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Chicago mezuza case has wider implications

Sussman announces candidacy for New York State Assembly

By Malka Eisenberg

By Karen C. Green

A legal battle over a mezuzah on the door post of a condominium in Chicago has had repercussions in Florida and Connecticut and brought an award to an attorney for his pro bono service in the case.

Helen Bloch and her mother jointly own an apartment in the Chicago building in question. The board had a ‘long-standing rule” preventing clutter in the hallways, but there had always been wreaths on doors, and mezuzahs on the door posts. “I grew up in the building and lived there my whole life,” said Bloch. She said when the hallways were painted “nothing could go back up,” they would not “allow anything on the door.”

“It started before my dad passed away,” said Bloch. “They retaliated against us because we challenged the building’s determination that we couldn’t have a mezuzah.

It was a very stressful five or six years,” she said, adding that it wasn’t just the mezuzah.

She noted that her mother was fined for having a guest and shul meetings in her apartment. At one point the lawsuit was going to be dismissed for not proving discrimination under the Fair Housing Act but one judge filed to take a “new look” when finding that, at Bloch’s shiva for her father, the condo left a coat rack and washing water in the hall but removed their mezuzah. Bloch stated that the family is “still suffering” because they can’t sell the apartment since the assessments went up to pay for the lawsuits.

“This whole period regarding the mezuzah situation, which started approximately one year before my father died, was difficult,” emphasized Bloch. “There were many Jews who lived in the building, including my grandparents before they died. The building used to have a Chanukah candle lighting ceremony every year in the lobby--it was a very Jewish building. To go from that to no mezuzahs was pretty devastating, especially considering that I was a lawyer--my family turned to me for answers and I had to work Continued on page 2

“Someone has to say, ‘the way we’re heading is not working,’” says Dr. David Sussman, a 17-year member of the Lawrence Board of Education. Sussman sees himself as that person.

The 62-year-old Republican, who grew up in Cedarhurst, and graduated from Lawrence High School, officially announced his candidacy on Wednesday, June 6, from his Cedarhurst headquarters, challenging long-time incumbent Assemblyman Harvey Weisenberg in the November general election.

Weisenberg, 78, a Democrat from Long Beach, has represented the 20th district since 1989, after winning a special election. The district — comprised of the Five Towns, Atlantic Beach, Long Beach, Oceanside, Island Park, East Rockaway, and a portion of Valley Stream — last went to the polls in 2010 when Weisenberg was challenged by Joshua Wanderer of Lawrence and won by a narrow margin.

Sussman, who served as president of the School Board from 1996 through 2000, Continued on page 3

David Sussman, Republican candidate for New York State Assembly, District 20, greeting guests at the opening of his new campaign headquarters. Left to right: Uri Kaufman, Sarah Yastrab, Michael A. Perone, Jr., Kevin Rodriguez, David Sussman, Andrea Dojanian, Sam Sussman, Noberto Rodriguez, Agustin D’Andrea, Daniel D’Andrea.

Eating disorders spike in Jewish community

By Malka Eisenberg In the last two years a center that assists in the education and treatment of eating disorders has seen a 500% jump in patients who identify as Jewish and an increase of 156% in midlife clients.

In a recent seminar held in New York City, 75 clergy, educators, social workers, psychologists and psychiatrists listened to presentations sponsored by The Renfrew Center discussing women’s body image issues and eating disorders in the Jewish community.

The two presenters were Adrienne Ressler, LMSW, CEDS, the National Training Director

for The Renfrew Center Foundation and an eating disorder and body image specialist, and Marjorie C. Feinson, PhD, a consultant for The Renfrew Center Foundation and a university professor and researcher for the last 30 years. She presents seminars on eating related issues focusing on Jewish women and their families.

“People were aware of eating disorders since the Middle Ages,” Ms. Ressler pointed out. “It’s throughout history, but not in the numbers we have today.” She noted a book “Holy Anorexia” by Rudolph Bell that describes people as “wasting away,” who starved themselves in the name of “holi-

ness.”

The mid 1960s introduced “body image dissatisfaction” and the quest for “’perfection’ with the quest never reached,” said Ressler. She pointed out the influence of the underweight model Twiggy, feminism and the “pressure for women to be more male, achieving, focused. Enough is never enough; there is no end. They can never say that they achieved what they set out to do; the bar is always being set higher.”

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Blonder said that he got involved in the case “by accident,� when he met one of the plaintiffs at court. “They were represented by a legal clinic and they thought they needed extra help.� Blonder is chairman of the pro bono committee at Much Shelist.

Shoreline Towers Condominium Association in Chicago cited a rule prohibiting clutter such as mats, boots, shoes or signs in the hallways of the building. “It’s certainly not intended to apply to a mezuzah and if it did, it violated federal fair housing laws and would be unconstitutional,â€? explained Blonder. The case was resolved on the eve of the jury trial. “The condo association wanted vindication for itself that they had not done anything wrong,â€? he continued. “A settlement was reached that includes a consent judgment that speciďŹ cally protects the mezuzah. We believe that it always protected the mezuzah and now it is explicit; the law applies in Chicago and Illinois. In Chicago there is (now) an ordinance that it is illegal to prohibit to put a religious symbol on the door or door post or entrance.â€?

The legislation passed in 2005, and in 2006 the Illinois Condominium Property Act was amended. In 2008 an amendment of the Florida condominium act modeled on the Illinois State legislation was enacted. Blonder’s case was resolved in 2011.

Mezuzah prohibitions would be blocked by existing legislation here in New York, said Benjamin Weinstock, Deputy Mayor of Cedarhurst and a real estate lawyer at Ruskin Moscou Faltischek, P.C. “Condo boards have broad leeway to regulate the building,� said Weinstock. “You can’t stop a condo from doing something if it’s a good business decision (such as) having uniform halls, doors, and lighting to preserve the value of the homeowner. But religion is protected and the ability to use your property for religious purposes.�

He cited two laws applicable in New York: a federal statute, RLUIPA (the religious land use and institutional persons act) and New York State general obligation law 5-331 that voids restrictive covenants. The ďŹ rst, passed in 2000, prohibits local government from taking action antagonistic to land use by religious organizations. An example, Weinstock said, would be a town refusing to give a variance to a shul that wants to build. “It prohibits making a law against religious practice.â€? Weinstock explained. “If I have the right to exercise religion but can’t use my house for bible study the government is using zoning power to restrict the free exercise of religion. The affect of the law is since the power to regulate use of property can have a chilling effect on the practice of religion, the government has to be very circumspect in using land use powers. If the government passed a law ‘no mezuzahs’ it would be knocked down in a second.â€? He cited the eruv ďŹ ght in the Hamptons as a RLUIPA issue.

RLUIPA only stops the government, not private people, noted Weinstock, but in the case of a “racially restrictive covenant, the courts have reasoned that enforcing them converts a private action into a government action.� Therefore, “it prohibits it as unconstitutional behavior because it discriminates based on race and religion and the constitution prohibits discrimination of race and religion.� In 1963, New York passed a law voiding racially restrictive covenants. Under New York law, any condominium law that restricts mezuzahs would thus be voided.

Said Bloch, “It’s extremely frustrating as an American, not living in Europe or during the Holocaust, not to be able to express one’s religion freely in one’s home, living in a free society, not an anti-Semitic society like my ancestors did.�

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Continued from page 1 stresses the need for transparency in state government and wants to bring back “common sense.”

“I’m willing to make hard decisions,” said Sussman, who noted that he has “nothing but respect for Mr. Weisenberg, but respectfully disagrees with what he hasn’t done.” He added, “If you’re happy with the status quo then don’t vote for me.”

The proud father of four Lawrence High School graduates, Sussman recently celebrated his youngest, Samuel, being named valedictorian of Lawrence’s class of 2012. The scholar will be following his brothers Adam and Gene to Yale in the fall.

Dr. Sussman stresses that he is committed

to improving education, which, he says, has declined significantly over the last generation. He sees taxes as the number one priority, followed by education reform and job creation which he views as interrelated.

If elected, Sussman will, in all probability, be in the minority party in the Assembly, but he doesn’t consider that to be a deterrent to getting things accomplished.

He insists he’s willing to work with the majority and make it work. As a medical doctor he sees a need for tort reform. “Mistakes are made, people need to be compensated and we must come up with a system. This is not a casino,” said Sussman, referring to large plaintiff awards.

Though he views the Assembly job as parttime, Sussman said he would be concerned

about doing what he thinks is right for his constituents, not about getting re-elected.

“I’m a physician — I perceive the Assembly meets half a year,” he said. “It isn’t meant to be your only job. I will not make easy decisions. You don’t write checks you can’t cash.

That is why people in Albany make promises.”

News of Dr. Sussman’s candidacy has created a buzz throughout the Five Towns.

“I’ve had a very good reception, people are responding very well, “ remarked Sussman.

Dr. Asher Mansdorf, who has served with him on the Lawrence school board for more than a dozen years, said he thinks highly of his fellow trustee. “What makes David Sussman a fine public servant is he always puts the public first, and never puts himself first,”

Mansdorf said.

Former Nassau County Legislator Jeff Toback, a Democrat, who has served the Five Towns for ten years, is excited about Sussman’s run. In 2010, Toback ran in a September Democratic primary hoping to unseat Weisenberg. “David’s hard work and dedication as a school board member for the past 17 years will serve the residents of the 20th Assembly District well. We know what we will get from Assemblyman Weisenberg — sky-high property taxes due to Albany’s failure to adequately fund our schools. Dr. Sussman’s intelligence and willingness to role up his sleeves and work hard for his constituents will surely bring fresh ideas and a new energy to Albany.”

Conference focuses on Jews with eating disorders Continued from page 1 to eat to get pleasure and have their appetites fulfilled, “ said Ressler. “Food is symbolic of what is happening with the client. They do not express their preferences for food and what satisfies them in life. Her position in life is she needs no relationships, no intimacy, no needs—‘I need nothing.’ We look at the way the client deals with food as the way she deals with life and the world. It’s consistent.”

Another factor is self-identification, body dissatisfaction and “negative self talk,” she continued. When they say to themselves, “’I’m a fat cow, I’m disgusting, I’m ugly’ it’s very damaging. They lose the power to shock, it’s punishing and mean to the self and becomes automatic behavior and, as a result, becomes part of their identity. They believe it. They are feeding their brain and thoughts negativity and it influences how they perceive themselves.”

An important influence on women is the mother-daughter relationship, “one of the most important relationships that exits,” said Ressler. Mothers should have a positive role model relationship; a negative one is fostered when mothers “despise their own bodies or espouse perfectionism and expect their daughters to be perfect.” Eating disorders affect all members of the family, from siblings to grandparents. She noted that, “communication has to be authentic in the family, from heart to heart. Girls, children, growing up need to be acknowledged for who they are rather than how they look and need to be encouraged to follow their interests and passions; they need to be full of what they are and who they are fosters self confidence” so they are “not hungering to feel whole.”

Ressler said that a person with an eating disorder is indicating that “something is not right in my life…and not having a voice is expressed through an eating disorder.”

At the same time, she noted, it is not an issue of blame. “Something has gone awry,” stressed Ressler. “It’s a mental illness, it may be genetic, biological, genetic anxiety, difficulty with communication, with nurturing, or family secrets.” She noted the behavior could be set off by incidents at school, bullying, trauma, a perfectionist attitude. “It’s not a sense (as parents) of ‘what did I do wrong?’”

In addition, she pointed out, “the environment is not easy to navigate with its emphasis on the external influence of the body.

There is tremendous competition and envy in women, children and families, always wanting to be the best, the most accomplished.”

Adrienne Ressler

Dr. Marjorie Feinson

It is important to realize, she said, that only “one percent of the world’s population is genetically predisposed to be really tall, thin and busty—and they are Scandinavians.

Most others are surgically enhanced.” She also said that Dove soap has a curriculum for mothers, Israel is now restricting models to a BMI of 18.5 or above and Vogue magazine won’t hire anyone with an eating disorder.

Part of the program at Renfrew to help women feel empowered is to have them write letters. “We teach them to decode the media,” explained Ressler. “’What is the ad saying? They want you to feel bad about your body so you will buy the product. Use your voice.’ It gives them a stronger sense of self.”

She also noted the “wonderful, positive rituals in Judaism” juxtaposed with the restrictive rituals of eating only a percentage of food, or meticulously cutting food into pieces characteristic of an eating disorder.

Those who have eating disorders fear their weight, fear being unable to get married, to be attractive and the centrality of food. She stressed the importance of identifying the problem as early as possible, noticing weight loss, as well as food obsessions, bad body talk, isolation, ceasing to engage in activities they once participated in, preparing food for others, binging on food, bathroom activities immediately after eating (bulimia, purging), excessive exercise, lowered feelings of self-

worth, and turning down invitations because they are having a “bad body day, surrendering to the depression or anxiety of the eating disorder rather than simply the drama of adolescence.”

Eating disorders are not just a teen or women’s disease, although most studies are of young women. Among the general population of adult non-Jewish women, 12-17% have eating disordered behavior, said Dr. Marjorie Feinson. Feinson is conducting an ongoing study in Israel, begun in 2001 and funded by Hadassah, surveying women between the ages of 21 through 80 for eating disordered behavior. Her findings to date across the board regardless of Jewish orientation, from secular through charedi, is that 15% of Jewish female adults exhibit eating disordered behavior. Feinson thought that the charedim would have a higher incidence of eating disorders because of the dominance of food and its centrality in the charedi community, with rituals, celebrations and holidays, very large families, the traditional roll of women and their insulated and isolated group. But she said that it was “not true, we found that it was exactly the same.” In one case, a charedi woman’s eating disorder was triggered by her baking challah, a weekly event in large proportions for her 13 children. After much suffering by the mother, a married daughter insisted on taking over the

baking, freeing her mother from the trigger of her disease.

The statistics of the Renfrew Center indicate that about 90% of anorexics and bulimics are female, and10-20% are male. “More women are coming forward now because it’s a mix of some for the first time or they had it for over 15 years and are now in midlife and are caretakers and raising kids,” stressed Ressler. “For some, the physical and emotional effects of the eating disorder have come to a head, maybe pressure, triggered by a birthday, divorce, a death, relocation—so hard on women, giving up their support system. It could also be a chronic illness, or revived in mid life. They may have unresolved losses for what might have been which tends to hit people at midlife, and they are grieving. The average age of onset is 15 but if it is chronic they have suffered on average 22 years. At this point, if the medical problems are chronic, there may be irreversible changes.” Between 2001 and 2003 they saw a jump in patients between ages 35 and 65 from 10% to 26%. Between 2009-2010, The Renfrew Centers saw a 513 percent increase in the number of Jewish patients. This is not specific to Orthodox Jews, but rather anyone who declared their religion as Jewish.

In midlife, women in our culture think ‘when can I do something for myself?’ emphasized Ressler. “They are labeled disloyal, aggressive or selfish. And in our society older women are devalued so being in midlife and Jewish are risk factors. Renfrew has a program for Orthodox Jews and offers various forms of treatment including psychodrama, art therapy, group and individual therapy, nutrition therapy, mealtime support. Full recovery is possible. Eating disorders are very complex and treatment is a process that can take several months or several years. The sooner eating disorders are diagnosed and treated, the more likely treatment will lead to sustained recovery.

“We are noting similar findings.,” said Dr. Michael Salamon, Senior Psychologist/Director, ADC Psychological Services in Hewlett.

“There has been a definite increase in awareness of eating disorders and referral for treatment. As I noted in my book The Shidduch Crisis: Causes and Cures, the pressure to fit a specific physical size and shape may be a significant factor in this increasing rate.”

“There is a hopefulness,” said Ressler.

“Often if they come in to treatment they are motivated, ‘maybe it’s my last chance for recovery.’ They may respond to treatment more quickly. They become leaders in the patient group and find their voice.”

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Opinion The Anti-Israel Rabbi who taught Obama about Israel

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ast week, President Obama told an adoring audience of progressives (also known as the leadership of Conservative Jewry) that he knew more about Judaism than any other president because he read about it. He then suggested that he should not be questioned about his commitment to the Jewish state because “all his friends in Chicago were Jewish.”

That might very well be true. The question is who were those Jews?

As pointed out by author Peter Beinart in his book The Crisis of Zionism, (in which he criticizes modern Zionism as a conservative tool): “Woven into the life stories of many of the Jews who most influenced the young Barack Obama was a bitter estrangement POLITICO from the see-no-evil Zionism of the TO GO American Jewish establishment. In Chicago, those Jews constituted a geographic and moral community, a community that bred in Obama a specific, and subversive, vision of American Jewish identity and of the Jewish state. And at the heart of it all was Arnold Jacob Wolf.”

A Reform Rabbi, Wolf spent 20 years as the leader of K.A.M. Isaiah Israel Temple that is across the street from the Obamas’ former home in Chicago.

According to Wolf, he joined doJeff Dunetz mestic terrorists Ayers and Dohrn as one of the first to host “coffees” to introduce 1996 candidate for Illinois State Senate, Barack Obama, to the community. “I was certainly (hosting) one of the first,” said Rabbi Wolf.

“There were several every week,” he recalled on Tuesday night when we spoke. “I remember what I said to him: ‘Someday you are going to be vice president of the United States.’ He laughed and said, ‘Why not president?’’

Upon the death of Rabbi Wolf in December 2008, President Elect Obama wrote: I am deeply saddened to learn of the passing of Rabbi Arnold Jacob Wolf, who was not just our neighbor, but a dear friend to Michelle and me. We are joined in this time of grief by the entire Hyde Park community, the American Jewish Community, and all those who shared Rabbi Wolf’s passion for learning and profound commitment to serving others. Today we bid farewell to a titan of moral strength and a champion of social justice.

Rabbi Wolf spent much of his career leading organizations seeking to de-legitimize Israel.

For example along with Noam Chomsky he helped found the Committee on New Alternatives in the Middle East (CONAME) a philosophical grandparent to today’s faux pro-Israel group J Street.

CONAME was described by Time magazine as one of a number of Arab or pro-Arab organizations working in the United States. An investigation by the Near East Report reported that CONAME’s signature appeared on telegrams urging Congress to send no arms to Israel during the 1973 War. In 1974, Rabbi Wolf joined his friend from the anti-war

movement, self proclaimed Rabbi Arthur Waskow, on the executive board of a new organization called Breira. Its single-minded focus was outlined by Breira’s Mark Bruzonsky, writing in the December 1976 issue of The Nation, “Breira’s only hope is so to weaken American support for Israeli policies as to force policy changes, by U.S. imposition if necessary.”

Understand that Breira’s calls for Israeli concessions to the PLO occurred long before the terrorist group renounced terrorism (well, in English at least).

In March of 1973, Wolf described Israel as: “...frightened and thus, inevitably, trigger-happy, besieged yet somehow also a haughty, developing nation.

Is this what a hundred years of Zionism has led to: more danger to Jews than in the golah [Jewish exile] itself, more recklessness and violence than in all of our long Diaspora history?”

A 1979 article in Sh’ma, the Journal Wolf established, showed Obama’s rabbi friend to be the intellectual parent of Norman Finkelstein as he charged that today’s Jews are misusing the memory of the Holocaust to excuse Zionist aggression.

“In order to survive, we shall assume power in the only ways power can be achieved - at the end of a gun-barrel or by Machiavellian manipulation of other groups for our own interests. There is no shame in proclaiming ourselves to be our ultimate concern. “Never again” means nothing more or less than “Jews first - and the devil take the hindmost.”

In another piece, he argued that Israel’s primary reason for self-defense was to humiliate the Palestinians.

“Some Israeli actions in the past (and, perhaps, even now) were designed specifically to demean Arabs. The deep penetration into Egypt, the destruction of the Beirut airport, the denial that Palestinians even exist: all these are, I believe, violations of the Jewish tradition, and they have cost our people dearly.”

That article was written the year after the Yom Kippur War so by “deep penetration into Egypt” Wolf is complaining that the IDF crossed the Suez Canal at the end of the Yom Kippur War. Notice that Wolf doesn’t mention the Palestinians quest to destroy the Jewish State.

In 2000, while his friend Barak Obama was still toiling in the Illinois State Senate, Rabbi Wolf was busy labeling Israel as a human rights violator. His proof—“everybody says so”: “The Lebanon War was wrong. Continuing the occupation is wrong. The first Intifada softened Israel’s conscience; this one is hardening our hearts. Peace is not only a goal; it is the only way to the goal. Peace requires justice. If Amnesty International and the United Nations think Israel is repressive, they are not wholly wrong. If human rights leaders in Israel detail over and over again how the government has failed its Arab and Palestinian citizens, we must pay attention. We cannot avert the gaze of our conscience.”

After his retirement in 2000, Rabbi Wolf stayed involved. He was a member of the Rabbinic Cabinet of Brit Tzedek v’Shalom, the Jewish Alliance for Justice and Peace, a group who says its mission is “to educate and mobilize American Jews in support of a negotiated two-state Continued on page 11

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The Arab Summer is only getting hotter in Egypt

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n June 16-17 Egyptians will cast ballots in a runoff election that will decide between the Muslim Brotherhood’s candidate Mohamed Mursi and former Prime Minister Ahmed Shafiq, who served under former president Hosni Mubarak.

The ballot has polarized the country, prompting calls for boycotting the vote, while at the same time, Judge Ahmed el-Zend, the head of the association of Egyptian judges said that he would abandon any neutrality in this runoff and play a political role in the ballot watching and counting to prevent the Muslim Brotherhood from claiming unchallengeable power. “We won’t leave matters for those who can’t manage them…” Judge Zend said.

Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi, Chairman of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF), the de facto ruler of Egypt, convened a meeting on June 11 with the military council to discuss procedures to secure the presidential runoff election to ward off potential politicizing at the polls. They discussed the procedures to ensure the success, fairness and transparency of the voting process.

Nazly Hussein, a human rights advocate, had said, “People once thought that the presidential elections would be the key to stability and change.” He was reflecting the fear that the choice between a Mubarak holdover and a Brotherhood majority is not a choice for the advancement and growth of Egypt. Mona Ammar, a protester on Tahrir Square, expressed the common theme that, “It does not make sense to choose between two wrongs.”

Meanwhile, on June 14th, Egypt’s Supreme Constitutional Court will begin considering whether Ahmed Juda Engelmayer Shafiq, Mubarak’s last prime minister and one of the two finalists in the election, should be able to run at all. The court will determine the constitutionality of the “political law of isolation,” passed by the Islamist-dominated parliament, which bans former senior Mubarak allies from participating in politics for the next five years.

Also in advance of the runoff, Egypt is under pressure to develop a new constitution that is expected to define the president’s powers and the rights of its citizens. Politics and fear have delayed the picking of the panel, and now Egypt’s military council tried to impose a deadline to agree on the make-up of the new constitution-drafting assembly.

To allay concerns of an Islamist-led government, and in support of Mr. Mursi’s candidacy, the Muslim Brotherhood and fellow Islamists, who control about 70 percent of Egypt’s parliament, claim that under their leadership, Egypt’s constitutional assembly will be represented by a diverse group, including women, Coptic Christians and secular leaders of the revolt who overthrew the former government.

However, that deal is not likely to appease those who fear an Islamic dominated Egypt. Egypt’s largest news organization, Al Ahram, published a column by a retired general, Hussam Seilam, who wrote that if the Brotherhood came to power, Egypt would resemble Iran.

Pressure is rising on the military council that assumed command of the country after Mubarak was toppled because it promised to hand over to a newly elected president by July 1 and so far it is unclear just what authority the new president will have.

This past Monday, liberal and leftist political parties vacated their seats in the constitutional assembly in protest at what they called the over-representation of Islamists in the body. They challenged the two Islamist parties, the Muslim Brotherhood’s Freedom and Justice Party, and the Salafist Al-Nour Party, for filling all 50 seats designated for Islamists, so the smaller Islamist parties were vying for the seats meant for the secular parties and civil society institutions.

Deep divisions and a climate of uncertainty threaten political stability as the runoff dates approach. Egyptians must elect a president whose powers are still undetermined, and their choices appear to be truly one of the lesser of two evils; what determines the evil also depends on where one stands.

And although Egypt’s Presidential Election Committee granted Shafiq an exception, allowing him to remain in the race given the Brotherhood’s “isolation law,” the court will also rule on the legality of Shafiq’s candidacy.

Some see these problems rising as a sign that the SCAF is vying to remain the only real power in control. There are suggestions that the SCAF has been working hard at keeping the situation unpredictable until the last minute to pressure either candidate for guarantees of the military’s power.

Middle East political analyst Sana Saeed believes that the SCAF remains in power and has created chaos “to distract from that.”

For Israel, the only real democracy in the Middle East, one thing is clear; the Arab summer is just beginning and with the death toll rising in Syria and the confusion in Egypt, the region will only get hotter. Israel needs to watch closely and stay cool.

Juda Engelmayer is a senior vice president of the New York public relations agency, 5WPR.

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A timely Fathers’ Day tribute: Ben Zion Netanyahu, Zionism, and Tisha B’Av

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imely in its publishing date, Rabbi Shlomo Riskin’s commentary on Bamidbar continues his “Torah Lights” series being produced by Maggid Books featuring some of his finest Torah teachings for this time of year. As is his style, Rabbi Riskin blends together the sacred text with current history in the successful attempt to demonstrate the relevance that each plays in our lives.

In his commentary on this week’s Torah reading, Shelach, Rabbi Riskin tells us the following: “Long before President Franklin Delano Roosevelt coined the phrase, the Midrash spoke of the one day that would forever live in infamy: but that day is the ninth of Av, linked to the loss of both Temples, the Jewish expulsion from Spain, and the Nuremberg decrees of the Nazis. According to our Alan Jay Gerber tradition, the source of this black day was when the twelve scouts returned from a mission to scout the land. Recorded in this portion, Shelach, Moses fulfilled G-d’s command to send forth men to gather information.”

What resulted from that trip makes up the bulk of the narrative of that Torah reading.

Needless to say, it is a sad story that led to the doom of that generation, a generation

that experienced slavery, witnessed the ten plagues, the liberation, the splitting of the sea and the giving of the Ten Commandments on Mount Sinai. Nevertheless, because of their reaction to the ten naysayers among the spies, they were to spend the next 40 years in the desert, never to enter the Land of Israel…..and as noted above, this day was to be marked upon the Jewish calendar years later as the signature date of doom and disaster for the Jewish people.

Fast forward four thousand years to a book entitled, “The Founding Fathers of Zionism” [Gefen Books, 2012] by Prof. Ben Zion Netanyahu, of blessed memory. Recently published in its entirety in English for the first time just prior to the author’s passing, this book profiles the lives of five pivotal figures in recent Jewish history, each of whom was to help solidify the Zionist dream to a reality that defied both history and our detractors.

The last personality profiled was the one with whom Dr. Netanyahu was the closest to, Zev Jabotinsky, and it was to this historic figure, and the vital prophetic role that he was to play, that prompted this review, timed especially for this week. Much of the remainder of this essay will be taken from direct quotes by the book’s author and from Jabotinsky. They shall serve as this week’s lesson in history, as well as a timely extension to the teachings from Parshat Shelach.

On the very last page of this book can be found the following taken from a most prophetic speech by Jabotinsky. Please read it carefully, considering the place, year and day

it was given: “It is for three years that I have been calling on you, Jews of Poland, the glory of world Jewry, with an appeal. I have been ceaselessly warning you that the catastrophe is coming closer. My hair has turned white and I have aged in these years, because my heart is bleeding, for you, dear brothers and sisters, do not see the volcano that will soon begin to spurt out the fire of destruction. I see a terrifying sight. The time is short in which one can still be saved. I know: You do not see, because you are bothered and rushing about everyday worries… Listen to my remarks at the twelfth hour. For G-d’s sake: May each one save his life while there is still time. And the time is short.”

Jabotinsky concludes his speech with the following prediction: “And I want to say one more thing to you on this day…:

Those who will succeed to escape from the catastrophe will merit a moment of great Jewish joy: the rebirth and rise of a Jewish state. I do not know whether I’ll earn that.

My son, yes! I believe in this just as I am sure that tomorrow morning the sun will shine once again. I believe in this with total faith.”

My dear readers, what you have just read was spoken, in Warsaw, on Tisha B’Av, in 1938.

Dr. Netanyahu concludes his work with the following fateful observation: “As strange as it may seem, in light of everything said above, there are still researchers and writers today who vehemently utter the old claim that no one foresaw the Holocaust…. But someone did see that the social, political, and moral conditions had been prepared for its coming.

And someone did repeatedly warn and sound the alarm that it was coming in the near future.

That ‘someone’ was Jabotinsky, whose voice then was ‘a voice crying in the wilderness.’”

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Imagine a gymnasium, swimming pool, health club, tennis courts, auditorium, class rooms, library, education center and nursery school as well as outstanding programs as: Early Childhood, After School Enrichment, Holocaust Survivors, Social Day Care for Adults, Food Pantry and Traumatic Brain Injury and other support groups.

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It is with this thought in mind, that the JCC is excited to announce that we have signed and submitted a contract to the Lawrence School Board to purchase the #6 Public School on Church Avenue in Woodmere.

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Memories, mortarboards and munchies

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few weeks ago, my son, Daniel graduated from the University of Pennsylvania Law School. The feeling was surreal. As he walked on stage to receive his diploma, I stopped crying just long enough to clap and cheer with our family, as well as the parents of another graduate, whose son was called up earlier. They were so impressively loud that I secured their services to cheer on Daniel when his name was announced. Was this the same little boy who just started twoyear nursery?

I remember it so clearly. All the toddlers were clinging to their moms, and Daniel just marched right into the room and never Judy Joszef looked back.

I said “Daniel, want to give me a hug before I leave?” Without even turning around, while playing with some blocks, he said, ”Nah, it’s ok.” I still remember the emotion I felt at his 3-year nursery graduation. We had the video and regular camera ready to roll. We got there an hour before to make sure we had front row seats, but other parents

beat us to it. When he received his little diploma, I actually had tears in my eyes. I couldn’t imagine how I would feel when he graduated high school, college and G-d willing, graduate school.

When my second son, Jeremy, graduated 3-year nursery, I had my plan of action all mapped out. I scored front row seats that I could have scalped. Jeremy was shy back then but he took his place on stage with his class to perform for the parents. About two minutes into the performance, Jeremy turns to the girl near him, turns her face to his and kissed her on the lips for what seemed like forever. She was flailing her arms and trying to shake loose.

Her graduation cap flew off, and then as if nothing happened he just let go, turned forward and continued singing. Was that my Jeremy--the kid who was always mild mannered and well behaved? The little girl’s mom was laughing so hard that the video she took was too blurry to make out.

Thankfully, there have been no repeat performances. Last year at his college honor’s graduation ceremony, he showed more restraint when seated near a very attractive blond girl on stage.

At my daughter, Jordana’s 3-year graduation, I was a bit more emotional: my last 3-year graduation.

My baby, my princess…she was actually more of a tomboy than a prin-

cess. She loved wearing her brother’s hand me downs until she was about 12, but has made up for lost clothes shopping by now.

Since then, there have been many wonderful graduations and memories. We still have Jeremy’s law school graduation to look forward toand Jordana’s college graduation and maybe even her law school graduation. I can see it now, Pollack and Sons and Daughter…….

Here’s a cute treat to enjoy after your loved one’s graduation.

Mortarboards

■ 24 miniature peanut butter cups ■ 1 tube (6 ounces) decorating

frosting in color of your choice ■ 24 After Eight thin mints ■ 24 milk chocolate M&M’s Place peanut butter cups upside down on waxed paper. Place a small amount of frosting on each peanut butter cup; center a mint on each.

Using frosting, make a loop for each cap’s tassel. Place an M&M on top of each loop.

Red Velvet cupcakes

8 tablespoons unsalted butter 1 1/12 cups granulated sugar 2 eggs 5 tablespoons unsweetened cocoa powder 6 tablespoons red food coloring 1 teaspoon vanilla extract 1 cup buttermilk 2 1/8 cups all-purpose flour 1 teaspoon salt

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1 teaspoon baking soda 1 tablespoon distilled white vinegar

Cream cheese frosting

8 ounces butter, room temperature 8 ounces cream cheese, room temperature 5 cups powdered sugar 2 tablespoon vanilla extract 1. Preheat oven to 350 F. Line a standard cupcake pan with red liners.

2. Cream the butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Turn the mixer to high and add eggs 3. In a separate bowl, mix the cocoa powder, vanilla extract and red food coloring to make a thick paste.

Add to the batter and mix on medium speed until completely combined 4. Reduce the mixer speed to low and slowly add half of the buttermilk. Add half of the flour and mix until combined. Scrape the bowl and repeat the process with the remaining milk and flour. Beat on high until smooth.

5. Again, reduce the mixer speed

to low and add the salt, baking soda and vinegar. Turn to high and beat for another couple of minutes until completely combined and smooth.

6. Divide the batter evenly between the cupcake liners and bake for about 20 minutes, or until cake tester or toothpick comes out clean.

7. Cool before frosting.

Cream butter, then add cream cheese. Scrape the sides and bottom of bowl and continue beating at a slow speed as you add the confectionary sugar. Add vanilla.

Cover each cupcake with the frosting and refrigerate till ready to serve Right before serving, place the mortarboards on top of each cupcake.

Mazel tov to all of you, and to the graduates, remember, “Your families are extremely proud of you. You can’t imagine the sense of relief they are experiencing. This would be a most opportune time to ask for money.”

Gary Bolding Contact Judy at Judy.soiree@ gmail.com.

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cule closet and a high riser bed until I was in mid high school. We moved to our own separate rooms downstairs when our tenant left.

Although it was a separate apartment with its own entrance, we weren’t permitted to use it; instead we continued to enter and exit through the upstairs front door.

Owning a car made me feel more grown up. It allowed me to dream and plan even if I didn’t go too far. It built up my credit and taught me responsibility since I had to pay my bill on time. It gave me pride and a sense of independence. Before this, I had driven my dad’s car, the blue Chevy Impala that could accommodate endless amounts of people since there were no seat belt rules. Thankfully, the only adventure that went bad was when I drove my sister and friends to Abe Stark ice skating rink in Coney Island during icy weather and scraped the entire right passenger side of the car against the parking lot gate. I nervously called my dad from the pay phone to apologize and ask him what I should do since the side trim was hanging off the car. He was incredibly calm and said since we were already there and ok we should just stay and skate.

I planned a road trip to Montauk in 1982 and took Paula and Alice. Back then there were loads of farms out east. We actually made a wrong turn and ended up lost in potato fields somewhere in the Hamptons. I drove “the girls” upstate for a weekend at Kutscher’s and we were all so busy chatting that I suddenly swerved across the lanes so I wouldn’t miss the exit. I cannot forget this since I still am reminded by those same friends!

The Toyota lasted through early marriage and until our second child was born. It was old and unpredictable and couldn’t fit our stuff and us anymore. It was time to upgrade

Mrs. Karen Wolf College Guidance Counselor

Ms. Naomi Lippman General Studies Principal

Contact Miriam Bradman Abrahams at mabraha1@optonline.net

Continued from page 4 resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.” In actuality, it took a one-sided anti-Israel stance.

For example, Brit Tzedek defined “terrorist violence” as part of a pattern of Arab “resistance,” implying some measure of approval, or at best a lack of distaste.

The group also helped to make Rachel Corrie a “martyr” for pro-Palestinian activists, even though videos show Corrie was ‘playing chicken” with the bulldozer and could not possibly have been seen by the driver. In its August 2003 bulletin Brit Tzedek v’Shalom bragged: ‘Similarly, freshman Congressman Rahm Emmanuel signed on the resolution asking for an investigation of the death of Rachel Corrie, an international peace volunteer, non-violently attempting to stop an IDF house demolition in the West Bank. These are among the signs that Jewish politicians are feeling they can safely deviate from the usual conformist stance. We need to endorse these little steps and work to convince them to take others.’

Looking into the positions of Rabbi Wolf gives great insight into his student and friend President Obama. Many of the President’s positions on Israel, including his rifts with Netanyahu can be seen in the teaching of this rabbi who closed his eyes to the terrorism and horrors perpetrated by the Palestinians in order to isolate Israel.

Strangely, the late rabbi and the president believe themselves to be pro-Israel. But their pro-Israel positions are akin to the parent who abuses a child, claiming the horrible beatings and abuse is for the youngster’s own good.

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

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to a family car, and we bought the Volvo 240 wagon in red. The color, roomy trunk with extra seats and great rear visibility were great features. It was a workhorse that lasted twelve years, accommodating three kids and carpools in its “backy-back” seats. It was the car our eldest son learned to drive. A friend told me I was “very stalk-able” in my red Volvo with only two in the neighborhood. When I drove past its kin we’d acknowledge each other with a wave. I loved my car and the memories we created driving it. Its slow prolonged demise saddened me.

I wanted to replace the Volvo with a newer model but it was too expensive. My husband suggested I check out a Subaru like his. The Forester looked like my Volvo but drove better. This was my first car with luxury items: heated seats, sunroof and roof rack, for enjoyable moving into college dorms and family trips. We apprehensively taught our 2nd and 3rd kids to drive this one, so it only lasted six years. After a huge fender bender, they said our Subaru “felt like a Flintstones car,” shaky and unstable.

Since I loved my car, I didn’t even shop around for a replacement. My husband just went to the dealer and traded up for the updated version. It’s slightly higher, immaculate with a new car smell, but feels like my old one, which makes me happy. I’m nervous about letting our kids drive it, but won’t get away with that for long. I realize that a car is just a thing that I shouldn’t get attached to, but red Subaru II is part of our family and I hope it sees us through safe, happy rides for many years to come.

Rabbi Lewis Wienerkur Boys’ Israel Guidance Counselor

Rabbi Gedaliah Oppen Judaic Studies Principal

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Bar Ilan University Bnot Torah Institute Michlelet Esther Michlelet Mevaseret Yerushalayim Midreshet Amit Midreshet HaRova Midreshet Lindenbaum Tiferet Center

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“Long May You Run” ’ve never cared much about cars; I am happy if they get me where I want to go and I don’t have to worry about the details. I’m amazed by people who can identify the makes and models whizzing by. My husband swoons over the E-type Jag, but in reality our choices have always been purely functional. I admit to a penchant for red, but otherwise pick cars for purpose and price and have stuck with each one until its duty was done.

MIRIAM’S MUSINGS I bought my first car soon after beginning my first full time job at 21. It was a Toyota Corolla, supposedly silver, but really gray, 4-door so I could easily transport friends and family wherever. I actually considered whether my grandparents would be able to maneuver into a two-door car though I don’t remember taking Miriam Bradman them for many rides. I Abrahams desired a red one, but didn’t want to wait long for its arrival. I remember calling the dealership to find out when the shipment would arrive in New Jersey, eagerly anticipating the day when I could drive my vehicle. When I drove it home my Sephardic neighbor threw in some shiny coins for luck.

My first car was the key to my freedom. I was finished with college, working and earning, and living at home like all of my friends but one. I had my own big lavender room downstairs in my parents’ house. My sister and I had shared a tiny room with a minis-

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June 16 EMUNAH of America 5 Towns Chapter’s Annual Shabbat Tea June 16 4:00pm Honoring Shaynee Kessler and Renee Greenspan Guest Speaker Jackie Bitton on “Finding Inner Happiness” Special guest appearances by Yehuda Kohn of EMUNAH’s Bet Elazraki and Shmuel Ron of EMUNAH’s Achuzat Sarah At the home of Deedee & Mark Honigsfeld, 22 Willow Road, Woodsburgh To make a reservation, please contact: Mindy Weinstock: mindlstock@aol.com Shari Shapiro: jagealishus@aol.com Elana Oved: elanrep@aol.com Bini Dachs: soapfan5@aol.com or online at EMUNAH.org

Saturday Night Live: A Benefit for Camp Shalva At 10 pm at the home of Rivkie and Lance Hirt (71 Muriel Avenue, Lawrence NY), will be an exciting event that you will not want to miss! Mark Schiff, a renown comedian who has worked with Jerry Seinfeld and David Letterman, will be performing.

The benefit for the Shalva Children’s Center will help them to continue their work for children with special needs. Come to this event for a night of fun that will also benefit a great cause!

June 17 Community Internet Gathering At 8:00 pm, there will be a chance to hear divrei chizuk from Maran HaRav Matisyahu Salamon and Rabbi Zechariah Wallerstein of the Ohr Naava Institute. The event will take place at Cong.

Shaarey Tefilah (Mincha 7:45).

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Calendar Submit your shul or organization’s events or shiurim to jscalendar@thejewishstar.com.

Deadline is Wednesday of the week prior to publication.

THE 2012 Martin Weiselberg Memorial Tournament Yeshiva Har Torah ( 250-10 Grand Central Parkway Little Neck) in Bellerose, NY, will host the 2012 Martin Weiselberg Memorial Junior High Hockey Tournament. The tournament, in its seventh year, is dedicated in memory of Marty Weiselberg, father of Hebrew Academy of Nassau County (HANC) Junior High hockey coach, Elliot Weiselberg. The tournament itself will be comprised of eight elite school team from the New York and New Jersey leagues. All proceeds from the event, as well as individual donations, and sponsorships not used on the event will go directly to Hatzolah. The event is slated to run from 9:15AM to 5:30PM and is free for all to attend.

June 19 HaRav Mottel Zilber, Shlita, Evening 30 Sivan, at 8:00 p.m., HaRav Mottel Zilber, Shlita, will give the second part of his Derech HaChasidus Shiur in the upstairs Bais Medrash at Congregation Aish Kodesh.

June 20 Farbrengen for men and women This event will take place at 8:00 pm in honor of Gimmel Tammuz. The event will be a journey of original songs and stories to uplift and inspire.

Refreshments will be served. Chabad Center of the Five Towns-74 Maple Avenue)

Friendship Circle Mom’s Night Out Friendship Circle mom’s night out, 8:30 p.m.

Get-together for mothers of children with special needs to socialize and network. This month’s feature is a creative beading workshop. The event will take place at the home of Chari Siegel, 723 Caldwell Avenue, North Woodmere. For information, call 516-295-2478, ext. 13 or e-mail batsheva@chabad5towns.com.

June 21 Outreach Event with DEP Assemblyman Phil Goldfeder (D-Rockaway) announced that together with Achiezer, he will sponsor a New York City Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) outreach event on June 21. Representatives from the DEP will be available to answer any questions and concerns residents or businesses may have regarding their water rates or sewer costs, and will help resolve any issues they might have. DEP representatives will be available on Thursday, June 21 from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. at the Achiezer offices located at 148 Beach 9th St., Suite 2C in Far Rockaway. For your convenience and to ensure you are seen we recommend you schedule an appointment by calling Achiezer at (718) 327-1900.

Ongoing Calling all Senior Song Birds THE JCC OF THE GREATER FIVE TOWNS, located at 270 Grove Avenue in Cedarhurst, hosts a choir for seniors every Tuesday morning at 11 a.m. for a joyful hour of singing with choir master Zvi Klein.

We sing songs in all languages and we perform for local venues. There is a $5.00 optional contribution requested per session. For information please call Sheryl at 516-569-6733 x222.

Support group THE JCC OF THE GREATER FIVE TOWNS will sponsor a new support group for the economically challenged as a result of the economic downturn. Key themes will include unemployment, financial issues, empowerment and support. Please join us on Thursday mornings at 10:15 a.m. at Temple Israel, 140 Central Ave, Lawrence until January 20th. This group is part of Connect to Care, an initiative funded by UJAFederation of NY. For further information and to pre-register, please contact Talia Rapps, L.M.S.W. at 516-569-6733 x213.

Movement class for special needs THE JCC OF THE GREATER FIVE TOWNS offers “Movement with Mary Moshos,” a class for children with special needs ages 5 and up, designed to enhance interaction with the environment through work with music, bubbles, and various textures. Wednesdays, 5:30-6:30pm at the JCC, 207 Grove Avenue, Cedarhurst. 12 sessions/$240. Please call Sharona Arbeit at 516569-6733 x218 for more information.

Parkinson’s Support Group THE JCC OF THE GREATER FIVE TOWNS, located at 207 Grove Avenue in Cedarhurst, hosts every Tuesday a Parkinson’s Support Group from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. The purpose of this group is to bring together Parkinsonians, spouses and their families in order to help them better understand the nature of the condition, gain confidence and join in community activities. For further information, please contact Cathy Byrne at 516-569-6733 x220.

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New York State Assemblyman David Weprin (front row, 2nd from right) and the World Committee for the Land of Israel (WCLI), represented by Chairman of the Board, Dr. Joseph Frager (2nd from left), Vice President, Dr. Paul Brody (at right) and Odeleya Jacobs, VP for Media Relations (not shown), held a press conference on June 10th on the steps of New York City’s City Hall calling for the immediate release of Jonathan Pollard. They called attention to Pollard’s 27 years in prison in anticipation of Israeli President Shimon Peres’ meeting with President Barak Obama to receive the Presidential Medal of freedom this week. The next generation of political activists was represented in the second row by (L-R) Stephanie Weprin and Liat Brody. Assemblyman Michael Simanowitz (at left) joined the group.

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By Rabbi Noam Himelstein

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Parshat Shlach

The Non-Mitzvah of Tzitzis I

n his introduction to the book of Bamidbar, Nachmanides posits that the majority of the mitzvot of this book were commandments for the specific time period of wilderness travel and would not be applicable once they reached the land of Canaan/Israel.

Last week’s one-time consecration of the Levites is a classic example of this category.

There are mitzvot that exist past the wilderness period, of course, some of which fit into a classification of “obligatory if you make a specific choice.” For example, according to the Sefer HaChinukh, there are 10 commandments incumbent upon a person who chooses to become a Nazir. Taking on Nezirut status is by no means obligatory – and some are even critical of the Nazir – which translates to 10 of the 613 commandments being “un-fulfillable” to those who never play the Nazir-option card.

In our parsha, “TzRabbi Avi Billet itzis” is apparently another example of this latter category. It seems the obligation is to put the tzitzis strings on four corners of a four-or-more cornered garment that one wears. Were a person to never wear such a garment, the mitzvah would seemingly become obsolete. [The Sefer HaChinukh equates this to the mitzvah of maakeh – if one does not have a flat roof, the mitzvah of maakeh is not applicable.]

To be fair, the Sefer HaChinukh (end of mitzvah 386) says, “Even though the obligation from the Torah is only when a person is wearing a 4-cornered garment,” a nod to the fact that the mitzvah is only applicable when the garment is being worn (a mitzvah on the person), while there is no mitzvah to have strings attached to a garment that sits on a shelf (not a mitzvah on a garment), “nevertheless our sages warned us to take the pains to fulfill this mitzvah… The Torah, after all, equated it with fulfilling all the commandments. Rabbi Elazar said anyone who is careful about Tzitzis, Tefillin and Mezuzah is assured he will not sin forever.”

I don’t believe that one who is careful about these mitzvot is guaranteed not to sin because I don’t believe we have the power or intellectual ability to equate these fulfillments with a safeguard against sinning. But is the mitzvah completely irrelevant?

The Gemara (Menachos 43b) records a fair share of opinions as to what the verse means when it says “You will see the [strings] and you will remember all the commandments of G-d and you will do them.” (15:39) Some of the possibilities of what the “all the commandments” reminder will be include: to recite the Shema, regarding the mitzvah of kilayim (mixing wool and flax in clothing - based on the proximity to Devarim 22:12), all mitzvos that are dependant on time (from which women are exempt of the obligation), and an idea that seeing inspires action (based on a homiletical connection to Devarim 6:13).

Even the Gemara, therefore, is largely of the opinion that tzitzis is not the answer to everything. But the Gemara continues (and the Rambam quotes this in his own Book of Mitzvot, Shoresh 9), by emphasizing that as much as Tzitzis is only counted as one mitzvah, “someone who does not have Tzitzis on his (presumably 4-cornered) garment is in violation of five positive commandments because the mitzvah is emphasized five times in the Torah.” While I don’t think Maimonides is saying a person who opts not to wear a 4-cornered garment is in violation, perhaps this thought could nonetheless serve as an incentive as well for people to actively pursue wearing Tzitzis, in order to fulfill five positive components of this mitzvah.

The optional side of this and other mitzvos is a reminder that the obligatory nature of “every” mitzvah is not set in stone. Sometimes ingredients need to fall into place for the obligation to set in.

At the same time, the binding aspect of all mitzvos is something that should never be overlooked. There is a major difference between a mind set that ignores “commandments as obligations” and one that says, “if the circumstances don’t present themselves, I will not seek them out.” Every day brings with it a new obligation to wear tefillin and to study Torah. On the other hand, one who never divorces, for example, will never fulfill the mitzvah associated with the writing and delivering of a get. Ignoring the former is a rejection of the Commander-Commanded relationship. Never fulfilling the latter is hopefully part of a recipe of a lifelong relationship with a spouse.

When it comes to Tzitzis, and whatever “seeing” the strings is supposed to remind us, the concept of the Tzitzis encompassing the entire body should serve as a symbolic reminder of how we are to devote our entire bodies, when possible, to the service of G-d.

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.

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Shlomo Miller, 11. contemplates the superplexus, a model instructional version of the smaller perplexus puzzleball at the A-maze-ing perplexus tour at La Toys in Cedarhurst on Friday, June 8th. The event had a DJ, give aways, and prizes.

Parshat Shelach

Bringing the desert into everyday life T

his week’s portion, Shelach, contains one of the most challenging stories in the entire Torah: the story of the spies.

“Sh’lach Lecha’ Anashim Ve’Yaturu …”

“Send out spies for yourselves…”

(Numbers 13:1) An incredible moment in Jewish history; the Jewish people are ready to achieve their mission. With the fleshpots and pyramids of Egypt behind them, the Jewish people, on the FROM THE HEART banks of the Jordan OF JERUSALEM River, are now ready to come home. More than two hundred years after the children of Joseph and his brothers became enslaved in Egypt, the centuries old dream of the Jewish people is finally about to be realized.

G-d has told them they are now ready to enter the land. In fact, the same verse containing Rabbi Binny the mission the people Freedman are being given to spy out the land, contains as well the promise that G-d will give it to them.

So one wonders, if G-d is already promising to give them the land, why is there any need at all to send out spies? Perhaps this is where things begin to go off course: If the

Jewish people truly believed in G-d, they would certainly have no need of spies.

However, this still does not arrive at the root of the problem, as the principle of sending scouts ahead to spy out territory prior to conquest is not necessarily a bad thing.

In fact, Moshe himself, before conquering Ya’azer, sends out spies (Bamidbar 21:3), and so does Yehoshua (Joshua), (see Joshua 21:32), relying heavily on the information his two spies bring back before beginning the conquest of the land.

All of which leaves us with a number of puzzling questions: The real question, it would seem, is how the same people who actually witnessed the ten plagues, and the splitting of the sea could doubt G-d’s ability to bring them into the land of Israel?

This is especially challenging considering who the spies really were: they were the princes of the tribes, men of great stature, chosen as the leaders of the people, “Roshei B’nei Yisrael Hemah”: “They were the great men of Israel” (Numbers 13:3).

It is difficult to imagine, therefore, how such men could suddenly, in the midst of an experience where G-d was everywhere, and where miracles were a daily event, doubt G-d?

Obviously, there is something else at the root of this painful episode.

The Lubavitcher Rebbe, of blessed memory, suggests a fascinating possibility.

You see, the question was not why the

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people and for that matter the princes, did not believe in G-d, the question was whether they believed in G-d too much.

The people understood that part of the process of entering the land of Israel, was that G-d would necessarily withdraw. In the desert, G-d was everywhere, providing manna from heaven, and even protection from the elements by way of the clouds of glory.

And that is clearly not the goal in Judaism; because when G-d is everywhere then where are we? Much like parents, who need to get out of the way so their children can grow, entering the land of Israel represented that period in the growth of the Jewish people where they would come into their own.

G-d did not create us in order to do everything for us; He wants us to be partners with Him in perfecting an imperfect world.

The problem was, how do you leave the world where G-d is everywhere, to the world where He is so hidden? The spies weren’t afraid of a physical defeat, they were afraid of a spiritual defeat. What happens to a people accustomed to meditating on G-d twentyfour hours a day when they have to actually serve in the army, work in the fields, and earn a living? It is no big deal to have a deep spiritual relationship with G-d in the Yeshiva that was the desert; but can you maintain that level in the office, or on the tractor?

Indeed, this is one of the issues in modern Israeli society which threatens to rip apart the social fabric of the country. There are many in the ‘religious’ camp (whatever that means…) who believe that those capable of sitting and learning Torah should not go into the army.

After all, for two thousand years of exile we did not have a land, it was only our connection to our Jewish heritage and the study of our Torah which allowed us to maintain our identity and survive as a people. And make no mistake about it, I watched a lot of guys go into the army with a kippah on their heads and a pair of tefillin in their bags and gradually lose their connection to Jewish ritual and Jewish tradition. Hard as it is for some to imagine, it is very easy to lose your Jewish identity in the ‘field,’ even in the only Jewish army in the world….

When you have to get up an hour early on so little sleep, when you are the only one on Shabbat not watching television and hanging with all the guys in the base’s TV room, when you are up in Lebanon, and the only one who won’t eat the fresh roasted lamb brought to you by the local Sheikh, or when, in officer’s course, all the guys spend Saturday afternoon preparing for the grueling Sunday morning exams, and you can only begin studying when Shabbat and the Saturday night run are over at 11 PM; believe me, it wears you down.

So I understand the position of those Jews who are opposed to yeshiva students doing the army.

This week’s story, however, is the Torah’s response to this position. You can only disagree with someone when you first understand and even respect where they are coming from. So, having considered that point of view, I would respectfully disagree.

This was, you see, precisely the mistake of the spies in the desert three thousand years ago. “How can we leave the perfect

spiritual environment of the desert for life in the trenches and the fields? How will we be able to maintain our level of Torah when we need to harvest the crops, and man the guard posts?”

“We are not ready,” the princes of the tribes must have felt; little more than a year out of Egyptian servitude, the Jews are still complaining and doubting G-d; they need more time in Yeshiva, as it were.

But the spies were wrong, because the purpose of a life lived in Torah is not elevation of the soul; that is only a vehicle to sanctify the world. The real goal is to find G-d in the world, not to see Him by leaving the world behind.

The miracles of the desert were simply the preparation for entering the world. Instead of being lowered to where the real world drags us down, Judaism believes we can serve to raise the entire world to where we all should be.

The perspective of the yeshiva student afraid to enter the challenges of the army, itself a mitzvah, in defense of the Jewish people, limits G-d to the domain of the spiritual environment. But Judaism suggests that Hashem is everywhere, and we can find G-d and a relationship with Him, even in the most physical of experiences.

One wonders (though it is certainly not for us to judge…), whether this was the tragic mistake of the leaders of our generation, indeed the princes of Torah and great leaders of the Yeshiva world sixty years ago, who almost en masse, resisted the opportunity to leave the spiritual desert (even paradise) of the Yeshivot in Europe, for fear of the spiritual corruption life in the barren desert of the land of Israel would have entailed.

Imagine what a different Jewish world we would live in today, if the State of Israel had been built by the yeshiva students of the Mir and Belz, Volozhin and Radin….

And make no mistake about it; this is not a question for the yeshiva student alone; every Jew knows the seclusion of the desert, along with the challenge of “conquering the land,” and the spiritual tension that exists between them.

We begin our day with a brief retreat into the spiritual desert; a chance to pray and/ or take some time to study Torah, before the pressures of daily living engulf us.

Early in the morning, when the kids are still asleep and the phone is quiet, one has a little time to re-experience the desert; to explore once again a closer relationship with life and living, and the source of it all…

But then we emerge into the “land” with all the stirrings of doubt that, of necessity, come with the world of business, labor, and even the practical mitzvoth of building a better world.

Our challenge is to see Hashem everywhere, and to bring that desert with us into the land every day, and everywhere we go….

Shabbat Shalom 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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