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By Ed Weintrob Seven hundred people concerned with the future of Jewish education joined dozens of rabbonim, rebbetzins, educators and community leaders at the second annual Five Towns Community Education Conference, at the Young Israel of Woodmere on Sunday, June 28.

Simultaneously, a similar event was drawing 500 people to Congregation B’nai Yeshurun in Teaneck. Many of the same speakers shuttled between the venues and presented at both events. The 85-year-old keynote speaker, Rabbi Dr. Abraham Twerski, opened the conference in Woodmere and closed the one in New Jersey.

The events’ organizer, Rabbi Reuven Taragin, was cheered by the size of the turnout — an increase from 500 in Woodmere last year — and by the passion and enthusiasm of participants.

Thirty presenters addressed a wide range of topics that included challenges in classrooms from pre-school and up, opportunities and issues faced during a year in Israel, the impact of the Internet, parent-child interactions, teďŹ llah, and more.

Each session ran for 30 minutes — TED Talk style — and thus was concise and to the point, Rabbi Taragin said. Participants found that they wanted to hear from more speakers than they had time for — six sessions ran concurrently — with the lineup featuring people who are tops in their ďŹ elds, he said.

In his session, Rabbi Taragin emphasized the need to individualize Torah instruction, and to adopt a loving approach. “Kiruv rooted in ahavah is the educational philosophy we’re talking about here,� he said. “Not kiruv because you believe in the ideology, but kiruv because you love people — and if you love people you want them to live in the best possible way, and you believe that that’s Torah.�

Since G-d created each person with a unique neshama, educators must work with students “based on who they are so they can become the people they are meant to be.�

He said that Rav Kook wrote that each student understands a Torah that’s unique to them and that “our goal is to help each person ďŹ nd their letter in the Torah.â€? “Whatever school was right for Yaakov wasn’t right for Esau,â€? said Rabbi Taragin, who is dean of overseas stuContinued on page 18

Beyond politics, book tells Oren’s personal story memoir—and the memoir covers more than the author’s four years as Israeli ambassador to the U.S. from 2009-13. “Very few people have actually read the book and seen what’s in the book, and the

book is an American Jewish Zionist story,�

Oren said in a phone interview with JNS.org. “It’s about a young man who grows up in the post-Holocaust generation, whose father landed on Normandy and fought all through-

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out World War II. It’s a total American story. I grew up in this working class neighborhood, and I was the only Jewish kid, and I experienced a lot of anti-Semitism as a kid.�

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At exit, Foxman recalls his wrong predictions

By Edwin Black Looking back after 50 years of service to the Anti-Defamation League, retiring National Director Abraham Foxman voiced concern about the safety and security of Jews overseas and Israel’s position in the world. Here are excerpts from his exit interview, edited for clarity and length.

Edwin Black: Looking back over a half century, how does it strike you?

Abraham Foxman: Boy, how wrong they were! When I came on this job, I read a lot of stuff about the future of the Jewish community. I wanted to know what I would be facing.

One thing that the sociologists and prognosticators said 50 years ago was “Anti-Semitism, it’s a historical fact of the past. You don’t have to worry about it — we’re just going to point to it when we ďŹ ght other prejudices.â€? The other thing they said was “In 50 years, Israel will be a normal nation among all the nations.â€?

Boy how wrong they were! Israel has become “the Jew amongst the nations.�

Black: What do you mean the “Jew amongst the nations?�

Foxman: What everybody else can do, Israel can’t do. Tell me a country in the world that can’t decide its capital? Tell me a country in the world that has to defend its right to defend itself? And tell me a country in the world that has to deal with double and triple standards in terms of being told what it should do, how it should do it, who it can do business with, who it should play soccer with, what person can come and sing.

Black: How do you see the situation in Western Europe?

Foxman: Today, it is a clear and present danger. You have Jewish communities discussing whether they plan to live in Paris, Amster-

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dam, Copenhagen, etc. We’re getting close to a situation where Hitler will have a posthumous victory for a Judenrein [Jew-free] Europe, where Jews, for the ďŹ rst time, are thinking about exit strategies. How do we provide safety and security for Jewish institutions? Jews are removing their kippas. Kids are taking off their Stars of David. Look at the polls of European Jewish communities. Half of the Jews have either experienced anti-Semitism recently or expect to experience it in the next year. More than half are thinking about leaving. This is not something we believed 50 years ago we would still be experiencing in Europe.

Black: And the governments?

Foxman: The [European] governments

are standing up — maybe less, maybe more.

When the chancellor of Germany calls a rally against anti-Semitism, 5,000 people show up. When [President François] Hollande, speaks against anti-Semitism, and when the prime minister of France stands up and says a “France without Jews will not be Franceâ€? — wow! We didn’t have that 50 years ago. Can you imagine? Remember Vichy France — at that time, France sent out its Jews. Indeed, all of Europe was getting rid of its Jews. Having said that, it is still today a very serious issue.

Black: What about Eastern Europe?

Foxman: There aren’t that many Jews [left], but still anti-Semitism is a growing phenomenon [and] governments are trying to keep anti-Semitism alive. In Russia, I believe there is anti-Semitism, but Putin has decided it’s in his best interest to act and speak out against it.

Black: Contrast the Jewish condition overseas with that in America.

Foxman: The U.S. Jewish experience is different. Again, we’re not immune here and things can change. You may like the [Obama] administration or not, [but] this is the only country in the world that mandates its ambassadors to report on anti-Semitism; this is still the only country in the world that stands up for Israel and says, “You’ve got a right to defend yourself,â€? [and] will send Israel the arms to defend itself while Europe won’t even let the planes refuel. This [was] a country that [in 1939] wouldn’t let the [German ship] St. Louis dock here with its cargo of [Jewish] refugees‌ Black: The difference is?

Foxman: The American Jewish community then, in 1945, was gornicht [in Yiddish, “nothing�]. It didn’t have a voice. Today,

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we are a community that understands that we have power and inuence. Not power as much as inuence. And so, freedom for Soviet Jewry — wow, the movement was here. To have the Jackson-Vanik law [instrumental in securing the release of Russian Jewry] when this was a country at war with the Soviet Union — cold war and hot war. And our policy was “determine how they treat the Jews.â€?

And it was the American Jewish community’s “let my people go� voice that forced the American government to act in a way that I don’t think anybody believed it would act.

Black: So just how bad is it?

Foxman: While it’s the worst that it’s been since the 30’s and 40’s, it’s not like it was in the 30’s and 40’s. Why? Because, one, we have a Jewish state [with] Jewish sovereignty that stands up every which way for Jews. Today, a Jew in Istanbul or in Buenos Aires or in Timbuktu who feels threatened because they are Jews can pick themselves up and go to Israel, they don’t need a cousin or an uncle [to sponsor them], they don’t need a bureaucrat, they don’t need special permission and protectzia (in Hebrew, “well-placed connections�) in order to get in. All they have to do is say, “I’m Jewish, and I want in.� And Israel opens the door, puts their arms around them, and later checks their tzitzits. Later, they check just how Jewish are you?

Black: And to those who say “never again�?

Foxman: Even though, as a survivor, I believe in “never again,� I think survivors say “never again� — but they’re not really sure that it’s “never again.�

Edwin Black is the author of 12 bestselling books, including IBM and the Holocaust.

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By Naomi Koppel LONDON (AP) — “Is there anyone in our audience tonight who owes their life to Nicholas Winton?� asked the presenter of the popular BBC magazine program “That’s Life.�

Around the elderly man, sitting with his wife in the front row of the audience, more than 30 people rose to their feet.

It was 1988, some 50 years since young stockbroker Nicholas Winton found himself in Prague as the Nazis marched on Czechoslovakia and all around him Jewish parents desperately looked for a means of escape, if not for themselves then at least for their children.

Virtually single-handedly, Winton saved more than 650 of those children from almost certain death in the Holocaust. But he didn’t talk about it for decades, until his wife discovered documents in their attic that revealed the story and for the ďŹ rst time allowed the rescued children to know and thank their savior. “There are all kinds of things you don’t talk about, even with your family,â€? Winton said later. “Everything that happened before the war actually didn’t feel important in the light of the war itself.â€?

Winton’s death last Wednesday at the age of 106 brought tributes from leaders and Jewish groups in Britain, the Czech Republic and Israel. “In a world plagued by evil and indifference, Winton dedicated himself to saving the innocent and the defenseless,� said Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu. “His exceptional moral leadership serves as an example to all humanity. “Winton knew how to correctly read the harsh reality and chose to leave his comfortable life and follow the voice of his conscience,� added Avner Shalev, chairman of the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial in Jerusalem.

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Returning to Britain and ďŹ nding there was no one working on the problem of how to get the children out, Winton borrowed the stationery paper of the British Committee for Refugees from Czechoslovakia and underneath typed the words “Children’s Section.â€?

He approached the British government, and eventually got a promise that it would let the children in, provided he had a foster home ar-

ranged for each of them, and upon payment of a guarantee — the substantial sum of 50 pounds per child.

He drew up lists of some 6,000 suitable children, publishing their photographs to try to encourage British families to agree to take them.

He arranged trains from Prague to the Netherlands, and ferries to take the children across the North Sea. Eight trains and one plane carried 669 children to Britain in the months before the outbreak of war. The largest evacuation was scheduled for Sept. 3, 1939, the day Britain declared war on Germany. That train never left, and almost none of the 250 children trying to ee that day survived the war. “At the time, everybody said, ‘Isn’t it wonderful what you’ve done for the Jews? You saved all these Jewish people,’â€? Winton said. “When it was ďŹ rst said to me, it came almost as a revelation because I didn’t do it particularly for that reason. I was there to save children.â€?

The children from Prague were among some 10,000 mostly Jewish children who made it to Britain on what were known as the Kindertransports. Few of them would see their parents again.

Though many more children were saved from Berlin and Vienna, those operations were betterorganized and better-ďŹ nanced. Winton’s operation was unique because he worked almost alone. “Maybe a lot more could have been done, but much more time would have been needed, much more help would have been needed from other countries, much more money would have been needed, much more organization,â€? Winton later said.

He also acknowledged that not all the children who made it to Britain were well-treated in their foster homes, and some foster parents used them as cheap domestic servants. He also faced criticism in some quarters for placing

Jewish children with Christian families. “I wouldn’t claim that it was 100 percent successful, but I would claim that everybody who came over was alive at the end of the war,� he said, quoted in the book “Into the Arms of Strangers.�

After the story came to light, Winton’s wife Grete persuaded him to talk about what had happened, and many of the children — now parents and grandparents themselves — contacted him to thank him for saving their lives.

Among the well-known people saved by Winton were American scientist Ben Abeles, British ďŹ lm director Karel Reisz, and Canadian journalist Joe Schlesinger.

A ďŹ lm about his heroism by Slovak director Matej Minac, “Nicholas Winton — The Power of Good,â€? won an International Emmy Award in 2002. Minac made a second documentary, “Nicky’s Family,â€? in 2011.

Winton was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 2003 and also honored in the Czech Republic. A statue of Winton stands at Prague’s central station — candles and owers surrounded it on Thursday — while a statue commemorating the children of the Kindertransport is a popular sight at London’s Liverpool Street Station.

He continued to attend Kindertransport events in Britain and the Czech Republic well beyond his 100th birthday.

Winton served in the Royal Air Force during the war and continued to support refugee organizations. After the war, he became involved in numerous other charitable organizations, especially in his hometown of Maidenhead, west of London.

He was president of the Maidenhead branch of the learning disability charity Mencap for more than 40 years until his death, and worked with the AbbeyďŹ elds organization to set up homes for the elderly in the town — two of which are named Nicholas House and Winton House.

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a reasonable chance of success. So some of the biggest companies active in Israel, such as Microsoft and Intel, have not been targeted.

Battles have taken place in U.S. food co-ops and city councils. The movement has helped organize several boycotts by U.S. and British academic unions and has made inroads on American campuses. Roughly a dozen student governments have approved divestment proposals.

Entertainers, including Roger Waters, Elvis Costello and Lauryn Hill have refused to perform in Israel. The BDS movement also claims responsibility for pressuring some large companies to stop or alter operations in Israel, including carbonated drink maker SodaStream, French construction company Veolia and international security firm G4S. Last month, Britain’s national student union joined the movement. Last week, the top legislative body of the United Church of Christ voted to divest from companies with business in Judea and Samaria, following a similar move by the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) last year.

The Episcopal Church and Mennonite Church USA also considered divestment proposals recently, with the Episcopals rejecting it and the Mennonites deferring action for two years.

Perhaps the biggest blow was last month’s announcement by the chief executive of French mobile phone giant Orange that he wanted to end his partnership with Israeli carrier Partner Communications. He cited his desire to improve business in the Arab world. Although CEO Stephane Richard later traveled to Israel to apologize, Orange and Partner announced plans to unwind their deal.

The idea of boycotts is extremely sensitive in Israel. The Nazis launched a nationwide boycott of Jewish businesses and artists in Germany — often accompanied by acts of violence and anti-Semitic slogans — in the 1930s ahead of the Holocaust. In the 1970s and 1980s, Arab countries pressured companies doing business with them to shun Israel.

Currently, Israel is fending off attempts by the boycotters to compare Israeli policies to South African apartheid.

“Attacks on the Jews were always preceded by the slander of the Jews,” Netanyahu said.

A February report by Israel’s Finance Ministry concluded the BDS movement has had a negligible economic impact. But it outlined some worst-case scenarios, including EU government-led boycotts or cancellation of freetrade agreements. Likewise, a recent study by the Rand Corp. said that while the BDS movement “has not yet had a significant negative effect” on Israel, it is growing. It noted Israeli leaders’ fears that it could have “substantial detrimental effects” on the economy.

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Clinton said in the letter released Monday that she agreed on the need to make countering the BDS movement a priority and sought advice on how to “fight back against further attempts to isolate and delegitimize Israel.”

“As you know, BDS seeks to punish Israel and dictate how the Israelis and Palestinians should resolve the core issues of their

conflict. That is not the path to peace,” Clinton wrote.

Clinton said she was concerned by attempts to compare Israel to South African apartheid. “Israel is a vibrant democracy in a region dominated by autocracy, and it faces existential threats to its survival,” she wrote.

The letter was addressed to each of the presidents in the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations as well as Haim Saban, an Israeli-born U.S. media mogul and top Clinton donor who hosted Clinton at a Los Angeles fundraiser in May.

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By Tia Goldenberg JERUSALEM (AP) — Ten years ago, a small group of Palestinian activists had a novel idea: Inspired by the anti-apartheid movement, they called for a global boycott movement against Israel.

Long confined to the sidelines, the so-called BDS movement appears to be gaining momentum — so much so that Israel has identified it as a strategic threat on a par with Palestinian militant groups and the Iranian nuclear program. While Israel says the movement is rooted in anti-Semitism, its decentralized organization and language calling for universal human rights have proven difficult to counter, resulting in a string of recent victories that have alarmed Israeli leaders.

The BDS movement, begun in 2005, has grown into a global network of thousands of volunteers lobbying corporations, artists and academic institutions to sever ties with Israel.

Its members include campus activists, church groups and even a number of American Jews.

Most worrying for Israel, some of the group’s core positions toward products made in Judea and Samaria are starting to be embraced by European governments. Although the EU says it opposes boycotts of Israel, it is exploring guidelines for labeling products from Judea and Samaria, which many in Israel fear could be a precursor to a full-fledged ban. Products from these areas, which make up a tiny percentage of Israeli exports, include wines, dates and cosmetics.

“The concern is there will be a spillover to a much wider phenomenon that will become mainstream and erode support for Israel,” said Emmanuel Nahshon of Israel’s Foreign Ministry.

The BDS movement has stated three goals: to end Israel’s occupation of territories captured in the 1967 Mideast war, to end discrimination suffered by Arab citizens of Israel, and to promote the rights of Palestinian refugees to return to family properties lost in the war surrounding Israel’s creation in 1948.

For Israel, this last position is nothing less than a call for its destruction. Israel opposes the Palestinian “right of return,” saying a massive influx of refugees would mean the end of the country as a Jewish state. Israeli leaders consider the movement to be the latest in a history of antagonists out to destroy the Jewish people.

“We are in the midst of a great struggle being waged against the state of Israel, an international campaign to blacken its name,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said recently. “It is not connected to our actions. It is connected to our very existence.”

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Even in Concealment: Comfort over angel’s loss TEHILLA R. GOLDBERG VIEW FROM CENTRAL PARK

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n angel walked among us. Now he is no more. Malachi — My Angel — Rosenfeld was riding in a car with his buddies, on their way home from a basketball meet, when he was shot at by a Palestinian terrorist.

All four young men were shot; one of the wounds, Malachi’s, was critical. “Matsav anush,” the news said. When you hear these words, you know it means the person is already oscillating between this world and the next. Malachi succumbed to his wounds, and an angel who walked amongst us was cruelly ripped from this world.

These guys in their 20s happened to be driving on a road to their “settlement,” a point repeatedly highlighted in the news, as if it makes any difference. Anyone could have been in that car — say, a Tel Aviv resident

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attending a Bar Mitzvah. The Palestinian had no idea. It’s a matter of egalitarian killing; terrorists don’t discriminate among which Jews they murder.

Just this week I was recommending the song “Ve’Afilu Be’Hastara” (“Even in Concealment”) to a friend struggling through a difficult time. The lyrics are from Rabbi Nachman of Bratslav, roughly translated as, “Even while you feel trapped in the darkness of concealment within concealment, certainly, there too, G-d is present. Behind all the painful experiences you are struggling through, there too I stand” (“ve-afilu be-hastara . . . shebetoch ha-hastara . . . be-vadai gam sham nimtza Hashem Yitbarach. Gam me-achorei ha-devarim ha-kashim ha-ovrim alecha . . . ani omed . . . ani omed . . . ani omed”).

It is the ultimate paradoxical declaration of faith in G-d, even in times of abandonment. The song is strong for its first-person narrative, giving G-d Himself voice, as if He were speaking with you.

Recently, when I was in the hospital with a loved one, my nephew sweetly called and said he wanted to cheer us up by singing a

song for us. At age eight, he didn’t realize the impact and timing of the words and the melody, as he began singing and playing on his organ, “Ve-afilu behastara…”

Today, Malachi’s father, Eliezer Rosenfeld, has forever changed this song that came on the Israeli musical scene only recently and which now forever belongs to Malachi and his family.

Tragically, this loss is the third the Rosenfeld family has suffered over the years.

Eliezer’s brother was killed while serving in the IDF in 1978. Then his son Yitzchaki, an Air Force pilot named for his uncle, was killed in 2002, also while serving in the IDF. With extraordinary strength, Malachi’s father, a clarinetist, bade his son a musical farewell with this heart-wrenching song — but only after sharing what seemed like an intimate dialogue with G-d. Eliezer cried out in tears: “What didn’t we get right, G-d, that

this is the third time? What didn’t we do right?”

Eliezer Rosenfeld sang this song, “Ve-afilu be-hastara.”

This angel no more, Malachi, through his dear dad, sang to us a song from beyond the grave. Yes, Eliezer, his dad, sang the song, but he was not alone.

Like the song says: “Behind all the painful experiences you are struggling through, there too I stand.”

This time, not just G-d but Malachi stood behind his dad, as he was struggling through the burial of his son, Malachi — My Angel.

Malachi was there, part of that song, now forever embodying the song, this anthem of faith his father brokenly emitted … “even in concealment…”

Because, Malachi, this melody we can never stop singing. And we shall never stop singing.

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As Greece falls and Europe dissembles, it, and not Israel, is the ‘anachronism’ BEN COHEN VIEWPOINT

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ack in 2003, as some readers will recall all too clearly, the noted historian Tony Judt penned a searing critique of Israel in the New York Review of Books. Titled “Israel: The Alternative,” Judt, whose impressive scholarship was largely focused on Europe, depicted the Jewish state as a reactionary outpost of 19th century nationalism that bucked the trend elsewhere — exemplified most of all by the European Union (EU) — toward “individual rights, open frontiers, and international law.”

Judt’s argument struck a wide-ranging, resonant chord. Its most memorable and damning line read as follows: “Israel, in short, is an anachronism.”

That line sounds ridiculous in 2015, but it was equally flawed in 2003. In Iraq, Saddam Hussein’s Nazi-like Ba’ath regime was battling for survival, the Taliban was wreaking havoc and terror in Afghanistan, and North Korea dumped the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. In those countries, and in many others, “individual rights, open frontiers, and international law” might as well have been concepts from another planet.

Yet there was one important difference: Judt was writing at a time when the EU as an institution, along with its underlying postnationalist political vision, was very much in the ascendant. One year after his article was published, the EU expanded its membership with 10 new states, from Central and Eastern Europe and the Mediterranean. Then, in 2007, Romania and Bulgaria joined the roster. In 2013, Croatia entered in the EU, just 20 years after the devastating war in the Balkans that followed the disintegration of Yugoslavia. Most of all, the deepening and strengthening of the Union was exemplified by the adoption, and subsequent expansion, of the Euro single currency in 2002, which resulted in established currencies like the German mark and the French franc being consigned to the history books.

By 2009 and 2010, though, as profound economic crises hit Ireland and Greece, doubts about the Euro’s efficacy in a region composed of economies that were at dramatically different stages of development started to multiply. And now Greece, an EU veteran that first entered the Union in 1981, is experiencing the worst economic crisis on the continent during the post-war period.

Whether the Greeks leave the Euro (“Grexit”) or find a way to stay inside the currency, they face years of mass unemployment and crippling debt.

So intense is the Greek crisis that Gideon Rachman, one of the leading columnists at the Financial Times, wrote last week about “the failure of a European dream of unity, peace and prosperity”—all those goals that Tony Judt said that Israel could never achieve, because of its obsessive clinging to Jewish nationalism.

One has to wonder whether Tony Judt, who sadly passed away in 2010 following a devastating illness, would now be describing

the European idea as an “anachronism” were he still with us. The case for Europe as the locus for what the Enlightenment philosopher Immanuel Kant termed the “perpetual peace” now seems decidedly shaky.

It is far too early to say whether Greece will reverse the course of European history by reviving the ugly political traditions that the EU thought had been vanquished after World War II. But with the collapse of the European idea there, along with the severe disillusionment in other EU states (the U.K. will soon hold its own referendum on whether to leave the Union), there is every reason to worry that both the far left and the far right will reap the rewards that will flow from Europe’s shattered consensus.

In such conditions, anti-Semitism flourishes. In his recent book, “The War of a Million Cuts,” the Israeli political analyst Manfred Gerstenfeld quotes a rabbi in Greece as telling him, “Greece is a very traditional society, and they blame the Jews for killing Jesus.

There are still people who believe that Jews drink the blood of Christians on Passover.” A just-released poll from the Anti-Defamation League reveals that a whopping 67 percent of Greeks “harbor anti-Semitic attitudes.”

Greece is not alone. Similar discontent, expressed through communal chauvinism and exclusivist nationalism, is visible in the east and west of the continent, from France to Poland. Rachman, the Financial Times columnist, candidly expresses the stakes involved. If Greece departs the Euro, he argues, that would “undermine the fundamental EU proposition: that joining the European club is the best guarantee of future prosperity and stability.”

Again, I don’t want to sound apocalyptic.

This isn’t 1933, when Hitler came to power, nor (in a date that will be more familiar to U.S. readers) is it 1861, when the slave states seceded from America’s Union, ushering in four years of civil war. Nor is Europe’s crisis a Jewish crisis, though you can be sure that the “blame the Jews” chorus that invariably accompanies financial meltdown will grow louder. Hence, if Europe has proved anything, it’s not that Israel is an anachronism.

It is, rather, a necessity.

Ben Cohen is senior editor of TheTower.org

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ith the annual observance of the destruction of our two sacred Temples now underway, I bring to your attention several new literary works detailing the significance of this time of year in the history of the Jewish people.

The first work is “A Temple in Flames” (Megalim Ir David Foundation, Maggid Books), an excellent collaboration between a military historian, Gershon Bar-Cochva, whose specialty centers on the study of the Roman army, and Ahron Horowitz, a senior archeologist most responsible for the excavations at Ir David (the City of David) in Jerusalem.

This collaborative is an extremely attractive pictorial as well as an intensely wellinformed narrative that is both scholarly in content and readable, a literary combination that makes it unique in this literary genre.

Horowitz is one of Israel’s most highly regarded authorities on the history of ancient and Biblical Jerusalem. He is the founder

and current director of Megalim, the Higher Institute for Jerusalem Studies, and author of one of the best tour guide books on Jerusalem, “Jerusalem — Footsteps Through Time.”

Bar-Cochva holds a Ph.D in history from Hebrew University in Jerusalem, lectures widely, teaches at Efrata College, and is founder and chair of the executive board of the Eretz Yehu-

dah Archaeological Museum. He was head of an armed brigade in the IDF and holds the rank of lieutenant colonel.

One of the most telling pictures in this work, a graphic that accompanies this essay, is that of the Arch of Titus — which stands in Rome to this very day — with, as its centerpiece, the Temple Menorah. Note is made that this very Menorah design was adopted as the centerpiece of the coat of arms of the State of Israel. Also, as an added historical aside, note following event proudly cited in this excellent work: “For hundreds of years, the Jewish community of Rome refrained from passing through the arch through which their ancestors had been forced to go as prisoners. On

the 5th of Iyar (May 14) 1948, the day David Ben-Gurion declared the founding of the State of Israel, the Jewish community, led by the chief rabbi of Rome, returned to the arch and marched through it once more. This time they went in the opposite direction, walking through the arch away from Rome and in the direction of the Land of Israel, to signify the reversal of Jewish history and the return to the homeland.” )25 )857+(5 678'< The Orthodox Union, together with Maggid Books, published a unique volume of deeply meaningful readings and kavanot for each of the days of the Three Weeks and the 10th of Av. Written by Dr. Erica Brown of Wahington, this book is aimed at further enhancing the public’s appreciation of the observances timed to the historical events they commemorate each summer.

Feldheim Publishing recently released the latest volume in its series, “Moadei Hashanah,” dedicated to the teachings of the Three Weeks and Tisha B’Av, by the great rav and gaon, Rav Shimshon Dovid Pincus, of blessed memory. A more extensive treatment of this work is planned, iy”H, for the very near future. In the meantime, if you see this work in your local bookstore, buy it.

Book pitches the WWII legacy of Hank Greenberg

By Jacob Kamaras, JNS.org Baseball fans might most vividly remember Hank Greenberg for his chase of Babe Ruth’s single-season home run record in 1938 and his other impressive exploits on the field. Jewish baseball fans remember him for sitting out a crucial game on Yom Kippur decades before Sandy Koufax would do the same. But author John Klima wants readers of any background to know the unsung story of Greenberg’s World War II service.

As indicated by its title, Klima’s recently published book— “The Game Must Go On: Hank Greenberg, Pete Gray, and the Great Days of Baseball on the Home Front in WWII” (Thomas Dunne Books) —is about much more than Greenberg. Yet the Hall-of-Fame first baseman and outfielder, who won two Most Valuable Player (MVP) awards and two World Series championships with the Detroit Tigers, is the centerpiece.

After an initial army stint of half a year, Greenberg was honorably discharged on Dec. 5, 1941, two days before Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor. Greenberg voluntarily re-enlisted in the Army Air Corps immediately after the attack and did not return to Major League Baseball (MLB) until the summer of 1945. Baseball’s highest-paid player before the war, Greenberg was the first Major Leaguer to enlist, becoming the face of an era that—with conscription depleting baseball of much of its top-tier talent— forever changed the MLB and the entire American professional sports landscape, Kima’s book argues.

“What you found out about Hank Greenberg was that he really represented everything to everyone, and he represented everything to the Jewish people before the war, during the war, and after the war,” Klima tells JNS.org. “And then the rest of the country, even though they knew about him as an American League MVP and a big slugger, kind of embraced him, I think, the same way that the Jewish population had in the 1930s, in the sense that Hank suddenly represented the ballplayer who left the privileges of his life to go sacrifice and serve. That was Hank’s decision. Not only does he end up representing the guy who served, but then he ends up representing the soldier who’s coming back and putting his life together.”

Upon Greenberg’s return to baseball in 1945, he hit a grandslam home run that clinched the American League pennant on the last day of the season. The Tigers later defeated the Chicago Cubs in the World Series. But before his triumphant comeback, the absence of Greenberg and other stars like him opened the door for players such as one-armed outfielder Pete Gray—who shares the cover of Klima’s book with Greenberg—to realize their dream of reaching the Major Leagues.

In an anecdote from “The Game Must Go On” that brings the book’s major protagonists together, Greenberg and Gray “stood arm in arm in the steady St. Louis rain, talking softly for a few moments” during the same game Greenberg won with his historic home run. “This was the image of baseball in World War II,” Klima writes. “The serviceman was thanking the temporary worker for keeping the factory humming while he was on. The

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hero got his life back. The replacement was swept out the door.

Hank seemed to realize what few others could, that both of them had helped win the war in their own different ways.”

Indeed, while players such as Greenberg made their contributions on the battlefield, the likes of Gray kept the game alive on the baseball field and boosted both Americans’ morale at home and soldiers’ morale overseas.

Greenberg’s gesture in the season-ending game against the St. Louis Browns—which was also Gray’s final MLB game—“was as grand as any home run he ever hit,” writes Klima.

Gray and Greenberg both endured hate, the former for his physical disability and the latter over his Jewish faith. On the field with Gray that day, Greenberg’s character shone through.

“Hank is going to do what Hank knows is right,” Klima says.

“That’s really the essence of Greenberg, and I think that’s why people are still drawn to him. That’s why I’m drawn to him. He’s got tunnel-vision for the right thing.”

Klima writes that Greenberg, after hitting the pennant-winning home run, “swore he heard one of the infielders mutter, ‘Goddamn that dirty Jew bastard, he beat us again.’ He savored the thought of the Washington Senators (who lost the pennant because of the Tigers’ win that day) sitting around a hotel room listening to his grand slam on the radio, calling him every dirty Jew name in the book, and he loved the thought of how angry his home run must have made them.”

“Hank was hearing ‘dirty Jew bastard’ all the way through the

end of his career. He didn’t talk about it after the 1930s, but he still heard it. The big leagues were a rough, nasty place,” Klima says, adding that the Washington Senators were a particularly “antiSemitic bunch.”

Kilma believes Greenberg “took a lot of joy in triumphing over bigots,” but “would never say it to you” and “would always let his actions speak louder than his words.”

Greenberg was also understated about his military service, which was highlighted by his time in the China Burma India Theater region with the first group of Boeing B-29 Superfortress aircraft during the bombing campaign against Japan. But one incident Greenberg did elucidate with a firsthand account was a dramatic story from June 1944, when he was part of a ground crew trying to rescue a plane that developed engine trouble and could not get airborne. The bombs on the plane exploded during the rescue effort, nearly killing Greenberg.

“I was stunned and couldn’t talk or hear for a couple days, but was otherwise undamaged,” Greenberg says, according to the book. “The miraculous part of it all was that the entire crew escaped. Some of them were pretty well banged up, but no one was killed. That was an occasion, I can assure you, when I didn’t wonder whether or not I’d be able to return to baseball. I was quite satisfied to be alive.”

While Greenberg would not “make a big deal” out of his military service publicly, Klima says, it “was something he cared about immensely.”

Reiterating how Greenberg’s actions spoke louder than words, Klima says, “If you walked up to Hank and said, ‘Tell me about how you’re standing up for the Jewish people,’ Hank would probably demur. But if you watched him in his everyday life, you would see him do that everyday.”

Klima says he cares about “the people who still look up to Hank,” and that he hopes the book both preserves and accurately depicts the legacy of the Jewish ballplayer, who died in 1986.

“I would want every Jewish person in the world to read it,” he adds. “They don’t make ballplayers like Hank Greenberg anymore, and I don’t think they make ballplayers who are people like Hank Greenberg anymore.”

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By Maayan Jaffe, JNS.org “The Torah is going to the moon.” It their name, choose according to numerical sounds like a phrase straight out of a Jewish value.”

To date, around 200 out of the Torah’s fairytale or children’s book, but the real-life Torah on the Moon initiative is not as pie-in- 600,000 letters have been purchased.

Rabbi Dan Marans, executive director of the-sky as one might think.

French-Israeli entrepreneur Haim Aouiz- the Zomet Institute, says there are halachic erate is asking the Jewish community to (Jewish legal) considerations that need to be help fund a project that aims to send a Torah addressed with the Torah on the Moon projscroll to the moon to celebrate the ancient ect. For example, a Torah is written on anibook’s innumerable contributions to moral- mal skin parchment, which would explode in outer space. Working closely with the ESA, ity, justice, education, culture, and more.

The idea was launched about three years Aouizerate’s team is working to design a ago, when high-tech wiz Aouizerate saw technology ravaging his children.

They would come home from school, throw their bags on the floor, and go from screen to screen, he recalls.

“To Aouizerate, it seemed like they were living their lives en- 7KH 7RUDK RQ WKH 0RRQ LQLWLDWLYH¶V ORJR Torah on the Moon tirely based on 15-second sound bites and videos, with no depth glass or plastic space encasement to protect to them,” says Elie Klein, a spokesperson for the Torah.

Even if the special case protects the Torah, Torah on the Moon. “It is not easy for children—or anyone—to connect unless they Jewish tradition intends for the scroll to be have the correct foundation and the correct read. Can this Torah survive in space outside push in the right direction. He knew he need- of its protective gear?

“I asked a representative of the ESA, ‘If we ed to do something big, a big stunt, to help people refocus their lives away from technol- put it in the encapsulation, will we be able ogy and more on their culture, heritage, and to take it out’?” Marans says. “He responded, the legacy they should leave the next genera- ‘By the time you plan your personal vacation to the Moon, I will give you a way to get it tion.”

Inspired by the Google Lunar XPRIZE, a out’.”

The Torah will need to be flown to its $30 million competition to land a privately funded robot on the moon, Aouizerate deter- launch point, accompanied by someone who mined to catch the Torah a ride on one of can ensure it is shown proper respect. It will also be a priority to ensure that the Torah is these vehicles.

“Modernity has brought the significant not dispatched on Shabbat.

Marans admits that when he first heard blessing of technology to humanity,” Aouizerate tells JNS.org. “However, with this bless- about the project, “I thought it was crazy.” ing, comes a loss of respect for the written But as his involvement has grown, he has word. Our goal is to reconnect people of all seen the impact it is having and the possibilifaiths with their identities, values, and roots ty that it will touch hundreds of thousands of by allowing the Torah, the world’s oldest less-religiously connected Jewish lives. Since code of conduct and law, to take center stage word got out, he says he has heard from peoin a way previously thought unimaginable: a ple from all walks of life who are “so excited one-way, crowdfunded trip to the Moon. To about it.” put it in the simplest terms, we are launching “People used to buy trees in Israel and the a Torah to keep our society grounded.” joke was that people would come to Israel Since then, Aouizerate has been in con- and look at every tree to find the one with tact with the European Space Agency (ESA), their name on it. But it was inspiring. This which has agreed to take on the project, is a little similar,” Marans says. “If you buy working closely with the Zomet Institute, an a letter, you could look up at the Moon and Israeli non-profit public research institute feel a connection with that Torah and with that is well-versed in the synthesis of Torah creation.” law and modern life. A crowd-funding iniTorah on the Moon is projected to cost uptiative has also taken off. Outside of Aouiz- wards of $6 million to complete. Klein says erate’s private funding, the project is being the Torah will need to be written in micropaid for through the purchase of letters or calligraphy after all the letters are purchased, phrases in the Moon-bound Torah scroll. which could take a few months. The hope is Aouizerate “didn’t want to just send the to launch the Torah sometime between the Torah to the moon, he wanted people in- summers of 2016 and 2018. volved,” Klein says. “He set up a website “This sticks with you,” says Klein. “I unwhere people can purchase their own letters derstand the passion and the desire, and I in the Torah scroll. They can buy one letter, think this is something inspirational that a phrase. They can purchase a portion that people can get behind.”

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y husband Jerry thinks itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s an adventure to have a stopover or two when he ďŹ&#x201A;ies. His best ďŹ&#x201A;ight yet was his two stop trip to Israel. He got to visit Romania, the birthplace of his dad. It was a small airport where most employees held more than one position. He was the only person switching ďŹ&#x201A;ights. He was told where to check in for the ďŹ&#x201A;ight to Israel. When he got there, the area was dark and empty. He saw a woman vacuuming, and asked if this was the correct area to switch planes.

She got excited and told him to wait. After a few minutes, a small team of ofďŹ cials came in and welcomed him to Romania. They put his carry-on through the tiny security machine (obviously not many passengers switch ďŹ&#x201A;ights in Romania). Jerry told the workers that his dad was from Transylvania. They got along well and Jerry was grateful when they bumped him up to ďŹ rst class.

Jerry boarded, excited to sit, or shall I say sleep, in ďŹ rst class on the way to Israel. He sat down in his seat, and noticed, that all the seats in the plane looked alike. Where were the wide cushy seats with extra legroom that he always eyed with envy when he boarded planes. You know, those seats ďŹ lled with passengers lounging comfortably while watching the rest of us schlepping toward the overcrowded, over cramped steerage section, which jerry and I have grown accustomed to. Those ďŹ rst and business class passengers

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arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t exactly smirking, but trust me, theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re thinking, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Glad weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re in these comfy seats and not packed like sardines in the back.â&#x20AC;?

After everyone was seated the stewardess closed a shower-like curtain right in back of Jerryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s seat, and said â&#x20AC;&#x153;Welcome to ďŹ rst class on Air Romainiaâ&#x20AC;? Yup, he and the passenger next to him were the two lucky people in ďŹ rst class.

Last week, when Jerry had to ďŹ&#x201A;y to San Diego, he booked a one stop ďŹ&#x201A;ight. As luck would have it, there was terrible trafďŹ c on the way to La Guardia and I got him to the airport with just enough time to check in.

Turned out he had an extra hour, as his ďŹ&#x201A;ight was delayed. His ďŹ&#x201A;ight was uneventful. The fun began when he arrived in Chicago and found out that his connecting ďŹ&#x201A;ight did not wait. He inquired when the next ďŹ&#x201A;ight to San Diego would be. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The next dayâ&#x20AC;? the woman replied. Jerry explained that he could not wait till the next day and it was the responsibility of Spirit Airlines to get him a ďŹ&#x201A;ight, whether it be on Spirit or another airline.

She said over, and over it was a weather issue, so the airline was not responsible. She said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;They should have never sent you from New York. They knew the connection was not waiting.â&#x20AC;? Jerry, knowing it was their fault, would not take no for an answer. Finally they put him on a ďŹ&#x201A;ight to Las Vegas, to catch a connecting ďŹ&#x201A;ight to San Diego.

In Las Vegas, as soon as Jerry got off the ďŹ&#x201A;ight, he saw a Spirt representative, who welcomed him from the Chicago ďŹ&#x201A;ight. Jerry thanked her and inquired about his next ďŹ&#x201A;ight. She said she had no record of a â&#x20AC;&#x153;Jerry Joszefâ&#x20AC;? on a ďŹ&#x201A;ight to San Diego; in fact, there was no record of him on the previous ďŹ&#x201A;ight either. She said â&#x20AC;&#x153;As far as Spirit Airlines is

concerned you were not on the ďŹ&#x201A;ight from Chicago that I just saw you come off of. So how can you possibly be booked on the next connecting ďŹ&#x201A;ight if you werenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t on the last ďŹ&#x201A;ight?â&#x20AC;? Perfect Catch 22. Jerry patiently tried to reason with the woman. â&#x20AC;&#x153;You just saw me get off this ďŹ&#x201A;ight, how can it be there is no record?â&#x20AC;? he asked.

After an hour of pleading, she called the national ofďŹ ce and they validated his claim.

Jerry made it onto the ďŹ&#x201A;ight just as the doors were closing â&#x20AC;&#x201D; he happily made his way to steerage, where he felt at home. Wow, this 14 hour ordeal made him yearn for a return trip to Romania, and the sweet stability of Romania Airlines.

Once seated the stewardess explained the safety features, and proudly announced the offer of a free Spirit ďŹ&#x201A;ight anywhere in the US, after applying for their credit card.

Jerry picked up his pen, and was about to ďŹ ll out his application, when he suddenly

envisioned me, in a Fiddler on the Roof, Frumma Sarah mode. Needless to say he thought better of this free offer and put his pen down.

Talking about ďŹ rst class, this Waldorf Pudding was on the menu of The Titanic, the night it sunk. :DOGRUI 3XGGLQJ Ingredients: 1 tbsp lemon juice 1 tbs ďŹ nely chopped crystallised ginger 1 tbs butter 1/3 cup granulated sugar 2 cups milk 4 egg yolks, beaten Pinch of freshly ground nutmeg tsp pure vanilla extract 1/4 cup toasted walnuts halved Thinly slice apples. Stir in raisins, lemon juice and ginger. In skillet, melt butter over high heat. Add apple mixture and cook for 1 minute. Stir in 2 tbsps of sugar, cook, stirring often, for three to four minutes or until apples are lightly caramelized. Scrape apple mixture and syrup into a 10-inch round glass baking dish. Reserve.

Meanwhile, in saucepan over medium heat, heat milk just until bubbles form around edges, whisking constantly. Add some milk to eggs, mix until well incorporated. Add remaining milk, nutmeg and vanilla. Mix well, pour over apple mixture.

Set baking dish inside large roasting pan.

Pour enough boiling water into roasting pan to come halfway up sides of baking dish.

Place in 325 F oven for 40 to 50 minutes until custard is set but still jiggly. Carefully remove dish to cooling rack. Sprinkle with walnuts.

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LEGAL NOTICE New York Governorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Office of Storm Recovery State of New York Action Plan Amendment No. 10 to the Action Plan for Community Development Block Grant Disaster Recovery (CDBG-DR) Program Pursuant to Federal Register Notice FR-5696-N-11 On October 16, 2014, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) announced a supplemental allocation of $420,922,000 of Community Development Block Grant Disaster Recovery (CDBG-DR) funds to support the State of New Yorkâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s continued recovery efforts from Hurricane Irene, Tropical Storm Lee and Superstorm Sandy.

When changes are made to the Governorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Office of Storm Recovery (GOSR) Programs that affect funding and/or eligibility, HUD requires that grantees create a substantial Action Plan Amendment that documents the proposed use of funds, and publish it for

public input. HUD approval is also required for each major infrastructure Project. HUD approved the Stateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s initial Action Plan on April 25, 2013. This Amendment, Action Plan Amendment No. 10 (APA 10) is now available for public review. APA 10 will address the following items: a) Optional Relocation Plan is being added to the NY RISING HOUSING PROGRAM for applicants with manufactured homes. b) NY RISING BUYOUT AND ACQUISTION PROGRAM is expanding the eligibility for applicants to include applicants in the floodway who do NOT have substantial damage letters. c) An additional covered project has been identified, Bergen Point Wastewater Treatment Plant Outfall Replacement and is being funded through CDBG-DR. The Action Plan, amendments 1 through 9, and Action Plan Amendment No. 10, are available on the Stateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s website at http://stormrecovery.ny.gov Copies of the Action

Plan Amendment No. 10 are also are available without charge, to anyone requesting copies at info@stormrecovery.ny.gov or by calling the Recovery Hotline: 1-866-ASK-DHCR (866-2753427). TTY: 212-480-6062. Additionally it has been translated into Spanish, Russian and Chinese. Please take notice that the New York Governorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Office of Storm Recovery (GOSR) will hold two (2) public hearings to give all interested persons an opportunity to present oral and written comments on Action Plan Amendment No. 10. Public hearings will be held: Tuesday, July 21, 2015 (6:00 p.m. â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 8:00 p.m.) Freeport Village Hall Main Board Room, 2nd Floor 46 North Ocean Avenue Freeport, NY 11520 Monday, July 27, 2015 (6:00 p.m. â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 8:00 p.m.) Schoharie County Office Building Board Chambers, 3rd Floor 284 Main Street Schoharie, NY 12157 Comments may also be submitted in writing at the public hearing, or

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euters reports that the Obama administration has been taking the Iranian side regarding a long list of violations to the interim Joint Plan of Action (JPOA) as well as to U.N. Security Council resolutions. â&#x20AC;&#x153;A U.N. panel of experts that monitors compliance with Security Council sanctions has repeatedly reported that Iran is suspected of buying equipment linked to the activities it is now negotiating to suspend,â&#x20AC;? Reuters reported. â&#x20AC;&#x153;But in its annual report in April, the panel said it had received no formal notiďŹ cations from U.N. member states of Iranian breaches of sanctions, and suggested this may be because countries were trying to avoid damaging nuclear talks.â&#x20AC;?

Perhaps the most serious example of Iranâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s cheating was the oxidation violation conďŹ rmed last week (and still denied by the Administration). The Iranians were obligated by the JPOA to turn all of their excess uranium gas (UF6), anything over 7,650kg, into dioxide powder (UO2) also known as yellowcake. But the Iranians converted it to a different type of oxide easily converted back to usable uranium.

In the JPOA factsheet, the requirement was broadly written as the Iranians having to create â&#x20AC;&#x153;oxide.â&#x20AC;? But there are different kinds of uranium oxide and this is an area where precision in very important. The Congressional Research Service noted that â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iran is also to, in effect, freeze its production of enriched uranium hexaďŹ&#x201A;uoride containing up to 5 percent uranium-235 by converting the material to uranium dioxide.â&#x20AC;?

Once it became news that the Iranians cheated on the conversion, the Obama administration went to work retroactively rewriting the deal on Iranâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s behalf.

Last week, the State Department reported that Iran had complied with that key condition of the interim agreement and had signiďŹ cantly reduced its stockpile of enriched uranium, an accurate statement as long as one ignores Iranâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s violations.

Meanwhile, the New York Times reported that Iranâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;stockpile of nuclear fuel increased about 20 percent over the last 18 months of negotiations,â&#x20AC;? partially undercutting the Administrationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s contention that the Iranian program had been â&#x20AC;&#x153;frozenâ&#x20AC;? during that period.â&#x20AC;?

After the State Department hit back at the Times report, the Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS), a non-proliferation think tank, concluded that â&#x20AC;&#x153;the State Department has some explaining to do, publicly. Shooting the messengers is not going to make this issue go away.â&#x20AC;?

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Following up, ISIS reported that instead of meeting their oxidation obligation, Iran probably left uranium in an intermediary, more-easily-reversible form between the gas and the yellowcake. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This case poses several other potential problems about the enforcement of a ďŹ nal deal with Iran,â&#x20AC;? ISIS said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The U.S. accepted an unproven technical method for converting the LEU. Is it doing so now in a ďŹ nal deal? Are the technical methods in the ďŹ nal deal reliable? Iran will need to reduce, by shipping out of Iran or blending down to natural uranium, a much larger amount of roughly 10,000 kilograms of LEU down to a 300 kg cap within a matter of months. The U.S. government handling of the case of the newly produced LEU under the JPA leads to legitimate doubts about how well that major endeavor will go.â&#x20AC;?

On July 1, the IAEA published a report conďŹ rming the Iranians have met the 7,650kg hexaďŹ&#x201A;uoride cap but didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t meet the oxidation requirement. That would put them in violation of the JPOA. But the Administration declared it wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t a violation because they contend what the Iranians did was above and beyond.

AP quoted a U.S. ofďŹ cial as asserting that â&#x20AC;&#x153;the rest of the enriched uranium in the pipeline has been transformed into another form of the oxide that would be even more difďŹ cult to reconvert into enriched uranium [and that] the United States was satisďŹ ed that Iran had met its commitments to reduce the amount of enriched uranium it has stored.â&#x20AC;?

It seems the U.S. has switched sides, playing the role of Iranâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s attorney and explaining away their violation, rather than protecting the U.S. by guaranteeing that Iran follow the JPOA. Even more serious than the Administration saying the Iranians cheated but it doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t count, is that they are also saying that Iran complied with the JPOA â&#x20AC;&#x201D; a legal statement â&#x20AC;&#x201D; even though Iran didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the Administration that invented the compliance.

When Administration ofďŹ cials go to Capitol Hill to explain the â&#x20AC;&#x153;scienceâ&#x20AC;? behind the one-year breakout timeline (which they insist they can achieve despite giving into Iranâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s demand to spin thousands of centrifuges because Iran will convert any overages into yellowcake) they will be misstating the truth (lying) The evidence suggests that the Iranians canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t or wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t implement those requirements.

Some may say that reports of Iranian violations are just a â&#x20AC;&#x153;neoconâ&#x20AC;? effort to question the Administrationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s policy of sitting down with Iran, or that they should agree to separating the issues of Iranianâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s state sponsorship of terrorism and holding of American prisoners from the talks.

Nonsense. Even those who support the talks must realize that what we are seeing here is a president so desperate for a deal that he will wish away Iranian malfeasance and risk a nuclear conďŹ&#x201A;agration that has the potential to kill millions.

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RABBI AVI BILLET PARSHA OF THE WEEK This idea was born out of a learning session I had with my daughter, Aliza. She gets a lot of credit for the direction into which this thought developed. he tale of the daughters of Tzlafchad is shrouded in mystery surrounding the death of their father. Five years ago, I raised Zohar’s suggestion that Tzlafchad was the lone victim of the snakes in Bamidbar 21, but a rereading of the account lends to a new interpretation that his so-called “sin” may not have been a sin at all.

“Our father died in the desert. He was not among the members of Korach’s party who protested against G-d, but he died [in/of] his own sin without leaving any sons.” (27:3) If their father’s death was relatively innocent, why compare it to Korach’s rebels? Were they really saying that he died because of a sin?

How would they know that the sin was the reason for his death?

Tzlafchad’s daughters ask Moshe for their father’s portion in the land because they feel his desert-death should not prevent his family inheriting a portion of land.

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their father to Korach to make it clear to Moshe that Tzlafchad never challenged him personally, which might help Moshe be more receptive to their request.

Their saying “he died in his sin” (b’chet’o met) makes impossible any suggestion of his having died at the hands of man (such as the woodcutter in Bamidbar 15:32-36, or in any battle in Bamidbar 14).

Maybe that expression introduces us to what his “sin” was, namely that he did not have any sons.

Before we continue, let us make a couple of things clear. Not having sons is not a sin. People who have only daughters, or people who do not have children at all, have not sinned. It is in G-d’s hand to grant people children, and whatever cards He deals determines to what degree we have fulfilled our mitzvah to procreate. The Talmud tells us there are three partners in creation (Kiddushin 30b, Niddah 31a) (though modern science can perhaps be counted as a “fourth” partner in Creation for those struggling with infertility), but as one of my teachers once pointed out, the Talmudic passage in Shabbat 31a that lists the questions one will face at the Heavenly Court includes, “Did you attempt to procreate?” The question is not

whether you were successful or how many children you had, but whether you tried.

There is only one other place in the Torah when the idea of “not having sons” is mentioned: in a passage that describes how Nadav and Avihu, Aharon’s older sons, had died.

Bamidbar 3:4 tells us “Nadav and Avihu died before G-d when they offered unauthorized fire to G-d in the Sinai Desert, and they had no sons.”

Trying to pinpoint why Nadav and Avihu died is a longer conversation, with many viewpoints and suggestions offered by the commentaries. But the Midrash (Vayikra Rabba 20) utilizes this verse to make a strange suggestion in the name of Rabbi Levi, that one of the reasons Nadav and Avihu died was because “They did not have sons.” (Bamidbar 3:4). While not having sons is not inherently a sin, it could be viewed in Torah language as a chet (a sin). (The Talmud Yevamot 64a suggests it may actually be a sin, but the Torah Temimah explains how it’s not a real sin.)

Seforno and others suggest that if Nadav and Avihu had sons, those sons would have been kohanim even before Elazar and Itamar. Not having produced these children, they missed out on bringing the next generation of ko-

Tzlafchad’s daughters were all that their father could have wished for and more.

hanim into the world.

Perhaps, in using a similar language, Tzlafchad’s daughters were saying to Moshe, “Our father died leaving only daughters. In his own way, following the teaching we learned about Nadav and Avihu, his death was in a state of personal ‘sin’ because there were no sons. But, unlike Nadav and Avihu, who had no children, he left behind five daughters. We should get his portion so that our father’s name will not be forgotten.”

This may have actually been a brilliant ploy because Moshe viewed his nephews Nadav and Avihu as very holy (Vayikra 10:3). Perhaps Tzlafchad’s daughters’ appeals to Moshe (and his feelings about his nephews), explaining their circumstance in similar terms, helped Moshe come to the conclusion that of course they should inherit because it is unfair for their father’s circumstance to be compared to Nadav and Avihu. Particularly if Moshe looked past Nadav and Avihu’s lack of children, he would see that Tzlafchad’s daughters were all that their father could have wished for and more.

Certainly having daughters is a great blessing. And maybe, after this tale, the concept of the “sin” of not having sons was laid to rest forever. Because raising children is not about gender. It is about teaching the next generation how to be good people, and good Jews.

And certainly in that respect, Tzlafchad was anything but a failure or sinner. He was quite successful!

Fighting is sometimes needed on road to peace RABBI BINNY FREEDMAN THE HEART OF JERUSALEM

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he image of his smiling, victorious face, aglow with the sense of vindication that seemed to be one step away from “I told you so,” has become the paradigm of the image of impending disaster. And the signed agreement he waved victoriously as he stepped from the plane, fresh from his seemingly successful whirlwind negotiations, has become synonymous with the adage of any agreement literally “not worth the paper it is written on.”

The year was 1938, the man was British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, and the agreement was the peace deal he had signed with no less than Adolph Hitler, relinquishing allied promises of protection to the Sudetenland and Czechoslovakia. This flawed decision, which essentially set the stage for World War Two, was briefly celebrated as heralding the wisdom to “make peace not war,”thus avoiding the arrogant thinking which had led to World War One a scant 25 years earlier. But it soon became clear that this weakwilled abrogation of an established alliance and treaty would pave the way for Hitler’s invasion of Poland, and the eventual loss of tens of millions of lives.

Chamberlain’s famous meeting with Hitler in 1938, was one of those “what if” moments, which might have changed the course of history.

Beginning with Germany’s Anschluss invasion of Austria, and culminating with Germany’s march into Czechoslovakia, the Allies had ample opportunity to declare war on Germany and stop Nazism in its tracks before its military machine became unstoppable. But Chamberlain, along with the rest of the Western world, missed opportunity after opportunity, until it was too late.

Why was it so difficult to see what Hitler really wanted? Why did so many world leaders lack the will to say “enough”?

Obviously the echoes of this question chillingly resonate today, as allied powers are negotiating with Iran in a bid to prevent its becoming a nuclear power. And for that matter, one might

suggest this same question is at play in Europe and across the world, as governments struggle to find a solution to Islamic fundamentalism and terrorism, and attempt to find the line between negotiating peace and threatening military or other confrontational options.

This week’s portion, Pinchas offers a fascinating insight on this topic. he beginning of Pinchas is actually a postscript to the end of last week’s portion, Balak.

Balak, the King of Moab, having just witnessed Israel’s victory over the mighty Amorite army, realizes the Jews cannot be conquered on the battlefield (sound familiar?). So he entices Balaam, the great sorcerer of the ancient pagan world, to come and curse the Jews instead.

Balaam clearly wants to go, but G-d denies his request. Yet, when the Moabite emissaries return a second time to entice Balaam to acquiesce, Balaam asks G-d a second time, and G-d agrees, though clearly angered with Balaam for asking again. Ultimately, G-d foils the plan and causes Balaam to utter blessings instead of curses.

But Balaam is not done; he foments a plan to entice the Jewish men with Midianite women who seduce them to idolatry, culminating with no less than Zimri, a prince of Israel, cohabitating with a Midianite princess at the entrance the Holy Tent of Meeting!

So what does one do in the face of such wickedness? Incredibly, Moses and Aaron fall to the ground, seemingly at a loss for what to do! Enter Pinchas, Aaron’s grandson; grabbing a spear, he ends this obvious affront to both the word of G-d and Moshe’s leadership. By spearing the offenders, he halts the plague which decimated the Jewish people as a direct result of the licentious and pagan behavior. That was the conclusion of last week’s portion.

This week’s portion begins with G-d’s reaction to Pinchas’ action: “Pinchas the son of Elazar, the son of Aaron the [high] priest turned back my anger [says G-d] from the children of Israel … thus do I give him my covenant of peace.”

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The rabbis question why the Torah finds it necessary to share Pinchas’ lineage here, since we are already aware of it. Rashi suggests that the Jewish people are shocked by such an obviously violent and zealous act , so G-d reminds us that he is the descendant of Aaron, known as the ohev shalom and the rodef shalom (the lover and pursuer of peace). (See Pirkei Avot.)

The phrase ohev shalom makes a lot of sense here. That seems indeed to have been Aaron’s great merit, and the commentaries suggest the Torah is telling us that Pinchas, despite his zealous action, was actually a lover of peace as well, and was willing to take such a violent action to stem the plague decimating the Jewish people, not because he hated Zimri but because of his love for peace.

The term rodef (pursuer), however, is a curious choice of terminology. The rodef in Jewish tradition is anything but peaceful, rather it often refers to a person pursuing the killer of a blood relative, determined to kill him as an act of vengeance or justice.

The Torah actually permits and even obligates us to stop this rodef at all costs — even, if necessary, by taking his life. And the rabbis expanded this term to include anyone whose actions are threatening a life (as for example, an unborn baby whose birth is endangering the life of the mother — until the birth, the baby is considered a rodef in that it is threatening the life of the mother and the mother’s life, in the event of a necessary choice, takes precedence. o why is this same term of rodef used here to refer to a pursuer of peace? Is there some connection?

The Chatam Sofer suggests that in this instance Pinchas was actually doing the opposite of “making peace” — he was chasing it away! Sometimes, the Chatam Sofer suggests, making peace can lead to anything but peace, and the real lover of peace in such an instance has to be willing to chase it away by doing the opposite.

Pinchas understood, that to stand by and “make peace” with Zimri’s actions, and do nothing while a Jewish leader was causing such an

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affront to everything Judaism held dear, was actually allowing G-d’s wrath to continue, and allowing the plague to continue to decimate thousands of Jewish lives.

In the sin of the Golden calf, it was Aaron who let the Jews throw gold in the fire, resulting in the Golden calf; perhaps the Torah is suggesting here that the previous generation of leadership did indeed “make peace” with evil, with disastrous results. e live in a world which is so desperate to make peace, but there are some things with which we cannot make peace. As long as Iran refuses to recognize the right of Israel to exist as a Jewish state, and declares its desire to annihilate us, we cannot make peace with it. And make no mistake about it: it is irrelevant whether they actually agree to dismantle their nuclear capability; it is much deeper than that. As long as they are supporting terror around the world, and funding attacks on Jewish and Western institutions such as the bombings in Argentina that killed so many in the 1990s, we cannot make peace with them.

As long as the Palestinian Authority continues to emulate suicide bombers and teach their children to hate, we cannot make peace with them; any such “peace” agreements will inevitably lead to war.

And as long as Hamas declares as its aim the destruction of the State of Israel and every Jew, everywhere in the world, we cannot make peace, nor should we be seeking truces with them either, as painful as this may sound, and as zealous as it may seem. The refusal to make peace with evil is actually the pursuit of real peace.

And lastly, there are so many things we should not make peace with on a personal level.

We should not make peace with leaders whose behavior is less than exemplary (though we must be careful about pillorying them publicly without being sure of the facts), and we should not make peace with unethical behavior, even if it may be unpopular to publicly take that stand.

Perhaps, this week of Pinchas, it would be a worthwhile discussion at the Shabbat table to consider what things we should not make peace with, and what we might do to ensure that we pursue such a reality.

Shabbat shalom from Jerusalem.

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Revisiting Tzlafchad: Is it a sin not to sire boys?

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German, Palestinian kids Questions I canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t ask STEPHEN M. FLATOW

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new study has found that many of the children who were educated in Nazi Germany retained, for the rest of their lives, the anti-Semitic attitudes they learned in school. What does that portend for Palestinian children, who are likewise inculcated with hatred of Jews?

After surveying some 5,300 German citizens, American and Swiss researchers found that those who were educated in Germany in the 1930s, under the Hitler regime, are much more likely than other Germans to still cling to anti-Semitic beliefs. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not just that Nazi schooling worked, that if you subject people to a totalitarian regime during their formative years it will inďŹ&#x201A;uence the way their mind worksâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;the striking thing is that it doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t go away afterward,â&#x20AC;? said Hans-Joachim Voth of the University of Zurich, one of the authors of the study.

Prof. Voth also noted that anti-Semitism was particularly long-lasting if there was already some anti-Semitism in the neighborhoods where the children lived, which they measured by studying the number of votes received by anti-Semitic political parties in speciďŹ c German towns going back to the 1890s. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The extent to which Nazi schooling worked depended crucially on whether the overall environment where children grew up was already a bit anti-Semitic,â&#x20AC;? Voth noted. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It tells you that indoctrination can work, it can last to a surprising extent, but the way it works has to be compatible to something people already believe.â&#x20AC;?

This does not bode well for Israel. It suggests that Palestinian children are especially likely to retain the anti-Jewish hatred they learn in school, since it conforms with attitudes that often are commonplace in their home townsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;

that is, attitudes based on those aspects of Arab nationalist ideology or fundamentalist Islam that encourage hostility toward Jews and Israel.

Earlier this month, Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-Fla.) introduced a resolution targeting the problem of â&#x20AC;&#x153;anti-Israel and anti-Semitic incitement within the Palestinian Authority (PA).â&#x20AC;? The 16 examples of incitement that the resolution citesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;based on the exemplary research of Palestinian Media Watchâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;include many instances of Palestinian children being taught to hate.

The resolution notes that the Oslo accords require Israel and the PA to â&#x20AC;&#x153;ensure that their respective educational systems contribute to the peace between the Israeli and Palestinian peoples and to peace in the entire region.â&#x20AC;?

Israel has honored that obligation. The PA, however, has done the opposite. The RosLehtinen resolution cites examples such as a PA magazine for children presenting Adolf Hitler as a role model; a teacher leading Palestinian children in chants of â&#x20AC;&#x153;Palestine is an Arab land from the river to the sea. We want Haifa, we want Acreâ&#x20AC;?; and schoolgirls shown on PA television receiving a poem that calls Jews â&#x20AC;&#x153;barbaric monkeys,â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;wretched pigs,â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;ďŹ lth,â&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;impure.â&#x20AC;?

The resolution concludes not only by condemning the incitement and urging the PA to change its ways, but also â&#x20AC;&#x153;directs the United States Department of State to regularly monitor and publish information on all ofďŹ cial incitement by the Palestinian Authority against Jews and the State of Israel.â&#x20AC;? Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s crucial. It will help keep the PAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s feet to the ďŹ re.

The Ros-Lehtinen bill is now in the hands of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs. I hope every Jewish and Zionist organization will contact the House Committee to strongly urge passage of the resolution. The only hope of ever having real peace between Israelis and Palestinians is to start teaching the current generation of young Palestinians to choose peace, not war.

Stephen M. Flatow, an attorney in New Jersey, is the father of Alisa Flatow, who was murdered in a Palestinian terrorist attack in 1995.

GARY RABENKO PHOTO PROSE nformation is useful to the photographer photographing your event. Often the individuals actually doing the imagery are not given much information. Studios use a â&#x20AC;&#x153;job cardâ&#x20AC;? that does not convey to crew members actually doing the work the â&#x20AC;&#x153;feelâ&#x20AC;? or â&#x20AC;&#x153;insightâ&#x20AC;? into the event assembled during the booking phase. I learned this having been a freelancer for years; then I was not paid to care until the moment of the shoot. The many questions I now ask before a wedding make a difference; still, some questions donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t get asked, some cannot be anticipated or asked tactfully.

A caller for a day I am already booked hears I am not available. Some persist. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Can you make sure that your event is still on?â&#x20AC;? My clients paid a deposit to hold me for the date, making a commitment to me, and I to them.

If I called, and later the couple split, might they not feel that I â&#x20AC;&#x153;jinxedâ&#x20AC;? it. I cannot think it would be proper for me to call them. Might that not suggest that I regret my contract with them, or that on their special day I might wish I was elsewhere? Suppose my client decides to change the event date. Do I then call the second prospect, letting them know I am now available? Would they not have already committed to another photographer? Having done their research, and made their decision, should I now notify them that I suddenly became available? How will this help them? It could only be a needless frustration.

I did my ďŹ fth wedding for a warm family that has always valued emotion in my video and stills. They lost a grandparent.

Video shows the brideâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s father consoling his own father. Taking the microphone, without our prompting, he voiced how very much he missed his mother and â&#x20AC;&#x153;thinks of her every

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day- sometimes all day.â&#x20AC;? The bride and all her siblings have always doted on their grandparents. Never would I consider asking if they wanted these heart-felt and unsolicited comments included. What would my raising questions on this mean? Should the grandmother not be remembered? Is there something wrong in a parent showing respect and missing his mother? Were his words not good?

Could I even suggest not using such meaningful content which decades from now might be deemed priceless in showing a future granddaughter how he spoke of his mother?

I was worried they might want it all in, but editing means selectivity so I used only 30 seconds along with photos from past weddings of this grandmother to illustrate words so beautifully spoken. The bride loved the video and thanked me for â&#x20AC;&#x153;the many little touchesâ&#x20AC;? in which I went â&#x20AC;&#x153;above and beyond.â&#x20AC;? Amazingly, she insists that I cut those comments out because she â&#x20AC;&#x153;does not want my wedding video to be a eulogy for my grandmotherâ&#x20AC;?

Editors know that making a one second change means hours of computer processing to recreate the ďŹ les that play in a Blu-ray or DVD player. So what is the videographerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s job? When is it done? What criteria are being applied?

Family situations can be complex. There is more than one grandparent, many sides and many situations. Any client can commission additional time to customize a video.

But many intelligent clients speciďŹ cally want their vendors to make the right decisions, and to do what is right in the moment. Should those vendors be penalized later by having to redo what was done for all the right reasons? Should they be able to ask how they could have known, and are they wrong for charging a fair fee to customize the requested result, or at least asking how they could be responsible, if they could not have known?

Gary Rabenko is artistic and technical director of Rabenko Photography and Video Arts, 516-593-9760, gary@rabenko.com

American Jewish history: Freedom comes alive ALAN JAY GERBER KOSHER BOOKWORM

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t the prompting of one of our communityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most respected leaders, Avrumy Zelmanovitz, my son, David, and I recently visited the National Museum of American Jewish History in Philadelphia. This was a visit that will not soon be forgotten. As a teacher of both history and English for over 40 years, anything to do with American or Jewish history would garner my attention; to experience the conďŹ&#x201A;uence of both cultures within one institution was a treat.

The catalogue detailing the museumâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s major features and exhibits, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Dreams of Freedom,â&#x20AC;? a 220 page coffee table book, is the subject of this weekâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s review, as we approach next weekâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s celebration of the 4th of July.

The volumeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s lead essay, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Freedom,â&#x20AC;? is authored by the leading historian of American Jewish history, Dr. Jonathan Sarna, who takes us through a lovely and intellectually informative â&#x20AC;&#x153;tourâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;&#x2122; of the museum. In his thoughtful personal take on the signiďŹ cance of the museumâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s theme of freedom, Dr. Sarna informs us that â&#x20AC;&#x153;whether Jews were seeking freedom, acquiring freedom, defending free-

dom, advancing freedom, promoting freedom, or, as was sometimes the case, misusing freedom â&#x20AC;&#x201D; whether they were striving to improve themselves, their community, their country, or the world at large â&#x20AC;&#x201D; freedom has always stood at the center of the American Jewish experience. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Historian Oscar Handlin memorably characterized the American Jewish story as nothing less than an â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;adventure in freedomâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;.â&#x20AC;?

This thematic devotion to the concept of freedom and living in a free society ďŹ&#x201A;ows through each featured exhibit. Our landing on these shores from the very beginning reďŹ&#x201A;ected a ďŹ&#x201A;eeing from persecution, whether religious or economic, physical or spiritual.

We were on an everlasting historical treadmill of a journey that was to reďŹ&#x201A;ect upon our everlasting desire to be free as human beings in every sense.

Dr. Sarna notes the following, which goes to the heart of our experience in a freedomcentered America: â&#x20AC;&#x153;The famed correspondence between Jews and George Washington went even further in deďŹ ning the freedom of Jews in the new nation. The address of the â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Hebrew Congregation in Newportâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; to the President, composed for his visit on August 17, 1790, praised the new government for â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;generously affording to all liberty of conscience and immunities of citizenshipâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; and thanked G-d â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;for all of the blessings of

civil and religious libertyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; that Jews now enjoyed under the Constitution. Washington, in his oft-quoted reply, appropriated a phrase contained in the Hebrew congregationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s original letter, and characterized the United States government as one that â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;gives to bigotry no sanction, to persecution no assistance.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; â&#x20AC;&#x153;He described religious liberty, following Thomas Jefferson, as an inherent natural right, distinct from the indulgent religious â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;tolerationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; practiced by the British and much of enlightened Europe, where Jewish emancipation was so often linked with demands for Jewish â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;improvement.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; â&#x20AC;&#x153;Echoing the language of the prophet Micah [4:4], he hinted that America might itself prove something of a Promised Land for Jews, a place where they would â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;merit and

enjoy the good will of the other inhabitants; while every one shall sit in safety under his own vine and ďŹ g tree and there shall be none to make him afraidâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;.â&#x20AC;?

We never before heard such powerful words from a head of state, words and sentiments which we should keep in mind as we embark upon the celebrations of the 239th anniversary of our nationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s independence next week.

The National Museum of American Jewish History is a living and visual physical chronicle of a true divine miracle of world history wherein for the ďŹ rst time in history a people deposed a colonial rule, denied the legitimacy of the governance of a dictatorial monarchy and arrogant aristocracy, and brought forth deliberately a republican form of governance that legitimated the rule of law as determined by the majority and the empowerment of a free economic system powered by capitalism and free enterprise.

It was thus left to the divine to see that this new enterprise and its governance was to be destined to serve as our refuge and haven for the free practice of our Jewish faith in the previous 239 years and to the many years to come.

Over the coming summer months a visit to this wonderful museum as well as to the many other historical sites in Philadelphia will represent time well worth spending.

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Confab tackles Jewish Education challenges…

Continued from page 1 dents at the Yeshivat Hakotel in Jerusalem.

“You can teach a person without it being his way and he may stand by it as long as you’re there. But what happens when he becomes a parent and an adult — will he veer from that path?”

Rabbi Taragin added that it is easier to churn out people cookie-cutter style, without considering their unique qualities, “but then they lose who they are — and that’s why they were created, to be who they were meant to be.”

White Shul Rebbetzin Aviva Feiner also spoke about reaching her students’ neshama, citing a child who placed the Torah teacher above the secular studies instructor, explaining, “my Torah teacher is giving like a mother.”

“We need to make it sweet,” Rebbetzin Feiner said.

“A person who is part of klal yisroel is linked into it because of his neshama, not because of his sechel,” she said.

“Keep the music in Yiddishkeit alive and well,” she concluded. “The whole history of us as a nation is that we don’t stop singing.”

A joyous spirit was on the mind of Rabbi Yisroel Kaminetsky as well.

“The child who enjoys Judaism will stick with Judaism,” he said, adding that “nothing awakens appreciation of beauty more than music” and poetry.

“Kids should see how much joy we feel in the mitzvahs,” said Rabbi Kaminetsky, menahel of DRS Yeshiva for Boys in Woodmere. He cautioning against speaking negatively about aspects of Judaism in front of children.

“Parents have to be so careful never to allow from their mouths anything negative about Yiddishkeit [because] when children

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Dr. Ari Bergmann also considered the importance of watching words, in a talk entitled “Photoshopping Yiddishkeit: Does the End Justify the Means?”

He emphasized being truthful with children about complex questions and said that

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when we don’t know answers, we should say so. The “bond of honesty with our children” is of paramount importance, he said. “Don’t make up preposterous claims.”

“To tell the stories all of [which] have a good ending, we are creating a false image of Yiddishkeit. You can say that you have to believe in miracles, and you have to say that miracles do happen, that’s for sure. But to believe that you can expect miracles is false and you are violating the bond of truth.”

When unrealistic expectations are not met, faith can be lost, he cautioned.

“Let’s focus on what we know and let’s acknowledge what we don’t know,” he said.

“Yiddishkeit is deep, is real. Don’t turn Yiddishkeit into something so superficial that every claim is a cliche.”

“In the world of Photoshop where you can’t trust anything, there is one thing that we have to tell our children that they can rely on and that’s the bond of truth and the transmission of truth,” concluded Dr. Bergmann, an adjunct professor of religion at Columbia University. “And if we take that away we have nothing to rely on.”

The day opened with a keynote speech by Rabbi Dr. Abraham Twerski. He said the way to fulfill the mitzvah to love and revere and fear Hashem is by meditating “on the wonders of creation” and seeing “the infinite wisdom in the works of creation.”

“When is the last time we talked with our children about the beauty of nature?” he asked.

Most of his talk focused on the plague of pornography that he termed “probably the single biggest threat to the Jewish family today.”

“Internet pornography is destroying families left and right,” including those of people we view as upright and G-d-fearing — “some of them go to mikvah every day, they wear shtreimels,” he said.

Since “the availability of filth, of schmutz, is not a new phenomenon,” Rabbi Twerski

suggested why the problem — which he said often rises to the level of an addiction — has now exploded.

“Talmud tells us, may your fear of Hashem be as great as your fear of other human beings,” he said. “A person will refrain from doing something wrong if he thinks that other people are watching. But in privacy he will do it because he’s not afraid that Hashem is watching him.

“There were always places where people could get filthy material if they wanted, but no decent person would be seen in a place like that, so they avoided it.” Now the internet provides easy access in private places, including on smartphones in the palms of our hands, he said.

In becoming captives to pornography, people, including ostensibly religious people, display their lack of true yiras shamayim.

“It’s a mitzvah to love and revere and fear Hashem,” Rabbi Twerski said, but how do we do so?

By “understanding the greatness of Hashem in Creation,” he said.

Twelve-step plans work in breaking cycles of addiction because those who follow them believe, “If I deviate from the program I die!”

“We say that Torah is our life, but do we believe it?” Rabbi Twerski asked. “No one walks around and says that if I say one word of lashon harah I’m going to die. We’ve got to make the mussar real.”

Rabbi Taragin said that on evaluation forms, 97 percent of participants rated this year’s conference as excellent or very good, and 97 percent said they would attend next year. The event was free and open to all, and all presenters contributed their time.

The conference attracted a wide spectrum of Orthodox perspectives, bridging differences. “It’s about the children” and the values we share, Rabbi Taragin said.

He said discussions were underway with leaders in Chicago, London and Toronto about organizing similar events there.

Book beyond politics…

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Continued from page 1 During his childhood, Oren—born in upstate New York and raised in New Jersey— overcame learning disabilities and the need to wear a leg brace due to physical limitations.

“I had a lot of challenges,” said Oren.

“So the thought that I would somehow get through this and fulfill my dreams—I wanted to be a writer, I wanted to move to Israel, I wanted to be a soldier—is a big part of the story, before I get to Washington.”

“I talk about my relationship with Jewish history, with G-d. I talk about my faith. And that’s well even before we get to the period where I become ambassador,” he said.

Yet much media coverage and some American Jewish communal reactions have focused not necessarily on the book, but instead on recent essays Oren wrote for the Wall Street Journal and Foreign Policy magazine around the time of his memoir’s release. For the Journal, Oren wrote that Obama abandoned “two core principles of Israel’s alliance with America”—that there must be both “no daylight” and “no surprises” between the allies.

For Foreign Policy, Oren wrote that Obama’s ambition to harmonize relations between America and the Islamic world might partly be the result of his personal interactions with Muslims while he was growing up.

“It’s a legitimate examination of the president’s very revolutionary relationship with what he calls the Muslim world,” Oren told JNS.org. “That’s an important part of his foreign policy, and it’s an important part of for-

eign policy for Israel as well.”

For Oren, “Ally” is both an analytical and personal look at his time as ambassador. “[Being ambassador] was my life’s goal, and I fulfilled it,” he said. “And I fulfilled it at a very challenging time for Israel. Not only did the United States have a left-of-center government, while Israel had a right-ofcenter government, but there were different worldviews. And the Obama administration came in with a worldview that was very different than anything Israel had known, and we had to deal with it. It came with a time of deepening divisions within America, between political polarization, bitterness over the wars in the Middle East, and also deep divisions within the Jewish community.”

To address those divisions, Oren said he adopted adopted a “policy of engagement” as ambassador—“to engage as much as possible, to reach out as much as possible.”

“I reached out as much as possible to American communities, [including] the Latino community, the LGBT community, [as well as] the Irish, Iranian, and Hispanic communities,” he said. Yet the crux of Oren’s outreach efforts remained U.S. Jewry, with the task of “always trying to get them to talk to one another, not just to us (Israel).”

In programs called tisches (translated as “tables in Yiddish) Oren said he would convene rabbis of the different Jewish religious denominations to sit down and talk “under the neutral auspices of the Israeli Embassy.”

A longer version of this story is online.

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