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OU chair rallies 5 Towns: Fight for Jewish unity By Malka Eisenberg Challenging someone to step forward and forge unity across the varied streams of Torah observant Judaism in the Five Towns and Far Rockaway, Stephen Savitsky declared the need for achdut (unity), in a talk following Shabbat mincha at the Young Israel of Woodmere. Savitsky quoted Rav Pam and cited personal experiences — emphasizing the community’s unity in the face of Hurricane Sandy and its aftermath — in his talk, “Achdut in The Orthodox Jewish World: Fact or Fantasy.” Savitsky, chairman of the board at the Orthodox Union and a longtime YIW member, said the Jewish community needs to join forces, especially at this time of year when

during the Three Weeks we mourn again the destruction of both the first and second Bait Hamikdash — the second destroyed due to sinat chinam (purposeless hatred). This is a time when Jews the world over confront the need to create a climate of ahavat chinam and yet, said Savitsky, the different streams of Judaism are very divided from each other. He noted that the Torah observant community, despite outward differences of clothing choices, has much more in common than not. He quoted a comment that Mashiach is waiting at the gates of Yerushalayim but is burdened with a suitcase of diverse garments and hats, uncertain as to the type of hat that would be acceptable to all Jews. He recounted setting up a meeting with a rebbe and, when he arrived at the appointment, the rebbe asked him, “Why did you

come?” He answered, “I missed you.” The rebbe lowered his head. Two long minutes later the rebbe looked up with tears in his eyes and said, “I missed you, too.” The two men hugged. Savitsky asked the men and women in the shul why this can’t be done across the board. A unity shabbaton was recently held in Chicago, noted Savitsky, where the rabbis exchanged pulpits. He said that it was organized by one person and he challenged the community to duplicate that event here. Savitsky cited the tremendous efforts expended by local Jews to unite the Far Rockaway Jewish community on its rebirth with the vibrant Orthodox community of the Five Towns, to enable all to eat in every restaurant, purchase in every supermarket and eat Continued on page 12

MAKEUP! What’s OK on Shabbat By Malka Eisenberg

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3 terrible weeks, 3 terrible things By Malka Eisenberg In the space of a few weeks, we commemorate our greatest moment — receiving the Torah on Har Sinai on the 6th of Sivan — and fast forward to our lowest point — the destruction of the Bait Hamikdash on Tisha (the Ninth day) B’Av. Through the bumpy road of Jewish history and now on to the modern State of Israel, with the words of Shir Hamaalot — the return to Zion, returning like waves of water in the desert — ringing in our ears--rebuilding Torah institutions, rejuvenating our language. The Jews have returned to the land of Israel, forged a state, yearning through the centuries, the millennia, praying for our return to our land, clinging to G-d, the Torah, and remembering and mourning for what we lost. The calendar is now in the period of bain hametzarim — between the 17th of Tammuz (the day when Moses smashed the tablets when he saw the sin of the Golden Calf, daily sacrifice in the First Temple ceased, and the walls around Jerusalem were breached in both destructions) and Tisha B’Av (when the Jews rejected the land of Israel and cried based on the report of the Spies; both Temples were destroyed, and the Romans massacred the remnants of Bar Kochba’s rebellion at Betar). Many other devastating events in Jewish history happened on the Ninth of Av and within this timeContinued on page 12

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Alison Chait describes how to apply makeup on Shabbat, at a JCC event.

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Ten women, ranging in age from 20 to 60, leaned forward, focusing intently as Allison Chait carefully dusted a finely ground makeup powder across the cheeks of one of the women. “It doesn’t look like color by number even though the colors are not touching,” another woman pointed out. The women, some in hats or wigs, some without, gathered at the Five Towns Jewish Community Center for a two hour class in the application of makeup on Shabbat. They came to learn what is approved for use and how to use it. Chait, a resident of North Woodmere, has been a makeup artist for ten years. She currently works out of Quorum, a salon on Central Avenue in Cedarhurst. She demonstrated the use of the various mineral-based powders on the faces of two volunteers from the class, using a different brush for each powder and maintaining a separation between each area colored by the different pigments. She explained the Shabbat technique, contrasting it with her weekday makeup application methods. During the week, a base coat or foundation on the face as well as other cream or moist coverage for the eye area can be applied to help retain the makeup applied on top. On Shabbat, the face and eye area must be clean and dry and each finely powdered approved color must be applied with its own brush, no sponges,

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We all make mistakes, and we all can change Paula Deen’s answer should not have been, ‘I is what I is. And I’m not changing’ By Sara Debbie Gutfreund, Aish.com America’s country cooking queen, Paula Deen, is the subject of a heated debate about language and second chances after she admitted to using the N-word. Deen apologized on the Today Show, but she also stated that people say things they don’t mean sometimes. And then she made a serious mistake by announcing after her apology: “I is what I is. And I’m not changing.â€? The Food Network, SmithďŹ eld Foods, Caeser’s Entertainment, Walmart, Target, Sears and Kmart all announced that they will no longer be carrying Paula Deen cookware or any other products due to her recent admission. Why wasn’t Deen’s apology enough to save her public image and career? Many say Deen was focused too much on her own feelings instead of the feelings of the people that she hurt. But the greatest criticism of Deen centered upon the statement: “I is what I is. And I’m not changing.â€? These words hit a raw nerve because Deen didn’t take responsibility for her speech, and she declared her unwillingness to even try to change. We all say things at times that we don’t mean, but what do we do after we realize we have made a mistake? Can we really change? Many years ago, my grandfather built up a clothing business with his brother. They started by selling shirts from pushcarts on the Lower East Side and eventually they owned a big store in Manhattan. One day after years of working side by side, my grandfather’s brother turned on him. I never really knew what was said or why, but from that day on the brothers stopped speaking to each other. Grandpa took his share of the business and his brother kept the store. My grandfather never saw his nephews again who had been like sons to him. The families stopped inviting each other to their celebrations and avoided mentioning each other’s

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By Alex Traiman, JNS.org With his attention focused on a situation that is stable, relative to its immediate surroundings, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry has left many in Israel wondering if the U.S. has its foreign policy priorities straight — particularly in the Middle East. In an effort to restart peace negotiations, Kerry has visited Israel and the Palestinian territories five times since he started his new post in February (with a sixth visit, scheduled for July 11, expected to be canceled because of his wife’s illness). The recent push comes at a time of tremendous regional instability, with the ongoing civil war in Syria, anti-Islamist protests in Turkey, and a new president in Iran, as well as deadly rioting in Egypt following the deposing of Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi — a member of the Muslim Brotherhood. “The fact that the administration, represented by the Secretary of State, has chosen to be preoccupied with the Palestinian issue proves that they have ignored a fundamental principle. If you are smothered by lethal sandstorms, don’t be preoccupied with the tumbleweeds,” Amb. Yoram Ettinger, former Minister of Congressional Affairs in Israel’s Embassy to the U.S., told JNS.org. “I don’t think this initiative will yield any positive results,” Ettinger said. According to Ettinger, the latest peace push demonstrates that Kerry mistakenly assumes that the Palestinian issue is a core cause of Middle East turbulence. “The recent developments on the Arab Street are totally independent of the Palestinian issue, which has never been a Middle East pace-setter,” Ettinger said. Ettinger said that the existing peace agreements that Israel has signed with its neighbors — including the Israel-Egypt peace agreement of 1977 and the Israel-Jor-

dan peace agreement of 1994 — have been Israeli initiatives, with the U.S. participating only after the processes had been started. “Since 1949 there have been a litany of American initiatives and none of them have produced peace,” Ettinger said. “All of them have radicalized Arab expectations, and increased terrorism, because every time the U.S. proposes something, the Arabs have to outflank them from the hawkish side, because the Arabs cannot be seen as less hawkish than the Americans.” “We are talking about a very negative impact on the peace process, not a positive one,” he said. According to a report in London’s AlHayat newspaper, renewed negotiations would be given a six-to-nine month window to produce results. As part of the call to negotiations, Israel would be required to release Arab prisoners jailed prior to the 1993 Oslo Accords and freeze construction in West Bank Jewish communities outside major blocs. Further, Israel would be required to allow Palestinians to build in Area C, land designated as part of the 1993 Oslo agreement as being under full Israeli military and civilian control. Kerry is simultaneously calling for $4 billion worth of investments in the Palestinian Authority. Ettinger contends that Kerry’s renewed peace push misleads the public by insinuating that Israeli concessions and foreign investment can deliver peace, which numerous initiatives have demonstrated is not the case. Furthermore, according to Ettinger, the push for a Palestinian state runs directly counter to American and Israeli interests. “The creation of a Palestinian State would add another anti-U.S. vote at the United Nations. A Palestinian State would doom one of the few remaining pro-American regimes in the Middle East, namely Jordan, and gives

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U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas at a press conference following their meeting in Ramallah on June 30. the false impression that US-Israel relations are based on the creation of Palestinian State,” Ettinger said. “A Palestinian State would provide a tailwind to Islamic terrorism, as evidenced by the terror-driven hate-education instituted by Mahmoud Abbas and by the PLO, which has been the role model of international terrorism,” he said. Israel, in sharp contrast to the Palestinian Authority and other countries in the Middle East, “increasingly shines as the only stable, credible, capable, democratic and unconditional ally of the US in the Middle East and beyond,” according to Ettinger. As the fall of previously stable dictators in the Middle East, such as President Hosni Mubarak in Egypt, has demonstrated, the stability of peace agreements cannot neces-

sarily be guaranteed long-term. Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas is 78 years old, suffers from low popularity and factional infighting, and has been ruling without a mandate since Palestinian Authority elections were indefinitely postponed in 2009 — due to fears that the U.S.-designated terrorist organization Hamas would take over. An agreement signed with Abbas — who could be assassinated for signing any agreement with Israel — may quickly breakdown. “As for Kerry’s initiative, and Israel’s willingness to cautiously engage in a renewed process, you have to ask policymakers why they take erroneous steps,” Ettinger said. “This initiative runs contrary to the interests of the U.S., the peace process, and U.S.-Israel relations.”

Hillel asks if its open ‘tent’ should include Israel foes By Maxine Dovere, JNS.org For 90 years, Hillel: The Foundation for Jewish Campus Life has provided what many call a “tent” welcoming students of every Jewish background and denomination on campus. But as Hillel prepares to nominate its next president and CEO, questions persist over how open that tent should be when it comes to opinions about Israel. Hillel was created in 1923 at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and was adopted by B’nai B’rith International in 1924 until the 1990s. The organization has grown to more than 500 campuses across North America. In a search process characterized as “wide-ranging and open,” Hillel has considered candidates with academic, corporate and/or Jewish community leadership experience to replace outgoing President and CEO Wayne Firestone. Published reports detailing the search process indicate that 325 individuals have been considered, and that more than 200 were personally contacted. The official announcement of Firestone’s replacement is anticipated to come on July 29 during the 2013 Hillel Institute, Hillel’s annual student and professional gathering, to

be held this year at Washington University in St. Louis. National Hillel guidelines state that Hillel will not “partner with, house or host organizations, groups or speakers that delegitimize, demonize or apply a double standard to Israel.” But leading up to the hiring of a new chief executive at Hillel, activist Natan Nestel has been voicing concern about how open Hillel’s tent is. The former chairman of the Israeli Students Organization in North America (which he founded as a student at the University of California, Berkeley), Nestel is concerned that Hillel has allowed proponents of the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement to gather under Hillel’s tent. Nestel has created a documentary he said details the activities of pro-BDS groups on the UC Berkeley campus. Nestel told JNS.org that groups that demonize Israel should be outside of the ‘big tent’ on campus. “Nominally Jewish groups, including those who assist anti-Israel groups and speakers to come to campuses, should not be included [in the tent],” Nestel said. Nestel cited the self-labeled “pro-Israel, pro-peace” group J Street, which he said

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sponsored the appearance at Berkeley of Breaking the Silence, an Israeli group that defames the Israeli army for “war crimes,” “crimes against humanity,” “ethnic cleansing” and “violations of human rights.” Larry Sternberg, executive director of Hillel at Brandeis University, acknowledged that at a campus like UC Berkeley, “a student may feel besieged,” but that the opposite is true on most campuses. “While BDS must be fought, it is not center stage,” he said. J Street leaders challenge the claims of critics such as Nestel who say the group should be placed outside of Hillel’s tent. Simone Zimmerman — president of the national student board of J Street U, the group’s campus arm, and a graduate of UC Berkeley’s class of 2013 — told JNS.org that J Street U is giving a new voice to students who “otherwise wouldn’t find a place in Hillel.” “I think J Street U has been really essential in helping more students in Hillel engage with Israel and develop a more nuanced and complex and meaningful relationship with Israel as American-Jewish students,” Zimmerman said. Nestel detailed his concerns about J Street, and about Hillel’s reaction to J Street’s campus activities, in a February 2012 op-ed for the Jerusalem Post. “J Street is already entrenched at Berkeley’s Hillel and the JSU (Jewish Student Union),” Nestel wrote. “The Hillel group, Kesher Enoshi (KE), is its proxy there. This year KE, along with J Street U, brought the founder of the Sheikh Jarrah Solidarity

Movement in to speak at Hillel. He demonized Israel, proclaiming, ‘Jerusalem is a symbol of evil.’ Berkeley’s Hillel director argued that this was ‘within the framework of national Hillel’s Israel policy’.” At the University of Pennsylvania, where a pro-BDS conference was held in February 2012, Hillel Director Rabbi Michael Uram told JNS.org, “Penn created the space for having the conversations … to come around the table and have conversations in a way that recognizes Israel’s achievements and its challenges. Conversations provide a wideranging opportunity for discussion that can lead to engaging the opposition.” Uram estimates that 12 students organized the BDS conference. Jonathan Tobin, senior online editor for Commentary magazine, has written that there is “no alternative” to Hillel and its supporters being able to “stand their ground and to help Jewish students find the courage to stand up against the enemies of their people.” Tobin noted that BDS proponents “are not seeking dialogue; what they demand is the destruction of the modern State of Israel.” Therefore, he wrote, applying “the principle of inclusiveness or neutrality toward BDS is no different than neutrality toward beliefs that stigmatize Jews.” “What these students [advocating for inclusiveness or neutrality on Israel] don’t understand that is that their fight for an ‘open Hillel’ means giving a pass to hate,” Tobin wrote.

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Preserving the Jordanian model amid chaos in Egypt and Syria

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ollowing the ugly battle between the Egyptian military and Muslim Brotherhood President Mohamed Morsi, resulting in Morsi’s ouster on July 3, as well as the ongoing bloodbath in Syria, the arguments for the preservation of the Jordanian model—politically moderate, more democratic than its neighbors, and proudly Islamic yet amenable to good relations with western nations and with Israel—are self-evident. When King Hussein of Jordan died in early 1999, Israel mourned him, as the veteran journalist Eric Silver said at the time, “as one of its own.” Flags VIEWPOINT on public buildings flew at half-mast, memorial candles glimmered in Tel Aviv’s Rabin Square, and newspapers carried headlines like “Shalom, King.” At the King’s funeral, an Israeli delegation that included Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the then Mossad chief, Ephraim Halevy, mingled openly Ben Cohen and cordially with Arab JNS.org leaders. In that short moment of remembrance, the Middle East was provided with a brief glimpse of what life would be like should a genuine peace with Israel be achieved—not a mere cessation of hostilities, but the type of friendly, cooperative peace that prevails among the countries of Europe and North America. Yet Silver—one of the most perceptive reporters to ever cover the region, who is sadly no longer with us— also observed, “Anxiety sits on the shoulder of Israel’s grief. Is it all too good to be true now that Hussein has gone, and his 37-yearold son, Abdullah, an unknown quantity, has succeeded to the throne?”

Fourteen years later, King Abdullah remains on his throne. Only the most churlish would deny that this in itself is an achievement, given Jordan’s history of surviving, against the odds, as a sovereign state. For this small desert kingdom carved out by the British has been forced to contend with many enemies, internal and external, throughout its short existence. From the Egyptian dictator Nasser in the 1960s, through the radical Palestinian terrorist factions in the 1970s, to the Syrian butcher Bashar al-Assad today, Jordan and its ruling Hashemite monarchy has faced its fair share of close shaves. And while the goodwill that prevailed between Israel and Jordan at the time of King Hussein’s death has dissipated somewhat, Israel’s strategic interest in stability and continuity on the East Bank has remained solid. What has changed, though, is the nature of the threat. The belief that Jordan would be undone by the Palestinians was once a commonplace, which partly explains why “Jordan is Palestine” used to be a popular slogan on the Israeli right. Today, the Palestinians are far from being the main challenge to Jordan’s survival, so much so that even the achievement of that elusive final agreement between Israel and the Palestinian Authority would still leave Jordan painfully vulnerable to other dangers. The country’s economy is in an awful state. Unlike many of its Arab neighbors, Jordan does not sit on huge oil reserves, and is completely dependent on imports to meet its energy needs. Recent cuts in food, fuel and electricity subsidies resulted in angry protests on the streets of the capital, Amman, and in other cities too. Inflation has climbed by three points in the space of a year, to 7.1 percent, while unemployment hovers at a perilously high 13 percent. Ben Cohen’s column continues online, at TheJewishStar.com

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t’s about to get biblical with Darren the biblical figure. He explained that he Aronofsky‘s grand re-revisionist telling saw Noah as “a dark, complicated characof the Biblical flood, Noah will storm ter” who experiences “real survivor’s guilt” theaters next spring. after surviving the flood (his shrink must be No footage has been released of the alevai-ing). $130 million epic, but this being HollyParamount has been officially calling the wood, I for one am I little nervous as bibli- film a ”close adaptation of the Biblical story cal epics seldom satiate — they are gener- of Noah’s Ark” — oh with those gaps. Not ally too irreverent for only does Noah suffer from PTSD, (which the faith-based and doesn’t fill theatre seats), our Noah is, acway too reverent for cording to promos, an “action-adventure HIPPEST RABBI the armchair agonists dark hero of mystery!” — picture a Jewwho are choking on ish Batman with a group of Penguins. In their popcorn. Aronofsky’s vision, picture Noah as a Mad Who can forget Max-style warrior surviving in a pseudo Noah, the fellow who post-apocalyptic world, facing 11-foot-tall inherited the wisdom giants called “Watchers.” and piety of his zaThe cartoony WOW-factor pushed the yde Methuselah’s. Ac- film deal. Aronofsky collaborated with cording to the Bible, Marvel and DC Comics veteran Canadian Noah spent 120 years artist Niko Henrichon to adapt the script building an Ark to into a graphic novel. The first volume was save the righteous, released in French in October 2011 under whilst warning his the title Noé: Pour La Cruauté des Hommes Rabbi Simcha fellow men, “You bet- (Noah: For the Cruelty of Men). Weinstein ter change your evil Speaking of “cruelty,” while attempting ways” or you’ll be del- to film in New York last October all work uged by G-d. Did the stopped — due to flood. While Hurricane kinder listen? (Do they ever?) Sandy is by no means fodder for humor, But our Noah took his kinder, those who nevertheless, the irony of the situation heeded, plus animals of every kind, and wasn’t lost on Emma Watson, who plays Ila. headed into the three-story Ark to sail safe- She tweeted: “I take it that the irony of a ly through the 40 day monmassive storm holding up soonstraphe. True, it was a the production of Noah is bumpy ride, but they minot lost.” raculously survived; makes Unlike our Noah, the exfor a pretty good story line cellent actor, Russell Crowe, all by itself, right? didn’t take out a hammer, Not according to Aronofbut a teaspoon. The Oscarsky and Hollywood. Prowinner passed time by sipducer Scott Franklin told ping a cup of British breakEntertainment Weekly, fast tea. He said, “Yorkshire “Noah is a very short sectea at Myers of Keswick on tion of the Bible with a lot Hudson Street, NY Teapot of gaps, so we definitely and 1953 coronation cup. had to take some creative Aah Tea, it’s the ritual perexpression in it. But I think fect for Hurricanes. we stayed very true to the As a rabbi, I would like story and didn’t really devito say that the Jewish mysDARREN ARONOFSKY ate from the Bible, despite tics note that taiva, the Hethe six-armed angels.” brew word for “ark,” also In Holywood, the Bible means “word.” It extraposeems to lack that WOW-factor, which of lates that the words are deeply connected course is where those gaps can draw major as we all attempt to build an Ark, a shelter bucks. Oh, and did I mention it also has to for loved ones, and often the best way to do have “meaning” and “universality?” that is through words — using words to do Aronofsky told The Guardian in April good and to help others. 2007 that Noah fascinated him since he was Thus before we all run out to the local 13. In fact, he won a United Nations poetry multiplex next March, I would ask that we competition at his Manhattan Beach, Brook- Jews go to the written source. This year, the lyn, school for a poem about the end of the Torah portion of Noah will be read on Oct. world as seen through the eyes of Noah. 5. And remember what the critics say — the And so started Aronofsky’s obsession with book is always better than the movie.

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Unchanged Dunetz fights back In his letter to the editor [“The president, not Dunetz view, changed,” July 5], Michael Brenner asked. “One wonders: Did Jeff Dunetz change his mind, or is it just that the party in the White House changed?” If Mr. Brenner had read article more closely he might have noticed this paragraph where I talked about my change of opinion. “When FISA (the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978) was passed, many people (including me) naïvely thought it would only be used to spy upon U.S./Foreign communication and all with some sort of probable cause. Now we know they are collecting data from all communications, all interaction

LETTERS with the Internet, even that which is totally domestic.” One might disagree with my opinions, but one thing I take pride in is always being honest with readers. If a position in a commentary is a change from an earlier position, I will always point the change out and explain the rationale for the change. I would invite Mr. Brenner to look for those references in future posts. Jeffrey Dunetz

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his week’s Torah portion, Devarim, which opens the fifth book of the Torah of the same name, finds Moshe beginning his tragic farewell speech to the Jewish people: “Eileh Ha’Devarim Asher Diber Moshe El Kol Yisrael Be’Ever Ha’Yarden….” “These are the words which Moshe spoke to the entire Jewish people on the other side of the Jordan…” (Devarim 1:1) Forty years after FROM THE HEART leaving Egypt, the JewOF JERUSALEM ish people, gathered together on the East bank of the Jordan River, are finally ready to enter the land of Israel. But Moshe will not be going with them. One can only imagine what must have been going through Moshe’s mind. A lifetime’s effort was finally about to bear fruit: after all Rabbi Binny the trials and tribulaFreedman tions of transforming a nation of slaves into a people with a mission, the Jews were about to come home. And it was time for Moshe to say goodbye. So what do you say when this is the last opportunity to teach the second generation of Jews, who for the most part did not grow up under the whips of Egyptian servitude? “…and so Moshe explained this Torah saying: Hashem our G-d spoke to us at Chorev (Sinai) saying…” (1:5-6) Apparently, Moshe is about to review the

point of it all: the commandments we were given at Sinai. Except that he doesn’t. In fact, Moshe begins what seems to be a random review of a number of extremely unpleasant incidents which don’t seem to be all that significant, and doesn’t even mention any of the commandments, the mission, or even the purpose of entering the land itself. Moshe launches into a lengthy description of exactly where the Jewish people were when Moshe spoke to them (1:1-5). Why was it so important to know exactly where this speech took place? This is especially challenging, as the place described could not possibly have existed! “…In the desert (the Midbar), in the Arava, opposite Suf, between Paran and Tofel and Lavan, Chatzeirot and Di’ Zahav….” (1:1) If they were in the Arava, the wilderness south of the Jordan valley, then they were not opposite Suf, the Red Sea (known as Yam Suf). Indeed, Rashi quotes Rav Yochanan (in the Midrash Sifri) who points out: “We have searched the entire Torah and know of no place called ‘Tofel and Lavan’…” Tradition teaches that all these names were allusions to events that occurred in the 40 years of the Jews’ sojourn in the desert. “These words (spoken here by Moshe) “are words of chastisement, and Moshe lists here all the places where the Jewish people angered G-d, therefore they (the places) are only alluded to, out of respect for the Jewish people.” (Rashi 1:1, quoting the Sifri) The Midrash connects these unknown names with some of the painful episodes, which occurred to the Jews in the desert. DiZahav (Zahav is the Hebrew word for gold) alludes to the golden calf; Tofel Ve’Lavan refers to the Jews’ denigration of the manna,

which was white (Lavan), etc. This is what Moshe chose to say upon bidding farewell to the Jewish people? What could possibly be the benefit of listing all the terrible things done in the past at this juncture? Not that there is no benefit to be learned form past mistakes, but not here and not now! ••• Moshe here has an enormous opportunity. Why is he squandering this moment by telling the Jewish people off? Rashi points out that the words “Eileh Ha’Devarim” (“These are the words”) refer to words of rebuke, making this the opening theme of the entire book of Devarim. Why? Perhaps to understand what is going on here we need to take a closer look at what reproof (tochachah) is really all about. There is actually a mitzvah in the Torah to tell someone off, given the right circumstances: “Hocheach Tochiach Et Amitecha.” “And you shall rebuke your colleague (or friend).” (VaYikra 19) If you see someone doing something, which is a violation of Jewish tradition, there is a mitzvah to rebuke that person, and it appears to be incumbent upon any one of us to tell this person off and somehow “bring them back” to the path of Jewish tradition! This mitzvah, called tochachah, is chal-

lenging to say the least. What of “live and let live”? Does telling someone off, for what I may perceive to be misguided behavior, really cause him or her to mend the error of his or her ways? Maimonides makes a fascinating point in his Hilchot De’ot (Laws of Character Traits). “When a person errs against his fellow, he [the person who was wronged] should not be silent. … Rather, it is a mitzvah to let him know (Le’Hodioh’) and tell him: ‘Why did you do such and such a thing to me’… “If one sees his friend erring [transgressing] or pursuing a path which is not good, it is a mitzvah to return him to goodness [a good path] and to let him know [Le’Hodioh’] that he is transgressing against himself with his wicked ways, as it says: ‘Hocheach Tochiach Et Amitecha,’( ‘And you shall rebuke [or give reproof to] your colleague’).” (Maimonides De’ot 6:6-7) Maimonides here is describing two types of rebuke: one where a person does something wrong to me, and the second, where a person does something wrong to himself. Incredibly, the motivation for telling someone else off has to be love for that other person. If it is all about me, and what he has done to me, then there really is no point to

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o, it was the last day before the Nine Days. You know what that means: Last day to swim, do your laundry and, of course, stuff yourself silly with meat, because for the next nine days you can’t. You can eat it on Shabbat and, of course, if you make a siyum. More than 30 years ago, Rabbi Hecht organized siyumim on the radio each night of the Nine Days. Each day, the siyum was scheduled from 7 to 7:15 p.m. on two different AM radio stations; on motzaei Shabbat, from 10 to 10:15 p.m. We Jews can be creative when it comes to WHO’S IN THE food. KITCHEN Last Sunday, my husband and I hosted a bunch of our friends for swimming and a barbecue. I had a busy week, relatives sleeping over for Shabbat and a brunch I had to set up for a client on Sunday morning. I managed to mix and shape 30 12-ounce burgers, marinate 25 Judy Joszef chicken cutlets and 18 steaks, bought the buns, snacks, sauerkraut, all the condiments, prepared a crudités platter, salad, dip, made the “hamburger” cookies for dessert along with two apple pies and chocolate mousse triffle layered with genache. Not one friend came empty handed — they marched in with ice (Gittlemans) delicious salads (Richters), yummy cooler drinks (Grobs), homemade guacamole, napoleons and a beautiful fruitplate (E&S Finkelstein) and dozens of amazing home baked mandelbread (L&P Finkelstein). We were all set, or so I thought. My husband Jerry is in charge of the grill. Don’t get me wrong — he doesn’t actually grill. He was in charge of filling two gas tanks

obviously defective, Jerry was going to bring it back to the store. I told him the store was closed but, being the incorrigible optimist, he drove off with the tank into the sunset. In the meantime, it was Joe Grob to the rescue, who drove home, retrieved his tank and had it connected by the time Jerry got back from the CLOSED store. Phew, we were able to stuff ourselves in prearation for the nine days … when we will all stand on long lines to get into dairy restaurants, including those who would never eat dairy out, nor wait on line. For those of you who would rather eat at home, here is a super easy recipe that can be made on your grill (if you have a separate grate attachment, or a small portable grill with coals).

Grilled Whole Red Snapper and attaching one of them to the grill. When he attached it a few weeks ago, he marveled at the fact that he attached it. Of course we let my bro in law Jack turn it on to make sure it was attached correctly — and to our surprise, it was. Add gas tank attachments to Jerry’s list of backyard duties including clean up, garbage removal, chair setup and useless toy purchases. One backyard duty he is still a little rusty in, is the ability to know how to turn off the grill. No, let me correct myself, he knows how to turn off the grill, he actually has to learn to make sure the grill is actually off when he turns it off. Last time we had a barbecue, Dr. Grosser was the guest griller. After we had all eaten I asked Jerry to turn off the grill. A few hours later, as I walked near the grill, I realized it was burning hot, and all four burners were on sear level heat. It had been shut off already when I asked Jerry to turn it off, so he turned it back on and it was on for another five hours … which brings me back to this past Sunday. After lounging in the pool and schmoozing, it was time to start the barbecue. Jerry Richter graciously volunteered to barbecue

(little did he know he was going to be asked to do it if he didn’t). He turned the gas on and it seemed to be empty — how could that be? Then I realized it was on for an extra five hours the last time we used it when we thought it was off. Jerry proudly fetched the second gas tank he had filled. It started to hiss when it was turned on. He turned it off and tried it again. Bob Gittleman, also a past guest bbqer at our home, agreed something wasn’t right. By now the entire backyard smelled of the gas that was shooting out of the tank every time it was turned on. My husband said, “Here, let me just turn on the grill. I’m sure it will connect.” All at once Jerry R and Bob restrained Jerry — had they not we all would have been grilled. Seriously, he would have turned on the grill and the tank would have exploded. Needless to say, Jerry is now banned from all duties relating to the barbecue — though I must admit he is adept at putting the cover back on the grill in an Olympic caliber level. Thankful that no one blew up, but there was still the problem of how to grill the 40 pounds of meat I had. Since the gas tank was

INGREDIENTS As many Red Snappers as you will need to serve your guests Char-Grill seasoning Lemon pepper Salt Soy sauce Directions: Cut two slits across both sides of the fish Sprinkle entire fish with dry ingredients, then brush with soy sauce on both sides. Grill on medium heat for approximately 15 minutes on each side or till desired internal temperature is reached. If you’re the Richters, it will be rare, actually it will still be swimming. If you’re the Grobs it will be burned beyond recognition (sorry I couldn’t resist). Wishing all my readers an easy fast and thank you for all your wonderful emails. I really enjoy reading them! Judy Joszef is a pastry and personal chef as well as a party planner who spent 18 years as a pastry chef at Abigael’s, The Cedar Club, Centro and T42 in the Five Towns, before launching her current business, Soiree. She can be reached at judy.soiree@gmail.com

Star Trek’s Leonard Nimoy has lived long and prospered By Robert Gluck, JNS.org Leonard Nimoy says there is a “strong strain of Judaism” in everything he does — including his famous on-screen hand gestures. Best known for his character Mr. Spock in the “Star Trek” television show and movies, most recently in his cameo as Spock Prime in this year’s blockbuster “Star Trek Into Darkness,” Nimoy’s Vulcan hand gesture comes from an experience he had at synagogue when he was eight years old. Nimoy’s father told him not to look as worshippers averted their eyes during blessings recited by the kohanim. “The men were chanting, shouting and praying in an Orthodox service,” Nimoy, 82, says in an interview with JNS.org. “It was very passionate, very theatrical. I was chilled by the whole thing.” Years later, while on the set of the “Star Trek” television show, Nimoy suggested to the director that Vulcans like Spock should offer some gesture in greeting other Vulcans. “The director asked me what I had in mind and I suggested the gesture used by the kohanim,” Nimoy says. The gesture went on to be accompanied by the expression “live long and prosper.” Nimoy, born in Boston, recalls he grew up “in a very Jewish environment and was bar

mitzvahed appropriately when I was 13.” “The neighborhood I grew up in had several synagogues, and I sang in the choirs for the High Holidays,” he tells JNS.org. “There is a strong strain of Judaism in everything I do. It is a presence that I do not deny and do not want to deny. It is a valuable resource for me and a valuable part of my consciousness.” Born to Yiddish-speaking Orthodox Jews from Ukraine, Nimoy narrated the documentary “A Life Apart: Hasidism in America” in 1997, about the various sects of Hassidic Jews. In October 2002, Nimoy published “The Shekhina Project,” a photographic study inspired by Kabbalah, exploring the feminine aspect of G-d’s presence that “struck some as revolutionary and others as salacious,” according to gallery owner Rich Michelson. “There were some synagogues that refused to show the work, and others that canceled speaking engagements,” he said. Nimoy has a long list of activities he has participated in that are linked to his Judaism. He produced and starred, with Dabney Coleman and Blythe Danner, in a television movie called “Never Forget.” Written by Ronald Rubin, the 1991 film is a dramatization of a Holocaust survivor who confronted a Holocaust denial organization’s lies in court. Nimoy met the survivor, Mel Mermelstein. “Mermelstein’s family was taken into Auschwitz during the second World War,” Nimoy

says. “His siblings and parents were killed. He won his lawsuit, but more importantly, the subject of the Holocaust went into American law for the first time in 1979. It became a legal fact.” Nimoy was awarded an honorary degree by his alma mater, Antioch University, in part for his activism in Holocaust remembrance. On a lighter note, he “surprised a lot of people by playing Tevye in ‘Fiddler on the Roof’ in 1971 on an eight-week eastern tour that was very successful,” he says. Nimoy’s portrayal of Mr. Spock in “Star Trek” earned him iconic status as well as three Emmy nominations. But aside from his numerous credits as an actor and director, Nimoy is also a successful recording artist, author and photographer. “There is no doubt that Nimoy will always be identified foremost with Mr. Spock,” Michelson says. “But he is no dilettante with the camera.” Yet, Mr. Spock remains the most enduring aspect of Nimoy’s fame. First airing in 1966, the character would become an icon over the years as “Star Trek” branched off into syndication and later onto the big screen as a series of six feature films. Being identified with one of the most recognizable characters in television history is intriguing to Nimoy, and it is something he embraces. “I admire Spock,” Nimoy says.

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Leonard Nimoy, at the 2011 Phoenix Comicon in Phoenix, Arizona, gives his Vulcan hand gesture from “Star Trek” — a gesture he said was modeled after the Jewish kohanim. “Spock claims to be other than human but he’s a terribly human character,” he adds. “That’s what makes him so attractive. People understand him and identify with him. His dilemma is a human dilemma. Teenagers really understand what Spock is dealing with, which is finding the proper balance between logic and emotion.”

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‘Aussie Gourmet’ foody love: From Israel to Woodmere By Malka Eisenberg When Naomi Nachman took her radio show, “Table for Two,” on the road last week, webcasting live from Gourmet Glatt in Cedarhurst, it was just the latest of an expanding list of foody adventures for Woodmere’s “Aussie Gourmet.” From pitching rugelach on the QVC shopping network, to creating and running a culinary arts program at a girls’ sleepaway camp, to staging cooking demonstrations in New York and Israel, to hosting a popular show on the Nachum Segal Network, Nachman has been spreading her unique approach to food and cooking ever since her love of food was awoken while a student at Machon Gold in Jerusalem. But Naomi Nachman wasn’t always interested in food. “I had no involvement with cooking growing up,” she told The Jewish Star. “My mother’s shocked that I became such a foody.” Born in Sydney, Australia, Naomi studied in Israel after high school, returning Down Under for two years before arriving in the United States for a friend’s wedding in December 1991. “I never went back,” she said. “I like it here — there was a good Jewish social life.” She met her husband, Tzvi, a year later. They married in Australia in August 1993. But it was her year in Israel that awakened her food sense. “It opened my eyes about the kosher food that was available,” she recalled. “I wanted to try it all.” She earned a degree in early childhood education from Touro College in Flatbush and taught kindergarten at Mesivta Tifereth Jerusalem and at the Educational Alliance on the Lower East Side, where she and her husband lived for ten years before moving to the Five Towns. She taught both preschool and culinary classes at the Jewish Community Center in the Five Towns and opened her personal chef business, catering for individual families for Pesach, Shabbat and Yom Tov. Six years ago, Ossies hired Naomi to do cooking demonstrations, to “open up kosher awareness of the kosher fish that’s out there and how to cook it,” she said. She was also a guest on Miriam Wallach’s radio show on the Nachum Segal network.

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Chap A Nosh’s Avi Krasnow and Billy Morrissey join Naomi during her webcast at Gourmet Glatt in Cedarhurst. “The studio reached out to me if I was interested in hosting my own show,” she said. The show, “Table for Two,” began last February. Produced live Friday mornings at 9, its guests have included restaurant owners, chefs, travel groups and winners of bake-offs. “Naomi has been an overnight sensation on our network,” Wallach, the Nachum Segal Network’s general manager, told the Star. “Originally, she was meant to co-host with someone else (hence Table for Two) but the other person could not commit to the time necessary and Naomi quickly demonstrated her ease and ability to host on her own for the full hour. “Naomi’s infectious energy comes through loud and clear to anyone who meets her and to her loyal fans who tune in. She puts considerable energy, effort and pride into each

program and it shows — and her [Australian] accent makes it even more fun.” Seven summers ago, Naomi started a culinary arts program in Camp Dina after she approached the camp’s executive director, Alex Gold. She traveled up two nights a week and worked in the back of the recreation hall where they had an indoor basketball court, on a table with one plug-in electric burner and two mini convection ovens the size of microwaves. When the camp moved from Dingman’s Ferry to Stroudsberg, Penn., they set up a culinary arts room with industrial sinks, counter tops, a huge industrial oven for the program, and air conditioning. The campers prepare and cook pizzas, donuts, hot pretzels, brownies and other foods as well. “They tell me it’s the most popular program,” she laughs. “Kids learn baking and

cooking skills to carry them through life.” The Nachmans daven at Congregation Bais Ephraim and three of their four daughters attend HALB-SKA (the fourth daughter is a graduate). When asked regarding trademark Australian food that she likes, she mentioned meat pies made with steak and puff pastry and Vegemite — “delicious!” she proclaimed — a spread for bread unique to Australia made from yeast extract. ”You have to be born and grow up in Australia to appreciate it,” she said. As for her favorite foods, she said that she doesn’t have any. “I like food over dessert,” she admitted. “Meats, fishes, interesting appetizers. I love soup. I really love all food.” Naomi Nachman’s blog is at TheAussieGourmet.com

When we reproof a sinner, it must be done out love for the sinner Continued from page 5 it. The question is, do I care so much about my fellow human being that I can’t bear to see them doing something that will result in them hurting themselves. Maimonides is suggesting that the goal of tochachah is not to rehabilitate someone so that they will be able to function in our community or society. The purpose of tochachah, ultimately, is to teach me how much this other person is already a part of our community. In fact, the Hebrew word tochachah actually comes from the same root as hochacha, or proof. When I care enough about the mistakes that I perceive a friend to be making that I take the time and the effort to involve myself in them, what I am really doing is reproving just how much I care about them. But it is much more than that. The first time we find mention of Da’at in relationship to human behavior is in the fourth chapter of Bereishit (Genesis): “Va’Yeidah Ha’Adam Et Chavah Ishto’, Va’Tahar, Va’Teled Ben.” “And Adam knew Eve his wife, and she became pregnant, and gave birth to a son.” (Genesis 4:1) Adam had relations with Eve. Da’at is also about relationships. The laws of De’ot then,

are the laws of relationships. And tochachah is all about healthy relationships If I am a guest at a dinner party, and a stranger is behaving rudely, say, speaking with his mouth open, I can’t imagine I would say anything. But if that were one of my children, I would absolutely say something, and would view it as part of my responsibility to share with them what was missing or lacking in their behavior. And this is precisely because I love them so much, and want them to grow to be all that they can be. If my wife tells me I am doing something wrong, what that really means is how much she cares about me, because if I were some stranger, she wouldn’t bother. Perhaps this, then, is what is going on here in the book of Devarim. As the Jews are about to enter the land of Israel, Moshe is expressing to the next generation how much he really cares about them. One might think that a part of Moshe would be only too happy to see them fail, proving that the Jewish people without Moshe just don’t have it. But Moshe wants to see them make it. He wants them to learn from past mistakes, and wants them to know that it all starts with relationships.

This is not to say tochachah is so simple. The Talmud and other sources make it pretty clear that there has to be a reasonable assumption that the person you are speaking to will actually listen, and that if words of tochachah will lead to enmity, one is not permitted to speak out. The tradition is replete with examples of how reprove must come from love and care for my fellow and that he or she must see that, and indeed Maimonides makes clear that this process occurs when one sees one’s friend (chaveiro) doing something. There is an assumption that the person you are speaking to is your friend, and that they know it is coming from a good place. In fact, it is not at all clear that most people today are even capable, much less allowed, to give tochachah. Ultimately, if I take the time to give tochachah, what I am really demonstrating is how much I believe in the person I am communicating with. If I didn’t think they could change, I wouldn’t bother. Tochachah suggests that I believe you are worth it, and I believe you can grow and change. Perhaps what Moshe was saying to the Jewish people was, “I believe in you, and you can do this. You are a part of something in-

credible, and you have the power to do something here that will still be meaningful thousands of years from now.” And Moshe was right, because here we are. Here in Israel of late, there has been a lot of back and forth by some groups of Jews regarding what other groups of Jews, in their perception, are doing wrong. Perhaps we all need to work harder to make sure that this comes from a place of love and caring. And maybe this is why we read this portion just prior to the fast of Tisha’ Be’Av, when the Talmud tells us the Temple was destroyed due to baseless hatred. Maimonides points out that not giving tochachah can actually lead to hatred, and sometimes telling a person off for what he has done wrong clears the air and allows, again, for the building of a healthier relationship. May Hashem bless us this year, to rediscover the things we all share in common, and to tap in to how much we really care about each other, so that soon, instead of mourning what was lost, we may rejoice in what has been rebuilt. Wishing you all comfort on Tisha B’Av, and a Shabbat Shalom, Binny Freedman

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By Jeffrey Barken, JNS.org BERLIN — Here in Berlin, there is a simultaneous sense of urgency and growing patience. While Germans embrace the cultural history of the Jewish people, who they persecuted during the Holocaust, they are seeking additional forums through which they can break down barriers to dialogue with Jews in their communities today. This quest can lead modern Germans to challenge what is considered politically correct. The most striking recent example of this trend is “The Whole Truth,” a controversial current exhibit at the Berlin Jewish Museum that confronts many Germans’ shame about the Holocaust as they explore their own curiosities about Judaism and the Jewish people. Subtitled “everything you always wanted to know about Jews,” the exhibit employs a large glass box installation positioned in the center of the hall. Each day, one or more Jewish guests volunteer to sit in that box, fielding questions about their identity as museum patrons pass by. “Germany needs a lot of boxes, because different groups of people don’t have the chance to meet and mingle as much as they should,” Bill Glucroft, an American Jew living in Berlin who has volunteered to sit in the box on several occasions, tells JNS.org. The exhibit, which opened in March and will close in September, is now about halfway through its scheduled run time. Michal Friedlander, its curator, believes a misinformed press has hyped up controversy about the exhibit, but is pleased by what she says is the overwhelmingly positive experience most American visitors report after touring the museum. “The harshest criticism initially came from the U.S., where there was some misunderstanding about the exhibition concept,” Friedlander tells JNS.org. “It is very important to understand that the showcase with the Jewish guest is not an exhibition in isolation,” she adds, explaining that the box with a live person in it “is situated within the context of an entire exhibition and is a response to just one of over 30 questions which are posed throughout the show.” The immediate question posed by the exhibit — “Are there still Jews living in Germany?” is answered resoundingly by the presence of resident German Jews who volunteer to sit in the box. The span of religious devotion among the volunteers runs from the totally non-observant Jew to the ordained rabbi. “They are simply people who happen to be Jewish,” Friedlander says. This personal and private interaction between museum visitors and volunteers who

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The Berlin Jewish Museum’s “The Whole Truth” exhibit, in which Jewish men and women sit in a glass box and answer questions from visitors about Judaism. sit in the box fulfills the museum’s primary goal of introducing Germans who may never have met a Jewish person before to a real and approachable member of their society. Asked how he conducts himself while in the box, Glucroft says, “I’m just myself. I answer questions to the best of my ability. If visitors expect some grand answer to their questions, then they don’t understand Jewish culture — the best answer to a question is another question.” Critics have labeled the exhibit “dehumanizing,” believing that the show made a spectacle of a human being and stirred up distasteful memories and vulgar stereotypes of a past era. Stephan Kramer, general secretary of the Central Council of Jews in Germany, rhetorically asked when the exhibit opened, “Why don’t they give him a banana and a glass of water, turn up the heat and make the Jew feel really cozy in his glass box?” But exhibit organizers are seeking to move the display past its inflammatory image, and hope for it to be regarded as an important and positive teaching tool. The box toys with memories of Germany’s troubled past with the goal of provoking new honesty and open dialogue. That being said, volunteers like Glucroft proceed with a certain level of caution.

“When the young groups come by — the student groups — you want to be on your best behavior,” Glucroft says, admitting to some trepidation before greeting different audiences while in the box. “Teenagers are so impressionable and who knows what lasting effect the experience may have on them.”

Nevertheless, openness remains the prevailing theme of the exhibit, according to Friedlander. “One day I got a call from the information desk, a Holocaust survivor was on the line,” Friedlander recalls. “He told me that he’d seen the exhibition showcase empty and offered to go immediately and sit in the box. From his perspective, it was imperative that we make the most of the opportunity for Jews to interact with non-Jews and he was prepared to share his story.” Bold techniques that force public dialogue will be successful as long as the discussion “is self-generated and not imposed by some government office of integration,” Glucroft says. Despite the growing interest and enthusiasm surrounding the exhibit, it may be important that the display not overstay its welcome in Berlin, says Glucroft, with an eye on the exhibit’s scheduled closure in September. “The exhibit is meant to be in your face and controversial, and that sensation rubs off after a while,” Glucroft says. Until September, the exhibit will continue to pursue its objective of fostering a larger dialogue on the moral imperative to engage and accept minorities worldwide. But for those who sat in the box, a different process is underway. Glucroft seems emotionally exhausted from the experience, and needs time to reflect on the questions he was asked by museum visitors before being able to ask new questions himself. “My Jewish identity ebbs and flows,” Glucroft concluded after his third and final stint in the box. “At the moment, I’m actually getting a little tired of talking about and debating this.”

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Jewish crime-fighting volunteers in London met over the weekend with Muslim leaders and agreed to patrol mosques and other Islamic buildings to reduce anti-Muslim hate crimes. Since the murder of British soldier Drummer Lee Rigby on the street by Muslim extremists in southeast London, anti-Muslim hate crimes have risen in Great Britain. The local Muslim community turned to the local Liberal Democrat councillor, Ian Sharer, who connected them to the Shomrim — Jewish volunteers who collaborate with authorities to prevent crimes, including hate crimes — the London Jewish Chronicle reported. “This is a very serious situation, and so I thought, why not call my friends from Shomrim? We wanted to see if we could offer them protection and also security lessons,” Sharer said. The collaboration is “just the beginning of a long-term partnership between the two communities,” said Shomrim patrol supervisor Chaim Hochhauser.

Ramallah protesters call for launch of third intifada Arab demonstrators with covered faces marched in Ramallah on Monday, calling for the launch of a third intifada (uprising) against Israel and chanting “military action is the shortest route to end occupation.” Ma’an News Agency reported that the protester group called Tamarod (rebellion), the same name as the movement that protested recently deposed Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi, included both men and women who chanted that a new intifada will revive the Palestinian cause. “If you want a third intifada to break, you have to rebel against the Palestinian reality which the current leadership brought due to their disputes and different trends,” the protester group posted on its Facebook page.

Service bill does not apply to Israel’s Arabs A bill requiring eligible haredi men to report for military duty or civilian service in Israel was approved in a 14-4 vote by the Israeli cabinet on Sunday. Israeli Arabs were excluded from the proposed bill’s requirements. “I attach a great deal of importance to involving [haredim] and Israel’s Arab citizens in sharing the national burden, and the current proposal does address the issue, but I feel that it isn’t complete yet,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said. “We will have to continue dealing with the matter.” The bill states that starting in 2017, all eligible such men over the age of 18 will be expected to report at the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) induction centers for enlistment, excluding 1,800 students who will be granted exemptions. The proposal allows for a threeyear deferment of service, after which each individual will have to decide whether to serve in the IDF or a civilian program.

Christian-Arab defends her allegiance to Jewish state A young Israeli-Arab Christian woman, Rajada Jaraisi, has taken to social media to speak out in support of Israel and the right to enlist the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF). Jaraisi’s statement on Facebook comes amid tension within the Israeli-Arab community over military service. Recently, Greek Orthodox cleric Father Gabriel Nadaf was allegedly threatened by Arab members of the Israeli Knesset for encouraging Arab Christian youths to enlist in the IDF. Israel’s attorney general has launched an investigation into the incident, Israel Hayom reported.

Israel Newsbriefs from JNS.org In an open letter to Arab MK Hanin Zoabi posted on her Facebook account, Jaraisi said that Zoabi does not speak for her or for other Israeli Christians. “Hear me, we are not Palestinians and we don’t care about them. We are Israeli Christians, covered in blue and white in our hearts and souls,” Jaraisi wrote, according to a translation provided by The Jewish Press. Jaraisi added, “We simply love blue and white. And we as Christians will enlist in the IDF and will serve the state.”

Women of Wall face thousands of counter-protestors Between 5,000 and 7,000 Orthodox seminary girls turned out to at the Western Wall on Monday, Rosh Chodesh Av, to counter and prevent the monthly prayer session of the controversial prayer-rights activist group Women of the Wall. Approximately 250-300 people showed up to participate in Monday’s prayer service of Women of the Wall, which seeks egalitarian prayer at the Western Wall, as opposed to the current gender separation at the site. United Torah Judaism political party organized the appearance of the seminary girls, the Jerusalem Post reported. Meanwhile, a smaller group of about 1,000 ultra-Orthodox men stood nearby, shouting insults at the women’s group. According to the Associated Press, the Women of the Wall accused the Israeli police of cooperating with the Orthodox protesters. Police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld denied the allegation and said the police were protecting the women’s group. The police arrested three Orthodox male protestors for public disturbance.

Girls on PA TV call Jews pigs Two young sisters demonized Israel and the Jewish people in a poem they recited on Palestinian Authority TV (PA TV), with one of the girls calling Jews “barbaric monkeys, wretched pigs,” Palestinian Media Watch reported in its July 7 bulletin. On the PA TV program “Palestine This Morning” on July 3, one of the girls said of Jews, “Oh, you who were brought up on spilling blood — you have been condemned to humiliation and hardship. Oh Sons of Zion, oh most evil among creations; oh barbaric monkeys, wretched pigs.” The other girl advocated for armed violence against Israel in the name of Islam, saying about Jerusalem, “As long as my heart is my Quran and my city; As long as I have my arm and my stones; As long as I am free and do not barter my cause; I will not fear your throngs; I will not fear the rifle.”

Holocaust survivors to get Hungarian compensation Hungary will resume compensation to Holocaust survivors after settling a dispute with the Conference of Jewish Material Claims Against Germany (Claims Conference), ending a year-long freeze on payments. About 600,000 Hungarian Jews were killed during the Holocaust. The Hungarian government had signed a five-year agreement with the Claims Conference in 2007 to distribute $21 million to Holocaust survivors, but then accused the Claims Conference of improper calculations. The Claims Conference denied that accusation. The parties have now agreed to bring in an independent international auditing firm to monitor all accounting.

Most Israelis say apology for flotilla incident unjustified Seventy-one percent of Israelis believe Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s apology to his Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan for the May 2010 Gaza flotilla incident was unjustified, a new poll revealed. The poll, commissioned by the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies and conducted over the phone from June 16-19, found that 85 percent of Israelis say their chances of going on vacation to Turkey in the near future are very low. Only 28 percent of Israelis believe that relations between Israel and Turkey under Erdogan will improve in the near future, while 42 percent think relations will stay the same and 30 percent believe they will deteriorate further. — Israel Hayom

Casspi signs with Houston Omri Casspi, the first Israeli-born player in National Basketball Association (NBA) history, has agreed to terms on a two-year, $2 million contract with the Houston Rockets, who will be his third NBA team, the Houston Chronicle reported. A 6-foot-9 forward whose four NBA seasons have been split between the Sacramento Kings and Cleveland Cavaliers, Casspi averaged career-lows of 4.0 points and 2.7 rebounds per game last season for the Cavaliers. His best season came as a rookie in 2009-10, when he averaged 10.3 points and 4.5 rebounds per game for the Kings. Casspi will be joined in the state of Texas next season by the second Israel-born player in NBA history, 6-foot-3 Israeli point guard Gal Mekel, who reportedly agreed to a threeyear contract with the Dallas Mavericks last week.

Oren leaving ambassadorship Michael Oren, Israel’s ambassador to the U.S. since July 2009, announced on Friday that he plans to step down from the position this fall. “Israel and the United States have always enjoyed a special relationship and, throughout these years of challenge, I was privileged to take part in forging even firmer bonds,” Oren said in a statement on his Facebook page. Oren, who grew up in New Jersey, is Israel’s first American-born ambassador to the U.S., and his replacement could be the second. In late June, Army Radio reported that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu would appoint his close aide Ron Dermer, a native of Miami Beach, as Oren’s successor.

‘Further evidence’ Hezbollah was behind Bulgaria bombing Tsvetlin Yovchev, the new interior minister of Bulgaria, said “further evidence had been added” to an investigation implicating Hezbollah in the July 2012 bus bombing in Burgas (Sarafovo) that killed five Israelis and their Bulgarian driver. There has been “no change” in Bulgaria’s view — as expressed by former interior minister Tsvetan Tsvetanov — that there is a “justified assumption” that Hezbollah was behind the Burgas bombing, Yovchev said July 4. “I am familiar with all the facts and the investigation conclusions up to this moment. My expert opinion is that the assessment and the statement that followed are correct. I support them,” he said. In June, Bulgarian Foreign Minister Kristian Vigenin appeared to backtrack from Bul-

garia’s investigation into the Burgas bombing that implicated Hezbollah, saying there was only an “indication” that Hezbollah was behind the attack. But Vigenin went on to clarify his remarks, telling Bulgaria’s Standart newspaper that Bulgaria had “not reconsidered its stand on Hezbollah” from the initial investigation.

Israeli high school students win contest with robot wedding A team of ninth-graders from a high school in Rehovot, Israel, won the RoboCup 2013 international robotics competition in Holland with their robotic re-enactment of a Jewish wedding. The competition included contestants from more than 40 countries, including the U.S., Australia, Slovenia and Turkey. The students had been tasked with creating robots to act out one of three scenarios: A soccer match between a pair of two-person robot teams, a choreographed dance, or a rescue robot that can identify victims at disaster scenes and navigate to safety. “We [the students and I] built bride and groom robots that, using sensors, know to enter the wedding canopy and start dancing. The robots we built are considered tall, at 1.3 meters [4 feet], and that also impressed people in the competition,” said Sarit Zaltsman, the teacher in charge of the robotics division at the high school.

‘Christian Century’ under fire The Christian Century, a mainline Christian magazine based in Chicago, has come under fire from the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America (CAMERA) for its ties to James M. Wall, an associate editor at the controversial Veterans News Now (VNN), who appears on the publication’s masthead. CAMERA said that VNN is a magazine that “traffics in ugly anti-Semitic tropes and imagery,” including several recent pieces that highlighted “Jesus’ Aryan identity” and a pro-Iran piece titled “Abraham is Not My Father.” On the front page of VNN on July 3, an article titled “Earth’s alpha predator: Zionist Mafia” argues that the American public has been “brainwashed by lies” from the Zionists. In a statement to CAMERA, David Heim, executive editor at The Christian Century, defended Wall’s association with his magazine. “James Wall did a lot for our magazine,” Heim said. “He deserves to be on our masthead.” Heim added that he appreciates the different perspectives Wall brings to understanding the Arab-Israeli conflict.

German cartoon depicting Israel as wild monster draws ire Israeli Ambassador to Germany Yakov Hadas-Handelsman and Jewish activists criticized a major Munich newspaper, Süddeutsche Zeitung, for publishing a cartoon demonizing Israel. The cartoon — which the newspaper has since apologized for and called “a mistake” — depicted Israel as a wild monster about to feast with a fork and a knife while being served by a woman, along with the wording, “Germany is serving. Israel has been given weapons for decades ¬and partly free of charge. Israel’s enemies think it is a ravenous Moloch.” Associate Dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Center Rabbi Abraham Cooper said, “The characterization of the Jewish state as a ravenous Moloch — an idol to whom children were sacrificed — is a blatant anti-Semitic canard,” the Jerusalem Post reported.

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Composite photo of the expelled members of Netzarim carrying the menorah from their shul and a Torah to the Kotel fused with a photo of the Arch of Titus in Rome portraying the sack of Jerusalem by the Romans, carrying a menorah.

Makeup for Shabbat… Continued from page 1 applicators or fingers, to each isolated area. Colors cannot be mixed or blended. She proceeded to demonstrate the application of powdered bronzer, blush, eyeliner, concealer, eye shadow, lip powder and the various brushes to apply them with. She also demonstrated the use of an eyeshield, used to isolate each differently colored area from its neighbor to prevent the blending of colors. “I get the powder in my eye with contact lenses,” commented one observer. “I get it in the corner of my eye,” said one of the makeup “models.” As Chait worked, she dispensed advice and information in general as well as for Shabbat makeup use. “It takes a while to learn,” explained Chait. When she came to Quorum five years ago, she was unsatisfied with the Shabbat makeup line then in use. “I felt it was not the best quality and wanted to come out with a line of high quality makeup to use for Shabbat. “I had to deal with manufacturers that would make it a ground powder, then I had to find a Rav — it took a long time,” she said. “I got in touch with Rabbi Dovid Weinberger of Shaarei Tefilah. He checks the makeup and decides which color is permissible for Shabbat. Those are kept in the line for Shabbos Brushups.” She eventually combined her FIT art training with her Touro business degree to create her own company, Shabbos Brushups. Based on a list of detailed requirements

and conditions, she received approval for the Shabbat makeup line from Rabbi Weinberger and has now also received a haskama (halachik approval) for the makeup from Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, Maran Harishon leziyon, the vaad hakashrut Badatz Bait Yosef in Israel. It will now be distributed throughout Israel, she said. “Rabbi Weinberger was totally for it to begin with,” she stressed, explaining that he said that Shabbos makeup was important for mikveh (ritual bath) purposes. If a women has to tovel (immerse in a mikveh for family purity) on Friday night, she can’t have makeup on, and without makeup, “she won’t feel comfortable going through Shabbos. This way women can apply makeup on Shabbos,” continued Chait. “For themselves and their husbands, women should feel beautiful for Shabbos.” One of her handouts lists guidelines for using makeup on Shabbat, approved by Rabbi Dovid Weinberger. It notes that this brand conforms to the halachic guidelines of Rav Moshe Feinstein zt”l as well as other poskim, but concedes that other poskim do not permit use of any cosmetics on Shabbat or Yom Tov. Chait encourages women to consult with their own rabbis on this halachic matter. She advises women who do not want to use the powdered Shabbat makeup on Shabbat but want to have makeup on for Shabbat to use the longer lasting makeup available and apply it before Shabbat, using setting powder, priming the skin before applications, sprays to keep it on and gel mascara.

Fight for Jewish unity… Continued from page 1 in each others’ homes and shuls. He recalled that the work took a year and a half but succeeded in launching a unified kashrus presence that communities elsewhere strive for and attempt to emulate. Recalling the tremendous effort and achdut of Sandy, how hard times bring us together, he called on a leader to step forward and not wait for dire circumstances to once again bring all segments of the Torah observant Jewish community together, to respect each other’s differences and focus on commonalities. Savitsky noted, in a phone conversation

with The Jewish Star after Shabbat, that the Three Weeks is an appropriate time to give a speech on achdut. To achieve unity, it is necessary to “create an atmosphere, an environment” to enable a “dialogue with someone not necessarily like you,” he said, adding that Judaism is “not an isolationist type of religion” and people should not stay isolated in “one yeshiva, one shul.” He stressed the need to “open up, even if we don’t share everything.” He said that it only takes “one or two people to decide to make a difference.” He is “hoping that people will say, ‘What can I do?’ I have a lot of ideas. I’ll help them.”

Photo courtesy of Gush Katif Museum.

Remembering 3 weeks… Continued from page 1 frame — as a result, both days and the entire period are considered dangerous for Jews. Three important more recent anniversaries should be remembered. On June 12, 1982, the 21st of Sivan 5742, there was a fierce battle, the battle of Sultan Yacoub, between Syria and Israel during the 1982 Lebanon War. Two Israeli battalions were cut off and surrounded. The Israeli Army lost eight tanks and 30 soldiers were killed. Three IDF soldiers remain missing and unaccounted for to this day: Zachary Baumel, Zvi Feldman and Yehuda Katz. Although there have been reports over these 31 years that they are alive, MK Danny Danon stated recently that the longer they are missing the less likely they are to be found. Some have hopes that with the upheaval in Syria, they might be found and brought home. On Aug. 15, 2005, the 10th of Av 5765, Israel began the evacuation and expulsion of close to 10,000 Jews from Jewish towns in the Gaza Strip, destroying homes, schools, farms, industry, a way of life that had been built up over 30 years. Many of these Israelis are still not reestablished in homes or communities. Their life’s work was destroyed. A hole was torn in the soul of the nation, a further churban whose wound still weeps unhealed to this day. One positive event that is remembered this time of year, although still with some sadness, hearkens to an earlier time. On July 4, 1976, the 6th of Tammuz 5736, a special force of Israeli troops flew under cover of darkness to Entebbe, Uganda, to rescue 105 Jews who had been hijacked on June

27 and kidnapped by terrorists. Yoni Netanyahu, the current prime minister’s brother, died in the firefight that ensued there, as did two hostages, but most of the hostages, in an incredible operation under unimaginable circumstances, were brought back by plane to Israel. All the terrorists were killed, the Ugandan planes destroyed on the ground, and the operation was completed in only 58 minutes. A blow was struck against terrorism that, at the time, resonated worldwide. ••• Rabbi Zev Friedman, rosh mesivta of Rambam Mesivta in Lawrence and dean of Midreshet Shalhevet High School for girls in North Woodmere, saw a common theme here. That brave Israeli soldiers risk their lives to save other Jews — something that could not happen during the Shoah, he noted — was “unprecedented” and “speaks volumes about the responsibility to help other Jews … and our responsibility to see them [the MIAs] home returned to Israel.” As for Gush Katif, he sees the importance of achdut (unity), where the rabbis, the military and the politicians must work together to do what is right. “United we will have a better chance of success with the aid of Hakodosh Baruch Hu … Divisiveness leads to destruction, to the galut we are currently in,” he said. During these nine days leading up to Tisha B’Av next Tuesday, may we work to come together, set aside differences and see our commonalties and be witness to the complete geulah and binyan habayit (redemption and rebuilding of the holy Temple).

Rabbi Billet dedicates plaque at Beit Halochem By Malka Eisenberg On his second visit to Jerusalem’s Beit Halochem rehabilitation center this year, Rabbi Hershel Billet and three of his Israeli grandsons unveiled a plaque honoring donors from the Five Towns community. On July 7, they toured the center with its manager, Herzl Morad. While there, they visited a new wing with a state of the art new fitness hall, a Pilates studio, a billiard hall and a table-tennis-multiple purpose room. Billet, rav of the Young Israel of Woodmere, presented a donation of $5,000 from the Young Israel of Woodmere for programs for the disabled Israeli veterans. The plaque read “In Honor of The Participants and Sponsors of the FIDV “5

Towns 5K Run/Walk” Nassau County, New York for their Ongoing Support to Zahal Disabled Veterans Organization and Beit Halochem.” “Beit Halochem assists all wounded IDF veterans and their families,” Rabbi Billet wrote to The Jewish Star by email from Israel. “They are independent and receive no direct funding from FIDF (Friends of the Israel Defense Force). They do wonderful compassionate work for disabled veterans with love and compassion. They just expanded their Jerusalem center. They are not a YIW project although we support it. They are a project of the Five Towns Jewish community. I just represented the entire community” at the request of race director Isaac Seinuk.

Woodmere’s Rabbi Hershel Billet, with three of his Israeli grandchildren, at plaque dedication.

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n the Midrash Rabba’s introduction to Megillat Eichah (paragraph 4), Rabbi Abahu compares the experience of the nation of Israel in the land and being exiled to the experience of the first identified man in the Torah, Adam. “Like Adam, they violated the covenant.” Adam was placed in the garden, was commanded, he violated the command, was judged, expelled, and G-d lamented over his downfall. Israel had the same experience: brought into Israel, commanded, they violated the command, they were judged and expelled. G-d lamented over their downfall. The lament in both cases is highlighted by the midrash with the same word — at least in its spelling: Alef Yud Kaf Heh. The difference between the two words is that in Adam’s case, the word is pronounced Ayekah, while the lament for the Israelite nation is pronounced Eichah. In essence, when Adam is hiding after having eaten from the Tree of Knowledge, and G-d PARSHA OF calls out to him saying, THE WEEK “Ayekah” (“Where are you?”), G-d is lamenting that Adam feels his newfound knowledge gives him the ability to hide from G-d(Bereshit 3:9). With regard to the Israelites, “O how has the city that was once so populous remained lonely!” (Eichah 1:1) It’s a lament for what Rabbi Avi Billet could have been, had the Israelites only kept G-d’s word. Yirmiyahu said in 16:11 that the exile happened because the people abandoned G-d and did not observe the mitzvot. The Midrash here (Eichah Introduction, paragraph 2) quotes Rav Huna’s expounding on this that “If only they had abandoned Me and did not abandon My Torah! Because observing the Torah would have brought them around to G-d again.” The term “Eichah,” which Moshe utilizes in our parsha when he says “Eichah Esa L’vadi?” (1:12) — how could I carry this burden myself — is a powerful term which expresses a longing for every ideal imaginable: time, circumstance, peers, community. In a sermon he delivered in 1964, Rabbi Norman Lamm argued that the intention behind paralleling Adam to Israel is the teaching that “Israel’s exile issues from a human failing rather than a specifically Jewish weakness.” The word Eichah’s chief connotation is one of doom and gloom. That could be Moshe’s intent when talking about the burden of leading the people alone. It was certainly Yirmiyahu’s intent. Was it also G-d’s intent with Adam? Following Rabbi Lamm’s understanding of the parallel in the Midrash, the word Eichah, in our Parsha, in the Haftorah this week, in Megillat Eichah, and indeed even in the Adam story, teaches us a powerful lesson

in what it means to lament over the loss of an ideal. The earlier of the two Midrashic paragraphs that have been quoted here (Intro:2) suggested that abandoning G-d might not have been so terrible as long as the Torah had not been abandoned. The argument was that the Torah is the true anchor to G-d. In other words, falling in love with G-d alone – without the Torah – is not our way. A Jewish life that is governed by Torah observance, first and foremost, according to the Midrash, is what brings a person back to G-d. ••• It’s a hard sell to a rationalist. Why would anyone observe the Torah without believing in G-d? Perhaps the Torah has universal truths that speak to people who want to be a part of it, but have difficulty with accepting an all-seeing, all-knowing, all-powerful, invisible G-d. But this is the message of “Ayekah.” No person who is committed to Torah can survive very long in the system without coming to some kind of epiphany that G-d plays an essential role in all of this. “Where are you, Adam? Where are you, Mankind?” Can you really hide forever? Do you think I won’t find you? Torah comes first. Not G-d. The people, at the time of the Temple’s destruction, imagined that G-d could only be found in the Temple, but nowhere else. With this in mind, Rabbi Lamm proposed a few opposite-ended questions that may help us drive one of the important messages of Tisha B’Av into our systems. What makes you think that you can declare any place in the world out-of-bounds for G-d? May a man hate his brother, so long as he prays in the Bet Hamikdash? May he exploit his worker and drive his slaves, as long as he brings his sacrifices regularly to Jerusalem? “When you restrict G-d only to the synagogue, then He refuses to dwell even in the Synagogue.” Parallel statements about when we pick and choose the manner in which we observe Torah and Halacha are understood. We dress one way in shul and school, and with no rules in other places. We keep separate dishes in our homes, but aren’t careful about kosher standards outside the home. We would never go to places of ill-repute in our neighborhood, but on vacation or when no one knows us, all bets are off. We would never speak inappropriately, but we don’t object to being around others who do. The list goes on. The message of Eichah and Ayeka is a lament over where we could be. We need not pretend we can hide from G-d. We must strive to have our external and our internal lives match one another — to be the most wholesome people we can be. Even Moshe’s lament about his leadership is a poignant reminder that we in the Jewish community need not go about this alone. We have one another, and we must utilize one another, to create a system that helps us raise and better our lives and Jewish experiences to the exponential power we can achieve through unwavering personal and communal support for such efforts.

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have our external and our internal lives match one another — to be the most wholesome people we can be..’

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TRUE! Jews control the world! Egypt’s new president is a Jew!

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hen I first heard the Muslim Brotherhood claim the interim Egyptian President Adli Mansour was Jewish, I was shocked and angry. How the heck did they figure it out? That was one of the closest held secrets of the World-Wide-Jewish-Conspiracy! That announcement came on top of the news that the Government of Turkey blamed their anti-Islamist protests on the Jews. That one wasn’t a leak; it was a stupid mistake. The guy we sent in to run the protests forgot where he was for a second and tried to organize a Havah Nagilah circle dance (Shlomo will not be allowed out by himself for a while). Now that the word POLITICS TO GO is leaking out, it is high time to fess up and tell the world the truth: We Jews are running the protests in the Arab nations, in fact we run everything--the entire world. And we’ve been running things for a very long time, manipulating world events for our own needs. It’s time to reveal Jeff Dunetz the truth that many famous people throughout history were actually Jewish — part of the plot to perpetuate the myth and keep us in charge. Martin Luther — yep, a Jew! But that one was pretty obvious. After all, he is famous for quitting his church to form a new one. Ask any Jew, he will tell you about the synagogue he goes to--and the one he would step into only over his own dead body. Napoleon was a Jew — no wonder he wanted to reconvene the Sanhedrin. The French Emperor had this nervous habit of playing with the Star of David hanging on a chain around his neck all the time. The guy would look ridiculous always sticking his hand in his shirt to play with the star. Alexander Graham Bell, another closet Jew. The only reason he invented the telephone was so he could call his mother. For those of you wondering about the media…yep, it’s Jewish controlled. We have this guy Lenny (a Levite) who lives in Cleveland with his wife and two kids. Lenny inherited the media-control job from his father, Mel, who in 1942 was able to convince the New York Times and other western newspapers to bury their coverage of the Holocaust in the back of the paper. That way no one would guess that we control the media. All the mainstream news media in the world report to Lenny. As a news director, he is the best we’ve had for centuries. It was Lenny who thought up the idea that most news media should slant their coverage against Israel. A few years ago he won an award for coming up with the idea that media should not use the word “terrorist” whenever a Jew was killed. For those of you who follow football, last year’s NFL Cinderella story of the Baltimore Ravens was Lenny’s creation. Lenny’s cousin Abe (on his mother’s side) owns a pizza joint in Reisterstown near Baltimore. Lenny owed him a favor, that championship season

was great for Abe’s business; take out was up 300%. The banks? No one believes that silly thing about Jewish bankers in New York controlling all the money. Sure, they’re all Jewish, but they’re run from the Netherlands. We run the world’s monetary system from the EU central office. Our man there is named Harvey Cohn. Harvey runs a tight ship. I spoke to Harvey today; he agrees that it’s time to let the cat out of the bag. But there is one thing he would like to do first. You see, much of the world’s “antiSemitism” is part of the plot to perpetuate the myth that we do not run the world. Heck, Harvey even has Mel Gibson on the payroll (please don’t tell anyone--it’s bad for his image). One thing that may surprise people is that Barack Obama is actually Jewish. He converted five years ago (It’s the only way we would let him run for president). We were honored by being invited to his bris. My wife made a cheesecake. The conspiracy council told him that he had to pick a Jew like Rahm Emanuel as his first Chief of Staff. Obama’s anti-Israel policy was also Harvey’s brainchild. With his apparent over-thetop hatred of Israel, no one will believe that he is really Jewish. The anti-Israel policies — it’s all an act. I have seen Obama and Bibi laugh about their supposed feud in private. The two guys love each other. ••• As far as foreign policy goes, it’s been Jewish controlled for a long time. Even Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel is in on it; he just acts like he hates Jews to throw people off the trail. By the way, the Saudis were right; Barbie dolls were created as a plot to destroy the minds of Muslim children. And about the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, can you believe that some people still think that’s a forgery! One of the most fun projects we have done recently is sending a computer virus to mess up the Iranian nuclear program. It was so much fun when they realized they were a bunch of tools — Zionist tools. The credit for this idea goes to former Secretary of State Hillary (her real name is Hadassah) Clinton. Don’t believe me? Why do you think her daughter married a Jew? BTW if you are thinking the same thing about Donald Trump because his daughter converted and married a Jew..NO! The Trumpster is not Jewish nor is he in on any of our “acts.” He really is that politically naive. Coming out with the truth may lift a terrible burden from our shoulders. No more hiding, no more plotting, just going about the business of ruling the world. There is, however, a downside. What if people don’t believe us? What if the antiSemites of the world hated us so much that they start to think we have little control over world events? What if they were to think that the Jews are an ancient people who survived only through love of G-d and His Torah? What if people were to look at us, not as world dominators, but as the teachers of how to love G-d and each other? What am I saying? No one could believe that!

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Calendar Submit your shul or organization’s events or shiurim to JSCalendar@TheJewishStar.com. Deadline is Thursday noon of the week prior to publication.

Thursday July 11 Protest at 92nd St. Y urging the Y to stop hosting Israel haters Alice Walker and Robert Waters, both supporters of a boycott against Israel. 92nd Street and Lexington Avenue, Manhattan. 6 p.m.

Shabbat July 13 Pirkei Avos for women at the White Shul in Far Rockaway. Every Shabbos afternoon at 4:30 p.m.

Tuesday July 16 Tisha B’Av fast begins Monday night at 8:26 p.m. and end Tuesday night at 9:05 p.m. •Day of Learning hosted by Young Israel of Lawrence Cedarhurst, 8 Spruce St. 1:40 p.m. early Mincha. Speakers at 20 minutes after each hour starting with Rabbi Kenneth Hain, Congregation Beth Sholom, at 2:20 p.m.; Rabbi Shalom Aexlrod, Young Israel of Woodmere; Rabbi Ariel Rackovsky, Irving Place Minyan; Rabbi Hesy Blumstein, Young Israel of Hewlett; Rabbi Yehuda Septimus, Young Israel of North Woodmere; Rabbi Moshe Teitelbaum, Young Israel of Lawrence Cedarhurst. •Special live Tisha B’Av Webcast. View online and on mobile devices, Yutorah.org/tishabav •2 p.m. Annual public Tisha B’Av prayer service at the Isaiah Peace Wall opposite the United Nations. First Avenue and 43 Street, Manhattan, to focus on the dangers facing Israel and Jewish communities worldwide. Mincha and Torah reading led by Rabbi Avi Weiss, national chairman of Amcha-Coalition for Jewish Concerns. •6 pm. White Shul Tisha B’Av program. Naftali Moses, father of Mercaz Harav massacre victim Avraham David Hoses hy”d, will be speaking. Hosted by One Family. •Tisha B’Av in Brooklyn Heights. The Jewish Star columnist Rabbi Simcha Weinstein speaks at noon at Congregation B’nai Avraham, 117 Remsen St. Full program of talks and film runs from 10:30 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Daniel Silva evening. Conference Center, 130 E. 59 St., Manhattan. 6:30 p.m. $54 includes a dessert reception and an autographed copy of his latest book, The English Girl. Moderated by Professor Ari Goldman. Sponsored by AMIT, reservations may be made by visiting the AMIT website, www.amitchildren.org, or call 212-477-5465 or 212-477-4725.

Shabbat July 19-20 Rabbi Shlomo Riskin in Residence for Shabbat Nachamu at Young Israel of Long Beach. Parshat VaEtchanan. Friday night dinner with Rabbi and Rebbetzin Riskin, $30. Shabbat afternoon buffet luncheon, $25. Contact Ribka Bohan rbohan@darchei.org

Tuesday July 23 Beaded Napkin Ring Workshop at JCC of Greater Five Towns. 7 to 9 p.m. Led by jewelry designer, Ofra Levine. Add a touch of class to your table with a stunning crystal brooch and Austrian crystal beads combination; follow easy steps to create these napkin rings just in time for the holidays with your choice of a variety of crystals and colors. $40. To register call Rachayle Deutsch at 516569-6733 ext. 222, or e-mail rachayle.deutsch@ fivetownsjcc.org

One Israel Fund Day Trips in Israel to sites in Binyamin, Gush Etzion, Northwestern Shomron. $65 to $75 for adult and $55 to $65 for student in Israel or child under 12. For reservations and information go to OneIsraelFund.org/daytrips, email daytrips@ oneisraelfund.org, or call Ruthie Kohn in the U.S. at 516 239-9202 ext 10.

Shabbat July 26-27 Carlebach Shabbaton by the Sea. 12th annual event. Parshas Eikev. Young Israel of Long Beach. For information, call in advance: 516-647-8390 or 718-812-4204.

Wednesday Shabbat July 17 August 3 iPad Workshop. Join the JCC, 207 Grove Ave., Cedarhurst, and Sharper Training to learn about the iPad. 10 a.m. to noon. Bring your iPad, iTouch, even your iPhone and all your questions. $30. To register contact Rachayle Deutsch at (516) 569-6733.

Sisterhood tea features a review by Esther Langer of Sheryl Sandberg’s book, “Women Work and the Will to Lead.” 5 p.m. YI of Long Beach social hall.

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ith the upcoming Fast of Tisha B’Av, it vine and the fig tree – fruitless. There is nothis appropriate to note the recent pub- ing to hope for; the enemy will arrive and lication of a biography and historical devour all who inhabit this land.” analysis of one of the great prophets of our The prophet is conflicted between two faith, Jeremiah, whose teachings are the fea- sentiments, that is, he is torn between tured prophetic readings that morning and wounded love and rising anger, according whose scroll, Eichah (Lamentations) is the to Rabbi Lau. That is the bottom line mescenterpiece reading the previous evening at sage that we come to learn from the prophet. the start of the fast. “In today’s world, Jeremiah is perceived as Entitled, “Jeremiah: The Fate of a Proph- the prophet of the Temple’s destruction, the et” [Maggid Books 2013] by Rabbi Dr. Bin- composer of our Tisha B’Av Lamentations. yamin Lau, this 225 The modern word ‘jeremiad,’ meaning a page work goes into work that mourns society and its imminent KOSHER great analytical detail downfall, reinforces this perception.” BOOKWORM in its interpretation of If you are not familiar with the life and Jeremiah’s message of times of Jeremiah, this would be one work doom and gloom ad- for you to explore as part of your Nine Days monitions to his peo- regimen. It will teach you history with feelple. ing and, hopefully, reorient you as you enter In detailing chap- the fast and experience further its message. ter eight, the selection Rabbi Lau directs the Center for Judaism read on the fast itself, and Society at Beit Morasha of Jerusalem and Rabbi Lau quotes from serves as rabbi at the Ramban Synagogue. the work, “Path of the He was also a founder of the Moshe Green Just” by Rabbi Moshe Beit Midrash for Women and is a lecturer on Chaim Luzzatto: halacha and social justice at Beren College. “Jeremiah laments Rabbi Lau studied at Yeshivat Har Etzion Alan Jay Gerber the evil of his contem- and earned his Ph.D in Talmud at Bar Ilan poraries, for whom this University. His previous literary work was the defect is like a plague. much acclaimed three-volume “The Sages: They turn a blind eye to their own actions, Character, Context and Creativity.” without taking heed to determine whether they should For further study be engaged in or abandoned. For your edification, you He says about these men, might want to explore fur‘No one regrets his wrongther the Jeremiah legacy by doing. … Each pursues his reading the following essays course like a horse charging [available online from vbminto battle.’ He means that torah.org] : they act out of impulse and “Yirmiyahu and Moshe – habit, without leaving themTwo Models of Prophecy,” by selves time to evaluate their Rabbi Moshe Lichtenstein actions and ways, and, as a “Complementary Reresult, fall into evil without proaches — The difference noticing.” between Yirmiyahu and YeThis observation by Rabshayahu,” by Rabbi Moshe bi Luzzatto is a most fitting Lichtenstein RABBI MOSHE teaching as applied by Rabbi “The Oral Law and the CHAIM LUZZATTO Lau to this reading from JerSecret of ‘Eicha’,” by Rabbi emiah. I am surprised that Yaakov Medan no one till now, to my knowlAlso recommended are edge, has previously applied two of the best commentarthis to this prophetic verse. ies on the haftarot, The pathos and sadness that one feels “The JPS Bible Commentary: Haftarot,” in the prophet’s voice fills this entire work. by Dr. Michael Fishbane, which includes an These were bad times, times permeated with extensive commentary and biography on Jerwillful sin, a faith ignored and a life style of emiah. greed that ridiculed all divine teaching. Also, a newly published commentary Rabbi Lau tells us the following: on Isaiah was recently issued by Artscroll. “Despair floods Jeremiah, and he is over- Especially noteworthy for your immediate come with a prophecy that in time will be- attention is their commentary on the Yecome a hymn of destruction, read on the shayahu texted haftarot timed to this time of most tragic day of the Jewish calendar, Tisha year until Rosh Hashanah. This work, with B’Av: ‘I will surely consume them — declares a most valuable introduction by Rabbi Nosthe L-rd.’ This vision spills out of him with son Scherman, deserves your study for the terrible pain. He begs to escape the role that balance of the summer. Taken together with has been forced upon him, that of the proph- Dr. Fishbane’s work, these two works will et of doom. help you better understand the historic as “In his mind’s eye, he sees the fruit trees well as text content of our haftarah readings of the Land of Israel – the emblematic grape- throughout the year.

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