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Five Towner wins Emmy; his heart’s in Jewish video

By Malka Eisenberg A Cedarhurst native who davens in Agudath of the Five Towns, won an Emmy award for a daytime travel adventure show, but his principal focus is on Jewish themed videos.

The winning show, “Born to Explore” with Richard Wiese, has not been seen by the Torah observant community since it airs on Shabbat mornings on ABC, but David Jasse’s DMJ Digital Media on Central Avenue in Cedarhurst edits the footage for the half hour program and produced the graphics for the show’s

opening animation.

Jasse and DMJ are better known in the community for their videos for Darchei Torah, TAG, Hatzalah, Achiezer and Chai Lifeline.

“We found him very creative, very pleasant and very easy to work with,” said Rabbi Elozer Kanner of Hatzalah, He said the “excellent, superb” film is on their website. “His understanding of the community is what allows him to portray what we do.”

“David brings a real set of talent and creativity to the films and projects which he produces,” said Rabbi Boruch

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B. Bender, president of Achiezer. “He created one of our first films and we are thankful for the time and effort he invested in the project.”

“Last week was a dream come true for DMJ,” said Jasse. “In the same night, part of our team was out celebrating the Emmy, and I was attending Chai Lifeline’s annual Gala dinner in New York City. I watched over 1,100 people give a standing ovation to a little girl battling with cancer after watching her being featured in our mini documentary ‘Two Journeys’.”

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Editor’s Note: Rabbi Hershel Billet, rav of the Young Israel of Woodmere, this week sent words of caution to his congregants as the summer vacation season began. Its timeliness and importance merits broader notice, so we are reprinting it. Rabbi Billet notes that his advice regarding summer sanctity relates to his congregants “and is not a psak (ruling) for other shuls.”

The Jewish Star wishes everyone a safe and fulfilling summer.

Now that the summer is officially upon us, our children will be scattering all over the world in the coming weeks. I am sharing some points I believe are worth noting when anticipating many summer activities we and/or our children might engage in. The first set of points concern safety concerns many of us are aware of, along with some reminders I think of every summer on account of sundry items that have caught my attention over the years. Please forgive me if I am saying things to you that you already know. When it comes to safety, a friendly reminder is appropriate. This is essentially the same note as last year with a few added comments.

The second set of points concerns our summer attitudes towards Sanctity and Kedusha (holiness).

On a metaphysical level, our eternal values are as important as our temporal values.

Chabad children give their pennies to Hatzalah

SAFETY 1. Sunscreen. Just about every study and article about the dangers of the sun recommends putting sunscreen on exposed parts of the body, especially when one will be outdoors for a few hours. When in the sun for extended periods, heads should be covered!

2. Bike Helmets. Biking accidents are never good for riders, but while most injuries have a better chance of recovery, brain injuries don’t have such luxuries. Please wear helmets - be a role model for the children of our community - and insist that kids do, too, even when biking on your block.

The Chabad preschool celebrates graduation on Maple Avenue in Cedarhurst.

Students of Gan Chamesh, Chabad of the Five Towns preschool, displayed the compassion and charity they learned throughout the school year during their graduation march on June 14.

As the 90 preschoolers paraded on

Maple Avenue in Cedarhurst, they performed the mitzvah of charity, placing their individual tzedakah boxes into a grand box on a Hatzalah truck.

A goal was to teach the children the meaning of charity and show them

where their money goes, that charity is not just to be given to the poor, but also to groups that can help many people.

This was reported by Jason Brendler of the Nassau Herald where a version of this story originally appeared.

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eibel Zisman was a survivor, of Kovno, of Auschwitz, of slave labor. He was a refugee from murder, genocide, and unbridled anti-Semitism. He was a Chabad chasid who was destined to survive all the difficulties of life to arrive at these blessed shores, learn English, receive a college degree, teach math, go into business, marry, establish a family, and spend the rest of his KOSHER life helping others and BOOKWORM making the giving of charity the hallmark of his life’s work.

Toward the end of his life, in Cedarhurst, Zisman penned an informal auto-biography, “I Believe: The Story of One Jewish Life,” wherein he detailed many of his life’s experiences. Much of what he wrote reflects Alan Jay Gerber a modest personality, a deeply religious demeanor that was to serve him, his family and his people well for the 82 years that he was among us.

Let me list below several examples of his observations on his life’s experiences that will have meaning to many among us.

“When I began learning at the 770 Yeshiva, Rav Yisroel Gustman was still the rosh yeshiva. He was not a Lubavitcher; he was not even a chasid; he was a misnagid. How did he ever become a rosh yeshiva of an advanced Chasidic yeshiva? Well, for one thing, he was a genius, a gaon in Gemara,

and the Rebbe Rayatz wanted a high standard of scholarship when he set up this yeshiva upon arriving in the U.S. in 1940.

“During the war years, so many Chabad teachers were trapped in Eastern Europe and most of them never made it out. So, Rav Gustman was the best the Rebbe could get.”

The Zismans were to live in Brooklyn for many years, raising their family, earning a living and becoming prominent in both religious and political affairs. However, with the passage of time, much of the family started to leave Brooklyn for points east, to Long Island.

“After living a few years in East Flatbush, we moved to Canarsie and then back to Flatbush again. Now we are in Long Island because this is where the kids live. We moved there because my wife said, ‘You know, all the children are there, the grandchildren are there, and they’re starting to grow up, they’re teenagers. We hardly know them, and they hardly know us.’ So we moved.”

The Five Towns, and the local Chabad, were to be exceptionally served well with their presence.

Two very special tributes are bookended at the beginning and at the end of this book.

I completely share their sentiments and, due to the distinction of their authors, I share them with you.

Rabbi Simon Jacobson makes these observations: “I discovered that Leibel is a complex man, full of paradoxes. He is a person who is both a survivor of the harshest possible circumstances, which must have hardened him in so many ways, as well as a very warm, gentle and kind human being. … My sincere

hope is that all those who pick up this book will come away with deep inspiration and a newfound hope and faith in G-d, as they read about Leibel’s idyllic childhood in a Jewish haven, about the dark day when he was taken to the camps, about his harrowing escapes from death, about his liberation and his new life in America. For his every dramatic step is a lesson in G-d’s miracles that constitute all our lives.”

Rabbi Zalman Wolowik, the Zisman family’s personal rabbi and spiritual guide since arriving here in Cedarhurst a decade ago, contributed this afterword: “I have seen firsthand the tremendous influence he exerts on so many on a daily basis.

To all who know him, at our Chabad Center of the Five Towns, he is truly a hero. Having witnessed and lived through the most horrific of times – the Holocaust – he never gave up, not even for a moment.

“I have seen Leibel uplift other Holocaust survivors – who, because of their traumatic experiences, eschewed Judaism – and how he slowly, patiently brought them around. … In short, Leibel is a beacon of life for all in our community. It is people like him who make the world a better place, through their tireless acts of goodness and kindness, and through their example of honesty and integrity.”

With the untimely passing of Leibel Zisman, of blessed memory, we now speak of him in the past tense, however, his legacy will forever be in the future tense. His deeds and his legacy are to be everlasting in the souls of the people he helped to nurture and in the bricks and mortar of the institutions he helped to build both here and in Israel.

I conclude this tribute with the following words from the distinguished community attorney and friend of the Zisman family, Suri Davis-Stern: “It was much later in life, several years ago, that Leibel decided to record his Holocaust experience.

“First he wrote a book, ‘I Remember,’ then he decided to lecture about his experiences,

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Leibel Zisman, holding a photograph of his family. He and his older brother, Berel, were its only survivors. and he had a second very active life, lecturing to Ivy League students, flying around the world to share his Holocaust experiences as well as his participation in the March of the Living. It was about a year ago that a movie was released entitled ‘The Lion of Judah,’ following Leibel on one of those marches.

“Leibel will be missed by the communities worldwide that he touched and by all here who he knew and were helped by him.”

The Chabad Website COLLIVE.com reports that Zisman passed away on Shabbat morning, 14 Tammuz and that the levaya was held on Sunday at Shomrei Hadas Chapels in Boro Park, with the procession passing 770 Eastern Parkway. Shiva is being observed at the Zisman Residence, 40 Maple Ave., Cedarhurst, until Friday afternoon, June 28.

Dr. Jacob Mosak, 99

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BELLE HARBOR CONCERT RAISES 40K

Sunday’s concert to raise funds to rebuild Congregation Ohab Zedek in Belle Harbor after its devastation from Hurricane Sandy netted close to $40,000 and filled the shul with 400 supporters. Seen performing at the front of the shul by the aron are, from left, Aryeh Kunstler and Benny Friedman.

Dr. Jacob Mosak, aged 99, a resident of Cedarhurst and member of Chofetz Chaim Torah Center, passed away on Monday, June 24. The funeral was held at Boulevard Chapels in Hewlett on Tuesday with burial in Israel.

Mosak had a long career in public service, serving under President Franklin D. Roosevelt as regional head of the Office of Price Administration for price and rent control after the start of World War II. He worked as an economist and administrator during the war.

He served at the United Nations in the 1960s as Under Secretary General.

In September 2012, Dr. Mosak and his family presented a sefer Torah, completed that day, to the Chofetz Chaim Torah Center in memory of his wife, parents, daughter and a granddaughter.

Shiva began in Cedarhurst but will continue in Aventura, Florida, through Sunday morning.

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Jacob Mosak outside the Cedarhurst home of Alan and Rena Mosak.

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Islamization and anti-Semitism make Turkey unfit for EU

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t’s a familiar pattern.

The citizens of a Middle Eastern state explode with frustration against their corrupt, repressive government. They gather for noisy, impassioned demonstrations in their capital city. The authorities react violently.

Images of middle-aged women and wheelchair-bound individuals being tear-gassed, clubbed, and sprayed with water cannon race across social media platforms like wildfire.

The protests then spread to other cities. The authorities step up their repression.

And then, inevitably, the country’s political leaders snarl that outside forces are stoking the discontent.

Newspapers and websites are suddenly VIEWPOINT full of lists of American neoconservatives, illustrated with lurid graphics that superimpose the logos of organizations like the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) over pictures of demonstrations. No one needs to say the word “Jew” in order to know who’s being referred to here.

Ben Cohen So where is this hapJNS.org pening? In Bahrain?

Egypt? Tunisia?

Actually, no. What I’m describing is taking place in a non-Arab, inwardly Muslim but outwardly secular candidate nation for European Union (EU) membership.

Turkey.

The protests there began on May 31, when an initially small group of activists gathered in Istanbul to voice opposition to the redevelopment of the city’s Gezi Park. But the anger quickly escalated into an all-out confrontation with the Islamist government of Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Many Turks are fed up with the slow yet inexorable Islamization of their country, which Erdogan has begun.

Specifically, they are fed up with Erdogan’s promotion of conservative Islamic dress codes; with his demand that married couples have at least three children; with his prohibi-

tions on the sale of alcohol and his opposition to abortion; with his scolding of couples who dare to smooch in public; and with his clampdown on freedom of speech and of the media, which has resulted in Turkey having more journalists in prison than any other country in the world. As the German magazine Der Spiegel pointed out recently, Turkey’s enthusiasm for incarcerating journalists — by some estimates, more than 60 are currently in jail — beats the records of even China and Iran.

As the Turkish demonstrations were reaching their height this month, the conservative newspaper Yeni Safak published an article which featured a “rogues gallery” of prominent American neoconservatives — Richard Perle, Paul Wolfowitz, Douglas Feith and so forth — as well as a photo of a masked protestor flanked by the logos of the American Enterprise Institute think tank and AIPAC. The thrust of the article was clear: the protests are being actively encouraged by a group of Jews hell-bent on war with the Islamic world.

In tone and substance, it was thoroughly in line with other anti-Semitic screeds published by Yeni Safak — for example, a 2005 article that warned “Jewish paranoia” was at the root of the Middle East’s conflicts and predicted that this same paranoia would one day “destroy the Jews themselves.” …

There’s a widespread impression that the Turkey’s EU bid, launched as far back as 1999, is unlikely to result in full membership.

But the fundamental question remains unresolved: Should Turkey be admitted to the EU? Europe, that emerged after the Second World War cannot, by its very nature, tolerate the kind of government that has hospitalized more than 7,000 of its own citizens simply for exercising their right to peacefully protest.

And it certainly cannot tolerate the kind of anti-Semitic agitation that brings to mind the worst excesses of the 1930s.

An unabridged version of this column appears at TheJewishStar.com Ben Cohen is Shillman Analyst for JNS.org.

His writings on Jewish affairs and the Middle East have been published in Commentary, the NY Post, Ha’aretz, and other publications.

Eco-friendly vacations … and lives

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eing environmentally friendly doesn’t have to take a break during the summer vacation season, as many destinations offer fun family frivolity while contributing to saving the environment.

Yet, in some circles these days, having a large family is considered a crime against humanity, especially when it comes to family vacations. The idea HIPPEST RABBI that having children is bad for the environment isn’t as new as many people think.

In the 1970s, overpopulation was the global warming of its day. The average man or woman wasn’t really sure how or why, but experts told them the planet couldn’t support more people, Rabbi Simcha and that was good Weinstein enough for them. It was the subject of a Time magazine cover story, so it had to be true. In an episode of “All in the Family,” Archie Bunker’s daughter and her hippie husband, “Meathead,” explained their (short-lived) decision to remain childless with the then-fashionable alibi that it would be a crime to bring another child into this horrible world.

But as a chorus of demographers have pointed out, those experts’ doomsday predictions didn’t come true. Not only is there enough food to sustain the world’s population, but food prices are declining while distribution has improved exponentially.

Economist Amartya Sen won a Nobel Prize for proving that famines aren’t caused by natural droughts, but instead by all-toohuman political corruption. Another Nobelist, Simon Smith Kuznets, demonstrated that “more population means more creators and producers, both of goods along established production patterns and of new knowledge and inventions.”

Families with children don’t necessarily place the burden on the environment that critics say they do, especially in urban areas.

Big cities are no longer the polluted centers of waste and disease they once were when they were reviled in the early days of the Industrial Revolution. Due to population density, public transportation, and municipal green energy initiatives, many American cities have smaller carbon footprints than some rural areas.

The same logic applies to families compared to single adults living alone. Think about it: my family of four children doesn’t have six separate tubes of toothpaste going at once. My family is a little city in the big city. Children really are cheaper by the dozen. Economies of scale kick in. It’s just a matter of throwing a little more pasta into a larger pot. We vacation together, traveling to our destination by car, which can save up to four times the amount of carbon emissions that are let off by air travel. Driving my wife and kids in one vehicle uses up no more gas than a single person tooling around in the same car.

My children and I are learning how to care for planet Earth by reading “Curious George” together, as our family’s favorite fictional monkey learns to “reduce, reuse, and recycle.” I hope to send them out into the world with a healthy regard for the environment, as well as of other human beings.

It seems to me that many well-meaning ecowarriors care about the environment only, not the people in it, and that doesn’t seem very balanced to me.

Jewish tradition tells us that children and the environment are not mutually exclusive. “Be fruitful and multiply” also promotes respect for nature and embraces conservation, animal welfare, species preservation, sanitation, and pollution reduction — something we learn from the world’s first cruise, on the biblical boat of Noah!

The Talmud covers prohibitions against atmospheric, water, and even noise pollution, and Deuteronomy even tackles issues of waste disposal.

Thus, children and the environment are not mutually exclusive, especially when it comes to the summer season. Having children and caring about the environment don’t cancel each other out. In fact, they go hand in hand.

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y mother, Roslyn Weinon the ground floor of the office FROM THE trob, Rachel Leah bat Tzvi office building where my wife PUBLISHER Hirsch, whose 21st yahworks — in which a New York rzeit we marked on Wednesday, City Emergency Medical Techwas an eishet chayil who not only nician refused to interrupt her worked to build a strong family coffee break to help a pregnant steeped in Jewish values, but was woman who had collapsed in the also determined to do more than restaurant. The city attributed her fair share of tikkun olam. the death of the woman and her In 1974, while simultaneously baby to delayed assistance. demanding that New York’s buThe EMT told the papers reaucrats deliver services to the this week that she had nothing people, and fighting legendary to apologize for, and would do inefficiencies at Board of Eduit again — she’d again turn her cation headquarters where she back on a dying woman rather Ed Weintrob worked, she suffered a debilitatthan disturb her coffee break. ing stroke. She emerged from a My mother’s life was likely coma after three months, b’ezrat saved by virtue of the proximity Hashem, but was never the same. of a good emergency room at Long Island A story in New York’s tabloids on the College Hospital. day of her yahrzeit recalled the speech my Last Thursday, Governor Cuomo’s SUNY mother was delivering at Brooklyn Borough board of directors, in direct violation of a Hall when the stroke felled her and she state Supreme Court restraining order, collapsed. She was passionately describing closed that hospital’s emergency room. how a woman died just one day earlier beWe should fear for the future of a city cause a city ambulance took more than 30 whose workers can be as cold to human minutes to arrive at her home. (This type suffering as was that coffee-breaking EMT, of incident made abundantly clear the need and for a state that is as callous to the emerfor Hatzolah.) gency needs of its people as its governor is This week’s news referred to an occur- proving it to be. rence a few years ago — in a restaurant Shabbat Shalom, Ed Weintrob

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hat do you do when someone you love does something you hate?

This week, this month, this year, has seen a terrible polarization in Israeli society.

Jewish men purporting to represent what Judaism is meant to be, describing themselves as “religious” or “ultra-orthodox,” spitting on other Jews, throwing chairs and hurling derogatory slurs (often worse, in FROM THE HEART the eyes of Jewish traOF JERUSALEM dition) at other Jews, rallies in New York declaring the Jewish world in a state of catastrophe, a Rosh yeshiva — himself a candidate for Chief Rabbi of the State of Israel — insulted, threatened and even spit upon at a Jewish wedding by other Jews, and now the Chief Rabbi of the Rabbi Binny State of Israel recusing Freedman himself from rabbinical duties in the midst of an Israeli police investigation into financial and sexual improprieties that may involve him; does it get any worse?

As we begin the three traditional weeks of mourning in the Jewish calendar which commemorate the destruction of the Beit Hamikdash (the Temple) 2,000 years ago, due, according to the Talmud, to baseless hatred, (sinat chinam), it behooves us to consider how and why we find ourselves in this nadir.

This week’s portion, Pinchas, may offer us

some sage advice.

Pinchas, the grandson of Aaron the High Priest, lays claim to fame at the end of last week’s portion, Balak: No less than a Jewish prince, a tribal Nasi (Zimri ben Saluh of the tribe of Shimon) one of the great leaders of the Jewish people, is actually cohabitating with a Midianite (idolatrous) princess in public, literally opposite the Mishkan (Tabernacle) and no-one is doing anything about it! Even Moshe and Aaron are seemingly so overwhelmed by the audacity of this public desecration, that they are simply weeping in front of the tent of meeting.

So Pinchas stands up and puts an end to this public desecration by publicly executing both Zimri, the tribal prince, and Kozbi, the Midianite princess. And no less than G-d himself (at the beginning of this week’s portion, Pinchas) declares Pinchas’ motives to be pure, his cause just, and guarantees him a “covenant of peace.”

Putting aside the many challenges inherent in such a story (and the fact that only G-d can declare such an action, with no judge or jury, to be acceptable) it is fascinating to note that the consequence of such a violent act, is the granting of a covenant of peace. Even more interesting, is that the Torah takes the time to delineate that Pinchas is the direct descendant of Aaron the High Priest, whom we know was given this exalted role because he was the perennial Ohev Shalom (a lover and a pursuer of peace).

How can Pinchas, who is depicted as the ultimate zealot, be a descendant of Aaron who loved peace?

Before we can decide what course of action to pursue when witnessing such public

desecration, we first have to be sure we still love peace. Rav Chaim Shmuelevitz zt”l, the great Rosh Yeshiva of the Mir, points out (in his sichos mussar) that before meting out punishment, one must be filled with a sense of love and compassion for the one being punished.

Precisely because Pinchas was the descendant of Aaron, and was imbued with the quality of loving his fellow human being, he was able to mete out the appropriate consequence without being affected by personal considerations.

And how does one accomplish this seemingly impossible feat?

It is interesting to note that when describing Pinchas’ decision to execute the perpetrators of this horrible public desecration (which put an end to the plague ravishing the Jewish people as a result), the Torah says: “Vayakam mitoch ha’Eidah” “He arose from the midst of the congregation.” (Numbers 25:7) What made Pinchas such a great leader was that he was firmly ensconced in the congregation. He was with the Jewish people — he felt their pain, reveled in their joy, suffered with their sorrow, and knew their challenges. He was a true descendant of Aaron, whom our tradition describes as a lover and pursuer of peace.

Indeed, when Aaron dies, the Torah tells us that he was mourned by the entire Jewish people (Numbers 20:29), with the rabbis commenting that this was because he was so beloved by them. It is said he was able to “cause friends to reunite and husbands and wives to make peace,” something only possible in the context of a deep relationship with his fellow Jews.

Indeed, the verse uses the same word, eidah (the congregation), later used in the story of Pinchas for Jewish congregation. Pinchas learned his love of his fellow Jews, and his ability to lead them and yet be amongst them at the same time, from his grandfather Aaron.

This trait was different, for example, from the way Moshe was viewed. In fact, when Moshe was up on Mount Sinai (while the Jewish people were committing their greatest mistake: the sin of the Golden Calf) G-d says: “Lech red ki shicheit Amcha.”

“Get down (off the mountain) because your people have become destructive.” (Exodus 32:7) And the Meshech Chochmah (Rav Meir

‘What made Pinchas such a great leader was that he was firmly ensconced in the congregation. He was with the Jewish people — he felt their pain, reveled in their joy, suffered with their sorrow, and knew their challenges..’

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f the story of Pinchas and Zimri played out in our world today, it would not be Pinchas who is universally heralded and Zimri who is thrown under the bus for being an arrogant and abrasive antagonist.

The story is pretty simple. Zimri, a leader PARSHA OF of the tribe of Shimon, THE WEEK consorts with a Midianite woman in public. According to the Talmud (Sanhedrin 82), he mocked Moshe — if a Midianite (Zipporah) was permissible to Moshe, why was a Midianite prohibited to Zimri?

Pinchas, sensing the rebellious nature of Zimri’s act, as well Rabbi Avi Billet as his mocking tone, recalled a law that declared that Zimri deserved the death penalty.

And, in that particular circumstance, when he took the law into his own hands, he was praised for it (see Rabbenu Bachaye 25:6-7). He was even granted a reward of “The Covenant of Peace.”

In most circumstances, we do not tolerate taking the law into one’s own hands, which is why beyond Pinchas’ example, there will be no endorsement of vigilantism here.

But one wonders how our enlightened society would look at this case.

Our society would look at Zimri and say perhaps he is a little boastful and bold, but he is an adult and entitled to make his own decisions.

Furthermore, the woman in question was a consenting adult, making their act nothing that could be construed as illegal.

Furthermore, if Zimri was not married, then he was hurting no one. He has every right, our liberal provocateur will note, to marry or consort with any consenting woman he wants, of any religion.

Pinchas, on the other hand, has no excuse for his actions. Who does he think he is? He is a murderer! His dislike of someone’s behavior does not justify killing the person!

These are all very logical arguments. And the truth is, in some cases, logic is a good sell.

Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik noted, however, that Judaism is not always governed by logic. Korach, for example, tried to figuratively skewer Moshe in his position as leader and teacher through very logical arguments against some of the commandments of the Torah. But logic doesn’t explain the mitzvah

of techeilet, or the mitzvah of mezuzah.

And, frankly, it doesn’t explain the mitzvah of Bris Milah. If Pinchas was awarded the Covenant of Peace, some continue to refer to him as one of the “guardians” of Bris Milah — THE Covenant.

This week, my website and Facebook page were attacked by “Intactivists.” These people are very vocal advocates against circumcision of infants, using many arguments such as barbarism, mutilation, nonconsensual, defenseless baby, etc.

Logically, they are right. Circumcision, it can be argued, is an unnecessary medical procedure performed on people who, with uncommon exception, do not need it.

But where they fail in their attack is that they don’t understand that for us, this is not about a medical procedure. And we don’t view it as barbaric. As Avraham was told, “Walk before me and become complete” through the act of circumcision, the mark of the covenant is placed in our flesh and in the flesh of our children to complement our relationship with G-d.

I have met many happy and calm parents before brisses. I have also met my share of nervous parents before brisses. Most of these latter parents just want it to be over with. All parents want it to go well and for their baby to be fine.

And when this outcome is achieved, the nervous tension goes away.

But even such “hesitations” do not drive us away from performing Bris Milah.

We are who we are partially because of Bris Milah (Talmud Shabbat 130a). Our attitude has always been, upon the birth of a boy, “We need to arrange for the bris.”

These personal experiences have been the opening to many conversations over the course of this week, and every Jewish person with whom I’ve had this discussion has said the same thing. “Different worlds. They don’t understand us. They never will.”

Many of us want to understand rationally everything we do. Some of the things we do defy logic and rational thinking, because they are matters of faith.

Zimri’s flaw, and why the Torah does not side with him, rested in his belief that his brilliant logic should trump all else. But Zimri ignored important principles of the Torah, and may have even not understood the things he violated in the first place.

But sometimes commitment to and observance of the Torah defies logic. Do we remain steadfast and committed? Or do we throw the baby out with the bathwater? For the committed Jew, the answer is obvious. Logic alone is not what we are all about.

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stand that for us, circumcision is not about a medical procedure. And we don’t view it as barbaric. … Sometimes, commitment to and observance of the Torah defies logic..’

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Rabbi Noam Himelstein studied in Yeshivat Har Etzion and served in the Tanks Corps of the IDF. He has taught in yeshiva high schools, post-high school women’s seminaries, and headed the Torah MiTzion Kollel in Melbourne, Australia. He currently teaches at Yeshivat Orayta in Jerusalem, and lives with his wife and six children in Neve Daniel, Gush Etzion.

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Irish Foreign Minister Eamon Gilmore, one of Israel’s most outspoken critics, with Palestinian demonstrators at a gathering in the mostly Arab neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah in eastern Jerusalem in January 2012. the Irish experience with British control over Northern Ireland.

Ireland did not extend recognition to Israel until 1963 and did not establish an embassy in Tel Aviv until 1996. Furthermore, Ireland was one of the first European countries to call for a Palestinian state in 1980 and has insistently focused on Palestinian refugees.

Today, despite its subordinate position within the European Union, Ireland plays an outsized role as a voice on matters concerning Israel and the Arab-Israeli conflict.

Current Irish Foreign Affairs Minister and Deputy Prime Minister (known as the Tanaiste in Gaelic) Eamon Gilmore has been one of Ireland’s most outspoken critics of Israel. Last month, Gilmore, who is a member

of the left-wing Irish Labor Party, announced that Ireland would embark on a campaign to urge fellow EU states to label Israeli products from the West Bank as “settler” products, and to eventually encourage a boycott.

Ireland’s policies have also targeted Israel on other fronts. In early June, Israeli government officials accused the Irish government of being behind the opposition within the EU to label the military wing of Hezbollah as a terrorist organization.

According to the Jerusalem Post, Ireland’s concerns may be related to the Irish contingent of soldiers within the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL), the U.N. peacekeeping mission which patrols southern Lebanon, Hezbollah’s heartland.

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The Irish and Jewish people share a common history of both suffering cruel persecution and achieving national redemption against immeasurable odds. But today, Ireland is one of Europe’s fiercest critics of Israel. The Irish government and prominent Irish NGOs frequently condemn Israel for its treatment of Palestinians, and they are pushing a boycott of the Jewish state.

Countering this trend is a small, yet passionate, contingent of pro-Israel Irish groups seeking to create more positive relations between these similar nations.

“On a national level, since the late 1950s, Ireland has considered a solution to the conflict in general, and a solution of the Palestinian refugee issue in particular, as one of its top foreign policy priorities in the Middle East,” Irish-born Professor Rory Miller, who is director of the Middle East and Mediterranean Studies Program at King’s College in London and author of Ireland and the Palestine Question 1948-2004, told JNS.org.

Irish-Jewish relations haven’t always been this sour. In the early 20th century, many Irish leaders were sympathetic to the Jewish people, with the Irish drawing heavily on historical parallels with Jews, including their suffering, the large-scale migration of Irish in the 19th century, and their upward struggle for national self-determination against the British.

But following Israel’s independence in 1948, Irish sympathies inexplicably shifted.

The Irish no longer viewed Israel as the underdog struggling for its national rights, but instead as a foreign occupier on someone else’s land — the Palestinians — similar to

Prof. Miller told JNS.org that historical animosity built up between Israel and Ireland over Ireland’s participation in UNIFIL. “Between 1978 and 2000, over 40,000 Irish troops served in Lebanon, which represented Ireland’s largest-ever military involvement outside its borders. Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, the Irish government regularly clashed with Israel over the treatment of Irish UNIFIL troops, and much public and political sympathy for Israel disappeared when he saw how they treated the Irish soldiers in southern Lebanon,” Miller explained.

Ireland’s large participation in U.N. peacekeeping missions follows the general pattern of Ireland’s post-independence non-aligned foreign policy. Unlike many other western European countries, Ireland is not a member of NATO and has a longstanding policy of military neutrality. In turn, Ireland has instead directed its foreign policy towards a commitment to international organizations.

In addition to the Irish government being harsher on Israel than some of its EU partners, Ireland’s NGOs have been some of the most powerful anti-Israel groups in Europe.

In early April, the Teachers’ Union of Ireland became the first academic union in Europe to endorse a full academic boycott of Israel.

But despite the dominance of pro-Palestinian groups in Ireland, there are several small pro-Israel Irish groups, such as Irish Christian Friends of Israel (ICFI), that have attempted to change the tone in Ireland concerning the Jewish state.

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He said that in the 1990s, he traveled “to Moscow, Petersburg, Dnepropetrovsk in the Ukraine and other cities to interview the shulchim of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, long before I even heard of him. I also worked on Chanukah Live when the Rebbe was alive.

They introduced me to the Rebbe and the shame is I had no idea who he was at the time.”

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Goldings and saw my first shomer Shabbos family. We got to talking about what I did and the rabbi introduced me to the world of Orthodox Jewish video. So I went from CNN, CBS, FOX and fashion and cooking shows at that time, to HASC and Agudath Israel dinners via Rabbi Golding. It even led to field producing for Siyum Hashas for Rabbi Golding the last three cycles! Thank you Rabbi Golding!

“I got to work a bit on Uncle Moishy through Rabbi Golding — we’re in the credits!” Jasse also interviewed Rabbi Moshe Sherer, zt”l.

His company produces many dinner and yeshiva videos, he said, “because we’re very good at them, and in addition, business usually comes from the social circles you spend your time with. Years ago, before I was observant and had a family, I did a substantial number of fashion videos for CNN, MTV and other clients. Now I’m immersed in Yiddishkeit and the work usually follows your passions.

“It’s very fulfilling to put my professional talents from network television to use for the community. I’ve done everything from hair cut and color videos for Redken to fabric videos, but producing an awesome short film for Chai Lifeline is very satisfying. It was amazing that our work was used for such holy purposes.

“As far as yeshiva videos specifically, I love getting into the inner workings of yeshivas.

It was a privilege to interview Rabbi Bender of Darchei Torah, an icon, as well as Dr. Bernard Lander of Touro College a few years ago — a zechus to be involved with these giants.”

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Continued from page 1 If swimming at the shore or in a lake, fa3. Hydration. We are not always aware miliarize yourself with important informahow much the heat or humidity affects us. tion like undertow or depth of the water. Do In general, healthy consumption of water is not swim without a trained water safety perat least 80 ounces a day. On hot days spent son present. Never swim alone!

9. Personal Space. TEACH YOUR CHILoutdoors, even more is recommended. It is important to remember to drink even when DREN TO GUARD THEIR BODIES. If anyone in camp, on a trip, or anywhere you are doing a water activity. Getting wet does not keep your body hydrated. If you are else touches them inappropriately, they taking a long plane flight, be sure to drink a should know what to do to protect themselves. good quantity of water.

THEY MUST IMMEDIATELY NOTIFY 4. Nature precautions. Every summer brings with it warnings of ticks that may YOU about what happened. BE SURE TO carry diseases. Appropriate clothing, sprays, EMPHASIZE TO THEM THAT THEY MUST and general awareness of what to look for DISCLOSE EVEN (AND ESPECIALLY) IF - either in the tick itself or if you are bitten THEY HAVE BEEN WARNED TO KEEP QUI- are all important to bear in mind. In the ET! There can be no mercy for a person who Northeast U.S.A. use appropriate precau- molests children. Such people are potential murderers! tions and awareness to avoid Lyme disease.

5. Plants and wildlife. When in the great outdoors, we come in contact with the beau- SANCTITY 1. TZNIUT. We are Orthodox Jews living ty, but also the potential dangers of nature.

Know what kinds of animals may be in your in a very open society and we are exposed to vicinity. Know what kinds of plants - whether the accepted norms of that society.

Our standards of kedoshim tihiyoo (to be dangerous by contact alone or through ingesa holy people) often clash with the reality tion - are to be avoided.

Snakes are a particular issue in Isra- around us. Being a “holy people” requires us el this summer. There are poisonous snakes. to be separate and different in our behavior A few precautions are in order. Do not hike in general and in the choices we make in our in the dark. Do not step or place hands into dress. This applies to both men and women. covered areas where you cannot see what For leisure time and even for swimming, is beneath the covering. Snakes can also be there are appropriate options available that found in water/swimming holes or lakes. preserve our sense of modesty when in the Doors should always be closed and windows company of friends.

As the schools our children attend have must have screens. If bitten, sit down, call for an emergency ambulance and get to the dress codes, let those guidelines essentially determine how both parnearest hospital as soon as ents and children choose possible. A poisonous bite to observe a standard of will include genuine swelltzniut (modesty) in dress, ing at the spot of the bite. at least as far as how we It is important not to lose cover our arms, legs, one’s cool and not to be and torso. This is a stanactive after a bite. Do not dard we can all apprecitie a tourniquet, or make ate and respect. Summer an incision or suction the footwear (sandals, socks, bite. etc.) is a matter of per5a. Allergies. I always sonal choice that I am carry Benadryl with me not addressing here. I do when I travel or hike. Peothink that there is room in ple can get allergic reacthe halacha (Jewish law) tions from insect and bee to allow people to wear bites even if they have no RABBI HERSHEL BILLET comfortable footwear in history of having a reacwarm and hot weather.

Young Israel of Woodmere tion. Sometimes the reacThere are both objection can be dangerously tive standards of tzniut severe. Ask your physician and subjective standards. what is the best precaution But everyone has some for you.

6. Hiking. Hikers should stick to marked concept of what is not appropriate.

It is a challenging task. But we must eltrails. Always have a map. And hike safely.

Every year Israeli news reports include too evate ourselves in the same way that we sacmany stories of accidents and tragedies in- rifice to keep kosher and to observe Shabbat.

2. RELIGIOUS STANDARDS WHEN ON volving people unfamiliar with the desert who go hiking with no plan, map, or commu- VACATION. Daily prayers, tzitzit, tefillin, nication. Death is usually by dehydration and kashrut, choice of entertainment, and full exposure to the elements. Never hike alone Shabbat observance is a sine qua non for the and always have a reliable means of commu- Orthodox family.

An accepted halachic practice, for exnication with you in case of emergency.

7. Driving in the country. Relatively in- ample, is not to swim on Shabbat. Just as experienced drivers (kids under 21) must our community does not condone picking be reminded that the Catskills and Poconos “the kosher item in a non-kosher menu,” we are full of one-lane, challenging roads. Ex- must live by the same standards we live by at tra care should be taken on these roads - day home even when we are on vacation, away and night - especially with young drivers from anyone who knows us.

We may go on vacation from the preswho (percentage-wise) tend to be more reckless. Responsible driving will help prevent sures of our daily routines, but there is no the fatalities we unfortunately hear about vacation from our covenant with Hashem.

Parents should set a high bar for themselves every summer.

8. Water Safety. Please use every safety and their children.

CONSISTENCY IS A SPECIAL GIFT WE precaution with home pools. No one should swim without a responsible and capable per- CAN GIVE OUR CHILDREN! May we be blessed to be avenues of Kidson supervising, especially small children.

Pool safety with young children is para- dush Hashem and the sanctification of G-d’s name in all that we do. mount.

I wish everyone a pleasant summer, There is no margin for error! Tragedy can Rabbi Heshie Billet strike — literally — in seconds.

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By Rabbi Eugene z”l and Dr. Annette Labovitz Continued from last week.

PART TWO As we attended to our business during the day, wee could not forget the vision of those two proud, majestically clad Jews.

When we returned to the hotel that evening, we stopped into the dining room for tea. The two commanders were fervently praying at the same wall where they stood that morning. Their voices chanted the hauntingly tragic melody of Lamentations, recited on Tishah B’Av, mourning the destruction of both Holy Temples. They were no longer standing triumphant and proud; they were shamefaced and stooped. When they stepped away from the wall, we saw that their eyes were red, tears overflowing; their faces bore grievous pain.

My father could not restrain himself. He had to make himself known to these strangers. He quickly removed his fine fur hat and replaced it with his yarmulke. He pulled out his tzitzit from under his shirt. When the commanders saw that we were Jews, they approached. My father asked them in Hebrew: “Me Ahtehm?” (“Who are you?”)

One of the commanders responded: “We are representatives of the ten lost tribes, the ten holy tribes of Israel. We were invited by the Russian government to help them deal with Russian Jews, for the majority of the world’s Jews live in the Pale of Settlement.

We have spent a great deal of time here, visiting one shtetl after another. We concluded that the only solution to the Tzar’s problem would be Messianic redemption; but the Messiah will come only when the pain of exile is so great that it can no longer be borne.

“What we found on our travels is that the anguished sighs of our people, living under Russian oppression, is so great; it is even difficult for our people to open their mouths in praise of G-d. Our people are existing in a state of total despair. Our people are so yearning to return to our land. We were actually waiting for the Heavenly court to announce the redemption of the Jewish people from this bitter exile.

“We were prepared to lead them back

to the holy land. Know that every morning the deeds of the world are weighed on the scale of justice. It must be determined by the Heavenly Court if the world is truly ready for redemption. Usually, the evil deeds outweigh the good deeds, so redemption is delayed. But this morning, we were so joyful; we thought that good deeds outweighed evil deeds. We were expecting to leave! Our mission would have been achieved.”

“What happened?” interrupted my father.

“Somewhere, in one corner of the world, one person murdered his brother. The scale of justice was no longer balanced. Evil deeds once again outweighed good deeds.

“You should know that G-d has special love for His people only when they are unified and not jealous of each other, when they work together for the common good, when they satiate their hunger, not with bread but with yearning for the word of G-d. When murder occurs in the world, when needless hatred exists, obviously the people are not unified. Destruction replaces redemption, even if it is destined, even if it is impending.

Redemption was once again delayed.”

My father pleaded: “Please give me a sign that I have met representatives of the ten lost tribes, the ten holy tribes of Israel, that Messianic redemption is on the way, albeit delayed. When my business trip is concluded, we will return to our shtetl. It will probably be around the time of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. I want to be able to tell my brothers that I met representatives of the ten lost tribes, the ten holy tribes of Israel. I want to share with them what you explained to me; that we have to work harder to earn Messianic redemption. It is within the power of our hands, our actions, to achieve holiness by the way we live and act. When that murder occurred, the accumulated merit pointing toward redemption dissolved. We have to be very careful not to act in any way which lowers the level of holiness necessary for redemption.”

The commander removed a folded piece of paper from his pocket and handed it to my father. My father examined the paper. It was blank. He was stunned.

The commander explained. “The paper is blank now, but your rebbe, Rebbe Mordechai

Photo courtesy of Dr. Annette Labovitz

DR. ANNETTE AND RABBI EUGENE, Z”L, LABOVITZ, AUTHORS OF FIVE BOOKS OF JEWISH STORIES. Neschizer, will be able to read it. He is one of the few people in the world, which included our patriarch Yaakov and the prophet Y’chezkel, who understand about Messianic redemption. Tell him how and why we met.

Tell him that he is to read the paper by the light of the moon, immediately following the sounding of the shofar after Yom Kippur. He will know how to read what is inscribed on this paper.”

The commanders bid us farewell; we concluded our business and returned to Neshciz, just prior to Rosh Hashanah. My father turned the blank paper over to his rebbe. We anxiously counted the ten days between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. Following the sounding of the shofar, the rebbe signaled to the entire congregation to go outdoors.

He lifted the paper to the light of the moon. He began to read: “Mordechai ben Dov Ber.” Everyone knew that this was his name and the name of his father. The silence was heavy with expectation. He continued to read the names of his ancestors, one by one, all the way back to Avraham Ahvinu. Then he re-read his name and the names of his chil-

dren: Yosayf ben Mordechai, Yaakov Aryeh ben Mordechai, Yitzchak ben Mordechai. He added the names of his grandchildren and their children, many future generations, yet unborn. Then he strained to lift the paper, higher and higher.

Suddenly, he stopped reading. “A candle,” he said. “Bring me a candle.”

He held the candle very close to the paper, as if straining to see the words. He seemed to be frightened. We were standing very close to him; we saw tears dropping from his eyes. He wailed a pitiable sigh of woe, then mournfully, groaning “shalom, shalom,” with trembling hand, he placed the candle near the edge of the paper and burned it.

Rabbi Eugene, z”l, and Dr. Annette Labovitz traveled to Jewish communities worldwide collecting stories and teaching through them about the Jewish experience. These stories were published in five books which are currently out of print. Dr. Labovitz resides in Woodmere and gives a weekly shiur on Tanach at Congregation Aish Kodesh. This story is from “The Legendary Maggidim — Stories of Soul and Spirit,” published by Targum-Feldheim.

When Irish eyes aren’t smiling, it’s time for action…

Continued from page 7 who love Israel and its peoples.” The group has held several pro-Israel rallies in Ireland and has sponsored fundraising campaigns for Israel, as well as trips to the Jewish state.

ICFI President Paddy Monaghan told JNS. org that most Irish people have very open minds and can be persuaded to support Israel more if they are presented with a fair and honest discussion of the issues.

“If Israel put more money in helping to create and mobilize pro-Israel groups, things could improve,” Monaghan said.

“While there is some anti-Semitism within Ireland, especially within Muslim immigrant groups, there is a big middle ground that is open to being persuaded either way. A few years ago we put together a campaign for [former Hamas captive] Gilad Shalit that gained thousands of signatures.”

In addition to its charitable endeavors for Israel, ICFI has launched political campaigns to persuade the Irish government to back off on its support for a boycott of Israel.

Groups like ICFI face an uphill battle. In the spring, a small group called Irish4Israel,

which was launched in 2010 by Barry Wil- tinguish between Irish NGOs, which are obliams, a student at Ireland’s University Col- sessively focused on Israel, and the Irish govlege Cork, raised more than $2,000 in 10 ernment, which is attempting to deepen ties with Israel. days with the help of Blue“Ireland is a friend of Star, a pro-Israel advocacy Israel,” Shatter said. “We based in San Francisco, to have a government in Irelaunch a poster campaign land that wants a deeper in Ireland promoting Israeengagement. But we also li tourism. But within 24 have a government in Irehours of being put up, the land that is committed to posters were vandalized by the peace process.” suspected pro-Palestinian In fact, Ireland and Isgroups, the Jewish Chronirael enjoy a growing ecocle of London reported. nomic relationship. Both Alan Shatter of the Fine economies have experiGael — Ireland’s centerenced strong growth since right party from which the the 1990s (with the excepcountry’s current prime PADDY MONAGHAN tion of the 2008 financial minister, Enda Kenny, hails crisis that briefly damaged from — is the lone Jewish President, Irish Christian Ireland’s economy) in the member of the country’s Friends of Israel fields of science and techparliament and has been nology. more supportive of Israel Despite efforts to boythan his fellow legislators.

In an interview with the Jerusalem Post cott Israel, trade between Ireland and Israel in March, Shatter said it is important to dis- has grown significantly. According to Ire-

‘We are relational

people. Israel needs to take the time to explain the rightness of their case on a personal level..’

land’s The Journal, Israel has become one of Ireland’s fastest-growing trade partners, rising from 26th in 2010 to 14th in 2011.

Additionally, both the Irish and Israeli embassies hold a wide variety of cultural events in each other’s countries. Irish musicians and dancers regularly perform in Israel, while the Israeli embassy in Ireland holds many informational events about Israel and shared Irish-Jewish history. One of the most famous parts of that history is Yitzhak HaLevi Herzog, who was chief rabbi of Ireland’s small Jewish community before becoming Israel’s first Ashkenazi chief rabbi.

But if Israel hopes to once again have Irish eyes smile upon the Jewish state, reaching out to the Irish may require more than stateto-state relations.

“The Arab people and their supporters tend to understand Irish culture better. [The Israelis] often assume that Western people will understand without establishing relationships. But we [in Ireland] are relational people, Israel needs to take the time explain the rightness of their case on a personal level,” ICFI’s Monaghan told JNS.org.

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IDF battles jihadi infiltrators in surprise drill The Israel Defense Forces held a comprehensive drill on Sunday to prepare for a scenario in which global jihadis enter Israel and take hostages in multiple locations.

The drill simulated a situation in which terrorists from Syria or Sinai infiltrate Israel and hold civilians captive in various venues, including hospitals, a hotel and a remote village. IDF troops were sent mock emergency call-up notices. The goal was to replicate a real-life situation and take into account all the logistical and operational pitfalls of such an event.

Most of the participating IDF troops were not informed of the drill ahead of time. The military’s chain of command, from Chief of General Staff Lt. Gen. Benny Gantz on down, was part of the drill.

“The overall impression from the drill was good, although there are many details that need to be sorted out,” the IDF Spokesperson’s Unit said in a statement Sunday.

—Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org

5 rockets fired from Gaza Five rockets were fired into Israel from Gaza on Sunday night, including two headed for Ashkelon which were intercepted by the Iron Dome missile defense system and three which exploded in open areas, Israel Hayom reported. There were no reports of injuries or damage.

IDF Spokesman Brig. Gen. Yoav “Poly” Mordechai said that the Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorist group was behind the attack, but that Israel “holds Hamas responsible for any terror emanating from the Gaza Strip.”

“Hamas is still in control of Gaza, and it bears the responsibility for what goes on there,” Mordechai said.

Hezbollah’s NOT terrorist?

While the hesitation of countries such as Austria, the Czech Republic and Italy has prevented a consensus among the 27-member European Union to designate Hezbollah as a terrorist organization, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Thursday that it is “hard to see how you cannot have a consensus” on that issue.

“I mean, it’s hard to see how you cannot have a consensus on Hezbollah as a terrorist organization,” Netanyahu told reporters before meeting with EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton in Jerusalem.

“If Hezbollah isn’t a terrorist organization, I don’t know what is a terrorist organization.

I mean, they’re butchering people left and right across the world and now in the cities of Syria. They’re murdering civilians without letup, including on European soil, as was discovered in Bulgaria, as they try to do in Cyprus.”

Pope: ‘A Christian cannot be anti-Semitic’ Pope Francis, meeting for the first time as pontiff with leaders from Jewish organizations and communities on Monday, told the delegation that due to “our common roots,” a Christian “cannot be anti-Semitic.”

A delegation of Jewish leaders from the International Jewish Committee on Interreligious Consultations gathered in the Apostolic Palace at the Vatican to form a private audience for Pope Francis. During his remarks, the Pope praised the landmark Second Vatican Council declaration Nostra Aetate, which he described as a “key point of reference for relations with the Jewish people.”

“The fundamental principles expressed by the Declaration have marked the path of greater awareness and mutual understand-

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and all of humanity.”

Similarly, on a PA TV broadcast that aired May 11 and May 12, the narrator called terrorist Faraj Saleh Abdallah Al-Rimahi, who beat 84 year-old Avraham Kinstler to death with a hoe in 1992, a “giant hero” who is “still writing the finest epics of endurance, heroism and self-sacrifice.” Both of these pre-Oslo terrorists are serving life sentences in Israeli prison.

Robert De Niro respects Israelis for ‘aggressiveness’

Photo courtesy Mohamed Ouda via Wikimedia Commons.

Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) protest against Israel in Melbourne, Australia, in 2010.

Pro-Israel students thrive despite ongoing push by boycott advocates

By Ronen Shnidman, JNS.org Who has the upper hand in the ongoing struggle on campus between Jewish students and advocates of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign against Israel? Experts at the 2013 Israeli Presidential Conference last week in Jerusalem expressed optimism about where pro-Israel students stand — with the most positive tone coming from University of California President Mark Yudof.

“Despite what you may have heard, Jewish students are thriving,” Yudof said on a June 19 Presidential Conference panel titled “Campus as a Crossroads in the Life of a Young Jew.” Yudof’s fellow panelists were Jewish Agency Chairman Natan Sharansky, TaglitBirthright CEO Gidi Mark, Chairperson of ing trodden these last decades by Jews and Catholics,” Pope Francis said, Vatican Radio reported.

Iran pres-elect linked to Argentina bombing Iran president-elect Hassan Rohani has been linked to a secretive government council responsible for a global assassination campaign in the 1990s that included the 1994 bombing of a Jewish community center in Buenos Aires, Argentina, which killed 85 people, the Washington Free Beacon reported.

Citing a 2008 report by Iran Human Rights Documentation Center (IHRDC), a U.S. non-profit group that documents patterns of human rights abuse in Iran, the Free Beacon reported Rohani sat on the Special Affairs Council, tasked with recommending people for assassination in consultation with Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

Reuel Gerecht, a senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, told the Washington Free Beacon that there is nothing in Rohani’s background “that would suggest to you he has any moral qualms about bombing the enemies of the [Islamic] Republic.”

the European Union of Jewish Students Andi Gergely, and Israel Government Fellow and recent Cornell University graduate Rachel Greenspan.

While Sharansky, the most restrained panelist in terms of his optimism, appeared cautiously optimistic, he emphasized the need for college communities to mobilize support for Israel.

“Our main battlefield for the future is on American campuses,” Sharansky said he told then-Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon a decade ago. Sharansky attributed the improvement on campuses since that time partially to the work of organizations like Taglit-Birthright, Caravan for Democracy, StandWithUs, and others.

Samaria security lapses The Samaria Residents’ Council said that the left-leaning Israeli group Machsom Watch, which monitors checkpoints in Judea and Samaria because it opposes Israel’s control over the area, has been exposing security weaknesses in IDF operations “to the enemy.”

The residents allege that members of Machsom Watch harass IDF soldiers at checkpoints in Samaria. Machsom Watch then reveals details such as the number of soldiers manning checkpoints and IDF security lapses, publishing the information online, the Samaria residents said.

PA media glorify terrorists While the Palestinian Authority (PA) demands the release of all Palestinian terrorists imprisoned before the signing of the 1993 Oslo Accords as a precondition for restarting peace negotiations with Israel, the PA media have been glorifying the murders committed by those same terrorists, Palestinian Media Watch reported in its June 19 bulletin.

On a PA TV broadcast that aired June 6 and June 8, the narrator called terrorist Ibrahim Faiz Abu Ali, who murdered 24 year-old taxi driver Roni Levy in December 1990, a “hero whose struggle brought honor to us

Actor Robert De Niro, known for his tough and aggressive personality on the big screen, said he appreciates similar qualities in the Israeli people.

“I always enjoy coming to Israel. Israelis are warm, they’re energetic people. Forthright. Very smart. I always like smart people.

They’re nice people, you know. Aggressive, and I respect that aggressiveness because you need it in their situation,” De Niro said June 19 at the President’s Conference in Jerusalem, The Times of Israel reported.

De Nirohas played a number of Catholic roles in his movies, including “The Godfather Part II” and “The Mission” (in which he played a priest). De Niro’s signature toughness is perhaps best portrayed in the famous “You talkin’ to me?” exchange from the movie “Taxi Driver.”

Google-Waze deal probe The Federal Trade Commisssion is examining Google’s $1 billion deal to purchase the Israeli navigation start-up Waze to see if the purchase violated any antitrust laws.

After the deal between Google and Waze was finalized June 11, Google believed it didn’t need to submit the deal for review because Waze’s revenue in the U.S. is less than $70 million. If the FTC determineds there were violations in the deal, Google will most likely have to re-sell Waze at a loss. Apple, Facebook and Microsoft all previously wanted to purchase the Israeli start-up.

Summer program worries The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) has expressed concern over “summer camps” and “summer institutes” being organized in the U.S. by American Muslims for Palestine (AMP), American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) and Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP)— groups ADL said have “established records of stoking anti-Israel activity.”

According to the ADL, the camps raise concerns of the indoctrination of children as young as eight years old into the anti-Israel movement, as well as bringing older recruits into the BDS (boycott, divestment and sanctions) movement.

The groups organizing the camps have been major players within the BDS movement.

CAMERA Israel trip helps The Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America (CAMERA) is bringing nearly two-dozen student leaders on a 10-day trip to Israel to help “better recognize and counter news media errors and biases regarding Israel.”

Boston-based CAMERA, which also recently launched the student-geared website CAMERAoncampus.org, will bring the students to some of Israel’s top institutions to meet with experts in public relations.

“In our trip … students will visit top Israeli institutions and meet public relations experts to learn how to effectively commuContinued on page 13

The Miami Heat defeated the San Antonio Spurs, 95-88, in Game 7 of the National Basketball Association (NBA) Finals on Thursday night to give Israeli-American team owner Micky Arison his second straight NBA championship.

Arison, who is also CEO of the Carnival cruise operator and bought the Heat in 2010, was born in Tel Aviv in 1949. His estimated wealth is $5.7 billion, making him the 211th-richest person in the world, according to Forbes.

Jewish Agency in Kiev The Board of Governors of the Jewish Agency for Israel (JAFI) convened in the territory of the former Soviet Union for the ďŹ rst time, on Sunday in Kiev.

The meeting in the Ukraianian capital â&#x20AC;&#x153;was part of the Jewish Agencyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s efforts to strengthen its connection with the Jewish communities of the former Soviet Unionâ&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;a reďŹ&#x201A;ection of the shared destiny and the solidarity between world Jewry and Ukrainian Jewry,â&#x20AC;? said JAFI Chairman of the Executive Natan Sharansky, the Jerusalem Post reported.

About 200,000 Jews still live in the Ukraine and some Ukranian Jews have criticized JAFIâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s decision to hold the meeting in Kiev due to recurring anti-Semitism.

New PA PM abruptly quits Rami Hamdallah, the newly appointed Palestinian Authority (PA) prime minister, abruptly submitted his resignation to PA President Mahmoud Abbas after only 18 days in ofďŹ ce. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The situation in this country forced me

UNESCO adds Yad Vashem Holocaust survivorsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; testimonials, as archived by the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial, are among the 54 new additions to the United Nations Educational, ScientiďŹ c and Cultural Organizationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Memory of the World Register.

The collection of â&#x20AC;&#x153;pages of testimonyâ&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x201D; forms compiled by Yad Vashem in the effort to document the lives of Holocaust survivors â&#x20AC;&#x201D; was founded in 1954 and contains about 2.6 million testimonials. The forms were ďŹ lled out by relatives and friends of the victims.

The testimonials are part of Yad Vashemâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s project to document the names of all the victims of the Holocaust. So far, the project has recorded the names of some 4.2 million victims. â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org

trying to keep his eyes open, so as not to ďŹ nish his day without some Torah study. True leadership does not remain in the study hall, it arises from amidst the Jewish people.

At the same time, it behooves us to be sure we love even those with whom we may strongly disagree.

Even as he picked up the spear in his hand, Pinchas was a descendant of Aaron, and he loved the same Prince of Shimon every bit as much as he loved the Jewish people. It was only Shimonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s actions he was determined to stop. And every Jew, whatever his or her clothing and perspective, is a part of us, and we need to feel that love for him or her even while we may disagree with what it is they are saying or doing.

If blind hatred lost us the Temple 2,000 years ago, it is purposeful (tough?) love that will help us rebuild it.

Shabbat Shalom from Jerusalem, Binny Freedman Rav Binny Freedman, Rosh Yeshivat Orayta in Jerusalemâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Old City is a Company Commander in the IDF reserves, and lives in Efrat with his wife Doreet and their four children.

His weekly Internet â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Parsha Bytesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; can be found at www.orayta.org

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Panama govâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Anti-Semitic comments are criticized The Governor of Panama, Omaira Mayin Correa, has been condemned by the Simon Wiesenthal Center for calling Jewish journalist Flor Mizrachi Angel â&#x20AC;&#x153;that little Jewboy from the Gestapoâ&#x20AC;? on the radio June 17. The comment was a reaction to accusations from the journalist that Panamaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s government is covering up corruption.

Simon Wiesenthal Center Director for International Relations Dr. Shimon Samuels, and the centerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Director for Latin America Sergio Widder, wrote a letter of complaint to Deputy ElĂ­as Castillo, president of the Latin American Parliament Deputy, asking him to â&#x20AC;&#x153;denounce the incident,â&#x20AC;? Israel National News reported. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Governorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s comments offend the memory of Jewish and other victims of the Nazi Gestapo and injure Panama, a long and devoted friend of the Jewish people and the State of Israel,â&#x20AC;? Samuels wrote.

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to resign,â&#x20AC;? Hamdallah tweeted on Sunday. â&#x20AC;&#x153;ConďŹ&#x201A;icts, confusion, corruption. Palestine needs a real political reform.â&#x20AC;?

Hamdallah, who was the president of AnNajah University in Nablus, was appointed to the position following the resignation of Salam Fayyad. A political newcomer, many analysts suspected that Abbas choose Hamdallah for the position in order to maintain the ties with Western countries, which provide the PA with substantial amounts of foreign aid, that Fayyad had established.

But the PA, which is controlled by Abbasâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Fatah party, has been accused by many of corruption and mismanagement. Hamdallah was not a member of Fatah.

Continued from page 5 Simchah of Dvinsk) points out that what Hashem (G-d) is telling Moshe is: If you are all the way up here (on Mount Sinai talking to G-d) and the Jewish people are all the way down there (in the midst of an orgy of idolatry at the base of Mount Sinai), something is very wrong: you need to get down; you need to be with the Jewish people. True leadership is knowing how to be amongst the people whilst still being able to lead them. And that was the greatness of Pinchas.

Perhaps this is what is missing today.

With 60,000 Yeshiva students ensconced in the study halls of the great yeshivot, Torah scholarship abounds. But this Torah scholarship is up on a mountain, completely divorced from most of the Jewish people and no longer in touch with whom the Jewish people are and what they â&#x20AC;&#x201D; we â&#x20AC;&#x201D; need.

I recall after a particular grueling day of maneuvers back when I was in IDF basic training, ďŹ nally being allowed to collapse onto our beds in our tent. Given only four hours or so to sleep, I vividly remember seeing Eli, a hesdernick (combining Torah study in yeshiva with a couple of years of military service), staying awake, studying a page of Talmud with a ďŹ&#x201A;ashlight while desperately

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Israeli Newsbriefsâ&#x20AC;Ś Continued from page 12 nicate a message,â&#x20AC;? Aviva Slomich, CAMERAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s campus director, said in a statement. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We will also take part in training sessions about media coverage and how to help promote sound reporting. In addition, the study tour includes meetings with journalists, policy makers, world-renowned academics, and government leaders,â&#x20AC;? she said.

In addition to visiting several strategic and historic locations such as Sderot, the Old City of Jerusalem, and the Golan Heights, the students will meet several top experts in Israel, including Deputy Foreign Affairs Ministry Spokesperson Mark Regev, Jerusalem Post reporter Khaled Abu Toameh, and Ishmael Khaledi, Israelâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s top-ranking Muslim diplomat.

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Shabbat June 29

Wednesday July 17

Last installment of Rabbi 7:30 p.m. An Evening with novelist Daniel Silva.

David Fohrman’s talk on “Yetziat Mitzrayim through the Rear-View Mirror” in the Themes in Tanach series. Young Israel of Woodmere. One hour before mincha.

Wednesday July 3 5:30 p.m. First annual pre-4th of July picnic.

Ruach Day Camp at Hebrew Academy of Nassau County’s Plainview campus, Games, prizes, face painting, arts and crafts; pizza, salad and pasta from Hunkis Dairy Restaurant. Bring your own blanket. $20 per family, $5 discount for Ruach-affiliated families. Children will decorate and make packages for overseas military. For reservations go to ruachsari@gmail.com

Conference Center, 130 E. 59 St., Manhattan. $54 includes a dessert reception and an autographed copy of his latest book, The English Girl.

Moderated by Professor Ari Goldman. Sponsored

by AMIT, reservations may be made by visiting the AMIT website, www.amitchildren.org, or call 212-477-5465 or 212-477-4725.

Tuesday July 23 7 to 9 p.m. Beaded Napkin Ring Workshop.

Monday July 8

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Freedom-loving whistleblowers do not flee to repressive regimes

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he government programs that Edward Snowden revealed were wrong — Verizon Wiretapping and PRIZM — go against the founders’ intent and, I believe, if taken to the Supreme Court would be struck POLITICS TO GO down.

But the appropriateness of the surveillance on the general public, and the legal/moral issues of Snowden’s using the press to share them with the world are two completely separate issues.

Snowden is not a hero whistleblower but a criminal leaker of secrets. If Snowden Jeff Dunetz wanted to be a whistleblower he would have gone to someone like Senators Rand Paul or Ted Cruz with the information. As libertarians they would have run with the it without leaking the details.

Less than four months ago, Senator Paul stood before the Senate executing an old fashioned filibuster for 13 hours because of Fourth Amendment concerns regarding the drone program; even now, Paul is one of Snowden’s biggest supporters. If Paul or Cruz didn’t help him out, then he could consider a more public way.

Snowden’s behavior since he gave his information to the Guardian casts suspicion on his motives.

Last week, Snowden revealed a practice that would surprise only the most naïve. Foreign politicians and officials who took part in two G20 summit meetings in London in 2009 had their computers monitored and their phone calls intercepted.

Some delegates were tricked into using Internet cafes that had been set up by British intelligence agencies to read their email traffic. Additionally, the U.S. was spying on then-Russian President Mevedev. While the revelation is no surprise, the public disclosure provides current Russian President Putin new leverage in his negotiations with the United States.

What is also probably true (although there is no leak on the other side), is that foreign intelligence services were spying on the American and other western delegations.

The only thing that revelation proved is that Snowden isn’t really a whistle blower-the only reason to release that information is to embarrass the U.S. and to gain his 15-minutes of fame.

His next moves were outlined by Wikileaks, which was used by Private Bradley Manning as his vehicle for leaking secrets: “Mr. Edward Snowden, the American whistleblower who exposed evidence of a global surveillance regime conducted by U.S. and UK intelligence agencies, has left Hong Kong legally.

He is bound for the Republic of Ecuador via a safe route for the purposes of asylum, and is being escorted by diplomats and legal advisors from WikiLeaks.

“Mr. Snowden requested that WikiLeaks use its legal expertise and experience to secure his safety. Once Mr. Snowden arrives in Ecuador

his request will be formally processed.

Former Spanish Judge Mr. Baltasar Garzon, legal director of Wikileaks and lawyer for Julian Assange. made the following statement: “The WikiLeaks legal team and I are interested in preserving Mr. Snowden’s rights and protecting him as a person. What is being done to Mr. Snowden and to Mr. Julian Assange - for making or facilitating disclosures in the public interest - is an assault against the people.”

What is being done to Snowden and to Assange? Snowden released American secrets, Julian Assange is hiding out because he is under indictment for having raped women.

How are their legal plights the same?

His tour of repressive countries is another indication Snowden isn’t the freedom-loving whistleblower that some describe. His first stop was Hong Kong, a territory that takes its orders from China. Last Sunday, when he left for Russia, he gave China three computers (I am sure those computers didn’t have blank hard drives).

He left for Russia, which is no longer the Soviet Union but almost as repressive.

Russian officials said Snowden would remain in the transit area of the Moscow airport until Monday, when he is scheduled to fly to Havana, another repressive country, and then to Ecuador, the country he’s asked for asylum.

Ecuador is a democracy in name only. Its leftist government recently passed a bill restraining press freedom, prohibiting so-called “media lynching” (the publication of information that is “generated in a concerted manner and published repeatedly in one or more media with the objective of smearing a person or harming their public credibility), empowers the government to impose sanctions on the media, and most importantly, the bill asserts that it is a crime for a journalist to undermine “the security of the State.”

In other words, Ecuador has outlawed the acts which made Edward Snowden famous.

Ecuador is no friend of the United States, and will probably grant him asylum, the same way they are harboring Julian Assange, who is hiding out in the Ecuadorian embassy in Britain to avoid rape charges.

With his travel plans, Snowden adds to the case that he never intended to be a whistleblower. Freedom-loving whistleblowers protesting big government spying on the public do not flee to China, then to Russia, and end up in news-media hating Ecuador.

And they do not do it with the help of a man using “freedom of the press” as a subterfuge to avoid rape charges.

While at this writing it seems unlikely, Snowden should be returned to the U.S. for prosecution. At the same time, pressure should be placed on Congress to investigate and possibly overturn the programs he exposed.

‘Snowden is not a hero whistleblower but a criminal leaker of secrets.

[Nevertheless] Congress should investigate and possibly overturn the programs he exposed.’

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

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

Jeff lives in Long Island.

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