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By Sergey Kadinsky On Monday afternoon, eight-year-old Leiby Kletzky left his Borough P ark summer camp for a three-block walk to his mother. He disappeared into the streetscape and thousands of Jews mobilized to search for the boy. The

massive search brought t ogether the Shomrim, Chaveirim, Hatzolah, NYPD and FBI, and some 3,000 additional volunteers from as far as Lakewood, to find Kletzky, even as t housands more prayed for his safety. The search ended with a g ruesome find of body par ts stuffed into a trash cont ainer in P ark Slope

on early Wednesday morning.

“It’s a horror for every parent. I mean it ’s just a tragedy t oday for ev eryone in N ew York,” said S tate Assemblyman Do v Hikind, whose staff participated in the search. “This Continued on page 3

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Williamsburg dynamic in art

By Ariel Rosenbloom With just a few simple brush strokes, a renowned young Orthodox artist awakened two opposite worlds on acrylic canvas at J Greenstein Gallery in Cedarhurst on July 11.

Elke Reva Sudin exhibited works from her “Hipsters and Hassids” painting series, introducing the dynamic of two developing yet differing groups in Brooklyn’s Williamsburg neighborhood.

“The ‘Hipsters and Hassids’ series juxtaposes the two sides of Williamsburg that both seem to be completely different but I show how they actually have so much more in common than you might believe and so when you see these paintings you should come with a feeling of how we are all really connected,” Sudin said. “There’s so much more that is similar than the things that we bicker about than our differences, and I think it’s really important for Jewish communities to recognize how different expressions of Judaism or of humanity are all very much valid except they just look a little different.”

A Brooklyn resident, Sudin is an alum of Pratt Institute and participated in various local art groups, including Jewish Art Salon and Artists 4 Israel. “The reason we brought Elke here is because of the aesthetics of her art. Her work is absolutely beautiful,” said Jonathan Greenstein, the owner of J Greenstein Gallery. “There is a New York story behind each and every painting as most recently with the nonsense that was between the hasidim and the non-hasidim in Williamsburg, and she was able to put that on canvas, but she was able to do it in an aesthetically pleasing way.”

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Continued from page 1 is not a story about Borough Park, sick people are anywhere and in your own neighborhood.”

Kletzky was supposed to meet his mother at the corner of 13th Avenue and 50th Street after leaving day camp, but he never showed up. Surveillance videos recorded Kletzky walking alone, then with an Orthodox-looking man, who was viewed going into a Honda sedan. Although the boy is not seen getting into the car, investigators believe that he was a passenger.

The suspect, Kensington resident Levi Aron, 35, was tracked down through videos. Walking out of a dentist’s office, the hardware store worker was shown on tape giving directions to Kletzky on Monday afternoon. “Before establishing his identity, detectives had observed the

suspect in a video recorded at 5:30 p.m. on Monday, where he was seen entering a dentist’s office,” NYPD spokesman Paul Browne said in a statement. “Detectives located one of the dentists… and established that the suspect had been in the dentist’s office on Monday to pay a bill.”

The dentist’s bill and the Honda license plate both identified Aron. When police knocked on his door at 2:40 a.m. on Wednesday, he confessed to the murder, revealing additional body parts in his refrigerator and bloodstained kitchen knives.

As the community mourns, local leaders expressed gratitude for the massive outpouring of support for Kletzky. “Some of our staff went out to search and my next door neighbor was searching until four in the morning. I don’t think we’ve ever witnessed such communal achdus,” said Achiezer director Rabbi Boruch

“We teach our children about stranger danger, but this is friendly danger”

Ber Bender.

Ohel CEO David Mandel urged parents to explain the tragedy to their children, noting the innocence of Kletzky and the unusual nature of the kidnapping. “A child who did everything right wound up a terrible death.

We teach our children about stranger danger, but this is friendly danger, this was a person from the community,” Mandel said. “But the world is basically good and people are safe.”

Looking at a photograph of the suspect, Hikind noted the apparent trust that Kletzky may have had in Aron. “He looks so familiar, not evil, like someone you know.” According to police, this may have been their only encounter.

The boy is the only son of Nachman and Ita Esther Kletzky, who also have four daughters. The body was recovered by police and transferred to Misaskim, which handles extraordinary funerals in the community. The family began sitting shiva on Wednesday, following the funeral.

Mandel said that the actions of volunteers and law enforcement officials deserve credit, despite the results. “All the people who dav-

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Murder in Boro Park, community in shock

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Suspect Levi Aron was arrested early Wednesday morning. ened, searched and stayed up for 36 hours did the right thing and we will need them in the future. It was a terrible ending but it does not diminish from their work.”

An ealier flight of American olim celebrates their arrival in Israel.

Nefesh B’Nefesh participants often travel together and are greated in a ceremonial fashion with Israeli leaders hailing their arrival at Ben Gurion Airport.

Photo courtesy of Nefesh B’Nefesh

Rabbi Yehoshua Fass speaks in Cedarhurst

Nefesh B’Nefesh: 30,000 and counting

By Sergey Kadinsky When a local philanthropist speaks, there’s usually a personal connection to the cause. For Lawrence attorney Phil Rosen, it was a trip to northern Israel with his daughter last year, where they kept encountering Hebrew speakers with American accents. At a coffee shop outside Tzfat, they met a young Californian olah in uniform, and asked to hear her story.

“She told a great story of a lone soldier who came on Nefesh B’Nefesh after a birthright tour. She was in love with the country,” Rosen said, at a fundraising evening at the Cedarhurst home of Moshe Berger, where they welcomed Nefesh B’Nefesh cofounder Rabbi Yehoshua Fass. “Nefesh is one of the two game changers in Israel. It takes facts on the ground and changes them to the right direction.”

For Rabbi Fass, the catalyst was a Hamas

suicide bombing a decade ago where his 13-year-old cousin was killed. “The overwhelming sense was to stand in and continue a life that was snuffed. Stand and show and fight with a sense of hope,” Rabbi Fass said.

The Boca Raton rabbi connected other prospective olim from around the county and fundraised to make a dramatic gesture. It paid off with an inaugural $2 million Nefesh B’Nefesh flight in July 2002, which brought 360 Jews to Israel, the largest single number of American olim in a single group to date.

Rabbi Fass said that while the hard numbers are small, the potential is there and polls prove it. “The low number of North Americans is not for a lack of will and passion. They have four top concerns, bureaucracy, loans for young couples whose average age is 31, social infrastructure, and employment. We created a foundation to address these problems,” Rabbi

Fass said.

Initially an independent nonprofit, Nefesh B’Nefesh gained the support of then-Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, who added government funding to the organization, which has been renewed by his successors. “A 97 percent retention rate and our thirty thousandth oleh is coming this August, it is an unparalleled model for any country,” Rabbi Fass said.

While the image of North Americans is often of modern Orthodox pioneers, the Birthright Israel program has resulted in previously unaffiliated secular Jews making the move to Israel. “We serve close to 400 lone soldiers a year. Most are not religious, but feel a strong connection to Israel,” Rabbi Fass said, estimating 70 percent of these soldiers as secular.

In partnership with Friends of the IDF, the soldiers are given financial assistance, social gatherings, and Shabbat hospitality. “It’s a $2

million project and FIDF will match us for up to $1 million.”

Recognizing the economic and social potential of Nefesh B’Nefesh, the Israeli government partners with the organization to promote settlement of the northern region, answer a national shortage of physicians, and assist approximately 600 “lone osldier” olim with financial, social, and employment assistance.

This August, the aliyah flight will include a cousin of Phil Rosen, and 100 lone soldiers, a source of pride for Rosen as he appealed to his neighbors to contribute. “A few weeks back, I took some hedge funders to Israel and we met with Netanyahu. The Prime minister sees the world as very bright,” Rosen said.

“Israel needs three elements- Birthright, Nefesh B’Nefesh, and investment in the county to connect it to the Jewish world.”

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he 2012 Election is still sixteen months away, but the discussions about whether President Obama will be able to retain the same large portion of the Jewish vote as he did in 2008 remains an obsession with the mainstream media. On Monday, the Washington Post factchecker Glenn Kessler wrote a piece about POLITICO Jews and the President TO GO which spread stereotypes about Jews and Republicans. Kessler’s piece was designed to call into question the motivation of GOP candidates who support Israel as well the American Jews who oppose the President’s Middle East policy.

The article, “Obama and Israel: stalled diplomacy or ‘suspicion Jeff Dunetz and distrust’?” begins with quotations from GOP presidential candidates Romney, Pawlenty and Bachmann, all criticizing Obama’s policy toward Israel.

“The latest Gallup poll shows that President Obama has 60 percent approval rating among Jewish Americans. Jews generally are a reliable vote for Democrats, and in the 2008 election, exit polls show Obama re-

ceived 78 percent of the Jewish vote. That gap has sent GOP hearts aflutter, though the polling should be viewed with caution; 60 percent approval is still 14 percent higher than the president’s overall approval rating.

Still, GOP candidates for president sense an opening. A line attacking Obama and his policies on Israel is now a standard part of their stump speeches. The question is whether these attacks are fair or accurate?”

Kessler has a logic flaw here. He is correct in saying that Jews are generally a reliable vote for the Democrats (according to Gallup 66% of Jews are Democrats), where is logic falls apart is since most Jews are Democrats, why would he compare their approval of Obama to the total population of which only 45% of which are Democrats. Obama’s support from Democrats is much more stable than that of independent and GOP voters. If the Jewish support of Obama is compared to a re-weighted general population whose party affiliation matches theirs (66% Democrat, 27% GOP and 7% independent) we find that Obama is losing Jewish support more than twice as fast as the general population (for the full analysis refer to http://yidwithlid. blogspot.com/2011/07/why-gallups-analysis-of-jewish-voters.html) Kessler also forgets to mention that if Obama received only 60% of the Jewish vote in 2012 (which is very unlikely), it would be the lowest Democratic total since Jimmy Carter in 1980.

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I also take issue with Kessler’s contention that the mentioned GOP candidates are attacking Obama on Israel because they see an opening. Michele Bachmann spent the summer of 1974 working at Kibbutz Be’eri in Israel, Romney made strong pro-Israel statements during the 2008 campaign before Obama was nominated, and Tim Pawlenty was leading trade missions to Israel back in 2008 when he was governor of Minnesota.

Perhaps Kessler can’t comprehend that Israel is not just a “Jewish issue.” Some politicians even support Israel because it is the right thing to do for America. Granted it is a foreign concept for a progressive newspaper such as the Washington Post, but it does happen.

Kessler tries to make the GOP criticism of Obama regarding Israel a bigger deal than the candidates have made it.

“We would be foolish to venture an opinion on each side’s collection of historical facts because, seriously, it is a no-win situation. But Obama’s treatment of Israel has become such a key part of the GOP arsenal that it is worth exploring the President’s performance.”

The Washington Post fact checker’s characterization of bashing Obama’s treatment of Israel as a key part of the GOP arsenal belies the truth. If he were following the same campaign as the rest of us, Mr. Kessler would understand that the number one “key part of the GOP arsenal” is the economy, number

two, three, and four are the economy, the economy, and the economy, in that order.

Obama, perhaps because of his name and his background, found his views on Israel under scrutiny even during the last election. He didn’t help matters then by making observations that antagonized some of Israel’s more loyal supporters: “I think there is a strain within the pro-Israel community that says unless you adopt a unwavering pro-Likud approach to Israel that you’re anti-Israel and that can’t be the measure of our friendship with Israel.”(Ironically, once he became president, Obama ended up with a Likud prime minister with whom he has had a testy relationship.)

Here, the fact checker is claiming the people who questioned Obama on Israel during the 2008 campaign, did so out of racism another incorrect assertion. Mr. Kessler’s “factcheck” of the GOP positions on Israel was actually just another defense of President Obama by a progressive media vehicle and should be treated more like a campaign piece than a “fact check.”

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

Jeff contributes to some of the largest political sites on the internet including American Thinker, Big Government, Big Journalism, NewsReal and Pajama’s Media. Jeff lives on Long Island.

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Parshat Pinchas

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efore its exposition of the holidays and their respective sacrificial offerings, the Torah gives us its only reversal of the most repeated verse in the Torah. Normally it says “And G-d spoke to Moshe saying.” Here it says “And Moshe spoke to G-d saying.”

Moshe’s instruction to God centered around his concern that with his own passing, the people would be left without a leader – like a flock without a shepherd.

Understandably, after seeing his brother die, his nephew Elazar fill the vacant shoes, and now his great-nephew Pinchas slated to be the next inline for the High Priest position, Moshe wants to see that the Rabbi Avi Billet next person is ready to take on the leadership role to complete the project he started: to bring the people to the Promised Land.

In all the pomp and ceremony, perhaps the most significant element of Yehoshua’s new appointment is his being put into a position in which he will direct questions to the Urim V’tumim, the divinely controlled mechanism in Elazar the High Priest’s breastplate that provides a direct line of communication with the Divine.

It becomes the ultimate lesson in irony.

The Talmud (Eruvin 63a) points out that this connection was never utilized.

Both Yehoshua and Elazar were punished, in a sense, for speaking out of turn in the presence of Moshe. Yehoshua instructed Moshe to put Eldad and Meidad in jail (Bamidbar 11:28), and Elazar taught everyone the laws of kashering metals in the aftermath of the Midian war (Bamidbar 31:21-24). Yehoshua’s punishment was that he never had children, and Elazar’s punishment was that Yehoshua never needed him.

To be fair, the Midrash Aggadah suggests that Yehoshua never needing Elazar was more of a reward to Yehoshua, as per the verse in Mishlei 27:18, “He who guards his master shall be honored.”

Regardless, the fact is that there was a high anticipation of the new generation of leadership sharing an incredible professional relationship. Aharon and Moshe worked well together because they were brothers and because their personalities complemented one another in many respects.

For all of Moshe’s plans, even Yehoshua did not

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leave a successor.

Would Yehoshua and Elazar have a similar rapport? We never find out.

There’s an old Yiddish saying (some claim German origins) that “A mentsh tracht und Gott lacht - Man plans and God laughs.” [On the internet, I found some people ascribing its origins to Tehillim 33:10 and Mishlei 16:9] Perhaps we can suggest that even Moshe, in a sense, spoke out of turn to G-d. For all of Moshe’s plans, even Yehoshua did not leave a successor. In this regard maybe the anarchy of the book of Shoftim is partly attributable to Yehoshua’s poor leadership choice.

In the end, our charge is to do our best, in as humble a manner and in as G-d-fearing a manner as we can.

But G-d puts them in our hands when we do our part to make it happen, and when He feels, at this stage, that we are deserving. But we must be doing something if G-d is going to help us fulfill our goals.

A classic Jewish joke has Mendel praying to G-d to help him win the lottery. After months and months and no winning, Mendel comes to the Western Wall and screams at G-d, “After all I’ve done for You! After all the sacrifices and promises!”

All of a sudden, the heavens open and G-d’s voice communicates directly with Mendel, “Mendel you are my most beloved. But for heaven’s sake – buy a ticket!”

We may be most deserving. But nothing’s going to happen just because we are good people. Very few are so lucky.

And for those who are in the trenches, sometimes we walk on a thin line between getting exactly what we want, and becoming destined to never reach that which should have otherwise been our absolute potential.

The words of Micha (6:8) in last week’s haftorah say it best. “He has told you, O man, what is good, and what the Lord demands of you; but to do justice, to love loving-kindness, and to walk discreetly/ humbly with your God.”

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

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In tribute to Rabbi Yehuda Amital , zt”l.

Jewish history. He allowed us to see the miracle of the founding of the State of Israel through the eyes of someone who had gone from the depths of the Holocaust to fighting in the War of Independence, from the ingathering of the exiles to the tragedy of the Yom Kippur War.” Truly, Rabbi Amital foresaw that the phenomenon of yeshiva students being exempted from army service would foster friction and bitter hostility between religious and secular Jews at all strata of Israeli society.

He could not and would not abide by this development and his leadership as rosh yeshiva of Yeshivat Har Etzion was to serve as the benchmark that would establish hesder yeshivot across Israel that would bring both Torah and national defense together, ultimately serving to assure both the spiritual and physical survival of our people.

The recent publication of his biography will give you a much-needed view of both the human as well as public persona of Rabbi Amital’s legacy.

“By Faith Alone” written by Elyashiv Reichner and published by Maggid/Koren Publishers, offers the reader a fascinating and somewhat intimate view of Rabbi Amital’s life and legacy, and his relationships with family, friends, students and colleagues.

He was a charismatic leader, yet he refused to be viewed as a Chassidic rebbe. He was a talmid chacham, par excellence, yet he never saw himself as a posek of Jewish law.

His lasting legacy as a spiritual leader, in this perspective, was seen as a liability by one of his leading talmidim, Rabbi Yoel Bin-

Nun who stated the following revealing and rather direct and candid observation that perhaps sums up the Amital legacy: “At Yeshivat Merchaz HaRav, where I was coming from, there was no place for halachic decision making. The yeshiva has no obvious posek, and students had to look outside for practical guidance.

I also think that had Rav Amital become established as a halachic figure, firmly rooted in the Zionist Torah world, nurtured by the teachings of Rav Kook and Rav Charlap, and knowing how to address philosophical matters in addition to rendering practical decisions, his subsequent political pronouncements would have been received completely differently.” This was to be Rabbi Amital’s choice that governed his life’s work and his legacy has to be seen and understood in this perspective.

This honest presentation, absent the hero worship and false deification, gives us a refreshing and clear view of what an honest evaluation of Jewish leadership ought to be

like.

This work, taken together with Moshe Maya’s “A World Build, Destroyed and Rebuilt” [Ktav/Yeshivat Har Etzion, 2004] that is based upon Rabbi Amital’s holocaust experiences, and of his religious views and evaluations of same, will give you a full and clear vision of Rabbi Amital’s legacy for us and posterity.

His teachings in English can be read in the following two anthologies, “Jewish Values in a Changing World” [Ktav/ Yeshivat Har Etzion. 2005], and “Commitment and Complexity” [Ktav/ Yeshivat Har Etzion, 2008] which bring together some of his finest writings. Both are worthy and deserve your attention.

Also please consider this. Yeshivat Har Etzion today has the most extensive internet website for Jewish learning on just about every level of Jewish religious scholarship. Just Google, VBM to access this treasure trove of lomdus. You will be most enriched, spiritually, by this experience.

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There is so much that one can write about his legacy as an outspoken leading rabbi of the religious Zionist movement and as a creative and charismatic educator and thinker.

His literary output in his 85-years among us is both awesome and everlasting in the benchmark of morality that he set for all of us to follow.

Rabbi Reuven Zirgler, editor in chief of Yeshivat Har Etzion’s renown website, Virtual Beit Midrash, perhaps summed it up best: “Rabbi Amital’s grounding in reality and his sensitivity to Alan Jay Gerber shifting societal and historical trends often enabled his to foresee future developments and attempt timely action. Probably his major historical contribution is formulating the idea of ‘yeshivat hesder’; he foresaw the need to strengthen the religious Zionist community with a broad cadre of talmidei chachamim and simultaneously to prevent alienation between yeshiva students and the state.

“He lived Jewish history; he embodied

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Israel and Jewish leaders congratulate newborn South Sudan

By Sergey Kadinsky On July 9, flags fluttered and military bands marched though the dust-covered streets of Juba, capital of South Sudan, the world’s newest recognized independent nation. Among the messages of congratulation, the Israeli message spoke of full cooperation, while hinting at the social and economic ties between the two states.

“We wish it success. This is a peaceseeking country and we would be pleased to cooperate with it in order to ensure its development and its prosperity, Israeli Prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced at his weekly cabinet meeting.

The announcement follows a five decadelong civil war between the largely Arab Muslim northern Sudan, and the animist and Christian southern region, where the Sudan People’s Liberation Army has been fighting for independence.

“The road to independence has been long and bitter. More than two million died and four million were driven from their homes during the civil war. South Sudan has finally been,” said AJC Executive Director David Harris.

While the war raged on, Israel had a common enemy with the south Sudanese, the

Unlike its parent country, newly independent South Sudan recognizes Israel .

Khartoum-based government of General Omar al-Bashir, who sheltered and financed anti-Israel terrorist groups, and whose human rights record in Darfur resulted in a war

crimes indictment by the International Court of Justice. In April, Sudan accused Israel of bombing a car outside Port Sudan. While Israel did not confirm the hit, it accused Sudan of smuggling arms to Hamas.

While South Sudan celebrates, it also faces challenges, emerging as one of the world’s least developed countries. Echoing Israel’s support for the newborn African nation, Harris announced that the AJC is partnering with IsrAID, the government-sponsored partnership with nonprofits, in supporting South Sudan. “The noble work of IsraAID is emblematic of Israel’s humanitarian ethos.”

American Jewish World Service, the Manhattan-based nonprofit that works with grassroots groups in developing countries also congratulated South Sudan, while keeping its focus on the neighboring Sudanese region of Darfur, where native African Muslim groups were massacred and expelled by Arab militias over much of the past decade.

“At this moment of celebration, we must also remain focused on the abhorrent violence that continues along the border and in Darfur,” said AJWS president Ruth Messinger. “When aggression and gross violations of basic human rights are routinely tolerated, these actions repeat themselves with grave results.”

Messinger said that while AJWS is interested in South Sudan, it does not have established grassroots contacts in the country, in comparison to its work in Chad and Darfur.

Within Israel, there are approximately 8,000 Sudanese refugees, and Interior Minister Eli Yishai vowed to return them to their homeland. “It’s good that they won independence. This will reduce the refugees to Israel from there and will make it easier for us to return infiltrators from the Sudan.”

Advocates of refugees expressed caution, arguing that deportations must be carried out within the framework of international law. “With the recognition of South Sudan, Israel should be cognizant of their rights.

There should be mutually approved provisions for their repatriation,” said New Israel Fund spokeswoman Naomi Paiss, whose organization assists African refugees living in Israel.

For now, the mood is celebratory and the South Sudanese representative to Israel speaks of close ties. “We hear about the history of Israel. There is no difference between South Sudan and Israel,” Bith Thiyang said in an interview with Haaretz. “The southerners love Israel more than anyone. Even kids in South Sudan will tell you Israel is our best friend in the world.”

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he festival of Sukkot was around the corner, and I realized I had no way to get a set of four species (arbah minim) in time for the festival.

We were actually in Lebanon at the time, and as the only kippah-wearing soldier on the base, I knew I was on my own, and the thought of having no set of ‘arbah minim’ was really depressing.

With so many patrols and duties (we were in a hot zone) the possibility of taking off time FROM THE HEART to get somewhere to OF JERUSALEM buy a set was pretty remote, but I managed to re-arrange the officers’ duty-roster leaving me an eighteen-hour window, and convinced my C.O. I could make it to Jerusalem and back in time to cover the next patrol.

This was no easy feat, as it usually took a good eight hours to get all the way down, but Rabbi Binny the thought of being Freedman in civilization even for just an hour, was more than I could resist.

All told, I ended up in Jerusalem for about three hours, which was enough to pick up a beautiful set of ‘ arbah minim’, and ended up spending a good fifteen hours in travel. The challenge of keeping my Lulav intact and kosher while hitchhiking in a variety of small cars was not simple, but I made it back to base with my ‘arbah minim’ intact.

All of which gave me a whole different level of appreciation for the mitzvah that particular year.

So on the morning of Sukkot, just back from a patrol, I found myself all alone in

what passed for the synagogue on our base.

It was too hot to pray inside, so I stepped outside and, facing south towards Jerusalem continued my prayers. There is a point in the Hallel prayers which really hit me: “Ma’ ashiv la’Hashem?” “What have I to give back to G-d?”

There are certain moments in life, when you appreciate the gifts you have been given.

In the middle of a war zone, with men getting killed or injured every day, and the number of close calls and near misses too many to count, you realize that life is a gift and you wonder why you are lucky enough to still be here, and, in silent gratitude, you pray yet again that you will succeed in making the life you have been given worth living.

And in the midst of all these thoughts, deep in Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley, with the Shouf Mountain Range rising up above, a niggun just popped into my head and I began to sing. And pretty soon, lost in the moment, I actually began to dance.

It was a pretty powerful experience, until in the course of my experience I turned around and realized I was not alone. Standing about twenty feet behind me were the base cook and a couple of soldiers on kitchen detail, including one of my men.

Judging by the expressions on their faces, they must have thought I was absolutely mad. And who could blame them?

It was for me a deeply spiritual moment, which of course begs the question: What is spirituality, and how do we experience it in our lives? This week I was privileged to attend an incredible conference, run by the Center for the Jewish Future of Yeshiva University, one of whose themes was the challenge of infusing Jewish life with spirituality.

Four hundred Jewish leaders from all over the world came together with an eye towards exploring the needs of the Jewish people going forward, one of which is a deep sense

that people yearn for a more spiritual Jewish experience. So what is spirituality and how do we make it part of our lives?

Obviously, spirituality is an experience that touches and connects us to our spirit or soul; what we refer to in Hebrew as the neshama. And the common perception is that we are looking for a soul experience, but we don’t often discuss just how to accomplish this lofty goal.

The truth is, we don’t need to access our souls; we are souls ; we simply need to learn how to get out of the way. And if the essence of a person’s soul is that it represents the meaning and purpose of why we are here, then a soulful a.k.a. spiritual experience, is one that it allows us to connect to what we think our purpose in this world really is. And of course, in order to connect to why we are here, we need to connect to the source of what we are about here; we need to connect to G-d. Indeed, a spiritual experience is an opportunity to have a meaningful connection, a relationship with G-d. But most of us never take the time, nor do we discuss just how one does this. How does one connect to G-d? How do we have a meaningful, and even a loving relationship with Hashem, our creator? In effect, how can we (do we even want to) actually fall in love… with G-d?

Judaism suggests that love is all about giving. The Hebrew term for love, ahavah, is related to the ancient Aramaic term ‘hav’ which means to give. Love is all about giving, which is what makes it so different from lust which is all about taking. And of course, the more you give to anything the more you love it. That is why we love our children so much, because we give them everything, and it is also why sometimes our (especially teenage) children have difficulty loving us, if they don’t feel (or we don’t allow them to feel) they have much to give us. In fact if you want to love something more, just practice giving

to it. Maybe that is why some of us so deeply love the land of Israel; because we have given up so much for it.

So how does one love G-d? Simply by giving to G-d.

And how does one actually give to G-d who is perfection? If Hashem creates us with a purpose, and we can figure (or at least think we figure) out what that purpose is, then maybe we give back to G-d by living up to that purpose. If in whatever we are doing, we feel we are living up to the reason we are here then that allows for a deep soul connection; or, for those of us interested in a deeper connection with G-d, allows us to literally, fall in love with G-d.

And whether we are picking up a piece of litter on a NYC street, helping a neighbor with groceries, lighting Shabbat candles, or even dancing in Lebanon, if in that moment we allow ourselves to experience, for even a moment, a sense of ‘for this, perhaps, the world has become a little better with me in it; for this was I created’; then we will allow ourselves the spiritual windows that make life worth living.

Maybe it is time, because we so need it, to share with our communities, and especially our youth a more G-d conscious curriculum, and a more G-d conscious life.

For an excellent treatment of this topic see Rabbi David Aaron’s Endless Light and Secret Life of G-d , two excellent books that explore what G-d really is, and how we can create a deeper and more meaningful relationship with G-d.

Rav Binny Freedman, Rosh Yeshivat Orayta in Jerusalem’s Old City is a Company Commander in the IDF reserves, and lives in Efrat with his wife Doreet and their four children.

His weekly Internet ‘Parsha Bytes’ can be found at www.orayta.org

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Mensch on the street

By Ariel Rosenbloom

What is your image of G-d?

“The ocean”

“I’m a Jew and I hate that I grew up having to live a Catholic life. I therefore see Hashem as very accepting and forgiving.”

LEWIS “LAIBLA” CAMACHO retired New York City Parks Department security officer, Oceanside

MOSHE STREITER Far Rockaway

“A being that is constantly looking out for us, loves us, and is always doing what’s best for us. He’s our guide to life.”

DOVI GROSSER D.R.S. graduate, Cedarhurst

“I’d say definitely an angelic figure surrounded by a bright setting with nice clouds; just a calm atmosphere.”

DAVID MASRY Queens College, Junior, Woodmere

“G-d is really in us.

When Hashem shines, our neshama shines. ”

“We both see him as a big white fog.”

ORAN BENDELSTEIN youth director at the Jewish Center of Atlantic Beach, Atlantic Beach

TOVA NISSAN AND ADINA LEBOVITZ Central High School graduates, Great Neck/Woodmere

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Historic Kehilath Jeshurun engulfed by flames

By Maxine Dovere A four-alarm fire tore into a historic Manhattan synagogue, placing the 110-year-old Kehilath Jeshurun, a modern Orthodox congregation on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, in danger of collapse.

Throughout the tony Manhattan neighborhood, fire department vehicles screamed towards the burning structure. Local residents, synagogue members and media poured into the quiet block that was the home of the synagogue. Within an hour, close to a thousand were in the street as the synagogue, which was founded in 1872, was engulfed in flames. Smoke billowed through the collapsed roof and seeped through the historic façade as fire-fighters perched on extended ladders pouring streams of water into the structure. Smoke steamed out of the once glorious stained glass windows.

On the street, flashing red and white lights glared in the hot summer night. The block between Park Avenue to Lexington Avenue on 85th Street was cordoned off and all non essential personnel were removed from the closed zone. A Fire Department spokesman warned of a “possible building collapse.”

One firefighter was observed being removed by stretcher from the scene. According to sources, four of New York’s Bravest suffered minor injuries; no civilians were hurt.

Religious artifacts, including the congregation’s Torah scrolls, had been previously removed for the building’s ongoing renova-

Photo by Maxine Dovere

Following the massive fire, FDNY chaplain Rabbi Joseph Potasnik and Kehillat Jeshurun’s Rabbi Haskel Lookstein speak to the press. tion.

“We’re lucky,” Rabbi Haskel Lookstein said, “every Torah scroll is as special as a human life.” The venerable Rabbi briefly shared words of inspiration with the gathered crowd. “There are two ways you can look at this,” said the rabbi, who has been serving the shul for more than 52 years. “You can cry over the loss, which is a very very real thing. But the most important thing to do in the face of something like this, is to ask yourself, ‘how do we respond? Now, what do

Bellmore resident honored by Technion

By Sergey Kadinsky When Bellmore resident Alan Forman, 58, received his honorary degree from the Technion Institute in Haifa, it was in recognition of his work in promoting the school in the local Jewish community.

“My business partner Jonathan Sohn is an alum of Technion. Years ago, I attended a Technion breakfast with students and made it my mission,” Forman said. An engineer by trade, Forman is a founder of Altronix, a Brooklyn-based manufacturer of low-voltage electronic equipment.

Forman’s support of Technion began in 1994 with the Alan & Tatyana Forman Endowed Scholarship Fund. Since then, he has funded numerous projects towards the school’s expansion, including a student dormitory. On the local level, Forman is a former director of the New York Chapter of the American Technion Society, which promotes the century-old engineering school in the local Jewish community.

Forman received his honorary degree alongside Oscar Davis, a Manhattan resident who runs Haywood Industries, a New Jersey-based producer of swimming pool equipment. Going beyond fundraising, Davis founded a fellowship at the school and hired a few Technion graduates for his company.

“I am contributing to an institution that I wholly believe in. Its goals and future are so important, and I am proud to be able to help the Technion meet its objectives,” Davis said.

Both Forman and Davis sit on the school’s Board of Governors.

Photo courtesy of American Technion Society

Bellmore’s Alan Forman recieving his honorary degree in Haifa.

Looking at the school’s future, Forman said that nanotechnology is growing at Technion, as well as interdisciplinary sciences.

Next year, Technion will celebrate its centennial as one of Zionism’s pioneering achievements.

“We need to retain the brain power,” Forman said. “The gifts from the Jewish community to Technion will benefit Israel and the world.”

you do when you have just had a loss?’…We will rebuild.”

“Rabbi Lookstein is a hero. I am taken by his courage. They will rebuild,” reiterated Rabbi Joseph Potasnik, Executive Vice President of the New York Board of Rabbis, who stood with the stoic Rabbi Lookstein as he addressed reporters at the scene.

“Every rabbi and every Jew, every New Yorker has their heart with this congregation. We want to see this congregation re-

built, and become more vibrant than ever,” Rabbi Yakov Kermaier of the Fifth Avenue Synagogue.

Flames remained visible through the west facing windows of the structure even an hour after the fire was declared under control. By 10:35, Fire Department personnel and Fire Department vehicles had begun to leave the area in front of the building. With the fire under control, residents of the neighboring building were allowed to return to their apartments. The Ramaz Upper School building opposite the synagogue is undamaged; the status of the contiguous building is unknown.

NYFD Deputy Chief Jim Hodgens, commanding officer on the scene, said the Buildings Department would assess the stability of the 110 year old structure. The Chief stated that there was no imminent danger of collapse, and accordingly local residents were allowed to return to their homes.

Close to 50 fire and rescue vehicles responded to the fire. After the flames had been extinguished, as vehicles were leaving the scene, fire fighters, police and fire marshals were queried about the origin of the fire, “It’s too early. It’s just too early,” responded a Fire Marshall. ”Nothing has been ruled out and nothing has been confirmed…

The investigators will be here all night, the investigation is just beginning.”

Hipsters and Hasids exhibit Continued from page 2 ences, yet also paint us a picture of similarities between the two sects. For example, the “Farbrengen” and “Loft Party” paintings each represent strikingly different vibes, in addition to the shared feelings of happiness and comfort.

“You have your hasidic group, and then also your artsy type. So the painting of the hasidic party is composed of only males and then the hipster painting shows women and men partying together, and that was just really unique,” said Mileise Sabbatini.

One could infer from the paintings that the amount of importance placed on maintaining a group’s way of life, and preserving its own values, portrays structure and order as commonalities between the two cultures.

“I’m from Massachusetts but I went to art school at Pratt, where many of my classmates were turning into hipsters after the hipster boom kind of came about,” Sudin said.

“Pratt is just south of Wlliamsburg so the Satmar hasidim were right there, and then our kind of quirky neighbors. The more that I began to explore what it is about the Satmar Chassidic culture, and then as the hipster culture was developing, I started seeing these similarities.” Gallery goers agreed with Sudin, noting how she highlighted the culture of both groups through color and gestures.

“On the outside, they seem so different and it seems as though the hipsters lack structure, but they actually have structure,” said Moshe Green. “They might show it in different ways, judging by their values, but at the end of the day they both want very similar things out of life.”

When Sudin is not painting, she and her filmmaker husband Saul Sudin publish the online SUDINmagazine and Jewishartnow. com, which promote contemporary Jewish art in the New York region. The Sudins are

seeking to turn their online magazine into an anthology book at the end of this year, and are raising funds for this project.

“We promote news, reviews, events and inspiration for Jewish artists around the whole world,” Saul Sudin said. “We collaborate with the people to promote contemporary Jewish art.”

Photo by Ariel Rosenbloom

Sudin’s painting of a hipster couple in Williamsburg on display in Cedarhurst.

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Two local yeshivas celebrate science wins

HANC & YKLI, rockets and robots

By Brigitte Fixler Local yeshiva students have been making their mark in the fields of science and technology this past year.

At the Hebrew Academy of Nassau County, students spent months building a robot for the Gildor Family Projects and Inventions competition, an Israeli science and technology contest for high school students. HANC was one of only two American teams present at the finals, which took place on June 30 in Israel.

Back in May, HANC had been victorious at the Gildor semi-finals in New Jersey. The team demonstrated a robot that was capable of performing various tasks, such as avoiding barriers, sensing direction, and following another vehicle at a specified distance.

The students’ trip to Israel was enjoyable as well as educational. In addition to touring the country, the team also met a lot of Israeli students who shared their love for technology. Though HANC did not win the finals, the students had a meaningful and fun experience.

“We did really well and I’m proud of everything we did,” said student Daniel Albert.

Albert says that in addition to learning about robotics and electricity, Gildor taught something even more important— teamwork.

“Without the build team and the programming team or anyone else, we would never have gotten any of this completed,” he said.

The Gildor competition inspired a new love of science and technology in HANC students. Next September, HANC will be one of five Yeshiva High Schools in the United States to implement a new CIJE [Center for Initiatives in Jewish Education] Scientific Engineering course for high school students. In this program, tenth grade students will begin a three-year sequence in Scientific and Biotechnology engineering, which

will be taught by Gildor coach Matthew Breig.

Assistant coach Shoshana Sigal, a graduating senior, had been fascinated by engineering for a long time. Her experience with Gildor only strengthened her interest. She will be attending Michlalah seminary next year, and after she returns, she plans on studying chemical engineering at The Cooper Union. “[Gildor] opened up my mind to the whole spectrum of engineering, and to different things that are out there,” said Sigal.

Students at other schools have also been hard at work learning about different kinds of technology. Last Friday, students from Yeshivah Ketana of Long Island (YKLI) flew to Kennedy Space Center to witness the launch of space shuttle Atlantis – with the students’ own science experiment onboard. The fifth through seventh graders had spent months developing their own experiments, and the winning experiment – “Deposition and Formation of Zinc Phosphate Crystals in Microgravity” – was selected to accompany Atlantis on its 12-day mission to the International Space Station.

The launch of Atlantis STS-135 on July 8th marked the final mission of the NASA space shuttle program, which has spanned 30 years.

“The kids were phenomenal,” said Stew Greenberg, a parent of one of the students and the project’s coordinator.

“They enjoyed every minute of it.”

Several months ago, YKLI had applied to the Student Spaceflight Experiments Program (SSEP). Out of all the schools that had applied, only 11 were chosen to participate.

YKLI was the only school in New York State selected, as well as the only yeshiva.

Despite weather concerns, approximately 36 students, teachers, and parents flew down to Florida last Thursday night. They awoke early Friday morning and headed down to the takeoff sight, where they were treated to an up-close view

Photo courtesy of YKLI

Students from Yeshiva Ketana of Long Island visit the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. of the shuttle launch.

Though they were away from school, the students kept up their studies by having a daf yomi shiur on the day of the shuttle launch.

“It was a very big kiddush Hashem,” said Greenberg.

On Sunday, the students returned to Kennedy Space Center, where they enjoyed lunch with NASA astronaut Bruce Melnick.

When Atlantis returns to Kennedy Space Center, the experiment will be returned to the YKLI students for comparison to the identical experiments they had conducted in their own lab in Inwood. Some of the students hope to return to Kennedy in order to watch the shuttle’s landing.

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July 16 The Roots of Tisha b’Av YOUNG Israel OF LAWRENCE-CEDARHURST, located at 8 Spruce Street in Cedarhurst, is hosting Rabbi David Fohrman, who will speak on the topic of Moshe, the Rock, and the Spies- the Roots of Tisha b’Av, as the Three Weeks of mourning approach. The lecture begins at 5 p.m. and is sponsored by Easther & Nachman Goodman in memory of heir fathers. For more information, contact 516-569-3324

July 17 Formula for a successful relationship CHAZAQ is hosting noted lecturer Rabbi Label Lam at Congregation Beth Gavriel, located at 66-35 108 Street in Forest Hills. Rabbi Lam is the co-founder of the Monsey-based Foundations for Jewish Learning. He will be speaking on strategies for successful relationships. Refreshments will be served at this free public event, which begins at 8:15 p.m. For more information, contact 917-617-3636

NYC Schlep AMERICAN FRIENDS OF RABIN MEDICAL CENTER is holding its first annual 5K run/walk in Manhattan’s Battery Park, raising funds for breast cancer treatment and fellowships at the Rabin Medical Center in Israel. The cost for adults is $26. The event runs from 9 a.m. to noon. To register or donate, contact 212-279-2522 or email afrmc@afrmc.org

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July 18 The key to shalom CONGREGATION SHAARAY TEFILA, located at 25 Central Avenue in Cedarhurst, is hosting Rabbi Jonathan Rietti, who will speak on the keys to peace within family relationships. The event is part of the larger Mishmeres HaSholom initiative that promotes the study of shmiras lalashon.

Rabbi Rietti is a senior lecturer at the Gateways organization and director of teacher training at Mishkan Yecheskel. The event begins at 7:30 p.m.

Suggested donation is $18. For more information, contact cr@hasholom.org

Mid-age singles meeting FIVE TOWNS SHIDDUCH CLUB would like to introduce local Orthodox singles in their 40s and 50s to each other at a poolside event in Lawrence.

The event will begin at 7:30 p.m. at a private residence, location disclosed to those who register.

The fee is $45 per person. For more information, contact Batsheva Donner at 516-426-8017

July 20 Unity baseball game SEASONS SUPERMARKET is sponsoring a baseball showdown between the Flatbush Hatzoloh and the NYPD PBBS teams at Coney Island’s MCU Park, located at 1904 Surf Avenue in Brooklyn. Proceeds form the game will benefit the Sergeants Benevolent Association Scholarship & Assistance fund, and various local gemachs. The Jewish Star is an inning sponsor at this game. The game begins at 6 p.m. For individual tickets, contact 718-467-8726 or baseballgame2011@gmail.com

July 21 Hewlett Chabad challah baking CHABAD OF HEWLETT, located at 1606 Hewlett Avenue is holding a challah baking course, run

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July 29 Boardwalk Shabbat Dinner BACH Jewish Center, located at 210 Edwards Boulevard in Long Beach is holding its annual summer boardwalk dinnersome 300 participants are expected for its Friday night rooftop Shabbat service, followed by an elegant outdoor meal on the Long Beach boardwalk. The event is led

by Rabbi Eli & Beila Goodman, and Azi & Jessica Cutter. Reservations are required. The cost is $30 for adults and $20 for children. Visitors are encouraged to call Allegria Hotel for special event-related rates. For more information, contact 516-897-2473 or visit www.BachYouth.com.

July 31 The sandwich generation CONGREGATION ANSHEI CHESED, located at 1107 William Street in Hewlett, is holding a program on the simultaneous commitment of raising children while assisting elderly parents. The event begins at 7:30 p.m. Topics include “Impact on the family and quality of life. The event is cosponsored by OU and MJHS Hospice and Palliative Care. For more information, contact 212-613-8188.

August 3 Sisterhood shidduchim YOUNG ISRAEL OF OCEANSIDE, located at 150 Waukena Avenue, is holding its sisterhood shidduch meeting. Women are encouraged to bring with them shidduch profiles of men they seek to match. The event begins at 8 p.m. For mroe informaiton, contact Lenore Stamm at lenore. stamm@gmail.com

Ongoing Parkinson support group THE JCC OF THE GREATER FIVE TOWNS hosts every Tuesday a Parkinson’s Support Group, shich brings together Parkinsonians, spouses and their families in order to help them better understand the nature of the condition, gain confidence and join in community activities. For further information, please contact Cathy Byrne at 569-6733 x220.

O’side Chabad moves in

After 11 years, organization purchases its building

By Alex Costello The Chabad of Oceanside has a home and it opens immediately. Purchased on June 30, the 17,000-square-foot building will serve a variety of programs for the 11-year-old Chabad outpost.

Until now, Chabad had been using a space indefinitely, funded by a benefactor, but recently, due to the financial crisis, the donor was unable to continue subsidizing the space.

“We found ourselves in the position that the building was on the open market,” Rabbi Levi Gurkov said. “With the help of the community, we were able to make a deal with the bank and buy it.”

Rabbi Gurkov said that the only reason the Chabad was able to purchase the building was because the community rallied behind the organization and donated to the cause.

“Ever since we started here at the Chabad of Oceanside, we’ve always been giving to the community,” Rabbi Gurkov explained. “We relied on numerous benefactors in the past that let us help people in any way, fashion or form — whether it be monetary, emotional or religious services or anything of that sort.

And we did this for all these years. And then when it came time for the community to actually give back to Chabad, they responded tremendously.”

Now that Chabad owns the building, Rabbi Gurkov said that the organization

is already going to expand its popular preschool program, sacrificing space formerly used for worship to accommodate more children. But with that trade off, Rabbi Gurkov expects ceremonies for the High Holy Days — which usually draw more worshipers, to get crowded and based on advance reservation.

“Our doors are not closed, we’re not changing any of our policies,” Rabbi Gurkov said. “But due to the fact that there is limited space, it would be prudent for people to reserve a seat, otherwise there will be a severe lack of space for people.”

In addition to religious services and the preschool program, the Oceanside Chabad also runs a Hebrew school, a Torah class, Bar and Bat Mitzvah clubs, youth clubs and women’s groups. Rabbi Gurkov said that the Chabad will continue to expand all of its programs and add new ones.

“We want to open up something for children with special needs,” Gurkov said. “Now that we have the space and know that we can open up another chapter here, we’re looking to expand the community-based services.”

Rabbi Gurkov said that the programs are his expression of gratitude to the community for its effort in securing the building purchase. “The community came together,” Rabbi Gurkov said. “It wasn’t just a single effort. It was a community-wide effort, and everybody came together. That’s the only way it would have happened.”

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he most precious and costly commodity in Manhattan is space. Because of this spatial deficiency, even some of the city’s finest restaurants are no more than glorified nooks. The expense is simply too great for most establishments to maintain, especially in certain neighborhoods where the THE KOSHER cost of space borders CRITIC on excessive. So when I say to you that Milk Street Cafe, the new kosher restaurant located at 40 Wall Street, takes up no less then 23,000 square feet, it should tell you in no uncertain terms how seriously owner Marc Epstein takes the business of building a successful restaurant.

Zechariah Mehler Embodying the “Go big or go home” ethos, Milk Street Cafe opens up to a spacious front end ornamented tastefully with modern sensibilities. The stone floor is intricately decorated, stretching out into 8,000 square feet of equally well-decorated prep stations. These stations offer a vast, almost mind-boggling variety of foods that run the gamut of Cafe style items. Diners can customize pasta, salads, and sandwiches on top of being able to

get sushi, bakery, soups, and prepared grill items. What makes Milk Street Cafe truly unique though is not that they offer so many items, it’s that they offer them in both dairy and meat.

Whereas most restaurants need to restrict their menus to either of the two options, Milk Street Cafe has found a way to merge the two modalities of kosher restaurants with an elegant, if not grandiose solution in their prep kitchens.

Stretching out behind Milk Street’s front end are several kitchens, with a combined space that is three times larger than the main dining area. These kitchens are separated by corridors, and each kitchen is distinctly marked by its different color floor tile, which signifies if it is the dairy, meat or parve.

When working in these kitchens, the culinary staff wear aprons and hats that is specific to each kitchen. The kitchens themselves are glorious monuments to modern day culinary production. Every bell, whistle, and kitchen appliance you could possibly need is neatly squared away at its corresponding prep station. This allows The Milk Street Cafe to act as a catering company, capable of servicing large corporate events.

What I really liked about the Milk Street Cafe, outside of its dining options, innovative structure, willingness to push the envelope, and the very affable owner, is the food. I highly recommend the peppercorn rubbed roast beef with red peppers and horseradish

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The sushi counter at the newly opened Milk Street Cafe in Manhattan’s Financial District. The restaurant offers separate milchig and fleishig sections. sauce, and the smoked turkey salad with sun dried tomatoes. Both these sandwiches are served on wonderfully fresh bread that has a nice crunch crust with a soft interior. To me this is paramount for a good sandwich, and so the combination of the excellent flavors of the meat and the texture of the fresh bread make for one of the better sandwiches available in New York. A friend of mine chose to go the milchig route, and had the fettuccine with wild mushrooms in a light cream sauce.

He said that he found it to be “very tasty and very filling”. I also recommend trying an offering from the Milk Street Cafe’s rotisserie.

In particular their KC BBQ brisket, which is smoky, sweet, and cooked to a melt in your mouth perfection.

As I sat sampling my sandwiches, I realized that The Milk Street Cafe caters to all walks of life. A non-kosher eater could eas-

ily walk into the restaurant and never know they were at a kosher establishment. It so flawlessly integrates the different cuisines in such a graceful and thoughtful way that the effect is seamless. Owner Marc Epstein says that he is “living the dream” in bringing his successful Boston restaurant to New York.

But what I don’t think he realizes is that he is actualizing the dream of a number of kosher consumers as well, by providing a kosher environment that feels like dining in a high-end cafe that happens to be kosher. It’s just one more large step towards the mainstreaming of kosher food. I can’t wait to go back and continue working my way through its extensive menu.

Zechariah Mehler is a widely published food writer and expert in social marketing. Follow him on Twitter @thekoshercritic

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Seeks to sever friendship Dear Aviva, I’ve been friends with someone for the past 20 years. We grew up near each other and were in school together from elementary all the way to college. Now that we both have our own families, I am realizing more and more that she is (and has always been) a very jealous and negative person. She never seems to actually care about me or what I’m going through. I don’t even know why she’s kept up the connection this long.

If I first met her at this point in my life, I probably would avoid her. Am I stuck with her just because there is a history? And is there any good way to cut ties without enraging her?

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Dear Criticized Comrade, Good for you that you actually have grown emotionally in addition to growing in years.

Consider your back patted.

So, can you be artificial friends with this person? Between Facebook, Twitter, emailing and texting, you can totally maintain a relationship that is up to par without actually investing any emotional energy into it! Hurray for socialization that doesn’t actually go deeper! Use it to your full advantage, baby.

If this doesn’t fly with her, like if she is one of the 13 people who doesn’t have a Facebook page, or if she actually has to pay for texting, then you need a new plan.

Basically, you will have to decide what you can handle. Are you strong enough to pity her jealousy, or does her negativity seep in?

If you can laugh it off when she finds a way to criticize you when you look good, then try maintaining a minimal friendship. How do you know what her definition of a minimal friendship is? Lay low, and then when you see that she starts to feel neglected, you’ve found her threshold level. Is it a lunch date every month, or a 30-minute phone conversation every week?

Whatever it is, maintain it. Unless she is really, really needy. If she expects you to call her every night, then you must build a nice strong boundary in the form of “My family needs me, I will call you later this week.”

If the situation is not such that you can stay healthy while throwing this dog a bone, we need to shift gears. If you find yourself feeling inadequate when you are with her, or if you feel very angry after bidding her adieu, these may be signs that she is sapping you dry. First step? Stand up for yourself. “Well, I don’t think this necklace is overkill.” Or, “Really? Because it doesn’t bother me at all that my daughter’s mustache has begun to grow in.”

Immediately after your defense, you have to inject something positive in. Like, “I’m happy I wore such a heavy necklace. The clink-clink of it gives me more bounce in my step.” Or, “Maybe Chani’s facial hair will make her focus more on her middos than the mirror.”

There is a school of thought called “solution-focused therapy”. The solution-focused therapist reframes things with a positive spin so that the person is able to detect his/ her resources. The naysayers of this kind of therapy have dubbed it “solution-forced therapy.” That’s what it’s going to be for you.

Get together with your friend, be as sunny as can be, even if it means pulling teeth. I’m not looking to make her happier, I’m just wondering if a more positive tone would wash away your yucky reaction to her.

If your waves of positivity are no match for her tsunami of negativity, then it is time to extricate yourself from this history-laden relationship. I am generally a fan of open, honest communication, but in this case I think “I’m dumping you” will do more harm than good. Is there another way that you can think of to tell her what’s going on?

If you are dead-set against any confrontation (and I hope that isn’t a general rule of life for you), then just step it down a little and let the friendship fade and flutter away.

Now keep on living life with good influences.

-Aviva Aviva Rizel is a Marriage and Family Therapist in private practice who can be reached at AvivaRizel.MFT@gmail.com.

By David Benkof

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27. Spiritual musician and rabbi who died in 1994 33. Wissotsky product 34. Nose-in-the-air type 35. Atlanta-based airline that flies to Israel 36. Quality of some manuscripts 38. Coordinates in a way 41. ___-a-Jewish-story 42. Bar Mitzvah is “___ of passage” 44. Genuine 46. Early fifth-century date 47. He translated the Mishna into German 51. Offensive Hebrew letter?

52. Site of the Tenement Mus. 53. Zeta Beta ___ (Jewish fraternity) 54. Contested waterway 60. Canadian juggler-comic 63. With a chill 64. Playful aquatic animal 65. Chelsea Mezvinsky, ___ Clinton 66. Brains 67. Showtime comedy starring the Jewish Botwins 68. Foxy 69. JNF items

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4. “Howl” actor James 5. Hasidic and Conservadox 6. ___ Sea Scrolls 7. Craving 8. ___ Rebbe (Yaakov Aryeh Alter) 9. Picked up 10. Draw 11. Suffix with Ess 12. Wetland

13. Network for Kyra Sedgwick’s “The Closer” 19. “God’s Presence in History” author Fackenheim 21. Wrinkle removers 24. Like some cats 25. Sets of eight 26. Captive Gilad 27. Predicament 28. Final transport 29. Rodeo ring?

30. Not forthright 31. Judge Mikva 32. Hospital unit 37. Pilot’s announcement, briefly 39. New Deal agcy.

40. Bars 43. Some desserts 45. 19th century enemy of Russian Jews 48. Magazine genre 49. Israelis and Syrians and others 50. Squeezer of a kind 54. Ran, as colors 55. Political activist Dayan 56. “I’m locked out. Can I borrow ___?”

57. “...who createth the fruit of the ___.”

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