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Israel matters By Sergey Kadinsky The race for Anthony Weiner’s seat is heating up as Democratic pick David Werpin struggles to distance himself from the president on foreign policy, while vigorously standing by health care reforms. On July 18, the congressional candidate, who currently sits in the State Assembly, visited the Jewish Center of Kew Gardens Hills to speak with senior citizens, introducing himself to a prime voting group. “Many of you know my family name, when my father Saul Weprin died, I became the Democratic District Leader,” Weprin said. He has since risen to the City Council, and in 2010, went on to the State Assembly, with his brother Mark securing his former seat in the City Council. “It becomes a family business when a grandfather, son, and grandson go into politics. Look at what happened to the Hevesis,” said retired bookkeeper Sylvia Nierenberg. Weprin denied the career politician label, arguing that he opposed Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s successful push in 2009 to overturn term limits. He also defended his own and his brother’s recent election wins. “People say you switched seats but that’s too simplistic. We both ran in competitive elections,” Weprin said. Initially speaking on expanding Medicare and social security payouts, Weprin changed gears, taking aim at former New York City mayor Ed Koch, who urged voters last week to reject the Democratic pick as a “shot across the bow” at President Barack Obama’s policy towards Israel. “It might very well cause President Obama to change his hostile position,” Koch said in his weekly commentary. While Koch has not openly endorsed Republican candidate Bob Turner, he said that a GOP win in the heavily Democratic district would be akin to Republican Scott Brown’s
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Mayor Michael Bloomberg and NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly make a shiva visit to the Kletzky family home.
Time dies out but pain remains within By Ariel Rosenbloom With only two days left of shiva, a pulsating crowd of Jews eagerly wait outside the Kletzky Borough Park home, Monday, to pay respects to the parents and sisters of young—brutally murdered—Leiby HY’’D.
A mix of several police officers, reporters and photographers occupied the sidewalk space facing the front door of the Kletzkys’ 15th avenue apartment building. Many of them noticed the flyers attached to doors and windows, requesting that the family’s privacy be respected during this hard time.
However, the inside of the apartment was filled to capacity. A gentleman was designated to escort visitors in and out of the apartment in between 30 second intervals, yet not even the largest amount of people condensed into such a small room could possibly override the overwhelming-
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David Weprin campaigning in Kew Gardens Hills for Congressional seat.
After Weiner’s Congress seat Continued from page 1 2010 special election win for Ted Kennedy’s Senate seat. Weprin brushed off Koch’s criticism, vowing to defy Obama on Israel. “I’ve been strong in opposing President Obama’s stand on the pre-1967 borders because the security of Israel would be in danger,� Weprin said. Turner, 70, is a semi-retired television executive who first ran for office last year, chalking up an unexpected 41 percent of the vote in his run against the now-disgraced Anthony Weiner. “This is a district that is three to one for the Democrats, but it is also up for grabs,� said Forest Hills resident Rabbi Manny Behar. In recent elections, the Brooklyn-Queens district trended towards Republicans, with only slight majorities given to Democratic presidential candidates John Kerry in 2004 and Barack Obama in 2008. In the southern Queens portion, Republican Eric Ulrich won a 2010 special election for city council. “It’s the most Republican voting district in the city outside of Staten Island,� said Forest Hills Republican District Leader Bart Haggerty. Longtime political consultant Hank Sheinkopf said that with historically low turnouts, special elections are a test for both parties in mobilizing their core supporters for the Sept. 13 vote. “Within the Jewish community, there are Russians, Bukharians, modern Orthodox, and black hats, but nonJewish groups also matter and a Republican could do very well. We still do not know who will turn out to vote in this election,� Sheinkopf said. Turner’s last visit to Israel was in 2000, as a tourist, around the time that the Second Intifada erupted. “You have to be there to understand the misrepresented media terms like settlements, which are really apartments. You get a different sense by being there,� Turner said. Nierenberg said that while she is concerned for Israel, domestic issues such as healthcare and social security would decide her vote. “I am a Jew, but an American foremost.� Eager to keep up his momentum, Turner said that most of his volunteers from last year have returned for his second run, with lessons learned from the defeat. “We had a tough time getting the word out, but our people are there and so is their enthusiasm,� Turner said.
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Continued from page 1 ly melancholy silence of the aveilim. “I think it’s really, really horrible and I really can’t understand it,” said Brooklyn resident Seth Perry. “It boggles the mind; it literally shakes you up.” Leiby was the only boy amongst his siblings. “The father himself said that the worse part of Leiby’s death is that now there’s no one to say Kaddish for him and the mother after they die,” said Brooklyn resident Michael Cohen. Most unfortunate was the evident knowledge of the kind of tragedy it would actually take to bring Jews of all different backgrounds together, while our enemies continue to scrape and bite at any given opportunity to, once again, cast us as the scapegoats. “When a tragedy like this occurs, all questions about background fade away,” said a neighbor of the Kletzky family who wished to remain anonymous. “There were no questions asked, everyone came together.” Not much can be said regarding recovery from losing such a special member of the Jewish community. “In terms of us recovering as a community, it’s really about faith and a master plan in the world,” said New Jersey resident Sarah Schwadron. “We have to hold on to our Jewish system of beliefs in how sacred every life is.” Thoughts of consolation permeated the packed shiva home. “They’re actually accepting it, that G-d gave them a present that they have the child for nine years,” said Yaakov German, father of Leiby’s cheder rebbe, Rabbi Avraham German. Several of the people who went to be makom yenachem to the Kletzky family entered with multiple questions and exited almost speechless. “Just being in that atmosphere makes every problem seem like a walk on the beach,” said Lawrence resident Daniel Landesman. “It changes your life.” Among those in attendance were Assemblyman Dov Hikind, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and New York City Police Commissioner Ray Kelly. “People are still consumed with the tragedy. It is still on everyone’s mind and will be for a very long time,” Hikind said. “Most people who don’t know the family feel the sudden need to express themselves. It’s absolutely amazing.” A huge concern circulating through the crowds was determining the next step of action. What can we do to prevent such a catastrophe from ever repeating itself, even in a place as safe as Borough Park? One suggestion dealt with a media response. “It’s sheltering the kids from television that can leave negative effects on their safety and their perceptions of reality,” Perry said. There was a consensus that the most dangerous assumption is the absence of danger. Young people need to be given ongoing lessons in safety and reality while at the same time not changing the normal peacefulness of childhood and the community. Another approach dealt with the neighborhood security. “I think every parent has to make a decision on their own on what to do and what not to do,” Hikind said. “I thought about encouraging people to put in surveillance cameras around the neighborhood.” Although Leiby’s period of shiva left some questioning faith in Hashem, it ultimately served as a period of reevaluation of one’s physical surroundings and a time recommitment to one’s personal spiritual environment. HAMAKOM YENACHEM ETCHEM BETOCH SHAAR AAVLEI TZION V’YERUSHALAYIM!
Words for the Kletzky family and community A time for tears, for timely introspection... and for achdus Rabbi Eytan Feiner Congregation Kneseth Israel Far Rockaway The pain, the intense hurt and anguish, the Chillul Hashem, the many questions unanswered...the unforgettable picture of cute 8 year old Leiby learning over a sefer with those innocent eyes... I sat this morning in the Camp Simcha Beis Medrash after minyan and, just as I was getting ready to head to breakfast, I overheard a few girls davening behind the mechitza. A young girl with cancer was leading a group of campers and counselors in the morning brachos. She sounded like she was just about the same age as sweet little Leiby...and the love for Hashem, the sincere emotion expressed, the pure and pristine quality of her carefully pronounced words was palpable. And I couldn’t stop thinking about how Leiby Kletzky would be reciting those very same brachos with so much kavanah this very morning had a deranged individual not brutally taken his life away so prematurely. Even now I fight to hold back the tears. We are heading shortly into the Three Weeks and the sadness has already set in. Having difficulty sleeping at night? Difficulty in trying not to think constantly about Leiby and his family? Join the club...I can certainly relate...SO THEN WHAT DO WE DO? First let’s stop talking on and on about his murderer and our hopes for his just punishment. Like any perpetrator of true evil, he’ll surely suffer the consequences as Hashem deems fit. Let’s also put our insatiable quest for all the facts on hold, quelling our innate curiosity to “have to hear” all the nuances known and details disclosed.
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State Assemblyman Dov Hikind speaks after paying shiva call.
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Affixed to the lobby entrance of the Kletzky’s apartment building, a notice requests privacy while also thanking community support. Let us then focus instead on the intense search efforts, the outpouring of love, care, and concern displayed and plentiful tefillos prayed these last few days by so many Yidden the world over. Indeed we witnessed a chillul Hashem that a Jew by birth can be capable of such callousness and cruelty. But just as the abduction and gruesome murder made all the headlines, so did the tremendous kiddush Hashem in Jews, genuine Jews who live proudly as “rachmanim, baishanim, and gomlei chasadim,” coming together as one to search, daven, and mourn for a lone innocent neshama that most of us never even knew. What a special people we are, what a remarkable nation indeed. But don’t we also have to contemplate the following: This is what it takes to trigger such ahavas chinam, true arvus and achdus, and being mikadesh Sheim Shamayim? Why? Why did it have to come about in such a tragic manner, in such a painful, heart-wrenching fashion? Why do we have to sit here today still feeling as if our hearts were ripped out of our chests, still davening with intensity that Hashem send Leiby’s family the strength and fortitude to handle their bereavement? Is it really so difficult to love and care for one another, to wish only the best in ruchniyus and gashmiyus for our fellow Jews, to sqaush all envy and machlokes and divorce ourselves from all our rampant strife and petty conflicts? Let’s daven especially hard this Shabbos for “bri’si shalom,” and let’s keep the achdus and harmony alive. Ahavas chinam, the prized ticket to our final redemption. We’ve just tasted it with way too many
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In memory of Leiby Kletzky Rabbi Benjamin J. Bleich (Originally published at Aish.com) Rabbi Emeritus, Young Israel of Oceanside Words fail to convey the immensity of this tragedy. Apart from its ghoulish aspects, it is simply too much to imagine what it means to send off a smiling child for a summer day of fun only to learn that all that is left of him is a memory. It’s been said that the cruelest word in the English language is “never”. Never will Leiby’s parents ever again be able to hold him, to hug him, to prepare him for life with words of advice and of Torah. Never will his family be able to share in the milestones of his growth to maturity. Never will there be a bar mitzvah to celebrate, graduations to attend, a wedding canopy to stand under with him and his bride as he prepares to embark on his own journey to family and future. Never will all those who knew Leiby as a child be able to find out what his unique talents might have enabled him to accomplish. Never will the Jewish community discover the contributions Leiby might have made to it and to the larger world. Continued on page 13
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t a recent funeral, an elderly mourner collapsed and died at the cemetery. After I somehow revived him with CPR, his first words were, “I’m okay; I’m okay.” I turned to his daughter who was still screaming and I said, “He’s okay.” I then picked up a shovel and continued filling in the grave of the deceased. DAVID’S HARP I thought about the events of that day and have tried to surmise some great meaning and philosophical conclusions. The best I can offer is this. You are either dead or you’re okay. Dead or okay…. that’s it. Those are the options. You are in the grave or you are holding the shovel. Dead or okay. David F. Nesenoff Are we really okay? All of us are usually so involved with so many maladies, maladjustments, and malfunctions. We are so burdened with investigating, evaluating and introspecting our lives. We are confused, complex and compromised. We don’t know if we are in
or out, or about, or about what, or who, or where, or why. We travel and stay home and read and think and text and tweet. We eat, sleep, medicate, meditate, dedicate, educate, delegate, regulate, relegate and infuriate. We don’t feel okay. We are balancing checkbooks and carpools, and dining and whining; and we are down and out, and up and early, and late to bed. We are running and falling; chasing and racing; and finding no time and missing appointments. We’re playing catch up and next time and maybe later and try me then and I don’t know and we’ll see because of the kids and my parents and the school and the office and the traffic and the lawn guy and the delivery and the deadline and the coworker and the Verizon bill and the plane and the train and the oil change and I can’t find my battery charger, my keys, my adapter, my glasses, the invitation, the check, the stapler, the book, the card, the phone and the list I made of all the things I can’t find it. Where is it? I don’t feel okay, I don’t look okay; I don’t sound okay. How can I be okay? I’m too fat, too gray, too poor, too old, too achy and too shaky; too lost and too aggravated. I don’t like my hair and my chin and my nose and my toes and my car and my patio and my nails and my job and my commute and my time share and
my annual interest rate and my phone plan. I don’t have enough perfume and pearls and points and pensions and pixels and passion and peace. How can I be okay? I’m so behind with the laundry and doing the bills and the grocery shopping and the report and the plan and the payment and the deadline. I owe her a gift and him a call and a card and we should really get together for dinner or a coffee. I’ll do it later or tomorrow or next week or this month for sure. And I’ve got to wash my car and get to the gym and take a class and run or at least walk and find my easel and my camera and my scrap book and go through the photos and the mail and the recycling pile and the summer clothes and get the kids sneakers and socks and buy a dress for the party and a tune up and an oil change and what’s that noise when I accelerate? I have to get organized, simonized, memorized, mesmerized, energized, harmonized, ionized, romanticized and rationalized. My blood pressure is up, my count is low, my arch is in, my hair is out, my back is curved, my eyes are blurred, my post nasal
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drips, my acid refluxes, my arteries are hard and my belly is soft. I need a pill to sleep, Red Bull to wake up, a tea to be tranquil, lotion for dryness, orthodics for my feet, a board for my back, I have the chills, I’m too cold, hot flashes, sweating, dry mouth, psoriasis, halitosis, I can’t walk, I hate to drive at night, I don’t like to fly, I’m stressed out, packed in, backed up, loosely held together, tense, dense, tired, wired, fired, rehired, mired, non-desired, lied to, kicked, hit, taunted, bullied, beat up, fed up, set up, put down, let down, fell down, broke my hip, replaced my knees, going into rehab, a relapse, an addiction, compulsive, OCD, ADD, IOU, ICU, ER, OR, oh my G-d, oh boy, oy vey, I’m not okay. If you are alive …you are okay. The man was laying on the ground in a graveyard in the cemetery. He was dead and then he was okay. We should give ourselves a break. Look at the big picture. Look at that menu; see our two choices. And say to ourselves, “I’m okay, I’m okay; baruch Hashem, I’m okay.”
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he Talmud says: “One should not extravagantly distribute more than one fifth of one’s income to charity.” Are the sages saying there’s a ceiling cap on tzedakah? Yes they are, because if everyone were to give too much away there would be too many mouths to feed. If you have been getting information from the mainstream media POLITICO you may think tea parTO GO tiers are forcing Republicans in Congress to cut the budget so much people will be forced to push grandma’s wheelchair off a cliff or are trying to force the country into default guaranteeing Obama won’t be reelected. Not true! It’s all about not having too many mouths to feed. The debt ceiling is Jeff Dunetz the congressionally approved amount the federal government can borrow. The ceiling is currently set at $14.294 trillion. The country’s debt hit that figure on May 16 and we are currently approaching $14.6 trillion in debt. Thanks to some “re-arranging,” the Treasury Depart-
ment says we won’t “run out of money” until August 2. The mainstream media and progressive politicians report that if the debt ceiling isn’t raised by August 2, a biblical-type disaster will occur. False! The Treasury has enough incoming money from taxes to pay interest on the debt, Social Security, Medicare, military salaries, etc., without raising the debt limit. We would have to cut back about 40% of spending, not enviable but also not the disaster we’re being warned about. In eight years President George Bush increased the national debt by $5.038 trillion dollars, a record which is only surpassed by Barack Obama who’s responsible for spending which increased the debt by $3.9 trillion. He is asking for an increase of another $2.4 trillion taking us through Obama’s first term, a total of $6.3 trillion. It will take just four years for Barack Obama to increase the federal debt by 25% more than George Bush did in eight years. The non-partisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) recently reported if we don’t fix our debt fast, it’ll become so burdensome our lawmaker’s ability to make tax and spending priorities will be limited, as will their reduce flexibility to deal with recessions, adding our high debt will make recessions more likely and long term growth less likely. Our debt problem has been kicked down
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the road by both parties for too long, if not fixed soon according to the CBO; there will be “too many mouths to feed.” The debt has become a big issue, not solely to the tea party but for the mainstream voting public. Rasmussen reports 85 percent of likely voters are closely following the debt issue. By a margin of 52 to 37 percent voters believe it would be worse for Congress not to significantly cut the deficit than not to raise the debt limit. A margin of 55 to 34 percent of voters oppose fixing the debt even partially via taxation feeling increased taxes will slow the economy. A “perfect storm” has caused the debt to blow up now. Many Congressional freshmen were elected based on promises to fix the debt problem. Until these freshmen insisted on keeping their promises no one in Congress or the administration agreed to discuss major spending cuts. The GOP-controlled House passed a budget for the next fiscal year, however for the second straight year the Democratic-controlled Senate hasn’t offered a budget. It’s hard to negotiate when the other side hasn’t made a counter-offer. Obama’s original proposal was a budget-buster and was voted down by the Senate 97-0. The House offered to increase the debt limit, if each dollar of increase was matched by a dollar of spending cut. They’re also looking to pass a balanced budget amendment feeling that legislators will never have the political will to balance it without the Constitution forcing them.
The only thing Obama offered was vague promises. During his recent press conferences he refused to offer any specifics of his plan. The reason behind his refusal is there aren’t any specifics Obama threatens to veto any plan not including tax increases or closing loopholes which in effect is the same thing. He added he won’t sign a short-term debt limit increase, but that’s what he offered. This brings us to today. Most Americans of either party are proud that our government offers safety nets for the sick, aged, needy, etc. However the federal debt has grown so large that the system will collapse as the Talmud warns, because there will be too many mouths to feed. The GOP is offering a solution which seems to comply with the public’s wishes; the progressives are refusing to present a plan. They’re simply using the GOP offering as an opportunity to take political potshots. Whether you agree with the GOP or not, logic dictates that in order for them to “compromise,” the other side has to present an alternative. That’s what this debate is about, not a refusal to compromise, but a refusal to lay one’s cards out on the table. 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 Pajamas Media,. Jeff lives on Long Island.
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here are no words to explain the horrific tragedy that unfolded in Brooklyn last week, only questions. The positive side of the story is the outpouring of love, concern, and support that a community could exhibit for a child and for his family, in the aftermath of a conclusion no one could anticipate, expect, or face as being the reality. In light of the story and how it has affected all of is, we can ask a particularly poignant question on a verse in the Torah that seems to go against everything we hold dear. The war against Midian was a one-time event, pursuant to a very specific nation of moral depravity who had waged a full-scale war against the Jewish people, sacrificing their daughters’ innocence, along with any moral fabric they may have possessed, in order to destroy the Israelites from within. Their actions led directly to a plague in which 24,000 Israelites died. G-d’s instruction was to enact revenge against Midian. When the soldiers reported Rabbi Avi Billet that they left the women alone, Moshe’s instruction to his soldiers follows: “And now, kill every [Midianite] male child and every woman who has lain with a man kill [as well]. The females who have never been with a man can be spared.” (Bamidbar 31:17-18) Could G-d have truly dictated such a command? Was the Midianite crime so terrible that an all out war to kill even all the male children was necessary? This is neither the first or last time an entire nation was to be wiped out in the Torah. Amalek is the poster-nation for this concept in the Torah, and wars were waged or declared against them in Shmot 17 and Devarim 25:19, as well as in Shmuel I chapters 15 and 30. Similar rules were enforced in wars waged against the seven nations of the land in Devarim 20:16. G-d did not spare the children in His destruction of Sodom and in the Flood. Questioning G-d’s decisions as to how He runs His world is silly. A G-d-fearing person recognizes that G-d may choose who will live and who will die. These are judgment calls He makes on a regular basis. But why does He have to put such a possibility into the hands of man? Why did the Israelites need to be the power behind the revenge? Why did G-d prefer to issue forth this command, rather than enact a plague against Midian to take care of the dirty work Himself, as He did to Egypt? Why did the Israelites need to have the blood on their hands?
Rabbi Moshe Shternbuch argued that the classic rules of engagement did not apply to this irregular war of revenge, a war governed by definition by different rules. This answer is helpful in a general sense, but it does not answer our question. The halakhic argument of “When one comes to kill you, kill him first” (Brachot 58a), or revenge itself can be justified against the seductive women who brought about the plague. In raising a logical argument Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch also does not answer our question: “We must assume that the national degeneration was rooted primarily in the males, whereas the females – if removed at an early age from impure influences and impressions – were able to attain morality…” Rabbi Ben Zion Feerer points out the incongruity. If it’s all out war, then none of the children should be spared. Why is there a difference between the boys and the girls? Rabbi Feerer suggests that the fate of the boys is inexorably linked to that of the adult women. Generally speaking, the toll of war is on the men who fight, who, in a sense, are expected not to return. Children grow up, rebuild a nation, and live out the dream their fathers died for. The Talmud says (Kiddushin 2) that women do not normally go out to war. As their death in battle is not a normal result of war, it is much longer remermbered and carried as a “battle scar” for the rest of a child’s days. In this case, however, since the women’s actions instigated the revenge, there was no getting around that they would die in battle. There was therefore a need to rid the nation of the young males, so they would not grow up harboring the hate that would come from having lost their mothers and women in battle. They would have gotten over the deaths of their fathers alone – that is the natural order of warfare. But losing their women would pit them against Israel in a future Hatfield/McCoy war that serves no purpose to the next generation. The innocent girls could be spared, on the other hand, because they would not take revenge one day in battle. It’s a sad state of affairs when the actions of the guilty must bring about a punishment to the innocent. But it is reflective of a society that cares more about trying to destroy their enemy than about taking care of their children. The Israelites needed to carry out the deed so they could afterwards demonstrate and teach that the act of revenge is anything but sweet. This is not something they enjoy doing or want to do (remember, they originally returned from battle having spared all the women!) With the moral lesson “out there” they could hopefully teach their neighbors to live and let live so that a revenge of this nature might never be necessary again.
A Jewish newspaper should have a Hebrew column. So here it is. We will try to maintain a level of vocabulary so that it will be easy enough for students to read and interesting enough for those more fluent to enjoy.
To build, not to destroy
By Rabbi Noam Himelstein
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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Sholom Aleichem, whose writings inpired Fiddler on the Roof, is featured in a documentary, currently on screen at Lincoln Plaza Cinemas in Manhattan.
By Sergey Kadinsky He was the eternal optimist, leaving the shtetl of Kasrilevke for America, taking a risk on the stock market, and she was the evercritical housewife who stayed behind in the alte heim. “Everyone says that in America, G-d willing, I’ll be a big hit,” to which his wife replies that he is a “certified lunatic.” The optimist is Menachem Mendel, writing to his wife Shayna Sheindel, but it may as well be the author Sholem Aleichem, who also invested in stocks. The scene is reenacted in the documentary with separate century-old photographs of an Ashkenazi man and woman hovering into view as they bicker back and forth through their letters. Translated in the Joseph Dorman’s “Sholem Aleichem: Laughing in the Darkness,” the anecdotes exemplify the life of the greatest Yiddish storyteller, born in 1859 as Sholem Rabinowitz, as he rose from poverty to prose, including his failed attempt at stardom in America, and his posthumous fame, which gave Tevye the Milkman immortality on Broadway and the big screen. A father of four daughters and two sons, Sholem Aleichem often referred to them as his “little republic,” based on each child’s individual concepts of Jewish identity. Inspired by his personal anecdotes, the writer transformed them into Tevye’s seven daughters, who each go on separate paths in their lives. While Tevye’s departure from his village ends in uncertainty, Rabinowitz’s 1906 arrival in New York was greeted by thousands at the dock, but his first play on Second avenue, Oysvorf, was such a flop that he returned to Europe. “He was a failed immigrant,” Dorman said. “My parents had his books on their bookshelf.” Living on the Upper West Side, Dorman is no stranger to opposing views within the Jewish community and his previous films include the 1997 documentary “Arguing the World,” on the careers of New York’s political Jewish intellectuals, who grew up during the rise of fascism and communism. “They were
great talkers and writers, trying to figure out how to be Jewish in the modern world,” Dorman said. Dorman was prompted to take on Sholem Aleichem by his friend Jeffrey Shandler, a professor of Yiddish literature at Rutgers University who organized a YIVO exhibit on Rabinowitz’s failed career in New York. “It seems outrageous at first look that he failed in America, but most immigrants here were young and it was much easier for them to make the transition,” Dorman said. Borrowing from the large photograph collection at YIVO, Dorman recreated stills of Russian shtetls, wartime devastation, the Lower East Side, and the author at various stages of his life. “They built up this amazing archive form photographers sent to Europe by The Forward in the 1930s. The videos were captured by wealthy American Jews who made home videos visiting their home shtetls.” To get perspectives on Rabinowitz, Dorman interviewed Yiddish experts tthat include Dan Miron of Columbia University, author Hillel Halkin, and Aaron Lansky, who founded the National Yiddish Book Center in Amherst, Mass. The film also includes Hunter College professor Bel Kaufman, who turned 100 in May. A granddaughter of the author, she is the last living person to remember Sholem Aleichem, who died when she was five. Rabinowitz was a traditionalist, but not Orthodox. He was supportive of Zionism, but in a nonpartisan manner. For this reason, he was snubbed by Abraham Kahan, the founding editor of The Forward. But once he died in 196, every faction claimed Shalom as their own. The socialists admired his working-class characters. Zionists looked at his writings as a throwback to the diaspora. Traditionalists appreciated Tevye’s stubborn Orthodoxy in the face of massive social upheaval. Having told the stories of socialists and a Yiddish author in film, Dorman’s next project, in partnership with Oren Rudavsky, tackles the history of Zionism. “It’s like a trilogy of films with another solution on preserving Jewish identity.”
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New mag: Joy of Kosher N
ow more then ever it is an exciting time to be a kosher food writer. This is because not only is the catalog of kosher products becoming more diverse, but also because the dissemination of public knowledge about kosher is beginning to muscle its way to the forefront of public consciousness. But this recent surge in public interest in kosher food is not by any means coincidental. It is the result of people who hold the ideals surrounding kosher food THE KOSHER close to their heart and are taking maCRITIC jor steps to champion the cause of elevating the status and importance of kosher food in the public eye. Leading this charge into the breach of the mainstream is Jamie Gellar, a former awardwinning HBO and CNN producer, who has utilized her experience in media and love of cooking to create a kosher media empire. This empire began with her authoring several kosher cookbooks under the title Quick and Kosher. From there, Jamie, in conjunction with veteran advertising giant Milt Weinstock, created The Zechariah Mehler Kosher Media Network, a multi-media agency who’s goal is to use a wide variety of mediums to engage their audience. Through the Kosher Media Network, Gellar filmed a series of short cooking videos demonstrating how to easily produce even the most complex-looking dishes. This segued into the creation of a user driven website, JoyofKosher.com. This interactive site allows users to share recipes, read blogs, take part in various contests, and put together personal menus for Shabbat and holidays. Through this website, kosher consumers are encouraged to feel impassioned about kosher cooking, and are encouraged to try new and exciting things that elevate the level of kosher meals being served
�We wanted to create a magazine that could stand on a shelf next to ‘Every Day with Rachel Ray’� in the home. The website’s success and impact were immediately recognizable, and thousands of regular users began to flock to the site for advice and to share in their personal experiences. Soon it became apparent that a print element would be necessary to further engage the kosher community, and so a magazine titled ‘Joy of Kosher with Jamie Gellar,’ was launched. In its first run, Joy of Kosher Magazine circulated over 70,000 copies, and because of its high production value, quality content and vibrant photos, it received tremendously positive feedback and the immediate call for more issues. “We wanted to create a magazine that could stand on a shelf next to ‘Every Day with Rachel Ray’ or ‘Martha Stewart’s Living’ and be considered comparable� Jamie said. This is indicative of her belief that quality is paramount to success, and Joy of Kosher is certainly both a successful publication and a quality magazine. It is reverberant and engaging, in a personal way that cannot be matched by other such magazines that don’t focus on the kosher consumer. At the same time, because it is such a quality piece, non kosher consumers, or people who keep only a shade of kosher, can easily pick it up and find it not only enjoyable, but informative as well. Most recently, ‘Joy of Kosher Magazine’, has made a deal that will make them available at Barnes & Noble stores nationwide, as well as in Shoprite, and other supermarkets and newsstands. This exposure will only serve to bring more and
more people into the Joy of Kosher community, and prove the efficacy of creating quality content on multiple platforms. This has helped to engage an audience in desperate need for just these types of sites, videos, and publications. As I said before it’s a very exciting time to be a kosher food writer and thanks to Jamie Gellar and the Kosher Media Network, I have a feeling it is going to get more exciting by the day. Zechariah Mehler is a widely published food writer and expert in social marketing. Follow him on Twitter @thekoshercritic
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Of fire and death: The Lookstein legacy
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ometimes an eloquent quote reflecting an event can take on a life of its own and reflect events not originally intended by its author. Such was the case recently in a quote made by Rabbi Haskel Lookstein reflecting upon the fire that destroyed his shul, Kehilath Jeshurun of Manhattan. Noting that there were no casualties the rabbi made an interesting , and in retrospect, timely observation in describing the “catastrophic” fire. He elaborated on this choice of words stating as follows: “I use the word catastrophe rather than tragedy. Tragedy is when lives are lost and people are critically injured. In that sense, there was no tragedy last night. Thank G-d, there was no loss of life; there wasn’t even a loss of Torah scrolls…..Last night was catastrophic, but not tragic.” This most astute diAlan Jay Gerber chotomy became even more timely given the events that were to follow in train within 24-hours in nearby Brooklyn. What started this week as a catastrophe for the New York Jewish community ended with a devastating tragedy with the brutal murder of Yehudah Leib Kletzky, a”h, an eightyear-old yeshiva boy in Borough Park. Compounding this tragedy was that the murderer was from within the community, a fact that shook the entire New York Jewish community
to its very core. I will leave it to others to elaborate further upon the details of this tragedy that brought the Three Weeks a full week earlier. Rather, I choose to write about the author of that profound quote as noted abovel, whose life’s story is an apt reflection upon all that is good about our faith and its people especially here in New York. When I went to Yeshiva University one of my favorite lecturers who visited us on occasion was Rabbi Dr. Joseph Lookstein. At that time of my life it was he who represented to me what I envisioned as the ideal pulpit rabbi. As the years passed, in my activities on behalf of Russian Jewry I came to observe close up the leadership of his son and successor, Rabbi Dr. Haskel Lookstein, who together with Jacob Birnbaum, Rabbi Gilbert Klapperman, Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel, and others retrieved American Jewry’s blemished reputation in its response to the Holocaust two decades before, with effective action that ultimately led to Russian Jewry’s release from communist captivity. In the half century since, much has happened to record and remember Rabbi Lookstein’s leadership. Rabbi Lookstein’s life story can now be found in an essay in volume two of a two volume tribute of essays in honor of the rabbi’s over half century of service to his people and faith.
“Rav Chesed” published by Ktav Publishing House in 2009, and edited by the distinguished historian and essayist Dr. Rafael Medoff, Rabbi Lookstein’s career as an educator and rabbi is given full play in an essay of the same title by the book’s editor. Within this essay can be found the roots of a man that helped generate the type of leadership he was to exhibit both as a spiritual leader, an orator, a writer, teacher and community activist who influenced events for generations to come. His legacy is reflected in the success that his shul, and the Ramaz yeshiva, has had on what was previously spiritually barren territory on New York’s affluent Upper East Side. Through his leadership as reflected in the events detailed in Dr. Medoff’s essay can be found the formula for the involvement of personalities who might otherwise never would have involved themselves in Jewish communal affairs. It was through these activities that both astute advice and financing was brought into play that helped make the New York Jewish community the effective kehillah it was to become. These two volumes contain some of the finest Jewish scholarship of recent times, much written in tribute to Rabbi Lookstein. In it is to be found such distinguished writers as Rabbi Norman Lamm, Dr. Adam Ferziger, Rabbi Michael Broyde, Rabbi Aharon Lichtenstein, Rabbi Meir Soloveitchik, Dr. Jonathan Sarna, Dr. Sandra Rapoport,.Dr. Aviva Zornberg, and the
ultimate nachas, Rabbi Lookstein’s son, Rabbi Joshua Lookstein. Taken together, with the many other writers and their excellent essays, this work totals over 1,000 pages. This indeed is an impressive tribute to an impressive career, which I highly recommend for your reading pleasure. I wish to conclude this week’s essay with the following two quotes, as reality dictates, reflect upon the sad events that enveloped our community these past weeks. The first is by Rabbi Lookstein, commenting on the fire at his shul, a quote that accurately places into proper perspective his leadership qualities: “I know this community and I am confident that we will not look back in anger but rather look ahead with confidence, determination and hope. With G-d’s help, we will rebuild what we have lost and this sanctuary and our community will be more beautiful than ever.” In tribute to Yehudah Leib Kletzsky, hy’d, we have the following quote from Jeremiah that we will read on Tisha B’Av : “For death is come up into our windows, and is entered into our palaces, to cut off the children from the streets and the young men from broad places.” Read these prophet’s words carefully, and meld them with the optimism as expressed by Rabbi Lookstein. Learn from them the admonition as well as hope that they each teach us for only then will we truly come to appreciate the dichotomy between catastrophe and tragedy.
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THE JEWISH STAR July 22, 2011 • 20 TAMMUZ, 5771
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Mensch on the street
By Ariel Rosenbloom
What mitzvah do you plan to work harder on keeping in the future? “Less lashon hara and more helping people.”
DANIEL AND ARI SCHOPF Melvin J Berman Hebrew Academy, Silver Spring M.D. “Learning Torah better.”
SHMUEL HUBERFELD Yeshiva Ketana, Lawrence
“Going to shul on Shabbat, davening, and kibud av v’aym.”
YAEL MANNASSE, YOEY SACHS, AND RIVKY MANN F.I.T. student, QC grad, student at Hunter, and employees at “PLUM” Cedarhurst “Just overall being nice to everyone around me.”
ILANA MANN teacher at S.A.R. High School, Washington Heights
“Try to keep my daily shiurim.”
BORUCH BENENFELD store manager at “Emporio”, Cedarhurst “We’re gonna be more devoted to baking challah in the zechut of people who need a yeshua.” DEVORAH WACHSLER AND MALA GOLDBERG co-owners at “Select Me Lingerie”, Cedarhurst
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Glenn Beck speaks to Knesset with local support
Media personality Glenn Beck spoke to the Knesset on July 11 describing Israel’s struggle for survival as a battle agiasnt evil. “As a man who also worships the one G-d, in the times that we live in, it is clear that what is going on is G-d’s work. If we are silent, evil will win. But if we stand up and take charge, G-d will do the rest,” Beck said to a packed Knesset audience.
Before delivering his message to the Knesset, Beck thanked Dr. Joseph Frager of Jamaica Estates, Dr. Paul Brody of Great Neck, and Kew Gardens Hills resident Odeleya Jacobs, three outspoken local proIsrael activists. Frager and Brody’s relationship to Beck goes back three years, when they invited the talk show host to speak at an Ateret Cohanim fundraiser promoting Jewish housing in eastern Jerusalem. This is not their first time bringing a prominent political commentator to the Knesset. In January,
the local trio brought prominent Republican Mike Huckabee to speak before the lawmakers. Deputy Knesset Speaker Danny Danon thanked Beck for his strong support, noting that it was the commentator’s 11th visit to the Jewish state. “If we didn’t have someone like Glenn Beck we would have had to invent someone like him,” Danon said in his introduction. This photo was submitted by Dr. Paul Brody. If you have a photograph with a description, from local or afar, please submit to: newsroom@thejewishstar.com
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Opinion 17th of Tammuz and the Broad Wall
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his week on the Jewish calendar, we commemorated the breaching of the Old City walls of Jerusalem by the Roman Tenth Legion on the 17th day of Tammuz in the year 70 C.E., heralding the beginning of the end of the Jewish Second Commonwealth, and the destruction of the Beit HaMikdash. As we gaze upon the ruins of those walls, we will fast, and some of us will even cry, remembering how 2000 FROM THE HEART years ago, the peaceful OF JERUSALEM streets were filled with the triumphant cheers of Roman legionnaires bent on our destruction. But there is another wall in Jerusalem that is worth thinking about, and this wall pre-dates the Roman destruction by almost a thousand years. It is covered with moss, and seeped with history. Most tourists don’t see it. Rabbi Binny 2,700 years ago, the Freedman the neighborhood bully was Assyria, known in the Bible as Ashur. Sargon, the Assyrian general, had been waging a campaign of terror over the entire Middle East and had mustered the largest army the world had ever seen: 185,000 men. Known as Sancheirev in the Talmud which
comes from the word churban or destruction. After destroying the 10 northern tribes in a violent military campaign, Sancheirev set his sights on the pearl of the Middle East: Jerusalem. At that time, the southern kingdom of Judea was not much to speak of. Encompassing some 20 to 30 square miles around Jerusalem, with little in the way of a standing army, and no natural barriers to rely on, the Jews who managed to stay ahead of the advancing Assyrian army escaped into the old city walls of Jerusalem. Soon the city was overflowing with 30,000 Jews, desperate to survive the coming onslaught. The king at the time was Chizkiahu (Hezekiah), who was also a prophet, and the Tanakh tells us how he set about fortifying the walls of the city, which had fallen into disrepair. Especially, the verses point out how he built a broad wall to encompass all the homes that had sprouted up in the northwestern corner of the city outside the walls. Indeed, in their haste to build this wall ahead of the advancing Assyrians, they built up two outer walls, throwing stone and mud inside to achieve a thick wall against the Assyrian battering rams. In their haste they built it up in some places on top of existing homes; one has the sense the last stones were set in place just in time. What must it have felt like, to see 185,000 men bent on your destruction coming up through the valley and surrounding your home? There were 30,000 Jews trapped inside the city, and things soon went from bad to worse.
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The less famous Broad Wall of Jerusalem has a story on the vestige of the Jewish people who defeated the Assyrians through prayer. There was no food, and the Jews were starving to death. They could not run, nor did they have an army with which to fight, and not for the first time and certainly not for the last, they were not given the option of surrender. So Chiz-
kiyahu did what Jews have always done: he called the entire city together in prayer. Understand that these Jerusalemites represented the entire Jewish people; there was no Continued on page 13
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By Sezrgey Kadinsky The JCC of the Greater Five Towns is making history this week, competing for the first time in the JCC Maccabi Games, taking place in Israel this week. A team of 11 teenage girls will play basketball. “This is the first time that the Five Towns JCC is in the JCC Maccabiah. It’s a wonderful opportunity to be there and we are proud to send them to the games,� said executive director Rina Shkolnik. Coached by Lawrence resident Michael Alon, the team of 11 also includes members of the Mid-Westchester JCC and one girl from Allentown, Penn. The team comprises of current and recent local residents. The team will be staying at Kibbutz Dafna, a northern Israel community that was mentioned in Leon Uris’ novel Exodus. Following the sports competitions, the girls will then travel to nearby Kiryat Shemona for a day of community service. They will then visit the Neot Shoshanim Jewish Community Center in Holon, the “sister city� partnering up with the Five Towns JCC. The girls will be spending a Shabbat in Holon, interacting with their host families. This year’s games are the first to take place in Israel, with 43 JCCs competing. The six-day event brings some 1,250 teens, chaperones and coaching staff to Israel. Alongside the sports games, creative teens interested in the arts, acting, cooking, and music will participate in an ArtsFest taking place in the same week in Israel. The cost of the flight was underwritten by a generous member of the Five Towns JCC, according to Shkolnik. The JCC Maccabi Games are a run along the lines of the greater Maccabiah Games, where Jewish athletes from around the world compete in Israel every four years. The first JCC Macabbi Games were in Memphis in 1982.
BACH Jewish Center, located at 210 Edwards Boulevard in Long Beach is holding its annual summer boardwalk dinner. Some 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 $50 for adults and $25 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.
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.
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Carlebach-trained cantor Yehuda Green brought a large crowd to the beach on July 11 as part of the Summer Concert Series sponsored by Young Israel of Long Beach and the City of Long Beach. Parents danced with their children on the sand in ideal summer weather as music played in the sunset.
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J GREENSTEIN GALLERY, located at 417 Central Avenue in Cedarhurst is hosting painter Elke Reva Sudin, who will display her portrait series Hipsters & Hasids, on daily life scenes from Williamsburg, Brooklyn. At 11 p.m. Sudin will have her second appearance, speaking about her art. Sudin is a graduate of Pratt Institute and is a member of the board of Jewish Art Salon. The public exhibit runs until July 30. For more information, contact 516-295-2931.
HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL AND TOLERANCE CENTER OF NASSAU COUNTY, located at 100 Crescent Beach Road in Glen Cove, is showing the awardwinning documentary Watermarks, on the champion women swimmers of the legendary prewar Jewish sports club, Hakoah Vienna. In 1938, the Nazis shut down the club, but the swimmers all managed to flee before the war broke out. The screening costs $10 and includes light refreshments with a tour of the Center’s inspiring new multimillion-dollar interactive museum. For more information, contact Beth Taboh-Bley at 516 5718040 ext. 104 or www.holocaust-nassau.org.
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KINGSWAY JEWISH CENTER, located at 2810 Nostrand Avenue in Brooklyn is presenting a lecture by Mark Zaurov, an expert on the deaf in the holocaust. He will speak on the topic of “Deaf Jewish Life in Germany and Eastern Europe During the 1940’s.� The event is sponsored by Our Way, a program of Yachad and OU for the deaf and hard of hearing, and the Rabbi Leib Geliebter Memorial Foundation. Zaurov is a fellow at the Revson Foundation Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies in Washington. Admission is $7. Event begins 7 p.m. For more information, contact 212-613-8234
AGUDATH ISRAEL OF THE FIVE TOWNS, located at 508 Peninsula Boulevard in Cedarhurst, is hosting noted author Rabbi Yissocher Frand, who will speak on the topic “Narcissism: Nowadays it’s all about me.� The lecture is sponsored by Helen & Steven Greenblatt. Rabbi Frand is the Magid Shiur at Yeshivas Ner Yisral in Baltimore. The event begins at 7:55 p.m. with mincha followed by the lecture. For more information, contact 516-3745364.
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LIDO BEACH SYNAGOGUE, located at One Fairway Road in Lido Beach is hosting a day of learning for women by women, sponsored by AMIT. The free seminar is titled “Multiple Messiahs: Understanding the true meaning of Biyat Hamashiach,� presented by Shuli Taubes. The event runs from 9:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. and includes lunch. For more information, contact she Synagogue office at 516-889-9650.
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HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL AND TOLERANCE CENTER OF NASSAU COUNTY, located at 100 Crescent Beach Road in Glen Cove, is hosting “The Kindertransport Journey.� This exhibit describes the experiences of the approximately 10,000 Jewish children who were brought to safety in Britain from their homes in Germany, Austria, Czechoslovakia, and Poland. The exhibit runs through Aug. 30. Open daily from 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. and Sunday 12 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. Suggested donation is $10.00 for adults, and $5 for students and seniors. For information and directions call 516 571-8040 ext. 100 or visit www.holocaust-nassau.org.
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Continued from page 3 The loss of one person diminishes every one of us. It affects our collective future. It alters what might have been. It prevents us from ever receiving all the precious benefits every single life has to offer. The fact that we shed them proves that evil has not fully triumphed. And most important of all, the Midrash assures us that the tears of the righteous summon the Almighty to hasten the day when wickedness and its practitioners will be eradicated from Earth. ■■■
Leiby Kletzky z”l - Reaching for some perspective Rabbi Yaakov Feitman Kehillas Bais Yehudah Tzvi Cedarhurst During the past few days, we have all been trying understand the incomprehensible. That is not only futile; it can be debilitating and frightening. Therefore, what we can and must do is to open the doors to which we do have access and shed light where illumination is available. Then perhaps we can come to conclusions which will be of some help where we feel so helpless. In a few short weeks we are going to read the devastating Haftorah of Tisha B’Av morning. Toward the end, we will hear, in the mournful trop of Eichah, the following terrifying words: “for death has ascended through our windows, it has come into our mansions, to cut down the infant from the street, young men from the avenues [rechovos]” (Yirmiya 9:20). We have all seen the horrific pictures of little Leiby, suddenly maddeningly lost, on the once friendly benevolent streets, teetering on the precipice of doom and tragedy. Was poor Leiby not a metaphor for all of us who are each lost, somewhat or completely “off the derech?” Is his death not the korban for all of us to make sure we are on the right street, not walking into the waiting arms of destruction chas v’shalom? Only an extraordinarily pure neshamah could have been chosen for the sacred task
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Borough Park residents gather at the 15th Avenue apartment building of the Kletzky family, to pay their respects during shiva. of putting us all back on track. For his death to be not only meaningful and significant, but the life-changing event it can and must be, we need to stop for a moment and rethink where we are going. In the words of our trusty GPSs, let us take a moment to recalculate. What does this tragedy tell us about the true nature of our own rechovos? Parents all over have asked themselves these agonizing questions. Should I change my parenting style? Should I become more protective? Have I become paranoid? Will I become overprotective and stifle my child’s growth? In my opinion, one family’s tragedy must be a wake-up call for us all. Many of us remember an earlier more innocent time, when one could sleep in the streets and crime happened rarely and far away. We know that the innocence of the early twentieth century is gone. Now we must sadly take to heart that the peril has entered “our windows” and our streets. We dare not be complacent any longer. Let us do a few things in Leiby’s honor and memory, but these are no empty gestures. They will fortify the citadels of kedushah which are our homes and strengthen the barricades of our fortresses which are the communities we so cherish. First of all, let us make sure that our Shabbos tables are full of the Torah, zemiros and simchah which sustained us through the millennia when other nations disappeared in the mists
of history. Let us teach our children by example the joy of Yiddishkeit, reinfusing the excitement of the new Baal Teshuvah into the occasional lethargy and ennui of those of us just going through the motions. Recharging our spiritual batteries may be long overdo or it may be the charge of the day. Either way, we must combine loving our children with returning to the ideal of being avi mori and imi morosi to our beloved offspring. It is no longer sufficient for them to have devoted Rebbeim and dedicated teachers. They need us more than ever to be active partners in their chinuch and spiritual development. The nachas we will derive from accelerating our efforts in this area will surely be mirrored by the resulting “generation of the upright who will be blessed” (Tehillim 112:2). ■■■
In Memory of Leiby Kletzky a”h From the Misaskim organization It is with a broken heart and spirit that Misaskim, together with all of Klal Yisroel, mourns the tragic loss of little Yehudah a”h ben Nachman. Misaskim volunteers worked tirelessly, offering support throughout this
harrowing nightmare. Misaskim pooled all its resources, and much more, in an effort to provide technical and logistical assistance to the search teams and to the grief-stricken parents. In addition, Misaskim coordinated with the yeshiva, with law enforcement, and with numerous government agencies. When the tragic ending came to light, Misaskim was tasked with notifying the family. Misaskim was instrumental in facilitating positive interactions between law enforcement officials, the investigation team, and the Medical Examiner’s Office. The organization was also called upon to join with NYC’s finest in arranging for the sorrowful levayah that was attended by tens of thousands of people. There is no doubt that these efforts would not have been possible without the respectful and productive partnership that exists between Misaskim, Hatzolah, Shomrim, and Chaverim. Misaskim is also deeply grateful to the thousands in our community who offered their help in so many countless ways; whether by participating in the search or by pouring out their tefillos to Hakadosh Baruch Hu. Now that Leiby’s a”h heiligah neshomah is in shomayim, we are all left with a gaping sense of emptiness. True to the organization’s mission, Misaskim would like to offer comfort to the family and to Leiby’s neshamah in shomayim by embarking on a project to write a Sefer Torah leilui nishmas Leiby a”h. “Leiby a”h was a living Sefer Torah that was ripped away from us.” This statement was delivered by one of the maspidim at the levayah. Misaskim therefore feels that it would be fitting to commemorate this precious neshamah by writing a Sefer Torah in his memory. Furthermore, just as Leiby united Klal Yisroel in their tefillos, in their search efforts, and in bringing out the best in everyone, so too, this Sefer Torah will unite Klal Yisroel by becoming part of Misaskim’s family of Sifrei Torah that are constantly being delivered to shivah homes. Misaskim is inviting acheinu kol Bais Yisroel to join us in this special mitzvah. Individuals who wish to fulfill an everlasting chesed can choose to participate by donating a parshah, an amud, or even a passuk. Participant may also choose to submit condolence letters that will be compiled and delivered to the Kletzky family. Donations can be made online at www. misaskim.org or by contacting 718-854-4548.
17th of Tammuz and the Broad Wall Continued from page 11 one else left. The northern tribes had been completely lost, and there were as yet no Jews living in the Western Diaspora. And 185,000 men: the mightiest army the world had ever known, surrounded them. 2,700 years ago, we were on the verge of the final solution to the Jewish problem. It should have all ended there. But any time the entire Jewish people get together to do anything, is a moment of enormous promise. So the people pray, and Hashem performs a miracle. In the middle of the night, the entire Assyrian army falls dead before the angel of the Lord. (Amazingly, this story which is told partly in the 19th chapter of the second book of Kings is also described in the ancient writings of Herodotus, the historian of Alexander the Great, who says the 200,000 strong army of As-
syria is wiped out by a mysterious plague outside the walls of Jerusalem.) Today, you can see this wall, discovered courtesy of Jordanian mortar fire in the Six Day War. You can see how the wall is built as a broad wall, rising on top of ancient homes and built exactly as the Bible describes. Carbon dated along with the Assyrian arrowheads found below it in the valley, it sits quietly triumphant, at long last rediscovered, having waited so long for her children to come home. There are no words to describe what it feels like to stand above such a wall, listening to the wind and the silence …. It is almost too much to take in. So you look at one stone, and you wonder where these Jews, so long ago, found the faith to build such a wall and still believe they would survive. Right above this ancient broad wall, sits a
playground, where the Jewish children of the Old City of Jerusalem come to play and laugh in the sunshine. 2,500 years ago, amidst the flames of the destruction of the Temple, the prophet Zechariah (8:4-5) issues an amazing prophesy: “There will come a time, so says the Lord of Hosts, when the old will yet sit in the streets of Jerusalem, leaning on their walking sticks from length of days, and the city streets of Jerusalem will be filled with the sounds of the children, playing in her alleyways.” These children, playing in that playground, above that wall, are the fulfillment of a centuries old dream. The Jewish dream has never been about armies marching in; our dream has been that one day the children will come back to play. After two thousand years of wandering, we
are home. And despite everything, for the price of an El Al ticket, anyone can become a part of this journey begun so long ago in the midst of Egyptian bondage. And if you come this summer, and walk through the alleys of Jerusalem, you can see it too, this incredible other old wall, waiting for so long for all of her children to come home to play… And while we mourn what we lost, it behooves us as well to feel blessed for what we have merited to rebuild. Shabbat Shalom from Jerusalem. 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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We, as a nation, are still raw from the tragic and shocking murder of Leiby Kletzky. Many people have asked me questions related to the aftermath. I feel that it is an important issue to address, and apologize for taking a break from my usual light-hearted, tongue-in-cheek tone while I share some of these questions and my answers. “It’s all that I think about—is that normal?” Well, when it comes to grieving, there is a very wide range of normal. One may react in a more disengaged fashion, while another may seem morbidly obsessed with it. As long as it is not hindering you from getting things done that need to be done. For example, if you are not able to get out of bed or be involved with other things for short periods, this may be a sign that you need an extra boost of support. I often see this in cases where a person has already experienced their own trauma previously. A seemingly unrelated traumatic event that happens to someone else can stir-up and trigger the person’s memories and feelings of what happened to him/her. If you feel that this relates to you, it may be time to address it (or re-address it) in therapy. And from the other end of the spectrum, some may be over-functioning in their own life and not be able to feel the sadness or pain over this event. While denial and numbness could be a natural part of the grieving process, it is typically at the beginning and phases into other feelings. If you feel like you are kind of stuck in this stage, you may want to ask yourself why you keep eluding the pain and sadness. You might find that there is a lot of fear behind that impassivity. That is understandable—Levi Aron has just expanded our world to include some bone-chilling new realities. Other reactions people may have are heavy sadness, anger, blame, bargaining and acceptance. A note about “blame”: while it is one acceptable way to process what happened, we must make sure that we do not blame the victims. Let’s direct the blame to the man who was solely responsible for what occurred. There is not a typical response to loss. Our grief is as individual as our lives. So it is important to develop a tolerance and acceptance when discussing the Leiby story with someone who does not seem on your wavelength. He/she may not be a basket-case or cold-hearted or too logical. We all have our ways of processing and coping. “What do I tell my kids?” “Her friends told her too many details.” This is a tough one and there is no universal answer. Every child needs to be addressed according to what he/she can handle. Keep this in mind: Filter and Feed. Filter out any information that would cause your child more harm than good and feed his or her curiosity, knowledge and empowerment. If you have a kid who will have nightmares for a month, keep it very broad. “I want to tell you about how to stay safe and not get lost.” Another child may benefit from hearing about a specific example. All a young child needs to know is that Leiby was kidnapped. The more sophisticated child most likely can tolerate hearing that Leiby is in shamayim. I highly recommend that we keep the unsettling details out of their knowledge bank until they are older. For those parents whose children found out too much from hearsay, it is important for you to confirm that it is true. I think that the message of open, honest communication is more important than trying to undo the exposure. Whatever it is that you are telling your children, make sure that you are also giving over a message of safety and security. Physically hold the child close, or sit right next to the child while talking about this. Also, reiterate the fact that most people are good, but we have to be careful because we don’t know which ones are safe and which ones are dangerous. A final message: Any perpetrator of any crime, wearing any garb must be reported to the police. -Aviva Aviva Rizel is a Marriage and Family Therapist in private practice who can be reached at AvivaRizel.MFT@gmail.com.
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