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Let’s make some friends! Rabbi Sacks calls ďŹ nding allies, especially among Indians, Chinese and Catholics, ‘biggest mitzvah’ By The Jewish Star Staff Five Towns Jews were charged this week with performing a new mitzvah: Making friends for Jews. Lord Rabbi Jonathan Sacks suggested that Jews should especially nurture relationships with people in India and China, and among Catholics. Rabbi Sacks, the former chief rabbi of Great Britain, spoke to a full house motzei Shabbat at Congregation Beth Shalom in Lawrence, having delivered a drasha earlier in the day at the Young Israel of Lawrence Cedarhurst. His Saturday night talk, sponsored by Yeshiva University, was in conversation with attorney Ben Brafman. “We have ememies, but we also have good friends,â€? he said, citing good relations with the prime ministers of Germany, France and Canada, and with the people of Australia.

Pope Francis has said “nicer, more genuine and positive things about Jews than any Pope in hstory,� Rabbi Sacks observed. “The biggest mitzvah of the Jewish people right now is to go and make friends,� he said. With 1.2 billion Catholics, 1.2 billion Indians, 1.1 billion Chinese, “we win the battle with them alone.� China and India are both civilizations nearly as old as Judaism, with no history of anti-Semitism, he said, and India is threatened by an unstable, nuclear armed neighbor in Pakistan. With radical Islam on the verge of imposing “the complete elimination of Christians from the Middle East,� Christians are natural allies, as are the millions of Muslims who are also threatened by radical Islam. “The time has come to say exactly what this is, not to equivocate,� Rabbi Sacks said.

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By The Jewish Star Staff “Big Bangâ€? star Mayim Bialik and Tea Party-boosting Republican Rep. Steve King of Iowa added their spin this week to an ongoing debate over the Democratic Party afďŹ liations of most American Jews. “I don’t understand how Jews in America can be Democrats ďŹ rst and Jews secondâ€? and support President Obama, given the President’s approach to Israel, King told Boston Herald Radio. Bialik, known for her intelligence (she’s a neuroscientist — and plays one on TV) and her Judaism, explained on Kveller.com why she’s a proud liberal, a Democratic, and a supporter of the State of Israel. “I was raised to believe that Jewish values — lifting up the fallen, supporting those in need, repairing the world with acts

of loving kindness — are consistent with the Democratic Party,â€? Bialik wrote. “But historically, Republicans are staunch supporters of Israel in a way Democrats just aren’t. Why is it so complicated?!â€? Bialik deďŹ ned herself a “a bleeding heart liberal when it comes to things like the death penalty, and while I tend to be socially conservative ‌ I believe in democratic principles and unions, helping the poor, and I generally believe that the skewed structure of our culture is the determining factor for people’s lack of ‘upward moblity’ rather than the inherent weakness or shotcoming some tend to see. That being said, Israel is a wild card.â€? King said anti-Semitism and “just plain liberalismâ€? drove opposition to Prime Minister Netanyahu’s Congressional appearance.

For Pesach, warnings about keeping safe By Zeev Kashash, United Hatzalah of Israel Here are some important guidelines to ensure a safe and healthy chag. Cleaning for Pseach: In an earnest effort to thoroughly clean our homes in preparation for the holiday, please stay aware of harmful and strong cleaning substances. Burning chametz: Though a primary halacha prior to the start of the holiday, burning the chametz can be very dangerous. This activity takes place ceremoniously at

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Dewey defeats Truman, in Israel‌ Continued from page 5 torical precedents that weigh on any prime minister of Israel when they think about the potential threats to Israel and the Jewish homeland.â€? It is precisely the Allies’ abandonment of Europe’s Jews that many Israelis today regard as relevant to their situation. Israelis do not imagine themselves as comparable to shaven captives being herded into gas chambers. But they have a legitimate concern that the international community could abandon Israel in some future hour of need. The weak response of the West to contemporary instances of genocide, such as Cambodia and Darfur, has reinforced the understandable fear of many Israeli voters that various governments will ďŹ nd reasons not to intervene if Iran attempts to implement its vow to annihilate the Jewish state. Coincidentally, new research on the abandonment of European Jewry was featured at a conference on the Allies’ response to the Holocaust, which opened on election eve in Jerusalem’s Menachem Begin Heritage Center, the Israeli equivalent of a U.S. presidential library. The venue happens to include a fascinating exhibit on Begin’s ďŹ rst election as prime minister, in 1977, in an outcome as surprising to pollsters and pundits as the results of this latest race — or, for that matter, as stunning as Truman’s defeat of Dewey in 1948. The element of surprise, however, is not the most signiďŹ cant point of comparison between Israel’s 2015 race and the American presidential campaign of 1948. Jewish fears of Israel being abandoned played a littleknown role in that election as well — in this

case, the fears of American Jewish voters. U.S. Jews were delighted by Truman’s speedy recognition of newborn Israel in May 1948, but were profoundly alarmed by Truman’s refusal to provide any military assistance to the Jewish state, even as it desperately fought off ďŹ ve invading Arab armies. Former vice president Henry Wallace, running as a far-left third party candidate against Truman and Republican nominees Thomas Dewey, the governor of New York, made the Israel embargo a campaign issue. Not only did the platform of his Progressive Party call for “lifting the discriminatory arms embargo,â€? but Wallace himself repeatedly brought it up in his campaign speeches, especially in New York. At one rally, he accused Truman of “playing politics with the lives of the people of Israel.â€? At another, he charged that “Jewish blood lies on the hands of Mr. Truman tonight.â€? Soon, the New York Star was predicting that many Jews “may even vote for Henry Wallace because of their dissatisfaction with Truman’s record, particularly on Palestine.â€? In the Brooklyn’s Brownsville, the most heavily Jewish neighborhood in the country at the time, Wallace received an astonishing 28 percent of the vote. He received similar levels of Jewish support in Coney Island, Borough Park, and Jewish sections of the Bronx such as the Grand Concourse and Mosholu Parkway, and Manhattan’s Lower East Side and Upper West Side. Overall, Truman received only 50-55 percent of Jewish votes in New York, with Wallace winning about 25 percent and Dewey around 20 percent. That is the lowest share of the Jewish vote for any Democratic candidate in modern presidential election history, except for Jimmy Carter.

Truman lost New York—the largest prize in the race that year, with 47 electoral votes—by just 60,959 votes, less than 1 percent. In his memoirs, Truman blamed Wallace for drawing votes away from him. Wallace won 8.25 percent, 509,559 votes, in New York State—almost 10 times the size of Governor Dewey’s margin over Truman. Of course, not every Jewish vote for Wallace was motivated by anger at Truman over Israel. Some of Wallace’s Jewish support came from ideological left-wing partisans who backed him because of other issues. But radical-left sentiment was rapidly diminishing in the American Jewish community by the late 1940s. Most Wallace voters were former FDR supporters who would have voted for Truman if Wallace had not been in the race. And many of them were furious that, as Israel was ďŹ ghting for its very existence, Truman refused to supply even a single bullet. The Jewish protest votes for Wallace took enough traditional Democratic votes away from Truman to deliver the state to Dewey. Thus Truman lost New York, and as a result nearly lost the election, in part because of Jewish concerns about his stance on Israel. “Dewey Defeats Trumanâ€? came within a whisker of being accurate. On March 17, 2015, Israeli Jewish concerns about the current U.S. president’s stance on Israel helped ensure that the premature Israeli newspaper headlines will join that infamous edition of the Chicago Tribune in the dustbin of journalistic misunderstanding of public opinion. Dr. Rafael Medoff is author of the author of 15 books about Jewish history, Zionism, and the Holocaust.

Iran protest in NY at noon Fri. A demonstration relating to the pending Iranian nuclear agreement is set for noon this Friday (March 27) outside the Manhattan ofďŹ ces of Senators Schumer and Gillibrand. The vigil, at 780 Third Ave., between East 48 and 49 streets, is being organized by Jeff Wiesenfeld and the Jewish Rapid Response Coalition. The senators will be asked to support the Iran Nuclear Agreement Review Act of 2015, the bi-partisan bill sponsored by Senators Menendez and Corker that is expected to come up for a vote shortly, possibly before Friday. If the bill passes, President Obama will likely veto it, triggering an override vote. “Tremendous forces are working against Israel at this moment,â€? said a Coalition statement. “We cannot afford to remain silent in the face of Israel’s most dire threat. As Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyu has said, ‘For the U.S., this is a matter of national security; for Israel, this is a matter of survival.â€? “Our Senators Schumer and Gillibrand, despite their public statements to Jewish groups claiming their commitment to Israel, have been silent about whether or not they intend to vote for the override of Obama’s expected veto. “For many of us, Friday, erev Shabbat, is an extremely busy day, but this is the day when both Senators are in the building. “The forces working against Israel are becoming more and more vocal. Supporters of Israel cannot afford to remain silent any longer! “Be at the rally on Friday so that you can proudly answer your children, when they ask, ‘What did you do for the Jewish people and Israel?’ when a true existential threat to Israel arose in your lifetime.

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By Alex Traiman, JNS.org Fresh off a decisive election victory, Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu finds himself in yet another diplomatic storm with President Obama over pre-election comments that a Palestinian state would not be established under his watch. Netanyahu later clarified that he wants “a sustainable, peaceful two-state solution” — but were his initial remarks even a policy change in the first place? Mainstream media outlets reported that Netanyahu’s pre-election comments were a significant departure from a 2009 speech he gave at Bar-Ilan University, in which he publicly supported a two-state solution for the first time. But on March 19, after accusations that he changed his mind on the issue to attract right-wing voters in the election, Netanyahu told NBC News, “I haven’t changed my policy. I never retracted my speech at Bar-Ilan University six years ago calling for a demilitarized Palestinian state that recognizes a Jewish state.” Within Israel, both supporters and opponents of Netanyahu agree with the prime minister’s self-assessment. “I think that he still has the same position,” Professor Ephraim Inbar, Director of the BeginSadat Center for Strategic Studies at Bar-Ilan University, told JNS.org. “He would be willing to make a territorial compromise. If you remember the 2009 speech, Netanyahu qualified his willingness to accept a Palestinian state that is demilitarized and recognizes Israel as a Jewish state.” “He still thinks that this is probably the best outcome,” said Inbar. “But at this stage, he doesn’t see that the Palestinians are ready in any way. This is why he made this statement [before the election]. … You have to take a close look at what he said, which is to comment on the likelihood of a two-state solution.” In one of his last campaign stops before the election, at Har Homa—a Jewish neighborhood with approximately 20,000 residents bordering several Palestinian neighborhoods on the southeast edge of Jerusalem—Netanyahu told the NRG website on March 16 that “anyone who moves to establish a Palestinian state today, and evacuate areas, is giving radical Islam an area from which to attack the State of Israel.” Netanyahu went on to say, “This is the true reality that has been created in past years. Those that ignore it are burying their heads in the sand. The left does this, buries its head in the sand, time and again.” When asked explicitly if a Palestinian state would not be created under his leadership, Netanyahu replied, “Indeed.” Those statements jumped to the top of both Israeli and international headlines, giving the strong impression that Netanyahu’s upcoming term would take a harder line on Israeli-Palestinian negotiations than his last two terms. Yet even Netanyahu’s opponents on the left are not up in arms over the policy ramifications of his recent comments.

“At least in his public statements and discourse, this obviously marks a different approach,” Gilead Sher, a senior research fellow and head of the Center for Applied Negotiations at Tel Aviv University’s Institute for National Security Studies (INSS), told JNS.org. “However, I think Netanyahu did very little, if anything, to pursue any kind of path that would enable the creation of a reality of two states for two people during his last two terms.” In 2009, Netanyahu said at Bar-Ilan University, “In my vision of peace, in this small land of ours, two peoples live freely, side by side, in amity and mutual respect. Each will have its own flag, its own national anthem, its own government. Neither will threaten the security or survival of the other.” Netanyahu then added some caveats. “If we receive this guarantee regarding demilitarization and Israel’s security needs, and if the Palestinians recognize Israel as the state of the Jewish people, then we will be ready in a future peace agreement to reach a solution where a demilitarized Palestinian state exists alongside the Jewish state,” he said. A closer look at the newly dissected and debated 2009 speech indicates a strong hesitancy to rush Israel towards the types of historic compromises the Jewish state would need to make to facilitate the creation of Palestinian state. “The claim that territorial withdrawals will bring peace with the Palestinians, or at least advance peace, has up till now not stood the test of reality,” Netanyahu said at the time. Sher, who served as a lead negotiator in talks with the Palestinians under former prime minister Ehud Barak at Camp David and in several other rounds of both known and covert negotiations, believes Netanyahu’s 2009 speech never intended to lay the groundwork for a realistic two-state solution. “Basically what he did in practice is delegitimize the two-state solution, delegitimize and undermine the negotiations process, and that is the subtext of his Bar-Ilan speech—and the subtext is obviously what became the text of his speech prior to the recent election,” Sher told JNS.org. Days after his election win, the mainstream media again cast Netanyahu as a “flip flopper” when he reaffirmed his support for a two-state solution. The prime minister, however, told NBC News that what had changed were not his views, but “the reality” on the ground. “The Palestinian leader (Mahmoud Abbas) refuses to recognize the Jewish state and has made a pact with Hamas that calls for the destruction of the Jewish state, and every territory that is vacated today in the Middle East is taken up by Islamist forces,” Netanyahu said. “We want that to change so that we can realize a vision of real, sustained peace. I don’t want a one-state solution. I want a sustainable, peaceful two-state solution, but for that, circumstances have to change.” The question that remains both within Israel

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Sher — a proponent of restarting negotiations with the Palestinians and even making unilateral territorial withdrawals in the absence of a peace accord — said, “One of the basic core parameters is Palestine being a demilitarized state. However, having said all that, I see very long odds for bilateral negotiations to resume under a government led by Prime Minister Netanyahu.” The Begin-Sadat Center’s Inbar concurs with Sher’s assessment, but he places the blame for the failure to negotiate squarely on the Palestinians. “The Palestinian national movement is dysfunctional, and I don’t think it is ready for historic consequences with the Zionist movement. … The unwillingness to recognize Israel as a Jewish state is what keeps the Palestinians away from negotiations,” Inbar said. Moving forward, the perception that both the Israelis and Palestinians are currently disinterested in any kind of peace arrangement appears to anger the White House. Obama told The Huffington Post in comments published March 21 that Netanyahu’s pre-election comments on a Palestinian state mean that “we’ve got to evaluate what other options are available to make sure that we don’t see a chaotic situation in the region.” “[The Obama administration is] impatient with Netanyahu, which I do not totally understand,” Inbar told JNS.org. “He did not say that he is against a two-state solution. He said that at this stage it is not likely. Anybody who looks at how the Palestinians are behaving will agree.” Responding to criticism on Fox News, Netanyahu said, “You can’t force the people of Israel, who’ve just elected me by a wide margin, to bring them peace and security, to secure the State of Israel, to accept terms that would endanger the very survival of the State of Israel. I don’t think that’s the direction of American policy. I hope it’s not.”

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Obama-Bibi rift not key issue Pesach safety‌ Commentary by Abraham H. Miller, JNS.org Until the Obama administration decided to shift its support away from Israel because of a rather torturous interpretation of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s campaign rhetoric, it seemed absurd that a major policy decision against an ally would ever turn on the hyperbole of a political campaign. Even after Netanyahu clariďŹ ed his remarks, the administration is persisting in its reassessment of policy not toward Netanyahu, but toward the Jewish state. Contrast this with the administration’s behavior toward Palestinian leaders who routinely advocate genocide, call Jews the descendants of apes and pigs, incite violence against innocents, name parks and schools after mass murderers, and openly allude to peace negotiations as strategic steps toward Israel’s elimination. Yet the Obama administration has not found that any of this rises to the level to warrant a change in policy toward the Palestinians. American administrations have typically met Israel’s outrage against Palestinian incitement, provocation, and terrorism with cautious patronizing and the urging of restraint. Days after Yasser Arafat signed the Oslo Accords, the Palestinian leader characterized the treaty by alluding to the Prophet Mohammed’s peace of Mecca. Arafat reminded his followers that Mohammed broke the agreement when he felt strong enough to take the city. The American response was as typical then as it is now — Israel should not overreact to Palestinian hyperbole. So, why is Palestinian terrorism and verbal evasion met with endless rationalization, while something as insigniďŹ cant as Israeli campaign rhetoric results in harsh policy changes? The explanation is quite simple. President Barack Obama has long been looking for an excuse to create daylight between his administration and Israel. The conict with Netanyahu is not about Netanyahu; it is about the administration grabbing a ďŹ g leaf to justify a move toward the Palestinians. An incision into Obama’s ideology would have easily predicted this outcome. He was reared in the American leftists’ understanding of the Arab-Israeli conict — one that ows from simplistic identity politics. As that narrative goes, Israelis are white-skinned, Western people (in reality they are

largely Middle Eastern Jews) exploiting third-world, brownskinned people. Israel is characterized as the last vestige of British colonialism, even though Britain did not vote for the creation of Israel and actively supported the Arabs in the 1948 war. Consequently, the Jews have no right to be there, and it is their obligation alone to make concessions. This fatuous narrative dominates Middle East teachings in higher education. Professor Zbigniew Brzezinski, who openly advocated shooting down Israeli planes if they try to bomb Iran, is a trusted Obama foreign policy adviser. There is Samantha Power, Obama’s U.N. ambassador, who in a radio interview advocated using American troops to protect Palestinians from Israelis. And no such list would be complete without the inclusion of Robert Malley, an apologist for Arafat’s walking away from Camp David and a man whose father was one of Arafat’s advisers. In his Hyde Park neighborhood in Chicago, Obama associated with ultra-progressive Jews who believed that peace was more likely if Israel, not the Palestinians, were on the receiving end of condemnation. Netanyahu’s campaign statement that “now� is not a time for a two-state solution was evasive campaign rhetoric, no different than presidential candidate Obama calling for an undivided Jewish capital in Jerusalem, only to subsequently amend his statement to mean that Jerusalem should not be divided with barbed wire — a phony allusion to Jordan’s cutting the city in two from 1948-67. Netanyahu’s statement about responding to high Arab voter turnout was no different from Obama’s cronies lamenting that former Chicago mayor Richard M. Daley’s urban renewal program was making the city white once again and threatening the black political base. The Obama split with Netanyahu is less a split with Netanyahu than it is a divide with Israel wrought by Obama’s progressive view of the Jewish state. It was inevitable, as inevitable that the relationship between the American and Israeli people will not only survive, but get stronger after this Israel-bashing administration is gone. Abraham H. Miller is emeritus professor of political science, Univ. of Cincinnati, and senior fellow, Haym Salomon Center.

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he good news is I’m going to Israel nine days before Pesach; the bad news is I’m coming home two days before Pesach. My husband and I are going to visit his daughter, husband and three adorable children in Yerushalyim and his son, daughter-inlaw and their three adorable children as well, in Efrat. And while there for ďŹ ve nights, we also get to attend the wedding of our close friend’s daughter. So heads up — if you see me the morning I arrive back to the states, in any of the Five Town’s supermarkets, I might not be safe to be around. Every year right after Purim I have these grandiose plans of starting to turn over my kitchen in preparation for Pesach. I clean out most of my pantry and start buying all the nonperishables. Most of which I won’t use, but have to have. There are certain items that I now am able to pass by — the mustard container looks like it would hold mustard, the soy sauce bottle gets an A for authenticity, but when it comes to the actual product, unless it’s being used on a TV or movie set, leave it on the store shelf. Each year more and more products are introduced, and most taste nothing like the real thing. You can fool me once, but not twice. My problem is trying not to buy things I know won’t be eaten, but has become such a habit to buy. Every year I think of how much I’m spending, so what’s the difference if I buy a few (way more than a few) items I won’t use.

One such item is those jelly half moon candies. Red, yellow green and orange, each with that awful tasting white half circle in them, made of sugar. Maybe I would eat a red one, maybe, but the green? Really, who eats the green, and if you do, why, for heavens sake? Why, I ask you? So his year i stood my ground and did not buy it. But to be fair, and because some of you might have seen me in the candy aisle, I must admit, I hesitated a bit. Ok, so maybe I hesitated a lot. I walked by and laughed to myself, “No way, not this year.â€? Then I stopped for a second and walked on. “That wasn’t too hard I thought to myself.â€? Next, I then walked by the granola section (aka crushed matzah), then the bread crumb section (crushed matzah), then onto and past the “crackerâ€? section (hexagon shaped matzah pieces with salt). Then comes the macaroons. Should I use the can I just found from last year, never opened, or was it from two years ago? Don’t, get me wrong, we don’t actually open or eat them, there just has to be at least one can in the pantry, because it’s a tradition, you know, along with jar of borscht that won’t be opened, as well as the token box of passover cereal that comes in a myriad of sizes, shapes and colors but all taste alike and will turn into a wet soggy mess before you can return the container of milk to the refrigerator ‌ but you need one in case. In case what, I don’t know, but just in case. So here it is two weeks later. My extra freezer and fridge are cleaned and stocked. Freezer loaded with roasts, chickens, breast of veal, lamb chops and corned beef. Fridge with dairy products except for milk and juice. All done in only eight major trips, seriously. And each of those times, I walked by those jelly candies, I stopped for a second, picked it up and a voice

inside said of me, that sounded like a police ofďŹ cer on a megaphone, said, “Put your hands back on the cart where I can see them and walk away from that box of half moon jelly candies.â€? On the last trip someone standing next me asked, “You’re not buying those candies are you, I stopped buying those years ago.â€? “Me? No, deďŹ nitely not,â€? and I walked on. I did it! Now, if I only I could control myself from buying that extra soup ladle, vegetable peeler, ice scream scooper and wine bottle opener — just in case I didn’t put it away last year. Since I don’t unpack my dishes, pots, etc. until a week before, I always buy things just to make sure I have it. Meanwhile, I just unpacked those boxes‌ My dear readers, please remind me next year that I have 7 meat ladles and 5 dairy ones, 4 can openers, 5 vegetable peelers, 8 wooden mixing spoons, 4 spatulas, 6 basters, 5 rubber spatulas and 7 mixing bowls. Oh, and in case anyone needs needs extra Maxwellhouse Haggadahs — I counted 72. Since I won’t be back on time to get my

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•Dr. Jonathan and Sari Altmark are the Guests of Honor. Jonathan Altmark, a pediatric dentist, performs many volunteer functions at the Young Israel of West Hempstead, and also serves on the Chevra Kadisha, is a Hatzalah member, and delivers Tomchei Shabbos packages each week. Sari Altmark, a speech pathologist, is a board member and Sisterhood president of their shul, as well as a class mother at Shulamith and active member of the Shulamith Parents Council. •The Educator of the Year is Morah Shira Bokow, a beloved Pre 1A teacher at Shulamith since its second year on Long Island, who is currently completing her 20th year of teaching. The event is being chaired by Jeff Eisenberg, who is at the helm of a strong committee of parent volunteers. Shulamith, the oldest Jewish girls’ school in North America, has grown rapidly since it opened on Long Island 14 years ago. It presently serves 546 students from nursery through 8th grade, and is adding a 9th grade next year. Its warm, nurturing environment promotes a love of learning of both Limudei Kodesh and Secular Studies, the growth In the context of her remarks and speaking to of the whole child, the developsuch an audience ‌ the term ‘Orthodox’ was a ment of midot tovot, and sensinegative term — as negative for that [J Street] tivity to chesed, as well as idenaudience as Tea Party and Republican. This morntiďŹ cation with the State of Israel ing, upon learning about her remarks, we spoke and the Jewish People. with Rep. Schakowsky and conveyed how offendThe community salutes Shed we were by the apparent intent of her remarks. ulamith on this important mile“We appreciate the unequivocal apology isstone and looks forward to sued by Representative Schakowsky in response reaping the rewards of their outto our concerns.â€? —JNS.org standing graduates.

Shulamith School for Girls Taking Shulamith’s education to the next level is the focus of its Road to Excellence campaign and dinner, set for Tuesday, April 28 at the Sands of Atlantic Beach. These are exciting times for Shulamith — a high school will be added in the fall and all four divisions together will soon be under one roof for the ďŹ rst time. Having started 14 years ago as a branch of the Brooklyn school, the venerated 80 year old Shulamith is now run in Long Island and laser-focused on providing a cutting edge education in a safe and secure environment. The focus of this all-important Road to Excellence dinner is to enable Shulamith to reach the next level in the areas of technology and support services that fully integrate and enhance their excellent education. The honorees at this year’s dinner are pillars of their communities and very accomplished professionals.

Jewish Rep. sorry for slap at Orthodox rival The OU criticized what it described as the “pejorative� use of the word “Orthodox� in remarks by Rep. Jan Schakowsky’s (D-Ill.) at the annual conference of the left-wing J Street lobby on Monday. The OU welcomed the lawmaker’s subsequent apology. Schakowsky had thanked J Street for supporting her in an election campaign against Joel Pollak, who is currently the senior editor-atlarge for Breitbart News.

“In 2010, I had an election ‌ an election within our community. That is, I ran against a Jewish-Orthodox, Tea Party Republican [Pollak] who made it very clear that actually Jan Schakowsky was anti-Israel because of the positions that she took,â€? said said in videotaped comments. “J Street came to my rescue.â€? On Tuesday, OU Executive Director for Public Policy Nathan Diament said, “Bias and prejudice have no place in our American political discourse.

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Democracy is the real winner of Israel’s election By Lawrence Grossman, JNS.org As pundits and politicians sift through the election data, devise alternative scenarios for the formation of the next Israeli government, and warn about the implications for an already tense U.S.-Israel relationship, one key fact is getting lost: this was a great victory for Israeli democracy. In a Middle East populated by clerical regimes like Iran, military dictatorships like Egypt, authoritarian monarchies like Saudi Arabia, and murderous despotisms like Syria — not to mention Islamic State, Hamas, Hezbollah, and their barbarous ilk — democratic Israel stands alone. Although beset on all sides by countries and non-state entities sworn to its destruction, Israel has never abandoned its democratic commitments, and remains a beacon of hope for the world. Israelis enjoy universal suffrage, with no distinction between Arab and Jew. The parties that vied in this election ranged the gamut from the extreme right, including some politicians who would recast Israel as a state only for Jews, to the extreme left, including some who would erase its Jewish identity entirely. Besides the 10 parties that passed the electoral threshold and entered the Knesset, there was a plethora of tiny parties with no hope of gaining seats, but whose single-issue campaigns added to the democratic atmosphere. These included a party advocating legalization of marijuana, another pressing for the rights of haredi women, and a third asserting the benefits for Israeli society of the teachings of Rabbi Nachman, a hasidic holy man who died more than two centuries ago. Disproving the outrageous charge that Israel discriminates against its Arab population, a new Arab party, constituted for this election out of several smaller factions, achieved 13 seats in the Knesset, making it the third-largest party in

Israel’s 120-member legislative body and a potentially influential factor going forward. And, as a footnote, it was an Arab judge on Israel’s Supreme Court, Salim Joubran, who headed the Central Elections Committee that oversaw the conduct of the election. Other signs of Israel’s vibrant democracy are evident in the makeup of the incoming 20th Knesset. One-third of that body — 40 members — will be newcomers, 28 will be women, and 17 are Arabs. In some ways, Israel’s commitment to democracy even exceeds our own. The final voter turnout figure for the Israeli election was 72.3 percent, a percentage not reached in an American presidential election since 1900. The most recent contest for the presidency, in 2012, attracted only 57.5 percent of American voters to

the polls. Israel’s extraordinary commitment to full democratic participation is also evident in a little-known legal difference between our two countries that underlines the great importance that Israel attaches to voting rights. In the United States, prison inmates are barred from voting, removal of their franchise being viewed as part of their punishment. In contrast, Israel understands the right to vote as so fundamental to democracy that prisoners vote just like everyone else — and according to media reports, they voted at an even higher rate than other Israelis. Whatever the results of Israel’s elections, the fact that they took place at all must not be taken for granted. The outcome surprised the experts and defied the pollsters. It was not the prognosticators but the people themselves, by depositing their ballots, who have determined

Israel’s course. That cannot be said of any other country anywhere near Israel on the map. In survey after survey, the American people have demonstrated overwhelming support for Israel in its struggle to survive and thrive. Those who wonder why have their answer in the Israeli election. Israel’s democratic political system, along with its commitments to human rights, the rule of law, free speech, religious liberty, and gender equality, echo what Americans hold dear. In a world where those concepts are increasingly defied and overridden, Americans care less about temporary points of friction between American and Israeli leaders—as intense as they sometimes become—than about the underlying values that link our two countries together. Lawrence Grossman is the American Jewish Committee’s director of publications.

AP’s sinister spin on Israel’s democracy The Associated Press used the occasion of Israel’s latest demonstration of its democracyin-action to suggest that it’s all a mirage. AP ignored the fact that in a region dominated by totalitarian regimes that actively suppress minorities and political dissidents and commit unchecked mass murder, Israel is the only democracy, whose Arab citizens have civil rights and elect representatives to the Knesset — and that Arabs in what AP calls Israeli “occupied territories” are in their stateless predicament in substantial measure because of the refusal of their leaders to come to terms with the state of Israel’s right to exist. The AP is the world’s largest news cooperative; its influence on news coverage by other media outlets is unmatched. This week’s 1,549 word “news analysis” was written by AP Mid-

dle East editor, Dan Perry. It moved under the suggested headline, “Is Israel democratic? Not so clear.” Here are excerpts [full story can be found through this link: apne.ws/1FVTD6b]: The displeasure felt in some quarters over [Netanyahu’s] win has placed front and center the world community’s unwritten obligation to accept the results of a truly democratic vote. It is a basic tenet of the modern order which has survived the occasional awkward election result — as well as recent decades’ emergence of some less-than-pristine democracies around the globe. For Israel, the argument is especially piquant, because its claim to be the only true democracy in the Middle East has been key to its branding and its vitally important claim on U.S.

military, diplomatic and financial support. .… Of the Arabs, only a third have voting rights. These are the “Israeli Arabs” who live in the areas that became Israel in the 1948-49 war, which established the country’s borders.… Israelis argue that since the [West Bank and Gaza] are not formally part of Israel, the goings-on therein do not undermine the democracy claim.… Israel’s Arab citizens are increasingly integrated and can point to success stories like Salim Jubran, the supreme court judge who presided over the election. But they also claim discrimination in a variety of ways — and are currently seething over Netanyahu’s election day efforts to fire up his nationalist base with warnings that Arabs citizens “are streaming to the polls” in an effort to bring down his rule.…

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resident Obama has seized on purported statements by Prime Minister Netanyahu, not because they are true, but because they open up the door for the President to publicly display the hatred of Israel that he has shown privately since his ďŹ rst presidential campaign. The two statements that were widely misreported were regarding Netanyahu’s support for a Jewish State and about Israeli Arabs voting It is convenient for the media and President Obama to take half a statement and spin it the way they want, but the truth is Netanyahu never said he didn’t believe in a two-state solution, nor did he ever say he would block its creation. What he said was that a Palestinian State would never be formed while he was premier because it would become a base for radical Islam. The dialog below is from the original CNN story posted the day before the Israeli election and before the leftist media and the President started spinning what Netanyahu said: “Asked by an interviewer with the Israeli news site, NRG [Ma’ariv] if it was true that a Palestinian nation would never be formed while he’s prime minister, Netanyahu replied, ‘Indeed.’ “His interview with NRG came as he courted conservative supporters a day before Israelis head to the polls for national elections. “ ‘Anyone who is going to establish a Palestinian state, anyone who is going to evacuate territories today, is simply giving a base for attacks to the radical Islam against Israel,’ he said. ‘This is the true reality that was created here in the last few years.’ â€? That’s what the guy said folks. Not “no two-state solution,â€? or that “he would block a Palestinian State,â€? but as long as they presented themselves as sponsors of terrorism there would be no Palestinian State, and based on that it will not happen on his watch. The President knows exactly what Netanyahu said and what he meant the day he said it. Instead, he is exploiting the liberal press’ misreporting. The second statement, “Arab voters are going en masse to the pollsâ€? and thus threatening the country’s “rightwing government,â€? is partially true. He did say that, and continued not by saying the Arabs should be prevented from voting, but that Netanyahu supporters needed to get to the polls. Al-

most immediately after the Arabs voters going to the polls video was posted, Netanyahu clariďŹ ed what he said by adding, “What’s wrong is not that Arab citizens are voting, but that massive funds from abroad from left-wing NGOs and foreign governments are bringing them en masse to the polls in an organized way, thus twisting the true will of all Israeli citizens who are voting, for the good of the left.â€? Bibi was looking for help in combating the foreign funds being used to unseat him such as the group V-15 whose advertising was basically “vote for anybody but Bibi?â€? V-15 received money from the U.S. State Department Again the reports skewed what Netanyahu said, and again President Obama used the twisted words because it freed him to trash Israel overtly not only because of his historic feelings about the Jewish State but because he hopes to silence Israel about what may be an awful Iran deal. Since the election the President has been condemning Netanyahu and the Jewish State way beyond what has ever been seen before, including telling the HufďŹ ngton Post, “What Netanyahu said about Arab voters erodes Israeli democracy.â€? Earlier in the week, presidential spokesman Joshua Earnest said that despite what Netanyahu really said and what he repeated to MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell, President Obama did not believe the Prime Minister and is reevaluating the American-Israeli relationship. After Earnest’s statement, AIPAC, which rarely criticizes politicians of either party, and even more rarely criticizes an American President, released a statement critical of President Obama. “Today, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu strongly and clearly reafďŹ rmed his commitment to a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conict. In addition, he sought to reassure that his government will be dedicated to serving and representing all the people of Israel — both Jewish and nonJewish citizens. Unfortunately, administration spokespersons rebuffed the prime minister’s efforts to improve the understandings between Israel and the U.S. ‌ We urge the administration to further strengthen ties with America’s

most reliable and only truly democratic ally in the Middle East. A solid and unwavering relationship between the U.S. and Israel is in the national security interests of both countries and reects the values that we both cherish.â€? On Thursday Republican Senator Marco Rubio delivered a 15-minute long address on the Senate oor blasting President Obama’s recent treatment of Israel. Rubio declared, “This is a historic and tragic mistake. Israel is not a Republican or Democratic issue. If this was a Republican president doing these things, I would give the exact same speech. In fact, I would be even angrier. This is outrageous. It is irresponsible. It is dangerous, and it betrays the commitment this nation has made to the right of a Jewish state to exist in peace.â€? Senator Schumer joined in on the criticism without mentioning the president by name. “The UN has never been a great friend of Israel’s, and the United States has always been the strong and often lonely voice for Israel at the UN. I expect that to continue, and will do everything I can to ensure that the US stands up strongly for Israel at the UN,â€? he said. Rep. Lee Zeldin, who represents eastern Suffolk, added, “The Palestine Authority must be willing to root out terrorist groups like Hamas from its ranks or a two state solution will never be viable. There are way too many neighbors of Israel overly aggressive in offensive actions against Israelis. Many seek to wipe Israel off the map. That is not an option and the White House should be more sensitive to that reality on the ground.â€? In the end, it doesn’t matter what Congress thinks, as many made it clear when Prime Minister Netanyahu was about to speak before Congress; the President of the United States sets foreign policy. And this President’s policy has been anti-Israel from the start. The only difference now is that the President is using words Prime Minister Netanyahu never said, so he can increase his venom toward the Jewish State and bring it out into the open. Since the election the President has been condemning Netanyahu and the Jewish State way beyond what has ever been seen before, including telling the HufďŹ ngton Post, “What Netanyahu said about Arab voters erodes Israeli democracy.â€?

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erhaps among our community’s most creative and articulate interpreters of our Biblical narrative and tradition, both in verse and illustration, is Rabbi David Fohrman. This year as in years past, Rabbi Fohrman has brought forth a unique animated series of video presentations dealing with the Exodus, themed to the Pesach holiday observance. This year’s series in entitled “Passover: The Three Great Lies of the Exodus.” According to Rabbi Fohrman, “The story of the Exodus has so many awe-inspiring, belief-inducing moments that the three signs that G-d showed Moses at the beginning of the narrative are not typically seen as the top contenders. However, it is with these three signs that G-d explicitly states: ‘So that [the people] will believe.’ [Exodus 4:1] But this is curious: Why would the signs be an important way station on the road to belief? They are much less impressive than the plagues that follow shortly afterwards. Indeed, the signs — a white hand, a cup of water that turns to blood when it hits the ground, a staff that turns into a snake — seem like glorified

magic tricks. Why are they catalysts towards national belief?” In thi animatIon, Rabbi Fohrman teaches that the three signs are more than “magic tricks”; they serve as lenses through which we view the entire Exodus saga. When we begin to better comprehend the deeper meaning and theological focus of these three signs, we see an entirely new Exodus story unfold. In Rabbi Fohrman’s words, these point to “a darker, but a more nuanced and more meaningful story than the one we perhaps learned as children. It is a story that reveals the depth of G-d’s abiding love for His People, and in the emotional power inherent in His commitment to redeem them. This video series as well all the previous ones certainly deserve your attention for both their educational and spiritual value. They can be viewed through the website of the Aleph Beta Academy at alephbeta.org/ course/lecture/the-three-signs new Haggada? Yes, another new Haggada, with commentary by Dr. Erica Brown, edited by Gila Fine of Maggid Books, and published by the OU Press, is now on the Jewish literary scene. In fact this is really two works in one — on one side we find the traditional text and commentary, on the other, eight detailed and rather sophisticated essays dealing with various seder ritual

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themes. Below, I shall but briefly focus upon just one small, yet crucial aspect of the seder ritual and of Dr. Brown’s take. The traditional closing of the Haggada ritual is the singing of Lashana Hab’ah Birushalayim Habenuyah (Next Year In Jerusalem Rebuilt). Given the tenor of our times, this closing anthem is worthy of our voice and heart as

well as the keen attention of our mind and soul. According to Dr. Brown, “With this song we have completed the Exodus, beginning in Egypt and ending in Jerusalem — or at least only a year away from Jerusalem. These three potent words signal closure of the story, but they raise interesting questions: If you live in Jerusalem, should you say ‘Next year in Jerusalem’? If you have no intention of going to Jerusalem, should you say this phrase anyway?” Further on we read the following mysterious observation: “We end our master story of Jewish peoplehood with a shared vision of a geographic and spiritual center: Jerusalem. Even if one lives there geographically, he or she may not live there spiritually.” These are points to ponder over as we proceed into the observance of Pesach, the foundational observance of our people’s nationalist and spiritual legacy. And what makes things even more interesting is the addition of the text of the Hatikva on the very next page. Taken together with its English translation as well as its absolutely riveting commentary, the fears and shivers we experience over the daily news headlines fall into irrelevance. The message of spiritual, physical, religious as well as nationalist salvation becomes a reality, thus shedding off fears stirred by our adversaries’ repetoire of hate. To this is our hope — that the salvation from Egyptian servitude that we commemorate at the Seder table has, through through Dr. Erica Brown’s eloquent mind and pen, been brought up to date, and relevance.

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egarding the wonders and miracles Hashem performed in Mitzrayim, Parshas Bo states: “U’lmaan tesaper b’aznei bincha u’ven bincha” (“And you shall tell it into the ears of your child and of your child’s child”). (10:2) The word b’aznei appears to be superfluous; instead of “into the ears of your child,” the pasuk could have just stated, “and you shall tell your child.” While growing up in Israel, our suits were made by Mr. Shtringer, a master tailor. My father told me, “Gedaliah, a person can be a great tailor and make the most beautiful suit, but a master tailor makes sure that that suit fits the specific customer exactly and in comfort.” As I grew older and advanced my career in chinuch (education), my father (himself,

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ou might want to stuff your pants pockets with sand and hang onto the rail as the ship of state lurches towards the distinct possibility that the next election to command the helm will be between Jeb Bush and Hillary Clinton. The brother versus the wife. Sounds like a probate lawsuit. This promises to be a fabulous development for comedians everywhere, precipitating the resurrection of all our 1992 Bush/Clinton material. It’s the green thing to do. Recycling meets nostalgia. Together again for the very first time. A rematch by proxy. Now, if only we could coax Ross Perot back into the fray. If Jeb wins his party’s nomination, it

a mechanech par excellence) again reminded me of the master tailor, Mr. Shtringer, and his excellent fitting process. My father explained that in education and teaching not one suit fits all, that each child needs to be measured and fitted to their specific form, and that a lesson, like a garment, can be beautiful by itself, but it must “suit” the student for whom it’s been prepared. As Shlomo Ha’melech taught us, chanoch L’naar Al pi darko (educate each child according to his or her own way). In considering why the Torah specifically directs b’aznei bincha, (into the ears of your child), I suggest it is teaching us an important lesson: That parents and educators must tell and teach the story of Pesach, in a way that enables each child to hear the message on their personal level of comprehension. The responsibility of educational process lies not on the child having to learn but rather on the parent having to teach — V’hegadita L’bincha — and to teach in a manner that is “suited” for each child, and that

is geared to the ear of each child individually. I would venture even further, noting that the trop (cantillation) atop on top the words b’aznei bincha (into the ears of your child) is a kadma v’azlah, which has the shape of a parentheses. Kadma means to give and azlah to receive (Perush HaGra on “V’nasnu” Parshas Ki Tisa). Thus the trop, by both its shape and literal meaning, enhances and emphasizes the words that direct us that whatever we teach our children and our students, they must be able to understand, absorb and repeat back as well. We find this message as well in the Haggadah, where the narrative enforces that “the Torah speaks of the Four Sons” — which is to say four unique and different children. These include the wise child, the wicked child, the simple child, and the child who doesn’t even know where to begin, or care to ask. Each child expresses their curiosity in a different way, and thus each child receives

Each child receives an answer tailored to the uniqueness of that child.

Again, Bush v Clinton would mean a Bush has been on their presidential ticket seven out of the last 10 elections, which is way past dynasty; now we’re talking anti-trust legislation. If Democrats aren’t investigating the possibility of indicting the Bush Family as a monopolistic cartel infringing on the Sherman Act, they’re more clueless than we first thought. Which was considerable. Meanwhile, the GOP is trying to nip all this dynastic chatter in the bud by pointing out that Hillary would be a sequel as well. But a sequel is not a dynasty. She’s only the second Clinton to run, which is different than three candidates from the same family by one. I doubt a third Roosevelt could get elected. Besides, Hillary is a woman, a concept Republicans aren’t overly hip to. The only

woman the Tea Party would nominate is Barbara Bush. Not as a candidate, as a production facility. They fail to grasp how the first person with a y-chromosome deficiency to top a ticket is a big deal. Nor do they understand how disparate the nature is between the third Bush and the first woman. The problem is, Jeb has excited both donors and party regulars. You keep hearing, “no, no, you don’t understand, this is the smart one! He’s takes after mom.” And isn’t that typical? Finally trotting out the smart one the third time around. At least the Dems had the good sense to send up their smart Clinton the second time at bat. Jeb is the guy who famously said he disagreed with nothing his brother ever did in the White House. Of course, when Hillary

an answer to his ear with the same message but tailored to the uniqueness of that child. Arriving with my father to the tailor shop to pick up our perfectly fitted suits, I stood in front of the mirror smiling from ear to ear as I saw the reflection of a young boy handsomely dressed in a beautiful custom fitted suit, ready for Yom Tov, suddenly extremely appreciative of all those fittings which earlier I thought to be needless. The Yom Tov of Pesach is a time when families gather around the Seder table, children ask questions beginning with the Ma Nishtana, and parents must answer. Let us take the time to prepare and review the answers in a way which are tailor-made for each child, so that each child will want to participate and understand the great miracle of Yiziat Mitzrayim, the Exodus from Egypt. May we all merit to see the day when each of our ears will hear the coming of Moshiach and we can gather together eating the Korban Pesach, with the coming of Moshiach b’mhaira b’yameinu, Amen! Rabbi Gedaliah Oppen is principal of Judaic Studies at HAFTR and rabbinic associate at Congregation Beth Sholom in Lawrence. was Senator of New York, she stated she could not believe a sitting president of the United States would ever lie to her. Arguments can be made that neither one of them pays close attention. The GOP doesn’t realize how off-putting this whole dynasty thing is to ordinary Americans. Our whole system of government is based on not being a monarchy. As much as the Bush Family likes to hold hands with them, we aren’t Saudi Arabia. “But Jeb is his own man.” Yeah, sure. An aide to the Right to Rise PAC said 21 members advising Jeb used to work in the Bush 1 or Bush 2 administrations. Who’s he going to pick as VP, Dick Cheney? One consolation about this whole sovereign ascendancy matchup is whoever wins isn’t going to need much of an orientation when it comes to figuring out the lay of the land at the White House. Look at that, we’re saving money already.

RABBI BINNY FREEDMAN THE HEART OF JERUSALEM If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too; If you can dream — and not make dreams your master; If you can think — and not make thoughts your aim; If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster And treat those two impostors just the same; If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools, Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken, And stoop and build ’em up with worn-out tools: If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew To serve your turn long after they are gone, And so hold on when there is nothing in you Except the Will which says to them: ‘Hold on!’ If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, ‘Or walk with Kings — nor lose the common touch, if neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you, If all men count with you, but none too much; If you can fill the unforgiving minute With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run, Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it, And — which is more — you’ll be a Man, my son! From If, by Rudyard Kipling

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his Shabbat, as we read the weekly portion of Tzav, we are also in final preparations for the festival of Pesach. Is there a connection between these two themes? One of the central mitzvoth of Pesach is the injunction not to eat any chametz, or unleavened bread. Instead, we are commanded to eat matzah, the unleavened bread, for the entire week. And whenever we think of matzah we think of Pesach. Less known, however, is the special mitzvah of matzah, which we read of in this week’s portion, which seems to be completely unrelated to the festival of Pesach. Regarding the minchah (meal) offering in the temple, the Torah tells us (Leviticus 6:9): “It (the meal offering’s) remainder shall be eaten … as matzot, in the holy area. It shall not be baked with leaven (chametz)…”

What does the prohibition of eating chametz have to do with the sacrifices in the Temple? Indeed, referring to last week’s portion (2:11), it is clear there is a general prohibition of offering chametz (unleavened bread) up on the altar, though it is mentioned with the mincha offering, because that is the meal offering where the possibility of flour and water becoming chametz exists (unlike other animal sacrifices where no bread is offered). So what do chametz and matzah have to do with our current discussions of the sacrifices in the temple? Additionally, the concepts of chametz and matzah are introduced as a central part of the story of the exodus, and thus are an important concept related specifically to the festival of Pesach. Is there a connection between the festival of Pesach, the matzah (and chametz), and the sacrifices we offer in the Temple? What, in fact, is the matzah, and the chametz, and how are they connected to our portion of sacrifices in the Temple? Rav Tzadok HaKohen of Lublin, in his Tzidkat HaTzaddik, alludes to an interesting question. Most people, if asked why we eat matzah on Pesach, would most probably recall that when we finally left Egypt, bound for the freedom of the desert, we had no time to bake bread for the journey. So we had to take the dough with us, even though it had not yet risen. Hence, to commemorate this event, we eat Matzah on Passover today. Now, to be fair, this would be the correct answer, as attested to in the Torah. The Jews, say the verses, “took their dough before it could rise” (Exodus 12: 34). And the reason for this was “because they were chased out of Egypt and they could not tarry, and had prepared no fare for the way” (Exodus12: 39). So in fact the Jews baked matzah because they were in such a rush they could not afford the time to allow the dough to rise. But it’s not so simple. Because the Torah also tells me, at the beginning of the same chapter (Exodus 12: 15) that

nearly a week before the Jews ultimately leave Egypt (and before even receiving the mitzvah to take the paschal lamb), they will have a festival on which they will eat matzah for seven days. So we were given the mitzvah of matzah a week before we ever left Egypt! Why then, did we not have enough time to bake bread? While it may be true that our departure ended up being in a hurry, without the time to bake the bread, Hashem, who knew all this in advance, could certainly have arranged for some advanced challah baking! Obviously Hashem engineered such a departure because there was a message we needed to learn which is represented in the mitzvah of matzah. There are certain moments, suggests the Tzidkat HaTzaddik, when we are presented with a window, an opening to come closer to a relationship with G-d. Such windows appear all too infrequently, and remain open only briefly. In life you have to grab those moments when they appear, otherwise, you miss them. Such was the case of the Jewish people, who had a small window of opportunity in which to leave Egypt. And make no mistake about it, we all have our own Egypt, which enslaves us in whatever shape or form, and Pesach is the festival that creates the opportunity for each of us to let go, and leave our own Egypt behind. Hashem engineered our departure from Egypt in such a hurry to teach us that when we are given the chance to leave Egypt, we have to grab those opportunities, because if we don’t, they quickly disappear. Chametz then, represents the missed opportunity, and matzah represents the moment at which such an opportunity presents itself, full of promise and potential. And of course, that is all part of the message of the sacrifices and the Temple. When I offer a sacrifice to G-d in the Temple, what I am essentially tapping in to, is a moment of raw potential. Whatever the mistakes of the past, and however far away I have

In this moment, you are beginning the rest of your life. Every mistake you ever made can be overcome.

allowed myself to grow, at this moment, on Har HaBayit, the Temple mount, I have arrived at a window of opportunity; I have the chance to come back home, (hence the name Har HaBayit, which really means “the hill that is home”) to do teshuvah, the Jewish word for repentance. Indeed, teshuvah actually comes from the root shuv, to return, or come back home. Our challenge in such a moment is to grab on to it, and ensure it does not slip away. he real difference between chametz and matzah is itself only a moment. Jewish tradition teaches that matzah must be baked in under 18 minutes from the time the water was first mixed with flour. A 19 minute matzah is … chametz. It’s all about the power of a given moment. How often do we miss the moment? How often do we take the time to appreciate the enormous potential every moment contains, and even creates? This, too, is the message of the sacrifices in the Temple. So often we think there is just no time, or the time has passed, or even that we can never reclaim the time we have lost. We often feel trapped in time, resigning ourselves to the patterns we have fallen in to. The Torah this week comes to tell us, however, that the only moment we really need to live in is the moment we are in right now. Never mind the moment you just missed. Grab the moment you have now, because in this moment, you are beginning the rest of your life, and every mistake you ever made, every pit you ever fell in to, can all be overcome. Each of us, every day, has our own moments of enormous potential, the question is, do we rise to meet them? Do we transform those gifts into Jewish destiny? Do we change the script we have fallen in to, and become partners in an entirely new world, the world we are born in to every moment. Do we fill the unforgiven minute, with sixty seconds of long distance run ? May Hashem bless us, this Pesach, to reconnect with our potential, as individuals, and as a people, so that one day soon, we can all dance together in the beautiful hills and valleys of Jerusalem, on our way up to celebrate the festival of Pesach the way it was really meant to be.

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he tragic story of a fire in Brooklyn coming on the ten year anniversary of a similar story in Teaneck has left the greater Jewish community reeling. We mourn with these families, and wish for a recovery for those still in medical care. Having seen and experienced devastating loss, the only thing I know to be experientially true is that love and the passage of time are the most important ingredients to being able to continue with life and to find happiness once again – if that becomes a goal in life. Having faith in G-d is also helpful, because it can help a person find a sense of purpose in living beyond tragedy. Towards the beginning of its commentary on our parsha, the Midrash Rabba aims to explain how those who suffer through devastating ordeals can get closer to G-d, utilizing the experience of King David, who said in Tehillim (51:19): “The sacrifices of G-d are a broken spirit; O G-d, You will not despise a broken and crushed heart.” How true this statement is, and how true do we hope for it to always be. Of course, the Midrash does not raise this sentence in a vacuum. The parsha focuses

heavily on sacrifices, and the Midrash paints King David’s statement as one of hope for how he could get closer to G-d despite having suffered terrible calamities. One utilization of the verse asserts King David’s teshuva process, in the aftermath of the Batsheva incident of Samuel II 12 as, “G-d, I have overcome my evil inclination, and I have repented before You. If You accept my repentance, I know that my son Shlomo will build the Beit Hamikdash, and build the Mizbeach, and burn the sacrifices on it.” This is how “a broken spirit” can turn into the fulfillment of “the sacrifices of G-d,” when the dream of what future generations may accomplish can be articulated and hopefully actualized. Another view utilizes the same verse as the answer to a question – not about King David and his son Shlomo, but about any person looking to find G-d: How do we know that a person who repents is given the credit for having gone up to Jerusalem, having built the Temple, having built the Mizbeach, and for sacrificing all of the offerings? Because this is how “The sacrifices of G-d are a broken spirit.” The broken heart that accompanies repentance can bring about the highest level of serving G-d. But closeness to God is not only achieved

through repentance, as is demonstrated through the concluding teaching of the Midrash, in the name of Rabbi Alexandri. If a human being is served with broken vessels, it is assumed to be an insult. But G-d is the opposite – He knows that the most powerful and most poignant service comes from the brokenhearted. “The Lord is near to the broken-hearted, and He saves those of crushed spirit” (Tehillim 34:19). G-d is the One “Who heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds” (Tehillim 147:3). The prophet Isaiah (57:15) quotes G-d Himself, who said, “With the lofty and the holy ones I dwell, and with the crushed and humble in spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble and to revive the heart of the crushed…” What, therefore, is the meaning of “The sacrifices of G-d are a broken spirit?” That through a broken heart one has the ability to come closest to G-d. The broken heart can be demonstrated in one of two ways. Either a person sins and breaks one’s heart through repentance, or tragedy breaks one’s heart, and the person turns to G-d through serving him. When a nation can collectively have a broken heart, this Midrash is suggesting that we

In Brooklyn, there is no sin, no prophet, no answers, only tragedy, suffering, and loss.

are experiencing the closest chance we have to seek out G-d’s presence, and to feel His comforting hand. When King David wrote Tehillim 51 in the aftermath of the Batsheva tale, he had two experiences which weighed heavily on his conscience. The first was that his conduct was sinful and he needed to return to G-d. His deed was public, his exhortation from the prophet was spelled out to him, and he was also made aware through prophesy of what was expected of him. The second was that he had suffered the ultimate loss of several of his children – the first child born from his union with Batsheva (Shlomo was the 2nd child of that union), the deaths of his sons Avshalom and Amnon in his lifetime, as well as his daughter Tamar’s defilement at the hands of her half-brother Amnon. (Adoniyahu, another son, was killed shortly after King David’s death.) In our Brooklyn story, there is no sin, no prophet, and no answers. There is only tragedy, suffering, and loss, for a family and for a community. There is no healing from losses of this kind. There is always an emptiness in the lives of surviving family members, as well as in the greater community. Hopefully, with the outpouring of love and with time, everyone will find some kind of comfort from the ultimate Comforter because He will see that what brings us closest to Him is the broken heart.

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HANC High School hosts Project Ezra model seder Judah Wolkenfeld HANC’s high school and its Jewish Poor Committee were privileged to host the annual Project Ezra Model Seder on Monday. The event is aimed at providing a mock Pesach seder experience to elderly Jews from the Lower East Side, who might not otherwise have the opportunity to participate in or celebrate the holiday. Organized by Project Ezra, a nonproďŹ t organization that serves the Jewish elderly on the Lower East Side, and HANC Director of Student Life Rabbi Daniel Mezei, the model seder involved much singing, dancing, eating, and celebrating, as the seniors of Project Ezra were joined by HANC students from all grades. A performance by HANC’s award-winning Boys’ Chorus, as well as the HANC Band, contributed tremendously to the ruach and joy of the event. Students read aloud from the Hagaddah, commemorating with the seniors the basic aspects and practices of the seder, and connected with them through jovial conversation and laughter, taking the opportunity to learn from the seniors themselves their per-

sonal histories and experiences. The program concluded in high spirits with seniors and students hand in hand, singing and dancing to L’Shanah Habah B’Yerushalayim, marking a classic Passover Seder.

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