and to travelers who passed through.

Sadly, Elkana invested in a few bad business deals. Slowly, he lost much of his assets.

In order to cover his expenses, he started to sell some of his possessions, thinking that future business investments would be profitable. But Elkana’s choice of investments

continued to be a financial disaster. Years passed, and Elkana and Penina became poorer and poorer. Their sole remaining possession was Eliyahu’s cup.

Penina never complained.

That year, as Pesach approached, she wondered how she would be able to purchase matzos, wine, and other necessities for the festival. There was simply no money available.

The morning before Pesach, Penina gently reminded her heartbroken husband that there was not one ruble in the house with which to purchase Pesach food.

‘I think,’ said Elkana, ‘you will have to take Eliyahu’s cup k will ill unto the pawnbroker. The pawnbroker doubtedly give you more than enough money to buy food for the holiday.’

Until that moment, Penina suffered silently, always hoping that their lot in life would improve, that her husband would invest in a good business that would restore their wealth. She never despaired. But when she heard her husband’s suggestion, she could not bear her pain any longer. She cried out in anguish, ‘What! Sell Eliyahu’s cup! I will never sell it. It is our one remaining precious possession. There has to be another way. I

simply will not part with Eliyahu’s cup!’ Elkana recognized the tone of Penina’s voice: she would never change her mind, no matter what he said.

Not knowing how to solve the ccrisis, he slipped sheepishly out o of the house and headed straight fo for the study hall, the one place w where he found solace.

Penina did not know where sh she would find the money to buy fo food for Pesach. She wandered a around alone in the big mansion, w walking from one empty room to a another. Only a few pieces of fu furniture were left where once o overstuffed sofas stood and exq quisite paintings and tapestries h hung. dd l Penina heard a knock at her Suddenly, door. She ignored it at first, not wanting to face anyone, but the intruder persisted. Finally, Penina opened the door. An elderly, well-dressed gentleman stood on her doorstep.

‘Is this the house of Elkana and Penina?’ he queried. ‘I have come from a distant town. I have a letter of recommendation from a mutual friend of ours. He told me that you home is always open to travelers. I need a place to stay for Pesach. Is it possible that I may stay here for the holiday week?

Penina could not speak: only tears streaming from her eyes betrayed her emotions.

‘Yes,’ she stammered, ‘our house was formerly open to the poor of our city and to travelers who passed this way, but my husband has had some business reverses. We have sold most of our possessions to sustain ourselves. Right now we don’t even have any money to buy matzos or wine for Pesach.’

‘Money is no problem,’ said the elderly, well-dressed gentleman politely. ‘I have plenty of money. I don’t want to be alone in an inn for Pesach.’ With these words, he put his hand into his jacket pocket and withdrew a bag of coins.

‘Please take this money and buy what you need,’ he continued. ‘Tell your husband that I will meet him in the synagogue tonight, and I will walk home together with him.’

The elderly, well-dressed gentleman walked slowly down the path, leaving Penina dumbstruck.

After she composed herself, she ran to the marketplace to purchase food for the holiday.

For the first time in many months, she had plenty of money. She did not stint on her grocery list: matzos, wine, apples for charoses, horseradish for the marror, fish, eggs to dip in salt water, a bone for the zeroa, Continued on page 15

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Fox runs a program that trains the staff, parents and the students to recognize and preempt behavior that could lead to abuse, essentially arming the children with psychological and emotional self-defense awareness.

The program is run in elementary schools; a series of their workshops were run recently at Bnos Bais Yaakov in Far Rockaway. Fox noted that she targets students in ďŹ rst through ďŹ fth grade; she researched calls of abuse and noticed that four times as many in that age group as 5th to 8th graders logged calls of abuse. Her goal, she said is â&#x20AC;&#x153;to train in preschool and the child will get it every year until ďŹ fth gradeâ&#x20AC;? to learn â&#x20AC;&#x153;solidly with body language and everything elseâ&#x20AC;? to indicate â&#x20AC;&#x153;â&#x20AC;&#x2122;donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t mess with me.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; The goal is to have them so well educated on prevention so by the time they are older they know how to handle it.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;The problem is when the child doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have who to go to and it becomes a pattern and happens again.â&#x20AC;? During chol hamoed a child may get separated from a parent but should know to approach a cashier, a mother with children, a â&#x20AC;&#x153;safe helperâ&#x20AC;? and ask to call her motherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s cell phone. Also if a child is in a situation where he or she feels uncomfortable, maybe with a family member, and says so, the parent has to respect when the child says no. â&#x20AC;&#x153;A child has to know what to do and feel empowered to do it,â&#x20AC;? said fox.

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I say to parents, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;If you donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want to teach your kids about their own bodies, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ok, the predator will teach them about it.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the ultimate tznius; to teach that their body belongs to them.â&#x20AC;?

He stressed that parents have to educate themselves, as well, and can ďŹ nd information and free videos on the website (see below).

Although geared to young children, the book can also be used as a jumping off point to start a conversation about abuse for older children and teens as well. Horowitz suggested leaving it on a table and asking if the teen thought it was interesting and would be good to read to a younger sibling, and regretting that it wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t available for the older child when he or she was younger.

Debbie Fox stressed that itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s important to â&#x20AC;&#x153;know the tools for prevention and open lines of communication to prevent the child from getting into vulnerable situations.â&#x20AC;? She warned of â&#x20AC;&#x153;groomingâ&#x20AC;? by predators, the â&#x20AC;&#x153;gentle lulling of a child into a relationship with the goal to move into a sexual relationship.â&#x20AC;? She said the predator gives the child attention and gradually draws closer physically to the child starting with touching to sitting on the older childâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s or adultâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s lap over time. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s why the child is not shockedâ&#x20AC;? and does not run to the parent. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Parents need to be involved in the relationships of their children with an adult, child or older

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You don’t have to believe in G-d, His constant Presence and involvement in your life, to have a meaningful, pleasant life. But I can tell you first hand, to do so while you are on your way, becoming all you can become, this awareness of Him, makes life so sweet, hopeful and joyous, awesome, no matter what your circumstance or the challenges He has for you to go through to help you grow.

You can live your life as a lottery, a Purim if that is what you want. Like a leaf blown by the wind of circumstance. Or you can know who is behind the mask of “coincidence” and nature. Know there is a plan. You won’t be alone, look how many did not leave Egypt or Bavel (Babylonia) when they had the chance.

Just as gravity is to me, you have responsibilities and the power to fulfill them whether you believe it or not. There is no coincidence that you were born to a Jewish mother.

It’s true the Shechina, His Holy Presence, is in each and every Jew, and yes, Florida is warm and cheaper than Yerushalayim but nothing, nothing can compare to visiting, learning or retiring here in Yerushalayim.

This is our vacation place of choice: free concerts every week at the Jerusalem Theater or the windmill, English lectures every day, easy transportation, reasonable tours and everyday an adventure. The people are intellectually alive. If the arts or science, history or religion excites you, then this is the place.

Life is too short, everyday a miracle, an opportunity for the fun of helping others, serving Hashem, growing, learning Talmud Torah, this is my only life I am here to win.

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Nobody gets out of here alive and it weeks, then four, then six and this year eight. doesn’t matter how you leave, it matters how There is a plethora of learning here. As reyou lived your life while you were here. We tirees, this place attracts people in the same are all on the way, way to what? Will we ever age and stage as we. You, too, will find likeget there? Can we? We were allowed to come minded new friends no matter your age and here for a purpose; we have a mission, a tik- stage. They come from all over the world. It kun, a repair for our souls and for others. We is amazing how friendly they all are. Perhaps start out small, knowing nothing of this place it is because they are all so happy to be here and have to grow to become all we can be- and part of the coming geula, redemption. I come. And there are a myriad of directions feel like one of those people in “Encounter of that we can go to with the wondrous dia- the 3rd Kind”.

Esther Malka, my bashert, discovered a monds we were given just to us, in our way.

Some call them talents, but they are only po- program called Malchus in a Seminary called tentials. Most of us will never know we have Ohr Chaya. She loves it so, she feels sorry for so many. We may be too limited to find them me that I can’t come, but we share our day’s or try them out. Life is too short, no two learning with each other. Not only to review, days are the same, and it is constantly new, but as a way of giving to each other and it everyday a new beginning, for the rest of our brings us close after a day of being apart. We, of course, are baalei tshuva. lives. What a treasure to be alive.

You may think you are an What a gift. What a thrill.

FFB (frum from birth), but IN MY VIEW Medicine is a tool many of us until you can’t sit still knowhave to take, or think we have ing you are in the Presence to take. Psychotherapy is also a Noach & Esther of HaKadosh Barchu (the tool, much like making scramHoly One, Blessed Be He) bled eggs. Once you try making them you find out it is not so hard and the every day of your life, gently trembling with results are ok, the more you take risks and excitement and joy, for us this is where it’s experiment. There are so many Jewish books at. This is what being frum is. Knowing you on personal growth. Therapy can change the were chosen as a representative for a misrest of your life for the better. It frees you sion. I am a new FFB. My wife and I gave from negative, limiting or self-defeating hab- birth to a child, a most wonderful girl, a treaits and ideas. Just let them go, its ok, You’ve sure, and she is who she is. But our true work held onto those for so long, you think that is has been to make ourselves. So perhaps I too you. Wrong. That was you, today you are a am an FFB; birth for me was at age 48 when new you, a new opportunity to be. To really I met Rabbi Yitzhok Winner, a Chabad rabbi succeed, your mind and body must be sub- who pulled me out of a pit of gashmeus, a servient to your soul, for it is only then that physicality focused way of life, and introduced me to the world of spirituality. He told you are truly free to fly and be you.

Reb Chaim Glancz of Our Place NY, where me G-d loves Jews. Wow, what a mind blowI volunteer, told me the truth is, I don’t have ing concept. My Conservative rabbi never got a purpose in life that I will discover someday. that into my head.

Today is Shushan Purim here in YerushHe said that every moment, I have a purpose in life and it is up to me to see it and seize alyaim, we will spend it with Rabbi Avraham the opportunity. And every time we reach Davis and Rabbi Chaim Eisen and with fama higher level we are offered an even higher ily. After Queen Esther tells the king that evil incarnate is Haman, right here in this level.

My wife and I are in Israel for two months room, the next sentence in the Magillah tells because Moshe Binik once told me that he us the king leaves to go to the garden, leavwas going to leave his supermarkets to learn ing her alone with him, (in darkness). Some in Yerushalayim with his wife for a number of us are in darkness for so long; we don’t of months. I couldn’t get over it. Just leave see that the King is not far away. We think everything and go learn Torah. As employees we are alone, we forget that He must remain of the New York City Department of Educa- hidden for us to have free will. We forget He tion we had the summers off. She had other plans so I first tried it with my wonderful wife’s blessing, alone, for five weeks. My first time in a yeshiva! Wow. The following year my wife and I rented an apartment for three

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Finally, Elkana decided to begin the seder. â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll do everything very slowly,â&#x20AC;&#x2122; he thought aloud. â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Maybe our guest will show up soon.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; Elkana poured the wine for kiddush, washed his hands, broke the aďŹ komen matzah, and recited the Haggadah. The guest, however, did not arrive. They ate the meal. Elkana grew sleepy. He managed the grace after meals, then fell asleep at his place at the tableâ&#x20AC;Śat the moment he should have gone to open the door for Eliyahu HahNahve.

Penina decided to ďŹ nish the seder herself. She stood, walked to the door, and opened it. The elderly, well-dressed gentleman was standing outside. â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Please come in,â&#x20AC;&#x2122; blurted out Penina. â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Where were you? We waited and waited. Why have you taken so long to come?â&#x20AC;&#x2122; The elderly, well-dressed gentleman nodded his head, walked into the house, approached the table, and looked around.

Penina was right behind him. â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Wake up, Elkana, wake up! Our guest has arrived,â&#x20AC;&#x2122; she said as she bent to gently shake him from his sleep. But Elkana did not move.

He slept soundly. When Penina straightened up, the elderly, well-dressed gentleman had disappeared.

The next morning, Penina told Elkana that he missed his guestâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s visit. He felt sad that he did not meet him. â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;I guess I did not have the opportunity to meet him,â&#x20AC;&#x2122; he whispered, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;because I wanted to sell his cup!â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;?

The Apter Rebbe concluded the story, still smiling.

Continued from page 12 meat, potatoes for the kugel. As Penina ran from stall to stall through the marketplace, she hummed one of the melodies from the seder, the one she remembered by heart, the one sung just before drinking the second cup of wine: â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Therefore it is our duty to thank, to praise, to laud, to glorifyâ&#x20AC;Ś.Him who performed all these miracles.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; Laden with packages, she ran all the way home. The preparations for the holiday went quickly. Penina was so happy.

Hurry! Hurry! She kept urging herself onward.

Elkana came home late in the afternoon to see how Penina was. To his surprise, the house was pesadik. Everything was ready for the seder. Penina was shining and joyous. â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Elkana,â&#x20AC;&#x2122; she shouted incoherently, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;there is an elderly well-dressed gentleman in town.

He was here this morning. He wanted to be our guest. He gave me a bag of coins. He said he would meet you in the synagogue.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; Elkana changed his clothes in honor of the holiday and went to ďŹ nd his guest in the synagogue. When he arrived, only the townspeople were present. There was no stranger.

He joined in the evening prayer service with the congregation, one eye on the door, waiting expectantly for his guest. The service ended. No stranger came. The townspeople went home to begin their seders.

Elkana was puzzled. He sat around the empty synagogue for about an hour, waiting patiently. When no one came, he went home Penina and Elkana waited to begin their seder. Eight, nine, ten oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;clock. They waited until eleven oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;clock, but the elderly, well-

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And this is the micro-mission of the Kohanim. Even the role model nation needs its own role models. The Kohanim are essentially our teachers, a class of people who are meant to teach best by example.

And if the Korban (from the language Karov, meaning close, according to the Ramban) is meant to bring us a little bit closer to the â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;meâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; we always wanted to be, then the Kohen (Priest) is the vehicle for that educational growth.

Perhaps this is why the concept of the Korbanot is ďŹ rst shared with the Jewish people, and only afterwards (this week) communicated to the Kohanim.

The Jewish people, coming out of Egypt, are used to the idea of a caste society, where everyone serves those above them and the priestly class is at the top of the pyramid.

And the people exist to serve the ruling class, the kings and priests.

In Judaism, however, it is precisely the opposite: the priests (Kohanim) exist to serve the Jewish people. Hence the education of the Jewish people comes ďŹ rst.

As we prepare to celebrate Pesach, the festival of freedom, we would do well to remember that for whatever reason, the world certainly views us as a role model, and holds us to a higher standard. And as the newly formed government of Israel begins its task of leading the Jewish people here in Israel, they would do well to take notice; perhaps this year, we will actually live up to that role and all of its incredible potential.

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What, indeed, is the mission of the Jewish people? As the prophet Yishayahu (Isaiah) suggests, we are meant to be a â&#x20AC;&#x153;light unto the Nations,â&#x20AC;? about being a role model. This does not mean we are meant to tell the world how to behave, but rather that we are challenged to behave on such a high, unassailable moral standard that the world cannot help but learn from us. And if this is true for our relationship with the world, it is equally true for our relationship with each other. Our â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;jobâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; as Jews is not (in most cases) to go around ďŹ guring out what any and every other Jew is doing wrong, in order to ďŹ x it. Our challenge as Jews is to become such living, breathing models of ethical behavior that everyone and anyone coming into contact with us cannot help but be inspired to become betterâ&#x20AC;Ś.

If we are a Mamlechet Kohanim, then, it means that we are a nation of role models.

And there are two important aspects of being such a role model: First, in order for someone to be a role model, he has to be somewhat apart from the group, so that he is easily recognizable. (And this may be why this weekâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s portion, where the Kohanim are ďŹ rst set aside as a separate entity, is so critical in the Torah.)

And second, you need to be clear on exactly what you are modeling; what exactly are we role models for? The Torah suggests that we are somehow meant to be a vehicle for bringing G-d into the world. Every time a human being commits one act of kindness, every time an ethical decision is made correctly, and even every time we glean a deep ethical message from Jewish ritual, so that

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What is so special about the commandments of this weekâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s portion that this should be the portion of â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;commandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;? This question is especially challenging when considering that this is the second portion in the â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;bookâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; of Leviticus (Vayikra), which deals primarily with the different sacriďŹ ces (korbanot). Are the korbanot the most central mitzvah in the Torah, such that they should be the theme of the portion, which is actually called Tzav?

A careful look at this weekâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s portion suggests that the theme is not really about the sacriďŹ ces themselves, but rather about the Kohanim (priests) who offer them. At various points in this weekâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s portion, Moshe is not commanded by G-d to command the Jewish people regarding the Korbanot, but rather to command the Kohanim regarding their role in offering these korbanot.

The high point is when Moshe is commanded to take Aaron and his sons and anoint them as Kohanim, a role that never existed before. What is so special about Kohanim that they should be alluded to as the central mitzvah of the entire Torah?

Perhaps the central mitzvah alluded to by the portionâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s name is the idea of a priestly class, or a Keâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;hunah in the ďŹ rst place. Indeed, we are called a â&#x20AC;&#x153;Mamlechet Kohanim Veâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Goy Kadosh.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;A kingdom of priests and a holy nation.â&#x20AC;?

Somehow we are all meant to be â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;priestsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;

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That moment remains with me as a model of what leadership can be. Here was a full colonel, kicked in the head by a private, who offered forth no more than a grunt. Not a curse, no formal reprimand or stockade time, not even so much as a dressing down.

When I ďŹ nished OfďŹ cerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s course, an ofďŹ cer who had seen me through the tough spots offered me the following sage piece of advice: â&#x20AC;&#x153;The stuff you learn in OfďŹ cerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s course is just an introduction; it doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t make you an ofďŹ cer. Being an ofďŹ cer is about becoming the person whose men will follow him anywhere.â&#x20AC;?

And that is the greatest question we face today: do we have the leadership and are our teachers those individuals whom we would follow anywhere? I have always felt that Mofaz never laid into me about that kick in the head, because he had a strong sense about what leadership was really all about. Today he is a Knesset member and I do not always agree with his politics, to put it mildly; but it was a humbling lesson about leadership I learned that day.

All of which brings us back to a fascinating question we ďŹ nd in this weekâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s portion: This week, we read the portion of Tsav, which seems to mean â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;commandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;:â&#x20AC;&#x153;And Hashem spoke to Moshe saying: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Tsav et Aharon veâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;et banav lemor zot Torat haâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;olahâ&#x20AC;Ś.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Command Aaron and his sons saying this is the law (Torah) of the Olah (the wholeburnt offering)â&#x20AC;? (Vayikra (Leviticus) 6:1-2) As is often the case, the portion is named after the word that appears prominently in the opening verses. Tzav or â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;command!â&#x20AC;&#x2122; is a

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By Shalom Tyberg A baby is in critical, life threatening condition following an ambush by Palestinian Arabs who hurled large rocks at the car in which she was traveling.

Two year old Adelle Bitton, was in a car along with her mother and two older sisters on the Trans-Samaria road near the city of Ariel, when the car came under rock attack last Thursday night, March 14th. As a result of the rock attack, the car lost control and swerved off the road, where it crashed into a truck. The truck had also come under rock attack and was standing on the roadâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s shoulder when the accident took place.

All four passengers in the car were injured, including the babyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s mother, Adva Bitton, and her two sisters, six-year-old Naama and four-year-old Avigail. The mother and two sisters were listed in moderate condition.

The Bitton family lives in the town of Yakir in Samaria (Shomron).

The IDF worked quickly in the wake of the attack and by Friday morning had arrested 10 suspects, all Palestinian Authority resident Arab men who live in the area. A statement from the IDF Friday morning read, â&#x20AC;&#x153;The IDF takes very seriously the unacceptable phenomenon of â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;popular terrorismâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; which includes, among other things, throwing rocks.

The IDF will continue to take determined action, both overt and covert, to guarantee the

safety of residents of the area.â&#x20AC;?

Adva Bitton spoke Sunday about the attack. â&#x20AC;&#x153;First of all, I have to say that the fact that I survived, that my daughters Avigail and Naâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ami survived, it was an open miracle.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Whoever has seen the pictures [from the crash] can testify that [survival] was not at all clear,â&#x20AC;? she added.

The family of Adele Bitton is asking the public for a renewed effort in praying for the two-year-oldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s health. The child has already undergone two head surgeries. Her full Hebrew name is Adele Chaya Bat Adva. The family has added an extra middle name, as is traditional in some cases when praying for health and well being. In a stirring message to the public, Adva Bitton said: â&#x20AC;&#x153; I am asking everyone, anyone with a Jewish soul anywhere in the worldâ&#x20AC;Ś to do something for Adelleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sake. Something small â&#x20AC;&#x201C; a good deed, tzedaka, improving something in himself that needs improving, and to pray for the health of Adelle Chaya Bat Adva.

To raise a great shout in the heavens. I know G-d loves me or He would not have left me here. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s simple.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;As a mother it is very difďŹ cult for me, because you see your child and you want to do everything for her. G-d at least gave me the possibility to hold her head. I was trapped. I did the little bit that I could for her. If I could give my life for hers, I would do it. Because every mother would do that for her child.â&#x20AC;?

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The Jewish Star is seeking a dynamic individual to lead our advertising sales efforts, manage the business affairs of the paper, and supervise the editorial staff. The Star reaches more than 10,000 Orthodox Jewish households in the Five Towns, Brooklyn and throughout Long Island. Prior sales and/or sales management experience in the media or other B to B environment is required. As publisher, you will have bottomline responsibility for the paper. In addition to managing the sales staff, you will be responsible for handling major accounts, developing marketing and promotional materials and being the public face of the Star in the community.

In addition, the editor of the Star reports directly to the publisher.

You should be familiar with the Orthodox communities of the Five Towns and Brooklyn and have an understanding of Torah Judaism, its traditions and culture. A car is required. The Star is owned by Richner Communications the largest publisher of community newspapers and shopping guides in Nassau County. Our state-of-theart ofďŹ ces in Garden City offer a friendly informal environment. We offer a competitive compensation plan including salary, strong incentives, excellent health plan and 401(k). Please send resume with cover letter and salary requirements to careers@thejewishstar.com.

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