May 25, 2012

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Opinion Is there a New Biblical Commandment to Devolve?

By Juda Engelmayer It started with attempts to protect sexual offenders and child abusers –going so far as co-opting a public official into treating justice as a religious choice rather than an American right. It then moved to vilifying an alleged rape victim with thousands rallying in support of an unlicensed therapist accused of raping a young girl.

It peaked when more than 40,000 filled the otherwise empty seats at Citi-Field in Queens, spilling over into the nearby Arthur Ashe Stadium, to hear about why Jews must avoid the Internet. God forbid anyone would get real information, become more aware, or possibly learn to think for himself.

A few years back, I heard Christian pastor John Hagee, founder of Christians United for Israel, proclaim, “Where are the nations that have persecuted the Jewish people? Where is Pharaoh and his army? Where are the Babylonians? Where are the Greeks? Where is the Ottoman Empire? Where are the Romans? Where is that goose-stepping lunatic Adolf Hitler and his Nazi hoards? All are historic footnotes in the boneyard of human history. Where is Israel? Where are the Jewish people? They’re alive and well; they’re thriving; they’re prospering; they’re growing… they’re still going forward.”

It gave me chills to hear a gentile recount the challenges the Jewish people faced; how they overcame each and every one, time and again. The very essence of Jewish history — its survival through history as one of the oldest religions in the world and a nation that has withstood repeated conquest and time — has been its willingness to adapt, its innovative nature, its steadfast faith in God, and the belief in the coming of a Messiah to unify and return them to their kingdom.

Judaism is not the isolationist, controlling life-system that the growing charedi phenomenon makes it seem to be — a rigid system that demands obedience to man-made stringencies that obscure the purer nature of Judaism;. the inviting and selfless nature of Abraham, who would leave God’s side to talk to strangers and invite them to rest, and to refresh them with food. Judaism is about engaging with the world, moderating the tension between adhering to God’s law and being an active participant in God’s world. Judaism is about believing that God created science and the processes for technology when He created everything else, making any conflict between science and God man made, not divine.

If the growing trend of the recalcitrant communities of charedi continues, and the orthodox community in general continues its turn to an extreme right, the Jews of the Book will cease to be Jewish and become another religion entirely. Those who view governments run by the Taliban, or ones heavily dominated by radical Islam, as oppressive, that keep their masses controlled, closed-off Continued on page 2

North Shore Hebrew Academy hits it out of the park Photos by Donovan Berthoud

(Above) From left, Sara, Arnie, Kathy, and Eli Flatow. (Below) Shlomo and Sarit Elias.

By Karen C. Green In what can be best described as an evening double header spanning two days, the North Shore Hebrew Academy celebrated its highest standards of education and academic achievement this past Monday and Tuesday.

The high school’s annual celebration of excellence, held on Monday, May 21st at Great Neck Synagogue inducted students in national honor societies in every discipline and recognized students for their exemplary char-

acter and commitment to Torah, service and leadership. Tuesday evening’s annual journal dinner held at Citifield was a celebration of the Academy’s 57 year tradition of excellence. The major league venue was the appropriate setting for honoring two extraordinary Great Neck couples, Sarit and Shlomo Elias, and Kathy and Arnie Flatow (NSHA executive director) who have served the academy like Hall of Famers.

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Confronting the future or avoiding it Continued from page 1 and mired in narrow interpretations of tradition, will begin adding Jews to that list.

Israel is one of the most pioneering countries because of its natural resource of Jews from every corner of the earth. Is it possible that what is now considered a Startup Nation can well become an ignorant, uninspiring people who fail to grow, and slowly devolve?

Throughout the centuries, the Jewish people were known for the pursuit of knowledge while

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remaining true to their beliefs. Rabbi Joseph Soloveitchik, the great sage of modern Orthodoxy, is believed to have synthesized the importance of the relationship between the secular world and Torah Judaism, understood in the term, “Torah U’mada� or Torah and secular knowledge. It also contained the essence of Tikkun Olam (healing the world) through positive Jewish communal involvement with the broader community.

Another giant from the grander ages of Jewish scholarship, Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch, founder of what is called “neo-orthodoxy,� taught the philosophy of “Torah im Derech Eretz,� or Torah with “the way of the land,� to demonstrate that Jews play an important role giving back to world they live in.

Neither Soloveitchik nor Hirsch had dictatorial tendencies, so neither felt he had to control people to the point of stagnation. In fact, they felt the opposite; the pursuit of knowledge would make the Jewish community stronger.

Could the early pioneers of modern Israel have moved mountains, pressed world leaders, negotiated treaties, built munitions out of sticks and stones, and won wars against stronger, better armed nations and armies had they been under the influence of this model of denial?

When 1,000 men gather in Brooklyn to call the woman who cried rape a whore, Judaism’s matriarchs Sarah, Rebecca, Rachel, and Leah spin in their graves and wonder how such extreme misogyny developed. When the leading religious body for religious Jewry convinces the Brooklyn district attorney, Charles Hynes, to essentially cover up sex crimes and child abuse within the religious communities to protect the suspects and essentially disparage the victims, particularly where the perpetrators are men, the talmudic teaching of “Dina d’malchuta dina,� “the law of the land is the law�, gets erased from history.

When over 40,000 men fill a stadium bedazzled with digitized Budweiser ads to see their leaders on a jumbo television demand that they all shun technology and tune the world out, when there are very effective methods of preventing pornography and other unwanted materials from displaying, we know it is about maintaining control. The roughly $2 million spent on renting the Met’s home for the day could have been better spent on community-wide Internet security, distribution of useful preventative materials, or better yet, food and provisions for the truly impoverished among them.

The Internet has been used by the voiceless within these communities to find the resources needed to help overcome adversities. Rallying against the Internet as a whole is a means to blocking out any ideas or facts that interfere with the tight control often exercised over these groups . The leaders believe that they cannot confront rational ideas, progress, and modernity head on, for fear of losing the power they have. Instead, they demonize it and incite false fear of God’s wrath to keep the lie going.

Early sages saw something inherently wrong with devoting one’s life exclusively to the study of Torah if that meant shutting oneself off completely from the outside world, because they thought it sinful to intentionally reject the world around them; it was seen as a distortion of the Torah itself. God gave humans the ability to think, and He gave humans the resources needed to better the world he was given, along with the ability to create and build. To deny that is cafeteria-style religion. Sure there are dangerous places on the Internet, but to be so immersed in spiritual pursuits as those who live among the charedi do, is to intrinsically know right from wrong, as well. Self-control is a much more useful lesson than censorship. It is human nature to want what we cannot have.

At some point, Judaism around the world will have to confront the growing epidemic of devolution. The people who outlasted everything man and nature could throw its way will soon cease to have the ability to fend for itself. Is that the road to redemption?

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Getting downtrodden women back on their feet

By Malka Eisenberg Since 1979, hundreds of women, Jews and non-Jews, religious and secular, have completed a free employment-training program through Agudath Israel of America’s doors.

They come in divorced, widowed, separated, poor, demoralized, down trodden and after four weeks of training and some work on their interviewing skills and resumes, a certificate of completion in their hands, they enter the work force.

The 33-year program is Agudath Israel’s Fresh Start Training Program with computer classes and Job Readiness Training for Displaced Homemakers. The program is for divorced, single parents, separated, widowed, or low income married women with children under the age of 19. The four-week computer classes in Microsoft Word, Excel and typing are part of a New York State Department of Labor grant to help find jobs for women who, when they were married, relied on their husband’s income.

When they reach out to the program, said Sigalit Mizrahi, the job developer there, “they feel down, not confident; they feel they have nowhere to go, that they don’t have skills and feel lost. We come as a support system, we help build their self-esteem through group sessions and one on one counseling. It is a process to build a woman up to become independent again, financially, and to rebuild her self-esteem.”

Women who enter the program have to

have U.S. citizenship or a green card and have to be eligible to work in New York State. The women receive a certificate when they complete the free program. “They set goals,” explained Mizrahi. “They either go out and find a job or we work with their interviewing skills, correct their resume and once their resume is complete, we send it out to jobs that we think they are a good candidate for or they do their own job search.”

On average, they train and counsel about 120 women a year. “We have helped thousands” since they started, pointed out Mizrahi.

The training classes are held five times a year.

Earlier in the program they had ten to fifteen women in each class, now, due to cuts in funding, they only have five computers, enabling the training of only five women at a time.

Technology has steered the training.

When the program began in 1979, the women learned to type. Later on, the course taught word processing and now computers with Word and Excel. Training takes place about every other month, she said, with one month to screen applicants to fill a class, “to see how motivated and serious they are to go back to work. It takes time to find the right candidate.” The alternate month is for the class. The classes are held during the day depending on when the instructor is available, usually twice a week from 10 A.M. to 1 P.M. for four weeks. The next class in typing skills will probably be held in July or the end of June.

“It’s an overall holistic approach,” explained Mizrahi. “We hand hold these women so they

can build up confidence and become independent and support themselves financially by working.”

To enter the program they have to “come in, fill out paperwork and give appropriate documents to prove that they are a displaced homemaker,” she noted. Some of the necessary documents include a divorce decree if they are divorced, documentation that they are on government aid, a birth certificate, passport, green card or social security card, an income statement, food stamps letter, government assistance letter, or a signed statement that they are unemployed. A widow has to show her husbands’ death certificate, court documentation if separated, children’s social security cards to prove that they are under the age of 19.

The program assists the women in interviewing skills, resume writing, and job search and helps them find jobs based on ability, location and hours. The graduates of the program have been employed as secretaries, administrative assistants, in human relations and recruiting, customer service, and retail stores. Some have gone back to school after the course and have become therapists and nurses and some have risen to management positions in their jobs. “We accept everyone,” noted Mizrahi.

“There is no discrimination, Jews, non-Jews, all facets of women.”

One divorced woman in her 40s came in 2002 and she was “down on herself,” recounted Mizrahi. She took the computer classes, earned a certificate in Word and Excel, and after help with her resume, found a job as an adminis-

trative assistant, worked there for three years, lost the job and returned to Fresh Start to update her resume. She found another job, was “very happy,” remarried, quit her job then got divorced and returned to Fresh Start for emotional counseling and support “to get back on her feet.” She updated her resume and is currently a secretary for an outreach program “This is someone who utilized our services several times and maintained a relationship over ten years,” stressed Mizrahi. “And whenever she needed assistance to update her resume, or to speak to us, she reached out.”

She recalled one woman whose husband was out of work. “She was low income and married and had no idea what she wanted to do,” she said. “She had no work experience and didn’t know what she was capable of doing.

She took the classes three years ago and we discussed what interested her. She said she likes people, talking to people, but had no clue, no knowledge. When she graduated, we referred her to agencies for work and now she works for a non-profit company in human resources, recruiting. She finds other people jobs now.

We didn’t recognize her. She is confident, welldressed, and now teaching people how to find jobs. She is successful; it’s really great to see.”

“We come as a support system,” she said.

“People still call us after ten to fifteen years to update us on their family. We really are a resource to be by their side.”

Classes are held at 4006 18th Avenue in Boro Park, Brooklyn. For more information call 718 506-0500 x200.

Hollywood drops into the Five Towns ‘Blood Ties’ films in Woodmere, actors prep in Cedarhurst

By ANN E. FRIEDMAN Two Five Towns communities took on the appearance of movie studio lots as filming for the 1970s crime themed movie, “Blood Ties,” starring Mila Kunis and Clive Owen took place on May 16.

A house on Forest Avenue in Woodmere was being used for the movie and Judy Pollack-Joszef, who lives next door to the home, allowed the producers, directors, actors and actresses to use her home in between takes. “The producers requested two bedrooms for Mila and Clive,” she said. “They filmed the whole day and were here the week before bringing equipment into the house.”

Pollack-Joszef said hundreds of people went in and out of her home during the 12 hours of filming. “I don’t’ think my bathroom was used this much in the 20 years I’ve lived here,” she said.

As Pollack-Joszef stood outside she noticed a man standing around and approached him to ask if he needed another extra for the film. “Turns out he was the producer, Christopher Goode and I said I had a cute 19-year-old girl for the background,” she said.

When her daughter, Jordana, got back from a coffee run Goode sent her to hair and makeup at La Viola in Cedarhurst which was being used as the makeup, hair and wardrobe area.

La Viola owner Lino Viola said it was the third time his restaurant has been used for a film since he began operating it in 1977. “It’s a big place and it’s not being used during the day,” he said. “It’s also interesting to see what goes on.”

Jordana, a Queens College student and Hebrew Academy of the Five Towns and Rockaway alumna, got ready to make her film debut at La

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Woodmere resident Jordana Pollack, far left, was an extra in the film, “Blood Ties,” starring Clive Owen and Mila Kunis, center.

Viola for the wedding reception scene in Blood Ties. “I’m looking forward to seeing the behind the scenes aspect,” she said while waiting for hair and makeup.

After filming for an hour and a half in the backyard of the Forest Avenue home, Jordana had a great first experience in the film industry. “I didn’t want to approach Mila but she was a foot away

from me the whole time,” she said. “Mila said there were a lot of kids trying to sneak through the bushes and take pictures and she asked me if those were my friends.”

When Jordana returned home that night, Pollack-Joszef said, “she came home looking like an Amish girl. I told [Goode] even if it ends up on the cutting room floor, it was a once in a lifetime expe-

rience and he told me he liked the take so maybe this is the start of her big movie career.”

Jordana said other extras in the film told her about, www.nycasting.com, a website for extras, and she plans to sign-up in hopes it will lead to another spot in a film. “The other day was really fun,” she said. “And I’m definitely willing to do it again.”

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Opinion Why I Won’t Be Going to The Salute to Israel Parade (and Urge You To Stay Home also)

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n June third, hundreds of shuls within reasonable distance of Manhattan will be renting busses, carpooling and finding other means of transportation to show their love of the Jewish State at the annual Salute to Israel Parade (now called Celebration Israel).

This year I have made the difficult decision to stay home, and I urge you to talk to your POLITICO Rabbis and Synagogue TO GO boards to stay home also.

Included in the parade are groups supporting boycotts, divestment, sanctions (BDS) and other ways of de-legitimizing the Jewish State.

It wasn’t until after last year’s parade that I realized the New Israel Fund (NIF) was allowed to march.

Jeff Dunetz Marching with the NIF with their own banners were other anti-Israel groups B’Tselem and Partners for Progressive Israel.

Parade organizers were asked, and refused to disinvite the group from this year’s celebration. By staying home we are condemning the participation of these anti-Israel groups in a parade supposed to celebrate our connection to our spiritual homeland.

The NIF has been approved to march (along with its rogues gallery) in this year’s parade, also.

Two cables released in the Wikileaks dump last year show the NIF for what it is: a foreign-funded group dedicated to the delegitimization of the State of Israel.

The cables summarize meetings between U.S. officials and leaders of the New Israel Fund, B’Tselem, and the Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI) all funded by the NIF. “In the wake of Operation Cast Lead, these groups were trying to convince the U.S. Government the Israeli legal system is incapable of investigating claims against the Israeli government and military. They were trying to push a prosecution of the IDF and Israeli leaders for war crimes to stymie Israel

from protecting herself in the future: Jessica Montell, the head of B’Tselem said she wanted the highest level decision-makers held accountable for the decisions they made on how to prosecute the conflict, including Military Advocate General (MAG) Mandelblit…Her aim, she said, was to make Israel weigh world opinion and consider whether it could “afford another operation like this.”

In other words she didn’t want Israel to defend herself against the 5,000+ rockets sent from Gaza, which led to the Israeli action.

“In another cable Montell estimated her 9 million NIS ($2.4 million) budget is 95 percent funded from abroad, mostly from European countries, proving the group is simply an arm of the anti-Israel forces that run the EU. New Israel Fund (NIF) Associate Director in Israel Hedva Radovanitz, who manages grants to 350 NGOs totaling about 18 million dollars per year, [said] that the campaign against the NGOs was due to the “disappearance of the political left wing” in Israel and the lack of domestic constituency for the NGOs. She noted that when she headed ACRI’s Tel Aviv office, ACRI had 5,000 members, while today it has less than 800, and it was only able to muster about 5,000 people to its December human rights march by relying on the active staff of the 120 NGOs that participated.”

Radovanitz also commented that she believed that in 100 years Israel would be majority Arab and that the disappearance of a Jewish state would not be the tragedy that Israelis fear since it would become more democratic.

Does the Jewish Community Relations Council (JCRC) that organizes the celebration agree with a one (non Jewish) state solution? If it doesn’t why are they granting NIF and its partner groups legitimacy within the Jewish community by allowing it to march?

Five grantees of the New Israel Fund (Machsom Watch, Coalition of Women for Peace, Women Against Violence, Social TV, and Mossawa) signed a letter to the Norwegian Government Pension Fund, urging it to divest from Israel. Partners for Progressive Israel prominently displays on its website a list of Israeli products that it wants Jews to boycott. Does the JCRC believe that coun-

tries should divest from Israel and/or boycott her goods?

One of the most recognizable groups marching in the NIF contingent is B’Tselem.

Based in Israel, the group’s full name is The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories.

Anat Biletzsky, former chairperson of B’Tselem (and still on its board), once wrote that she has been working to end Israel as a Jewish state since the late 1960s. She stated that “Israel [today] is like the Nazis or like Germany in ’34” and that life for Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza “is something that I do not hesitate to call a concentration camp.”

Every year B’Tselem publishes a guide to Israeli and Palestinian Deaths and, while the totals are correct, their classification methods are a bit on the “funky” side. For example, they define as civilian casualties people who were not involved in fighting at the exact time of their death.

Let’s say someone launches a rocket at Sderot, then puts the launcher in the truck and hears the call to prayer. He puts down his rug and starts praying. At the same time, the IDF is honing in on where the missile was launched and sends retaliatory fire, killing the terrorists. B’Tselem calls that a civilian casualty because he wasn’t launching missiles at the time he was praying.

Another group that gets NIF Shekels and was invited by NIF to march in the parade is Partners for Progressive Israel (also known as Meretz USA). On its website, the group urges, “Boycott these settlement products sold

in the U.S., “ with a list of Israeli products that it wants Jews to boycott. These products include Ahava cosmetics, SodaStream products, and wine from nine Israeli vineyards.

One of the great things about the Jews as a people is we try to be inclusive of all people and points of view, it is also one of our downfalls.

“It is incredible what political simpletons Jews are. They shut their eyes to one of the most elementary rules of life, that you must not “meet halfway” those who do not want to meet you. --Ze’ev Jabotinsky, The Iron Wall, November 4, 1923” Last year’s participation by these organizations was a surprise. This year I will not be a party to it. The (JCRC) is supposed to be creating a Salute to Israel Parade, not a boycott Israel festival. Staying home is the only way to show the organizers that it’s unacceptable to sanction groups whose purpose is to de-legitimize Israel, or even worse, create a non-Jewish Israel.

I will not participate in a rally for the destruction of the Jewish State. I will be staying home on June third. And urge you to stay home also.

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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Democrats and Republicans gathered in the LBJ Room off the Senate floor to acknowledge six Jewish leaders in celebration of Jewish American Heritage Month. President George W. Bush designated May for this commemoration in 2006, recommended by Representative Debbi Wasserman Schultze, recognizing the 360 year history of Jewish contributions to American culture.

Pictured from left: Ari Scharf, Founder and Director of Project Mesorah; Sidney Greenberger, Chairman of the Raoul Wallenberg Centennial Celebration Commission; Phil Friedman, Founder of Computer Generated Solutions (CSG); Stanley Tate, head the Resolution Trust Corporation; Rabbi Simcha Scholar, Executive Vice President of Chai Lifeline; Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL); Rabbi Elie Abadie, founding Rabbi of the Edmond J. Safra Synagogue; Rabbi Abe Friedman, Community Liaison to the New York State Senate on Homeland Security; Ezra Friedlander, CEO of The Friedlander Group; Rabbi Joseph Potasnik, Executive Vice President of the New York Board of Rabbis; Alyza Lewin, ESQ. from Lewin & Lewin, LLP specializing in litigation and government relations; Representative Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL)

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Pirkei Avos Chapters One and Two: A New Commentary by Rabbi Yonason Sacks

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he text of Pirkei Avos is the only segment of the Talmud that does not deal with halachah.

The commentator of this new edition is the newly appointed Rosh Yeshiva at Lander College.

The timing of the publication and the appointment could not have been more fortuitous. Taken together, these two events come to aptly personify the unique relationship that a teacher and student have in the Jewish tradition.

Perhaps no one has ever more properly placed that relationship in its proper perspective than Rabbi Avraham Davis who, in his introduction to his own commentary to Pirkei Avos, stated the following: “The relationship between a rebbe, a teacher, and a talmid, his pupil, is considered like that of a father and son. A father brings his son into this world, while through his ethical teachings and moral discipline, the rebbe brings his disciple into the future world. Since it Alan Jay Gerber contains the teachings of the Sages concerning the discipline of human behavior and thought, which, when perceived, make man worthy of the future world, this Mesechet has been called Avos or Fathers.” Thus, the role that Rabbi Sacks will come to serve his students at Lander has, in this quote from Rabbi Davis, both theme and goal.

The commentary of Avos under review this week was composed by a Rebbe, who is also a

Rosh HaYeshiva, a master teacher and interpreter of our religious tradition. This duality compliments each other thus further enhancing the value and quality of both.

Rabbi Sacks is a leading posek and author of eighteen other literary works. He comes to this by way of a rich family tradition. His greatgrandfather was the late chief rabbi of Jerusalem, Rav Zvi Pesach Frank, who was a leading and effective rabbinic leader during the State of Israel’s formative years.

His grandfather, Rabbi Menachem Sacks was a leading educator in Chicago, and his father, Rabbi Louis Sacks was a rabbi in Delray Beach, Florida.

Prior to his appointment at Lander, Rabbi Sacks served for over eighteen years as a rosh yeshiva at Yeshiva University, where he was ordained in 1984, and from where he received the advanced rabbinic degree of Semicha Yadin Yadin two years later.

The publication of his commentary on Avos, chapters one and two, into English should prove to be a boon to those who will be continuing their studies of this tractate after Shavuot. The depth of this commentary will surely enhance the learner through Rabbi Sack’s skilled use of classical and modern commentators.

An example of this method can be demonstrated in the following take on the teaching from chapter two, mishneh eight:

“The more schooling the more wisdom.”

As an introduction to this teaching, Rabbi Sacks cites Rabbeinu Yona, who teaches that wisdom refers to logical reasoning that underlies halachic argument. He then contrasts this with the Rambam’s teaching that one who has many students to challenge him will see his argumentations sharpened and elevated.

After making these points clear, Rabbi Sacks then goes on to cite Rabbi Yitzchak Hutner’s teachings based upon his introduction to “Pachad Yitzchak: Iggeros and K’savim,” which emphasizes the critical importance of studying Torah, specifically inside of a yeshiva.

A hint as to what kind of method and philosophy Rabbi Sacks will employ at Lander may be gleaned from the following teachings from Rabbi Hutner: “…If a person would claim that he will die of starvation if he does not eat the royal delicacies of a king, one would have a hard time believing him.

After all, royal delicacies and starvation represent two opposite extremes on the spectrum of food, and why should the absence of the highest level of food automatically bring a person to the lowest level?”

“Indeed, one could seemingly find many viable food alternatives that are not quite royal delicacies,

but nonetheless prevent starvation. When it comes to Torah, however, R’Hutner states, this claim actually does hold true. Torah study is the equivalent of ‘royal delicacies.’ If a person does not nourish his soul with the highest level of spiritual food, then he will automatically default to the other extreme, dying of starvation--that is, succumbing to his yeitzer ha’ra and worshipping idolatry. There is simply no middle ground and no allowance for a ‘vacuum’ in the spiritual world.”

These are words and teachings that give both heft and quality to the teachings of Rabbi Sacks and that will serve him in good stead in the many years to come in his stewardship at Lander College.

I conclude this week’s review, mindful of the upcoming Shavu’ot festival, by citing the following teaching from Rabbi Sacks culled from an essay entitled, “Anticipating Kabolas HaTorah.”

“How do we prepare ourselves for the Shavu’ot experience? Which aspects of our avodas Hashem require the most considerable emphasis?”

Rabbi Sacks goes on to cite Avos, commenting on a teaching by Rabbeinu Yona in the following manner: “Commenting on the teaching of Rav Eliezer ben Azaria, ‘im ein derech eretz, ein Torah’ [Avos 3:17], Rabbeinu Yona explains, Torah can only reside in a ba’al middos tovos, one who possesses a refined character.”

All else, implies Rabbi Sacks, is for naught without the basics of human decency, honesty and respect. How right both he and our Sages are.

This teaching is the basis for all that we learn from Avos, and Rabbi Sacks performs an excellent task by reinforcing these teachings in a firm manner for all of us to learn.

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Beyond time and place to find our place T

his week we celebrate the festival of Shavuot, commemorating a moment, 3200 years ago, when we all stood together, beneath a wind-swept mountain, deep in the Sinai desert. The power of that moment was that, more than at any other time in our history as a people, we truly became one; one people, experiencing a desire to receive and to share together.

There is a legend FROM THE HEART about Moses MendelsOF JERUSALEM sohn, the grandfather of the well-known German composer, who was far from handsome. Along with a rather short stature, he had a grotesque hunchback.

One day he visited a merchant in Hamburg who had a lovely daughter named Frumtje. Moses fell helplessly in love with her. But Frumtje was repulsed by his misRabbi Binny shapen appearance.

Freedman When it came time for him to leave, Moses gathered his courage and climbed the stairs to her room to take one last opportunity to speak with her. She was a vision of heavenly beauty, but caused him deep sadness by her refusal to even look at him.

After several attempts at conversation, Moses shyly asked, “Do you believe marriages are made in heaven?”

“Yes,” she answered, still looking at the floor.

“And do you?”

“Yes, I do,” he replied. “You see, in heaven at the birth of each boy, G-d announces which girl he will marry. When I was born, my future bride was pointed out to me. Then G-d added, ‘But your wife will be humpbacked.’

“Right then and there I called out, ‘Oh G-d, a humpbacked woman would be a tragedy. Please, give me the hump and let her be beautiful.’ “ Then Frumtje looked up into his eyes and was stirred by some deep memory. She reached out and gave Mendelssohn her hand and later became his devoted wife.

Sometimes, we have a sense that we have been there before. On our journey through life, we often experience the feeling that we are not traveling a new, undiscovered path, but rather coming back to where we have somehow been.

Having left the festival of Pesach behind, the Jewish people finds itself eagerly anticipating the Festival of Shavuot, when we celebrate the giving of the Torah at Sinai over 3200 years ago.

And somehow, there is a feeling that we have been there before; that once, so long ago, we all stood together at the foot of a lonely mountain, deep in the heart of the desert, ready to receive… what?

The festival of Shavuot and indeed, the giving of the Torah itself is one of the strangest experiences in Judaism. The Torah shares no date for this festival, describing only the agricultural significance (the beginning of the harvest) of this celebration, leaving us to rely on tradition for the historical perspective.

Even stranger is the place where this momentous event occurs: deep in the heart of the desert. We don’t even know exactly where Mount Sinai is, and amazingly, we gave it away in the peace accord with Egypt and no one even noticed!

The giving of the Torah has no date and no place.

And that is precisely the point. Torah is the

recipe we are given to make the world a better place. It is the sum total of why we are here and how we can make a difference. The Torah is essentially one long love-letter written by G-d, for us, all of us. It contains the secrets of how we can tap into who we are, and become all that we can be.

And of course, if the Torah is about discovering who we are, about being and becoming, then that can never be about a specific time or place.

Nonetheless, we receive this beautiful treasure in the desert, because sometimes, in order to take a good look at who we are and who we need to become, we need to find a little bit of desert.

So many experiences in Judaism are about getting beyond time and space. On Shabbat, we step back from the week, and experience the joyful opportunity to take a good look at where we are and where we are headed. Traditionally, we take a little time in the allegorical desert every morning, in prayer, to consider, again, where we really are, and where we hope to go.

But make no mistake about it. Judaism is not about staying in the desert. We don’t believe in staying up on the monastic mountain.

The Jewish people travel, ultimately, for 40 years, to arrive in the Land of Israel. To be a nation, you need a place you can call home.

In fact, one of the most basic rules in life, an essential piece of achieving one’s goals and getting organized, is that everything needs a place.

When something has a place, you can always find it when you need it. And so that it will always be there to achieve its purpose in this world. This is true for files, household items, for everything in life.

And it is true for people as well. We all need our place in the world. So many people in this world are still searching and have not yet found their place.

Which is why the festival of Shavuot follows Pesach: If Pesach is about freedom, Shavuot is about what to do with it. Judaism has never believed in freedom for freedom’s sake. The Jewish notion is ‘freedom for.’ And so we arrive at Sinai, an unknown mountain deep in the heart of noplace, to discover why we got out of Egypt. We all have our own personal Egypt, and it is so hard to get beyond it. Often, it seems we can’t do it alone, and even if we could get out, then what?

What would we do with our new freedom?

So the first time, G-d showed us how it works. And deep within each of us, is that collective sense, that if we really try, we can succeed, because we have been there before. And of course, we don’t stay at Sinai, because Sinai isn’t the goal. The goal is what we choose to do with that newfound recipe. The challenge is to take that recipe and see if we can create a place that allows us to achieve our purpose here, in this world. For the Jewish people that place, ultimately, is the land of Israel, at peace with the world, maybe one day soon.

But first, each of us has to find our own freedom, explore our own desert, and journey to discover, each in our own way, the place that will allow us to become all we can be.

May we all be blessed to experience the joy of discovering our place, and the power of the journey, together, soon.

Shabbat Shalom, best wishes for a happy and meaningful Shavuot, Binny Freedman Rav Binny Freedman, Rosh Yeshivat Orayta in Jerusalem’s Old City is a Company Commander in the IDF reserves, and lives in Efrat with his wife Doreet and their four children. His weekly Internet ‘Parsha Bytes’ can be found at www.orayta.org

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‫ וכל סוחר סיפר על‬,‫ עשירים‬1‫ איתו על הספינה היו סוחרים‬.‫תלמיד חכם אחד הפליג פעם בספינה‬ ‫ ולא השתתף בשיחה‬,‫ רק היהודי ישב ולמד‬.‫ וכמה כסף הוא מתכוין להרויח בעסקיו‬,‫עושרו וסחורתו‬ .‫עם הסוחרים‬ ‫ וכי סחורתו יקרה‬,‫ השיב להם היהודי שאכן יש לו סחורה‬,‫ איזה סחורה יש לו‬,‫כששאלוהו הסוחרים‬ ,‫ ולא מצאו דבר‬,‫ וכשחיפשו אצלו בחדר‬.‫ הוא סירב להשיב‬,‫ מהי סחורתו‬,2‫ אך לתמיהתם‬.‫משלהם‬ .‫ ושסתם שיקר כשטען שלו סחורה יקרה‬,‫ וטענו כנגדו כי הוא אדם עני וחסר כל‬,‫זלזלו בו הסוחרים‬ ‫ ולא נשאר לסוחרים שום‬,‫ ושדדו את כל הסחורה שהייתה בספינה‬,3‫פתאום התנפלו עליהם שודדי ים‬ !‫ עכשיו תראו שאכן סחורתי יקרה משלכם‬:‫ אמר להם היהודי‬.‫דבר‬ ‫ והתחיל לדבר עם תלמידי החכמים שם בדברי‬,‫ הלך היהודי לבית המדרש המקומי‬,‫כשהגיעו ליבשה‬ ‫ רצו‬,‫ לאחר הדרשה‬.‫ וביקשו שידרוש בפניהם‬,‫ הרגישו הם כי אכן היהודי תלמיד חכם גדול‬.‫תורה‬ ‫ ששודדים‬,‫ בבקשה תדאגו לאותם סוחרים שהיו איתי‬,‫ אמר להם היהודי‬.‫לכבדו בכל מיני כיבודים‬ ‫ הסוחרים‬.‫ ולחזור לביתם‬,‫ ואכן היהודים נתנו לסוחרים כסף כדי שיוכלו לאכול‬.‫לקחו להם את הכל‬ ,‫ הוא שאמרתי לכם‬:‫ ענה להם היהודי‬.‫ביקשו סליחה מהיהודי על שצחקו עליו כשהיו על הספינה‬ !‫ אך את סחורתי אי אפשר לקחת‬,‫סחורתי יקרה משלכם! את שלכם אפשר לקחת בקלות‬ !‫ טוב לי תורת פיך מאלפי זהב וכסף‬:‫ אמר‬,‫ שיום פטירתו בחג השבועות‬,‫וכבר דוד המלך‬ ‫ ולא נשאר‬,‫ ועובר‬5‫ אך כל זה חולף‬.4‫בדורנו אנשים מייחסים חשיבות רבה למראה ולקניינים חיצוניים‬ ‫ "נר‬,‫ אשר מנחה את חיינו ומראה לנו את הדרך‬,‫ הסחורה השווה ביותר היא התורה‬.6‫מזה מאומה‬ ."‫לרגלי דבריך ואור לנתיבתי‬ !7‫ מתוך שמחה ופנימיות‬,‫ כברכת החסידים‬,‫שנזכה בחג השבועות הקרב ובה לקבל את התורה‬ ‫ אלא עמוק‬,‫ ופנימיות – שאין זה ענין חיצוני כלל‬,‫שמחה – מתוך הבנה שאכן התורה היא תורת חיים‬ .‫בקרבנו‬ !‫חג שמח‬

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merchants 2 wonder 3 pirates 4 external 5 passes 6 anything 7 internally Rabbi Noam Himelstein studied in Yeshivat Har Etzion and served in the Tanks Corps of the IDF. He has taught in yeshiva high schools, post-high school women’s seminaries, and headed the Torah MiTzion Kollel in Melbourne, Australia. He currently teaches at Yeshivat Orayta in Jerusalem, and lives with his wife and six children in Neve Daniel, Gush Etzion.

It’s a wrap!....actually a quiche L

ast Wednesday, the house next door to mine was the setting for the upcoming movie, Blood Ties, starring James Caan, Mila Kunis and Clive Owen. My house was used as a rest area in lieu of their trailer, which was parked a few blocks away. My son, Jeremy, got to meet and speak to Jamie Hector (Marlo Stanfield of HBO’s The Wire, who also starred on Heroes) for over a half an hour, as well as Domenick Lombardozzo, also on The Wire. My daughter, Jordana ended up in the wedding reception scene of Mila and Clive.

Needless to say it was quite an exciting day. It brought back memories of stargazing on my trip to L.A. in 1981.

My friends Lynn Mael, Miriam Greenspan and I went to California to meet up with our friend Lisa Ehrlich, who spent the summer takJudy Joszef ing courses in U.C.L.A. The plan was to travel to San Francisco, take in the sights, and then head back to L.A. with a pit stop at Yosemite National Park. Lynn was kind enough to volunteer to drive first. While on the road, we kept passing fruit stands. The hungrier we got, the more inviting the fruit stands looked.

Should we stop? Shouldn’t we? We couldn’t decide. Then, one of us, I can’t remember who, said, “Let’s stop.” Lynn, maybe not realizing that she was driving 65 miles an hour, spotted a fruit stand just then, and turned sharply into the park-

ing area missing the watermelon stand by about a foot. Gravel flew every which way and people ran for cover. I was sitting in the back and the force pushed me into the back of Lisa’s seat, which pushed her (still not sure why her seat moved forward) shy of the windshield. It was like a scene out of a movie. Miriam looked at Lynn and said “Lynn, it’s fine, it’s really not your fault. We were the ones who told you to stop, you just didn’t realize how close you were when you veered into it at 65 miles per hour. This is just like riding a horse, you fall off and you just get right back on.

So after we buy some fruit, you get back in the drivers seat, and continue to drive, right girls?” To which Lisa and I looked at each other and replied, “um….no!” We did welcome her back behind the wheel a little while later and she was a perfect driver the rest of the trip.

S.F. was fun and Yosemite was definitely an experience for me. At dusk, the rangers came around and told us to pack away all food and leave it in the car so the bears would just walk by us instead of stopping to pick at the food. Walk right by us? Nah, I had other plans. I slept in the car while the others camped in their sleeping bags. Morning couldn’t come fast enough for me.

I decided I was more of a Beverly Hills kind of gal.

I was looking forward to brunch at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel. Word was, back then, that on any given Sunday, there were always movie stars having brunch and if you were lucky, you could score an autograph as well.

So on our last Sunday in L.A. we headed to Beverly Hills to try our luck. We were escorted to our table and handed our menus. Of course we couldn’t eat anything as it wasn’t kosher, so we decided to just get the cheapest selections on the menu. I ordered a mushroom quiche. While waiting for our orders to arrive, I spotted her; there she was looking just as outrageous in person as she did on T.V. It was none other than Phyllis Diller. Not quite Robert Redford, but hey, she was famous back then. She was actually very nice and gave all of us her autograph. Mission accomplished, we met a real life, first rate, second-rate

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Funny, I had to travel 3,000 miles to see Phyllis Diller, and my kids get to walk next door to see Mila Kunis and Clive Owen. But, I wouldn’t trade that trip for anything. It was a wonderful two weeks spent with life long friends which precipitated treasured memories along with an autograph that I have safely tucked away, I think, in a box, somewhere….along with about 10 long lost credit cards, a few store credits and at least one set of car keys to every car I’ve ever owned.

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Hollywood starlet. After scanning the room and not finding anyone else of importance, we sauntered back to our table and played with our food to make it look as if we were eating it.

I can still remember how wonderful the quiche smelled and how much I wanted to taste it. Years later I came up with a recipe that tasted as good as I imagined that quiche would have. It was worth the wait.

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Why Stay Up? Or Not. T

here is a widespread custom to stay up on Shavuot evening learning Torah.

Obvious, you’ll say, but the truth is that the custom is mostly kabbalistic in nature. It is most likely that the custom was not practiced outside of kabbalistic circles until the 17th century when certain kabbalistic practices somehow went mainstream.

That kabbalistic practices “went mainstream” does not suggest the practices are halakhic in nature – just that they were picked up by a more general population.

One of the reasons given for staying up all night on Shavuot eve is to fix the “mistake” made by those who were waiting in anticipation at the bottom of a mountain, and fell Rabbi Avi Billet asleep – only to come late to experience Revelation (Shir HaShirim Raba 1:2). As the Kabbalists viewed the holiday of Shavuot as “Zman Matan Torateinu” (a notion which has barely any support in the Torah’s account of this agriculturallyfocused holiday), the dedication to Torah on this date was meant to look like a rededication of our collective commitment to the Torah itself, and our hopes that we could correct the error made by our ancestors at

that fateful moment.

However, there are apparently a number of days that contain such a practice of staying up all night. And interestingly enough, they all carry with them another recommended practice – the separation of husbands and wives.

Before getting all upset, it is important to note the words of the Aruch HaShulchan (OC 240), who wrote, “it is only an extremely pious custom (minhag chasidut) to avoid relations on the first night of Pesach, Shavuot, on Shmini Atzeret, and on Rosh Hashana.”

The Mishneh Brurah qualifies this ruling similarly as for those “who are extremely Gd-fearing” (maleh b’yirah). Otherwise one should always bear in mind that the only mandated separation periods are Yom Kippur evening, Tisha B’Av evening, during a niddah period, and when either he or she is in the mourning period of shiva.

Other evenings that are mentioned in halakhic works (to stay up learning, that is) are Hoshana Rabba (Rama OC 664), the 7th night of Pesach (see Birkei Yosef 240), and the Kohen Gadol on the evening of Yom Kippur. It is interesting to note that one

approach associated with the 7th night of Pesach ascribes the practice to the phrase “V’lo karav zeh el zeh kol halaylah” (Shmot 14:20), which means “This did not come close to this all night” – seemingly referring to the camps of the Israelites and Egyptians that stood on opposite sides of a pillar of fire during the evening in which the sea was splitting.

The rabbis would not let a verse like that go to waste, and suggested that “This not coming close to this” refers to husbands and wives. This would make it a custom to have husbands and wives separate on the 7th night of Pesach. And of course, once separate, one may as well learn Torah.

The separation in preparation for Shavuot is a little more palatable. After all, G-d mandated that husbands and wives have a three-day separation in advance of Revelation. (Shmot 19:15) While I do not believe

”When you are looking for some way to spend your time...pursue the Torah and the study of Torah.”

such an act is necessary beyond that onetime in the wilderness, if people want to commemorate such a separation in advance of Shavuot, I guess they are entitled to do as they please.

The bottom line is that it seems the staying up learning idea is often directly correlated to a husband and wife separation.

The Magen Avraham describes what is meant to be the scholars’ pursuit during the week – namely to study Torah at night.

Not all of us have the luxury to make “Torahseinu Umanoseinu” – the Torah our regular pursuit. But we do have a charge to study it and learn from it at whatever turn.

I don’t know for sure which idea came first – separation from spouses or the idea to learn all night. But a message that could be taken is “when you are looking for some way to spend your time, because other options are taken away from you, pursue the Torah and the study of Torah.” That is certainly a lesson to take to the bank all year long - not just Shavuot night.

Whether one does stay up learning or one goes to sleep at the regular hour, may we be blessed to dedicate much of our Shavuot experiences to Torah learning.

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(Left), Dr. Adam Lish of Woodmere, and his recipient Brian at Gift of Life’s annual dinner on May 17 at the Grand Hyatt in Manhattan. (Right), Actress Mayim Bialik, Gift of Life supporter and the evening’s emcee with Jewish Star publisher Karen Green ,who along with many attendees , got swabbed at the event in hopes of being a match.

May 26

cream party! There will be a gourmet ice cream bar and dairy buffet, as well as the reading of the Ten Commandments. (1160 Broadway, Hewlett)

May 30-31

May 28

Many families rely on Navah for help when a family becomes victim to an act of terror. Navah helps to support these families by doing things such as paying their medical bills and organizing group therapies. Come support Navah at this bake sale at 541 Jarvis Avenue, located in Far Rockaway, New York. The event will take place on Wednesday and Thursday, 4:30–10:00 p.m. Come enjoy some yummy treats while supporting a good cause!

Habura at Congregation Bais Tefilah of Woodmere To Celebrate Siyum of Lawrence-Cedarhurst Sefer Hachinuch Memorial Day Parade The Habura is finally about to reach the 613th mitvah. All are invited to come and join in the Siyum and to begin a new cycle of learning.

Congregation Bais Tefilah of Woodmere is located at 409 Edward Avenue. The Siyum will take place after the 7:15 minysn on May 20, erev Shavuos.

May 27

The parade will begin at 11:30 AM following a short service at the Law-Ced Fire Dept, and continue on to the Cedarhurst Memorial Plaza, in the Andrew J. Parise Park, where a service will be held to remember our “fallen comrades” and honor all servicemen and women that served, or are serving, in the military today.

Bake Sale for Navah

June 1, 2

speaking at Congregation Beth Sholom Mr. Gitler will be speaking at Congregation Beth Sholom on Friday night and Shabbat morning at various minyanim. He will also be giving a talk at Young Israel Lawrence Cedarhurst’s Seudah Shlishit. On the eve of the Celebrate Israel Parade, it is an especially fitting time for Joseph to educate the community as to the current situation of poverty and hunger in Israel and how Leket Israel is facing this growing crisis every day. Leket Israel works to alleviate the problem of nutritional insecurity among the growing numbers of Israel’s poor. Food that would otherwise have gone to waste is redistributed by nearly 300 nonprofit organizations.

Joseph Gitler (founder of Leket Israel)

Shavuot Ice Cream Party Come to the Chabad of Hewlett at 11 am for an ice

Let your voices be heard, now more than ever — for the sake of Jerusalem 20,000 people are expected for the 19th Annual Israel Day Concert in Central Park, Carl Freyer, z"l Tribute, Dr. Manfred Lehmann Memorial event, which will be held at Central Park's Summer Stage (enter at 5th Ave. & 72nd St.), Sunday, June 3rd (the 45th anniversary of the miracle of the Six-Day War and the Re-unification of Jerusalem), from 2:30-7:30 PM, rain or shine, free admission, after the Salute to Israel Parade. Dr. Joseph Frager, longtime Organizer, and Dr. Paul and Drora Brody, Chairpersons, for the past 7 years, have announced the concert's themes: Jerusalem United Forever-Never to be divided again, No further concessions of ANY part of the Land of Israel, and Stopping Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons NOW, before it is too late!

The Concert, which effectively is the largest Rally of its kind in North America, possibly in the world, is sponsored by the Israel Concert-In-ThePark Committee, associated with Young Israel Chovevei Zion and the National Council of Young Isra-

el, pays special tribute again this year to Carl Freyer z'l. Carl, together with his wife Sylvia, founded the Concert in response to a call by Rabbi Shlomo Riskin, Chief Rabbi of Efrat, to mount some form of protest to the notorious 1993 Oslo accords. Mr. Freyer was a leader of the Nationalist camp and a supporter of numerous causes for many years, impacting every aspect of Jewish life in America and Israel. He and his wife were founders of Arutz Sheva and the National Jewish Outreach Program (NJOP). The Concert/Rally also salutes noted Jewish activists and philanthropists Dr. Manfred R. Lehmann z'l, who was the event's first Chairman, and Rose and Reuben Mattus z'l, of Haagen-Dazs fame.

The Guest Speaker will be the eloquent MK Danny Danon, Deputy Speaker of the Knesset and Chairman of World Likud. Special appearances will be made by leading political and religious leaders and Jewish activists, focusing on the event's all-important themes. Rabbi David Algaze, President of

the World Committee for the Land of Israel; Israel Prize winner, former MK Rabbi Chaim Druckman; Soviet refusenik and "Prisoner of Zion" Yosef Mendelevitch; Mark Langfan, creator of strategic maps of Yehuda and Shomron; and Scott Feltman, Executive Vice President of the One Israel Fund, are among the many exciting speakers.

Special performers include a burst of musical and singing talent: Yehuda Green, protege of Reb Shlomo Carlebach; Sephardic stalwarts Avi Peretz and the Ouri Bitan Band, and Avner Levy; Tal Vaknin and Shlomi Aharoni, directly from Israel, both alumni of the Rabbinical IDF Orchestra & Choir; Chaim Kiss; Izzy Kieffer, also an alumnus of the Rabbinicla IDF Orchestra & Choir, with Heshy R.; and Yitzy Bald's dazzling New York Boys Choir.

Mendel Piekarski and Shlomo Skolnick, "Jewish Star" Junior Finalists, will make their debut on the SummerStage. Musical accompaniment will be provided by the incomparable Shloime Dachs Orchestra & Singers. The Israel Guide Dog Cen-

ter for the Blind will poignantly remind us just what Israel is capable of when they exhibit their inestimable value to visually impaired clients. Hatikva and the Star Spangled Banner will be sung

by Chazzan Joel Kaplan of Cong. Beth Sholom of Lawence. Aveinu Shebashamayim and the theme from Exodus ("This Land is MINE, G-d GAVE This Land to ME") will be rendered by Jerry Markovitz. Nachum Segal will again Emcee. Zev Brenner will be producing a show of the Concert/Rally for television. Barry Brown Studios is the official Concert photographer.

Delicious, strictly kosher food and drinks will be available, supplied by Mendys. Bring your Ruach, determination and Jewish pride, together with your family and your friends, to this massive Concert/Rally, so our voices will be heard around the world. Early arrival is advised as there will be added security checks. Anyone interested in joining the SPONSOR/VIP LIST, contact 917-650-5623 immediately.

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havuot is hands down my favorite Jewish holiday because we are mandated to eat dairy foods, stay up all night learning and share festive family time. These three customs are activities that fit in perfectly with my preferences. Even better is celebrating MIRIAM’S MUSINGS this year with a three day holiday--Shabbat and Yom Tov together.

Some people find that a hardship, but I say “in for a penny in for a pound.” Having Shavuot overlap with Memorial Day weekend is a further blessing. Let the eating, drinking, beaching and celebrating all begin!

Miriam Bradman Here’s my plan to Abrahams take full advantage of this fortuitous alignment of the dates. I will cook up every one of our favorite dairy and vegetarian dishes, freezing some of them and making some fresh on erev chag, the holiday eve. I’ve invited some guests and accepted some invitations, one activity per day, giving our family some quiet, meditative time to digest and to contemplate and absorb the meaning of the festival.

So first of all, our boys will come home

for Shabbat and Shavuot, making us a fivefamily again if only for the long weekend. We can catch up on each other’s happenings and I can shep nachas from my kids in person, the best feeling in the world.

I plan to nap on Shabbat afternoon in order to be alert on Saturday evening for the all-nighter (I usually last until about 2 a.m., but who’s counting). Though I enjoy being in shul to hear my beloved Rabbi’s speeches and, of course, to socialize with my friends, I have to admit that I’m not a regular shulgoer. I justify my absences with the lame excuse of the mile long walk from home and a less pathetic one when I often have guests for lunch. Somehow though, the idea of walking a mile back and forth in the middle of the night with my husband and kids really appeals to me.

Mostly men and teens of both genders show up to the all night shiurim line-up.

Some come for the food, which includes a carnivore’s delight of BBQ (I really don’t understand that on the dairy holiday), a tray of sushi, desserts, etc…. This year this will come after the three Sabbath meals, so I don’t know how anyone will really be coming to eat, but there you have it. Some come to schmooze and hang out. Most actually come to listen and learn something from the 45-60 minute talks given by an assortment of our rabbis and peers on various interesting topics headlined with intriguing titles.

Kulanu fair, glorious day, glorious time

I remember years ago we observed two of our shul’s young rabbinic interns, Rabbi Joseph and Rabbi Skydell, face off about issues concerning homosexuality in Orthodox Judaism, each intelligently defending his points in the debate. Another year we leaned about Kabbalah from Danny Hiller who explains concepts so lucidly. We met Rabbi Sarna, Rabbi of New York University’s Bronfman Center and NYU University Chaplain, a very warm rabbi who spoke about what the artist students bring to the Jewish community at NYU. I was thrilled because my son would soon be attending that university as a studio art major and I had the opportunity to ask the rabbi some concerned-mom questions.

We heard Rabbi Rothstein give a brilliant discourse on Shavuot night, just before he became Rosh Kollel of YU’s community kollel which was based at HAFTR HS. This year our close friend, Dr. Stuart Weinerman will discuss “Where was the Talmud Bavli written?

Hint: not Babylon” during the wee hours and I hope to stay awake for it!

The next day, bleary eyed but feeling a little enlightened from the evening’s activity, we’ll make our way to another festive meal.

Then, if the weather cooperates, we’ll take a postprandial trek over the bridge to the beach club to initiate the rites of summer.

The long walk will aid digestion and bring me joy since I look forward to beach season for nine months of the year. Atlantic Beach

Photos by Monica Rzewski

Kids, as well as adults enjoy face painting, rides, games, food, music and more at the fair.

Miriam Bradman Abrahams is Cuban born, Brooklyn bred and lives in Woodmere.

She organizes author events for Hadassah, reviews books for Jewish Book World and is very slowly writing her father’s immigration story.

She is teaching yoga at Peaceful Presence Yoga Studio. mabraha1@optonline.net

CAHAL 8th Grade Chesed Project For the weekend of Shabbos May 12th, the CAHAL 8th grade class in the HAFTR Middle School traveled to the Catskill Mountains for a shabbaton. The highlight of the weekend was an amazing Chesed project on Friday. The boys had the opportunity to be part of the wonderful Mitzvah of donating shoes to needy families in Eretz Yisrael.

The boys and their teachers, Rabbi Moishe Rudich and Mr. Justin Lepolstat went to Smith’s Shoe Store on Main Street in South

Slides and games bring smiles to a family at the annual Kulanu Fair held at Andrew J. Parise Park in Cedarhurst on Sunday, May 20th.

is three miles from my door and well worth the effort for superb sun, sky, sea and sand.

The boardwalk benches are awaiting me and I’m dreaming of dipping my toes in the still frigid surf. I like to find a spot away from the crowds and take in the sounds of the sea. The beach is one of the only places I can simply sit and be. And on the holiday, bereft of my ever present cell phone, I may even experience bliss!

As far as I know, Shavuot is the only holiday for which we count the days. We countdown until a birthday, anniversary or a vacation and anxiously wait all winter for the arrival of spring. This year as the end of the omer countdown coincides with the unofficial beginning of summer we have even more reasons than usual to rejoice.

While I relax on the sand, I can close my eyes and rest, reflect upon the previous night’s teachings, meditate on the natural beauty of our surroundings, think about the delicious food I enjoyed, gaze at my husband and kids faces, and I will be deeply grateful for it all.

Fallsburg, N.Y. The store was closing and the owner, Mrs. Smith, decided that rather than having a liquidation sale, she would donate the shoes to poor families. She was thrilled that the boys came to help her. The boys spent most of the day packing over 8,000 pairs of shoes that she was donating. They were very excited to be part if this very special Chesed project.

Knowing that they were helping poor families in Israel, the boys and their teachers had a very meaningful and fun-filled Shabbaton.

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High School awards ceremony & annual dinner

NSHAHS Student of the year Jordan Rosman

Michelle Kohansieh, Jacqueline Luxenberg, Sara Flatow, Taylor Zar, Talia Bassali light candles representative of leadership, service, character, scholarship, and Torah. They are pictured with Yonatan David, National Honor Society VP.

National Art Honor Society inductee Rachel Green displays her portfolio.

Parents Edy Blady and Karen Green enjoy the evening’s festivities.

NSHA Chairman Arthur Luxenberg, President William Hemreich, HS Chairman Ivan Kaufman & NSHA President Josh Peyser present award to The Flatows.

NSHA and Dinner Chairman Arthur Luxenberg addressed the crowd from home plate.

Left, Susan and Mitchell Lang of North Woodmere & Doug and Susie Garczynski of Atlantic Beach.

The North Shore Hebrew Academy high school jazz and concert bands enhanced the evening’s festivities

Cassandra Koegel of Atlantic Beach is National Honor Society president.

Rachel Green of Woodmere and Emma Grob of Lawrence, both juniors, at awards ceremony.

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