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45 shuls mourn Torahs lost to Sandy

By Malka Eisenberg The rabbis and members of 45 synagogues from the Five Towns and Rockaways will gather this Sunday outside the White Shul to show respect and unity at a mass funeral for 12 Torah scrolls from local shuls damaged by Hurricane Sandy.

The 10:30 AM event, organized by members of the community and mostly underwritten by an anonymous donor, will be held on Sage Street and Empire Avenue in Far Rockaway in front of the White Shul, Congregation Kneseth Israel.

Two Torahs were lost at Ohab Zedek in Belle Harbor, three at Seaside Jewish Center in Belle Harbor, one at Maimonides in Bayswater, two at Kosnitz Shul in Seagate, three at Young Israel of Oceanside, and one in Far Rockaway.

The levaya (funeral) was scheduled for this Sunday so as not to conflict with the Celebrate Israel Parade next Sunday, summer vacation and camp schedules.

“It’s an important event for parents and kids to witness the burial of 12 Torahs,” a spokesperson for the levaya said. “It’s an emotionally charged event. We want the

biggest audience possible to give the proper kavod (respect) to the Sifrei Torah. Hopefully it will never happen again.”

He noted that the Torahs were “beyond repair.” They were inspected by many soferim (scribes) who “unanimously” concluded that the Torahs could not be fixed.

“It’s heart wrenching when you look at them. It’s impressive to see what water can cause.”

The spokesperson requested anonymity, saying the event was organized by the community at large, by Five Towns residents Continued on page 2

Lawrence school board winners:

Lunin-Pack, Hatten, Sussman Two new trustees were elected to the District 15 school board on Tuesday, ending bitter contests that divided the Orthodox community in the Five Towns. Voters also

endorsed, by a nearly 3-to-1 margin, a new $93 million spending plan that will result in a three percent tax increase.

Atlantic Beach resident Jesse Lunin-

Pack — who promoted himself as “the only candidate with kids in the Lawrence public Continued on page 11

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Woodmere yahrzeit for Rebekah

By Malka Bernstein On the second day of Shavuot last year, 24-year-old Rebekah Frucht unfortunately left this world, causing great heartache to all those who knew her. On May 7, a gathering in her memory was held at the Young Israel of Woodmere.

It has been a long year for those who were close to her. As her first yahrzeit is approaching, her parents, Morty and Dena Frucht decided to dedicate a night of inspiration and invited the community to attend.

Hundreds of people came to this program, held in the main shul of the Young Israel of Woodmere. Both men and women participated. Although there were some young adults and some elderly, the majority of the people were middle aged.

Rabbi Hershel Billet, who is the Rabbi of the Young Israel of Woodmere, spoke. Afterwards, there was a shiur given by Rabbi Dovid Goldwasser, a noted lecturer, author, and spiritual mentor of Congregation Bnei Yitzchok in Brooklyn.

DR. DAVID SUSSMAN was re-elected again.

JESSE LUNIN-PACK won as a public school parent.

MICHAEL HATTEN unseated Rabbi Nahum Marcus.

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Sunday funeral for 12 scrolls Continued from page 1 who heard of the severely damaged Sifrei Torah (Torah scrolls) from local communities and reached out to all the synagogues in the Five Towns and Rockaways. “We didn’t want to leave anybody out; we wanted to make a community event,” he said.

There will be women’s and men’s sections where participants can stand for the outdoor funeral. The program will last about an hour with opening remarks, two speakers to be announced, the reading of three chapters of Tehilim (psalms), and closing remarks. There will be a ten-minute procession following the truck holding the scrolls as it drives down Sage Street to Empire Avenue and on to the Nassau Expressway.

Those attending can then enter their cars and follow to the burial site, dedicated for Sifrei Torah, in Liberty, New York. “The Torahs will be placed in earthenware vessels for longevity, to preserve the Torahs as long as possible,” he explained. “Earthenware is the most durable material. This is for Halachic

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“It’s important to feel that this is a community event,” said the spokesperson, “It’s a concerted effort of the community to provide proper kavod to the resting place of the Sifrei Torah.

“The Talmud says that when there is a loss of Sifrei Torah it is like a neshama (soul) goes away; it has to be treated as if a neshama goes away.

“The Torah has a physical value but it is the spiritual value when people use it that is lost, so it is treated as if it is a real spiritual loss.”

He emphasized all the good deeds of the local communities but when a tragedy of such destruction happens in a community the community has to “look at their deeds collectively to improve as a community, implying that we are doing a lot of things wrong and need introspection, as an opportunity to improve as a tzibur (group) to better our lives and provide a Kiddush Hashem (sanctification of G-d’s name.)”

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By Elisheva Nelson Taitz This article was written following the tragedy that befell Dr. Jeffrey Ben-Zvi, a prominent Flatbush gastroenterologist and devoted ba’al chessed, who suddenly passed away after a severe allergic reaction at a Brooklyn restaurant.

I am a mother, passionate about anything having to do with my daughter, what I put in her mouth, on her body, and basically the environment I surround her in.

I am no doctor, allergist or expert, I am “justâ€? a mom ‌ of a child with severe food allergies. We found out the hard way. Before she was one year old, on two separate occasions, she broke out in hives, after which I had her skin and blood

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My daughter will most likely never have peanut butter or nuts in her life.

tested. The fact that I am not a complete nervous lunatic on this subject is because I have 18 years of “experience� growing up with a sibling with more food allergies than my daughter has. Since my mother did practically all the research, my life is much calmer.

Having a great set of pediatric doctors helps, too.

Back in the ‘90s, food allergies were essentially a “huh� topic and peanut butter & jelly sandwiches were in many brown bags with no second thoughts; there were barely any warning labels on kids’ snacks. While the number of children with food allergies back then may not have been much less than it is now, the awareness has heightened.

Preschools and elementary schools have banned every trace of peanuts and nuts — the strongest of the food allergies — because of the likelihood of airborne reactions. In some cases I feel as though my daughter’s school is stricter than I am, and thank G-d for that. I wish I knew why the rate of children with food allergies is so high, and strong, and what I could have done to prevent it (read: nothing!), knowing my daughter will most likely never have peanut butter or nuts in her life — one of my all time favorite food groups.

As kids, my brother always carried his EpiPen — or at least he was supposed to, although he barely carried it around. With anaphylaxis (airway constriction) there is no time to waste. However, despite his “negligence,� he never had more than two serious incidents in his life thus far.

With my daughter, we ended up in the

Emergency Room after a tremendous contact reaction to walnuts, not even ingestion. The scary thing is, the presentation of an allergic reaction to the same morsel of food can be different with each subsequent occurrence. The child can present hives one time, and then the next time experience throat constriction. I have become “that mom� who needs to make sure nothing has nuts — at birthday parties, restaurants, friends’ houses, and when we are invited out for Shabbos meals.

I would not expect the average person to know how to use an EpiPen, but I wish it were more commonplace to be knowledgeable and respectful. Chances are extremely high that there is a kid with allergies —tomatoes, dairy, or a life-threatening peanut allergy — in your child’s class. I have seen the reactions, been in the hospital, and experienced what no parent should, but I have gotten many comments that I am “overreacting,� or that we are the inconvenient cause of why your son can’t eat Bamba while playing with my daughter.

With my brother being allergic to not only nuts, but seeds and severe dairy as well, my mother would encounter many naysayers and those who would turn a shoulder when asked to make a necessary accommodation

for him. It was always an inconvenience to the pizza store to use a clean knife to cut him a cheeseless slice, or asking a restaurant waiter to investigate whether there is an allergen in a particular menu item, or his school having to go out of their way to buy pareve ice cream for the class ice cream party siyum.

This is not to say that there haven’t been greatly helpful individuals who try and go out of their way to help and accommodate.

A few months ago my family went out for dinner, and the ďŹ rst thing my brother does is cover all his bases as far as what he can or cannot order. He is 19 now, and this is his normal.

We proceeded to order an item after asking the waiter many times if it contains nuts or sesame. We were quickly told no, so we ordered it. When it came, right before we were about to dig in, for some reason my mother had the foresight to ask the manager who had been near the table, if there was in fact sesame in the item, despite the fact that the waiter had immediately told us “no� with certainty.

Sesame seems like such a silly allergy, who would expect a massive allergic reaction can come from the tiniest seed? The manager profusely apologized and informed us that it

‘Sesame seems

like such a silly allergy. Who would expect a massive alergic reaction from the tiniest seed? Why did my mother think to ask a fifth time?’

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An autobiography by a Jew who never should have been hopefully lead you to read the complete story in his essay, “Lonely But Not Alone,” on his website and to further study his many works on Jewish religious thought and theology.

Rabbi Cardozo was born on July 26, 1946 in Amsterdam. On his father’s side he is descended from anusim (maranos). His father was Jewish, his mother was not. In describing this, he states, “In many ways, both these facts – an unusual birth and being the child of a mixed marriage – have set the stage for my life. I often see things from a reverse position. What is normal for others evokes in me feelings of wonder and awe, and what others consider amazing, I see as obvious.”

This youth converted to Judaism at age sixteen. He spent the next 12 years learning in chareidi yeshivos including Gateshead Yeshiva in England and “received heter hora’ah [rabbinical ordination] from Rav Aryeh Leib Gurwitz who was, in his younger years, the chavrusa of Rav Elchanan Wasserman, Hy”d, the most well known disciple of the Chofetz Chaim.” Today, he is one of Israel’s leading Jewish theologians and an outspoken advocate of a unique form of Modern Orthodoxy.

“My Judaism is one of dissent, protest, and spiritual war against too much conformity. Self-critique is the crucial issue, not self-satisfaction. Not clichés, but insight; not obstinacy, but elasticity; not habit, but spontaneity; these and deep religiosity are for me the great movers behind this magnificent tra-

dition.”

Rabbi Cardozo states: “I spent 12 years in yeshivos, and today when I speak with many people who reject the yeshiva world and criticize it harshly for all its faults, I realize that although I agree with many of their critical assessments, they fail to understand the inner music of these institutions.

They do not realize that this introverted but remarkable world somehow lifted the Jews out of their misery throughout history and gave them the strength to survive all their enemies under the most intolerable conditions brought on by anti-Semitism.

It was this denial of time that made the Jews eternal. The yeshiva world was no doubt very small compared to what it is now, but up until the emancipation it was the pride of the entire Jewish world. The Talmud afforded the Jews wings, enabling them to fly to other worlds, to return to the past that no longer existed and to look toward worlds that were still to come.

It became the Jews’ portable homeland, and their complete immersion in its texts made them indestructible even as they were tortured and killed. The Talmud became their survival kit, which ultimately empowered them to establish the State of Israel, nearly 2,000 years after they were exiled from their land. This is unprecedented in all the history of humankind. Regretfully, most Israelis do not realize this.”

These words of wisdom balanced later

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SOME FURTHER THOUGHTS With all the controversy concerning the tensions at the Kotel, a little step back into past history is in order. First, read Rabbi Eliezer Malamud’s recent essay, “Straight Talk on Torah, Army and the Hareidim” for his take on this hot button issue.

Next, read from HaRav Avraham Yitzchak Kook, zt”l, “The Kotel Affair” going back to the late 1920s and of the events of that era that still haunt us to this very day.

And, now consider the following entitled, “The Chareidim and the Liberation of Jerusalem” by Rabbi Avishai Elboim, director of the Rambam Library in Tel Aviv. Read this carefully, please: “About five years ago, an exhibition was set up in the Rambam Library on the subject of ‘Liberation of Jerusalem in the Eyes of the Jews.’ One of the exhibits was the front page of the newspaper, ‘Hamodia,’ published by Agudas Yisrael, dated the 29th of Iyar, 5727, describing the achievements of the IDF. On the front page there was an editorial with the headline, ‘Echo of the Day.’ Reading this article is a very emotional experience, and it presents us with the Jewish viewpoint of how great were the events of the time of the Six Day War.”

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or most of our readers, the name Nathan Lopes Cardozo has a non-Jewish, exotic ring. Nevertheless, when you read on you will discover that with his name comes a gentleman whose legacy and ancestry bespeaks of a personal history that legends are made of.

The Spring 2013 issue of “Conversations,” Rabbi Marc Angel, editor, published by The Institute For Jewish Ideas and Ideals, [jewishideas.org] has as its theme, “Roads Into Orthodox Judaism” that explores the individual’s religious adventure from the vantage point of those who have found their ways into Orthodox Judaism. This is a diverse group; some are converts, some are born Jews who grew up in non-Orthodox homes.

Each found their way to Orthodox life styles, and their stories are reflected in the dozen essays in this volume.

Some of the other esAlan Jay Gerber says are written by scholars and researchers who each, in their own manner, describe their take on the experiences of these people and the reasoning and impact their experiences have upon the Jewish religion of today.

Of these, I chose the one with whom I enjoy a personal acquaintance, Rabbi Dr. Nathan Lopes Cardozo. Below, is a brief biography. Dr. Cardozo’s spiritual journey will

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Opinion The Associated Press can’t complain because this administration’s hubris was fed by the mainstream media

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ix months into his second administration, Barack Obama’s presidency has become overrun with scandal. The events of the past two weeks; the Benghazi hearings, the news about twelve revisions of the Benghazi talking points, the IRS scandal and the Justice Department’s attack on freedom of the press via the AP phone records, is a lot of “distractions” for an administration during the course of a four-year-term, POLITICO however these three all TO GO flared up in a one week period.

Presidents tend to have problems their second term-but Obama’s second term problems seemed jacked up on steroids.

The Obama administration may be buckling under the weight of its own hubris, but they had help. This administration’s hubris suckled at the breast of Jeff Dunetz the mainstream media.

In Benghazi, the administration told a tale of events which suited their own purposes-reelection. And just to make their story look good, they paid for and ran advertising in the Muslim world, apologizing for a YouTube video we now know had nothing to do with the attack. They also threw the video’s creator in jail, where he still sits as a political prisoner of an administration who does not believe in the First Amendment. The coverup of Benghazi was undertaken because the administration believed they could get away with it—after all they had always gotten away with it before.

When criticism of the Administration’s story line began to arise, those critics were told to back off, the President said they should back off, there was nothing to see, it’s all a political ploy. The mainstream media refused to look into the charges because Obama said it wasn’t so--and for eight months they backed him up.

It didn’t start with Benghazi; it began at the very beginning of his administration. Eric Holder dropped the charges against the New Black Panthers because his department felt

that only Caucasians could commit voter intimidation, whistle blowers came out to say this justice department treated whites different from blacks. The media saw it as a nonstory and Obama’s belief that he could get away with anything grew.

When other scandals began to break, Solyndra, Fast and Furious; the firing of an Inspector General who was investigating a personal friend of the President for misusing taxpayer dollars, when the $800 billion dollar stimulus was spent on useless pork, when the Obama Administration told lies about Obamacare, when the President made recess appointments even though the Senate was in session, when he sent our heroes to Libya without congressional approval or an exit plan--- every situation where a free press would investigate a government; the press neglected its duty. Instead, the mainstream media echoed the “move on, nothing to see here” coming out of the White House. And this administration’s hubris and sense of entitlement grew.

When Mitt Romney who, whether you agree with his politics or not, is a decent man, was attacked personally with lies from Obama’s campaign; that he hated women, he wanted people to drink dirty water, that he didn’t pay taxes, or he caused the cancer death of a steelworker’s wife, the press gave them a free ride. And still this administration’s hubris grew.

When grass roots Americans rose up to complain about the attack on personal freedoms and excessive government spending, the press joined with the administration ridiculing the people and their attacks on those Americans as racists, and when the President and Democratic Party members of Congress, including New York Senator Chuck Schumer, demanded the IRS investigate those grass roots Americans, President Obama and Congressional Progressives knew the press would protect him.

Something seemed to change two weeks ago when a 20+-year civil servant (and a life-long Democrat) testified before the Issa committee telling the country the truth about Benghazi, what it felt like to live through that horror. He told a story much different from the “official” media/administration tale that he was ordered to stay silent even to a member of Congress. He told us how he tried to

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correct the Administration’s lies and for that was demoted, ridiculed, and had any real authority taken away from him. The Administration still tries to tell us to move on, but this time it isn’t working.

Two days after that, we learned the IRS had been targeting this President’s political opponents in the Tea Parties, Jewish organizations and other religious groups. Though Obama’s opponents have made these charges on and off for the past three years, the press had ridiculed those who had been wronged--conspiracy theorists they were called. But this time instead of feeding this Administration’s hubris, they investigated and found that even Friday’s story was a lie, it wasn’t junior people in Cincinnati but a scandal that reached senior people in the IRS (and maybe higher).

It’s difficult to believe that career bureaucrats whose advancement is based on following established procedures would go rogue and target specific groups without direction from top IRS management. The fact that it was all done during the President’s reelection campaign makes it difficult to accept that there was not a high up in the administration or in the President’s campaign giving the orders to the IRS. This was too abhorrent a political act to believe that the orders didn’t come from someone in the Administration.

The story of the Justice Department secretly obtaining the phone records of the Associated Press was poetic justice. There may have been nothing illegal about it because the DOJ obtained a warrant from a judge.

The DOJ was searching for who leaked information to the AP, saying it was a danger to U.S. security. The truth is that, based on an administration request, the Associated Press sat on the story for five days. Then, according to a report from the liberal Washington Post report, during a Monday morning meeting, the journalists were asked by White House officials to hold off on publishing the story for just one more day so the Administration could make the announcement.

The AP held the story for national security but published it when the only reason to hold it was for the Administration to get some glory.

The Associated Press published the story on Monday, and Tuesday John Brennan, now the CIA director, appeared on Good Morning

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America. He said that, because of the work of U.S. intelligence, the plot did not pose an active threat to the American public.

This was a frightening attack on the First Amendment freedom of the press, just as the Obamacare regulations about mandatory insurance for birth control and “day after pills,” etc., were an attack on the First Amendment right of freedom of religion. Why did the DOJ attack the freedom of the press? Because they could! After all, throughout all of the other scandals, throughout the attacks on our Constitution, the press fed this administration’s sense of entitlement by ignoring the wrong, the scandal, the abuse of power.

But this time the Obama administration attacked a major press organization. Immediately, the National Press Club complained about this affront to freedom of the press.

The liberal media is complaining about this overreach of power.

In a way, they have no right to complain.

The AP and their buddies in the Mainstream Media created this “monster” whose hubris makes them believe they can get away with anything. Every single time they had an opportunity to explore this Administration’s actions they shied away, thus feeding their sense of entitlement and invulnerability. So why are they surprised when, like the creation of Victor Frankenstein, their creation (which lives on arrogance and entitlement) attacks its creator-- the mainstream media?

Will the media’s desire for self-preservation force them to execute their responsibilities and thus seek the truth in all of these scandals? Or, after a few days of whining, will it once again allow this Administration to feed their arrogance and hubris on the breasts of the mainstream media?

Only time will tell.

Jeff Dunetz is the Editor/Publisher of the political blog “The Lid” (www.jeffdunetz.com).

Jeff contributes to some of the largest political sites on the internet including American Thinker, Big Government, Big Journalism, NewsReal and Pajama’s Media, and has been a guest on national radio shows including G. Gordon Liddy, Tammy Bruce and Glenn Beck.

Jeff lives in Long Island.

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n the ďŹ rst Nissan month following the Exodus, the Torah tells us that the Israelites observed Passover, bringing the Korban Pesach (Paschal lamb offering) at its proper time (Chapter 9).

The tale that follows is of a group of people, who were unable to participate in the Korban Pesach on account of their being in a state of tumah (a spiritual state of impurity). â&#x20AC;&#x153;But why should we lose out and not be able to present G-dâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s offering at the right time, along with the other Israelites?â&#x20AC;? they ask. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Wait here,â&#x20AC;? Moshe replied. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I will hear what orders G-d gives regarding your case.â&#x20AC;?

He is told, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Speak to the Israelites, saying: If any person is tameh (ritually impure) from contact with the dead, or is on a distant journey, whether among you [now] or in future generations, he shall still have the opportunity to prepare G-dâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Passover offering. â&#x20AC;Ś He shall prepare it on the afternoon of the 14th of the second month, and shall eat Rabbi Avi Billet it with matzahs and bitter herbs.â&#x20AC;? (9:7-14) This is the Torahâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s account of the mitzvah of â&#x20AC;&#x153;Pesach Sheniâ&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x201D; the makeup date for missing the Korban Pesach.

Rashi says, â&#x20AC;&#x153;These impure people were privileged to have this mitzvah (of Pesach Sheni) be attributed to their question, as opposed to coming directly from Moshe, because we bring about something which is worthy through someone who is worthy.â&#x20AC;?

Three of the opinions as to their identity are those who carried Yosefâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s bones, Mishael and Eltzafan, who took Nadav and Avihu out of the Mishkan after their tragic end, or people who buried others who had no family. All of these possibilities are people who are very worthy to perform the mitzvah were it not for the tumah factor holding them back.

In his exploration of Rashiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s commentary, Rabbi Eliyahu Mizrachi notes that those who were tameh were tameh that day, but were to become tahor (pure) that evening. As such, they would have been ďŹ t and could have partaken of the Korban Pesach on time â&#x20AC;&#x201D; not in the day of the 14th of Nissan, but in the evening of the 15th, during their Seder, when the Paschal Lamb â&#x20AC;&#x153;is to be eaten and not leftover until morning.â&#x20AC;?

Were their question not asked â&#x20AC;&#x153;that dayâ&#x20AC;?

(9:6) when there was still time, we would be able to wonder who would have the audacity to suggest that despite missing the opportunity to do the mitzvah in its proper time, they should have a do-over! There is a halakhic principle that once a speciďŹ c time for a mitzvah has passed (particularly a korban) â&#x20AC;&#x201D; the opportunity is lost (avar zmano batel korbano).

Their circumstance was unique, their position, as Rashi notes, one of tremendous

worthiness, and their opportunity, to have a previously undisclosed mitzvah be taught through their story, makes their situation most noteworthy.

Mizrachi quotes the Raavad who suggests they had actually tried to bring the Korban Pesach, before being sprinkled with the requisite blood (presumably of the Parah Adumah, the Red Heifer), and immersing in water to complete their puriďŹ cation process, and the offering was rejected. Mizrachi wonders, according to this opinion, why were they not instructed to undergo the purifying process followed by an additional attempt at bringing the Korban Pesach? Beyond saying such a notion was not in the cards, since they were instructed to bring the Korban Pesach on Pesach Sheni (14 Iyar) one month in the future, he does not answer this question.

The people in this circumstance were creating history. And with the authentic leadership of Moshe and the connection to the Divine he provided, their question was not out of place. Their timeliness in asking â&#x20AC;&#x201C; on the day they should have been bringing the Korban, along with the suggestion that they did actually bring one only to have it rejected, together indicate a Divine stamp of approval to their efforts. They merited to have a mitzvah taught in their story!

Can the same always be said about those who are opportunists, who pick a time to say, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Why should we lose out?â&#x20AC;? in order to stoke coals and create controversy?

There is a difference between taking up a cause for social justice and taking up a cause in the name of religion. True social justice cases, in which people are either not participating in society or are being selectively discriminated against in society, deserve a public hearing and a demand for equal rights.

But taking up a cause in the name of religion requires a very different attitude. Religion is ancient, has traditions, values, and a way that has been for centuries. And those looking to represent it must be humble, and must come across as standing on the shoulders of precedent.

Sincerity is relative. The people who were looking to perform the Korban Pesach, who were held back by a technicality, were sincere. They got their makeup date, which was not a new idea, according to Mizrachi, but was only taught at this time because of their sincerity.

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Seventy approaches to Torah analysis

By Rabbi David Etengoff Our holy Torah is composed of both halachic (legal) and narrative portions. While there is usually nearly universal consensus that a particular law exists, halachic passages are often the focus of diverse interpretations regarding their pragmatic application.

Thus, an entire genre of Jewish literature has arisen whose sole purpose is to determine the practical ramifications of both Torah and Rabbinic laws. In many ways, the creation of this unique and dynamic body of literature has continued unabated since, at the moment of the Sinaitic Revelation, our forebears declared “Naaseh v’nishmah” (“We will do and we will accept,” Sefer Shemot 24:7).

In an attempt to apprehend the supernal wisdom of our Creator, narrative passages of the Torah have also been the focal point of intense exegetical and interpretive scrutiny.

In contrast to the juridical sections of the Torah, Chazal (our Sages of blessed memory) gave themselves license for wide-ranging and often radically divergent interpretations of this material. Beginning with the Zohar, this idea has become known as “shivim panim l’Torah” (“the 70 facets of Torah interpretation”). One of the clearest presentations of this notion is found in the anonymous 13th Century work entitled “Sefer Hachinuch.” In Mitzvah 95, the author states: It is a known and widely recognized tenet among us, the people who accept the mitzvoth, that there are seventy facets to the Torah; for each one of them there are great and manifold roots, and every root has branches, each of which bears a great cluster of desirable fruit to make hearts wise. Every day they produce blossoms for those who attend them diligently – blossoms of wisdom and good intelligence, bringing light to all eyes. The depth of its wisdom widens and winds about until a man has not the power to grasp its ultimate sense. As the wise king [Solomon] avowed, I said, “I will get wisdom”; but it was far from me (Ecclesiastes 7:23). With all that, however, the hands of anyone who occupies himself with it should not be slackened. For if he eats a little or much of it, it is all sweet.

(Translation, Charles Wengrov) Our parasha contains a prime example of a pasuk (verse) that is highly illustrative of shivim panim l’Torah. Sefer Bamidbar 10:33 reads the following: “They [the Jewish people] traveled a distance of three days from the mountain of the L-rd, and the Ark of the L-rd’s covenant traveled three days ahead of them to seek for them a place to settle.” Tosafot on Talmud Bavli Shabbat 116a quotes the now lost Midrash Vayachulu (attributed therein to Midrash Yelamdainu) in the following fashion: Vayisu and they traveled – they traveled away from Mt. Sinai in the manner of a journey of three days – just like a young child who runs away from school [at day’s end] – that he flees and travels away. So, too, did the Jewish people run away from Mt. Sinai in the manner of a journey of three days because they had learned a great deal of Torah at Mt. Sinai.

The emphasis in this Midrash is unmistakable: Our ancestors failed to live up to their potential to achieve further spiritual greatness. Instead of embracing the opportunity to learn more Torah, in the very place where it was given, they squandered this precious

moment. Rabbi Shlomo Ephraim ben Aaron Luntschitz (1550–1619) zatzal, known as the Kli Yakar after the title of his most famous and beloved work, elaborates upon this Midrash. He suggests that b’nai Yisrael ran away “out of fear that perhaps [G-d] would add even more Mitzvot to them.” Instead of rejoicing in the words of Hashem and His commandments, they rebelled against Him. Like young and immature cheder students, they attempted to flee responsibility. In sum, a more negative portrait of the Dor Hamidbar (Generation of the Desert) could hardly be painted.

Rabbeinu Shimshon Raphael Hirsch (1808-1888) adopted a completely different approach in his analysis of our pasuk. In stark contrast to the Midrash, Tosafot, and Kli Yakar, for whom our verse represents consummate failure and rebellion, Rav Hirsch discovered an understated moment of human drama and existential anxiety. In his view, G-d, via His divine beneficence, assuaged our forebears’ fears with His unbounded kindness and mercy: As it does not say “they traveled three days,” but [rather] “a way of three days,” it probably wishes to express the hardship and strain caused by such a three days journey.

But “the Ark of the Covenant of G-d went before them for three days journey” [i.e.,] they had the Ark of G-d’s covenant before their eyes during the whole of the three days trek looking out for a suitable place for them to rest, and this constant view could well keep them in the fresh and cheerful mood of knowing that G-d was leading them, as well as the “cloud of G-d” which remained constantly with them and made them feel assured on all their wanderings that they had G-d’s Protection accompanying them. (Translation, Isaac Levy, brackets my own) Aristotle created the principle of logic known as the Law of the Excluded Middle, which maintains that every statement is either true or false, and there is nothing in between. In stark contrast, Judaism embraces a wide-open universe of legitimate Torah interpretation. Consequently, we frequently encounter contradictory analyses of narrative Torah passages that coexist in harmony with one another. Chazal coined the phrase “elu v’elu divrei Elokim chaim” (“these and those are the words of the living G-d”) to depict the authenticity of this pluralistic approach to Torah exposition. In my view, it is precisely this principle that has kept the Torah vibrant, relevant, and responsive to our people’s everchanging needs and requirements. Moreover, it may well be the underlying rationale as to why the Jewish people continue to exist and thrive, instead of having become one more nation relegated to the dustbin of history.

May we be zocheh (merit) to always have “the Ark of the Covenant of G-d” and His holy clouds go before us on all of our journeys. May G-d’s divine protection ever assure us of His love and concern for our people as we move closer and closer to the coming of Mashiach Tzidkeinu (our Righteous Messiah). May this time come soon and in our days. V’chane yihi ratzon.

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Who’s in the kitchen

Spare ribs S

o there we were, stuck in horrendous traffic on the way to the Klein bris. We left an hour and half to get to Teaneck, but rain, traffic and accidents slowed everything down. We got to the shul 9:05 and Jerry thought that maybe it was too late to even go in. I said we should at least run in to say mazal tov (as you’ll see, no good deed goes unpunished).

Our hosts, the Kleins, were grateful we showed up, albeit very late--ok we basically missed the whole thing. My friend Nan wanted to make sure we took something to eat since they were already cleaning off the tables. I grabbed a bagel and lox for Jerry, took a plain bagel for myself and some whitefish salad in a plastic cup. I quickly wrapped everything in silver foil they had available and found a plastic bag to put it in. As we were leaving I eyed rich chocolate rugalach and threw three of them in a small plastic monkey dish and we were on our way.

Jerry walked ahead to open the car as it was raining. All of a sudden my heel got caught in a crack in the street and try as I might I couldn’t catch myself and fell flat on my chest, so hard, that I couldn’t Judy Joszef breathe. The fall was so hard it literally knocked the wind out of me. Jerry, having no idea that I fell, quickly turned around when he heard me gasp, “I can’t breathe.” Two gardeners ran over to see how I was. They, too, were concerned when I couldn’t breathe. A few minutes later I was able to catch my breath. Most people had already left the bris but I noticed the Lamperts (one day, just once I want to see Joan not looking perfect) and the Thurms. At that point I was still sprawled on the floor. Still trying to figure out why I didn’t break my fall with my hands, I whispered to Jerry, “Put the bagels and white fish back in the bag.” Jerry helped me up as I winced in pain and I assured Dr. Thurm (who came over

to make sure I was ok) that I was fine. As I struggled to get into the car, I realized, I couldn’t have broken my fall because I was holding onto the food with my hands. I’d like to think that I didn’t break my fall because when holding onto something my hands didn’t automatically brace for the fall. Jerry likes to think that I took one for the lox and the white fish— yes, I went down holding onto the food and didn’t drop it to save myself. Jerry excitedly said, “You holding onto the food was as great a play as David Tyree’s catch during the Super Bowl.” Jerry might be the basketball star but I didn’t fumble the white fish salad lox, bagels or rugalach.

Thanks to Nan, Janet G., Nancy K., Aviva W., Beverly F., Karen G. and Edy Blady for shopping, driving me around and making my life with a broken rib these past two weeks easier.

Thanks to all of those as well who called on a daily basis to check in on me, and my mother-in-law who, as usual, certainly didn’t come empty handed when she came for Shavuot.

Special kudos to Ellen F., you know why!

For those of you who’ve never broken a rib…trust me, let go of the food. I’ve never experienced as much pain…and I gave birth naturally three times!

The recipe this week was a no brainer…spare ribs. Hey, I could have used one.

The term actually comes from the German Rippenspeer which literally translates to “spear ribs,” as this cut was traditionally roasted on a spit or spear. In English, it became ribspare and eventually sparerib. This term not only refers to the practice of roasting the meat on a spear or spit, but it is a perfectly reasonable description of the cut itself, being spare of meat.

Ingredients 8 pounds spare ribs 1/2 cup Dijon mustard 2 cups barbeque sauce of your choice Dry spice rub (recipe below)

Ingredients for dry rub; 4 cups brown sugar 1 cup paprika 1/2 cup granulated garlic 1/2 cup granulated onion 1/2 cup kosher salt 1/4 cup black pepper 1/4 cup cumin 1/4 cup mustard powder 1/8 cup cayenne pepper

Instructions 1. Line a baking sheet with aluminum foil and set a cooling rack on top. Lay the ribs on top of the rack in a single layer. This will allow for heat to circulation on all sides of the ribs.

2. Brush the ribs on both sides with mustard. Sprinkle the ribs with the dry rub and pat. I like to do this a day before and then wrap the seasoned ribs in plastic and refrigerate, for deeper flavor.

3. Broil the ribs for about five minutes, until the sugar in the dry rub is bubbling and the ribs are evenly browned.

4.Set the oven to 300°F. Halfway through cooking, cover the ribs with aluminum foil to protect them from drying out.

5. About 30 minutes before the end of cooking, brush the ribs with barbecue sauce, re-cover with foil, and finish cooking.

6. The ribs are done when a knife slides easily into the thickest part of the rib meat. Let them rest, covered, for about ten minutes, and then cut between the bones to separate.

Judy Joszef can be reached at judy.soiree@gmail.com

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Cholent at Bais TeďŹ lah

By Malka Eisenberg

Photo courtesy Stephen Bachx

This past Shabbat, Parshat Naso, Congregation Bais TeďŹ lah in Woodmere, held its ďŹ rst annual Cholent Contest.

Ten cooks arrived at the shul at 5:30 PM on Friday, May 17th, erev Shabbat to set up their cholents. All ingredients were brought in their sealed packages for Rabbi Shaya Richmond, the shulâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s rabbi to inspect, said Stephen Bach, one of the contestants.

Close to one hundred came to participate in the Kiddush. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Each congregant was given one ticket as they entered the room,â&#x20AC;? explained Bach. â&#x20AC;&#x153;After tasting all ten cholents, they remembered the number coinciding with the one they liked the most and placed their ticket in a box with that number. Tickets were totaled up and the winner was the one with the most tickets.â&#x20AC;?

Noah Rosenberg won, Shuli Braver came in at second place and Renee Bach took third place. â&#x20AC;&#x153;There were lots of smiles and, of course, excellent cholent,â&#x20AC;? noted Bach. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We had cholents ranging from healthy to Hungarian, from simple to spicy. It was a great way to bring the congregation together.â&#x20AC;?

Contestants pose for a photo before the erev Shabbat cholent prep: from left, Ira Kugelman, Benson Casden, Noah Rosenberg, Alex Sternberg, Joe Rosenbaum, Chedvah Dechter, David Dechter, Renee Bach, Laurie Golubchik, Shuli Braver, Keevy Braver and Stephen Bach in front.

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Continued from page 1 schools” — drew 1,610 votes to defeat Tova Plaut of Cedarhurst (1,184 votes) and Dov Herman of Woodmere (840), to succeed Dr. Solomon Blisko on the Board of Education. Blisko declined to run again.

Challenger Michael Hatten — who previously served on the board from 2006 to 2009 — defeated incumbent Rabbi Nahum Marcus, 1,798 to 1,188. Juan Zapeda, whose name was on the ballot but who decided not to run after submitting his candidate petition, collected 491 votes. “This is a board with remarkable accomplishments that is the envy of every district,” Hatten said. “I look to continue that good work and represent the entire district.”

Superintendent Gary Schall cautioned that “this is an unofficial count.”

“We have impounded the machines, and the votes will be recounted by the Board of Elections. There might possibly be a discrepancy,” Schall said.

Running unopposed was longtime incumbent Dr. David Sussman. He was re-elected with 2,192 votes.

The budget vote in District 14, Hewlett-Woodmere, was 1,295 to 998 in favor of a $109.6 million spending plan. The anticipated tax levy increase is 3.45 percent, with a tax levy just over $97 million. The Lawrence budget vote was 2,081 to 744, generating $83 million in lax levy funds.

Hewlett-Woodmere residents also approved the use of $463,360 from the capital reserve fund, by a count of 1,275 to 851. The money will be applied to several technology upgrades throughout the district. The District 14 trustee election had three candidates seeking to fill two seats.

Incumbent Harold Kislik was re-elected to a fourth term with 1,409 votes, and Mitchell Greebel won with 1,541. For the second consecutive year, Fred Usherson lost a bid to be a

HAROLD KISLIK won re-election to the H-W board.

MITCHELL GREEBEL will be a H-W trustee.

trustee, drawing 633 votes.

“I’m looking forward to participating in the process to restore Hewlett-Woodmere to its former glory as an elite school district on Long Island,” Greebel said. “[Having won] means that there is a lot of work to be done in the district, and I have been given confidence by the community to start that work.” Kislik said he was enthusiastic about Greebel’s becoming a fellow trustee.

“It’s great having new people on the board for the past two years, and I think it’s going to be great having another

new person on the board,” Kislik said. “We’re reinventing ourselves every year, and it’s working just great.”

The Peninsula Public Library’s $3.056 million spending plan gained approval by a count of 2,021 to 584. Cedarhurst resident Samuel Francis, running uncontested for a five-year library board term, garnered 1,212 votes. Francis will replace Joel Schiff, who died on April 18.

Reported by Jeffrey Bessen and Ann E. Friedman of the Nassau Herald

Sussman upbeat as Lawrence moves past divisive election

By Malka Eisenberg

On the eve of Tuesday’s school board elections, Lawrence trustee Dr. David Sussman — who was running unopposed — both decried the “negative allegations” reverberating in the community and looked forward optimistically.

In an interview with The Jewish Star, he cited the “tremendous number of good candidates on the entire ballot,” and said it was important that the community unite after the vote. In anticipation of that vote, he stressed that it was important that voters endorse the budget; they did.

As arguments over the board’s endorsement of the sale of the Number Six School were batted about in signed and anonymous emails, Sussman, running for his seventh term on the board, said that the “public made a fine decision” voting down the sale. The school board was required to accept the bid, he said, noting that it was the highest offer and that it was “hard to say that a medical group for Mount Sinai was not credible.”

Legally, the board “had to take the highest credible offer,” he said. The “board chooses a buyer and the community must vote yes or no.”

He conceded, however, that the contract was not “tight” enough, and stressed that any future contract should be better.

On the matter of the district’s budget, Sussman said it hasn’t been increased for years.

“If the budget goes down, we are looking at losing 20 to 30 teachers, extra curricular activities and turning the schooling of the community upside down,” he said “We must look out for all segments of the community.”

He said the taxes would rise by three percent overall and would “increase educational opportunities to all segments of the community. It’s still one of the lowest raises.”

If it doesn’t pass, he added, it would bring “incomprehensible devastation to the school district.”

As for the competition for two board seats on Election

Day, Sussman said that “voters have a chance to pick good from good from good.” He noted that fellow board member Rabbi Nahum Marcus “came to most of the meetings and when he had something to say he said it.”

Sussman said that he was “proud to run with [former trustee] Michael Hatten,” whom he considers a “friend,” and he has “nothing bad to say about Nahum.” Hatten won.

Rabbi Marcus, an incumbent candidate who completed six years on the board, said there was a “problem with the way the board operates” — that although there are seven board members, “half the time four members decide.” He stated that he had been excluded from meetings and discouraged from running for the board.

Marcus cited his record, that he “helped a lot of people in public and private school. If the community decides that I am on the board I will continue to be a good advocate for the community. It will be all over tomorrow night. I stand up for the community not for myself.”

Marcus also emphasized the importance of passing the budget.

“The biggest problem is the budget,” he said, noting that they need to “restructure,” and that as it stands it’s “not sustainable. We need to fix the system and generate more money.”

The Lawrence School Board has seven members. The school year ends June 30 and the new school year begins July 1, with a reorganization meeting held in July. At that meeting, the board votes among themselves for one member to be president and another vice-president of the board; the others are trustees. Candidates run for specific seats; they are up for election on a rotating basis, with three seats voted on this year. Those elected will serve for three years. Board members have no salary and no benefits.

The seats held by Asher Mansdorf and Murray Forman will be up for a vote next year, those of Uri Kaufman and Abel Feldhamer, the year after that.

When board member Solomon Blisko stepped down, vacating his seat, three candidates sought to succeed him — in addition to Marcus and Hatten, another challenger, Juan Zapeda, pulled out of the race but remained on the ballot.

The school board and budget elections are held yearly across New York State, always on the third Tuesday in May — Super Tuesday. The budget covers transportation, books, and other educational services including special education, speech therapy, school nurses, school psychologists and other services for all schools in the district, public and private, including yeshivot.

“Every effort has to be made to prevent discord,” said Sussman. “It’s a diverse district; it’s best when we work together. No matter who wins tomorrow, we have to work together and heal.”

He stressed the need to help everyone “and not waste time on intolerance.”

“We don’t want what’s happening in Washington to happen here, where both sides don’t come together; we have to come together,” he said.

Sussman said that “resources are tight for all segments of the community” and noted that all labor contracts — for teachers, secretaries, custodians and others — are “all up in a year or so [and] we don’t have the resources to pay more for the same jobs.”

“We have to support education in all areas, private as well as public,” Sussman concluded. “There isn’t one child in the district who isn’t worth working towards. The board is known for this. We have to keep working towards this.

“The challenge is to work together after Election Day.”

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In their first season joining the League, the Ateres Yaakov Eagles took home the intermediate division (9th and 10th grades) championship in the National Council of Young Israel’s Basketball League. The championship culminated an intense 10 game season, in which the Eagles finished with a division leading 8-2 record.

“We promote healthy outlets for our talmidim whenever and wherever we can,” commented Rabbi Yossi Bennett, Assistant Menahel and Athletic Director at MAY, “when we got wind of this league and the kosher, efficient and professional way in which it was run, we decided to join on the intermediate level.”

Expertly coached by local alumni Zack Hatten and Natan Cohen, the team proved to be a “force to be reckoned with” throughout the entire season. After a playoff win in a hometown rivalry against the Young Israel of Woodmere, the Eagles were slated to take on the Young Israel of Jamaica Estates in the championship game.

What began as a slow starting game quickly developed into an intense matchup between the top two teams in the League. At the close of the first quarter, however, the Eagles had taken a dominating lead, 21-11, which they would not lose the entire game. At the close, the final score was 71-47. Eagles’ captain and 10th grader, Yaakov Puderbeutel, led the team in scoring and led the Eagles in their amazing first season.

Rabbi Bennett remarked, “We are so proud of our talmidim, both for the incredible commitment and dedication they demonstrated to their team, but more so for the menchlich and classy manner in which they conducted themPhoto courtesy of Mesivta Ateres Yaakov selves. We hope to join the League’s senior division next year as well.”

Rabbi Yossi Bennett, Assistant Menahel, Assistant Principal stands with The Ateres Yaakov Eagles and their trophies.

Brandeis celebrates Sandy-delayed social action month The Brandeis School celebrated a delayed JSAM (Jewish Social Action Month) on May 2, hosting a party for the children of SIBS Place. The event featured a bounce house, face painting, cotton candy, pizza and dessert.

SIBS Place, a program of South Nassau Community Hospital, provides services for children who have acutely ill siblings or parents.

The party was the formal culmination of The Brandeis School’s participation in JSAM, a program funded by the UJA. It was originally scheduled for the month of Cheshvan (October-November) but was delayed due to the displacement of many families suffering the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy. Adrenaline Entertainment facilitated the fun.

The Brandeis School kicked off JSAM last October, hosting its first community Chesed

Fair, a collaborative venture with Rambam Mesivta. Eighteen charitable organizations attended. Students of both schools and their parents learned about possible activities of chesed (kindness) and were inspired by the many services provided to the community by the participating organizations.

Some of the organizations in attendance were Yad Sarah, which provides health and home care services in Israel; Kulanu, which provides programs for special needs children in the Five Towns; Meir Panim, which fights poverty in Israel; and OHEL, an organization that provides social services for the community. As part of the Chesed Fair, Brandeis organized a food drive for rockcanroll.org.

Brandeis students made “Shabbat Boxes” in conjunction with the Oceanside Jewish

Center Hebrew School. Each box — a care package to help recipients celebrate Shabbat — contained handmade challah covers, candle holders, flowers with vases, fresh challah, candles and kiddush cups. They were donated to the JCC Food Pantry in Woodmere and to Come Alive, an organization that cares for people suffering from moderate to severe Alzheimers’ Disease.

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Allergy plea follows death of Flatbush physician…

Continued from page 3 was fried in sesame oil. Why did my mother think to ask for a fifth time, and why was the waiter so sure of the fact that it did not contain any sesame? Was he too lazy to take the time to go ask the chef?

On a different occasion, my brother ordered a slice of cheeseless pizza after making it clear he had an allergy to dairy, and when he received the slice, he noticed white dots in the sauce and asked the pizza man if he was sure it wasn’t dairy. The pizza man matter of factly shrugged it off and said the sauce is made with Parmesan cheese.

If only they knew that a child could literally stop breathing on their floor because of something as simple as an almond, a seed, a piece of cheese, I think they would think twice. The list goes on, as allergies range from fruits and vegetables to wheat to the most obvious peanut — blood tests can measure for more than 50 food items.

So what sparked my sudden interest to try and reach out to the community, as I have been living with this frustration for many years?

I was extremely emotionally stricken with the news a month ago about Dr. Jeffrey BenZvi, from Flatbush, a prominent gastroenterologist who held credibility at many New York City hospitals, a member of Flatbush Hatzalah, and a devoted ba’al chessed, who suddenly passed away after a severe allergic reaction at a Brooklyn restaurant.

Did I know this man? No. My educated assumption was that he was aware of this allergy, and made it clear to the waiter, who was unaware of the misinformation he was relaying to Dr. Ben Zvi about the food he was ordering. It is nothing short of tragic, a simple meal out, which is a luxury we all partake in and take advantage of. And it could have been avoided, had the staff been knowledgeable about every single item on the menu.

My daughter is three years old, and my husband and I are her advocates, her voices at the pizza store or restaurant, or a friend’s house, figuring out what she can and cannot eat. When she is old enough to go to any of these places by herself, I need to know that she is in responsible, educated hands.

It would be extreme to suggest that every adult learn how to administer an EpiPen, which is literally a life-saving tool — but I

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Wheat, tomatoes and dairy — as well as peanut butter and nuts — are among more than 50 food products that can easily cause allergic reactions, including death. am suggesting that restaurant owners, workers, waiters/waitresses be more in tune to what they are serving a patron. How will I know that when I order a salad without the slivered almonds, and it mistakenly comes with them, that the restaurant worker in the back will not just remove the almonds from said salad instead of making me an entirely new one? How can I stress that the price of my daughter’s life is greater than the price of a second salad with no trace of nut in it, because of the waiter’s mistake, if I don’t go into the back and watch myself?

I wish menus at every local restaurant would contain allergy warnings, if they are not obvious (like the item that was fried in sesame oil, or if a breading contains crushed

nuts), just like packaged goods are required by law now to have allergen statements if the product is even processed in the same facility as say, nuts, eggs, dairy, or wheat, etc. even if the item at hand never even came into contact with any of these ingredients.

Paying more attention to customers by not brushing off their requests as silly or inconvenient, as if they are asking for something unreasonable, we can make all dining experiences positive ones, and not nervous, on-edge ones. I am positive that it is no waiter’s intention to mislead or misguide a customer, rather the nature of a restaurant during a busy service

is to be distracted, and I understand that.

With a little focus and guidance, we can remove any discrepancies, and avoid terrible tragedies like the unfortunate passing of a great man, Dr. Jeffrey Ben-Zvi. Elisheva Nelson Taitz lives in Lawrence. am suggesting that restaurant owners, workers, waiters/waitresses be more in tune to what they are serving a patron. How will I know that when I order a salad without the slivered almonds, and it mistakenly comes with them, that the restaurant worker in the back will not just remove the almonds from said salad instead of making me an entirely new one? How can I stress that the price of my daughter’s life is greater than the price of a second salad with no trace of nut in it, because of the waiter’s mistake, if I don’t go into the back and watch myself?

I wish menus at every local restaurant would contain allergy warnings, if they are not obvious (like the item that was fried in sesame oil, or if a breading contains crushed nuts), just like packaged goods are required by law now to have allergen statements if the product is even processed in the same facility as say, nuts, eggs, dairy, or wheat, etc. even if the item at hand never even came into contact with any of these ingredients.

Paying more attention to customers by not brushing off their requests as silly or inconvenient, as if they are asking for something unreasonable, we can make all dining experiences positive ones, and not nervous, onedge ones. I am positive that it is no waiter’s intention to mislead or misguide a customer, rather the nature of a restaurant during a busy service is to be distracted, and I understand that.

With a little focus and guidance, we can remove any discrepancies, and avoid terrible tragedies like the unfortunate passing of a great man, Dr. Jeffrey Ben-Zvi. Elisheva Nelson Taitz lives in Lawrence.

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Rebekah Frucht, a”h…

Continued from page 1 Rabbi Billet mentioned the following parable from Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik: There once were two men who were passengers on a boat. One man was Fate, the other man was Destiny. Amidst the journey, the captain announces that the boat is going to sink. Upon hearing that declaration, Fate returns to his cabin and waits for the inevitable. Destiny, on the other hand, goes over to the captain and asks, “What have you done?” The captain replies that he tried all the techniques he learned in school, but none seemed to help their situation.

The man of Destiny then tells the captain, “If those techniques did not work, then create a new one and form a new strategy.”

When a challenge arises in a person’s life, continued Rabbi Billet, the man of Fate sinks, thinking, “Why have you abandoned me?” A man of Destiny however, changes the question. He thinks, if I can not get an answer to my question, then I will ask a new question. A person who lives a life according to the man of Destiny, he added, will make the world a better place despite the unfortunate tragedies that are thrown his or her way.

Morty and Dena Frucht have chosen to live like the man of Destiny. They connected with Emunah’s Bet Elazraki in Netanya, an organization that helps children from dys-

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Rabbi Goldwasser began by saying that “Ner Hashem nishmat adam”--A person’s soul is comparable to G-d’s candle. He elaborated by saying that some candles have such a bright flame that they seem to illuminate the night; those candles however, burn out faster. Another point that Rabbi Goldwasser mentioned was how raz (the Hebrew word for secret) and ohr (the Hebrew word for light) both have the same gematria (numerical value). Each person has his or her own special qualities. Once the secret of a person is discovered, then the light comes shining through.

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