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Graduation, pre-K and up This is the season for stepping up. From high school to seminary or yeshiva, to a year in Israel or onto an American college campus; from lower school to middle school to high school; even rising from kindergarden or pre-school, Long Islanders are experiencing an annual educational rite-ofpassage. Pictured here are children from the Chabad of the Five Towns Gan Chamesh Early Childhood Center, who celebrated their graduation on Friday outside the Maple Avenue center in Cedarhurst.

The preschool’s six classes selected colorful ice sticks and wore shirts matching the colors of their classrooms — 5-year-olds in green; 3- to-4-year-olds in blue and yellow; 2- to 3-year-olds in purple and red, and 2-year-olds in orange. They marched in front of family and friends with the prayer books they were given to commemorate the parade’s theme of tefillos. Commencement exercises continue through June. Send your graduation photos to Schools@TheJewishStar.com. SKA’s Class of ’15 is pictured on page 22.

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was steeped in the thoughts of the various commentaries on this subject when two tragedies of high proďŹ le Americans were highlighted in the news. One was in the private sector, the other, the public sector. Both clearly had a sense of calling and duty, of responsibility and kindness, of generosity and humility. The ďŹ rst was Beau Biden, may his memory be for a blessing. As the song goes, “only the good die young.â€? Because above all else that I have read of his stellar accomplishments,

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few weeks ago, I decided to research the Torah’s approach to coping with death, loss and bereavement. I spent time studying many different Biblical and Talmudic sources, narratives replete with the personiďŹ cation of the Angel of Death as well as the rabbis’ perspective on consolation. I reread many narratives that I studied previously, but this time through the prism of loss and mourning. Cain and Abel. And Eve, a bereaved mother’s response: the conception and birth of Seth. Abraham’s prayers on behalf of Sodom and Gomorrah and the story of Lot. Sarah’s death at the news of the binding of Isaac. Abraham’s mourning for Sarah. Jacob’s sustained and inconsolable grief at the perceived death of his son Joseph. Aaron the high priest’s famous, ambiguous silence upon the tragic death of his sons Nadav and Avihu. The ordeal with the tribe of Benjamin in the Book of Judges. King David’s moving and poetic eulogy for the loss of King Saul and Jonathan, with whom he shared a complex relationship and loved dearly. King David’s unusual coping with the illness and then death of his baby son from

it seems that he truly was one of those very purely good people. As privileged as he was, he chose to serve in Iraq. He was in a position he did not need to be in, risking his life, yet he did. He rose above the fears and anxieties most people are riddled with about death. He rose above a sense of entitlement. From the beginning, Beau Biden led a life of adversity, losing his beloved mother and baby sister at a young age. Instead of believing that the deck was stacked against him, he led a life that crystallized the spirit of prevailing, of resilience. And David Goldberg. A pioneer and innovator in the ďŹ eld of technology, he was generous and thoughtful in consciously helping peers and colleagues get ahead. He didn’t see his success as a ticket to elitist behavior. Rather, he saw his brains and talent as a way of helping others succeed by the knowledge and guidance he shared, all this to continue making the world a better and more developed place. Death, it’s the great equalizer. The one certitude of this world that all members of the human race have in common. We are all ďŹ nite. Yet, it is the most avoided subject. Somehow there is this odd, irrational sense among us common people that successful people or leaders will dodge tragedies, will be immune, even though in the recesses of our hearts and souls we know how untrue this is. We have the feeling that people died before their time, leaving the most painful legacy of all, exposing those we always want to protect and spare of any pain the most: little children, parentless. This is one of those unnatural losses for which there are no words, for which we refer to Continued on page 15

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By Maayan Jaffe, JNS.org In one of the larger Jewish-related events of the year, more than 1,500 people as well as an impressive lineup of political and thought leaders convened for the Jerusalem Post newspaper’s annual conference in New York on June 7. But why was an Israeli newspaper hosting a conference on American soil, and why does the Jewish world put on conferences to begin with? A conference “is a powerful way to engage people,â€? says Jewish Federations of North America (JFNA) spokeswoman Rebecca Dinar. Yet in an increasingly digital age, with news and speeches at practically anyone’s ďŹ ngertips through a simple Web search, are brick-and-mortar conferences likely to remain a staple of the American Jewish immersive experience? Dinar believes so. Dinar says that conferences generally achieve at least one of two goals: getting a community to focus on ideas important to the host organization, or getting the ideas of a community out to a larger audience. “A conference has the potential to propel a cause forward,â€? she says. In the case of the recent Jerusalem Post conference—or the Times of Israel gala, which took place earlier this year—the goals might be slightly different, says Steve Rabinowitz, founder of the Bluelight Strategies public relations ďŹ rm and White House director of design and production under former president Bill Clinton. In his role as a messaging, marketing, and media outreach and relations professional, Rabinowitz has watched (or helped) dozens of Jewish conferences grow and evolve. The American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) hosts the largest annual

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conference of any Jewish-American organization, with 15,000 attending the latest iteration in March. Major organizations ranging from the Anti-Defamation League to ChabadLubavitch also hold annual conferences, with Chabad’s event focusing on gathering its emissaries serving communities around the world. JFNA’s annual General Assembly (GA) draws around 5,000 people. “But I do not think [the] J Post or Times of Israel [conferences] serve the same purpose,� Rabinowitz tells JNS.org. “Those are branding opportunities.�

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Jerusalem Post Editor-in-Chief Steve Linde and Times of Israel Founding Editor David Horovitz both conďŹ rmed that their news outlets’ events are not meant to fundraise. “Each year the conference gets bigger and better,â€? Linde says of his newspaper’s gathering, held at New York’s Marriott Marquis. The Jerusalem Post conference was devoid of glitzy signage, expensive cuisine, or entertainment. But attendees say they got what they came for. “I came here to listen and get a feel for the Israeli street,â€? says Seymour Lipton of Skokie, Ill. Juliya Arango of Brooklyn calls the Jerusalem Post conference “a gift from Hashemâ€? and notes that she came looking for tools to educate her students at an English as a Second Language (ESL) school about Israel. “I want to be able to put a spin on Israel that people can understand,â€? Arango says. Horovitz says the Times of Israel gala was meant to tell the media outlet’s story as well as the story of the Jewish homeland. He thinks it succeeded. “People left the gala better informed, more knowledgeable, and capable of understanding what is going on in Israel, around the Jewish world, and in the Middle East,â€? says Horovitz. JFNA’s Dinar believes the same is true about Jewish conferences in general. “The GA, J Post, all of us are inviting people in to address issues we need to talk about,â€? she says. “I think it is amazing as a Jewish community that we have all of these opportunities to power—and empower—our communal infrastructure.â€?

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perception that a “just” solution requires the wrong party, Israel, to make immediate concessions. That is to admit the possibility that you may indeed be a pig for resisting this. To play offense, by contrast, is to begin with Israel’s own multiply grounded right to the land, which is easily demonstrable (as columnist Jeff Jacoby has recently done). Then the story is about conflicting rights, between equal players, and nothing is conceded in advance. Let the Palestinians defend or prove their “right” to the land, with actual objective facts, documents, history. It might, after all, prove a difficult case for them to make. All the more so with the campus BDS motions that are so frequently in the news. They’ve become so prevalent that we’ve stopped noticing how outrageous they actually are. That’s already a concession. Let people start associating the acronym with the truth: refer to BDS constantly as Bully, Deceive, Smear. Similarly, let SJP become Students for Just Us in Palestine. More importantly, we’ve stopped noticing that the wrong party is being targeted for boycotts. Israel is the only entity in the region committed to Western liberal values such as democracy, diversity, and freedoms of the individual, press, and religion. The other side is the one that should be targeted. The side that’s split between Mahmoud Abbas, a president in the 11th year of his fouryear term, and Hamas, a racist and genocidal terrorist group, and that features both political and religious oppression while insisting that only a (free of Jews) Palestinian state will suffice. The side that honors (and pays) its terrorists and celebrates the death of its enemies’ children, truly belongs on the U.N.

list of parties that harm children. It’s necessary and commendable that Israel advocates are fighting back against the BDS proposals they are facing. But here’s a new idea. Wherever a BDS proposal against Israel is raised, one should also be raised against the Palestinian Authority and Hamas. Even better, start raising these proposals before the other side raises one against Israel. As a basis for boycotting the Palestinians, simply demonstrate their commitment to violence and terrorism, their corruption and oppression, and their profound violations of human rights—both of their own citizens and of the Israelis they attack. A similar strategy should be adopted against another popular

anti-Israel tactic: “apartheid walls” on campus should face “walls of terror,” and so on. We should not merely try to defeat these proposals against us. We should invoke the full force of the law to stop them from being considered in the first place. Shurat HaDin, an Israeli law center, has been doing great work here, of both global and local scope—going after the Palestinian Authority in international arenas and local food co-ops considering grocery boycotts. And of course, South Carolina’s recent groundbreaking anti-boycott legislation is an important and genuine success. It’s time to let the other side play defense for a change. Let them get booted out of FIFA.

NYS pols urge boycott of boycott South Shore Assemblyman Todd Kaminsky has signed on as a co-sponsor of legislation introduced by Glen Cove Assemblyman Charles Lavine to would prohibit the state — including its Common Retirement Fund — from doing business with companies that boycott Israel. “There are many nations that are murderous and lawless and yet are not singled out in the same was as Israel,” Kaminsky said. “Such anti-Semitism is unacceptable and this bill says that loudly and clearly.” Both Kaminsky and Lavine are Democrats. Lavine’s bill define “boycott” as “engaging in actions that are politically motivated and are intended to penalize, inflict economic harm on, or or otherwise limit commercial relations with the state of Israel or companies based in the State of Israel or in terri-

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By Andrew Pessin, JNS.org Victories aren’t usually depressing, but recent headlines about Israel include those such as: “Israel Left Off U.N. List of Parties That Kill, Injure Kids,” “Palestinians Abandon Bid to Ban Israel From FIFA,” and a couple of headlines about failed motions for the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement on college campuses. Surely all of these “victories” are better than defeats. But still, we can and should do better. The problem with these victories is that they reflect a deep problem in the strategy of proIsrael advocates. We tend to play defense far more than offense. Some psychologists might enjoy explaining just why Jews, in general, prefer this approach, but it’s something we must overcome. What’s wrong with this strategy was beautifully laid out in Ze’ev Maghen’s famous piece, “How to Fight Anti-Semitism.” “A man calls you a pig,” he writes. “Do you walk around with a sign explaining that, in fact, you are not a pig? Do you hand out leaflets expostulating … upon the manifold differences between you and a pig?” Of course not. For to do this is already to cede the crucial first move to your enemy. It’s to allow that your pighood is even a legitimate question in the first place. Playing defense grants the possible legitimacy of the attacks on us. It’s time for us to go on offense. terests in the Middle East focus on its security needs. Those are of course important, but then the overall debate becomes how to balance Palestinians’ right to their homeland with Israel’s security need. But that is already to grant their “right,” which is to concede that Israel is wrong. That in turn fuels the

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The mystery of Golda Meir’s golden gems By Harvey Rachlin, JNS.org t is one of the most iconic quotes of modern Jewish history— universally known; revered for its heartfelt message; and frequently cited by historians, biographers, journalists, and politicians as well as by ordinary citizens throughout the world, Jews and non-Jews alike: “Peace will come when the Arabs will love their children more than they hate us.” But did Golda Meir—a signer of Israel’s declaration of independence who went on to serve the country in many crucial roles including, of course, prime minister—to whom this august dictum is attributed, really say it? It never dawned on me to question the remark’s authenticity, as I’d always assumed it was an unassailable and indelible part of oratory history, in a class with the immortal “Four score and seven years ago” and “I have a dream.” But doubts started to surface while I was researching an article on the greatest Jewish quotes of the 20th century. After rummaging through a plethora of sources and giving much consideration to a number of linguistic gems, I selected my 10 illustrious quotes, with Meir’s statement among them. Pithy, earnest, and beseeching, it always seemed the quintessential expression of the frustration Israelis have experienced in desiring to live in peace with their Arab neighbors. I was curious to learn the context in which Meir made this remark and, because words are frequently altered from one citing to another, I wanted to find the quote’s original source to make sure I had her precise words. The quote has been reproduced in countless books and articles in print as well as online, and many of these cite as their source “A Land of Our Own: An Oral Autobiography,” written by Golda Meir, edited by Marie Syrkin, and published by G. P. Putnam’s Sons in 1973. The quote appears, along with several others, on the last page of the book’s text (before the index) under the heading “On Peace.” Its source is given as: National Press Club, Washington, 1957. I wrote to the National Press Club in an effort to obtain a copy of Meir’s 1957 speech. The response I received was that Meir, who at the time was Israel’s foreign minister, did not speak there in 1957. She had, however, addressed a club luncheon on December 11, 1956. Well, authors do make mistakes, and maybe Syrkin got the year wrong. Besides, December 1956 is pretty close to 1957. The National Press Club did not have a copy of Meir’s 1956 speech, so I searched far and wide for one. None of the repositories in the U.S. that I contacted had a copy, nor did they have any record of Meir’s ever having made the statement I was looking for. These archives included the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Library (where many of Meir’s papers are located); the Jewish Women’s Archive in Brookline, Mass.; the Dorot Jewish Division of the New York Public Library; and the American Jewish Archives in Cincinnati, which houses Syrkin’s papers. It turned out the Recorded Sound Research Center of the Library of Congress had a recording of Meir’s National Press Club speech, but before I could get to Washington to listen to it, I obtained a transcript of the speech from the Israel State Archives. Breathlessly I read it—but, alas, Meir’s quote was not there. With no primary source found, a previously unfathomable question came to mind: Did Golda Meir really say it? As the author of numerous books, I’ve learned in my research that it is not unusual for myths, false statements, half-truths, quasi-truths, exaggerations, distortions, and all sorts of other apocrypha to creep into the public mind. They enter it through the main arteries of communication and its back alleyways, and all too often are accepted without question by the public at large. For example, schoolchildren of past generations were taught that when George Washington’s father asked if he’d chopped down a cherry tree, young George responded, “I cannot tell a lie.” The story was actually a fabrication that had its roots in Mason Locke Weems’s 1800 book “The Life and Memorable Actions of George Washington.” Another example: It was long thought that Abraham Lincoln composed his famous Gettysburg Address on the train to that Pennsylvania city, but even though there were people who claimed to have seen Lincoln writing on the train, the assertion that he wrote the address en route to Gettysburg has been shown to be spurious. One more: It was for many decades considered as fact that Abner Doubleday invented the game of baseball in Cooperstown, N.Y., in 1839. But not only is there no known record of Doubleday even setting foot in Cooperstown, we now know the myth had its origin in the unsubstantiated conclusions of a committee that felt its promulgation would create a patriotic and romantic image for the sport. s if the enigma of Meir’s “Peace will come” statement were not troubling enough, there is, astonishingly, another ultra-famous Meir quote whose origin seems mired in doubt: “When peace comes we will perhaps in time be able to forgive the Arabs for killing our sons, but it will be harder for us to forgive them for having forced us to kill their sons.” The possibility that Meir never really said this was brought to my attention by Jason Maoz, senior editor of the Jewish Press. He had been on the trail of this celebrated quote a while back, trying assidu-

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Nasser loves his own children more than he hates the Israelis” and “What we hold against Nasser is not only the killing of our sons but forcing them for the sake of Israel’s survival to kill others.” Strangely, there are no citations for any of the quotes in the book, and while I found these two exact quotes in other books (all published in or after 1970), none of the citations were from original sources. Even more bizarre is that “As Good As Golda” was compiled and edited by Israel and Mary Shenker—yes, the same Israel Shenker who several years later would write the massive New York Times obituary that contained dozens of Meir quotes but, notably, not her two most famous ones. (We’ll probably never solve that particular puzzle, as Mr. and Mrs. Shenker are both deceased.) In investigating the veracity of a historical occurrence or quote, one also wants to consider whether the event or statement in question is consistent with the personality, habits, or disposition of the public figure connected to it. Just as it would have been out of character for the diligent Lincoln to have hastily written his Gettysburg Address on the train to Gettysburg or to have ad-libbed his speech on the Gettysburg battlefield, the sentimental nature of Meir’s alleged pronouncement about “forgiv[ing] the Arabs for killing our sons” seems inconsistent with her character. Nasser was an avowed enemy of Israel who desired, along with Egypt’s Arab neighbors, to destroy the country. With so much Jewish blood having been spilled to preserve the nation’s very existence, would the iron-willed and resolute Meir really have said something that has such an abject ring of supplication and liberal political correctness to it? In the chapter in her autobiography on the Yom Kippur War, Meir wrote, “For years we not only had seen our sons killed but had tolerated a situation so grotesque that it is almost unbelievable: The only time that Arab states were prepared to recognize the State of Israel was when they had attacked it in order to wipe it out.” In her manifest disgust with the Arab wish to annihilate Israel, she certainly does not sound like she would have said something even remotely like, “When peace comes we will perhaps in time be able to forgive the Arabs for killing our sons, but it will be harder for us to forgive them for having forced us to kill their sons.” And yet, despite the lack of verification for either statement and the fact that the “forgive them” quote in particular hardly accords with Meir’s well-known hardheaded persona, they’ve both become entrenched as immutable fact, as truth carved in stone, when apparently they stand on a foundation built of sand. n August 2014, in the wake of Israel’s Operation Protective Edge against Hamas in Gaza, the Anti-Defamation League placed an ad in The Hollywood Reporter that highlighted the two iconic Meir quotes and suggested they were applicable to contemporary events; readers were asked to join 18 Hollywood executives whose names were listed “in calling upon world leaders and decent people everywhere to ensure that Hamas terrorists cannot be rearmed.” The ad had both Meir quotes strung together with the singular attribution, “Golda Meir (1957).” Many references to the two Meir quotes either cite the aforementioned Marie Syrkin as the source or don’t give her name, but cite the places and years she provided for the statements. As noted earlier, the quotes appear in Syrkin’s “A Land of Our Own,” both on the same page, one underneath the other. The parenthetical attribution that follows the second quote, the one about forgiving the Arabs, is “Press conference in London, 1969.” Perhaps the only thing accurate about that citation is that Meir was in fact in London in 1969. It is disconcerting to think Syrkin, who passed away in 1989, may have made up the quotes for Meir or that she somehow got them wrong. She was a respected scholar and a friend of Meir who wrote prolifically about her and edited some of her speeches. But a hint that Syrkin may have at least taken some artistic license in editing Meir can be glimpsed in this aside by Asher Weill, the managing director of the book publisher Weidenfeld and Nicolson: “Mrs. Meir does not want the speeches to appear necessarily verbatim but they should be judiciously cut and style-edited.” All said, it seems there are three possibilities: (1) The words were indeed spoken by Meir exactly as we know them today, and I was remiss, as were the various repositories I contacted, in not locating them in their original sources. (2) Meir expressed the thoughts in somewhat different language, and Syrkin or someone else rewrote them as the quotes we are all familiar with. (3) Meir never said them at all. Many of us—perhaps most of us—will find it hard to accept that these two gems that have become inextricable parts of the fabric of 21st-century Jewish history and folklore did not come from the mouth of Golda Meir. But until their authenticity can incontrovertibly be verified, it cannot be said with certainty that Meir ever said either one of them. Harvey Rachlin is an award-winning author of 13 books, including “Lucy’s Bones, Sacred Stones, and Einstein’s Brain,” which was adapted for the long-running History Channel series “History’s Lost and Found.” This article was first published by the Jewish Press.

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as well as the Nationalist Movement Party and the Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), which gained about 80 seats apiece, may be considering forming a governing coalition that leaves out AKP. Other analysts, however, consider AKP’s absence from a coalition to be an unlikely scenario. Koplow said the AKP’s main strategy in the recent election—which proved unsuccessful—was to keep the Kurdish party from crossing the election threshold. “The AKP sought to tarnish the Kurdish party and to paint them as not Turkish and somehow foreign,” he said. The Syrian civil war was also a major factor in determining the outcome of the election. According to Rhode, the election results have also caused a major transformation in Turkish society. Suddenly, all over Turkish social media, users are posting humiliating comments about AKP and Erdogan because the election results led them to lose “their fear of Erdogan that they would be arrested and thrown in jail,” Rhode said. “People are also talking on the phone in the most vitriolic way against Erdogan,” whereas beforehand they were afraid to do so, he said. In Turkish media, there is also a visible change. During the Erdogan era, Turkish newspapers have been frequently hit with huge tax-evasion lawsuits and have had to pay huge fees. To offset this cost, editors hired journalists who published pro-Erdogan content. Now those journalists are being fired. The media is essentially telling Erdogan to “go to hell,” Rhode said.

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Will Sephardim join pre-marriage testing push? By Maayan Jaffe, JNS.org “There is no person in the world without issues,â€? says Rabbi Yosef Ekstein, the founder of the organization Dor Yeshorim (“Upright Generationâ€? in Hebrew), a conďŹ dential genetic screening system used around the world, mostly by Ashkenazi Jews in the Orthodox community. Ekstein’s words are meant as a call to action to the Sephardic Jewish community to also embrace genetic testing, and to help stop the tragedy of giving birth to children with genetic diseases. He was echoing the comments of Sephardic Chief Rabbi of Israel Yitzchak Yosef, who last month told his constituents, “All Sephardim [should] get tested before holding a vort (engagement) to avoid

any problems, chas v’shalom.� Yosef’s remarks, Ekstein told JNS.org, could be the needed catalyst to encourage Sephardim to get genetic testing for diseases unique to their community. While Ashkenazim have been widely tested for Tay-Sachs and other genetic diseases since Dor Yeshorim’s founding in the mid-1980s, lack of research about Sephardic genetic disorders and minimal outreach to Sephardic Jews have meant that the same levels of testing and disease eradication do not exist in that community. Dr. Ohad Birk, head of the Genetics Institute at Soroka Medical Center in the southern Israeli city of Be’er Sheva and of the Morris Kahn Lab of Human Genetics at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU), explains that

one of the reasons for the lack of research is that the Sephardic community is more complex and disparate than the Ashkenazi community. The same genetic mutations exist in Ashkenazi Jews from throughout Eastern Europe—Poland, Germany, Hungary, and so on. In contrast, there are distinct genetic mutations for each of the Sephardic communities, such as those from North Africa, India, Morocco, and Ethiopia. Further, while the majority of global Ashkenazi Jewry lives in the United States and is willing to invest in genetic research, the Sephardic community—in many cases in Israel—has had less funding to support these initiatives. In the last eight years, Birk and his team

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have been researching genetic diseases speciďŹ c to Sephardic communities. They discovered the disease Progressive Cerebro-Cerebella Atrophy (PCCA), which affects dozens of Israeli families of Iraqi and MoroccanJewish descent. When a child has PCCA, he or she is born seemingly normal. But around age 1 or 2, the child begins to develop mental and physical difďŹ culties, and by 3 has epilepsy and is virtually a vegetable. In March 2014, Birk’s team discovered PCCA2, a different genetic mutation that leads to a similar disease in Moroccan Jews. There is a 1-in-40 chance for Jews of Moroccan descent to be a carrier for PCCA or PCCA2. Further, researchers uncovered a genetic mutation on the gene SLC38A8, which is speciďŹ c to the Jewish community of Mumbai, India, and leads to a severe eye disease affecting short-range and long-range vision. These diseases, says Ekstein, could be nearly eradicated “if there is more cooperation from the community.â€? Since 1983, more than 2,000 Ashkenazi Jewish couples (about one in 100 of those tested) have been spared the tragedy of having a baby born with the deadly Tay-Sachs disease or another of the 19 most-common Ashkenazi genetic disorders, thanks to organizations like Dor Yeshorim. Thirty-two years ago, 30-40 Jewish children annually in North America were born with Tay-Sachs. Today, that number has dropped to as low as three, and the number is zero in the population screened by Dor Yeshorim. Close to 400,000 individuals have been tested over time for the Ashkenazi-associated genetic disorders. Dor Yeshorim has major centers in the U.S. and Israel, and hubs in nearly every location in which a large Jewish population exists. Participants are tested and receive an identiďŹ cation number but not their actual results. When partners are introduced or contemplating engagement, they submit their numbers and birthdays to Dor Yeshorim. The two individuals’ test results are compared, and the match is considered “compatibleâ€? as long as both parties are not carriers of the same recessive trait. If the couples are considered “incompatible,â€? Dor Yeshorim will recommend rescreening to conďŹ rm results. The couple would also be offered guidance and advice, explaining the ramiďŹ cations of a non-compatible couple marrying. The whole process costs around $200, which is subsidized by private donations. The timing of being tested is important to the success of the program, according to Ekstein. Once an engagement is announced, he says, too often couples are embarrassed to call it off, feeling that “it is too late.â€? Today, Ekstein advocates for all young adults to be tested for all diseases—Ashkenazi and Sephardic—due to the high rate of intermarriage among Jews of various backgrounds. “The value of this is indescribable,â€? says Ekstein, who lost four of his ďŹ rst ďŹ ve children to Tay-Sachs. “The damage that can come out of it, this is something which cannot be calculated.â€? Ekstein says not being tested is equivalent to crossing Fifth Avenue in New York City with your eyes closed. “It’s stupidity,â€? he says, explaining that someone cannot have blind faith that his or her partner will be genetically compatible. It is necessary, Ekstein argues, to gain the knowledge to make informed decisions for the health of one’s own children and community at large. BGU’s Birk adds, “These diseases are very severe, but equally as preventable. ‌ The research continues all the time, and so should the testing.â€?

ARCC “Choose life.â€? Forty people from across the Orthodox spectrum and beyond struggled with what that edict means when trying to stem the high incidence of breast and ovarian cancer, and of the BRCA (breast cancer) gene mutation, in the Orthodox community. The Institute for Applied Research and Community Collaboration (ARCC), in partnership with Columbia University Medical Center (CUMC), hosted a half-day “Stakeholders Dialogueâ€? among a cross-section of community leaders including rabbonim, shadchanim and educators; medical experts, researchers, geneticists and medical advocacy organizations; and community layrepresentatives. The meeting’s purpose was twofold. First, to develop a shared understanding of the high women’s cancer risk levels to which our community is subject, and of the corresponding halachic and sociocultural factors which inuence and shape community response. Secondly, to start a conversation toward developing coordinated community policies and interventions to prevent women’s cancer-related illness, and to reduce the related mortality rate within our communities. The meeting grew out of ARCC and CUMC’s joint efforts to conduct Community Based Participatory Research (CBPR) in order to address this critical Orthodox Jewish public health issue. Katherine Crew, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine and Director of the Clinical Breast Cancer Prevention Program at CUMC, presented a medical overview of the risk factors of breast cancer and the BRCA genetic mutations. She explained that while only 1 in 400 women in the general, non-Jewish community carry the BRCA gene mutation, that rate is 1 in 40 within the Ashkenazic Jewish community — and for those who do carry the BRCA gene, the lifetime risk of breast or ovarian cancer can be as high as 60 percent. Rabbi Daniel Feldman, Rosh Yeshiva at Yeshiva University RIETS and Rav of Ohr Saadya in Teaneck, enumerated some of the many halachic questions which come into play when considering BRCA genetic screening

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or related preventive interventions. Rabbi Mordechai Willig, Rosh Yeshiva RIETS and Rav of Young Israel of Riverdale, elaborated on the obligation to take charge of one’s health, including genetic screenings. Part I of the meeting concluded with Dr. Yitzchak Schechter, PsyD, presenting ďŹ ndings from a recent ARCC/CUMC survey of 520 frum women, and of two focus groups — one with married women and one with single women — assessing women’s knowledge of and attitudes towards going for BRCA screening, including the extent of their intention to be screened, and the role of shidduch concerns as a determinant in that decision. Dr. Schechter is director and founder of ARCC, and director of the Behavioral Health Center at CAPs Bikur Cholim in Monsey. Rivka Starck, PsyD, Director of Marketing, Strategy and Communications at ARCC, and also a researcher there, facilitated a brainstorming session in which each stakeholder group was given the opportunity to enumerate some of the policies and interventions they would like to see as part of a community response. Suggestions included: •Providing more consistent delivery of patient education via the medical establishment. •Increasing community understanding of the risk levels of women’s cancers and of the role family medical history and other inuencing fac-

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tors play in determining risk. •Increasing public understanding of the key role genetic counseling – rather than gene testing alone – plays in prevention for those who have a family history of these illnesses. •Equally encouraging men, as much as women, to get genetic counseling if they have breast cancer in their family history, since either can be carriers of the BRCA gene. •Increasing education of rabbonim so that they can offer counsel from an informed vantage point, and so they fully appreciate the risks inherent in different patient choices – including the life and death implications. •Increasing understanding among both the medical establishment and the community at-large that BRCA genetic screening can engender, at once, both beneďŹ cial as well as potentially detrimental psychosocial implications for those who choose to be tested. •Starting a larger communal conversation about the importance of preventive health care and regular screenings in general, be it for cardiovascular health, colon health, women’s health, or any other systemic health focus. •Starting a larger communal conversation around the challenging reality that is our modern-day shidduch process, and the toll some of its dynamics (e.g. stigma) exacts on both singles and families. Upon completion of the brainstorming session, the oor was opened up for individual comment in response to the ideas which had been presented. A spirited, candid, and highly interactive dialogue ensued, with a kaleidoscope of diverse opinions coming to the fore. “I was highly impressed with the people in the room, who expressed a wide variety of perspectives, with the common thread a passion for helping improve the health of the Jewish woman and familyâ€?, said Leah Zagelbaum, director of communications, Agudath Israel of America. Overall, the majority of those present favored increased education and awareness, and increased genetic counseling, as appropriate. However, when it came to the value of promoting increased testing as a community policy, there was a sharp mix of opinions. On the one hand, there were those who focused primarily on the life-saving beneďŹ ts which testing can provide.

Dr. Jonathan Herman, ob/gyn and author of “Letters to Doctors: Patients Educating Medical Professionals through Practical True-Life Experiences,â€? captured this sentiment well: “BRCA testing is a risk evaluation tool. It helps us ďŹ gure out what the patient’s chances are of getting breast and/or ovarian cancer. By age 80, a BRCA1 positive woman has an 83 percent chance of having one of those cancers. I need that information in order to take care of my patient properly.â€? “Every doctor and genetic counselor in the room can say ‌ that he has seen patients saved because of testing and every doctor and genetic counselor can say he’s seen patients die because they weren’t,â€? he continued. “It’s very hard for me to see children lose their mother to cancer when she didn’t have to die. All she needed was this testing. It’s not every day that we have a test that can save mothers, daughters, families, generations. No patient that has cancer would tell you that she would prefer having cancer to prevention.â€? On the other hand, even as many argued for increased testing — all in pursuit of reducing illness and saving lives — Rabbi Josef Ekstein, founder of Dor Yeshorim, whose organization has almost single-handedly eradicated Tay-Sachs from the Orthodox Jewish community, put forth an alternative viewpoint. He reframed the issue as one of â€œďŹ rst do no harm,â€? whereby preventive steps, though essential, must be diligently and sensitively weighed against the potential social costs of those steps — most signiďŹ cantly as they may impact on shidduchim and marriageability. “Testing and counseling for BRCA can do more harm than doing good, if any,â€? Rabbi Ekstein said. “In addition, it can give a false sense of security which can be very dangerous. Therefore, it would be very important to continue the discussion and educate the community about taking advantage of the preventive measures that are available such as mammograms, ultrasound and selfcheckups etc. — all of which can help detect cancers beyond those that are caused by BRCA.â€? Well-known shadchan Joanne Bane of the Five Towns afďŹ rmed that the repercussions of stigma in the high-stakes arena of shidduchim can be all too real and all too damaging, and must be considered. Continued on page 20

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room. Each TAG Big Sister introduced herself, brought her sister to her seat and read the story she wrote to her Little Sister. It was beautiful to watch the third graders slowly open up to their Big Sisters as they listened to the book being read to them and chatted about what they had in common. Cupcakes and drinks were served to each pen pal pair. Following the book reading, the TAG girls decorated canvas bags with their Little Sisters and several pairs exchanged bags with each other or autographed their sister’s bag. The event ended with the third graders presenting gifts to their Big Sisters and both sides promised to keep writing over the summer. As TAG’s Grade 7-8 class walked their sister class to the front door, there was a genuine sense of camaraderie and friendship between the classes. They took pictures together and waved goodbye. Although the official school year is over, the lessons of unity, patience, selflessness and sensitivity learned from this pen pal project will stay with TAG’s Grade 7-8 for a long time.

ElAl staff rips hi-heel rule JERUSALEM (AP) — Female flight attendants for Israel’s national carrier are protesting the company’s latest step to wear highheeled shoes during boarding. El Al says the directive to wear “presentable shoes” is standard in aviation worldwide. But the workers union of El Al instructed its female flight attendants Tuesday to ignore the new directive. The union said El Al’s stance was “aggres-

sive” and that the policy would impact the flight attendants’ safety and health. Under the old policy, El Al female flight attendants were required to wear high heels at the airport, but could change into flats on the plane before passenger boarding. Now El Al wants them to stay in high heels throughout boarding. Female Israeli lawmakers and a women’s group called on El Al to dump the policy.

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ith the family l’chaim over (we all had a great time celebrating), and the engagement party not planned till the end of the summer, I intended to concentrate on upcoming catering responsibilities and meeting with clients. Some family celebrations continue, however, as so, last Thursday, before meeting a client, I asked my daughter if she was all set for the “kids only� party. Jordana assured me all was set and that she and Dan had it all under control. It was to take place at Dan’s house and was going to be laid-back and no fuss. Hmm, maybe she was starting to take after me, after all. Was she actually taking care of all the details for their party? Jordana does not share my love of creativity when it comes to cooking, baking or setting up and entertaining; she loves to make salads and will try out some new recipes, but she’d much rather be kickboxing, at a Springsteen concert, or on the basketball court. Friday morning I asked if she had bought the snacks, drinks, paper goods etc. She said she would take care it that day. The keg of beer was on order, and that seemed most important. Of course it was Friday and the party was on Saturday night, so I told her I would pick up the snacks. I bought multiple bags of chips, pretzels, tortia chips, and some other snacks. Not sure that was enough, I bought some chocolates and cookies too. Wondering when she would have time to get dressed and set out the food, I offered to run over after Shabbos and help set up. After all, Dan’s mom was courageous enough to host a party with over 100 fun-loving kids; it was

the least I could do! My daughter saw me taking out my serving pieces and asked what I was doing. I told her I was just getting together some nice serving pieces to set her snacks out on. “You’re kidding right?â€? She asked. “What were you planning to do with your chips?â€? I asked in return. “Just serve them out of the bags, we don’t care, it’s not a fancy party,â€? she replied. Right after Shabbos we zipped over to Dan’s house and quickly set up. I then left to pick up my other kids at the station and was on the way to drop them off when I got a text inviting all the parents to stop by for quick drink to celebrate. By the time I walked in there were well over 100 kids, music, drinks owing and all the food basically ignored. She was right, no one was interested in the food. The friends that Jordana grew up with hugged me, as did her newer friends and Dan’s friends as well. What a great bunch of friends they have. Let me tell you, these kids know how to party. Just then the beer pong started. Jordana said “My mom and I will take winners.â€? I said, “What’s beer pong?â€? Well, a few drinks later, there I was playing beer pong with my partner Jordana against Dan and his dad. The rules were quickly explained (none of which I really understood). Those ping pong balls y really far and are very light. On my ďŹ rst few attempts, the ball landed on counters, the oor and nowhere near the cups of beer on the table. The pressure was on. Jordana was playing against her former basketball coach, Dan’s dad. Obviously she learned a lot from him, having hit most of her shots First time the other team got the ball in the cup, I was handed a cup of beer and told to drink it. It wasn’t full — about 2 ounces. I said, “The whole thing?â€? And heard much laughter. I had to try harder. I remembered if I called “islandâ€? and got the ball in the cup it would be worth extra points or whatever it is you count

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that I can work on all three. PersonalizaContinued from page 1 tion: realizing it is not my fault. He told Aaron the High Priest’s famous sound of me to ban the word “sorry.â€? To tell myself silence, “Vayidom Aharonâ€? (“and Aaron over and over, This is not my fault. Permawas silentâ€?). Silence, because there really nence: remembering that I won’t feel like is nothing to say, Hence his raw response this forever. This will get better. Pervasiveto the pain of the loss of his two sons beness: this does not have to affect every fore his own eyes (interestingly, one of area of my life; the ability to compartmenthe new ways of reading this story is that talize is healthy. Aaron’s famous silence was actually a response to Moses’ words, not to the immeor me, starting the transition back diate death of his two sons — a discussion to work has been a savior, a chance for another time). to feel useful and connected. But I And yet, Sheryl Sandberg, COO of Facequickly discovered that even those conbook, wife of David Goldberg of blessed nections had changed. Many of my comemory, found brave and inspiring words workers had a look of fear in their eyes as to share with the public. She reects upon I approached. I knew why; they wanted to the Jewish milestone of bereavement, the help but weren’t sure how. Should I mensheloshim, the 30-day marker after death, tion it? Should I not mention it? ‌ as well as how to move forward after being I realized that to restore that closeness thrown off Plan A, a front seat row of life. with my colleagues that has always been Here is her touching Facebook post: so important to me, I needed to let them ••• in. And that meant being more open and oday is the end of sheloshim for my vulnerable than I ever wanted to be. I told beloved husband — the ďŹ rst 30 days. those I work with most closely that they Judaism calls for a period of intense could ask me their honest questions and I mourning known as shiva that lasts seven would answer. days after a loved one is buried. After shiI also said it was OK for them to talk va, most normal activities can be resumed, about how they felt. One colleague admitbut it is the end of sheloshim that marks ted she’d been driving by my house frethe completion of religious mourning for quently, not sure if she should come in. a spouse. Another said he was paralyzed when I was A childhood friend of mine who is now around, worried he might say the wrong a rabbi recently told me that the most thing. Speaking openly replaced the fear of powerful one-line prayer he has ever read doing and saying the wrong thing. One of is: “Let me not die while I am still alive.â€? 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Real gratitude for the things I took those who have shared their own experiences has helped pull the best of intentions — is better replaced with “How are you for granted before — like life. As heartbroken as I am, I look me through. Some who opened their hearts were my closest today?â€? at my children each day and rejoice that they are alive. I apfriends. Others were total strangers who have shared wisdom When I am asked “How are you?â€? I stop myself from shout- preciate every smile, every hug. I no longer take each day for and advice publicly. So I am sharing what I have learned in the ing, My husband died a month ago, how do you think I am? granted. When a friend told me that he hates birthdays and so hope that it helps someone else. In the hope that there can be When I hear “How are you today?â€? I realize the person knows he was not celebrating his, I looked at him and said through some meaning from this tragedy. that the best I can do right now is to get through each day. tears, “Celebrate your birthday . . . You are lucky to have each I have lived 30 years in these 30 days. I am 30 years sadder. one.â€? My next birthday will be depressing . . . but I am deterI feel like I am 30 years wiser. have learned some practical stuff that matters. Although we mined to celebrate it in my heart more than I have ever celI have gained a more profound understanding of what it now know that Dave died immediately, I didn’t know that ebrated a birthday before. is to be a mother, both through the depth of the agony I feel in the ambulance. The trip to the hospital was unbearably I am truly grateful to the many who have offered their symwhen my children scream and cry and from the connection my slow. I still hate every car that did not move to the side, every pathy. A colleague told me that his wife, whom I have never mother has to my pain. She has tried to ďŹ ll the empty space in person who cared more about arriving at their destination a met, decided to show her support by going back to school to my bed, holding me each night until I cry myself to sleep. She few minutes earlier than making room for us to pass. I have get her degree — something she had been putting off for years. has fought to hold back her own tears to make room for mine. noticed this while driving in many countries and cities. Let’s Yes! When the circumstances allow, I believe as much as ever in She has explained to me that the anguish I am feeling is both all move out of the way. Someone’s parent or partner or child leaning in. And so many men, from those I know well to those my own and my children’s, and I understood that she was right might depend on it. I will likely never know, are honoring Dave’s life by spending as I saw the pain in her own eyes. I have learned how ephemeral everything can feel, and may- more time with their families. I have learned that I never really knew what to say to oth- be everything is. That whatever rug you are standing on can be I can’t even express the gratitude I feel to my family and ers in need. I think I got this all wrong before; I tried to as- pulled right out from under you with absolutely no warning. friends who have done so much and reassured me that they will sure people that it would be OK, thinking that hope was the In the last 30 days, I have heard from too many women who continue to be there. In the brutal moments when I am overmost comforting thing I could offer. A friend of mine with late- lost a spouse and then had multiple rugs pulled out from under taken by the void, when the months and years stretch out in stage cancer told me that the worst thing people could say to them. Some lack support networks and struggle alone as they front of me endless and empty, only their faces pull me out of the him was, “It is going to be OK.â€? That voice in his head would face emotional distress and ďŹ nancial insecurity. It seems so isolation and fear. My appreciation for them knows no bounds. scream, How do you know it is going to be okay? Do you not wrong to me that we abandon these women and their families I was talking to one of these friends about a father-child acunderstand that I might die? when they are in greatest need. tivity that Dave is not here to do. We came up with a plan to ďŹ ll I have learned to ask for help, and I have learned how much in for Dave. I cried to him, “But I want Dave. I want option A.â€? earned this past month what he was trying to teach me. help I need. Until now, I have been the older sister, the COO, He put his arm around me and said, “Option A is not available. Real empathy is sometimes not insisting that it will be OK the doer and the planner. I did not plan this, and when it hap- So let’s just [embrace] option B.â€? but acknowledging that it is not. When people say to me, pened, I was not capable of doing much of anything. Those Dave, to honor your memory and raise your children as they “You and your children will ďŹ nd happiness again,â€? my heart closest to me took over. They planned. They arranged. They deserve to be raised, I promise to do all I can to [embrace] tells me, Yes, I believe that, but I know I will never feel pure told me where to sit and reminded me to eat. They are still do- option B. And even though sheloshim has ended, I still mourn joy again. ing so much to support me and my children. for option A. I will always mourn for option A. As Bono sang, Those who have said, “You will ďŹ nd a new normal, but it I have learned that resilience can be learned. Adam M. “There is no end to grief . . . and there is no end to love.â€? I love will never be as goodâ€? comfort me more because they know Grant taught me that three things are critical to resilience and you, Dave.

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hroughout the P5+1 negotiation process President Obama, Secretary of State Kerry and all those speaking for the Administration promised that if a deal is made, the only Iranian sanctions that will be lifted are those imposed with the purpose of eliminating their nuclear weapons program. In fact the famous “fact sheet” distributed on April 2, the day the framework deal was announced said “U.S. sanctions on Iran for terrorism, human rights abuses, and ballistic-missiles will remain in place under the deal.” According to a report by the Associated Press ,that promise like, many made since Obama took office in 2009, has been tossed out the window. AP reported that the U.S. is going to rollback non- nuclear sanctions and that the sanctions imposed on Iran to block money-laundering and ballistic-missile development will also

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be rolled back. Twenty-three out of twentyfour of the currently sanctioned Iranian banks will get their “get out of jail free cards” and will be allowed to do business with the West, including the Big Kahuna of sanctioned banks, the crucial Central Bank of Iran (CBI). “The bank underpins Iran’s entire economy, and for years the U.S. avoided hitting it with sanctions, fearing such action would spread financial instability and spike oil prices,” AP reported. “By late 2011, with Iran’s nuclear program advancing rapidly, Obama and Congress did order penalties, declaring the bank a “primary money laundering concern” and linking its activity to ballistic-missile research, terror financing and support for Syrian President Bashar Assad. [Not the nuclear weapons program].” In the midst of being booed during last week’s Jerusalem Post conference, Treasury Secretary Jack Lew explained that a nuclear accord would include the suspension of all “secondary” oil, trade and banking restrictions, those that apply to U.S. and non-U.S. banks, as well as foreign governments. Lifting those sanctions will make it easier for Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps and its

police, intelligence services and paramilitary groups to conduct their nasty business. Easing “secondary” sanctions is a total negation of the administration’s assurances that the Iranians would only get nuclear-related relief, and that sanctions relating to Iran’s non-nuclear military and terror-related activities would remain. That possibility has Iran’s rivals in the region, including Israel and the Sunni monarchies of the Middle East, gravely worried. “I share their concern,” Gen. Martin Dempsey, Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman, said last Tuesday in Jerusalem. “It’s my expectation that it’s not all going to flow into the economy to improve the lot of the average Iranian citizen. I think they will invest in their surrogates. I think they will invest in additional military capability.” The Comprehensive Iran Sanctions, Accountability and Divestment Act of 2010 was about nuclear issues, but also separately about terrorism, ballistic-missile development and non-nuclear WMDs (the very first provision is the sunset provision and involves Presidential certification; the first requirement has zero to do with nuclear work (it’s entirely about international terrorism). The second requirement separates out nuclear,

biological, and chemical weapons from ballisticmissile technology and requires certification on all of them. In 2011 Treasury identified Iran as a jurisdiction of primary money laundering concern, which is an illicit finance issue. That finding was then cited at the top of the 2011 Kirk-Menendez amendment to the 2012 defense authorization bill, which was about terrorism. The interim Joint Plan of Action and the final Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JPOA) has never treated ballistic-missiles as a nuclear issue and they’ve always distinguished between ballistic-missile sanctions and nuclear-related sanctions. There’s never debate about this. But now, an April 2 fact sheet describing the JCPOA stated flat out “U.S. sanctions on Iran for terrorism, human rights abuses, and ballisticmissiles will remain in place under the deal.” There’s an old saying if it walks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it must be a duck. But in this case if walks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, to protect his legacy and create a deal with the Iranians at all costs, if Obama calls it a cow — well dammit, it’s a cow.

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ith the June 30 deadline for a deal with Iran over its nuclear ambitions looming ominously, the Obama administration is having a hard time persuading a skeptical public that these negotiations are going to tame the Tehran regime. On the two critical issues—preventing Iran from weaponizing its nuclear program, and rolling back the expansion of Iranian political and military influence throughout the region— all the evidence suggests that the White House is engaged in what Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, the former head of the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency, has bluntly called “wishful thinking.” “It is clear that the nuclear deal is not a permanent fix but a placeholder,” Flynn told the House Foreign Affairs Committee this week. Iran, he continued, has “every intention” of building a nuclear weapon, and the desire of its Islamist regime to wipe Israel off the map is “very real.” “Iran has not once contributed to the greater good of the security in the region,” Flynn declared, before concluding that “regime change” is the best means of preventing the mullahs from obtaining a nuclear weapon. Regime change is a concept that couldn’t be further from the Obama administration’s agenda. Not only does it jar with the president’s views on how foreign policy should be conducted—which explains not just America’s stance on Iran, but also its flimsy response to Russian aggression in Ukraine—it directly contradicts the goal of strengthening and stabilizing Iran under its current tyrannical rulers. As Michael Doran of the Washington-based Hudson Institute think tank explained it in a recent essay for Mosaic magazine, in President Barack Obama’s thinking, “détente will restrain Iranian behavior more effectively than any formal agreement.” Now, you wouldn’t necessarily reach that conclusion by listening to certain of Obama’s remarks. When he spoke at Washington’s Adas Israel synagogue in May, Obama was clear: “I’m interested in a deal that blocks every single one of Iran’s pathways to a nuclear weapon—every single path. A deal that imposes unprecedented inspections on all elements of Iran’s nuclear program, so that they can’t cheat; and if they

try to cheat, we will immediately know about it and sanctions snap back on.” Not for the first time, the president reminded his audience that “all options are and will remain on the table”—which implies that military action is still being considered. Other senior Obama officials have made similar points before anxious Jewish crowds. At this year’s American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) conference, Susan Rice, Obama’s national security advisor, said, “As President Obama has repeated many times, we are keeping all options on the table to prevent Iran from developing a nuclear weapon.” That rhetoric, which hasn’t been believable for many months, seems almost laughable now. Indeed, most of Rice’s speech at AIPAC justified the concessions which the Obama administration has made on Iran, going onto warn that “walking away” from negotiations would lead to Iran rebuilding its “uranium stockpile and we will lose the unprecedented sanctions and transparency we have today.” In fact, as the International Atomic Energy Agency reported earlier this month, Iran increased its uranium stockpile by around 20 percent over the last 18 months of negotiations. The dominant perception in the region, shared by many Arab states and Israel alike, is that Iran is moving towards a nuclear weapon.

The Iranians know that’s how they are seen, and frankly, it suits them. It certainly hasn’t curbed Tehran’s backing for militias in Iraq who would swap out the Sunni Islamic State terrorists for a Shi’a version of the same, nor has it curbed their support for the barbaric regime of Bashar al-Assad in Syria, along with his Hezbollah allies. The prospect that Iran will receive a “signing bonus” of $50 billion should it agree to the nuclear deal remains a live one. While the Obama administration apparently believes that the Iranians will spend the money to revive their flagging economy, that shouldn’t be taken to mean better roads, more schools, more career training, or any of the other measures that might revive Iranian society. Strategically, it makes far more sense for the regime to spend the money on shoring up Assad, because without him, Iran will become a much weaker power regionally. Similar logic applies to Hezbollah, which has been fighting Islamic State on Assad’s behalf and which has also, according to Israeli officials speaking in May, set up rocket silos, terror tunnels, and artillery positions in Lebanese villages close to the border with Israel. It’s not just that the Obama administration isn’t bothered by these developments. It looks, rather, as if the White House and the Continued on page 20

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fter the Korach episode, Moshe is told by G-d to tell his nephew Elazar to take the fire pans of those who perished bringing the k’toret, and hammer them out in order for them to become covers for the miz’be’ach. “And Elazar the Kohen took the copper pans that were offered by those who were burned, and he hammered them into covers for the miz’be’ach. [It was to serve as] a reminder to the Children of Israel, in order that no stranger – who is not of the seed of Aharon – will come close to burn the k’toret before G-d. And he will not be like Korach and like his cohorts, as G-d spoke, in the hand of Moshe, to him.” (17:4-5) Many commentaries note that the last phrase, “as G-d spoke, in the hand of Moshe, to him,” seems out of place. Some, such as the Da’at Zekenim, suggest that though these words appear at the end of 17:5, they refer directly to Elazar’s actions of 17:4. The phrase “And he will not be like Korach and like his cohorts” is also enigmatic. It could refer to Elazar who, unlike Korach, will be doing exactly what G-d instructed; it could refer to the non-Kohen who, unlike Korach, avoids bringing k’toret; it could refer to the punishment itself (as opposed to the behavior), that no perpetrator will be swallowed by the ground? Rashi (and many others) focuses on the strange phrase “b’yad Moshe” (in the hand of Moshe), suggesting that the verse is teaching us that those who argue over Kohanic rights will be punished with Tzara’at, just as Moshe

was punished “in his hand” with tzara’at in Shmot 4:6. Rashi supports this teaching using the example of King Uzziah (Divrei Hayamim II:26:19) who was afflicted with tzara’at for the rest of his life after he approached the Temple to burn k’toret, despite not being a Kohen. But there are problems with Rashi’s teaching. The phrase “b’yad Moshe” appears over 15 times in the Torah. It usually refers to how Moshe presented the law, which descended from the mountain “in Moshe’s hand,” and it doesn’t seem to ever refer to the “punishment” Moshe received at the burning bush. One could even argue that the tzara’at that Moshe received at the burning bush wasn’t even a punishment, as it only lasted for five seconds, and was meant to be a sign that G-d had sent him! Furthermore, where at the burning bush does Moshe burn k’toret or covet the priesthood? Rashi is likely referring to the passage in the Talmud Sanhedrin 110a that says “someone who hangs on to machloket’(the need to maintain a fight) violates the rule to not be like Korach and his cohorts. Rav Ashi says, he deserves to get tzara’at – because in this case it refers to [a punishment literally] in the hand of Moshe, and in Shmot Moshe was told to bring his hand into his shirt [in order to receive the tzara’at].” How is one parallel to the other? Even if Moshe was punished, how is his circumstance similar to Korach’s? The Kli Yakar advances this question further, suggesting that if we’re going to try to learn a punishment of tzara’at for challenging

authority, we’d be better off learning it from Miriam’s story, when she spoke about her brother’s leadership, claiming similar strengths as a prophetess, and got tzara’at as a result! We know that tzara’at was a punishment for seven sins: lashon hora, murder, swearing in vain, immorality, haughtiness, theft and stinginess (Arakhin 16a). Note that coveting the priesthood is not on the list. Kli Yakar notes that G-d’s worldview of punishment is “measure for measure.” The Talmud (Shabbat 97a) says, we learn from Moshe that one who suspects others unjustly is punished on his body. Moshe suspected that the Israelites would not believe he was sent by G-d (Shmot 4:1) and would assume he had made everything up. This is exactly what Korach accused Moshe of – fabricating a law that serves his own purposes and makes him (and Aharon) important, without any real Divine instruction. Were Moshe’s accusation at the burning bush true, the people would have been subject to tzara’at. Since it was not true, that punishment was put on Moshe, measure for measure. The Kli Yakar explains that this sort of pronouncement fits in with the sins of lashon hora and haughtiness, which the Israelites would have been displaying had they indeed not believed that Moshe was sent by G-d. he reason why Korach and his cohorts met the end that they met was because in addition to bringing k’toret, they denied G-d completely. They were culpable for two punishments, and they received the greater one (death) following the principle of “Kim leh b’d’raba mineh.” The strange conclusion of our verse, there-

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fore is teaching the following: the flattened out pans are meant to serve as a reminder for all non-Kohanim not to bring k’toret, because they will presumably not be like Korach and his cohorts who are denying G-d’s law, guilty of all kinds of sins. They are presumably merely challenging Moshe’s prophesy that the priesthood belongs to the family of Aharon alone, as they are thinking their worthiness trumps the priestly bloodline. This is a sin of haughtiness which is punishable with tzara’at. Elazar’s role, therefore, is significant only in that he is a Kohen who is representing that Moshe’s prophesy of the Divine assignment of the priesthood is true. For everyone else, the lesson is clear. There are different ways of challenging authority. Asking legitimate questions in the pursuit of knowledge and understanding is not only valid, it is significantly important. And if there is something wrong with the authority, it is imperative to find the truth and to bring it out. On the other hand, saying Moshe or Aharon are unworthy because “I am more worthy” or because “I deny G-d’s role in appointing you,” is an offense that is beyond the pale. It is not only arrogance which drives such an approach, but it comes from a place that is far deeper and darker than a respectable desire to understand. There are no Moshes and Aharons today. No one is given Divine Authority for any position. When we need to challenge leadership, we must always come from the first approach – a genuine pursuit of truth aimed towards understanding, in order to know how to proceed. Korach and his cohorts wanted to bring Moshe and Aharon down simply because they didn’t like them. We dare not look to destroy anyone’s life on account of any hateful vendetta.

Loving each other even when we disagree RABBI BINNY FREEDMAN THE HEART OF JERUSALEM Rabbi Freedman is off this week. This column originally appeared in 2013. ome time ago, at a Rosh Chodesh prayer service at the Kotel, things got ugly. As they have been doing for nearly 25 years, a group of women from a range of Jewish backgrounds, known as the Women of the Wall, gathered at the Kotel to pray the special morning prayers of Rosh Chodesh. This group included women wearing tallitot and tefillin, and reading from a Torah scroll. Many ultraOrthodox Jews (a label that needs defining beyond the scope of this article) arrived to protest, and things got out of hand. A group of my students from Yeshivat Orayta happened to be at the Kotel and were caught in the middle of it, later describing to me a horrendous scene which included Jews throwing chairs, spitting at their fellow Jews, and even pummeling and knocking down a policewoman. While the group of Jews displaying such violence was certainly a small fringe element, one wonders how we have arrived at such a sorry state of affairs. his week’s portion contains the story of Korach’s rebellion against Moshe and Aaron. Korach, Moshe’s first cousin, challenged his authority, claiming that the appointment of Elitzafan (another cousin, from a younger brother than Korach’s dad) as tribal prince was nepotism, and not the word of G-d. Ulti-

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mately, Korach questioned Moshe’s motives, for which he was punished, along with many of his followers, by being swallowed up by the earth in what may have been the first recorded earthquake. There is a principle that when G-d metes out punishment, it is done “measure for measure” (middah ke’neged middah) with a punishment chosen to mirror the crime, thus making it clear why the perpetrator is being punished. So why was an earthquake G-d’s choice of punishment? Jewish tradition teaches that just as Korach and his followers opened their mouths to speak ill over G-d’s prophet Moshe, the earth in turn swallowed them and silenced them forever. This concept is found often; another example was the story of Joseph. The Torah tells us that Joseph slandered his brothers by telling his father Yaakov of their misdeeds. Rashi (Genesis 37:2) says Joseph said the brothers ate unslaughtered meat, degraded the maidservants’ children by calling them slaves and that they were suspect of licentious behavior (infidelity). Joseph was punished measure for measure: The brothers dipped his coat in the blood of a slaughtered goat (showing they did indeed slaughter their animals before eating them), he was sold into slavery, and he was jailed when his master’s wife attempted to seduce him. Rav Chaim Shmuelevitz, in his Sichot Mussar, points out that middah ke’neged mid-

dah is less about punishment and more about a message. Every event that affects our lives really carries a message for us; we need only be sensitive enough to recognize it. As an example, the Baal Shem Tov points out that if we see a person desecrating Shabbat, it does not mean we are supposed to scream “Shabbos” at them, it means there is a flaw in our own Shabbat. And if this is true on an individual level, it is certainly so on a national level. I recall in the summer of 2005, during the Israeli disengagement from Gush Katif, feeling that if Israeli soldiers could be expelling 8,000 Jews from their homes, resulting in terrorists dancing on the rooftops of burning synagogues, something was dreadfully wrong. The Hebrew word for the disengagement was hitnatkut, literally meaning to be cut off. Perhaps we underwent the terrible events of that dreadful summer because we were, and in many ways still are, cut off from each other. Here in Israel, many of us live in our island communities, religious or secular, Chassidic or Litvish, right wing or left, and as a result have very little to do with those who are outside of our comfort zone. How many religious Jews (whatever THAT term means) who live in settlements in Yehuda or Shomron have close secular friends who live in Tel Aviv? And how many modern Orthodox Jews (another label needing much more of an explanation) have close friends in the ultraOrthodox world? How many of us even have

As dangers mount, we need to look inward, not only outward toward our dangerous neighbors.

healthy avenues to dialogue with each other? Indeed, the Talmud tells us that the second Temple was destroyed, along with a sizable portion of the Jewish community due to sinat chinam (baseless hatred). But a normal person does not hate someone for no reason; he does have a reason — so it’s not really baseless hatred, is it? The Netziv (Rav Naftali Tzvi Yehuda Berllin, rosh yeshiva of the famed Yeshivat Volozhin in the mid- to late-1800s) suggests, in his introduction to Genesis, that sinat chinam refers to someone who hates his fellow Jew because that other person’s pathway to a relationship with G-d is different from his own. When you hate someone because of the way they choose to practice their Judaism, however different from your own, and regardless of whether it is halachically (traditionally) correct, then that is sinat chinam. Interestingly, the Netziv suggests this leads to the destruction of the land of Israel and the forfeiting of a Jewish connection to the land, which may well be what was really happening in the summer of 2005, and if the events of a few weeks ago are any indication, we are still struggling with the same issue. Perhaps, when we read of all the dangers that abound today for the State of Israel: a nuclear Iran, missiles in the hands of Hezbollah in Lebanon, dangerous trends on our borders with Syria and Egypt and so on, we need to look inwards and not only outwards towards our dangerous neighbors. And if hating our fellow Jew for his or her different opinions leads to the destruction of the land, then learning to love each other even whilst disagreeing on how Judaism asks us to relate to G-d, is the solution.

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hysical health is a priority in Judaism. This is a prime belief in our faith. Nothing in Jewish law inhibits the maintenance of the quality of one’s physical life. Thus, this week’s review focuses on an anthology, “Halakhic Realities: Collected Essays on Brain Death,” recently issued by the International Rabbinic Fellowship and published by Maggid Books under the skilled chief editorship of Gila Fine. This volume, in four sections, deals with the following aspects of this most sensitive of issues, long debated among rabbis: 1. The Medico-Legal Issues 2. General Halachic Responsa 3. A Look At The Poskim 4. The Historical Ethical Considerations. Each section includes essays by leading rabbinic authorities touching on the highly venerated opinions and Piskei Torah of Rav Moshe Feinstein, Rav Yosef Soloveitchik, Rav Herschel Schachter, Rav Shlomo Zalman Auerbach, Rav Aharon Soloveichik and Rav Immamuel Jakobovits. Among the most prominent of the anthology’s rabbi-authors is Rabbi Charles Sheer, whose 42 page essay, “Torah U-Madda and the Brain Death Debate,” stands at the very center of the presentment on this sensitive

and controversial question. His biography warrants your attention as an appropriate introduction to this issue and of his life’s work. Rabbi Charles Sheer is director of Cultural Competency Education at Westchester Medical Center in Valhalla, N.Y. He is also a faculty member at the Bioethics Institute at New York Medical College. Rabbi Sheer holds a B.A. in history from Yeshiva University, an M.A. in Talmudic literature from its Bernard Revel Graduate School of Jewish Studies, and rabbinic ordination from RIETS. He also received a Memorial Fellowship for Advanced Talmudic research from Yeshiva University. Previously, he was director of the Department of Jewish Studies in Jewish Pastoral Care at HealthCare Chaplaincy, an adjunct professor in the Department of Jewish Studies at CCNY, and the longtime and distinguished Jewish chaplain at Columbia University and Barnard College. On a personal note: I came to know him during the late 1960s early 1970s when he was at Columbia and distiguished himself as one of America’s prime and effective activists in the struggle for the liberation of Russian Jews from Communist tyranny. Rabbi Sheer clearly reviews the history of the struggle to clearly define the halachic implications of brain death definition and application to the average layperson. Among the many medical/rabbinical authorities cited by Rabbi Sheer is Rabbi Dr. Edward Reichman, M.D., of Woodmere, whose essay, “The Halakhic Definition of Death in Light of Medical History,” appeared in the Torah U-Madda Journal 4 (1993).

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oy, was I dumb to pay back my college loans. That is the conclusion of writer Lee Siegel, who explained in a New York Times op-ed why he never paid back his. Siegel’s parents had limited means, so, at 17, he borrowed to go to a pricey private school for two years. When his parents divorced and his father went bankrupt, he transferred, the poor suffering lad, to a lowercost state college. “Years later, I found myself confronted with a choice that too many people have had to and will have to face,” he writes. “I could give up what had become my vocation (in my case, being a writer) and take a job that I didn’t want in order to repay the huge debt I had accumulated in college and graduate school. Or I could take what I had been led to believe was both the morally and legally reprehensible step of defaulting on my student loans, which was the only way I could survive without wasting my life in a job that had nothing to do with my particular usefulness to society.” First off, your premise is dead wrong. Great writers have almost always worked jobs they didn’t want, to pay the bills. William Faulkner worked for the post office. Kurt Vonnegut managed a car dealership. Stephen King worked as a janitor and dry cleaner. Harper Lee took reservations for an airline. John Steinbeck was a painter and handyman. One of my favorite authors, O. Henry (Wil-

liam Sydney Porter), was a ranch hand, pharmacist, draftsman and bank clerk — he met many colorful characters in these various jobs, who influenced some of his greatest stories. I am a professional writer, too, and my parents didn’t have enough money to cover my college bills, either. To come up with my Penn State tuition, my father worked overtime while I labored as a stonemason every summer. During the school year, I worked as a dishwasher, janitor, handyman, grass cutter and rooming-house manager. I worked as a bouncer, too, which involved kicking drunk people out of bars and mopping up that which some patrons couldn’t keep down. I sold my plasma for 10 bucks a pop twice a week — though it nearly killed me (when my mother found out, she nearly strangled me). After college, I wanted to kick around Europe for a year and write the great American novel — like you, Siegel, I didn’t want to waste my precious young life in a job I didn’t like. But I had debt to repay and, unlike you, it never occurred to me that I could simply not pay it back. Lucky for me, my parents taught me well: Nobody owes you anything, but when you owe somebody, pay him or her back. Thus, I took the first job an English major could get — a marketing writing job for a technology company. I have been self-employed for years, providing writing services to technology companies — so that I can pay my bills while I work on my novels in my spare time. Nobody put a gun to your head to borrow money for college, bud. You could have gone to a low-cost community college for a few years, then transfer to a university. Quit your whining, Siegel, and pay back your damn loans.

“Rabbi Dr. Reichman proves that Rashi presumed ‘that the heart is a respiratory organ and that ... the inspired air ultimately reached the heart, ideas widely held throughout antiquity and the Middle Ages’.” I leave it to you, the reader, to further consider Rabbi Sheer’s essay and parse out the implications that scholars such as Rabbi Reichman came to on this vital issue within the context of halacha, sans the emotion and false piety of some. Rabbi Sheer concludes his essay with the following observation: “If an Orthodox Jew visited a doctor today because of an injury — say, a snake or scorpion bite — he or she wouldn’t agree to recite an incantation, even if derived from the Talmud. With all due respect to the great Vilna Gaon, that debate has ended. Similarly, we would balk if our physician turned to the Talmud instead of a medical book to diagnose our illness and present a cure. … Rambam’s integration of ‘madda’ within Torah provides a model with which to approach brain death. … His emphasis on rational inquiry and evidence allows for a positive encounter with modernity. May we have the courage to emulate him.” Rabbi Sheer’s essay contains 69 footnotes.

All serve as valuable research tools for further study on this topic. In the last footnote, Rabbi Sheer shares with us a most heartfelt sentiment that may serve as the role model for every newlywed couple. “This essay is a tribute to my wife, Judy Adler Sheer. She has been a true havruta to me in our life together as well as in our love and learning of Torah. We discussed the ideas presented here, and the entire essay was enhanced by her strong editorial skills. My life and learning have been enhanced by her.” )25 )857+(5 678'<

A wonderful new commentary just came out entitled, “A River Flowed from Eden: Torah for the Shabbat Table,” by Rabbi Ari Kahn. Published by Kodesh Press Publications, this work, consisting of a series of three-page essays on the weekly parasha, will be a helpful addition to your Shabbat table Torah learning. Also, may I suggest that you consider reading these two essays on Korach, “Korach — Ideologue or Provocateur?” by Rabbi Alex Israel and “Korach and Modern Values” by Dr. Ronen Ahituv, [Bar Ilan University’s Parashat Hashavua Study Center]. Also, just hot off the press is, “Spiritual Boredom: Rediscovering the Wonder of Judaism” by Dr. Erica Brown (Jewish Lights). Any book by Erica Brown is worth both your time and reading attention.

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did not appreciate history. I did not find it interesting. My father in his younger days also did not appreciate history, did not find it interesting. Later it became an obsession to him. Now I love reading about those who were like us or who were very different. I realize how vital it is to know where we have come from in order to know where we are headed. I photograph Bar Mitzvahs in the religious community where that day represents an identity that is alive and that has passionately persisted through inhumane attempts to crush it. The party and pictures are one small example of the over-arching force that links them with the generations of their ancestors who knew where they were from and where they were going. But I also photograph young Jewish men whose Bar Mitzvahs are just a celebration of what — they aren’t sure, because they are totally unaware of their history. Teachers should tie the past to the present. Ancient history is important, but recent history is vital. Learning the intricacies of the last 800 years of Jewish history, may be more important than learning the first 800! To a Bar Mitavah boy it can seems like the road has vanished or is irrelevant. Attempts at outreach have not succeeded in Reform Jews appreciating their identity. I think that is because the emphasis has been on explaining all the religious customs, and placing the history on the back burner. History can sometimes light a stronger fire in someone who may not want to focus as much on faith as their teachers do. Faith

can come in time. But history is all ready, just waiting to be taught, touched and talked about. History can inspire! A goal should be to teach unaffiliated and Reform Jews who admit to having no knowledge or interest in Jewish history, enough for them to develop interest. Irish, Italians and Greeks are proud to be Americans but also value their roots and identity as Irish, Italian or Greek. We should not sit back as other Jews distant themselves from their roots, their identity or their homeland as Jews. The color of the Israeli flag, and the flag itself, should mean something. When I ask an Italian family if they would like some photos with an Italian flag, not one person can resist. Many synagogues today have shrunk back from displaying a flag while 85 percent of my clients, when asked if they would like photos with the Israeli flag, say it is not necessary! If we do not appreciate what we have, soon we will no longer have it. If future generations of our youth have Jewish pride and identity, everything will be good. If not, little else matters. To an aware artist, the blue Jewish star of our flag means something, and the yellow of 1938 means something too. To an unaware Jew, neither matters. Those who daily speak to Hashem should also make sure to speak to those who need to know the road they lost. Salesmen are taught that If you really know and believe in your product, you should be able to speak about it for an hour. Religious schools should stress that each and every student be able to successfully argue against detractors and haters who rely on Jews to be as ignorant of our great history as they are themselves. Gary Rabenko is artistic and technical director of Rabenko Photography and Video Arts, 516-593-9760, gary@rabenko.com

By Josef Federman JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel on Sunday launched a pre-emptive assault on an upcoming U.N. report into last year’s war in the Gaza Strip, saying the report is unfairly biased and issuing its own report that blames Gaza’s Hamas militant rulers for the heavy civilian casualties. The diplomatic offensive set the stage for what is expected to be a contentious showdown with U.N. officials over allegations that Israel committed war crimes during the 50day war. Israel has long had a contentious relationship with the United Nations, saying the world body is biased. A similar report conducted by the U.N.’s Human Rights Council following a 2008-2009 war against in Gaza was harshly critical of both Israel and Hamas. But this time around, the stakes are higher. The Palestinians have joined the International Criminal Court and are pursuing war crimes charges against Israel. “Having on the record our view of this war is extremely important, and we have nothing to hide,” Dore Gold, the new director of Israel’s Foreign Ministry, told reporters at a special briefing held to unveil Israel’s own 242-page investigation into the war. Gold was accompanied by the country’s Deputy Foreign Minister, Tzipi Hotovely, and governmental and military legal experts who worked on the report. Israel launched its offensive in Gaza last July 8 in response to heavy rocket fire from Hamas and other militant groups in the territory. More than 2,200 Palestinians, including hundreds of civilians, were killed during the fighting, according to U.N. and Palestinian officials, while 73 people died on the Israeli side.

Palestinians have said that the Israeli army violated the rules of war, which include giving adequate warning to civilians, using proportionate force and distinguishing between civilians and combatants. They have pointed to the high civilian casualty count as evidence. In Sunday’s report, Israel defended itself with the same arguments it has been making since the fighting ended, albeit with a level of detail never shown before. Israel’s core claim is that Hamas is responsible for the civilian casualties because it used Gaza’s residents as “human shields” by firing rockets from residential areas and operating in schools, hospitals and mosques. It also notes that Hamas’ rockets and mortar shells were aimed at Israeli population centers. The report includes what Israel says are seized Hamas documents encouraging its fighters to move in civilian areas, knowing that it would constrain Israel’s ability to act. “We were a bit struck and surprised with the amount of documentation that we managed to recover during the operation actually indicating that this is a strategy of Hamas,” said Eran Shamir-Borer, a lawyer in the Israeli military’s international law department. Nabil Shaath, a senior Palestinian official, called the latest Israeli reports “sickening and outrageous” and said they strengthened the need for the Palestinians to seek international justice. Israel has argued that it took unprecedented measures to avoid civilian casualties, ordering residents to evacuate through leaflets, phone calls, radio broadcasts and warning strikes with unarmed shells ahead of live airstrikes.

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Shamir-Borer showed reporters what he said was a declassified “target card” that laid out the calculations Israel took before striking a suspected arms cache hidden in the home of an Islamic Jihad leader in southern Gaza. The “operational directives” listed on the card call for destroying the arms while avoiding civilian casualties. It calls for a single airstrike on the home, at night and only after warning people to leave, and “real-time surveillance” to be on the lookout for civilians. Shamir-Borer said the home was hit, and there was a “secondary blast,” indicating weapons were stored there. The report said the army was unaware of any casualties from the strike. Shamir-Borer said the army went through a similar process in all 5,000 preplanned airstrikes carried out during the fighting, though there were hundreds of reactive strikes as well. According to the latest Israeli figures, some 44 percent of the dead in Gaza were militants, far higher than Palestinian and U.N. numbers. Officials with Hamas, a militant group sworn to Israel’s destruction, rejected the Israeli report. Izzat Risheq, a senior Hamas official, called it a “lie promoted by the occupation to cover up its crimes.” He said “the hand of justice will reach the perpetrators.” The new Israeli report is part of a broader campaign aimed at blunting the coming report by the U.N. Human Rights Commission. Over the weekend, Israel released a report compiled by a group of retired Western military officers who found that Israel met or “significantly exceeded” the international laws of war. The report was sponsored by the “Friends of Israel Initiative,” a pro-Israel group of retired politicians and diplomats

from around the world. “Those who want to know the truth should read this report and read the report of the top generals,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told his Cabinet. “Whoever wants a baseless automatic accusation against Israel can waste their time reading the U.N. report.” Israel has had a contentious relationship with the U.N. Human Rights Council for years, saying it is stacked with countries that themselves have poor human rights records and has focused disproportionate attention on Israel. A report by the council into the 20082009 war conducted by South African jurist Richard Goldstone, found evidence that Israel and Hamas had committed war crimes, though Goldstone later backed off his key allegations against Israel. Israel has attacked the council’s latest investigation since it was ordered last July. The investigation’s mandate focuses on Israel’s activities in Gaza, but makes no mention of Hamas attacks on Israel. Israeli claims of bias forced the head of the investigation, Canadian law professor William Schabas, to resign early this year after it was discovered he had provided legal advice to the Palestine Liberation Organization. But these complaints may go only so far. The upcoming report is all but certain to come down hard on Israel, giving the Palestinians a potent weapon in their case against Israel at the International Criminal Court. Although Israel refuses to recognize the court’s jurisdiction, a case against its citizens would be embarrassing and could potentially hinder Israeli officials from traveling abroad.

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Eighty-six students graduated from the Stella K. Abraham High School for Girls at the school’s 19th annual commencement exercises on Sunday, June 14, on HALB’s Woodmere campus. Speakers included Valedictorian Yiela Saperstein, Salutatorian Paulette Tawil, Keter Shem Tov Awardee De-

vorah Meisels, and Head of School Helen Spirn. Diplomas were presented by Principal Dr. Tzipora Meier, Director of Religious Guidance Elisheva Kaminetsky, and HALB President Lance Hirt. Gifts to the graduates were given by SKA Parent Council Co-Chairpersons Mindy Aryeh and Sharon Lipsky.

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Hurricanes champs HANC The HANC Middle School Hurricanes won the championship of the Martin Weiselberg Memorial Tournament. The event is organized by Elliot Weiselberg in memory of his father OB”M, with proceeds going to tzedakah. Over $10,000 was raised. In round one, HANC defeated

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HANC Fifth Grade Girls in Morah Jacob’s class at HANC’s Samuel & Elizabeth Bass Golding Elementary School, in West Hempstead, completed Parshat Vaera, having been hard at work all year building their Chumash reading, translating and analytical thinking skills. For their siyyum, the students decorating materials to decorate cakes with designs depictinh pesukim from Parshat Vaera. Creativity abounded as the girls brainstormed and created masterpieces in accordance with the pesukim of the Chumash. Some examples included using blue licorice for the water in the Nile River before the plagues and red licorice for the water in the Nile River after the first plague of blood, and using dark chocolate chips

as boils and white chocolate chips as hail. After presenting and explaining their works of art to the class, the girls enjoyed eating their delicious and educational cakes. What a “sweet” way to cap off the learning of the parsha.

Musical at HAFTR HAFTR The HAFTR Players, joined by members of the Kulanu program, staged a sold-out performance of “High School Musical.” Directed by Mrs. Jennifer Winkler, the play, featuring students from both HAFTR’s Middle School and High School, wooed crowds of all ages.

HALB read-a-thon aids Gift of Life Foundation

The Hebrew Academy of Long Beach’s second grade held a read-a-thon to raise money — $2,100 —for the Gift of Life Foundation, under the guidance of their teacher, Mrs. Annie Goldstoff. Each child received a trophy and a medal to celebrate their reading and presentation.

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