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LI burns with Lag B’Omer joy

By The Jewish Star Staff Jewish Long Islanders were in a decidedly celebratory mood over Lag B’Omer, which began Saturday night and continued late into Sunday.

BonďŹ res were lit at synagogues, in parks, and outside private homes. There were tasty barbecues, family friendly and holiday focused activities and the sounds of children delighting in expansive opportunities for free play.

Pictured on this page, clockwise from top right: A well planned bonďŹ re blazed in Andrew J. Parise Park in Cedarhurst, commemorating Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai’s teaching of the Zohar and his yahrzeit 1,900 years ago on Lag B’Omer. Other activities included ice cream eating, archery (another Lag B’Omer-centric activity), and face painting in Cedarhurst, bubble blowing at the Lag B’Omer Family Fun Day in Wantagh Park, soccer playing and tube tunnels in Cedarhurst, and a relay race at Wantagh Park.

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Hofstra hosts Shoah event

By Malka Eisenberg More than 1,000 attendees from along the east coast are expected to attend an all-encompassing full day conference on the Shoah at Hofstra University.

The June 8 event, entitled “Generations,â€? will feature speakers, ďŹ lms, workshops, panel discussions and reunion rooms. It is being staged by the Holocaust Memorial & Tolerance Center of Nassau County (HMTC).

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Conference goals are to honor “the eyewitnesses and their legacies ‌ the liberators with their military service [and to] educate about the Holocaustâ€?

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Mt. Olives ďŹ ght lands in 5Towns

By Malka Eisenberg Five Towners mobilized on Sunday to step up the ďŹ ght to preserve and develop the 3,000-year-old Jerusalem cemetery on Har Hazeitim, the Mount of Olives.

Community leaders and rabbis spoke at the Young Israel of Lawrence Cedarhurst, joining a call to action sounded by a Brooklyn marketing executive and his brother.

The cemetery dates back to the First Temple and is the site where King David ed from his rebelling son Avshalom, where the Cohanim burned the parah adumah (red heifer) and gathered the ashes, and it was the ďŹ rst in a chain of mountains where ďŹ res were lit to announce the new month. Those buried there include the prophets Chagai, Zechariah, Malachi and Hulda; rabbis including Ovadiah of Bartenura, Yehuda haChasid, Chaim Ben Attar and Avraham haCoContinued on page 3

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Continued from page 1 hen Kook (the first Ashkenazi chief rabbi of Israel), as well as former Prime Minister Menachem Begin and his wife Aliza. Although it is crowded and very expensive, it accommodated 120 burials there in 2013.

Reclaimed from the Jordanians in the 1967 Six-Day-War, the cemetery was not maintained until recently, except for an initial effort to repair the many graves that had been desecrated by the Jordanians during the time they occupied the area from 1948 to 1967. Jordanians destroyed or vandalized 70,000 ancient graves, built a hotel on the site and used gravestones for toilets.

But the destruction of graves did not stop under Israel’s watch, as Arabs in the surrounding area continued to destroy graves, dumping garbage and construction materials, using tombstones as markers to play soccer on the mount, and terrorizing visitors by throwing rocks and Molotov cocktails and smashing car windows.

Subsequent to a 2010 report by then-Israel State Controller Micha Lindenstrauss that detailed neglect of this holy site, two brothers from Brooklyn, Avraham and Menachem Lubinsky, formed the International Committee for the Preservation of Har Hazeitim and enlisted the help of Jewish leaders across the religious and communal spectrum. They met with Israeli government officials including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and have begun instituting changes.

Recent efforts have led to the installation of 142 security cameras where monitoring personnel can alert police to attacks and destruction. A police substation was installed in March 2012 but more patrols and protection are needed. The Jerusalem Municipality

At Solidarity Rally for Har Hazeitim. From right, Charles Miller, Menachem Lubinsky co-chairman, Israel’s consul general Ido Aharoni, Avraham Lubinsky, founding chairman. Photo by Malka Eisenberg

is now collecting debris at the site and some fencing was installed to deter vandals and protect mourners.

In a video shown at Sunday’s event, Malcolm Hoenlein, executive vice chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, declared it a “war about our future.”

“They understand that if they take away our past they take away our future,” Hoenlein said.

Rabbi Moshe Teitelbaum of the Young Israel of Lawrence Cedarhurst, compared destruction at Har Hazeitim to that of a cemetery where his grandfather is buried in Poland. While in Poland Jews have “no pow-

er over that,” the “same desecration steps from Har Habayit” is “unfathomable…a chillul Hashem (desecration of G-d’s name),” he said.

Menachem Lubinsky, president and CEO of LUBICOM Marketing Consulting, said that 150,000 Jews are buried on Har Hazeitim, Some graves are 3,000 years old, yet the Palestinian map denies the existence of the area, calling it the Ras Al Amud neighborhood. He said the site protects Jerusalem from 55,000 illegal units built by the Arabs in the area.

Rav Moshe Tuvia Lieff, morah d'asra of Agudath Israel Bais Binyomin in Flatbush, said “we believe that the 150,000 intercede at the Kisay Hakavod (G-d’s throne) on our

behalf.” He urged klal Yisrael (the people of Israel) to validate that “this is our land and sanctify the future by sanctifying the past.”

Ambassador Ido Aharoni, consul general of Israel in New York, called Har Hazeitim “the most important burial site in Jewish life,” where “early promulgators of Zionism” are buried. It should be a “magnet” for tourism and a “spiritual experience” where visitors can see their “forefathers, those who helped make Israel what it is today,” he said.

With plans for a promenade and visitors’ center and a connection via monorail to a train station and a cable car to a bus station, the current Israeli government is the first to “take seriously the maintenance and rehabilitation of Har Hazeisim,” Menachem Lubinsky said.

The visitors center will house a museum — including a data bank of the 76,000 graves documented thus far— a lecture hall, café and synagogue. A permanent police presence is also planned, to also protect the Jewish communities there including Shimon Hatzadik, Beit Orot on Har Hazeitim, Maale Hazeitim and Ir David, he said.

In addition to its historic and religious significance, there is also an issue of geographic contiguity and the strategic importance to maintaining a Jewish presence there. The area connects the Old City with Maale Adumim to the east, Har Hatzofim to the north and Mizrach Talpiot to the south.

“There is concern regarding the impact on all [these] areas plus the roads to the area of Har Habayit and the city beyond,” Malcom Hoenlein told The Jewish Star. “Denying access to Har Hazeitim would, in effect, break continuity and deny access to parts of Jerusalem. It would be a psychological and geographic division.”

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Haunting and meaningful museum opens at WTC

By Racheli Tuchman The author, a senior at SKA High School in Hewlett Bay Park, is an intern at The Jewish Star. On Monday, she accompanied her father, a first responder, to the 9/11 Memorial Museum.

Silence could be heard throughout the rooms of the 9/11 Memorial Museum. Sadness was written all over the faces of the visitors who had seen the World Trade Center fall to the ground.

Rescuers of September 11 were permitted to enter the museum, prior to the opening to the public. The rescuers were walking through the museum, feeling the destruction and reconstruction of the buildings that tore down the lives of thousands of innocent people. The pictures were devastating. The recordings of the hijackers on the planes were piercing. The voices of the passengers as they called their loved ones were heartbreaking.

Buildings crumbling to the ground, people jumping with uncertainty of the life beyond the flames, smoke consuming the air as the doomed gasp for one last breath. People falling to the ground covered by doors, windows and coworkers. People cover their wounds with trembling hands, trying to heal the pain that would never end. Eyes uncontrollably tearing of dust, smoke and fear. Parents worried that their children’s

Photographs of those who died in the World Trade Center attacks line the walls of the museum.

faces will never be seen again. Children smiling in school thinking that their parents will return to them and protect them. Sirens and screams bouncing off of the collapsing

buildings. Damage to society, to limbs and to psychological stability.

The walls were dark and the photographs were dreary, but within every picture there

is beauty.

Smoke seizing a sky that seemed finely painted with multiple shades of blue, said artist Spencer Finch, who designed one of the walls with 2,983 blue squares, using his memory of the sky on that dreadful morning. Devastation could be seen in the eyes of onlookers of the tragedy. Artwork created by children mourning those who had been lost. Blankets and quilts designed by women with focus and intricacy. Walls consisting of almost three thousand faces, a tribute to the memory that will never be lost. The steel rows from the building’s architecture, now bent into deformed shapes, are displayed to portray the force at which the buildings collapsed. A fragment that stood on top of the North Tower, an elevator motor and the steps that the people used to descend the burning building, are all on display.

Walking from room to room, looking upon walls of photographs and quotes, artifacts and vehicles, the reconstruction of the World Trade Center was finally coming into view. Buildings were rising, tears were lessening and the world started over.

It’s been almost 15 years since the tragedy of the World Trade Center took the innocence of New York and the lives of almost 3,000 people. Now, the museum honors the lives lost and the commemoration that will continue forever.

Kfar Etzion orphan tells his story at Rambam HS

By Malka Eisenberg Yossi Ron, the last remnant of his family, embodies the Jewish story of exile, destruction and rebirth.

Ron is one of the 47 orphans from Kfar Etzion, a town in the hills of Judea that was destroyed by the Arabs in Israel’s War of Independence, its defenders massacred by the marauding Arabs. Most of the children lost their fathers who stayed to fight; he lost his mother as well who also died defending their kibbutz.

At Rambam Mesivta in Lawrence last week, he told students the story of Kfar Etzion and described plans to refurbish its museum.

Ron was a child of Holocaust survivors, and in his story of birth, loss and survival, he is a living photograph of recent Jewish history, and an Israeli success story.

His father, Yechiel Rosenfeld, was from a Polish family of Bobover Chasidim who joined Bnei Akiva, a religious Zionist youth movement. His mother, Tziporah, was from Lodz. They met in a labor camp during the

Holocaust and were later liberated by the Russians. Tziporah was 14, and Yechiel was 18 when they first met. Theirs was the first wedding in Lodz after the war. Tziporah was able to get a certificate in 1946 to enter what was then Palestine and went, already pregnant with Yossi, to Kfar Etzion. Yechiel attempted to join her as a Maapil (an illegal immigrant to then Palestine) but was captured by the British and sent to an internment camp in Cyprus. They were separated for 15 months. He was reunited with Tziporah and was finally able to see his new son.

The actual site of Kfar Etzion had been bought and built up three times by Jews, in 1927, 1934 and 1943 before the declaration of the State of Israel although the entire area is rich in the history of the Jewish people.

The area includes Derech HaAvot, a road from Hebron to Mount Moriah - the Temple Mount, and the towns where Ruth gathered grain, David was a shepherd and the Maccabim and Bar Kochba’s fighters sheltered in caves. In 1927 the inhabitants left due to

Yossi Ron, Kfar Etzion orphan, told his story to the students of Rambam Mesivta

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harsh conditions, the other two times the kibbutzim and farmland were attacked by Arabs and destroyed. The last one is Ron’s story.

When the UN voted for the partition plan, dividing the land into Jewish and Arab areas on Nov. 29, 1947, the Jews celebrated, even in the Gush Etzion area despite its being relegated to the Arab zone. The Jewish residents decided to stay to defend the southern approach to Jerusalem but endured increasing attacks from the surrounding hostile Arab villages. A month later, the mothers and children were evacuated but Tziporah did not want to be separated again from her husband. She decided to stay and fight, but with great sadness, sent her year old son Yossi with the mothers and children to Jerusalem.

The defenders of Kfar Etzion fought valiantly against far superior forces of the Arab and Jordanian Legions.

When the Jews realized that they were defeated, they surrendered only to be massacred; just four remained alive. An Arab threw a hand grenade into a bunker where the wounded were staying, killing them all. In total, 240 died in the battle for Gush Etzion.

Members of three kibbutzim in the area were taken prisoner by the Arab Legion to Transjordan and were held for nine months.

The bodies lay unburied for 18 months until Rabbi Shlomo Goren was permitted by the Jordanian Legion to collect the bones and bury them, the first graves on Har Herzl in Jerusalem.

Both of Ron’s parents were killed in the massacre in Kfar Etzion on May 13, 1948. His father was 24 and his mother was 20. The Knesset later declared the day of that battle as Israel’s Memorial Day, Yom Hazikaron. The State of Israel was proclaimed the next day, Friday, May 14, 1948, the fifth of Iyar 5708.

Ron was adopted by one of the widows of Kfar Etzion. “I never felt abandoned,” he said.

He was number 40 of the 47 children rescued from Kfar Etzion. They stuck together over the years, in summer camps and gatherings.

He said they were like his siblings. Number 12 from the group was Hanan Porat, a member of Knesset.

“My parents had a strong tradition and I feel that they are looking out for me,” he said. “I have a family. And I have (my parents’) push from my back.”

Ron rarely spoke of his past before, saying that he kept “his face to the future not the past.” After a book, “Children of Kfar Etzion,” was published eight years ago, people asked him questions and he began to respond. “I was talking all the time and found that it’s not bad to talk,” he said.

He has been to the U.S. many times on business and to see family, he has an aunt and other relatives here, but was invited now by the JNF (Jewish National Fund) as a guest speaker for a breakfast in Denver to raise funds to renovate and modernize the visitors’ center at Kfar Etzion.

Shani Simkowitz, the director of the Gush Etzion Foundation, noted that JNF has been involved in purchasing land in the area since 1928 and today owns 80 percent of the land in Gush Etzion and had a hand in establishing the areas in the Gush repeatedly. “JNF is partnering with us to renovate the visitors’ center in Kfar Etzion as a memorial to the brave women and men who fell in the final battle in 1948,” said Simkovitz.

Ron is still very close to Kfar Etzion and has many friends there. He hopes that one of his children will marry someone from Kfar Etzion.

Ron graduated the Technion with a B.S. in electronics and joined the Israeli Air Force (IAF), retiring after 21 years with the rank of Full Colonel. He married Esti in 1969 and moved to Elkana in 1977. (He couldn’t live in the Gush since he had to be near his work in the IAF.) They raised three girls and three boys; he named his oldest son Yechiel after his father and his oldest daughter Tzipora for his mother. Their daughter Tzipora was killed in a car accident at the same age that her grandmother was killed, 20.

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he beginning of our new book informs us of the order of travels, and how the people encamped around the Mishkan (Tabernacle).

Those most immediately around the Mishkan were the Levite families, whose jobs consisted of carrying the different parts of the Mishkan.The speRabbi Avi Billet cific assignments given to the families are enumerated at the end of the Torah portion, and spills over into next week’s parsha.

We are told at the end of the opening chapter that when they would travel and when they would rest the Levites would disassemble and reassemble the Mishkan, with the warning that “the stranger who came close would die.” (1:51) And, as Rashi notes, this death punishment was to be carried out by G-d, not by Man. If only it were so simple.

Ibn Ezra is of the view that the death penalty was to be carried out by the court, and his definition of a stranger is only an Israelite who attempted to participate in the role assigned to the Levites. Chizkuni includes even a Levite who overstepped his boundaries, going beyond his assigned role.

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area that was that family’s purview. No Levite could switch from task to task (based on the Talmud Arakhin 11b) and every Kohen was similarly forbidden to participate in the Levites’ work.

While the Kohen is forbidden to work in the Mishkan as a Levite, is he subject to the same punishment as the Israelite or the Levite who switched roles?

According to the Ktav V’Hakabbalah, the answer is Yes. The Kohen is also considered to be a stranger to the work of the Levites.

And, taking Rashi’s side against Ibn Ezra, he claims that any kind of death resulting from miscues in the Temple Service were only punishable by G-d, “in the hands of Heaven.” He even calls Ibn Ezra by name, as he rejects the approach that the court would carry out such a verdict.

As we never really know what “causes” natural deaths, it is hard for humans to ever point to a faux-pas and lay blame on it. It is one of the dilemmas we face in trying to understand the deaths of Rabbi Akiva’s students as described in the Talmud, for “not having respected one another.”

Here, at least, the Torah leaves the death punishment in the hands of G-d, which suggests that it may happen some time in the near future, or G-d may bide His time and have it happen way in the distant future.

Death, in most instances, is viewed as a “kapparah” (an atonement of some kind) for

past deeds. And certainly death from overstepping boundaries in the Mishkan would fit into this category.

But isn’t it fascinating that not even a Kohen can step into the realm of the Levites?

Moshe was unique, as he was able to play the dual role of Levi and Kohen. But otherwise, even the Kohen, whose job description is all about service in the Mishkan, cannot branch out to do a job that is not designated to him, for him, or in his realm of possibility. So much so that the Torah depicts his punishment as death at the hand of Heaven.

We live in an egalitarian world, and in a “the world is for everybody” existence. As much as this is to our benefit in society at large, and particularly in the workforce, it is not necessarily to our benefit in religious life or in family life.

There are some roles that are meant for Kohanim, for Leviim, for Israelites, for men, for women. And switching these roles is not always in everybody’s best interest. It would be wrong to suggest that there is a punishment to be heaped upon those who cross those boundaries.

But maybe, if and when the particular roles are so clearly defined, as they were in the Mishkan, we can recognize and see that crossing those boundaries is more to the detriment of the community than to its advantage.

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‘Kitbag’ question: Time to ask, time to be silent T

hree thousand years ago, King Solomon wrote in the book of Kohelet (Ecclesiastes) that there is a time and a season for everything under the sun. “A time to sing, and a time to dance, a time to rejoice and a time to mourn, a time to reap and a time to sow.�

And, like all things, there is a time to ask Rabbi Binny questions and a time to Freedman remain silent.

In the Israeli army, there is a type of question known as a she’elat kitbag or kitbag question. This concept is born of the ďŹ rst day men are inducted into the army, and I remember it like it was yesterday.

When newly drafted soldiers arrive at Bakum (Basis Klitah U’Miyun: The base for receiving and sorting), they enter at one end of a long series of huts as civilians, and emerge a few hours later, Israeli soldiers in full uniform with all their gear thrown into a kitbag.

Vaccinated and examined, with your hair cut and a long series of items thrown at you FROM THE HEART OF JERUSALEM

and ordered to be stuffed pell-mell into your kitbag, wearing boots and uniform that don’t exactly ďŹ t because you didn’t know enough to ask for the right size (and in the three minutes you were given to dress you didn’t have time to notice they didn’t ďŹ t before you were on to the next series of invasions of your privacy and your identity) this day lives on in my memory as one of the more harrowing experiences of my life.

It has not yet hit you that you have entered a different world where you will spend the next few years of your life, but you have already learned the hard way that you need to ďŹ gure out what you are supposed to be doing fast, because there is always a price for getting it wrong. I still remember the guy who thought he’d be smart and threw his boots on without the laces.

The sergeant who caught him wanted to know if he thought he was a man or a bird, and promptly made him put the boots on his hands, and, with arms extended like wings, he was made to run around the entire series of huts apping his arms in unison.

After a few hours that seem like a lifetime,

you ďŹ nally emerge at the end of this experience in a state of near total confusion. And it is at this point that the legend of the kitbag question is born.

You are made to run out of the hut and line up in rows of threes (“shelashot�), something you will become all to familiar with in the coming months. At this point, the sergeant overseeing your “education� looks at his watch and points out another building in the distance. “It is now 12:15,� he says. “That building is the dining hall.� “In the army, seven minutes is a lifetime, and that is all you get to eat.

It will take you three minutes to get there, and three minutes to get back, so be back here in ‘threes’ at 12:28.�

Everybody gets it; you do not want to get back at 12:29. But before anyone can move, there is always one guy who raises his hand to ask that incredible “kitbag� question. He means well, and is just trying to do the right thing, but there are some questions you just don’t ask: “Sir, do we have to take our kitbags?�

Time is a gift we are given, but what we do with it is up to us.

The sadistic smile of the sergeant says it all, and off we ran with our overloaded, ill-packed, bulging-at–the-seams kitbags on our shoulders. (To this day, whenever I meet someone going into the army, I tell him to bring some granola bars and sandwiches, and offer to watch the kitbags!)

There is a time to ask questions, and a time to remain silent. You don’t ask the ofďŹ cer who just stopped you for speeding why he has such shiny sunglasses, and you don’t ask the dentist why he said ‘oops’ as the anesthetic takes effect.

There is a time and a place for everything.

And often, knowing when and where those times and places are, is what life is all about. his week, we begin a new book in the Torah, the book of Bamidbar, and the ďŹ rst portion (Bamidbar) is case in point.

The Torah seems to deem it important that we not only know what G-d is telling Moshe to do, but exactly where he is when receiving the command: “And Hashem spoke to Moshe in the desert of Sinai, in the tent of meeting, (the Ohel Mo’ed).� (Bamidbar 1:1) We already know the Jewish people are in the Sinai desert from the context of the portion we just concluded, so one wonders why it is important to repeat this here? And Continued on page 9

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The tax levy increase is 2.1 percent, and the tax levy â&#x20AC;&#x201D; the amount of revenue the district will raise through taxes â&#x20AC;&#x201D; is slightly over $99 million. The approved budget is $2.49 million larger than the current spending plan.

Incumbent Board of Education Trustees Scott McInnes and Cheryl May both won reelection to second three-year terms. May received 1,805 votes, McInnes collected 1,759, Jacob Shafran garnered 826 and Fred Usherson got 323 in the at-large election. McInnes and May currently serve as the boardâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s president and vice president. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m glad people came out to support me and Scott, and the budget,â&#x20AC;? May said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be happier with the results overall,â&#x20AC;? McInnes said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I will keep working towards making sure the board serves each and every person in the district.â&#x20AC;?

Lawrence Despite a very low turnout in Lawrence, the $95.6 million budget was approved by a count of 986 to 345. The tax levy increase is 0.9 percent, while the tax levy is $83.7 million. The spending plan is $2.6 million larger than the current ďŹ scal plan.

District Superintendent Gary Schall said that in spite of the low vote totals, he viewed the nearly 3-to-1 budget approval margin â&#x20AC;&#x153;as a vote of conďŹ denceâ&#x20AC;? in the districtâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s operations.

Sitting Board of Education Trustee Asher Mansdorf overwhelmingly defeated challenger Asher Matathias, 1,112 to 297, to win a ďŹ fth term on the board. Fellow incumbent Murray Forman, who ran unopposed for a fourth term, received 1,129 votes.

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sula Public Library budgets were approved handily. This was the ďŹ rst time that the Hewlett-Woodmere library held its election concurrently with the school district.

The $6.2 million Hewlett-Woodmere spending plan passed by a margin of more than 2 to 1, 1,645 to 801, while Peninsulaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s $3.1 million budget was approved by an even larger cushion, more than 3 to 1, 1,033 to 237.

Running unchallenged, Hewlett-Woodmere incumbent Trustee David Adler won another ďŹ ve-year term with 1,717 votes.

Cedarhurst resident Joseph Fuller defeated challenger Marc Katznelson, of Woodmere, 774 to 358, for a ďŹ ve-year term on the Peninsula library board. Fuller said that he looked forward to maintaining what he called the libraryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ďŹ scal integrity by keeping control of taxes and helping PPL ďŹ nd a site for a new building.

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his Shabbat will witness the beginning of the reading of the fourth book of the Torah, Bamidbar, sometimes translated as the Book of Numbers but never as the Book of the Desert (which is what bamidbar means).

What follows are mini reviews of several essays, most recently published, that merit Alan Jay Gerber your attention.

In the introduction to her essay, “From Generation to Generation,” Dr. Yael Ziegler of Herzog College describes the structure of Bamidbar: “The Book of Numbers is a book of transition. It tells of one generation’s failure to enter the land of Israel, and of the next generation’s success. The critical question is why the first generation fails. The standard answer is that the pessimistic report brought back by the spies indicated a lack of faith in G-d. Nevertheless, the real question remains: What triggered this type of report? This generation witnessed the great events of the Exodus from Egypt: the ten plagues and the splitting of the sea. Why did the spies exhibit such meager faith?”

Dr. Ziegler goes on to detail her reasoning for questing the behavior of our ancestors that dwells deep in motivations that have baffled commentators from time immemorial. A close reading of her analysis is warranted. Her analysis is the lead essay of an anthology of essays entitled “Torah MiTziKOSHER BOOKWORM

on: New Readings in Tanach — Bamidbar” [Maggid Books, 2014], the last in a series of essays on the Torah that utilizes applies advanced literary analysis into the depth of midrash and other thematic ideas that serve to reinterpret philosophical principles of our faith to the Torah text itself.

In his introductory essay on this week’s parshah, Rabbi Alex Israel points to the following in a rather technical literary detail method that makes his take so different from others: “The transition from the book of Leviticus to Numbers represents something of a change of scene. The tempo speeds up as we are thrust into the hustle and bustle of the Israelite camp. It is a world of administration. National demographic statistics are procured about the state of the nation, the number of fighting men, the 12 army divisions which consist of the twelve tribes of the nation. There are precise coordinates for tribal encampment, the teeming masses organized in efficient units. Everyone has their place, their station. The Levites, too, are divided into three family divisions and

they are delegated the delicate task of the dismantling and careful transportation of the sacred Tabernacle.”

Note the sharpness of language in this descriptive and contrast that with how Rabbi Israel describes how the Torah text details the census: “We are accustomed to seeing anonymity with a national survey. Everyone is given a number. Is there room for each personality, each individual? In a prison, a prisoner is identified by a number. It dehumanizes a person and strips him of his dignity. In theory, a census has the same effect. A census makes you disappear amongst the masses....

But this is not the Jewish way. Moses was told to count by using the name of every person. A name gives one dignity. It defines a person.”

This manner of analysis of the Torah text is most refreshing. Consider further: “A name somehow gives us value and worth.

We enjoy the sound of our name. It relaxes us as it enhances our feeling of self-worth.

In the Torah’s way of counting, we want to bring out and accentuate individual uniqueness and specialty.”

In an online essay this week entitled, “Bamidbar — Not just Numbers,” Rabbi Yair Kahn, editor of Shiurei HaGrid, concludes with a series of questions: “Even a superficial glance at parashat Bamidbar reveals a basic difficulty. The counting and recounting of the people seems superfluous and trivial. The Torah, which at times is so stingy and exacting regarding the use of words, is quite expansive and generous with respect to the census of Israel. Not only do we note surprising detail, but puzzling repetition as well. This presents a number of basic questions. How is this parashah relevant to us? Why was it included in the Torah whose message is eternal? What is the Torah trying to tell us by recording these statistics?”

I surely hope that you have an opportunity this week to read the answers and the logic to help your greater comprehension of the Torah’s message as detailed by Rabbi Kahn.

Lastly, may I bring to your attention a new work by Dr. Nathan Aviezer entitled, “Modern Science and Ancient Faith: The Biblical Case for G-d” [Ktav 2014]. In chapContinued on page 16

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Moâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;adim, which are the festivals, or times of rejoicing in our calendar. Even more interesting, the festival, or Moed, is also associated with joy, as these are the days on which we are meant to experience joy.

What is the connection between time and joy? Quite simply, happiness is all about purpose.

That is why the prophets speak of the day when the Jewish people will rejoice, because that will be the time when we begin to sense that the long journey of exile had some purpose, even if we will never fully comprehend it. And that sense of purpose is what gives us the experience of joy.

Joy is not about what we have; it is about who we are, and the sense that there is a purpose to our being here. We are all put on this earth for a reason, and our challenge is to try and discern what that mission is, and that is the joy that we seek.

And of course, this is intricately bound up with the concept of time. Because time is a gift we are given, but what we do with it is up to us. And that is the Ohel Moed, the place that represents our mission to ďŹ ll the short time we have on this earth with meaning.

And all of this is essentially the theme of the book of Bamidbar, and very clearly the background to all of the topics in this weekâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s portion.

May Hashem bless us soon to connect all of us, each in our own way, to what we are really meant to be doing here, so that we may rediscover that sense of joy that comes from living a meaningful life.

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Continued from page 6 why, additionally, do we need to know that whatever G-d is about to share with Moshe is being communicated in the tent of meeting?

The Noam Elimelech (Rav Elimelech of Lizensk), points out that each of these places represent two very distinct ideas in Judaism.

Sinai, in Jewish tradition, has come to represent the concept of humility. The ďŹ rst Mishnah in Pirkei Avot (Ethics of the fathers), in sharing the history of the oral tradition from generation to generation, begins by stating that: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Moshe Kibel Torah Miâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Sinai,â&#x20AC;? which literally means Moshe received the Torah from Sinai.

The commentaries suggest that the Torah was given on Mount Sinai, as opposed to a more magniďŹ cent and majestic mountain such as Everest or Kilimanjaro, because a little hill like Sinai teaches us the value of humility. And true acquisition of Torah, and all it represents, can only come from a sense of humility.

And if Sinai represents humility, then the desert, in which Sinai is found, represents the best place to acquire that humility.

We get so caught up in all of our achievements and accomplishments; sometimes we need to take a step back and retreat into the desert, in order to acquire a little humility in our lives.

The Ohel Moed (tent of meeting), however, was very much a place, but it was not only a place one went to; it was also a place you could take with you.

What really, was the tent of Moed? We often translate this as the tent of meeting, but the word Moed also means time, as in the

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Down with Shavuot cheesecake!

By Mollie Katzen, JNS.org Fresh cheese is a staple in classic Shavuot foods, traditionally wrapped in a soft, egg-like blintz that is then fried lightly in butter. Variations on this theme can keep things interesting and expand your kitchen craft.

Cheesecake is another way to expand the joy of this holiday. Small cheesecake bars, topped with early strawberries, are a wonderful way to usher in the transition-to-summer month of June. A Thai tea cheesecake is beautiful and surprising, rounding out your holiday with a sense of orange expansiveness—and it is actually easier than handcrafting blintzes.

Cheesecake Bars If you love cheesecake, but feel guilty after eating it, pursue it in a small way instead. These bars hit that spot perfectly, especially when adorned with a perfect small, ripe strawberry.

Yield: About 1 1/2 dozen.

Ingredients: 1/2 cup (packed) light brown sugar 1 1/2 cups unbleached all-purpose flour 1/2 teaspoon salt 1/2 cup (1 stick) unsalted butter, melted 1 1/2 cups cottage cheese

1/2 cup (half an 8-ounce pkg) cream cheese, softened 1/3 cup granulated sugar 1 1/2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract 2 teaspoons fresh lemon juice 2 large eggs, beaten A handful or two ripe strawberries (optional) Directions: 1. Preheat the oven to 350°F (or 325°F if using a glass pan). Have ready a 6-by-9 inch baking pan (ungreased) or the equivalent.

2. In a medium sized bowl, combine the flour with 1/4 teaspoon of the salt, and the brown sugar, crumbling the sugar into the flour with your hands until uniformly distributed.

Add the melted butter, and stir to thoroughly combine. Press this mixture firmly into the bottom of the pan.

3. Combine the cottage cheese, cream cheese, granulated sugar, vanilla, lemon juice, and eggs in the bowl of a food processor, and buzz until completely smooth. Pour this mixture into the pan, spreading it into place.

4. Bake in the center of the oven for 30 minutes, or until the top surface is firm to the touch. Remove from the oven, and allow it to cool completely before chilling. Let it chill for at least two hours, and serve cold, cut into 1 1/2-inch squares. Ideally topped with sliced strawberries.

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Thai Tea Cheesecake From “The Heart of the Plate: Vegetarian Recipes for a New Generation” Yield: 8 or more servings Thai iced tea morphs into a dessert (it didn’t have far to go), and all I can say is, this is kind of amazing. No baking required—just a patted-into-place crumb crust and a stovetopthickened filling. Cool to room temperature, then chill, and/ or (in my perfect world) freeze.

Brew and strain the tea well ahead of time. To get the proper strength for this recipe, steep 1/2 cup Thai tea in 2 1/2 cups boiling water for 10 minutes, then strain, pressing out and saving as much of the water as you can.

Chocolate crumb crust ingredients: 6 to 7 ounces graham crackers (10 or 11 long ones) 1/4 cup unsweetened cocoa powder 1 tablespoon sugar 1/2 cup (1 stick) unsalted butter, melted Chocolate crumb crust directions: 1) Place the graham crackers in a food processor and buzz to fine crumbs. You should have about 2 cups.

2) Transfer the crumbs to a bowl, stir in the cocoa and sugar, and pour in the melted butter. Mix to thoroughly combine, and then transfer to a 9-inch pie pan.

3) Spread it out to cover the bottom completely and evenly, letting it begin to climb up the sides of the pan. Pat it into place, gently at first, and then firmly—turning the pan as you go, and building a nice edge flush with the rim. Set aside.

Filling ingredients: 1/2 cup sugar 3 tablespoons cornstarch 1/4 teaspoon salt 2 large eggs 1 1/2 cups strong-brewed Thai tea, strained and cooled (see note) 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract 8 ounces cream cheese Filling directions: 1. In a medium saucepan, whisk together the sugar, eggs, and cornstarch until smooth. Stir in the tea and vanilla.

2. Bring to a boil over medium heat, whisking frequently.

Cook and stir for 5 to 8 minutes, or until the custard thickens to the point where it starts to resist being stirred.

3. Remove from the heat, and immediately add the cream cheese in pieces; it will melt in. Whisk exuberantly until the cream cheese is completely incorporated, and the mixture becomes uniform. This will likely take several minutes.

4. Pour the hot mixture directly into the crust, and let it cool to room temperature, then cover with plastic wrap, and refrigerate until cold. Make the topping in the meantime.

Topping ingredients: 2/3 cups sour cream 2 tablespoons brewed Thai tea (optional) 1 tablespoon sugar 1/2 teaspoon pure vanilla extract Pinch of salt Topping directions: 1) Whisk together all the ingredients—until smooth and uniform.

2) Spoon on top of the pie, spreading it to the edges of the crust.

3) Carefully (so as not to disturb the top surface) cover with plastic wrap, and refrigerate or freeze until serving time. Serve at any temperature from very cold to partially (or even mostly) frozen.

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So reads part of the description beneath one of the 30 paintings on display until the too skinny—those with a body mass index end of May at the ZOA House in Tel Aviv. The level below 18.5—from the catwalks, as well collection represents the first-ever art exhibit as from photo shoots and advertising camof its kind: an exhibit created entirely by Is- paigns. This was the first (and to-date only) time a country has set down legislation for a raelis in treatment for eating disorders.

Dubbed “Tears of Color,” based on one wholesale ban on what are viewed by some of the collection’s paintings, the exhibit pro- as unhealthy skinny models.

Currently, the Knesset is reviewing new vides a window into the minds of individuals struggling with eating disorders. Each image legislation that would allow a husband or is accompanied by an explanation of the pa- other family member to obtain medical custient’s treatments and trials during their time tody over a woman with an eating disorder at Reuth Medical Center’s Machon Agam if her weight dropped to a dangerously low center for eating disorders. Agam, located in level and she was refusing treatment.

It’s a positive step, said model Yomi Abiola, the Tel Aviv area, is the largest and busiest founder of Stand up for Fashion, a global camoutpatient eating disorder clinic in Israel.

“Eating disorder patients are often among paign promoting diversity, equality, and incluthe most articulate people,” explained Ye- sion that aims to “transform lives through the hudit Arad, exhibit curator and a renowned power of fashion.” But she told JNS.org in an Israeli art therapist. “But when it comes to email that she thinks Israel is treating “the eftalking about their eating disorders, they cannot express themselves, or they have learned what they are supposed to say.”

Art, Arad said, helps these patients to open up. Through Arad’s guidance and a series of exercises, the patients are able to tap into the gap between what they show on the outside and what they feel on the inside. When used in conjunction with other therapies Paintings from the “Tears of Color” exhibit in Tel Aviv. such as counseling, medication, and nutritional support, art therapy can fect and not the cause. … I think efforts and serve a vital role in eating-disorder patients’ resources should be poured into education.”

Judy Krasna knows firsthand the frustrarecovery, according to Arad.

“They learn to see themselves through the tion of treating an eating disorder in Israel. colors, lines and drawings,” she said. “These Her daughter suffered from the disease for tell a story. It helps the words come out. Of- several years, and Krasna said it was challengten they have no voice. On the canvas they ing to learn about and to get proper care. She told JNS.org that her daughter’s pediatrician find their voice.”

The imagery is bold and colorful; each didn’t have a lot of resources, and that she was color, said Arad, has a personal meaning. On blamed for her daughter’s disease and shunned each wall is a different patient’s story. On the from involvement in her treatment. At public wall including “Tears of Color” are 10 paint- clinics, her daughter saw one psychologist and ings, among them several images of birds. she saw another; the two did not share inforThe first one shows an orange bird in its cage mation. She was not even welcomed into her daughter’s nutritionist appointments. without eyes or wings.

Additionally, she noted, while there are “She is choosing to stay in her cage,” explained the artist, who like the others in the several Israeli hospitals that will work with eating disorder patients, few have units exexhibit asked to remain anonymous.

Later, the bird stands atop a hill, sur- clusively to deal with this disorder. And there rounded by yellow light, testing the possibil- are always waiting lists. Private clinics like ity of freedom. In the final painting, the bird Agam are “wonderful,” Krasna said.

“Private clinics are better, more intensive, becomes a female body, with arms spread, ready to make the plunge into independence multi-disciplinary,” she said, “but only the privileged get private.” and a life without her disease.

Today, Krasna serves as a coach for other Yehuda Ninyo, head of Machon Agam, said the exhibit is on target to be viewed by Israeli parents of children with eating disor10,000 people. Agam has seen a 20-percent ders and is an activist for increased public annual increase in patients for the last sev- funding for the cause. Arad, too, said the one eral years, he noted. Ninyo attributed this to thing Americans could do to assist Israel in a combination of medical and public aware- this arena is offer financial support to enable ness, and not necessarily to a spike in eating clinics like Agam to provide grants to the padisorders in the Jewish state. Still, he said, tients who cannot afford Agam’s services, but the disease is starting younger and parents desperately need the assistance.

Temimah Zucker, 23, is a recovered anshould be trained to know the signs.

“Parents can begin to see symptoms at orexic from New Jersey. She speaks publicly around age 4 or 5,” Ninyo said. “Maybe they about the need for culturally sensitive and are not eating, they are saying, ‘I’m fat.’ … It targeted support for people with eating disorders, especially within the Jewish community. is getting worse each year,” he said.

“This is a very serious issue,” said Zucker.

The Jerusalem Post reported last year that 1,500 Israeli teenagers develop an eating “It’s an illness and it needs to be thought of disorder and five percent of those suffering as an illness.”

Maayan Jaffe is a freelance writer in Overfrom anorexia die each year.

In January 2013, the Israeli Knesset land Park, Kan. Reach her at maayanjaffe@ passed a law that banned models deemed icloud.com or on Twitter at @MaayanJaffe.

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By The Jewish Star Staff â&#x20AC;&#x153;We live in a zman [time] of great choshech [darkness],â&#x20AC;? Rabbi Yankel Horowitz told a parking lot full of Lag Bâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Omer celebrants outside the White Shul on motzei Shabbat. Then he ignited a bonďŹ re that lit the Far Rockaway night.

Horowitz, Bostoner rebbe of Lawrence, said the great challenge for klal Israel is reconnecting with those who have gone far off the derech. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The overwhelming majority of klal Israel is surrounded by darkness,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Not only are they not religious, but they say they have not shaychus (connection) to the Ribono Shel Olam, certainly not to the Torah,â&#x20AC;? he said, citing a recent national study. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They say they are connected to yiddishkeit purely as a social community.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;They are lured by non-Jewish culture, non-Jewish philosophy, non-Jewish fashion.

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1,000 expected at Hofstra-HMTC Shoah eventâ&#x20AC;Ś Continued from page 1 â&#x20AC;&#x201D; including aspects usually not discussed, such as the Romani (gypsies) and liberator trauma.

Noted speakers include Major General Sidney Shachnow (ret.), Dr. Bernd Wollschlaeger, Albaniaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Ambassador to the UN Ferit Hoxha, and NYU professor Petra Gelbart.

Shachnow was born in Kauna, Lithuania, imprisoned for three years in a Nazi concentration camp and escaped at age 10 to hide in the forest. He made his way to the United States, worked his way through school and enlisted in the U.S. Army. He is the only Holocaust survivor to attain the rank of General.

Wollschlaeger, a physician, is the son of a Nazi ofďŹ cer, converted to Judaism and served in the IDF. Hoxha is a Holocaust historian, and has a unique perspective as an Albanian since Albania rescued all of its Jews and more than 2,000 Jews from surrounding areas. Gelbart is the granddaughter of Romani Auschwitz survivors.

Lilach noted that there would be a â&#x20AC;&#x153;big military presenceâ&#x20AC;? with veterans and libera-

tors, with two of the workshops led by liberators to â&#x20AC;&#x153;see through the eyes of the soldiers.â&#x20AC;?

She explained that the workshop would deal with a rarely addressed topic, the â&#x20AC;&#x153;trauma that liberators passed on to their families, the trauma of young soldiers (then, who are) still suffering nightmares till today. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s different from survivors but still extremely damaging.â&#x20AC;?

Another workshop, noted Lilach, will deal with â&#x20AC;&#x153;sex abuse during the Holocaust; itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not spoken of. Children in hiding were (at times) abused by their rescuers, the abuse in the camps and ghettos, and the forced rape the Jewish and other women experienced in socalled â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;brothelsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; and the myth that they were spared rape because of laws that prohibited relations with Jews.â&#x20AC;?

Other speakers include Miriam Brysk from the Lida Ghetto who hid in the forest and joined Russian partisans and disguised herself as a boy to escape rape. Claire Haymann, another speaker, now of Queens, was a prisoner in Auschwitz-Birkenau and shared a bunk with one of four women leaders of a resistance movement in the womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s camp there. She

witnessed the execution of these four women.

A German graduate student, will cover the Allied program of â&#x20AC;&#x153;denaziďŹ cation, the idea that the Allies could remove Nazism from Nazis immediately after the war ended,â&#x20AC;? explained Lilach. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It is ridiculous that they thought that they could even attempt this.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;The main focus of the Allies was to economically rehabilitate Germany as quickly as possible, so they removed the ofďŹ cial Nazi stigma but they still remained judges, physicians and police. Under Operation Paper Clip, [Nazi] scientists, physicists, doctors and their families, hundreds, were given full citizenship, money and homes while Jews were still forced to wear the concentration camp uniforms, and did not have decent food or conditions.â&#x20AC;?

Lilach pointed out the ongoing work at HMTC and four recent acquisitions. An Israeli Auschwitz survivor found a childâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s shoe years ago while leading a tour of the camp and held onto it hoping to donate it to a small Holocaust museum where it would be considered a signiďŹ cant artifact. He came in from Israel to donate it to HMTC.

The museum will be receiving a full camp uniform that was worn in Auschwitz by a survivor who did not want it warehoused but displayed in a museum. Another artifact is an intricately carved light bulb, the only remnant rescued from the ruins of a synagogue that had been destroyed by the Nazis in Drama, Greece.

Another new item to be displayed is an early 1900s beer stein from Bavaria. Pub patrons would leave their personal mugs at their pub; they were usually decorated with colorful scenes. This one is covered with antiSemitic pictures including a representation of Germans kicking Jews out of Germany.

Said Lilach, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Someone drank his beer from this hate-ďŹ lled mug.â&#x20AC;?

The conference and transportation there is free for survivors and liberators, and Hofstra staff and students. For others the cost is $36 for adults and $10 for under age 18.

Buses to the conference will be available at the Five Towns JCC and the Boro Park Y. More info: Judy Vladimir at 516 571-8040 x119 or judyvladimir@holocaust-nassau.org

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One of the most difďŹ cult to understand is the enormous number of Israelites who left Egypt.â&#x20AC;?

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Cindy Thomas is the former director of the IRS Exempt Organizations office in Cincinnati and Sharon Camarillo was a Senior Manager in their Los Angeles office. Grodnitzky, a top lawyer in the Exempt Organization Technical unit (EOT) in Washington, DC, responds: “EOT is working the Tea party applications in coordination with Cincy. We are developing a few applications here in DC and providing copies of our development letters with the agent to use as examples in the development of their cases. Chip Hull [another lawyer in IRS headquarters] is working these cases in EOT and working with the agent in Cincy, so any communication should include him as well. Because the Tea party applications are the subject of an SCR [Sensitive Case Report], we cannot resolve any of the cases without coordinating with Rob.” The “Rob” mentioned in the email is believed to be Rob Choi, then-Director of Rulings and Agreements in IRS’s Washington, DC, headquarters.

An email dated April 2, 2013, written by Lois Lerner: “Because the BOLO only contained a brief reference to “Organizations involved with the Tea Party movement applying for exemption under 501(c)(3) and 501(c)(4)” in June 2011, the EO Determinations manager asked the manager of the screening group, John Shafer [IRS Cincinnati field office manager], what criteria were being used to label cases as “tea party ” cases. (“Do the applications specify/state ‘tea party’? If not, how do we know applicant is involved with the tea party movement?”)

The screening group manager asked his employees how they were applying the BOLO’s short–hand reference to “tea party.” His employees responded that they were including organizations meeting any of the following criteria as falling within the BOLO’s reference to “tea party” organizations: “1. ‘Tea Party,’ ‘Patriots’ or ’9/12 Project’ is referenced in the case file. 2. Issues include government spending, government debt and taxes. 3. Educate the public through advocacy/legislative activities to make America a better place to live. 4. Statements in the case file that are critical of how the country is being run.”

The IRS scandal story should be important to everyone no matter what their political persuasion. Because this attempt to keep primarily conservative with a sprinkling of religious and Israel advocacy groups from supporting their causes strikes at the very heart of the freedom of expression our republic was founded upon and cannot be allowed to stand.

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IRS documents released by the House Ways and Means Committee last summer conJeff Dunetz tained a category, created by IRS employees, entitled “Occupied Territory Advocacy.” The category for “Occupied Territory Advocacy” had only one organization referred to it, and the notice to IRS inspectors to “Be on the look out” for groups under this category was sent on Aug. 10, 2010, just days after Z STREET’s file was first reviewed.

This week the IRS scandal heated up again, although most of the mainstream media working to protect the administration from embarrassment ignored the story.

Judicial Watch, a government watchdog organization, obtained documents that may turn out to be the “smoking gun” for the IRS scandal involving the targeting of groups applying for 501(C)(3) status which had views in conflict with the Administration.

Just as they did with the recent Ben Rhodes email which advanced the investigation of the Benghazi scandal, Judicial Watch received these documents by winning a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit filed after the IRS refused to answer four FOIA requests.

An email string from February to March 2010 includes a message from a California EO Determinations manager discussing a Tea Party application “currently being held in the Screening group.” The manager urges, “Please let ‘Washington’ know about this potentially embarrassing political case involving a ‘Tea Party’ organization.”

Another series of emails, these from July 2012, confirm that IRS Tea Party scrutiny was directed from Washington. On July 6, 2010, Holly Paz (former Director of the IRS Rulings and Agreements Division and current Manager of Exempt Organizations Guidance) asks IRS lawyer Steven Grodnitzky “to let Cindy and Sharon know how we have been handling Tea Party applications in the last few months.”

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HANC’s 6th grade girls do chesed HANC is incredibly proud of the sixth grade girls at its Samuel & Elizabeth Bass Golding Elementary School, in West Hempstead, for working together to do a chesed project for patients at North Shore University Hospital.

After talking about how difficult it is for people to be in a hospital over Shabbat, the girls packaged Shabbat candles and a copy of the candle lighting bracha, for Jewish patients who will be in the hospital over Shabbat.

The girls had a wonderful time working on the project and we are so proud of them for completing this amazing chesed!

Food allergies is the talk of HANC Students in kindergarten through fourth grade at HANC’s Samuel & Elizabeth Bass Golding Elementary School, in West Hempstead, participated in a week-long Allergy Awareness program to teach students about the dangers of food allergies and to be sensitive to their friends who have food allergies.

The program was designed and run by parents Mrs. Drorit Bench, Mrs. Miryam Holtzman and Mrs. Tova Haironson, who all have children with allergies, dogs with allergies and allergies themselves. The parents went into the classrooms and talked to the students about the potential dangers of food allergies, how to recognize when someone is having an allergic reaction and how to be a caring and sensitive friend to friends with allergies who may not be able to eat the same foods they can. After the classroom session, each student was given an “allergy pal,” a stuffed animal with a designated allergy, to care for.

The students needed to make sure that their allergy pal stayed safe and didn’t come near any of the foods that would cause an allergic reaction.

The students also participated in an Allery Awareness Poster Contest. The students were asked to design a poster that expressed the dangers of food allergies and the importance of being aware and sensitive to their friends who have food allergies. All the allergy posters were wonderful and congratulations to Dovi Lowenthal, Dani Meir and Gitty Kahn for winning the contest!

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Shalvhevet Shabbaton Over Shabbat Parshat Bechukosai, Shalhevet held its end of year Shabbaton in the Five Towns. Students from Cedarhurst, Lawrence, and Woodmere graciously opened their homes for their friends from other neighborhoods for a fun filled weekend.

Shabbat began with a beautiful Kabbalat Shabbat at Rambam Mesivta where the girls harmonized beautifully as they welcomed Shabbat. Faculty members and their families joined the students for a delicious Friday night seudah. Following dinner, the girls took part in a lively tisch as they sang together with their teachers.

The students then heard from Rabbi Matt Schneeweiss, Chumash and Mishlei teacher at Shalhevet, who shared his story of his conversion to Judaism. Shabbat morning the girls ate lunch by their hosts and then visited different faculty members who held open houses.

The students were able to bond with their teachers over snacks and games for a relaxing afternoon. Each grade then had Seudah Shlishit at the home of a different teacher.

The students heard Divrei Torah from the teachers as they munched on scrumptious homemade food. Motzei Shabbat the girls headed back to Rambam for a bonfire in honor of Lag B’Omer. They sang, danced, and roasted marshmallows to cap off a wonderful weekend!

Hoyt Farm brings signs and sounds to W. Hemp HANC Fourth Graders at HANC’s Samuel & Elizabeth Bass Golding Elementary School, in West Hempstead, had a special treat when Hoyt Farm came to HANC! Students learned about the Native Americans who lived on Long Island and how they created and used tools found in nature in order to live.

The students learned about how the Native Americans built their homes, the wigwam and how they travelled from place to place in dugout canoes.

The students also learned that the Native Americans hunted animals both for food and to use their fur for clothes and shelter.

The students dressed up in Native American clothing, had their faces painted using Long Island clay and drilled holes in slate to make a necklace using a traditional Native American tool made of a stick, a rock and animal sinews (a.k.a string and wax).

At the end of the program, as an added treat, the students were treated to a delicious pizza lunch. The students learned a lot and had a wonderful day!

Touro connects fields on 3rd Research Day More than 80 posters were on display at the Touro College 3rd Annual Research Day, an event that showcases original research by faculty and students while celebrating the contributions Touro has made in basic sciences, clinical practice, social work, law, economics, mathematics, and public health.

“Our faculty and students conduct research in a variety of fields and are involved in numerous cross disciplinary and cross cultural studies as well,” said Dr. Joseph Indelicato, chair of the Touro College Re-

search Collaborative, a faculty group of professors who conduct research in the medical and health sciences fields at Touro College.

The free day-long event, held at Touro’s Harlem campus, which houses the Touro College of Osteopathic Medicine (TouroCOM) and Touro College of Pharmacy, capped off a series of events held recently across Touro’s New York campuses.

All deans, faculty and students were invited to submit posters of their research.

Over 150 attendees from numerous Touro

Aladdin at HAFTR HAFTR middle school sold out its Monday night performance of Disney’s “Aladdin,” raising more than $3,000 for a lung and bone marrow transplant for HAFTR graduate Meredith Farrell (class of 1995).

The performance was a bat mitzva chesed project of HAFTR students Makayla Schein and Susanna Horowitz.

schools and programs participated in the event, including from pharmacy, medicine (TouroCOM and New York Medical College); the School of Health Sciences (physician assistants, occupational therapy, physical therapy, nursing, speech and language pathology); business; social work; education; law; biology; economics; mathematics; and psychology.

After the formal lectures, participants visited the poster presentations and discussed the research with the students and faculty. “The studies presented involved research across the world,” said Dr. Piotr Kozlowski, dean of research at TouroCOM and chair of the Touro Research Council. “It was wonderful to connect so many researchers. Events of this kind are of tremendous value in promoting teamwork, fostering mutual understanding, and strengthening research.”

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