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YIW: Caring for aging parents The heart & soul of the Jewish people

By Malka Eisenberg

The care of aging parents, though difficult, is a necessary fact of life and should be approached with a proper attitude and with an understanding of ethics and Jewish law.

In a talk that combined Talmudic and other Jewish legal sources with medical expertise, Rabbi Dr. Aaron Glatt and Rabbi Dr. Richard Weiss discussed “The Circle of Life: Considering the Ethical and Halakhic Parameters of Caring for Aging Parents” this past Sunday at the Young Israel of Woodmere. The program was presented by Yeshiva University’s Student Medical Ethics Society.

“I certainly don’t have all the answers,” began Dr. Glatt, Executive Vice President and Chief Admin-

A message from the National Council of Young Israel Yom Yerushalayim is a monumental day in Jewish history. It is a celebration of the first time in 2,000 years that Jews regained sovereignty over the Kotel, the Western Wall, and the Temple Mount, which is Judaism’s holiest site. And it is a time to thank G-d for giving us the extraordinary gift that is Jerusalem.

We were overwhelmed and outnumbered by our enemies in 1967, yet the State of Israel and the Israel Defense Forces achieved a miraculous victory when they reclaimed and reunited Jerusalem in a defensive war after Jordan launched an attack against them.

We salute and remember the brave Israeli soldiers who battled our antagonists and prevailed in just six days, retaking Jerusalem and the Kotel along the way.

Many of us, young and old, sometimes take it for granted that we have control over Jerusalem and unfettered access to our holy sites. However, it is important to always recall that there was a time, not that long ago, when Jerusalem was off limits to Jews.

Understandably, it is difficult for the younger generation, who did not experience a divided Jerusalem, to fathom that there was an era when Jerusalem was not under our purview. For those who lived through it, it was extremely painful and especially frustrating that we were precluded from visiting Israel’s capital. Jews throughout the world prayed that Jerusalem would once again be ours and we yearned for the time when we could once again bask in the holy

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Former Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin, a”h glow of this righteous and radiant city. Now, years after Israeli forces achieved this remarkable feat, even the older generation can easily forget about the centuries that Jews were denied access to our most holy sites.

We must thank G-d on Yom Yerushalayim for restoring our connection to Jerusalem and for keeping His promise. It is a day to reflect and appreciate the great gift that He has given us. And it is the perfect occasion to focus on the vital role that a unified Jerusalem plays in the lives of the Jewish people.

Israel’s prime ministers have always maintained that Jerusalem is a ‘red line’ that cannot and will not be crossed. Prime Minister Menachem Begin said it best at Camp David in 1978 when he Continued on page 7

istrative Officer at Mercy Medical Center and Assistant Rabbi at the Young Israel of Woodmere. He said that this is a “difficult talk” and a problem that everyone there “has, is, or will face…maintaining a loved ones dignity going through the aging process. We’ll all be in those shoes one day, im yirtzeh Hashem (if G-d wills it) because the alternative is no good.” He warned about being careful, that we “get exactly what we reap” that how we treat our parents will be how we will be treated by our children. “Forget the ideal of lishma (for the sake of the deed)” but for selfish reasons—setting the stage for “our own aging process.”

Glatt cited Nadav and Avihu’s deaths in this week’s Parsha as caused by their lack of respect for their father Aharon, uncle Moshe

Israeli Naval officer visits New York

By Malka Eisenberg Israeli naval captain Ori Dadon has seen combat in two news making skirmishes in the defense of Israel and spoke with the Jewish Star about his life and experiences as first company commander aboard the Israeli Navy ship the NItzachon.

Dadon visited the United States to appear at the Friends of the Israel Defense Forces (FIDF) gala in New York in March. Other soldiers will be in attendance at the upcoming Five Towns and Greater South Shore 2nd Annual Community Event to benefit the soldiers of the IDF on May 22nd at the Sephardic

Temple in Cedarhurst.

Captain Dadon, age 24, was born in Ramle and moved with his family at age 13 to Modi’in. He served the standard three years of service in the Navy and earned a BS in political science and economics at Haifa through the Naval Academy.

He is currently first command and defense officer, a company commander on the missile boat, in command of 15 fighters. His responsibility includes the ship’s systems and the ship, and protecting Israel from missile and enemy attack, he said. He said that they “eat, fight Continued on page 8

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and for G-d, and by not having married. He stressed that children are “doing G-d’s work” when taking care of their parents’ and that it “makes it easier to bear” knowing that. “We have to subordinate our own psychology to Hashem’s way.”

Rabbi Glatt recounted the Talmudic story of Dama ben Nesina, a non-Jew who lived during the time of the Temple and who was cited as exemplary in his respect for his parents. He did not wake his father and did not object when his mother assaulted him in public. Rabbi Glatt also told of Rabbi Tarfon’s respect and care of his mother.

Glatt delineated six requirements in the care and honoring of parents: feeding and giving them to drink, bringing them to and from places, clothing them and ensuring

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With one voice, government, business and community leaders gathered to honor 32 Long Island Teenagers for their acts of goodness and kindness. These Good Deed Awards for Long Island Teenagers was established by Rabbi Anchelle Perl, Director of Chabad of Mineola. This program, now in its 20th year, sets out to identify the vast good so inherent in our youth and help the wider community appreciate it. Special guest speaker at this year’s ceremony was Andrew Paley, parent of two children attending the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown CT at the time of the shooting.

ABOVE: Guest Speaker Andrew Paley with his wife Shari and twin children Ethan & Benjamin who were in school that day in Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown CT. Rabbi Anchelle Perl is at center.

Candidates charge into Lawrence race With. Solomon Blisko not running for re-election, three candidates are vying for his seat: Jesse Lunin-Pack, Tova Plaut and Dov Herman, all first time candidates for public office.

Incumbent Trustee Nahum Marcus is running for a third term. He is

opposed by former board member Michael Hatten. Juan Zapeda petitioned to be on the ballot, then decided not to run at this time. His name remains on the ballot.

Running unopposed is longtime Trustee David Sussman.

All terms are three years and begin July 1 and end June 30, 2016.

District residents can go to the polls to vote on the budget and for school board trustees on May 21.

Jesse Lunin-Pack

Tova Plaut

Dov Herman

Concerned about the board representing the interests of the public school district, Lunin-Pack, 40, an Atlantic Beach resident, who has been involved in his community as a Atlantic Beach Rescue EMS lieutenant and serving on the Youth and Education board of the Hewlett-East Rockaway Jewish Centre.

“I have had enough of a school board filled with members who never show up for school concerts, plays or events,” he said. “I have had enough of a school board without real public school representation.”

Fearing that the public school community is “demoralized and cynical” about Lawrence schools, Lunin-Pack said the whole public school community needs to become more engaged and the board needs to improve how it communicates to the residents. “We need a process that is open to all members of the community — private school and public school families alike,” he said.

With money being tight, Lunin-Pack said looking at all options to improve and fund education should be explored. “The budget must be fair to every taxpayer in the community, public school families, private school families, and returnees with no children in either situation.”

A director for a private nursery school in Commack, Plaut, 43, a Cedarhurst resident, believes that her background would make her a good board member. “I believe in a quality education for all the children in our district,” said Plaut, adding that she serves a diverse student population in her job.

A proponent of the 2 percent tax-levy cap, Plaut said she believes in being fiscally responsible and wants to seek out “creative solutions” such as federal and state grants to help fund programs, services and needed teaching staff. Plaut would also like to enhance the current high school program that provides vocational education and involves local businesses helping to train students.

For the district to be successful in educating its children and to avoid battles between community members, Plaut said communication and participation is needed. “I what to hear what residents have to say and we need quality parent involvement.”

Performing volunteer work at a post-Sandy neighborhood relief center made Plaut aware of what has to be done after a crisis. “I would do everything I could to make sure the children are safe and the community is secure,” she said.

Believing a need exists to end what he called “the competitive sentiment between public and private school parents,” Herman, 46, seeks to unify these groups. “I hope to help unite our community and make our school board’s deliberations and dealings more open and transparent to parents, taxpayers and to our community,” the Woodmere resident said.

Instrumental in establishing the Five Towns Community Coalition, which worked to defeat the proposed sale of the Number Six School, he said the March referendum “was a voter-mandate for transparency.” “I will work to ensure that the bidding and sale is done with full public knowledge and input,” said Herman, a home building inspector.

Herman said that the district has “used gimmicks and smoke-and mirrors to keep taxes artificially stable,” and now taxes will rise as though tactics failed this year. “I believe in zero-based budgeting,” said Herman, adding that he and Nahum Marcus agree on this point. “Every dollar spent must be absolutely necessary. We will examine our school district budget item-by-item and line-by-line to find unnecessary expenses and any duplication of services.” He also supports holding school board work sessions to improve communication between the trustees and the community.

Nahum Marcus

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Marcus, 53, wants to help ensure that the educational improvements made by the district continue and are enhanced. “I also know that many a time I have been a lone dissenting voice on the board when I felt things weren’t being conducted with the best interests of the entire community or the utmost integrity. I am running to preserve that sense of integrity, honesty and concern for all children in the district — public and private — that I believe I bring to the board,” he said.

As a member of the board’s academic excellence committee, he assists in reviewing classroom materials, students and teacher performance and making necessary changes. “We must raise overall student test scores, but also pay attention to each individual’s performance and skill set,” said the Cedarhurst resident, who is a rabbi and ritual director at Woodmere Rehabilitation & Health Care Center, and is a professor at the Landers College for Women in Manhattan.

District finances need to be handled in a “more comprehensive and realistic manner,” he said. “Rather than putting ‘Band-Aids’ on 100 little cuts, our school board and administration must make tougher choices to end wasteful spending and duplicate services, and to find other revenue sources instead of raising property taxes,” said Marcus, adding that trustees should provide residents with an understanding of agenda items and actions during board meetings.

Running for his seventh term, Sussman, 62, a urologist, has been on the school board for nearly 19 years. Enjoying making a contribution to the community and his belief in education as a tool for advancement are the primary reasons he continues to serve, Sussman said. “The board has come a long way in reaching out to everyone in the community,” the Lawrence resident said.

He acknowledges there are challenges facing Lawrence, including the increased costs of health care and pensions for retired district employees, contracts for current staff and the state’s 2 percent tax-levy cap.

“We need creative solutions more than ever,” Sussman said.

“We don’t have the resources just to increase pay.”

Sussman said that expansion of the school day should be studied as well as a change in the curriculum to help ensure students are prepared for the future job market. “We have to figure out a way to work with teachers,” he said, adding that teachers could earn more money by working more hours. “We have to be result driven, not necessarily test driven.”

Hatten, 68, the president of Far Rockaway-based Global Business Institute, calls himself a “professional educator” who he says will act as a “unifying voice” for the community. GBI is a two-year, vocational business school that employs 132 and educates more than 2,500 students annually, according to Hatten.

A former Lawrence trustee ((2006-09), he believes his educational experience and prior record on the board qualifies him as a “strong candidate, who is uniquely positioned to serve the entire community.”

If elected, the Cedarhurst resident said he wants to meet with community leaders, educators, PTA members and students to learn what think about the way money could be spent to further education in the district. “Stakeholders will not always get what they want, however they should be able to express their views and receive a thoughtful response,” he said.

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By JEFFREY BESSEN jbessen@liherald.com

Six candidates are on the ballot for three trustee seats on the Lawrence Board of Education.

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Opinion Moshe Dayan: The Villain of Jerusalem

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om Yerushalayim celebrates that wonderful day during the Six-Day War when the IDF liberated the Old City of Jerusalem and the Temple Mount was returned to the Jewish people There is another story about the unification of Jerusalem that most don’t talk about. But it’s important to remember on Yom Yerushalayim that if it were not for the progressive hubris of the man considered to be the hero of Jerusalem’s liberation, Moshe Dayan, Jerusalem and the Temple Mount would not be the issue it is today.

Jews had been denied access to the Holy sites in the Old City of Jerusalem since 1948 when Jordan took it over during the War of IndepenPOLITICO dence. In the intervening 19 TO GO years, the Jordanians waged systematic destruction, desecration and looting of Jewish sites. But on that day forty-six years ago, the world witnessed a miracle 1900 years in the making; one can only hope to understand the joy and reverence Jews felt as they approached the Temple mount for the first time in nearly 20 years.

Since that day in 1967, the Muslims have been trying to Jeff Dunetz reclaim Jerusalem’s Holy Sites, not because of any “religious ties” but as another way to delegitimize the Jewish connection to the land and city.

The sad part of Israel’s struggle to retain her capital is that it might not have been so fierce if Moshe Dayan didn’t give away the Temple Mount almost 42 years ago.

When Israel gained possession of the Temple compound during the Six Day War, Prime Minister Levi Eshkol wanted to create a multi-faith council to run the compound. The Muslim Mosque would not have been touched, but all faiths would be allowed up on top of the mount.

Dayan thought the Temple Mount should remain in Muslim possession. In his biography, Dayan clearly stated that the last thing he wanted was the Beit Hamikdash (the Jewish Temple) rebuilt Of course there was no way that a third Temple would be built back then, since by Jewish tradition we are supposed to wait until the coming of the messiah, or we can’t rebuild it on the absolute site since we are ritually impure. But that didn’t stop Dayan, flush with the incredible victory of the Six-Day War; like most progressives he felt he knew better than anybody. He didn’t consult the Prime Minister or the Knesset, nor did the Israeli people have a say.

Dayan took it upon himself; he “gave” control of the Temple Mount back to the Arabs because he

wanted to make sure that there wouldn’t be a third Temple. He basically handed the keys back to the Islamic Waqf who still control the top of the Temple mount to this day. There was nothing that Prime Minister Eshkol could do about it, after all Moshe Dayan was a war hero.

During the intervening years, Jews have been allowed atop the Temple Mount, however they are not allowed to pray---or even look as though they are praying. The Waqf has done additional construction atop the Temple Mount and thrown out relics from the Temple (an archeology team has begun to sift through the dirt from the Mount deposited as garbage by the Islamic Waqf).

Yom Yerushalayim celebrates a wonderful celebration, but it would have so much extra meaning if Jews could celebrate the holiday with a beautiful ceremony atop the Temple Mount, but that isn’t possible because of Dayan. Thanks to the General, no Jews or Christians, only Muslims, are allowed to pray on top of the Temple mount.

The Jewish people lost possession of the Temple Mount three times since King David purchased the site thirty centuries ago. Only once was the site given away voluntarily. That’s when Moshe Dayan gave it away 46 years ago. Moshe Dayan will go down in history not as a hero, but as the man who gave away the Temple Mount, providing the Palestinian Muslims with an opportunity to make Jerusalem an Issue: “It’s true,” Knesset Member Aryeh Eldad said, “that the original sin was when the Jewish People, immediately after the Six Day War in 1967, ceded its hold on the Temple Mount in an unholy alliance between the Chief Rabbinate and Moshe Dayan - each side for its own reasons - but now the danger is that the Arab sovereignty on the Temple Mount will spill over to the Western Wall plaza, and from there to other places.”

Then-Defense Minister Dayan, just days after Israel’s liberation of the Old City, informed the Muslims running the Temple Mount that they could continue to run the mosques there - and later went further by preventing Jewish prayer all over the Mount.

“It was evident that if we did not prevent Jews from praying in what was now a mosque compound,” Dayan later wrote, “matters would get out of hand and lead to a religious clash... As an added precaution, I told the chief of staff to order the chief army chaplain to remove the branch office he had established in the building which adjoins the mosque compound.”—Israel National News, August 2007 While we remember how wonderful it is to be able to approach the site of the Holy Temples, the closest we are allowed to get if we wish to pray is the retaining wall around the Temple Mount. Only because of a decision made by one man, Jews are not allowed to worship G-d where the two Temples stood. And that, my friends, is the definition of a shanda.

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Arab Terror in the City of Peace Jerusalem Reunification Day – May 8, 2013 Palestinian Arabs have concentrated many of their terrorist attacks on Jews in Jerusalem, hoping to win the city by an onslaught of terror, who seek to make life in the City of Peace unbearable. But this is not a new tactic. Arab strategy to turn Jerusalem into a battleground began in 1920.

Unfortunately, Arab leaders often turn to violence to gain what they were unable to achieve at the negotiating table. When talks broke down at Camp David in 2000, Palestinian Arab leaders unleashed the al-Aqsa Intifada, which amounted to a full-blown guerrilla war against Israel.

It began the day before Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, when Arab mobs hurled rocks from the Temple Mount onto Jewish worshipers praying at the Western Wall below. That rock attack turned into a steady campaign of terrorist attacks. As the priming powder for the Intifada, Palestinian leaders incited Palestinians and Muslims throughout the world with fables that falsely suggested that Jews began an assault on al-Aqsa when Ariel Sharon made a half-hour visit to the Temple Mount during tourist hours. The truth is that Palestinians’ plans for warfare had begun immediately after Arafat walked out of the Camp David talks.

Why do Palestinian Arabs focus terror attacks on the City of Peace?

Because Palestinians, despite their rhetoric, fully understand Jerusalem’s symbolic and spiritual significance to the Jews. Suicide attacks – on public buses and cafes, malls, and other crowded sites in the heart of the city – since the 1993 Oslo Accords, are designed to make life hell

for Jewish Jerusalemites. Atrocities like the February and March 1996 bombings of two #18 buses that killed 26 people and the August 2001 bombing of a Sbarro pizzeria that killed 15 (including five members of one family), are part of an ongoing 120-year-old battle that Arabs have waged in opposition to Zionism. In April 1920, a three-day rampage by religiously incited antiZionist Arab mobs left six dead and 200 injured in the Jewish Quarter.

The attackers gutted synagogues and ransacked homes. Arabs planted time bombs in public places as far back as February 1947, when they blasted Ben-Yehuda Street, Jerusalem’s main thoroughfare, leaving 50 dead.

This was all done before the establishment of the State of Israel. In the 1950s, Jordanians periodically shot at Jewish neighborIN MY VIEW hoods from the walls of Eli E. Hertz the Old City.

And after the city was united in 1967, Arabs renewed their battle for the city by planting bombs in cinemas and supermarkets. The first terrorist attack in that renewed battle came with the 1968 bombing of Jerusalem’s “Machane Yehuda,” the open market, that left 12 dead.

The plain facts about Palestinian Arab behavior clearly demonstrate that under international law they have forfeited any claim to the City of Peace. Their aggression cannot and should not be rewarded.

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ith the counting of Sefirah just about to end, the festival of Shavuot commemorating the giving of the Ten Commandments at Mount Sinai can not be too far behind. In fact the observance of this briefest of holidays is the exact culmination of the Sefirah count and the climax of the historic link between Pesach, the Exodus, and Shavuot and the giving of the Torah.

With the recent publication of volume two of his thoughts on the weekly Torah portions, “Angel for Shabbat” [jewishideas. org], Rabbi Marc Angel presents a very unique Dvar Torah for Shavuot, entitled “A New Revelation?” In this essay, he asks us to imagine G-d inviting us to a second Revelation at Sinai. What is so unique about this is the description of all the Jews who are invited Alan Jay Gerber to attend. Consider the cast that he lists below: 1.“The Hareidim would say: We cannot be in the same domain as the non-religious or less religious Jews.

We are pure, and we will not have contact with those of lesser purity.

2.“The Secularists would say: We cannot attend because we do not want to be bound by any commandments. We are citizens of the world and don’t want the particular responsibilities of being Jewish.

3.“The non-Orthodox would say: We can’t attend unless the event is egalitarian; and unless there is no expectation that we accept any commandments. We are open to suggestions, but not to commandments.

4.“The Modern Orthodox would insist that the Revelation also include divine words relating to science, philosophy, and the modern world.

5.“Hasidim would demand that they be placed near their own rebbes, and not anywhere else.

6.“Each Sephardic and Ashkenazic ethnic group would insist on having its own chazzan, its own minhag, its own pronunciation of Hebrew.

7.“Unaffiliated Jews would turn up out of curiosity; the Kabbalah Center would set up booths on the outskirts selling books and red strings.

8.“Alienated and ignorant Jews would complain: This event is boring; we need a rock band or other entertainment to make it attractive.”

What makes this listing sound so true?

Where would you identify yourself among these theological or ethnic identifications?

Does Klal Yisrael of today truly reflect these identities or are we but pale parodies of these sad images?

Truth be told, we smile at Rabbi Angel’s characterizations because we realize within ourselves that they each generate a sad image reflecting a truth we all wish were not true…an opposite to Achdut Yisrael.

Rabbi Angel concludes this essay with the following admonition:

“Shavuot is the festival on which we recall the revelation at Mt. Sinai. It is also a good time to plan for a hypothetical second gathering of Israelites at Sinai – and to think carefully how we can envision such an event as an opportunity to bring all of us together.

“For the Jewish people to find its spiritual balance, we will need to work on personal spiritual development and purity; and also on strategies that are grand enough to allow all of us to stand together in the presence of G-d.”

With this in mind, let us now read and learn together the teachings of Rav Yitchak Hutner, zt”l, [Pachad Yitzchak] as interpreted by Rabbi Yitzchak Sender, shlita, in his sefer, “The Commentators’ Shavuos” wherein he teaches us the following: “He [Rav Hutner] explains to us that the obligation to remember “ma’amaad Har Sinai” and the obligation to remember the details of one’s Torah learning are very much interconnected, for both spring from a realization of the importance of Torah. Whatever is imperative to us will not be forgotten but will always remain fresh in our minds. A person only forgets something that is not vitally important to him.”

Further on, Rabbi Sender gives us his teaching based upon Rav Hutner’s linking this concept to the attack by Amalek just before the Revelation.

Says Rabbi Sender: “This concept is reflected in our commemoration of Amalek’s

attack after the Exodus. What was it that made this attack against us eeternally unforgivable? One explanation is that Amalek sought to ben little our commitment to G-d and to li His mitzvos, aiming to make us lose H our ou enthusiasm for Torah and forget the Almighty. Therefore Amalek’s atth tack was considered to be an unfortac giv givable assault on the Jewish people, and we are thereby commanded never to t forget it; instead, we constantly rem remind ourselves of Amalek’s nefarious aim, and renew our enthusiastic commitment to Torah. And in this vein, by remembering Sinai, we proclaim the significance of the Torah as being especially important to our lives.”

Two related teachings by Rabbi Michael Hattin of the Pardes Institute as found on the Yeshivat Har Etzion website [vbm.com], should be consulted with the above teachings

by Rav Hutner and Rabbi Sender.

Entitled, “Amalek’s Attack and Yitro’s Trek” and “The Trial at Sinai,” Rabbi Hattin goes to great lengths, demonstrating his view of the theological depth of meaning of Amalek’s role in the events between the Exodus and the Revelation and how this even relates to Yitro’s involvement at this particular juncture in our history. For a truly spiritually rewarding Shavuot holiday, Rabbi Hattin’s teachings on this warrants your attention.

With all this said, review Rabbi Angel’s near comedic observations as to what passes for the Klal today; consider the sad news that has dominated the domestic Jewish scene of late and take consolation in the message that Shavuot brings to us. If only those who so claim to be our spiritual guides had done so themselves, we would have been the better served by their now flawed ways. Shavuot is that hope and promise of better days to come.

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Holyland model of Second Temple. The original structure was built by Herod on what is now the Temple mount in Jerusalem. develop a deep appreciation for the wonderful gift that G-d gave us. On Yom Yerushalayim, let us remember that investing time and energy in order to preserve and promote Jerusalem is our best investment for the future of our people.

So, on this Yom Yerushalyaim, as we celebrate the 46th anniversary of the reunification of Jerusalem, let us revitalize our efforts to underscore all that this holy city means to the Jewish people. Let us turn our attention to the importance of communicating to the younger generation just how fortunate they are to have a city that they are able to call home.

From our actions we should be fortunate enough to merit the age-old command of Isaiah the Prophet (Chapter 62:1): For Zion’s sake I will not keep silent, and for Jerusalem’s sake I will not be quiet, until her righteousness goes forth as brightness, and her salvation as a burning torch.

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Continued from page 1 quoted to President Jimmy Carter from the Book of Psalms.

“If I forget thee, O’ Jerusalem, may my right hand lose her cunning,” said the Prime Minister. “Let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth, if I hold thee not above my highest joy.” He followed that by emphatically stating that, “Jerusalem is the heart of Israel, the heart of the Jewish people.”

Moving forward, the greater Jewish community needs to put a renewed emphasis on shifting the focus to Jerusalem and highlighting its significance.

•We must urge our rabbinic leaders to double their efforts on behalf of educating our young people and reminding the older generation about the centrality of Jerusalem. A real in-depth understanding of what Jerusalem means to our people is paramount in order to preserve the rich history of this great city, which is mentioned over 600 times in Tanach.

•It would behoove Jewish schools, summer camps, and educators around the world to continue developing and enhancing curricula aimed at transmitting to the younger generation a keen awareness and deep appreciation of the import of Jerusalem in a historical, cultural, and religious context. Families must commit to visit the city to maintain a durable and unyielding connection with it.

•It is incumbent upon all of us to encourage and support settlement in all areas of Jerusalem. Jerusalem is our capital, and no one in the international community is in a position to dictate where Jews are permitted, and not permitted, to reside within our own capital.

•All of us must make the issue of Jerusalem a pivotal part of our lives. We can never take for granted the fact that the capital of the Jewish State belongs to us and is under our rule.

The holy city of Jerusalem is a vital connection to our past and an integral link to our future. With its unique religious and cultural significance, Jerusalem is the lifeblood of the Jewish people and the heart and soul of our nation.

Our children and grandchildren are the leaders of tomorrow. Someday, they will be the stalwarts of the Jewish people. We must build a solid foundation for the future by instilling in them a love of Jerusalem and ensuring that they

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Two Rabbi/Doctors outline care for aging parents Continued from page 1 they are comfortably dressed. “Basic physical needs are your responsibility; they can pay for them. If you can afford it and your parents can’t and you don’t pay, a “curse is on you” for not doing it. It is your obligation to take care of your parent; if you have no time, you have to pay someone to do it for you and it comes from your pocket. You also have to visit them.

Rabbi Glatt stressed the importance of providing parents with a quality of life—if a parent is very old, 95 or 103, or a parent is terminal and they want an extra cookie or more chulent—they shouldn’t have to watch their sugar and cholesterol so vigilantly. “Let them enjoy,” he said. Prepare the food they like, he continued, don’t make them eat their vegetables if they want the dessert. Don’t embarrass them--cut up their food in the kitchen and don’t make them wear a bib if they don’t want to. Make them feel needed; if they want to help, give them something to do--“there is nothing worse than having no purpose in life—make them feel useful---it’s an unbelievable kibud (honor).”

If a parent is in very bad shape, he said, you can pay for someone to take care of them if it may be more embarrassing for the parent to have a family member take care of them in that state, such as with toileting. Make sure they dress comfortably, clothing that is comfortable and easy to wear and remove for the bathroom so they won’t soil themselves.

Make sure the area is safe--have a grab bar installed in the shower.

Ask a halakhic question regarding providing medical care yourself if you are a health professional, since a child is not allowed according to Jewish law to draw blood from a parent. He pointed out the need to take away the car from a parent at some point and arranging for transportation instead, paying for car service, helping the parent navigate insurance, and medications, but he cautioned, “try not to take away their independence.”

He stressed the importance of the children, grandchildren and great grandchildren visiting the parent, bringing the parents to smachot, and don’t say it’s “too much tircha—the tircha is for you not her.”

Rabbi Richard Weiss, MD, currently the Rabbi of the Young Israel of Hillcrest in Queens and an adjunct assistant professor of Biology at Stern College for Women of Yeshiva University, emphasized the importance of “demeanor, approach and attitude” in how one speaks to a parent. He said that providing the proper dignity to a parent is “fundamen-

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Rabbi Dr. Aaron Glatt (left) and Rabbi Dr. Richard Weiss responding to questions from the audience after presenting “The Circle of Life: Considering the Ethical and Halakhic Parameters of Caring for Aging Parents” this past Sunday at the Young Israel of Woodmere. tal.” He cited various articles and books on elder care and issues including Dr. Michael Salamon’s “Home or Nursing Home,” about when it is appropriate to transition a parent to a skilled nursing facility or have assistance in the home. He noted the need to determine what the parent wants, what is realistic and what we can provide for the parent. He explained the different halakhic questions arising in the care of parents, including the obligation to not listen if their demand is “to their detriment.”

One is never permitted to retaliate to a parent but that doesn’t “mean that you have to subject yourself to disgrace, bizayon,” he said. He cited “as G-d commanded you” as in the desert, when the parents didn’t provide for the children, but all physical needs, the clothing was maintained, food and water provided by G-d, and yet the children were still obligated “independently in the direct care of the parent.” “If a parent makes unreasonable demands the child is still obligated to secure care--the question is personally or through a facility.” Said Weiss, just as you are obligated to spend money on a mitzvah such as lulav and etrog, if you have to take a day off from work, it’s a mitzvah, but you are not obligated to lose your job and disorder your life.

Just as when a parent forbids a child from marrying a person, the child can listen to the

advice but make their own decision--“life is not run by the parent,” added Weiss. Also, the determination if the parent can live in the child’s home—“it can be productive and optimal” or would it cause “friction.”

Glatt noted that the financial obligation of maintenance is on the parent but a child is obligated to provide the parent’s care—that the parent is “theoretically obligated to pay but the actual obligation is on the child.”

Weiss discussed consulting with an elder care attorney, and the importance of balancing time between the family and the parent and maybe integrating the two. Glatt praised modern technology, having conversations between grandparents and grandchildren on “Face time” and Skype. He stressed the importance of making phone calls to parents, and Weiss noted that, in a minority opinion, a parent can listen to havdalah over the phone.

In response to a question, Weiss said that it is a halakhic, medical and ethical requirement to report elder abuse and to bring it to the attention of the rabbi, doctor and social worker to address it. Weiss also noted that if a feeding tube is needed, the parent, child and doctor should be consulted together and noted that it’s not as bad as a ventilator. Glatt stated that a “feeding tube is not always medically the answer” but that it is

sometimes for “convenience” but he questioned “whose convenience” noting there is pain and sedation—is it because no one wants to take the time to feed the parent?

He stressed the importance in consulting a rabbi who knows the family, the person’s local rav. Weiss emphasized the need to have the parent make a decision about care when the parent has the ability to make the decision and set up a health care proxy, noting that the documents are available from Agudah and the RCA. Glatt stressed the importance of conveying the medical information correctly and accurately to the rabbi to be consulted. “The default position,” he said, “ is to do everything until you know for certain.” The decisions on care should be held “when everybody is healthy and well—go l’chumrah and not l’kulah. It’s not a decision to be made at 2 AM when the patient is not breathing well,” he added. Weiss pointed out the difficulties with a ventilator halakhically.

“You are doing what G-d wants you to do,” said Rabbi Glatt quoting the Chasam Sofer, and in a sense, summing up the task and mitzvah all children are obligated with.

“How could it be difficult—it’s not not difficult but becomes not difficult when doing exactly what Hashem wants you to do.”

FIDF brings Israeli Naval captain to New York Continued from page 1 and sleep on the ship,” that it is “crowded,” with 60 people on the ship. “There is no privacy,” he added, “you have to learn to live like this.”

While at shore, he takes care of the systems, the technical aspects of the ship. While at sea, they practice combat situations and sailing. He noted that the patrols use smaller, faster boats since they have to watch for speedboats. “We are for wartime—preparing for wartime,” he explained, noting that they have “a lot of weapons, missiles, sea to sea against boats, artillery against missiles and small weapons.”

Dadon said that he was on one of the “big boats involved in the Mavi Marmara, against

the flotilla to the Gaza Strip to make a scandal, and to actually stop them. We had to stop the flotilla from reaching the Gaza Strip.

They had 15 vessels to break the blockade. I reached the other vessels and took them to the port of Ashdod.” He said the people were returned to their own country.

Another operation that Dadon and his ship were involved with was the “smuggling ship Victoria,” he recounted, that carried weapons illegally from Iran to Egypt and then to the Gaza Strip. “My ship detected the Victoria at sea. They didn’t know that they had weapons on board. We found 50 tons of different weapons, rockets, missiles from shore to sea—the worst—can target civilian and navy ships from Gaza.” He said that there were two other ships on the opera-

tion besides the Nitzachon. “Some soldiers got on the ship and found it,” he pointed out.

“It was in containers. The captain of the ship didn’t know what he was moving from port to port. (His) mission was to take the ship from one place to another. He didn’t know it was a great operation. He cooperated and invited us to come aboard and look for the weapons. He knew that we suspected weapons, we radioed the ship that we suspected and he invited us aboard.”

He explained that his position is “very challenging.” He is grateful for the opportunity to “contribute to the protection of the Israeli seas” and combining technology and commanding “very smart people is a challenge.” He noted that that is what attracted him to the naval academy. He plans to stay

in the navy “so far.” He added that Haifa is a “pretty city—I have to get used to her. The shore is very beautiful, there is a lot of culture, the Carmel is a beautiful mountain— the city has magic.”

“I am very honored to serve my country, the homeland for the Jewish people, and the tragic events of our history make me very grateful to be a commander of smart, motivated soldiers,” he said. “It’s very fulfilling. I am thankful to my country that I can serve.”

He noted that his grandparents come from Morocco and Iraq and that he studied science, physics and Arabic in his high school in Modi’in.

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eems like I was just writing my last article about my impending cruise and here I am back on my computer in my den…a far cry from the 4,000 passenger cruise liner I was on. For those of you who were never on a cruise ship, there are a variety of cabins you can choose from, the best being suites, then balcony cabins followed by cabins with portholes you can view the ocean through, and, finally, the “inside” cabin, with no sign of daylight, along with no room to move around in. Those who know me know I’d rather save the money on the room and spend it somewhere else.

How much time do we spend in the cabin anyway? Well, on this new ship, the inside cabin was smaller than those I’ve been on in Judy Joszef the past. I could live with the fact that my husband and I couldn’t both walk around the room at the same time, that every time I was in front of the closet and he exited the bathroom I basically got a concussion. I got him back though, when he happened to walk out of the bathroom as I entered the cabin and he got sandwiched between the bathroom door and the cabin door.

What made me crazy was, there was no room to put all our clothing. I put my underwear in the magazine rack, my bathing suits in the

safe, and I actually emptied out the mini bar and put my gym clothes in there. Any other available space after our clothing was put away was filed with Jerry’s favorite All Bran cold cereal. There was a shortage on the ship, so each morning he made it his business to score a few extra mini boxes. I wasn’t giving up any of my valuable storage spaces so the boxes basically lined every possible flat surface. Needless to say, as we left the cabin for the last time this morning, there was enough cereal to feed a small country. Though it’s good to be home and have room to actually put all my clothes away, it does take a bit getting used to. Take for instance, dropping my wet towel on the floor after showering.

When I use the bathroom next, it will still be on the floor and not have been replaced by a fluffy clean one. No one will make my bed, there will be no “towel animals” left on my “turned down” bed when I enter my room to go to sleep, no one will be waiting to take my order for dinner and there won’t be a huge garden café offering hundreds of options for breakfast and lunch. Granted, being kosher, we couldn’t partake in most, of the choices of food options offered, but fear not. We ate, and we ate, and then we ate again. (Kosher airline meals, boxed cereals, packaged baked goods, fruit….)

We finished breakfast about 10:30 AM and in the same breath that our group of friends said, “Oy, we are not eating till

tomorrow,” we asked when and where we were meeting for lunch. After lunch we all lamented the fact that we weren’t hungry, but still managed to eat for an hour and a half, and made sure to know when we would meet in the dining room for dinner. In our defense, it was a transatlantic cruise and we were in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean for seven days. The weather wasn’t conducive to sitting out on deck, so eating was the next best thing. We did manage to sit out for a few hours on two consecutive days toward the end of the cruise. We found an area on the 17th deck which on future cruises will be reserved for presidential suite passengers, but lucky for us, we were able sit out during this cruise. Of course we needed six lounges together, and half wanted to sit in the sun and half in the shade. I moved coffee tables and side tables, rearranged the lounges, and dragged a few from a different area. One couple looked at us in amazement. I could tell by the look on their faces they couldn’t believe what we had done. They were sitting half in shade half in the sun, they were basically hanging off their lounges so they could tan evenly. Not us; we were situated perfectly. I had to refrain from doing my Jackie Mason routine. Really, haven’t they heard that just as Jews walk into a restaurant and they want the table not in the front, or the back not near the kitchen, not in an area too noisy or drafty or warm,

etc. Well, that was us, pool deck version. Mr. Mason would have been proud of me!

Getting back to the food options…while we couldn’t eat the baked goods, I did get to meet the father in law of “Buddy, The Cake Boss.” He was on board setting up “Carlos’ Bakery,” which is the bakery that started and still remains in Hoboken. He was so down to earth and friendly. He actually asked to see some of my creations, which I happened to have on my cell phone. While I couldn’t taste anything, I did ogle the rich chocolate truffles and decided at that moment to make a cheesecake version of them for Shavuot.

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Discrimination?

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fter the Torah describes the order and population of how the Israelites traveled in the desert, we are told of how the tribe of Levi was not counted with everyone else, nor did they travel amongst the people. Their camp was around the Mishkan, and their jobs focused on breaking down, carrying and reconstructing the Mishkan as per the travels of the nation.

Verse 1:51 says: “When the Mishkan Rabbi Avi Billet is moved, the Levites shall take it down, and when it is to remain in one place, they shall set it up. Any non-Levite who participates shall die.” The instructions are pretty straightforward as to who may or may not participate in these efforts.

But the translation easily drops a hidden message embedded in this verse.

Rabbenu Bachaye points to eight words in the verse – two groups of four words – that happen to spell out G-d’s name in their “roshei teivot” (acronym). Both times G-d’s name appears backwards, with the “heh” (last letter of G-d’s name) coming in the word “Ha’Leviim.”

This is not Bible codes. This is not word jumps or counted spaces between letters.

Compare the following to the translation given above: “When the Mishkan is moved it will be taken down by Ha’Leviim (Heh) U’vachanot (Vav) HaMishkan (Heh) Yakumu (Yud) [it will be set up by] Ha’Leviim (Heh).

V’hazar (Vav) Hakarev (Heh) Yumat (Yud).”

The Tetragrammaton appears in acronym form, twice backwards, in one verse, with no skips between the words that make the letters that spell G-d’s name.

Says Rabbenu Bachaye: “Anytime you find G-d’s name planted backwards in a four-word phrase teaches you about G-d’s trait of judgment. Haman the wicked included G-d’s name when he told his wife that all of the grandeur to which he was honored was meaningless as long as he saw Mordechai sitting in the king’s courtyard. [zeh (Heh) einenu (Vav) shoveh (Heh) li (Yud)] Thus G-d’s trait of judgment was unleashed upon him. The verse begins with the missing part of G-d’s name (Vov and Heh – U’vinsoa Hamishkan) and concludes with G-d’s trait of judgment pronounced on the stranger – the non-Levite – who comes close to participate in the service of the Levites. This judgment was demonstrated in the story of Uzah in Shmuel II chapter 6. Interestingly, the reference to G-d’s name begins in both instances here on the word ‘Ha’Leviim’ because the character of Levi is similarly one of judgment.”

The reference to Haman is interesting

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because a statement that Esther makes includes the name of G-d as well, but with the letters appearing in the proper order: “Yavo HaMelekh V’Haman Hayom” – “May the King and Haman come today to the party I am making.” The Shem MiShmuel, in his words on Purim from 5671 (1911), mentioned that, “It is known that when G-d’s name appears this way in the correct order that it refers to G-d’s trait of Mercy.”

The appearance of G-d’s name backwards in our verse is not necessarily a bad thing.

We know that G-d has different sides – Judgment and Mercy – both of which are essential for Him to have the impact we envision Him having in our lives.

Perhaps one can argue that His attribute of Judgment is what balances us, and His attribute of Mercy is what balances Him. But a line is drawn in the role assigned to the Levites. And this line is essential in our understanding of our roles in Jewish life.

Some will call it discrimination, but some will say, it helps me understand what my purpose in life is versus what it is not. The Levites served as judges for the people, and they served G-d in their roles in the Mishkan.

Their roles were for them alone – not to be shared with non-Levites.

A non-Levite could have the greatest of intentions, he or she could want to come as close to G-d as allowable through participating in the breakdown and reconstruction of the Mishkan in the Israelite travels.

But G-d’s attribute of Judgment says, “No. That’s not your role. And don’t even go there.”

Foul! Unfair! Discrimination! Racism!

Down with conservatism! Does G-d really care! What about equality! Egalitarianism!

Fairness!

The devout don’t cry in this manner, because the devout recognize the balance that G-d put into His world, and His demands of us. Every one of us has a role, and every one of us has the opportunity to find a route that helps us connect to G-d. Sometimes we tap into His attribute of Judgment and come out on top because of our behavior. Sometimes we tap into His attribute of Mercy and come out on top because of His mercy.

And our behavior choices can also have us come out on the bottom in both cases.

Our challenge is to find and embrace our particular roles, and bring G-d into the equation as often as we can. Hopefully we’re spelling His name properly and not backwards, because in this format we will more often come out on top as we tap into His mercy.

But even when His name is spelled backwards, we have a formula for a set of behaviors that help guide us in doing what’s right so we can still shine – because we are prepared to be judged – in our everlasting efforts of serving G-d in the way that is best for each one of us.

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Over 70 mental health professionals, clergy and community leaders attended an OHEL Institute for Training workshop on post-divorce parenting on April 30th in Baruch College in Manhattan. Ohel began having these workshops in 2000. The main speakers were David Pelcovitz, PhD, Elana Katz, LCSW, LMFT, and Judith Ruskay Rabinor, PhD. The principle topic addressed was the need to focus on what is best for the children, noting that even though the spousal relationship has ended with divorce, the parenting relationship must continue. The “ex” is still a parent and it is the responsibility of both divorced spouses to be the best possible parents to their children and assist their “ex” to do so as well. “The program was outstanding and the presenters were just spectacular,” said a Chemed staff member from Lakewood at the workshop.

“Looking forward to another.” The workshop was convened to provide strategies for post-divorce parenting in view of the increase in divorce rates in the Jewish community.

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abbi Moshe Taragin, in an interesting essay entitled, “A Desert Gift” [vbm. org/Shavuot], writes an interesting thesis on the importance of the venue of the desert for the revelation at Mt. Sinai.

One series of very perceptive observations caught my attention and I wish to share them with you. Quoting from the Midrash Bamidbar 1:1, Rabi Taragin cites the following: “Whoever does not transform himself into hefker as a desert cannot acquire the inner wisdom of Torah.”

Rabbi Taragin teaches from this Midrash the following lesson: “This Midrash casts a desert as a region liberated from human comfort – both material and psychological. By extension, the message becomes, ‘If a person conditions himself as a desert – empty of any luxuries – he will succeed at Torah growth.’ From this vantage point, the Alan Jay Gerber desert climate exemplifies the notion that Torah cannot be acquired through the pleasures normally associated with urban life and the comforts which civilization offers. Its pursuit must be relentless,

inflexible, fierce, even harsh. Commitment to Torah cannot be leisurely or relaxed. As such, this Midrash aligns with the Gemara in Berachot [63b] which demands self-annihilation in the pursuit of Torah, and the famous Mishna in Avot [4:6] which describes ideal study accompanied by meals of unadorned bread, simple water and meager living conditions. The Midrash does not sound the stridency of Berachot or the economic hardship of the Mishna in Avot, but it does place Torah accomplishment in the wild and jagged sands of the inhospitable desert.

Rabbi Taragin concludes his thesis with the following most perceptive teaching: “The most significant moment in legal and moral history, in prophetic experience and in national development, occurred in a barren windswept region. Har Sinai, as a mountain, possesses no long-standing import. It retains no halachic kedusha and possesses no spiritual identity. Archaeologists and historians may endeavor to discover its identity, but in the spiritual world of religious observance its moment has long since passed.

However, at that moment, the mountain and the desert hosted this seminal event and the messages of the 6th of Sivan were delivered through landscape as well as legislation.”

Next time you visit Israel and travel the desert, think back concerning these teachings, sit in a quiet place and meditate, taking

yourself back in time and consider all that transpired on that fateful first Chag HaShavuot, zeman mattan Torateinu.

Bar Ilan University’s Parashat Hashavua Study Center’s Shavuot message this year is titled, “Rabbi Yehudah Amital on Torah Study” by Dr. Aharon Arend of their Department of Talmud.

Dr. Arend opens his essay with the following observation: “The Feast of Weeks, which celebrates receiving the Torah at Mount Sinai, is a fitting time to consider the matter of Torah study.

From time to time our rabbis encourage the community to study Torah, each leader in accordance with his audience and his views, on the place of Torah study in our lives.”

Given this as his basic premise, the author dedicates and devotes his focus upon the legacy of his mentor, Rabbi Yehudah Amital, zt”l,, the Rosh Yeshiva, and founder, of the Har Etzion Hesder Yeshivah in Alon Shevut for some 40 years.

This essay goes into great detail on Rav Amital’s views on the following concepts and topics: the importance of studying, what should be studied, persistence in learning, the role and goals of the yeshivah student, spreading knowledge of the Torah, and the importance of having a bright countenance.

It is on this last rather exotic point that I will quote a segment, thus giving you a flavor of Rav Amital’s unheralded, yet vital impor-

tance as a Gadol Hador for all Klal Yisrael.

“Rabbi Amital was of the opinion that those who study Torah should be happy and smiling and not go around with dark, gloomy faces. Thus he said of Rabbi Moshe Tzvi Neriah, zt”l, head of Kfar ha-Roeh Yeshiva: “When I first came to the land of Israel…I found the bright countenance of those studying Torah missing … the feeling of the Torah being ‘beautiful’ missing. With all due respect to the yeshivah students whom I met, their faces generally seemed clouded over … but when I met Rabbi Neriah I discovered a world of beauty, a world of bright countenances. This was a new variety of Torah Jew, a person with openness, with good spirits. Not a defensive stance, but beautiful language, wonderful measured sentences.

Revealed before my eyes I beheld the beauty of a Torah scholar….Many years ago, I was asked by Rabbi Frank’s son-in-law, Rabbi Landau, ‘What did you see in Rabbi Neriah?’

I answered him: ‘an aesthetic sense. He revealed to me the beauty of Torah, the loving kindness of Torah.’”

As we enter the great festival of Shavuot, the anniversary of the great Revelation, a smile should come to our faces that should reflect both the theme and purpose of this season. Such a smile should continue to be with us, thus demonstrating our confidence in the truths of our faith and in the honesty of our lifestyle for us and our community.

A Yerushalmi’s determination

By Rabbi Eugene Labovitz Z”L and Dr. Annette Labovitz Reproduced from “A Sacred Trust: Stories of Our Heritage and History” Rabbi Yosef Chaim Sonnenfeld emigrated to Eretz Yisrael from Hungary in 1873 and settled in the Old City of Yerushalayim. Once settled, he meticulously refrained from remaining outside the walls of the Old City for more than thirty days. Nevertheless, he was instrumental in guiding the expansion of Jewish living quarters outside the walls, to accommodate the increasing migration of Jews, particularly the quarter called Battei Ungarn (Hungarian Houses). He led the group of Torah scholars called Shomrei HaChomot (the guardians of the walls). He was known for his encouragement of Jewish resettlement in the land, and emphasized the use of Hebrew as the official language of the Jewish people. He strove to establish peace between Arab and Jew during the years when Arab nationalism awakened and consequently opposed Jewish migration from Europe.

During the Nebi Mussa riots of 1920, the Arabs initiated the first of a series of violent attacks upon the Jewish inhabitants of Tel Aviv and Jaffa. The violence reverberated eastward, to Yerushalayim under the exhortation of Haj Amin el Husseini, the Mufti of Jerusalem.

He had been appointed by the British colonial government as a gesture of even-handedness in their policy to administer fairly between Arabs and Jews.

The Arabs’ riot started at the Damascus Gate, and quickly spread to the all-Jewish Mayah Sheorim (One Hundred Gates) section, located just outside the walls of the Old City. Only the interference of the Haganah, the fledgling Jewish defense forces, interrupted their design to plant fear in the hearts of the people Iiving outside the protection of the walls of the Old City. The air was as tense as a wire stretched taut to its breaking point. For many days afterward, the Jews fearfully moved about their own neighborhoods. They dared not walk alone to

the Western Wall, located deep inside the walled Old City. Only Rabbi Yosef Chaim Sonnenfeld remained unperturbed. He was seen walking toward the Damascus Gate, heading for Battei Ungarn, wrapped in his talit and tefillin, to be the mohel, (ritual circumciser), at the brit of a newborn infant.

His frightened family had pleaded with him not to travel through the Moslem quarter. “They lie in wait to ambush Jews who dare trespass through their quarter. Their keffiehs camouflage their faces. They could remove their iqual (thick twisted cord) and strangle you. If one stealthily follows you, darting out from a concealed corner, you will not be able to protect yourself. You should walk around the longer way, through the Jaffa Gate. It will be safer.”

He refused to change his direction and murmured: Rabbi Eleazar said: “Those sent to perform a religious duty will not suffer hurt,” and continued walking. The Arabs stared hatefully as he proceeded, but they did not stand up from the stoops upon which they were sitting. When the brit ended, Rabbi Sonnenfeld started to retrace his steps homeward. This time, a friend, Rabbi Moshe Blau offered to accompany him. He refused, saying: “I am not in any danger, for Rabbi Eleazar has taught us that those sent to perform a religious duty will not suffer hurt, neither in their going nor in their returning. However, you, who have not been involved in the performance of this mitzva, (religious duty), would be in danger.” Rabbi Blau was not satisfied.

He persisted. “Why do you insist on going through the Moslem quarter, when it would only take a little longer to walk through Jaffa Gate?”

It took Rabbi Sonnenfeld many minutes to respond. Finally, he said defiantly: “Let me explain something to you. I have chosen to walk through the Moslem quarter because I will not permit any of them to think that they have succeeded in driving us out of our land!”.

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Rabbi Shlomo Amar, Israel’s Sephardic Chief Rabbi (far right), listens to YU’s Sephardi choir in the Glueck Beit Midrash Wednesday.

The Rishon LeZion speaks in New York On Wednesday, May 1st, Rabbi Shlomo Amar, the Sephardi Chief Rabbi of Israel, visited Yeshiva Universityaffiliated Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary (RIETS).

The chief rabbi, also known as the Rishon LeZion, was welcomed to campus with a performance by YU’s Sephardi choir before delivering a shiur to students in the Glueck Beit Midrash. He then offered divrei chizuk to students in the James Striar School of General Jewish Studies/ Mechina Program upon their siyum of Masechet Tamid and participated in a luncheon with various roshei yeshiva, members of the YU faculty and administration and local Sephardi community leaders. This was Rabbi Amar’s fourth visit to the YU campus in recent years. His wife, Rabbanit

Mazal Amar, delivered a lecture titled “Women’s Leadership According to Chazal” to students on the Israel Henry Beren Campus.

“It is truly a privilege to have Rav Amar in the Yeshiva,” said Rabbi Marc Penner, associate dean of RIETS. “So many things come together when he is here: Ashkenazim and Sephardim, Israel and the Diaspora. His visits not only enlighten us, but remind us of how close we are as a people.

Rav Shlomo Amar also spoke at DRS Yeshiva High School for Boys in Woodmere on Thursday, May 2, about Yom Yerushalayim and Kabalat Hatorah. He also spent Shabbat in Far Rockaway and spoke to standing room only crowds at the White Shul there.

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The flying ambassadors come to Long Island:

El Al partners with StandWithUs

By Malka Eisenberg As part of their series “Legends of Air & Space,” the Cradle of Aviation Museum in Garden City, Long Island last Thursday presented El Al crew members to discuss their flight experiences and as ambassadors for Israel.

Over 160 men, women and children filled the steep seats of the Imax theater room at the museum to observe, listen and question a panel of El Al personnel seated at a table at the base of the auditorium on the narrow stage area below. Each member of the panel introduced him or herself and described their experiences. The conversation and feeling in the air was almost family like, comfortable and friendly, and the stories they told in the dimly lit theater were punctuated by laughter and sighs from the audience in response to the ambassadors’ anecdotes.

The pilot, Captain Tal, admitted he was nervous talking in front of the audience, pointing out that he usually talks to people who are seated behind him and who can’t see him. He said that he was born in Israel in 1961 and was the son, along with his identical twin, of a refugee from Europe and a concentration camp survivor. He was a helicopter pilot in Israel’s air force, became an

Alon Fuderman spoke at the Cradle of Aviation Museum in Garden City.

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From left, Chai Elyass, Firas Farhoud, Orna Leshem, Shani Ben Meir, Captain Tal Fishel and Dani Klain, above, from El Al Israel Airlines, spoke at the Cradle of Aviation Museum in Garden City on May 2. accountant but returned to flying to El Al as a pilot in 1994, currently flying the 777. He’s married and has three children. “We like to fly,” he said of pilots, “and especially land.”

He said that one of the best parts of the job is that he doesn’t take work home. “After the flight I have a free mind and I don’t think about it much.” He recounted one hairraising trip when visibility at JFK was very bad “220 knots—category 3 approach.” They were rerouted to Newark but kept in a holding pattern until they only had 25 minutes of fuel left. “A few minutes short of an emergency—the kind of day when you prefer not to be a pilot.”

Flight attendant Chai, age 30, always wanted to be a flight attendant, he said, and studied tourism management and French.

He lived in Great Neck from age two to 12.

“America is great,” he said, “but I would never leave Israel.” He likes meeting famous people, including actor Ashton Kutcher and the princess of Thailand; he usually works in first class. When he is working he said that he thinks “I’m serving someone 30,000 feet in the air!” He pointed out that an El Al flight

is not a typical flight. “People stand and walk around, people mingle, it’s warm like family, they help each other out—it’s like Israel.”

Shani said she is an Orthodox Jew, one of eight siblings, was born in Australia and now lives with her parents in Ra’anana. She said that being a flight attendant is the “best job” and “I love, love, love it! We speak and connect with people. I get emotional, working on El Al with the flag on the plane.” She stressed that they are doing “shlichut (public relations) all the time.”

Orna, 51, retired from her job with the army and raised a family before she joined El Al. She told of an incident when a Chassidic man requested a seat change that led to a young Israeli woman sitting next to a young man, an American medical student. As a result of the flight-long conversation, the two ended up “a couple,” recounted Orna. The pilot and crew of the flight sent a surprise congratulations video to them at their wedding.

Dani Klain, 40, a head steward, born in Israel of parents from the former Soviet Union, has a particularly antic sense of humor and regaled the audience with his humorous out-

look on flying and passenger’s stories. On his third flight, a passenger came to him looking very upset and worried. “I just had my hair done before the flight,” she said, “and my seat is next to the window. Will that mess up my hair?” He said “no” and fled, not quite grasping what he called the lack of knowledge of aeronautics of the passenger. More recently, another passenger complained of noise on the flight. When he couldn’t detect any untoward noise, the passenger pointed out the sounds of the plane’s engines. He told the audience that if they turned off the engines for the complainant, the screams of the passengers would be terrible.

“Blue and White El Al Ambassadors” is a joint, free program of StandWithUs (SWU), The Jewish Agency for Israel and Israel’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, to train pilots and flight personnel as good-will ambassadors who educate about Israel during their lay-overs. El Al Airlines CEO Eliezer Shkedy initiated the program in 2011 to create a people to people initiative. “SWU is training the volunteer pilots and flight attendants,” said Avi Posnick, Regional Coordinator, New York Chapter, StandWithUs, East Coast. “The aim is to use El Al personnel, who are widely respected and trusted, to offer an authentic and comprehensive view of Israel and present its valuable contributions to the world.”

Fifty volunteer pilots and flight personnel are currently in the program. They travel the world and spend time speaking about Israel to high schools, colleges, synagogues, churches, the media and Jewish community centers on their layovers. They speak to students and adults, Jews and non-Jews. This trip brought them to Westchester, Greenwich, Connecticut and Long Island. Previous trips were to New Jersey, New York City, Los Angeles, Toronto, and the United Kingdom.

The reaction, said Posnick, has been “incredibly positive. They are personable and authentic. This is an incredible way to educate about and celebrate Israel.”

For more information contact avip@standwithus.com or 212 351 3440.

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